Job 27 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And Job further continued and said in his parable, ² [As] God lives, who has thus judge me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul; ³ verily, while my breath is yet in [me], and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils, ⁴ my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts. ⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence, ⁶ but keeping fast to [my] righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing amiss. ⁷ Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors. ⁸ For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord [and] be saved? ⁹ Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him, ¹⁰ has he any confidence before him? or will [God] hear him as he calls upon him? ¹¹ Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord: I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty. ¹² Behold, you⌃ all know that you⌃ are adding vanity to vanity. ¹³ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty. ¹⁴ And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg. ¹⁵ And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows. ¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay; ¹⁷ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess his wealth. ¹⁸ And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web. ¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night. ²¹ And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place. ²² And [God] shall cast [trouble] upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. ²³ He shall cause [men] to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

⁷ And he took up his parable, and said, Balac king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel.

³ And he took up his parable and said, Balaam son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says,

¹⁵ And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says,

¹ And Job continued and said in his parable,

⁴ He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

² They have given the dead bodies of your servants [to be] food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

⁷ [As well] take away the motion of the legs, as transgression from the mouth of fools.

²¹ But [as] I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth.

²⁰ And she said to them, Nay, do not call me Noemin; call me 'Bitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty: and why call you⌃ me Noemin, whereas the Lord has humbled me and the Mighty One has afflicted me?

¹³ Lodge [here] for the night, and it shall be in the morning, if he will do the part of a kinsman to you, well—let him do it: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to you, I will do the kinsman's part to you, [as] the Lord lives; lie down till the morning.

³⁹ For as the Lord lives who has saved Israel, if answer should be against my son Jonathan, he shall surely die. And there was no one that answered out of all the people.

⁴⁵ And the people said to Saul, Shall he that has wrought this great salvation in Israel be put to death this day? [As] the Lord lives, there shall not fall to the ground one of the hairs of his head; for the people of God have wrought successfully this day. And the people prayed for Jonathan in that day, and he died not.

²¹ And behold, I [will] send a lad, saying, Go find me the arrow.

²⁶ And now, my lord, [as] the Lord lives, and your soul lives, as the Lord has kept you from coming against innocent blood, and from executing vengeance for yourself, now therefore let your enemies, and those that seek evil against my lord, become as Nabal.

³⁴ But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing you harm, if you had not hasted and come to meet me, then I said, There shall [surely] not be left to Nabal till the morning one male.

²⁷ And Joab said, As the Lord lives, if you had not spoken, even from the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

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.

¹⁵ And Eliu said, [As] the Lord of Hosts before whom I stand lives, today I will appear before him.

²⁷ And she came to Elisaie to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Giezi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisaie said, Let her alone, for her soul [is] much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden [it] from me, and has not told [it] me.

¹⁸ For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

³ Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment.

²⁷ For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgement, and has departed?

² The Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and righteousness, then shall nations bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.

² The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?

¹⁶ And it shall be, if they will indeed learn the way of my people, to swear by my name, [saying], The Lord lives; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall [that nation] be built in the midst of my people.

¹¹ Say to them, Thus says the Lord; [As] I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn you⌃ heartily from your way; for why will you⌃ die, O house of Israel?

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.

⁸ but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.

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

²⁸ But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie.

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

⁶ And he has erred in my judgment: my wound is severe without unrighteousness [of mine].

¹ And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and [the judges] judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:

⁹ And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, [even your] sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.

³ And he was also very angry with [his] three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.

⁷ And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you⌃ have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].

¹⁵ He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable with God.

³ And the Lord said to the devil, Hast you then observed my servant Job, that there is none of [men] upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas you has told [me] to destroy his substance without cause?

¹³ Take hold of my instruction; let it not go, —but keep it for yourself for your life.

³² And the king said to Chusi, Is it well with the young man Abessalom? and Chusi said, Let the enemies of my lord the king, and all whoever have risen up against him for evil, be as that young man.

¹⁹ is yourself, O king; for you are grown great and powerful, and your greatness has increased and reached to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.

¹³ Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

²⁰ But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.

¹⁶ And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.

³⁴ For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

⁵ But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

³ Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.

¹⁴ The sinners in Sion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place? ¹⁵ He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

¹² There they shall cry, and none shall listen, even because of the insolence of wicked men. ¹³ For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

⁷ He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head.

