Job 12 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And Job answered and said, ² So then you⌃ [alone] are men, and wisdom shall die with you? ³ [But] I also have a heart as well as you. ⁴ For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery. ⁵ For it had been ordained that he should fall under others at the appointed time, and that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors: let not however any one trust that, being evil, he shall be [held] guiltless, ⁶ even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition [made] of them. ⁷ But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to you; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to you. ⁸ Tell the earth, if it may speak to you: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to you. ⁹ Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them? ¹⁰ Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man. ¹¹ For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats. ¹² In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge. ¹³ With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open? ¹⁵ If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it. ¹⁶ With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding. ¹⁷ He leads counselors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth. ¹⁸ He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle. ¹⁹ He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth. ²⁰ He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders. ²¹ He pours dishonor upon princes, and heals the lowly. ²² Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death. ²³ Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them [away]. ²⁴ Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, [saying], ²⁵ Let them grope [in] darkness, and [let there be] no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

²⁴ Teach you⌃ me, and I will be silent: if in anything I have erred, tell me. ²⁵ But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.

⁸ For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers: ⁹ (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:) ¹⁰ shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?

² He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? blessed [is] the short lived offspring of woman.

⁶ Then shall he declare to you the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with you: and then shall you know, that a just recompence of your sins has come to you from the Lord.

¹² But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman [is] like an ass in the desert.

² Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

⁴ For you have hid their heart from wisdom; therefore you shall not exalt them.

¹⁰ Howbeit, do you⌃ all strengthen [yourselves] and come now, for I do not find truth in you.

³ I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

⁷ And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years [men] know wisdom: ⁸ but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches. ⁹ The long-lived are not wise [as such]; neither do the aged know judgment. ¹⁰ Therefore I said, Hear me, and I will tell you what I know. ¹¹ Listen to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until you⌃ shall have tried [the matter] with words: ¹² and I shall understand as far as you; and, behold, there was no one of you that answered Job his words in argument, ¹³ lest you⌃ should say, We have found that we have added wisdom to the Lord.

¹¹ A rich man is wise in his own conceit; but an intelligent poor man will condemn him.

²¹ Woe [to them] that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

⁶ Shall bread be eaten without salt? or again, is there taste in empty words? ⁷ For my wrath can’t cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion [to be] loathsome.

² And I know all that you⌃ too know; and I have not less understanding than you. ³ Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will. ⁴ But you⌃ are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases. ⁵ But would that you⌃ were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.

² To whom do you attach yourself, or whom are you going to assist? is it not he that [has] much strength, and [he] who has a strong arm? ³ To whom have you given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom will you follow? is it not one who has the greatest power? ⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you become like him.

²⁹ Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness; and unite again with the just.

³ Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer you?

¹⁰ In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

²⁰ And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

² Weary I entreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.

⁶ But you has made me a byword amount the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.

³ Raise me, and I will speak; then you⌃ shall not laugh me to scorn.

¹ But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in [their] turn, whose fathers I set at nothing; whom I did not deem worthy [to be with] my shepherd dogs.

¹⁵ that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

² He that walks uprightly fears the Lord; but he that is perverse in his ways shall be dishonored.

³ Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

⁷ But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will listen to me.

³⁵ In the day of vengeance I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction [is] near to them, and the judgments at hand are close upon you.

⁵ What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has a fodder?

⁴ I also will speak as you⌃ [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead,

⁵ But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

⁵ The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

³ verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: ⁴ verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

⁹ The righteous always have light: but the light of the ungodly is quenched. Crafty souls go astray in sins: but just men pity, and are merciful.

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

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and you⌃ shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

¹ Woe to them that set at nothing Sion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria: they have gathered [the harvest of] the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves. ² O house of Israel, pass by all [of you], and see; and pass by thence to Ematrabba; and thence descend to Geth of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, [see] if their coasts are greater than your coasts. ³ You⌃ who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false sabbaths; ⁴ who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls; ⁵ who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as dwelling, not as fleeting [pleasures]; ⁶ who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment; and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.

²⁴ For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it?

