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BIBLE READINGS 
 
 FOR SCHOOLS 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER, Ph.D., D.D. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 
 OF PENNSYLVANIA 
 
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 NEW YORK •:• CINCINNATI •:• CHICAGO 
 AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY 
 
Copyright, 1897, by 
 AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY 
 
 BIBLE READINGS 
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PREFACE. 
 
 T^HE Bible is the Book of books. As a means of imparting 
 ^ moral and religious instruction, nothing equal to it is found in 
 all the other books which the ages have produced. Without a 
 knowledge of its leading ideas, the pupil cannot even understand 
 and appreciate the best literature of the English tongue. Bible 
 readings cannot be omitted from the exercises of the school 
 without the gravest loss and the most serious consequences. 
 
 It is, of course, not the mission of the public school to teach 
 the creed or the doctrines of any rehgious denomination. That 
 is the province of the home, the church, and the Sabbath School. 
 In making this collection of Bible readings, the aim has been to 
 bring together selections that appeal strongly to the moral nature 
 of the child. In modern education it has become proverbial to 
 say that the perpetuity and prosperity of the state depend upon 
 the intelligence and virtue of the people. Fidelity to duty lies 
 at the basis of good government and is essential to the welfare of 
 society and the happiness of the individual. The still small voice 
 (i Kings xix. 12) must be obeyed, if, in the end, it is not to 
 become an avenging fury. In fitting pupils for private and public 
 life, it is necessary to quicken the conscience, to develop the sense 
 of duty and obligation, and to impart clear ideas of right and 
 wrong. The faithful teacher, therefore, welcomes everything help- 
 ful in training the moral nature of the pupil. 
 
 Moreover, in preparing the pupil for citizenship the school 
 should not ignore the fact that the civil oath or affirmation has 
 
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been made a part of the civil code. It is considered indispensa- 
 ble in civil causes, and is always administered to jurors and wit- 
 nesses, and to public servants on assuming the duties of office. It 
 involves a solemn appeal to God as the author of truth and right, 
 as well as a promise to speak the truth and to do what is right. 
 It presupposes belief in God and a knowledge of man's relation 
 to his Maker. 
 
 Ethical truth is best imparted by narratives which show the 
 essence of right and wrong in conduct or real life. Another effi- 
 cient means of imparting ethical truth is found in the parables of 
 the New Testament. Dr. Arnold calls them " the scattered jewels 
 of God's word," and speaks of them as *' the highest wisdom 
 clothed in a garb of surpassing beauty." 
 
 The collection of narratives and parables is followed by a collec- 
 tion of sayings and discourses, of whose moral beauty the soul 
 never tires. 
 
 The Law is summed up in the Ten Commandments of the 
 Mosaic code, and the two great commandments of the new dis- 
 pensation. These are followed by readings which show how the 
 Law was taught among God's chosen people. 
 
 The Psalms, the Proverbs, and the Prophets are more difficult 
 to grasp, and the selections from these have been reserved for the 
 latter part of the volume. 
 
 The volume concludes with selections of passages designed to 
 enforce specific virtues. The plan of grouping passages for the 
 purpose of inculcating particular virtues, cannot be pursued very 
 far without reducing the sacred Scriptures to fragments, and de- 
 stroying the hterary beauties of the Bible. 
 
 These Bible readings may be used like the lessons of a supple- 
 mentary reader ; or they may be read during opening exercises 
 either by the teacher alone, or by the teacher and the pupils 
 responsively. The teacher should resist the temptation to make 
 doctrinal comments upon the passages thus read. 
 
EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THE BIBLE. 
 
 CAMILIARITY with the Bible is worth more to the student of 
 -*• our best Hterature than famiUarity with any dozen other books 
 that could be named. The pupil needs chiefly : 
 
 1. A minute knowledge of the historical facts recited in the 
 Bible. 
 
 2. A clear conception of the meaning of the parables and 
 other teachings of Jesus. 
 
 3. A memory of much of the sublime language of the poets 
 and prophets of the two Testaments. 
 
 No knowledge of the Scripture, even the profoundest, is super- 
 fluous to the student of Milton. The poet read the sacred text 
 in the original languages, and often shows his acquaintance with 
 readings not given in our English version. . He was no mean 
 theologian ; there are probably nowhere in his great poems three 
 successive sentences without some scriptural allusion; and the 
 light that he casts on difficult passages is frequently amazing. 
 
 Prof. John A. Himes. 
 
 The struggle for existence tends to ehminate those less fitted 
 to adapt themselves to the circumstances of their existence. The 
 strongest, the most self-assertive, tend to tread down the weaker. 
 But the influence of the cosmic process on the evolution of soci- 
 ety is the greater, the more rudimentary its civiHzation. Social 
 progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step, 
 
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and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the 
 ethical process ; the end of which is not the survival of those who 
 may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the condi- 
 tions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. 
 
 Thomas Huxley. 
 
 Viewed merely as a human or literary production, the Bible 
 is a marvelous book, and without a rival. All the libraries of 
 theology, philosophy, history, antiquities, poetry, law, and policy 
 Would not furnish material enough for so rich a treasure of the 
 choicest gems of human genius, wisdom, and experience. It em- 
 braces works of about forty authors, representing the extremes of 
 society, from the throne of the king to the boat of the fisher- 
 man ; it was written during a long period of sixteen centuries, 
 on the banks of the Nile, in the desert of Arabia, in the Land of 
 Promise, in Asia Minor, in classical Greece, and in imperial 
 Rome ; it commences with the creation and ends with the final 
 glorification, after describing all the intervening stages in the 
 revelation of God and the spiritual development of man ; it uses 
 all forms of literary composition ; it rises to the highest heights 
 and descends to the lowest depths of humanity ; it measures all 
 states and conditions of Hfe ; it is acquainted with every grief 
 and every woe ; it touches every chord of sympathy ; it contains 
 the spiritual biography of every human heart; it is suited to 
 every class of society, and can be read with the same interest 
 and profit by the king and the beggar, by the philosopher and 
 the child ; it is as universal as the race, and reaches beyond the 
 Hmits of time into the boundless regions of eternity. ... It 
 speaks to us as immortal beings on the highest, the noblest, and 
 most important themes which can challenge our attention, and 
 with an authority that is absolutely irresistible and overwhelming. 
 It can instruct, edify, warn, terrify, appease, cheer, and encourage 
 as no other book. It seizes man in the hidden depths of his 
 
intellectual and moral constitution, and goes to the quick of the 
 soul, to that mysterious point where it is connected with the 
 unseen world and with the great Father of spirits. It acts like 
 an all-penetrating and all-transforming leaven upon every faculty 
 of the mind and every emotion of the heart. It enriches the 
 memory ; it elevates the reason ; it enlivens the imagination ; it 
 directs the judgment ; it moves the affections ; it controls the 
 passions ; it quickens the conscience ; it strengthens the will ; it 
 kindles the sacred flame of faith, hope, and charity; it puri- 
 fies, ennobles, sanctifies the whole man, and brings him into 
 living union with God. It can not only enlighten, reform, and 
 improve, but regenerate and create anew, and produce effects 
 which lie far beyond the power of human genius. It has light 
 for the blind, strength for the weak, food for the hungry, drink 
 for the thirsty ; it has a counsel in precept or example for every 
 relation in life, a comfort for every sorrow, a balm for every 
 wound. 
 
 Of all the books in the world, the Bible is the only one of 
 which we never tire, but which we admire and love more in pro- 
 portion as we use it. Like the diamond it casts its luster in 
 every direction ; Hke a torch, the more it is shaken, the more it 
 shines ; like a healing herb, the harder it is pressed, the sweeter 
 
 is its fragrance. 
 
 Philip Schaff. 
 
 I doubt not that Providence has kept for us the best of this 
 Hebrew literature. To say that it is the best hterature that the 
 world has produced is to say very little. It is separated widely 
 from all other sacred writings. Its constructive ideas are as 
 far above those of other books of religion as the heavens are 
 above the earth. I pity the man who has had the Bible in his 
 hand from his infancy, and who has learned in his maturer years 
 something of the literature of other religions, but who now needs 
 to have this statement verified. 
 
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 True it is that we find pure maxims, elevated thoughts, genuine 
 faith, lofty morality, in many of the Bibles of the other races. But 
 when we take the sacred books of the other religions in their 
 entirety, and compare them with the sacred writings of the He- 
 brews, the superiority of these in their fundamental ideas, in the 
 conceptions that dominate them, in the grand uplifting visions 
 and purposes that vitalize them, can be felt by any man who has 
 any discernment of spiritual realities. 
 
 It is in these great ideas that the value of these writings con- 
 sists. . . . They are the record as no other book in the world is 
 a record, of that increasing purpose of God which runs through 
 
 the ages. 
 
 Washington Gladden. 
 
 The very excellence of the Psalms is their universality. They 
 
 spring from the deep fountains of the human heart ; and God, in 
 
 his providence and by his spirit, has so ordered it that they 
 
 should be for his church an everlasting heritage. Hence they 
 
 express the sorrows, the joys, the aspirations, the struggles, the 
 
 victories, not of one man, but of all. And if we ask. How 
 
 comes this to pass? the answer is not far to seek; one object is 
 
 ever before the eyes and the heart of the Psalmists. All enemies, 
 
 all distresses, all persecutions, all sins, are seen in the light of 
 
 God. It is to him that the cry goes up ; it is to him that the 
 
 heart is laid bare; it is to him that the thanksgiving is uttered. 
 
 This it is which makes them so true, so precious, so universal. 
 
 No surer proof of their inspiration can be given than this, that 
 
 they are "not of any age, but for all time." 
 
 Canon Perowne. 
 
 The day was in Scotland when all her children were initiated 
 into the art of reading through the Book of Proverbs. I have no 
 doubt whatever — neither had the late Principal T.ee, as appears 
 by the evidence he gave before a committee of Parliament — that 
 
the high character which Scotsmen earned in bygone years was 
 mainly due to their early acquaintance with the Proverbs, the 
 practical sagacity and wisdom of Solomon. . . . 
 
 The book has unfortunately disappeared from our schools ; 
 and with its disappearance my countrymen are more and more 
 losing their national virtues — self-denial and self-reliance, in fore- 
 sight and economy, in reverence of parents and abhorrence of 
 pubhc charity, some of the best characteristics of old manners 
 and old times. ^^ ^^.^^^^^ 
 
 Never in the history of nations, so far as appears, has a sacred 
 order anywhere arisen, so earnest, so self-sacrificing, so noble in 
 their purity of hfe, so lofty in their realization of the true and the 
 eternal, so bravely faithful in their battle with sin, as the Hebrew 
 prophets. They in fact believed what they said and spoke ac- 
 cordingly. No fear of the great or of the multitude could silence 
 
 ^' Cunningham Geike. 
 
 The parable is constructed to set forth a truth spiritual and 
 heavenly. This the fable, with all its value, is not ; it is essentially 
 of the earth, and never hfts itself above the earth. It never has a 
 higher aim than to inculcate maxims of prudential morality, indus- 
 try, caution, foresight ; and these it will sometimes recommend at 
 the expense of the higher, self-forgetting virtues. The fable just 
 reaches that pitch of morality which the world will understand and 
 approve. But it has no place in the Scripture,^ and in the nature 
 of things could have none, for the purpose of Scripture excludes it ; 
 
 1 The two fables that are found in the Old Testament, — that of the trees 
 which would choose a king (Judg, ix. 8-15), and the brief one of the thistle 
 and the cedar, — may seem to impeach the universality of this rule, but do not so 
 in fact. For in neither case is it God that is speaking, nor yet messengers of 
 his delivering his counsel, — but men, and from an earthly standing point, not a 
 divine. Jotham seeks only to teach the men of Shechem their folly, not their 
 sin, in making Abimelech king over them; the fable never lifting itself to the 
 
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 that purpose being the awakening of man to a consciousness of a 
 divine original, the education of the reason, and of all which is 
 spiritual in man, and not, except incidentally, the sharpening of the 
 understanding. 
 
 For the purposes of the fable, which are the recommendation 
 and enforcement of the prudential virtues, the regulation of that 
 in man which is instinct in beasts, in itself a laudable discipline, but 
 by itself leaving him only a subtler beast of the field, — for these 
 purposes, examples and illustrations taken from the world beneath 
 him are admirably suited.^ That world is therefore the haunt and 
 the main region, though by no means the exclusive one, of the 
 fable ; even when men are introduced it is on the side by which 
 they are connected with that lower world ; while on the other 
 hand, in the parable, the world of animals, though not wholly 
 excluded, finds only admission in so far as it is related to man. 
 The relation of beasts to one another, not being spiritual, can 
 supply no analogies, can in no wise be helpful for declaring the 
 truths of the Kingdom of God. But all man's relations to man 
 are spiritual ; many of his relations to the world beneath him are 
 so also. His lordship over animals, for instance, rests on his 
 higher spiritual nature, is a dominion given to him from above ; 
 therefore as in the instance of the shepherd and the sheep (John x.) 
 and elsewhere, it will serve to image forth deeper truths of the 
 relation of God to man. 
 
 It belongs to this, the loftier standing point of the parable, that 
 it should be deeply earnest, allowing itself therefore no jesting 
 
 rebuke of sin, as it is sin, — this is beyond its region, — but only in so far as it 
 is also folly. And Jehoash, in the same way, would make Amaziah see his pre- 
 sumption and pride, in challenging him to the conflict, not thereby teaching 
 him any moral lesson, but only giving evidence in the fable which he uttered, 
 that his own pride vv^as offended by the challenge of the Jewish king. 
 
 1 The greatest of all fables, the Reineke Fuchs, affords ample illustration of 
 all this ; it is throughout a glorifying of cunning as the guide of life, and the 
 deliverer from all evil. 
 
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 nor raillery at the weaknesses, the follies, or the crimes of men. 
 
 Severe and indignant it may be, but it never jests at the calamities 
 
 of men, however well deserved, and its indignation is that of holy 
 
 love ; while in this raillery, and in these bitter mockings, the 
 
 fabulist not infrequently indulges. He rubs biting salt into the 
 
 wounds of men's souls — it may be, perhaps it generally is, with 
 
 a desire to heal those hurts, yet still in a very different spirit from 
 
 that in which the affectionate Savior of men poured oil and wine 
 
 into the bleeding wounds of humanity. 
 
 Archbishop Trench. 
 
 Has it ever occurred to you to ask how it is that so many of us 
 have a much clearer knowledge of the history of the Jews than of 
 our own annals? Is it not because the Bible is in one respect the 
 model of all history? Look at it without reference to its higher 
 claims, simply as a piece of narrative. Consider how it is that it 
 conveys to its readers so full and clear a knowledge of Jewish his- 
 tory during many centuries. 
 
 There is, for example, a period of about one thousand years, 
 from Abraham to Rehoboam, and how is the history of the time 
 told? We have first the story of the patriarch's personal career. 
 We are led to understand his character and his motives ; we see 
 him as the center of a scene in which pastoral life is attractively 
 portrayed, and which affords us glimpses of the patriarchal gov- 
 ernment, of hfe and manners, and of the social and domestic con- 
 ditions of the time. In like manner we see Isaac and Jacob with 
 their families and their environments ; and then the narrative, dis- 
 daining to go into details about lesser matters, expands into a 
 copious biography of Joseph, whose personal history and fortunes 
 make us incidentally acquainted with the state of Egypt, its gov- 
 ernment, its political economy, and many facts of great interest, 
 which, had they been tabulated in a book of outhnes, we should 
 not have cared to learn. 
 
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 The history then passes over four hundred years with scarcely 
 a sentence, and again becomes full and graphic about the Exodus 
 and the journey in the Wilderness, investing even the details of 
 legislation with a special interest by connecting them with the 
 person, the character, and the private life of the lawgiver, Moses. 
 And thus the story is continued, sometimes passing over a long 
 interval of inaction or obscurity with a- few words of general de- 
 scription, or a list of names ; but, fastening here and there on the 
 name of Joshua, of Gideon, of Samuel, of Saul, or of David, and 
 narrating the history of the times with the circumstances of his 
 life. . . . 
 
 Who does not see that such a narrative precisely corresponds 
 to the real picture of a nation's history? In the life of a people 
 there are always great epochs of change and activity, occurring at 
 irregular intervals and so marked and characteristic that if they 
 be once understood, all the lesser details and intermediate become 
 intelligible through their means. 
 
 Moreover, the Scriptural story of the people of Israel curiously 
 resembles the actual knowledge which even the most accom- 
 plished historical scholar possesses. That it is adapted to the 
 needs and conditions of the human understanding will be evident 
 to any one who will take trouble to recall his own experience, and 
 will remember how he has secured one after another certain 
 fixed points of interest, has grouped round them, Httle by little, 
 the facts which he has subsequently acquired, filled up the inter- 
 vals of time between them by slow degrees, but to the last has 
 continued to retain his hold on these fixed points, and to refer 
 every new acquisition to some one or other of them. 
 
 J. G. FlTCH. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 
 Harratibes. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 I. 
 
 The Creation 19 
 
 II. 
 
 The Creation, contifmed 
 
 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 III. 
 
 The Garden of Eden . 
 
 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 IV. 
 
 Two Brothers 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 24 
 
 V. 
 
 The Tower of Babel 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 25 
 
 VI. 
 
 Abram and Lot 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 26 
 
 VII. 
 
 Rebekah and her Sons 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 28 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Isaac blesseth Jacob 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 29 
 
 IX. 
 
 Isaac blesseth Esau 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 30 
 
 X. 
 
 Esau's Hatred 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 32 
 
 XI. 
 
 Joseph's Dreams . 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 32 
 
 XII. 
 
 Joseph sent to his Brethren . 
 
 
 
 
 
 33 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Joseph sold into Egypt 
 
 
 
 
 
 34 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Pharaoh's Dreams 
 
 
 
 
 
 36 
 
 XV. 
 
 Joseph interprets Pharaoh's Drean 
 
 IS 
 
 
 
 
 37 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Joseph's Brethren in Egypt . 
 
 
 
 
 
 39 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Joseph, Simeon, and Reuben 
 
 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 Benjamin sent to Egypt 
 
 
 
 
 
 41 
 
 XIX. 
 
 Joseph makes himself Known 
 
 
 
 
 
 43 
 
 XX. 
 
 Joseph sends for his Father Jacob 
 
 
 
 
 
 44 
 
 XXI. 
 
 Jacob brought before Pharaoh 
 
 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 XXII. 
 
 Jacob's Death and Burial 
 
 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 Joseph's Last Days 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 • 
 
 
 48 
 
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 XXIV. The Children of Israel Oppressed 
 
 XXV. Moses 
 
 XXVI. God's Promise to the Children of Israel 
 
 XXVII. The Spies 
 
 XXVIII. Joshua's Courage . 
 
 XXIX. Moses prays for the People 
 
 XXX. The Story of the Trees . 
 
 XXXI. Samuel Called 
 
 XXXII. The Story of Ruth . 
 
 XXXIII. The Story of Ruth, continued 
 
 XXXIV. David and Goliath . 
 XXXV. Goliath Slain . 
 
 XXXVI. David and Jonathan 
 
 XXXVII. Jonathan's Friendship 
 
 XXXVIII. Saul's Anger . 
 
 XXXIX. Jonathan rescues David . 
 
 XL. Absalom's Rebellion 
 
 XLI. Absalom Slain 
 
 XLII. David's Sorrow for Absalom 
 
 XLIII. Solomon's Dream . 
 
 XLIV. Jonah's Call to Repentance 
 
 XLV. Jonah's Gourd 
 
 XLVI. Daniel's Fidelity to his God 
 
 XLVII. Daniel's Deliverance 
 
 XLVIII. The Shipwreck and Escape of Paul 
 
 Parables. 
 
 XLIX. The Sower . . . , 
 
 L. The Tares 
 
 LI. The Kingdom of Heaven 
 
 LI I. The Unmerciful Servant . 
 
 LIII. The Laborers in the Vineyard 
 
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 LIV. The Ten Virgins . 
 
 LV. The Talents . 
 
 LVI. The Good Samaritan 
 
 LVII. The Rich Fool . 
 
 LVIII. The Great Supper 
 
 LIX. Seeking the Lost . 
 
 LX. The Prodigal Son 
 
 LXI. The Rich Man and Lazarus 
 
 LXII. The Pharisee and the Publican 
 
 PAGE 
 
 93 
 94 
 96 
 
 97 
 98 
 
 99 
 100 
 102 
 103 
 
 ^agings anti ©iscoiirses. 
 
 LXIIL The Blessed 104 
 
 LXIV. Love your Enemies. Forgiveness . . . 105 
 
 LXV. Love and Mercy 105 
 
 LXVI. Prayer 107 
 
 LXVIL Providence 108 
 
 LXVIIL Humility 109 
 
 LXIX. The Tree and its Fruit; the Heart and its 
 
 Treasure . . . . . . . . iii 
 
 LXX. The Two Classes of Hearers . . . .112 
 
 LXXI. The Good Shepherd 113 
 
 LXXn. Feeding the Lambs and the Sheep . . . 114 
 
 LXXHL The Two Great Commandments . 
 
 LXXIV. The Ten Commandments .... 
 
 LXXV. Hearkening unto the Law .... 
 
 LXX VI. Teaching the Law 
 
 LXXVIL Ancient Laws 
 
 LXXVHL Treatment of the Poor and of Hired Servants 
 
 LXXIX. The Word of the Lord 
 
 LXXX. The Law of the Lord 
 
 116 
 116 
 117 
 119 
 119 
 121 
 122 
 123 
 
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 ^electcti Psalms, 
 
 LXXXI. The Godly and the Ungodly 
 
 LXXXII. God's Care of the Good Man 
 
 LXXXIII. The God-fearing Man . 
 
 LXXXIV. The Lord my Shepherd. Trust in God 
 
 LXXXV. Longing for God .... 
 
 LXXXVL The Longing of the Heart for God 
 
 LXXXVn. A Psalm of Trustful Gladness 
 
 LXXXVin. God's Glory in the Universe 
 
 LXXXIX. The Heavens Above . 
 
 XC. A Picture of God's Creative Power 
 
 XCL God is the God of Creation, Providence 
 
 XCn. An Elegy . . . . . 
 
 XCHL The Prayer of Moses . 
 
 XCIV. A Prayer for Instmction and Forgiveness 
 
 XCV. Prayer for Forgiveness . 
 
 XCVL A Psalm of Penitence . 
 
 XCVn. God's Care of the Afflicted . 
 
 XCVHL God's Goodness .... 
 
 XCIX. Praise the Lord 
 
 C. Songs of Praise .... 
 
 CL The Praise of God for Blessings . 
 
 Cn. God's Ways ..... 
 
 CHL God our Strength and Salvation . 
 
 CIV. Victory in Trouble 
 
 CV. The House of the Lord 
 
 CVL Extol the Lord .... 
 
 CVn. From David's Psalm of Thanksgiving 
 
 and 
 
 Grace 
 
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 iFtom Proberbs. 
 
 CVIII. "Striving after Wisdom . 
 
 CIX. Counsel and Warning . 
 
 ex. Contrasts .... 
 
 CXI. Admonitions 
 
 CXII. Against Indolence and Strife 
 
 CXIII. Against Vain Self-Praise and Presumption 
 
 CXIV. The Virtuous Woman .... 
 
 PAGE 
 167 
 
 168 
 
 171 
 172 
 
 jFrom tfje ^ropl^ets. 
 
 CXV. 
 
 Purity ..... 
 
 . 
 
 • 
 
 
 
 176 
 
 ex VI. 
 
 The Vineyard 
 
 
 
 176 
 
 CXVII. 
 
 Israel's Song of Praise for Deliverance . 
 
 
 
 177 
 
 CXVIII. 
 
 The Judgment as realizing the Idea of J 
 
 ustice 
 
 
 178 
 
 CXIX. 
 
 The False and the True Nobility . 
 
 
 
 179 
 
 cxx. 
 
 Israel's Redemption and Return Home 
 
 
 
 180 
 
 CXXI. 
 
 The Final Redemption of Israel . 
 
 
 
 181 
 
 CXXII. 
 
 The Restoration Accomplished 
 
 
 
 
 182 
 
 CXXIII. 
 
 The Man of Sorrows 
 
 
 
 
 183 
 
 CXXIV. 
 
 The Way of Salvation . 
 
 
 
 
 
 184 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 Healing 
 
 
 
 
 
 186 
 
 cxx VI. 
 
 The Coming Light 
 
 
 
 
 
 187 
 
 cxx VII. 
 
 Jerusalem Restored 
 
 
 
 
 
 187 
 
 CXXVIII. 
 
 The Founder of Salvation 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 188 
 
 CXXIX. 
 
 Personal Responsibility 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 190 
 
 cxxx. 
 
 Idols in the Heart 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 191 
 
 CXXXI. 
 
 Sin brings Calamity 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 193 
 
 CXXXII. 
 
 Promises of Reconciliation 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 194 
 
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 CXXXIII. Strong Drink 
 
 CXXXIV. The Slothful and the Diligent 
 
 CXXXV. Exhortations to Various Virtues 
 
 CXXXVI. Further Exhortations to Virtue 
 
 CXXXVII. Love or Charity . 
 
 CXXXVIII. The Heart .... 
 
 CXXXIX. The Source of Good and Perfect C 
 
 CXL. The Tongue 
 
 CXLI. From the Divine Song of Moses 
 
 CXLII. Gems from Proverbs 
 
 CXLIII. Gems from Proverbs, continued 
 
 Topical Index 21 
 
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 PAGE 
 196 
 
 199 
 
 201 
 
 202 
 204 
 205 
 206 
 208 
 209 
 
BIBLE READINGS FOR SCHOOLS. 
 
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 I. THE CREATION. 
 
 THE FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH DAYS. 
 
 IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 
 And the earth was without form, and void; and dark- 
 ness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of 
 God moved upon the face of the waters. 
 
 And God said, " Let there be light : " and there was 
 light. 
 
 And God saw the Hght, that it was good : and God 
 divided the light from the darkness. 
 
 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he 
 called Night. And the evening and the morning were 
 the first day. 
 
 And God said, " Let there be a firmament in the midst 
 of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the 
 waters." 
 
 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters 
 which were under the firmament from the waters which 
 were above the firmament : and it was so. 
 
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 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the even- 
 ing and the morning were the second day. 
 
 And God said, " Let the waters under the heaven be 
 gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land 
 appear : " and it was so. 
 
 And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering 
 together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that 
 it was good. 
 
 And God said, *' Let the earth bring forth grass, the 
 herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after 
 his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:" and 
 it was so. 
 
 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding 
 seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose 
 seed was in itself, after his kind : and God saw that it 
 was good. 
 
 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 
 
 And God said, '' Let there be lights in the firmament 
 of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let 
 them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and 
 years : and let them be for lights in the firmament of the 
 heaven to give light upon the earth : " and it was so. 
 
