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Psalm 84

¹How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
³Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
⁶Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
⁷They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
⁸O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
⁹Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
¹⁰For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
¹²O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

29Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
²Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
³And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
⁴And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
⁹Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
¹⁰For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
¹¹And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
¹²And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
¹³Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
¹⁴Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

5And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
²And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
³Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
⁴Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
⁵And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
⁶But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
⁷And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
⁸For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
⁹And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
¹⁰And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
¹¹Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
¹²And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
¹³And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
¹⁴And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
¹⁵And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
¹⁶And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
¹⁷And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
¹⁸And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
¹⁹Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
²⁰And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.