Job 36 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And Elius further continued, and said, ² Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach you: for there is yet speech in me. ³ Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works, ⁴ I will speak just things truly, and you shall not unjustly receive unjust words. ⁵ But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom, ⁶ he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of the poor. ⁷ He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but [they shall be] with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted. ⁸ But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty. ⁹ And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence. ¹⁰ But he will listen to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness. ¹¹ If they should hear and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honor. ¹² But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient. ¹³ And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them. ¹⁴ Therefore let their soul die in youth, and their life be wounded by messengers [of death]. ¹⁵ Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek. ¹⁶ And he has also enticed you out of the mouth of the enemy: ¹⁷ [there is] a deep gulf [and] a rushing stream beneath it, and your table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous; ¹⁸ but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities. ¹⁹ Let not [your] mind willingly turn you aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress. ²⁰ And draw not forth all the mighty [men] by night, so that the people should go up instead of them. ²¹ But take heed lest you do that which is wrong: for of this you has made choice because of poverty. ²² Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is? ²³ And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice? ²⁴ Remember that his works are great [beyond] those which men have attempted. ²⁵ Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded. ²⁶ Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know [him]: the number of his years is even infinite. ²⁷ And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud. ²⁸ The ancient [heavens] shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. [Yet] by all these things your understanding is not astonished, neither is your mind disturbed in [your] body. ²⁹ And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, [or] the measure of his tabernacle; ³⁰ behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea. ³¹ For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength. ³² He has hidden the light in [his] hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing [cloud]. ³³ The Lord will declare concerning this [to] his friend: [but there is] a portion also for unrighteousness.

¹⁶ And he shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be for him in things pertaining to God.

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.

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

⁶ You are formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same [substance].

³¹ Listen, Job, and hear me: be silent, and I will speak. ³² If you have words, answer me: speak, for I desire you to be justified. ³³ If not, do you hear me: be silent, and I will teach you.

¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord, If you will return, then will I restore you, and you shall stand before my face: and if you will bring forth the precious from the worthless, you shall be as my mouth: and they shall return to you; but you shall not return to them.

⁷ And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear or fear: for it is a provoking house.

⁴ [As for God], his works [are] true, and all his ways [are] judgment: God [is] faithful, and there is no unrighteousness [in him]; just and holy [is] the Lord.

³ Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?

¹² But whence has wisdom been discovered? and what is the place of knowledge? ¹³ A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been discovered among men.

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:

² Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.

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

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

¹⁰ Therefore hear me, you⌃ that are wise in heart: far be it from me to sin before the Lord, and to pervert righteousness before the almighty. ¹¹ Yes, he renders to a man accordingly as each of them does, and in a man's path he will find him. ¹² And think you that the Lord will do wrong, or will the Almighty who made the earth wrest judgment?

²³ and we do not find another his equal in strength: [as for] him that judges justly, do you not think that he listens?

⁷ You, O Lord, shall keep us, and shall preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.

⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; ⁵ then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

¹ Righteous are you, O Lord, that I may make my defence to you, yes, I will speak to you [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of ungodly [men] prospers? [that] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?

⁷ To you, O Lord, [belongs] righteousness, an to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever you has scattered them, for the sin which they committed.

¹⁴ The Lord also has watched, and brought the evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his work which he has executed, but we have not listened to his voice.

⁴ But you⌃ are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.

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

²⁷ So I know you, that you⌃ presumptuously attack me:

³⁴ How then do you⌃ comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

⁶ And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked. ⁷ Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry. ⁸ And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those [that were already settled] on the earth. ⁹ But you have sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans. ¹⁰ Therefore snares have compassed you, and disastrous war has troubled you. ¹¹ The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down. ¹² Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud? ¹³ And you has said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark? ¹⁴ A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven. ¹⁵ Will you [not] mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden? ¹⁶ who were seized before their time: their foundations [are as] an overflowing stream. ¹⁷ Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us? ¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him. ¹⁹ The righteous have seen [it], and laughed, and the blameless one has derided [them]. ²⁰ Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their [property]. ²¹ Be firm, I pray you, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper. ²² And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. ²³ And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have [thus] removed unrighteousness far from your habitation. ²⁴ You shall lay up for yourself [treasure] in a heap on the rock; and Sophir [shall be] as the rock of the torrent. ²⁵ So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and he shall bring you forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire. 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. ²⁸ And he shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon your paths. ²⁹ Because you have humbled yourself; and you shall say, [Man] has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes. ³⁰ He shall deliver the innocent, and do you save yourself by your pure hands.