⁷ Therefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth? ⁸ Their seed is according to [their] desire, and their children are in [their] sight. ⁹ Their houses are prosperous, neither [have they] any where [cause for] fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them. ¹⁰ Their cow does not cast her calf, and their [beast] with young is safe, and does not miscarry. ¹¹ And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the lute and harp; ¹² and they rejoice at the voice of a song. ¹³ And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave. ¹⁴ Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?

¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him.

¹⁴ And he sent forth [his] weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.

¹ (38) A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day. O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger.

¹¹ Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever? ¹² But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

²⁷ As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:

²⁹ Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens. ³⁰ For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.

⁷ Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments of the Lord.

¹⁷ Lest you should say in your heart, My strength, and the power of mine hand have wrought for me this great wealth. ¹⁸ But you shall remember the Lord your God, that he gives you strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord sware to your fathers, as at this day.

⁷ The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up.

³ [But] I also have a heart as well as you.

²⁰ that they may see, and know, and perceive, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has wrought these [works], and the Holy One of Israel has displayed [them].

⁵ They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten. ⁶ My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.

¹⁸ O king, the most high God gave to your father Nabuchodonosor a kingdom, and majesty, and honor, and glory:

¹⁷ And now, O lord our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine on your desolate sanctuary, for your [own] sake, O Lord.

⁷ And God formed the man [of] dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

¹⁷ And behold I bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and whatever things are upon the earth shall die.

²² And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of spirits and of all flesh, if one man has sinned, [shall] the wrath of the Lord [be] upon the whole congregation?

³ verily, while my breath is yet in [me], and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

⁴ The Divine Spirit is that which formed me, and the breath of the Almighty that which teaches me.

¹⁴ For if he would confine, and restrain his spirit with himself; ¹⁵ all flesh would die together, and every mortal would return to the earth, whence also he was formed.

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

³ He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. ⁴ He numbers the multitudes of stars; and calls them all by names.

²³ And you has been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of his house, and you, and your nobles, and your mistresses, and your concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and you has praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are your breath, and all your ways has you not glorified.

³⁰ For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?

³ For the ear tries words, and the mouth tastes meat.

⁸ For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers:

¹⁰ Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.

⁷ And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years [men] know wisdom:

⁴ For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

¹⁶ With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding.

²⁰ Whence then is wisdom found? and of what kind is the place of understanding? ²¹ It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky. ²² Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it. ²³ God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it. ²⁴ For he surveys the whole [earth] under heaven, knowing the things in the earth: ²⁵ all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water. ²⁶ When he made [them], thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder. ²⁷ Then he saw it, and declared it: he prepared it [and] traced it out. ²⁸ And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

⁶ And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and you⌃ are elder, therefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge. ⁷ And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years [men] know wisdom: ⁸ but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches. ⁹ The long-lived are not wise [as such]; neither do the aged know judgment.

⁵ But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,

³⁶ And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?

⁵ He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes.

⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding, ⁷ and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way;

¹⁴ Counsel and safety are mine; prudence is mine, and strength is mine.

¹³ Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him? ¹⁴ Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding;

¹⁰ telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

¹² It is the Lord that made the earth by his strength, who set up the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the sky,

²⁰ May the name of God be blessed from everlasting and to everlasting: for wisdom and understanding are his.

⁴⁶ this day. And the Lord shall deliver you this day into my hand; and I will kill you, and take away your head from off you, and will give your limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.

¹⁸ And Saul said to David, You [are] more righteous that I, for you have recompensed me good, but I have recompensed you evil.

⁸ And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up your enemy into your hands, and now I will strike him to the earth with the spear to the ground once [for all], and I will not strike him again.

¹² If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What have you done? ¹³ For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

¹⁰ And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What have you done?

¹¹ He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has struck me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.

¹⁰ He has torn me around about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree.

⁷ He seals up the hand of every man, that every man may know his own weakness.

²³ And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell [there], and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.

²² And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key of the house of David [upon] his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.

² For you have made cities a heap, [even] cities [made] strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built for ever.

⁴ Because one will say, Idumea has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus says the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set himself for ever.

¹³ And the Lord God said to Noe, A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened.

