Ecclesiastes 4 Cross References - ECB

¹ And I return and see all the oppressions worked under the sun; and behold, the tears of the oppressed who have no one to sigh; and the force of the hand of their oppressors who have no one to sigh. ² I laud the dead who already died more than the living who yet live. ³ Yes, better is he than they both - who became not yet - who saw not the evil work worked under the sun. ⁴ And I see all the toil and all the prosperity of work; that for this man envies friend; this is also vanity and gnawing of spirit. ⁵ The fool embraces his hands and eats his own flesh; ⁶ better, a palm full with rest, than fists full with toil and gnawing of spirit. ⁷ And I return; and I see vanity under the sun: ⁸ there is one; and there is no second: yes, he has neither son nor brother; yet he neither ends his toil nor satisfies his eye with riches: For whom toil I, that my soul lacks good? This is also vanity; yes, an evil drudgery. ⁹ Two are better than one because they have a good hire for their toil; ¹⁰ for if they fall, the one raises his companion: but woe to the one when he falls, who has no second to raise him. ¹¹ Yes, if two lie together, they heat; but how warms the one? ¹² And if one prevails against him, two withstand him: a triple thread is not quickly torn. ¹³ Better a child, poor and a wise, than a sovereign, aged and foolish who no more perceives to be enlightened? ¹⁴ for from the house of binding he comes to reign; and he, in his sovereigndom was birthed impoverished. ¹⁵ I see all the living walk under the sun, with the second child who stands in his stead. ¹⁶ There is no end of all the people - of all who became ere their face; and the final cheer not in him: surely this also is vanity and gnawing of spirit.

¹³ And the Misrayim have the sons of Yisra El serve with tyranny: ¹⁴ and they embitter their lives with hard service, in morter and in brick and in all service in the field: all their service, wherein they have them serve, is with tyranny.

¹⁶ and he says, When you accoucheuse to the Hebrews and see them on the stones; if it be a son, deathify him: but if it be a daughter, she lives.

²² And Paroh misvahs all his people, saying, Every son you birth, cast into the river and every daughter, preserve alive.

²³ And so be it, in these many days, the sovereign of Misrayim dies: and the sons of Yisra El sigh because of the service; and they cry because of the service and their cry ascends to Elohim: ²⁴ and Elohim hears their groaning and Elohim remembers his covenant with Abraham with Yischaq and with Yaaqov:

¹⁶ They give no straw to your servants and they say to us, Work brick! And behold, your servants are smitten; but the sin is in your own people. ¹⁷ And he says, Lazy, lazy: so you say, Let us go and sacrifice to Yah Veh. ¹⁸ And now, go; serve: and no straw is given you: yet you give the gauge of bricks. ¹⁹ And the officers of the sons of Yisra El see that they are in evil, saying, Diminish not bricks of your day by day word.

³³ The fruit of your soil and all your labours, eaten by a people you know not; and you become only oppressed and crushed all days:

⁴⁸ - you serve the enemies Yah Veh sends against you in famine and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all: and he gives a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he desolates you:

³ And the sons of Yisra El cry to Yah Veh: for he has nine hundred chariots of iron; and he strongly oppresses the sons of Yisra El twenty years.

⁷ And Yah Veh kindles his wrath against Yisra El; and he sells them into the hands of the Peleshethiy and into the hands of the sons of Ammon: ⁸ and that year they harass and crush the sons of Yisra El eighteen years - all the sons of Yisra El beyond Yarden in the land of the Emoriy in Gilad:

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THE YAH HUDIYM ARE REGRETFUL
And so be it, a great cry of the people and of their women against their brothers the Yah Hudiym. ² Yes, they who say, We, our sons and our daughters, are many; and we take crop to eat and live. ³ And they who say, We pledge our fields, vineyards and houses, to take crop for the famine. ⁴ And they who say, We borrowed silver on our fields and vineyards for the measure of the sovereign: ⁵ and now, our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers - our sons as their sons: and, behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters to be servants and some of our daughters are subdued: and El is not in our hands: for other men have our fields and vineyards.

²⁹ Return, I beseech you, that it not be wickedness; yes, return, my justness is in it.

⁴ I also word as you; O that your soul were in the stead of my soul to charm utterances against you and shake my head at you.

²¹ Grant me charism - grant me charism, O my friends; for the hand of Elohah touches me. ²² Why pursue you me as El? - and not satisfied with my flesh?

⁷ they stay the naked overnight without robe that they have no covering in the cold; ⁸ they are moist with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a refuge; ⁹ they strip the orphan from the breast and take a pledge of the humble; ¹⁰ they have him go naked without robe; they take away the omer from the famished; ¹¹ they press oil between their walls and tread their troughs - and thirst. ¹² Men of the city groan and the soul of the pierced cries out; yet Elohah sets not frivolity to them.