³ My heart [shall be found] pure by [my] words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.

¹⁶ And he knows the divisions of the clouds, and the signal overthrows of the ungodly.

³ God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

⁷ For my throat shall meditate truth; and false lips are an abomination before me. ⁸ All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing in them wrong or perverse.

²⁰ And do you too repeatedly record them for yourself on the table of your heart, for counsel and knowledge. ²¹ I therefore teach you truth, and knowledge good to hear; that you may answer words of truth to them that question you.

¹⁴ Oh then that he would listen to me, or judge my cause.

¹⁹ For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?

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.

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.

¹² He has calmed the sea with [his] might, and by [his] wisdom the whale has been overthrown. ¹³ And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon. ¹⁴ Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will listen to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ [it]?

¹³ And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, when they pleaded with me;

⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name.

⁶ The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t [attain] to it.

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

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,

¹⁹ and Pharao king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people;

²² You⌃ shall hurt no widow or orphan. ²³ And if you⌃ should afflict them by ill-treatment, and they should cry aloud to me, I will surely hear their voice. ²⁴ And I will be very angry, and will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.

¹⁵ and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.

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

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.

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

¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper. ¹³ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yes, the mouth of the widow has blessed me. ¹⁴ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle. ¹⁵ I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame. ¹⁶ I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

¹² For he remembered them, [in] making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

⁴ For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and [they have] firmness under their affliction.

¹² Behold, these [are] the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth. ¹³ And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency. ¹⁴ For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof [was] every morning.

¹ (83) A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to you? be not silent, neither be still, O God. ² For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head. ³ Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints. ⁴ They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.

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.

⁴ but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.

¹ Righteous are you, O Lord, that I may make my defence to you, yes, I will speak to you [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of ungodly [men] prospers? [that] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing? ² You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; you are near to their mouth, and far from their reins.

⁶ but hear us; you are in the midst of us a king from God; bury your dead in our choice sepulchres, for not one of us will by any means withhold his sepulchre from you, so that you should not bury your dead there.

⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be obedient to your word; only in the throne will I excel you.

⁸ He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory:

¹³ He shall build for me a house to my name, and I will set up his throne even for ever. ¹⁴ I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And when he happens to transgress, then will I chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men. ¹⁵ But my mercy I will not take from him, as I took it from those whom I removed from my presence. ¹⁶ And his house shall be made sure, and his kingdom for ever before me, and his throne shall be set up for ever.

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord look upon all the earth, to strengthen every heart that is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly; henceforth there shall be war with you.

³ And Mardochaeus was viceroy to king Artaxerxes, and was a great man in the kingdom, and honored by the Jews, and passed his life beloved of all his nation. [And Mardocheus said, These things have been done of God. For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters: for not one particular of them has failed. [There was] the little fountain which became a river, and there was light, and the sun and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen. And the two serpents are I and Aman. And the nations are those [nations] that combined to destroy the name of the Jews. But [as for] my nation, this is Israel, [even] they that cried to God and were delivered: for the Lord delivered his people. And the Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God wrought such signs and great wonders as have not been done among the nations. Therefore did he ordain two lots. One for the people of God, and one for all the other [nations]. And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations. And God remembered his people, and vindicated his inheritance. And they shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth [day] of the month, with an assembly, and joy and gladness before God, throughout the generations for ever among his people Israel. In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]

³ And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was [most] noble of the [men] of the east.

¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

¹⁸ The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit.

¹⁵ Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew [it] not: they were scattered, but repented not.

⁷ who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill; ⁸ to set him with princes, [even] with the princes of his people: ⁹ who settles the barren [woman] in a house, [as] a mother rejoicing over children.

⁷ The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; ⁸ who turned the rock into pools of water, and the flint into fountains of water.

