Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. And it came to pass after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth." 2. So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab; and there was a severe famine in Samaria. 3. And Ahab had called Obadiah, who was in charge of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly. 4. For so it was, while Jezebel massacred the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water.) 5. And Ahab had said to Obadiah, "Go into the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we may find grass to keep the horses and mules alive, so that we will not have to kill any livestock. 6. So they divided the land between them to explore it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. 7. Now as Obadiah was on his way, suddenly Elijah met him; and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, " Is that you, my lord Elijah?" 8. And he answered him, " It is I. Go, tell your master, ‘Elijah is here .’" 9. So he said, "How have I sinned, that you are delivering your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? 10. " As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to hunt for you; and when they said, ‘ He is not here ,’ he took an oath from the kingdom or nation that they could not find you. 11. "And now you say, ‘Go, tell your master, "Elijah is here "’! 12. "And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you to a place I do not know; so when I go and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he will kill me. But I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth. 13. "Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD’S prophets, fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water? 14. "And now you say, ‘Go, tell your master, "Elijah is here ."’ He will kill me!" 15. Then Elijah said, " As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely present myself to him today." 16. So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17. Then it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, " Is that you, O troubler of Israel?" 18. And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have , in that you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals. 19. "Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table."
1. Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2. "Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 3. "and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: "Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4. " As for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you ; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5. "No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born. 6. "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ 7. "I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare. 8. "When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine," says the Lord GOD. 9. "Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil. 10. "I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11. "I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck. 12. "And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 13. "Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and succeeded to royalty. 14. "Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you," says the Lord GOD. 15. "But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. 16. "You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be. 17. "You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them. 18. "You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them. 19. "Also My food which I gave you––the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you––you set it before them as sweet incense; and so it was," says the Lord GOD. 20. "Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter, 21. "that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire ? 22. "And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood. 23. "Then it was so, after all your wickedness––‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord GOD–– 24. " that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street. 25. "You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry. 26. "You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger. 27. "Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28. "You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. 29. "Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied. 30. "How degenerate is your heart!" says the Lord GOD, "seeing you do all these things , the deeds of a brazen harlot. 31. "You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment. 32. " You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband. 33. "Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry. 34. "You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite." 35. ‘Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD! 36. ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them, 37. "surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. 38. "And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy. 39. "I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare. 40. "They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords. 41. "They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers. 42. "So I will lay to rest My fury toward you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet, and be angry no more. 43. "Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but agitated Me with all these things , surely I will also recompense your deeds on your own head," says the Lord GOD. "And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations. 44. "Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter!’ 45. "You are your mother’s daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46. "Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters. 47. "You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways. 48. " As I live," says the Lord GOD, "neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. 49. "Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50. "And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit . 51. "Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done. 52. "You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters. 53. "When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them, 54. "that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them. 55. "When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state. 56. "For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride, 57. "before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you everywhere. 58. "You have paid for your lewdness and your abominations," says the LORD. 59. ‘For thus says the Lord GOD: "I will deal with you as you have done, who despised the oath by breaking the covenant. 60. "Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. 61. "Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for daughters, but not because of My covenant with you. 62. "And I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the LORD, 63. "that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done," says the Lord GOD.’"
19. Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20. by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21. and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22. let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25. not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another , and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. 26. For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27. but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30. For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "The LORD will judge His people." 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32. But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33. partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; 34. for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven. 35. Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: 37. "For yet a little while, And He who is coming will come and will not tarry. 38. Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him." 39. But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.