Job 20 Cross References - ACV

¹ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said, ² Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste that is in me. ³ I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answers me. ⁴ Know thou this of old time, since man was placed upon earth, ⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment? ⁶ Though his height mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds, ⁷ yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he? ⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him. ¹⁰ His sons shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall give back his wealth. ¹¹ His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust. ¹² Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue, ¹³ though he spares it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth, ¹⁴ yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is the gall of asps within him. ¹⁵ He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly. ¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps. The viper's tongue shall kill him. ¹⁷ He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. ¹⁸ That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice. ¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. ²⁰ Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save any of that in which he delights. ²¹ There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure. ²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him. ²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating. ²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through. ²⁵ He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body, yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him. ²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. ²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath. ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

¹¹ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place-Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite-and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.

¹ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did according as LORD commanded them, and LORD accepted Job.

² If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

¹⁹ Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.

³ I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

¹³ Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man. ¹⁴ For he has not directed his words against me. Neither will I answer him with your speeches. ¹⁵ They are amazed, they answer no more. They have not a word to say. ¹⁶ And shall I wait because they do not speak, because they stand still, and answer no more? ¹⁷ I also will answer my part. I also will show my opinion, ¹⁸ for I am full of words. The spirit within me compels me. ¹⁹ Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent. Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst. ²⁰ I will speak that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

²² As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes. Nevertheless thou heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.

² I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good, and my sorrow was stirred. ³ My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

¹¹ I said in my haste, All men are liars.

²⁹ He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

²⁰ See thou a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

⁹ And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot.

²⁵ And having come in straightaway with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I want that thou may give me, of it on a platter, the head of John the immerser.

² For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

³ These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

²⁹ be ye afraid of the sword. For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

² Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste that is in me.

¹¹ I will teach you concerning the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

³ My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart, and that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

³ My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

² I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter dark sayings of old, ³ which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴ We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done. ⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their sons,

²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and have power over it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth. ² And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, with all with which the ground teems, and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. ³ Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all.

⁸ For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out ⁹ (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

¹⁰ With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.

⁷ I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

¹⁶ The heavens are the heavens of LORD, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. ¹⁰ Thou did blow with thy wind, the sea covered them. They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

²¹ And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he did grinding in the prison-house. ²² However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. ²³ And the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice, for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they praised their god, for they said, Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country who has slain many of us. ²⁵ And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make sport to us. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them. And they set him between the pillars. ²⁶ And Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, Allow me that I may feel the pillars upon which the house rests, that I may lean upon them. ²⁷ Now the house was full of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there. And there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, who beheld while Samson made sport. ²⁸ And Samson called to LORD, and said, O lord LORD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. ²⁹ And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and leaned upon them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left. ³⁰ And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might, and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those that he killed in his life.

¹¹ And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king. ¹² Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself, and tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

¹² While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb. ¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.

²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth. ³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of God's mouth he shall go away. ³¹ Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense. ³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree. ³⁴ For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

⁵ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. ⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.

⁸ For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation. ¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. ¹⁸ He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes. ¹⁹ He lies down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers. He opens his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place. ²² For God shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand. ²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

³⁵ I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. ³⁶ But I passed by, and, lo, he was not. Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹⁸ Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction. ¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.

²¹ Not every man who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father in the heavens.

²⁰ And that which was sown upon the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and straightaway receiving it with joy, ²¹ yet he has no root in himself, instead it is temporary. And when tribulation or persecution develops because of the word, straightaway he is caused to stumble.

²² And the populace shouted, The voice of a god, and not of a man. ²³ And immediately an agent of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

⁴ But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.

¹⁶ But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us build a city for us, and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for us, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

¹³ And thou said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north. ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High.

¹¹ The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to heaven, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth.

²² it is thou, O king, who have grown and become strong. For thy greatness has grown, and reaches to heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

² Though they dig into Sheol, from there my hand shall take them, and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

³ The pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from there, says LORD.

²³ And thou, Capernaum, which was exalted as far as the sky. Thou will be brought down as far as Hades, because if the mighty works had occurred in Sodom that occurred in thee, it would have remained until this day.

¹⁰ therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam as a man sweeps away dung, till it be all gone.

³⁷ and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

²⁰ Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.

¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

¹⁰ But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

¹⁰ who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

² And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered, nor be buried. They shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub, and flew. Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.

²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.

⁵ Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.

⁷ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. ⁸ And it shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats. But he awakes, and his soul is empty. Or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks. But he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite. So shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against mount Zion.

⁸ The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

⁷ yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

³ (For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.)

¹⁰ For yet a little while, and the wicked man shall not be. Yea, thou shall diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.

³⁶ But I passed by, and, lo, he was not. Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.

² For if thou refuse to let them go, and will still hold them,

³⁶ And LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.

¹ If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

³ If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. A thief shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

⁶ And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

⁴ His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

¹⁸ That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.

