¹‘And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you it is a day of blowing the trumpets. ²You shall offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the Lᴏʀᴅ: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish. ³Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, ⁴and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs; ⁵also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, to make atonement for you; ⁶besides the burnt offering with its grain offering for the New Moon, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, as a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lᴏʀᴅ. ⁷‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls; you shall not do any work. ⁸You shall present a burnt offering to the Lᴏʀᴅ as a sweet aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are without blemish. ⁹Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram, ¹⁰and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs; ¹¹also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the sin offering for atonement, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings. ¹²‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lᴏʀᴅ seven days. ¹³You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lᴏʀᴅ: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year. They shall be without blemish. ¹⁴Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams, ¹⁵and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs; ¹⁶also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. ¹⁷‘On the second day present twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, ¹⁸and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; ¹⁹also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings. ²⁰‘On the third day present eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, ²¹and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; ²²also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. ²³‘On the fourth day present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year, without blemish, ²⁴and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; ²⁵also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. ²⁶‘On the fifth day present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, ²⁷and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; ²⁸also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. ²⁹‘On the sixth day present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, ³⁰and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; ³¹also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. ³²‘On the seventh day present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, ³³and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; ³⁴also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. ³⁵‘On the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly. You shall do no customary work. ³⁶You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lᴏʀᴅ: one bull, one ram, seven lambs in their first year without blemish, ³⁷and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; ³⁸also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. ³⁹‘These you shall present to the Lᴏʀᴅ at your appointed feasts (besides your vowed offerings and your freewill offerings) as your burnt offerings and your grain offerings, as your drink offerings and your peace offerings.’ ” ⁴⁰So Moses told the children of Israel everything, just as the Lᴏʀᴅ commanded Moses.

¹A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, To such as are pure in heart. ²But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; My steps had nearly slipped. ³For I was envious of the boastful, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. ⁴For there are no pangs in their death, But their strength is firm. ⁵They are not in trouble as other men, Nor are they plagued like other men. ⁶Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment. ⁷Their eyes bulge with abundance; They have more than heart could wish. ⁸They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression; They speak loftily. ⁹They set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue walks through the earth. ¹⁰Therefore his people return here, And waters of a full cup are drained by them. ¹¹And they say, “How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?” ¹²Behold, these are the ungodly, Who are always at ease; They increase in riches. ¹³Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, And washed my hands in innocence. ¹⁴For all day long I have been plagued, And chastened every morning. ¹⁵If I had said, “I will speak thus,” Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children. ¹⁶When I thought how to understand this, It was too painful for me— ¹⁷Until I went into the sanctuary of God; Then I understood their end. ¹⁸Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. ¹⁹Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰As a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image. ²¹Thus my heart was grieved, And I was vexed in my mind. ²²I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. ²³Nevertheless I am continually with You; You hold me by my right hand. ²⁴You will guide me with Your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory. ²⁵Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You. ²⁶My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. ²⁷For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry. ²⁸But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lᴏʀᴅ God, That I may declare all Your works.

¹The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. ²A distressing vision is declared to me; The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, And the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All its sighing I have made to cease. ³Therefore my loins are filled with pain; Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was distressed when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it. ⁴My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me. ⁵Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tower, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, Anoint the shield! ⁶For thus has the Lᴏʀᴅ said to me: “Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.” ⁷And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels, And he listened earnestly with great care. ⁸Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night. ⁹And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!” Then he answered and said, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground.” ¹⁰Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the Lᴏʀᴅ of hosts, The God of Israel, I have declared to you. ¹¹The burden against Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” ¹²The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; Return! Come back!” ¹³The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites. ¹⁴O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Bring water to him who is thirsty; With their bread they met him who fled. ¹⁵For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, From the bent bow, and from the distress of war. ¹⁶For thus the Lᴏʀᴅ has said to me: “Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail; ¹⁷and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the Lᴏʀᴅ God of Israel has spoken it.”

¹But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. ²And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. ³By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber. ⁴For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; ⁵and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; ⁶and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; ⁷and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked ⁸(for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)— ⁹then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, ¹⁰and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, ¹¹whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. ¹²But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, ¹³and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, ¹⁴having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. ¹⁵They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; ¹⁶but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. ¹⁸For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. ¹⁹While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. ²⁰For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. ²¹For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²²But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”