¹⁷ The Lord your God is in you; the Mighty One shall save you: he shall bring joy upon you, and shall refresh you with his love; and he shall rejoice over you with delight as in a day of feasting.

²⁷ And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels.

⁶ Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised his bulwark against me.

¹⁸ He spares also his soul from death, and [suffers] him not to fall in war. ¹⁹ And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed.

⁵ In the sun he has set his tabernacle; and he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he will exult as a giant to run his course.

¹⁰ Who will bring me into the fortified city? or who will guide me to Idumea?

²² Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.

⁹ DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

²¹ And the Lord God was angry with me for the things said by you, and sware that I should not go over this Jordan, and that I should not enter into the land, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance. ²² For I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but you⌃ are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land.

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.

² And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?

²⁵ For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

¹⁰ Judge them, O God; let them fail of their counsels: cast them out according to the abundance of their ungodliness; for they have provoked you, O Lord.

¹² For our iniquity is great before you, and our sins have risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.

³⁹ MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin? ⁴⁰ NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.

²⁸ and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die. ²⁹ Yet the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not right. Is not my way right, O house of Israel? is not your way wrong? ³⁰ I will judge you, O house of Israel, says the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity. ³¹ Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein you⌃ have sinned against me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should you⌃ die, O house of Israel?

¹³ And the Lord testified against Israel and against Juda, even by the hand of all his prophets, [and] of every seer, saying, Turn you⌃ from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, [and] all that I sent to them by the hand of my servants the prophets.

¹⁶ then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions: ¹⁷ to turn a man from unrighteousness, and he delivers his body from a fall. ¹⁸ He spares also his soul from death, and [suffers] him not to fall in war. ¹⁹ And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed. ²⁰ And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat; ²¹ until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall show his bones bare. ²² His soul also draws near to death, and his life is in Hades. ²³ Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and show his folly;

¹⁵ Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.

⁶ And if he came to see [me], his heart spoke vainly; he gathered iniquity to himself; he went forth and spoke in like manner.

²² So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs. ²³ Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

⁴ You, O men, I exhort; and utter my voice to the sons of men. ⁵ O you⌃ simple, understand subtlety, and you⌃ that are untaught, imbibe knowledge.

⁴ Whoso is foolish, let him turn aside to me: and to them that lack understanding she says, ⁵ Come, eat of my bread, and drink wine which I have mingled for you. ⁶ Leave folly, that you⌃ may reign for ever; and seek wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.

¹⁶ Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities; ¹⁷ learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow. ¹⁸ And come, let us reason together, says the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make [them] white as wool. ¹⁹ And if you⌃ be willing, and listen to me, you⌃ shall eat the good of the land: ²⁰ but if you⌃ be not willing, nor listen to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

⁸ You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears: for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the Holy One of Israel; I am your God, I have shown you how you should find the way wherein you should walk.

⁵ and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.

⁶ Seek you⌃ the Lord, and when you⌃ find him, call upon him; and when he shall draw near to you, ⁷ let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.

³ For thus says the Lord to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for yourselves, and sow not among thorns. ⁴ Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, you⌃ men of Juda, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.

³ Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. ⁴ Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. ⁵ For if you⌃ thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; ⁶ and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt: ⁷ then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old and for ever.

¹ Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up.

³⁰ And all these things shall come upon you in the last days, and you shall turn to the Lord your God, and shall listen to his voice.

¹³ For if you have made your heart pure, and lift up [your] hands towards him; ¹⁴ if there is any iniquity in your hands, put if far from you, and let not unrighteousness lodge in your habitation. ¹⁵ For thus shall your countenance shine again, as pure water; and you shall dive yourself of uncleanness, and shall not fear. ¹⁶ And you shall forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and you shall not be scared. ¹⁷ And your prayer [shall be] as the morning star, and life shall arise to you [as] from the noonday. ¹⁸ And you shall be confident, because you have hope; and peace shall dawn to you from out of anxiety and care. ¹⁹ For you shall be at ease, and there shall be no one to fight against you; and many shall charge, and make supplication to you.

¹¹ And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the lute and harp;

²¹ Be firm, I pray you, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper.

²³ And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have [thus] removed unrighteousness far from your habitation.

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.