 And God made two great lights ; the greater light to 
 rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he 
 made the stars also. 
 
 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to 
 give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and 
 over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : 
 and God saw that it was good. 
 
 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 
 
 Genesis i. 1-19. 
 
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 II. THE CREATION. 
 
 THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH DAYS. 
 
 AND God said, " Let the waters bring forth abundantly 
 the moving creature that hath hfe, and fowl that 
 may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." 
 
 And God created great whales, and every living crea- 
 ture that moveth, which the waters brought forth abun- 
 dantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his 
 kind : and God saw that it was good. 
 
 And God blessed them, saying, *' Be fruitful, and mul- 
 tiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply 
 in the earth." 
 
 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 
 
 And God said, '* Let the earth bring forth the living 
 creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and 
 beast of the earth after his kind : " and it was so. 
 
 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, 
 and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth 
 upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was 
 good. 
 
 And God said, " Let us make man in our image, after 
 our likeness : and let them have dominion over the fish 
 of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, 
 and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that 
 creepeth upon the earth." 
 
 So God created man in his own image, in the image of 
 God created he him ; male and female created he them. 
 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, " Be 
 
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 fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue 
 it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over 
 the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth 
 upon the earth." 
 
 And God said, " Behold, I have given you every herb 
 bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and 
 every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed : 
 to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the 
 earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that 
 creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given 
 every green herb for meat : " and it was so. 
 
 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, be- 
 hold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning 
 were the sixth day. 
 
 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all 
 
 the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his 
 
 work which he had made ; and he rested on the seventh 
 
 day from all his work which he had made. And God 
 
 blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it : because that 
 
 in it he had rested from all his work which God created 
 
 and made. 
 
 Genesis i. 20-31 ; 11. 1-3. 
 
 III. THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 
 
 AND the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
 ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
 life ; and man became a living soul. 
 
 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; 
 and there he put the man whom he had formed. And 
 out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every 
 
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 tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; 
 the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the 
 tree of knowledge of good and evil. 
 
 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the 
 garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 
 
 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, " Of 
 every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat : but of 
 the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt 
 not eat of it : for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou 
 shalt surely die." 
 
 And the Lord God said, *' It is not good that the man 
 should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him." 
 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast 
 of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them 
 unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatso- 
 ever Adam called every living creature, that was the name 
 thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the 
 fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field ; but for 
 Adam there was not found a help meet for him. 
 
 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon 
 Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and 
 closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which 
 the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, 
 and brought her unto the man. 
 
 And Adam said, *' This is now bone of my bones, and 
 flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because 
 she was taken out of man." 
 
 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, 
 and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one 
 flesh. 
 
 Genesis ii. 7-9, 15-24. 
 
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 IV. TWO BROTHERS. 
 
 ABEL was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of 
 the ground. 
 
 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain 
 brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the 
 Lord, and Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his 
 flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect 
 unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his 
 offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, 
 -and his countenance fell. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Cain, ** Why art thou wroth } 
 and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, 
 shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin 
 lieth at the door : and unto thee shall be his desire, and 
 thou shalt rule over him." 
 
 And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came 
 to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up 
 against Abel his brother, and slew him. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Cain, " Where is Abel thy 
 brother ? " And he said, " I know not : Am I my brother's 
 keeper ? " 
 
 And he said, '' What hast thou done ? the voice of thy 
 brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And 
 now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened 
 her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. 
 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield 
 unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt 
 thou be in the earth." 
 
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 And Cain said unto the Lord, '* My punishment is 
 greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me 
 out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy 
 face shall I -be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vaga- 
 bond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every 
 one that findeth me shall slay me." 
 
 And the Lord said unto him, ''Therefore whosoever 
 
 slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." 
 
 And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him 
 
 should kill him. 
 
 Genesis iv. 2-15. 
 
 V. THE TOWER OF BABEL. 
 
 AND the whole earth was of one language, and of 
 one speech. 
 
 And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, 
 that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they 
 dwelt there. 
 
 And they said one to another, ''Go to, let us make 
 brick, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick 
 for stone, and sHme had they for mortar. And they 
 said, " Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose 
 top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a 
 name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the 
 whole earth." 
 
 And the Lord came down to see the city and the 
 tower, which the children of men builded. And the 
 Lord said, " Behold, the people is one, and they have 
 
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 all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now 
 nothing will be restrained from them, which they have 
 imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there con- 
 found their language, that they may not understand one 
 another's speech." 
 
 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon 
 the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the 
 city. 
 
 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the 
 
 Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: 
 
 and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon 
 
 the face of all the earth. 
 
 Genesis xi. 1-9. 
 
 vl abram and lot. 
 
 ABRAM went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and 
 all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. 
 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 
 And he went on his journeys from the south even to 
 Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the 
 beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; unto the place of 
 the altar, which he had made there at the first : and there 
 Abram called on the name of the Lord. 
 
 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, 
 and herds, and tents. And the land was not able to 
 bear them, that they might dwell together: for their 
 substance was great, so that they could not dwell to- 
 gether. And there was a strife between the herdmen 
 of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle. 
 
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 And Abram said unto Lot, " Let there be no strife, I 
 pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herd- 
 men and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the 
 whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, 
 from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go 
 to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I 
 will go to the left." 
 
 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain 
 of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before 
 the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the 
 garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou 
 comest unto Zoar. 
 
 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan ; and 
 Lot journeyed east : and they separated themselves the 
 one from the other. Abram dwelt in the land of Ca- 
 naan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and 
 pitched his tent toward Sodom. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was 
 separated from him, " Lift up now thine eyes, and look 
 from the place where thou art northward, and south- 
 ward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which 
 thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for 
 ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the 
 earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the 
 earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, 
 walk through the land in the length of it and in the 
 breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee." 
 
 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt 
 in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built 
 there an altar unto the Lord. 
 
 Genesis xiii. 1-12, 14-18. 
 
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 VII. REBEKAH AND HER SONS. 
 
 AND it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his 
 eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called 
 Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, '' My son : " and 
 he said unto him, '' Behold, here am I." 
 
 And he said, " Behold now, I am old, I know not the 
 day of my death : now therefore take, I pray thee, thy 
 weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, 
 and take me. some venison ; and make me savoury meat, 
 such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat ; that 
 my soul may bless thee before I die." 
 
 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. 
 And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to 
 bring it. 
 
 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, *' Behold, 
 I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, 
 * Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I 
 may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.' 
 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that 
 which I command thee. Go now to the flock, and fetch 
 me from thence two good kids of the goats ; and I will 
 make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth : 
 and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and 
 that he may bless thee before his death." 
 
 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, " Behold, Esau 
 my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man : my 
 father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him 
 as a deceiver ; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not 
 a blessing." 
 
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 And his mother said unto him, '' Upon me be thy curse, 
 my son : only obey my voice, and go fetch me them." 
 
 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his 
 mother : and his mother made savoury meat, such as his 
 father loved. 
 
 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son 
 Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them 
 upon Jacob her younger son : and she put the skins of 
 the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth 
 of his neck : and she gave the savoury meat and the 
 bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son 
 
 Jacob. 
 
 Genesis xxvii, 1-17. 
 
 VIII. ISAAC BLESSETH JACOB. 
 
 AND he came unto his father, and said, *' My father:" 
 and he said, " Here am I ; who art thou, my son ? " 
 
 And Jacob said unto his father, "I am Esau thy first- 
 born ; I have done according as thou badest me : arise, I 
 pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may 
 bless me." 
 
 And Isaac said unto his son, " How is it that thou hast 
 found it so quickly, my son ? " And he said, " Because 
 the Lord thy God brought it to me." 
 
 And Isaac said unto Jacob, " Come near, I pray thee, 
 that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very 
 son Esau or not." 
 
 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father ; and he felt 
 him, and said, " The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands 
 are the hands of Esau." And he discerned him not, be- 
 
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 cause his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands : 
 so he blessed him. 
 
 And he said, ''Art thou my very son Esau?" And he 
 said, "I am." 
 
 And he said, " Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my 
 son's 'venison, that my soul may bless thee." And he 
 brought it near to him, and he did eat : and he brought 
 him wine, and he drank. 
 
 And his father Isaac said unto him, *' Come near now, 
 and kiss me, my son." 
 
 And he came near, and kissed him : and he smelled the 
 smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, *' See, the 
 smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord 
 hath blessed : therefore God give thee of the dew of 
 heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn 
 and wine : let people serve thee, and nations bow down 
 to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's 
 sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth 
 thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee." 
 
 Genesis xxvii. 18-29. 
 
 IX. ISAAC BLESSETH ESAU. 
 
 AND it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an 
 end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone 
 out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his 
 brother came in from his hunting. 
 
 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto 
 his father, and said unto his father, " Let my father arise, 
 and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me." 
 
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 And Isaac his father said unto him, ** Who art thou ? '* 
 And he said, ''I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau." 
 
 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, " Who ? 
 where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, 
 and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have 
 blessed him ? yea, and he shall be blessed." 
 
 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried 
 with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his 
 father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father." 
 
 And he said, '' Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath 
 taken away thy blessing." 
 
 And he said, *' Is not he rightly named Jacob ? for he 
 hath supplanted me these two times : he took away my 
 birthright ; and, behold, now he hath taken away my 
 blessing." And he said, '* Hast thou not reserved a bless- 
 ing for me ? " 
 
 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, " Behold, I 
 have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given 
 to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I 
 sustained him : and what shall I do now unto thee, my 
 son ? " 
 
 And Esau said unto his father, '* Hast thou but one 
 blessing, my father ? bless me, even me also, O my father." 
 And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 
 
 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, 
 " Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, 
 and of the dew of heaven from above ; and by thy sword 
 shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother : and it shall 
 come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that 
 thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck." 
 
 Genesis xxvii. 30-40. 
 
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 X. ESAU'S HATRED. 
 
 AND Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing where- 
 with his father blessed him : and Esau said in his 
 heart, " The days of mourning for my father are at hand ; 
 then will I slay my brother Jacob." 
 
 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to 
 Rebekah : and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, 
 and said unto him, *' Behold, thy brother Esau, as touch- 
 ing thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. 
 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice ; and arise, flee 
 thou to Laban my brother to Haran ; and tarry with him 
 a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away ; until thy 
 brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that 
 which thou hast done to him : then I will send, and fetch 
 thee from thence : why should I be deprived also of you 
 
 both in one day .'' " 
 
 Genesis xxvii. 41-45. 
 
 XI. JOSEPH'S DREAMS. 
 
 NOW Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, 
 because he was the son of his old age : and he made 
 him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw 
 that their father loved him more than all his brethren, 
 they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. 
 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his 
 brethren : and they hated him yet the more. 
 
 And he said unto them, " Hear, I pray you, this dream 
 
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 which I have dreamed : for, behold, we were binding 
 sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also 
 stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round 
 about, and made obeisance to my sheaf." 
 
 And his brethren said to him, " Shalt thou indeed reign 
 over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?" 
 And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for 
 his words. 
 
 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his 
 brethren, and said, " Behold, I have dreamed a dream 
 more ; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven 
 stars made obeisance to me." 
 
 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren : and 
 his father rebuked him, and said unto him, *' What is this 
 dream that thou hast dreamed ? Shall I and thy mother 
 and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to 
 thee to the earth ? " 
 
 And his brethren envied him ; but his father observed 
 
 the saying. 
 
 Genesis xxxvii. 3-1 1. 
 
 XII. JOSEPH SENT TO HIS BRETHREN. 
 
 AND his brethren went to feed their father's flock in 
 Shechem. And Israel said unto Joseph, " Do not 
 thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem ? come, and I will 
 send thee unto them." And he said to him, " Here 
 am I." 
 
 And he said to him, " Go, I pray thee, see whether it 
 be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks ; and 
 
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 bring me word again." So he sent him out of the vale of 
 Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 
 
 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was 
 wandering in the field : and the man asked him, saying, 
 •'What seekest thou?" 
 
 And he said, " I seek my brethren : tell me, I pray thee, 
 where they feed their flocks." 
 
 And the man said, "They are departed hence; for I 
 heard them say, ' Let us go to Dotham.'" And Joseph 
 went after his brethren, and found them in Dotham. 
 
 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came 
 near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. 
 And they said one to another, " Behold, this dreamer Com- 
 eth. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast 
 him into some pit, and we will say some evil beast hath 
 devoured him ; and we shall see what will become of his 
 dreams." 
 
 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their 
 
 hands; and said, "Let us not kill him." And Reuben 
 
 said unto them, " Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit 
 
 that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him;" that 
 
 he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his 
 
 father again. 
 
 Genesis xxxvii. 12-22. 
 
 Xin. JOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT. 
 
 AND it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his 
 brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, 
 his coat of many colours that was on him ; and they took 
 
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 him, and cast him into a pit : and the pit was empty, there 
 was no water in it. 
 
 And they sat down to eat bread : and they Hfted up 
 their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmael- 
 ites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery 
 and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 
 
 And Judah said unto his brethren, " What profit is it if 
 we slay our brother, and conceal his blood ? Come, and 
 let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be 
 upon him ; for he is our brother and our flesh : " and his 
 brethren were content. 
 
 Then there passed by Midianites, merchantmen ; and 
 they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold 
 Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver : and 
 they brought Joseph into Egypt. 
 
 And Reuben returned unto the pit ; and, behold, Joseph 
 was not in the pit ; and he rent his clothes. And he re- 
 turned unto his brethren, and said, ** The child is not ; and 
 I, whither shall I go .? " 
 
 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the 
 goats, and dipped the coat in the blood ; and they sent the 
 coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father ; 
 and said, " This have we found : know now whether it be 
 thy son's coat or no." 
 
 And he knew it, and said, ** It is my son's coat ; an evil 
 beast hath devoured him ; Joseph is without doubt rent in 
 pieces." 
 
 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his 
 loins, and mourned for his son many days. And all his 
 sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him ; but he 
 refused to be comforted; and he said, *' For I will go down 
 
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 into the grave unto my son mourning." Thus his father 
 wept for him. 
 
 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, 
 an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard. 
 
 Genesis xxxvii. 23-36. 
 
 XIV. PHARAOH'S DREAMS. 
 
 AND it came to pass at the end of two full years, that 
 Pharaoh dreamed : and, behold, he stood by the 
 river. And, behold, there came up out of the river seven 
 well favoured kine and fatfleshed ; and they fed in a 
 meadow. And, behold, seven other kine came up after 
 them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed ; and 
 stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. And 
 the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven 
 well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 
 
 And he slept and dreamed the second time : and, behold, 
 seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. 
 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east 
 wind sprung up after them. And the seven thin ears 
 devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh 
 awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. 
 
 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was 
 troubled ; and he sent and called for all the magicians of 
 Egypt, and all the wise men thereof : and Pharaoh told 
 them his dream ; but there was none that could interpret 
 them unto Pharaoh. 
 
 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, " I 
 do remember my faults this day : Pharaoh was wroth with 
 
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 his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the 
 
 guard's house, both me and the chief baker : and we 
 
 dreamed a dream in one night, I and he : we dreamed 
 
 each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 
 
 " And there was there with us a young man, a Hebrew, 
 
 servant to the captain of the guard ; and we told him, and 
 
 he interpreted to us our dreams ; to each man according 
 
 to his dream he did interpret. And it came to pass, as he 
 
 interpreted to us, so it was ; me he restored unto mine 
 
 office, and him he hanged." 
 
 Genesis xli. 1-13. 
 
 XV. JOSEPH INTERPRETS PHARAOH'S 
 DREAMS. 
 
 AND Joseph said unto Pharaoh, ** The dream of Pharaoh 
 is one : God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about 
 to do. 
 
 *'The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven 
 good ears are seven years : the dream is one. And the 
 seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them 
 are seven years ; and the seven empty ears blasted with 
 the east wind shall be seven years of famine. 
 
 " This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh : 
 What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. 
 
 ** Behold, there come seven years of great plenty through- 
 out all the land of Egypt: and there shall arise after 
 them seven years of famine ; and all the plenty shall be 
 forgotten in the land of Egypt ; and the famine shall con- 
 sume the land ; and the plenty shall not be known in 
 the land by reason of that famine following ; for it shall 
 
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 be very grievous. And for that the dream was doubled 
 unto Pharaoh twice ; it is because the thing is estabUshed 
 by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 
 
 " Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and 
 wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh 
 do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and 
 take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven 
 plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of 
 those good years that come, and lay up corn under the 
 hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 
 And that food shall be for store to the land against the 
 seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt ; 
 that the land perish not through the famine." 
 
 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in 
 the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh said unto his 
 servants, " Can we find such a one as this is, a man in 
 whom the Spirit of God is ? " 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, " Forasmuch as God 
 hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and 
 wise as thou art : thou shalt be over my house, and 
 according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled : 
 only in the throne will I be greater than thou." 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, ** See, I have set thee 
 over all the land of Egypt." 
 
 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put 
 
 it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine 
 
 linen, and put a gold chain about his neck ; and he made 
 
 him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they 
 
 cried before him, ** Bow the knee : " and he made him 
 
 ruler over all the land of Egypt. 
 
 Genesis xli. 25-43. 
 
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 XVI. JOSEPH'S BRETHREN IN EGYPT. 
 
 NOW when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, 
 Jacob said unto his sons, " Why do ye look one 
 upon another?" And he said, ''Behold, I have heard 
 that there is corn in Egypt : get you down thither, and 
 buy for us from thence ; that we may live, and not die." 
 
 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in 
 Egypt. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not 
 with his brethren ; for he said, '' Lest peradventure mis- 
 chief befall him." 
 
 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those 
 that came : for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 
 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it 
 was that sold to all the people of the land : and Joseph's 
 brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him 
 with their faces to the earth. 
 
 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but 
 made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto 
 them ; .and he said unto them, '' Whence come ye } " 
 And they said, " From the land of Canaan to buy food." 
 
 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 
 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed 
 of them, and said unto them, " Ye are spies ; to see the 
 nakedness of the land ye are come." 
 
 And they said unto him, " Nay, my lord, but to buy 
 food are thy servants come. We are all one man's sons ; 
 we are true men ; thy servants are no spies." 
 
 And he said unto them, " Nay, but to see the nakedness 
 of the land ye are come." And they said, ** Thy servants 
 
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 are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of 
 Canaan ; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our 
 father, and one is not." 
 
 And Joseph said unto them, "That is it that I spake 
 unto you, saying ye are spies : hereby ye shall be 
 proved : by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth 
 hence, except your youngest brother come hither. Send 
 one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be 
 kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether 
 there be any truth in you : or else by the life of Pharaoh 
 surely ye are spies." 
 
 And he put them all together into ward three days. 
 
 Genesis xlii. 1-17. 
 
 XVII. JOSEPH, SIMEON, AND REUBEN. 
 
 AND Joseph said unto them the third day, "This do, 
 and live ; for I fear God : if ye be true men, let one 
 of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison : 
 go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses : but 
 bring your youngest brother unto me ; so shall your words 
 be verified, and ye shall not die." And they did so. 
 
 And they said one to another, " We are verily guilty 
 concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his 
 soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear ; there- 
 fore is this distress come upon us." 
 
 And Reuben answered them, saying, " Spake I not 
 unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child ; and ye 
 would not hear.!^ therefore, behold, also his blood is re- 
 quired." 
 
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 And they knew not that Joseph understood them ; for 
 he spake unto them by an interpreter. And he turned 
 himself about from them, and wept ; and returned to them 
 again, and communed with them, and took from them 
 Simeon, and bound him before their eyes. 
 
 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, 
 and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to 
 give them provision for the way : and thus did he unto 
 them. And they laded their asses with the corn, and 
 departed thence. 
 
 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass 
 provender in the inn, he espied his money ; for, behold, 
 it was in his sack's mouth. And he said unto his breth- 
 ren, '* My money is restored ; and, lo, it is even in my 
 sack: " and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, 
 saying one to another, '' What is this that God hath done 
 
 unto us .'* " 
 
 Genesis xlii. 18-28. 
 
 XVIII. BENJAMIN SENT TO EGYPT. 
 
 AND the famine was sore in the land. And it came 
 to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which 
 they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto 
 them, '* Go again, buy us a little food." 
 
 And Judah spake unto him, saying, " The man did 
 solemnly protest unto us, saying, ' Ye shall not see my 
 face, except your brother be with you.' If thou wilt 
 send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee 
 food : but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go 
 
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 down : for the man said unto us, ' Ye shall not see my 
 face, except your brother be with you.' " 
 
 And Israel said, ''Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, 
 as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?" 
 
 And they said, " The man asked us straitly of our state, 
 and of our kindred, saying, ' Is your father yet alive ? 
 have ye another brother ? ' and we told him according to 
 the tenor of these words : could we certainly know that 
 he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'" 
 
 And Judah said unto Israel his father, " Send the lad 
 with me, and we will arise and go ; that we may live, 
 and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. 
 I will be surety for him ; of my hand shalt thou require 
 him : if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before 
 thee, then let me bear the blame for ever : for except 
 we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second 
 time." 
 
 And their father Israel said unto them, " If it must be 
 so now, do this ; take of the best fruits in the land in 
 your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little 
 balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and 
 almonds : and take double money in your hand ; and 
 the money that was brought again in the mouth of your 
 sacks, carry it again in your hand ; peradventure it was 
 an oversight. 
 
 " Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the 
 man : and God Almighty give you mercy before the 
 man, that he may send away your other brother, and 
 Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am be- 
 reaved." 
 
 Genesis xliii 1-14. 
 
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 XIX. JOSEPH MAKES HIMSELF KNOWN. 
 
 THEN Joseph could not refrain himself before all 
 them that stood by him ; and he cried, *' Cause 
 every man to go out from me." And there stood no 
 man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto 
 his brethren. And he wept aloud : and the Egyptians 
 and the house of Pharaoh heard. 
 
 And Joseph said unto his brethren, " I am Joseph ; 
 doth my father yet live .^ " And his brethren could not 
 answer him ; for they were troubled at his presence. 
 
 And Joseph said unto his brethren, " Come near to 
 me, I pray you." And they came near. And he said, 
 " I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 
 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with your- 
 selves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me 
 before you to preserve life. 
 
 " For these two years hath the famine been in the 
 land : and yet there are five years, in the which there shall 
 neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before 
 you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save 
 your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not 
 you that sent me hither, but God : and he hath made 
 me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and 
 a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. 
 
 " Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto 
 him, 'Thus saith thy son Joseph, "God hath made me 
 lord of all Egypt : come down unto me, tayry not : and 
 thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, Z-ud thou shalt 
 be near unto me ; thou, and thy children and thy chil- 
 
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 dren's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all 
 that thou hast : and there will I nourish thee ; for yet 
 there are five years of famine ; lest thou, and thy house- 
 hold, and all that thou hast, come to poverty." ' 
 
 '' And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my 
 brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh 
 unto you. And ye shall tell my father of all my glory 
 in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ; and ye shall 
 haste and bring down my father hither." 
 
 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and 
 wept ; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 
 
 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon 
 them : and after that his brethren talked with him. 
 
 Genesis xlv. 1-15. 
 
 XX. JOSEPH SENDS FOR HIS FATHER 
 JACOB. 
 
 AND the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, 
 saying, " Joseph's brethren are come : " and it 
 pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, " Say unto thy brethren, 
 ' This do ye ; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the 
 land of Canaan ; and take your father and your house- 
 holds, and come unto me : and I will give you the good 
 of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the 
 land. Now thou art commanded, this do ye ; take you 
 wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and 
 for your wives, and bring your father, and come. Also 
 
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 regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of 
 Egypt is yours.' " 
 
 And the children of Israel did so : and Joseph gave 
 them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, 
 and gave them provision for the way. To all of them he 
 gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he 
 gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes 
 of raiment. And to his father he sent after this man- 
 ner ; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and 
 ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his 
 father by the way. 
 
 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed : and 
 he said unto them, " See that ye fall not out by the way." 
 
 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land 
 
 of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told him, saying, 
 
 " Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land 
 
 of Egypt." And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed 
 
 them not. And they told him all the words of Joseph, 
 
 which he had said unto them : and when he saw the 
 
 wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit 
 
 of Jacob their father revived. And Israel said, ** It is 
 
 enough ; Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go and see 
 
 him before I die." 
 
 Genesis xlv. 16-28. 
 
 XXI. JACOB BROUGHT BEFORE PHARAOH. 
 
 THEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, "My 
 father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their 
 herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of 
 Canaan ; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen." 
 
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 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and 
 presented them unto Pharaoh. 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, " What is your occu- 
 pation ? " And they said unto Pharaoh, "Thy servants are 
 shepherds, both we, and also our fathers." They said more- 
 over unto Pharaoh, *' For to sojourn in the land are we 
 come ; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks ; for 
 the famine is sore in the land of Canaan : now therefore, 
 we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen." 
 
 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, " Thy father 
 and ':hy brethren are come unto thee : the land of Egypt 
 is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father 
 and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them 
 dwell : and if thou knowest any men of activity among 
 them, then make them rulers over my cattle." 
 
 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him 
 before Pharaoh : and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, ''How old art thou.?" 
 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, '' The days of the years 
 of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years : few 
 and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and 
 have not attained unto the days of the years of the life 
 of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." And 
 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 
 
 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and 
 gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best 
 of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had com- 
 manded. And Joseph nourished his father, and his breth- 
 ren, and all his father's household, with bread, according 
 to their families. 
 
 Genesis xlvii. 1-12. 
 
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 XXII. JACOB'S DEATH AND BURIAL. 
 
 AND Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country 
 of Goshen ; and they had possessions therein, and 
 grew, and multiplied exceedingly. And Jacob lived in 
 the land of Egypt seventeen years : so the whole age of 
 Jacob was a hundred forty and seven years. 
 
 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die : and he 
 called his son Joseph, and said unto him, '' If now I have 
 found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy ^and 
 under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me ; bury 
 me not, I pray thee, in Egypt : but I will lie with my 
 fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury 
 me in their buryingplace." And he said, " I will do as 
 thou hast said." 
 
 And he said, " Swear unto me." And he sware unto 
 him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. 
 
 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon 
 him, and kissed him. 
 
 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to 
 embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. 
 And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled 
 the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians 
 mourned for him threescore and ten days. 
 
 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph 
 spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, " If now Ihave 
 found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears 
 of Pharaoh, saying, ' My father made me swear, saying, 
 Lo, I die : in my grave which I have digged for me in the 
 land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now there- 
 
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 fore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and 
 I will come agam.' " 
 
 And Pharaoh said, *'Go up, and bury thy father, accord- 
 ing as he made thee swear." 
 
