John 11

English Standard Version

The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of ^(A)Mary and her sister Martha. ²^(B)It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. ³So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, ^(C)he whom you love is ill.” ⁴But when Jesus heard it he said, ^(D)“This illness does not lead to death. It is for ^(E)the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

⁵Now ^(F)Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶So, when he heard that Lazarus^[a] was ill, ^(G)he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. ⁷Then after this he said to the disciples, ^(H)“Let us go to Judea again.” ⁸The disciples said to him, ^(I)“Rabbi, ^(J)the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?” ⁹Jesus answered, ^(K)“Are there not twelve hours in the day? ^(L)If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰But ^(M)if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not ^(N)in him.” ¹¹After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus ^(O)has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” ¹²The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” ¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. ¹⁴Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, ¹⁵and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” ¹⁶^(P)So Thomas, called the Twin,^[b] said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, ^(Q)that we may die with him.”

I Am the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb ^(R)four days. ¹⁸Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles^[c] off, ¹⁹and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary ^(S)to console them concerning their brother. ²⁰^(T)So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. ²¹Martha said to ^(U)Jesus, “Lord, ^(V)if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²²But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, ^(W)God will give you.” ²³Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ²⁴^(X)Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in ^(Y)the resurrection on the last day.” ²⁵Jesus said to her, ^(Z)“I am the resurrection and ^(AA)the life.^[d] Whoever believes in me, ^(AB)though he die, ^(AC)yet shall he live, ²⁶and everyone who lives and believes in me ^(AD)shall never die. Do you believe this?” ²⁷She said to him, “Yes, Lord; ^(AE)I believe that ^(AF)you are the Christ, the Son of God, ^(AG)who is coming into the world.”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, ^(AH)“The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” ²⁹And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him. ³⁰Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. ³¹When the Jews ^(AI)who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. ³²Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, ^(AJ)“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” ³³When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he ^(AK)was deeply moved^[e] in his spirit and ^(AL)greatly troubled. ³⁴And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” ³⁵^(AM)Jesus wept. ³⁶So the Jews said, “See ^(AN)how he loved him!” ³⁷But some of them said, “Could not he ^(AO)who opened the eyes of the blind man ^(AP)also have kept this man from dying?”

Jesus Raises Lazarus

³⁸Then Jesus, ^(AQ)deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was ^(AR)a cave, and ^(AS)a stone lay against it. ³⁹Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for ^(AT)he has been dead four days.” ⁴⁰Jesus said to her, ^(AU)“Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see ^(AV)the glory of God?” ⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus ^(AW)lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴²^(AX)I knew that you always hear me, but I said this ^(AY)on account of the people standing around, ^(AZ)that they may believe that you sent me.” ⁴³When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” ⁴⁴^(BA)The man who had died came out, ^(BB)his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and ^(BC)his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵^(BD)Many of the Jews therefore, ^(BE)who had come with Mary and ^(BF)had seen what he did, believed in him, ⁴⁶but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷So the chief priests and the Pharisees ^(BG)gathered ^(BH)the council and said, ^(BI)“What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. ⁴⁸If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and ^(BJ)the Romans will come and take away both our ^(BK)place and our nation.” ⁴⁹But one of them, ^(BL)Caiaphas, ^(BM)who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. ⁵⁰Nor do you understand that ^(BN)it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” ⁵¹He did not say this of his own accord, but ^(BO)being high priest that year ^(BP)he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, ⁵²and ^(BQ)not for the nation only, but also ^(BR)to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. ⁵³So from that day on they ^(BS)made plans to put him to death.

⁵⁴Jesus therefore ^(BT)no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵Now ^(BU)the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and ^(BV)many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover ^(BW)to purify themselves. ⁵⁶^(BX)They were looking for^[f] Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?” ⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

Footnotes

John 11:6 Greek he; also verse 17
John 11:16 Greek Didymus
John 11:18 Greek fifteen stadia; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 meters
John 11:25 Some manuscripts omit and the life
John 11:33 Or was indignant; also verse 38
John 11:56 Greek were seeking for

Habakkuk 2-3

English Standard Version

2 I will ^(A)take my stand at my watchpost
and station myself on the tower,
and ^(B)look out to see ^(C)what he will say to me,
and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith

²And the Lord answered me:

^(D)“Write the vision;
    make it plain on tablets,
    so he may run who reads it.
³For still ^(E)the vision awaits its appointed time;
    it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, ^(F)wait for it;
    ^(G)it will surely come; it will not delay.

