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Psalm 142

¹I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication.
²I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
³When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
⁴I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
⁵I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
⁶Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
⁷Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

Psalm 143

¹Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
²And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
³For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
⁴Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
⁵I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
⁶I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
⁷Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
⁸Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
⁹Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
¹⁰Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
¹¹Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
¹²And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

3For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
²I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
³And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
⁴Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
⁵Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
⁶The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
⁷Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
⁸And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

3This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
²That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
³Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
⁴And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
⁵For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
⁶Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
⁷But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
⁸But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.