 And Joseph went up to bury his father : and with him 
 went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his 
 house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, and all 
 the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's 
 house : only their little ones, and their flocks, and their 
 herds, they left in the land of Goshen. And there went 
 up with him both chariots and horsemen : and it was a 
 very great company. 
 
 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is 
 beyond Jordan ; and there they mourned with a great and 
 very sore lamentation : and he made a mourning for his 
 father seven days. 
 
 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded 
 them : for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, 
 and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, 
 which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of 
 a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 
 
 Genesis xlvii. 27-31 ; 1. 1-13. 
 
 XXIII. JOSEPH'S LAST DAYS. 
 
 AND Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, 
 and all that went up with him to bury his father, after 
 he had buried his father. 
 
 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was 
 dead, they said, *' Joseph will peradventure hate us, and 
 
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 will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto 
 him." 
 
 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, ** Thy 
 father did command before he died, saying, ' So shall ye 
 say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass 
 of thy brethren, and their sin ; for they did unto thee 
 evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of 
 the servants of the God of thy father.' " And Joseph 
 wept when they spake unto him. 
 
 And his brethren also went and fell down before his 
 face; and they said, "Behold, we be thy servants." And 
 Joseph said unto them, " Fear not : for am I in the place 
 of God ? But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; 
 but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is 
 this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore fear 
 ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones." And 
 he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. 
 
 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house : 
 and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. And Joseph 
 saw Ephraim's children of the third generation : the 
 children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought 
 up upon Joseph's knees. 
 
 And Joseph said unto his brethren, " I die ; and God will 
 surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the 
 land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." 
 
 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, say- 
 ing, '' God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my 
 bones from hence." 
 
 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old : and 
 they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. 
 
 Genesis 1. 14-26. 
 
 BIB. READ. — 4 
 
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 XXIV. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
 OPPRESSED. 
 
 AND the children of Israel increased abundantly, and 
 multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty ; and the 
 land was filled with them. 
 
 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which 
 knew not Joseph. 
 
 And he said unto his people, ''Behold, the people of the 
 children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come 
 on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and 
 it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, 
 they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and 
 so get them up out of the land." 
 
 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afilict 
 them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh 
 treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 
 
 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multi- 
 plied and grew. And they were grieved because of the 
 children of Israel. 
 
 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve 
 with rigour. 
 
 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, 
 in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in 
 the field : all their service, wherein they made them serve, 
 was with rigour. 
 
 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, " Every 
 son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every 
 daughter ye shall save alive." 
 
 Exodus i. 7-14, 22. 
 
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 XXV. MOSES. 
 
 AND there went a man of the house of Levi, and took 
 to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman bare a 
 son : and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, 
 she hid him three months. 
 
 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for 
 him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and 
 with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in 
 the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar 
 off, to wit what would be done to him. 
 
 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash her- 
 self at the river ; and her maidens walked along by the 
 river's side : and when she saw the ark among the flags, 
 she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened 
 it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And 
 she had compassion on him, and said, " This is one of the 
 Hebrews' children." 
 
 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, " Shall I go 
 and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she 
 may nurse the child for thee ? " 
 
 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, " Go." And the 
 maid went and called the child's mother. 
 
 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, ''Take this child 
 away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy 
 wages." And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 
 
 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pha- 
 raoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called 
 his name Moses : and she said, " Because I drew him out 
 of the water." Exodus ii. i-io. 
 
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 XXVI. GOD'S PROMISE TO THE CHILDREN 
 OF ISRAEL. 
 
 AND it came to pass in process of time, that the king of 
 Egypt died : and the children of Israel sighed by 
 reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came 
 up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard 
 their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with 
 Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked 
 upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto 
 them. 
 
 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, 
 the priest of Midian : and he led the flock to the back side 
 of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to 
 Horeb. 
 
 And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a 
 flame of fire out of the midst of a bush : and he looked, 
 and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush Avas 
 not consumed. And Moses said, " I will now turn aside, 
 and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." 
 
 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, 
 God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, 
 " Moses, Moses." And he said, " Here am I." 
 
 And he said, " Draw not nigh hither : put off thy shoes 
 from off thy feet ; for the place whereon thou standest is 
 holy ground." 
 
 Moreover he said, '' I am the God of thy father, the 
 God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of 
 Jacob." And Moses hid his face ; for he was afraid to 
 look upon God. 
 
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 And the Lord said, *' I have surely seen the affliction of 
 
 my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry 
 
 by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows ; 
 
 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of 
 
 the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto 
 
 a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk 
 
 and honey." 
 
 Exodus ii. 23-25 ; iii. 1-8. 
 
 XXVII. THE SPIES. 
 
 AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, " Send thou 
 men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which 
 I give unto the children of Israel : of every tribe of their 
 fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among 
 them." 
 
 And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent 
 them from the wilderness of Paran : all those men were 
 heads of the children of Israel. 
 
 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, 
 and said unto them, " Get you up this way southward, and 
 go up into the mountain : and see the land, what it is ; 
 and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be 
 strong or weak, few or many ; and what the land is that 
 they dwell in, whether it be good or bad ; and what cities 
 they be that they dw^ell in, whether in tents, or in strong 
 holds ; and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, 
 whether there be wood therein, or not. 
 
 **And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of 
 the land." 
 
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 Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes. 
 
 And they came unto the brook of Eschol, and cut down 
 from thence a branch with one ckister of grapes, and they 
 bare it between two upon a staff ; and they brought of the 
 pomegranates and of the figs. And they returned from 
 searching of the land after forty days. 
 
 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and 
 to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the 
 wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh ; and brought back word 
 unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed 
 them the fruit of the land. 
 
 And they told him, and said, " We came unto the land 
 whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk 
 and honey ; and this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless the 
 people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are 
 walled, and very great : and moreover we saw the children 
 of Anak there." 
 
 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, 
 " Let us go up at once, and possess it ; for we are well able 
 to overcome it." But the men that went up with him 
 said, '' We be not able to go up against the people ; for 
 they are stronger than we." 
 
 And they brought up an evil report of the land which 
 they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, 
 '* The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a 
 land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof ; and all the 
 people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And 
 there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of 
 the giants : and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, 
 and so we were in their sight." 
 
 Numbers xiii. 1-3, 17-20, 23, 25-28, 30-33. 
 
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 XXVIII. JOSHUA'S COURAGE. 
 
 AND all the congregation lifted up their voice, and 
 cried ; and the people wept that night. And all the 
 children of Israel murmured against Moses and against 
 Aaron : and the whole congregation said unto them, 
 " Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt ! or 
 would God we had died in this wilderness ! And where- 
 fore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall 
 by the sword, that our wives and our children should be 
 a prey .^ were it not better for us to return into Egypt .^ " 
 And they said one to another, " Let us make a captain, 
 and let us return into Egypt." 
 
 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all 
 the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 
 
 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of 
 Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, 
 rent their clothes : and they spake unto all the company 
 of the children of Israel, saying, " The land, which we 
 passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. 
 If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this 
 land, and give it us ; a land which floweth with milk and 
 honey. Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear 
 ye the people of the land ; for they are bread for us : 
 their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with 
 us : fear them not." 
 
 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. 
 And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of 
 the congregation before all the children of Israel. 
 
 Numbers xiv. i-io. 
 
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 XXIX. MOSES PRAYS FOR THE PEOPLE. 
 
 AND the Lord said unto Moses, " How long will this 
 people provoke me ? and how long will it be ere 
 they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed 
 among them ? I will smite them with the pestilence, and 
 disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation 
 and mightier than they." 
 
 And Moses said unto the Lord, " Then the Egyptians 
 shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy 
 might from among them ;) and they will tell it to the 
 inhabitants of this land : for they have heard that thou 
 Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face 
 to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that 
 thou goest before them, by daytime in a pillar of a cloud, 
 and in a pillar of fire by night. 
 
 " Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then 
 the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, 
 saying, * Because the Lord was not able to bring this 
 people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore 
 he hath slain them in the wilderness.' 
 
 *' And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord 
 be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, ' The 
 Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving in- 
 iquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the 
 guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the chil- 
 dren unto the third and fourth generation.' Pardon, I 
 beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto 
 the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this 
 people, from Egypt even until now." 
 
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 And the Lord said, " I have pardoned according to thy 
 word : but as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled 
 with the glory of the Lord. Because all those men 
 which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did 
 in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me 
 now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice ; 
 surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto 
 their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me 
 see it : but my servant Caleb, because he had another 
 spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I 
 bring into the land whereinto he went ; and his seed shall 
 possess it. Numbers xiv. 1 1-24. 
 
 XXX. THE STORY OF THE TREES. 
 
 AND Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem 
 unto his mother's brethren, and communed with 
 them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's 
 father, saying, 
 
 " Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of She- 
 chem, 'Whether is better for you, either that all the sons 
 of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign 
 over you, or that one reign over you ? Remember also 
 that I am your bone and your flesh.' " 
 
 And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all 
 the men of Shechem all these words : and their hearts in- 
 clined to follow Abimelech ; for they said, '* He is our 
 brother." And they gave him threescore and ten pieces 
 of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abime- 
 lech hired vain and light persons, which followed him. 
 
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 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and 
 slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore 
 and ten persons, upon one stone : notwithstanding, yet 
 Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he 
 hid himself. 
 
 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all 
 the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, 
 by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem. 
 
 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in 
 the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and 
 cried, and said unto them, " Hearken unto me, ye men of 
 Shechem, that God may hearken unto you. 
 
 *' The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over 
 them ; and they said unto the olive tree, ' Reign thou over 
 us.' 
 
 " But the olive tree said unto them, ' Should I leave 
 my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, 
 and go to be promoted over the trees ? ' And the trees 
 said to the fig tree, 'Come thou, and reign over us.' But 
 the fig tree said unto them, * Should I forsake my sweet- 
 ness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the 
 trees ? ' Then said the trees unto the vine, ' Come thou, 
 and reign over us.' And the vine said unto them, ' Should 
 I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go 
 to be promoted over the trees ? ' Then said all the trees 
 unto the bramble, * Come thou, and reign over us.' And 
 the bramble said unto the trees, * If in truth ye anoint 
 me king over you, then come and put your trust in my 
 shadow ; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and 
 devour the cedars of Lebanon.' " 
 
 Judges ix. 1-15. 
 
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 XXXI. SAMUEL CALLED. 
 
 AND the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before 
 Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in 
 those days ; there was no open vision. 
 
 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid 
 down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that 
 he could not see ; and ere the lamp of God went out in 
 the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and 
 Samuel was laid down to sleep ; that the Lord called 
 Samuel : and he answered, '* Here am L" 
 
 And he ran unto Eli, and said, " Here am I ; for thou 
 calledst me." And he said, ''I called not; lie down 
 again." And he went and lay down. 
 
 And the Lord called yet again, ''Samuel." And Sam- 
 uel arose and went to Eli, and said, '' Here am I ; for thou 
 didst call me." And he answered, ** I called not, my son ; 
 lie down again." 
 
 Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was 
 the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him. And the 
 Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose 
 and went to Eli, and said, " Here am I ; for thou didst 
 call me." And Eli perceived that the Lord had called 
 the child. Therefore Eh said unto Samuel, " Go, He 
 down : and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt 
 say, 'Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.' " So Sam- 
 uel went and lay down in his place. 
 
 And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at 
 other times, "Samuel, Samuel." Then Samuel answered, 
 " Speak ; for thy servant heareth." 
 
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 And the Lord said to Samuel, " Behold, I will do a 
 thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that 
 heareth it shall tingle. In that day I will perform against 
 Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house : 
 when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told 
 him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity 
 which he knoweth ; because his sons did bring a curse 
 upon themselves, and he restrained them not. And there- 
 fore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity 
 of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offer- 
 ing for ever." 
 
 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the 
 doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel feared to 
 shew Eli the vision. 
 
 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, ** Samuel, my son." 
 And he answered, " Here am I." 
 
 And he said, ''What is the thing that the Lord hath 
 said unto thee .'' I pray thee hide it not from me : God 
 do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide anything from 
 me of all the things that he said unto thee." 
 
 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from 
 him. And he said, " It is the Lord : let him do what 
 seemeth him good." And Samuel grew, and the Lord 
 was with him. J S^^^^l j.j ^_^^ 
 
 XXXII. THE STORY OF RUTH. 
 
 NOW it came to pass in the days when the judges 
 ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a 
 certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the 
 
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 country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. And 
 the name of the man was EUmelech, and the name of his 
 wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and 
 Chilion. And they came into the country of Moab, and 
 continued there. 
 
 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died ; and she was 
 left, and her two sons. And they took them wives of the 
 women of Moab ; the name of the one was Orpah, and 
 the name of the other Ruth : and they dwelt there about 
 ten years. 
 
 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them ; and 
 the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. 
 
 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she 
 might return from the country of Moab : for she had 
 heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had 
 visited his people in giving them bread. Wherefore 
 she went forth out of the place where she was, and her 
 two daughters in law with her ; and they went on the 
 way to return unto the land of Judah. 
 
 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, '' Go, 
 return each to her mother's house : the Lord deal kindly 
 with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. 
 The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you 
 in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them ; 
 and they lifted up their voice, and wept. 
 
 And they said unto her, " Surely we will return with 
 thee unto thy people." 
 
 And Naomi said, " Turn again, my daughters : why will 
 ye go with me ? " 
 
 And Orpah kissed her mother in law ; but Ruth clave 
 unto her. 
 
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 And she said, ** Behold, thy sister in law is gone back 
 unto her people, and unto her gods : return thou after thy 
 sister in law." 
 
 And Ruth said, " Entreat me not to leave thee, or to 
 return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, 
 I will go ; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge : thy peo- 
 ple shall be my people, and thy God my God : where thou 
 diest, will I die, and there will I be buried : the Lord do 
 so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and 
 me." 
 
 When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go 
 with her, then she left speaking unto her. 
 
 Ruth i. i-ii, 14-18. 
 
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 XXXIII. THE STORY OF RUTH, CONTINUED. 
 
 SO Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daugh- 
 ter in law, with her, which returned out of the coun- 
 try of Moab. 
 
 And they came to Bethdehem in the beginning of barley 
 harvest. 
 
 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty 
 man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech ; and his 
 name was Boaz. 
 
 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, " Let me 
 now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in 
 whose sight I shall find grace." And she said unto her, 
 " Go, my daughter." 
 
 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after 
 
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 the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the 
 field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of 
 Elimelech. 
 
 And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto 
 the reapers, "The Lord be with you." And they answered 
 him, *' The Lord bless thee." 
 
 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the 
 reapers, " Whose damsel is this ? " 
 
 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered 
 and said, " It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with 
 Naomi out of the country of Moab : and she said, ' I pray 
 you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the 
 sheaves.' 
 
 *' So she came, and hath continued even from the morn- 
 ing until now, that she tarried a little in the house." 
 
 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, " Hearest thou not, my 
 daughter ? Go not to glean in another field, neither go 
 from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens." 
 
 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the 
 ground, and said unto him, '' Why have I found grace in 
 thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, 
 seeing I am a stranger ? " 
 
 And Boaz answered and said unto her, *' It hath fully 
 been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother 
 in law since the death of thine husband ; and how thou 
 hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy 
 nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest 
 not heretofore. 
 
 " The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward 
 be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose 
 wings thou art come to trust." Ruth i. 22; ii. 1-8. 
 
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 XXXIV. DAVID AND GOLIATH. 
 
 NOW the Philistines gathered together their armies 
 to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, 
 which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh 
 and Azekah. And Saul and the men of Israel were gath- 
 ered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set 
 the battle in array against the Philistines. And the Phihs- 
 tines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood 
 on a mountain on the other side : and there was a valley 
 between them. 
 
 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the 
 Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six 
 cubits and a span. And he had a helmet of brass upon 
 his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail ; and the 
 weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 
 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target 
 of brass between his shoulders. And the staff of his 
 spear was like a weaver's beam ; and his spear's head 
 weighed six hundred shekels of iron : and one bearing a 
 shield went before him. 
 
 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and 
 said unto them, " Why are ye come out to set your battle 
 in array .'* am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul ? 
 choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. 
 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will 
 we be your servants : but if I prevail against him, and kill 
 him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us." 
 
 And the Philistine said, '' I defy the armies of Israel 
 this day; give me a man, that we may fight together." 
 
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 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the 
 Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. 
 
 And David said to Saul, *' Let no man's heart fail be- 
 cause of him ; thy servant will go and fight with this 
 Philistine." 
 
 And Saul said to David, "Thou art not able to go 
 against this Philistine to fight with him : for thou art but 
 a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." And 
 David said unto Saul, '* Thy servant kept his father's 
 sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb 
 out of the flock : and I went out after him, and smote 
 him, and delivered it out of his mouth : and when he 
 arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote 
 him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and 
 the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one 
 of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living 
 God." 
 
 David said moreover, " The Lord that delivered me out 
 of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he 
 will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." 
 
 And Saul said unto David, " Go, and the Lord be with 
 
 thee." 
 
 I Samuel xvii. i-ii, 32-37. 
 
 XXXV. GOLIATH SLAIN. 
 
 AND Saul armed David with his armour, and he put a 
 helmet of brass upon his head ; also he armed him 
 with a coat of mail. And David girded his sword upon 
 his armour, and he assayed to go ; for he had not proved 
 it. And David said unto Saul, " I cannot go with these ; 
 
 BIB. READ. — 5 
 
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 for I have not proved them." And David put them off 
 him. 
 
 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five 
 smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shep- 
 herd's bag which he had, even in a scrip ; and his sling 
 was in his hand: and he drew near to the PhiHstine. 
 
 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; 
 and the man that bare the shield went before him. And 
 when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he dis- 
 dained him : for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of 
 a fair countenance. 
 
 And the Philistine said unto David, " Am I a dog, that 
 thou comest to me with staves ? " And the Philistine 
 cursed David by his gods. 
 
 And the Philistine said to David, *'Come to me, and 
 I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the 
 beasts of the field." 
 
 Then said David to the Philistine, " Thou comest to me 
 with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield : but 
 I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God 
 of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. 
 
 " This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand ; 
 and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee ; and 
 I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this 
 day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of 
 the earth ; that all the earth may know that there is a 
 God in Israel. 
 
 ** And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth 
 not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, 
 and he will give you into our hands." 
 
 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and 
 
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 came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, 
 and ran toward the army to meet the PhiUstine. 
 
 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a 
 stone, and slang it, and smote the PhiUstine in his fore- 
 head, that the stone sunk into his forehead ; and he fell 
 upon his face to the earth. 
 
 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and 
 with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him ; but 
 there was no sword in the hand of David. 
 
 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and 
 took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and 
 slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the 
 Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled. 
 
 I Samuel xvii. 38-51. 
 
 XXXVI. DAVID AND JONATHAN. 
 
 AND David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and 
 said before Jonathan, *' What have I done ? what 
 is mine iniquity ? and what is my sin before thy father, 
 that he seeketh my life ? " 
 
 And he said unto him, " God forbid ; thou shalt not die : 
 behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, 
 but that he will shew it me : and why should my father 
 hide this thing from me .-* it is not so." 
 
 And David sware moreover, and said, " Thy father 
 certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes ; 
 and he saith, 'Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be 
 grieved:' but truly, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul 
 liveth, there is but a step between me and death." 
 
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 Then said Jonathan unto David, " Whatsoever thy soul 
 desireth, I will even do it for thee." 
 
 And David saith unto Jonathan, *' Behold, to-morrow is 
 the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at 
 meat : but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field 
 unto the third day at even. If thy father at all miss 
 me, then say, ' David earnestly asked leave of me that 
 he might run to Beth-lehem his city : for there is a 
 yearly sacrifice there for all the family.' If he say 
 thus, ' It is well ; ' thy servant shall have peace : but if 
 he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined 
 by him. 
 
 " Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant ; for 
 thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the 
 Lord with thee : notwithstanding, if there be in me iniq- 
 uity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me 
 to thy father.?" 
 
 And Jonathan said, " Far be it from thee : for if I knew 
 
 certainly that evil were determined by my father to come 
 
 upon thee, then would not I tell it thee ? " Then said 
 
 David to Jonathan, ** Who shall tell me ? or what if thy 
 
 father answer thee roughly .? " 
 
 I Samuel xx. i-io. 
 
 XXXVII. JONATHAN'S FRIENDSHIP. 
 
 AND Jonathan said unto David, " Come, and let us go 
 out into the field." And they went out both of 
 them into the field. 
 
 And Jonathan said unto David, " O Lord God of Israel, 
 
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 when I have sounded my father about to-morrow any time, 
 or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward 
 David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee ; 
 the Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it 
 please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it 
 thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace : 
 and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my 
 father. And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew 
 me the kindness of the Lord, that I die not : but also 
 thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for 
 ever : no, not when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of 
 David every one from the face of the earth." 
 
 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, 
 saying, " Let the Lord even require it at the hand of 
 David's enemies." And Jonathan caused David to swear 
 again, because he loved him : for he loved him as he loved 
 his own soul. Then Jonathan said to David, " To-morrow 
 is the new moon : and thou shalt be missed, because thy 
 seat will be empty. And when thou hast stayed three 
 days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the 
 place where thou didst hide thyself when the business 
 was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel. And I 
 will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I 
 shot at a mark. 
 
 " And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, ' Go, find out the 
 arrows.' If I expressly say unto the lad, ' Behold, the 
 arrows are on this side of thee, take them ; ' then come 
 thou : for there is peace to thee, and no hurt ; as the 
 Lord liveth. But if I say thus unto the young man, 
 ' Behold, the arrows are beyond thee ; ' go thy way : for 
 the Lord hath sent thee away. 
 
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 "And as touching the matter which thou and I have 
 spoken of, behold, the Lord be between thee and me for 
 ever." i Samuel xx. 11-23. 
 
 XXXVIII. SAUL'S ANGER. 
 
 SO David hid himself in the field ; and when the new 
 moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat. 
 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even 
 upon a seat by the wall : and Jonathan arose, and Abner 
 sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty. 
 
 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day : for he 
 thought, " Something hath befallen him, he is not clean ; 
 surely he is not clean." 
 
 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the sec- 
 ond day of the month, that David's place was empty : and 
 Saul said unto Jonathan his son, '' Wherefore cometh not 
 the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to-day ? " 
 And Jonathan answered Saul, '' David earnestly asked 
 leave of me to go to Beth-lehem : and he said, ' Let me 
 go, I pray thee ; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; 
 and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there : and 
 now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, 
 I pray thee, and see my brethren.' Therefore he cometh 
 not unto the king's table." 
 
 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and 
 he said unto him, "Thou son of the perverse rebellious 
 woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of 
 JeF:)3 to thine own confusion.'' For as long as the son of 
 Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, 
 
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 nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him 
 unto me, for he shall surely die." 
 
 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto 
 him, '' Wherefore shall he be slain ? what hath he done .'' " 
 
 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him : whereby 
 Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay 
 David. 
 
 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and 
 did eat no meat the second day of the month : for he was 
 grieved for David, because his father had done him shame. 
 
 I Samuel xx. 24-34. 
 
 XXXIX. JONATHAN RESCUES DAVID. 
 
 AND it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan 
 went out into the field at the time appointed with 
 David, and a little lad with him. 
 
 And he said unto his lad, " Run, find out now the arrows 
 which I shoot." And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow 
 beyond him. 
 
 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow 
 which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, 
 and said, " Is not the arrow beyond thee ? " And Jonathan 
 cried after the lad, " Make speed, haste, stay not." And 
 Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his 
 master. But the lad knew not any thing : only Jonathan 
 and David knew the matter. 
 
 And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and said 
 unto him, " Go, carry them to the city." 
 
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 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a 
 place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, 
 and bowed himself three times : and they kissed one an- 
 other, and wept one with another, until David exceeded. 
 
 And Jonathan said to David, ** Go in peace, forasmuch 
 as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, 
 saying, * The Lord be between me and thee, and between 
 my seed and thy seed for ever.' " And he arose and de- 
 parted : and Jonathan went into the city. 
 
 I Samuel xx. 35-42. 
 
 XL. ABSALOM'S REBELLION. 
 
 AND it came to pass after this, that Absalom pre- 
 pared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to 
 run before him. And Absalom rose up early, and stood 
 beside the way of the gate : and it was so, that when 
 any man that had a controversy came to the king for 
 judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, '' Of 
 what city art thou.''" And he said, "Thy servant is of 
 one of the tribes of Israel." 
 
 And Absalom said unto him, " See, thy matters are 
 good and right ; but there is no man deputed of the king 
 to hear thee." Absalom said moreover, ''Oh that I were 
 made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit 
 or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice ! " 
 
 And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to 
 do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, 
 and kissed him. And on this manner did Absalom to all 
 Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom 
 stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 
 
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 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said 
 unto the king, '' I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, 
 which I have vowed unto the Lord, in Hebron. For thy 
 servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, 
 saying, *If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jeru- 
 salem, then I will serve the Loud.' " 
 
 And the king said unto him, " Go in peace." So he 
 arose, and went to Hebron. 
 
 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of 
 Israel, saying, '* As soon as ye hear the sound of the trum- 
 pet, then ye shall say, * Absalom reigneth in Hebron.' " 
 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusa- 
 lem, that were called ; and they went in their simplicity, 
 and they knew not any thing. 
 
 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's 
 counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered 
 sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people 
 increased continually with Absalom. 
 
 And there came a messenger to David, saying, "The 
 hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom." And 
 David said unto all his servants that were with him at 
 Jerusalem, ''Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else 
 escape from Absalom : make speed to depart, lest he over- 
 take us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the 
 city with the edge of the sword." 
 
 And the king's servants said unto the king, " Behold, 
 thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king 
 shall appoint." 
 
 And the king went forth, and all his household after 
 him. 
 
 2 Samuel xv. 1-16. 
 
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 XLI. ABSALOM SLAIN. 
 
 AND David numbered the people that were with him, 
 and set captains of thousands and captains of hun- 
 dreds over them. 
 
 And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people 
 came out by hundreds and by thousands. 
 
 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, 
 saying, " Deal gently for my sake with the young man, 
 even with Absalom." And all the people heard when the 
 king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom. 
 
 So the people went out into the field against Israel : and 
 the battle was in the wood of Ephraim ; where the people 
 of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there 
 was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand 
 men. For the battle was there scattered over the face of 
 all the country : and the wood devoured more people that 
 day than the sword devoured. 
 
 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absa- 
 lom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick 
 boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the 
 oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the 
 earth ; and the mule that was under him went away. 
 
 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, ''Be- 
 hold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak." 
 
 And Joab said unto the man that told him, ''And, be- 
 hold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him 
 there to the ground ? and I would have given thee ten 
 shekels of silver, and a girdle." 
 