³¹ Yet if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold. He shall give all the substance of his house.

³ A needy man who oppresses the poor is a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

⁸ And having stood, Zacchaeus said to the Lord, Behold, half of the things possessed by me, Lord, I give to the poor. And if I defrauded any man of anything, I repay fourfold.

²⁶ For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

²⁰ My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

¹¹ and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. ¹³ Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

²² His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin. ²³ He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

³² An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

¹³ In thy filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed thee and thou were not cleansed, thou shall not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.

²⁷ And they shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads. But their iniquities are upon their bones, for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

²¹ Jesus therefore again said to them, I go, and ye will seek me, and ye will die in your sin. Where I go, ye cannot come.

²⁴ I said therefore to you that ye will die in your sins. For unless ye believe that I am he, ye will die in your sins.

²⁵ to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas transgressed to go to his own place.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

¹⁷ Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him. ¹⁸ He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread in secret is pleasant. ¹⁸ But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

¹⁷ Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

¹⁸ And say thou to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh, for ye have wept in the ears of LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. ¹⁹ Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, ²⁰ but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you, because ye have rejected LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?

²⁹ And if thy right eye causes thee to stumble, remove it and cast it from thee, for it is advantageous for thee that one of thy body-parts should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. ³⁰ And if thy right hand causes thee to stumble, cut it off and cast it from thee, for it is advantageous for thee that one of thy body-parts should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

⁴³ And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off. It is good for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire, ⁴⁴ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off. It is good for thee to enter into life crippled, than having thy two feet to be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire ⁴⁶ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, pluck it out. It is good for thee to enter into the kingdom of God one-eyed, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire, ⁴⁸ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹ For every man will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt material.

¹³ For if ye live according to flesh, ye are going to die, but if in spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye will live.

²⁴ to be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. And I will send upon them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.

² And it came to pass at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. ³ And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her. And she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness), and she returned to her house. ⁵ And the woman conceived. And she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. ¹¹ Thus says LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. And I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.

¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou have broken may rejoice. ⁹ Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

³¹ Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

²⁰ Be not among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of flesh. ²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

²⁹ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? ³⁰ Those who tarry long at the wine. Those who go to seek out mixed wine. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. ³² At the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. ³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. ³⁴ Yea, thou shall be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies upon the top of a mast. ³⁵ They have stricken me, thou shall say, and I was not hurt. They have beaten me, and I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, LORD of hosts.

² If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

¹³ Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,

⁸ The morsel which thou have eaten thou shall vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

³ Then Judas, who betrayed him, after seeing that he was condemned, having repented, he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the chief priests and elders, ⁴ saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it.

⁶ The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people who shall not profit them.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?

³ And Paul having gathered a quantity of sticks, and having placed them on the fire, a viper having come out from the heat, it fastened on his hand. ⁴ And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, Justice did not allow to live. ⁵ Indeed therefore having shaken off the creature into the fire, he experienced nothing harmful. ⁶ But they expected he was going to swell up, or suddenly fall down dead, but when they were long expecting, and seeing nothing amiss happening to him, thinking differently, they declared him to be a god.

²³ surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them who despised me see it.

¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the increase of the field, and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock, ¹⁴ butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat, and of the blood of the grape thou drank wine.

²⁹ and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat. For they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

² Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shall see it with thine eyes, but shall not eat of it.

⁶ when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil to me,

⁸ They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou will make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. ⁹ For with thee is the fountain of life. In thy light we shall see light.

¹⁶ He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat. And I would satisfy thee with honey out of the rock.

¹⁵ Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

²² And it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter. For everyone who is left in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.

¹⁷ The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst. I, LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. ⁷ Blessed is the man who trusts in LORD, and whose trust LORD is. ⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green, and shall not be worried in the year of drought, nor shall cease from yielding fruit.

²⁴ And having cried out, he said, Father Abraham, be merciful to me, and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?

¹⁰ His sons shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall give back his wealth.

¹⁵ He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

²⁵ if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

²⁹ if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

⁷ The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted do sigh. ⁸ The mirth of tambourine ceases. The noise of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. ⁹ They shall not drink wine with a song. Strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. ¹⁰ The waste city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. ¹¹ There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

¹⁵ What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh has passed from thee? When thou do evil, then thou rejoice. ¹⁶ LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit. With the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

¹³ Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not his hire,

¹⁷ But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

³⁴ Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

⁴⁴ And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow any more to him. Yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

¹⁶ All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

¹² The time has come; the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all the multitude of it.

⁷ For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up. ⁸ Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which no man delights.

¹ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy like the peoples, for thou have played the harlot, departing from thy God. Thou have loved hire upon every grain-floor.

⁴ Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

¹³ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

²⁴ Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.

⁸ Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.

³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation eat up which thou know not. And thou shall only be oppressed and crushed always,

³ Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you. ⁴ And they said, Thou have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have thou taken anything of any man's hand.