²⁸ For it shall be that when you⌃ call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find [me].

⁹ He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even he has made his prayer abominable.

¹⁵ When you⌃ stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though you⌃ make many supplications, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.

¹¹ Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I bring evils upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall presently cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

¹² for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.

¹⁸ Therefore will I deal with them in wrath: mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy.

¹⁴ And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.

⁴ thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not listen to them; and he shall turn away his face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.

¹³ And it shall come to pass, [that] as he spoke, and they listened not, so they shall cry, and I will not listen, says the Lord Almighty.

²⁶ Then shall you have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven. ²⁷ And he shall hear you when you pray to him, and he shall grant you [power] to pay your vows.

⁴ For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

⁴ You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob.

¹⁸ yet I will exult in the Lord, I will joy in God my Saviour.

⁵ Behold, I have shown you ordinances and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that you⌃ should do so in the land into which you⌃ go to inherit it.

³ For whereas you have instructed many, and have strengthened the hands of the weak one, ⁴ and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees.

¹⁰ Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; for I have not denied the holy words of my God.

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.

¹⁷ Let his name be blessed for ever: his name shall endure longer than the sun: and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

¹¹ Thus says the Lord, With a strong hand they revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,

²⁵ But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you. ²⁶ Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech. ²⁷ Even because you⌃ attack the fatherless, and insult your friend. ²⁸ But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie. ²⁹ Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness; and unite again with the just.

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. ⁶ But hear you⌃ the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips. ⁷ Do you⌃ not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him? ⁸ Or will you⌃ draw back? nay do, you⌃ yourselves be judges. ⁹ For [it were] well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things [in your power] you⌃ should attach yourselves to him,

³ What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering?

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

² How long will you⌃ vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus. ³ You⌃ speak against me; you⌃ do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.

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

²⁸ so that you⌃ will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly? 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.

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 To whom have you uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from you?

¹⁴ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous persons to whom it happens according to the doing of the ungodly; and there are ungodly men, to whom it happens according to the doing of the just: I said, This is also vanity.

¹ [I saw] that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yes, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, [though] all are before their face. ² Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath. ³ There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that [they go] to the dead.

²⁰ All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered. ²¹ And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come. ²² Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword. ²³ And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind. ²⁴ Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank. ²⁵ For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord. ²⁶ And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield. ²⁷ For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs. ²⁸ And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away. ²⁹ Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth. ³⁰ Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off. ³¹ Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity. ³² His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish. ³³ And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive. ³⁴ For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts. ³⁵ And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

¹⁹ For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built [it] not. ²⁰ There is no security to his possessions; he shall not be saved by his desire. ²¹ There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish. ²² But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him. ²³ If by any means he would fill his belly, let [God] send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him. ²⁴ And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the brazen bow wound him. ²⁵ And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him. ²⁶ And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house. ²⁷ And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him. ²⁸ Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him. ²⁹ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of his goods [appointed him] by the all-seeing [God].

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

⁵ But I have hoped in your mercy; my heart shall exult in your salvation.

²² Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy: neither dishonor the helpless [man] in the gates. ²³ For the Lord will plead his cause, and you shall deliver your soul in safety.

¹³ but it shall not be well with the ungodly, and he shall not prolong his days, [which are] as a shadow; forasmuch as he fears not before God.

¹¹ Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

⁵ And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a sift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, says the Lord Almighty.

³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes wasting away shall look for them: your hand shall have no strength.

⁴¹ You shall beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be [your], for they shall depart into captivity.

⁵ They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land; for the barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has waxed feeble.

⁷ And you shall utterly destroy the house of Achaab your master from before me, and shall avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel, ⁸ and at the hand of the whole house of Achaab: and you shall utterly cut off from the house of Achaab every male, and him that is shut up and left in Israel.

⁶ And Ju wrote them a second letter, saying, If you⌃ [are] for me, and listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and bring [them] to me at this time to-morrow in Jezrael. Now the sons of the king were seventy men; these great men of the city brought them up. ⁷ And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, [even] seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezrael. ⁸ And a messenger came and told [him], saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay them [in] two heaps by the door of the gate until the morning. ⁹ And the morning came, and he went forth, and stood, and said to all the people, You⌃ are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him: but who killed all these? ¹⁰ See now that there shall not fall to the ground anything of the word of the Lord which the Lord spoke against the house of Achaab: for the Lord has performed all that he spoke of by the hand of his servant Eliu.

