8 And the LORD shall make thee tion, and with a fever, and with an the head, and not the tail; and thou inflammation, and with an extreme shalt be above only, and thou shalt burning, and with the sword, and not be beneath; if that thou hearken with blasting, and with mildew; and unto the commandments of the they shall pursue thee until thou LORD thy God, which I command perish. thee this day, to observe and to do them. 5 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. He shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 6 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save 2 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field; cursed shall be thy basket and thy store; cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy thee. And thou shalt become an asland, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep; cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 3 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken him. tonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. 7 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low; he shall lend to thee and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 8 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be 4 The LORD shall make the pesti- destroyed; because thou hearkenlence cleave unto thee, until he have edst not unto the voice of the LORD consumed thee from off the land, thy God, to keep his commandments whither thou goest to possess it. and his statutes which he comHe shall smite thee with a consump-manded thee: and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a won- his people; Jacob is the lot of his der, and upon thy seed for ever: inheritance. He found him in a because thou servedst not the LORD desert land, and in the waste howlthy God with joyfulness, and with ing wilderness; he led him about, gladness of heart, for the abundance he instructed him, he kept him as of all things. SELECTION X. The song of Moses. the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them AND Moses spake in the ears of on her wings: so the LORD alone all the congregation of Israel did lead him, and there was no the words of this song, until they strange god with him. He made were ended. him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock. 2 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small 6 Of the Rock that begat thee rain upon the tender herb, and as thou art unmindful, and hast forthe showers upon the grass: because gotten God that formed thee. And I will publish the name of the LORD. when the LORD saw it, he abhorred 3 Ascribe ye greatness unto our it, even the provoking of his sons, God. He is the Rock, his work is and of his daughters. And he said, perfect all his ways are judgment: I will hide my face from them, I a God of truth and without iniquity, will see what their end shall be: for just and right is he. they are a very froward generation, 4 They have corrupted them- children in whom is no faith. For selves, their spot is not the spot of they are a nation void of counsel, his children they are a perverse and neither is there any understanding in crooked generation. Do ye thus them. O that they were wise, that requite the LORD, O foolish people they understood this, that they and unwise? is not he thy father would consider their latter end! that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? : How should one chase a thousand of them, and two put ten thousand of them to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 5 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of make haste. For the LORD shall Israel. For the LORD's portion is judge his people, and repent himself 7 To me belongeth vengeance and recompense, saith the LORD; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them Tradition of Moses' death. AND Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and the LORD shewed him all the land drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. 8 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me: I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. 2 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. 9 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea, the son of Nun. And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to 3 So Moses, the servant of the all Israel and said unto them, LORD, died there in the land of Set your hearts unto all the words Moab, according to the word of the which I testify among you this day, LORD. And he buried him in a which ye shall command your chil- valley in the land of Moab, over dren to observe to do, all the words against Beth-peor: but no man of this law. For it is not a vain knoweth of his sepulchre unto this thing for you; because it is your life: there is none like unto God, who 4 And Moses was an hundred and rideth upon the heaven in thy help, twenty years old when he died: his and in his excellency on the sky. eye was not dim, nor his natural The eternal God is thy refuge, and force abated. underneath are the everlasting arms. day. HEBREW SCRIPTURES.-SAMUEL. SELECTION I. Hannah's song of thanksgiving for the birth of Samuel. lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. 2 My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, AND Hannah said, The LORD hath mine horn is exalted in the LORD: I given me my petition which I rejoice in thy salvation: there is asked of him: therefore also I have none holy as the LORD: there is none beside thee: neither is there dim, that he could not see, any rock like our God. and ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; that the LORD called 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him ac- Samuel: and he answered, Here am tions are weighed. The bows of the I. mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength. They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased. 3 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down. 4 And the LORD called yet again, 4 The LORD killeth, and maketh Samuel. And Samuel arose and alive he bringeth down to the grave, went to Eli, and said, Here am I; and bringeth up. The LORD maketh for thou didst call me. And he anpoor, and maketh rich: he bringeth swered, I called not, my son; lie low, and lifteth up. He raiseth up down again. Now Samuel did not the poor out of the dust, and lifteth yet know the LORD, neither was the up the beggar from the dunghill, to word of the LORD yet revealed unto set them among princes, and to him. make them inherit the throne of 5 And the LORD called Samuel glory for the pillars of the earth are again the third time. And he arose the LORD's, and he hath set the and went to Eli, and said, Here am world upon them. I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child; therefore he said unto Samuel, Go, lie down and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place. 5 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed. ¶ Samuel's vision and early piety. 6 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth. 7 And the LORD said to Samuel, AND the child Samuel ministered Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision. 2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he David said unto him, Behold the day knoweth ; because his sons made of which the LORD said unto thee, themselves vile, and he restrained Behold, I will deliver thine enemy them not. into thine hand, that thou mayest do 8 And Samuel lay until the morn- to him as it shall seem good unto ing, and opened the doors of the thee. Then David arose, and cut house of the LORD; but feared to off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. shew Eli the vision. Then Eli call- 3 And it came to pass afterward, ed Samuel, and said, Samuel, my that David's heart smote him, beAnd he answered, Here am I. cause he had cut off Saul's skirt; And he said, What is the thing that and he said unto his men, The LORD the LORD hath said unto thee? I forbid that I should do this thing pray thee hide it not from me: God unto my master, the LORD's anointdo so to thee, and more also, if thou ed, to stretch forth mine hand against hide any thing from me of all the him, seeing he is the anointed of the things that he said unto thee. LORD. So David stayed his servants. with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. 9 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And Eli said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good. 10 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground: and all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that he was established to be a prophet of the LORD. 4 But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way: David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself; and said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy David's loyalty to Saul; and rendering hurt? Behold, this day thine eyes good for evil. SELECTION II. AND it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi. 2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. And the men of have seen how that the LORD had Moreover, my delivered thee to-day into mine |