Proverbs 30 Cross References - CAB

¹ These things says the man to them that trust in God; and I cease. ² For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men. ³ God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the Holy One. ⁴ Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? Who has gathered the winds in His bosom? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? What is His name? Or what is the name of His children? ⁵ For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and He defends those that reverence Him. ⁶ Add not unto His words, lest He reprove you, and you be made a liar. ⁷ Two things I ask of you; take not favor from me before I die. ⁸ Remove vanity and falsehood far from me, and give me neither wealth nor poverty, but appoint to me what is needful and sufficient: ⁹ lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? Or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God. ¹⁰ Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master, lest he curse you, and you be utterly destroyed. ¹¹ A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother. ¹² A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way. ¹³ A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids. ¹⁴ A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men. ¹⁵ The leech had three dearly beloved daughters, and these three did not satisfy her; and the fourth was not contented so as to say, Enough. ¹⁶ The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough. ¹⁷ The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it. ¹⁸ Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not: ¹⁹ the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in his youth. ²⁰ Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing amiss. ²¹ By three things the earth is troubled, and for four it cannot bear: ²² if a servant should reign, or a fool be filled with food; ²³ or if a maid-servant should cast out her own mistress, and if a hateful woman should marry a good man. ²⁴ And there are four very little things upon the earth, but these are wiser than the wise: ²⁵ the ants which are weak, and yet prepare their food in summer; ²⁶ the rock hyraxes also are a feeble race, who make their houses in the rocks. ²⁷ The locusts have no king, and yet they march orderly at one command. ²⁸ And the lizard, which supports itself by its hands, and is easily taken, and dwells in the fortresses of kings. ²⁹ And there are three things which go well, and a fourth which passes along finely: ³⁰ A lion's whelp, stronger than all other beasts, which turns not away, nor fears any beast; ³¹ and a rooster walking in boldly among the hens, and the goat leading the herd; and a king publicly speaking before a nation. ³² If you abandon yourself to mirth, and stretch forth your hand in a quarrel, you shall be disgraced. ³³ Churn the milk, and there shall be butter, and if you wring one's nostrils, there shall come out blood: so if you extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strife.

¹ My words have been spoken by God — the oracular answer of a king, whom his mother instructed.

¹⁹ And we have the prophetic word made more sure, which you do well to heed, as a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; ²⁰ knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture comes about from one's own interpretation, ²¹ for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being brought along by the Holy Spirit.

³ For who is he that hides counsel from You? Or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from You? And who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not? ⁴ But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask You, and You shall teach me. ⁵ I have heard the report of You by the ear before; but now my eye has seen You. ⁶ Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

¹⁰ When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.

²² But I was vile and knew not: I became brutish before You.

⁶ A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this.

¹² and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!

⁵ And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

¹⁴ Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

²⁵ For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

² And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.

⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

¹² But these, as unreasoning natural animals, having been born for capture and destruction, blaspheme at things which they are ignorant of, and shall be destroyed in their destruction, ¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness, counting as a pleasure to revel in the daytime, they are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart having been trained in greediness, they are accursed children. ¹⁵ They have left behind the straight way and gone astray, having followed after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; ¹⁶ but he was rebuked for his own lawlessness: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet.

⁷ Will you find out the traces of the Lord? Or have you come to the end of that which the Almighty has made? ⁸ Heaven is high, and what will you do? And there are deeper things than those in hell; what do you know? ⁹ Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea.

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the counsel of saints is understanding: ^(9:10A) for to know the law is the character of a sound mind.

³ And one cried to the other, and they said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.

¹⁰ For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

¹¹ and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracle of Israel.

¹⁵ Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;

¹⁴ And Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I was a sheepbreeder, and a gatherer of sycamore fruits. ¹⁵ And the Lord took me from the sheep, and the Lord said to me, Go, and prophesy to My people Israel.

²⁷ All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone fully know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

¹⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

³ And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and untraceable are His ways!

¹⁸ that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height-- ¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

⁷ "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, 'These things says the Holy One, the True One, " He who has the key of David, He that opens and no man shuts, except He that opens, and no man shall open."

⁸ And the four living beings, each one having six wings apiece, were full of eyes around and within. And they never rest day or night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Holy, holy, holy, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, He who was, and who is, and who is to come!"

²⁹ And Jacob asked and said, Tell me Your name; and He said, Why is it that you ask about My name? And He blessed him there.

¹³ And Moses said to God, Behold, I shall go forth to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, The God of our fathers has sent me to you; and they will ask me, What is His name? What shall I say to them? ¹⁴ And God spoke to Moses, saying, I am THE BEING. And He said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, THE BEING has sent me to you. ¹⁵ And God said again to Moses, Thus shall you say to the sons of Israel: The Lord God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is My name forever, and My memorial to all generations.

³ And I appeared to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, being their God, but I did not manifest My name LORD to them.

⁵ And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood near him there, and called by the name of the Lord. ⁶ And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, gracious and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true, ⁷ and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity and unrighteousness and sins; and He will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.

