1 Samuel 25 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose, and went down into the wilderness of Pharan. ² Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. ³ Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb. ⁴ And when David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal was shearing his sheep, ⁵ He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace. ⁶ And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and peace to thy house, and peace to all that thou hast. ⁷ I have heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert were shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing to them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in Carmel. ⁸ Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy servants find favour in thy eyes: for we are come in a good day, whatsoever thy hand shall find give to thy servants, and to thy son David. ⁹ And when David's servants came, they spoke to Nabal all these words in David's name, and then held their peace. ¹⁰ But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee from their masters. ¹¹ Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are? ¹² So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came and told him all the words that he said. ¹³ Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his sword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men, and two hundred remained with the baggage. ¹⁴ But one of the servants told, Abigail, the wife of Nabal, saying: Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute our master: and he rejected them. ¹⁵ These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: Neither did we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in the desert. ¹⁶ They were a wall unto us, both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. ¹⁷ Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him. ¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses: ¹⁹ And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal. ²⁰ And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them. ²¹ And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good. ²² May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth against the wall. ²³ And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground. ²⁴ And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the words of thy servant. ²⁵ Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest. ²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord. ²⁷ Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my lord. ²⁸ Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life. ²⁹ For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling. ³⁰ And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince over Israel, ³¹ This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid. ³² And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech: ³³ And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand. ³⁴ Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall. ³⁵ And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and honoured thy face. ³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning. ³⁷ But early in the morning, when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. ³⁸ And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died. ³⁹ And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed be the Lord, who hath judged the cause of my reproach, at the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his head. Then David sent and treated with Abigail, that he might take her to himself for a wife. ⁴⁰ And David's servants came to Abigail, to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying: David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a wife. ⁴¹ And she arose, and bowed herself down with her face to the earth, and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. ⁴² And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five damsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife. ⁴³ Moreover David took also Achinoam of Jezrahel: and they were both of them his wives. ⁴⁴ But Saul gave Michol, his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti, the son of Lais, who was of Gallim.

²⁴ Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

⁴ And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

² And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.

⁶ And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness.

¹ Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

⁴ But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree.

²¹ And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

⁶ And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.

²¹ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

²⁷ Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master's brother.

³⁷ And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell: ³⁸ But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son:

⁵¹ Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.

⁶¹ So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon camels, followed the man: who with speed returned to his master. ⁶² At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country: ⁶³ And he was gone forth to meditate in the field, the day being now well spent: and when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels coming afar off. ⁶⁴ Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel, ⁶⁵ And said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us along the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she quickly took her cloak, and covered herself. ⁶⁶ And the servant told Isaac all that he had done. ⁶⁷ Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death.

¹³ And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great.

¹³ And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau, ¹⁴ Two hundred she goats, twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, ¹⁵ Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she asses, and ten of their foals. ¹⁶ And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.

¹⁶ And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove. ¹⁷ And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee? ¹⁸ Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau; and he cometh after us. ¹⁹ In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him. ²⁰ And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.

²⁰ And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.

¹¹ And take the blessing which I have brought thee, and which God hath given me, who giveth all things. He took it with much ado at his brother's earnest pressing him,

¹³ And it was told Thamar that her father-in-law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.

¹⁴ Only remember me when it shall be well with thee, and do me this kindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:

¹¹ Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds. ¹² And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in your sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake. ¹³ And take also your brother, and go to the man. ¹⁴ And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.

²³ But he answered: Peace be with you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks. For the money, which you gave me, I have for good. And he brought Simeon out to them.

⁴ And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good?

¹⁸ Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art.

³³ Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren. ³⁴ For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.

¹¹ And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.

² But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

²⁹ And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.

²² And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left.

¹⁰ And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered his people out of the hand of Egypt.

¹² And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.

^{16 (13:1)} And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan.

^{3 (13:4)} Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:

^{26 (13:27)} And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:

⁴⁶ Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth. ⁴⁷ When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense: ⁴⁸ And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.

^{29 (20:30)} And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned for him thirty days throughout all their families.

¹⁷ Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.

¹³ Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:

²⁸ The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of mind.

²⁹ Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

⁸ And the children of Israel mourned for him in the plains of Moab thirty days: and the days of their mourning in which they mourned Moses were ended.

¹⁴ They took therefore of their victuals, and consulted not the mouth of the Lord.

⁶ But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon, which was besieged, sent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him: Withdraw not thy hands from helping thy servants: come up quickly, and save us, and bring us succour: for all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwell in the mountains, are gathered together against us.

