Proverbs 30 Cross References - LITV

¹ The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the burden: The man spoke to Ithiel, even to Ithiel and Ucal, saying, ² Surely I am more brutish than anyone, and I do not have the understanding of a man. ³ I have not learned wisdom, but I do know the knowledge of holiness. ⁴ Who has gone up to Heaven, and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in His garments? Who has made all the ends of the earth to rise? What is His name, and what is His Son's name? Surely you know. ⁵ Every word of God is tested, He is a shield to those who seek refuge in Him. ⁶ Do not add to His words, that He not reprove you, and you be found a liar. ⁷ I have asked two things from You: Do not hold back from me before I die, ⁸ Remove vanity and a lying word far from me, do not give me poverty or riches; tear for me my portion of bread, ⁹ that I not become full and deceive, and say, Who is Jehovah? Or that I not become poor and steal, and violate the name of my God. ¹⁰ Do not slander a servant to his master, that he not curse you, and you be found guilty. ¹¹ A generation curses its father, and does not bless its mother, ¹² a generation pure in its own eyes, and yet not washed from its own filth. ¹³ There is a generation, Oh how lofty are its eyes! And its eyelids are lifted up, ¹⁴ a generation whose teeth are like swords, and its jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men. ¹⁵ The leech has two daughters crying, Give! Give! Three things are not satisfied, four never have said, Enough! ¹⁶ Sheol, and the barren womb, the earth not filled with water, and the fire, these never said, Enough! ¹⁷ The eye that mocks its father, and despises to obey its mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the sons of the eagle shall eat it. ¹⁸ Three things are too wonderful for me; yea, I do not know the way of four: ¹⁹ The way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a virgin. ²⁰ So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no evil. ²¹ The earth quakes under three things; yea, it is not able to bear up under four: ²² under a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food, ²³ under a hated one when she is married, under a slave-girl when she is heir to her mistress. ²⁴ Four things are little on the earth, but they are the wise ones of those made wise: ²⁵ The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in summer; ²⁶ rock badgers are not a powerful people, yet they make their houses in the rock; ²⁷ the locusts have no king, yet they go out in a swarm, all of them; ²⁸ the lizard you can take with the hands, yet it is in king's palaces. ²⁹ There are three things that go well in a march; yea, four that go well in walking: ³⁰ a lion is mighty among beasts, and he does not turn away from facing all; ³¹ one girded in loins, and a he goat, and a king when his army is with him. ³² If you have been foolish in lifting yourself up, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand on your mouth! ³³ Surely, the squeezing of milk brings curds, and the squeezing of the nose brings blood; so the squeezing of wrath brings out strife.

¹ The words of king Lemuel, the burden that his mother taught him:

¹⁹ and we have the more established prophetic word, in which you do well to take heed, as to a lamp shining in a murky place, until day dawns and the Day-star rises in your hearts; ²⁰ knowing this first, that every prophecy of Scripture did not come into being of its own interpretation; ²¹ for prophecy was not at any time borne by the will of man, but having been borne along by the Holy Spirit, holy men of God spoke.

³ Who is this hiding counsel without knowledge? So I declared, but did not understand things too wonderful for me; yea, I did not know. ⁴ I pray, Listen, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You will make me know. ⁵ I have heard of You by hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You; ⁶ Therefore, I despise myself, and I have repented on dust and ashes.

¹⁰ For he sees wise men die; together the fool and the animal-like ones perish and leave their riches to others.

²² And I was brutish and did not know; I was like animals with You.

⁶ An animal-like man does not know; a fool does not understand this.

¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;

⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am cut off; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live amongst a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁴ Every man is stupid from lack of knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by the carved image. For his molten image is a lie and no breath is in them.

²⁵ For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be wise within yourselves, that hardness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the nations comes in;

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself, if anyone thinks to be wise among you in this age, let him become foolish, that he may become wise.

² But if anyone thinks to know anything, he still has known nothing as he ought to know.

⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all freely and with no reproach, and it will be given to Him.

¹² But these as unreasoning natural beasts, having been born for capture and corruption, speaking evil in that of which they are ignorant, they shall utterly perish in their corruption, ¹³ being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, having deemed indulgence in the day to be pleasure; spots and blemishes reveling in their deceits, feasting along with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of an adulteress, and never ceasing from sin; alluring unsettled souls; having a heart busied with covetousness; cursed children; ¹⁵ forsaking a straight path, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, ¹⁶ but had reproof of his own transgression, the dumb ass speaking in a man's voice held back the madness of the prophet.

⁷ Can you find out God by searching? Or can you find out the end of the Almighty? ⁸ Heights of the heavens! What can you do? It is deeper than Sheol; what can you know? ⁹ Its measure is longer than the earth, broader than the sea.

¹⁰ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the Holy Ones is understanding.

³ And one cried to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory!

¹⁰ Make the heart of this people fat, and make his ears heavy, and shut his eyes, that he not see with his eyes, and hear with his ears, and understand with his heart, and turn back, and one heals him.

¹¹ Turn aside from the way; stretch from the path; cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

¹⁵ For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, and His name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble of spirit; to make live the spirit of the humble and to make live the heart of the contrite ones.

¹⁴ Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah: I was not a prophet, nor was I a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a gatherer from sycamore trees. ¹⁵ And Jehovah took me from behind the flock, and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.

²⁷ All things were yielded up to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him .

¹⁷ And answering, Jesus said to him, Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father in Heaven.

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

³³ O the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

¹⁸ that you may be given strength to grasp, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height, ¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These things says the Holy One, the True One, the One having "the key of David," "the One opening, and no one shuts; and shuts, and no one opens:" Isa. 22:22

⁸ And the four living creatures each one had six wings around, and within being full of eyes. And they had no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty," the One who was, and is, and is coming! Isa. 6:3

²⁹ And Jacob asked and said, Please reveal Your name. And He said, Why this that you ask about My name? And He blessed him there.