⁹ By reason of the abundance of oppressions they cause to cry out - to cry out by reason of the arm of the great.

⁹ he lurks in the coverts as a lion in his sukkoth/brush arbor; he lurks to catch the humble; he catches the humble drawing him into his net. ¹⁰ He crushes; he prostrates; his mighty fells the army of the unfortunates.

⁵ For the devastation of the humble, for the shrieking of the needy, I now rise, says Yah Veh; I set him in safety from him who puffs at him.

³ My tears are my bread day and night, while all day they say to me, Where is your Elohim?

⁹ I say to El my rock, Why forget you me? Why go I darkened because of the oppression of the enemy?

²⁰ Reproach breaks my heart; I am full of heaviness; I await someone to wag, and there is no one; and for sighers, and I find none.

⁵ You feed them bread of tears and give them triple tears to drink;

⁸ my enemies reproach me all the day and they who halal me oath against me. ⁹ For I eat ashes as bread and mix my drink with weeping

⁴ I look to the right and see; no one recognizes me: retreat destructs from me; no one seeks of my soul.

⁷ All the brothers hate the impoverished; how much more, his companions far from him. he pursues them with sayings; yet they are not.

³ An impoverished mighty who oppress the poor is a sweeping rain which leaves no bread.

¹⁵ As a growling lion and a ranging bear; thus a wicked sovereign over the poor people. ¹⁶ The eminent who lacks discernment, is also a great oppressor; and he who hates greed, prolongs his days.

¹⁶ And again, I saw under the sun the place of judgment - that wickedness was there; and the place of justness - that wickedness was there.

⁸ If you see the oppression of the impoverished and stripping of judgment and justness in a jurisdiction, marvel not at the desire; for he who is high above the high regards - and then the high above them.

⁷ Through oppression, the wise halal; and a gift destroys the heart.

⁷ For the vineyard of Yah Veh Sabaoth is the house of Yisra El, and the men of Yah Hudah his plant of delights: and he awaits judgment; and behold, oppression: for justness; and behold, a cry.

²³ and I set it in the hand of them who grieve you; who say to your soul, Prostrate, and we pass over: and you set your back as the earth, and as the outway, to them who pass over.

⁷ Their feet run to evil and they hasten to pour innocent blood: their fabrications are fabrications of mischief; ravage and breaking are in their highways:

¹³ In rebelling and lying against Yah Veh; and departing from our Elohim: wording oppression and revolt; conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood: ¹⁴ and judgment removes backward and justness stands afar off: for truth falters in the broadway and straightforwardness cannot enter. ¹⁵ Yes, truth lacks; and he who turns aside from evil, spoils: and Yah Veh sees, and it is evil in his eyes that there is no judgment.

² In weeping, she weeps in the night - her tears on her cheeks; of all her lovers, none sigh over her; all her friends deal treacherously with her - become her enemies.

⁹ Her foulness is in her hems; she remembers not her finality: she descends marvellously; she has no one to sigh. O Yah Veh, see my humiliation; for the enemy greatens.

¹³ And secondly, you do this: you cover the sacrifice altar of Yah Veh with tears, with weeping and with shrieking; because there is no more facing the offering or taking it with pleasure at your hand.

⁵ And I approach you for judgment; and I become a hasty witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false oathers and against those who oppress the hireling in his hire - the widow and the orphan; and who pervert the sojourner and awe me not, says Yah Veh Sabaoth.

¹⁸ and you return and see between the just and the wicked, between him who serves Elohim and between him who serves him not.

⁵⁶ - but all this becomes to fulfill/shalam the scriptures of the prophets. - then all the disciples forsake him, and flee.

¹⁶ In my first pleading no one convened with me, but all forsook me: so be it not reckoned to them. ¹⁷ And Adonay stood by me and dynamized me; to fully bear the preaching through me; and that all the goyim hear: and I was rescued from the mouth of the lion:

⁴ Behold, the hire of the workers who ingathered your regions - whom you cheated, cries out: and the cries of them who harvest enter the ears of Yah Veh Sabaoth.

¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? - expire when I came from the belly? ¹² Why did the knees anticipate me? Or why the breasts I suck? ¹³ For now I lie down and rest; had I slept, then had I been at rest, ¹⁴ with sovereigns and counsellors of the earth, who build parched areas for themselves; ¹⁵ or with governors who have gold - who fill their houses with silver; ¹⁶ or I had not been as a hidden miscarriage - as infants who never see light. ¹⁷ There the wicked cease from commotion; and there the wearied of force rest; ¹⁸ there the bound relax together; they hear not the voice of the exactor; ¹⁹ the small and great are there; and the servant is liberated from his adoni. ²⁰ Why gives he light to him in misery and life to the bitter soul; ²¹ who await death, and so be it not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; ²² who cheer and twirl and rejoice, when they can find the tomb? ²³ - to the mighty whose way is hid whom Elohah hedges in? ²⁴ For my sighing comes at the face of my bread and my roarings pour as the waters. ²⁵ For the dread I dreaded comes on me and what I feared comes to me. ²⁶ I neither serenified, nor had I rest, nor rested I; yet commotion came.

