Proverbs 28 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ The ungodly [man] flees when no one pursues: but the righteous is confident as a lion. ² By reason of the sins of ungodly men quarrels arise; but a wise man will quell them. ³ A bold man oppresses the poor by ungodly deeds. As an impetuous and profitable rain, ⁴ so they that forsake the law praise ungodliness; but they that love the law fortify themselves with a wall. ⁵ Evil men will not understand judgment: but they that seek the Lord will understand everything. ⁶ A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar. ⁷ A wise son keeps the law: but he that keeps up debauchery dishonors his father. ⁸ He that increases his wealth by usuries and [unjust] gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor. ⁹ He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even he has made his prayer abominable. ¹⁰ He that causes upright men to err in an evil way, himself shall fall into destruction: transgressor also shall pass by prosperity, but shall not enter into it. ¹¹ A rich man is wise in his own conceit; but an intelligent poor man will condemn him. ¹² By reason of the help of righteous men great glory arises: but in the places of the ungodly men are caught. ¹³ He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper: but he that blames [himself] shall be loved. ¹⁴ Blessed is the man who religiously fears always: but the hard of heart shall fall into mischiefs. ¹⁵ A hungry lion and a thirsty wolf [is he], who, being poor, rules over a poor nation. ¹⁶ A king in need of revenues is a great oppressor: but he that hates injustice shall live a long time. ¹⁷ He that becomes surety for a man charged with murder shall be an exile, and not in safety. Chasten your son, and he shall love you, and give honor to your soul: he shall not obey a sinful nation. ¹⁸ He that walks justly is assisted: but he that walks in crooked ways shall be entangled [therein]. ¹⁹ He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty. ²⁰ A man worthy of credit shall be much blessed: but the wicked shall not be unpunished. ²¹ He that reverences not the persons of the just is not good: such a one will sell a man for a morsel of bread. ²² An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him. ²³ He that reproves a man's ways shall have more favor than he that flatters with the tongue. ²⁴ He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he sins not; the same is partaker with an ungodly man. ²⁵ An unbelieving man judges rashly: but he that trusts in the Lord will act carefully. ²⁶ He that trusts to a bold heart, such an one is a fool: but he that walks in wisdom shall be safe. ²⁷ He that gives to the poor shall not be in lack: but he that turns away his eye [from him] shall be in great distress. ²⁸ In the places of ungodly [men] the righteous mourn: but in their destruction the righteous shall be multiplied.

⁸ And all these your servants shall come down to me, and do me reverence, saying, Go forth, you and all the people over whom you preside, and afterwards I will go forth.

¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, and you⌃ shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall pursue you; and you⌃ shall flee, no one pursuing you.

³⁶ And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them.

⁷ The Lord deliver your enemies that withstand you utterly broken before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before you.

²⁵ The Lord give you up for slaughter before your enemies: you shall go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and you shall be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁶ For the Lord had made the army of Syria to hear a sound of chariots, and a sound of horses, [even] the sound of a great host: and [each] man said to his fellow, Now has the king of Israel hired against us the kings of the Chettites, and the kings of Egypt, to come against us. ⁷ And they arose and fled while it was yet dark, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses in the camp, as they were, and fled for their lives.

¹⁵ And they went after them even to Jordan: and, behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their panic. and the messengers returned, and brought word to the king.

¹ (28) [A Psalm] of David. To you, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest you be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit. ² Listen to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple.

² For the Lord most high is terrible; [he is] a great king over all the earth. ³ He has subdued the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

⁵ He shall return evil to mine enemies; utterly destroy them in your truth.

⁷ who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill;

² And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind.

³ supporting truth, and keeping peace: for on you, O Lord, ⁴ they have trusted with confidence for ever, the great, the eternal God;

⁴ For thus says the Lord, Behold, I [will] give you up to captivity with all your friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see [it]: and I will give you and all Juda into the hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall carry them captives, and cut them in pieces with swords.

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. ¹¹ Then these men watched, and found Daniel praying and supplicating to his God.

⁵ Now then be not grieved, and let it not seem hard to you that you⌃ sold me hither, for God sent me before you for life. ⁶ For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither plowing, nor mowing. ⁷ For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you. ⁸ Now then you⌃ did not send me hither, but God; and he has made me as a father of Pharao, and lord of all his house, and ruler of all the land of Egypt.

²⁵ And Nabat son of Jeroboam reigns over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Juda, and he reigned two years in Israel.

²⁸ And Baasa killed him in the third year of Asa son of Asa king of Juda; and reigned in his stead.

⁸ And Ela son of Baasa reigned over Israel two years in Thersa. ⁹ And Zambri, captain of half his cavalry, conspired against him, while he was in Thersa, drinking himself drunk in the house of Osa the steward at Thersa. ¹⁰ And Zambri went in and struck him and killed him, and reigned in his stead. ¹¹ And it came to pass when he reigned, when he sat upon his throne, ¹² that he struck all the house of Baasa, according to the word which the Lord spoke against the house of Baasa, and to Ju the prophet, ¹³ for all the sins of Baasa and Ela his son, as he led Israel astray to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel with their vanities. ¹⁴ And the rest of the deeds of Ela which he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ¹⁵ And Zambri reigned in Thersa seven days: and the army of Israel [was] encamped against Gabathon of the Philistines. ¹⁶ And the people heard in the army, saying, Zambri has conspired and struck the king: and the people of Israel made Ambri the captain of the host king in that day in the camp over Israel. ¹⁷ And Ambri went up, and all Israel with him, out of Gabathon; and they besieged Thersa. ¹⁸ And it came to pass when Zambri saw that his city was taken, that he goes into the inner chamber of the house of the king, and burnt the king's house over him, and died. ¹⁹ Because of his sins which he committed, doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, so as to walk in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and in his sins wherein he caused Israel to sin. ²⁰ And the rest of the history of Zambri, and his conspiracies wherein he conspired, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ²¹ Then the people of Israel divides; half the people goes after Thamni the son of Gonath to make him king; and half the people goes after Ambri. ²² The people that followed Ambri overpowered the people that followed Thamni son of Gonath; and Thamni died and Joram his brother at that time, and Ambri reigned after Thamni. ²³ In the thirty-first year of king Asa, Ambri begins to reign over Israel twelve years: he reigns six years in Thersa. ²⁴ And Ambri bought the mount Semeron of Semer the lord of the mountain for two talents of silver; and he built [upon] the mountain, and they called the name of the mountain [on] which he built, after the name of Semer the lord of the mount, Semeron. ²⁵ And Ambri did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and wrought wickedly beyond all that were before him. ²⁶ And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and in his sins wherewith he caused Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel by their vanities. ²⁷ And the rest of the acts of Ambri, and all that he did, and all his might, behold, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ²⁸ And Ambri slept with his fathers, and is buried in Samaria; and Achaab his son reigns in his stead. And in the eleventh year of Ambri Josaphat the son of Asa reigns, [being] thirty-five years old in the beginning of his reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Gazuba, daughter of Seli. And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not from it, [even] from doing right in the eyes of the Lord: only they removed not [any] of the high places; they sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. Now the engagements which Josaphat made with the king of Israel, and all his mighty deeds which he performed, and the enemies whom he fought against, behold, [are] not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? and the remains of the prostitution which they practiced in the days of Asa his father, he removed out of the land: and there was no king in Syria, [but] a deputy. And king Josaphat made a ship at Tharsis to go to Sophir for gold: but it went not, for the ship was broken at Gasion Gaber. Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat, I will send forth your servants and my servants in the ship: but Josaphat would not. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead. ²⁹ In the second year of Josaphat king of Juda, Achaab son of Ambri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