¹⁷ and the Lord be angry with you, and restrain the heaven; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and you⌃ shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord has given you.

³⁵ When the heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall sin against you, and the shall pray toward this place, and they shall make confession to your name, and shall turn from their sins when you shall have humbled them, ³⁶ then you shall hear from heaven, and be merciful to the sins of your servant and of your people Israel; for you shall show them the good way to walk in it, and you shall give rain upon the earth which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

¹ And Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad, said to Achaab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.

¹⁰ Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.

⁷ He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. ⁸ He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation: ⁹ which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and [he remembered] his oath to Isaac.

²² Is there any one among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? and will the sky yield his fulness [at their bidding]? Are not you he? we will even wait on you, O Lord: for you have made all these things.

⁸ who makes all things, and changes [them], and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:

⁴ He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing [trees] of Libanus have come to nothing.

²² And the Lord said to him, Whereby? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall deceive him, yes, and shall prevail: go forth, and do so. ²³ And now, behold, the Lord has put a false spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil against you.

¹³ With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.

⁷ Do you⌃ not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him?

⁹ For [it were] well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] you⌃ should attach yourselves to him,

⁹ And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and will stretch out my hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

³¹ And it was reported to David, saying, Achitophel also [is] among the conspirators with Abessalom. And David said, O Lord my God, disconcert, I pray you, the counsel of Achitophel.

¹⁴ And Abessalom, and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Chusi the Arachite [is] better than the counsel of Achitophel. For the Lord ordained to disconcert the good counsel of Achitophel, that the Lord might bring all evil upon Abessalom.

²³ And Achitophel saw that his counsel was not followed, and he saddled his ass, and rose and departed to his house into his city; and he gave orders to his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

¹⁴ with kings [and] councillors of the earth, who gloried in [their] swords;

¹² Where are now your wise men? and let them declare to you, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt? ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up [with pride], and they shall cause Egypt to wander by tribes. ¹⁴ For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.

¹⁴ Therefore behold I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them: and I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent.

¹¹ And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasses in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon. ¹² And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers; ¹³ and he prayed to him: and he listened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God. ¹⁴ And afterward he built a wall without the city of David, from the southwest southward in the valleys and at the entrance through the fish-gate, as men go out by the gate round about, even as far as Opel: and he raised it much, and set captains of the host in all the fortified cities in Juda.

³¹ And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Joakim king of Juda had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the four and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Ulaemadachar king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Joakim king of Juda, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept, ³² and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the kings that were with him in Babylon, ³³ and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived. ³⁴ And his appointed portion was given him continually by the king of Babylon from day to day, until the day when he died.

²¹ And he changes times and seasons: he appoints kings, and removes [them], giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding:

²⁴ And when they brought them out to Joshua, then Joshua called together all Israel, and the chiefs of the army that went with him, saying to them, Come forward and set your feet on their necks; and they came and set their feet on their necks.

⁴² And Joshua struck, once for all, all their kings, and their land, because the Lord God of Israel fought on the side of Israel.

⁴⁵ And David said to the Philistine, You come to me with sword, and with spear, and with shield; but I come to you in the name of the Lord God of hosts of the army of Israel, which you have defied ⁴⁶ this day. And the Lord shall deliver you this day into my hand; and I will kill you, and take away your head from off you, and will give your limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.

²² And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, [a man] will not feel secure of his own life.

²⁸ so as to bring before him the cry of the needy; for he will hear the cry of the poor.

⁹ They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

³⁶ And the angel of the Lord went forth, and killed out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all [these] bodies dead. ³⁷ And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians turned and departed, and lived in Nineve. ³⁸ And while he was worshipping Nasarach his country's god in the house, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons struck him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia: and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.

¹ Thus says the Lord God to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings; I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed.

²⁴ Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, [saying],

⁹ The long-lived are not wise [as such]; neither do the aged know judgment.

¹⁷ For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.

²¹ The lips of the righteous know sublime [truths]: but the foolish die in lack.

¹⁹ True lips establish testimony; but a hasty witness has an unjust tongue.

²² Lying lips are a abomination to the Lord; but he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.