¹⁷ And I hated life; because the work worked under the sun is evil to me; for all is vanity and gnawing of spirit.

⁴ For to whomever joins all the living there is confidence: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. ⁵ For the living know that they die; but the dead know naught: they have no more a hire; for their memorial is forgotten. ⁶ Also their love, also their hatred, also their envy already destructed; they have no more an allotment eternal in aught worked under the sun.

¹⁰ because it neither shut the doors of my belly, nor hide toil from my eyes. ¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? - expire when I came from the belly? ¹² Why did the knees anticipate me? Or why the breasts I suck? ¹³ For now I lie down and rest; had I slept, then had I been at rest, ¹⁴ with sovereigns and counsellors of the earth, who build parched areas for themselves; ¹⁵ or with governors who have gold - who fill their houses with silver; ¹⁶ or I had not been as a hidden miscarriage - as infants who never see light.

²² who cheer and twirl and rejoice, when they can find the tomb?

¹⁸ Why then brought you me forth from the womb? Oh that I had expired and no eye had seen me! ¹⁹ As not being I became; - brought from the belly to the tomb.

⁶ And I say, Oh that they give me pinions as a dove! for then I fly and tabernacle! ⁷ Behold, then I wander afar and stay overnight in the wilderness! Selah. ⁸ I hasten my escape from the rushing wind and storm. ⁹ Swallow them, O Adonay; divide their tongues: for I see violence and strife in the city. ¹⁰ Day and night they surround the walls; mischief also and toil are in their midst; ¹¹ calamity is in the midst: fraud and deceit depart not from her broadways.

¹⁴ I saw all the works worked under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and gnawing of spirit.

³ If a man births a hundred and lives many years so that the days of his years be many and his soul satisfies not with good and also he has no tomb: I say, a miscarriage is better than he: ⁴ for he comes in vanity and goes in darkness - his name covered with darkness: ⁵ he neither sees the sun; nor knows aught: this rests more than that;

² Oh that it be, that I be in the wilderness as a lodging place of caravans; and I forsake my people and go from them; for they all adultererize - a private assembly who deals covertly: ³ and they bend their tongues as their bow for falsehood: and as for trustworthiness, they prevail not mightily on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil and they know me not - an oracle of Yah Veh.

¹⁷ because he executed me not from the womb that my mother become my tomb and her womb eternally great. ¹⁸ Why came I forth from the womb - to see toil and grief? To finish off my days with shame?

¹⁹ and woe to them who have in womb and to them who nipple in those days!

²⁹ For, behold, the days come in which they say, Blessed - the sterile and the wombs that never birthed and the breasts that never nippled.

⁴ and Abel, he also brings of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof: and Yah Veh looks to Abel and to his offering; ⁵ and to Qayin and to his offering he looks not: and Qayin inflames mightily and his face falls. ⁶ And Yah Veh says to Qayin, Why are you inflamed? and why is your face fallen? ⁷ If you well-please, and if you well-please not, sin crouches at the portal: and his desire is toward you; and you reign over him.
FIRST SLAUGHTER
⁸ And Qayin talks with Abel his brother: and so be it, in the field, Qayin rises against Abel his brother and slaughters him.

² These are the generations of Yaaqov.
THE DREAMS OF YOSEPH
Yoseph, a son of seventeen years, tends the flock with his brothers; and the lad with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, the women of his father: and Yoseph brings their slander to his father. ³ Yisra El loves Yoseph more than all his sons, because he is the son of his old age: and he works him a coverall coat. ⁴ And when his brothers see that their father loves him more than all his brothers they hate him; and cannot word shalom to him. ⁵ And Yoseph dreams a dream and he tells his brothers: and they hate him yet again. ⁶ And he says to them, Hear, I beseech you, this dream I dreamed: ⁷ that behold, we are tying sheaves midst the field, and behold, my sheaf rises and also stations itself; and behold, your sheaves turn around and prostrate to my sheaf. ⁸ And his brothers say to him, In reigning, reign you over us? - in reigning, reign over us? - and they hate him yet again for his dreams and for his words. ⁹ And he dreams yet another dream and describes it to his brothers and says, Behold, I dreamed a dream again; and behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars prostrate to me. ¹⁰ And he describes it to his father and to his brothers: and his father rebukes him and says to him, What is this dream you dreamed? In coming, come we - I and your mother and your brothers to prostrate to you to the earth? : ¹¹ And his brothers envy him; and his father guards the word:

⁸ And Shaul inflames mightily and the word is evil in his eyes; and he says, To David they give myriads and to me they give thousands: and what more, except the sovereigndom? ⁹ - and Shaul eyes David from that day and beyond.