⁸ In the thirty and eighth year of Azarias king of Juda Zacharias the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in Samaria six months. ⁹ And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. ¹⁰ And Sellum the son of Jabis [and others] conspired against him, and they struck him [in] Keblaam, and killed him, and he reigned in his stead. ¹¹ And the rest of the acts of Zacharias, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ¹² [This was] the word of the Lord which he spoke to Ju, saying, Your sons of the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel: and it was so. ¹³ And Sellum the son of Jabis reigned: and in the thirty and ninth year of Azarias king of Juda began Sellum to reign a full month in Samaria. ¹⁴ And Manaem the son of Gaddi went up out of Tharsila, and came to Samaria, and struck Sellum the son of Jabis in Samaria, and killed him. ¹⁵ And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy wherein he was engaged, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ¹⁶ Then Manaem struck both Thersa and all that was in it, and its borders extending beyond Thersa, because they opened not to him: and he struck it, and ripped up the women with child. ¹⁷ In the thirty and ninth year of Azarias king of Juda began Manaem the son of Gaddi to reign over Israel in Samaria ten years. ¹⁸ And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin. ¹⁹ In his days went up Phua king of the Assyrians against the land: and Manaem gave to Phua a thousand talents of silver to aid him with his power. ²⁰ And Manaem raised the silver [by a tax] upon Israel, even on every mighty man in wealth, to give to the king of the Assyrians, fifty shekels [levied] on each man; and the king of the Assyrians departed, and remained not there in the land. ²¹ And the rest of the acts of Manaem, and all that he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ²² And Manaem slept with his fathers; and Phakesias his son reigned in his stead. ²³ In the fifties year of Azarias king of Juda, began Phakesias the son of Manaem to reign over Israel in Samaria two years. ²⁴ And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. ²⁵ And Phakee the son of Romelias, his officer, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria in the front of the king's house, with Argob and Aria, and with him [there were] fifty men of the four hundred: and he killed him, and reigned in his stead. ²⁶ And the rest of the acts of Phakesias, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ²⁷ In the fifty-second year of Azarias king of Juda began Phakee the son of Romelias to reign over Israel in Samaria twenty years. ²⁸ And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin. ²⁹ In the days of Phakee king of Israel came Thalgath-phellasar king of the Assyrians, and took Ain, and Abel, and Thamaacha, and Anioch, and Kenez, and Asor, and Galaa, and Galilee, [even] all the land of Nephthali, and carried them away to the Assyrians. ³⁰ And Osee son of Ela formed a conspiracy against Phakee the son of Romelias, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Joatham the son of Azarias. ³¹ And the rest of the acts of Phakee, and all that he did, behold, these [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

²⁰ And king Ezekias and Esaias the prophet the son of Amos prayed concerning these things, and they cried to heaven. ²¹ And the Lord sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty man and warrior, and leader and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria: and he returned with shame of face to his own land and came into the house of his god: and [some] of them that came out of his bowels killed him with the sword. ²² So the Lord delivered Ezekias and the dwellers in Jerusalem out of the hand of Sennacherim King of Assyria, and out of the hand of all [his enemies], and gave them rest round about. ²³ And many brought gifts to the Lord to Jerusalem, and presents to Ezekias king of Juda; and he was exalted in the eyes of all the nations after these things. ²⁴ In those days Ezekias was sick even to death, and prayed to the Lord: and he listened to him, and gave him a sign. ²⁵ But Ezekias did not recompense the Lord according to the return which he made him, but his heart was lifted up: and wrath came upon him, and upon Juda and Jerusalem. ²⁶ And Ezekias humbled himself after the exaltation of his heart, he and the dwellers in Jerusalem; and the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Ezekias.

¹ And the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and anointed him, and made him king over Jerusalem in the room of his father. ² Joachaz [was] twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Amital, daughter of Jeremias of Lobna. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done. And Pharao Nechao bound him in Deblatha in the land of Aemath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem. ³ And the king brought him over to Egypt; and imposed a tribute on the land, a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ⁴ And Pharao Nechao made Eliakim the son of Josias king over Juda in the room of his father Josias, and changed his name [to] Joakim. And Pharao Nechao took his brother Joachaz and brought him into Egypt, and he died there: but [he] had given the silver and gold to Pharao. At that time the land began to be taxed to give the money at the command of Pharao; and every one as he could borrowed the silver and the gold of the people of the land, to give to Pharao Nechao. ⁵ Joachim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Zechora, daughter of Nerias of Rama. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers did. In his days came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon into the land, and he served him three years, and [then] revolted from him. And the Lord sent against them the Chaldeans, and plundering parties of Syrians, and plundering parties of the Moabites, and of the children of Ammon, and of Samaria; but after this they departed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of his servants the prophets. Nevertheless the wrath of the Lord was upon Juda, so that they should be removed from his presence, because of the sins of Manasses in all that he did, and for the innocent blood which Joakim shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; yet the Lord would not utterly destroy them. ⁶ And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with brazen fetters, and carried him away to Babylon. ⁷ And he carried away a part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple in Babylon. ⁸ And the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, behold, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in Ganozae: and Jechonias his son reigned in his stead. ⁹ Jechonias [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁰ And at the turn of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Sedekias his father's brother king over Juda and Jerusalem. ¹¹ Sedekias [was] twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and be reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹² And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God: he was not ashamed before the prophet Jeremias, nor because of the word of the Lord;

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.

¹⁵ and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man.

