¹“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the Lᴏʀᴅ spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days. ²And the Lᴏʀᴅ spoke to me, saying: ³‘You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward. ⁴And command the people, saying, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully. ⁵Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. ⁶You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. ⁷For the Lᴏʀᴅ your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lᴏʀᴅ your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ‘ ⁸“And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from Elath and Ezion Geber, we turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab. ⁹Then the Lᴏʀᴅ said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ” ¹⁰(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. ¹¹They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim. ¹²The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lᴏʀᴅ gave them.) ¹³“ ‘Now rise and cross over the Valley of the Zered.’ So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered. ¹⁴And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lᴏʀᴅ had sworn to them. ¹⁵For indeed the hand of the Lᴏʀᴅ was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed. ¹⁶“So it was, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people, ¹⁷that the Lᴏʀᴅ spoke to me, saying: ¹⁸‘This day you are to cross over at Ar, the boundary of Moab. ¹⁹And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ” ²⁰(That was also regarded as a land of giants; giants formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, ²¹a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. But the Lᴏʀᴅ destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, ²²just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day. ²³And the Avim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza—the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.) ²⁴“ ‘Rise, take your journey, and cross over the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle. ²⁵This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’ ²⁶“And I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, ²⁷‘Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left. ²⁸You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot, ²⁹just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the Lᴏʀᴅ our God is giving us.’ ³⁰But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the Lᴏʀᴅ your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day. ³¹And the Lᴏʀᴅ said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.’ ³²Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz. ³³And the Lᴏʀᴅ our God delivered him over to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people. ³⁴We took all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining. ³⁵We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took. ³⁶From Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and from the city that is in the ravine, as far as Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; the Lᴏʀᴅ our God delivered all to us. ³⁷Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or wherever the Lᴏʀᴅ our God had forbidden us.

¹A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! ²For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. ⁴They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” ⁵For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You: ⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites; ⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; ⁸Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah ⁹Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon, ¹⁰Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth. ¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹²Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.” ¹³O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind! ¹⁴As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire, ¹⁵So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm. ¹⁶Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lᴏʀᴅ. ¹⁷Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish, ¹⁸That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lᴏʀᴅ, Are the Most High over all the earth.

¹To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lᴏʀᴅ of hosts! ²My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the Lᴏʀᴅ; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. ³Even the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for herself, Where she may lay her young— Even Your altars, O Lᴏʀᴅ of hosts, My King and my God. ⁴Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; They will still be praising You. Selah ⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, Whose heart is set on pilgrimage. ⁶As they pass through the Valley of Baca, They make it a spring; The rain also covers it with pools. ⁷They go from strength to strength; Each one appears before God in Zion. ⁸O Lᴏʀᴅ God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah ⁹O God, behold our shield, And look upon the face of Your anointed. ¹⁰For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. ¹¹For the Lᴏʀᴅ God is a sun and shield; The Lᴏʀᴅ will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. ¹²O Lᴏʀᴅ of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

¹“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lᴏʀᴅ, “Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may add sin to sin; ²Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt! ³Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be your humiliation. ⁴For his princes were at Zoan, And his ambassadors came to Hanes. ⁵They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame and also a reproach.” ⁶The burden against the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery flying serpent, They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not profit; ⁷For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab-Hem-Shebeth. ⁸Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to come, Forever and ever: ⁹That this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear the law of the Lᴏʀᴅ; ¹⁰Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits. ¹¹Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us.” ¹²Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: “Because you despise this word, And trust in oppression and perversity, And rely on them, ¹³Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Like a breach ready to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. ¹⁴And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel, Which is broken in pieces; He shall not spare. So there shall not be found among its fragments A shard to take fire from the hearth, Or to take water from the cistern.” ¹⁵For thus says the Lᴏʀᴅ God, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” But you would not, ¹⁶And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”— Therefore you shall flee! And, “We will ride on swift horses”— Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift! ¹⁷One thousand shall flee at the threat of one, At the threat of five you shall flee, Till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain And as a banner on a hill. ¹⁸Therefore the Lᴏʀᴅ will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lᴏʀᴅ is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him. ¹⁹For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; You shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; When He hears it, He will answer you. ²⁰And though the Lᴏʀᴅ gives you The bread of adversity and the water of affliction, Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, But your eyes shall see your teachers. ²¹Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left. ²²You will also defile the covering of your graven images of silver, And the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; You will say to them, “Get away!” ²³Then He will give the rain for your seed With which you sow the ground, And bread of the increase of the earth; It will be fat and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed In large pastures. ²⁴Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground Will eat cured fodder, Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan. ²⁵There will be on every high mountain And on every high hill Rivers and streams of waters, In the day of the great slaughter, When the towers fall. ²⁶Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lᴏʀᴅ binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound. ²⁷Behold, the name of the Lᴏʀᴅ comes from afar, Burning with His anger, And His burden is heavy; His lips are full of indignation, And His tongue like a devouring fire. ²⁸His breath is like an overflowing stream, Which reaches up to the neck, To sift the nations with the sieve of futility; And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, Causing them to err. ²⁹You shall have a song As in the night when a holy festival is kept, And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, To come into the mountain of the Lᴏʀᴅ, To the Mighty One of Israel. ³⁰The Lᴏʀᴅ will cause His glorious voice to be heard, And show the descent of His arm, With the indignation of His anger And the flame of a devouring fire, With scattering, tempest, and hailstones. ³¹For through the voice of the Lᴏʀᴅ Assyria will be beaten down, As He strikes with the rod. ³²And in every place where the staff of punishment passes, Which the Lᴏʀᴅ lays on him, It will be with tambourines and harps; And in battles of brandishing He will fight with it. ³³For Tophet was established of old, Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made it deep and large; Its pyre is fire with much wood; The breath of the Lᴏʀᴅ, like a stream of brimstone, Kindles it.

¹Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ: ²Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. ³Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. ⁴For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; ⁷as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. ⁸Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. ⁹Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹²These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; ¹³raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. ¹⁴Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, ¹⁵to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” ¹⁶These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. ¹⁷But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹⁸how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. ¹⁹These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. ²⁰But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. ²²And on some have compassion, making a distinction; ²³but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh. ²⁴Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, ²⁵To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.