And God
saw that
the wickedness
of man
was great
in the earth,
and
that every imagination
of the thoughts
of his heart
was only evil continually.
And it
repented
the LORD that
he had made man
on the earth,
and it
grieved him
at his heart.
And the LORD said,
I will destroy man whom
I have created
from the face
of the earth;
both man,
and beast,
and the creeping thing,
and the fowls
of the air;
for it
repenteth me that
I have made them.
For we
will destroy
this place,
because the cry
of them is waxen great
before the face
of the LORD;
and the LORD
hath sent us
to destroy it.
And the LORD
spake unto Moses
and unto Aaron,
saying,
How long
shall
I bear
with this evil congregation,
which murmur
against me?
I have heard
the murmurings
of the children
of Israel,
which they
murmur against me.
Say unto them,
As truly as I live,
saith the LORD,
as ye
have spoken
in mine ears,
so will
I do to you:
Your carcases
shall fall
in this wilderness;
and all
that were numbered
of you,
according to
your whole number,
from twenty years old
and upward which
have murmured against me.
Doubtless
ye shall not come
into the land,
concerning which
I sware to make
you dwell
therein,
save Caleb
the son
of Jephunneh,
and Joshua
the son
of Nun.
But your little ones,
which ye
said
should be a prey,
them will
I bring in,
and
they shall know
the land
which ye
have despised.
But as for you,
your carcases,
they shall fall
in this wilderness.
And your children
shall wander
in the wilderness forty years,
and bear
your whoredoms,
until your carcases
be wasted
in the wilderness.
After the number
of the days
in which
ye searched
the land,
even forty days,
each day
for a year,
shall
ye bear
your iniquities,
even forty years,
and ye
shall know
my breach
of promise.
I the LORD
have said,
I will surely do it
unto all
this evil congregation,
that are gathered together
against me:
in this wilderness
they shall be consumed,
and
there
they shall die.
And the men,
which Moses
sent to search
the land,
who returned,
and made all
the congregation
to murmur against him,
by bringing
up a slander
upon the land,
Even those men that
did bring
up the evil report
upon the land,
died
by the plague
before the LORD.
But Joshua
the son
of Nun,
and Caleb
the son
of Jephunneh,
which were of the men
that
went to search
the land,
lived still.
And Moses
told
these sayings
unto all
the children
of Israel:
and the people
mourned greatly.
And they
rose
up early
in the morning,
and gat them up
into the top
of the mountain,
saying,
Lo,
we be here,
and will go up
unto the place
which the LORD
hath promised:
for we have sinned.
And Moses said,
Wherefore
now do
ye transgress
the commandment
of the LORD?
but it
shall not prosper.
Go not up,
for the LORD
is not among you;
that ye
be not smitten
before your enemies.
For the Amalekites
and the Canaanites
are there
before you,
and ye
shall fall
by the sword:
because
ye are turned away
from the LORD,
therefore the LORD
will not be
with you.
But
they presumed
to go up
unto the hill top:
nevertheless the ark
of the covenant
of the LORD,
and Moses,
departed not
out of the camp.
Then the Amalekites
came down,
and the Canaanites
which dwelt
in that hill,
and smote them,
and discomfited them,
even unto Hormah.
And the LORD
said unto me,
Say unto them.
Go not up,
neither fight;
for I
am not among you;
lest
ye be smitten
before your enemies.
So I
spake unto you;
and
ye would not hear,
but rebelled
against the commandment
of the LORD,
and went presumptuously up
into the hill.
But it
shall come
to pass,
if thou
wilt not hearken
unto the voice
of the LORD thy God,
to observe
to do all
his commandments
and his statutes
which I
command thee
this day;
that all these curses
shall come upon thee,
and overtake thee:
Cursed shalt thou
be in the city,
and cursed
shalt thou
be in the field.
Cursed
shall be
thy basket and thy store.
Cursed
shall be
the fruit
of thy body,
and the fruit
of thy land,
the increase
of thy kine,
and the flocks
of thy sheep.
Cursed
shalt
thou be
when
thou comest in,
and cursed
shalt
thou be
when
thou
goest out.
The LORD
shall send
upon thee cursing,
vexation,
and rebuke,
in all
that thou
settest thine hand unto
for to do,
until thou
be destroyed,
and
until thou
perish quickly;
because
of the wickedness
of thy doings,
whereby
thou hast forsaken me.
