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2 Kings 22:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of this book, to do all the things which are recorded in it.

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But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may get directions from the Lord? And one of the king of Israel's men said in answer, Elisha, the son of Shaphat, is here, who was servant to Elijah.

For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book.

And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.

You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?

From heaven you gave your decision; the earth, in its fear, gave no sound,

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.

And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:

It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.

Then King Zedekiah sent and got him out: and the king, questioning him secretly in his house, said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, There is. Then he said, You will be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon.

But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.

But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;

Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.

Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.

Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.

For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?




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