Proverbs 30 Cross References - Leeser

¹ The words of Agur the son of Yakeh, even the prophecy: the man said unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ukkal, ² “Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a common man. ³ Nor have I learned wisdom, so that I should have knowledge of the Holy One. ⁴ Who was it that ascended into heaven, and came down again? who gathered the wind in his fists? who bound the waters in a garment? who set up all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou knowest it?” ⁵ Every saying of God is purified: he is a shield unto those that put their trust in him. ⁶ Do not add aught unto his words: lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. ⁷ Two things do I request of thee: deny them not to me before I die. ⁸ Vanity and lying words do thou remove far from me: neither poverty nor riches give thou unto me; let me eat the bread appointed unto me: ⁹ Lest I become over-full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I become poor, and steal, and trespass against the name of my God. ¹⁰ Do not calumniate a servant unto his master: lest he curse thee, and thou incur guilt. ¹¹ There is a generation that curseth its father, and doth not bless its mother. ¹² There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed clean of its filthiness. ¹³ There is a generation—O how lofty are its eyes! and its eyelids are so lifted up. ¹⁴ There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and whose string teeth are as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. ¹⁵ Insatiability hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things which never say, Enough: ¹⁶ The nether world; and a barren womb; the earth which is not satisfied with water; and the fire which never saith, Enough. ¹⁷ The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, this shall the ravens of the valley pick out; and the young eagles shall eat it. ¹⁸ Three things there are which are too wonderful for me; and four, which I know not: ¹⁹ The way of the eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a young woman. ²⁰ Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wrong. ²¹ Under three things the earth trembleth, and under four which she cannot bear: ²² Under a servant when he becometh king, and a worthless fool when he hath eaten enough bread; ²³ Under an odious woman when she is married, and a bond-woman when she dispossesseth her mistress. ²⁴ There are four which are the little ones of the earth, and they are nevertheless exceedingly wise: ²⁵ The ants are a people not strong, therefore do they prepare in the summer their food; ²⁶ The conies are but a feeble people, therefore do they place on the rocks their houses; ²⁷ The locusts have no king, and yet they go forth in troops altogether; ²⁸ The spider thou canst catch with thy hands, and yet she is in the palaces of a king. ²⁹ Three there are that have a stately step, and four, that are stately in going: ³⁰ The lion, the mightiest among beasts, who turneth not round from before any one; ³¹ The light-legged greyhound, and the he-goat; and a king, against whom there is no rising up. ³² If thou hast become degraded by lifting up thyself, or if thou hast devised evil, put thy hand to thy mouth: ³³ For the pressure of milk bringeth forth butter, and the pressure of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the pressure of wrath bringeth forth strife.

¹ The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy with which his mother instructed him.

³ Who is he that dareth to conceal thy counsel without knowledge? Truly I have spoken of what I understood not, of things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. ⁴ Oh do but hear me, and I will indeed speak: I will ask of thee, and do thou inform me. ⁵ I had only heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye hath seen thee. ⁶ Therefore I reject what I have said, and repent; because I am dust and ashes.

^{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.

²² But I was indeed foolish, and I knew it not: I was as a thoughtless beast with thee.

^{6 (92:7)} A brutish man knoweth it not, and a fool cannot understand this.

¹² And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof;

⁵ And I said, Woe is me! for I am lost; because a man of unclean lips am I, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips do I dwell; for the King, the Lord of hosts have my eyes seen.

¹⁴ Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein.

⁷ Canst thou find out the experience of God? or canst thou find the way unto the utmost limit of the Almighty? ⁸ It is as high as heaven; what canst thou effect? it is deeper than the nether world; what canst thou know? ⁹ Longer than the earth is its measure, and broader than the sea.

¹⁰ The commencement of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; and the knowledge of the Most Holy One is understanding.

³ And one called unto the other, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.

¹⁰ Obdurate will remain the heart of this people, and their ears will be heavy, and their eyes will be shut: so that they will not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor their hearts be understanding, so that they be converted, and healing be granted them.

¹¹ Depart you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, remove from before us the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ For thus hath said the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, In the high and holy place do I dwell, yet also with the contrite and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

¹⁴ Then answered ‘Amos, and said to Amazyah, I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet’s son; but I am a herdman, and a gatherer of wild figs; ¹⁵ But the Lord hath taken me away from behind the flocks, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

²⁹ And Jacob asked him, and said, tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

¹³ And Moses said unto God, Behold, if I come unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they then say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? ¹⁴ And God said unto Moses, I will be that I will be: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I will be hath sent me unto you. ¹⁵ And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Everlasting One, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

³ And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God, the Almighty, but by my name The Eternal was I not made known to them.

⁵ And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed, by name, the Lord. ⁶ And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord is the immutable, eternal Being, the omnipotent God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in beneficence and truth; ⁷ Keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

⁵⁸ If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book; to fear this glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God:

¹² It is not in heaven; that thou shouldst say, Who will go up for us to heaven, and fetch it down unto us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it?

¹⁸ And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why is it that thou wilt ask after my name, seeing it is secret?