 And the man said unto Joab, " Though I should receive 
 
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 a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not 
 put forth mine hand against the king's son : for in our 
 hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, say- 
 ing, ' Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.' 
 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine 
 own life : for there is no matter hid from the king, and 
 thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me." 
 
 Then said Joab, *' I may not tarry thus with thee." 
 And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them 
 through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in 
 the midst of the oak. And ten young men that bare 
 Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and 
 slew him. 
 
 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned 
 from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people. 
 
 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in 
 the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him : 
 and all Israel fled every one to his tent. 
 
 2 Samuel xviii. i, 4-17. 
 
 XLII. DAVID'S SORROW FOR ABSALOM. 
 
 AND David sat between the two gates : and the watch- 
 man went up to the roof over the gate unto the vv^all, 
 and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man run- 
 ning alone. And the watchman cried, and told the king. 
 And the king said, " If he be alone, there is tidings in his 
 mouth." And he came apace, and drew near. 
 
 And the watchman saw another man running : and the 
 watchman called unto the porter, and said, " Behold an- 
 
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 other man running alone." And the king said, "He also 
 bringeth tidings." 
 
 And the watchman said, " Methinketh the running of 
 the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of 
 Zadok." And the king said, '' He is a good man, and 
 cometh with good tidings." 
 
 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, "All is 
 well." And he fell down to the earth upon his face be- 
 fore the king, and said, " Blessed be the Lord thy God, 
 which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand 
 against my lord the king." 
 
 And the king said, " Is the young man Absalom safe.? " 
 And Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king's ser- 
 vant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew 
 not what it was." 
 
 And the king said unto him, "Turn aside, and stand 
 here." And he turned aside, and stood still. 
 
 And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, "Tidings, 
 my lord the king : for the Lord hath avenged thee this 
 day of all them that rose up against thee." 
 
 And the king said unto Cushi, " Is the young man 
 Absalom safe ? " 
 
 And Cushi answered, "The enemies of my lord the 
 king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as 
 that young man is." 
 
 And the king was much moved, and went up to the 
 chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus 
 he said, " O my son Absalom ! my son, my son Absalom ! 
 would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my 
 son ! " 
 
 2 Samuel xviii. 24-33. 
 
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 XLIII. SOLOMON'S DREAM. 
 
 IN Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by- 
 night : and God said, "Ask what I shall give thee.'' 
 And Solomon said, '' Thou hast shewed unto thy servant 
 David my father great mercy, according as he walked be- 
 fore thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness 
 of heart with thee ; and thou hast kept for him this great 
 kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his 
 throne, as it is this day. 
 
 "And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy ser- 
 vant king instead of David my father : and I am but a 
 little child : I know not how to go out or come in. And 
 thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast 
 chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor 
 counted for multitude. Give therefore thy servant an 
 understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may dis- 
 cern between good and bad : for who is able to judge this 
 thy so great a people.-' " 
 
 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had 
 asked this thing. And God said unto him, " Because thou 
 hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long 
 life ; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked 
 the life of thine enemies ; but hast asked for thyself 
 understanding to discern judgment; behold, I have done 
 according to thy word : lo, I have given thee a wise and 
 an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee 
 before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto 
 thee. 
 
 "And I have also given thee that which thou hast not 
 
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 asked, both riches, and honour : so that there shall not be 
 any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if 
 thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my 
 commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will 
 lengthen thy days." 
 
 And Solomon awoke ; and, behold, it was a dream. 
 
 I Kings iii. 5-15. 
 
 XLIV. JONAH'S CALL TO REPENTANCE. 
 
 AND the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the 
 second time, saying, "Arise, go unto Nineveh, that 
 great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid 
 thee." 
 
 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to 
 the word of the Lord. 
 
 Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three 
 days' journey. And Jonah began to enter into the city a 
 day's journey, and he cried, and said, ''Yet forty days, and 
 Nineveh shall be overthrown." 
 
 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed 
 a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them 
 even to the least of them. For word came unto the king 
 of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his 
 robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in 
 ashes. 
 
 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published 
 through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, 
 saying, " Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste 
 any thing : let them not feed, nor drink water : but let 
 
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 man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily 
 unto God : yea, let them turn every one from his evil 
 way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who 
 can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from 
 his fierce anger, that we perish not ? " 
 
 And God saw their works, that they turned from their 
 evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said 
 that he would do unto them ; and he did it not. 
 
 Jonah iii. i-io. 
 
 XLV. JONAH'S GOURD. 
 
 BUT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very 
 angry. And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, " I 
 pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was 
 yet in my country.-^ Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: 
 for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, 
 slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee 
 of the evil. Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech 
 thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die 
 than to live." 
 
 Then said the Lord, " Doest thou well to be angry ? " 
 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east 
 side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat 
 under it in the shadow, till he might see what would 
 become of the -city. 
 
 And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to 
 come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his 
 head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was ex- 
 ceeding glad of the gourd. 
 
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 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the 
 next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. And 
 it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared 
 a vehement east wind ; and the sun beat upon the head 
 of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, 
 and said, " It is better for me to die than to Uve." 
 
 And God said to Jonah, " Doest thou well to be angry 
 for the gourd ? " And he said, " I do well to be angry, 
 even unto death." Then said the Lord, " Thou hast had 
 pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, 
 neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and 
 perished in a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, 
 that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand 
 persons that cannot discern between their right hand 
 and their left hand ; and also much cattle ? " 
 
 Jonah iv. i-ii. 
 
 XLVI. DANIEL'S FIDELITY TO HIS GOD. 
 
 IT pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred 
 and twenty princes, which should be over the whole 
 kingdom ; and over these three presidents ; of whom 
 Daniel was first : that the princes might give accounts 
 unto them, and the king should have no damage. 
 
 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents 
 and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him ; and 
 the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Then 
 the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against 
 Daniel concerning the kingdom : but they could find none 
 occasion nor fault ; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither 
 
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 was there any error or fault found in him. Then said 
 these men, " We shall not find any occasion against this 
 Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law 
 of his God." Then these presidents and princes as- 
 sembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, 
 " King Darius, live for ever. All the presidents of the 
 kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, 
 and the captains, have consulted together to establish a 
 royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever 
 shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, 
 save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of Rons. 
 
 *' Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writ- 
 ing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the 
 Medes and Persians, which altereth not." 
 
 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the 
 
 decree. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was 
 
 signed, he went into his house ; and, his windows being 
 
 open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon 
 
 his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks 
 
 before his God, as he did aforgtime. 
 
 Daniel vi. i-io. 
 
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 XLVII. DANIEL'S DELIVERANCE. 
 
 THEN these men assembled, and found Daniel praying 
 and making supplication before his God. 
 Then they came near, and spake before the king con- 
 cerning the king's decree ; '' Hast thou not signed a 
 decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any 
 
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 God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall 
 be cast into the den of lions?" The king answered and 
 said, ''The thing is true, according to the law of the 
 Medes and Persians, which altereth not." 
 
 Then answered they and said before the king, " That 
 Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, 
 regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast 
 signed, but maketh his petition three times a day." 
 
 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore 
 displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to 
 deliver him : and he laboured till the going down of the 
 sun to deliver him. 
 
 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto 
 the king, '' Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and 
 Persians is. That no decree nor statute which the king 
 establisheth may be changed." 
 
 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, 
 and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake 
 and said unto Daniel, " Thy God whom thou servest con- 
 tinually, he will deliver thee." 
 
 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of 
 the den ; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and 
 with the signet of his lords ; that the purpose might not 
 be changed concerning Daniel. Then the king went to 
 his palace, and passed the night fasting : neither were 
 instruments of music brought before him : and his sleep 
 went from him. 
 
 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and 
 went in haste unto the den of lions. And when he came 
 to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel : 
 and the king spake and said to Daniel, " O Daniel, servant 
 
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 of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continu- 
 ally, able to deliver thee from the lions ? " 
 
 Then said Daniel unto the king, " O king, live for ever. 
 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' 
 mouths, that they have not hurt me : forasmuch as before 
 him innocency was found in me ; and also before thee, O 
 king, have I done no hurt." 
 
 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and com- 
 manded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. 
 So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner 
 of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his 
 
 ^°^- Daniel vi. 11-23. 
 
 XLVIII. THE SHIPWRECK OF PAUL. 
 
 NOW when much time was spent, and when sailing 
 was now dangerous, because the fast was now 
 already past, Paul admonished them, and said unto them, 
 " Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and 
 much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of 
 our lives." 
 
 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the 
 owner of the ship, more than those things which were 
 spoken by Paul. And because the haven was not com- 
 modious to winter in, the more part advised to depart 
 thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, 
 and there to winter ; which is a haven of Crete, and lieth 
 toward the southwest and northwest. And when the 
 south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained 
 their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete. 
 
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 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous 
 wind, called Euroclydon. And when the ship was caught, 
 and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive. 
 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, 
 we had much work to come by the boat : which when they 
 had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship ; 
 and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake 
 sail, and so were driven. 
 
 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the 
 next day they lightened the ship ; and the third day we 
 cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. 
 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, 
 and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should 
 be saved was then taken away. 
 
 But after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in the midst 
 of them, and said, " Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto 
 me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained 
 this harm and loss. And now I exhort you to be of good 
 cheer : for there shall be no loss of any man's life among 
 you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night 
 the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, 
 * Fear not, Paul ; thou must be brought before Cesar : 
 and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.' 
 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer : for I believe God, that 
 it shall be even as it was told me. Howbeit we must be 
 cast upon a certain island." 
 
 THE ESCAPE. 
 
 But when the fourteenth ni2:ht was come, as we were 
 driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the ship- 
 
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 men deemed that they drew near to some country ; and 
 sounded, and found it twenty fathoms : and when they 
 had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it 
 fifteen fathoms. Then fearing lest we should have fallen 
 upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and 
 wished for the day. 
 
 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, 
 when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour 
 as though they would have cast anchors out of the fore- 
 ship, Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, *' Ex- 
 cept these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved." 
 
 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let 
 her fall off. 
 
 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them 
 all to take meat, saying, " This day is the fourteenth day 
 that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken 
 nothing. Wherefore I pray you to take some meat ; for 
 this is for your health : for there shall not a hair fall from 
 the head of any of you." 
 
 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave 
 thanks to God in presence of them all ; and when he had 
 broken it, he began to eat. Then w^ere they all of good 
 cheer, and they also took some meat. 
 
 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore 
 and sixteen souls. 
 
 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the 
 ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. And when it 
 was day, they knew not the land : but they discovered a 
 certain creek with a shore, into the which they were 
 minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. 
 
 And when they had taken up the anchors, they com- 
 
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 mitted themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder 
 bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made 
 toward shore. And falling into a place where two seas 
 met, they ran the ship aground ; and the forepart stuck 
 fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was 
 broken with the violence of the waves. 
 
 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest 
 any of them should swim out, and escape. But the cen- 
 turion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose ; 
 and commanded that they which could swim should cast 
 themselves first into the sea, and get to land : and the rest, 
 some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. 
 And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to 
 
 land. 
 
 Acts xxvii. 9-44 
 
parablea. 
 
 XLIX. THE SOWER. 
 
 BEHOLD, a sower went forth to sow; and when he 
 sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls 
 came and devoured them up : some fell upon stony places, 
 where they had not much earth : and forthwith they sprung 
 up, because they had no deepness of earth : and when the 
 sun was up, they were scorched ; and because they had no 
 root, they withered away. 
 
 And some fell among thorns ; and the thorns sprung 
 up, and choked them : but other fell into good ground, 
 and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty- 
 fold, some thirtyfold. 
 
 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 
 
 Matthew xiii. 3-9. 
 
 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. 
 
 When any one heareth the word of th^ kingdom, and 
 understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and 
 catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is 
 he which received seed by the way side. 
 
 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same 
 is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth 
 it ; yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while : 
 for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the 
 word, by and by he is offended. 
 
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 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that 
 heareth the word ; and the care of this world, and the 
 deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh 
 unfruitful. 
 
 But he that received seed into the good ground is he 
 that heareth the word, and understandeth it ; which also 
 beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some 
 sixty, some thirty. Matthew xiii. 18-23. 
 
 L. THE TARES. 
 
 THE kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which 
 sowed good seed in his field : 
 
 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares 
 among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade 
 was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the 
 tares also. 
 
 So the servants of the householder came and said unto 
 him, " Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field ? from 
 whence then hath it tares ? " 
 
 He said unto them, " An enemy hath done this." The 
 servants said unto him, " Wilt thou then that we go and 
 gather them up .''" 
 
 But he said, '* Nay ; lest while ye gather up the tares, 
 ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow 
 together until the harvest ! and in the time of harvest I 
 will say to the reapers, * Gather ye together first the tares, 
 and bind them in bundles to burn them : but gather the 
 wheat into my barn.' " 
 
 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the 
 
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 house : and his disciples came unto him, saying, " Declare 
 unto us the parable of the tares of the field." 
 
 He answered and said unto them, " He that soweth the 
 good seed is the Son of man ; the field is the world ; the 
 good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares 
 are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed 
 them is the devil ; the harvest is the end of the world ; and 
 the reapers are the angels. 
 
 ** As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the 
 fire ; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of 
 man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather 
 out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which 
 do iniquity ; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire : 
 there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 
 
 "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the 
 kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him 
 
 "^*^^' Matthew xiii. 24-30, 36-43. 
 
 LI. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 
 
 THE kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard 
 seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : 
 which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is 
 grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a 
 tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the 
 branches thereof. 
 
 Another parable spake he unto them : The kingdom 
 of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, 
 and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was 
 leavened. 
 
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 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in 
 parables ; and without a parable spake he not unto 
 them : that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the 
 prophet, saying, 
 
 " I will open my mouth in parables ; I will utter things 
 which have been kept secret from the foundation of the 
 world." 
 
 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid 
 in a field ; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, 
 and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and 
 buyeth that field. 
 
 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant- 
 man, seeking goodly pearls : who, when he had found one 
 pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and 
 bought it. 
 
 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that 
 was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind : which, 
 when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and 
 gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. 
 
 So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels shall 
 come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, 
 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be 
 
 wailing and gnashing of teeth. 
 
 Matthew xiii. 31-35, 44-50. 
 
 LII. THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT. 
 
 THEREFORE is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a 
 certain king, which would take account of his servants. 
 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto 
 him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But foras- 
 
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 much as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to 
 be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, 
 and payment to be made. 
 
 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, 
 saying, " Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee 
 all." 
 
 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compas- 
 sion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. 
 
 But the same servant went out, and found one of his 
 fellow servants, which owed him a hundred pence : and he 
 laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, 
 " Pay me that thou owest." 
 
 And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and be- 
 sought him, saying, '' Have patience with me, and I will 
 pay thee all." 
 
 And he would not : but went and cast him into prison, 
 till he should pay the debt. 
 
 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they 
 were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that 
 was done. 
 
 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto 
 him, " O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, 
 because thou desiredst me : shouldest not thou also have 
 had compassion on thy fellow servant, even as I had pity 
 on thee ? " 
 
 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tor- 
 mentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. 
 
 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, 
 if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother 
 their trespasses. 
 
 Matthew xviii. 23-35. 
 
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 LIII. THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD. 
 
 FOR the kingdom of heaven is Hke unto a man that is 
 a householder, which went out early in the morning 
 to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had 
 agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent 
 them into his vineyard. 
 
 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others 
 standing idle in the marketplace, and said unto them ; 
 " Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I 
 will give you." And they went their way. 
 
 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and 
 did likewise. 
 
 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found 
 others standing idle, and saith unto them, *' Why stand ye 
 here all the day idle ? " They say unto him, " Because 
 no man hath hired us." 
 
 He saith unto them, " Go ye also into the vineyard ; 
 and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive." 
 
 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith 
 unto his steward, '' Call the labourers, and give them their 
 hire, beginning from the last unto the first." And when 
 they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they 
 received every man a penny. 
 
 But when the first came, they supposed that they should 
 have received more ; and they likewise received every 
 man a penny. And when they had received it, they mur- 
 mured against the goodman of the house, saying, '* These 
 last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them 
 
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 equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of 
 the day." 
 
 But he answered one of them, and said, " Friend, I do 
 ' thee no wrong : didst not thou agree with me for a penny ? 
 Take that thine is, and go thy way : I will give unto this 
 last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what 
 I will with mine own ? Is thine eye evil, because I am 
 good ? " 
 
 So the last shall be first, and the first last : for many be 
 called, but few chosen. Matthew xx. 1-16. 
 
 LIV. THE TEN VIRGINS. 
 
 THEN shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto 
 ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth 
 to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and 
 five were foolish. 
 
 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no 
 oil with them : but the wise took oil in their vessels with 
 their lamps. 
 
 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and 
 slept. 
 
 And at midnight there was a cry made, " Behold, the 
 bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him." 
 
 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 
 And the foolish said unto the wise, " Give us of your oil ; 
 for our lamps are gone out." 
 
 But the wise answered, saying, " Not so ; lest there be 
 not enough for us and you : but go ye rather to them that 
 sell, and buy for yourselves." 
 
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 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came ; and 
 they that were ready went in with him to the marriage : 
 and the door was shut. 
 
 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, *' Lord, 
 Lord, open to us." But he answered and said, ''Verily I 
 say unto you, I know you not." 
 
 Watch therefore ; for ye know neither the day nor the 
 
 hour wherein the Son of man cometh. 
 
 Matthew xxv. 1-13. 
 
 LV. THE TALENTS. 
 
 FOR the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into 
 a far country, who called his own servants, and de- 
 livered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five 
 talents, to another two, and to another one ; to every man 
 according to his several ability ; and straightway took his 
 journey. 
 
 Then he that had received the five talents went and 
 traded with the same, and made them other five talents. 
 
 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained 
 other two. 
 
 But he that had received one went and digged in the 
 earth, and hid his lord's money. 
 
 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, 
 and reckoneth with them. 
 
 And so he that had received five talents came and 
 brought other five talents, saying, " Lord, thou deliveredst 
 unto me five talents : behold, I have gained beside them 
 five talents more." 
 
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 His lord said unto him, " Well done, thou good and 
 faithful servant : thou hast been faithful over a few things, 
 I will make thee ruler over many things : enter thou into 
 the joy of thy lord." 
 
 He also that had received two talents came and said, 
 " Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents : behold, I 
 have gained two other talents beside them." 
 
 His lord said unto him, " Well done, good and faithful 
 servant ; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will 
 make thee ruler over many things : enter thou into the joy 
 of thy lord." 
 
 Then he which had received the one talent came and 
 said, " Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reap- 
 ing where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou 
 hast not strewed : and I was afraid, and went and hid 
 thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is 
 thine." 
 
 His lord answered and said unto him, " Thou wicked 
 and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I 
 sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed : thou 
 oughtest therefore to have put my money to the ex- 
 changers, and then at my coming I should have received 
 mine own with usury. 
 
 " Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto 
 him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath 
 shall be given, and he shall have abundance : but from 
 him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he 
 hath. 
 
 "And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer dark- 
 ness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 
 
 Matthew xxv. 14-30. 
 
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 LVI. THE GOOD SAMARITAN. 
 
 AND, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted 
 him, saying, " Master, what shall I do to inherit 
 eternal life ? " 
 
 He said unto him, *' What is written in the law ? how 
 readest thou ? " 
 
 And he answering said, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
 God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all 
 thy strength, and with all thy mind ; and thy neighbour 
 as thyself." 
 
 And he said unto him, '* Thou hast answered right : this 
 do, and thou shalt live." 
 
 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, ''And 
 who is my neighbour ? " 
 
 And Jesus answering said, "A certain man went down 
 from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which 
 stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and de- 
 parted, leaving him half dead. 
 
 "And by chance there came down a certain priest that 
 way ; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other 
 side. And Hkewise a Levite, when he was at the place, 
 came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. 
 
 " But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where 
 he was ; and when he saw him, he had compassion on 
 him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pour- 
 ing in oil and wine, and set hira on his own beast, and 
 brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 
 
 "And on the morrow when he departed, he took out 
 two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, 
 
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 ' Take care of him : and whatsoever thou spendest more, 
 when I come again, I will repay thee.' 
 
 " Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neigh- 
 bour unto him that fell among the thieves ? " 
 
 And he said, " He that shewed mercy on him." Then 
 said Jesus unto him, ''Go, and do thou likewise." 
 
 Luke X. 25-37. 
 
 LVII. THE RICH FOOL. 
 
 AND one of the company said unto him, " Master, speak 
 to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with 
 me." 
 
 And he said unto him, " Man, who made me a judge or 
 a divider over you.^" 
 
 And he said unto them, "Take heed, and beware of 
 covetousness : for a man's life consisteth not in the abun- 
 dance of the things which he possesseth." 
 
 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, " The ground 
 of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: and he 
 thought within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, because 
 I have no room where to bestow my fruits.?' And he said, 
 'This will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build 
 greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my 
 goods. And I will say to my soul, " Soul, thou hast much 
 goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, 
 and be merry." ' 
 
 " But God said unto him, ' Thou fool, this night thy 
 soul shall be required of thee : then whose shall those 
 
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 things be, which thou hast provided ? ' So is he that lay- 
 eth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." 
 
 Luke xii. 13-21. 
 
 LVIII. THE GREAT SUPPER. 
 
 THEN said he also to him that bade him, "When thou 
 makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, 
 nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neigh- 
 bours ; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense 
 be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the 
 poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind : and thou shalt be 
 blessed; for they cannot recompense thee : for thou shalt 
 be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." 
 
 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard 
 these things, he said unto him, " Blessed is he that shall 
 eat bread in the kingdom of God." 
 
 Then said he unto him, "A certain man made a great 
 supper, and bade many : and sent his servant at supper 
 time to say to them that were bidden, * Come ; for all 
 things are now ready.' And they all with one consent 
 began to make excuse. The first said unto him, ' I have 
 bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see 
 it: I pray thee have me excused.' And another said, ' I 
 have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them : 
 I pray thee have me excused.' And another said, 'I have 
 married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' 
 
 " So that servant came, and shewed his lord these 
 things. Then the master of the house being angry said 
 to his servant, * Go out quickly into the streets and lanes 
 
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 of the city, and briiii;- in liithcr the poor, and the maimed, 
 and the halt, and the l)lind.' 
 
 **And the servant said, ' Lord, it is done as thou hast 
 commanded, and yet there is room.' 
 
 "And the loiil said unto the servant, *Go out into the 
 highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that 
 my house may be filled. For I say unto you, that none 
 of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.' " 
 
 Luke xiv. 12-24. 
 
 LIX. SEEKING THE LOST. 
 
 WHAT man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he 
 lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and 
 nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, 
 until he find it ? 
 
 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoul- 
 ders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth 
 together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, 
 " Rejoice with me ; for I have found my sheep which was 
 lost." 
 
 I say inito you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over 
 one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine 
 just persons, which need no repentance. 
 
 Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she 
 lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the 
 house, and seek diligently till she find it ? And when she 
 hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours 
 together, saying, " Rejoice with me ; for I have found the 
 piece which I had lost." 
 
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 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence 
 of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. 
 
 Luke XV. 4-10. 
 
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 LX. THE PRODIGAL SON. 
 
 A CERTAIN man had two sons: and the younger of 
 them said to his father, " Father, give me the portion 
 of goods that falleth to me." And he divided unto them 
 his living. 
 
 And not many days after the younger son gathered all 
 together, and took his journey into a far country, and 
 there wasted his substance with riotous living. 
 
 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty fam- 
 ine in that land ; and he began to be in want. And he 
 went and joined himself to a citizen of that country ; and 
 he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 
 
 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks 
 that the swine did eat : and no man gave unto him. 
 
 And when he came to himself, he said, '* How many 
 hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to 
 spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise and go to 
 my father, and will say unto him, * Father, I have sinned 
 against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy 
 to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired 
 servants.' " 
 
 And he arose, and came to his father. 
 
 But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw 
 him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, 
 and kissed him. 
 
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 And the son said unto him, " Father, I have sinned 
 against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy 
 to be called thy son." 
 
 But the father said to his servants, ** Bring forth the 
 best robe, and put it on him ; and put a ring on his hand, 
 and shoes on his feet : 
 
 "And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us 
 eat, and be merry : for this my son was dead, and is alive 
 again ; he was lost, and is found." And they began to be 
 merry. 
 
 Now his elder son was in the field : and as he came and 
 drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. 
 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these 
 things meant. 
 
 And he said unto him, " Thy brother is come ; and thy 
 father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received 
 him safe and sound." 
 
 And he was angry, and would not go in : therefore 
 came his father out, and entreated him. And he answer- 
 ing said to his father, '* Lo, these many years do I serve 
 thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy command- 
 ment ; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might 
 make merry with my friends : but as soon as this thy 
 son was come, which hath devoured thy living, thou hast 
 killed for him the fatted calf." 
 
 And he said unto him, " Son, thou art ever with me, 
 and all that I have is thine. 
 
 " It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad : 
 for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was 
 lost, and is found." 
 
 Luke XV. 11-32. 
 
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 LXI. THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS. 
 
 THERE was a certain rich man, which was clothed in 
 purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day : 
 
 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which 
 was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed 
 with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table : 
 moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 
 
 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was 
 carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom : the rich man 
 also died, and was buried ; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, 
 being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Laza- 
 rus in his bosom. 
 
 And he cried and said, " Father Abraham, have mercy 
 on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his 
 finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am tormented 
 in this flame." 
 
 But Abraham said, " Son, remember that thou in thy 
 lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus 
 evil things : but now he is comforted, and thou art tor- 
 mented. And beside all this, between us and you there is 
 a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from 
 hence to you cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that 
 would come from thence." 
 
 Then he said, '' I pray thee therefore, father, that thou 
 wouldest send him to my father's house : for I have five 
 brethren ; that he may testify unto them, lest they also 
 come into this place of torment." 
 
 Abraham saith unto him, " They have Moses and the 
 prophets ; let them hear them." 
 
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 And he said, " Nay, father Abraham : but if one went 
 unto them from the dead, they will repent." 
 
 And he said unto him, "If they hear not Moses and the 
 prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose 
 from the dead." Luke xvi. 19-31. 
 
 LXII. THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. 
 
 AND he spake this parable unto certain which trusted 
 in themselves that they were righteous, and despised 
 others : 
 
 " Two men went up into the temple to pray ; the one a 
 Pharisee, and the other a publican. 
 
 "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 
 * God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, 
 extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 
 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.' 
 
 " And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift so 
 much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, 
 saying, * God, be merciful to me a sinner.' I tell you, 
 this man went down to his house justified rather than the 
 other : for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased ; 
 and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." 
 
 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would 
 touch them : but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked 
 them. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, 
 " Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them 
 not : for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say 
 unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God 
 as a little child shall in no wise enter therein." 
 
