- Josué 8
  
  1 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
  
  2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."
  
  3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
  
  4 He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don't go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
  
  5 I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
  
  6 They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,
  
  7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
  
  8 It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the word of Yahweh. Behold, I have commanded you."
  
  9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
  
  10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
  
  11 All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
  
  12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
  
  13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
  
  14 It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
  
  15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
  
  16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
  
  17 There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
  
  18 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
  
  19 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.
  
  20 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
  
  21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.
  
  22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
  
  23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
  
  24 It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
  
  25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
  
  26 For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
  
  27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.
  
  28 So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
  
  29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
  
  30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
  
  31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings.
  
  32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
  
  33 All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh's covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
  
  34 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
  
  35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
  
  Psaumes 139
  
  1 <> Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
  
  2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
  
  3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
  
  4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
  
  5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
  
  6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
  
  7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
  
  8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol , behold, you are there!
  
  9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
  
  10 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
  
  11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night";
  
  12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
  
  13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
  
  14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
  
  15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
  
  16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
  
  17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
  
  18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
  
  19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
  
  20 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
  
  21 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
  
  22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
  
  23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
  
  24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
  
  Jérémie 2
  
  1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
  
  2 "Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
  
  3 Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,"' says Yahweh."
  
  4 Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!
  
  5 Thus says Yahweh, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
  
  6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'
  
  7 I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
  
  8 The priests didn't say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law didn't know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
  
  9 "Therefore I will yet contend with you," says Yahweh, "and I will contend with your children's children.
  
  10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.
  
  11 Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
  
  12 "Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate," says Yahweh.
  
  13 "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  
  14 Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born slave? Why has he become a prey?
  
  15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
  
  16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
  
  17 "Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God , when he led you by the way?
  
  18 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
  
  19 "Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
  
  20 "For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
  
  21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
  
  22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord Yahweh.
  
  23 "How can you say, 'I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
  
  24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
  
  25 "Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'
  
  26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
  
  27 who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise, and save us.'
  
  28 "But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.
  
  29 "Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says Yahweh.
  
  30 "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  
  31 Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'
  
  32 "Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
  
  33 How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.
  
  34 Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
  
  35 "Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'
  
  36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
  
  37 From there also you shall go forth, with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.

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