⁸ He bound up the waters in his clouds; and the cloud bursteth not under their weight;

⁴ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell it, if thou hast any understanding of it. ⁵ Who fixed her measurements, if thou knowest it? or who stretched the measuring-line over her? ⁶ Upon what are her foundation-pillars placed at rest? or who laid her corner-stone: ⁷ When altogether sang the morning stars in gladness, and shouted for joy all the sons of God? ⁸ And who closed up with doors the sea, when, issuing forth, it came out of the deep bosom of the earth? ⁹ When I made the clouds its garment, and thick fog its swaddling-cloth, ¹⁰ And when I decreed for it my law, and set for it bars and doors, ¹¹ And said, Thus far mayest thou come, but no farther; and here shall be stayed thy strength in the pride of thy waves? ¹² Didst thou ever, in all thy days, command the morning; didst thou ever assign the morning-dawn its place: ¹³ That it might lay hold of the ends of the earth, so that the wicked might be shaken out therefrom? ¹⁴ She is changed as the sealing-clay: and all things stand as though newly clad. ¹⁵ And from the wicked is their light withdrawn, and the high-raised arm is broken. ¹⁶ Didst thou ever penetrate as far as the springs of the sea? or wander through the bottom of the deep? ¹⁷ Were the gates of death ever laid open unto thee? or canst thou see the doors of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ Hast thou a clear understanding of the breadth of the earth? Tell it, if thou knowest it all. ¹⁹ Where is the way to the spot where the light dwelleth? and the darkness—where is its place, ²⁰ That thou mightest take each to its boundary, and that thou mightest mark the pathways to its house? ²¹ Thou surely knowest it; because thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great! ²² Didst thou ever enter into the treasuries of the snow? or canst thou see the treasuries of the hail, ²³ Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of fight and battle? ²⁴ Where is the way to the spot where the light divideth itself, where the east wind is scattered over the earth? ²⁵ Who hath divided off watercourses for the overflowing rain, and a way for the lightning that is followed by thunders, ²⁶ To bring rain on a land, void of men; on a wilderness wherein no son of earth is found; ²⁷ To satisfy waste and desolate lands; and to promote the growth of the tender grass? ²⁸ Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew? ²⁹ Out of whose womb cometh forth the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven—who giveth birth to it? ³⁰ When like a stone the waters are congealed, and the face of the deep is bound in fetters? ³¹ Canst thou bind together the chains of the Pleiades, or loosen the bands of Orion? ³² Canst thou bring forth the constellations of the zodiac, each in its season? or canst thou guide the Bear with its young? ³³ Knowest thou the laws of heaven? or dost thou appoint its rule on the earth? ³⁴ Canst thou lift up to the clouds thy voice, that the abundance of waters may cover thee? ³⁵ Canst thou send out lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here are we? ³⁶ Who hath put wisdom in the dark clouds? or who hath given understanding to the bright meteors? ³⁷ Who ordaineth the skies with wisdom? or who emptieth out the bottles of heaven. ³⁸ When the dust is poured out as molten metal, and the clods are made to cleave fast together? ³⁹ Dost thou hunt for the lioness her prey? and suppliest thou the food for the young lions, ⁴⁰ When they are couched in their lairs, rest in the thicket, lying in wait? ⁴¹ Who provideth for the raven his provision? when his young ones cry unto God, and wander about for lack of food?

⁷ I will announce the decree, the Lord hath said unto me, “My son art thou: I have indeed this day begotten thee.

^{27 (22:28)} All the ends of the world shall remember and return unto the Lord: and all the families of the nations shall bow themselves down before thee.

² For upon seas hath he founded it, and upon rivers hath he established it.

^{18 (68:19)} Thou didst ascend on high, lead away captives, receive gifts among men, yea, even the rebellious, to dwell among them. O Lord God.

² Thou art he who wrappeth himself in light as with a garment; who stretcheth out the heavens like a curtain; ³ Who frameth of the waters the beams of his upper-chambers; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh along upon the wings of the wind: ⁴ Who maketh the winds his messengers; the flaming fire his ministers; ⁵ Who hath founded the earth upon her bases, that she should not be moved to all eternity. ⁶ Thou hadst covered the deep as with a garment: above the mountains stood the waters. ⁷ At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hastened away. ⁸ They ascended mountains; they went down valleys, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. ⁹ Bounds hast thou set which they cannot pass over, that they return not again to cover the earth. ¹⁰ Thou art he who sendeth springs into the valleys, between mountains they run along. ¹¹ They give drink to all the beasts of the field: the wild asses quench thereon their thirst. ¹² By them have the fowls of the heaven ever their habitation, from between the branches they send forth their voice. ¹³ Who watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: from the fruit of thy works is the earth satisfied. ¹⁴ Thou art he who causeth grass to grow for the cattle, and herbs by the service of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earth; ¹⁵ And wine that maketh joyful the heart of man, and oil to brighten his face, and bread which strengtheneth the heart of man. ¹⁶ Full of sap are the trees of the Lord, the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted; ¹⁷ Where the birds make their nests: the stork—fir-trees are her house. ¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats: the rocks are a shelter for the conies. ¹⁹ He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. ²⁰ Thou causest darkness, and it becometh night, wherein creep forth all the beasts of the forest. ²¹ The young lions roar after their prey, and ask from God their food. ²² The sun ariseth, they withdraw to their lairs, and lie down in their dens. ²³ Man goeth then forth unto his work, and to his labor until the evening. ²⁴ How manifold are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. ²⁵ Here is this great and wide-extended sea; therein are moving things without number, living creatures both small and great. ²⁶ There the ships make their way: there also is the leviathan, whom thou hast made to sport therein. ²⁷ All of these wait upon thee, to give them their food in its due season. ²⁸ What thou givest them they gather: thou openest thy hand, they are satisfied with good. ²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they suddenly vanish: thou takest away their spirit, they perish, and to their dust they return. ³⁰ Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the earth. ³¹ The glory of the Lord will endure for ever; the Lord will rejoice in his works: ³² He who looketh down on the earth, and she trembleth; who toucheth the mountains, and they smoke. ³³ I will sing unto the Lord while I live: I will sing praises to my God while I exist. ³⁴ May my speech be agreeable to him: I will indeed rejoice in the Lord. ³⁵ May the sinners cease from off the earth, and the wicked be no more. Bless, O my soul, the Lord. Hallelujah.

¹⁴ Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: behold, this young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and she shall call his name ‘Immanu-el, God with us.

^{6 (9:5)} For a child is born unto us, a son hath been given unto us, and the government is placed on his shoulders; and his name is called, Wonderful, counsellor of the mighty God, of the everlasting Father, the prince of peace,

¹² Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and meted out the heavens with the span, and comprised in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed in the scale-beam the mountains, and the hills in balances? ¹³ Who hath meted out the Spirit of the Lord? and who was his counsellor that he could have given him information? ¹⁴ With whom took he counsel, that he gave him understanding, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and caused him to know the way of understanding? ¹⁵ Behold, nations are as a drop out of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance are they accounted: behold, isles are like the flying dust. ¹⁶ And Lebanon is not sufficient for burning, and its beasts do not suffice for burnt-offering. ¹⁷ All the nations are as naught before him; less than nothing, and vanity are they accounted to him. ¹⁸ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? ¹⁹ The graven image the artificer hath cast and the goldsmith hath overspread it with gold, and fabricated on it silver chains. ²⁰ He that is skilled in the choice chooseth a wood that will not rot; he seeketh unto himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. ²¹ Know ye not? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not paid attention to the foundations of the earth? ²² It is he that dwelleth above the circle of the earth, while its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretched out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; ²³ That bringeth princes to naught; rendering the judges of the earth as vanity. ²⁴ Yes, they were not yet planted; yea, they were not yet sown; yea, their stem had not yet taken root in the earth: when he but breathed upon them, and they withered, and the storm-wind carrieth them away as stubble. ²⁵ To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to? saith the Holy One. ²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these? he that bringeth out their host by number; that calleth them all by name; from the Mighty One not one escapeth. 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? ²⁸ Dost thou not know? hast thou not heard? The God of everlasting is the Lord, is the Creator of the ends of the earth; he will not be faint and weary; unsearchable is his understanding. ²⁹ He giveth to the faint strength; and to the powerless he imparteth much might. ³⁰ Though youths should grow faint and be weary, and young men should utterly stumble: ³¹ Yet they that wait upon the Lord shall acquire new strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk, and not become faint.

⁸ Through oppression and through judicial punishment was he taken away; but his generation—who could tell, that he was cut away out of the land of life, that for the transgressions of my people the plague was laid on him?

⁶ In his days shall Judah be helped, and Israel shall dwell in safety: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord is our righteousness.

¹ After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not Abram; I am thy shield, thy reward shall be exceedingly great.

^{3 (3:4)} But thou, O Lord, art a shield around me, my glory, and he that lifteth up my head.

^{6 (12:7)} The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver refined in the crucible of earth, purified seven times.

^{30 (18:31)} As for God,—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.

^{8 (19:9)} The precepts of the Lord are upright, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes.

^{11 (84:12)} For a sun and shield is the Lord God; grace and glory will the Lord give; he will not withhold any good from those that walk with integrity.

² I will say of the Lord, who is my refuge and my stronghold, my God, in whom I ever trust,

⁹ O Israel, trust thou in the Lord—he is their help and their shield. ¹⁰ O house of Aaron, trust ye in the Lord—he is their help and their shield. ¹¹ Ye that fear the Lord, trust ye in the Lord—he is their help and their shield.

¹⁴⁰ Thy promise is greatly refined, and thy servant loveth it.

² My kindness, and my strong-hold; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

² Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, nor shall ye diminish aught from it; that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

^{32 (13:1)} What thing soever I command you, even that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, and thou shalt not diminish therefrom.

⁷ Will ye speak wrong things for God? and will ye speak for him deceitfully? ⁸ Will ye show him undue favor, when ye contend for God? ⁹ Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one overreacheth another mortal, do ye expect to overreach him?

⁵ In Gib’on the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream of the night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. ⁶ And Solomon said, Thou hast shown unto thy servant David my father great kindness, just as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, and thou hast given him a son who sitteth on his throne, as it is this day. ⁷ And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king in the place of David my father: and I am but a young lad; I know not how to go out or come in. ⁸ And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot he numbered nor counted for multitude. ⁹ Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad; for who would otherwise be able to judge this thy great people?