¹³ And Moses said to God, Behold, I shall come to the sons of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you; and they will say to me, What is His name? What shall I say to them? ¹⁴ And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM; and He said, you shall say this to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you. ¹⁵ And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation.

³ And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, and by My name JEHOVAH I never made Myself known to them.

⁵ And Jehovah came down in the cloud. And he placed himself there with Him, and he called on the name of Jehovah. ⁶ And Jehovah passed by before his face and called out: Jehovah! Jehovah God! Merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and great in goodness and truth, ⁷ keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and not leaving entirely unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on sons, and on sons of sons, to the third and to the fourth generation.

⁵⁸ If you will not take heed to do all the words of this law written in this book, to fear this glorious and fearful Name, Jehovah your God,

¹² It is not in the heavens that you should say, Who shall go up into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it?

¹⁸ And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Why do you ask this about My name? Yea, it is Wonderful.

⁸ He binds up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud does not burst under them.

⁴ Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if you know understanding. ⁵ Who has set its measurements, for you know? Or who has stretched a line on it? ⁶ On what were its bases sunk? Or who cast its cornerstone, ⁷ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst out; it came forth from the womb? ⁹ When I made the clouds to clothe it, and darkness its navel-band; ¹⁰ and I broke My limit on it, and set bars and doors; ¹¹ and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall be set? ¹² Have you commanded the morning from your days, and caused the dawn to know its place, ¹³ that it might take hold of the wings of the earth; that the wicked might be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It is turned like clay under a seal; and they stand out like a garment. ¹⁵ And their light is withheld from the wicked, and the high arm shall be broken. ¹⁶ Have you gone to the springs of the sea; or have you walked in searching of the deep? ¹⁷ Have death's gates been opened to you; or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Declare, if you know it all! ¹⁹ Where is this, the way light dwells; and where is the place of darkness, ²⁰ that you should take it to its boundary, and that you should perceive the paths to its house? ²¹ You know, for then you were born, and the number of your days is great. ²² Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, ²³ which I have reserved for the time of distress for the day of battle and war? ²⁴ How is it, the way the light is distributed; and how does the east wind spread itself on the earth? ²⁵ Who has cut a channel for the flood; or a way for the thunderclaps, ²⁶ to make rain fall on the earth where no man is, a wilderness and no man in it; ²⁷ to satisfy the waste and desolation, and to cause the source of grass to sprout? ²⁸ Is there a father for the rain? Or who has given birth to the drops of dew? ²⁹ From whose womb comes forth the ice; and the frost of the heavens, who fathered it; ³⁰ the waters hidden like stone, and the face of the deep is captured? ³¹ Can you bind the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? ³² Can you bring out the constellations in their season; or can you guide the Bear with its sons? ³³ Do you know the limits of the heavens; can you establish their rulership on the earth? ³⁴ Can you lift your voice to the clouds, so that floods of water may cover you? ³⁵ Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say to you, Here we are ? ³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts; or who has given understanding to the mind? ³⁷ Who can by wisdom number the clouds or who can lay down the jars of the heavens, ³⁸ when the dust is melted into hardness, and the clods cling fast together? ³⁹ Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or fill the appetite of the young lions, ⁴⁰ when they crouch in dens, and sit in the cover of their hiding place? ⁴¹ Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to God and wander about without food?

⁷ I will declare concerning the statute of Jehovah: He said to Me, You are My Son. Today I have begotten You.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn back to Jehovah; and all the families of the nations shall worship before You.

² For He has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.

¹⁸ You have gone up on high; You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts among men; yea, to dwell among the rebellious, O Jehovah God.

² covering Yourself with light like a cloak, and stretching out the heavens like a curtain; ³ who lays beams in the waters of His upper rooms; setting thick clouds as His chariots; walking on the wings of the wind. ⁴ He makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flaming fire. ⁵ He founded the earth on its foundations; it shall not be shaken forever and ever. ⁶ You have covered the deep as with a robe; the waters stood above the mountains. ⁷ From Your rebuke, they flee; from the sound of Your thunder, they hurry away. ⁸ They go up the mountains; they go down the valleys to the place which You founded for them. ⁹ You have set a boundary they may not pass over; they shall not return to cover the earth. ¹⁰ He sends springs into the valleys; they flow between the hills; ¹¹ they give drink to every animal of the field; wild asses break their thirst; ¹² over them the birds of the heavens dwell; they give voice from between the branches. ¹³ He waters the hills from His upper rooms; the earth is satisfied from the fruit of Your works. ¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for the service of man, to bring food out of the earth. ¹⁵ And wine cheers the heart of man; oil makes his face shine, and bread sustains the heart of man. ¹⁶ The trees of Jehovah are satisfied the cedars of Lebanon that He planted; ¹⁷ there where the birds nest; the fir trees are the house of the stork; ¹⁸ high hills are for the wild goats; rocks are a refuge for the badgers. ¹⁹ He made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down. ²⁰ You put darkness, and it is night; in it all the forest animals creep. ²¹ The young lions roar for prey, and to seek their food from God. ²² The sun rises; they are gathered, and go to their dens to lie down. ²³ Man goes out to his work, and to his labor until the evening. ²⁴ O Jehovah, how many are Your works! You have made all of them in wisdom; the earth is full of Your riches. ²⁵ This is the sea, great and wide on both hands; there are creeping things even without number; living things, small and great. ²⁶ There the ships go; You formed this great sea-animal to play in it. ²⁷ All of them wait for You to give them their food in due season. ²⁸ You give to them; they gather; You open Your hand, and they are filled with good. ²⁹ You hide Your face, and they are troubled; You gather their breath, and they expire and return to their dust. ³⁰ You send out Your Spirit, and they are created; and You renew the face of the earth. ³¹ The glory of Jehovah shall be forever; Jehovah shall rejoice in His works. ³² He looks to the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke. ³³ I will sing to Jehovah during my life; I will sing praise to my God while I exist. ³⁴ My thoughts on Him shall be sweet; I will be glad in Jehovah. ³⁵ Let sinners perish from the earth and let the wicked be no more; bless Jehovah, O my soul; praise Jehovah!