⁹ So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them suddenly.

¹³ But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Juda, as the Lord had commanded him: Cariath-Arbe the father of Enac, which is Hebron.

¹⁸ And as they were going together, she was moved by her husband to ask a field of her father, and she sighed as she sat on her ass. And Caleb said to her: What aileth thee?

⁵⁵ Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota, ⁵⁶ Jezrael and Jucadam and Zanoe,

¹⁴ And as she was going on her way, her husband admonished her to ask a field of her father. And as she sighed sitting on her ass, Caleb said to her: What aileth thee?

¹⁰ And he called unto him Zabulon and Nephthali, and went up with ten thousand fighting men, having Debbora in his company.

² O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger, bless the Lord.

⁶ The princes of Soccoth answered: Peradventure the palms of the hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hand, and therefore thou demandest that we should give bread to thy army.

²⁸ And Gaal, the son of Obed, cried: Who is Abimelech, and what is Sichem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerobaal, and hath made Zebul, his servant, ruler over the men of Emor, the father of Sichem? Why then shall we serve him?

²² While they were making merry, and refreshing their bodies with meat and drink, after the labour of the journey, the men of that city, sons of Belial (that is, without yoke), came and beset the old man's house, and began to knock at the door, calling to the master of the house, and saying: Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may abuse him:

¹⁷ The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee.

¹⁰ She fell on her face, and worshipping upon the ground, said to him: Whence cometh this to me, that I should find grace before thy eyes, and that thou shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me, a woman of another country?

¹³ And she said: I have found grace in thy eyes, my lord, who hast comforted me, and hast spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, who am not like to one of thy maids.

²⁶ And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord: I am that woman, who stood before thee here praying to the Lord.

⁹ He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

¹² Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,

⁶ And the Lord called Samuel again. And Samuel arose and went to Heli, and said: Here am I: for thou calledst me. He answered: I did not call thee, my son: return and sleep.

¹⁷ And he asked him: What is the word that the Lord hath spoken to thee? I beseech thee hide it not from me. May God do so and so to thee, and add so and so, if thou hide from me one word of all that were said to thee.

⁹ And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.

¹⁷ And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.

¹¹ And it came to pass, when the morrow was come, that Saul put the people in three companies: and he came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and he slew the Ammonites until the day grew hot, and the rest were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

¹⁰ And when he had made an end of offering the holocaust, behold Samuel came: and Saul went forth to meet him and salute him.

¹⁴ But thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him a man according to his own heart: and him hath the Lord commanded to be prince over his people, because thou hast not observed that which the Lord commanded.

⁴⁴ And Saul said: May God do so and so to me, and add still more: for dying thou shalt die, O Jonathan.

²⁸ And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better than thee.

²² And David leaving the vessels which he had brought, under the care of the keeper of the baggage, ran to the place of the battle, and asked if all things went well with his brethren.

⁴⁷ And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for it is his battle, and he will deliver you into our hands.

¹⁷ And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hands of the Philistines be upon him.

²⁰ But Michol, the other daughter of Saul, loved David. And it was told Saul, and it pleased him.

²⁷ And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that were under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and brought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he might be his son in law. Saul therefore gave him Michol, his daughter, to wife.

⁷ If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, know that his malice is come to its height.

⁹ And Jonathan said: Far be this from thee: for if I should certainly know that evil is determined by my father against thee, I could do no otherwise than tell thee.

¹³ May the Lord do so and so to Jonathan, and add still more. But if my father shall continue in malice against thee, I will discover it to thy ear, and will send thee away, that thou mayst go in peace, and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

¹⁶ Jonathan therefore made a covenant with the house of David: and the Lord required it at the hands of David's enemies.

³⁰ Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother?

³² And Jonathan answering Saul, his father, said: Why shall he die? What hath he done? ³³ And Saul caught up a spear to strike him. And Jonathan understood that it was determined by his father to kill David.

⁴¹ And when the boy was gone, David rose out of his place, which was toward the south, and falling on his face to the ground, adored thrice: and kissing one another, they wept together; but David more. ⁴² And Jonathan said to David: Go in peace: and let all stand that we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying: The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. ^(20:43) And David arose, and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

² And all that were in distress, and oppressed with debt, and under affliction of mind, gathered themselves unto him: and he became their prince, and there were with him about four hundred men. ³ And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech thee, till I know what God will do for me.