¹⁴ And David comprehends in all his ways; and Yah Veh is with him: ¹⁵ and Shaul sees that he comprehends mightily, and he sojourns from his face: ¹⁶ and all Yisra El and Yah Hudah love David, because he goes and comes at their face.

²⁹ and Shaul adds to awe to face David; and Shaul becomes an enemy of David all days. ³⁰ And the governors of the Peleshethiy come: and so be it, after they come, David comprehends more than all the servants of Shaul; so that his name is mightily esteemed.

⁴ Fury is cruel and wrath overflows; and who is able to stand at the face of envy?

²¹ For there is a human whose toil is in wisdom and in knowledge and in prosperity; yet he gives his allotment to a human who never toiled therein. This also is vanity and a great evil.

²⁶ - giving humanity what is good at his face - wisdom and knowledge and cheerfulness; and to the sinner he gives drudgery, to gather and to heap, to give him the good at the face of Elohim. This also is vanity and gnawing of spirit.

¹⁶ There is no end of all the people - of all who became ere their face; and the final cheer not in him: surely this also is vanity and gnawing of spirit.

⁹ Better the visage of the eyes than the walking of the soul; this is also vanity and gnawing of spirit.

¹¹ Abounding words abound vanity! What more is to humanity?

¹⁸ - for he knows they deliver him because of envy.

⁹ And with zeal the patriarchs give Yoseph into Misrayim: and Elohim is with him

⁵ Or think you that the scripture words in vain, The spirit dwelling in us yearns to envy?

¹² Not exactly as Qayin who was of that evil one, who slaughtered his brother. And for what cause slaughtered he him? Because his own works were evil and those of his brother, just.

¹⁴ Why lift I my flesh in my teeth? - set my soul in my palm?

¹⁰ A little sleep; a little drowsiness; a little clasping of the hands to lie down: ¹¹ thus comes your poverty - as one who walks and your lack - as a man with buckler.

¹⁷ The merciful man deals to his own soul; and he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

²⁷ The deceitful singes not his hunt; and the wealth of a decisive human esteems.

⁴ The soul of the sloth desires and has naught; and the soul of the decisive fattens.

⁴ The sloth plows not in winter; he asks in harvest and has naught.

³³ A little sleep; a little drowsiness; a little clasping of the hands to lie down: ³⁴ and so be your poverty as one who travels; and your lack as a man with buckler.

²⁰ And on the right, he cuts and famishes; and on the left, he eats and satiates not: every man eats the flesh of his own arm

¹⁶ Better is the little of the just than the abundance of many wicked.

¹⁶ Better, little with the awe of Yah Veh than great treasure with confusion: ¹⁷ better, a ration of greens and love than a foddered ox and hatred.

⁸ Better, a little with justness than great produce without judgment.

¹ Better, a parched morsel with serenity than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

³³ and he finishes off their days in vanity and their years in terror.

¹ And I return and see all the oppressions worked under the sun; and behold, the tears of the oppressed who have no one to sigh; and the force of the hand of their oppressors who have no one to sigh.

⁶ Only, my words and my statutes which I misvahed to my servants the prophets, overtook they not your fathers? And they return and say, As Yah Veh Sabaoth intrigues to work to us, according to our ways and our exploits, works he thus with us.

¹⁸ And Yah Veh Elohim says, Not good - Adam being alone; I work a helper for him.

² And Abram says, Adonay Yah Veh, what give you me - seeing I go barren and the son of the holdings of my house is this Eli Ezer of Dammeseq? ³ And Abram says, Behold, you give me no seed! And behold, a son of my house supersedes me!

⁶ Surely every man walks in an image; surely they roar in vain: he heaps and knows not who gathers.

²⁰ As sheol and abaddon are never satisfied; thus the eyes of humanity are never satisfied.

⁸ All words belabor; man cannot word it: neither the eye satisfies with seeing nor the ear fills with hearing.

¹³ and I gave my heart to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all those worked under the heavens - this evil drudgery Elohim gave to the sons of humanity to be humbled therewith.

²³ For all his days are sorrows and his drudgery, vexation; yes, his heart lies not down in the night. This is also vanity.

⁹ Two are better than one because they have a good hire for their toil; ¹⁰ for if they fall, the one raises his companion: but woe to the one when he falls, who has no second to raise him. ¹¹ Yes, if two lie together, they heat; but how warms the one? ¹² And if one prevails against him, two withstand him: a triple thread is not quickly torn.