 Luke xviii. 9-17. 
 
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 LXIII. THE BLESSED. 
 
 BLESSED are the poor in spirit : for theirs is the 
 kingdom of heaven. 
 
 Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall be com- 
 forted. 
 
 Blessed are the meek : for they shall inherit the earth. 
 
 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after 
 righteousness : for they shall be filled. 
 
 Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain mercy. 
 
 Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see God. 
 
 Blessed are the peacemakers : for they shall be called 
 the children of God. 
 
 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteous- 
 ness' sake : for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 
 
 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and perse- 
 cute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you 
 falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: 
 for great is your reward in heaven : for so persecuted 
 they the prophets which were before you. 
 
 Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt have lost his 
 
 savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? it is thenceforth good 
 
 for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under 
 
 foot of men. 
 
 Matthew v. 3-13. 
 
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 LXIV. LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. 
 
 YE have heard that it hath been said, *' Thou shalt love 
 thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy." But I say 
 unto you. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, 
 do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which 
 despitefully use you, and persecute you ; that ye may be 
 the children of your Father which is in heaven : for he 
 maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and 
 sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 
 
 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have 
 ye .'' do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye 
 salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others ? 
 do not even the publicans so ? 
 
 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is 
 in heaven is perfect. Matthew v. 43-48. 
 
 FORGIVENESS. 
 
 Then came Peter to him, and said, ** Lord, how oft 
 shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him ? 
 till seven times.''" Jesus saith unto him, ''I say not unto 
 thee, until seven times : but, until seventy times seven." 
 
 Matthew xviii. 21, 22. 
 
 LXV. LOVE AND MERCY. 
 
 BUT I say unto you which hear. Love your enemies, do 
 good to them which hate you, bless them that curse 
 you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And 
 unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the 
 
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 other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to 
 take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee ; 
 and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. 
 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to 
 them likewise. 
 
 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have 
 ye } for sinners also love those that love them. And if 
 ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank 
 have ye ? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye 
 lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank 
 have ye } for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as 
 much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and 
 lend, hoping for nothing again ; and your reward shall be 
 great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he 
 is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 
 
 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merci- 
 ful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged : condemn 
 not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall 
 be forgiven : give, and it shall be given unto you ; good 
 measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running 
 over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same 
 measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you 
 again. 
 
 Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's 
 eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? 
 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, " Brother, let me 
 pull out the mote that is in thine eye," when thou thyself 
 beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Thou 
 hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and 
 then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in 
 thy brother's eye. Luke vi. 27-38, 41, 42. 
 
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 LXVI. PRAYER. 
 
 AND it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a cer- 
 tain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said 
 unto him, " Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his 
 disciples." 
 
 And he said unto them, '* When ye pray, say, ' Our 
 Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy 
 kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in 
 earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive 
 us our sins ; for we also forgive every one that is indebted 
 to us. And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us 
 from evil.' " 
 
 And he said unto them, " Which of you shall have a 
 friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto 
 him, ' Friend, lend me three loaves ; for a friend of mine 
 in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set 
 before him ? ' And he from within shall answer and say, 
 * Trouble me not : the door is now shut, and my children 
 are with me in bed : I cannot rise and give thee.' 
 
 " I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him 
 because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity 
 he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. 
 
 " And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you ; 
 seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened 
 unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth ; and he 
 that seeketh findeth ; and to him that knocketh it shall be 
 opened. 
 
 " If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, 
 will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for 
 
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 a fish give him a serpent ? Or if he shall ask an Qgg, will 
 he offer him a scorpion ? 
 
 *' If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts 
 unto your children ; how much more shall your heavenly 
 Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ?" 
 
 Luke xi. 1-13. 
 
 LXVII. PROVIDENCE. 
 
 NO man can serve two masters : for either he will hate 
 the one, and love the other ; or else he will hold to 
 the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and 
 mammon. 
 
 Therefore I say unto you. Take no thought for your 
 life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink ; nor yet for 
 your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than 
 meat, and the body than raiment ? 
 
 Behold the fowls of the air : for they sow not, neither 
 do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly 
 Father f eedeth them. Are ye not much better than they .? 
 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto 
 his stature .'' And why take ye thought for raiment ? 
 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil 
 not, neither do they spin : and yet I say unto you, That 
 even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of 
 these. 
 
 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which 
 to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not 
 much more clothe you, O ye of little faith ? 
 
 Therefore take no thought, saying. What shall we eat ? 
 
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 or, What shall we drink ? or, Wherewithal shall we be 
 clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) 
 for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of 
 all these things. 
 
 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteous- 
 ness ; and all these things shall be added unto you. 
 
 Take therefore no thought for the morrow : for the mor- 
 row shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient 
 
 unto the day is the evil thereof. 
 
 Matthew vi, 24-34. 
 
 LXVIII. HUMILITY. 
 
 AND James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto 
 him, saying, " Master, we would that thou shouldest 
 do for us whatsoever we shall desire." 
 
 And he said unto them, *' What would ye that I should 
 do for you ? " 
 
 They said unto him, " Grant unto us that we may sit, 
 one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in 
 thy glory." 
 
 But Jesus said unto them, " Ye know not what ye ask : 
 can ye drink of the cup that I drink of ? and be baptized 
 with the baptism that I am baptized with ? " 
 
 And they said unto him, " We can." And Jesus said unto 
 them, '' Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of ; 
 and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye 
 be baptized : but to sit on my right hand and on my left 
 hand is not mine to give ; but it shall be given to them for 
 whom it is prepared." 
 
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 And when the ten heard it, they began to be much dis- 
 pleased with James and John. 
 
 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, '* Ye 
 know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gen- 
 tiles exercise lordship over them ; and their great ones 
 exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be 
 among you : but whosoever will be great among you, shall 
 be your minister : and whosoever of you will be the chief- 
 est, shall be servant of all. 
 
 " For even the Son of man came not to be ministered 
 
 unto, but to minister, and to give his Hfe a ransom for 
 
 many." 
 
 Mark x. 35-45. 
 
 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of 
 them should be greatest. 
 
 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took 
 a child, and set him by him, and said unto them, "Who- 
 soever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me ; 
 and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth him that sent 
 me : for he that is least among you all, the same shall be 
 
 great." 
 
 Luke ix. 46-48. 
 
 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, 
 when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; 
 saying unto them, '* When thou art bidden of any man to 
 a wedding, sit not down in the highest room ; lest a more 
 honourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he that 
 bade thee and him come and say to thee, ' Give this man 
 place ; ' and thou begin with shame to take the lowest 
 room. But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the 
 
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 lowest room ; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may- 
 say unto thee, ' Friend, go up higher : ' then shalt thou 
 have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with 
 thee. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased ; and 
 he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." 
 
 Luke xiv. 7-1 1. 
 
 LXIX. THE TREE AND ITS FRUIT; THE 
 HEART AND ITS TREASURE. 
 
 EITHER make the tree good, and his fruit good; or 
 else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt : for 
 the tree is known by his fruit. 
 
 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak 
 good things.'^ for out of the abundance of the heart the 
 mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of 
 the heart bringeth forth good things : and an evil man out 
 of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 
 
 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall 
 speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judg- 
 ment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by 
 
 thy words thou shalt be condemned. 
 
 Matthew xii. 33-37. 
 
 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where 
 moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break 
 through and steal : but lay up for yourselves treasures in 
 heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and 
 where thieves do not break through nor steal : for where 
 your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 
 
 Matthew vi. 19-21. 
 
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 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit ; neither 
 doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree 
 is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not 
 gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes, A 
 good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth 
 forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the 
 evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : 
 for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. 
 
 Luke vi. 43-45. 
 
 LXX. THE TWO CLASSES OF HEARERS. 
 
 NOT every one that saith unto me, ''Lord, Lord," shall 
 enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth 
 the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say 
 to me in that day, " Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in 
 thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in 
 thy name done many wonderful works.''" And then will I 
 profess unto them, " I never knew you : depart from me, 
 ye that work iniquity." Therefore whosoever heareth 
 these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him 
 unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and 
 the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds 
 blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it 
 was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth 
 these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened 
 unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : 
 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the 
 winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell : and 
 
 great was the fall of it. 
 
 Matthew vii. 21-27. 
 
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 LXXI. THE GOOD SHEPHERD. 
 
 VERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not 
 by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some 
 other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 
 
 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of 
 the sheep. To him the porter openeth ; and the sheep 
 hear his voice : and he calleth his own sheep by name, 
 and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his 
 own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow 
 him : for they know his voice. 
 
 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from 
 him ; for they know not the voice of strangers. 
 
 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the 
 sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and 
 robbers : but the sheep did not hear them. 
 
 I am the door : by me if any man enter in, he shall be 
 saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The 
 thief Cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to 
 destroy : I am come that they might have life, and that 
 they might have it more abundantly. 
 
 I am the good shepherd : the good shepherd giveth his 
 life for the sheep. But he that is a hireling, and not the 
 shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf 
 coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth ; and the wolf 
 catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 
 
 The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and careth 
 not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know 
 my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father know- 
 
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 eth me, even so know I the Father : and I lay down my 
 life for the sheep. 
 
 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold : 
 them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice ; 
 and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. There- 
 fore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my 
 life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from 
 me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay 
 it down, and I have power to take it again. This 
 commandment have I received of my Father. 
 
 John X. 1-5, 7-18. 
 
 LXXII. FEEDING THE LAMBS AND THE 
 SHEEP. 
 
 SO when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 
 " Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than 
 these ? " He saith unto him, ^' Yea, Lord ; thou knowest 
 that I love thee." He saith unto him, " Feed my lambs." 
 He saith to him again the second time, '' Simon, son of 
 Jonas, lovest thou me .-^ " He saith unto him, "Yea, 
 Lord; thou knowest that I love thee." He saith unto 
 him, *' Feed my sheep." He saith unto him the third 
 time, " Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me ? " Peter was 
 grieved because he said unto him the third time, " Lovest 
 thou me } " And he said unto him, " Lord, thou knowest 
 all things; thou knowest that I love thee." Jesus saith 
 
 unto him, ''Feed my sheep." 
 
 John xxi. 15-17. 
 
 Then said he unto the disciples, " It is impossible but 
 that offences will come : but woe unto him, through whom 
 
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 they come ! It were better for him that a millstone were 
 
 hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that 
 
 he should offend one of these little ones." 
 
 Luke xvii. i, 2. 
 
 And they brought young children to him, that he should 
 touch them ; and his disciples rebuked those that brought 
 them. 
 
 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and 
 said unto them, " Suffer the little children to come unto 
 me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of 
 God. Verily I say unto you. Whosoever shall not receive 
 the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter 
 therein." 
 
 And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon 
 
 them, and blessed them. 
 
 Mark x. 13-16. 
 
LXXIII. THE TWO GREAT COMMANDMENTS. 
 
 THEN one of them, Vv^hich was a lawyer, asked him 
 a question, tempting him, and saying, " Master, which 
 is the great commandment in the law ? " Jesus said unto 
 him, *' ' Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, 
 and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.' This is the 
 first and great commandment. And the second is like 
 unto it, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.' On 
 these two commandments hang all the law and the 
 
 prophets." 
 
 Matthew xxii. 35-40. 
 
 LXXIV. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 
 
 I. T^HOU shalt have no other gods before me. 
 
 1 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven 
 image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, 
 or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under 
 the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor 
 serve them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, 
 visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 
 unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate 
 me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that 
 love me and keep my commandments. 
 
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 3- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God 
 in vain : for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that 
 taketh his name in vain. 
 
 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six 
 days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the 
 seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it 
 thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy 
 daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy 
 cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates : for in six 
 days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all 
 that in them is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore 
 the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 
 
 5. Honour thy father and thy mother : that thy days 
 may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God 
 giveth thee. 
 
 6. Thou shalt not kill. 
 
 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 
 
 8. Thou shalt not steal. 
 
 9. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy 
 neighbour. 
 
 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou 
 
 shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, 
 
 nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing 
 
 that is thy neighbour's. 
 
 Exodus XX. 3-17. 
 
 LXXV. HEARKENING UNTO THE LAW. 
 
 AND it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken dili- 
 gently unto my commandments which I command 
 you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve 
 
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 him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I will 
 give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first 
 rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy 
 corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. And I will send grass 
 in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be 
 full. 
 
 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not de- 
 ceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and wor- 
 ship them ; and then the Lord's wrath be kindled against 
 you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, 
 and that the land yield not her fruit ; and lest ye perish 
 quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you. 
 
 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart 
 and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your 
 hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 
 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them 
 when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest 
 by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest 
 up. 
 
 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine 
 house, and upon thy gates : that your days may be multi- 
 plied, and the days of your children, in the land which the 
 Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days 
 of heaven upon the earth. 
 
 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments 
 which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your 
 God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him ; then 
 will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, 
 and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than 
 yourselves. 
 
 Deuteronomy xi. 13-23. 
 
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 LXXVI. TEACHING THE LAW. 
 
 MY son, keep my words, 
 And lay up my commandments with thee. 
 Keep my commandments, and live ; 
 And my law as the apple of thine eye. 
 Bind them upon thy fingers. 
 Write them upon the table of thine heart. 
 
 Proverbs vii. 1-3. 
 
 My son, keep thy father's commandment, 
 
 And forsake not the law of thy mother : 
 
 Bind them continually upon thine heart, 
 
 And tie them about thy neck. 
 
 When thou goest, it shall lead thee ; 
 
 When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee : 
 
 And when thou wakest, it shall talk with thee ; 
 
 For the commandment is a lamp ; and the law is light ; 
 
 And reproofs of instruction are the way of life. 
 
 Proverbs vi. 20-23. 
 
 LXXVH. ANCIENT LAWS. 
 
 AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. Speak unto 
 all the congregation of the children of Israel, and 
 say unto them, Ye shall be holy : for I the Lord your God 
 am holy. 
 
 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and 
 keep my sabbaths : I am the Lord your God. 
 
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 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten 
 gods : I am the Lord your God. 
 
 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the 
 Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will. It shall be eaten 
 the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow : and if aught 
 remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire. 
 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abomi- 
 nable ; it shall not be accepted. Therefore every one 
 that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath 
 profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord ; and that soul 
 shall be cut off from among his people. 
 
 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt 
 not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou 
 gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not 
 glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape 
 of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and 
 stranger : I am the Lord your God. 
 
 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither He one 
 to another. 
 
 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither 
 shalt thou profane the name of thy God : I am the Lord. 
 
 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him : 
 the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee 
 all night until the morning. 
 
 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling- 
 block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God : I am the 
 Lord. 
 
 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt 
 not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person 
 of the mighty : but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy 
 neighbour. 
 
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 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among 
 thy people ; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of 
 thy neighbour : I am the Lord. 
 
 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou 
 shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer 
 sin upon him. 
 
 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against 
 the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neigh- 
 bour as thyself : I am the Lord. 
 
 Leviticus xix. 1-18. 
 
 LXXVin. TREATMENT OF THE POOR AND 
 OF HIRED SERVANTS. 
 
 IF there be among you a poor man of one of thy breth- 
 ren within any of thy gates in thy land which the 
 Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine 
 heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: but 
 thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt 
 surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he 
 wanteth. 
 
 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, 
 saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand ; 
 and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou 
 givest him nought ; and he cry unto the Lord against 
 thee, and it be sin unto thee. Thou shalt surely give him, 
 and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto 
 him : because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall 
 bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest 
 thine hand unto. 
 
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 For the poor shall never cease out of the land : there- 
 fore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand 
 wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in 
 
 thy land. 
 
 Deuteronomy xv. 7-1 1. 
 
 Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and 
 needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers 
 that are in thy land within thy gates : at his day thou shalt 
 give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it ; 
 for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it : lest he cry 
 against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee. 
 
 Deuteronomy xxiv. 14-15. 
 
 LXXIX. THE WORD OF THE LORD. 
 
 BLESSED are the undefiled in the way, 
 Who walk in the law of the Lord. 
 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, 
 And Lhat seek him with the whole heart. 
 They also do no iniquity : 
 They walk in his ways. 
 Thou hast commanded us 
 To keep thy precepts diligently. 
 
 that my ways were directed 
 To keep thy statutes ! 
 
 Then shall I not be ashamed, 
 
 When I have respect unto all thy commandments. 
 
 1 will praise thee with uprightness of heart. 
 When I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. 
 
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 I will keep thy statutes : 
 
 O forsake me not utterly. 
 
 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? 
 
 By taking heed thereto according to thy word. 
 
 With my whole heart have I sought thee : 
 
 let me not wander from thy commandments. 
 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, 
 
 That I might not sin against thee. 
 Blessed art thou, O Lord : 
 Teach me thy statutes. 
 With my lips have I declared 
 All the judgments of thy mouth. 
 
 1 have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, 
 As much as in all riches. 
 
 I will meditate in thy precepts. 
 
 And have respect unto thy ways. 
 
 I will delight myself in thy statutes : 
 
 I will not forget thy word. 
 
 • Psalm cxix. 1-16. 
 
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 LXXX. THE LAW OF THE LORD. 
 
 REMOVE from me the way of lying : 
 And grant me thy law graciously. 
 I have chosen the way of truth : 
 Thy judgments have I laid before me. 
 I have stuck unto thy testimonies : 
 
 Lord, put me not to shame. 
 
 1 will run the way of thy commandments, 
 When thou shalt enlarge my heart. 
 
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 Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes ; 
 
 And I shall keep it unto the end. 
 
 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law ; 
 
 Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. 
 
 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments ; 
 
 For therein do I delight. 
 
 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies. 
 
 And not to covetousness. 
 
 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity ; 
 
 And quicken thou me in thy way. 
 
 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, 
 
 Who is devoted to thy fear. 
 
 Turn away my reproach which I fear : 
 
 For thy judgments are good. 
 
 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts : 
 
 Quicken me in thy righteousness. 
 
 how love I thy law ! 
 
 It is my meditation all the day. 
 
 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wisei 
 
 than mine enemies : 
 For they are ever with me. 
 
 1 have more understanding than all my teachers : 
 For thy testimonies are my meditation. 
 
 I understand more than the ancients, 
 
 Because I keep thy precepts. 
 
 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, 
 
 That I might keep thy word. 
 
 I have not departed from thy judgments : 
 
 For thou hast taught me. 
 
 How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! 
 
 Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. 
 
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 Through thy precepts I get understanding : 
 
 Therefore I hate every false way. 
 
 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, 
 
 And a light unto my path. 
 
 I hate vain thoughts : 
 
 But thy law do I love. 
 
 Thou art my hiding place and my shield : 
 
 I hope in thy word. 
 
 Depart from me ye evil doers ; 
 
 For I will keep the commandments of my God. 
 
 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live : 
 
 And let me not be ashamed of my hope. 
 
 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe : 
 
 And I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. 
 
 Psalm cxix. 29-40, 97-105, 113-117. 
 
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 LXXXI. THE GODLY AND THE UNGODLY. 
 
 BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the counsel 
 of the ungodly, 
 Nor standeth in the way of sinners, 
 Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 
 But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; 
 And in his law doth he meditate day and night. 
 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, 
 That bringeth forth his fruit in his season ; 
 His leaf also shall not wither ; 
 And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 
 The ungodly are not so : 
 
 But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 
 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, 
 Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 
 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous : 
 
 But the way of the ungodly shall perish. 
 
 Psalm i. 1-6. 
 
 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? 
 Who shall dwell in thy holy hill ? 
 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, 
 And speaketh the truth in his heart. 
 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, 
 
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 Nor doeth evil to his neighbour, 
 
 Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. 
 
 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned ; 
 
 But he honoureth them that fear the Lord. 
 
 He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. 
 
 He that putteth not out his money to usury, 
 
 Nor taketh reward against the innocent. 
 
 He that doeth these things shall never be moved. 
 
 Psalm XV. 1-5. 
 
 LXXXn. GOD'S CARE OF THE GOOD MAN. 
 
 HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High 
 Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 
 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress ; 
 My God ; in him will I trust. 
 
 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, 
 And from the noisome pestilence. 
 He shall cover thee with his feathers. 
 And under his wings shalt thou trust : 
 His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 
 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night ; 
 Nor for the arrow that flieth by day ; 
 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; 
 Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 
 A thousand shall fall at thy side. 
 And ten thousand at thy right hand ; 
 But it shall not come nigh thee. 
 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, 
 And see the reward of the wicked. 
 
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 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, 
 
 Even the Most High, thy habitation ; 
 
 There shall no evil befall thee, 
 
 Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 
 
 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, 
 
 To keep thee in all thy ways. 
 
 They shall bear thee up in their hands. 
 
 Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 
 
 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder : 
 
 The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under 
 
 feet. 
 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. 
 
 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him : 
 
 I will be with him in trouble ; 
 
 I will deliver him, and honour him. 
 
 With long life will I satisfy him. 
 
 And shew him my salvation. 
 
 Psalm xci. 1-16. 
 
 LXXXin. THE GOD-FEARING MAN. 
 
 PRAISE ye the Lord. 
 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, 
 That delighteth greatly in his commandments. 
 His seed shall be mighty upon earth : 
 The generation of the upright shall be blessed. 
 Wealth and riches shall be in his house : 
 And his righteousness endureth for ever. 
 
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 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : 
 
 He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. 
 
 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth : 
 
 He will guide his affairs with discretion. 
 
 Surely he shall not be moved for ever : 
 
 The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 
 
 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : 
 
 His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. 
 
 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, 
 
 Until he see his desire upon his enemies. 
 
 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor ; 
 
 His righteousness endureth for ever ; 
 
 His horn shall be exalted with honour. 
 
 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved ; 
 
 He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away : 
 
 The desire of the wicked shall perish. 
 
 Psalm cxii. i-io. 
 
 LXXXIV. THE LORD MY SHEPHERD. 
 
 THE Lord is my shepherd; 
 I shall not want. 
 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : 
 He leadeth me beside the still waters. 
 He restoreth my soul : 
 
 He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness 
 For his name's sake. 
 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow 
 
 of death, 
 I will fear no evil : for thou art with me ; 
 
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 Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. 
 
 Thou preparest a table before me 
 
 In the presence of mine enemies : 
 
 Thou anointest my head with oil ; 
 
 My cup runneth over. 
 
 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of 
 
 my life : 
 And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. 
 
 Psalm xxiii. i-6. 
 
 TRUST IN GOD. 
 
 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, 
 
 From whence cometh my help. 
 
 My help cometh from the Lord, 
 
 Which made heaven and earth. 
 
 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved : 
 
 He that keepeth thee will not slumber. 
 
 Behold, he that keepeth Israel 
 
 Shall neither slumber nor sleep. 
 
 The Lord is thy keeper : 
 
 The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand: 
 
 The sun shall not smite thee by day, 
 
 Nor the moon by night. 
 
 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil : 
 
 Me shall preserve thy soul. 
 
 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in 
 
 From this time forth, and even for evermore. 
 
 Psalm cxxi. i 8. 
 
 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust : 
 Let me never be put to confusion. 
 
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 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape : 
 IncHne thine ear unto me, and save me. 
 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continu- 
 ally resort : 
 Thou hast given commandment to save me ; 
 For thou art my rock and my fortress. 
 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, 
 Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 
 For thou art my hope, 
 
 Lord God : thou art my trust from my youth. 
 
 Psalm Ixxi. 1-5. 
 
 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high. 
 
 Who hast done great things : O God, who is like unto 
 
 thee! 
 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, 
 Shalt quicken me again. 
 
 And shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. 
 Thou shalt increase my greatness. 
 And comfort me on every side. 
 
 1 will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O 
 
 my God : 
 Unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of 
 
 Israel. 
 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee ; 
 And my soul, which thou hast redeemed. 
 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day 
 
 long: 
 For they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, 
 
 that seek my hurt. 
 
 Psalm Ixxi. 19-24. 
 
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 LXXXV. LONGING FOR GOD. 
 
 AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, 
 So panteth my soul after thee, O God. 
 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : 
 When shall I come and appear before God ? 
 My tears have been my meat day and night, 
 While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 
 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: 
 For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the 
 
 house of God, 
 With the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that 
 
 kept holyday. 
 Why art thou cast down, O my soul .? and why art thou 
 
 disquieted in me ? 
 Hope thou in God : for I shall yet praise him 
 For the help of his countenance. 
 
 my God, my soul is cast down within me : therefore will 
 
 I remember thee 
 
 From the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, and from 
 the hill Mizar. 
 
 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: 
 
 All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 
 
 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the day- 
 time. 
 
 And in the night his song shall be with me, 
 
 And my prayer unto the God of my life. 
 
 1 will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me.^* 
 Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ? 
 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me ; 
 
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 While they say daily unto me, Where is thy God ? 
 Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? and why art thou dis- 
 quieted within me ? 
 Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him. 
 Who is the health of my countenance, and my God. 
 
 Psalm xlii. i-ii. 
 
 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly 
 
 nation : 
 O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 
 For thou art the God of my strength : why dost thou cast 
 
 me off? 
 Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the 
 
 enemy ? 
 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; 
 Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 
 Then will I go unto the altar of God, 
 Unto God my exceeding joy : 
 
 Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. 
 Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? and why art thou 
 
 disquieted within me ? 
 Hope in God : for I shall yet praise him. 
 Who is the health of my countenance, and my God. 
 
 Psalm xliii. 1-5. 
 
 LXXXVI. THE LONGING OF THE HEART 
 FOR GOD. 
 
 OGOD, thou art my God ; early will I seek thee : 
 My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee 
 In a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 
 
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 To see thy power and thy glory, 
 
 So as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. 
 
 Because thy lovingkindness is better than Ufe, 
 
 My Hps shall praise thee. 
 
 Thus will I bless thee while I live : 
 
 I will lift up my hands in thy name. 
 
 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness ; 
 
 And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips ; 
 
 When I remember thee upon my bed, 
 
 And meditate on thee in the night watches. 
 
 Because thou hast been my help, 
 
 Therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 
 
 My soul followeth hard after thee : 
 
 Thy right hand upholdeth me. 
 
 But those that seek my soul to destroy it, 
 
 Shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 
 
 They shall fall by the sword : 
 
 They shall be a portion for foxes. 
 
 But the king shall rejoice in God; 
 
 Every one that sweareth by him shall glory : 
 
 But the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. 
 
 Psalm Ixiii. i-ii. 
 
 LXXXVII. A PSALM OF TRUSTFUL GLAD- 
 NESS. 
 
 BLESS the Lord, O my soul : 
 And all that is within me, bless his holy name. 
 Bless the Lord, O my soul, 
 And forget not all his benefits : 
 
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 Who f orgiveth all thine iniquities ; 
 Who healeth all thy diseases ; 
 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; 
 Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mer- 
 cies ; 
 
 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; 
 
 So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. 
 