¹ Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judea the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water, ² the great and mighty man, the warrior and the judge, and the prophet, and the counsellor, and the elder, ³ the captain of fifty also, and the honorable counsellor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer. ⁴ And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them. ⁵ And the people shall fall, man upon man, and [every] man upon his neighbor: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honorable. ⁶ For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father's household, saying, You have raiment, be you our ruler, and let my meat be under you. ⁷ And he shall answer in that day, and say, I will not be your ruler; for I have no bread in my house, nor raiment: I will not be the ruler of this people.

¹² And your old waste desert [places] shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace.

²⁷ the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

¹¹ And I gave you a king in mine anger, and kept [him] back in my wrath.

¹⁴ And Samuel said, What then [is] the bleating of this flock in my ears, and the sound of the oxen which I hear? ¹⁵ And Saul said, I have brought them out of Amalec, that which the people preserved, even the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, that it might be sacrificed to the Lord your God, and the rest have I utterly destroyed. ¹⁶ And Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what the Lord has said to me this night: and he said to him, Say on. ¹⁷ And Samuel said to Saul, Are you not little in his eyes, [though] a leader of one of the tribes of Israel? and [yet] the Lord anointed you to be king over Israel. ¹⁸ And the Lord sent you on a journey, and said to you, Go, and utterly destroy: you shall kill the sinners against me, [even] the Amalekites; and you shall war against them until you have consumed them. ¹⁹ And why did not you listen to the voice of the Lord, but did haste to fasten upon the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord? ²⁰ And Saul said to Samuel, Because I listened to the voice of the people: yet I went the way by which the Lord sent me, and I brought Agag the king of Amalec, and I destroyed Amalec. ²¹ But the people took of the spoils the best flocks and herds [out] of that which was destroyed, to sacrifice before the Lord our God in Galgal. ²² And Samuel said, Does the Lord take pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? behold, obedience [is] better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams. ²³ For sin is [as] divination; idols bring on pain and grief. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord also shall reject you from being king over Israel. ²⁴ And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, in that I have transgressed the word of the Lord and your direction; for I feared the people, and I listened to their voice.

¹⁴ And he answered the king, and said, And who [is] there among all your servants faithful as David, and [he is] a son-in-law of the king, and [he is] executor of all your commands, and [is] honorable in your house? ¹⁵ Have I begun today to enquire of God for him? By no means: let not the king bring a charge against his servant, and against you whole of my father's house; for your servant knew not in all these matters anything great or small.

¹⁹ And the Ziphites came up out of the dry country to Saul to the hill, saying, Behold, is not David hidden with us in Messara, in the narrows in Caene in the hill of Echela, which is on the right of Jessaemon? ²⁰ And now [according to] all the king's desire to come down, let him come down to us; they have shut him up into the hands of the king. ²¹ And Saul said to them, Blessed [be] you⌃ of the Lord, for you⌃ have been grieved on my account.

¹⁸ And Eliu said, I do not pervert Israel; but it is you and your father's house, in that you⌃ forsake the Lord your God, and you have gone after Baalim.

²¹ And Eliu drew near to them all: and Eliu said to them, How long will you⌃ halt on both feet? if the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, follow him. And the people answered not a word.

¹⁹ and let not the young men the heads of the districts go forth of the city. And the force that was behind them ²⁰ struck each one the man next to him; and each one a second time struck the man next to him: and Syria fled, and Israel pursued them; and the son of Ader, [even] the king of Syria, escapes on the horse of a horseman.

¹⁹ And Michaias said, Not so, [it is] not I: hear the word of the Lord; [it is] not so. I saw the God of Israel sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven stood about him on his right hand and on his left. ²⁰ And the Lord said, Who will deceive Achaab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall in Remmath Galaad? and one spoke one way, and another another way. ²¹ And there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord, and said, I will deceive him. ²² And the Lord said to him, Whereby? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall deceive him, yes, and shall prevail: go forth, and do so. ²³ And now, behold, the Lord has put a false spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil against you. ²⁴ And Sedekias the son of Chanaan came near and struck Michaias on the cheek, and said, What sort of a spirit of the Lord [has] spoken in you? ²⁵ And Michaias said, Behold, you shall see in that day, when you shall go into an innermost chamber to hide yourself there. ²⁶ And the king of Israel said, Take Michaias, and convey him away to Semer the keeper of the city; ²⁷ and tell Joas the king's son to put this [fellow] in prison, and to feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I return in peace. ²⁸ And Michaias said, If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.

¹³ And Elisaie said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father, and the prophets of your mother. And the king of Israel said to him, Has the Lord called the three kings to deliver them into the hands of Moab? ¹⁴ And Elisaie said, [As] the Lord of hosts before whom I stand lives, unless I regarded the presence of Josaphat the king of Juda, I would not have looked on you, nor seen you.

⁷ And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what you⌃ demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly, ⁸ and I said to them, We of our free-will have redeemed our brethren the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do you⌃ sell your brethren? and shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer. ⁹ And I said, The thing which you⌃ do [is] not good; you⌃ will not so walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies. ¹⁰ Both my brethren, and my acquaintances, and I, have lent them money and corn: let us now leave off this exaction. ¹¹ Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them corn and wine and oil of the money. ¹² And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as you say. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word. ¹³ And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.

⁸ And it appeared very evil to me: so I cast forth all the furniture of the house of Tobias from the treasury. ⁹ And I gave orders, and they purified the treasuries: and I restored there the vessels of the house of God, [and] the offerings, and the frankincense. ¹⁰ And I understood that the portion of the Levites had not been given: and they had fled every one to his field, the Levites and the singers doing the work. ¹¹ And I strove with the commanders, and said, Therefore has the house of God been abandoned? and I assembled them, and set them in their place.

¹⁵ In those days I saw in Juda [men] treading wine presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and loading asses with both wine, and grapes, and figs, and every [kind of] burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath-day:

¹⁷ And I strove with the free children of Juda, and said to them, What [is] this evil thing which you⌃ do, and profane the sabbath-day? ¹⁸ Did not your fathers thus, and our God brought upon them and upon us and upon this city all these evils? and do you⌃ bring additional wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath? ¹⁹ And it came to pass, when the gates were set up in Jerusalem, before the sabbath, that I spoke, and they shut the gates; and I gave orders that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and I set [some] of my servants at the gates, that none should bring [in] burdens on the sabbath-day. ²⁰ So all [the merchants] lodged, and carried on traffic without Jerusalem once or twice.