¹⁴ So, The Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold! The virgin will conceive and will bring forth a son; and she shall call His name Immanuel.

⁶ For a Child is born; to us a Son is given; and the government is on His shoulder; and His name is called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

¹² He who has measured in His palm the waters and the heavens by a span meted out; and enclosed in the measure the dust of the earth, and weighed in the balance the mountains, and the hills in the scales, ¹³ Who has meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, or a man His counsel taught Him? ¹⁴ With whom did He take counsel, and who trained Him and taught Him in the path of justice; and taught Him knowledge, and made known to Him the way of discernment? ¹⁵ Lo, nations are as a drop from a bucket, and are reckoned as dust of the scales. Lo, He takes up coasts as a little thing. ¹⁶ And Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering. ¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before Him; to Him they are reckoned less than nothing and emptiness. ¹⁸ And to whom will you liken God? Or what likeness will you array to Him? ¹⁹ The craftsman pours out the casted image, the smelter spreads it with gold; and he casts the chains of silver. ²⁰ He too poor for that offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks a skilled artisan for him, to prepare a carved image that will not be shaken. ²¹ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Was it not told to you from the beginning? Did you not discern from the foundations of the earth? ²² He who sits on the circle of the earth, even its dwellers are like grasshoppers; He who stretches the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in; ²³ who gives potentates into nothing. He makes judges of the earth as nothing. ²⁴ Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they are not sown; yea, their stem is not taking root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall take them away like stubble. ²⁵ To whom then will you compare Me, or am I equaled, says the Holy One? ²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high and look: Who has created these? Who brings out their host by number? By greatness of vigor, and might of power, He calls them all by names; not one is lacking. ²⁷ Why will you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel; My way is hidden from Jehovah, and my judgment is passed over by my God? ²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Jehovah, the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth; He is not faint, nor does He grow weary; there is no searching to His understanding. ²⁹ He gives power to the faint, and to him with no vigor He increases might. ³⁰ Even youths are faint and fatigued, and young men surely shall stumble; ³¹ but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew power; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!

⁸ He was taken from prison and from justice; and who shall consider His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; from the transgression of My people, the stroke was to Him.

⁶ In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is His name by which He shall be called, Jehovah our Righteousness.

²¹ And she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins. ²² And all this happened so that might be fulfilled that spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, ²³ "Behold! The virgin will conceive in her womb and will bear a son, and they will call His name Emmanuel" (which translated is, God with us). Isa. 7:14

²² All things were delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father; and who is the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may desire to reveal Him .

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

⁶ But the righteousness of faith says this: "Do not say in your heart, Who will go up into Heaven?" (that is, to bring down Christ);

⁸ Because of this, He says, "Having gone up on high, He led captivity captive," and gave "gifts to men." Psa. 68:18 ⁹ But that He went up, what is it except that He also first came down into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He that came down is the same who also went up above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.

¹² And His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head many diadems, having a name that had been written, which no one knows except Himself;

¹ After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram; I am your shield, your reward will increase greatly.

³ But You, O Jehovah, are a shield around me; my glory and He who lifts up my head.

⁶ The words of Jehovah are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times.

³⁰ As for God, His way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is purified; He is a shield to all who seek refuge in Him.

⁸ The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commands of Jehovah are pure, giving light to the eyes.

¹¹ For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; He will withhold nothing good from those who walk in integrity.

² I will say to Jehovah: My Refuge and my Fortress, my God; I will trust in Him.

⁹ O Israel, trust in Jehovah; He is their help and their shield. ¹⁰ O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah; He is their help and their shield. ¹¹ You who fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah; He is their help and their shield.

¹⁴⁰ Your word is pure and Your servant loves it.

² He is my mercy and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield, and in Him I take refuge, in Him who humbles my people under me.

¹² So indeed the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is firstly truly pure, then peaceable, forbearing, yielding, full of mercy and of good fruits, not partial and not pretended.

² You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, to keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

³² All the things that I command you, take heed to do them and you shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

⁷ Would you speak unrighteously for God and speak deceitfully for Him? ⁸ Will you lift up His face, or will you contend for God? ⁹ Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him? Is it good that He should search you out?

¹⁵ And also we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we witnessed as to God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if then dead ones are not raised.

¹⁸ For I testify together with everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add upon him the plagues having been written in this Book. ¹⁹ And if anyone takes away from the words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and of the things having been written in this Book.

⁵ Jehovah appeared to Solomon in Gibeon in a dream of the night. And God said, Ask. What shall I give to you? ⁶ And Solomon said, You have shown great kindness to Your servant, my father David, as he walked before You in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with You. And You have kept for him this great kindness, and have given to him a son sitting on his throne, as today. ⁷ And now, O Jehovah my God, You have caused Your servant to reign instead of my father David. And I am a little man-child; I do not know to go out and to come in. ⁸ And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a numerous people that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude. ⁹ Also give to Your servant an understanding heart, to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this, Your great people?

⁹ And it happened, when they were crossing, Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, Then let there now be a double mouth of your spirit on me.

² You have given him his heart's desire and have not withheld the prayer of his lips. Selah.

⁴ One thing I have asked from Jehovah, it I will seek: my dwelling in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the delight of Jehovah, and to inquire in His temple.

⁴² But there is need of only one; and Mary chose the good part, which shall not be taken from her.

²⁰ And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God is with me and keeps me in this way which I am going, and gives to me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born until today; ¹⁶ The Angel that redeemed me from every evil, may He bless the youths; and may my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they like the fishes increase into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

¹⁵ And the sons of Israel looked. And they said, each one to his brother, What is that? For they did not know what it was . And Moses said to them, That is the bread which Jehovah has given to you for food.

¹⁸ And they measured with an omer. And the one gathering much did not have too much. And the one gathering little did not have any need. Each one gathered according to the mouth of his eating.

²¹ And they gathered it in the morning, each one in the morning according to the mouth of his eating. And it melted in the heat of the sun. ²² And it came about on the sixth day, they gathered double bread, two omers for one. And all the leaders of the congregation came and reported to Moses.

²⁹ Behold! Because Jehovah has given the sabbath to you, therefore He is giving to you two days of bread on the sixth day. Each one of you remain in his place. Do not let anyone go out from his place on the seventh day.

³⁵ And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until their coming into an inhabited land. They ate the manna until their coming to the border of the land of Canaan.

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

¹² nor have I departed from the command of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

⁹ Surely the sons of men are vanity, the sons of man are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are higher than vanity together. ¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, and do not be vain in robbery; if riches increase to you, do not set your heart on them.

²⁹ Remove from me the way of lying, and favor me with Your law.

³⁷ Turn my eyes from seeing vanity; in Your way give me life.

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven by those who seek death.

⁸ He who sows injustice will reap evil, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

⁵ Will your eyes fly on it? And it is not! For surely it makes wings for itself, it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

² Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity!

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with ropes of a cart;

⁴ No one calls for righteousness; and no one pleads with truth. Trusting emptiness, and speaking vanity, they conceive mischief, and give birth to evil.

²¹ And Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guardhouse, and that they should give him a piece of bread out of the baker's street daily, until all the bread of the city was gone. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guardhouse.

³⁴ And his allowance in continual allowance was given to him from the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

¹¹ Give us today our daily bread,

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

³ Give us our needed bread day by day;

⁸ And He said to them, Now draw out and carry to the master of the feast. And they carried it.

¹⁵ and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like feelings to you, announcing the gospel to you to turn you from these vanities to the living God, who "made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them," Ex. 20:11

⁶ But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷ For we have brought nothing into the world, and it is plain that neither can we carry anything out. ⁸ But having food and clothing, we will be satisfied with these.

² And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah that I should listen to His voice to send away Israel? I do not know Jehovah, and I also will not send Israel away.

⁷ You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain; for Jehovah will not leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

¹ And when a person sins, and hears the voice of swearing, and he is a witness, or has seen, or has known, if he does not reveal it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

¹⁰ And it shall be, when Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land which He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you great and good cities, which you have not built, ¹¹ and houses full of every good thing which you have not filled, and wells dug which you did not dig, vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant; and you shall eat and be satisfied; ¹² and you shall be on guard that you not forget Jehovah who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.

¹⁰ And you shall eat and be satisfied; and you shall bless Jehovah your God in the good land which He has given you. ¹¹ Take heed to yourself, lest you forget Jehovah your God so as not to keep His commandments, and His ordinances, and His statutes, which I am commanding you today; ¹² that when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built goodly houses, and have lived in them; ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold have multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, ¹⁴ then it rises up into your heart, and you forget Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves;

²⁰ And I shall bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I have sworn to their fathers. And you shall eat and be satisfied, and become fat, and shall turn to other gods; and they shall serve them, and despise Me, and break My covenant.

¹⁵ But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, thick and sated. And he abandoned God who made him, and fell away from the Rock of his salvation.

²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He has spoken with us. And it shall be against you for a witness, that you not lie against your God.

¹⁵ And now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, nor believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand, from the hand of my fathers; also, surely your god shall not deliver you from my hand. ¹⁶ And again his servants spoke against Jehovah God, and against His servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷ And he had written letters to blaspheme Jehovah, the God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands have not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah shall not deliver His people from my hand.

²⁵ And they took strong cities and a rich land, and occupied houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards and oliveyards and fruit trees in abundance. And they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and lived luxuriously in Your great goodness. ²⁶ But they were disobedient, and rebelled against You, and cast Your law behind their backs. And they killed Your prophets who testified against them, to turn them to You. And they worked great blasphemies.

²⁴ If I have made gold my hope or have called fine gold my trust; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was great; or because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon marching in splendor, ²⁷ and my heart was secretly enticed. or my mouth has kissed my hand; ²⁸ this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied God above.

³ For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the lot of the righteous; that the righteous not put forth their hands to evil.

³⁰ They do not despise a thief, if he steals to fill his appetite when he is hungry. ³¹ But if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house.

²⁴ He who shares with a thief hates his soul; he hears an oath, but does not tell it .

³¹ O generation, see the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam; we will come no more to You.

¹⁴ And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty, for it was perfect by My splendor which I had set on you, declares the Lord Jehovah. ¹⁵ But you trusted in your beauty, and you prostituted yourself because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was to him!

⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters. Also, she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ Also, they were haughty and did abomination before My face, so I turned them away as I saw fit .

¹⁷ This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will. And He sets up over it the lowest of men.

³⁰ The king spoke and said, is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

⁶ According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled, and their heart was lifted up. On account of this they have forgotten Me.

⁷² And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.

⁷⁴ Then he began to curse and to swear, I do not know the man. And immediately a cock crowed.

²² And the mass of people cried out, The voice of a god, and not of a man! ²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give the glory to God. And having been eaten by worms, his soul went out.

⁹ Beware that there is no evil thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release draws near; and your eye be evil against your needy brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to Jehovah against you and it be sin to you.

¹⁵ You shall not hand over to his master a slave that has escaped from his master to you.

⁹ And Doeg the Edomite, even he was set over Saul's servants, answered and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. ¹⁰ And he asked for him of Jehovah, and gave provisions to him, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

⁹ And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to the words of man, saying, Behold, David seeks to do you evil?

¹⁹ And now, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah has moved you against me, let Him accept an offering. And if the sons of men, they are cursed before Jehovah; for they have driven me out today from joining myself with the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.

¹⁵ And David said to him, Are you able to bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear to me by God that you will neither put me to death, nor deliver me up into my master's hand, and I will bring you down to this troop.

