The Garment Of Praise

To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah--to be beautified.'

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem--the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean. — read the full passage →

Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'

for every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

`I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands. — read the full passage →

Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him; — read the full passage →

yet to us <FI>is<Fi> one God, the Father, of whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and we through Him;

I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages; — read the full passage →

`For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said--A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you;

Sing ye to Jehovah, praise Jehovah, For He hath delivered the soul of the needy From the hand of evil doers.

Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, — read the full passage →

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?' — read the full passage →

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.

Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What <FI>is<Fi> His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!

For Jehovah is pleased with His people, He beautifieth the humble with salvation.

And God saith unto Moses, `I AM THAT WHICH I AM;' He saith also, `Thus dost thou say to the sons of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.'

`I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming--the Almighty.'

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee--God, thy God--with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me; — read the full passage →

`From this time I tell you, before its coming to pass, that, when it may come to pass, ye may believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> ;

`I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was <FI>one<Fi> coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

And thy people <FI>are<Fi> all of them righteous, To the age they possess the earth, A branch of My planting, A work of My hands, to be beautified.

Ye <FI>are<Fi> My witnesses, an affirmation of Jehovah, And My servant whom I have chosen, So that ye know and give credence to Me, And understand that I <FI>am<Fi> He, Before Me there was no God formed, And after Me there is none.

And Mordecai went out from before the king, in royal clothing of blue and white, and a great crown of gold, and a garment of fine linen and purple, and the city of Shushan hath rejoiced and been glad;

My strength and song is JAH, And He is become my salvation: This <FI>is<Fi> my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him.

and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.'

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

and some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, `Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk? — read the full passage →

when, therefore, he said to them--`I am <FI>he<Fi> ,' they went away backward, and fell to the ground.

`In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

`And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast,

`Hitherto <FI>is<Fi> the end of the matter. I, Daniel, greatly do my thoughts trouble me, and my countenance is changed on me, and the matter in my heart I have kept.

And wine--it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread--the heart of man it supporteth.

A Psalm of Thanksgiving. Shout to Jehovah, all the earth. — read the full passage →

And at the present of the evening I have risen from mine affliction, and at my rending my garment and my upper robe, then I bow down on my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God,

and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue, — read the full passage →

for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth--as there are gods many and lords many--

For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

ye heard that I said to you--I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said--I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him; — read the full passage →

I and the Father are one.'

my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish--to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; — read the full passage →

and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.' — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father--he did declare.

Then said he to them, `But, now, he who is having a bag, let him take <FI>it<Fi> up, and in like manner also a scrip; and he who is not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword,

and he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness, — read the full passage →

and Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, `I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ--the Son of God.' — read the full passage →

and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless.

A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.

--A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

`The habiliments of a man are not on a woman, nor doth a man put on the garment of a woman, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> any one doing these.

He <FI>is<Fi> thy praise, and He <FI>is<Fi> thy God, who hath done with thee these great and fearful <FI>things<Fi> which thine eyes have seen:

`My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender <FI>with<Fi> diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.

`This <FI>is<Fi> the law of a plague of leprosy <FI>in<Fi> a garment of wool or of linen, or of the warp or of the woof, or of any vessel of skin, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.'

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it, — read the full passage →

`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'

Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods? — read the full passage →

The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'

and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,

others said--`This is he;' and others--`He is like to him;' he himself said, --`I am <FI>he<Fi> .'

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'

I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> , ye shall die in your sins.'

and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true; — read the full passage →

`But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me. — read the full passage →

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;' — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals--he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;