²³ And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab: ²⁴ and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language. ²⁵ And I strove with them and cursed them; and I struck some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying, ]You⌃ shall not give your daughters to their sons, and you⌃ shall not take of their daughters to your sons. ²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? though there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside.

²⁸ and Elisub the high priest, [one] of the sons of Joada, [being] son-in-law of Sanaballat the Uranite, I chased him away from me.

³ For behold the sinners have bent their [bow], they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot For privily at the upright in heart.

¹⁸ If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.

³⁰ Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;

²⁴ The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell.

⁷ Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the wise: the wise turn not aside from the mouth of the Lord,

²² For the princes of my people have not known me, they are foolish and unwise children: they are wise to do evil, but [how] to do good they have not known.

²² Mercy is a fruit to a man: and a poor man is better than a rich liar.

¹⁸ He that walks justly is assisted: but he that walks in crooked ways shall be entangled [therein].

¹ [My] son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with you; ² your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son. ³ For it you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding; 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. ⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding,

¹ [My] son, forget not my laws; but let your heart keep my words: ² for length of existence, and years of life, and peace, shall they add to you. ³ Let not mercy and truth forsake you; but bind them about your neck: ⁴ so shall you find favor: and do you provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men. ⁵ Trust in God with all your heart; and be not exalted in your own wisdom. ⁶ In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly direct your paths. ⁷ Be not wise in your own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil. ⁸ Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones. ⁹ Honor the Lord with your just labors, and give him the first of your fruits of righteousness: ¹⁰ that your storehouses may be completely filled with corn, and that your presses may burst forth with wine. ¹¹ [My] son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when you are rebuked of him: ¹² for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives. ¹³ Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and the mortal who knows prudence. ¹⁴ For it is better to traffic for her, than for treasures of gold and silver. ¹⁵ And she is more valuable than precious stones: no evil thing shall resist her: she is well known to all that approach her, and no precious thing is equal to her in value. ¹⁶ For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue. ¹⁷ Her ways are good ways, and all her paths are peaceful. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is [a] secure [help] to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord. ¹⁹ God by wisdom founded the earth, and by prudence he prepared the heavens. ²⁰ By understanding were the depths broken up, and the clouds dropped water. ²¹ [My] son, let [them] not pass from [you], but keep my counsel and understanding: ²² that your soul may live, and that there may be grace round your neck; and it shall be health to your flesh, and safety to your bones: ²³ that you may go confidently in peace in all your ways, and that your foot may not stumble. ²⁴ For if you rest, you shall be undismayed; and if you sleep, you shall slumber sweetly. ²⁵ And you shall not be afraid of alarm coming upon you, neither of approaching attacks of ungodly men. ²⁶ For the Lord shall be over all your ways, and shall establish your foot that you be not moved. ²⁷ Forbear not to do good to the poor, whenever your hand may have [power] to help [him]. ²⁸ Say not, Come back another time, to-morrow I will give; while you are able to do [him] good: for you know not what the next day will bring forth. ²⁹ Devise not evil against your friend, living near you and trusting in you. ³⁰ Be not ready to quarrel with a man without a cause, lest he do you some harm. ³¹ Procure not the reproaches of bad men, neither do you covet their ways. ³² For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; neither does he sit among the righteous. ³³ The curse of God is in the houses of the ungodly; but the habitations of the just are blessed. ³⁴ The Lord resists the proud; but he gives grace to the humble. ³⁵ The wise shall inherit glory; but the ungodly have exalted [their own] dishonor.

²⁶ He that dishonors his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.

¹⁹ Hear, [my] son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of your heart. ²⁰ Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh: ²¹ for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments. ²² Listen, [my] son, to your father which begot you, and despise not [your mother] because she is grown old.

²⁴ He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he sins not; the same is partaker with an ungodly man.

³ When a man loves wisdom, his father rejoices: but he that keeps harlots will waste wealth.

¹⁵ Stripes and reproofs give wisdom: but an erring child disgraces his parents.

²⁵ And if you should lend money to your poor brother who is by you, you shall not be hard upon him you shall not exact usury of him.

³⁶ You shall not receive from him interest, nor increase: and you shall fear your God: I [am] the Lord: and your brother shall live with you.

⁶ And he shall restore the lamb sevenfold, because he has not spared.

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.

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

³¹ He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honors him has pity upon the poor.

⁷ Every one who hates [his] poor brother shall also be far from friendship. Good understanding will draw near to them that know it, and a sensible man will find it. He that does much harm perfects mischief; and he that used provoking words shall not escape.

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.

⁸ and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgment between a man and his neighbor,

¹³ has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has wrought all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

¹⁷ and has turned back his hand from unrighteousness, has not received interest or usurious increase, has wrought righteousness, and walked in mine ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live.

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

⁸ The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him.

¹³ He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear [him].

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. ¹⁶ Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;

⁷ Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house: if you see one naked, clothe [him], and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed. ⁸ Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth: and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall compass you. ⁹ Then shall you cry, and God shall listen to you; while you are yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech; ¹⁰ and [if] you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness [shall be] as noon-day: ¹¹ and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain [from] which the water has not failed.

¹¹ But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear. ¹² And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to listen to my law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by his Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty. 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.

¹⁵ And Moses said to them, Why have you⌃ saved every female alive? ¹⁶ For they were [the occasion] to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Phogor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.

¹² And it shall come to pass when you⌃ shall have heard these ordinances, and shall have kept and done them, that the Lord your God shall keep for you the covenant and the mercy, which he sware to your fathers. ¹³ And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; and he will bless the off-spring of your body, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, on the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to you. ¹⁴ You shall be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you an impotent or barren one, or among your cattle.

¹⁹ And now let my lord the king hear the word of his servant. If God stirs you up against me, let your offering be acceptable: but if the sons of men, they [are] cursed before the Lord, for they have cast me out this day so that I should not be established in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other Gods.

¹⁵ He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made. ¹⁶ His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

¹⁵ The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

¹¹ My friends and my neighbors drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.

³ The Lord will not famish a righteous soul: but he will overthrow the life of the ungodly.

⁶ In the houses of the righteous is much strength: but the fruits of the ungodly shall perish.

²⁰ A desirable treasure will rest on the mouth of the wise; but foolish men will swallow it up.

²⁷ He that digs a pit for his neighbor shall fall into it: and he that rolls a stone, rolls it upon himself.

⁸ He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and him that breaks down a hedge a serpent shall bite.

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

¹¹ The wealth of a rich man is a strong city; and its glory casts a broad shadow.

¹⁷ A righteous man accuses himself at the beginning of his speech, but when he has entered upon the attack, the adversary is reproved.

⁴ If you are poor, measure not yourself with a rich man; but refrain yourself in your wisdom.

⁵ Yet answer a fool according to his folly, lest he seem wise in his own conceit.

¹⁶ A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who most satisfactorily brings back a message.

¹⁵ and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man. ¹⁶ And I said Wisdom is better than power: yet the wisdom of the poor man is set at nothing, and his words not listened to. ¹⁷ The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of them that rule in folly.

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

¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of [my] understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. ¹⁴ And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.

³ are you wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed you with their knowledge? ⁴ Hast you gained power for yourself by your [own] knowledge or your [own] prudence, and [gotten] gold and silver in your treasures? ⁵ By your abundant knowledge and your traffic you have multiplied your power; your heart has been lifted up by your power.

¹¹ Behold, your eyes have seen this day how that the Lord has delivered you this day into my hands in the cave; and I would not kill you, but spared you, and said, I will not lift up my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed.

³ Depart hence eastward, and hide you by the brook of Chorrath, that is before Jordan. ⁴ And it shall be [that] you shall drink water of the brook, and I will charge the ravens to feed you there. ⁵ And Eliu did according to the word of the Lord, and he sat by the brook of Chorrath before Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him loaves in the morning, and flesh in the evening and he drank water of the brook. ⁷ And it came to pass after some time, that the brook was dried up, because there had been no rain upon the earth. ⁸ And the word of the Lord came to Eliu, [saying], ⁹ Arise, and go to Sarepta of the Sidonian [land]: behold, I have there commanded a widow-woman to maintain you. ¹⁰ And he arose and went to Sarepta, and came to the gate of the city: and, behold, a widow-woman was there gathering sticks; and Eliu cried after her, and said to her, Fetch me, I pray you, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. ¹¹ And she went to fetch it; and Eliu cried after her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a morsel of the bread that is in your hand. ¹² And the woman said, [As] the Lord your God lives, I have not a cake, but only a handful of meal in the pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse, and, behold, I am going to gather two sticks, and I shall go in and dress it for myself and my children, and we shall eat it and die. ¹³ And Eliu said to her, Be of good courage, go in and do according to your word: but make me thereof a little cake, and you shall bring [it] out to me first, and you shall make [some] for yourself and your children last. ¹⁴ For thus says the Lord, The pitcher of meal shall not fail, and the cruse of oil shall not diminish, until the day that the Lord gives rain upon the earth. ¹⁵ And the woman went and did [so], and did eat, she, and he, and her children. ¹⁶ And the pitcher of meal failed not, and the cruse of oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of Eliu. ¹⁷ And it came to pass afterward, that the son of the woman the mistress of the house was sick; and his sickness was very severe, until there was no breath left in him. ¹⁸ And she said to Eliu, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come in to me to bring my sins to remembrance, and to kill my son? ¹⁹ And Eliu said to the woman, Give me your son. And he took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he himself lodged, and laid him on the bed. ²⁰ And Eliu cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, you have wrought evil [for her] in slaying her son. ²¹ And he breathed on the child thrice, and called on the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, let, I pray you, the soul of this child return to him. ²² And it was so, and the child cried out, ²³ and he brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; and Eliu said, See, your son lives. ²⁴ And the woman said to Eliu, Behold, I know that you [are] a man of God, and the word of the Lord in your mouth [is] true.

¹³ Has it not been told to you my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

³ And Eliu feared, and rose, and departed for his life: and he comes to Bersabee [to] the land of Juda, and he left his servant there.

²⁵ So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains of thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant from the house of Abdedom with gladness. ²⁶ And it came to pass when God strengthened the Levites bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they sacrificed seven calves and seven rams. ²⁷ And David [was] girded with a fine linen robe, and all the Levites [who were] bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the singers, and Chonenias the master of the band of singers; also upon David [there was] a robe of fine linen. ²⁸ And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of a horn, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, playing loudly on lutes and harps.

⁷ Then David first gave orders to praise the Lord by the hand of Asaph and his brethren. ⁸ Song. Give thanks to the Lord, call upon him by his name, make known his designs among the people. ⁹ Sing [songs] to him, and sing hymns to him, relate to all [people] his wonderful deeds, which the Lord has wrought. ¹⁰ Praise his holy name, the heart that seeks his pleasure shall rejoice. ¹¹ Seek the Lord and be strong, seek his face continually. ¹² Remember his wonderful works which he has wrought, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; ¹³ [you⌃] seed of Israel his servants, [you⌃] seed of Jacob his chosen ones. ¹⁴ He [is] the Lord our God; his judgments [are] in all the earth. ¹⁵ Let us remember his covenant for ever, his word which he commanded to a thousand generations, ¹⁶ which he covenanted with Abraham, and his oath [sworn] to Isaac. ¹⁷ He confirmed it to Jacob for an ordinance, to Israel [as] an everlasting covenant, ¹⁸ saying, To you will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance: ¹⁹ when they were few in number, when they were but little, and lived as strangers in it; ²⁰ and went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. ²¹ He suffered not a man to oppress them, and he reproved kings for their sakes, ²² saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and deal not wrongfully with my prophets. ²³ Sing you⌃ to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim his salvation from day to day. ²⁴ Declare among the nations his glory, his wondrous deeds among all peoples. ²⁵ For the Lord [is] great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to be feared above all gods. ²⁶ For all the gods of the nations [are] idols; but our God made the heavens. ²⁷ Glory and praise [are] in his presence; strength and rejoicing [are] in his place. ²⁸ Give to the Lord, you⌃ families of the nations, give to the Lord glory and strength. ²⁹ Give to the Lord the glory [belonging] to his name: take gifts and offer [them] before him; and worship the Lord in his holy courts. ³⁰ Let the whole earth fear before him; let the earth be established, and not be moved. ³¹ Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; and let them say among the nations, The Lord reigns. ³² The sea with its fullness shall resound and the tree of the field, and all things in it. ³³ Then shall the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord, for he is come to judge the earth. ³⁴ Give thanks to the Lord, for [it is] good, for his mercy [is] for ever. ³⁵ And say you⌃, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us, and rescue us from among the heathen, that we may praise your holy name, and glory in your praises. ³⁶ Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting: And all the people shall say, Amen. So they praised the Lord.

²⁰ And David said to the whole congregation, Bless you⌃ the Lord our God. And all the congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and they bowed the knee and worshipped the Lord, and [did obeisance] to the king. ²¹ And David sacrificed to the Lord, and offered up whole burnt offerings to the Lord on the morrow after the first day, a thousand calves, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, and their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel. ²² And they ate and drank joyfully that day before the Lord: and they made Solomon the son of David king a second time, and anointed him king before the Lord, and Sadoc to the priesthood.

¹⁰ And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he dismissed the people to their tents, rejoicing, and with a glad heart because of the good deeds which the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

²² And Ezekias encouraged all the Levites, and those that had good understanding of the Lord: and they completely kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, offering peace-offerings, and confessing to the Lord God of their fathers. ²³ And the congregation purposed together to keep other seven days: and they kept seven days with gladness. ²⁴ For Ezekias set apart for Juda, [even] for the congregation, a thousand calves and seven thousand sheep; and the princes set apart for the people a thousand calves and ten thousand sheep: and the holy things of the priests abundantly. ²⁵ And all the congregation, the priests and the Levites, rejoiced, and all the congregation of Juda, and they that were present of Jerusalem, and the strangers that came from the land of Israel, and the dwellers in Juda. ²⁶ And there was great joy in Jerusalem: from the days of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not such a feast in Jerusalem. ²⁷ Then the priests the Levites rose up and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came into his holy dwelling-place, [even] into heaven.

¹⁵ And Mardochaeus went forth robed in the royal apparel, and wearing a golden crown, and a diadem of fine purple linen: and the people in Susa saw [it] and rejoiced. ¹⁶ And the Jews had light and gladness, ¹⁷ in every city and province wherever the ordinance was published: wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth: and many of the Gentiles were circumcised, and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.

¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside. 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. ¹⁸ And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; I shall live a long while. ¹⁹ [My] root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop. ²⁰ My glory was fresh in me, and by bow prospered in his hand.

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

²⁸ In the places of ungodly [men] the righteous mourn: but in their destruction the righteous shall be multiplied.

² When the righteous are praised, the people will rejoice: but when the ungodly rule, men mourn.

⁵ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, wherein an error has proceeded from the ruler. ⁶ The fool has been set in very high places, while rich men would sit in a low one.

¹⁶ Woe to you, O city, whose king is young, and your princes eat in the morning!

¹ Run you⌃ about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you⌃ can find [one], if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, says the Lord.

²⁶ The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jodae the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and you shall put them in prison, and into the dungeon.

¹² And Adam said, The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate. ¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, Why have you done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.

⁹ And the Lord God said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? and he said, I know not, am I my brother's keeper?

¹⁶ And Pharao hasted to call Moses and Aaron, saying, I have sinned before the Lord your God, and against you; ¹⁷ pardon therefore my sin yet this time, and pray to the Lord your God, and let him take away from me this death.

⁴⁰ And they shall confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me, ⁴¹ and I walked with them with a perverse mind; and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies: then shall their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then shall they acquiesce in [the punishment of] their sins. ⁴² And I will remember the covenant of Jacob, and the covenant of Isaac, and the covenant of Abraam will I remember.

¹³ And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed [are] you of the Lord: I have performed all that the Lord said.

²⁴ And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, in that I have transgressed the word of the Lord and your direction; for I feared the people, and I listened to their voice.

³⁰ And Saul said, I have sinned; yet honor me, I pray you, before the elders of Israel, and before my people; and turn back with me, and I will worship the Lord your God.

⁴⁷ and they shall turn their hearts in the land whither they have been carried captives, and turn in the land of their sojourning, and supplicate you, saying, We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have transgressed, ⁴⁸ and they shall turn to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies whither you have carried them captives, and shall pray to you toward their land which you have given to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built to your name: ⁴⁹ then shall you hear from heaven your established dwelling-place,

³³ or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;

²⁷ Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.

³ Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. ⁴ For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are faithful. ⁵ He loves mercy and judgment; the earth is full the mercy of the Lord.

¹ (52) For the end, [a Psalm] of instruction by David, when Doec the Idumean came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in [your] mischief? All the day ² your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit. ³ You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause. ⁴ You has loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue. ⁵ Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.

¹² Hatred stirs up strife; but affection covers all that do not love strife.

⁹ He that conceals injuries seeks love; but he that hates to hide [them] separates friends and kindred.

²² Though you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, [still] you are stained by your iniquities before me, says the Lord. ²³ How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold your ways in the burial-ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening:

¹² Go and read these words toward the north, and you shall say, Return to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord; and I will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not be angry with you for ever. ¹³ Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not listen to my voice, says the Lord.

²⁰ And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and bringing my pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain; ²¹ yes, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, [came] flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice. ²² And he instructed me, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to impart to you understanding. ²³ At the beginning of your supplication the word came forth, and I am come to tell you; for you are a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, understand the vision.

²² And the charmers also of the Egyptians did so with their sorceries; and the heart of Pharao was hardened, and he did not listen to them, even as the Lord said.

²³ And the Egyptians pursued them and went in after them, and every horse of Pharao, and his chariots, and his horsemen, into the midst of the sea.

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

¹¹ Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice in him with trembling.

⁸ Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist your right hand: you shall screen me by the covering of your wings,

⁸ Bring to the Lord the glory [becoming] his name: take offerings, and go into his courts.

¹ (113) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, you⌃ servants [of his], praise, the name of the Lord.

¹⁷ Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the Lord all the day.

¹ A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man: for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.

² For all these things are mine, says the Lord: and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] my words?

¹⁴ And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence. ¹⁵ And the king of the Egyptians spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews; the name of the one was, Sepphora; and the name of the second, Phua. ¹⁶ And he said, When you⌃ do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it.

²² And Pharao charged all his people, saying, Whatever male [child] shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.

¹⁷ And the king said to the footmen that attended on him, Draw near and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand [is] with David, and because they knew that he fled, and they did not inform me. But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to fall upon the priest of the Lord. ¹⁸ And the king said to Doec, Turn you, and fall upon the priests: and Doec the Syrian turned, and killed the priests of the Lord in that day, three hundred and five men, all wearing an ephod. ¹⁹ And he struck Nomba the city of the priest with the edge of the sword, both man, and woman, infant and suckling, and calf, and ox, and sheep.

²⁴ And he turned after them, and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And, behold, there came out two bears out of the wood, and they tore forty and two children of them.

¹⁶ Then Manaem struck both Thersa and all that was in it, and its borders extending beyond Thersa, because they opened not to him: and he struck it, and ripped up the women with child.

¹⁶ Moreover Manasses shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem [with it] from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Juda to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.

⁶ and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes. ⁷ And he made a decree in the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, and cast lots daily and monthly, to kill in one day the race of Mardochaeus: and the lot fell on the fourteenth [day] of the month which is Adar. ⁸ And he spoke to king Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from [those of] all the [other] nations; and they disobey the laws of the king; and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone. ⁹ If it seem good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them: and I will remit into the king's treasury ten thousand talents of silver. ¹⁰ And the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Aman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.

