Whoso fears the Lord, it will go well with him at the last, And in the day of his death he will be blessed.
For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy; And he forgives sins, and saves in time of affliction.
Hear me your father, O my children, And do thereafter, that you⌃ may be saved.
Water will quench a flaming fire; And almsgiving will make atonement for sins.
Make no tarrying to turn to the Lord; And put not off from day to day: For suddenly will the wrath of the Lord come forth; And you will perish in the time of vengeance.
Return to the Lord, and forsake sins: Make your prayer before his face, and lessen the offence.
Turn again to the Most High, and turn away from iniquity; And greatly hate the abominable thing.
How great is the mercy of the Lord, And his forgiveness to those who turn to him!
Before judgement examine yourself; And in the hour of visitation you will find forgiveness.
Let nothing hinder you to pay your vow in due time; And wait not until death to be justified.
If you follow righteousness, you will obtain her, And put her on, as a long robe of glory.
Shut up alms in your store-chambers; And it shall deliver you out of all affliction:
The spirit of those that fear the Lord shall live; For their hope is upon him that saves them.
To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord; And to depart from unrighteousness is an atoning sacrifice.
And let them know you, as we also have known you, That there is no God but only you, O God.
Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, And take them for your inheritance, as from the beginning.
O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by your name, And upon Israel, whom you did liken to a firstborn.
Fill Sion; exalt your oracles, And fill your people with your glory.
At his command is all his good pleasure done; And there is none that shall hinder his salvation.
Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated, Being an example of repentance to all generations.
Noah was found perfect and righteous; In the season of wrath he was taken in exchange for the world; Therefore was there left a remnant to the earth, When the flood came.
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar is the third in glory, In that he was zealous in the fear of the Lord, And stood fast in the good forwardness of his soul when the people turned away, And he made reconciliation for Israel.
Joshua the son of Nun was valiant in war, And was the successor of Moses in prophecies: Who according to his name was made great For the saving of God’s elect, To take vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them, That he might give Israel their inheritance.
And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved To bring them into the heritage, Even into a land flowing with milk and honey.
The Lord took away his sins, And exalted his horn forever; And gave him a covenant of kings, And a throne of glory in Israel.
But the Lord will never forsake his mercy; And he will not destroy any of his works, Nor blot out the posterity of his elect; And the seed of him that loved him he will not take away; And he gave a remnant to Jacob, And to David a root out of him.
Blessed are those who saw you, And those who have been beautified with love; For we also shall surely live.
Also of the twelve prophets May the bones flourish again out of their place. And he comforted Jacob, And delivered them by confidence of hope.
To intrust his mercy with us; And let him deliver us in his time!
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, O King, And will praise you, O God my Saviour: I do give thanks to your name:
And did deliver me, according to the abundance of your mercy, and greatness of your name, From the gnashings of teeth ready to devour, Out of the hand of such as sought my life, Out of the manifold afflictions which I had;
From the choking of a fire on every side, And out of the midst of fire which I kindled not;
Out of the depth of the belly of the grave, And from an unclean tongue, And from lying words,
And I remembered your mercy, O Lord, And your working which has been from everlasting, How you deliver those who wait for you, And save them out of the hand of the enemies.
And I lifted up my supplication from the earth, And prayed for deliverance from death.
I will praise your name continually, And will sing praise with thanksgiving; And my supplication was heard:
For you saved me from destruction, And delivered me from the evil time: Therefore will I give thanks and praise to you, And bless the name of the Lord.
since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have dealt unadvisedly in not hearkening to his voice.
And now, O Lord, you God of Israel, that have brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten yourself a name, as at this day:
Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake, and give us favor in the sight of them which have led us away captive:
that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name.
and shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear:
and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,
and shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more remove my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.
Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk towards her shining in the presence of the light thereof.
Let those who dwell about Sion come, and remember you⌃ the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.
For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.
For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you from the Everlasting your Saviour.
For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever.
For like as now those who dwell about Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.
For he that brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
O Jerusalem, look about you toward the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God.
Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away, they come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.
Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that comes from God forever.
Cast about you the robe of the righteousness which comes from God; set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting.
For God will show your brightness to every region under heaven.
Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look about you toward the east, and behold your children gathered from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
For they went from you on foot, being led away of their enemies: but God brings them in to you borne on high with glory, as on a royal throne.
For God has appointed that every high mountain, and the everlasting hills, should be made low, and the valleys filled up, to make plain the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God.
For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him.
How then can’t men understand that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?
Deliver us not up utterly, for your name’s sake, neither disannul you your covenant:
like as in the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like as in ten thousands of fat lambs; so let our sacrifice be in your sight this day, and grant that we may wholly go after you, for they shall not be ashamed that put their trust in you.
and made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt nor troubled them.
O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless you⌃ the Lord: praise and exalt him above all forever: for he has rescued us from hell, and saved us from the hand of death: he has delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame, even out of the midst of the fire has he delivered us.
Therefore when she was led away to be put to death, God raised up the holy spirit of a young youth, whose name was Daniel:
and he cried with a loud voice, I am clear from the blood of this woman.
With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and blessed God, who saves those who hope in him.
and according to the law of Moses they did to them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbor: and they put them to death, and the innocent blood was saved the same day.
And they rescued the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of the kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.
Hananiah, Azariah, Mishael, believed, and were saved out of the flame.
And the lawless shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were sore troubled, and salvation prospered in his hand.
and he was renowned to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered together such as were ready to perish.
Remember how our fathers were saved in the Red sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with an army.
and all the Gentiles shall know that there is one who redeemeth and saves Israel.
And Israel had a great deliverance that day.
And all the people fell upon their faces, and worshipped, and gave praise to heaven, which had given them good success.
And there was exceeding great gladness among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.
and he gave himself to deliver his people, and to get him an everlasting name;
And he restored to him the captives which he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judah, and he returned and departed into his own land, and came not any more into their borders.
I yield up also my authority over the citadel which is at Jerusalem, and give it to the high priest, that he may appoint in it such men as he shall choose to keep it.
And every soul of the Jews, that has been carried captive from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom, I set at liberty without price; and let all remit the tributes of their cattle also.
Forasmuch as I am returned to my kingdom, and am set on the throne of my fathers, and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius, and have gotten possession of our country;
And they set the city on fire, and got many spoils that day, and saved the king.
for we have the help which is from heaven to help us, and we have been delivered from our enemies, and our enemies have been brought low.
In the hundred and seventies year was the yoke of the heathen taken away from Israel.
And they cried out to Simon, that he should give them his right hand; and he gave it to them: and he put them out from thence, and he cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.
and the people saw the faith of Simon, and the glory which he thought to bring to his nation, and they made him their leader and high priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and the faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to exalt his people:
All the people consented to ordain for Simon that he should do according to these words;
Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly.
who alone suppliest every need, who alone are righteous and almighty and eternal, you that save Israel out of all evil, who made the fathers your chosen, and did sanctify them:
accept the sacrifice for all your people Israel, and guard your own portion, and consecrate it.
Gather together our Dispersion, set at liberty those who are in bondage among the heathen, look upon those who are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that you are our God.
Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said.
Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the hallowing,
So Heliodorus, having offered a sacrifice to the Lord and vowed great vows to him that had saved his life, and having graciously received Onias, returned with his army to the king.
that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and for his ancient friendship with them might be treated kindly.
and that in me and my kindred you may stay the wrath of the Almighty, which has been justly brought upon our whole race.
So he also died pure from pollution, putting his whole trust in the Lord.












