Psalm 18

¹I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
²The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
³I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
⁴The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
⁵The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
⁶In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
⁷Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
⁸There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
¹¹He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
¹²At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
¹³The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
¹⁴Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
¹⁵Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
¹⁶He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
¹⁸They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
¹⁹He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
²⁰The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

12Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
²While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
³In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
⁴And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
⁵Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
⁶Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
⁷Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
⁸Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
⁹And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
¹⁰The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
¹¹The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
¹²And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
¹³Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

24And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
²And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
³And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
⁴And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
⁵For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
⁶And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
⁸All these are the beginning of sorrows.
⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my names sake.
¹⁰And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
¹¹And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
¹²And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
¹³But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.