Job 3 Cross References - Leeser

¹ After this time Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. ² And Job commenced, and said, ³ Oh that the day whereon I was born might perish, and the night when it was said, There hath been a male child conceived. ⁴ May that day be covered with darkness; may not God from above inquire for it, and may no light beam upon it. ⁵ Oh that darkness and the shadow of death might defile it; may a cloud rest upon it; may the blackness of the day terrify it. ⁶ Yon night—let darkness seize upon it; let it not be united to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the periods lighted by the moon. ⁷ Lo, may that night be solitary, let no song of joy occur thereon. ⁸ Let those denounce it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning cry. ⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; let it hope for light, and there be none; and let it not behold the eyelids of the morning-dawn; ¹⁰ Because God closed not against me the doors of the womb, and thus concealed trouble from my eyes. ¹¹ Why did I not die the moment I issued from the womb, and why was I not born merely to perish at once? ¹² Wherefore were knees ready to receive me? and for what purpose were breasts there that I might suck? ¹³ For now should I be lying still and be quiet; I should sleep: then would I be at rest, ¹⁴ With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build up ruined places for themselves; ¹⁵ Or with princes possessing gold, who fill their houses with silver; ¹⁶ Or as an untimely birth, hidden from view I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light; ¹⁷ There where the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest; ¹⁸ Where the prisoners repose together, and they hear no more the taskmaster’s voice. ¹⁹ The small with the great is there, and the servant free from his master. ²⁰ Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul? ²¹ Who wait for death, which cometh not; and who dig for it sooner than for hidden treasures; ²² Who would rejoice even to exulting, who would be glad could they but find a grave? ²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and around whom God hath placed a fence? ²⁴ For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints. ²⁵ Because what I greatly dreaded is come upon me, and what I apprehended is come unto me. ²⁶ I have had no safety, and no quiet, and no rest; and now harrowing trouble is come.

¹⁸ For the Lord had fast closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

³¹ And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

³ And she said, Behold, here is my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

²³ And Joseph saw of Ephraim children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Menasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

⁶ And Pharaoh commanded on the same day the taskmasters of the people, and its officers, saying, ⁷ Ye shall no more give the people straw to make the bricks, as yesterday and the day before; they themselves shall go and gather themselves straw. ⁸ And the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall impose upon them, ye shall not diminish aught thereof; for they are idle: therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

¹⁵ And the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given unto thy servants, and, Make bricks, say they to us: and, behold, thy servants are beaten, and thy people are treated as sinners. ¹⁷ But he said, Idle are ye, idle; therefore say ye, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. ¹⁸ And now go, work, and straw shall not be given you; yet the required number of bricks shall ye deliver. ¹⁹ And the officers of the children of Israel saw themselves in the evil necessity to say, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, every day of its task.

²² And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: ²³ They saw not one another, neither did they rise, any one from his place, for three days; but for all the children of Israel there was light in their dwellings.

¹⁵ And if thou wilt thus deal with me, then slay me, I pray thee, at once, if I have found favor in thy eyes: that I may not see my wretchedness.

¹⁸ And Bil’am answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the order of the Lord my God, to do a small or a great thing.

¹¹ And ye came near and stood at the foot of the mount; and the mount was burning with fire unto the midst of the heaven, from amidst darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

¹² A land which the Lord thy God careth for; always are the eyes of the Lord thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

³ And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he oppressed the children of Israel with might twenty years.

¹⁴ Then commenced the five men that had gone to spy out the country of Layish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there are in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven and molten image? and now consider what ye have to do.

⁵ But unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for Hannah he loved greatly; but the Lord had shut up her womb.

¹⁰ But she had bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept greatly.

¹⁰ And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

²⁷ And the king rendered the silver in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedars he rendered like the sycamore-trees that are in the lowlands, for abundance.

⁴³ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehobo’am his son became king in his stead.

