Thursday, March 25, 2027

¹And it came to pass in the year in which king Ozias died, that I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, and the house was full of his glory. ²And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they covered their face, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. ³And one cried to the other, and they said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

⁴And the lintel shook at the voice they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke. ⁵And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts. ⁶And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs: ⁷and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched thy lips, and will take away thine iniquities, and will purge off thy sins.

⁸And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said, Behold, I am here, send me. And he said, Go, and say to this people, ⁹Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand; and ye shall see indeed, but ye shall not perceive. ¹⁰For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. ¹¹And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until the cities be deserted by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate. ¹²And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied.

¹This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him: ²male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them. ³And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth. ⁴And the days of Adam, which he lived after his begetting Seth, were seven hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters. ⁵And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. ⁶Now Seth lived two hundred and five years, and begot Enos. ⁷And Seth lived after his begetting Enos, seven hundred and seven years, and he begot sons and daughters. ⁸And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. ⁹And Enos lived an hundred and ninety years, and begot Cainan. ¹⁰And Enos lived after his begetting Cainan, seven hundred and fifteen years, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹¹And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. ¹²And Cainan lived an hundred and seventy years, and he begot Maleleel. ¹³And Cainan lived after his begetting Maleleel, seven hundred and forty years, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹⁴And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

¹⁵And Maleleel lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and he begot Jared. ¹⁶And Maleleel lived after his begetting Jared, seven hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹⁷And all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died. ¹⁸And Jared lived an hundred and sixty and two years, and begot Enoch: ¹⁹and Jared lived after his begetting Enoch, eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. ²⁰And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he died. ²¹And Enoch lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and begat Mathusala. ²²And Enoch was well-pleasing to God after his begetting Mathusala, two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. ²³And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years. ²⁴And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.

³My son, do what I command thee, and deliver thyself; for on thy friend's account thou art come into the power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even thy friend for whom thou art become surety. ⁴Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids; ⁵that thou mayest deliver thyself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.

⁶Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he. ⁷For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master, ⁸he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. ⁹How long wilt thou lie, O sluggard? and when wilt thou awake out of sleep? ¹⁰Thou sleepest a little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short time, and thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little. ¹¹Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveller, and want as a swift courier:

¹²A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good. ¹³And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers. ¹⁴His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city. ¹⁵Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.

¹⁶For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul. ¹⁷The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just; ¹⁸and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil,— are hateful to God. ¹⁹An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.

²⁰My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother:

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.