¹⁰ Neither is he who loves silver, satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with produce: this is also vanity.

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HO AND JUDGMENT
Ho to them who touch house to house, who approach field to field, until the final place, to settle alone midst the earth!

¹⁹ and no one turns to his heart; there is neither knowledge nor discernment to say, I burn half in the fire; yes, also I bake bread on the coals; I roast flesh and eat: and I work the remnant an abhorrence: I prostrate to the product of a tree. ²⁰ He grazes on ashes: a mocked heart perverts him that he neither rescues his soul, nor says, Is there not a falsehood in my right?

² Why weigh silver for what is not bread? And labor for what satisfies not? In hearkening, hearken to me, and eat what is good, that your soul delight itself in fatness.

³ Neither let the son of the stranger, who joins himself to Yah Veh, say, saying, In separating, Yah Veh separated me from his people: nor let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. ⁴ For thus says Yah Veh to the eunuchs who guard my shabbaths and choose what delights me and hold my covenant; ⁵ I give them in my house and within my walls a hand and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I give them an eternal name that is not cut off.

⁵ Yes also, because he deals covertly by wine; arrogant is the mighty - who rests not in his habitation - who enlarges his soul as sheol; and as death, is never satisfied: and gathers all goyim to himself, and gathers all people to himself. ⁶ They, all of them, lift they not a proverb against him? and a satire riddle against him? and say, Ho to him who abounds in what is not his! How long? And to him who heavies himself with heavy pledges! ⁷ Rise they not in a blink - they who bite you? And waken - they who agitate you? And you become their plunder? ⁸ Because you spoil many goyim all the remnant of the people spoil you - because of human blood and for the violence of the land; of the city and all who settle therein. ⁹ Ho to him who greedily gains an evil greedy gain to his house - to set his nest on high - to rescue himself from the palm of evil!

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THE INVITATION OF YAH SHUA TO REST
Come to me all you belabored and overburdened and I rest you:

²⁰ And Elohim says to him, Thoughtless! This night your soul is required of you: so whose are those that you prepared?

¹⁶ Because all that is in the cosmos - the panting of the flesh, and the panting of the eyes, and the pride of existence is not of the Father, but is of the cosmos.

¹⁴ And the wrath of Yah Veh kindles against Mosheh, and he says, Is not Aharon the Leviy your brother? I know that in wording, he words well: and also, behold, he comes to meet you: and when he sees you, he cheers in his heart. ¹⁵ and you word to him and put words in his mouth: and I - I am with your mouth and with his mouth and direct you what to work. ¹⁶ And he words for you to the people: and he becomes to you in the stead of a mouth and you become to him in the stead of Elohim:

¹⁴ I cannot bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

¹² May Yah Veh shalam your deed and a complete hire be given you of Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, under whose wings you come to seek refuge.

¹⁷ Iron sharpens iron; thus a man sharpens the face of his friend.

¹⁴ And Yah Veh wakens the spirit of Zerub Babel the son of Shealti El governor of Yah Hudah, and the spirit of Yah Shua the son of Yah Sadaq the great priest, and the spirit of all the survivors of the people; and they come and work the work in the house of Yah Veh Sabaoth their Elohim

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THE TWELVE HAVE AUTHORITY OVER IMPURE SPIRITS
And he calls the twelve to him and begins to apostolize them two by two; and gives them authority over impure spirits;

³⁶ and whoever harvests, takes reward; and gathers fruit to life eternal: so that both the sporer and the harvester cheer together.

² And as they liturgize to Adonay and fast, the Holy Spirit says, Now set apart Bar Nabi and Shaul to the work I called them.

³⁹ And so be it, there is an agitation between them, so that they separate one from the other: and so Bar Nabi takes Markos and sails to Cyprus; ⁴⁰ and Paulos selects Silas, and departs - being surrendered by the brothers to the charism of Elohim.

¹⁸ And now Elohim sets the members - each in the body - exactly as he wills. ¹⁹ And if they all were one member, where the body? ²⁰ And now indeed, many members, yet but one body. ²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

⁸ Look to yourselves - that we lose not what we worked but that we take a full reward.

⁸ And Qayin talks with Abel his brother: and so be it, in the field, Qayin rises against Abel his brother and slaughters him.

² And Aharon says to them, Break off the golden noserings in the ears of your women and your sons and your daughters and bring them to me. ³ And all the people break off the golden noserings in their ears and bring them to Aharon: ⁴ and he takes them from their hand and with a stylus forms and works a molten calf thereof: and they say, These are your elohim, O Yisra El, who ascended you from the land of Misrayim.

²¹ And Mosheh says to Aharon, What work this people to you, that you bring so great a sin on them?

