---MIGHT CONTAIN DATES THAT NEED TO BE REVISED---
Exodus Chapter 7
1 Consequently Jehovah said to Moses [LWs
after 2001Tishri30]: See, I have made you God to Pharaoh [GNS2],
and Aaron [1NC reserves after 2001Tishri30 when
last non reserve 1NC saint died] your own brother will become your
prophet [Aaron's job is to save the JWs].
2 You -- you will speak all that I shall
command you; and Aaron your brother will do the speaking to Pharaoh [GNS2],
and he must send the sons of Israel away from his land.
3 As for me, I shall let Pharaoh's heart
become obstinate, and I shall certainly multiply my signs and my miracles in the
land of Egypt [Watchtower].
4 And Pharaoh will not listen to you men; and
I shall have to lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my armies, my people, the sons
of Israel, out from the land of Egypt with great judgments.
5 And the Egyptians will certainly know that
I am Jehovah when I stretch out my hand against Egypt, and I shall indeed bring
the sons of Israel out from their midst.
6 And Moses and Aaron went ahead doing as
Jehovah had commanded them. They did just so.
7 And Moses was 80 years old [2001Tishri30
- 2008Sivan6, 80 months of exlcusive water baptism for LWs, Moses means drawn
out of the water] and Aaron was 83 years old [perhaps
the last non reserve 1NC remnant died in 2001Tammuz, so Aaron is 1NC reserves by
themselves for 83 months from 2001Tammuz to 2008Sivan] at the time of
their speaking to Pharaoh.
8 Jehovah now said to Moses and Aaron:
9 In case that Pharaoh speaks to you, saying,
'Produce a miracle for yourselves,' then you must say to Aaron, 'Take your rod
and throw it down before Pharaoh.' It will become a big snake.
10 So Moses and Aaron went on in to Pharaoh
and did exactly as Jehovah had commanded. Accordingly Aaron threw his rod down
before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a big snake [jumped
off the temple gave up his priesthood and a big corrupt satanic snake took over
the Watchtower, on 2004Elul14] .
11 However, Pharaoh also called for the wise
men and the sorcerers; and the magic-practicing priests of Egypt themselves also
proceeded to do the same thing with their magic arts.
12 So they threw down each one his rod, and
they became big snakes [various other power
groups in the Watchtower had other equally corrupt rulership ideas]; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their
rods [1NC reserve corruption won the day].
13 Still, Pharaoh's heart became obstinate,
and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had spoken.
14 Then Jehovah said to Moses: Pharaoh's
heart is unresponsive. He has refused to send the people away.
15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Look! He is
going out to the water! And you must put yourself in position to meet him by the
edge of the Nile River, and the rod that turned into a serpent you are to take
in your hand.
16 And you must say to him, 'Jehovah the God
of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying: Send my people away that they may
serve me in the wilderness, but here you have not obeyed until now.
17 This is what Jehovah has said: By this you
will know that I am Jehovah. Here I am striking with the rod that is in my hand
upon the water that is in the Nile River, and it will certainly turn into blood.
18 And the fish that are in the Nile River
will die, and the Nile River will actually stink, and the Egyptians will simply
have no stomach for drinking water from the Nile River.'
19 Subsequently Jehovah said to Moses: Say to
Aaron, 'Take your rod and stretch your hand out over the waters of Egypt, over
their rivers, over their Nile canals and over their reedy pools and over all
their impounded waters, that they may become blood.' And there will certainly be
blood in all the land of Egypt and in the wooden vessels and in the stone
vessels.
20 Immediately Moses and Aaron did so, just
as Jehovah had commanded, and he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was
in the Nile River under the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water
that was in the Nile River was turned into blood.
21 And the fish that were in the Nile River
died, and the Nile River began to stink; and the Egyptians were unable to drink
water from the Nile River; and the blood came to be in all the land of Egypt.
22 Nevertheless, the magic-practicing priests
of Egypt proceeded to do the same thing with their secret arts; so that
Pharaoh's heart continued to be obstinate, and he did not listen to them, just
as Jehovah had spoken.
23 Hence Pharaoh turned and went into his
house, and he did not set his heart to have any regard for this either.
24 And all the Egyptians went digging round
about the Nile River for water to drink, because they were unable to drink any
water of the Nile River.