⁹ And it came to pass, when they passed over, that Elijah said unto Elisha’, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I shall be taken away from thee. And Elisha’ said, Let there be, I pray thee, a double portion of thy spirit upon me.

^{2 (21:3)} The longing of his heart hast thou given him, and the request of his lips hast thou not withholden. Selah.

⁴ One thing have I asked of the Lord, that I will seek for: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the loveliness of the Lord, and to be every morning early in his temple.

²⁰ And Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me on this way which I am going, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who fed me from my first being unto this day, ¹⁶ The angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

¹⁵ And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna, for they knew not what it was; and Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

¹⁸ And when they measured it with an omer, he that had gathered much had nothing over, and he that had gathered little had no lack: every man according to his eating, had they gathered.

²¹ And so they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating; and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. ²² And it came to pass on the sixth day, that they gathered twofold bread, two omers for every one; all the rulers of the congregation came and told it to Moses.

²⁹ See, that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day bread for two days; remain ye, every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

³⁵ And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; the manna they did eat, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

³⁰ And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, the necessary ration for the day on its day, all the days of his life.

¹² From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth.

^{9 (62:10)} Verily nought are the sons of common men, a lie the sons of the great; they must rise in the balance; they are altogether lighter than nought. ^{10 (62:11)} Do not put your trust in defrauding, and be not rendered vain through robbery: if riches flourish, set not your heart upon them.

²⁹ The way of falsehood do thou remove from me, and grant me graciously thy law.

³⁷ Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity: on thy way do thou give me life.

⁶ The getting of treasures by a tongue of falsehood is like the fleeting breath of those that seek death.

⁸ He that soweth injustice will reap wrong-doing; and the rod of God’s wrath will not fail.

⁵ When thou lettest merely thy eyes fly over it, it is no more: for it will ever make itself wings: like an eagle will it fly toward heaven.

² Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth, vanity of vanities: all is vanity.

¹⁸ Woe unto those that draw iniquity with the cords of falsehood, and as with a wagon-rope, sinfulness;

⁴ No one admonisheth with righteousness, and no one executeth justice in truth; men trust in naught, and speak lies; they have conceived mischief, and bring forth wickedness.

²¹ Then commanded king Zedekiah that they should put Jeremiah in ward in the court of the prison, and that they should give him a loaf of bread for every day out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread was spent out of the city. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

³⁴ And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, the necessary ration for the day on its day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

² And Pharaoh said, Who is the Everlasting, whose voice I am to obey, to let Israel go? I know not the Everlasting, nor will I let Israel go.

⁷ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

¹ And if any person sin, because he heareth the voice of adjuration, and he is a witness, since he hath either seen or knoweth something; if he do not tell it, and thus bear his iniquity;

¹⁰ And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land which he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto thee, great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, ¹¹ And houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and wells hewed out which thou didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant; and thou hast eaten and art satisfied: ¹² Then beware that thou do not forget the Lord, who hath brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

¹⁰ And when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, then shalt thou bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. ¹¹ Take heed unto thyself that thou forget not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day; ¹² That when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; ¹³ And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold are multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied: ¹⁴ Thy heart be then not lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, who hath brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery;

²⁰ For when I shall have brought them into the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat: then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

¹⁵ Thus did Yeshurun grow fat, and he kicked; thou art grown fat, thick, fleshy;and then he forsook the God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

²⁷ And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be among us as a witness; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore as a witness against you, that ye may not deny your God.

¹⁵ And now let not Hezekiah deceive you, and let him not mislead you in this manner, nor believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom whatever was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less will you Gods, deliver you out of my hand! ¹⁶ And yet more did his servants speak against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷ He wrote also letters to blaspheme against the Lord the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands, who have not delivered their people out of my hand, so will the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.

²⁵ And they captured fortified cities, and a fat soil; and they took possession of houses full of all good things, hewn-out wells, vineyards, and olive-yards, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate, and were satisfied, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. ²⁶ Then became they disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and they slew thy prophets who had warned them to bring them back unto thee, and they practised great provocations.

²⁴ If I have made gold my confidence, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my trust: ²⁵ If ever I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ If ever I looked at the light of the sun when he shone brightly and on the moon walking in splendor: ²⁷ And my heart became misled in secret, and my hand kissed my mouth: ²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for thus would I have denied the God that is above.

³ For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous: in order that the righteous may not stretch forth their hands unto wrong-doing.

³⁰ Men do not despise the thief, if he steal, to gratify his craving when he is hungry: ³¹ And if he be found, he must pay sevenfold; all the wealth his house must he give.

²⁴ Whoso divideth with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration and dareth not to tell.

³¹ O present generation, regard ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of deep darkness? wherefore say my people, We wander about; we cannot come any more unto thee?

¹⁴ And thy fame went forth among the nations because of thy beauty; for it was perfect through my glorious ornament, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord Eternal. ¹⁵ But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and play the harlot because of thy fame, and lavish thy lewd caresses on every one that passed by—on him they were bestowed.

⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: Pride, abundance of food, and prosperous security were hers and her daughters’; but the hand of the poor and needy did she not strengthen. ⁵⁰ And they became haughty, and committed abominations before me: therefore did I remove them when I saw their course.