¹⁹ For I became afraid to face the wrath and fury, Yah Veh enraged against you to desolate you: and Yah Veh hearkened to me at that time also. ²⁰ And Yah Veh was mighty angry with Aharon so as to desolate him: and I also prayed for Aharon the same time:

¹⁶ and Yah Nathan, the son of Shaul rises and goes to David into the forest and strengthens his hand in Elohim.

²⁷ and the mourning passes, and David sends and gathers her to his house; and she becomes his woman and births him a son: and the word David works is evil in the eyes of Yah Veh.

⁷ And Nathan says to David, You are the man! Thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, I anointed you sovereign over Yisra El and I rescued you from the hand of Shaul; ⁸ and I give you the house of your adoni and the women of your adoni into your bosom and give you the house of Yisra El and of Yah Hudah; and if that be too little, I had added these and those to you. ⁹ Why despise you the word of Yah Veh to work evil in his eyes? You smote Uri Yah the Hethiy with the sword and took his woman to be your woman and slaughtered him with the sword by the sons of Ammon: ¹⁰ and now the sword turns not aside from your house eternally; finally, you despised me and took the woman of Uri Yah the Hethiy to be your woman. ¹¹ Thus says Yah Veh, Behold, I raise evil against you from your own house and I take your women in front of your eyes and give them to your friend: to lie down with your women in the eyes of this sun. ¹² For you worked covertly: but I work this word in front of all Yisra El and in front of the sun. ¹³ And David says to Nathan, I sinned against Yah Veh. And Nathan says to David, Yah Veh also passes over your sin that you not die. ¹⁴ Only, because by this word you give the enemies of Yah Veh great occasion to scorn; and in dying, the son birthed to you dies.

⁶ and your maid has two sons and the two strive in the field and there is no rescuer between them, and the one smites the first and deathifies him:

³ Behold, you instructed many and you strengthened the weak hands; ⁴ your utterances raised him who falters and you strengthened the kneeling knees.

³ strengthen the weak hands and strengthen the faltering knees. ⁴ Say to the hasty heart, Be strong! Awe not! Behold, your Elohim! Avengement comes - the dealing of Elohim; he comes and saves you.

³¹ And Adonay says, Shimon, Shimon, behold, Satan demands you, to sift you as grain: ³² but I petitioned for you, that your trust not fail: and once you turn, establish your brothers.

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PAULOS WITHSTANDS PETROS
And when Petros came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be condemned. ¹² For prior to some coming from Yaaqovos he ate with the goyim: and when they came he withdrew and set himself apart - awestricken of them of the circumcision. ¹³ And likewise the rest of the Yah Hudiym hypocrized with him; so that also Bar Nabi was led away by their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not straightfooted to the truth of the evangelism, I said to Petros in front of them all, If you, being Yah Hudiy, live goyishly and not Yah Hudaically, why compel you the goyim to Yah Hudahize?

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THE MINISTRY OF RESTORATION
Brothers, whenever a human is overtaken in backsliding, you who are spiritual, prepare such a one in the spirit of meekness; scoping yourself, lest you also are tested.

¹⁸ So comfort one another in these words. ^{1 Corinthians 15:35-38}

¹¹ So console one another and edify one another, even as also you do.

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DAVID AGES
Sovereign David ages - stricken in days; they cover him with clothes, and he has no heat: ² so his servants say to him, We seek a virgin lass for my adoni the sovereign to stand at the face of the sovereign to become acquainted with him - to lie in his bosom so that my adoni the sovereign heats up. ³ So they seek a beautiful lass throughout all the borders of Yisra El; and find Abi Shag a Shunemiyth and bring her to the sovereign: ⁴ and the lass is mighty beautiful and becomes acquainted with the sovereign and ministers to him; and the sovereign knows her not.

⁹ And after him El Azar the son of Dodo the Ach Oachiy - of the three mighty with David, they reproached the Peleshethiy gathering to war - the men of Yisra El ascended

¹⁶ And the three mighty split the camp of the Peleshethiy and bailed water from the well of Beth Lechem by the portal and lifted and brought it to David. And he willed to not drink thereof but poured it to Yah Veh:

¹⁸ And Abi Shai the brother of Yah Ab the son of Seruyah was head among three: and he wakened his spear against three hundred and pierced them and had a name among three. ¹⁹ Was he not most honorable of three? and he became their governor: howbeit he attained not to the three.

²³ he was more honorable than the thirty but he attained not to the three: and David set him over his guard.

¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego answer and say to the sovereign, O Nebukadnets Tsar, we need not respond to you in this decision: ¹⁷ and so be it, our Elah whom we serve is able to liberate us from the burning fiery furnace, and liberate us from your hand, O sovereign.

