ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁷ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³ And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁷ And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁵ And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴⁴ But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³⁰ But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴¹ But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁶ Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²² When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁰ The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁹ And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁶ And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴ And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁸ And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁴ But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁶ But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁵ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁶ He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹ A Song of degrees of David.

LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹³ Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁹ That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁴ Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁵ Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁵ Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹³ For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁷ Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²² Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁵ Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³⁴ And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁶ And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁷ Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁹ And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁰ But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³² Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁰ Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁸ Therefore Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.