⁵⁸ If you will not hearken to do all the words of this law, which have been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful name, THE LORD YOUR GOD;

¹² It is not in heaven above, as if there were one saying, Who shall go up for us into heaven, and shall take it for us, and we will hear and do it?

¹⁸ And the Angel of the Lord said to him, Why do you thus ask after My name; seeing it is Wonderful?

⁸ binding water in His clouds, and the cloud does not break under it.

⁴ Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me now, if you have knowledge. ⁵ Who set the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched a line upon it? ⁶ On what are its rings fastened? And who is He that laid the cornerstone upon it? ⁷ When the stars were made, all My angels praised Me with a loud voice. ⁸ And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb. ⁹ And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist. ¹⁰ And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates. ¹¹ And I said to it, To this point you shall come, but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you. ¹² Or did I order the morning light in your time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place; ¹³ to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it? ¹⁴ Or did you take the clay of the ground, and form a living creature with it, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth? ¹⁵ Have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud? ¹⁶ Or have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep? ¹⁷ And do the gates of death open to you out of fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you? ¹⁸ And have you been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? Tell me now, what is the extent of it? ¹⁹ And in what land does the light dwell? And where is the place of darkness? ²⁰ If you could bring Me to their uttermost boundaries, and if also you know their paths; ²¹ I know then that you were born at that time, and the number of your years is great. ²² But have you gone to the treasures of snow? And have you seen the treasures of hail? ²³ And is there a store of them, for you against the time of your enemies, for the day of wars and battle? ²⁴ And from where proceeds the frost? Or where is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven? ²⁵ And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders; ²⁶ to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land, ²⁷ and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs? ²⁸ Who is the rain's father? And who has generated the drops of dew? ²⁹ And out of whose womb comes the ice? And who has produced the frost in the sky, ³⁰ which descends like flowing water? Who has terrified the face of the ungodly? ³¹ And do you understand the band of Pleiades, and have you opened the barrier of Orion? ³² Or will you reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Will you guide them? ³³ Do you know the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven? ³⁴ And will you call a cloud by your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain? ³⁵ And will you send lightnings, and they shall go? And shall they say to you, What is your pleasure? ³⁶ And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery? ³⁷ And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth? ³⁸ For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another. ³⁹ And will you hunt a prey for the lions? And satisfy the desires of the serpents? ⁴⁰ For they fear in their lairs, crouching, and lying in wait in the woods. ⁴¹ And who has prepared food for the raven? For its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.

⁷ declaring the ordinance of the Lord: the Lord has said to Me, You are My Son, today I have begotten You.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before Him.

² He has founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the rivers.

¹⁸ You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive, You have received gifts among men, yea, for they were rebellious, that You might dwell among them.

² who cover Yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain. ³ Who covers His chambers with waters; who makes the clouds His chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind. ⁴ Who makes His angels spirits, and His ministers a flaming fire. ⁵ Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation; it shall not ever be moved. ⁶ The deep, like a garment, is His covering; the waters shall stand on the hills. ⁷ At Your rebuke they shall flee; at the voice of Your thunder they shall be alarmed. ⁸ They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which You founded for them. ⁹ You have set a boundary which they shall not pass, neither shall they turn again to cover the earth. ¹⁰ He sends forth His fountains among the valleys; the waters shall run between the mountains. ¹¹ They shall give drink to all the wild beasts of the field; the wild donkeys shall take of them to quench their thirst. ¹² By them shall the birds of the sky lodge; they shall utter a voice out of the midst of the rocks. ¹³ He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth shall be satisfied with the fruit of Your works. ¹⁴ He makes grass to grow for the cattle, and green herbs for the service of men, to bring bread out of the earth; ¹⁵ and wine makes glad the heart of man, to make his face cheerful with oil; and bread strengthens man's heart. ¹⁶ The trees of the plain shall be full of sap; even the cedars of Lebanon which He has planted. ¹⁷ There the sparrows shall build their nests; and the house of the heron takes the lead among them. ¹⁸ The high mountains are a refuge for the goats, and the rock for the rabbits. ¹⁹ He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down. ²⁰ You made the darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad; ²¹ even the young lions roar after their prey, and they seek meat for themselves from God. ²² The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens. ²³ Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labor till evening. ²⁴ How great are Your works, O Lord! In wisdom have You done them all; the earth is filled with Your creation. ²⁵ So is this great and wide sea; there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great. ²⁶ There go the ships; and this dragon whom You have made to play in it. ²⁷ All wait upon You, to give them their food in due season. ²⁸ When You have given it to them, they will gather it; and when You have opened Your hand, they shall all be filled with good. ²⁹ But when You have turned away Your face, they shall be troubled; You will take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust. ³⁰ You shall send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created; and You shall renew the face of the earth. ³¹ Let the glory of the Lord be forever; the Lord shall rejoice in His works; ³² who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble; who touches the mountains, and they smoke. ³³ I will sing to the Lord while I live; I will sing praise to my God while I exist. ³⁴ Let my meditation be sweet to Him, and I will rejoice in the Lord. ³⁵ Let the sinners fail from off the earth, and transgressors, so that they shall be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul.

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call His name Emmanuel.

