13 verses
1The children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh! 4Why have you brought Yahweh's assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? 5Why have you made us leave Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink."
6Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh's glory appeared to them. 7Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 8"Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, so it pours out its water. Bring water from the rock for them; so you'll give drink to the congregation and their livestock."
9Moses took the staff from before Yahweh, as he commanded him. 10Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water from this rock for you?" 11Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
12Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you won't bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."
13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
28 verses
26Make him drunk; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. 27For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head. 28You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss. 29We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing. 31Therefore I will wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn. 32With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer has fallen. 33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting. 34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate. 35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods. 36Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has obtained is perished. 37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth. 38On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh. 39How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him. 40For Yahweh says, "Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab. 41Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 42Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh. 43Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh. 44He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh. 45Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. 46Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity. 47Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
1Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says, "Has Israel no sons; has he no heir? Then why does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in its cities? 2Therefore, behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire; then Israel will possess those who possessed him," says Yahweh. 3"Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together. 4Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me? 5Behold, I will bring a fear on you," says LordOfMine, Yahweh of Armies, "from all who are around you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be no one to gather together the fugitives. 6But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon," says Yahweh.
26 verses
1When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language; 2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. 3The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back. 4The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. 5What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back? 6You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs? 7Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
1Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake. 2Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?" 3But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases. 4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, but they don't see. 6They have ears, but they don't hear. They have noses, but they don't smell. 7They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat. 8Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them. 9Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield. 10House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield. 11You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield. 12Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron. 13He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great. 14May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children. 15Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth. 16The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men. 17The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence; 18But we will bless Yah, from this time forth and forevermore. Praise Yah!
29 verses
1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. 2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to AnointedOne. 3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in AnointedOne. 4For if someone preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn't receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough. 5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best ambassadors. 6But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge? 8I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you. 9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. 10As the truth of AnointedOne is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11Why? Because I don't selflessly-love you? God knows [that I do]!
12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we. 13For such men are false ambassadors, deceitful workers, masquerading as AnointedOne's ambassadors. 14And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15So it is no great thing if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their actions.
16I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. 17What I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 18Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I will also boast. 19For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. 20For you bear with a man if he brings you into slavery, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face. 21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I. 23Are they servants of AnointedOne? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in lashes above measure, and in deaths often. 24Five times I received forty lashes minus one from the Jews. 25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 26I have been in travels often, dangers of rivers, dangers of robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers in the sea, dangers among false brothers; 27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28Besides those things that are outside, there is what presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies. 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?