⁴“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but ^(H)the righteous shall live by his faith.^[a]

⁵“Moreover, wine^[b] is ^(I)a traitor,
    an arrogant man who is never at rest.^[c]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
    like death ^(J)he has never enough.
^(K)He gathers for himself all nations
    and collects as his own all peoples.”

Woe to the Chaldeans

⁶Shall not all these ^(L)take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,

^(M)“Woe to him ^(N)who heaps up what is not his own—
    for ^(O)how long?—
    and ^(P)loads himself with pledges!”
⁷^(Q)Will not your debtors suddenly arise,
    and those awake who will make you tremble?
    Then you will be spoil for them.
⁸^(R)Because you have plundered many nations,
    all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
^(S)for the blood of man and ^(T)violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who dwell in them.

⁹^(U)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
    ^(V)to ^(W)set his nest on high,
    to be safe from the reach of harm!
¹⁰You have devised shame for your house
    ^(X)by cutting off many peoples;
    you have forfeited your life.
¹¹For ^(Y)the stone will cry out from the wall,
    and the beam from the woodwork respond.

¹²^(Z)“Woe to him ^(AA)who builds a town with blood
    and founds a city on iniquity!
¹³Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
    that ^(AB)peoples labor merely for fire,
    and nations weary themselves for nothing?
¹⁴^(AC)For the earth will be filled
    with the knowledge of ^(AD)the glory of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁵^(AE)“Woe to him ^(AF)who makes his neighbors drink—
    you pour out your wrath and make them drunk,
    in order to gaze ^(AG)at their nakedness!
¹⁶You will have your fill ^(AH)of shame instead of glory.
    ^(AI)Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!
^(AJ)The cup in the Lord's right hand
    will come around to you,
    and ^(AK)utter shame will come upon your glory!
¹⁷^(AL)The violence ^(AM)done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
    as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them,
^(AN)for the blood of man and violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who dwell in them.

¹⁸^(AO)“What profit is an idol
    when its maker has shaped it,
    a metal image, ^(AP)a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
    when he makes ^(AQ)speechless idols!
¹⁹^(AR)Woe to him ^(AS)who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
    to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
    and ^(AT)there is no breath at all in it.
²⁰But ^(AU)the Lord is in his holy temple;
    ^(AV)let all the earth keep silence before him.”

Habakkuk's Prayer

3 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.

²O Lord, ^(AW)I have heard the report of you,
    and ^(AX)your work, O Lord, do I fear.
In the midst of the years ^(AY)revive it;
    in the midst of the years make it known;
    ^(AZ)in wrath remember mercy.
³God came from ^(BA)Teman,
    ^(BB)and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
His splendor covered the heavens,
    and the earth was full of his praise.
⁴^(BC)His brightness was like the light;
    rays flashed from his hand;
    and there he veiled his power.
⁵^(BD)Before him went pestilence,
    and plague followed ^(BE)at his heels.^[d]
⁶He stood ^(BF)and measured the earth;
    he looked and shook the nations;
then the ^(BG)eternal mountains ^(BH)were scattered;
    the everlasting hills sank low.
    His were ^(BI)the everlasting ways.
⁷I saw the tents of ^(BJ)Cushan in affliction;
    ^(BK)the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
⁸^(BL)Was your wrath against the rivers, O Lord?
    Was your anger against the rivers,
    ^(BM)or your indignation against the sea,
^(BN)when you rode on your horses,
    ^(BO)on your chariot of salvation?
⁹You stripped the sheath from your bow,
    calling for many arrows.^[e] Selah
    ^(BP)You split the earth with rivers.
¹⁰^(BQ)The mountains saw you and writhed;
    the raging waters swept on;
^(BR)the deep gave forth its voice;
    ^(BS)it lifted its hands on high.
¹¹^(BT)The sun and moon stood still in their place
    ^(BU)at the light of your arrows as they sped,
    at the flash of your glittering spear.
¹²^(BV)You marched through the earth in fury;
    ^(BW)you threshed the nations in anger.
¹³^(BX)You went out for the salvation of your people,
    for the salvation of ^(BY)your anointed.
^(BZ)You crushed the head of the house of the wicked,
    laying him bare from thigh to neck.^[f] Selah
¹⁴You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors,
    who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,
    rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
¹⁵^(CA)You trampled the sea with your horses,
    the surging of mighty waters.

¹⁶^(CB)I hear, and ^(CC)my body trembles;
    my lips quiver at the sound;
^(CD)rottenness enters into my bones;
    my legs tremble beneath me.
Yet ^(CE)I will quietly wait for the day of trouble
    to come upon people who invade us.

Habakkuk Rejoices in the Lord

¹⁷Though the fig tree should not blossom,
    nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
    and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
    and there be no herd in the stalls,
¹⁸^(CF)yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
    ^(CG)I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
¹⁹God, the Lord, is my strength;
    ^(CH)he makes my feet like the deer's;
    he makes me ^(CI)tread on my ^(CJ)high places.

^(CK)To the choirmaster: with ^(CL)stringed^[g] instruments.

Footnotes

Habakkuk 2:4 Or faithfulness
Habakkuk 2:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth
Habakkuk 2:5 The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain
Habakkuk 3:5 Hebrew feet
Habakkuk 3:9 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
Habakkuk 3:13 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
Habakkuk 3:19 Hebrew my stringed

Song of Solomon 2

English Standard Version

2 I am a rose^[a] of Sharon,
^(A)a lily of the valleys.

He

²As a lily among brambles,
so is ^(B)my love among the young women.

She

³As an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
    so is my ^(C)beloved among the young men.
With great delight I sat ^(D)in his shadow,
    and his ^(E)fruit was sweet to my taste.
⁴He ^(F)brought me to the banqueting house,^[b]
    and his ^(G)banner over me was love.
⁵Sustain me with ^(H)raisins;
    refresh me with apples,
    ^(I)for I am sick with love.
⁶His ^(J)left hand is under my head,
    and his right hand ^(K)embraces me!
⁷I ^(L)adjure you,^[c] O ^(M)daughters of Jerusalem,
    by ^(N)the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
    until it pleases.

The Bride Adores Her Beloved

⁸The voice of my beloved!
    Behold, he comes,
leaping ^(O)over the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.
⁹My beloved is like ^(P)a gazelle
    or a young stag.
Behold, there he stands
    behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
    looking through the lattice.
¹⁰My beloved speaks and says to me:
^(Q)“Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away,
¹¹for behold, the winter is past;
    ^(R)the rain is over and gone.
¹²^(S)The flowers appear on the earth,
    the time of singing^[d] has come,
and the voice of ^(T)the turtledove
    is heard in our land.
¹³^(U)The fig tree ripens its figs,
    and ^(V)the vines are in blossom;
    they give forth fragrance.
^(W)Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away.
¹⁴O my ^(X)dove, in the ^(Y)clefts of the rock,
    in the crannies of the cliff,
let me see your face,
    let me ^(Z)hear your voice,
for your voice is sweet,
    and your face is ^(AA)lovely.
¹⁵Catch ^(AB)the foxes^[e] for us,
    the little foxes
that spoil the vineyards,
    ^(AC)for our vineyards are in blossom.”

¹⁶^(AD)My beloved is mine, and I am his;
    he ^(AE)grazes^[f] among the lilies.
¹⁷Until ^(AF)the day breathes
    and ^(AG)the shadows flee,
turn, my beloved, be like ^(AH)a gazelle
    or a young stag on cleft mountains.^[g]