FBCL | Jonah III

But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. ⁸ Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. ⁹ (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might ^ffill all things.) ¹¹ And he gave some, apostles; and some, ^hprophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Eph 4:7–11.

Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered:

Let them also that hate him flee before him.

²  As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:

As wax melteth before the fire,

So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

³  But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God:

Yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

⁴  Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:

Extol him that rideth upon the heavens

By his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

⁵  A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,

Is God in his holy habitation.

⁶  God setteth the solitary in families:

He bringeth out those which are bound with chains:

But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

⁷  O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people,

When thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:

⁸  The earth shook, the heavens also dropped

At the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved

At the presence of God, the God of Israel.

⁹  Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain,

Whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

¹⁰  Thy congregation hath dwelt therein:

Thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

¹¹  The Lord gave the word:

Great was the company of those that published it.

¹²  Kings of armies did flee apace:

And she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

¹³  Though ye have lien among the pots,

Yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver,

And her feathers with yellow gold.

¹⁴  When the Almighty scattered kings in it,

It was white as snow in Salmon.

¹⁵  The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan;

An high hill as the hill of Bashan.

¹⁶  Why leap ye, ye high hills?

This is the hill which God desireth to dwell in;

Yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.

¹⁷  The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels:

The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

¹⁸  Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive:

Thou hast received gifts for men;

Yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

¹⁹  Blessed be the Lord,

Who daily loadeth us with benefits,

Even the God of our salvation. Selah.

²⁰  He that is our God is the God of salvation;

And unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.

²¹  But God shall wound the head of his enemies,

And the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

²²  The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan,

I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:

²³  That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies,

And the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

²⁴  They have seen thy goings, O God;

Even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

²⁵  The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after;

Among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

²⁶  Bless ye God in the congregations,

Even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

²⁷  There is little Benjamin with their ruler,

The princes of Judah and their council,

The princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

²⁸  Thy God hath commanded thy strength:

Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

²⁹  Because of thy temple at Jerusalem

Shall kings bring presents unto thee.

³⁰  Rebuke the company of spearmen,

The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people,

Till every one submit himself with pieces of silver:

Scatter thou the people that delight in war.

³¹  Princes shall come out of Egypt;

^qEthiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

³²  Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth;

O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:

³³  To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old;

Lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

³⁴  Ascribe ye strength unto God:

His excellency is over Israel,

And his strength is in the ^xclouds.

³⁵  O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places:

The God of Israel is he

That giveth strength and power unto his people.

Blessed be God.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ps 68:1–35.

The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach,

And Damascus shall be the rest thereof:

When the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord.

²  And Hamath also shall border thereby;

^gTyrus, and ^hZidon, though it be very wise.

³  And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold,

And heaped up silver as the dust,

And fine gold as the mire of the streets.

⁴  Behold, the Lord will cast her out,

And he will smite her power in the sea;

And she shall be devoured with fire.

⁵  Ashkelon shall see it, and fear;

Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful,

And Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed;

And the king shall perish from Gaza,

And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

⁶  And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod,

And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

⁷  And I will take away his blood out of his mouth,

And his abominations from between his teeth:

But he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God,

And he shall be as a governor in Judah,

And Ekron as a Jebusite.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Zec 9:1–7.

Behold ^cmy servant, whom I uphold;

Mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth;

I have put my spirit upon him:

He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

²  He shall not cry, nor lift up,

Nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

³  A bruised reed shall he not break,

And the smoking flax shall he not quench:

He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

⁴  He shall not fail nor be discouraged,

Till he have set judgment in the earth:

And the isles shall wait for his law.

⁵  Thus saith God the Lord,

He that created the heavens, and ⁱstretched them out;

^kHe that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it;

^mHe that giveth breath unto the people upon it,

And spirit to them that walk therein:

⁶  I the Lord have called thee in righteousness,

And will hold thine hand, and will keep thee,

And give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

⁷  To open the blind eyes,

To bring out the prisoners from the prison,

And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

⁸  I am the Lord: that is my name:

And my glory will I not give to another,

Neither my praise to graven images.

⁹  Behold, the former things are come to pass,

And new things do I declare:

Before they spring forth I tell you of them.

