麥克謙一年通讀

The Last Words of David

¹These also be the last wordes of Dauid, Dauid the sonne of Ishai saith, euen the man who was set vp on hie, the Anointed of the God of Iacob, and the sweete singer of Israel saith,

²The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his worde was in my tongue.

³The God of Israel spake to me, ye strength of Israel saide, Thou shalt beare rule ouer men, being iust, and ruling in the feare of God.

⁴Euen as the morning light when the sunne riseth, the morning, I say, without cloudes, so shall mine house be, and not as the grasse of the earth is by the bright raine.

⁵For so shall not mine house be with God: for he hath made with me an euerlasting couenant, perfite in all pointes, and sure: therefore all mine health and whole desire is, that he will not make it growe so.

⁶But the wicked shalbe euery one as thornes thrust away, because they can not be taken with handes.

⁷But the man that shall touch them, must be defensed with yron, or with the shaft of a speare: and they shall be burnt with fire in the same place.

David's Mighty Men

⁸These be the names of the mightie men whome Dauid had. He that sate in the seate of wisedome, being chiefe of the princes, was Adino of Ezni, he slewe eight hundreth at one time.

⁹And after him was Eleazar the sonne of Dodo, the sonne of Ahohi, one of the three worthies with Dauid, when they defied the Philistims gathered there to battel, when the men of Israel were gone vp.

¹⁰He arose and smote the Philistims vntill his hande was wearie, and his hande claue vnto the sworde: and the Lord gaue great victorie the same day, and the people returned after him onely to spoyle.

¹¹After him was Shammah the sonne of Age the Hararite: for the Philistims assembled at a towne, where was a piece of a fielde full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistims.

¹²But he stoode in the middes of the fielde, and defended it, and slewe the Philistims: so the Lord gaue great victorie.

¹³Afterward three of the thirtie captaines went downe, and came to Dauid in the haruest time vnto the caue of Adullam, and the hoste of the Philistims pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

¹⁴And Dauid was then in an holde, and the garison of ye Philistims was then in Beth-lehem.

¹⁵And Dauid longed, and said, Oh, that one would giue me to drinke of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate.

¹⁶The the three mightie brake into the host of the Philistims, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem that was by the gate, and tooke and brought it to Dauid, who woulde not drinke thereof, but powred it for an offring vnto ye Lord,

¹⁷And said, O Lord, be it farre from me, that I should doe this. Is not this the blood of the men that went in ieopardie of their liues? therefore he woulde not drinke it. These things did these three mightie men.

¹⁸And Abishai the brother of Ioab, the sonne of Zeruiah, was chiefe among the three, and he lifted vp his speare against three hundreth, and slewe them, and he had the name among the three.

¹⁹For he was most excellent of the three, and was their captaine, but he attained not vnto the first three.

²⁰And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a valiant man, which had done many actes, and was of Kabzeel, slewe two strong men of Moab: he went downe also, and slewe a lyon in the middes of a pit in the time of snowe.

²¹And he slewe an Egyptian a man of great stature, and the Egyptian had a speare in his hande: but he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slewe him with his owne speare.

²²These things did Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and had the name among the three worthies.

²³He was honourable among thirtie, but he atteined not to the first three: and Dauid made him of his counsell.

²⁴Asahel the brother of Ioab was one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Beth-lehem:

²⁵Shammah the Harodite: Elika ye Harodite:

²⁶Helez the Paltite: Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite:

²⁷Abiezer the Anethothite: Mebunnai the Husathite:

²⁸Zalmon an Ahohite: Maharai the Netophathite:

²⁹Heleb the sonne of Baanah a Netophathite: Ittai the sonne of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin:

³⁰Benaiah the Pirathonite: Hiddai of the riuer of Gaash:

³¹Abi-albon the Arbathite: Azmaueth the Barhumite:

³²Elihaba the Shaalbonite: of the sonnes of Iashen, Ionathan:

³³Shammah the Hararite: Ahiam the sonne of Sharar the Hamrite:

³⁴Eliphelet the sonne of Ahasbai the sonne of Maachathi: Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite:

³⁵Hezrai the Carmelite: Paarai the Arbite:

³⁶Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zobah: Bani the Gadite:

³⁷Zelek the Ammonite: Naharai the Becrothite, the armour bearer of Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah:

³⁸Ira the Ithrite: Gareb the Ithrite:

³⁹Uriiah the Hittite, thirtie and seuen in all.

