CLV(i)
1 And the righteous one perishes, and no man is laying it to heart, and kind mortals are being gathered, yet no one is understanding. For, in view of the evil, gathered are the righteous,
2 and entering into peace, and resting on their beds, and going in correctness."
3 And you draw near thither, sons of depravity, seed of an adulterer and prostitute."
4 Over whom are you enjoying deliciousness? And over whom are you widening your mouth? Are you sticking out your tongue? Are you not boys of transgression, a seed of falsehood?
5 Warmed with desire among elim under every flourishing tree, slayers of boys in the watercourses under forks of the crags,
6 among slick stones of the watercourse is your portion. They, they are your lot moreover, to them you pour out a libation; you bring up an approach present. Over these shall I regret?
7 On a mountain lofty and lifted up you place your bed. Moreover, there you ascend to sacrifice a sacrifice."
8 And behind the door and the jamb you place your memorial, for, away from Me you roll, yet are you benefiting? You widen your bed and are making your contract with them. You love their bed. A beckoning hand you perceive."
9 And you are surfeiting the king with oil, and you are increasing your compounds from afar, and you are sending your agents unto a far place, and you are lowering unto the unseen."
10 By the multitude of your ways are you wearied, yet you say not `I despair.' A revival of your hand you find, therefore you do not beseech Me."
11 And of whom are you anxious and fearing, that you lie to Me, and Me you do not remember, and do not lay it to heart? Have I not hushed, and this from the eon, yet you are not fearing Me?
12 I, I am telling of My righteousness and of your evil deeds. Your conveners are not benefiting you at your outcry."
13 Are your conveners rescuing you in your distress? Yet all of them shall be carried away by the wind. Vanity shall take them. Yet he who is taking refuge in Me shall be allotted land, and tenant My holy mountain."
14 And he says, "Heap up! Heap up the highway! Surface the way! Heave the stumbling block from the way of my people!"
15 For thus says Yahweh, high and lifted up, who tabernacles the future, and holy is His name:"In the high and holy place am I tabernacling, and with the crushed and lowly spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the lowly, and to preserve alive the heart of the crushed."
16 For not for the eon will I contend, nor will I be permanently wroth, in case the spirit from before Me shall droop, and all who have breath, that I made."
17 At his depravity, for a moment, I was wroth, and I am smiting him. And I conceal My face from him and am wroth when he is going, backsliding in the way of his heart."
18 His ways I see, and I will heal him and comfort him, and I will repay comfort to him and to his mourners."
19 Creator of the produce of the lips, welfare, welfare to the far and to the near,says Yahweh, "and I heal him."
20 Yet the wicked are as the disgorging sea, for quiet it cannot be, and disgorging are its waters foulness and mud."
21 No peace,says Yahweh, my Elohim, "is there for the wicked."