¹² Care may befall a man of understanding; but fools will meditate evils.

¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favor.

² The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul.

¹¹ Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgment under foot, for he began to go after vanities.

⁸ I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions' whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.

²¹ And do you look out for yourself out of all the people able men, fearing God, righteous men, hating pride, and you shall set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.

¹⁰ And the young men who had been brought up with him, who stood before his face, spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you say to this people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and do you now lighten it from off us: thus shall say to them, My little [finger shall be] thicker than my father's loins.

¹⁴ And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

¹⁵ But as for the former acts of extortion wherein [those who were] before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachmas for bread and wine; and the [very] outcasts of them exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

¹ So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun: and behold the tear of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter:

¹² O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blesses lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

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. ¹⁶ he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock: bread shall be given him, and his water shall be sure.

¹⁵ Shall you reign, because you are provoked with your father Achaz? they shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute judgment and justice. ¹⁶ They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor: is not this your not knowing me? says the Lord. ¹⁷ Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

¹ Hear you⌃ this word, you⌃ heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink.

⁶ He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.

¹⁴ And if any one lie in wait for his neighbor to kill him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from my altar to put him to death.

¹⁴ You⌃ shall assign three cities on the other side of Jordan, and you⌃ shall assign three cities in the land of Chanaan. ¹⁵ It shall be a place of refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that sojourns among you; these cities shall be for a place of refuge, for every one to flee there who has killed a man unintentionally. ¹⁶ And if he should strike him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he should strike him with a stone [thrown] from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he [thus] die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death. ¹⁸ And if he should strike him with an instrument of wood from his hand, whereby he may die, and he [thus] die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death. ¹⁹ The avenger of blood himself shall kill the murderer: whenever he shall meet him he shall kill him. ²⁰ And if he should thrust him through enmity, or cast any thing upon him from an ambuscade, and the man should die, ²¹ or if he have struck him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that struck him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death: the avenger of blood shall kill the murderer when he meets him. ²² But if he should thrust him suddenly, not through enmity, or cast any thing upon him, not from an ambuscade, ²³ or [strike him] with any stone, whereby a man may die, unawares, and it should fall upon him, and he should die, but he was not his enemy, nor sought to hurt him; ²⁴ then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood, according to these judgments. ²⁵ And the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high-priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil. ²⁶ But if the slayer should in any wise go out beyond the bounds of the city whither he fled for refuge, ²⁷ and the avenger of blood should find him without the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood should kill the slayer, he is not guilty. ²⁸ For he ought to have remained in the city of refuge till the high-priest died; and after the death of the high-priest the slayer shall return to the land of his possession. ²⁹ And these things shall be to you for an ordinance of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ³⁰ Whoever kills a man, you shall kill the murderer on the testimony of witnesses; and one witness shall not testify against a soul that he should die. ³¹ And you⌃ shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death. ³² You⌃ shall not accept a ransom [to excuse] his fleeing to the city of refuge, so that he should again dwell in the land, until the death of the high-priest. ³³ So shall you⌃ not pollute with murder the land in which you⌃ dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it. ³⁴ And you⌃ shall not defile the land whereon you⌃ dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.

¹⁹ and let not the young men the heads of the districts go forth of the city. And the force that was behind them

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.

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

²¹ And they conspired against him, and stone him by command of king Joas in the court of the Lord's house. ²² So Joas remembered not the kindness which his father Jodae had exercised towards him, but killed his son. And as he died, he said, The Lord look upon [it], and judge. ²³ And it came to pass after the end of the year, [that] the host of Syria went up against him, and came against Juda and Jerusalem: and they killed all the chiefs of the people among the people, and all their spoils they sent to the king of Damascus. ²⁴ For the army of Syria came with few men, yet God gave into their hands a very large army, because they had forsaken the God of their fathers; and he brought judgments on Joas. ²⁵ And after they had departed from him, when they had left him in sore diseases, then his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jodae the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchre of the kings.

³² And the angel of God said to him, Why have you struck your ass this third time? and, behold, I came out to withstand you, for your way was not seemly before me; and when the ass saw me, she turned away from me this third time.

¹¹ Teach me, O Lord, in your way, and guide me in a right path, because of mine enemies.

¹⁸ Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name. 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.

¹¹ Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven.

⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

⁹ He that walks simply, walks confidently; but he that perverts his ways shall be known.

²⁵ When the storm passes by, the ungodly vanishes away; but the righteous turns aside and escapes for ever.

³ When a just man dies he leaves regret: but the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy. ⁴ [Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death. ] ⁵ Righteousness traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing. ⁶ The righteousness of upright men delivers them: but transgressors are caught in their own destruction.

⁶ A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar.

⁴ And they gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baalberith; and Abimelech hired for himself vain and cowardly men, and they went after him.

¹¹ He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonor in his own strong holds.

²⁰ If you walk with wise men you shall be wise: but he that walks with fools shall be known.

⁴ Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean; but where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent.

²⁰ Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh: ²¹ for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.

²³ Do you thoroughly know the number of your flock, and pay attention to your herds. ²⁴ For a man [has] not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation. ²⁵ Take care of the herbage in the field, and you shall cut grass, and gather the mountain hay; ²⁶ that you may have [wool of] sheep for clothing: pay attention to the land, that you may have lambs. ²⁷ [My] son, you have from me words very useful for your life, and for the life of your servants.

¹⁴ And he answered the king, and said, And who [is] there among all your servants faithful as David, and [he is] a son-in-law of the king, and [he is] executor of all your commands, and [is] honorable in your house?

²⁰ And Giezi the servant of Elisaie said, Behold, my Lord has spared this Syrian Naiman, so as not to take of his hand what he has brought: as the Lord lives, I will surely run after him, and take somewhat of him. ²¹ So Giezi followed after Naiman: and Naiman saw him running after him, and turned back from his chariot to meet him. ²² And [Giezi] said, All is well: my master has sent me, saying, Behold, now are there come to me two young men of the sons of the prophets from mount Ephraim; give them, I pray you, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment. ²³ And [Naiman] said, Take two talents of silver. And he took two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of raiment, and put them upon two of his servants, and they bore them before him. ²⁴ And he came to a secret place, and took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and dismissed the men. ²⁵ And he went in himself and stood before his master; and Elisaie said to him, ²⁶ Whence [come you], Giezi? and Giezi said, Your servant has not been hither or there. And Elisaie said to him, Went not my heart with you, when the man returned from his chariot to meet you? and now you have received silver, and now you have received raiment, and olive yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants. ²⁷ The leprosy also of Naiman shall cleave to you, and to your seed for ever. And he went out from his presence leprous, like snow.