¹⁰  Sing unto the Lord a new song,

And his praise from the end of the earth,

Ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein;

The isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

¹¹  Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice,

The villages that Kedar doth inhabit:

Let the inhabitants of the rock sing,

Let them shout from the top of the mountains.

¹²  Let them give glory unto the Lord,

And declare his praise in the islands.

¹³  The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man,

He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war:

He shall cry, yea, roar;

He shall prevail against his enemies.

¹⁴  I have long time holden my peace;

I have been still, and refrained myself:

Now will I cry like a travailing woman;

I will destroy and devour at once.

¹⁵  I will make waste mountains and hills,

And dry up all their herbs;

And I will make the rivers islands,

And I will dry up the pools.

¹⁶  And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not;

I will lead them in paths that they have not known:

I will make darkness light before them,

And crooked things straight.

These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

¹⁷  They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images,

That say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

¹⁸  Hear, ye deaf;

And look, ye blind, that ye may see.

¹⁹  Who is blind, but my servant?

Or deaf, as my messenger that I sent?

Who is blind as he that is perfect,

And blind as the Lord’s servant?

²⁰  Seeing many things, but thou observest not;

Opening the ears, but he heareth not.

²¹  The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake;

He will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

²²  But this is a people robbed and spoiled;

They are all of them snared in holes,

And they are hid in prison houses:

They are for a prey, and none delivereth;

^†For a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

²³  Who among you will give ear to this?

Who will hearken and hear for the time to come?

²⁴  Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?

Did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned?

For they would not walk in his ways,

Neither were they obedient unto his law.

²⁵  Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle:

And it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not;

And it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 42:1–25.

Listen, O isles, unto me;

And hearken, ye people, from far;

The Lord hath called me from the womb;

From the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

²  And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword;

In the shadow of his hand hath he hid me,

And made me a polished shaft;

In his quiver hath he hid me;

³  And said unto me, Thou art my servant,

O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

⁴  Then I said, I have laboured in vain,

I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain:

Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord,

And my work with my God.

⁵  And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant,

To bring Jacob again to him,

Though Israel be not gathered,

Yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord,

And my God shall be my strength.

⁶  And he said, ^qIt is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant

To raise up the tribes of Jacob,

And to restore the ^rpreserved of Israel:

I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles,

That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

⁷  Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,

^||To him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers,

Kings shall see and arise,

Princes also shall worship,

Because of the Lord that is faithful,

And the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

⁸  Thus saith the Lord,

In an acceptable time have I heard thee,

And in a day of salvation have I helped thee:

And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people,

To establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

⁹  That thou mayest say ^cto the prisoners, Go forth;

To them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves.

They shall feed in the ways,

And their pastures shall be in all high places.

¹⁰  They shall not hunger nor thirst;

Neither shall the heat nor sun smite them:

For he that hath mercy on them shall lead them,

Even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

¹¹  And I will make all my mountains a way,

And my highways shall be exalted.

¹²  Behold, these shall come from far:

And, lo, these from the north and from the west;

And these from the land of Sinim.

¹³  Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth;

And break forth into singing, O mountains:

For the Lord hath comforted his people,

And will have mercy upon his afflicted.

¹⁴  But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me,

And my Lord hath forgotten me.

¹⁵  Can a woman forget her sucking child,

That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Yea, they may forget,

Yet will I not forget thee.

¹⁶  Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;

Thy walls are continually before me.

¹⁷  Thy children shall make haste;

Thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

¹⁸  Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold:

All these gather themselves together, and come to thee.

As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament,

And bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

¹⁹  For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction,

Shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,

And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

²⁰  The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears,

The place is too strait for me:

Give place to me that I may dwell.

²¹  Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these,

Seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate,

A captive, and removing to and fro?

And who hath brought up these?

Behold, I was left alone;

These, where had they been?

²²  Thus saith the Lord God,

Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,

And set up my standard to the people:

And they shall bring thy sons in their arms,

And thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

²³  And kings shall be thy nursing fathers,

And their queens thy nursing mothers:

^lThey shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,

And lick up the dust of thy feet;

And thou shalt know that I am the Lord:

For they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

²⁴  Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,

Or the lawful captive delivered?

