if I whet My glittering sword, and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, and repay those who hate Me.

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the heads of the commanders of the enemy.

In that day Jehovah with His great and fierce and strong sword shall punish Leviathan, the fleeing serpent; Leviathan, that twisted serpent; and He shall kill the dragon in the sea.

O sword of Jehovah, how long will it be until you are quiet? Put yourself into your sheath; rest and be still.

Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked from you, therefore My sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north,

that all flesh may know that I, Jehovah, have drawn My sword out of its sheath; it shall not return anymore.

Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says Jehovah! Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished!

It is sharpened to slaughter and butcher, polished to flash like lightning! Should we then make mirth? It despises the scepter of My son, as every tree.

And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for slaughter, for consuming, for flashing;

For thus says Jehovah my God, Feed the flock for slaughter,

And I fed the flock of slaughter, the truly poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for Myself: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds. And I fed the flock.

He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those who are with young.

I will raise up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them; My servant David. He shall feed them and be their Shepherd.

And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and My Servant David a prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken.

And David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one Shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and keep My statutes, and do them.

And you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are insignificant among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity.

And He shall stand and feed His flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God. And they shall dwell, for now He shall be great to the ends of the earth.

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

I am the Good Shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.

And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must lead, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one Shepherd.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This precept I have received from My Father.

Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Strong and Mighty God, The Eternal Father, The Prince of Peace.

Behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King who shall reign and act prudently, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the earth.

In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is His name by which He shall be called, JEHOVAH, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he contended with God.

even Jehovah the God of Hosts. Jehovah is His memorial.

Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which is translated, God with us.

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now, and I work.

Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who has sent Him.

Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came to be, I AM.

I and the Father are One.

but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.

Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how do you say, Show us the Father?

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me; or if not, believe Me on account of the works themselves.

All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will receive from what is Mine and make it known to you.

that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made complete in one, and that the world may know that You sent Me, and love them as You love Me.

who, being in the form of God, did not consider clinging, to be equal with God,

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

For it is good that in Him all the fullness should dwell,

And again, when He brings the Firstborn into the world, He says: Let all the angels of God do homage to Him.

But to the Son He says: Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your Kingdom.

And: You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Your hands.

like a cloak You will fold them up, and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not fail.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last; and, What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, Do not be terrified; I am the First and the Last.

And I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the inner thoughts and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

And He said to me, It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending. I will give of the fountain of the Water of Life freely to him who thirsts.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last.

But outside are dogs and sorcerers and prostitutes and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and produces a lie.

Truly He has borne our sicknesses, and carried our pain; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of My people He was stricken.

Yet it pleased Jehovah to crush Him; to grieve Him; that He should give His soul as a sin-offering. He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in His hand.

Seventy weeks are decreed regarding your people, and regarding your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.

And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of a coming ruler shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end shall be with a flood, and desolations are determined, and there shall be war until the end.

The next day John sees Jesus coming toward him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone believing into Him should not perish but have eternal life.

Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers themselves were gathered against the Lord and against His Christ.

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

to prove at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who is of the faith of Jesus.

who was delivered up because of our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree),

For it is good that in Him all the fullness should dwell,

and by Him making peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in the heavens.

Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.

Then I said, Behold, I have come (In the volume of the book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God.

then He said, Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God. He takes away the first in order that He may establish the second.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your vain way of life received by tradition from your fathers,

He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you

who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

In this the love of God was revealed in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

And all who dwell on the earth will do homage to him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Then Jesus said to them, All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.

But all this is happening that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.

And Jesus said to them, All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.

And they all forsook Him and fled.

Behold, the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you are scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

And I fed the flock of slaughter, the truly poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for Myself: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds. And I fed the flock.

And it was broken in that day, and so the poor of the flock who were watching Me knew that it was the Word of Jehovah.

And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.

Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in Heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in Heaven.

For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Do not fear, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Jesus answered, I have told you that I AM. Therefore, if you seek Me, let these go their way;

that the saying might be fulfilled which He spoke, Of those whom You gave Me I have lost not one.