⁶ For a Child is born to us, and a Son is given to us, whose government is upon His shoulder; and His name is called the Messenger of great counsel; for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to Him.

¹² Who has measured the water in His hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance? ¹³ Who has known the mind of the Lord? And who has been His counselor, to instruct Him? ¹⁴ Or with whom has He taken counsel, and he has instructed Him? Or who has taught Him judgment, or who has taught Him the way of understanding; ¹⁵ since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle? ¹⁶ And Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole burnt offering; ¹⁷ and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing. ¹⁸ To whom have you compared the Lord? And with what likeness have you compared Him? ¹⁹ Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, guilded it over, and made it a similitude? ²⁰ For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely inquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved. ²¹ Will you not know? Will you not hear? Has it not been told to you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the earth? ²² It is He that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; He that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in; ²³ He that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing. ²⁴ For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground; He has blown upon them, and they have withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks. ²⁵ Now then to whom have you compared Me, that I may be exalted? Says the Holy One. ²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? Even He that brings forth His host by number; He shall call them all by name by means of His great glory, and by the power of His might; nothing has escaped you. ²⁷ For do not say, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, O Israel, saying, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away my judgment, and has departed? ²⁸ And now, have you not known? Have you not heard? The eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of His understanding. ²⁹ He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering. ³⁰ For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless; ³¹ but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

⁸ In His humiliation His judgment was taken away; who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken away from the earth; because of the iniquities of My people He was led to death.

⁶ In his days both Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely. And this is his name, which the Lord shall call Him, Josedek among the prophets.

²¹ And she shall bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He shall save His people from their sins." ²² Now all this came to pass that the thing spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, ²³ "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."

²² And turning to His disciples He said, "All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."

¹³ And no one has gone up into heaven except He who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

⁶ But the righteousness of faith says thus, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven?' " (that is, to bring Christ down)

⁸ Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men." ⁹ But that "He ascended"--what it is but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He that descended, He is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.

¹² His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns, having names written, and a name written that no one knows except Himself.

¹ And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am your shield. Your reward shall be very great.

³ But You, O Lord, are my helper; my glory, and the One that lifts up my head.

⁶ The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

³⁰ As for my God, His way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; He is a protector of all them that hope in Him.

⁸ The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes.

¹¹ For the Lord loves mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory; the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

² He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge; my God; I will trust in Him.

⁹ The house of Israel trusts in the Lord; He is their helper and defender. ¹⁰ The house of Aaron trusts in the Lord; He is their helper and defender. ¹¹ They that fear the Lord trust in the Lord; He is their helper and defender.

¹⁴⁰ Your word has been very fully tried; and Your servant loves it.

² My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

¹² Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

² You shall not add to the word which I command you, and you shall not take from it: keep the commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day.

³² Every word that I command you this day, you shall observe to do: you shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.

⁷ Do you not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before Him? ⁸ Or will you draw back? Nay do, you yourselves be judges. ⁹ For it were well if He would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things in your power you should attach yourselves to Him,

¹⁵ And we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we bore witness concerning God, that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise--if in fact the dead are not raised.

¹⁸ I testify to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues having been written in this book. ¹⁹ And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of Life, and from the holy city, and from the things having been written in this book.

⁵ And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and the Lord said to Solomon, Ask some petition for yourself. ⁶ And Solomon said, You have dealt very mercifully with Your servant David my father according as he walked before You in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You, and You have kept for him this great mercy, to set his son upon his throne, as it is this day. ⁷ And now, O Lord my God, You have appointed Your servant in the place of David my father; and I am a little child, and know not my going out and my coming in. ⁸ But Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, which cannot be numbered. ⁹ Give therefore to Your servant a heart to hear and to judge Your people justly, and to discern between good and evil: for who will be able to judge this Your great people?

⁹ And it came to pass while they were crossing over, that Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken up from you. And Elisha said, Let there be a double portion of your spirit upon me.

² You have granted him the desire of his soul, and have not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause.

⁴ One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek; that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey His temple.

⁴² But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her."

²⁰ And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Lord God will be with me, and guard me throughout on this journey, on which I am going, and give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

¹⁵ And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, even Abraham and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day; ¹⁶ the angel who delivers me from all evils, bless these boys, and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac; and let them be increased to a great multitude on the earth.

¹⁵ And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is this? For they knew not what it was; and Moses said to them,

¹⁸ And having measured the homer full, he that gathered much had nothing left over, and he that had gathered less had no lack; each gathered according to the need of those who belonged to him.

²¹ And they gathered it every morning, each man what he needed, and when the sun became hot it melted. ²² And it came to pass on the sixth day, they gathered double what was needed, two homers for one man; and all the chiefs of the synagogue went in and reported it to Moses.

²⁹ See, for the Lord has given you this day as the Sabbath, therefore He has given you on the sixth day the bread of two days. You shall sit each of you in your houses; let no one go forth from his place on the seventh day.

³⁵ And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phoenicia.

³⁰ And his portion, a continual portion, was given to him out of the house of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

¹² neither shall I transgress; but I have hid His words in my bosom.