¹⁹ And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, Have thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me. ²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?

⁶ For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

² There are men who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them. ³ They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge. ⁴ They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves. ⁵ Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their sons. ⁶ They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked. ⁷ They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. ⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. ⁹ There are men who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor, ¹⁰ so that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves. ¹¹ They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. ¹² From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.

¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it ¹⁸ (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb); ¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, ²² then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

³⁸ If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,

⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may no more be terrible.

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ²³ For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

¹ Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter. And on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.

⁸ If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For a man higher than the high is observing, and there are higher men than they.

⁷ For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry. ⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

³⁴ To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yea, they have vexed the poor and needy man, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

¹ Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink. ² The lord LORD has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks. ³ And ye shall go out at the breaches, each one straight before her, and ye shall cast yourselves into Harmon, says LORD.

² And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

⁹ Ye cast out the women of my people from their pleasant houses. Ye take away my glory from their young sons forever.

⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich exploit you, and they themselves drag you into courts?

¹³ For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

¹³ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches were kept by the owner of it to his hurt. ¹⁴ And those riches perish in a bad venture. And if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. ²¹ There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.

²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

¹¹ As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

²⁴ And having cried out, he said, Father Abraham, be merciful to me, and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

² And LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the sons of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of LORD, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

¹⁵ and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

¹¹ God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

⁷ The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

⁵ Behold, thou have made my days as handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

¹⁸ And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. ²⁰ Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

⁶ I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷ In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.

²⁴ Then LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from LORD out of heaven.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven, and LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth, and LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

³³ While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of LORD was kindled against the people, and LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

⁶ He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

³⁰ They were not estranged from that which they desired. Their food was yet in their mouths ³¹ when the anger of God went up against them, and killed of the fattest of them, and smote down the young men of Israel.

⁴ My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

¹⁷ And he pondered within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have nowhere I will store my crops? ¹⁸ And he said, I will do this. I will dismantle my barns, and I will build greater, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

³⁵ He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.

³⁰ But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city, and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men who were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

¹⁸ And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

⁴³ Fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, says LORD. ⁴⁴ He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says LORD.

¹⁹ As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

¹ I saw the Lord standing beside the altar. And he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake, and break them in pieces on the head of all of them, and I will kill the last of them with the sword. There shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. ² Though they dig into Sheol, from there my hand shall take them, and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. ³ And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

⁴¹ if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

¹⁴ Then Joab said, I will not delay thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

¹³ His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground.

¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.

¹² If a man does not repent, he will whet his sword. He has bent his bow, and made it ready.

¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.

³ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, LORD has not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib. ⁴ For thus says LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends. And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.

¹¹ Having seen therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

⁹ Thou will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

⁹ Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places. ¹¹ Let a creditor exact all that he has, and let strangers make spoil of his labor. ¹² Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons. ¹³ Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out. ¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵ Let them be before LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

²² And they shall look to the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness to be driven away.

²⁰ Thou shall not be joined with them in burial, because thou have destroyed thy land. Thou have slain thy people. The seed of evildoers shall not be named forever. ²¹ Prepare ye slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities. ²² And I will rise up against them, says LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says LORD.

³³ For a Topheth is prepared of old, yea, it is made ready for the king. He has made it deep and large. The pile of it is fire and much wood. The breath of LORD kindles it, like a stream of brimstone.

¹² Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

²⁸ Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

¹⁸ O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting place.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god, ²¹ will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

²¹ For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

²³ because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I did not command them. And I am he who knows, and am witness, says LORD.

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says LORD of hosts.

² But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. ³ Therefore, as many things as ye have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed upon the housetops.

¹⁶ in a day when God judges the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my good news.

⁵ Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

³¹ Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shall not eat of it. Thy donkey shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee. Thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shall have none to save thee.

¹⁷ Behold, the days come that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says LORD.

⁵ whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.

¹⁸ That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice. ¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. ²⁰ Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save any of that in which he delights. ²¹ There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure. ²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him.

³⁰ that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

¹⁴ If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation. ¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. ¹⁸ He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes. ¹⁹ He lies down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

⁴ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of LORD's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

²⁶ For what does it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

¹ Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. ² Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days.

¹⁷ Because in one hour such great wealth was devastated. And every shipmaster, and every man who sails anywhere, and sailors, and as many as work by sea, stood from afar

²⁰ LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And LORD will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. ²² And the generation to come, your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the calamities of that land, and the sicknesses with which LORD has made it sick. ²³ The whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath, ²⁴ even all the nations shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger? ²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given to them. ²⁷ Therefore the anger of LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book. ²⁸ And LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.

²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

² For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high? ³ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

⁵ LORD tries the righteous man, but his soul hates the wicked man and him who loves violence. ⁶ He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good?

⁵¹ and he will cut him in two, and place his share with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.