² that I gave charge to Ananias my brother, and Ananias the ruler of the palace, over Jerusalem: for he was a true man, and one that feared God beyond many.

⁶ I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;

⁴ The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens. ⁵ Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places, ⁶ and [yet] looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth: 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.

⁶ The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but untimely grief shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.

¹¹ Wealth gotten hastily with iniquity is diminished: but he that gathers for himself with godliness shall be increased. The righteous is merciful, and lends.

⁵ He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: but he that has compassion shall find mercy.

⁶ A man is valuable, and a merciful man precious: but [it is] hard to find a faithful man.

²¹ A portion hastily gotten at first shall not be blessed in the end.

²² An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.

² You shall not associate with the multitude for evil; you shall not join yourself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

⁸ And you shall not receive gifts; for gifts blind the eyes of the seeing, and corrupt just words.

⁵ [It is] not good to accept the person of the ungodly, nor [is it] holy to pervert justice in judgment.

²³ And this thing I say to you that are wise [for you] to learn: It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

¹⁹ And they have dishonored me before my people for a handful of barley, and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls which should not die, and to save alive the souls which should not live, while you⌃ speak to a people hearing vain speeches.

¹⁸ He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonor through her insolence.

⁵ Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bit with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and [when] nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:

³ they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks [a reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul:

¹⁰ And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until you come to Zogora. ¹¹ And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram lived in the land of Chanaan. ¹² And Lot lived in a city of the neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom. ¹³ But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

¹⁷ And it came to pass when they brought them out, that they said, Save your own life by all means; look not round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country round about, escape to the mountain, lest perhaps you be overtaken together with them.

¹⁸ He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, [for] wealth of which he shall not taste: [it is] as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he can’t swallow. 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.

⁶ Sup not with an envious man, neither desire you his meats:

²⁰ A man worthy of credit shall be much blessed: but the wicked shall not be unpunished.

⁷ And Nathan said to David, You are the man that has done this. Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I anointed you to be king over Israel, and I rescued you out the hand of Saul;

²³ Behold, Nathan the prophet [is here]: and he came in to the king's presence, and did obeisance to the king with his face to the ground.

³² And king David said, Call me Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas the son of Jodae: and they came in before the king. ³³ And the king said to them, Take the servants of your lord with you, and mount my son Solomon upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gion. ³⁴ And there let Sadoc the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him to be king over Israel, and do you⌃ sound the trumpet, and you⌃ shall say, Let king Solomon live. ³⁵ And he shall sit upon my throne, and reign in my stead: and I have given charge that he should be for a prince over Israel and Juda. ³⁶ And Banaeas the son of Jodae answered the king and said, So let it be: may the Lord God of my lord the king confirm [it]. ³⁷ As the Lord was with my lord the king, so let him be with Solomon, and let him exalt his throne beyond the throne of my lord king David. ³⁸ And Sadoc the priest went down, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas son of Jodae, and the Cherethite, and the Phelethite, and they mounted Solomon upon the mule of king David, and led him away to Gion. ³⁹ And Sadoc the priest took the horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon, and blew the trumpet; and all the people said, Let king Solomon live. ⁴⁰ And all the people went up after him, and they danced in choirs, and rejoiced with great joy, and the earth quaked with their voice.

⁵ I cried to you, O Lord, and said, You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

⁵ Open reproofs are better than secret love. ⁶ The wounds of a friend are more to be trusted than the spontaneous kisses of an enemy.

⁵ He that prepares a net in the way of his own friend, entangles his own feet in it.

² And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver which you took of yourself, and [about which] you cursed me, and spoke in my ears, behold, the silver [is] with me; I took it: and his mother said, Blessed [be] my son of the Lord.

⁹ A man who helps not himself by his labor is brother of him that ruins himself.

⁷ A wise son keeps the law: but he that keeps up debauchery dishonors his father.

¹² For the Lord will give goodness; and our land shall yield her fruit.

²⁵ Every sincere soul is blessed: but a passionate man is not graceful.

⁴ Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent.

¹⁰ A bad man does evil with insolence: but they that are judges of themselves are wise.

¹⁸ A passionate man stirs up strife; but [he that is] slow to anger appeases even a rising one. A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs [them] up.

²⁴ A bold and self-willed and insolent [man] is called a pest: and he that remembers injuries is a transgressor.

¹⁰ Cast out a pestilent person from the council, and strife shall go out with him; for when he sits in the council he dishonors all.

²² A furious man stirs up strife, and a passionate man digs up sin.

²⁵ [they] fearing and reverencing men [unreasonably] have been overthrown, but he that trusts in the Lord shall rejoice. Ungodliness causes a man to stumble: but he that trusts in his master shall be safe.

¹¹ and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain [from] which the water has not failed.

⁷ But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord shall be. ⁸ And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place: he shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be upon him shady branches: he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.

¹³ And Azael said, Who is your servant? a dead dog, that he should do this thing? And Elisaie said, The Lord has shown me you ruling over Syria.

²⁸ And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

⁵ Trust in God with all your heart; and be not exalted in your own wisdom.

⁹ The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man, and who can know him?

⁷ And if there shall be in the midst of you a poor [man] of your brethren in one of your cities in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, neither shall you by any means close up your hand from your brother who is in lack.

¹⁰ You shall surely give to him, and you shall lend him as much as he wants, according as he is in need; and you shall not grudge in your heart as you give to him, because on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all things on which you shall lay your hand.

¹ (42) For the end, [a Psalm] for instruction, for the sons of Core. As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for you, O God. ² My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? ³ My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is your God?

²⁴ There are [some] who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are [some] also who gather, [yet] have less.

²⁶ May he that hoards corn leave it to the nation: but blessing be on the head of him that gives [it].

¹⁷ He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; and he will recompense to him according to his gift.

⁹ He that has pity on the poor shall himself be maintained; for he has given of his own bread to the poor. He that gives liberally secures victory an honor; but he takes away the life of them that posses [them].

²⁴ He that says of the ungodly, He is righteous, shall be cursed by peoples, and hateful among the nations.

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.

¹⁷ in every city and province wherever the ordinance was published: wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth: and many of the Gentiles were circumcised, and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.

⁴ They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

¹² By reason of the help of righteous men great glory arises: but in the places of the ungodly men are caught.