⁹ But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike, formed out of vanity. ¹⁰ Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies. If wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it.

²⁹ Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by Your law.

³⁷ Turn away my eyes that I may not behold vanity; revive me in Your way.

⁶ He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity on the snares of death.

⁸ He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles, and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. ^(22:8A) God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but a man shall fully prove the folly of his works.

⁵ If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

² Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

¹⁸ Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke;

⁴ None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment; they trust in vanities, and speak empty words; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

²¹ Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremiah continued in the court of the prison.

³⁴ And his appointed portion was given him continually by the king of Babylon from day to day, until the day that he died.

¹¹ Give us today our daily bread.

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

³ Give us day by day our daily bread.

⁸ And He said to them, "Draw out now, and carry some to the head steward." And they carried it.

¹⁵ and saying, "Men! Why are you doing these things? We men are of the same nature as you, preaching the gospel to you, that you must turn from these useless things to turn to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them,

⁶ But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that neither can we carry anything out! ⁸ But having food and clothing, with these things we shall be content.

² And Pharaoh said, Who is He that I should listen to His voice, so that I should send away the children of Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.

⁷ You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord your God will not acquit him that takes His name in vain.

¹ And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and he is a witness or has seen or been conscious, if he does not report it, he shall bear his iniquity.

¹⁰ And it shall come to pass, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities which you did not build, ¹¹ houses full of all good things which you did not fill, wells dug in the rock which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, then having eaten and been filled, ¹² beware lest you forget the Lord your God that brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

¹⁰ And you shall eat and be filled, and shall bless the Lord your God on the good land, which He has given you. ¹¹ Take heed to yourself that you forget not the Lord your God, so as not to keep His commands, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I command you this day, ¹² lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built nice houses, and dwelt in them; ¹³ and your oxen and your sheep are multiplied to you, and your silver and your gold are multiplied to you, and all your possessions are multiplied to you, ¹⁴ that you should be exalted in your heart, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

²⁰ For I will bring them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey, and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy themselves. Then they shall turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they shall provoke Me, and break My covenant.

¹⁵ So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Savior.

²⁷ And Joshua said to the people, Behold, this stone shall be among you for a witness, for it has heard all the words that have been spoken to it by the Lord; for He has spoken to you this day; and this stone shall be among you for a witness in the last days, whenever you shall deal falsely with the Lord my God.

¹⁵ Now then, let not Hezekiah deceive you, and let him not make you thus confident, and believe him not, for no god of any kingdom or nation is at all able to deliver his people out of my hand, or the hand of my fathers; therefore your God shall not deliver you out of my hand. ¹⁶ And his servants continued to speak against the Lord God, and against His servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷ And he wrote a letter to reproach the Lord God of Israel, and spoke concerning Him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the earth have not delivered their people out of my hand, so the God of Hezekiah shall by no means deliver His people out of my hand.

²⁵ And they took lofty cities, and inherited houses full of all good things, wells already dug, vineyards and olive yards, and every fruit tree in abundance. So they ate, and were filled, and grew fat, and delighted themselves in Your great goodness. ²⁶ But they turned, and revolted from You, and cast Your law behind their backs; and they killed Your prophets, who testified against them to turn them back to You, and they worked great provocations.

²⁴ If I made gold my treasure, and if I too trusted the precious stone; ²⁵ and if I also rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if I laid my hand on innumerable treasures: ²⁶ (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? For they have not power to continue:) ²⁷ and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it: ²⁸ let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High.

³ For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

³⁰ It is not to be wondered at if one should be caught stealing, for he steals that when hungry, he may satisfy his soul: ³¹ but if he should be caught, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods.

²⁴ He that shares with a thief hates his own soul, and if any, having heard an oath uttered, do not tell of it.

³¹ Therefore hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? Why have My people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to You anymore?

¹⁴ And your name went forth among the nations because of your beauty; because it was perfected with elegance, and in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord. ¹⁵ But you trusted in your beauty, and went a-whoring because of your fame, and poured out your fornication on every passer by.

⁴⁹ Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom — pride. She and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread and in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ And they boasted, and worked iniquities before Me: so I cut them off as I saw fit.

¹⁷ The matter is by the decree of the watcher, and the demand is a word of the holy ones; that the living may known that the Lord is Most High over the kingdom of men, and He will give it to whomever He will, and sets it over the lowest of men.

³⁰ the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

⁶ According to their pastures, so they were completely filled; and their hearts were exalted; therefore they forgot Me.

⁷² But again he denied with an oath, "I do not know the Man!"

⁷⁴ Then he began to curse and swear, saying, "I do not know the Man!" And immediately a rooster crowed.

²² And the populace was calling out, "This is the voice of a god and not of a man!" ²³ Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And becoming eaten by worms, he died.

⁹ Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret thing in your heart — an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is approaching. And your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in need, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in you.

¹⁵ You shall not deliver a servant to his master, who coming from his master attaches himself to you.

