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Psalm 11

¹In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
²For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
³If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
⁴The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
⁵The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
⁶Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
⁷For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

Psalm 12

¹Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
²They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
³The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
⁴Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
⁵For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
⁶The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
⁷Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
⁸The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

2And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
²And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
³And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
⁴For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God.
⁵And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
⁶And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
⁷And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
⁸But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
⁹And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
¹⁰And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

¹⁹And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
²⁰And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
²¹And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
²²Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
²³He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
²⁴And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
²⁵And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
²⁶John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
²⁷He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
²⁸These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
²⁹The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
³⁰This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
³¹And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
³²And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
³³And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
³⁴And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.