²⁵  But thus saith the Lord,

Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,

And the prey of the terrible shall be delivered:

For I will contend with him that contendeth with thee,

And I will save thy children.

²⁶  And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh;

And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine:

And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour

And thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 49:1–26.

Thus saith the Lord,

Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away?

Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you?

Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves,

And for your transgressions is your mother put away.

²  Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?

When I called, was there none to answer?

Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?

Or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea,

I make the rivers a wilderness:

Their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

³  I clothe the heavens with blackness,

And I make sackcloth their covering.

⁴  The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,

That I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary:

He wakeneth morning by morning,

He wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

⁵  The Lord God hath opened mine ear,

And I was not rebellious,

Neither turned away back.

⁶  I gave my back to the smiters,

And ^ymy cheeks to them that plucked off the hair:

I hid not my face from shame and ^aspitting.

⁷  For the Lord God will help me;

Therefore shall I not be confounded:

Therefore have I set my face like a flint,

And I know that I shall not be ashamed.

⁸  He is near that justifieth me;

Who will contend with me? let us stand together:

Who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

⁹  Behold, the Lord God will help me;

Who is he that shall condemn me?

Lo, ^hthey all shall wax old as a garment; ⁱthe moth shall eat them up.

¹⁰  Who is among you that feareth the Lord,

That obeyeth the voice of his servant,

That walketh in darkness, and hath no light?

Let him trust in the name of the Lord,

And stay upon his God.

¹¹  Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks:

Walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled.

This shall ye have of mine hand;

Ye shall lie down in sorrow.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 50:1–11.

Who hath believed our ^†report?

And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

²  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,

And as a root out of a dry ground:

He hath no form nor comeliness;

And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

³  He is despised and rejected of men;

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:

And ^†we hid as it were our faces from him;

He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴  Surely he hath borne our griefs,

And carried our sorrows:

Yet we did esteem him stricken,

Smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵  But he was ^pwounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities:

The chastisement of our peace was upon him;

And ^swith his stripes we are healed.

^{6  t}All we like sheep have gone astray;

We have turned every one to his own way;

And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

⁷  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

Yet he opened not his mouth:

^zHe is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,

And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,

So he openeth not his mouth.

^{8  ||}He was taken from prison and from judgment:

And who shall declare his generation?

For he was cut off out of the land of the living:

For the transgression of my people was he stricken.

⁹  And he made his grave with the wicked,

And with the rich in his death;

Because he had done no violence,

Neither was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰  Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:

ⁱWhen thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,

He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,

And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:

By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;

For he shall bear their iniquities.

¹²  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,

And he shall divide the spoil with the strong;

Because he hath poured out his soul unto death:

And he was numbered with the transgressors;

And he bare the sin of many,

And made intercession for the transgressors.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 53:1–12.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;

Because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;

He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to the captives,

And the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

²  To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

And the day of vengeance of our God;

To comfort all that mourn;

³  To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,

To give unto them beauty for ashes,

The oil of joy for mourning,

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

That they might be called trees of righteousness,

The planting of the Lord, ^rthat he might be glorified.

⁴  And they shall build the old wastes,

They shall raise up the former desolations,

And they shall repair the waste cities,

The desolations of many generations.

⁵  And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,

And the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

⁶  But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord:

Men shall call you the Ministers of our God:

Ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,

And in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

⁷  For your shame ye shall have double;

And for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion:

Therefore in their land they shall possess the double:

Everlasting joy shall be unto them.

⁸  For I the Lord love judgment,

I hate robbery for burnt offering;

And I will direct their work in truth,

And I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

⁹  And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles,

And their offspring among the people:

All that see them shall acknowledge them,

That they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

¹⁰  I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,

My soul shall be joyful in my God;

For he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,

He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments,

And as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

¹¹  For as the earth bringeth forth her bud,

And as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth;

So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth

Before all the nations.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 61:1–11.

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 1 Pe 3:19.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. ⁶ But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above🙂 ⁷ Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ro 10:5–7.

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: ¹⁸ I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. ¹⁹ Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Re 1:17–19.