¹⁹ And if you⌃ be willing, and listen to me, you⌃ shall eat the good of the land:

²³ but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear you⌃ my voice, and I will be to you a God, and you⌃ shall be to me a people: and walk you⌃ in all my ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.

¹³ THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE by Jeremias, concerning the coming of the king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt.

¹⁵ The Lord your God shall raise up to you a prophet of your brethren, like me; him shall you⌃ hear: ¹⁶ according to all things which you did desire of the Lord your God in Choreb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord your God, and we will not any more see this great fire, and [so] we shall not die. ¹⁷ And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to you. ¹⁸ I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him. ¹⁹ And whatever man shall not listen to whatever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him. ²⁰ But the prophet whoever shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die. ²¹ But if you shall say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken? ²² Whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in the name of the Lord, and they shall not come true, and not come to pass, this [is] the thing which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has spoken wickedly: you⌃ shall not spare him.

¹⁵ but to those also who are here with you today before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with you today. ¹⁶ For you⌃ know how we lived in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom you⌃ came. ¹⁷ And you⌃ [*]saw their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them. ¹⁸ Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness. ¹⁹ And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with [him]: 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.

²¹ For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.

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

²⁰ but if you⌃ be not willing, nor listen to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

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

¹⁴ Behold, you⌃ are risen up in the room of your fathers, a combination of sinful men, to increase yet farther the fierce wrath of the Lord against Israel.

¹³ and said to them, You⌃ shall not bring in hither the prisoners to us, for whereas sin against the Lord [is] upon us, you⌃ mean to add to our sins, and to our trespass: for our sin [is] great, and the fierce anger of the Lord [is] upon Israel.

²² but only [troubled him] in his affliction: and he departed yet more from the Lord, and king Achaz said,

⁴ Hast not you moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?

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?

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. ¹⁰ But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;

⁸ But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.

⁵ And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that went in to you this night? bring them out to us that we may be with them.

²⁴ And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. ²⁵ And he overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that lived in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground.

⁷ And Er, the firstborn of Judas, was wicked before the Lord; and God killed him. ⁸ And Judas said to Aunan, Go in to your brother's wife, and marry her as her brother-in-law, and raise up seed to your brother. ⁹ And Aunan, knowing that the seed should not be his—it came to pass when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled [it] upon the ground, so that he should not give seed to his brother's wife. ¹⁰ And his doing this appeared evil before God; and he killed him also.

¹ And the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abiud, took each his censer, and put fire therein, and threw incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which the Lord did not command them, ² and fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

¹⁷ There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel.

³² His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.

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.

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

⁸ Nevertheless they shall be servants, and know my service, and the service of the kings of the earth.

¹⁰ But he will listen to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.

⁸ I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.

¹⁰ And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before. ¹¹ And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachmas' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold]. ¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures. ¹³ And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn. ¹⁵ And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren. ¹⁶ And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation. ¹⁷ And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. This man is described in the Syriac book [as] living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thaeman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And [his] friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Baldad sovereign the Sauchaeans, Sophar king of the Minaeans.

⁵ He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.

⁸ I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix mine eyes upon you.

⁸ ease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself so as to do evil.

¹ (41) For the end, a Psalm of David. Blessed [is the man] who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day. ² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy. ³ May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; you have made all his bed in his sickness.

⁵ They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them?

⁵ O that my ways were directed to keep your ordinances.

⁶ And the Lord of hosts shall make [a feast] for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:

² Therefore do you⌃ value at the price of money, and [give] your labor for that which will not satisfy? listen to me, and you⌃ shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I [will] cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.

⁵ then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.

¹¹ The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down.

⁸ [saying], I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, to go with the ungodly.

³⁶ Howbeit do you learn, Job: no longer make answer as the foolish:

²⁴ he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as [fresh] plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow.

⁵ Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his fury.

¹² Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you⌃ should perish from the righteous way: whenever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him.

¹⁰ I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation.

⁷ Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God. ⁸ I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually.

⁵ He has given food to them that fear him: he will remember his covenant for ever.

⁶ Having struck a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, striking a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared [them] not, he rested in quiet.

¹⁶ Son of man, behold I take from you the desire of your eyes by violence: you shall not lament, neither shall you weep.