25 And 7 days came to be fulfilled after
Jehovah's striking the Nile River.
EXODUS CHAPTER 8
1 Then Jehovah said to Moses: Go in to
Pharaoh, and you must say to him, 'This is what Jehovah has said: Send my people
away that they may serve me.
2 And if you keep refusing to send them away,
here I am plaguing all your territory with frogs.
3 And the Nile River will fairly teem with
frogs, and they will certainly come up and enter into your house and your inner
bedroom and upon your couch and into the houses of your servants and on your
people and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs.
4 And on you and on your people and on all
your servants the frogs will come up.'
5 Later on Jehovah said to Moses: Say to
Aaron, 'Stretch your hand with your rod out over the rivers, the Nile canals and
the reedy pools and make the frogs come up over the land of Egypt.'
6 At that Aaron stretched his hand out over
the waters of Egypt, and the frogs began to come up and to cover the land of
Egypt.
7 However, the magic-practicing priests did
the same thing by their secret arts and made the frogs come up over the land of
Egypt.
8 In time Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and
said: Entreat Jehovah that he may remove the frogs from me and my people, as I
want to send the people away that they may sacrifice to Jehovah.
9 Then Moses said to Pharaoh: You take the
glory over me to say when I shall make entreaty for you and your servants and
your people in order to cut the frogs off from you and your houses. Only in the
Nile River will they be left.
10 To this he said: Tomorrow. So he said: It
will be according to your word, in order that you may know that there is no one
else like Jehovah our God,
11 in that the frogs will certainly turn away
from you and your houses and your servants and your people. Only in the Nile
River will they be left.
12 Accordingly Moses and Aaron went out from
Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to Jehovah because of the frogs that He had put
upon Pharaoh.
13 Then Jehovah did according to Moses' word,
and the frogs began to die off from the houses, the courtyards and the fields.
14 And they went piling them up, heaps upon
heaps, and the land began to stink.
15 When Pharaoh got to see that relief had
taken place, he made his heart unresponsive; and he did not listen to them, just
as Jehovah had spoken.
16 Jehovah now said to Moses: Say to Aaron,
'Stretch your rod out and strike the dust of the earth, and it must become gnats
in all the land of Egypt.'
17 And they proceeded to do this. So Aaron
stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth, and the
gnats came to be on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all
the land of Egypt.
18 And the magic-practicing priests tried to
do the same by their secret arts, in order to bring forth gnats, but they were
unable. And the gnats came to be on man and beast.
19 Hence the magic-practicing priests said to
Pharaoh: It is the finger of God! But Pharaoh's heart continued to be obstinate,
and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had spoken.
20 Then Jehovah said to Moses: Get up early
in the morning and take a position in front of Pharaoh. Look! He is coming out
to the water! And you must say to him, 'This is what Jehovah has said: Send my
people away that they may serve me.
21 But if you are not sending my people away,
here I am sending upon you and your servants and your people and into your
houses the gadfly; and the houses of Egypt will simply be full of the gadfly,
and also the ground upon which they are.
22 And on that day I shall certainly make the
land of Goshen upon which my people are standing distinct, that no gadfly may
exist there; in order that you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the
earth.
23 And I shall indeed set a demarcation
between my people and your people. Tomorrow this sign will take place.'
24 And Jehovah proceeded to do so; and heavy
swarms of gadflies began to invade the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his
servants and all the land of Egypt. The land came to ruin as a result of the
gadflies.
25 Finally Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and
said: Go, sacrifice to your God in the land.
26 But Moses said: It is not admissible to do
so, because we would sacrifice to Jehovah our God a thing detestable to the
Egyptians. Suppose we would sacrifice a thing detestable to the Egyptians before
their eyes; would they not stone us?
27 We shall go a journey of 3 days into the
wilderness and we shall definitely sacrifice to Jehovah our God just as he has
said to us.
28 Pharaoh now said: I -- I shall send you
away, and you will indeed sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness. Only
do not make it quite so far away that you are going. Make entreaty in my behalf.
29 Then Moses said: Here I am going forth
from you, and I shall indeed make entreaty to Jehovah, and the gadflies will
certainly turn away from Pharaoh, his servants and his people tomorrow. Only let
not Pharaoh trifle again in not sending the people away to sacrifice to Jehovah.