The Day of the Lord Coming Upon Egypt

¹The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

²Sonne of man, prophesie, and say, Thus sayth the Lord God, Howle and cry, Wo be vnto this day.

³For the day is neere, and the day of the Lord is at hand, a cloudie day, and it shall be the time of the heathen.

⁴And the sword shall come vpon Egypt, and feare shall be in Ethiopia, when the slaine shall fall in Egypt, when they shall take away her multitude, and when her foundations shall be broken downe.

⁵Ethiopia and Phut, and Lud, and all the common people, and Cub, and the men of the land, that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

⁶Thus sayth the Lord, They also that mainteine Egypt, shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come downe: from the towre of Seueneh shall they fall by the sword, sayth the Lord God.

⁷And they shall be desolate in the middes of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the middes of the cities that are wasted.

⁸And they shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I haue set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

⁹In that day shall there messengers go forth from me in shippes, to make the carelesse Mores aftaide, and feare shall come vpon them, as in the day of Egypt: for loe, it commeth.

¹⁰Thus sayth the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel.

¹¹For he and his people with him, euen the terrible nations shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall drawe their swordes against Egypt, and fill the land with the slaine.

¹²And I will make the riuers drye, and fell the land into the hands of the wicked, and I will make the land waste, and all that therein is by the hands of strangers: I the Lord haue spoken it.

¹³Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idoles, and I will cause their idoles to cease out of Noph, and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will send a feare in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and I will execute iudgement in No.

¹⁵And I will powre my wrath vpon Sin, which is the strength of Egypt: and I will destroy the multitude of No.

¹⁶And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall haue great sorowe and No shalbe destroyed, and Noph shall haue sorowes dayly.

¹⁷The yong men of Auen, and of Phibeseth shall fall by the sworde: and these cities shall goe into captiuitie.

¹⁸At Tehaphnehes the day shall restraine his light, when I shall breake there the barres of Egypt: and when the pompe of her power shall cease in her, the cloude shall couer her, and her daughters shall goe into captiuitie.

¹⁹Thus will I execute iudgements in Egypt, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord.

The Prophecy of Pharaoh's Broken Arm

²⁰And in the eleuenth yeere, in the first moneth, and in the seuenth day of the moneth, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

²¹Sonne of man, I haue broken the arme of Pharaoh King of Egypt: and lo, it shall not be boud vp to be healed, neither shall they put a roule to bind it, and so make it strong, to hold the sworde.

²²Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against Pharaoh King of Egypt, and will breake his arme, that was strong, but is broken, and I will cause the sworde to fall out of his hande.

²³And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countreys.

²⁴And I will strengthen the arme of the King of Babel, and put my sworde in his hand, but I will breake Pharaohs armes, and he shall cast out sighings, as the sighings of him, that is wounded before him.

²⁵But I will strengthen the armes of the king of Babel, and the armes of Pharaoh shall fall downe, and they shall knowe, that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sworde into the hand of the King of Babel, and he shall stretch it out vpon the land of Egypt.

²⁶And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among ye countreys, and they shall knowe, that I am the Lord.

³⁸Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.

³⁹For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

⁴⁰How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?

⁴¹Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.

⁴²They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,

⁴³Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,

⁴⁴And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.

⁴⁵Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.

⁴⁷He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.

⁴⁸He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.

⁴⁹Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.

⁵⁰He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,

⁵¹And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.

⁵²But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.

⁵³Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.

⁵⁵He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

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

⁵⁷But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

⁵⁸And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.

⁵⁹God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

⁶⁰So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,

⁶¹And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.

⁶²And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.

⁶³The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.

⁶⁴Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.

⁶⁵But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,

⁶⁶And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.

⁶⁷Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.

⁶⁹And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.

⁷⁰He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.

⁷¹Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.

⁷²So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.