¹³ For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

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].

¹⁶ but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to destroy their memorial from the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord listened to them, ¹⁷ and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

² Treasures shall not profit the lawless: but righteousness shall deliver from death.

⁴ [Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death. ]

²¹ He that unjustly strikes hands shall not be unpunished: but he that sows righteousness he shall receive a faithful reward.

²⁰ For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made [in order] to worship vanities and bats;

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.

¹⁸ And their silver and their gold shall in nowise be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealously; for he will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit the land.

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.

²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs? ²¹ who desire death, and obtain it not, digging [for it] as [for] treasures;

⁹ Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.

¹⁵ You will separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death.

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!

¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister.

²⁵ Who discovers their works, and will bring night about [upon them], and they shall be brought low.

³² The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

³ If the clouds be filled with rain, they pour [it] out upon the earth: and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.

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

⁷ What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water? ⁸ [saying], I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, to go with the ungodly. ⁹ For you should not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas [there is] a visitation on him from the Lord.

³ I will answer you, and your three friends.

⁴ Therefore speak to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord; Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him [according to the things] in which his mind is entangled,

¹⁶ Then answered Sedrach, Misach [and] Abdenago and said to king Nabuchodonosor, We have no need to answer you concerning this matter. ¹⁷ For our God whom we serve is in the heavens, able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will rescue us from your hands, O king. ¹⁸ But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we [will] not serve your gods, nor worship the image which you have set up.

¹⁰ And when Daniel knew that the decree was ordered, he went into his house; and his windows were opened in his chambers toward Jerusalem, and three times in the day he knelt upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he used to do before.

⁷ The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up. ⁸ He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory:

¹¹ who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

⁷ You are terrible; and who shall withstand you, because of your anger?

¹⁰ Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

⁵ The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.

¹³ And [I will cause] all your sons [to be] taught of God, and your children [to be] in great peace.

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. ⁷ All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness. ⁸ Flee you⌃ out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.

³⁸ And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets [shall be mourning]: for I have broken [him], says the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.

²⁵ All these things came upon king Nabuchodonosor.

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?

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

¹⁰ Therefore hear me, you⌃ that are wise in heart: far be it from me to sin before the Lord, and to pervert righteousness before the almighty.

¹³ And who is he that made [the whole world] under heaven, and all things therein? 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. ¹⁶ Take heed lest he rebuke [you]: hear this, listen to the voice of words. ¹⁷ Behold then the one that hates iniquities, and that destroys the wicked, who is for ever just. ¹⁸ [He is] ungodly that says to a king, You are a transgressor, [that says] to princes, O most ungodly one. ¹⁹ [Such a one] as would not reverence the face of an honorable man, neither knows how to give honor to the great, so as that their persons should be respected. 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]. ²¹ For he surveys the works of men, and nothing of what they do has escaped him. ²² Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves. ²³ For he will not lay upon a man more [than right]. ²⁴ For the Lord looks down upon all men, who comprehends unsearchable things, glorious also and excellent things without number. ²⁵ Who discovers their works, and will bring night about [upon them], and they shall be brought low. ²⁶ And he quite destroys the ungodly, for they are seen before him. ²⁷ Because they turned aside from the law of God, and did not regard his ordinances, ²⁸ so as to bring before him the cry of the needy; for he will hear the cry of the poor. ²⁹ And he will give quiet, and who will condemn? and he will hide his face, and who shall see him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man also: ³⁰ causing a hypocrite to be king, because of the waywardness of the people. ³¹ For [there is] one that says to the Mighty One, I have received [blessings]; I will not take a pledge: ³² I will see apart from myself: do you show me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do [so] any more. ³³ Will he take vengeance for it on you, whereas you will put [it] far [from you]? for you shall choose, and not I; and what you know, speak you.

⁸ And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

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;

¹⁹ and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

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.

⁵ Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof? ⁶ Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering. ⁷ He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth; ⁸ binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not tore under it. ⁹ He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it. ¹⁰ He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness. ¹¹ The pillars of heaven are prostrate and astonished at his rebuke.

