Phrasing
(in progress)
1 Intro
& Contents list
2 Theory
3 Theory
4 Omission
Part words
5 Omission
Whole words
6 Miscellaneous
7 Miscellaneous
8 Intersections
The Lord's Prayer is in 4 Bible versions.
All the other passages are taken from the King James Version
but without the archaic verb endings.
You can read and download as PDF the whole
King James Bible in old 1890's Pitman's Shorthand at
www.archive.org/details/holybiblecontain00pitm There are more
Biblical short forms and contractions in the older shorthand, and
some of the rules and stroke usages are different, but not difficult
to read if you are already conversant with New Era.
King James Version
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom
come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this
day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our
debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Amen. (66 words)
New King James Version
Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your
will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And do
not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For
Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
(66 words)
New International Version Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our
daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our
debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the
evil one. (52 words)
Amplified Bible Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed (kept holy) be Your name.
Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we
also have forgiven (left, remitted, and let go of the debts, and
have given up resentment against) our debtors. And lead (bring) us
not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is
the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. (86 words)
(Matthew 6 v. 9-13)
Heavenly gardens –
Period Garden, Stockwood Park, Luton, Bedfordshire
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down
in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. He restores
my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's
sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for You are with me, Your rod and Your staff
they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my
enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. Surely
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I
will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. (118 words) (Psalm 23 KJV)
Sheep near Jubilee Park, Bromley – River Cray at Orpington, Kent
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a
mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came to him: And he
opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall
be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit
the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall
be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for
righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you, when men shall revile you,
and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you
falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad, for great is
your reward in heaven. For so persecuted they the prophets which
were before you. (172 words) (Matthew 5 v. 1-11)
"Poor" and "pure" note distinguishing outlines. Inserting the
vowel in "pure" helps legibility but could be omitted.
Insert the vowel in "righteousness" to distinguish it from
"riotousness".
"Verily, verily, I say to you, He that
enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other
way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that enters in by the
door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter opens and the
sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads
them out. And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them
and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. And a stranger
will they not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the
voice of strangers."
This parable spoke Jesus to them, but they understood not what
things they were which he spoke to them. Then said Jesus to them
again, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep
did not hear them. I am the door, by me if any man enter in, he
shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief
comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come
that they might have life and that they might have it more
abundantly.
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the
sheep. But he that is a hireling and not the shepherd, whose own the
sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees.
And the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep. The hireling
flees, because he is a hireling and cares not for the sheep. I am
the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine.
"As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father, and I lay down
my life for the sheep; and other sheep I have, which are not of this
fold. Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice,
and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Therefore does my
Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it
again. No man takes it from me but I lay it down of myself. I have
power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. This
commandment have I received of my Father." (400 words)
(John 10 v. 1-18 KJV)
Note: The dictionary outline for
"sheepfold" is one outline, but this causes it to span several
lines: a disjoined outline is shown here.
Jesus the Good Shepherd with His
sheep – stained glass window in Christ Church, Chislehurst, Kent.
The inscription reads, "My sheep hear my voice they follow me and I
give unto them eternal life." (John 10:27-8). Close-up of the
sheep showing the meticulous drawing of the tiniest details, down to
the finest hairs.
He that dwells in the secret place of the most High
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the
Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from
the noisome pestilence. He shall cover you with his feathers, and
under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and
buckler.
You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor
for the arrow that flies by day; nor for the pestilence that walks
in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday. A
thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right
hand; but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you
behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because you have made the Lord, which is my refuge,
even the most High, your habitation; there shall no evil befall you,
neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. For he shall give
his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall
bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the
dragon shall you trample under feet.
Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I
deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in
trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life
will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. (288 words) (Psalm 91 KJV)
"Ten thousand"
– longhand numerals should be used wherever possible. The shorthand
outlines for eight, eighty, ten, eighteen are all too similar.
Secret place – chalk cliff cave at Newhaven in Sussex
And God spoke all these words,
saying, I am the Lord your God, who has
brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods
before me.
You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any
likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall
not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord your
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.
You shall not take the name of
the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless
that takes his name in vain.
Remember the sabbath day, to
keep it holy. Six days shall you labour, and do all your work: but
the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God: in it you shall
not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your
manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger
that is within your gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:
wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Honour your father and your
mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your
God gives thee.
You shall not kill.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false
witness against your neighbour.
You shall not covet your
neighbour's house, you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor
his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor
anything that is your neighbour's. (324 words) (Exodus 20 v. 1-17 KJV)
These commandments can also
be found in Deuteronomy 5 verses 6-21
Moses – Ten Commandments – stained glass window in Christ Church, Chislehurst, Kent.
Seek the Lord while he may be found, call
upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he
will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than
your thoughts.
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns
not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so shall
my word be that goes forth out of my mouth. It shall not return to
me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace. The
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of
the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall
come up the myrtle tree. And it shall be to the Lord for a name, for
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. (243 words) (Isaiah 55 v.
8-13 KJV)
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son
is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his
government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of
David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with
judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of
the Lord of hosts will perform this. (88 words) (Isaiah 9 v 6-7 KJV)
Some versions say “Wonderful Counsellor”
without the comma
Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was
sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin
betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The
virgin’s name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her,
“Rejoice, highly favoured one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you
among women!”
But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered
what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, “Do
not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold,
you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call
His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the
Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father
David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His
kingdom there will be no end.”
Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a
man?”
And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come
upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you;
therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the
Son of God. Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a
son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was
called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible.”
Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me
according to your word.”
And the angel departed from her. (280 words) (Luke
1 v 26-38 KJV)
And it came to pass in those days that a
decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be
registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was
governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own
city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth,
into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because
he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with
Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while
they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered.
And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in
swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no
room for them in the inn.
Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the
fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an
angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone
around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to
them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of
great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you
this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. And
this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in
swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”
And suddenly there was with the angel a
multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: “ Glory to
God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”
So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that
the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and
see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known
to us.”
And they came with haste and found Mary and
Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. Now when they had seen Him,
they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning
this Child. And all those who heard it marvelled at those things
which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these
things and pondered them in her heart. Then the shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard
and seen, as it was told them. (407 words) (Luke 2 v 1-20 KJV)
Modern versions say “swaddling clothes”
rather than “cloths”.
"Bethlehem" When dot H is placed against a vowel, it is
spoken before that vowel; hence the dots are placed before the Em
and not after the Ell stroke.
I wonder if any of our present-day donkeys are
distantly related to the honoured beast that carried Mary along that
dusty road to Bethlehem? You can help out distressed donkeys at The
Donkey Sanctuary, whose website has a live webcam in their barn:
The Brooke
www.thebrooke.org also works to improve the conditions of
working animals of burden, on which many of the world's poorest people rely
for their living, through veterinary services and animal
handling/welfare training.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things." (Philippians 4:8)
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continued prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous
power available, dynamic in its working." James 5 v 16
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