³ diligent to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of shalom:

² These are the generations of Yaaqov.
THE DREAMS OF YOSEPH
Yoseph, a son of seventeen years, tends the flock with his brothers; and the lad with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, the women of his father: and Yoseph brings their slander to his father.

⁸ And the sovereign of Yisra El says to Yah Shaphat, There is still one man, Michah Yah the son of Yimlah, by whom we may enquire of Yah Veh: but I hate him; for he prophesies no good concerning me; but evil. And Yah Shaphat says, O that the sovereign not say thus.

⁹ As for Yah Veh, - his eyes flit throughout the whole earth, strengthened in behalf of them whose heart is at shalom toward him. Herein you folly: from this time on you have wars. ¹⁰ And Asa is vexed with the seer and gives him in a stock house; because of his rage because of this: and at that time, Asa crushes some of the people.

²⁰ And the Spirit of Elohim enrobes Zechar Yah the son of Yah Yada the priest - who stands above the people and says to them, Thus says Elohim, Why trespass you the misvoth of Yah Veh, and prosper not? Because you forsake Yah Veh, he forsakes you. ²¹ And at the misvah of the sovereign they conspire against him; and stone him with stones in the court of the house of Yah Veh. ²² Thus Yah Ash the sovereign remembers not the mercy Yah Yada his father worked to him; but slaughters his son. And as he dies, he says, Yah Veh sees and requires.

¹⁶ And so be it, as he words with him, he says to him, Who gives you to be counsellor to the sovereign? Cease! Why be smitten? Then the prophet ceases and says, I know Elohim counsels to ruin, because you work this and hearken not to my counsel.

¹ Better, the impoverished walking in integrity, than the perverted in lips who is a fool.

⁶ Better the impoverished, who walk in integrity, than he who perverts his ways, though he be rich.

¹⁵ and within they found a poor wise man; and by his wisdom he rescued the city; yet no human remembered that same poor man. ¹⁶ Then I said, Better wisdom than might; the wisdom of the poor is despised and his words not heard.

¹⁴ Then Paroh sends and calls Yoseph and they run him from the well: and he shaves and changes his clothes and comes in to Paroh.

³³ And now Paroh, seek a man discerning and wise and set him over the land of Misrayim. ³⁴ Paroh, work this; and muster overseers over the land - over a fifth of the land of Misrayim in the seven years of sufficiency: ³⁵ and have them gather all the food of those good years that come and heap grain under the hand of Paroh and have them guard food in the cities: ³⁶ and that food is for overseeing to the land for the seven years of famine in the land of Misrayim - that the land not be cut through the famine. ³⁷ And the word well-pleases the eyes of Paroh and the eyes of all his servants: ³⁸ and Paroh says to his servants, Can we find thus - a man in whom the Spirit of Elohim is? ³⁹ And Paroh says to Yoseph, Since Elohim has you know all this, no one is as discerning and wise as you: ⁴⁰ you - you be over my house; all my people kiss your mouth: only in the throne I am greater than you. ⁴¹ And Paroh says to Yoseph, Behold, I give you over all the land of Misrayim. ⁴² - and Paroh turns aside his signet from his hand and gives it on the hand of Yoseph; and enrobes him in clothes of white linen and puts a gold chain about his neck; ⁴³ and he has him ride in his second chariot; and they call at his face, Kneel! - and he gives him over all the land of Misrayim. ⁴⁴ And Paroh says to Yoseph, I - Paroh! And without you no man lifts his hand or foot in all the land of Misrayim.

²⁶ and takes the treasures of the house of Yah Veh and the treasures of the house of the sovereign: he even takes all: and he takes all the bucklers of gold Shelomoh worked: ²⁷ and in their stead sovereign Rechab Am works copper bucklers and oversees the hands of the governor of the runners, who guard the portal of the house of the sovereign:

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YAH ACHAZ REIGNS IN YERU SHALEM
Yah Achaz is a son of twenty-three years when he begins to reign; and he reigns three months in Yeru Shalem: and the name of his mother, Hamutal the daughter of Yirme Yah of Libnah. ³² And he works evil in the eyes of Yah Veh according to all his fathers worked. ³³ And Paroh Nechoh binds him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he not reign in Yeru Shalem; and gives a penalty on the land - a hundred rounds of silver and a round of gold. ³⁴ And Paroh Nechoh has El Yaqim the son of Yoshi Yah reign in the stead of Yoshi Yah his father; and turns his name to Yah Yaqim: and he takes Yah Achaz away: and he comes to Misrayim and dies there.

¹ In his days Nebukadnets Tsar sovereign of Babel ascends, and Yah Yaqim becomes his servant three years: and he turns and rebels against him: ² and against him, Yah Veh sends troops of the Kasdiy and troops of the Aramiy and troops of the Moabiy, and troops of the sons of Ammon; and he sends them against Yah Hudah to destroy it according to the word Yah Veh worded by the hand of his servants the prophets:

⁶ And Yah Yaqim lies down with his fathers: and Yah Yachin his son reigns in his stead.