¹ And David had passed on a little from the top. And behold, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to meet him with a couple of saddled asses, and on them two hundred loaves and a hundred bunches of raisins, and a hundred of summer fruit, and a bottle of wine. ² And the king said to Ziba, What are these to you? And Ziba said, The asses are for the king's household to ride on, and the bread and the summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine for the wearied to drink in the wilderness. ³ And the king said, And where is the son of your lord? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, Today the house of Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father. ⁴ And the king said to Ziba, Behold, all that Mephibosheth has is yours. And Ziba said, I bow myself; may I find favor in your eyes, my lord, O king.

²⁶ And he said, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle the ass for myself and ride on it and go with the king, for your servant is lame. ²⁷ And he spoke slander against your servant to my lord the king. And my lord the king is as a messenger of God; yet you do that which is good in your eyes.

²² And Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada his father had done to him, and killed his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah shall seek you out . ²³ And it happened, at the turn of the year, that the army of Syria came up against him; and they came into Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people from among the people; and they sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus. ²⁴ For with few men the army of Syria came in, and Jehovah gave a mighty force for multitude into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers. And they executed judgment against Joash.

²⁶ One holding back grain, the people curse him; but a blessing is to the head of one selling grain.

²³ These also are for the wise: to respect persons in judgment is not good. ²⁴ He who says to the wicked, You are righteous, the peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him.

²⁷ He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes shall have plenty of curses.

²¹ Also, do not give your heart to all the words they speak, that you not hear your servant cursing you.

⁸ Then at that time men, Chaldeans, came near and slandered the Jews. ⁹ They answered and said to king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever! ¹⁰ You, O king, have made a decree that every man who shall hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and the bagpipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image. ¹¹ And whoever does not fall down and worship, he should be thrown into the middle of a burning, fiery furnace. ¹² There are men, Jews, whom you have set over the business of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, do not pay attention to you. They do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up. ¹³ Then Nebuchadnezzar in anger and wrath commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king. ¹⁴ Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that you are not serving my gods, nor worshiping the golden image which I have set up? ¹⁵ Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, fall down and worship the image which I have made. But if you do not worship, in that moment you shall be thrown into the middle of a burning, fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to return a word to you on this matter. ¹⁷ If it is so that our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning, fiery furnace, then He will deliver out of your hand, O king. ¹⁸ And if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.

¹³ Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who is of the exiled sons of Judah, has not set attention on you, O king, or the ban that you have signed, but he makes his prayer three times in the day.

²⁴ And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel. And they threw them into the lions' den, them, their sons and their wives. And the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones before they reached to the bottom of the den.

⁴ Who are you judging another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.

¹⁷ And he who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death.

⁹ And any man who curses his father and his mother shall certainly be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother; his blood shall be on him.

²⁰ and they shall say to the elders of his city, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. ²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die. So you shall put away the evil from among you, that all Israel shall hear, and fear.

¹⁶ Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen!

²⁰ Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

¹² a generation pure in its own eyes, and yet not washed from its own filth. ¹³ There is a generation, Oh how lofty are its eyes! And its eyelids are lifted up, ¹⁴ a generation whose teeth are like swords, and its jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks its father, and despises to obey its mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the sons of the eagle shall eat it.

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

⁴ For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and mother," Ex. 20:12; Deut. 5:16 and, "The one speaking evil of father or mother, by death let him die." Ex. 21:17 ⁵ But you say, Whoever says to the father or the mother, A gift, whatever you would gain from me; ⁶ and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you annulled the command of God on account of your tradition.

¹⁰ For Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother;" Ex. 20:12; Deut. 5:16 and, "The one speaking evil of father or mother, let him expire by death." Ex. 21:17 ¹¹ But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, Corban, (which is, A gift!) whatever you may profit by me. ¹² And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother, ¹³ making the Word of God of no effect by your tradition which you delivered. And many such like things you do.

⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to be godly to their own house and to make a return payment to their forebears, for this is good and pleasing before God.

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

⁹ But you are "an elect race," "a royal priesthood," "a holy nation," "a people for possession," so that "you may openly speak of the virtues" of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; LXX-Ex. 23:22; MT-Ex. 19:5, 6

⁵ And the man Micah had a house of gods. And he made an ephod, and household idols, and consecrated one of his sons And he was a priest for him.

¹³ And Micah said, Now I know that Jehovah will do me good, for the Levite is a priest to me.

¹³ And Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, Blessed are you of Jehovah. I have risen to do the word of Jehovah. ¹⁴ And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of the flock in my ears, and the sound of the herd that I hear.

⁹ You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and no iniquity is in me;

² For he flatters himself in his own eyes in order to find his iniquity, in order to hate it .

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

⁷ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

² All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but Jehovah weighs the spirits.

² Every way of a man is upright in his own eyes, but Jehovah measures the hearts.

¹⁶ Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My sight; stop doing evil.

⁵ who say, Keep to yourself! Do not come near me, for I am holier than you! These are a smoke in My nose, a fire burning all the day.

²² Though you wash yourself with potash, and multiply soap for yourself, your iniquity is stained before Me, declares the Lord Jehovah. ²³ How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after Baals? See your way in the valley; know what you have done! You are a swift camel crossing her ways; ²⁴ a wild ass used to the wilderness. In the passion of her desire she snuffs up the wind in her time. Who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.

³⁵ Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will judge with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. Until when will your vain thoughts lodge within you?

²⁵ Then I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your defilement and from all your idols.

¹ In that day a fountain shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.

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

¹⁵ And He said to them, You are those justifying yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for the thing highly prized among men is a hateful thing before God.

¹¹ The Pharisee was standing, praying these things to himself: God, I thank You that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

¹¹ And some were these things, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these.

¹⁵ Truly, all things are pure to the pure, but to the ones having been defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience has been defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and worthless to every good work.

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

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

⁵ even from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the First-born out of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him loving us and washing us from our sins by His blood,

⁵ Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; I will not endure him who has high eyes and a proud heart.