¹¹ And he showed them his wealth, and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had caused him to take precedence and bear chief rule in the kingdom.

⁶ And in the city Susa the Jews killed five hundred men: ⁷ both Pharsannes, and Delphon and Phasga, ⁸ and Pharadatha, and Barea, and Sarbaca, ⁹ and Marmasima, and Ruphaeus, and Arsaeus, and Zabuthaeus, ¹⁰ the ten sons of Aman the son of Amadathes the Bugaean, the enemy of the Jews, and they plundered [their property] on the same day:

²² Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

¹⁰ Let [his] inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.

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 Ephraim, [even] as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yes, Ephraim [was ready] to bring out his children to slaughter. ¹⁴ Give them, O Lord: what will you give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

³ Behold, I raise up [enemies] after Baasa, and after his house; and I will make your house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nabat. ⁴ Him that dies of Baasa in the city the dogs shall devour, and him that dies of his in the field the birds of the sky shall devour.

²¹ And the king of Israel went forth, and took all the horses and the chariots, and struck [the enemy] with a great slaughter in Syria. ²² And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said, Strengthen yourself, and observe, and see what you shall do; for at the return of the year the son of Ader king of Syria comes up against you. 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.

¹⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man; they shall not bewail him, [saying], Ah brother! neither shall they at all weep for him, [saying], Alas Lord.

²⁷ And the king made gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores in the plain for multitude.

²⁴ You shall lay up for yourself [treasure] in a heap on the rock; and Sophir [shall be] as the rock of the torrent.

⁶ Shall not all these take up a parable against him? and a proverb to tell against him? and they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! how long? and who heavily loads his yoke.

³ And Tyrus built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

²² A good man shall inherit children's children; and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.

⁸ He that increases his wealth by usuries and [unjust] gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.

²⁶ For [God] has given to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but he has given to the sinner trouble, to add and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God; for this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.

¹⁴ For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web. ¹⁵ If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

⁸ The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

¹² [My life] has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down [again]: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws near to cut off [the] thread.

⁸ For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by a moth, [so shall they be consumed]; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for all generations.

⁶ VAU. And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, he has marred his feast: the Lord has forgotten the feast and the sabbath which he appointed in Sion, and in the fury of his wrath has vexed the king, and priest, and prince.

¹⁰ A ruler shall not fail from Juda, nor a prince from his loins, until there come the things stored up for him; and he is the expectation of nations.

⁸ The eye of him that sees me shall not see me [again]: your eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

²² But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.

¹⁰ But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.

¹² And man that has lain down [in death] shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep. ¹³ For oh that you had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until your wrath should cease, and you should set me a time in which you would remember me! ¹⁴ For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again? ¹⁵ Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: but do not you reject the work of your hands.

⁷ For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew him shall say, Where is he? ⁸ Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye has looked upon him, but shall not [see him] again; and his place shall no longer perceive him.

²³ One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous; ²⁴ and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused [throughout him]. ²⁵ And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing. ²⁶ But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.

³⁰ For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

²⁴ For his exaltation has hurt many; but he has withered as mallows in the heat, or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.

²³ For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.

⁹ will keep my strength, [looking] to you; for you, O God, are my helper.

¹⁹ Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor. ²⁰ Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

² and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,

²⁹ And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao that sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the captive-maid in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all cattle.

³⁵ And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, an struck in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, [these were] all dead corpses.

²¹ And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

¹¹ Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

⁸ Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.

²³ If by any means he would fill his belly, let [God] send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him.

¹⁸ And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.

¹⁶ who were seized before their time: their foundations [are as] an overflowing stream.

²⁰ But it shall turn out vanity to them, to cry and beseech a man; for they dealt unlawfully, the poor being turned aside [from their right].

⁴ Their voice is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

³⁰ In the same night was Baltasar the Chaldean king slain.

