麥克謙一年通讀

Greeting

¹Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God, to the Saincts which are at Ephesus, and to the faithfull in Christ Iesus.

²Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, who hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings in heauenly places in Christ:

⁴According as he hath chosen vs in him, before the foundation of the world, that wee should bee holy, and without blame before him in loue:

⁵Hauing predestinated vs vnto the adoption of children by Iesus Christ to himselfe, according to the good pleasure of his will:

⁶To the praise of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued:

⁷In whom wee haue redemption through his blood, the forgiuenesse of sinnes, according to the riches of his grace,

⁸Wherein hee hath abounded toward vs in all wisedome and prudence:

⁹Hauing made knowen vnto vs the mysterie of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in himselfe,

¹⁰That in the dispensation of the fulnesse of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heauen, and which are on earth, euen in him:

¹¹In whom also we haue obteined an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will:

¹²That we should be to the praise of his glorie, who first trusted in Christ.

¹³In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of trueth, the Gospel of your saluation: in whom also after that yee beleeued, yee were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

¹⁴Which is the earnest of our inheritance, vntill the redemption of the purchased possession, vnto the praise of his glorie.

Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom

¹⁵Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Iesus, and loue vnto all the Saints,

¹⁶Cease not to giue thankes for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

¹⁷That the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glorie, may giue vnto you the Spirit of wisedome and reuelation in the knowledge of him:

¹⁸The eyes of your vnderstanding being inlightned: that yee may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glorie of his inheritance in the Saints:

¹⁹And what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to vs-ward who beleeue, according to the working of his mightie power:

²⁰Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his owne right hand in the heauenly places,

²¹Farre aboue all principalitie, and power, and might, and dominion, and euery name that is named, not onely in this world, but also in that which is to come:

²²And hath put all things vnder his feete, and gaue him to be the head ouer all things to the Church,

²³Which is his body, the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all.

Rebuke of the Shepherds Who Did Not Tend the Flock

¹And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying;

²Sonne of man, prophecie against the shepheards of Israel, prophecie and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God vnto the shepheards, Woe be to the shepheards of Israel that doe feede themselues: should not the shepheards feede the flockes?

³Yee eate the fat, and ye clothe you with the wooll, yee kill them that are fed: but ye feede not the flocke.

⁴The diseased haue ye not strengthened, neither haue yee healed that which was sicke, neither haue ye bound vp that which was broken, neither haue yee brought againe that which was driuen away, neither haue yee sought that which was lost; but with force and with crueltie haue yee ruled them.

⁵And they were scattered because there is no shepheard: and they became meate to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

⁶My sheepe wandered through all the mountaines, and vpon euery high hill: yea my flocke was scattered vpon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seeke after them.

⁷Therefore, yee shepheards, heare the word of the Lord.

⁸As I liue, saith the Lord God, surely because my flocke became a pray, and my flocke became meate to euery beast of the field, because there was no shepheard, neither did my shepheards search for my flocke, but the shepheards fed themselues, and fed not my flocke:

⁹Therefore, O yee shepheards, heare the word of the Lord.

¹⁰Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepheards, and I will require my flocke at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flocke, neither shall the shepheards feede themselues any more: for I will deliuer my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

The Shepherd Who Will Himself Seek and Feed the Flock

¹¹For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, euen I will both search my sheepe, and seeke them out.

¹²As a shepheard seeketh out his flocke in the day that hee is among his sheepe that are scattered: so wil I seeke out my sheep, and will deliuer them out of all places, where they haue bene scattered in the cloudie and darke day.

¹³And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countreys, and will bring them to their owne land, and feede them vpon the mountaines of Israel by the riuers, and in all the inhabited places of the countrey,

¹⁴I will feede them in a good pasture, and vpon the high mountaines of Israel shall their folde be: there shall they lie in a good folde, and in a fat pasture shall they feede vpon the mountaines of Israel.

¹⁵I will feed my flocke, and I will cause them to lie downe, saith the Lord God.

¹⁶I will seeke that which was lost, and bring againe that which was driuen away, and will bind vp that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sicke: but I will destroy the fat and the strong, I will feed them with iudgement.

¹⁷And as for you, O my flocke, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I iudge betweene cattell and cattell, betweene the rammes and the hee goates.

¹⁸Seemeth it a small thing vnto you, to haue eaten vp the good pasture, but ye must tread downe with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to haue drunke of the deepe waters, but yee must fonle the residue with your feete?

¹⁹And as for my flocke, they eate that which yee haue troden with your feete: and they drinke that which yee haue fouled with your feete.

²⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord God vnto them, Behold, I, euen I will iudge betweene the fat cattell, and betweene the leane cattell.

²¹Because yee haue thrust with side and with shoulder, and pusht all the diseased with your hornes, till yee haue scattered them abroad:

²²Therefore will I saue my flocke, and they shall no more be a pray, and I will iudge betweene cattell and cattell.

One Shepherd, David, and a Covenant of Peace

²³And I will set vp one shepheard ouer them, and hee shall feede them, euen my seruant Dauid; he shall feede them, and hee shall be their shepheard.

²⁴And I the Lord will be their God, and my seruant Dauid a prince among them, I the Lord haue spoken it.

²⁵And I will make with them a couenant of peace, and will cause the euill beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wildernesse, and sleepe in the woods.

²⁶And I will make them and the places round about my hill, a blessing; and I will cause the showre to come downe in his season: there shall bee showres of blessing.

²⁷And the tree of the field shal yeeld her fruite, and the earth shall yeeld her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I haue broken the bands of their yoke, and deliuered them out of the hand of those that serued themselues of them.

²⁸And they shall no more be a pray to the heathen, neither shall the beasts of the land deuoure them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraide.

²⁹And I will raise vp for them a plant of renowne, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither beare the shame of the heathen any more.

³⁰Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, euen the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God.

³¹And yee my flocke of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

An Appeal Against United Adversaries

¹[A song or Psalme of Asaph.] Keepe not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

²For loe, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee, haue lift vp the head.

³They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

⁴They haue said, Come, and let vs cut them off from being a nation: that the name of Israel may bee no more in remembrance.

⁵For they haue consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee.

⁶The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites: of Moab, and the Hagarens.

⁷Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁸Assur also is ioyned with them: they haue holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

⁹Doe vnto them as vnto the Midianites: as to Sisera, as to Iabin, at the brooke of Kison:

¹⁰Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

¹²Who sayd, Let vs take to our selues, the houses of God in possession.

¹³O my God, make them like a wheele: as the stubble before the wind.

¹⁴As the fire burneth a wood: and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:

¹⁵So persecute them with thy tempest: and make them afraid with thy storme.

¹⁶Fill their faces with shame: that they may seeke thy name, O Lord.

¹⁷Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea let them be put to shame, and perish:

¹⁸That men may knowe, that thou, whose name alone is IEHOVAH: art the most High ouer all the earth.

A Pilgrim Longing for the Lord's Courts

¹[To the chiefe musician vpon Gittith, a Psalme for the sonnes of Korah.] How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hostes!

²My soule longeth, yea euen fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the liuing God.

³Yea the sparrowe hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for her selfe, where she may lay her young, euen thine altars, O Lord of hostes, my king and my God.

⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they wilbe still praysing thee. Selah.

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee: in whose heart are the wayes of them:

⁶Who passing through the valley of Baca, make it a well: the raine also filleth the pooles.

⁷They goe from strength to strength: euery one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

⁸O Lord God of hostes, heare my prayer: giue eare, O God of Iacob. Selah.

⁹Behold, O God our shield: and looke vpon the face of thine anointed.

¹⁰For a day in thy courts, is better then a thousand: I had rather be a doore keeper in the house of my God, then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse.

¹¹For the Lord God is a sunne and shield: the Lord will giue grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walke vprightly.

¹²O Lord of hostes: blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.