Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. Now the LORD said to Joshua: "Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. 2. "And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it." 3. So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night. 4. And he commanded them, saying: "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. 5. "Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city; and it will come about, when they come out against us as at the first, that we shall flee before them. 6. "For they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, ‘ They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ Therefore we will flee before them. 7. "Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand. 8. "And it will be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire. According to the commandment of the LORD you shall do. See, I have commanded you." 9. Joshua therefore sent them out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people. 10. Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 11. And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley lay between them and Ai. 12. So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. 13. And when they had set the people, all the army that was on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. 14. Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw it , that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 15. And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 16. So all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue them. And they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 17. There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel. 18. Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the spear that was in his hand toward the city. 19. So those in ambush arose quickly out of their place; they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered the city and took it, and hurried to set the city on fire. 20. And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven. So they had no power to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. 21. Now when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 22. Then the others came out of the city against them; so they were caught in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down, so that they let none of them remain or escape. 23. But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 24. And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 25. So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand––all the people of Ai. 26. For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27. Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua. 28. So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day. 29. And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day. 30. Now Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in Mount Ebal, 31. as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: "an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool ." And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. 32. And there, in the presence of the children of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 33. Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. 34. And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 35. There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were living among them.
1. Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants. 2. And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As with the creditor, so with the debtor. 3. The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the LORD has spoken this word. 4. The earth mourns and fades away, The world languishes and fades away; The haughty people of the earth languish. 5. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant. 6. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left. 7. The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry–hearted sigh. 8. The mirth of the tambourine ceases, The noise of the jubilant ends, The joy of the harp ceases. 9. They shall not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. 10. The city of confusion is broken down; Every house is shut up, so that none may go in. 11. There is a cry for wine in the streets, All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone. 12. In the city desolation is left, And the gate is stricken with destruction. 13. When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, It shall be like the shaking of an olive tree, Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done. 14. They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; For the majesty of the LORD They shall cry aloud from the sea. 15. Therefore glorify the LORD in the dawning light, The name of the LORD God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea. 16. From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: "Glory to the righteous!" But I said, "I am ruined, ruined! Woe to me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously." 17. Fear and the pit and the snare Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth. 18. And it shall be That he who flees from the noise of the fear Shall fall into the pit, And he who comes up from the midst of the pit Shall be caught in the snare; For the windows from on high are open, And the foundations of the earth are shaken. 19. The earth is violently broken, The earth is split open, The earth is shaken exceedingly. 20. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, And shall totter like a hut; Its transgression shall be heavy upon it, And it will fall, and not rise again. 21. It shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will punish on high the host of exalted ones, And on the earth the kings of the earth. 22. They will be gathered together, As prisoners are gathered in the pit, And will be shut up in the prison; After many days they will be punished. 23. Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem And before His elders, gloriously.
53. And they led Jesus away to the high priest; and with him were assembled all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes. 54. But Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he sat with the servants and warmed himself at the fire. 55. Now the chief priests and all the council sought testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, but found none. 56. For many bore false witness against Him, but their testimonies did not agree. 57. Then some rose up and bore false witness against Him, saying, 58. "We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.’" 59. But not even then did their testimony agree. 60. And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, saying, "Do You answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You?" 61. But He kept silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" 62. Jesus said, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." 63. Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "What further need do we have of witnesses? 64. "You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death. 65. Then some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him, and to say to Him, "Prophesy!" And the officers struck Him with the palms of their hands. 66. Now as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came. 67. And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus of Nazareth." 68. But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you are saying." And he went out on the porch, and a rooster crowed. 69. And the servant girl saw him again, and began to say to those who stood by, "This is one of them." 70. But he denied it again. And a little later those who stood by said to Peter again, "Surely you are one of them; for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it ." 71. Then he began to curse and swear, "I do not know this Man of whom you speak!" 72. A second time the rooster crowed. Then Peter called to mind the word that Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times." And when he thought about it, he wept.