⁴ But he himself went forward into the wilderness a day’s journey, and he came and sat down under a certain broom-bush: and he requested for himself to die; and he said, It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my soul; for I am not better than my fathers.

²⁷ And she came to the man of God to the mount, and caught hold of his feet; and Gechazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is grieved within her; and the Lord hath hidden it from me, and hath not told it me.

²⁵ And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and they instituted them as a custom in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

⁵ And it happened, when the days of the feast were gone round, that Job sent and sanctified them, and he then rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of all of them; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and have renounced God in their heart. In this manner used Job to do all the time.

¹¹ But stretch only forth thy hand and touch all that he hath, and see whether he will not renounce thee to thy face.

²² With all this did Job not sin, and attributed no injustice to God.

⁵ But stretch only forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and see whether he will not renounce thee to thy face.

⁹ Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast to thy integrity? renounce God, and die. ¹⁰ But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the worthless women would speak. What? should we accept the good alone, from God, and the evil we should not accept? With all this did Job not sin with his lips.

³ Oh that the day whereon I was born might perish, and the night when it was said, There hath been a male child conceived.

¹⁶ Or as an untimely birth, hidden from view I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;

² Oh that my vexation could be truly weighed, and my calamity; oh that men might lift it up in the balances at once! ³ For now it is already heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore are my words confused.

⁷ My soul refuseth to touch them: they are unto me like disgusting food.

⁹ Yea, that it would please God that he might crush me: that he would let loose his hand, and make an end of me!

⁸ The eye of him that seeth me now will not behold me again: thou fixest thy eyes upon me, and I am no more. ⁹ As the cloud vanisheth and passeth away: so will he that goeth down to the nether world not come up again. ¹⁰ He will return no more to his house, and his place will not recognize him any more.

¹⁴ Then wouldst thou frighten me with dreams, and with visions wouldst thou terrify me; ¹⁵ So that my soul would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine. ¹⁶ I loathe it; I cannot live for ever: let me alone; for my days are but nought.

¹⁹ How long wilt thou not turn thy regard from me, nor let; me loose till I swallow down my spittle?

²¹ And why wilt thou not forgive my transgression, and let my iniquity pass away? for soon must I lie down in the dust; and thou wilt seek for me, but I shall be no more.

¹ My soul is disgusted with my life; I will give free vent to my complaint over myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ Wherefore then didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me! ¹⁹ That I were as though I had not been,—had been borne from the womb to the grave.

²¹ Before I go, and return not, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, ²² A land of utter gloom, as of the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the light of which is like utter gloom.

²² A land of utter gloom, as of the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the light of which is like utter gloom.

¹⁴ Behold, he pulleth down, and there can be no rebuilding: he locketh the prison upon a man, and there can be no opening,

¹⁷ He leadeth counsellors away bereft of sense, and maketh the judges fools.

²¹ He poureth contempt upon princes, and the belt of the mighty be looseneth.

¹⁰ But man dieth, and lieth powerless: yea, the son of earth departeth—and where is he? ¹¹ The waters run off from the sea, and the river faileth and drieth up: ¹² So doth man lie down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they will not awake, and will not be roused out of their sleep. ¹³ Oh who would grant that thou mightest hide me in the nether world, that thou mightest conceal me, until thy wrath be appeased, that thou mightest set for me a fixed time, and remember me then!

²⁸ And he dwelt in abandoned cities, in houses which none inhabited, which were destined to be ruinous heaps.

¹⁶ My face gloweth from weeping, and on my eyelids resteth the shadow of death:

¹³ When I hope for the nether world as my house; in the darkness have I spread my couch;

¹⁶ Let then my limbs sink down to the nether world: truly in the dust alone there is rest for all.

⁶ Then know for certain that God hath bent me down, and hath laid his net all around me.

⁸ My road hath he fenced up, so that I cannot pass out; and on my paths he placeth darkness.

