分類: Selected Bible Stories

51:1. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
51:2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
51:3. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
51:4. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
51:5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
51:6. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
51:7. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
51:8. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
51:9. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
51:10. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
51:11. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
51:12. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
51:13. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
51:14. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
51:15. O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
51:16. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
51:17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
51:18. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
51:19. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

46:1. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
46:2. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
46:3. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
46:4. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
46:5. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
46:6. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
46:7. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
46:8. Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
46:9. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
46:10. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
46:11. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

23:1. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
23:2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
23:3. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
23:4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
23:5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
23:6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

1:1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
1:2. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
1:3. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
1:4. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
1:5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
1:6. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

3:16. Then came there two women, that were harlot, unto the king, and stood before him.
3:17. And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
3:18. And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
3:19. And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
3:20. And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
3:21. And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
3:22. And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
3:23. Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
3:24. And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
3:25. And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
3:26. Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
3:27. Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
3:28. And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

20:1. And God spake all these words, saying,
20:2. I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
20:3. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
20:4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
20:5. thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
20:6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
20:7. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
20:8. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
20:9. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
20:10. but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
20:11. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
20:12. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
20:13. Thou shalt not kill.
20:14. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
20:15. Thou shalt not steal.
20:16. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
20:17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

14:21. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
14:22. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
14:23. And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
14:24. And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
14:25. And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
14:26. And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
14:27. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
14:28. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
14:29. But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
14:30. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
14:31. And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.

11:1. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
11:2. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
11:3. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
11:4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
11:5. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
11:6. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
11:7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
11:8. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
11:9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

8:1. And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged.
8:2. The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
8:6. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
8:7. And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8:8. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.
8:9. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
8:10. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
8:11. And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, Io, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
8:12. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
8:13. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
8:14. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
8:15. And God spake unto Noah, saying,
8:16. Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
8:18. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
8:19. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

7:1. And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
7:2. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
7:3. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
7:4. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
7:5. And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
7:11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
7:12. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
7:13. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
7:14. They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
7:15. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
7:16. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
7:17. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
7:21. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.
7:22. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.