^{17 (4:14)} Through the resolve of the watchers is this decree, and by the order of the holy ones is this decision: to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he can give it to whomsoever he pleaseth, and can set up over it the lowest of men.

^{30 (4:27)} The king commenced, and said, Is not this Babylon the great, that I myself have built for a royal residence by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

⁶ When they came to their pasture, they became sated; they were sated, and their heart was lifted up: therefore have they forgotten me.

⁹ Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thy eye be thus evil against thy needy brother, so that thou wouldst give him nought; and if he cry concerning thee unto the Lord, it will be sin in thee:

^{15 (23:16)} Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant who may escape unto thee from his master;

⁹ Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Achimelech the son of Achitub. ¹⁰ And he asked counsel for him of the Lord, and he gave him provision, and gave him also the sword of Goliath the philistine.

⁹ And David said to Saul, Wherefore wilt thou listen to men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy injury?

¹⁹ And now, I pray thee, let my Lord the king hear the words of his servant! If the Lord have stirred thee up against me, then may he accept the savor of an offering; but if they be the children of men, then be they cursed before the Lord; because they have driven me out this day so that I cannot attach myself on the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods.

¹⁵ And David said to him, Wilt thou bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, and that thou wilt not surrender me into the hand of my master, and then will I bring thee down to this troop.

¹ And when David was passed a little beyond the top of the mount, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth came toward him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and a hundred cakes of dried figs, and a bottle of wine. ² And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou with these? And Ziba said, The asses are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and the dried figs for the young men to eat; and the wine to drink for such as may be faint in the wilderness. ³ And the king said, And where is thy master’s son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he remaineth at Jerusalem; for he said, Today will the house of Israel restore unto me the kingdom of my father. ⁴ Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine shall be all that pertaineth unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I prostrate myself; let me but find grace in thy eyes, my Lord, O king.

^{26 (19:27)} And he answered, My Lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for thy servant said, I will saddle for me the ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame. ^{27 (19:28)} And he slandered thy servant unto my Lord the king; but my Lord the king is like an angel of God: do then what is good in thy eyes.

²² And king Joash did not remember the kindness which Yehoyada’ his father had shown to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord will see this, and require my blood. ²³ And it came to pass at the expiration of the year, that the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and all their spoil they sent off unto the king of Damascus. ²⁴ Indeed with a small company of men did the army of Syria come; but the Lord delivered into their hand an army exceedingly numerous; because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers. And on Joash they executed punishment.

²⁶ Him that withholdeth corn, the people will denounce; but blessing will be heaped upon the head of the one that selleth it.

²³ These things also are for the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good. ²⁴ Him that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, will the people denounce, him will nations hold accursed;

²⁷ He that giveth unto the poor will not have any want; but he that hideth his eyes will have an abundance of curses.

²¹ Also take no heed unto all the words that are spoken: lest thou hear thy servant cursing thee.

⁸ Therefore at the same time certain Chaldean men came near, and accused the Jews treacherously. ⁹ They commenced and said to king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. ¹⁰ Thou, O king, hadst made a decree, that every man that should hear the sound of the cornet, flute, guitar, harp, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, should fall down and bow himself to the golden image; ¹¹ And that whoso should not fall down and bow himself should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. ¹² There are certain Jewish men whom thou hast appointed over the public service of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego: these men, O king, have not paid any regard to thee; thy god they do not worship, and to the golden image which thou hast set up they do not bow themselves. ¹³ Then ordered Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego. Then were these men brought before the king. ¹⁴ Nebuchadnezzar commenced and said unto them, Is it out of disrespect, O Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego? My god ye do not worship, and to the golden image which I have set up ye do not bow yourselves? ¹⁵ Now then if ye be ready at the time when ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, guitar, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, to fall down and bow yourselves to the image which I have made, well; but if ye bow yourselves not, ye shall be cast in the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace: and who is the God that can deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁶ Then answered Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee a word in this matter. ¹⁷ Behold, there is our God whom we worship, he is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace: and out of thy hand, O king, will he deliver us. ¹⁸ But if not, then be it known unto thee, O king, that thy god will we not worship, and to the golden image which; thou hast set up will we not bow ourselves.

^{13 (6:14)} Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the exiles of Judah, hath paid no regard to thee, O king, nor to the prohibition which thou hast signed; but three times every day he offereth up his prayer.

^{24 (6:25)} And the king gave the order, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel treacherously, and they cast into the den of lions them, their children, and their wives; and they had not yet touched the bottom of the den when the lions had the mastery over them, and ground up all their bones.

¹⁷ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

⁹ For every one whatever that curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death: his father or his mother hath he cursed, his blood shall be upon him.

²⁰ And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. ²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; and thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and be afraid.

¹⁶ Cursed be he that holdeth in light esteem his father or his mother; and all the people shall say, Amen.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father or his mother—his lamp shall be quenched in obscure darkness.

¹² There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed clean of its filthiness. ¹³ There is a generation—O how lofty are its eyes! and its eyelids are so lifted up. ¹⁴ There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and whose string teeth are as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

¹⁷ The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, this shall the ravens of the valley pick out; and the young eagles shall eat it.

⁵ And the man Micah had a house of god, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

¹³ Then said Micah, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have obtained a Levite for priest.