¹² Altogether come on his troops, and make level against me their way, and encamp round about my tent.

²⁷ Whom I shall myself behold to my happiness, and whom my eyes will see, and not as a stranger, when even my reins are consumed within my bosom.

¹³ They wear out their days in happiness, and in a moment they go down to the nether world.

²³ That this one dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;

²⁵ Then will the Almighty be thy precious metal, and brightly-shining silver unto thee.

² Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans.

¹⁷ For to all of these alike is the morning as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

⁹ Will God hear his cry, when distress cometh upon him?

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare garments as plentifully as the clay: ¹⁷ He may prepare, but the righteous will clothe himself therewith, and the silver the innocent will divide.

³ An end doth he set to darkness, and the very utmost limit doth he search out, the stones of darkness, and of the shadow of death.

¹⁵ Terrors have turned their face against me; they chase like the wind my glory: and like a cloud is my happiness passed away.

²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me back to death, and to the house of assembly for all the living.

²⁶ That I hoped for good, but there came evil; and I waited for light, and there came darkness!

²³ For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing.

²⁰ So that his inclination abhorreth bread, and his soul, the most agreeable food.

²⁸ Thus he redeemeth his soul from passing into the pit, and his life will look joyously on the light.

³⁰ To bring back his soul from the pit, that she may shine in the light of life.

¹⁶ But Job openeth wide his mouth for nought: without knowledge he heapeth up words.

¹⁷ Were the gates of death ever laid open unto thee? or canst thou see the doors of the shadow of death?

⁷ He laugheth at the noise of a town, and the shoutings of the driver he heareth not.

^{1 (40:25)} Canst thou draw out the crocodile with a fishhook? or cause his tongue to sink into the batted rope?

^{10 (41:2)} None is so daring that he would stir him up: and who is there that will stand up before me?

^{18 (41:10)} From his sneezing there beameth forth a light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning-dawn.

^{25 (41:17)} At his lifting himself up the mighty are terrified: the waves also are lessened.

¹ To the chief musician upon Ayeleth-hashachar, a psalm of David. ^(22:2) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from saving me, and from the words of my loud complaint? ^{2 (22:3)} O my God! I call in the day-time, but thou answerest not; and in the night I find no rest.

^{9 (22:10)} Yea, thou art he that took me from the womb: thou hast been my trust when I hung on my mother’s breasts. ^{10 (22:11)} Upon thee was I cast from my birth: from my mother’s womb art thou my God.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil; for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff—they indeed comfort me.

^{8 (31:9)} And thou hast not surrendered me into the hand of the enemy: thou hast caused my feet to stand on an ample space.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day.

^{8 (38:9)} I am made faint and crushed to the utmost; I cry aloud because of the groaning of my heart.

^{2 (39:3)} I was dumb in deep silence, I was quite still, even from speaking good; but my pain was greatly excited; ^{3 (39:4)} My heart was hot within me, in my self-communing there burnt a fire: then spoke I with my tongue,

^{3 (42:4)} My tears have been my food day and night; because men say unto me all the day, Where is thy God? ^{4 (42:5)} These things will I remember, and pour out my soul in me: how I was wont to pass along amidst the multitude, journeying with them as a pilgrim to the house of God, with the voice of joyful song and thanksgiving, among the festive throng.

^{19 (44:20)} Even when thou didst crush us in the abode of monsters, and cover us with the shadow of death.

^{2 (49:3)} Both the sons of the low and the sons of the high, rich and needy, altogether.

^{6 (49:7)} Of those that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves of the multitude of their riches? ^{7 (49:8)} No one can in any wise redeem his brother, nor can he give to God redemption money for himself; ^{8 (49:9)} For the ransom of their soul is too costly, and it is omitted for ever. ^{9 (49:10)} And should he still live for ever? not see the pit? ^{10 (49:11)} For he must see that wise men die, that together the fool and the brutish person perish and leave to others their wealth.