The LORD
shall make
the pestilence
cleave unto thee,
until he
have consumed thee from
off the land,
whither
thou goest
to possess it.
The LORD
shall smite thee
with a consumption,
and with a fever,
and
with an inflammation,
and
with an extreme burning,
and
with the sword,
and
with blasting,
and with mildew;
and
they shall pursue thee
until thou perish.
And thy heaven
that is over thy
head
shall be brass,
and the earth
that is
under thee shall be iron.
The LORD
shall make
the rain of thy
land
powder and dust:
from heaven
shall it come down
upon thee,
until thou
be destroyed.
The LORD
shall cause
thee
to be smitten
before thine enemies:
thou shalt go out
one way
against them,
and flee seven ways
before them:
and shalt be removed
into all
the kingdoms
of the earth.
And thy carcase
shall be meat
unto all fowls
of the air,
and
unto the beasts
of the earth,
and no man
shall fray them away.
The LORD
will smite thee
with the botch
of Egypt,
and
with the emerods,
and
with the scab,
and
with the itch,
whereof
thou canst
not be healed.
The LORD
shall smite thee
with madness,
and blindness,
and astonishment
of heart:
And
thou shalt grope
at noonday,
as the blind
gropeth in darkness,
and
thou shalt not prosper
in thy ways:
and
thou shalt be only oppressed
and spoiled evermore,
and no man
shall save thee.
Thou shalt betroth
a wife,
and another man
shall lie
with her:
thou shalt build
an house,
and
thou shalt not dwell
therein:
thou shalt plant
a vineyard,
and
shalt not gather
the grapes thereof.
Thine ox
shall be slain
before thine eyes,
and
thou shalt not eat
thereof:
thine ass
shall be violently taken away from
before thy face,
and shall not be restored
to thee:
thy sheep
shall be given
unto thine enemies,
and
thou shalt have none
to rescue them.
Thy sons
and thy daughters
shall be given
unto another people,
and thine
eyes
shall look,
and fail
with longing for them all
the day long;
and there shall be
no
might in thine hand.
The fruit
of thy land,
and all thy labours,
shall a nation which
thou knowest
not eat up;
and
thou shalt be only oppressed
and crushed alway:
So that
thou shalt be mad
for the sight
of thine
eyes which
thou shalt see.
The LORD
shall smite thee
in the knees,
and in the legs,
with a sore
botch that
cannot be healed,
from the sole
of thy
foot
unto the top
of thy head.
The LORD
shall bring thee,
and thy king
which thou
shalt set
over thee,
unto a nation which neither
thou nor
thy fathers
have known;
and there shalt thou
serve other gods,
wood and stone.
And
thou shalt become
an astonishment,
a proverb,
and a byword,
among all nations
whither
the LORD
shall lead thee.
Thou shalt carry
much seed out
into the field,
and shalt gather
but little in;
for the locust
shall consume it.
Thou shalt plant
vineyards,
and dress them,
but shalt neither drink
of the wine,
nor gather
the grapes;
for the worms
shall eat them.
Thou shalt have olive trees
throughout all
thy coasts,
but
thou shalt not anoint thyself
with the oil;
for thine olive
shall cast
his fruit.
Thou shalt beget sons
and daughters,
but
thou shalt not enjoy them;
for they
shall go
into captivity.
All thy trees
and fruit of thy
land
shall
the locust consume.
The stranger
that is
within thee
shall get up
above thee very high;
and
thou shalt come
down very low.
He shall lend
to thee,
and
thou shalt not lend
to him:
he shall be
the head,
and
thou shalt be
the tail.
Moreover all
these curses
shall come upon thee,
and shall pursue thee,
and overtake thee,
till thou
be destroyed;
because
thou hearkenedst not
unto the voice
of the LORD thy God,
to keep
his commandments
and his statutes
which he
commanded thee:
And
they shall be
upon thee
for a sign
and for a wonder,
and upon thy
seed for ever.
Because
thou servedst not
the LORD
thy God
with joyfulness,
and with gladness
of heart,
for the abundance
of all things;
Therefore shalt thou
serve thine enemies
which the LORD
shall send
against thee,
in hunger,
and in thirst,
and in nakedness,
and
in want
of all things:
and he
shall put
a yoke
of iron
upon thy neck,
until he
have destroyed thee.