⁹ And Doeg the Syrian who was over the mules of Saul answered and said, I saw the son of Jesse as he came to Nob, to Abimelech son of Ahitub the priest. ¹⁰ And the priest inquired of God for him, and gave him provision, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

^{9 (24:10)} And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to the words of the people, saying, Behold, David seeks you life?

¹⁹ And now, let my lord the king hear the word of his servant: if God stirs you up against me, let your offering be acceptable; but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have cast me out this day, so that I should not be established in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods.

¹⁵ And David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear now to me by God, that you will not kill me, and that you will not deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down upon this troop.

¹ And David passed on a little way from Ros; and behold, Ziba the servant of Memphibosheth came to meet him; and he had a couple of donkeys saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves, and a hundred cakes of raisins, and a hundred cakes of dates, and a bottle of wine. ² And the king said to Ziba, What do you mean to do with these? And Ziba said, The donkeys are for the household of the king to sit on, and the loaves and the dates are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for them that are faint in the wilderness to drink. ³ And the king said, And where is the son of your master? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he remains in Jerusalem; for he said, Today shall the house of Israel restore to me the kingdom of my father. ⁴ And the king said to Ziba, Behold, all Memphibosheth's property is yours. And Ziba bowed down and said, My lord, O king, let me find grace in your eyes.

²⁶ And Memphibosheth said to him, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, Saddle me the donkey, and I will ride upon it, and go with the king; for your servant is lame. ²⁷ And he has dealt deceitfully with your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God; do that which is good in your eyes.

²² So Joash remembered not the kindness which his father Jehoiada had exercised towards him, but killed his son. And as he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and judge. ²³ And it came to pass after the end of the year, that the army of Syria went up against him, and came against Judah and Jerusalem. And they killed all the chiefs among the people, and all their spoils they sent to the king of Damascus. ²⁴ For the army of Syria came with few men, yet God gave into their hands a very large army, because they had forsaken the God of their fathers; and He brought judgments on Joash.

²⁶ May he that hoards grain leave it to the nation: but blessing be on the head of him that gives it.

²³ And this thing I say to you that are wise, for you to learn: It is not good to show partiality in judgment. ²⁴ He that says of the ungodly, He is righteous, shall be cursed by peoples, and hateful among the nations.

²⁷ He that gives to the poor shall not be in need, but he that turns away his eye from him shall be in great distress.

²¹ Also take no heed to all the words which ungodly men shall speak, lest you hear your servant cursing you.

⁸ Then certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews to the king, saying, ⁹ O king, live forever! ¹⁰ You, O king, have made a decree that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet, pipe, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, ¹¹ and shall not fall down and worship the golden image, shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace. ¹² There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who have not obeyed your decree, O king: they serve not your gods, and worship not the golden image which you have set up. ¹³ Then Nebuchadnezzar, in wrath and anger, commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. And they were brought before the king. ¹⁴ And Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you serve not my gods, and worship not the golden image which I have set up? ¹⁵ Now then, if you are ready, whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, pipe, harp, sackbut, psaltery, harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made, fine; but if you will not worship, in the same hour you shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁶ Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego answered and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, We have no need to answer you concerning this matter. ¹⁷ For our God whom we serve is in the heavens, able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He shall rescue us from your hands, O king. ¹⁸ But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, neither will we worship the image which you have set up.

¹³ Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel of the sons of the captivity of Judah, has not submitted to your decree; and three times in the day he makes his requests of his God.

²⁴ And the king commanded, and they brought the men that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions, they, their children, and their wives. And they did not reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them, and utterly broke to pieces all their bones.

⁴ Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or he falls. And he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

¹⁷ He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.

⁹ Every man who shall speak evil of his father or of his mother, let him die the death; has he spoken evil of his father or his mother? He shall be guilty.

²⁰ and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard. ²¹ And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.

¹⁶ Cursed is the man that dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, So be it.

²⁰ The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyes shall see darkness.

¹² A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way. ¹³ A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids. ¹⁴ A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

¹⁷ The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

⁷ But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

⁴ For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, with death let him die.' ⁵ But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "It is a gift to God, whatever profit you might have received from me"-- ⁶ then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus you have nullified the commandment of God on account of your tradition.

¹⁰ For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.' ¹¹ But you say, 'If a man says to his father or to his mother, "Whatever you might be profited by me is Corban"--' (that is, a gift), ¹² then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or for his mother, ¹³ thus nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do."

⁴ But if a certain widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety to their own household and to make repayment to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

⁸ But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellent virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

⁵ And the house of Micah was to him the house of God, and he made an ephod and theraphin, and he consecrated one of his sons, and he became to him a priest.

¹³ And Micah said, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, because a Levite has become my priest.

¹³ And Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, Blessed are you of the Lord; I have performed all that the Lord said. ¹⁴ And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears, and the sound of the oxen which I hear?

⁹ I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.

² For he has dealt craftily before him, to discover his iniquity and hate it.

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

⁷ You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified; You shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

^{2 (15:33A)} All the works of the humble man are manifest with God, but the ungodly shall perish in an evil day.

² Every man seems to himself righteous, but the Lord directs the hearts.