¹³ And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou unto the Lord, I have performed the word of the Lord. ¹⁴ And Samuel said, What is then this bleating of the flocks in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

⁹ “I am pure without transgression, I am quite clean; and there is no iniquity in me:

^{2 (36:3)} For he flattereth himself in his own eyes too much to find out his iniquity to hate it.

^{2 (51:4)} Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

^{7 (51:9)} Cleanse me from sin with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

² Every one of the ways of a man is pure in his own eyes; but the Lord measureth the spirits.

² Every way of a man is straight in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the hearts.

¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

⁵ That say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the time.

²² For though thou wash thyself with natron, and take for thyself much soap: yet would the stain of thy iniquity remain before me, saith the Lord Eternal. ²³ How canst thou say, I am not become unclean, after the Be’alim have I not gone? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: like a swift dromedary bound fast to her ways; ²⁴ Like a wild ass used to the wilderness, that at her pleasure snuffeth up the wind; her lust—who can turn this away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month will they find her.

³⁵ Yet thou sayest, Yea, I am innocent, surely his anger is already turned away from me. Behold, I will hold judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

¹⁴ Wash from wrong doing thy heart, O Jerusalem, in order that thou mayest be saved. How long wilt thou let lodge within thee the thoughts of thy wickedness?

²⁵ And I will sprinkle upon you clean water, and ye shall be clean: from all your impurities, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

¹ On that day shall there be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for cleansing from sin and for purification.

⁵ Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbor, him will I destroy: whoso hath proud eyes and a haughty heart, him will I not suffer.

¹ A song of the degrees by David. O Lord, my heart was not haughty, nor were my eyes lofty: neither have I walked after matters too great, or those too wonderful for me.

¹⁷ Haughty eyes, a tongue of falsehood, and hands that shed innocent blood,

⁴ Haughtiness of the eyes, and an immoderate heart, are the sinful field of the wicked.

¹¹ The looks of human pride shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bent down: and exalted shall be the Lord alone on that day.

¹⁶ And the Lord said, Forasmuch as the daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with stretched forth necks and casting about their eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

² Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Whereas thy heart was lifted up, and thou saidst, A god am I, on the seat of the gods do I dwell, in the heart of the seas; yet thou art but a man, and not God, while thou esteemest thy mind equal to the mind of God; ³ Behold, thou wast wiser than Daniel; no secret was obscure to thee; ⁴ With thy wisdom and with thy understanding hadst thou gotten thee riches, and hadst gotten gold and silver into thy treasuries; ⁵ By the abundance of thy wisdom in thy traffic hadst thou increased thy riches; and thy heart was lifted up because of thy riches:

⁹ Wilt thou then say, I am God, before him that slayeth thee? when thou art but a man, and no God, in the hand of him that fatally wounded thee.

³⁶ And the king will do according to his pleasure; and he will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and against the God of gods will he speak incredible things, and he will prosper till the indignation be at an end; for that which is determined will be accomplished. ³⁷ And to the gods of his fathers will he pay no regard; and to the desire of women, or to any god whatever will he not pay any regard; for above all will he magnify himself.

⁴ Behold, disturbed, not at rest is the soul of the wicked in him; but the righteous ever liveth in his trustful faith.

¹⁷ And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.

^{7 (3:8)} Arise, O Lord, help me, O my God; for thou smitest all my enemies upon the cheek bone: the teeth of the wicked dost thou break.

⁸ He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes search for the unfortunate. ⁹ He lieth in wait in a secret place like a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to snatch up the poor: he snatcheth up the poor, as they draweth him into his net.

^{5 (12:6)} Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord: I will grant safety to him for whom the other layeth a snare.

⁴ Is there no knowledge in all the workers of wickedness? who eat up my people as they eat bread; while they do not call on the Lord.

^{2 (52:4)} Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs, like a sharpened razor, thou worker of deceit.

^{4 (57:5)} My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down in the midst of those that send out flames, those sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharpened sword.

^{6 (58:7)} O God, break out their teeth in their mouth: the jaw-teeth of the young lions tear thou out, O Lord.

¹⁸ There is some one that useth words which are like the thrusts of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is healing.

¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, must at length give to the rich, and come only to want.

³ A poor man that oppresseth the indigent is like a sweeping rain which bringeth no bread.

¹ And I turned about, and beheld all the oppressed that are made so under the sun: and, behold, there are the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and from the hand of their oppressors they suffer violence; and they have no comforter.

⁷ The instruments also of the avaricious man are evil: he deviseth wicked resolves to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy speaketh what is right.

⁵ And behold there was another, a second beast, like a bear, and on one side was it placed, with three ribs in its mouth between its teeth: and thus they said unto it, Arise, eat much flesh. ⁶ After this I looked, and lo there was another, like a leopard; and it had four wings of a bird on its back: the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given unto it. ⁷ After this I looked in the night visions, and behold there was a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and ground up, and what was left it stamped with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

⁷ That are eager after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same young woman, in order to profane my holy name.

¹ Hear this word, O ye cows of Bashan, that are on the mount of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

⁴ Hear this, O ye that are greedy to swallow the needy, and to ruin the poor of the land,

¹ Woe to those that devise wickedness, and resolve on evil upon their couches! by the first light of the morning they execute it, if they have it in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and rob them; and houses, and take them away: so they defraud the master and his house, and the man and his heritage.