The LORD
shall bring a nation
against thee
from far,
from the end
of the earth,
as swift
as the eagle flieth;
a nation whose tongue
thou shalt not understand;
A nation
of fierce countenance,
which shall not regard
the person
of the old,
nor shew
favour
to the young:
And he
shall eat
the fruit
of thy cattle,
and the fruit
of thy land,
until thou
be destroyed:
which also shall not leave
thee either corn,
wine,
or oil,
or the increase
of thy kine,
or flocks
of thy sheep,
until he
have destroyed thee.
And
he shall besiege thee
in all
thy gates,
until thy high
and fenced
walls come down,
wherein thou trustedst,
throughout all
thy land:
and
he shall besiege thee
in all
thy gates
throughout all
thy land,
which the LORD thy God
hath given thee.
And
thou shalt eat
the fruit
of thine own body,
the flesh
of thy sons
and of thy daughters,
which the LORD thy God
hath given thee,
in the siege,
and
in the straitness,
wherewith
thine enemies
shall distress thee:
So that
the man
that is
tender among you,
and very delicate,
his eye
shall be evil
toward his brother,
and
toward the wife
of his bosom,
and
toward the remnant
of his children
which he
shall leave:
So that
he will not give
to any of them
of the flesh
of his children whom
he shall eat:
because
he hath nothing
left him
in the siege,
and
in the straitness,
wherewith
thine enemies
shall distress thee
in all thy gates.
The tender
and delicate woman
among you,
which would not adventure
to set
the sole
of her foot
upon the ground
for delicateness
and tenderness,
her eye
shall be evil
toward the husband
of her bosom,
and
toward her son,
and
toward her daughter,
And
toward her young one
that cometh out from
between her feet,
and toward her children
which she
shall bear:
for she
shall eat them
for want
of all things
secretly in the siege
and straitness,
wherewith
thine enemy
shall distress thee
in thy gates.
If thou
wilt not observe
to do all
the words
of this law
that are written
in this book,
that thou
mayest fear
this glorious
and fearful name,
THE LORD THY GOD;
Then the LORD
will make
thy plagues wonderful,
and the plagues
of thy seed,
even great plagues,
and
of long continuance,
and sore sicknesses,
and
of long continuance.
Moreover he
will bring
upon thee all
the diseases
of Egypt,
which thou
wast afraid of;
and
they shall cleave
unto thee.
Also every sickness,
and every plague,
which is not written
in the book
of this law,
them will
the LORD
bring upon thee,
until thou
be destroyed.
And
ye shall be left few
in number,
whereas
ye were as the stars
of heaven
for multitude;
because
thou wouldest not obey
the voice
of the LORD thy God.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that as the LORD
rejoiced
over you to do
you good,
and
to multiply you;
so the LORD
will rejoice
over you
to destroy you,
and
to bring you
to nought;
and
ye shall be plucked from
off the land
whither
thou goest
to possess it.
And the LORD
shall scatter thee
among all people,
from the one end
of the earth
even unto the other;
and there
thou shalt serve
other gods,
which neither
thou nor
thy fathers
have known,
even wood
and stone.
And
among these nations
shalt
thou find
no ease,
neither shall
the sole of thy
foot
have rest:
but the LORD
shall give thee
there a trembling heart,
and failing
of eyes,
and sorrow
of mind:
And thy life
shall hang
in doubt
before thee;
and
thou shalt fear
day and night,
and shalt have
none assurance
of thy life:
In the morning
thou shalt say,
Would God it
were even!
and at even thou
shalt say,
Would God it
were morning!
for the fear
of thine heart
wherewith
thou shalt fear,
and
for the sight
of thine
eyes which
thou shalt see.
And the LORD
shall bring thee
into Egypt
again with ships,
by the way
whereof
I spake unto thee,
Thou shalt see it no
more again:
and there
ye shall be sold
unto your enemies
for bondmen
and bondwomen,
and no man
shall buy you.
Then my anger
shall be kindled
against them
in that day,
and
I will forsake them,
and I
will hide
my face
from them,
and
they shall be devoured,
and many evils
and troubles
shall befall them;
so that
they will say
in that day,
Are
not these evils
come upon us,
because
our God
is not among us?