¹⁶ Wash, and be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before My eyes; cease from your iniquities;

⁵ who say, Depart from me, draw not near to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of My wrath, a fire burns with it continually.

²² Though you should wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, still you are stained by your iniquities before Me, says the Lord. ²³ How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? Behold your ways in the burial ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening; ²⁴ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? None that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her.

³⁵ Yet you said, I am innocent: only let His wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with you, in that you say, I have not sinned.

¹⁴ Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved; how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?

²⁵ and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.

¹ In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for removal and for separation.

³⁹ But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but the inside of you is full of greed and evil. ⁴⁰ Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside?

¹⁵ And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. Because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

¹¹ And such were some of you! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from these people turn away!

¹⁵ All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience have been defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

⁵ not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

⁷ But if we are walking in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. ⁸ If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we claim that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and who washed us from our sins in His own blood,

⁵ Him that secretly speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from me; he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart — with him I have not eaten.

¹ A Song of Degrees. O Lord, my heart is not exalted, neither have my eyes been haughtily raised: neither have I exercised myself in great matters, nor in things too wonderful for me.

¹⁷ The eye of the haughty, an unjust tongue, hands shedding innocent blood,

⁴ A high-minded man is stout-hearted in his pride, and the lamp of the wicked is sin.

¹¹ For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and winking with their eyes, and jingling with their feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet;

² And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are a man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God. ³ Are you wiser than Daniel? Or have not the wise instructed you with their knowledge? ⁴ Have you gained power for yourself by your own knowledge or your own prudence, and gathered gold and silver in your treasures? ⁵ By your abundant knowledge and your traffic you have multiplied your power; your heart has been lifted up by your power.

⁹ Will you indeed say, I am God, before them that slay you? Seeing you are man, and not God.

³⁶ And he shall do according to his will, and the king shall exalt and magnify himself against every god, and shall speak great swelling words, and shall prosper until the indignation shall be accomplished; for it is coming to an end. ³⁷ And he shall not regard any gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, neither shall he regard any deity: for he shall magnify himself above all.

⁴ If he should draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him: but the just shall live by My faith.

³ Let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is unveiled, the son of perdition, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or every object of worship, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

¹⁷ And I broke the fangs of the wicked; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

⁷ Arise, O Lord; deliver me, my God; for You have struck all who were my enemies without cause; You have broken the teeth of sinners.

⁸ He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor. ⁹ He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.

⁵ Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them openly.

⁴ Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? They have not called upon the Lord.

² your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have worked deceit.

⁴ and He has delivered my soul from the midst of the lion's whelps; I lay down to sleep, though troubled. As for the sons of men, their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

⁶ God has crushed their teeth in their mouth; God has broken the teeth of the lions.

¹⁸ Some wound as they speak, like swords, but the tongues of the wise heal.

¹⁶ He that oppresses the poor, increases his own substance, yet gives to the rich so as to make it less.

³ A bold man oppresses the poor by ungodly deeds. As an impetuous and profitable rain,

¹ So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter.

⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.

⁵ And behold, the second beast was like a bear, and it supported itself on one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth, between its teeth. And thus they said to it, Arise, devour much flesh. ⁶ After this one I looked, and behold, another wild beast as a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird upon it. And the wild beast had four heads, and power was given to it. ⁷ After this one I looked, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet. And it was altogether different from the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

⁷ in which to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly; and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.

¹ Hear this word, you heifers of the land of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us, that we may drink.

⁴ Hear now this, you that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,

¹ They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God. ² And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

¹ And He shall say, Hear now these words, you heads of the house of Jacob, and you remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment? ² Who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones: ³ even as they devoured the flesh of My people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot, ⁴ thus they shall cry to the Lord, but He shall not hearken to them; and He shall turn away His face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves. ⁵ Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that lead My people astray, that bite with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and when nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:

¹⁴ You thrust through the heads of princes with amazement, they shall tremble in it; they shall burst their bridles, they shall be as a poor man devouring in secret.

³ Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.

¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

¹ Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you! ² Your riches have decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days. ⁴ Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

⁸ They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

¹⁶ For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.

²¹ By three things the earth is troubled, and for four it cannot bear:

²⁴ And there are four very little things upon the earth, but these are wiser than the wise:

²⁹ And there are three things which go well, and a fourth which passes along finely:

¹¹ Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding; all have followed their own ways, each according to his will. ¹² (TEXT OMITTED)

³ But draw nearby, you lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.

⁴⁴ These are all the things they have spoken against you in a proverb, saying, ⁴⁵ As is the mother, so is your mother's daughter: you are she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of your sisters have rejected their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ Your elder sister who dwells on your left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, that dwells on your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

¹⁸ He has chosen the Canaanites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonor through her insolence.

³ And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Gileadites.

⁶ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Edom.

⁹ Thus says the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Edom, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.

¹¹ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

¹³ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their coasts.

¹ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they burnt the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

⁴ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.

³ They prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul;

³² And you, fill up then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

³⁹ They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

¹⁸ For such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and through smooth speech and flattering, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

³ And by covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction will not sleep.

¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness, counting as a pleasure to revel in the daytime, they are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart having been trained in greediness, they are accursed children. ¹⁵ They have left behind the straight way and gone astray, having followed after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and in the error of Balaam they have rushed for profit, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹² These are stains in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves, they are waterless clouds being carried along by winds; late autumn trees unfruitful, twice having died, having been uprooted,

¹ And Rachel, having perceived that she bore Jacob no children, was jealous of her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children; and if not, I shall die.

²⁰ Hell and destruction are not filled, neither are the eyes of men ever satisfied. ^(27:20A) He that fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord, and the uninstructed do not restrain their tongue.

⁵ But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.

²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house. ²² And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers outside. ²³ And Shem and Japheth, having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father. ²⁴ And Noah recovered from the wine, and knew all that his younger son had done to him. ²⁵ And he said, Cursed be the servant Canaan, a slave shall he be to his brothers. ²⁶ And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. ²⁷ May God make room for Japheth, and let him dwell in the habitations of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.

¹⁸ And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not hearken to them; ¹⁹ then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place;

²⁶ And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.

⁴⁴ And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth.

⁹ And Absalom went to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was mounted on his mule, and the mule came under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head was entangled in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth; and the mule passed on from under him. ¹⁰ And a man saw it, and reported to Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

¹⁴ And Joab said, I will begin this; I will not thus remain with you. And Joab took three spears in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the heart of the oak. ¹⁵ And ten young men that bore Joab's armor surrounded Absalom, and struck him, and killed him. ¹⁶ And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab spared the people. ¹⁷ And he took Absalom, and cast him into a great cavern in the woods, into a deep pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled, every man to his tent.

¹⁰ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of the barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

²² Listen, my son, to your father which begot you, and despise not your mother because she has grown old.

¹¹ A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.

³ For who is he that hides counsel from You? Or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from You? And who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

⁶ The knowledge of You is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot attain to it.

¹⁶ And if anyone deceive a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her for a wife to himself.

²⁷ And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,

³¹ but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

¹¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹² Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, If any man's wife shall transgress against him, and slight and despise him, ¹³ and supposing anyone shall lie with her carnally, and the thing shall be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she should conceal it and be herself defiled, and there be no witness with her, and she should not be taken; ¹⁴ and there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled; or there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she should not be defiled; ¹⁵ then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring his gift for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall not pour oil upon it, neither shall he put frankincense upon it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy, a sacrifice of memorial, recalling sin to remembrance. ¹⁶ And the priest shall bring her, and cause her to stand before the Lord. ¹⁷ And the priest shall take pure running water in an earthen vessel, and he shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle of witness, and the priest, having taken it, shall cast it into the water. ¹⁸ And the priest shall cause the woman to stand before the Lord, and shall uncover the head of the woman, and shall put into her hands the sacrifice of memorial, the sacrifice of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of this conviction that brings the curse. ¹⁹ And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with you, and if you have not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of your husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse. ²⁰ But if being a married woman you have transgressed, or been polluted, and anyone has lain with you, beside your husband, ²¹ then the priest shall adjure the woman by the oaths of this curse, and the priest shall say to the woman, The Lord bring you into a curse and under an oath in the midst of your people, in that the Lord should cause your thigh to rot and your belly to swell; ²² and this water bringing the curse shall enter into your womb to cause your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, So be it, So be it. ²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the water of the conviction that brings the curse. ²⁴ And he shall cause the woman to drink the water of the conviction that brings the curse; and the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her. ²⁵ And the priest shall take from the hand of the woman the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall present the sacrifice before the Lord, and shall bring it to the altar. ²⁶ And the priest shall take a handful of the sacrifice as a memorial of it, and shall offer it up upon the altar; and afterwards he shall cause the woman to drink the water. ²⁷ And it shall come to pass, if she has been defiled, and has altogether escaped the notice of her husband, then the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her; and she shall swell in her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be for a curse in the midst of her people. ²⁸ But if the woman has not been polluted, and is clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive seed. ²⁹ This is the law of jealousy, in which a married woman should happen to transgress, and be defiled; ³⁰ or in the case of a man on whomsoever the spirit of jealousy should come, and he should be jealous of his wife, and he should place his wife before the Lord, and the priest shall execute towards her all this law.

⁶ For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.

¹³ Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him, ¹⁴ I have a peace offering; today I pay my vows: ¹⁵ therefore I came forth to meet you, desiring your face; and I have found you. ¹⁶ I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt. ¹⁷ I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love. ¹⁹ For my husband is not at home, and has gone on a long journey, ²⁰ having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house. ²¹ So with much conversation she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from the right path. ²² And he followed her, being gently led on, as that of an ox led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a deer shot in the liver with an arrow: ²³ and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.

³ And the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail. And his wife was of good understanding and very beautiful in appearance. But the man was harsh, and evil in his doings, and the man was foolish.

¹⁰ And Nabal sprang up, and answered the servants of David, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Nowadays there are an abundance of servants who depart, everyone from his master. ¹¹ And shall I take my bread, and my wine, and my beasts that I have slain for my shearers, and shall I give them to men of whom I know not who they are?