¹² and Yah Yachin the sovereign of Yah Hudah goes to the sovereign of Babel - he and his mother and his servants and his governors and his eunuchs: and the sovereign of Babel takes him in the eighth year of his reign:

⁷ and they slaughter the sons of Sidqi Yah in front of his eyes; and blind the eyes of Sidqi Yah and bind him with fetters of copper and carry him to Babel.

²⁷ And so be it, in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Yah Yachin sovereign of Yah Hudah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, Evil Merodach sovereign of Babel in the year he begins to reign lifts the head of Yah Yachin sovereign of Yah Hudah from the house of prison; ²⁸ and he words good to him; and gives his throne above the throne of the sovereigns with him in Babel; ²⁹ and changes his prison clothes: and he eats bread continually at his face all the days of his life: ³⁰ and his ration is a continual ration given him by the sovereign - the day by day word, all the days of his life.

¹¹ to set the lowly in the heights; to lift the darkened to salvation.

⁷ He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dunghill ⁸ to set them with volunteers - the volunteers of his people.

²⁰ the spirit/wind of our nostrils, the anointed of Yah Veh, is captured in their pits - of whom we say, Under his shadow we live among the goyim.

³¹ While the utterance is still in the mouth of the sovereign, a voice falls from the heavens, O sovereign Nebukadnets Tsar, to you they are saying; the sovereigndom passes from you;

⁶ and Abi Shalom works this word to all Yisra El who come to the sovereign for judgment: and Abi Shalom steals the hearts of the men of Yisra El.

¹⁹ if you then work truly and integriously with Yerub Baal and with his house this day, then cheer in Abi Melech and he cheers in you: ²⁰ and if not, fire comes from Abi Melech to consume the masters of Shechem and the house of Millo; and fire comes from the masters of Shechem and from the house of Millo and consumes Abi Melech.

¹² And Abi Shalom sends for Achiy Thophel the Gilohiy the counsellor of David from his city - from Giloh as he sacrifices sacrifices: and the conspiracy is strong; for many people walk with Abi Shalom. ¹³
DAVID FLEES YERU SHALEM
And a teller comes to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Yisra El are after Abi Shalom.

⁷ where the people of Yisra El are smitten at the face of the servants of David; and that day there is a great plague of twenty thousand: ⁸ for the war scatters over the face of all the land: and that day the forest abounds and consumes more people than the sword consumes.

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THE SOVEREIGNDOM OF DAVID IS RESTORED
And so be it, all the people throughout all the scions of Yisra El plead, saying, The sovereign rescued us from the palm of our enemies; and he rescued us from the palm of the Peleshethiy; and now he flees from the land because of Abi Shalom:

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ADONI YAH USURPS LEADERSHIP
And Adoni Yah the son of Haggith lifts himself, saying, I reign. He works chariots and cavalry and fifty men to run at his face: ⁶ and his father contorts him not all his days saying, Why have you worked so? And he also is mighty good of form; and he was birthed after Abi Shalom: ⁷ and his words are with Yah Ab the son of Seruyah and with Abi Athar the priest: and they help after Adoni Yah.

⁴⁰ And all the people ascend after him and the people flute with flutes and greatly cheer with cheer so that the earth splits with their voice:

¹⁰ And the children who grew up with him word to him, saying, Say thus to this people who word to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but swiften it to us - word to them thus, My pinky is thicker than the loins of my father! ¹¹ And now, whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I add to your yoke: my father disciplined you with whips; and I - I discipline you with scorpions. ¹² So Yarob Am and all the people come to Rechab Am the third day as the sovereign worded, saying, Return to me the third day: ¹³ and the sovereign answers the people hard and forsakes the counsel the elders counsel him; ¹⁴ and words to them after the counsel of the children, saying, My father made your yoke heavy and I - I add to your yoke: my father disciplined you with whips, and I - I discipline you with scorpions. ¹⁵ And the sovereign hearkens not to the people; for the revolution is from Yah Veh to raise his word which Yah Veh worded by the hand of Achiy Yah the Shilohiy to Yarob Am the son of Nebat. ¹⁶
THE SOVEREIGNDOM DIVIDED
And all Yisra El sees that the sovereign hearkens not to them, and the people return word to the sovereign, saying, What allotment have we in David? Yes, there is no inheritance in the son of Yishay: to your tents, O Yisra El! Now see to your own house, O David. - and Yisra El goes to their tents.

¹¹ Then I faced all the works my hands worked and on the toil I toiled to work; and behold, all is vanity and gnawing of spirit and there is no advantage under the sun.