⁷ He said to his servants that stood about him: Hear me now, ye sons of Jemini: will the son of Isai give every one of you fields, and vineyards, and make you all tribunes, and centurions: ⁸ That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to inform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with the son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that giveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant against me, plotting against me to this day.

¹³ Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose, and departing from Ceila, wandered up and down, uncertain where they should stay: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and had escaped: wherefore he forbore to go out.

¹⁷ Fear not: for the hand of my father, Saul, shall not find thee, and thou shalt reign over Israel, and I shall be next to thee; yea and my father knoweth this.

²⁴ And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: and David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the plain at the right hand of Jesimon.

^{5 (24:6)} After which David's heart struck him, because he had cut off the hem of Saul's robe. ^{6 (24:7)} And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may do no such thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, as to lay my hand upon him, because he is the Lord's anointed.

^{6 (24:7)} And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may do no such thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, as to lay my hand upon him, because he is the Lord's anointed. ^{7 (24:8)} And David stopped his men with his words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul: but Saul, rising up out of the cave, went on his way. ^{8 (24:9)} And David also rose up after him: and going out of the cave, cried after Saul, saying: My lord the king. And Saul looked behind him: and David bowing himself down to the ground, worshipped,

^{11 (24:12)} Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my hand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my hand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand, nor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait for my life, to take it away.

^{13 (24:14)} As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?

^{15 (24:16)} Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

^{17 (24:18)} And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast done good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil.

^{19 (24:20)} For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to me this day.

³ Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb.

⁷ I have heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert were shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing to them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in Carmel.

¹⁰ But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee from their masters. ¹¹ Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?

¹³ Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his sword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men, and two hundred remained with the baggage. ¹⁴ But one of the servants told, Abigail, the wife of Nabal, saying: Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute our master: and he rejected them. ¹⁵ These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: Neither did we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in the desert.

¹⁵ These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: Neither did we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in the desert. ¹⁶ They were a wall unto us, both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. ¹⁷ Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him. ¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses: ¹⁹ And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.

²¹ And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good. ²² May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth against the wall.

²⁴ And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the words of thy servant. ²⁵ Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest. ²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord.

²⁸ Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life.

³¹ This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid. ³² And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech: ³³ And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.

³³ And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand. ³⁴ Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.

³⁴ Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.

⁴⁰ And David's servants came to Abigail, to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying: David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a wife.

⁴² And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five damsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.

⁹ And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and shall be guiltless? ¹⁰ And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

¹⁰ And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

²³ And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and his faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my hand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed.

³ And David dwelt with Achis at Geth, he and his men; every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Achinoam, the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

³ Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel mourned for him, and buried him in Ramatha, his city. And Saul had put away all the magicians and soothsayers out of the land.

⁵ For the two wives also of David were taken captives, Achinoam, the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

⁹ So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and they came to the torrent Besor: and some, being weary, stayed there. ¹⁰ But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred stayed, who, being weary, could not go over the torrent Besor.

¹⁴ For we made an invasion on the south side of Cerethi, and upon Juda, and upon the south of Caleb, and we burnt Siceleg with fire.

²¹ And David came to the two hundred men, who, being weary, had stayed, and were not able to follow David, and he had ordered them to abide at the torrent Besor: and they came out to meet David, and the people that were with him. And David coming to the people, saluted them peaceably. ²² Then all the wicked and unjust men, that had gone with David, answering, said: Because they came not with us, we will not give them any thing of the prey which we have recovered: but let every man take his wife, and his children, and be contented with them, and go his way. ²³ But David said: You shall not do so, my brethren, with these things, which the Lord hath given us, who hath kept us, and hath delivered the robbers that invaded us into our hands: ²⁴ And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall be the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.

²⁶ Then David came to Siceleg, and sent presents of the prey to the ancients of Juda, his neighbours, saying: Receive a blessing of the prey of the enemies of the Lord.

² And sons were born to David in Hebron: and his firstborn was Ammon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess:

¹⁴ And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying: Restore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

²⁸ And when David heard of it, after the thing was now done, he said: I, and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord for ever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner: ²⁹ And may it come upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house: and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or that falleth by the sword, or that wanteth bread.

² Moreover yesterday also and the day before, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.

¹³ And David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were born to David other sons also and daughters: ¹⁴ And these are the names of them, that were born to him in Jerusalem, Samua, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, ¹⁵ And Jebahar, and Elisua, and Nepheg, ¹⁶ And Japhia, and Elisama, and Elioda, and Eliphaleth.