30 After that Moses went out from Pharaoh and
made entreaty to Jehovah.
31 So Jehovah did according to Moses' word,
and the gadflies turned away from Pharaoh, his servants and his people. Not one
was left.
32 However, Pharaoh made his heart
unresponsive this time also and did not send the people away.
EXODUS CHAPTER 9
1 Consequently Jehovah said to Moses: Go in
to Pharaoh and you must state to him, 'This is what Jehovah the God of the
Hebrews has said: Send my people away that they may serve me.
2 But if you continue refusing to send them
away and you are still keeping hold of them,
3 look! Jehovah's hand is coming upon your
livestock that is in the field. On the horses, the asses, the camels, the herd
and the flock there will be a very heavy pestilence.
4 And Jehovah will certainly make a
distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and not
a thing of all that belongs to the sons of Israel will die.'
5 Moreover, Jehovah set an appointed time,
saying: Tomorrow Jehovah will do this thing in the land.
6 Accordingly Jehovah did this thing on the
next day, and all sorts of livestock of Egypt began to die; but not one of the
livestock of the sons of Israel died.
7 Then Pharaoh sent, and, look! not so much
as one of Israel's livestock had died. Nevertheless, Pharaoh's heart continued
to be unresponsive, and he did not send the people away.
8 After that Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron:
Take for yourselves both hands full of soot from a kiln, and Moses must toss it
toward the heavens in Pharaoh's sight.
9 And it must become a powder upon all the
land of Egypt, and it must become boils breaking out with blisters upon man and
beast in all the land of Egypt.
10 So they took the soot of a kiln and stood
before Pharaoh, and Moses tossed it toward the heavens, and it became boils with
blisters, breaking out on man and beast.
11 And the magic-practicing priests were
unable to stand before Moses as a result of the boils, because the boils had
developed on the magic-practicing priests and on all the Egyptians.
12 But Jehovah let Pharaoh's heart become
obstinate, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had stated to Moses.
13 Then Jehovah said to Moses: Get up early
in the morning and take a position in front of Pharaoh, and you must say to him,
'This is what Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has said: Send my people away that
they may serve me.
14 For at this time I am sending all my blows
against your heart and upon your servants and your people, to the end that you
may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
15 For by now I could have thrust my hand out
that I might strike you and your people with pestilence and that you might be
effaced from the earth.
16 But, in fact, for this cause I have kept
you in existence, for the sake of showing you my power and in order to have my
name declared in all the earth.
17 Are you still behaving haughtily against
my people in not sending them away?
18 Here I am causing it to rain down tomorrow
about this time a very heavy hail, the like of which has never occurred in Egypt
from the day it was founded until now.
19 And now send, bring all your livestock and
all that is yours in the field under shelter. As for any man and beast that will
be found in the field and not gathered into the house, the hail will have to
come down upon them, and they will have to die.'
20 Anyone who feared Jehovah's word among
Pharaoh's servants caused his own servants and his livestock to flee into the
houses,
21 but whoever did not set his heart to have
any regard for Jehovah's word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
22 Jehovah now said to Moses: Stretch out
your hand toward the heavens, that hail may come on all the land of Egypt, upon
man and beast and all vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt.
23 So Moses stretched out his rod toward the
heavens; and Jehovah gave thunders and hail, and fire would run down to the
earth, and Jehovah kept making it rain down hail upon the land of Egypt.
24 Thus there came hail, and fire quivering
in among the hail. It was very heavy, so that there had not occurred any like it
in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.
25 And the hail went striking at all the land
of Egypt. The hail struck everything that was in the field, from man to beast,
and all sorts of vegetation of the field; and it shattered all sorts of trees of
the field.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons
of Israel were, there occurred no hail.
27 Eventually Pharaoh sent and called Moses
and Aaron and said to them: I have sinned this time. Jehovah is righteous, and I
and my people are in the wrong.
28 Entreat Jehovah that this may be enough of
the occurring of God's thunders and hail. Then I am willing to send you away,
and you will not stay any longer.
29 So Moses said to him: As soon as I go out
of the city I shall spread my hands up to Jehovah. The thunders will stop and
the hail will not continue any longer, in order that you may know that the earth
belongs to Jehovah.