¹ A Song of Ascents. Of David. O Jehovah, my heart is not proud, nor have my eyes been lofty; nor have I walked in great things, nor in things too wondrous for me.

¹⁷ a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

⁴ High eyes, a proud heart, and the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

¹¹ The lofty eyes of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be bowed down; but Jehovah, He alone, will be exalted in that day.

¹⁶ And Jehovah says, Because the daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and make a tinkling with their feet;

² Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, So says the Lord Jehovah, Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though you give your heart as the heart of gods. ³ Behold, you are wiser than Daniel. Every one of the secret things are not hidden to you. ⁴ With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourself, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries. ⁵ By your great wisdom, by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.

⁹ Will you still say, I am of the gods before him who strikes you? But you are a man, and not God, in the hands of him who pierces you.

³⁶ And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god; he shall even speak marvelous things against the God of gods and shall prosper until the fury is fulfilled. For that which is decreed shall be done. ³⁷ He shall not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women; yea, he will not come to any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.

⁴ Behold, the soul of him is puffed up and is not upright; but the just shall live by his faith.

³ Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, because that Day will not come unless first comes the falling away, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, ⁴ the one opposing and exalting himself over everything being called God, or object of worship, so as for him "to sit in the temple of God" as God, proclaiming that he himself is God. Dan. 11:36; Eze. 28:2

¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the perverse, and cast the prey out of his teeth.

⁷ Arise, O Jehovah! Save me, O my God. For You have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

⁸ He sits in the hiding places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes watch against the poor. ⁹ He lies in wait secretly like a lion in his den; he lies in ambush to catch the poor; he seizes the poor, drawing him into his net;

⁵ For the pain of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now rise up, says Jehovah; I will set in safety; he pants for it.

⁴ Have all evildoers not known, eating My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

² Like a sharp razor, your tongue devises ruin, working deceit.

⁴ My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

⁶ O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the big teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

¹⁸ There is a rash speaking like thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

¹⁶ One oppresses the poor to multiply for himself, another gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

³ A poor man that oppresses the weak is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

¹ So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter! And at the hand of those who oppressed them was power; but there was no comforter to them.

⁷ And the weapons of the miser are evil; he devises wicked plots to destroy the poor with lying words, even the needy when he speaks right.

⁵ And, behold, another beast, a second, like a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. And they said this to it, Rise up, eat much flesh. ⁶ After this I was looking, and, behold, another like a leopard, and to it were four wings of a bird on its side. And also to the beast were four heads. And rulership was given to it. ⁷ And after this I was looking in the night visions. And, behold, the fourth beast was fearful and terrifying, and very strong! And to it were great iron teeth. It devoured, and crushed, and stamped what was left with its feet. And it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.

⁷ panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the helpless, and turning aside the way of the humble. And a man and his father will go in to the same girl, in order to profane the name of My holiness.

¹ Hear this word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria, who press down the helpless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, Bring in, that we may drink.

⁴ Hear this, you who swallow up the poor, even to make the humble of the land to cease,

¹ Woe to those plotting wickedness and preparing evil on their beds! In the light of the morning they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ² And they covet and seize fields and houses, and carry them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

¹ And I said, Heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel, please hear. Is it not for you to know justice? ² Those hating good and loving evil, who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones; ³ who also eat the flesh of My people, and cause their skin to come off from them; yea, they break their bones and shatter, like that in the pot, and as flesh in the midst of the kettle. ⁴ Then they shall cry out to Jehovah, but He will not answer them. He will even hide His face from them in that time, as they have done evil in their doings. ⁵ So says Jehovah concerning the prophets who make My people err, who bite with their teeth and call out, Peace! And whoever does not give for their mouth, they even sanctify a war against him.

¹⁴ You pierced the head of his warriors with his shafts. They rush to scatter me; their rejoicing is to devour the meek in a secret place.

³ Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw bones for the morning.

¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

¹ Come now, rich ones, weep, howling over your hardships coming on. ² Your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver have rusted over, and their poison will be a testimony to you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days. ⁴ Behold, the wages of the workmen who have reaped your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of the ones who have reaped have entered "into the ears of the Lord of Hosts." Isa. 5:9

⁸ And they had hairs like the hairs of women; and their teeth were like those of lions.

¹⁶ These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul;

²¹ The earth quakes under three things; yea, it is not able to bear up under four:

²⁴ Four things are little on the earth, but they are the wise ones of those made wise:

²⁹ There are three things that go well in a march; yea, four that go well in walking:

¹¹ yea, dogs greedy of soul; they do not know satisfaction. And they are shepherds; they know not discernment; they all look to their own way, each one for his own gain, from his own end, saying: ¹² Come, and let me bring wine, and let us gulp down fermented drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, great, exceedingly abundant.

³ But you, draw near here, sons of the sorceress, seed of the adulterer and playing the harlot.

⁴⁴ Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As the mother, so is the daughter. ⁴⁵ You are your mother's daughter who despises her husband and her sons. And you are the sister of your sisters who despise their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite. ⁴⁶ And your older sister is Samaria, she and her daughters who are dwelling on your left. And your younger sister from you who dwells on the right is Sodom and her daughters.

¹⁸ Their drink is sour. They are continually fornicating. Her shields dearly love shame.

³ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

⁶ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they deported as exiles to deliver up a complete population to Edom.

⁹ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they delivered up as exiles a complete population to Edom and did not remember the covenant of brothers.

¹¹ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he pursued his brother with the sword, and corrupted his compassions, and his anger tore continually, and he kept it, his wrath, forever.

¹³ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, to make their border larger.

¹ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

⁴ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from it; for they despised the law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

³ Both palms are on evil, to do it well. The ruler is asking for a bribe, also the judge. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; he acts, and they weave it together.

³² And you fill up the measure of your fathers.

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

⁴⁴ You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, because he is a liar, and the father of it.

¹⁸ For such ones do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth speaking and flattering they deceive the hearts of those without guile.

