Old/New Testament
A Song of degrees.
1 ¶ Unto thee I lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of slaves look unto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until he shall have mercy upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly weary of being held in contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly weary of the scorning of those that are at ease and of the contempt of the proud.
A Song of degrees of David.
1 ¶ If the LORD had not been for us, now may Israel say,
2 If the LORD had not been for us, when men rose up against us,
3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us; the flood would have gone over our soul;
5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
6 ¶ Blessed be the LORD, who did not give us as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare has broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made the heaven and the earth.
A Song of degrees.
1 ¶ Those that trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed but abides for ever.
2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from now on even for ever.
3 For the rod of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous because the righteous shall not put forth their hands unto iniquity.
4 ¶ Do good, O LORD, unto those that are good and to those that are upright in their hearts.
5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall take them away with the workers of iniquity; and peace shall be upon Israel.
10 ¶ Moreover, brothers, I would that ye not ignore how our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea
2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea
3 and did all eat the same spiritual food
4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was the Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not pleased; therefore, they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 ¶ Now these things became types of us, that we should not lust after evil things as they lusted.
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell dead: in one day, twenty-three thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted and perished by the serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured and perished by the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them as types, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
12 Therefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 No temptation has taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
14 Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 ¶ I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?
17 For one loaf of bread means that many are one body, for we are all partakers of that one loaf.
18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices participants of the altar?
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