30 As for you and your servants, I know
already that you will not even then show fear because of Jehovah God.
31 As it was, the flax and the barley had
been struck, because the barley was in the ear and the flax had flower buds.
32 But the wheat and the spelt had not been
struck, because they were seasonally late.
33 Moses now went out of the city from
Pharaoh and spread his hands up to Jehovah, and the thunders and the hail began
to stop and rain did not pour down on the earth.
34 When Pharaoh got to see that the rain and
the hail and the thunders had stopped, he went sinning again and making his
heart unresponsive, he as well as his servants.
35 And Pharaoh's heart continued obstinate,
and he did not send the sons of Israel away, just as Jehovah had stated by means
of Moses.
EXODUS CHAPTER 10
1 Then Jehovah said to Moses: Go in to
Pharaoh, because I -- I have let his heart and the hearts of his servants become
unresponsive, in order that I may set these signs of mine right before him,
2 and in order that you may declare in the
ears of your son and your son's son how severely I have dealt with Egypt and my
signs that I have established among them; and you will certainly know that I am
Jehovah.
3 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and
said to him: This is what Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has said, 'How long
must you refuse to submit yourself to me? Send my people away that they may
serve me.
4 For if you continue refusing to send my
people away, here I am bringing locusts within your boundaries tomorrow.
5 And they will actually cover the visible
surface of the earth and it will not be possible to see the earth; and they will
simply eat up the rest of what has escaped, what has been left to you people by
the hail, and they will certainly eat every sprouting tree of yours out of the
field.
6 And your houses and the houses of all your
servants and the houses of all Egypt will be filled to an extent that your
fathers and your fathers' fathers have not seen it from the day of their
existing upon the ground until this day.' With that he turned and went out from
Pharaoh.
7 After that Pharaoh's servants said to him:
How long will this man prove to be as a snare to us? Send the men away that they
may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt has perished?
8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to
Pharaoh, and he said to them: Go, serve Jehovah your God. Who in particular are
the ones going?
9 Then Moses said: With our young people and
our old people we shall go. With our sons and our daughters, with our sheep and
our cattle we shall go, for we have a festival to Jehovah.
10 In turn he said to them: Let it prove to
be so, that Jehovah is with you when I shall send you and your little ones away!
See, on the contrary, something evil is your aim.
11 Not so! Go, please, you who are able-
bodied men, and serve Jehovah, because that is what you are seeking to secure.
With that they were driven out from before Pharaoh.
12 Jehovah now said to Moses: Stretch your
hand out over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the
land of Egypt and eat up all the vegetation of the land, everything that the
hail has let remain.
13 At once Moses stretched his rod out over
the land of Egypt, and Jehovah caused an east wind to blow upon the land all
that day and all night. The morning came and the east wind carried the locusts.
14 And the locusts began to come up over all
the land of Egypt and to settle down upon all the territory of Egypt. They were
very burdensome. Before them there had never turned up in this way locusts like
them, and there will never turn up any in this way after them.
15 And they went covering the visible surface
of the entire land, and the land grew dark; and they went on eating up all the
vegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left;
and there was left nothing green on the trees or on the vegetation of the field
in all the land of Egypt.
16 So Pharaoh hurriedly called Moses and
Aaron and said: I have sinned against Jehovah your God and against you.
17 And now pardon, please, my sin just this
once and entreat Jehovah your God that he may turn away just this deadly plague
from upon me.
18 So he went out from Pharaoh and made
entreaty to Jehovah.
19 Then Jehovah made a shift to a very stiff
west wind, and it carried the locusts away and drove them into the Red Sea. Not
a single locust was let remain in all the territory of Egypt.
20 However, Jehovah let Pharaoh's heart
become obstinate, and he did not send the sons of Israel away.
21 Jehovah then said to Moses: Stretch your
hand out toward the heavens, that darkness may occur over the land of Egypt and
the darkness may be felt.
22 Moses immediately stretched his hand out
toward the heavens, and a gloomy darkness began to occur in all the land of
Egypt for 3 days.
23 They did not see one another, and none of
them got up from his own place 3 days; but for all the sons of Israel there
proved to be light in their dwellings.
