The One Year Bible KJV (251 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me [Paul] to write to you:
2
 for I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
3
 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
4
 lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
5
 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up before hand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as
a matter of
bounty, and not as
of
covetousness.
6
 But this
I say,
He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7
 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart,
so let him give;
not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
8
 And God
is
able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all
things,
may abound to every good work:
9
 (as it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
10
 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for
your
food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
11
 being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
12
 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
13
 while by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for
your
liberal distribution unto them, and unto all
men;
14
 and by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
15
 Thanks
be
unto God for his unspeakable gift.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.
1
 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2
 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3
 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin
is
ever before me.
4
 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done
this
evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
and
be clear when thou judgest.
5
 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6
 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden
part
thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7
 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8
 Make me to hear joy and gladness;
that
the bones
which
thou hast broken may rejoice.
9
 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10
 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11
 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12
 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me
with thy
free spirit.
13
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Then
will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14
 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:
and
my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15
 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16
 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give
it:
thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17
 The sacrifices of God
are
a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18
 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19
 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
24
 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
25
 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
1
 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,
and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2
 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the L
ORD
hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3
 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib:
but
Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4
 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the L
ORD
, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5
 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6
 From the sole of the foot even unto the head
there is
no soundness in it;
but
wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7
 Your country
is
desolate, your cities
are
burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and
it is
desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8
 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9
 Except the L
ORD
of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom,
and
we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10
 Hear the word of the L
ORD
, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11
 To what purpose
is
the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the L
ORD
: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12
 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13
 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
it is
iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14
 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear
them.
15
 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16
 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17
 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18
 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L
ORD
: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19
 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20
 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the L
ORD
hath spoken
it.
21
 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22
 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23
 Thy princes
are
rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
24
 Therefore saith the Lord, the L
ORD
of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25
 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
26
 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27
 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28
 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
shall be
together, and they that forsake the L
ORD
shall be consumed.
29
 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30
 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31
 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench
them.
2:
1
 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2
 And it shall come to pass in the last days,
that
the mountain of the L
ORD
's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3
 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the L
ORD
, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the L
ORD
from Jerusalem.
4
 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5
 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the L
ORD
.
6
 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and
are
soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7
 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither
is there any
end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither
is there any
end of their chariots:
8
 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9
 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
10
 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the L
ORD
, and for the glory of his majesty.
11
 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the L
ORD
alone shall be exalted in that day.
12
 For the day of the L
ORD
of hosts
shall be
upon every
one that is
proud and lofty, and upon every
one that is
lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13
 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
that are
high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14
 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills
that are
lifted up,
15
 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16
 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17
 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the L
ORD
alone shall be exalted in that day.
18
 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19
 And they shall go into the holes off the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the L
ORD
, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20
 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made
each one
for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21
 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the L
ORD
, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22
 Cease ye from man, whose breath
is
in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
