Bible In A Year

¹> I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, And have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

²Yahweh my God, I cried to you, And you have healed me.

³Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

⁴Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.

⁵For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, But joy comes in the morning.

⁶As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

⁷You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain to stand strong. But when you hid your face, I was troubled.

⁸I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication:

⁹"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

¹⁰Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."

¹¹You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

¹²To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

¹How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. ²The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! ³Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. ⁴The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. ⁵Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. ⁶For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her. ⁷Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire. ⁸Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. ⁹Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. ¹⁰The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. ¹¹Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations of it. ¹²The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. ¹³[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her. ¹⁴They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments. ¹⁵Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here]. ¹⁶The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders. ¹⁷Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. ¹⁸They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. ¹⁹Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. ²⁰The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. ²¹Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked. ²²The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.

¹Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach. ²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens. ³We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. ⁴We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us. ⁵Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. ⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities. ⁸Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. ⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. ¹⁰Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. ¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. ¹²Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. ¹³The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood. ¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. ¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. ¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned. ¹⁷For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; ¹⁸For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it. ¹⁹You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. ²⁰Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time? ²¹Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. ²²But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.