24 After that Pharaoh called Moses and said:
Go, serve Jehovah. Only your sheep and your cattle will be detained. Your little
ones also may go with you.
25 But Moses said: You yourself will also
give into our hands sacrifices and burnt offerings, as we must render them to
Jehovah our God.
26 And our livestock will also go with us.
Not a hoof will be allowed to remain, because it is from them that we shall take
some to worship Jehovah our God, and we ourselves do not know what we shall
render in worship to Jehovah until our arriving there.
27 At this Jehovah let Pharaoh's heart become
obstinate, and he did not consent to send them away.
28 So Pharaoh said to him: Get out from me!
Watch yourself! Do not try to see my face again, because on the day of your
seeing my face you will die.
29 To this Moses said: That is the way you
have spoken. I shall not try to see your face anymore.
EXODUS CHAPTER 11
1 And Jehovah proceeded to say to Moses: One
plague more I am going to bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt. After that he will send
you away from here. At the time he sends you away altogether, he will literally
drive you out from here.
2 Speak, now, in the ears of the people, that
they should ask every man of his companion and every woman of her companion
articles of silver and articles of gold.
3 Accordingly Jehovah gave the people favor
in the eyes of the Egyptians. The man Moses too was very great in the land of
Egypt, in the eyes of Pharaoh's servants and in the eyes of the people.
4 And Moses went on to say: This is what
Jehovah has said, 'About midnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt,
5 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt
must die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne to the
firstborn of the maidservant who is at the hand mill and every firstborn of
beast.
6 And there will certainly occur a great
outcry in all the land of Egypt, the like of which has never yet occurred, and
the like of which will never be brought about again.
7 But against any of the sons of Israel will
no dog move eagerly its tongue, from man to beast; in order that you people may
know that Jehovah can make a distinction between the Egyptians and the sons of
Israel.'
8 And all these servants of yours will
certainly come down to me and prostrate themselves to me, saying, 'Go, you and
all the people who follow your steps.' And after that I shall go out. With that
he went out from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.
9 Then Jehovah said to Moses: Pharaoh will
not listen to you men, in order for my miracles to be increased in the land of
Egypt.
10 And Moses and Aaron performed all these
miracles before Pharaoh; but Jehovah would let Pharaoh's heart become obstinate,
so that he did not send the sons of Israel away from his land.
Psalm 78 also covers the 10 plagues...
9 The sons of Ephraim, though armed shooters
of the bow, Retreated in the day of fight.
10 They did not keep the covenant of God, And
in his law they refused to walk.
11 They also began to forget his dealings And
his wonderful works that he caused them to see.
12 In front of their forefathers he had done
marvelously In the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
13 He split the sea, that he might let them
pass over, And he caused the waters to stand like a dam.
14 And he continued to lead them with a cloud
by day And the whole night with a light of fire.
15 He proceeded to split rocks in the
wilderness, That he might cause [them] to drink an abundance just like watery
deeps.
16 And he went bringing forth streams out of
a crag And causing waters to descend just like rivers.
17 And they kept sinning still more against
him By rebelling against the Most High in the waterless region;
18 And they proceeded to test God in their
heart By asking for something to eat for their soul.
19 So they began to speak against God. They
said: Is God able to arrange a table in the wilderness?
20 Look! He struck a rock That waters might
flow and torrents themselves might flood forth. Is he able also to give bread
itself, Or can he prepare sustenance for his people?
21 That was why Jehovah heard and began to be
furious; And fire itself was kindled against Jacob, And anger also ascended
against Israel.
22 For they did not put faith in God, And
they did not trust in salvation by him.
23 And he proceeded to command the cloudy
skies above, And he opened the very doors of heaven.
24 And he kept raining upon them manna to
eat, And the grain of heaven he gave to them.
25 Men ate the very bread of powerful ones;
Provisions he sent them to satisfaction.
26 He began making an east wind burst forth
in the heavens And making a south wind blow by his own strength.
27 And he proceeded to make sustenance rain
upon them just like dust, Even winged flying creatures just like the sand grains
of the seas.
28 And he kept making [them] fall in the
middle of his camp, All around his tabernacles.
29 And they went eating and satisfying
themselves very much, And what they desired he proceeded to bring to them.