^{14 (49:15)} Like flocks are they thrust into the nether world; death will feed them; but the upright shall have dominion over them in that morning, and their form wasteth away in the nether world, taken away from their own dwelling.

^{14 (49:15)} Like flocks are they thrust into the nether world; death will feed them; but the upright shall have dominion over them in that morning, and their form wasteth away in the nether world, taken away from their own dwelling. ^{15 (49:16)} But God will redeem my soul from the power of the nether world; for he will take me away. Selah. ^{16 (49:17)} Be not thou afraid when a man becometh rich, when the glory of his house is increased; ^{17 (49:18)} For when he dieth he can take nothing away; his glory will not descend after him. ^{18 (49:19)} For though he bless his soul during his life, and men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself: ^{19 (49:20)} She shall go to the generation of his fathers, unto eternity will these never see light. ^{20 (49:21)} Man, though in splendor, who understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. °

^{5 (55:6)} Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and shuddering hath covered me. ^{6 (55:7)} And I said, Oh that some one would give me wings like a dove! I would fly away and dwell quietly. ^{7 (55:8)} Lo, I would flee far away, I would spend my night in the wilderness. Selah. ^{8 (55:9)} I would prepare hastily a refuge for me from the sweeping wind and from storm.

^{8 (58:9)} As a snail which melteth, let him pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman which hath not seen the sun.

⁶ By thee have I been supported from my birth: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s womb: of thee is my praise continually.

^{5 (80:6)} Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

^{8 (88:9)} Thou hast removed my acquaintances far from me; thou hast rendered me an abomination unto them: I am imprisoned, and I cannot go forth.

^{48 (89:49)} What man is there that can live, and shall not see death? that can deliver his soul from the power of the nether word? Selah.

^{9 (102:10)} For ashes do I eat like bread, and my drink I mingle with weeping;

³³ Because they had embittered his spirit, and so he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

¹⁰ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound in misery and fetters of iron;—

¹⁴ He bringeth them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and teareth their bands asunder.

¹³ For thou possessest my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. ¹⁴ I will thank thee therefore, that I am so fearfully and wonderfully made: wonderful are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. ¹⁵ My being was not concealed from thee, when I was made in secret, when I was so to say embroidered in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ My undeveloped substance did thy eyes see; and in thy book were all of them written down—the days which have been formed, while yet not one of them was here.

¹¹ For thy sake, O Lord, revive me: in thy righteousness bring forth out of distress my soul.

⁴ If thou wilt seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

⁶ Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those who have an embittered soul.

³ If a man were to beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years were many, and his soul were not satisfied with what is good, and he have not had even a burial: then do I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

³ If a man were to beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years were many, and his soul were not satisfied with what is good, and he have not had even a burial: then do I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. ⁴ For in vanity it came, and in darkness it departeth, and with darkness will its name be covered. ⁵ Moreover it never saw the sun, and knew nothing: this hath more rest than the other.

⁸ No man hath control over the spirit to detain the spirit; and there is no control over the day of death; and there is no representation in that war; and wickedness will not deliver those that practise it.

¹⁰ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do with thy might, that do; for there is no work, nor experience, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the nether world, whither thou goest.—

¹⁰ And remove vexation from thy heart, and cause evil to pass away from thy body; for childhood and the time when the head is black are vanity.

⁵ Also when men will be afraid of every elevation, and are terrified on every way, and the almond-tree will refuse its blossom, and the locust will drag itself slowly along, and the desire will gainsay compliance; because man goeth to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

⁷ When the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return unto God who gave it.—

⁷ And full became their land of silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; and full became their land of horses, and there is no end to their chariots;

⁸ Woe unto those that cause house to join on house, bring field near to field, till there is no more room, so that ye may be left alone as the inhabitants in the midst of the land!

^{2 (9:1)} The people that walk in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death—a light shineth brightly over them.

