Old/New Testament
17 1 A prophecy of the destruction of Damascus and Ephraim, 7 calamity moveth to repentance.
1 The [a]burden of [b]Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, for it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of [c]Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flocks: for they shall lie there, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The munition also shall cease from [d]Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram shall be as the [e]glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day the glory of [f]Jacob shall be made clean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvest man gathereth [g]the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm, and he shall be as he that gathereth the ears in the valley of [h]Rephaim.
6 Yet a gathering of grapes shall [i]be left in it: as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries are in the top of the upmost boughs, and four or five in the high branches of the fruit thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his [j]maker, and his eyes shall look to the holy one of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the works of his own hands, neither shall he look to those things which his own fingers have made, as groves and images.
9 In that day shall the cities of their strength be as the forsaking of boughs and branches, which [k]they did forsake, because of the children of Israel, and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not remembered the God of thy strength, therefore shalt thou set pleasant plants, and shalt graft strange [l]vine branches.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be gone in the day [m]of possession, and there shall be desperate sorrow.
12 [n]Ah, the multitude of many people, they shall make a sound like the noise of the sea: for the noise of the people shall make a sound like the noise of mighty waters.
13 The people shall make a sound like the noise of many waters: but God shall [o]rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And lo, in the evening there is [p]trouble: but afore the morning it is gone. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18 1 Of the enemies of the Church. 7 And of the vocation of the Gentiles.
1 Oh, the [q]land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 Sending ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of [r]reeds upon the waters, saying, [s]Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad, and spoiled, unto a terrible [t]people from their beginning even hitherto: a nation by little and little even trodden under foot: whose land the [u]floods have spoiled.
3 All ye the inhabitants of the world, and dwellers in the earth, shall see when [v]he setteth up a sign in the mountains, and when he bloweth the trumpet, ye shall hear.
4 For so the Lord said unto me, I will [w]rest and behold in my tabernacle, as [x]the heat drying up the rain, and as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest, when the flour is finished, and the fruit is ripening in the flour, then he shall cut down the branches with hooks, and shall take away, and cut off the boughs:
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the [y]beasts of the earth: for the fowl shall summer upon it, and every beast of the earth shall winter upon it.
7 At that time shall a [z]present be brought unto the Lord of hosts (a people that is scattered abroad, and spoiled, and of a terrible people from their beginning hitherto, a nation by little and little even trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled) to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, even the mount Zion.
19 1 The destruction of the Egyptians by the Assyrians. 18 Of their conversion to the Lord.
1 The [aa]burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord [ab]rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of her.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: so everyone shall [ac]fight against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the [ad]spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her, and I will destroy their counsel, and they shall seek at the idols, and at the sorcerers, and at them that have spirits of divination, and at the soothsayers.
4 And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of the cruel lords, and a mighty king shall rule over them, saith the Lord God of hosts.
5 Then the waters of the sea shall [ae]fail, and the river shall be dried up, and wasted.
6 And the [af]rivers shall go far away: the rivers of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall be cut down.
7 The grass in the river, and at the [ag]head of the rivers, and all that groweth by the river shall wither, and be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall [ah]mourn, and all they that cast angle into the river, shall lament, and they that spread their net upon the waters, shall be weakened.
9 Moreover, they that work in flax of divers sorts, shall be confounded, and they that weave nets.
10 For their nets shall be broken, and all they that make ponds shall be heavy in heart.
11 Surely the princes of [ai]Zoan are fools: the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh, is become foolish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [aj]am the son of the wise? I am the son of the ancient kings?
12 Where are now the wise men, that they may tell thee, or may know what the Lord of hosts hath determined against Egypt?
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools: the princes of [ak]Noph are deceived, they have deceived Egypt, even the [al]corners of the tribes thereof.
14 The Lord hath mingled among them the spirits [am]of errors: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work in Egypt, which the head may [an]do, nor the tail, the branch nor the rush.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: for it shall be afraid and fear because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a fear [ao]unto Egypt: everyone that maketh mention of it, shall be afraid thereat, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined upon it.
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt [ap]speak the language of Canaan, and shall [aq]swear by the Lord of hosts: one shall be called the city of [ar]destruction.
19 In that day shall the altar of the Lord be in the midst of the land of Egypt, and [as]a pillar by the border thereof unto the Lord.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord, because of the oppressors, and he shall send them [at]a Savior, and a great man, and shall deliver them.
21 And the Lord shall be known of the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and do [au]sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow vows unto the Lord, and perform them.
22 So the Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heal it: for he shall return unto the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them and shall heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a path from [av]Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria: so the Egyptians shall worship with Assyria.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and Assyria: even a blessing in the midst of the land.
25 For the Lord of hosts shall bless it, saying, Blessed be my people Egypt and Assyria, the work of mine hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
17 (A)Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
18 [a]And be not drunk with wine, wherein is [b]excess: but be fulfilled with the Spirit,
19 Speaking unto yourselves in Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord in your [c]hearts,
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God even the Father, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 [d]Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 ¶(B)[e]Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, [f]as unto the Lord.
23 (C)[g]For the husband is the wife’s head, even as Christ is the head of the Church, [h]and the same is the Savior of his body.
24 [i]Therefore as the Church is in subjection to Christ, even so let the wives be to their husbands in everything.
25 ¶ (D)[j]Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it,
26 [k]That he might [l]sanctify it, and cleanse it by the washing of water through the [m]word,
27 That he might make it unto himself a glorious Church, [n]not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and without blame.
28 [o]So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his [p]own flesh, but nourished and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doth the Church.
30 For we are members of his body, [q]of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 (E)For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall [r]cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.
32 [s]This is a great secret, but I speak concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.
33 [t]Therefore everyone of you, do ye so: let everyone love his wife, even as himself, and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
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