⁷ And the indignation of the Lord was enkindled against Oza, and he struck him for his rashness: and he died there before the ark of God.

¹¹ From the day that I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I will give thee rest from all thy enemies. And the Lord foretelleth to thee, that the Lord will make thee a house.

¹⁶ And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.

²⁷ Because thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to the ear of thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to thee.

²³ And it came to pass after two years, that the sheep of Absalom were shorn in Baalhasor, which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons:

²³ And it came to pass after two years, that the sheep of Absalom were shorn in Baalhasor, which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons: ²⁴ And he came to the king, and said to him: Behold thy servant's sheep are shorn. Let the king, I pray, with his servants come to his servant.

²⁸ And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when Ammon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him, and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take courage, and be valiant men.

³³ Now therefore let not my lord the king take this thing into his heart, saying: All the king's sons are slain: for Ammon only is dead.

⁹ And the woman of Thecua said to the king: Upon me, my lord be the iniquity, and upon the house of my father: but may the king and his throne be guiltless.

¹² The woman said: Let thy hand maid speak one word to my lord the king. And he said: Speak.

⁹ And king David said to him: Go in peace. And he arose, and went to Hebron.

¹ And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold Siba the servant of Miphiboseth came to meet him with two asses, laden with two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs, and a vessel of wine. ² And the king said to Siba: What mean these things? And Siba answered: The asses are for the king's household to sit on: and the loaves and the figs for thy servants to eat, and the wine to drink if any man be faint in the desert.

²⁸ Brought him beds, and tapestry, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and fried pulse, ²⁹ And honey, and butter, and sheep, and fat calves, and they gave to David and the people that were with him, to eat: for they suspected that the people were faint with hunger and thirst in the wilderness.

²⁸ And Achimaas crying out, said to the king: God save thee, O king. And falling down before the king with his face to the ground, he said: Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath shut up the men that have lifted up their hands against the lord my king.

³² And the king said to Chusai: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Chusai answering him, said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and all that rise against him unto evil, be as the young man is.

³² Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.

¹ And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet, and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai: return to thy dwellings, O Israel.

⁴⁷ The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted: ⁴⁸ God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,

⁴⁸ God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me, ⁴⁹ Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from them that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.

⁶ But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away with hands. ⁷ And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to nothing.

¹³ And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

³⁴ So Banaias, the son of Joiada, went up, and setting upon him slew him, and he was buried in his house in the desert.

⁴⁴ And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord hath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.

⁵ I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as I promised David, thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy race upon the throne of Israel.

¹⁶ Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them, answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.

¹⁰ Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.

⁵ Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him, all the days of his life, except the matter of Urias, the Hethite.

¹¹ And when he was king, and sat upon his throne, he slew all the house of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to piss against a wall and all his kinsfolks and friends.

¹⁶ And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him.

¹⁰ And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him. and let them bear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.

¹³ And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people: saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. Wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death.

²¹ Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy posterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.

² And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come down to Bethel,

¹⁵ And the sons of the prophets, at Jericho, who were over against him, seeing it, said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And coming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground.

⁶ And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood.

²⁴ And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.

³⁷ She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the ground: and took up her son, and went out.

¹³ His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be clean? ¹⁴ Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child: and he was made clean. ¹⁵ And returning to the man of God, with all his train, he came, and stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee, therefore, take a blessing of thy servant.

¹⁹ And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the spring time of the earth.

⁸ And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will cut off from Achab, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the meanest in Israel.

⁵ And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham, the king's son, governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.

³⁵ And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies of the dead.

¹⁸ But the spirit came upon Amasai the chief among thirty, and he said: We are thine, O David, and for thee, O son of Isai: peace, peace be to thee, and peace to thy helpers. For thy God helpeth thee. So David received them, and made them captains of the band.

⁴⁰ Moreover they that were near them even as far as Issachar, and Zabulon, and Nephtali, brought loaves on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, to eat: meal, figs, raisins, wine, oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.

¹⁰ Since the days that I gave judges to my people Israel, and have humbled all thy enemies. And I declare to thee, that the Lord will build thee a house.

²⁵ For thou, O Lord my God, hast revealed to the ear of thy servant, that thou wilt build him a house: and therefore thy servant hath found confidence to pray before thee.

¹⁵ And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it was the will of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by the hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.

⁷ And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial: and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.

⁷ And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them with walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our fathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and there was no hinderance in building.