And
I will surely hide
my face
in that day
for all the evils
which they
shall have wrought,
in that
they are turned
unto other gods.
And
therefore I
have sworn
unto the house
of Eli,
that the iniquity
of Eli's
house
shall not be purged
with sacrifice nor
offering
for ever.
For rebellion
is as the sin
of witchcraft,
and stubbornness
is as iniquity
and idolatry.
Because
thou hast rejected
the word
of the LORD,
he hath also rejected thee
from being king.
But
the Spirit
of the LORD
departed
from Saul,
and an evil spirit
from the LORD
troubled him.
And Saul
was afraid
of David,
because
the LORD
was with him,
and was departed
from Saul.
And Samuel
said
to Saul,
Why hast
thou disquieted me,
to bring me up?
And Saul answered,
I am sore distressed;
for the Philistines make
war against me,
and God
is departed from me,
and answereth me
no more,
neither by prophets,
nor by dreams:
therefore I
have called thee,
that thou
mayest make
known
unto me what
I shall do.
But my people
would not hearken
to my voice;
and Israel
would
none of me.
So I
gave
them up
unto their own hearts' lust:
and they
walked
in their own counsels.
Because
I have called,
and ye refused;
I have stretched out
my hand,
and
no man regarded;
But ye
have set
at nought
all my counsel,
and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh
at your calamity;
I will mock
when your fear cometh;
When your fear
cometh as desolation,
and your destruction
cometh as a whirlwind;
when distress
and anguish
cometh upon you.
Then shall
they
call upon me,
but
I will not answer;
they shall seek me early,
but
they shall not find me:
And he said,
Go,
and tell
this people,
Hear ye indeed,
but understand not;
and see
ye indeed,
but perceive not.
And in that day
did
the Lord GOD
of hosts
call
to weeping,
and to mourning,
and to baldness,
and to girding
with sackcloth:
And behold
joy and gladness,
slaying oxen,
and killing sheep,
eating flesh,
and drinking wine:
let us
eat and drink;
for to morrow
we shall die.
And it
was revealed
in mine ears
by the LORD
of hosts,
Surely this iniquity
shall not be purged
from you
till ye die,
saith the Lord GOD
of hosts.
But
the word
of the LORD
was unto them precept
upon precept,
precept
upon precept;
line upon line,
line upon line;
here a little,
and
there a little;
that they
might go,
and fall backward,
and be broken,
and snared,
and taken.
Stay yourselves,
and wonder;
cry ye out,
and cry:
they are drunken,
but not with wine;
they stagger,
but not with strong drink.
For the LORD
hath poured out
upon you the spirit
of deep sleep,
and hath closed
your eyes:
the prophets
and your rulers,
the seers
hath he covered.
And the vision
of all is become
unto you
as the words
of a book
that is sealed,
which men
deliver to one
that is learned,
saying,
Read this,
I pray thee:
and he saith,
I cannot;
for it
is sealed:
And the book
is delivered
to him
that is not learned,
saying,
Read this,
I pray thee:
and he saith,
I am not learned.
Therefore will
I number you
to the sword,
and
ye shall all bow down
to the slaughter:
because
when I called,
ye did not answer;
when I spake,
ye did not hear;
but did evil
before mine eyes,
and did choose that
wherein I
delighted not.
Reprobate silver
shall men
call them,
because
the LORD
hath rejected them.
Therefore pray not
thou for this people,
neither lift
up cry nor prayer
for them,
neither make intercession to me:
for I
will not hear thee.
Then said
the LORD
unto me, Though Moses
and Samuel
stood
before me,
yet my mind
could not be toward
this people:
cast them
out of my sight,
and let them
go forth.
They
shall go
with their flocks
and with their herds
to seek the LORD;
but
they shall not find him;
he hath withdrawn himself
from them.
And
in them is fulfilled
the prophecy
of Esaias,
which saith,
By hearing
ye shall hear,
and shall not understand;
and seeing
ye shall see,
and shall not perceive:
For this
people's heart
is waxed gross,
and their ears
are dull
of hearing,
and their eyes
they have closed;
lest at any time
they should see
with their eyes
and hear
with their ears,
and should understand
with their heart,
and should be converted,
and
I should heal them.