¹ And I said, Hear, I pray you, O ye heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know what is justice? ² But they are those who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and who crush their bones, and chop them in pieces, as that to be put in a pot, and as flesh within a caldron. ⁴ Then will they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have committed their evil deeds. ⁵ Thus hath said the Lord concerning the prophets that mislead my people, who, when they have something to bite with their teeth, cry, Peace; but who prepare war against him who putteth nothing in their mouth:

¹⁴ Thou didst strike through with his own spears the chiefs of his villages, who rushed out furiously to scatter me; who rejoiced greatly as though they were to devour the poor in secret.

³ Her princes in her midst are roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they leave not a bone for the morning.

¹⁶ Six things there are which the Lord hateth; and seven are an abomination unto his spirit:

²¹ Under three things the earth trembleth, and under four which she cannot bear:

²⁴ There are four which are the little ones of the earth, and they are nevertheless exceedingly wise:

²⁹ Three there are that have a stately step, and four, that are stately in going:

¹¹ But the dogs are of a greedy disposition, they know not how to be satisfied; and those are shepherds that know how to understand: they all turn to their own way, every one after his gain, from all quarters. ¹² Come ye, I will fetch wine, and let us swallow abundantly of strong drink; and like this day shall it be tomorrow, excellent and in very great abundance.

³ But ye draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

⁴⁴ Behold, every one that speaketh in proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As the mother is, so is her daughter. ⁴⁵ Thou art thy mother’s daughter, loathing her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who have loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Emorite. ⁴⁶ And thy elder sister is Samaria, she with her daughters, that dwelleth at thy left hand, and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom with her daughters.

¹⁸ Their drinking bout will come to an end: while they are so often guilty of lewdness, their rulers love, prepare themselves but shame.

³ Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they have threshed the inhabitants of Gil’ad with threshing instruments of iron;

⁶ Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Gazzah, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they carried away exiles in full numbers, to deliver them up to Edom;

⁹ Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they delivered up the exiles in full numbers to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant;

¹¹ Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because he pursued with the sword his brother, and disregarded his mercy, and his anger tore in pieces continually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

¹³ Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of the children of ‘Ammon, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they have ripped up the pregnant women of Gil’ad, in order to enlarge their own territory;

¹ Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because he burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

⁴ Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and did not keep his statutes, and their lying idols caused them to err, after which their fathers had walked;

³ For the evil of your hands you expect good? while the prince demandeth bribes, and the judge acteth for pay; and the great man is only speaking the wilful pleasure of his soul: and so do they make a network of wrong.

¹ And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children, and if not, I die.

²⁰ The nether world and the place of corruption are never satisfied: so are the eyes of man never satisfied.

⁵ And though the wine-drunken traitor, the proud man, whose house will not stand, who enlargeth his desire as the grave, and is like death, which cannot be satisfied,—though he gather unto him all the nations, and assemble unto him all the people:

²¹ And he drank of the wine, and became drunken; and he uncovered himself within his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told it his two brothers without. ²³ And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon the shoulders of both of them, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. ²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and discovered what his younger son had done unto him. ²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. ²⁶ And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant unto them. ²⁷ May God enlarge the boundaries of Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant unto them.

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not to the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and they chastise him, and he will not hearken unto them: ¹⁹ Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

²⁶ And thy carcass shall become food unto all the fowls of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth, but with no one to scare them away.

⁴⁴ And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the heavens, and to the beasts of the field.

⁹ And Abshalom happened to come before the servants of David. And Abshalom was riding upon a mule, and the mule came under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was left hanging between the heaven and the earth: and the mule that was under him passed on. ¹⁰ And a certain man saw, and told it to Joab, and said, Behold, I have seen Abshalom hanging on an oak.

¹⁴ Then said Joab, I will not wait thus before thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Abshalom, who was yet alive in the midst of the oak. ¹⁵ And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, encompassed and smote Abshalom, and slew him. ¹⁶ And Joab blew the cornet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab restrained the people. ¹⁷ And they took Abshalom, and cast him down in the forest, into the large pit, and erected upon him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled, every one, to his tents.

¹⁰ And Rizpah the daughter of Ayah took sackcloth, and spread out it for herself upon the rock, from the beginning of the harvest until water dropped down upon them out of heaven, and she suffered neither the birds of heaven to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

²² Hearken unto thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother although she be old.

¹¹ There is a generation that curseth its father, and doth not bless its mother.

³ Who is he that dareth to conceal thy counsel without knowledge? Truly I have spoken of what I understood not, of things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

⁶ Too wonderful is such knowledge for me: it is too exalted, I cannot attain unto it.

^{16 (22:15)} And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

²⁷ Or is it by your order that the eagle doth mount upward, and buildeth high up his nest?

³¹ Yet they that wait upon the Lord shall acquire new strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk, and not become faint.

