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Called from Slaves to Sons

¹But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;

²but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.

³So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

⁴but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

⁵that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

⁶And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

⁷So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

Do Not Turn Back to Weak Elemental Principles

⁸Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

⁹but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

¹⁰Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

Paul's Heartfelt Appeal to the Galatians

¹²I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are]. Ye did me no wrong:

¹³but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:

¹⁴and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

¹⁶So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?

¹⁷They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.

¹⁸But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

²⁰but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

Hagar and Sarah, an Allegory of Two Covenants

²¹Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

²²For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.

²³Howbeit the [son] by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the [son] by the freewoman [is born] through promise.

²⁴Which things contain an allegory: for these [women] are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.

²⁵Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.

²⁶But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.

²⁷For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.

²⁸Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

²⁹But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, so also it is now.

³⁰Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.

³¹Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.

Egypt Likened to a Cedar of Lebanon

¹And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

²Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

³Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

⁴The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field.

⁵Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.

⁶All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.

⁷Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

⁹I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

The Cedar Cut Down and Brought to Sheol

¹⁰Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou art exalted in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

¹¹I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

¹²And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

¹³Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;

¹⁴to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

¹⁶I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

¹⁷They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

¹⁸To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

A Lament over the Defiled Temple

¹O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

²The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

³Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

⁵How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

⁶Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.

⁷For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.

⁸Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.

¹⁰Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.

¹¹Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death;

¹²And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

¹³So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture Will give thee thanks for ever: We will show forth thy praise to all generations.