¹ (20) For the end, a Psalm of David. The Lord hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you. ² Send you help from the sanctuary, and aid you out of Sion. ³ Remember all your sacrifice, and enrich your whole burnt offering. Pause. ⁴ Grant you according to your heart, and fulfill all your desire.

⁵ [There is] the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus.

³ Bring forth a sword, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am your salvation.

¹⁸ Surely you have appointed [judgments] to them because of their crafty dealings: you have cast them down when they were lifted up.

⁴ at the voices of many waters: the billows of the sea are wonderful: the Lord is wonderful in high places. ⁵ Your testimonies are made very sure: holiness becomes your house, O Lord, for ever.

²⁴ And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

⁸ Galaad is mine; and Manasses is mine; and Ephraim is the help of mine head; Judas is my king;

² His seed shall be mighty in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. ³ Glory and riches shall be in his house; and his righteousness endures for evermore. ⁴ To the upright light has sprung up in darkness: he is pitiful, and merciful, and righteous.

⁸ His heart is established, he shall not fear, till he shall see [his desire] upon his enemies.

⁵ the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me.

¹⁰ The Lord shall reign for ever, [even] your God, O Sion, to all generations.

³ And I made a decree to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and heaven of heavens will not suffice you, how much less even this house which I have built to your name?

⁵ Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,

⁷ Will you find out the traces of the Lord? or have you come to the end [of that] which the Almighty has made? ⁸ Heaven [is] high; and what will you do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what do you know? ⁹ Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea.

¹⁴ Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will listen to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ [it]?

⁵ The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with his voice: for he has done great things which we knew not;

² He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope in him.

³ Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.

⁵ and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not rained on the earth, and there was not a man to cultivate it. ⁶ But there rose a fountain out of the earth, and watered the whole face of the earth.

⁹ who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number:

³³ The Lord will declare concerning this [to] his friend: [but there is] a portion also for unrighteousness.

²⁵ And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders; ²⁶ to rain upon the land where [there is] no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited [land], ²⁷ and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs? ²⁸ Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?

³⁴ And will you call a cloud with your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain?

⁹ who quickens my soul in life, and does not suffer my feet to be moved. ¹⁰ For you, O God, has proved us; you have tried us with fire as silver is tried. ¹¹ You brought us into the snare; you laid afflictions on our back. ¹² You did mount men upon our heads; we went through the fire and water; but you brought us out into [a place of] refreshment. ¹³ I will go into your house with whole burnt offerings; I will pay you my vows,

⁸ He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgments to Israel.

⁸ Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy wind; the things that perform his word.

⁶ And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

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.

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. ¹² And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹¹ And [if] a cloud obscures [what is] precious [to him], his light will disperse the cloud. ¹² And he will carry round the encircling [clouds] by his governance, to [perform] their works: whatever he shall command them, ¹³ this has been appointed by him on the earth, whether for correction, [or] for his land, or if he shall find him [an object] for mercy.

²⁰ By understanding were the depths broken up, and the clouds dropped water.

⁴⁴ And the servant went again seven times: and it came to pass at the seventh time, that, behold, a little cloud like the sole of a man's foot brought water; and he said, Go up, and say to Achaab, make ready your chariot, and go down, lest the rain overtake you. ⁴⁵ And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Achaab wept, and went to Jezrael.

² Hear you a report by the anger of the Lord's wrath, and a discourse shall come out of his mouth. ³ His dominion is under the whole heaven, and his light is at the extremities of the earth. ⁴ After him shall be a cry with a [loud] voice; he shall thunder with the voice of his excellency, yet he shall not cause men to pass away, for one shall hear his voice. ⁵ The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with his voice: for he has done great things which we knew not;

⁹ And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.

³⁷ And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth?

¹³ And spare your servant [the attack] of strangers: if they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear from great sin.

³ O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have delivered me from [among] them that go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing to the Lord, you⌃ his saints, and give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness. ⁵ For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favor: weeping shall wait for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning. ⁶ And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ O Lord, in your good pleasure you did add strength to my beauty: but you did turn away your face, and I was troubled. ⁸ To you, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication. ⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to you? or shall it declare your truth? ¹⁰ The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper.

¹⁶ And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers. ¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for [the desire of] their souls. ¹⁹ They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

³ Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.

⁷ He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

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.