Let them alone:
they be blind leaders
of the blind.
And
if the blind
lead the blind,
both shall fall
into the ditch.
And the foolish said
unto the wise,
Give us
of your oil;
for our lamps
are gone out.
But the wise answered,
saying,
Not so;
lest there be not enough
for us and you:
but go
ye rather to them
that sell,
and buy
for yourselves.
And
while they
went to buy,
the bridegroom came;
and they
that were ready
went in with him
to the marriage:
and the door
was shut.
Afterward came also
the other virgins,
saying,
Lord, Lord,
open to us.
But he
answered
and said,
Verily I
say unto you,
I know
you not.
Watch therefore,
for ye
know
neither the day
nor the hour
wherein the Son
of man cometh.
But
he that
shall blaspheme
against the Holy Ghost
hath never
forgiveness,
but is in danger
of eternal damnation.
Strive to enter in
at the strait gate:
for many,
I say unto you,
will seek
to enter in,
and shall not be able.
When once
the master
of the house
is risen up,
and hath shut
to the door,
and
ye begin
to stand without,
and
to knock
at the door,
saying,
Lord, Lord,
open unto us;
and
he shall answer
and say unto you,
I know you
not whence
ye are:
Then shall
ye begin to say,
We have eaten
and drunk
in thy presence,
and
thou hast taught
in our streets.
But he
shall say,
I tell you,
I know you
not whence
ye are;
depart from me,
all
ye workers
of iniquity.
There shall be weeping
and gnashing
of teeth,
when
ye shall see Abraham,
and Isaac,
and Jacob,
and all
the prophets,
in the kingdom
of God,
and you yourselves
thrust out.
For I
say unto you,
That none of those men
which were bidden
shall taste
of my supper.
But
ye believe not,
because
ye are not
of my sheep,
as I said
unto you.
While I
was with them
in the world,
I kept them
in thy name:
those that thou
gavest me I
have kept,
and none of them
is lost,
but the son
of perdition;
that the scripture
might be fulfilled.
Hath not
the potter power
over the clay,
of the same lump
to make one vessel
unto honour,
and another
unto dishonour?
What if God,
willing to shew
his wrath,
and to make
his power known,
endured
with much longsuffering
the vessels
of wrath
fitted
to destruction:
What then?
Israel hath not obtained that
which he
seeketh for;
but the election
hath obtained it,
and the rest
were blinded.
(According as it
is written,
God hath given them
the spirit
of slumber,
eyes that
they should not see,
and ears that
they should not hear;)
unto this day.
And
if some of the branches
be broken off,
and thou,
being a wild olive tree,
wert
graffed in among them,
and
with them partakest
of the root
and fatness
of the olive tree;
Boast not
against the branches.
But
if thou boast,
thou bearest not
the root,
but the root thee.
Thou wilt say then,
The branches
were broken off,
that I
might be graffed in.
Well;
because
of unbelief
they were broken off,
and
thou standest by faith.
Be not highminded,
but fear:
Examine yourselves,
whether ye
be in the faith;
prove your own selves.
Know
ye not
your own selves,
how that Jesus Christ
is in you,
except ye
be reprobates?
But I
trust that
ye shall know that
we are not reprobates.
Now
I pray to God
that
ye do no evil;
not that
we should appear approved,
but that ye
should do
that which
is honest,
though we
be as reprobates.
For the mystery
of iniquity
doth already work:
only he
who now letteth
will let,
until he
be taken
out of the way.
And then
shall
that Wicked
be revealed,
whom the Lord
shall consume with the spirit
of his mouth,
and shall destroy
with the brightness
of his coming:
Even him,
whose coming
is after the working
of Satan
with all power
and signs
and lying wonders,
And
with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness
in them that perish;
because
they received not
the love
of the truth,
that they
might be saved.
And
for this cause
God shall send them
strong delusion,
that they
should believe a lie:
That they
all might be damned
who believed not
the truth,
but had pleasure
in unrighteousness.
Now as Jannes
and Jambres
withstood Moses,
so do
these also resist
the truth:
men
of corrupt minds,
reprobate concerning
the faith.
Wherefore
I was grieved
with that generation,
and said,
They
do alway err
in their heart;
and
they have not known
my ways.
So I
sware in my wrath,
They
shall not enter
into my rest.)
