¹“When the Lᴏʀᴅ your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, ²you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you to possess. ³You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you to inherit, that any manslayer may flee there. ⁴“And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him in time past— ⁵as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live; ⁶lest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past. ⁷Therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall separate three cities for yourself.’ ⁸Now if the Lᴏʀᴅ your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers, ⁹and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the Lᴏʀᴅ your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three, ¹⁰lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you. ¹¹“But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities, ¹²then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. ¹³Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you. ¹⁴“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you to possess. ¹⁵“One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. ¹⁶If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, ¹⁷then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lᴏʀᴅ, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. ¹⁸And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, ¹⁹then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you. ²⁰And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you. ²¹Your eye shall not pity: life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

¹Praise the Lᴏʀᴅ! Oh, give thanks to the Lᴏʀᴅ, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. ²Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lᴏʀᴅ? Who can declare all His praise? ³Blessed are those who keep justice, And he who does righteousness at all times! ⁴Remember me, O Lᴏʀᴅ, with the favor You have toward Your people; Oh, visit me with Your salvation, ⁵That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance. ⁶We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, We have done wickedly. ⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea. ⁸Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake, That He might make His mighty power known. ⁹He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; So He led them through the depths, As through the wilderness. ¹⁰He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. ¹¹The waters covered their enemies; There was not one of them left. ¹²Then they believed His words; They sang His praise. ¹³They soon forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel, ¹⁴But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tested God in the desert. ¹⁵And He gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul. ¹⁶When they envied Moses in the camp, And Aaron the saint of the Lᴏʀᴅ, ¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, And covered the faction of Abiram. ¹⁸A fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked. ¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped the molded image. ²⁰Thus they changed their glory Into the image of an ox that eats grass. ²¹They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt, ²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham, Awesome things by the Red Sea. ²³Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them. ²⁴Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word, ²⁵But complained in their tents, And did not heed the voice of the Lᴏʀᴅ. ²⁶Therefore He raised up His hand in an oath against them, To overthrow them in the wilderness, ²⁷To overthrow their descendants among the nations, And to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices made to the dead. ²⁹Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them. ³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped. ³¹And that was accounted to him for righteousness To all generations forevermore. ³²They angered Him also at the waters of strife, So that it went ill with Moses on account of them; ³³Because they rebelled against His Spirit, So that he spoke rashly with his lips. ³⁴They did not destroy the peoples, Concerning whom the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded them, ³⁵But they mingled with the Gentiles And learned their works; ³⁶They served their idols, Which became a snare to them. ³⁷They even sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons, ³⁸And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood. ³⁹Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds. ⁴⁰Therefore the wrath of the Lᴏʀᴅ was kindled against His people, So that He abhorred His own inheritance. ⁴¹And He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles, And those who hated them ruled over them. ⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were brought into subjection under their hand. ⁴³Many times He delivered them; But they rebelled in their counsel, And were brought low for their iniquity. ⁴⁴Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, When He heard their cry; ⁴⁵And for their sake He remembered His covenant, And relented according to the multitude of His mercies. ⁴⁶He also made them to be pitied By all those who carried them away captive. ⁴⁷Save us, O Lᴏʀᴅ our God, And gather us from among the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your holy name, To triumph in Your praise. ⁴⁸Blessed be the Lᴏʀᴅ God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the Lᴏʀᴅ!

¹Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle. Your carriages were heavily loaded, A burden to the weary beast. ²They stoop, they bow down together; They could not deliver the burden, But have themselves gone into captivity. ³“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, Who have been upheld by Me from birth, Who have been carried from the womb: ⁴Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you. ⁵“To whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal And compare Me, that we should be alike? ⁶They lavish gold out of the bag, And weigh silver on the scales; They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship. ⁷They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it And set it in its place, and it stands; From its place it shall not move. Though one cries out to it, yet it cannot answer Nor save him out of his trouble. ⁸“Remember this, and show yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you transgressors. ⁹Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, ¹⁰Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’ ¹¹Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it. ¹²“Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, Who are far from righteousness: ¹³I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off; My salvation shall not linger. And I will place salvation in Zion, For Israel My glory.

¹Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.” ²So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. ³Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died. ⁴Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. ⁵And I heard the angel of the waters saying: “You are righteous, O Lord, The One who is and who was and who is to be, Because You have judged these things. ⁶For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, And You have given them blood to drink. For it is their just due.” ⁷And I heard another from the altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.” ⁸Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. ⁹And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory. ¹⁰Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. ¹¹They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds. ¹²Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. ¹³And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. ¹⁵“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.” ¹⁶And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. ¹⁷Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” ¹⁸And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. ¹⁹Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. ²⁰Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. ²¹And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.