Wednesday, March 17, 2027

^2:3And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem. ⁴And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more. ⁵And now, O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. ⁶For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the Philistines, and many strange children were born to them. ⁷For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of their chariots. ⁸And the land is filled with abominations, even the works of their hands; and they have worshipped the works which their fingers made. ⁹And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon them. ¹⁰Now therefore enter ye into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth. ¹¹For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

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^1:24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so. ²⁵And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good. ²⁶And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth. ²⁷And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them. ²⁸And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth. ²⁹And God said, Behold I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food. ³⁰And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so. ³¹And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. ^2:1And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them. ²And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made. ³And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do.

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^2:1My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee; ²thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son. ³For if thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding; ⁴and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; ⁵then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence come knowledge and understanding, ⁷and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way; ⁸that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him. ⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment; and shalt direct all thy course aright. ¹⁰For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul, ¹¹good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee; ¹²to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully. ¹³Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness; ¹⁴who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness; ¹⁵whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding; ¹⁶to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake thee, ¹⁷of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God. ¹⁸For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants. ¹⁹None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life. ²⁰For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy. ²¹For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it. ²²The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.

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