November 4, 2041
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος: In the beginning was the Word(John 1:1)
καὶ γνώσεσθε τὴν ἀλήθειαν, καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐλευθερώσει ὑμᾶς: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free(John 8:32)
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Lamentations 3Septuagint
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Old TestamentSeptuagint (Brenton)
Lamentations 3:1–5:22
1Aleph. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me. 2He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not [into] light. 3Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day. 4He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones. 5Beth. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail [upon me]. 6He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead. 7He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen [chain] heavy. 8Gimel. Yea, [though] I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer. 9Daleth. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths; 10he has troubled me, [as] a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me [as] a lion in secret places. 11He pursued [me] after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me. 12He. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 13He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 14I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day. 15Vau. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall. 16And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes. 17He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity. 18Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord. 19Zain. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; 20and my soul shall meditate with me. 21This will I lay up in my heart, therefore will I endure. Heth. [It is] the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity [us], O Lord, early [every] month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted. [They are] new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him. 25Teth. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him 26[is] good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord. 27Teth. [It is] good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth. 28He will sit alone, and be silent, because he has borne [it] upon him. 30Jod. He will give [his] cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches. 31For the Lord will not reject for ever. 32Chaph. For he that has brought down will pity, and [that] according to the abundance of his mercy. 33He has not answered [in anger] from his heart, though he has brought low the children of a man. 34Lamed. To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, 35to turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High, 36to condemn a man [unjustly] in his judgment, the Lord has not given commandment. 37Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it. 38Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good. 39Mem. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin? 40Nun. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord. 41Let us lift up our hearts with [our] hands to the lofty One in heaven. 42We have sinned, we have transgressed; and thou hast not pardoned. 43Samech. Thou hast visited [us] in wrath, and driven us away: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind, 45and be cast off. Ain. Thou hast set us [alone] in the midst of the nations. 46All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. 47Fear and wrath are come upon us, suspense and destruction. 48Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49Phe. Mine eye is drowned [with tears], and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest, 50until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven. 51Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city. 52Tsade. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause, 53and laid a stone upon me. 54Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off. 55Koph. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon. 56Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication. 57Thou drewest nigh to my help: in the day wherein I called upon thee thou saidst to me, Fear not. 58Rechs. O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou hast judged my cause. 60Thou hast seen all their vengeance, [thou hast looked] on all their devices against me. 61Chsen. Thou hast heard their reproach [and] all their devices against me; 62the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day; 63their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes. 64Thou wilt render them a recompence, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. 65Thau. Thou wilt give them [as] a covering, the grief of my heart. 66Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord. Chapter 41Aleph. How will the gold be tarnished, [and] the fine silver changed! the sacred stones have been poured forth at the top of all the streets. 2Beth. The precious sons of Zion, who were equalled in value with gold, how are they counted as earthen vessels, the works of the hands of the potter! 3Gimel. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert. 4Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, [and] there is none to break [it] to them. 5He. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets: they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung. 6Vau. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodoma, [the city] that was overthrown very suddenly, and none laboured against her [with their] hands. 7Zain. Her Nazarites were made purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were purified [as] with fire, their polishing was superior to sapphire stone. 8Heth. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick. 9Teth. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from [want of] the fruits of the field. 10Jod. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 11Chaph. The Lord has accomplished his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Sion, and it has devoured her foundations. 12Lamed. The kings of the earth, [even] all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem. 13Mem. For the sins of her prophets, [and] iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her, 14Nun. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment [with it]. 15Samech. Depart ye from the unclean ones: call ye them: depart, depart, touch [them] not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger: say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [there]. 16Ain. The presence of the Lord [was] their portion; [but] he will not again look upon them: they regarded not the person of the priests, they pitied not the prophets. 17Phe. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. Tsade. We looked to a nation that could not save. 18We have hunted [for] our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. Koph. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come. 19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, they flew on the mountains, in the wilderness they laid wait for us. 20Rechs. The breath of our nostrils, [our] anointed Lord, was taken in their destructive snares, of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles. 21Chsen. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwellest in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth. 22Thau. O daughter of Sion, thine iniquity has come to an end; he shall no more carry thee captive: he has visited thine iniquities, O daughter of Edom; he has discovered thy sins. Chapter 51Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach. 2Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers: 3we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows. 4We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck: 5we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest. 6Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction. 7Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities. 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand. 9We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine. 11They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda. 12Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured. 13The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood. 14And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music. 15The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 16The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned. 17For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened. 18Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein. 19But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation. 20Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time? 21Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before. 22For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.
PsalmSeptuagint (Brenton)
Psalm 118:145–152(MT: 119)
MT Psalm 119 = LXX Psalm 118 (standard offset).
145I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will search out thine ordinances. 146I cried to thee; save me, and I will keep thy testimonies. 147I arose before the dawn, and cried: I hoped in thy words. 148Mine eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on thine oracles. 149Hear my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy; quicken me according to thy judgment. 150They have drawn nigh who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from thy law. 151Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy ways are truth. 152I have known of old concerning thy testimonies, that thou hast founded them for ever.
ProverbSeptuagint (Brenton)
Proverbs 28:11
11A rich man is wise in his own conceit; but an intelligent poor man will condemn him.
New TestamentKing James Version
Philemon 1–25
1Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, 2And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: 3Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, 5Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; 6That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. 7For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. 8Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: 14But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. 15For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; 16Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? 17If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. 18If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account; 19I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides. 20Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord. 21Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. 22But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you. 23There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus; 24Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers. 25The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.
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