Lamentations 5 1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us:
consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our
houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are
as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is
sold unto us.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we
labour, and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and
to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are
not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is
none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our
lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the
terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the
maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces
of elders were not honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the
children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young
men from their musick.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is
turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe
unto us, that we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things
our eyes are dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is
desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation
to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and
forsake us so long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be
turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very
wroth against us.
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE
APOSTLE TO THE
COLOSSIANS
Colossians 1 1 Paul, an apostle of
Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our
brother,
2 To the saints and
faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be
unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
3 We give thanks to
God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying
always for you,
4 Since we heard of
your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye
have to all the saints,
5 For the hope
which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard
before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
6 Which is come
unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth
forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day
ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in
truth:
7 As ye also
learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for
you a faithful minister of Christ;
8 Who also declared
unto us your love in the Spirit.
9 For this cause we
also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to
pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with
the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual
understanding;
10 That ye might
walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful
in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of
God;
11 Strengthened
with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all
patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks
unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13 Who hath
delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath
translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14 In whom we have
redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness
of sins:
15 Who is the image
of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16 For by him were
all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in
earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all
things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before
all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the
head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead; that in all things he
might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the
Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made
peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile
all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they
be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that
were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind
by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of
his flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If ye continue
in the faith grounded and settled, and be not
moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have
heard, and which was preached to every creature
which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice
in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is
behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his
body's sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I am
made a minister, according to the dispensation of God
which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the
mystery which hath been hid from ages and from
generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God
would make known what is the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in
you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach,
warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom;
that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also
labour, striving according to his working, which worketh
in me mightily.
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