Plano sa Pagbasa ng Bibliya — M'Cheyne Isang Taon

The Pride of Tyre's King Who Claimed to Be a God

¹And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²And thou, son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord; Because thine heart has been exalted, and thou hast said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet thou art man and not God, though thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:

³art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge?

⁴Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures?

⁵By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power.

⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

⁷because of this, behold, I will bring on thee strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge,

⁸and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction. And they shall bring thee down; and thou shalt die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea.

⁹Wilt thou indeed say, I am God, before them that slay thee? whereas thou art man, and not God.

¹⁰Thou shalt perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.

A Lament for the King of Tyre Who Was in Eden

¹¹And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹²Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou art a seal of resemblance, and crown of beauty.

¹³Thou wast in the delight of the paradise of God; thou hast bound upon thee every precious stone, the sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: and thou hast filled thy treasures and thy stores in thee with gold.

¹⁴From the day that thou wast created thou wast with the cherub: I set thee on the holy mount of God; thou wast in the midst of the stones of fire.

¹⁵Thou wast faultless in thy days, from the day that thou wast created, until iniquity was found in thee.

¹⁶Of the abundance of thy merchandise thou hast filled thy storehouses with iniquity, and hast sinned: therefore thou hast been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought thee out of the midst of the stones of fire.

¹⁷Thy heart has been lifted up because of thy beauty; thy knowledge has been corrupted with thy beauty: because of the multitude of thy sins I have cast thee to the ground, I have caused thee to be put to open shame before kings.

¹⁸Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee to be ashes upon thy land before all that see thee.

¹⁹And all that know thee among the nations shall groan over thee: thou art gone to destruction, and thou shalt not exist any more.

Judgment Against Sidon and the Restoration of Israel

²⁰And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²¹Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it,

²²and say,

²³Blood and death shall be in thy streets; and men wounded with swords shall fall in thee and on every side of thee; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

²⁴And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonoured them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

²⁵Thus saith the Lord God; I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them, and before the peoples and nations: and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.

²⁶Yea, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgment on all that have dishonoured them, even on those that are round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.

A Night Meditation Remembering Ancient Wonders

¹A Psalm of instruction for Asaph.

²I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning.

³All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us.

⁴They were not hid from their children to a second generation; the fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought.

⁵And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children:

⁶that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children.

⁷That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments.

⁸That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.

⁹The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.

¹¹And they forgot his benefits, and his miracles which he had shewed them;

¹²the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes.

¹³He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as in a bottle.

¹⁴And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire.

¹⁵He clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

¹⁶And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers.

¹⁷And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness.

¹⁸And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls.

¹⁹They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people?

²¹Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel.

²²Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

²³Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

²⁴and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven.

²⁵Man ate angels' bread; he sent them provision to the full.

²⁶He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the south-west wind.

²⁷And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas.

²⁸And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents.

²⁹So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire.

³⁰They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth,

³¹then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

³²In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his miracles.

³³And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety.

³⁴When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God.

³⁵And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer.

³⁶Yet they loved him only with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

³⁷For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

³⁸But he is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy them: yea, he will frequently turn away his wrath, and will not kindle all his anger.

³⁹And he remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not.

⁴⁰How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and anger him in a dry land!

⁴¹Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

⁴²They remembered not his hand, the day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.

⁴³How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanes:

⁴⁴and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink.

⁴⁵He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them.

⁴⁶And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labours to the locust.

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.

⁴⁸And he gave up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire.

⁴⁹He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels.

⁵⁰He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death;

⁵¹and smote every first-born in the land of Egypt; the first-fruits of their labours in the tents of Cham.

⁵²And he removed his people like sheep; he led them as a flock in the wilderness.

⁵³And he guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased.

⁵⁵And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

⁵⁶Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies.

⁵⁷And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow.

⁵⁸And they provoked him with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

⁵⁹God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel.

⁶⁰And he rejected the tabernacle of Selom, his tent where he dwelt among men.

⁶¹And he gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand.

⁶²And he gave his people to the sword; and disdained his inheritance.

⁶³Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not.

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for.

⁶⁵So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a mighty man who has been heated with wine.

⁶⁶And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he brought on them a perpetual reproach.

⁶⁷And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

⁶⁸but chose the tribe of Juda, the mount Sion which he loved.

⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary as the place of unicorns; he founded it for ever on the earth.

⁷⁰He chose David also his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep.

⁷¹He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.

⁷²So he tended them in the innocency of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.