Ezekiel 32

English Standard Version

A Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

32 ^(A)In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ²^(B)“Son of man, ^(C)raise a lamentation over ^(D)Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“You consider yourself ^(E)a lion of the nations,
    but you are like ^(F)a dragon ^(G)in the seas;
^(H)you burst forth in your rivers,
    trouble the waters with your feet,
    and foul their rivers.
³Thus says the Lord God:
    ^(I)I will throw my net over you
    with a host of ^(J)many peoples,
    and ^(K)they will haul you up in my dragnet.
⁴And ^(L)I will cast you on the ground;
    on the open field I will fling you,
and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you,
    and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.
⁵I will strew your flesh ^(M)upon the mountains
    and fill the valleys with your carcass.^[a]
⁶I will drench the land even to the mountains
    with your flowing blood,
    and the ravines will be full of you.
⁷^(N)When I blot you out, ^(O)I will cover the heavens
    and make their stars dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
    and the moon shall not give its light.
⁸All the bright lights of heaven
    will I make dark over you,
    and ^(P)put darkness on your land,
declares the Lord God.

⁹“I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known. ¹⁰^(Q)I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when ^(R)I brandish my sword before them. ^(S)They shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.

¹¹“For thus says the Lord God: ^(T)The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. ¹²I will cause ^(U)your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them ^(V)most ruthless of nations.

^(W)“They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt,
    and all its multitude^[b] shall perish.
¹³I will destroy all its beasts
    from beside many waters;
^(X)and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore,
    nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
¹⁴Then ^(Y)I will make their waters clear,
    and cause their rivers to run like oil,
declares the Lord God.
¹⁵When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
    and when the land ^(Z)is desolate of all that fills it,
when I strike down all who dwell in it,
    then ^(AA)they will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶^(AB)This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over ^(AC)all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord God.”

¹⁷^(AD)In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month,^[c] on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ¹⁸^(AE)“Son of man, ^(AF)wail over ^(AG)the multitude of Egypt, and ^(AH)send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, ^(AI)to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:

¹⁹^(AJ)‘Whom do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and ^(AK)be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.’

²⁰They shall fall amid those ^(AL)who are slain by the sword. Egypt^[d] is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and ^(AM)all her multitudes. ²¹The mighty chiefs ^(AN)shall speak of them, ^(AO)with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, ^(AP)the uncircumcised, ^(AQ)slain by the sword.’

²²^(AR)“Assyria is there, and all her company, ^(AS)its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ²³whose graves are set in ^(AT)the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ^(AU)who spread terror ^(AV)in the land of the living.

²⁴^(AW)“Elam is ^(AX)there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them ^(AY)slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into ^(AZ)the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and ^(BA)they bear their shame ^(BB)with those who go down to the pit. ²⁵^(BC)They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, ^(BD)her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.

²⁶^(BE)“Meshech-Tubal is ^(BF)there, and all her multitude, ^(BG)her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread their terror in the land of the living. ²⁷And ^(BH)they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living. ²⁸But as for you, you shall be broken ^(BI)and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

²⁹^(BJ)“Edom is ^(BK)there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.

³⁰“The princes ^(BL)of the north are there, all of them, and all the ^(BM)Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, ^(BN)for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and ^(BO)bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

³¹“When Pharaoh sees them, he ^(BP)will be comforted for ^(BQ)all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord God. ³²^(BR)For I spread terror ^(BS)in the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among ^(BT)the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”

Footnotes

Ezekiel 32:5 Hebrew your height
Ezekiel 32:12 Or wealth
Ezekiel 32:17 Hebrew lacks in the twelfth month
Ezekiel 32:20 Hebrew She

James 1

English Standard Version

Greeting

1 ^(A)James, a servant^[a] of God and ^(B)of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To ^(C)the twelve tribes in ^(D)the Dispersion:

Greetings.

Testing of Your Faith

²^(E)Count it all joy, my brothers,^[b] when you meet trials ^(F)of various kinds, ³for you know that ^(G)the testing of your faith ^(H)produces steadfastness. ⁴And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be ^(I)perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

⁵^(J)If any of you lacks wisdom, ^(K)let him ask God, ^(L)who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ⁶But ^(M)let him ask in faith, ^(N)with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like ^(O)a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. ⁷For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; ⁸^(P)he is a double-minded man, ^(Q)unstable in all his ways.

⁹Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, ¹⁰and ^(R)the rich in his humiliation, because ^(S)like a flower of the grass^[c] he will pass away. ¹¹For the sun rises with its scorching heat and ^(T)withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

¹²^(U)Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive ^(V)the crown of life, ^(W)which God has promised to those who love him. ¹³Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. ¹⁴But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. ¹⁵Then desire ^(X)when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and ^(Y)sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

¹⁶Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. ¹⁷^(Z)Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from ^(AA)the Father of lights, ^(AB)with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.^[d] ¹⁸^(AC)Of his own will he ^(AD)brought us forth by the word of truth, ^(AE)that we should be a kind of ^(AF)firstfruits of his creatures.

Hearing and Doing the Word

¹⁹^(AG)Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person ^(AH)be quick to hear, ^(AI)slow to speak, ^(AJ)slow to anger; ²⁰for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. ²¹Therefore ^(AK)put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with ^(AL)meekness the implanted word, ^(AM)which is able to save your souls.

²²But be ^(AN)doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵But the one who looks into the perfect law, ^(AO)the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, ^(AP)he will be blessed in his doing.

²⁶If anyone thinks he is religious ^(AQ)and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's ^(AR)religion is worthless. ²⁷Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: ^(AS)to visit ^(AT)orphans and widows in their affliction, and ^(AU)to keep oneself ^(AV)unstained from the world.

Footnotes

James 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
James 1:2 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters; also verses 16, 19
James 1:10 Or a wild flower
James 1:17 Some manuscripts variation due to a shadow of turning