Alpet 2022
King James Version
47. "Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 48. "therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49. "The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50. "a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. 51. "And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you. 52. "They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you. 53. "You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. 54. "The sensitive and very refined man among you will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, 55. "so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. 56. "The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, 57. "her placenta which comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. 58. "If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59. "then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues––great and prolonged plagues––and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 60. "Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61. "Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed. 62. "You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 63. "And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess. 64. "Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known––wood and stone. 65. "And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul. 66. "Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. 67. "In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see. 68. "And the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you ."
1. "Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, Who write misfortune, Which they have prescribed 2. To rob the needy of justice, And to take what is right from the poor of My people, That widows may be their prey, And that they may rob the fatherless. 3. What will you do in the day of punishment, And in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory? 4. Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, And they shall fall among the slain." For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still. 5. "Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hand is My indignation. 6. I will send him against an ungodly nation, And against the people of My wrath I will give him charge, To seize the spoil, to take the prey, And to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7. Yet he does not mean so, Nor does his heart think so; But it is in his heart to destroy, And cut off not a few nations. 8. For he says, ‘ Are not my princes altogether kings? 9. Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? 10. As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria, 11. As I have done to Samaria and her idols, Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?’" 12. Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has performed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say , "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks." 13. For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it , And by my wisdom, for I am prudent; Also I have removed the boundaries of the people, And have robbed their treasuries; So I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man . 14. My hand has found like a nest the riches of the people, And as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; And there was no one who moved his wing, Nor opened his mouth with even a peep." 15. Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it? As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up, Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it were not wood! 16. Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Will send leanness among his fat ones; And under his glory He will kindle a burning Like the burning of a fire. 17. So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and his briers in one day. 18. And it will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, Both soul and body; And they will be as when a sick man wastes away. 19. Then the rest of the trees of his forest Will be so few in number That a child may write them. 20. And it shall come to pass in that day That the remnant of Israel, And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, Will never again depend on him who defeated them, But will depend on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21. The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, To the Mighty God. 22. For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, A remnant of them will return; The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness. 23. For the Lord GOD of hosts Will make a determined end In the midst of all the land. 24. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: "O My people, who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of Egypt. 25. "For yet a very little while and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction." 26. And the LORD of hosts will stir up a scourge for him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner of Egypt. 27. It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, And his yoke from your neck, And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
1. Then He arose from there and came to the region of Judea by the other side of the Jordan. And multitudes gathered to Him again, and as He was accustomed, He taught them again. 2. The Pharisees came and asked Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" testing Him. 3. And He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?" 4. They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her ." 5. And Jesus answered and said to them, "Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6. "But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ 7. ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8. ‘and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9. "Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." 10. In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matter . 11. So He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12. "And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery." 13. Then they brought little children to Him, that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked those who brought them . 14. But when Jesus saw it , He was greatly displeased and said to them, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. 15. "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it." 16. And He took them up in His arms, put His hands on them, and blessed them. 17. Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" 18. So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is , God. 19. "You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’" 20. And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth." 21. Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me." 22. But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 23. Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!" 24. And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God! 25. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." 26. And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, "Who then can be saved?" 27. But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible."