GRACE UPON GRACE

PSALM 44:9-19 BUT THOU HAST CAST OFF,  AND PUT US TO SHAME;  AND GOEST NOT FORTH  WITH OUR ARMIES.  THOU MAKEST US TO TURN  BACK FROM THE ENEMY:  AND THEY WHICH HATE  US SPOIL FOR THEMSELVES.  THOU HAST GIVEN US LIKE SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT;  AND  HAST SCATTERED US AMONG  THE HEATHEN.  THOU SELLEST  THY PEOPLE FOR NOUGHT,  AND DOST  NOT INCREASE THY  WEALTH BY THEIR PRICE.  THOU MAKEST US  A REPROACH TO OUR NEIGHBOURS,  A SCORN AND A DERISION  TO THEM THAT ARE ROUND  ABOUT US.  THOU MAKEST US  A BYWORD AMONG THE HEATHEN,  A SHAKING OF THE HEAD  AMONG THE PEOPLE.  MY CONFUSION  IS CONTINUALLY BEFORE ME,  AND  THE SHAME OF MY FACE  HATH COVERED ME,  FOR THE VOICE OF HIM  THAT  REPROACHETH AND BLASPHEMETH;  BY REASON OF  THE ENEMY AND AVENGER.  ALL THIS IS COME UPON US;  YET HAVE WE NOT  FORGOTTEN THEE...

1 KINGS 11:1-11  BUT  KING SOLOMON LOVED  MANY STRANGE WOMEN,  TOGETHER WITH  THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH,  WOMEN OF THE MOABITES,  AMMONITES, EDOMITES,  ZIDONIANS, AND HITTITES:  OF THE NATIONS CONCERNING  WHICH THE LORD SAID UNTO  THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,  YE SHALL NOT GO IN TO THEM,  NEITHER SHALL THEY COME  IN UNTO YOU: FOR SURELY THEY  WILL TURN AWAY YOUR  HEART AFTER THEIR GODS:  SOLOMON CLAVE UNTO THESE  IN LOVE.  AND  HE HAD SEVEN HUNDRED WIVES, PRINCESSES,  AND THREE HUNDRED CONCUBINES:  AND  HIS WIVES TURNED AWAY HIS HEART.   FOR IT CAME TO PASS,  WHEN SOLOMON WAS OLD,  THAT HIS WIVES TURNED  AWAY HIS HEART AFTER  OTHER GODS: AND  HIS HEART WAS NOT PERFECT  WITH THE LORD HIS GOD,  AS WAS  THE HEART OF DAVID HIS FATHER. FOR SOLOMON WENT AFTER ASHTORETH THE GODDESS OF THE ZIDONIANS,  AND AFTER  MILCOM THE ABOMIN...

LEVITICUS 23:15-22 AND YE SHALL COUNT  UNTO YOU FROM  THE MORROW AFTER THE SABBATH,  FROM THE DAY THAT YE BROUGHT  THE SHEAF OF THE WAVE OFFERING;  SEVEN SABBATHS SHALL BE COMPLETE: EVEN UNTO THE MORROW AFTER THE SEVENTH SABBATH SHALL YE NUMBER FIFTY DAYS;  AND YE SHALL  OFFER A NEW MEAT OFFERING  UNTO THE LORD. YE SHALL BRING OUT OF YOUR HABITATIONS TWO WAVE LOAVES OF TWO TENTH DEALS; THEY SHALL BE OF FINE FLOUR; THEY SHALL BE BAKEN WITH LEAVEN; THEY ARE THE FIRSTFRUITS UNTO THE LORD.  AND YE SHALL OFFER WITH THE BREAD SEVEN LAMBS WITHOUT BLEMISH OF THE FIRST YEAR,  AND ONE YOUNG BULLOCK,  AND TWO RAMS:  THEY SHALL BE FOR A BURNT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD,  WITH THEIR MEAT OFFERING,  AND THEIR DRINK OFFERINGS,  EVEN AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE,  OF SWEET SAVOUR UNTO THE LORD.   THEN YE SHALL SACRIFICE  ONE KID OF THE GOATS FOR A SIN OFFERING, AND TWO LAMBS OF THE FIRST YEAR FOR A SACRIFICE OF PEACE OFFE...

PROVERBS 8:1-12 DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY?  AND UNDERSTANDING PUT  FORTH HER VOICE? SHE STANDETH IN THE  TOP OF HIGH PLACES,  BY THE WAY IN  THE PLACES OF THE PATHS.   SHE CRIETH AT THE GATES,  AT THE ENTRY OF THE CITY,  AT THE COMING IN AT THE DOORS.  UNTO YOU, O MEN, I CALL;  AND  MY VOICE IS TO  THE SONS OF MAN.  O YE SIMPLE,  UNDERSTAND WISDOM:  AND, YE FOOLS,  BE YE OF  AN UNDERSTANDING HEART.  HEAR; FOR I WILL  SPEAK OF EXCELLENT THINGS;  AND  THE OPENING OF MY LIPS SHALL  BE RIGHT THINGS.  FOR MY MOUTH SHALL  SPEAK TRUTH; AND WICKEDNESS  IS AN ABOMINATION TO MY LIPS.  ALL THE WORDS OF  MY MOUTH ARE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS;  THERE IS NOTHING  FROWARD OR PERVERSE IN THEM.     THEY ARE ALL PLAIN TO HIM THAT UNDERSTANDETH, AND RIGHT  TO THEM THAT FIND KNOWLEDGE.   RECEIVE MY INSTRUCTION,  AND NOT SILVER;  AND KNOWL...

 NUMBERS 24:15-18 AND HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE,  AND SAID, BALAAM THE SON OF  BEOR HATH SAID,  AND  THE MAN WHOSE EYES  ARE OPEN HATH SAID: HE HATH SAID,  WHICH HEARD THE WORDS OF GOD,  AND KNEW  THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOST HIGH,  WHICH SAW  THE VISION OF THE ALMIGHTY,  FALLING INTO A TRANCE,  BUT HAVING HIS EYES OPEN:  I SHALL SEE HIM,  BUT NOT NOW:  I SHALL BEHOLD HIM,  BUT NOT NIGH:  THERE SHALL COME  A STAR OUT OF JACOB,  AND   A SCEPTRE SHALL RISE OUT OF ISRAEL,  AND  SHALL SMITE THE CORNERS OF MOAB,  AND DESTROY  ALL THE CHILDREN OF SHETH.  AND  EDOM SHALL BE A POSSESSION,  SEIR ALSO SHALL BE  A POSSESSION FOR HIS ENEMIES;  AND  ISRAEL SHALL DO VALIANTLY. LOVE

 MALACHI 3:9-13 YE ARE CURSED WITH A CURSE:  FOR YE HAVE ROBBED ME,  EVEN THIS WHOLE NATION.  BRING YE ALL THE TITHES  INTO THE STOREHOUSE,  THAT THERE MAY BE MEAT  IN MINE HOUSE,  AND PROVE ME  NOW HEREWITH,  SAITH THE LORD  OF HOSTS,  IF I WILL NOT OPEN YOU  THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN,  AND POUR YOU OUT A BLESSING,  THAT THERE SHALL NOT  BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE IT. AND  I WILL REBUKE THE DEVOURER  FOR YOUR SAKES,  AND HE SHALL NOT DESTROY  THE FRUITS OF YOUR GROUND;  NEITHER SHALL YOUR VINE  CAST HER FRUIT BEFORE THE TIME  IN THE FIELD,  SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. AND  ALL NATIONS SHALL CALL YOU BLESSED:  FOR YE SHALL BE A DELIGHTSOME LAND,  SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.  YOUR WORDS HAVE BEEN  STOUT AGAINST ME,  SAITH THE LORD.  YET YE SAY, WHAT HAVE WE SPOKEN SO MUCH AGAINST THEE?    LOVE