²⁰ It shall not be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be dwelt in from generation to generation; nor shall the Arabian pitch there his tent; and shepherds shall not let their flocks rest there. ²¹ But there shall rest the wild beasts of the desert; and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and evil spirits shall dance there. ²² And jackals shall howl in her palaces, and monsters in the temples of pleasure; and near to come is her time, and her days shall not be extended.

³ And it shall come to pass on the day when the Lord will give thee rest from thy trouble, and from thy vexation, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, ⁴ That thou wilt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath ceased the oppressor! ceased the exactress of gold!

¹⁰ They all will commence and say unto thee, “Thou—thou also art become weak like us; similar unto us art thou become!” ¹¹ Into the nether world is brought down thy pride, the clatter of thy psalteries: beneath thee is spread the worm, and thy cover is the moth. ¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, O morning-star, son of the dawn! how art thou hewn down to the ground, crusher of nations! ¹³ And thou—thou hadst said in thy heart, “Into heaven will I ascend, above the stars of God will I exalt my throne; and I will sit also upon the mount of the assembly, in the farthest end of the north; ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be equal to the Most High.” ¹⁵ But into the nether world shalt thou be brought down, into the lowest depth. ¹⁶ They that see thee will gaze at thee, will regard thee well, saying, “Is this the man that caused the earth to tremble, that made kingdoms quake?

⁸ At rest is the mirth of the tambourines; ceased hath the tumult of the joyful; at rest is the mirth of the harp.

²⁷ Why wilt thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the Lord, and my cause hath passed from the cognizance of my God?

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are borne by me from their birth, who are carried from the womb;

¹ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and pious men are taken away, without one considering that before the evil the righteous is taken away. ² He shall come to his fathers in peace: they shall repose in their resting-place, every one that walketh in his uprightness.

¹² And they that spring from thee shall build up the ancient ruins; the foundations of many generations shalt thou raise up again: and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breaches, The restorer of paths to the dwelling-place.

¹¹ We growl all of us like bears, and like doves do we moan sorely; we ever hope for justice, but there is none; for aid, but it is far from us.

¹² For thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will extend to her peace like a river, and like a rapid stream the glory of nations, that ye may suck: upon the arm shall ye be borne, and upon knees shall ye be dandled.

⁶ That they said not, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of wildness, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land through which no one had passed, and where no man had dwelt?

²⁸ For this shall mourn the earth, and black shall be the heavens above; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I will not repent, and I will not turn back from it.

³⁴ And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for a desert shall the land become.

¹⁵ We hoped for peace, but no happiness is here; for a time of cure, and behold here is terror.”

^{17 (9:16)} Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Consider it well, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the women skilled in lament, that they may come; ^{18 (9:17)} And let them make haste, and take up for us a lamentation, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids drop down water.

¹⁶ Give unto the Lord your God glory, before he cause darkness, and before your feet strike upon the mountains of twilight, and where, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and change it into gross darkness.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast born me, a man of contention and a man of strife to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me: yet every one of them curseth me.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day whereon I was born: the day on which my mother bore me shall not be blessed.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day whereon I was born: the day on which my mother bore me shall not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee. How very glad did he make him!

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee. How very glad did he make him! ¹⁶ And may that same man become like the cities which the Lord overthrew, and bethought himself not; and may he hear a cry of anguish in the morning, and a tumultuous noise at noontide; ¹⁷ Because I was not slain as I escaped from the womb; or that my mother might have become unto me my grave, and her womb have been affected with a perpetual pregnancy.

¹⁷ Because I was not slain as I escaped from the womb; or that my mother might have become unto me my grave, and her womb have been affected with a perpetual pregnancy. ¹⁸ Wherefore was this that I came forth out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should pass away in shame?

¹⁸ Wherefore was this that I came forth out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should pass away in shame?

⁷ He hath placed a fence round about me, that I cannot get out; he hath made heavy my chain. ⁸ Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, he shutteth out my prayer. ⁹ He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, my paths hath he made crooked.

