19:1
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had
killed all the prophets with the sword.
19:2
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So
may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make
your life like the life of one of them by this time
tomorrow."
19:3
Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and
came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his
servant there.
19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness,
and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He
asked that he might die: "It is enough; now, O LORD,
take away my life, for I am no better than my
ancestors."
19:8
He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength
of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the
mount of God.
19:9
At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night
there. Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
"What are you doing here, Elijah?"
19:10
He answered, "I have been very zealous for the LORD,
the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your
covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your
prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are
seeking my life, to take it away."
19:11
He said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the
LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Now there
was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting
mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the LORD,
but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an
earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake;
19:12
and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in
the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.
19:13
When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle
and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then
there came a voice to him that said, "What are you
doing here, Elijah?"
19:14
He answered, "I have been very zealous for the LORD,
the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your
covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your
prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are
seeking my life, to take it away."
19:15a
Then the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to
the wilderness of Damascus.
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42:1
As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for
you, O God.
42:2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I
come and behold the face of God?
42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say
to me continually, "Where is your God?"
42:4
These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went
with the throng, and led them in procession to the house
of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a
multitude keeping festival.
42:5
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you
disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again
praise him, my help
42:6
and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I
remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from
Mount Mizar.
42:7
Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your cataracts; all
your waves and your billows have gone over me.
42:8
By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night
his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
42:9
I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mournfully because the enemy
oppresses me?"
42:10
As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt
me, while they say to me continually, "Where is your
God?"
42:11
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you
disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again
praise him, my help and my God.
43:1
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an
ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust
deliver me!
43:2
For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you
cast me off? Why must I walk about mournfully because of
the oppression of the enemy?
43:3
O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling.
43:4
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding
joy; and I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
43:5
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you
disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again
praise him, my help and my God.
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3:23
Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded
under the law until faith would be revealed.
3:24
Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ
came, so that we might be justified by faith.
3:25
But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a
disciplinarian,
3:26
for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through
faith.
3:27
As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed
yourselves with Christ.
3:28
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave
or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of
you are one in Christ Jesus.
3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's
offspring, heirs according to the promise.
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8:26
Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which
is opposite Galilee.
8:27
As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had
demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes,
and he did not live in a house but in the tombs.
8:28
When he saw Jesus, he fell down before him and shouted at
the top of his voice, "What have you to do with me,
Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment
me"--
8:29
for Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of
the man. (For many times it had seized him; he was kept
under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he
would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the
wilds.)
8:30
Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" He
said, "Legion"; for many demons had entered him.
8:31
They begged him not to order them to go back into the
abyss.
8:32
Now there on the hillside a large herd of swine was
feeding; and the demons begged Jesus to let them enter
these. So he gave them permission.
8:33
Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine,
and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and
was drowned.
8:34
When the swineherds saw what had happened, they ran off
and told it in the city and in the country.
8:35
Then people came out to see what had happened, and when
they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the
demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and
in his right mind. And they were afraid.
8:36
Those who had seen it told them how the one who had been
possessed by demons had been healed.
8:37
Then all the people of the surrounding country of the
Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them; for they were seized
with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.
8:38
The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might
be with him; but Jesus sent him away, saying,
8:39
"Return to your home, and declare how much God has
done for you." So he went away, proclaiming
throughout the city how much Jesus had done for him.
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