30 They had not turned aside from their
desire, While their food was yet in their mouth,
31 When God's wrath itself ascended against
them. And he went killing among their stout ones; And the young men of Israel he
made collapse.
32 Despite all this they sinned some more And
did not put faith in his wonderful works.
33 So he brought their days to an end as if a
mere exhalation, And their years by the disturbance.
34 As often as he killed them, they also
inquired for him, And they returned and looked for God.
35 And they began to remember that God was
their Rock, And that God the Most High was their Avenger.
36 And they tried to fool him with their
mouth; And with their tongue they tried to lie to him.
37 And their heart was not steadfast with
him; And they did not prove faithful in his covenant.
38 But he was merciful; he would cover the
error and not bring ruin. And many times he made his anger turn back, And he
would not rouse up all his rage.
39 And he kept remembering that they were
flesh, That the spirit is going forth [forth
out of their flesh back to God: 'Then
the dust returns to the earth just as it happened to be and the spirit itself
returns to the [true] God who gave it.' (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
and does not come back. [it is now 'you' and
rests in a sleeping angel and does not go back to you defunct human body]
40 How often they would rebel against him in
the wilderness, They would make him feel hurt in the desert!
41 And again and again they would put God to
the test, And they pained even the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember his hand, The day
that he redeemed them from the adversary,
43 How he put his signs in Egypt itself And
his miracles in the field of Zoan [];[another
sub]
44 And how he began changing to blood their
Nile canals, So that they could not drink from their own streams.
45 He proceeded to send upon them gadflies,
that these might eat them up; And frogs, that these might bring them to ruin.
46 And he began to give to the cockroaches
their yield, And their toil to the locusts.
47 He went killing their vine even by the
hail And their sycamore trees by hailstones.
48 And he proceeded to hand over their beasts
of burden even to the hail And their livestock to the flaming fever.
49 He went sending upon them his burning
anger, Fury and denunciation and distress, Deputations of angels bringing
calamity.
50 He proceeded to prepare a pathway for his
anger [like the 7 angels with the 7 bowls of
God's anger]. He did not hold back their soul from death itself; And
their life he handed over even to the pestilence.
51 Finally he struck down all the firstborn
in Egypt, The beginning of their generative power in the tents of Ham.
52 Afterward he caused his people to depart
just like a flock, And conducted them like a drove in the wilderness. [end
of sub]
53 And he kept leading them in security, and
they felt no dread; And the sea covered their enemies themselves.
54 And he proceeded to bring them to his holy
territory, This mountainous region that his right hand acquired. [from
whom? Satan?? ', death ruled as king from Adam down
to Moses' Romans 5:4]
55 And because of them he gradually drove out
the nations, And by the measuring line he went allotting them an inheritance, So
that he caused the tribes of Israel to reside in their own homes.
56 And they began to test and rebel against
God the Most High, And his reminders they did not keep.
57 They also kept turning back and acting
treacherously like their forefathers; They turned around like a loose bow.
58 And they kept offending him with their
high places, And with their graven images they kept inciting him to jealousy.
59 God heard and got to be furious, And so he
contemned Israel very much.
60 And he finally forsook the tabernacle of
Shiloh, The tent in which he resided among earthling men.
61 And he proceeded to give his strength even
to captivity And his beauty into the hand of the adversary.
62 And he kept handing over his people to the
sword itself, And against his inheritance he became furious.
63 His young men a fire ate up, And his
virgins were not praised.
64 As for his priests, they fell by the very
sword, And their own widows did not give way to weeping.
65 Then Jehovah began to awake as from
sleeping, Like a mighty one sobering up from wine.
66 And he went striking down his adversaries
from behind; A reproach of indefinite duration he gave to them.
67 And he proceeded to reject the tent of
Joseph; And the tribe of Ephraim he did not choose.
68 But he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount
Zion, which he loved.
69 And he began to build his sanctuary just
like the heights, Like the earth that he has founded to time indefinite.
70 And so he chose David his servant And took
him from the pens of the flock.
71 From following the females giving suck He
brought him in to be a shepherd over Jacob his people And over Israel his
inheritance.
72 And he began to shepherd them according to
the integrity of his heart, And with the skillfulness of his hands he began
leading them.
A melody of Asaph (Psalm 78).