Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. "He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the LORD. 2. "One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD. 3. "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever, 4. "because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5. "Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you. 6. "You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. 7. "You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land. 8. "The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD. 9. "When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing. 10. "If there is any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp. 11. "But it shall be, when evening comes, that he shall wash with water; and when the sun sets, he may come into the camp. 12. "Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out; 13. "and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse. 14. "For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you. 15. "You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you. 16. "He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it seems best to him; you shall not oppress him. 17. "There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel. 18. "You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the LORD your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God. 19. "You shall not charge interest to your brother––interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest. 20. "To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess. 21. "When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you. 22. "But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you. 23. "That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth. 24. "When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container. 25. "When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
1. Now let me sing to my Well–beloved A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard: My Well–beloved has a vineyard On a very fruitful hill. 2. He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes. 3. "And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge, please, between Me and My vineyard. 4. What more could have been done to My vineyard That I have not done in it? Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes, Did it bring forth wild grapes? 5. And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; And break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. 6. I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain on it." 7. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help . 8. Woe to those who join house to house; They add field to field, Till there is no place Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land! 9. In my hearing the LORD of hosts said , "Truly, many houses shall be desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant. 10. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah." 11. Woe to those who rise early in the morning, That they may follow intoxicating drink; Who continue until night, till wine inflames them! 12. The harp and the strings, The tambourine and flute, And wine are in their feasts; But they do not regard the work of the LORD, Nor consider the operation of His hands. 13. Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst. 14. Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself And opened its mouth beyond measure; Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it. 15. People shall be brought down, Each man shall be humbled, And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled. 16. But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness. 17. Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, And in the waste places of the fat ones strangers shall eat. 18. Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, And sin as if with a cart rope; 19. 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 near and come, That we may know it ." 20. Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight! 22. Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink, 23. Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away justice from the righteous man! 24. Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25. Therefore the anger of the LORD is aroused against His people; He has stretched out His hand against them And stricken them, And the hills trembled. Their carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still. 26. He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, And will whistle to them from the end of the earth; Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly. 27. No one will be weary or stumble among them, No one will slumber or sleep; Nor will the belt on their loins be loosed, Nor the strap of their sandals be broken; 28. Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent; Their horses’ hooves will seem like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind. 29. Their roaring will be like a lion, They will roar like young lions; Yes, they will roar And lay hold of the prey; They will carry it away safely, And no one will deliver. 30. In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold, darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the clouds.
24. From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know it , but He could not be hidden. 25. For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. 26. The woman was a Greek, a Syro–Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27. But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs." 28. And she answered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs." 29. Then He said to her, "For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter." 30. And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed. 31. Again, departing from the region of Tyre and Sidon, He came through the midst of the region of Decapolis to the Sea of Galilee. 32. Then they brought to Him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, and they begged Him to put His hand on him. 33. And He took him aside from the multitude, and put His fingers in his ears, and He spat and touched his tongue. 34. Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." 35. Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly. 36. Then He commanded them that they should tell no one; but the more He commanded them, the more widely they proclaimed it . 37. And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."