Take heed,
brethren,
lest
there be
in any
of you an evil heart
of unbelief,
in departing
from the living God.
But
with whom
was
he grieved forty years?
was it
not with them
that had sinned,
whose carcases
fell in the wilderness?
And
to whom
sware
he that
they should not enter
into his rest,
but to them
that believed not?
So we
see that
they could not enter in
because
of unbelief.
For it
is impossible
for those
who were once enlightened,
and have tasted
of the heavenly gift,
and were made partakers
of the Holy Ghost,
And have tasted
the good word
of God,
and the powers
of the world
to come,
If they
shall fall away,
to renew them again
unto repentance;
seeing
they
crucify
to themselves the Son
of God afresh,
and put him
to an open shame.
For the earth
which drinketh in the rain
that cometh oft
upon it,
and bringeth forth herbs meet
for them
by whom
it is dressed,
receiveth
blessing
from God:
But that which
beareth thorns
and briers
is rejected,
and is nigh
unto cursing;
whose end
is to be burned.
For if we
sin wilfully
after that
we have received
the knowledge
of the truth,
there remaineth
no more
sacrifice
for sins,
But a certain fearful looking for
of judgment
and fiery indignation,
which shall devour
the adversaries.
He that
despised
Moses' law
died
without mercy
under two
or three witnesses:
Of how much
sorer punishment,
suppose ye,
shall
he be thought worthy,
who hath trodden
under foot
the Son
of God,
and hath counted
the blood
of the covenant,
wherewith
he was sanctified,
an unholy thing,
and hath done despite
unto the Spirit
of grace?
For we
know him
that hath said,
Vengeance
belongeth unto me,
I will recompense,
saith the Lord.
And again,
The Lord
shall judge
his people.
It is
a fearful thing
to fall
into the hands
of the living God.
Looking diligently
lest any man
fail of the grace
of God;
lest any root
of bitterness
springing
up trouble you,
and thereby many
be defiled;
Lest
there be
any fornicator,
or profane person,
as Esau,
who for one morsel
of meat
sold his birthright.
For ye
know how
that afterward,
when
he would have inherited
the blessing,
he was rejected:
for he
found
no place
of repentance,
though he
sought it
carefully with tears.
If any man
see his brother sin
a sin
which is not
unto death,
he shall ask,
and
he shall give him life
for them that sin
not unto death.
There is
a sin unto death:
I do not say
that he
shall pray
for it.
For there are certain men
crept
in unawares,
who were before
of old
ordained to this condemnation,
ungodly men,
turning the grace
of our God
into lasciviousness,
and denying
the only Lord God,
and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I will therefore put you
in remembrance,
though ye
once knew this,
how that
the Lord,
having saved the people
out of the land
of Egypt,
afterward destroyed them
that believed not.
And the angels
which kept not
their first estate,
but left
their own habitation,
he hath reserved
in everlasting chains
under darkness
unto the judgment
of the great day.
Even as Sodom
and Gomorrha,
and the cities
about them in like manner,
giving themselves over
to fornication,
and going
after strange flesh,
are set forth
for an example,
suffering the vengeance
of eternal fire.
Likewise
also these filthy dreamers
defile
the flesh,
despise dominion,
and speak evil
of dignities.
Yet Michael
the archangel,
when contending
with the devil
he disputed
about the body
of Moses,
durst
not bring
against him a railing accusation,
but said,
The Lord rebuke thee.
But these
speak evil
of those things
which they
know not:
but
what
they know naturally,
as brute beasts,
in those things
they corrupt themselves.
Woe unto them!
for they have gone in
the way of Cain,
and ran greedily
after the error
of Balaam
for reward,
and perished
in the gainsaying
of Core.
These are
spots
in your feasts
of charity,
when they
feast
with you,
feeding themselves
without fear:
clouds
they are without water,
carried about
of winds;
trees whose fruit withereth,
without fruit,
twice dead,
plucked up
by the roots;
Raging waves
of the sea,
foaming
out their own shame;
wandering stars,
to whom
is reserved the blackness
of darkness
for ever.
He that is unjust,
let him
be unjust still:
and he which
is filthy,
let him
be filthy still:
and
he that is righteous,
let him
be righteous still:
and
he that is holy,
let him
be holy still.