³ And by covetousness, with well-turned words, they will use you for gain, for whom judgment of old does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

¹³ being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, having deemed indulgence in the day to be pleasure; spots and blemishes reveling in their deceits, feasting along with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of an adulteress, and never ceasing from sin; alluring unsettled souls; having a heart busied with covetousness; cursed children; ¹⁵ forsaking a straight path, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

¹¹ Woe to them, because they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the speaking against of Korah! ¹² These are sunken rocks in your love feasts, feasting together with you, feeding themselves without fear, waterless clouds being carried about by winds, fruitless autumn trees, having died twice, having been plucked up by the roots;

¹ And Rachel saw that she did not bear to Jacob, and Rachel was jealous of her sister. And she said to Jacob, Give me sons; and if there is none, I shall die.

²⁰ Sheol and destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

⁵ And also, wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content; who widens his soul like Sheol. And he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all the nations to himself, and collects all the peoples to himself.

²¹ And he drank from the wine, and was drunk. And he uncovered himself inside his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father. And he told his two brothers outside. ²³ And Shem and Japheth took a garment and put it on both their shoulders. And they went backward and covered the nakedness of their father, their faces backward. And they did not see the nakedness of their father. ²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine. And he came to know what his younger son had done to him. ²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a slave of slaves to his brothers. ²⁶ And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave. ²⁷ God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall live in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be their slave.

¹⁸ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen to his father's voice, or his mother's voice; even though they discipline him, he will not listen to them; ¹⁹ then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

²⁶ And your body shall be food to all the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to cause them to tremble.

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

⁹ And Absalom came before David's servants. And Absalom was riding on a mule, and the mule came in under the thick branches of a great oak. And his head caught hold in the oak, and he was lifted up between the heavens and the earth. And the mule under him passed on. ¹⁰ And a man saw and told Joab, and said, Behold! I saw Absalom hanging in the oak;

¹⁴ And Joab said, I will not wait this wait before you. And he took three darts in his hand and struck them into Absalom's heart while he was alive, in the midst of the oak. ¹⁵ And they went around, ten young men bearing Joab's weapons, and struck Absalom, and killed him. ¹⁶ And Joab blew the ram's horn, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab had held the people back. ¹⁷ And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest, and set up a very great heap of stones over him. And all Israel fled, each one to his tent.

¹⁰ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and stretched it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them out of the heavens. And she did not allow a bird of the heavens to rest on them by day nor the beast of the field by night.

²² Listen to your father, this one sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

¹¹ A generation curses its father, and does not bless its mother,

³ Who is this hiding counsel without knowledge? So I declared, but did not understand things too wonderful for me; yea, I did not know.

⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is set on high; I am not able to reach it.

¹⁶ And when a man lures a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay her dowry for a wife to himself.

²⁷ Or does the eagle mount up at your mouth, and make his nest on high?

³¹ but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew power; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!

¹¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹² Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, When any man's wife goes astray, and has committed a trespass against him, ¹³ and a man lies with her with semen, and it has been hidden from her husband's eyes, and is kept hidden, and she is defiled, and there is no other witness against her, and she has not been caught; ¹⁴ and a spirit of jealousy has passed over him, and he has become jealous of his wife, and she has been defiled. Or, a spirit of jealousy has passed over him, and he has become jealous of his wife, and she has not become defiled: ¹⁵ then the man shall bring his wife in to the priest, and he shall bring in her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall not pour oil on it, nor shall he put frankincense on it, for it is a food offering of jealousy, a food offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. ¹⁶ And the priest shall bring her near, and shall cause her to stand before Jehovah. ¹⁷ And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel. And the priest shall take of the dust which is on the tabernacle floor, and shall put it into the water. ¹⁸ And the priest shall cause the woman to stand before Jehovah, and shall uncover the woman's head, and shall give into her hand the food offering of memorial; it is a food offering of jealousy; and in the priest's hand shall be the bitter waters which cause the curse. ¹⁹ And the priest shall cause her to swear and shall say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to impurity under your husband, be free from these bitter waters which cause the curse. ²⁰ And you, if you have turned aside under your husband, and if you have been defiled, and any man besides your husband has given his semen to you, ²¹ then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman: Jehovah shall make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Jehovah makes your thigh to fall away, and your belly to swell, ²² And these waters which cause the curse shall go into your bowels to cause the belly to swell, and the thigh to fall. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. ²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them with the bitter waters. ²⁴ And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water which cause the curse. And the water which cause the curse shall enter into her for bitter things. ²⁵ And the priest shall take the food offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the food offering before Jehovah, and shall bring it near to the altar. ²⁶ And the priest shall take a handful of the food offering, its memorial, and shall burn it as incense on the altar. And afterward he shall cause the woman to drink the water. ²⁷ And when he shall cause her to drink the water, then it shall be, if she has been defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, the water which cause the curse shall go into her for bitter things; and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse in the midst of her people. ²⁸ And if the woman has not been defiled, and is pure, then she shall be clean and shall conceive seed. ²⁹ This is the law of jealousies when a wife turns aside under her husband, and has been defiled; ³⁰ or when a spirit of jealousy passes over a man, and he has become jealous of his wife, then he shall cause the woman to stand before Jehovah, and the priest shall do to her all this law;

⁶ lest you should meditate on the path of life, her tracks are movable, you cannot know them.

¹³ and she seizes him and kisses him; she hardens her face and says to him, ¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace offerings are on me, today I have paid my vows; ¹⁵ so I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you. ¹⁶ I have spread my couch with coverings, with striped cloths of Egyptian linen. ¹⁷ I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses. ¹⁹ For my husband is not at his house; he is going in the way, far away. ²⁰ He has taken a bag of silver in his hand; at the day of the full moon he will enter his house. ²¹ With the sum of her persuasion she turned him aside; with the flattering of her lips she forced him. ²² He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter; or as one in fetters goes to the correction of a fool, ²³ until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.

³ And the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name, Abigail. And the woman was of good understanding, and beautiful of form. And the man was cruel and evil in his dealings. And He was of Caleb.