²⁵ Let not my lord take to heart this pestilent man, for according to his name, so is he — Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the servants of my lord whom you sent.

³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal. And behold, he had a banquet in his house, as the banquet of a king, and the heart of Nabal was merry within him, and he was very drunk. And she told him nothing great or small till the morning light. ³⁷ And it came to pass in the morning, when Nabal recovered from his wine, that his wife told him these words. And his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. ³⁸ And it came to pass after about ten days, that the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

¹⁶ So he brought him down there, and behold, they were scattered abroad upon the surface of the whole land, eating and drinking, and feasting by reason of all the great spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

¹⁰ Delight does not suit a fool, nor is it seemly if a servant should begin to rule with haughtiness.

⁷ I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants on the earth.

⁴ And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them. ⁵ And the people shall fall, man upon man, and every man upon his neighbor; the child shall insult the elder man, and the base toward the honorable.

¹³ A foolish son is a disgrace to his father; vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner on the housetop, than in plastered rooms with unrighteousness, and in an open house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.

¹⁵ On a stormy day drops of rain drive a man out of his house, so also does a railing woman drive a man out of his own house.

²¹ He that lives wantonly from a child shall be a servant, and in the end shall grieve over himself.

⁷ But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to you, and the birds of the air, if they may declare to you.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he. ⁷ For whereas he has no leader, nor anyone to compel him, and is under no master, ⁸ he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays up abundant supplies in harvest. ^(6:8A) Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; ^(6:8B) whose labors kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: ^(6:8C) though weak in body, she is advanced by honoring wisdom.

⁵ And the rabbit, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.

¹⁸ The high mountains are a refuge for the goats, and the rock for the rabbits.

⁴ But if you will not send My people away, behold, at this hour tomorrow I will bring an abundance of locusts upon all your coasts. ⁵ And they shall cover the face of the earth, and you shall not be able to see the earth; and they shall devour all that is left of the abundance of the earth, which the hail has left you, and shall devour every tree that grows for you on the land. ⁶ And your houses shall be filled, and the houses of your servants, and all the houses in all the land of the Egyptians; things which your fathers have never seen, nor their forefathers, from the day that they were upon the earth until this day. And Moses turned away and departed from Pharaoh.

¹³ And Moses lifted up his rod towards heaven, and the Lord brought a south wind upon the earth, all that day and all that night. The morning dawned, and the south wind brought up the locusts, ¹⁴ and brought them up over all the land of Egypt. And they rested in very great abundance over all the borders of Egypt. Before them there were not such locusts, neither after them shall there be. ¹⁵ And they covered the face of the earth, and the land was wasted, and they devoured every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which was left by the hail: there was no green thing left on the trees, nor on all the herbs of the field, in all the land of Egypt.

³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable,

⁴ The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.

⁶ For a strong and innumerable nation has come up against My land, their teeth are like lion's teeth, and their back teeth as those of a lion's whelp. ⁷ He has ruined My vine, and utterly broken My fig trees: he has utterly searched My vine, and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.

⁷ As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his right path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks; ⁸ and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in no way be destroyed. ⁹ They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves. ¹⁰ Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light. ¹¹ And the Lord shall utter His voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for the execution of His words is mighty; for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be able to resist it?

²⁵ And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even My great army, which I sent against you.

³ Then out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth. And power was given to them, as scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴ They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, nor any plant, nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵ And they were not given authority to kill them, but that they should torment them for five months. And their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. ⁶ And in those days men shall seek death, and shall by no means find it; they shall be longing to die, yet death shall elude them. ⁷ And the appearances of the locusts was similar to horses having been prepared for battle, and on their heads were like crowns of gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. ⁸ They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. ⁹ And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots with many horses rushing into battle. ¹⁰ And they had tails like scorpions, and stings. And in their tails they have power to harm men five months, ¹¹ having as a king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

²⁴ Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion's whelp, and shall exalt himself as a lion; he shall not lie down till he has eaten the prey, and he shall drink the blood of the slain.

¹⁸ And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day, before sunrise, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion? And Sampson said to them, If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have known my riddle.

¹⁴ The anger of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify him.

² The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul.

⁵ Look upon me and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

^{4 (39:34)} Why do I yet plead? Being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

²⁸ Wisdom shall be imputed to a fool who asks after wisdom, and he who holds his peace shall seem to be sensible.

¹² I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.

³ Be not hasty; you shall go forth out of his presence. Stand not in an evil matter; for he will do whatsoever he shall please, ⁴ even as a king having power; and who will say to him, What are you doing?

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened. ¹⁷ They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of you.

¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

¹⁸ A passionate man stirs up strife; but he that is slow to anger appeases even a rising one. ^(15:18A) A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels, but an ungodly man rather stirs them up.

²⁸ A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischief, and he separates friends.

¹⁴ Rightful rule gives power to words, but sedition and strife precede poverty.

²¹ A hearth for coals, and wood for fire, and a railing man for the tumult of strife.

²⁵ An unbelieving man judges rashly, but he that trusts in the Lord will act carefully.

²² A furious man stirs up strife, and a passionate man digs up sin.