⁴ And as for thy birth, on the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, nor wast thou washed in water to he cleansed; and thou wast not rubbed with salt, nor wrapt in swaddling clothes. ⁵ No eye looked with pity on thee, to do any of these things unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out on the open field, with a loathing of thy body, on the day that thou wast born.

²⁰ Then will I bring thee down with those that descend into the pit, unto the people of olden time, and I will cause thee to dwell in the land of the nether world, among ruins of ancient days, with those that go down to the pit, in order that thou mayest not be inhabited; but I will bestow glory in the land of life.

¹⁸ Damascus was thy trader in the multitude of thy productions, for the multitude of all wealth, with the wine of Chelbon, and white wool. ¹⁹ Dan also and Javan brought silken goods into thy warehouses: hardened iron, cassia, and calamus came among thy commerce. ²⁰ Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for riding on. ²¹ Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, these were the traders of thy place in lambs, and wethers, and he-goats: in these were they thy traders. ²² The merchants of Sheba and Ra’mah,—these were thy merchants: in the best of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold, they furnished thy supplies. ²³ Charan, and Canneh, and ‘Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad, were thy merchants. ²⁴ These were thy merchants in ornamental wares, in cloaks of blue, and broidered work, and in chests of damask cloth, bound with cords, and packed in cedar, in thy market-place. ²⁵ The ships of Tharshish were thy caravans in thy commerce: and thou wast made full, and becamest very rich in the heart of the seas. ²⁶ Into great waters brought thee those that were thy rowers: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas. ²⁷ Thy wealth, and thy warehouses, thy commerce, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy caulkers, and the conductors of thy commerce, and all thy men of war that were in thee, and in all thy assemblage which was in the midst of thee, fell into the heart of the seas on the day of thy downfall. ²⁸ At the sound of the painful cry of thy pilots quake thy rural districts. ²⁹ And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, come down from their ships, they stand upon the land; ³⁰ And cause their voice to be heard concerning thee, and cry bitterly, and cast up dust upon their heads, they wallow in the ashes; ³¹ And they make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they weep for thee with bitterness of heart in a bitter complaint. ³² And they take in their wailing a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, Who is like Tyre, who is so utterly destroyed in the midst of the sea?

³ For nigh is the day, yea nigh is the day of the Lord; a cloudy day; the time of the nations’ misfortune shall it be.

¹² As a shepherd searcheth for his flock on the day that he is among his flocks that are scattered: so will I search for my flocks; and I will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered on the day of clouds and tempestuous darkness.

^{6 (2:8)} Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will close it up with a fence, that she shall not find her paths.

¹⁴ Give them, O Lord, what thou wilt give! give them a miscarrying womb and dried-up breasts.

² It is a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and of tempestuous obscurity, like the morning-dawn spread out upon the mountains: a people numerous and strong, the like of which hath never been and after it there will be none any more, even to the years of all coming generations.

⁸ But he maketh the seven stars and Orion, and changeth into morning the shadow of death, and maketh the day dark into night; he it is that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name;

¹⁶ Therefore thus hath said the Eternal, the God of hosts, the Lord, On all public places there is lamentation, and in all the streets they cry, Woe! woe! and they call the husbandman to mourning, and to lamentation those skilled in wailing.

¹⁸ Woe unto you that long for the day of the Lord! for what do you wish the day of the Lord? it is one of darkness, and not of light.

¹⁰ And I will change your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentations; and I will bring upon all loins sackcloth, and upon every head baldness; and I will cause the land to mourn as one doth for an only son, and its end to be as a day of bitter complaint.

³ And now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my soul from me; because it is better for me to die, than to live.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God made ready a hot east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint; and he wished for himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; through the fire of whose zeal the whole land shall be devoured; for destruction, yea, quite sudden, will he prepare for all the inhabitants of the land.

³ And though Tyre have built herself a strong-hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets: