Wednesday, March 25, 2026

⁴Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to all futurity, I AM.

⁵The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew nigh, and came together, ⁶every one judging for his neighbour and that to assist his brother: and one will say, ⁷The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, and forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

⁸But thou, Israel, art my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraam, whom I have loved: ⁹whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and I have not forsaken thee. ¹⁰Fear not; for I am with thee: wander not; for I am thy God, who have strengthened thee; and I have helped thee, and have established thee with my just right hand.

¹¹Behold, all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not: and all thine opponents shall perish. ¹²Thou shalt seek them, and thou shalt not find the men who shall insolently rage against thee: for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against thee shall not be. ¹³For I am thy God, who holdeth thy right hand, who saith to thee, ¹⁴Fear not, Jacob, and thou Israel few in number; I have helped thee, saith thy God, he that redeems thee, O Israel.

¹And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am thy God, be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless. ²And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly. ³And Abram fell upon his face, and God spoke to him, saying, ⁴And I, behold! my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations. ⁵And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraam, for I have made thee a father of many nations. ⁶And I will increase thee very exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. ⁷And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee. ⁸And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God. ⁹And God said to Abraam, Thou also shalt fully keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee for their generations.

²⁰A wise son gladdens his father; but a foolish son sneers at his mother. ²¹The ways of a foolish man are void of sense; but a wise man proceeds on his way aright. ²²They that honour not councils put off deliberation; but counsel abides in the hearts of counsellors.

²³A bad man will by no means attend to counsel; neither will he say anything seasonable, or good for the common weal.

²⁴The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell. ²⁵The Lord pulls down the houses of scorners; but he establishes the border of the widow. ²⁶An unrighteous thought is abomination to the Lord; but the sayings of the pure are held in honour. ²⁷A receiver of bribes destroys himself; but he that hates the receiving of bribes is safe.

²⁸The hearts of the righteous meditate faithfulness; but the mouth of the ungodly answers evil things. ²⁹God is far from the ungodly; but he hearkens to the prayers of the righteous. ³⁰The eye that sees rightly rejoices the heart; and a good report fattens the bones. ³²He that rejects instruction hates himself; but he that minds reproofs loves his soul. ³³The fear of the Lord is instruction and wisdom; and the highest honour will correspond therewith. ²All the works of the humble man are manifest with God; but the ungodly shall perish in an evil day. ⁵Every one that is proud in heart is unclean before God, and he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless. ⁷The beginning of a good way is to do justly; and it is more acceptable with God than to offer sacrifices. ⁸He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace. ⁹All the works of the Lord are done with righteousness; and the ungodly man is kept for the evil day.

¹And Moses was feeding the flock of Jothor his father-in-law, the priest of Madiam; and he brought the sheep nigh to the wilderness, and came to the mount of Choreb. ²And an angel of the Lord appeared to him in flaming fire out of the bush, and he sees that the bush burns with fire,—but the bush was not consumed. ³And Moses said, I will go near and see this great sight, why the bush is not consumed. ⁴And when the Lord saw that he drew nigh to see, the Lord called him out of the bush, saying, Moses, Moses; and he said, What is it? ⁵And he said, Draw not nigh hither: loose thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. ⁶And he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraam, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and Moses turned away his face, for he was afraid to gaze at God. ⁷And the Lord said to Moses, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and I have heard their cry caused by their task-masters; for I know their affliction. ⁸And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Chananites, and the Chettites, and Amorites, and Pherezites, and Gergesites, and Evites, and Jebusites.

²²The Lord made me the beginning of his ways for his works. ²³He established me before time was in the beginning, before he made the earth: ²⁴even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth: ²⁵before the mountains were settled, and before all hills, he begets me. ²⁶The Lord made countries and uninhabited tracts, and the highest inhabited parts of the world. ²⁷When he prepared the heaven, I was present with him; and when he prepared his throne upon the winds: ²⁸and when he strengthened the clouds above; and when he secured the fountains of the earth: ²⁹and when he strengthened the foundations of the earth: ³⁰I was by him, suiting myself to him, I was that wherein he took delight; and daily I rejoiced in his presence continually.