- Josué 9
  
  1 It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it
  
  2 that they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
  
  3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
  
  4 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,
  
  5 and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.
  
  6 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us."
  
  7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?"
  
  8 They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?"
  
  9 They said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
  
  10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
  
  11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'
  
  12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.
  
  13 These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey."
  
  14 The men sampled their provisions, and didn't ask counsel from the mouth of Yahweh.
  
  15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.
  
  16 It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
  
  17 The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.
  
  18 The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.
  
  19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
  
  20 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them."
  
  21 The princes said to them, "Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them."
  
  22 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you live among us?
  
  23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God."
  
  24 They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
  
  25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do."
  
  26 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.
  
  27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.
  
  Psaumes 140
  
  1 <> Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;
  
  2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
  
  3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
  
  4 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
  
  5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
  
  6 I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
  
  7 Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
  
  8 Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.
  
  9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
  
  10 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
  
  11 An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  
  12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
  
  13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.
  
  Psaumes 141
  
  1 <> Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
  
  2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
  
  3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
  
  4 Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.
  
  5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
  
  6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
  
  7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol ."
  
  8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.
  
  9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
  
  10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.
  
  Jérémie 3
  
  1 "They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.
  
  2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
  
  3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
  
  4 Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
  
  5 "'Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?' Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way."
  
  6 Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
  
  7 I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she didn't return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
  
  8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
  
  9 It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
  
  10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense," says Yahweh.
  
  11 Yahweh said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
  
  12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says Yahweh; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says Yahweh. 'I will not keep anger forever.
  
  13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' says Yahweh."
  
  14 "Return, backsliding children," says Yahweh; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
  
  15 I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
  
  16 It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days," says Yahweh, "they shall say no more, 'The ark of the covenant of Yahweh!' neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.
  
  17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem 'The throne of Yahweh;' and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem. Neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
  
  18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
  
  19 "But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'
  
  20 "Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says Yahweh.
  
  21 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
  
  22 Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
  
  23 Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
  
  24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
  
  25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God."

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