 The Lord executeth righteousness 
 
 And judgment for all that are oppressed. 
 
 He made known his ways unto Moses, 
 
 His acts unto the children of Israel. 
 
 The Lord is merciful and gracious, 
 
 Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 
 
 He will not always chide : 
 
 Neither will he keep his anger for ever. 
 
 He hath not dealt with us after our sins ; 
 
 Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 
 
 For as the heaven is high above the earth, 
 
 So great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 
 
 As far as the east is from the west. 
 
 So far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 
 
 Like as a father pitieth his children, 
 
 So the Lord pitieth them that fear him. 
 
 For he knoweth our frame ; 
 
 He remembereth that we are dust. 
 
 As for man, his days are as grass : 
 
 As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 
 
 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; 
 
 And the place thereof shall know it no more. 
 
 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to ever- 
 lasting upon them that fear him, 
 
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 And his righteousness unto children's children ; 
 
 To such as keep his covenant, 
 
 And to those that remember his commandments to do 
 
 them. 
 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens ; 
 And his kingdom ruleth over all. 
 Bless the Lord, ye his angels. 
 That excel in strength, that do his commandments, 
 Hearkening unto the voice of his word. 
 Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts ; 
 Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. 
 Bless the Lord, all his works 
 In all places of his dominion : 
 Bless the Lord, O my soul. 
 
 Psalm ciii. 1-22. 
 
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 LXXXVIIL GOD'S GLORY IN THE UNIVERSE. 
 
 OLORD, our Lord, 
 How excellent is thy name in all the earth ! 
 Who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 
 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou 
 
 ordained strength 
 Because of thine enemies, 
 
 That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 
 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, 
 The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained ; 
 What is man, that thou art mindful of him ? 
 And the son of man, that thou visitest him ? 
 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. 
 
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 And hast crowned him with glory and honour. 
 
 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy 
 
 hands ; 
 Thou hast put all things under his feet : 
 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; 
 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, 
 And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 
 O Lord, our Lord, 
 How excellent is thy name in all the earth! 
 
 Psalm viii. 1-9. 
 
 LXXXIX. THE HEAVENS ABOVE. 
 
 THE heavens declare the glory of God ; 
 And the firmament sheweth his handywork. 
 Day unto day uttereth speech, 
 And night unto night sheweth knowledge. 
 There is no speech nor language, 
 Where their voice is not heard. 
 Their line is gone out through all the earth, 
 And their words to the end of the world. 
 In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. 
 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, 
 And rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 
 His going forth is from the end of the heaven. 
 And his circuit unto the ends of it : 
 And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. 
 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: 
 The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the 
 simple. 
 
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 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: 
 
 The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the 
 eyes. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever : 
 
 The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous alto- 
 gether. 
 
 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much 
 fine gold : 
 
 Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 
 
 Moreover by them is thy servant warned : 
 
 And in keeping of them there is great reward. 
 
 Who can understand his errors ? 
 
 Cleanse thou me from secret faults. 
 
 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins ; 
 
 Let them not have dominion over me : 
 
 Then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the 
 great transgression. 
 
 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart. 
 
 Be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my 
 redeemer. 
 
 Psalm xix. 1-14. 
 
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 XC. A PICTURE OF GOD'S CREATIVE 
 POWER. 
 
 BLESS the Lord, O my soul. 
 O Lord my God, thou art very great ; 
 Thou art clothed with honour and majesty: 
 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : 
 Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : 
 
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 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : 
 Who maketh the clouds his chariot : 
 Who walketh upon the wings of the wind : 
 Who maketh his angels spirits ; 
 His ministers a flaming fire : 
 Who laid the foundations of the earth, 
 That it should not be removed for ever. 
 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment : 
 The waters stood above the mountains. 
 At thy rebuke they fled ; 
 
 At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. 
 They go up by the mountains ; 
 They go down by the valleys 
 
 Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. 
 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over ; 
 That they turn not again to cover the earth. 
 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, 
 Which run among the hills. 
 They give drink to every beast of the field : 
 The wild asses quench their thirst. 
 
 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habita- 
 tion, 
 Which sing among the branches. 
 He watereth the hills from his chambers : 
 The earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. 
 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, 
 And herb for the service of man : 
 That he may bring forth food out of the earth ; 
 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man. 
 And oil to make his face to shine, 
 And bread which strengtheneth man's heart. 
 
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 The trees of the Lord are full of sap ; 
 
 The cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted ; 
 
 Where the birds make their nests : 
 
 As for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 
 
 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats ; 
 
 And the rocks for the conies. 
 
 He appointed the moon for seasons : 
 
 The sun knoweth his going down. 
 
 Thou makest darkness, and it is night : 
 
 Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. 
 
 The young lions roar after their prey. 
 
 And seek their meat from God. 
 
 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, 
 
 And lay them down in their dens. 
 
 Man goeth forth unto his work 
 
 And to his labour until the evening. 
 
 O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! 
 
 In wisdom hast thou made them all : 
 
 The earth is full of thy riches. 
 
 So is this great and wide sea, 
 
 Wherein are things creeping innumerable, 
 
 Both small and great beasts. 
 
 There go the ships : 
 
 There is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play 
 
 therein. 
 These wait all upon thee ; 
 
 That thou mayest give them their meat in due season. 
 That thou givest them they gather : 
 Thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. 
 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : 
 Thou takest away their breath, they die, 
 
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 And return to their dust. 
 
 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : 
 
 And thou renewest the face of the earth. 
 
 The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever : 
 
 The Lord shall rejoice in his works. 
 
 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth : 
 
 He toucheth the hills, and they smoke. 
 
 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : 
 
 I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 
 
 My meditation of him shall be sweet : 
 
 ,1 will be glad in the Lord. 
 
 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, 
 
 And let the wicked be no more. 
 
 Bless thou the Lord, O my soul. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord. 
 
 Psalm civ. 1-35. 
 
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 PROVIDENCE, AND GRACE. 
 
 REJOICE in the Lord, O ye righteous : 
 For praise is comely for the upright. 
 Praise the Lord with harp : 
 Sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten 
 
 strings. 
 Sing unto him a new song ; 
 Play skilfully with a loud noise. 
 For the word of the Lord is right ; 
 And all his works are done in truth.- 
 He loveth righteousness and judgment : 
 
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 The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. 
 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made ; 
 And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 
 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap : 
 He layeth up the depth in storehouses. 
 Let all the earth fear the Lord : 
 
 Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 
 For he spake, and it was done ; 
 He commanded, and it stood fast. 
 
 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought : 
 He maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 
 The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever. 
 The thoughts of his heart to all generations. 
 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord ; 
 And the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheri- 
 tance. 
 The Lord looketh from heaven ; 
 He beholdeth all the sons of men. 
 From the place of his habitation he looketh, 
 Upon all the inhabitants of the earth. 
 He fashioneth their hearts alike ; 
 He considereth all their works. 
 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host : 
 A mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 
 A horse is a vain thing for safety : 
 Neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. 
 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, 
 Upon them that hope in his mercy ; 
 To deliver their soul from death, 
 And to keep them alive in famine. 
 Our soul waiteth for the Lord : 
 
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 He is our help and our shield. 
 For our heart shall rejoice in him, 
 Because we have trusted in his holy name. 
 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, 
 According as we hope in thee. 
 
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 Psalm xxxiii. 1-22. 
 
 XCIL AN ELEGY. 
 
 I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with 
 my tongue : 
 I will keep my mouth with a bridle. 
 While the wicked is before me. 
 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from 
 
 good; 
 And my sorrow was stirred. 
 My heart was hot within me ; 
 While I was musing the fire burned : 
 Then spake I with my tongue, 
 Lord, make me to know mine end. 
 And the measure of my days, what it is ; 
 That I may know how frail I am. 
 Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth ; 
 And mine age is as nothing before thee : 
 Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 
 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : 
 Surely they are disquieted in vain : 
 He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather 
 
 them. 
 And now, Lord, what wait I for ? 
 
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 My hope is in thee. 
 
 DeUver me from all my transgressions : 
 
 Make me not the reproach of the foolish. 
 
 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; 
 
 Because thou didst it. 
 
 Remove thy stroke away from me : 
 
 I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 
 
 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, 
 
 Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth : 
 
 Surely every man is vanity. 
 
 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry ; 
 
 Hold not thy peace at my tears : 
 
 For I am a stranger with thee. 
 
 And a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 
 
 O spare me, that I may recover strength. 
 
 Before I go hence, and be no more. 
 
 Psalm xxxix. 1-13. 
 
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 XCni. THE PRAYER OF MOSES. 
 
 LORD, thou hast been our dwellingplace in all gen- 
 erations. 
 Before the mountains were brought forth. 
 Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, 
 Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 
 Thou turnest man to destruction ; 
 And sayest, Return, ye children of men. 
 For a thousand years in thy sight 
 Are but as yesterday when it is past. 
 And as a watch in the night. 
 
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 Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : 
 
 In the morning they are Uke grass which groweth up. 
 
 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; 
 
 In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 
 
 For we are consumed by thine anger, 
 
 And by thy wrath are we troubled. 
 
 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, 
 
 Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 
 
 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : 
 
 We spend our years as a tale that is told. 
 
 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. 
 
 Who knoweth the power of thine anger ? 
 
 Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 
 
 So teach us to number our days, 
 
 That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 
 
 Return, O Lord, how long ? 
 
 And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 
 
 O satisfy us early with thy mercy ; 
 
 That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 
 
 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast 
 
 afflicted us. 
 And the years wherein we have seen evil. 
 Let thy work appear unto thy servants. 
 And thy glory unto their children. 
 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us : 
 And establish thou the work of our hands upon us ; 
 Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. 
 
 Psalm xc. 1-17. 
 
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 XCIV. A PRAYER FOR INSTRUCTION AND 
 
 FORGIVENESS. 
 
 UNTO thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 
 O my God, I trust in thee : let me not be ashamed. 
 Let not mine enemies triumph over me. 
 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed : 
 Let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. 
 Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; 
 Teach me thy paths. 
 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me : 
 For thou art the God of my salvation; 
 On thee do I wait all the day. 
 
 Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy loving- 
 kindnesses ; 
 For they have been ever of old. 
 
 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions : 
 According to thy mercy remember thou me 
 For thy goodness' sake, O Lord. 
 Good and upright is the Lord : 
 Therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 
 The meek will he guide in judgment: 
 And the meek will he teach his way. 
 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth 
 Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 
 For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity ; 
 For it is great. 
 
 What man is he that feareth the Lord ? 
 Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. 
 His soul shall dwell at ease ; 
 
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 And his seed shall inherit the earth. 
 
 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; 
 
 And he will shew them his covenant. 
 
 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord ; 
 
 For he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 
 
 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me ; 
 
 For I am desolate and afflicted. 
 
 The troubles of my heart are enlarged : 
 
 O bring thou me out of my distresses. 
 
 Look upon mine affliction and my pain ; 
 
 And forgive all my sins. 
 
 Consider mine enemies, for they are many ; 
 
 And they hate me with cruel hatred. 
 
 O keep my soul, and deliver me : 
 
 Let me not be ashamed ; for I put my trust in thee. 
 
 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me ; 
 
 For I wait on thee. 
 
 Redeem Israel, O God, 
 
 Out of all his troubles. Psalm xxv. 1-22. 
 
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 XCV. PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS. 
 
 HAVE mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving- 
 kindness : 
 According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot 
 
 out my transgressions. 
 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, 
 And cleanse me from my sin. 
 For I acknowledge my transgressions : 
 
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 And my sin is ever before me. 
 
 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. 
 
 And done this evil in thy sight : 
 
 That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, 
 
 And be clear when thou judgest. 
 
 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts : 
 
 And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wis- 
 dom. 
 
 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean : 
 
 Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 
 
 Make me to hear joy and gladness ; 
 
 That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 
 
 Hide thy face from my sins. 
 
 And blot out all mine iniquities. 
 
 Create in me a clean heart, O God ; 
 
 And renew a right spirit within me. 
 
 Cast me not away from thy presence ; 
 
 And take not thy Holy Spirit from me. 
 
 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; 
 
 And uphold me with thy free Spirit. 
 
 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways ; 
 
 And sinners shall be converted unto thee. 
 
 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my 
 salvation : 
 
 And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 
 
 O Lord, open thou my lips ; 
 
 And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 
 
 For thou desirest not sacrifice ; else would I give it: 
 
 Thou delightest not in burnt offering. 
 
 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : 
 
 A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 
 
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 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion : 
 
 Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 
 
 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of right- 
 eousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offer- 
 ing : 
 
 Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. 
 
 Psalm 11. 1-19. 
 
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 XCVI. A PSALM OF PENITENCE. 
 
 OUT of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. 
 Lord, hear my voice : 
 Let thine ears be attentive 
 To the voice of my supplications. 
 If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, 
 
 Lord, who shall stand ? 
 
 But there is forgiveness with thee, 
 That thou mayest be feared. 
 
 1 wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, 
 And in his word do I hope. 
 
 My soul waiteth for the Lord 
 
 More than they that keep watch for the morning. 
 
 I say more than they that watch for the morning. 
 
 Let Israel hope in the Lord; 
 
 For with the Lord, there is mercy, 
 
 And with him is plenteous redemption. 
 
 And he shall redeem Israel 
 
 From all his iniquities. 
 
 Psalm cxxx. 1-8. 
 
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 XCVII. GOD'S CARE OF THE AFFLICTED. 
 
 I WILL bless the Lord at all times : 
 His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 
 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : 
 The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 
 
 magnify the Lord with me, 
 And let us exalt his name together. 
 
 1 sought the Lord, and he heard me, 
 And delivered me from all my fears. 
 They looked unto him, and were lightened : 
 And their faces were not ashamed. 
 
 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, 
 
 And saved him out of all his troubles. 
 
 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that 
 
 fear him. 
 And delivereth them. 
 O taste and see that the Lord is good : 
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 
 
 fear the Lord, ye his saints : 
 
 For there is no want to them that fear him. 
 
 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger : 
 
 But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good 
 
 thing. 
 Come, ye children, hearken unto me : 
 
 1 will teach you the fear of the Lord. 
 What man is he that desireth life, 
 
 And loveth many days, that he may see good } 
 
 Keep thy tongue from evil. 
 
 And thy lips from speaking guile. 
 
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 Depart from evil, and do good ; 
 
 Seek peace, and pursue it. 
 
 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, 
 
 And his ears are open unto their cry. 
 
 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 
 
 To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 
 
 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth. 
 
 And delivereth them out of all their troubles. 
 
 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart ; 
 
 And saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 
 
 Many are the afflictions of the righteous : 
 
 But the Lord delivereth him out of them all. 
 
 He keepeth all his bones : 
 
 Not one of them is broken. 
 
 Evil shall slay the wicked : 
 
 And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. 
 
 The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants : 
 
 And none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. 
 
 Psalm xxxiv. 1-22. 
 
 XCVin. GOD'S GOODNESS. 
 
 TRULY God is good to Israel, 
 Even to such as are of a clean heart. 
 But as for me, my feet were almost gone ; 
 My steps had well nigh sHpped. 
 For I was envious at the foolish, 
 When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 
 For there are no bands in their death : 
 But their strength is firm. 
 
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 They are not in trouble as other men ; 
 
 Neither are they plagued like other men. 
 
 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; 
 
 Violence covereth them as a garment. 
 
 Their eyes stand out with fatness : 
 
 They have more than heart could wish. 
 
 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppres- 
 sion : 
 
 They speak loftily. 
 
 They set their mouth against the heavens, 
 
 And their tongue walketh through the earth. 
 
 Therefore his people return hither : 
 
 And waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 
 
 And they say, How doth God know ? 
 
 And is there knowledge in the Most High ? 
 
 Behold, these are the ungodly. 
 
 Who prosper in the world ; they increase in riches. 
 
 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, 
 
 And washed my hands in innocency. 
 
 For all the day long have I been plagued, 
 
 And chastened every morning. 
 
 If I say, I will speak thus ; 
 
 Behold, I should offend against the generation of thy 
 children. 
 
 When I thought to know this. 
 
 It was too painful for me ; 
 
 Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; 
 
 Then understood I their end. 
 
 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places : 
 
 Thou castedst them down into destruction. 
 
 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment ! 
 
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 They are utterly consumed with terrors. 
 
 As a dream when one awaketh ; 
 
 So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their 
 
 image. 
 Thus my heart was grieved. 
 So fooUsh was I, and ignorant : 
 I was as a beast before thee. 
 Nevertheless I am continually with thee : 
 Thou hast holden me by my right hand. 
 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, 
 And afterward receive me to glory. 
 Whom have I in heaven but thee ? 
 
 And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. 
 My flesh and my heart faileth : 
 But God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for 
 
 ever. 
 
 But it is good for me to draw near to God : 
 
 I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare 
 
 all thy works. 
 
 Psalm Ixxiii. 1-28. 
 
 XCIX. PRAISE THE LORD. 
 
 PRAISE ye the Lord. 
 I will praise the Lord with my whole heart. 
 In the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. 
 The works of the Lord are great, 
 Sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. 
 His work is honorable and glorious : 
 And his righteousness endureth for ever. 
 
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 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered : 
 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. 
 He hath given meat unto them that fear him : 
 He will ever be mindful of his covenant. 
 He hath shewed his people the power of his works, 
 That he may give them the heritage of the heathen. 
 The works of his hands are verity and judgment ; 
 All his commandments are sure. 
 They stand fast for ever and ever, 
 And are done in truth and uprightness. 
 He sent redemption unto his people : 
 He hath commanded his covenant for ever : 
 Holy and reverend is his name. 
 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom : 
 A good understanding have all they that do his command- 
 ments : 
 His praise endureth for ever. 
 
 Psalm cxi. i-io. 
 
 God be merciful unto us, and bless us ; 
 
 And cause his face to shine upon us ; 
 
 That thy way may be known upon earth, 
 
 Thy saving health among all nations. 
 
 Let the people praise thee, O God ; 
 
 Let all the people praise thee. 
 
 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy : 
 
 For thou shalt judge the people righteously, 
 
 And govern the nations upon earth. 
 
 Let the people praise thee, O God ; 
 
 Let all the people praise thee. 
 
 Then shall the earth yield her increase ; 
 
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 And God, even our own God, shall bless us. 
 
 God shall bless us ; 
 
 And all the ends of the earth shall fear him. 
 
 Psalm Ixvii. 1-7. 
 
 C SONGS OF PRAISE. 
 
 OSING unto the Lord a new song ; 
 For he hath done marvellous things : 
 His right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the 
 
 victory. 
 The Lord hath made known his salvation : 
 His righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of 
 
 the heathen. 
 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the 
 
 house of Israel : 
 All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 
 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth : 
 Make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. 
 Sing unto the Lord with the harp ; 
 With the harp, and the voice of a psalm. 
 With trumpets and sound of cornet 
 Make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King. 
 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof ; 
 The world, and they that dwell therein. 
 Let the floods clap their hands : 
 Let the hills be joyful together 
 
 Before the Lord ; for he cometh to judge the earth : 
 With righteousness shall he judge the world. 
 And the people with equity. P^^l^ ^^^... ^_^ 
 
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 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. 
 
 Serve the Lord with gladness : 
 
 Come before his presence with singing. 
 
 Know ye that the Lord he is God : 
 
 It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves ; 
 
 We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 
 
 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, 
 
 And into his courts with praise : 
 
 Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. 
 
 For the Lord is good ; his mercy is everlasting ; 
 
 And his truth endureth to all generations. 
 
 Psalm c. 1-5. 
 
 CL THE PRAISE OF GOD FOR BLESSINGS. 
 
 PRAISE waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion : 
 And unto thee shall the vow be performed. 
 O thou that hearest prayer. 
 Unto thee shall all flesh come. 
 Iniquities prevail against me : 
 
 As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. 
 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to 
 
 approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts : 
 We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even 
 
 of thy holy temple. 
 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O 
 
 God of our salvation ; 
 Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and 
 
 of them that are afar off upon the sea : 
 Which by his strength sctteth fast the mountains; 
 
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 Being girded with power : 
 
 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, 
 
 And the tumult of the people. 
 
 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at 
 
 thy tokens : 
 Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to 
 
 rejoice. 
 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it : 
 Thou greatly enrichest it 
 With the river of God, which is full of water : 
 Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided 
 
 for it. 
 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly : thou settlest 
 
 the furrows thereof : 
 Thou makest it soft with showers : 
 Thou blessest the springing thereof. 
 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; 
 And thy paths drop fatness. 
 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : 
 And the little hills rejoice on every side. 
 The pastures are clothed with flocks ; 
 The valleys also are covered over with dorn ; 
 They shout for joy, they also sing. 
 
 Psalm Ixv. 1-13. 
 
 CII. GOD'S WAYS. 
 
 HEAR this, all ye people ; 
 Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world : 
 Both low and high, rich and poor, together. 
 
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 My mouth shall speak of wisdom ; 
 
 And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. 
 
 I will incline mine ear to a parable : 
 
 I will open my dark saying upon the harp. 
 
 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, 
 
 When the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about ? 
 
 They that trust in their wealth, 
 
 And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches ; 
 
 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, 
 
 Nor give to God a ransom for him : 
 
 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, 
 
 And it ceaseth for ever : ) 
 
 That he should still live for ever, 
 
 And not see corruption. 
 
 For he seeth that wise men die. 
 
 Likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, 
 
 And leave their wealth to others. 
 
 Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue 
 
 for ever. 
 And their dwellingplaces to all generations ; 
 They call their lands after their own names. 
 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not : 
 He is like the beasts that perish. 
 This their way is their folly : 
 Yet their posterity approve their sayings. 
 Like sheep they are laid in the grave ; 
 Death shall feed on them ; 
 And the upright shall have dominion over them in the 
 
 morning ; 
 And their beauty shall consume 
 In the grave from their dwelling. 
 
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 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave : 
 
 For he shall receive me. 
 
 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, 
 
 When the glory of his house is increased ; 
 
 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away : 
 
 His glory shall not descend after him. 
 
 Though while he lived he blessed his soul, 
 
 (And men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,) 
 
 He shall go to the generation of his fathers ; 
 
 They shall never see light. 
 
 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, 
 
 Is like the beasts that perish. 
 
 Psalm xlix. 1-20. 
 
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 CHI. GOD OUR STRENGTH AND SALVATION. 
 
 TRULY my soul waiteth upon God : 
 From him cometh my salvation. 
 He only is my rock and my salvation ; 
 He is my defence ; I shall not be greatly moved. 
 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man ? 
 Ye shall be slain all of you : as a bowing wall shall ye be, 
 
 and as a tottering fence. 
 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency . 
 
 they delight in lies : 
 They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. 
 My soul, wait thou only upon God ; 
 For my expectation is from him. 
 He only is my rock and my salvation : 
 He is my defence ; I shall not be moved. 
 
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 In God is my salvation and my glory : 
 
 The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 
 
 Trust in him at all times ; ye people. 
 
 Pour out your heart before him : 
 
 God is a refuge for us. 
 
 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high de- 
 gree are a lie : 
 
 To be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than 
 vanity. 
 
 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery : 
 
 If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 
 
 God hath spoken once ; twice have I heard this ; 
 
 That power belongeth unto God. 
 
 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy : 
 
 For thou renderest to every man according to his work. 
 
 Psalm Ixii. 1-12. 
 
 CIV. VICTORY IN TROUBLE. 
 
 1 CRIED unto God with my voice, 
 Even unto God with my voice ; and he gave ear unto 
 me. 
 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord : 
 My sore ran in the night, and ceased not : 
 My soul refused to be comforted. 
 I remembered God, and was troubled : 
 I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. 
 Thou boldest mine eyes waking : 
 I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 
 I have considered the days of old, 
 
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 The years of ancient times. 
 
 I call to remembrance my song in the night : 
 
 I commune with mine own heart : and my spirit made dili- 
 gent search. 
 
 Will the Lord cast off for ever ? 
 
 And will he be favourable no more ? 
 
 Is his mercy clean gone for ever.? 
 
 Doth his promise fail for evermore ? 
 
 Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? 
 
 Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? 
 
 And I said, This is my infirmity : 
 
 But I will remember the years of the right hand of the 
 Most High. 
 
 I will remember the works of the Lord : 
 
 Surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 
 
 I will meditate also of all thy work, 
 
 And talk of thy doings. 
 
 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary : 
 
 Who is so great a God as our God } 
 
 Thou art the God that doest wonders : 
 
 Thou hast declared thy strength among the people. 
 
 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, 
 
 The sons of Jacob and Joseph. 
 
 The waters saw thee, O God, 
 
 The waters saw thee ; they were afraid : 
 
 The depths also were troubled. 
 
 The clouds poured out water : 
 
 The skies sent out a sound : 
 
 Thine arrows also went abroad. 
 
 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven : 
 
 The lightnings lightened the world : 
 
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 The earth trembled and shook. 
 Thy way is in the sea, 
 And thy path in the great waters, 
 And thy footsteps are not known. 
 Thou leddest thy people like a flock 
 By the hand of Moses and Aaron. 
 
 Psalm Ixxvii. 1-20. 
 
 CV. THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. 
 
 I WAS glad when they said unto me, 
 Let us go into the house of the Lord. 
 Our feet shall stand 
 Within thy gates, O Jerusalem. 
 Jerusalem is builded 
 As a city that is compact together : 
 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, 
 Unto the testimony of Israel, 
 To give thanks unto the name of the Lord. 
 For there are set thrones of judgment, 
 The thrones of the house of David. 
 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : 
 They shall prosper that love thee. 
 Peace be within thy walls. 
 And prosperity within thy palaces. 
 For my brethren and companions' sakes, 
 I will now say, Peace be within thee. 
 Because of the house of the Lord our God 
 I will seek thy good. 
 
 Psalm cxxii. 1-9. 
 
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 How amiable are thy tabernacles, 
 
 O Lord of hosts ! 
 
 My soul longeth, yea, even f ainteth for the courts of the Lord : 
 
 My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 
 
 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, 
 
 And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her 
 
 young. 
 Even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, 
 My King, and my God. 
 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house : 
 They will be still praising thee. 
 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee ; 
 In whose heart are the ways of them. 
 Who passing through the valley of Baca 
 Make it a well ; 
 The rain also filleth the pools. 
 They go from strength to strength. 
 Every one of them in Zion appeareth before God, 
 
 Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer : 
 Give ear, O God of Jacob. 
 
 Behold, O God our shield. 
 
 And look upon the face of thine anointed. 
 
 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. 
 
 1 had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, 
 Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 
 
 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: 
 The Lord will give grace and glory : 
 
 No good thing will he withhold from them that walk up- 
 rightly. 
 O Lord of hosts, 
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. Psalm Ixxxiv. 1-12. 
 
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 CVI. EXTOL THE LORD. 
 
 I WILL extol thee, my God, O King; 
 And I will bless thy name for ever and ever. 
 Every day will I bless thee ; 
 And I will praise thy name for ever and ever. 
 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ; 
 And his greatness is unsearchable. 
 One generation shall praise thy works to another, 
 And shall declare thy mighty acts. 
 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, 
 And of thy wondrous works. 
 
 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts : 
 And I will declare thy greatness. 
 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great 
 
 goodness. 
 And shall sing of thy righteousness. 
 The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion ; 
 Slow to anger, and of great mercy. 
 The Lord is good to all : 
 And his tender mercies are over all his works. 
 All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord ; 
 And thy saints shall bless thee. 
 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, 
 And talk of thy power ; 
 
 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, 
 And the glorious majesty of his kingdom. 
 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 
 And thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. 
 The Lord upholdeth all that fall, 
 
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 And raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 
 
 The eyes of all wait upon thee ; 
 
 And thou givest them their meat in due season. 
 
 Thou openest thine hand, 
 
 And satisfiest the desire of every living thing. 
 
 The Lord is righteous in all his ways, 
 
 And holy in all his works. 
 
 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, 
 
 To all that call upon him in truth. 
 
 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him : 
 
 He also will hear their cry, and will save them. 
 
 The Lord preserveth all them that love him : 
 
 But all the wicked will he destroy. 
 
 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord : 
 
 And let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. 
 
 Psalm cxlv. 1-2 1. 
 
 CVII. FROM DAVID'S PSALM OF THANKS- 
 GIVING. 
 
 SING unto the Lord, all the earth ; shew forth from 
 day to day his salvation. 
 
 Declare his glory among the heathen ; his marvellous 
 works among all nations. 
 
 For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised : he 
 also is to be feared above all gods. 
 
 For all the gods of the people are idols : but the Lord 
 made the heavens. 
 
 Glory and honour are in his presence ; strength and 
 gladness are in his place. 
 
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 Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the people, give 
 unto the Lord glory and strength. 
 
 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name : 
 bring an offering, and come before him : worship the 
 Lord in the beauty of holiness. 
 
 Fear before him, all the earth : the world also shall be 
 stable, that it be not moved. 
 
 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and 
 let men say among the nations. The Lord reigneth. 
 
 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof : let the fields 
 rejoice, and all that is therein. 
 
 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the pres- 
 ence of the Lord, because he cometh to judge the earth. 
 
 O give thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good ; for his 
 mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and 
 gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that 
 we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy 
 praise. 
 
 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for ever and ever. 
 And all the people said, Amen, and praised the Lord. 
 
 I Chronicles xvi. 23-36. 
 
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 CVIII. STRIVING AFTER WISDOM. 
 
 MY son, if thou wilt receive my words, 
 And hide my commandments with thee ; 
 So that thou incUne thine ear unto wisdom, 
 And apply thine heart to understanding ; 
 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, 
 And liftest up thy voice for understanding ; 
 If thou seekest her as silver. 
 And searchest for her as for hid treasures ; 
 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, 
 And find the knowledge of God. 
 For the Lord giveth wisdom : 
 Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. 
 
 Proverbs ii. i-6. 
 
 My son, forget not my law ; 
 But let thine heart keep my commandments : 
 For length of days, and long life. 
 And peace, shall they add to thee. 
 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee : 
 Bind them about thy neck ; 
 Write them upon the table of thine heart : 
 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding 
 In the sight of God and man. 
 
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 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart ; 
 
 And lean not unto thine own understanding. 
 
 In all thy ways acknowledge him, 
 
 And he shall direct thy paths. 
 
 Be not wise in thine own eyes : 
 
 Fear the Lord, and depart from evil. 
 
 Honour the Lord with thy substance, 
 
 And with the firstfruits of all thine increase : 
 
 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, 
 
 And thy presses shall burst out with new wine. 
 
 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord ; 
 
 Neither be weary of his correction : 
 
 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth ; 
 
 Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. 
 
 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. 
 
 And the man that getteth understanding : 
 
 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise 
 
 of silver, 
 And the gain thereof than fine gold. 
 
 Proverbs iii. 1-7, 9-14. 
 
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 CIX. COUNSEL AND WARNING. 
 
 HEAR, O my son, and receive my sayings ; 
 And the years of thy life shall be many. 
 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom ; 
 I have led thee in right paths. 
 
 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened ; 
 And when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. 
 Take fast hold of instruction ; 
 
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 Let her not go: 
 
 Keep her ; for she is thy life. 
 
 Enter not into the path of the wicked, 
 
 And go not in the way of evil men. 
 
 Avoid it, pass not by it, 
 
 Turn from it, and pass away. 
 
 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief ; 
 
 And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall 
 
 For they eat the bread of wickedness. 
 
 And drink the wine of violence. 
 
 But the path of the just is as the shining light, 
 
 That shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 
 
 The way of the wicked is as darkness : 
 
 They know not at what they stumble. 
 
 My son, attend to my words ; 
 
 Incline thine ear unto my sayings. 
 
 Let them not depart from thine eyes ; 
 
 Keep them in the midst of thine heart. 
 
 For they are life unto those that find them, 
 
 And health to all their flesh. 
 
 Keep thy heart with all diligence ; 
 
 For out of it are the issues of life. 
 
 Put away from thee a froward mouth. 
 
 And perverse lips put far from thee. 
 
 Let thine eyes look right on, 
 
 And let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 
 
 Ponder the path of thy feet. 
 
 And let all thy ways be established. 
 
 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left : 
 
 Remove thy foot from evil. 
 
 Proverbs iv 10-27 
 
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 ex. CONTRASTS. 
 
 BETTER is little with the fear of the Lord, 
 Than great treasure and trouble therewith. 
 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, 
 Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. 
 A wrathful man stirreth up strife : 
 But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. 
 The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns ; 
 But the way of the righteous is made plain. 
 A wise son maketh a glad father ; 
 But a foolish man despiseth his mother. 
 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom : 
 But a man of understanding walketh uprightly. 
 Without counsel purposes are disappointed : 
 But in the multitude of counsellors they are established. 
 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth : 
 And a word spoken in due season, how good is it ! 
 The way of life is above to the wise. 
 That he may depart from hell beneath. 
 The Lord will destroy the house of the proud : 
 But he will establish the border of the widow. 
 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the 
 
 Lord : 
 But the words of the pure are pleasant words. 
 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house ; 
 But he that haceth gifts shall live. 
 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer : 
 But the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. 
 The Lord is far from the wicked ; 
 
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 But he heareth the prayer of the righteous. 
 
 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart : i 
 
 And a good report maketh the bones fat. 
 
 The ear that heareth the reproof of life 
 
 Abideth among the wise. 
 
 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul : 
 
 But he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom ; 
 
 And before honour is humility. 
 
 Proverbs xv. 16-33. 
 
 CXI. ADMONITIONS. 
 
 HOW much better is it to get wisdom than gold ! 
 And to get understanding rather to be chosen than 
 silver ! 
 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil : 
 He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul. 
 Pride goeth before destruction, 
 And a haughty spirit before a fall. 
 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, 
 Than to divide the spoil with the proud. 
 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good : 
 And whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. 
 The wise in heart shall be called prudent : 
 And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. 
 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it : 
 But the instruction of fools is folly. 
 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, 
 And addeth learning to his lips. 
 
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 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, 
 
 Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 
 
 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man • 
 
 But the end thereof are the ways of death. 
 
 He that laboureth, laboureth for himself ; 
 
 For his mouth craveth it of him. 
 
 An ungodly man diggeth up evil : 
 
 And in his lips there is as a burning fire. 
 
 A froward man soweth strife : 
 
 And a whisperer separateth chief friends. 
 
 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, 
 
 And leadeth him into the way that is not good. 
 
 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things : 
 
 Moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. 
 
 The hoary head is a crown of glory, 
 
 If it be found in the way of righteousness. 
 
 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty ; 
 
 And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. 
 
 Proverbs xvi. 16-32. 
 
 CXn. AGAINST INDOLENCE AND STRIFE. 
 
 SEEST thou a man wise in his own conceit ? 
 There is more hope of a fool than of him. 
 The slothful man saith, "There is a lion in the way; 
 A lion is in the streets." 
 As the door turneth upon his hinges, 
 So doth the slothful upon his bed. 
 The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom ; 
 It grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 
 
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 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit 
 
 Than seven men that can render a reason. 
 
 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging 
 
 not to him, 
 Is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. 
 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, 
 Arrows, and death. 
 
 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour. 
 And saith. Am not I in sport ? 
 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out : 
 So where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. 
 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire ; 
 So is a contentious man to kindle strife. 
 
 Proverbs xxvi. 12-21. 
 
 CXIIL AGAINST VAIN SELF-PRAISE AND 
 PRESUMPTION. 
 
 BOAST not thyself of to morrow ; 
 For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 
 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; 
 A stranger, and not thine own lips. 
 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; 
 But a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. 
 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous ; 
 But who is able to stand before envy ? 
 Open rebuke is better 
 
 Than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend , 
 But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. 
 The full soul loatheth a honeycomb ; 
 But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. 
 
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 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, 
 
 So is a man that wandereth from his place. 
 
 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: 
 
 So doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. 
 
 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not ; 
 
 Neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy 
 
 calamity : 
 For better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. 
 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad. 
 That I may answer him that reproacheth me. 
 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself ; 
 But the simple pass on, and are punished. 
 
 Proverbs xxvii. 1-12. 
 
 CXIV. THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN. 
 
 WHO can find a virtuous woman ? 
 For her price is far above rubies. 
 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, 
 So that he shall have no need of spoil. 
 She will do him good and not evil 
 All the days of her life. 
 She seeketh wool, and flax, 
 And worketh willingly with her hands. 
 She is like the merchants' ships ; 
 She bringeth her food from afar. 
 She riseth also while it is yet night, 
 And giveth meat to her household, 
 And a portion to her maidens. 
 She considereth a field, and buyeth it : 
 With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. 
 
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 She girdeth her loins with strength, 
 
 And strengtheneth her arms. 
 
 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good c 
 
 Her candle goeth not out by night. 
 
 She layeth her hands to the spindle, 
 
 And her hands hold the distaff. 
 
 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor ; 
 
 Yea, she reacheth forth her h^nds to the needy. 
 
 She is not afraid of the snow for her household : 
 
 For all her household are clothed with scarlet. 
 
 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry ; 
 
 Her clothing is silk and purple. 
 
 Her husband is known in the gates, 
 
 When he sitteth among the elders of the land. 
 
 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it ; 
 
 And delivereth girdles unto the merchant. 
 
 Strength and honour are her clothing ; 
 
 And she shall rejoice in time to come. 
 
 She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; 
 
 And in her tongue is the law of kindness. 
 
 She looketh well to the ways of her household, 
 
 And eateth not the bread of idleness. 
 
 Her children arise up, and call her blessed ; 
 
 Her husband also, and he praiseth her. 
 
 Many daughters have done virtuously, 
 
 But thou excellest them all. 
 
 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain : 
 
 But a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. 
 
 Give her of the fruit of her hands ; 
 
 And let her own works praise her in the gates. 
 
 Proverbs xxxi. 10-31. 
 
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 CXV. PURITY. 
 
 WASH ye, make you clean; put away the evil of 
 your doings from before mine eyes ; cease to do 
 evil ; 
 
 Learn to do well ; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, 
 judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 
 
 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : 
 though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; 
 though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 
 
 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of 
 the land : 
 
 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the 
 sword : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 
 
 Isaiah i. 16-20. 
 
 CXVI. THE VINEYARD. 
 
 NOW will I sing to my well beloved a song of my 
 beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved 
 hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : 
 
 And he fenced it, and gathered out ^he stones thereof, 
 and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in 
 the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he 
 
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 looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought 
 forth wild grapes. 
 
 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, 
 judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 
 
 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that 
 I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it 
 should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes ? 
 
 And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my 
 vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall 
 be eaten up ; and break down the wall thereof, and it 
 shall be trodden down : 
 
 And I will lay it waste : it shall not be pruned, nor 
 digged ; but there shall come up briers and thorns : I will 
 also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 
 
 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of 
 Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant : and he 
 looked for judgment, but behold oppression ; for righteous- 
 ness, but behold a cry. 
 
 Isaiah v. 1-7. 
 
 CXVII. ISRAEL'S SONG OF PRAISE FOR DE- 
 LIVERANCE. 
 
 OLORD, thou art my God ; I will exalt thee, I will 
 praise thy name ; for thou hast done wonderful 
 things ; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 
 
 For thou hast made of a city a heap ; of a defenced 
 city a ruin : a palace of strangers to be no city ; it shall 
 never be built. 
 
 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city 
 of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 
 
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 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength 
 to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a 
 shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones 
 is as a storm against the wall. 
 
 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the 
 heat in a dry place ; even the heat with the shadow of a 
 cloud : the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought 
 low. 
 
 And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make 
 unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on 
 the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees 
 well refined. 
 
 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the 
 covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread 
 over all nations. 
 
 He will swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord God 
 will wipe away tears from off all faces ; and the rebuke of 
 his people shall he take away from off all the earth : for 
 the Lord hath spoken it. 
 
 Isaiah xxv. i-8. 
 
 CXVIII. THE JUDGMENT AS REALIZING THE 
 IDEA OF JUSTICE. 
 
 IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; 
 We have a strong city ; salvation will God appoint for 
 walls and bulwarks. 
 
 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which 
 keepeth the truth may enter in. 
 
 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
 stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee. 
 
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 Trust ye in the Lord for ever : for in the Lord JEHO- 
 VAH is everlasting strength. 
 
 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the 
 lofty city, he layeth it low ; he layeth it low, even to the 
 ground ; he bringeth it even to the dust. 
 
 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, 
 and the steps of the needy. 
 
 The way of the just is uprightness : thou, most upright, 
 dost weigh the path of the just. 
 
 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we 
 waited for thee ; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and 
 to the remembrance of thee. 
 
 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, 
 with my spirit within me will I seek thee early : for when 
 thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the 
 world will learn righteousness. 
 
 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not 
 learn righteousness : in the land of uprightness will he 
 deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. 
 
 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see : 
 but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the 
 people ; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. 
 
 Isaiah xxvi. i-i i. 
 
 CXIX. THE FALSE AND THE TRUE 
 NOBILITY. 
 
 BEHOLD, a King shall reign in righteousness, and 
 princes shall rule in judgment. 
 And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and 
 
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 a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry 
 place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 
 
 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the 
 ears of them that hear shall hearken. 
 
 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, 
 and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak 
 plainly. 
 
 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the 
 churl said to be bountiful. 
 
 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart 
 will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error 
 against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry ; 
 and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 
 
 The instruments also of the churl are evil : he deviseth 
 wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even 
 when the needy speaketh right. 
 
 But the liberal deviseth liberal things ; and by liberal 
 things shall he stand. Isaiah xxxii. i-8. 
 
 CXX. ISRAEL'S REDEMPTION AND RETURN 
 
 HOME. 
 
 THE wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad 
 for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom 
 as the rose. 
 
 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy 
 and singing : the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, 
 the excellency of Carmel and Sharon ; they shall see the 
 glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God. 
 
 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble 
 knees. 
 
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 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear 
 not : behold, your God will come with vengeance, even 
 God with a recompense ; he will come and save you. 
 
 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the 
 ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 
 
 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue 
 of the dumb sing : for in the wilderness shall waters 
 break out, and streams in the desert. 
 
 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the 
 thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of drag- 
 ons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and 
 rushes. 
 
 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall 
 be called The way of holiness ; the unclean shall not pass 
 over it ; but it shall be for those : the wayfaring men, 
 though fools, shall not err therein. 
 
 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go 
 up thereon, it shall not be found there ; but the redeemed 
 shall walk there : 
 
 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come 
 to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads : 
 they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sigh- 
 ing shall flee away. 
 
 Isaiah xxxv. i-io. 
 
 CXXI. THE FINAL REDEMPTION OF ISRAEL. 
 
 HEARKEN unto me, my people ; and give ear unto 
 me, O my nation : for a law shall proceed from me, 
 and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the 
 people. 
 
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 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, 
 and mine arms shall judge the people ; the isles shall wait 
 upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. 
 
 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the 
 earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like 
 smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and 
 they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my 
 salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not 
 be abolished. 
 
 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the peo- 
 ple in whose heart is my law ; fear ye not the reproach of 
 men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. 
 
 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and 
 
 the worm shall eat them like wool : but my righteousness 
 
 shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to 
 
 generation. 
 
 Isaiah li. 4-8. 
 
 CXXII. THE RESTORATION ACCOMPLISHED. 
 
 HOW beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him 
 that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; 
 that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salva- 
 tion ; that saith unto Zion, *' Thy God reigneth ! " 
 
 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice ; with the voice to- 
 gether shall they sing : for they shall see eye to eye, when 
 the Lord shall bring again Zion. 
 
 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of 
 Jerusalem : for the Lord hath comforted his people, he 
 hath redeemed Jerusalem. 
 
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 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of 
 
 all the nations ; and all the ends of the earth shall see the 
 
 salvation of our God. 
 
 Isaiah lii. 7-10. 
 
 CXXIII. THE MAN OF SORROWS. 
 
 WHO hath believed our report.^ and to whom is the 
 arm of the Lord revealed ? 
 
 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and 
 as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor come- 
 liness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that 
 we should desire him. 
 
 He is despised and rejected of men ; a man of sorrows, 
 and acquainted with grief : and we hid as it were our 
 faces from him ; he was despised, and we esteemed him* 
 not. 
 
 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sor- 
 rows : yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and 
 afflicted. 
 
 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
 bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace 
 was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed. 
 
 All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned 
 every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid on 
 him the iniquity of us all. 
 
 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened 
 not his mouth : he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, 
 and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth 
 not his mouth. 
 
 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and 
 
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 who shall declare his generation ? for he was cut off out 
 of the land of the living : for the transgression of my 
 people was he stricken. 
 
 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the 
 rich in his death ; because he had done no violence, neither 
 was any deceit in his mouth. 
 
 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put 
 him to grief : when thou shalt make his soul an offer- 
 ing for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his 
 days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his 
 hand. 
 
 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satis- 
 fied : by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify 
 many ; for he shall bear their iniquities. 
 
 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, 
 and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he 
 hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was num- 
 bered with the transgressors ; and he bare the sin of many, 
 and made intercession for the transgressors. 
 
 Isaiah liii. 1-12. 
 
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 CXXIV. THE WAY OF SALVATION. 
 
 HO, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and 
 he that hath no money ; come ye, buy, and eat ; 
 yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without 
 price. 
 
 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not 
 bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not ? 
 
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 hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, 
 and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 
 
 Incline your ear, and come unto me : hear, and your 
 soul shall live ; and I will make an everlasting covenant 
 with you, even the sure mercies of David. 
 
 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a 
 leader and commander to the people. 
 
 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, 
 and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee, be- 
 cause of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of 
 Israel ; for he hath glorified thee. 
 
 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon 
 him while he is near : 
 
 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous 
 man his thoughts : and let him return unto the Lord, and 
 he will have mercy upon him ; and to our God, for he 
 will abundantly pardon. 
 
 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are 
 your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 
 
 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are 
 my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than 
 your thoughts. 
 
 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, 
 and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and 
 maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to 
 the sower, and bread to the eater ; 
 
 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth : 
 it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish 
 that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing 
 whereto I sent it. 
 
 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with 
 
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 peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth be- 
 fore you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall 
 clap their hands. 
 
 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and 
 instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it 
 shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign 
 
 that shall not be cut off. 
 
 Isaiah Iv. 1-13. 
 
 CXXV. HEALING. 
 
 WHEN thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee ; 
 but the wind shall carry them all away ; vanity 
 shall take them : but he that putteth his trust in me shall 
 possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain ; 
 
 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, 
 take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. 
 
 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth 
 eternity, whose name is Holy ; I dwell in the high and 
 holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble 
 spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the 
 heart of the contrite ones. 
 
 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always 
 wroth : for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls 
 which I have made. 
 
 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and 
 smote him : I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on 
 frowardly in the way of his heart. 
 
 I have seen his ways, and will heal him : I will lead him 
 also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. 
 
 I create the fruit of the lips ; Peace, peace to him that 
 
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 is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord ; and I 
 will heal him. 
 
 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it can- 
 not rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 
 
 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. 
 
 Isaiah Ivii. 13-21. 
 
 CXXVI. THE COMING LIGHT. 
 
 ARISE, shine ; for thy light is come, and the glory of 
 the Lord is risen upon thee. 
 
 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and 
 gross darkness the people : but the Lord shall arise upon 
 thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 
 
 Aiid the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to 
 the brightness of thy rising. 
 
 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see : all they gather 
 themselves together, they come to thee : thy sons shall come 
 from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. 
 
 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart 
 shall fear, and be enlarged ; because the abundance of the 
 sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles 
 shall come unto thee. j^^j^j^ 1^ ^_^ 
 
 CXXVII. JERUSALEM RESTORED. 
 
 THEREFORE thy gates shall be open continually; 
 they shall not be shut day nor night ; that men may 
 bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their 
 kings may be brought. 
 
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 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve 
 thee shall perish ; yea, those nations shall be utterly 
 wasted. 
 
 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir 
 tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the 
 place of my sanctuary ; and I will make the place of my 
 feet glorious. 
 
 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come 
 
 bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall 
 
 bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they 
 
 shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the 
 
 Holy One of Israel. 
 
 Isaiah Ix. 11-14. 
 
 CXXVin. THE FOUNDER OF SALVATION. 
 
 THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the 
 Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto 
 the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, 
 to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of 
 the prison to them that are bound ; 
 
 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and 
 the day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all that 
 mourn ; 
 
 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto 
 them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the 
 garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness ; that they 
 might be called Trees of righteousness, The planting of 
 the Lord, that he might be glorified. 
 
 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise 
 
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 up the former desolations, and they shall repair the 
 waste cities, the desolations of many generations. 
 
 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and 
 the sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your 
 vinedressers. 
 
 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord : men 
 shall call you the Ministers of our God : ye shall eat the 
 riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast 
 yourselves. 
 
 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confu- 
 sion they shall rejoice in their portion : therefore in their 
 land they shall possess the double : everlasting joy shall 
 be unto them. 
 
 For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for 
 burnt offering ; and I will direct their work in truth, and 
 I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 
 
 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, 
 and their offspring among the people : all that see them 
 shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the 
 Lord hath blessed. 
 
 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be 
 joyful in my God ; for he hath clothed me with the gar- 
 ments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of 
 righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with 
 ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her 
 jewels. 
 
 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the 
 garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring 
 forth ; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and 
 praise to spring forth before all the nations. 
 
 Isaiah Ixi. i-ii. 
 
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 CXXIX. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. 
 
 YET say ye, Why ? doth not the son bear the iniquity 
 of the father ? When the son hath done that which 
 is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and 
 hath done them, he shall surely live. 
 
 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not 
 bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father 
 bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the 
 righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the 
 wicked shall be upon him. 
 
 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he 
 hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that 
 which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall 
 not die. 
 
 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall 
 not be mentioned unto him : in his righteousness that he 
 hath done he shall live. 
 
 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die .'' 
 saith the Lord God : and not that he should return from 
 his ways, and live .'' 
 
 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteous- 
 ness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all 
 the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live ? 
 All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be men- 
 tioned : in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his 
 sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. 
 
 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteous- 
 ness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them ; for his 
 iniquity 'that he hath done shall he die. 
 
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 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his 
 wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which 
 is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 
 
 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all 
 his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely 
 live, he shall not die. 
 
 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every 
 one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, 
 and turn yourselves from all your transgressions ; so in- 
 iquity shall not be your ruin. 
 
 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby 
 ye have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and a 
 new spirit : for why will ye die, O house of Israel ? 
 
 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, 
 saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. 
 
 Ezekiel xviii. 19-24; 26-28; 30-32. 
 
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 CXXX. IDOLS IN THE HEART. 
 
 THEN came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, 
 and sat before me. And the word of the Lord 
 came unto me, saying. Son of man, these men have set up 
 their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of 
 their iniquity before their face : should I be inquired of at 
 all by them ? 
 
 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus 
 saith the Lord God : 
 
 Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his 
 idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of 
 
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 his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I 
 the Lord will answer him that cometh, according to the 
 multitude of his idols ; that I may take the house of Israel 
 in their own heart, because they are all estranged from 
 me through their idols. 
 
 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the 
 Lord God : 
 
 Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols ; and turn 
 away your faces from all your abominations. 
 
 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger 
 that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from 
 me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the 
 stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh 
 to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me ; I the Lord 
 will answer him by myself : 
 
 And I will set my face against that man, and will make 
 him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the 
 midst of my people ; and ye shall know that I am the 
 Lord. 
 
 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a 
 thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will 
 stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from 
 the midst of my people Israel. 
 
 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity : 
 the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the 
 punishment of him that seeketh unto him ; that the house 
 of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be 
 polluted any more with all their transgressions ; but that 
 they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the 
 Lord God. 
 
 Ezekiel xiv. i- ii 
 
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 CXXXI. SIN BRINGS CALAMITY. 
 
 FOR thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek 
 ye me, and ye shall live : but seek not Beth-el, nor 
 enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal 
 shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to 
 nought. Seek the Lord, and ye shall live ; lest he break 
 out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and 
 there be none to quench it in Beth-el. 
 
 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off 
 righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the 
 seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death 
 into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night : 
 that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them 
 out upon the face of the earth : The Lord is his name : 
 that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that 
 the spoiled shall come against the fortress. 
 
 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor 
 him that speaketh uprightly. 
 
 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, 
 and ye take from him burdens of wheat : ye have built 
 houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them ; ye 
 have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink 
 wine of them. For I know your manifold transgres- 
 sions and your mighty sins : they afflict the just, they 
 take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from 
 their right. 
 
 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time ; 
 for it is an evil time. Seek good, and not evil, that ye 
 may live : and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be 
 
 BIB. READ. — 13 
 
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 with you, as ye have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the 
 good, and establish judgment in the gate : it may be that 
 the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant 
 
 ^^J^S^Ph- Amos V. 4-15- 
 
 CXXXII. PROMISES OF RECONCILIATION. 
 
 THEREFORE, behold, I will allure her, and bring 
 hej* into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto 
 her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and 
 the valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall 
 sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day 
 when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 
 
 And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou 
 shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 
 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her 
 mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their 
 name. 
 
 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with 
 the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and 
 with the creeping things of the ground : and I will break 
 the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and 
 will make them to lie down safely. 
 
 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever : yea, I will 
 betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, 
 and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will even 
 betroth thee unto me hi faithfulness: and thou shalt know 
 the Lord. 
 
 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith 
 the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the 
 
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 earth ; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, 
 
 and the oil ; and they shall hear Jezreel. And I will sow 
 
 her unto me in the earth ; and I will have mercy upon her 
 
 that had not obtained mercy ; and I will say to them which 
 
 were not my people, Thou art my people ; and they shall 
 
 say, Thou art my God. 
 
 Hosea ii. 14-23. 
 
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 CXXXIII. STRONG DRINK. 
 
 INE is a mocker, strong drink is raging: 
 And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 
 
 Proverbs xx. : 
 
 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that 
 they may follow strong drink ; that continue until night, 
 till wine inflame them ! And the harp and the viol, the 
 tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts : but they 
 regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the 
 operation of his hands. 
 
 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because 
 they have no knowledge : and their honourable men are 
 famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 
 
 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her 
 mouth without measure : and their glory, and their multi- 
 tude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend 
 into it. And the mean man shall be brought down, and 
 the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the 
 lofty shall be humbled : but the Lord of hosts shall be 
 exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sancti- 
 fied in righteousness. 
 
 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the 
 waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 
 
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 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, 
 and sin as it were with a cart rope : that say, '' Let him 
 make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it : and 
 let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and 
 come, that we may know it ! " 
 
 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that 
 
 put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put 
 
 bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Woe unto them that 
 
 are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight ! 
 
 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of 
 
 strength to mingle strong drink : which justify the wicked 
 
 for reward, and take away the righteousness of the 
 
 righteous from him ! 
 
 Isaiah v. 11-23. 
 
 CXXXIV. THE SLOTHFUL AND THE 
 DILIGENT. 
 
 1WENT by the field of the slothful, and by the vine- 
 yard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was 
 all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the 
 face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 
 Then I saw, and considered it well : I looked upon it, 
 and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, 
 a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty 
 come as one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed 
 
 man. 
 
 Proverbs xxiv. 30-34. 
 
 Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be 
 wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth 
 
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 her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the 
 harvest. 
 
 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard ? when wilt thou 
 arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, 
 a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty 
 come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed 
 
 man. _ , • /: 
 
 Proverbs vi. o-ii. 
 
 Seest thou a man diligent in his business .? 
 
 He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before 
 
 mean men. 
 
 Proverbs xxu. 29. 
 
 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule : 
 But the slothful shall be under tribute. 
 
 Proverbs xii. 24. 
 
 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread : but 
 he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty 
 enough. 
 
 A faithful man shall abound with blessings : but he that 
 maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. 
 
 Proverbs xxviii. 19, 20. 
 
 To do justice and judgment 
 
 Is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. 
 
 A high look, and a proud heart. 
 
 And the ploughing of the wicked, is sin. 
 
 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness ; 
 
 But of every one that is hasty only to want. 
 
 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue 
 
 Is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. 
 
 Proverbs xxi. 3-6. 
 
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 CXXXV. EXHORTATIONS TO VARIOUS 
 VIRTUES. 
 
 CHARGE them that are rich in this world, that they 
 be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but 
 in theUving God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 
 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready 
 to distribute, willing to communicate ; laying up in store 
 for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, 
 
 that they may lay hold on eternal life. 
 
 I Timothy vi. 17-19. 
 
 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuf- 
 
 fering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance : 
 
 against such there is no law. 
 
 Galatians v. 22, 23. 
 
 And besides this, givii^ all diligence, add to your faith, 
 virtue ; and to virtue, knowledge ; and to knowledge, tem- 
 perance ; and to temperance, patience ; and to patience, 
 godliness ; and to godliness, brotherly kindness ; and to 
 
 brotherly kindness, charity. 
 
 2 Peter i. 5-7. 
 
 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 
 
 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain 
 we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment, 
 let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich 
 fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish 
 and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and 
 perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil : 
 which while some coveted after, they have erred from the 
 faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 
 
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 But thou, O man of God, flee these things ; and follow 
 after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meek- 
 ness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal 
 life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a 
 
 good profession before many witnesses. 
 
 I Timothy vi. 6-12. 
 
 CXXXVI. FURTHER EXHORTATIONS TO 
 VIRTUE. 
 
 BY love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled 
 in one word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy neigh- 
 bour as thyself. Galatians v. 13, 14. 
 
 But now ye also put off all these ; anger, wrath, malice, 
 blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie 
 not one to another, seeing thafye have put off the old 
 man with his deeds ; and have put on the new man, 
 which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him 
 that created him : where there is neither Greek nor Jew, 
 circumcision nor uncircumcision. Barbarian, Scythian, bond 
 nor free : but Christ is all, and in all. 
 
 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, 
 bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meek- 
 ness, longsuffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiv- 
 ing one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : 
 even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 
 
 And above all these things put on charity, which is the 
 bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in 
 your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; 
 and be ye thankful. Colossians iii. 8-15. 
 
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 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a 
 pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith un- 
 feigned. I Timothy i. 5. 
 
 But the end of all things is at hand : be ye therefore 
 
 sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things 
 
 have fervent charity among yourselves : for charity shall 
 
 cover the multitude of sins. 
 
 I Peter iv. 7-8. 
 
 CXXXVII. LOVE OR CHARITY. 
 
 THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of 
 angels, and have not charity, I am become as sound- 
 ing brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 
 
 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and under- 
 stand all mysteries, and all knowledge ; and though I have 
 all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not 
 charity, I am nothing. 
 
 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, 
 and though I give my body to be burned, and have not 
 charity, it profiteth me nothing. 
 
 Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity envieth not ; 
 charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not be- 
 have itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily 
 provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but 
 rejoiceth in the truth ; beareth all things, believeth all 
 things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 
 
 Charity never faileth : but whether there be prophecies, 
 they shall fail ; whether there be tongues, they shall cease ; 
 whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 
 
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 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But 
 when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in 
 part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake 
 as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child : 
 but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 
 For now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then face 
 to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even 
 as also I am known. 
 
 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but 
 the greatest of these is charity. 
 
 I Corinthians xiii. 1-13. 
 
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 CXXXVIII. THE HEART. 
 
 CREATE in me a clean heart, O God ; 
 And renew a right spirit within me. 
 Cast me not away from thy presence ; 
 And take not thy Holy Spirit from me. 
 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; 
 And uphold me with thy free Spirit. 
 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways ; 
 And sinners shall be converted unto thee. 
 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, 
 O God, thou God of my salvation : 
 And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 
 O Lord, open thou my Hps ; 
 And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 
 For thou desirest not sacrifice ; 
 Else would I give it : 
 
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 Thou delightest not in burnt offering. 
 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: 
 A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 
 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion. 
 Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 
 
 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteous- 
 ness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering : 
 Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. 
 
 Psalm 11. 10-19. 
 
 Lord, I cry unto thee : make haste unto me ; 
 
 Give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. 
 
 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense ; 
 
 And the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 
 
 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth ; 
 
 Keep the door of my lips. 
 
 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, 
 
 To practise wicked works with men that work iniquity : 
 
 And let me not eat of their dainties. 
 
 Psalm cxli. 1-4. 
 
 These six things doth the Lord hate ; 
 
 Yea, seven are an abomination unto him : 
 
 A proud look, a lying tongue. 
 
 And hands that shed innocent blood, 
 
 A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, 
 
 Feet that be swift in running to mischief, 
 
 A false witness that speaketh lies. 
 
 And he that soweth discord among brethren. 
 
 Proverbs vi. 16-19. 
 
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 CXXXIX. THE SOURCE OF GOOD AND 
 PERFECT GIFTS. 
 
 EVERY good gift and every perfect gift is from above, 
 and Cometh down from the Father of lights, with 
 whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of 
 his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we 
 should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 
 
 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be 
 swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath : for the wrath 
 of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Where- 
 fore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, 
 and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is 
 able to save your souls. 
 
 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, de- 
 ceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the 
 word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his 
 natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and 
 goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner 
 of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law 
 of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a for- 
 getful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be 
 blessed in his deed. 
 
 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bri- 
 dleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this 
 man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled be- 
 fore God and the Father is this. To visit the fatherless 
 and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself un- 
 spotted from the world. 
 
 James i. 17-27. 
 
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 CXL. THE TONGUE. 
 
 FOR in many things we offend all. If any man offend 
 not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also 
 to bridle the whole body. 
 
 Behold, we put bits in the horses* mouths, that they 
 may obey us ; and we turn about their whole body. Be- 
 hold also the ships, which though they be so great, and 
 are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about 
 with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor 
 listeth. 
 
 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth 
 great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire 
 kindleth ! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : 
 so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the 
 whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and 
 it is set on fire of hell. 
 
 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, 
 and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed 
 of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an 
 unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 
 
 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and there- 
 with curse we men, which are made after the similitude 
 of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing 
 and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so 
 to be. 
 
 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet 
 water and bitter } Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear 
 olive berries .'' either a vine, figs ? so can no fountain both 
 yield salt water and fresh. 
 
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 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among 
 
 you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works 
 
 with meekness of wisdom. 
 
 James iii. 2-13. 
 
 The lip of truth shall be established for ever : 
 But a lying tongue is but for a moment. 
 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil : 
 But to the counsellors of peace is joy. 
 There shall no evil happen to the just : 
 But the wicked shall be filled with mischief. 
 Lying lips are abomination to the Lord : 
 But they that deal truly are his delight. 
 
 Proverbs xii. 19-22. 
 
 CXLL FROM THE DIVINE SONG OF MOSES. 
 
 GIVE ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak ; 
 And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 
 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. 
 My speech shall distil as the dew, 
 As the small rain upon the tender herb. 
 And as the showers upon the grass : 
 Because I will publish the name of the Lord : 
 Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 
 He is the Rock, his work is perfect : 
 For all his ways are judgment : 
 A God of truth and without iniquity, 
 Just and right is he. 
 They have corrupted themselves. 
 
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 Their spot is not the spot of his children : 
 
 They are a perverse and crooked generation. 
 
 Do ye thus requite the Lord, 
 
 O foohsh people and unwise ? 
 
 Is not he thy father that hath bought thee ? 
 
 Hath he not made thee, and estabhshed thee? 
 
 Remember the days of old. 
 
 Consider the years of many generations : 
 
 Ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; 
 
 Thy elders, and they will tell thee. 
 
 When the Most High divided to the nations their inherit 
 
 ance. 
 
 When he separated the sons of Adam, 
 
 He set the bounds of the people 
 
 According to the number of the children of IsraeL 
 
 For the Lord's portion is his people ; 
 
 Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 
 
 He found him in a desert land, 
 
 And in the waste howling wilderness ; 
 
 He led him about, he instructed him, 
 
 He kept him as the apple of his eye. 
 
 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, 
 
 Fluttereth over her young, 
 
 Spreadeth abroad her wings, 
 
 Taketh them, beareth them on her wings : 
 
 So the Lord alone did lead him. 
 
 And there was no strange god with him. 
 
 Deut. xxxii. 1-12 
 
 Righteousness exalteth a nation : 
 But sin is a reproach to any people. 
 
 Proverbs xiv. 34. 
 
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 CXLII. GEMS FROM PROVERBS. 
 
 A SO FT answer turneth away wrath : 
 But grievous words stir up anger. 
 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright : 
 But the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. 
 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, 
 Beholding the evil and the good. 
 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life : 
 But perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. 
 A fool despiseth his father's instruction : 
 But he that regardeth reproof is prudent. 
 In the house of the righteous is much treasure : 
 But in the revenues of the wicked is trouble. 
 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge : 
 But the heart of the foolish doeth not so. 
 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord 
 But the prayer of the upright is his delight. 
 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord : 
 But he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. 
 Correction is grievous unto him that f orsaketh the way : 
 And he that hateth reproof shall die. 
 Hell and destruction are before the Lord : 
 How much more then the hearts of the children of men ? 
 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him : 
 Neither will he go unto the wise. 
 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance : 
 But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. 
 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowl- 
 edge : 
 
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 But the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. 
 
 All the days of the afflicted are evil : 
 
 But he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. 
 
 Better is Uttle with the fear of the Lord, 
 
 Than great treasure and trouble therewith. 
 
 Proverbs xv. 1-16 
 
 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, 
 
 And loving favour rather than silver and gold. 
 
 The rich and poor meet together : 
 
 The Lord is the maker of them all. 
 
 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself : 
 
 But the simple pass on, and are punished. 
 
 By humility and the fear of the Lord 
 
 Are riches, and honour, and life. 
 
 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward : 
 
 He that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. 
 
 Train up a child in the way he should go : 
 
 And when he is old, he will not depart from it. 
 
 The rich ruleth over the poor, 
 
 And the borrower is servant to the lender. 
 
 Proverbs xxii. 1-7. 
 
 CXLIII. GEMS FROM PROVERBS. 
 
 THE fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge : 
 But fools despise wisdom and instruction. 
 My son, hear the instruction of thy father. 
 And forsake not the law of thy mother : 
 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, 
 And chains about thy ne^ir 
 
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 ' UHIVEHSITY 
 
210 
 
 My son, if sinners entice thee, 
 
 Consent thou not. 
 
 If they say, ** Come with us, 
 
 Let us lay wait for blood, 
 
 Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause : 
 
 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave ; 
 
 And whole, as those that go down into the pit : 
 
 We shall find all precious substance, 
 
 We shall fill our houses with spoil : 
 
 Cast in thy lot among us ; 
 
 Let us all have one purse : " 
 
 My son, walk not thou in the way with them ; 
 
 Refrain thy foot from their path : 
 
 For their feet run to evil. 
 
 And make haste to shed blood. 
 
 Surely in vain the net is spread 
 
 In the sight of any bird. 
 
 And they lay wait for their own blood ; 
 
 They lurk privily for their own lives. 
 
 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain ; 
 
 Which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 
 
 Proverbs i. 7-19. 
 
 The glory of young men is their strength : 
 And the beauty of old men is the gray head. 
 
 Proverbs xx. 29. 
 
 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast : 
 But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. 
 
 Proverbs xii. 10. 
 
TOPICAL INDEX, 
 
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 Admonitions, CXI., Prov. xvi 171 
 
 Afflicted, XCVII., Ps. xxxiv 150 
 
 Almsgiving, CXLIL, Prov. xxii 209 
 
 Ancient Laws, LXXVIL, Lev. xix 119 
 
 Anger, XXXVIIL, i Sam. xx 70 
 
 Aspiration, XLIIL, i Kings iii 77 
 
 Avarice, LVIL, Luke xii 97 
 
 Blessed, LXIIL, Matt, v 104 
 
 Brothers, IV., Gen. iv 24 
 
 Charity, CXXXVIL, i Cor. xiii 201 
 
 Children, LXXIL, John xxi. ; Luke xvii. ; Mark x. . . . 114 
 
 Commandments, LXXIIL, Matt, xxii 116 
 
 LXXIV., Ex. XX 116 
 
 Compassion, LIL, Matt, xviii .' . . . 90 
 
 Confession, XCV., Ps. h 147 
 
 Confidence in God, LXXXIV., Ps. xxiii., cxxi., Ixxi. . . . 129 
 
 CXXXV., I Tim. vi 199 
 
 CXVIIL, Is. xxvi 178 
 
 Contentment, CXXXV., i Tim. vi 199 
 
 Contrasts, CX., Prov. xv 170 
 
 Counsel, CIX., Prov. iv 168 
 
 Courage, XXVIIL, Num. xiv 55 
 
 XXXV., I Sam. xvii 65 
 
 XLVIIL, Acts xxvii S3 
 
 Covetousness, LXXIV., Ex. xx 117 
 
 211 
 
212 
 
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 Creator and Creature, I., Gen. i 19 
 
 II., Gen. i., ii 21 
 
 Debts, LIL, Matt, xviii 90 
 
 Deceit, VII., Gen. xxvii 28 
 
 VIII. , Gen. xxvii 29 
 
 XIII., Gen. xxxvii 34 
 
 Deliverance, CXVIL, Is. xxv 177 
 
 Diligence, CXXXIV., Prov. xxii., xii., xxxiii., xxi 198 
 
 Dumb Creatures, CXLIIL, Prov. xii 210 
 
 Enemies, LXIV., Matt, v 105 
 
 LXV., Luke vi 105 
 
 Envy, XI., Gen. xxxvii 32 
 
 Excuses, LVIIL, Luke xiv 98 
 
 Evil, CXV., Is. i 176 
 
 LXVL, Luke xi 107 
 
 Faithfulness, XXXIL, Ruth i 60 
 
 XXXIIL, Ruth ii 62 
 
 Father, LX., Luke xvi 100 
 
 Fear, XXVII., Num. xiii 53 
 
 FideHty, XLVL, Dan. vi 80 
 
 Filial Piety, XX., Gen. xlv 44 
 
 XXII., Gen. xlvii., 1 47 
 
 Folly, XXX., Judges ix 57 
 
 LVIL, Luke xii 97 
 
 Forgiveness, XCIV., Ps. xxv 146 
 
 XCV., Ps. H 147 
 
 LXIV., Matt, xviii 105 
 
 Friendship, XXXVII., i Sam. xx 68 
 
 XXXVIII., I Sam. xx 70 
 
 XXXIX., I Sam. xx 71 
 
 Generosity, VI., Gen. xiii 26 
 
 Gifts, CXXXIX., James i 204 
 
213 
 
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 Gladness, LXXXVIL, Ps. ciii 134 
 
 God, Creative Power of, L, Gen. i 19 
 
 IL, Gen. i., ii 21 
 
 XC., Ps. civ 138 
 
 XCL, Ps. xxxiii 141 
 
 Longing for, LXXXV., Ps. xlii 132 
 
 LXXXVL, Ps. Ixiii 133 
 
 Glory of, in the Universe, LXXXVIIL, Ps. viii. ... 136 
 
 Goodness of, XCVIIL, Ps. Ixxiii 151 
 
 Godliness, CXXXV., 2 Peter i. ; i Tim. vi 199 
 
 Godly, LXXXL, Ps. i., XV 126 
 
 Gratitude, LXXXVIL, Ps. ciii 134 
 
 XCIX., Ps. cxi 153 
 
 C., Ps. xcviii., c 155 
 
 Harshness rebuked, LXXIL, Mark X 115 
 
 Hatred, X., Gen. xxvii 32 
 
 Healing, CXXV., Is. Ivii 186 
 
 Hearing, Hearers, LXX., Matt, vii 112 
 
 Heart, LXIX., Matt, xii., vi. ; Luke vi 11 1 
 
 CXH., Prov. xxvi 172 
 
 CXXXVHL, Ps. li., cxli. ; Prov. vi 202 
 
 Holiness, CVH., i Chron. xvi 165 
 
 Holy, CXXV., Is. Ivii 186 
 
 Honor thy parents, LXXIV., Ex. xx 117 
 
 LXXVIL, Lev. xix 119 
 
 Hope, CXXXVIL, i Cor. xiii 201 
 
 House of the Lord, CV., Ps. cxxii., Ixxxiv 162 
 
 Humanity, LXXVIIL, Deut. xv., xxiv 121 
 
 HumiHty, LXVIIL, Mark x. ; Luke ix., xiv 109 
 
 Idleness. See Slothfulness. 
 
 Idols, CXXX., Ezek. xiv 191 
 
 Industry. See Diligence. 
 
 Ingratitude, LIL, Matt, xviii 90 
 
214 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Injustice, XXIV., Ex. i 50 
 
 Instruction, XCIV., Ps. xxv 146 
 
 Joy, LIX., Luke xv 99 
 
 Justice, CXVIIL, Is. xxvi 178 
 
 Kindness, XXV., Ex. ii 51 
 
 Kingdom of Heaven, LI., Matt, xiii 89 
 
 Labor, LIIL, Matt, xx 92 
 
 Lambs, LXXIL, John xxi 114 
 
 Law, LXXIIL, Matt, xxii 116 
 
 LXXIV., Ex. XX 116 
 
 LXXV., Deut. xi 117 
 
 LXXVL, Prov. vi., vii 119 
 
 LXXVIL, Lev. xix 119 
 
 LXXIX., Ps. cxix 122 
 
 LXXX., Ps. cxix. . 123 
 
 Life, LXVIL, Matt, vi 108 
 
 Light, LXXXV., Ps. xHii 133 
 
 CXXVL, Is. Ix 187 
 
 Lips, CXL., Prov. xii 206 
 
 Little Ones, LXXIL, Luke xvii 115 
 
 Love, CXXXVIL, i Cor. xiii 201 
 
 Lying, CXL., Prov. xii 206 
 
 Mercy, LXV., Luke vi 105 
 
 LVL, Luke X 96 
 
 Mischief, CXXXVIIL, Prov. vi 203 
 
 Mourning, XLIL, 2 Sam. xviii 75 
 
 Murder, IV., Gen. iv 24 
 
 Name, CXLIL, Prov. xxii 209 
 
 Neighbor, LVL, Luke x 96 
 
 LXXIIL, Matt, xxii 116 
 
 Nobihty, CXIX., Is. xxxii 179 
 
215 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Obedience, LXXV., Deut. xi 117 
 
 Oppression, XXIV., Ex. i. . , 50 
 
 Others, LXV., Luke vi 105 
 
 Parents, LXXIV., Ex. xx 117 
 
 Patience, CXXXV., 2 Peter i 199 
 
 Peacemakers, LXIIL, Matt, v .104 
 
 Petulancy, XLV., Jonah iv 79 
 
 Pharisee, LXIL, Luke xviii 103 
 
 Poor, Duties to, LXXVIIL, Deut. xv 121 
 
 LVIIL, Luke xiv 98 
 
 Poverty, LX., Luke xvi 100 
 
 Praise, XCIX., Ps. cxi., Ixvii 153 
 
 C, Ps. xcviii., c 155 
 
 CL, Ps. Ixv 156 
 
 CVL, Ps. cxlv 164 
 
 Prayer, XXIX., Numbers xiv 56 
 
 LXVL, Luke xi 107 
 
 of Moses, XCIIL, Ps. xc 144 
 
 Presumption, CXIIL, Prov. xxvii 173 
 
 v., Gen. xi 25 
 
 Pride, XXXIV., i Sam. xvii 64 
 
 Prodigal Son, LX., Luke xvi. ... - 100 
 
 Profanity, LXXIV., Ex. XX 117 
 
 Promise, XXVI., Ex. iii 52 
 
 Promotion, XV,, Gen. xH ^S 
 
 Providence, LXVIL, Matt, vi 108 
 
 LXXXIL, Ps. xci 127 
 
 LXXXIV., Ps. xxiii. 129 
 
 Prudence, XLVIIL, Acts xxvii S^ 
 
 Pubhcan, LXIL, Luke xviii 103 
 
 Punishment, XLL, 2 Sam. xviii 74 
 
 Purity, CXV., Is. i 176 
 
 RebelHon, XL., 2 Sam. xv 72 
 
 Reconcihation, CXXXIL, Hosea ii 194 
 
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 Redemption, Israel's, CXX., Is. xxxv i8o 
 
 CXXL, Is. li i8i 
 
 Repentance, XLIV., Jonah iii 78 
 
 Resolution, A, LX., Luke xvi 100 
 
 Responsibility, CXXIX., Ezekiel xviii 190 
 
 Restoration, Israel's, CXXII., Is. Iii 182 
 
 of Jerusalem, CXXVIL, Is. Ix 187 
 
 Reverence, XVI., Gen. xlii 39 
 
 Riches, LVIL, Luke xii 97 
 
 Rich Man, LXL, Luke xvi 102 
 
 Righteousness, LXXXIV., Ps. xxiii., Ixxi 129 
 
 CXLL, Prov. xiv 207 
 
 Rulers, XVL, Gen. xlii 39 
 
 Sabbath, II., Gen. ii 22 
 
 LXXIV., Ex. XX 117 
 
 Salvation, CIIL, Ps. Ixii 159 
 
 CXXIV., Is. Iv 184 
 
 Founder of, CXXVIIL, Is. Ixi 188 
 
 Scornful, LXXXL, Ps. i 126 
 
 Seeking the Kingdom of God, LXVIL, Matt, vi 109 
 
 the Lost, LIX., Luke xv 99 
 
 Self-Praise, CXIIL, Prov. xxvii 173 
 
 Servants, Hired, LXXVIIL, Deut. xxiv 122 
 
 Sheep, LXXL, John X 113 
 
 LXXIL, John xxi 114 
 
 Shepherd, LXXL, John X 113 
 
 Sin, CXXXL, Amos v 193 
 
 Slander, LXXIV., Ex. XX 117 
 
 Slothfulness, CXXXIV., Prov. xxiv., vi., xxii., xii., xxviii.,xxi. 197 
 
 Sorrow, XLII., 2 Sam. xviii 75 
 
 CXXIIL, Is. liii 183 
 
 Sower and the Seed, XLIX., Matt, xiii 87 
 
 Stability, XLVL, Daniel vi 80 
 
 XLVIIL, Acts xxvii 83 
 
 Stealing, LXXIV., Ex. XX 117 
 
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 Strength, God our, CIIL, Ps. Ixii. . 
 Supplication. See Prayer, 
 
 Talents, LV., Matt, xxv 
 
 Tares, L., Matt, xiii 
 
 Teaching the Law, LXXVL, Proverbs 
 Temperance, CXXXIIL, Is. v. . . 
 Thanksgiving, CVIL, i Chron. xvi. 
 Tongue, XCII., Ps. xxxix. . . . 
 
 CXL., James iii 
 
 Trustfulness, LXXXIV., Ps. xxiii., cxxi 
 Truthfulness, LXXIV., Ex. xx. . . 
 
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 Unfaithfulness, LV., Matt. xxv. . . 
 Unmerciful Servant, LIL, Matt, xviii. 
 
 , Ixxi. 
 
 Victory, CIV., Ps. Ixxvii 
 
 Vineyard, LIIL, Matt. xx. ... 
 
 CXVL, Is. V 
 
 Virtue, CXXXV., i Tim. vi. ; Gal. v. ; 2 Peter i 
 
 CXXXVL, Gal. v. ; Col. iii. ; i Tim. i ; i 
 Virtuous Woman, CXIV., Prov. xxxi 
 
 Warning, CIX., Prov. iv. . . 
 Watchfulness, LIV., Matt. xxv. 
 Ways of God, CIL, Ps. xlix. . 
 Wickedness, CIX., Prov. iv. . 
 CXXXVIII., Prov. vi. . . 
 Wisdom, CVIIL, Prov. ii., iii. 
 Woman, Virtuous, CXIV., Prov. xxxi. 
 Word of the Lord, LXXIX., Ps. cxix. 
 Worship, CVIL, i Chron. xvi. . . 
 
 Youth, CXLIIL, Prov. xx. 
 
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