Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. "Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2. "a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said , ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’ 3. "Therefore understand today that the LORD your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you. 4. "Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you. 5. " It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6. "Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff–necked people. 7. "Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. 8. "Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you. 9. "When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10. "Then the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11. "And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 12. "Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’ 13. "Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff–necked people. 14. ‘Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ 15. "So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16. "And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God––had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17. "Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. 18. "And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. 19. "For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also. 20. "And the LORD was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21. "Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain. 22. "Also at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath. 23. "Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice. 24. "You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25. "Thus I prostrated myself before the LORD; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the LORD had said He would destroy you. 26. "Therefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27. ‘Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, 28. ‘lest the land from which You brought us should say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness." 29. ‘Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’
1. The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2. "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." 3. What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun? 4. One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever. 5. The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose. 6. The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit. 7. All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again. 8. All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it . The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. 9. That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. 10. Is there anything of which it may be said, "See, this is new"? It has already been in ancient times before us. 11. There is no remembrance of former things , Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come By those who will come after. 12. I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13. And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised. 14. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind. 15. What is crooked cannot be made straight, And what is lacking cannot be numbered. 16. I communed with my heart, saying, "Look, I have attained greatness, and have gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My heart has understood great wisdom and knowledge." 17. And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind. 18. For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
1. I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure"; but surely, this also was vanity. 2. I said of laughter––"Madness!"; and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?" 3. I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives. 4. I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards. 5. I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6. I made myself water pools from which to water the growing trees of the grove. 7. I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me. 8. I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all kinds. 9. So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. 10. Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor. 11. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun. 12. Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; For what can the man do who succeeds the king? –– Only what he has already done. 13. Then I saw that wisdom excels folly As light excels darkness. 14. The wise man’s eyes are in his head, But the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself perceived That the same event happens to them all. 15. So I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, It also happens to me, And why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart, "This also is vanity." 16. For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. And how does a wise man die? As the fool! 17. Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind. 18. Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19. And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. 20. Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. 21. For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22. For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? 23. For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. 24. Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God. 25. For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? 26. For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
1. This will be the third time I am coming to you. "By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established." 2. I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare–– 3. since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you. 4. For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you. 5. Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? ––unless indeed you are disqualified. 6. But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified. 7. Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may seem disqualified. 8. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9. For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete. 10. Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction. 11. Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. 12. Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13. All the saints greet you. 14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.