¹⁰ And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David, and who the son of Jesse? The servants have multiplied today, who have broken away, a man from their masters. ¹¹ And shall I take my bread, and my water, and my meat which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I have not known, from where they are?

²⁵ I beg you, do not let my lord set his heart toward this man of worthlessness, on Nabal. For as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and foolishness is with him. And I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal. And, behold, he was at a feast in his house, like the feast of the king. And Nabal's heart felt good within him, and he was drunk to excess. And she did not tell him a word, more or less, until the light of the morning. ³⁷ And it happened in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things. And his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. ³⁸ And it happened about ten days later, Jehovah struck Nabal and he died.

¹⁶ And he brought him down. And, behold, they were spread out over the face of all the earth, eating and drinking and feasting, with all the great plunder which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

¹⁰ Luxury is not becoming for a fool, much less for a servant to rule over princes.

⁷ I have seen slaves on horses, and rulers walking as slaves on the earth.

⁴ And I will give young boys to be their rulers, and caprices shall rule over them. ⁵ And the people shall be crushed, man against man, and a man on his neighbor. The boy will be insolent against the elder, and the despised against the honorable.

¹³ A foolish son is calamity to his father, and a wife's quarreling a never ending dripping.

⁹ It is better to dwell on a corner of a housetop, than with a contentious woman, and to share a house.

¹⁹ It is better to live in a land of the wilderness than with a woman of strivings and vexations.

¹⁵ Drops that never cease on a rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike;

²¹ He pampering his servant from youth, even afterwards in his days he shall be his successor.

⁷ But now please ask the animals, and they will teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

⁶ Go to the ant, lazy man; consider her ways and be wise; ⁷ who, having no guide, overseer or ruler, ⁸ provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

⁵ and the rock badger, though it brings up the cud, yet it does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you;

¹⁸ high hills are for the wild goats; rocks are a refuge for the badgers.

⁴ For if you refuse to send away My people, behold, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. ⁵ And they will cover the eye of the land, and no one will be able to see the land. And they will eat the rest of that which escaped, that which is left to you from the hail. And they will eat every tree that sprouts to you from the field. ⁶ And your houses will be full, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of the Egyptians, which neither your fathers nor the fathers of your fathers have seen; from the day of their being on the earth until this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

¹³ And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt. And Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. And at morning the east wind lifted up the locusts. ¹⁴ And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested on all the territory of Egypt, exceedingly many. Never were there locusts like them before, and afterward none will be like them. ¹⁵ And they covered the eye of the earth, and the land became dark. And they ate every plant of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. And no greenness was left in the trees and in the plants of the field in all the land of Egypt.

³⁴ He spoke, and locusts came; and larvae without number;

⁴ What was left by the cutter, the swarming locust ate; and that left of the swarming locust, the locust larvae ate; and that left of the locust larvae, the stripping locust ate.

⁶ For a nation has come up on my land, strong and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the jaw teeth of a lioness. ⁷ He has laid my vine waste and has splintered my fig tree. He has stripped it, and he threw it away; its branches grow white.

⁷ They shall run as mighty ones; they shall go up the wall as men of war. And they each go on his way, and they do not change their paths. ⁸ And each does not press his brother; they each go in his paths. And if they fall behind their weapon, they shall not be cut off. ⁹ They shall rush on the city; they shall run on the wall; they shall climb up on the houses; they shall enter in by the windows, like a thief. ¹⁰ The earth shall quake before them, the heavens shall shake. The sun and moon shall grow dark, and the stars shall gather in their light. ¹¹ And Jehovah shall give His voice before His army, for His camp is very great. For he who does His word is strong. For the day of Jehovah is very great and terrifying, and who can endure it?

²⁵ And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, My great army which I sent among you.

³ And out of the smoke locusts came forth to the earth. And authority was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have authority. ⁴ And it was said to them that they should not harm the grass of the earth, nor every green thing, nor every tree, except only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵ And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they be tormented five months. And their torment is as the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man. ⁶ And in those days men will seek death, and they will not find it. And they will long to die, yet death will flee from them. ⁷ And the likenesses of the locusts were like horses having been prepared for war; and on their heads as crowns, like gold; and their faces like the faces of men. ⁸ And they had hairs like the hairs of women; and their teeth were like those of lions. ⁹ And they had breastplates like iron breastplates; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running to war. ¹⁰ And they have tails like scorpions, and their stings were in their tails; and their authority is to harm men five months. ¹¹ And they have a king over them, the angel of the abyss. In Hebrew his name was Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

²⁴ Behold, the people shall rise like a lioness and as a lion he shall lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

¹⁸ And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day, before the sun went in, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, Unless you had plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.

¹⁴ A king's fury is as messengers of death, but a wise man will cover it.

² The fear of a king is as the roar of a lion, he who stirs him up to anger wrongs his own soul.

⁵ Turn toward me and be astonished, and put your hand on your mouth.

⁴ Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will put my hand to my mouth.

²⁸ Even a fool who is silent is counted wise, he who shuts his lips is counted as understanding.

¹² Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

³ do not be hasty to go from before him. Do not take a stand in an evil thing, for he does whatever he pleases. ⁴ Because the king's word is that which has power; who then will say to him, What are you doing?

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed from all their might. They shall set the hand on their mouth; their ears shall be deaf. ¹⁷ They shall lick the dust like a snake; they shall tremble out of their holes like crawlers of the earth; they shall dread Jehovah our God; they shall fear from You.

¹⁹ But we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those within the Law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.

¹⁸ A furious man stirs up quarreling, but he who is slow to anger calms fighting.

²⁸ A perverse man causes strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

¹⁴ The beginning of strife is like the releasing of water, therefore leave off fighting before it breaks out.

²¹ As coal to burning embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

²⁵ The proud in soul stirs up strife, but he who is trusting on Jehovah shall be abundantly satisfied.

²² An angry man stirs up contention, and a furious one abounds in transgression.