¹⁵ And he said: Attend ye, all Juda, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, and thou king Josaphat: Thus saith the Lord to you: Fear ye not, and be not dismayed at this multitude: for the battle is not yours, but God's.

¹⁶ And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.

²⁰ And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house: and his son Amon reigned in his stead.

²⁷ Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in the king's heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem,

¹⁰ And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength. ¹¹ And the Levites stilled all the people, saying: Hold your peace, for the day is holy, and be not sorrowful. ¹² So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth: because they understood the words that he had taught them.

³ Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all the princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his sight, ⁴ That he might shew the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the greatness, and boasting of his power, for a long time, to wit, for a hundred and fourscore days. ⁵ And when the days of the feast were expired, he invited all the people that were found in Susan, from the greatest to the least: and commanded a feast to be made seven days in the court of the garden, and of the wood, which was planted by the care and the hand of the king. ⁶ And there were hung up on every side sky coloured, and green, and violet hangings, fastened with cords of silk, and of purple, which were put into rings of ivory, and were held up with marble pillars. The beds also were of gold and silver, placed in order upon a floor paved with porphyry and white marble: which was embellished with painting of wonderful variety. ⁷ And they that were invited, drank in golden cups, and the meats were brought in divers vessels one after another. Wine also in abundance and of the best was presented, as was worthy of a king's magnificence.

⁷ But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.

¹⁰ So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

³ And not content with these things, she fell down at the king's feet and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give orders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices which he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect.

¹⁹ But those Jews that dwelt in towns not walled and in villages, appointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for banquets and gladness, so as to rejoice on that day, and send one another portions of their banquets and meats.

²² Because on those days the Jews revenged themselves of their enemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy, and that these should be days of feasting and gladness, in which they should send one to another portions of meats, and should give gifts to the poor.

³ And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

¹⁰ Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth?

²¹ The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason. ²² He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.

⁸ The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

¹⁷ If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

¹⁹ Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands.

¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

^{16 (7:17)} His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.

³ For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

¹⁴ From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.

^{47 (18:48)} O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies. ^{48 (18:49)} And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.

¹² They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

⁸ Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.

^{20 (38:21)} They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I followed goodness.

^{12 (41:13)} But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever. ^{13 (41:14)} Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.

^{3 (44:4)} For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.

^{10 (45:11)} Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house. ^{11 (45:12)} And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore.

^{10 (58:11)} The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. ^{11 (58:12)} And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.

⁹ Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not suffered my feet to be moved:

¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful things.

³ Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners. ⁴ For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes. ⁵ They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men. ⁶ Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness. ⁷ Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.

⁷ Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart. ⁸ They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

^{20 (89:21)} I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.

^{29 (89:30)} And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.

¹ The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely.

³ They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause. ⁴ Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer. ⁵ And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.

⁵ Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment:

¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

¹ Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. ² Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart. ³ For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.

⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:

⁷ Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.

³ Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt. ⁴ For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.

⁵ The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

¹² Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof, ¹³ And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

⁴ Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber. ⁵ Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁹ Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he shall make haste to receive it.

¹ A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

²⁹ He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.

³³ The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.

³² The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.

¹⁰ A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.

¹³ He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

¹² Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.

¹⁶ A man's gift enlargeth his way, and maketh him room before princes.

²² He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

² Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he that is hasty with his feet shall stumble.

¹¹ The learning of a man is known by patience: and his glory is to pass over wrongs.

¹⁴ House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

¹ Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

¹⁴ A secret present quencheth anger: and a gift in the bosom, the greatest wrath.

²³ Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.

²⁹ Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? ³⁰ Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups. ³¹ Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, ³² But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk. ³³ Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. ³⁴ And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost. ³⁵ And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?

⁸ The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not hastily in a quarrel: lest afterward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend.

¹² As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.

²¹ As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.

²³ He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.

¹⁰ Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils. ¹² She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life.

²⁶ She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. ²⁷ She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.

³⁰ Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

³⁰ Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. ³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.

² Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived? ³ I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

^{10 (7:11)} Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.

¹⁹ For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast: and all things obey money.

¹ Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again. ² Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

² Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

⁸ Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?

¹¹ Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine.

³⁰ Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor Anathoth.

⁶ The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them. ⁷ The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ⁸ And the sucking child shall play on other hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk. ⁹ They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.

¹⁸ All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.

³ The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.

⁷ But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment. ⁸ For all the tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there was no more place.

⁵ The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great:

⁵ The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great: ⁶ For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty. ⁷ The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.

⁷ The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.