¹⁰ The nations shall see you and be in pain, [as you do] divide the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.

⁹ And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared.

²² And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the water of it was a wall on the right hand and a wall on the left.

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.

⁴ He has cast the chariots of Pharao and his host into the sea, the chosen mounted captains: they were swallowed up in the Red Sea. ⁵ He covered them with the sea: they sank to the depth like a stone.

⁸ And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb. ⁹ And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist. ¹⁰ And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates. ¹¹ And I said to it, Hitherto shall you come, but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you.

²⁵ And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;

³⁴ And will you call a cloud with your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain? ³⁵ And will you send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to you, What is [your pleasure]?

¹¹ For your servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them [there is] great reward. ¹² Who will understand [his] transgressions? purge you me from my secret [sins]. ¹³ And spare your servant [the attack] of strangers: if they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear from great sin. ¹⁴ So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before you, O Lord my helper, and my redeemer.

⁵ Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; ⁶ [you⌃] seed of Abraam, his servants, [you⌃] children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 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.

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.

¹⁷ And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth. ¹⁸ And the water prevailed and abounded exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon the water. ¹⁹ And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven. ²⁰ Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains. ²¹ And there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man. ²² And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died. ²³ And [God] blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noe was left alone, and those with him in the ark. ²⁴ And the water was raised over the earth an hundred and fifty days.

²⁴ And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

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.

² And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led you in the wilderness, that he might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your heart might be made manifest, whether you would keep his commandments or no.

¹⁵ who brought you through that great and terrible wilderness, where [is] the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:

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.

¹⁰ The Lord will weaken his adversary; the Lord [is] holy. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; but let him that boasts boast in this, to understand and know the Lord, and to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth, and he gives strength to our kings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she left him there before the Lord,

¹⁰ And Samuel was offering the whole burnt offering; and the Philistines drew near to war against Israel; and the Lord thundered with a mighty sound in that day upon the Philistines, and they were confounded and overthrown before Israel.

¹⁸ And Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunders and rain in that day; and all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel.

¹³ this has been appointed by him on the earth, whether for correction, [or] for his land, or if he shall find him [an object] for mercy.

²² But have you gone to the treasures of snow? and have you seen the treasures of hail? ²³ And is there a store [of them], for you against the time of [your] enemies, for the day of wars and battle?

²⁶ to rain upon the land where [there is] no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited [land], ²⁷ and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

¹³ And they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people. ¹⁴ He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes: ¹⁵ [saying], Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.

²⁷ He established among them his signs, and [his] wonders in the land of Cham. ²⁸ He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against his words.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand to heaven, and let there be darkness over the land of Egypt—darkness that may be felt. ²² And Moses stretched out his hand to heaven, and there was darkness very black, even a storm over all the land of Egypt three days. ²³ And for three days no man saw his brother, and no man rose up from his bed for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in all the places where they were.

⁹ He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it.

¹² And he will carry round the encircling [clouds] by his governance, to [perform] their works: whatever he shall command them,

¹⁵ We know that god has disposed his works, having made light out of darkness.

¹¹ For your servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them [there is] great reward.

⁷ To him who alone made great lights; for his mercy [endures] for ever.

⁸ He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgments to Israel. ⁹ He has not done so to any [other] nation; and he has not shown them his judgments.

¹⁴ The Lord thundered out of heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.

⁴¹ And Eliu said to Achaab, Go up, and eat and drink, for [there is] a sound of the coming of rain. ⁴² And Achaab went up to eat and to drink; and Eliu went up to Carmel, and stooped to the ground, and put his face between his knees, ⁴³ and said to his servant, Go up, and look toward the sea. And the servant looked, and said, There is nothing: and Eliu said, Do you then go again seven times.

²⁹ And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, [or] the measure of his tabernacle;

² Hear you a report by the anger of the Lord's wrath, and a discourse shall come out of his mouth.

⁴ And the labors of the land failed, because there was no rain: the husbandmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. ⁵ And hinds calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass. ⁶ The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

¹⁸ What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.

²² Be of good courage, you⌃ beasts of the plain, for the plains of the wilderness have budded, for the trees have borne their fruit, the fig tree and the vine have yielded their strength.