³ and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, [even] to my cry out of the belly of hell: you heard my voice.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand to heaven, and the Lord sent thunderings and hail; and the fire ran along upon the ground, and the Lord rained hail on all the land of Egypt. ²⁴ So there was hail and flaming fire mingled with hail; and the hail was very great, such as was not in Egypt, from the time there was a nation upon it. ²⁵ And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt both man and beast, and the hail struck all the grass in the field, and the hail broke in pieces all the trees in the field.

¹⁰ and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

¹⁷ I will scatter them before their enemies like an east wind; I will show them the day of their destruction.

¹⁵ Forasmuch as he will cause a division among [his] brethren, the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert, and shall dry up his veins [and] quite drain his fountains: he shall dry up his land, and [spoil] all his precious vessels.

³ The Lord is longsuffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 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. ⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, [even] the world, and all that dwell in it. ⁶ Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nothing kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him. ⁷ The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him. ⁸ But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against [him] and his enemies.

¹⁴ For at this present time do I send forth all my plagues into your heart, and the heart of your servants and of your people; that you may know that there is not another such as I in all the earth.

²⁵ and bound the axle-trees of their chariots, and caused them to go with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians. ²⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth tine hand over the sea, and let the water be turned back to its place, and let it cover the Egyptians [coming] both upon the chariots and the riders. ²⁷ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the water returned to its place toward day; and the Egyptians fled from the water, and the Lord shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. ²⁸ and the water returned and covered the chariots and the riders, and all the forces of Pharao, who entered after them into the sea: and there was not left of them even one.

²⁰ God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

²³ I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them.

¹¹ And when they fled from the face of the children of Israel at the descent of Oronin, then the Lord cast upon them hailstones from heaven to Azeca; and they were more that died by the hailstones, than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword in the battle.

¹⁷ And Sisara fled on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Chaber the Kenite his friend: for there was peace between Jabin king of Asor and the house of Chaber the Kenite. ¹⁸ And Jael went, out to meet Sisara, and said to him, Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me, fear not: and he turned aside to her into the tent; and she covered him with a mantle. ¹⁹ And Sisara said to her, Give me, I pray you, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty: and she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him. ²⁰ And Sisara said to her, Stand now by the door of the tent, and it shall come to pass if any man come to you, and ask of you, and say, Is there [any] man here? then you shall say, There is not. ²¹ And Jael the wife of Chaber took a pin of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him, and fastened the pin in his temple, and it went through to the earth, and he fainted away, and darkness fell upon him and he died.

²⁴ And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the brazen bow wound him.

³ And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will you⌃ flee for help? and where will you⌃ leave your glory,

¹⁴ And I will scatter them a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together: I will not have compassion, says the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity [to save them] from destruction.

¹¹ Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord; surely, because you have defiled my holy things with all your abominations, I also will reject you; mine eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.

⁵ And he said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and strike: and let not your eyes spare, and have no mercy. ⁶ Slay utterly old man and youth, and virgin, and infants, and women: but go you⌃ not near any on whom is the mark: begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.

¹⁴ I the Lord have spoken; and it shall come, and I will do [it]; I will not delay, neither will I have any mercy: I will judge you, says the Lord, according to your ways, and according to your devices: therefore will I judge you according to your bloodshed, and according to your devices will I judge you, you unclean, notorious, and abundantly provoking one.

¹⁴ And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:

¹ I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Strike the mercy-seat, and the porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will kill the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them, striving to save himself shall be delivered. ² Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. ³ If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search [them] out and take them; and if they should go down from my presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

⁸ And this house, which is high, shall be [so that] every one that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Therefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

²² for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and [as to] the month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it [in] good days of feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends, and to the poor. ²³ And the Jews consented [to this] accordingly as Mardochaeus wrote to them, ²⁴ [showing] how Aman the son of Amadathes the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to destroy them utterly; ²⁵ also how he went in to the king, telling [him] to hang Mardochaeus: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.

¹⁸ Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

¹⁰ In the prosperity of righteous men a city prospers: but by the mouth of ungodly men it is overthrown.

⁸ And I will bring this city to desolation and [make it] a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.

¹⁵ SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

¹⁶ For you have kept the statues of Zambri, and [done] all the works of the house of Achaab; and you⌃ have walked in their ways, that I might deliver you to utter destruction, and those that inhabit the city to hissing: and you⌃ shall bear the reproach of nations.