¹ Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judea the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water, ² the great and mighty man, the warrior and the judge, and the prophet, and the counsellor, and the elder, ³ the captain of fifty also, and the honorable counsellor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer.

² And if you will not send them forth, behold, I afflict all your borders with frogs:

²⁴ And they left of it till the morning, as Moses commanded them; and it stank not, neither was there a worm in it.

²³ And the servants of the king of Syria, even they said, The God of Israel [is] a God of mountains, and not a God of valleys; therefore has he prevailed against us: but if we should fight against them in the plain, verily we shall prevail against them. ²⁴ And do you this thing: Send away the kings, each one to his place, and set princes in their stead.

²⁶ Surely, I have seen yesterday the blood of Nabuthai, and the blood of his sons, says the Lord; and I will recompense him in this portion, says the Lord. Now then, I pray you, take him up and cast him into the portion, according to the word of the Lord.

³⁴ And [Ju] went in and ate and drank, and said, Look now, after this cursed woman, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter. ³⁵ And they went to bury her; but they found nothing of her but the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. ³⁶ And they returned and told him. And he said, [It is] the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of Eliu the Thesbite, saying, In the portion of Jezrael shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezabel. ³⁷ And the carcass of Jezabel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezrael, so that they shall not say, [This is] Jezabel.

²⁷ They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe-latchets be broken.

⁵ And he shall have his loins girded with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.

²¹ and I will put on him your robe, and I will grant him your crown with power, and I will give your stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Juda.

⁹ The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

²¹ And God shall bring [his] hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth. ²² And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be visited.

³⁸ And while he was worshipping Nasarach his country's god in the house, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons struck him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia: and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.

²¹ And he changes times and seasons: he appoints kings, and removes [them], giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding: ²² he reveals deep and secret [matters]; knowing what is in darkness, and the light is with him.

³² and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand his power, and say to him, What has you done? ³³ At the same time my reason returned to me, and I came to the honor of my kingdom; and my [natural] form returned to me, and my princes, and my nobles, sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me.

¹² And one of his servants said, Nay, my Lord, O king, for Elisaie the prophet that is in Israel reports to the king of Israel all the words whatever you may say in your bedchamber.

⁵ But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

¹⁷ For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death, for [each] will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

²⁰ Whence then is wisdom found? and of what kind is the place of understanding? ²¹ It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky. ²² Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it. ²³ God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it.

²² Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves.

¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, and the right of the needy ones.

²² he reveals deep and secret [matters]; knowing what is in darkness, and the light is with him.

⁷ And the children of Israel increased and multiplied, and became numerous and grew exceedingly strong, and the land multiplied them.

²⁰ And God did well to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very strong.

³ The multitude of the people which you have brought down in your joy, they shall even rejoice before you as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.

¹⁵ bring more evils on the glorious ones of the earth.

⁶ they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

² Look to Abraam your father, and to Sarrha that bore you: for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.

²² The little one shall become thousands, and the least a great nation; I the Lord will gather them in [due] time.

²² And the king sent men into Egypt;

⁸ I will make a sign to them, and gather them in; for I will redeem them, and they shall be multiplied according to their number before.

²⁰ He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders.

⁴ For your mercy is great above the heavens, and your truth [reaches] to the clouds.

⁹ You⌃ shall hear indeed, but you⌃ shall not understand; and you⌃ shall see indeed, but you⌃ shall not perceive. ¹⁰ For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

¹ THE VISION OF EGYPT. Behold, the Lord sits on a swift cloud, and shall come to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and their heart shall faint within them.

¹⁶ Then Daniel, whose name is Baltasar, was amazed about one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. And Baltasar answered and said, [My] lord, let the dream be to them that hate you, and the interpretation of it to your enemies.

³³ At the same time my reason returned to me, and I came to the honor of my kingdom; and my [natural] form returned to me, and my princes, and my nobles, sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me.

¹¹ And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.

¹¹ And they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door.

²⁹ And you shall grope at mid-day, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.

¹⁴ In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:

¹⁴ For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.

²⁰ It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.

¹⁰ They shall feel for the wall as blind [men], and shall feel [for it] as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.