Part I Genesis
41,15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph:
‘I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it; and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.’
41,16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying:
‘It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.’
41,17 And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph:
‘In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river.
41,18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass.
41,19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.
41,20 And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.
41,21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured as at the beginning. So I awoke.
41,22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good.
41,23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
41,24 And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.’
41,25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh:
‘The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do He hath declared unto Pharaoh.
41,26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years:
the dream is one.
41,27 And the seven lean and ill-favoured kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.
41,28 That is the thing which I spoke unto Pharaoh:
what God is about to do He hath shown unto Pharaoh.
41,29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.
41,30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
Part II Isaiah
19,9 Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.
19,10 And her foundations shall be crushed, all they that make dams shall be grieved in soul.
19,11 The princes of Zoan are utter fools; the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh are a senseless counsel; how can ye say unto Pharaoh:
‘I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings’?
19,12 Where are they, then, thy wise men? And let them tell thee now; and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.
19,13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.
19,14 The LORD hath mingled within her a spirit of dizziness; and they have caused Egypt to stagger in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
19,15 Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
19,16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shaketh over it.
19,17 And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt, whensoever one maketh mention thereof to it; it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of the LORD of hosts, which He purposeth against it. {S}
19,18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called the city of destruction. {S}
19,19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
19,20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and He will send them a saviour, and a defender, who will deliver them.
19,21 And the LORD shall make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and offering, and shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and shall perform it.
19,22 And the LORD will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return unto the LORD, and He will be entreated of them, and will heal them. {S}
19,23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. {S}
19,24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;
19,25 for that the LORD of hosts hath blessed him, saying: ‘Blessed be Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance.’ {S}
20,1 In the year that Tartan came into Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
20,2 at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying:
‘Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.’
And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. {S}
20,3 And the LORD said:
‘Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia,
20,4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
20,5 And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
20,6 And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day:
Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?’ {P}
21,1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.
21,2 A grievous vision is declared unto me:
‘The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.’
Part III Job
13,13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
13,14 Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
13,15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him.
13,16 This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him.
13,17 Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
13,18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
13,19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.
13,20 Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee:
13,21 Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid.
13,22 Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer Thou me.
13,23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
13,24 Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?
13,25 Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?
13,26 That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
13,27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; {N}
Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet;
13,28 Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
14,1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
14,2 He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
14,3 And dost Thou open Thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with Thee?
14,4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
14,5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with Thee, and Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Part IV The Proclamation of John the Herald – Chapter 2
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11 This is the first sign, which Jesus wrought at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory:
and his disciples believed on him.
12 Afterwards he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples; and they were there a few days.
13 And the pass over of the Jews drew near; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And he found in the temple those who sold beeves and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting [there].
15 And he made himself a whip from a cord, and turned them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the beeves and the money-changers; and he poured out their money, and overset their tables:
16 and he said to them that sold doves,
Take away these things; and make not my Father’s house a house of traffic.
17 And his disciples remembered, that it is written:
The zeal of thy house hath devoured me.
18 But the Jews replied, and said to him:
What sign showest thou to us, since thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered, and said to them:
Demolish this temple, and in three days I will again erect it.
20 The Jews said to him:
Forty and six years, this temple was building; and wilt thou build it again in three days?
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