²¹ And they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the king had commanded, saying: Answer him not. ²² And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, went in to Ezechias with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.

²⁵ And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not.

¹⁸ For thus saith he Lord: Behold I will cast away far off the inhabitants of the land at this time: and I will afflict them, so that they may be found.

²⁰ And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass: and they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

²⁰ Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

²² And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire:

⁵⁷ And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is Lord of hosts.

⁵⁸ Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life. ⁵⁹ Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment. ⁶⁰ Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.

^{19 (4:16)} Then Daniel, whose name was Baltassar, began silently to think within himself for about one hour: and his thought troubled him. But the king answering, said: Baltassar, let not the dream and the interpretation thereof trouble thee. Baltassar answered, and said: My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thy enemies.

¹ Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age. ² And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them. ³ Then were the golden and silver vessels brought, which he had brought away out of the temple that was in Jeursalem: and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. ⁴ They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone. ⁵ In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the wall of the king's palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand that wrote.

⁶ Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths. ⁷ And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband: because it was better with me then than now.

¹¹ Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.

⁹ I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him: until he judge my cause, and execute judgement for me: he will bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice.

¹⁰ For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.

¹⁵ Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness. ¹⁶ Thou art filled with shame instead of glory: drink thou also, and fall fast asleep: the cup of the right hand of the Lord shall compass thee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.

⁵ And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about: and I will be in glory in the midst thereof.

² If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

¹⁷ And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.

¹⁶ So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

²⁵ Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

¹² And when you come into the house, salute it, saying: Peace be to this house. ¹³ And if that house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you.

¹⁶ Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father. ³⁰ But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

²⁹ And his fellow-servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

⁵ For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

⁸ He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

²⁹ And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days buildest it up again:

⁶⁸ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people.

¹⁴ And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do? And he said to them: Do violence to no man, neither calumniate any man; and be content with your pay.

⁵⁰ And he said to the woman: Thy faith hath made thee safe. Go in peace.

⁴⁸ But he said to her: Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go thy way in peace.

⁵ Into whatever house you enter, first say: Peace be to this house.

⁴¹ But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and behold, all things are clean unto you.

¹² And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren nor thy kinsmen nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made to thee.

¹² And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren nor thy kinsmen nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made to thee. ¹³ But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind. ¹⁴ And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. ²⁰ And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, ²¹ Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. ²² And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell. ²³ And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom: ²⁴ And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame. ²⁵ And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.

³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

⁴¹ And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man hath done no evil. ⁴² And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.

⁴⁷ Now, the centurion, seeing what was done, glorified God, saying: Indeed this was a just man.

²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not from whence he is. ³⁰ The man answered and said to them: why, herein is a wonderful thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.

³ Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands and that he came from God and goeth to God, ⁴ He riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments and, having taken a towel, girded himself. ⁵ After that, he putteth water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

¹⁹ Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live.

²⁷ Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled: nor let it be afraid.

²¹ That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

²³ I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

² And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral and made great mourning over him.

²³ And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

¹⁹ Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

¹⁹ Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

¹⁹ Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. ²⁰ But if the enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

²⁰ But if the enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. ²¹ Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good.

²¹ Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good.

¹³ Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

²¹ It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

¹² For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

⁹ As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed:

¹⁶ And thanks be to God, who hath given the same carefulness for you in the heart of Titus.

⁵ Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they would go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness.

⁷ Now we pray God that you may do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is good and that we may be as reprobates.

¹⁰ Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

²⁶ Be angry: and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.

³¹ Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

¹⁰ Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power. ¹¹ Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil.

¹⁵ That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

⁸ For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

³ For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.

⁸ Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord.

⁷ For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night. ⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

¹⁵ See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow that which is good towards each other and towards all men.

²³ And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every place. The Lord be with you all.

⁶ For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.

¹⁰ Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.

¹⁸ The Lord hath delivered me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁸ And if he hath wronged thee in any thing or is in thy debt, put that to my account. ¹⁹ I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also.

³⁰ For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people.

¹⁷ Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.

¹⁹ You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger. ²⁰ For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.

⁵ Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

²⁰ For what glory is it, if, committing sin and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently: this is thankworthy before God. ²¹ For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps. ²² Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. ²³ Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

⁹ Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

¹⁷ For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer than doing ill.

⁹ Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,

¹ After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our God. ² For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands. ³ And again they said: Alleluia. And her smoke ascendeth for ever and ever. ⁴ And the four and twenty ancients and the four living creatures fell down and adored God that sitteth upon the throne, saying: Amen. Alleluia.