¹¹ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, ¹² Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If the wife of any man go aside, and commit a trespass against him, ¹³ And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hidden from the eyes of her husband, because she hath been secretly defiled; and there be no witness against her, and she have not been detected and in the fact; ¹⁴ And the spirit of jealousy come over him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have been defiled; or the spirit of jealousy come over him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have not been defiled: ¹⁵ Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal; he shall not pour any oil upon it, nor put any frankincense thereupon; for it is a meat-offering of jealousy, a meat-offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. ¹⁶ And the priest shall bring her near, and place her before the Lord; ¹⁷ And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water; ¹⁸ And the priest shall place the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put upon her hands the meat-offering of memorial, it is the meat-offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter waters that bring the curse. ¹⁹ And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and he shall say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness behind thy husband: then be thou free from these bitter waters that bring the curse. ²⁰ But if thou hast gone aside behind thy husband, and if thou hast been defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:— ²¹ And the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of imprecation, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord then make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth cause thy thigh to fall away, and thy belly to swell; ²² And these waters that bring the curse shall go into thy bowels, to cause the belly to swell, and the thigh to fall away; and the woman shall say, Amen, amen. ²³ And the priest shall write these curses on a roll, and he shall blot them out with the bitter waters. ²⁴ And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter waters that bring the curse: and the waters that bring the curse shall enter into her for bitterness. ²⁵ And the priest shall take out of the woman’s hand the meat-offering of jealousy, and he shall wave the meat-offering before the Lord, and bring it near to the altar: ²⁶ And the priest shall take a handful from the meat-offering, as its memorial, and burn it upon the altar, and after that shall he cause the woman to drink the water. ²⁷ And when he hath made her drink the water, then shall it come to pass, if she have been defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the waters that bring the curse shall enter into her, for bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away; and the woman shall become a curse among her people. ²⁸ And if the woman have not been defiled, but be clean: then shall she remain unharmed, and she shall conceive seed. ²⁹ This is the law of jealousies, when a woman goeth aside behind her husband, and hath been defiled; ³⁰ Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh over him, and he be jealous of his wife; and he shall place the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall do unto her altogether according to this law.

⁶ So that she cannot balance the path of life; her tracks are unsteady, and she knoweth it not.

¹³ And she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said to him, ¹⁴ “I had bound myself to bring peace-offerings; this day have I paid my vows: ¹⁵ Therefore am I come forth to meet thee, to seek thy presence diligently, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ With tapestry coverings have I decked my bed, with embroidered coverlids of the fine linen of Egypt. ¹⁷ I have sprinkled my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us indulge in love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with dalliances. ¹⁹ For the man is not in his house, he is gone on a journey a great way off: ²⁰ The bag of money hath he taken with him, by the day of the new-moon festival only will he come home.” ²¹ She seduced him by the abundance of her reasoning: by the flattery of her lips she misguided him. ²² He followed after her suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as in fetters to his correction, the fool: ²³ Till an arrow cleaveth through his liver; as a bird hasteneth into the snare, and knoweth not that it is done to take his life.

³ Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigayil: and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful form; but the man was hard-hearted and evil in his deeds; and he was of the house of Caleb.

¹⁰ And Nabal answered the servants of David, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? now-a-days there are many servants that break away every one from his master. ¹¹ Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my sheep-shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they are?

²⁵ Let not my Lord, I pray thee, turn his heart unto this worthless man, unto Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and meanness is with him; but I thy hand-maid did not see the young men of my Lord, whom thou didst send.

³⁶ And Abigayil came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, and he was exceedingly drunken; wherefore she told him not a word, either little or great, until the morning-light. ³⁷ But it happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. ³⁸ And it came to pass in about ten days thereafter, that the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

¹⁶ And he brought him down; and behold, they were scattered over the face of all the country, eating and drinking, and dancing for joy, because of all the great spoil which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

¹⁰ Delicacy is not seemly for a fool: much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

⁷ I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants upon the ground.—

⁴ And I will set up boys as their princes, and children shall rule over them. ⁵ And so shall the people press man against man, and one against the other: the boy shall demean himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.

¹³ A calamity unto his father is a foolish son; and a continual dropping are the quarrels of a wife.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner of a roof, than with a quarrelsome woman in a roomy house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a quarrelsome and vexatious woman.

¹⁵ A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

²¹ If one rear his servant delicately from his youth, then will he at length become as his son.

⁷ Yet, do only ask of the beasts, and they will instruct thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they will tell it thee;

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; look on her ways, and become wise. ⁷ She, that hath no prince, officer, or ruler, ⁸ Provideth in the summer her provision, gathereth in harvest-time her food.

⁵ And the cony; because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats: the rocks are a shelter for the conies.

⁴ For, if thou refusest to let my people go, behold, I will bring tomorrow locusts into thy boundary. ⁵ And they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one shall not be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which escaped, which hath been left unto you from the hail, and they shall eat off every tree which groweth for you out of the field: ⁶ And thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians shall be full of them; such as neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day of their being upon the earth, until this day; and he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

¹³ And Moses stretched forth his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord urged an east wind over the land all that day, and all the night; when it was morning, the east wind bore along the locusts. ¹⁴ And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the boundaries of Egypt; in very large masses; before them there were no such locusts as they, and after them there will not be any such. ¹⁵ And they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the earth was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there was not left any green thing on the trees, or on the herbs of the field, throughout all the land of Egypt.

³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came, and crickets, and that without number;

⁴ What the caterpillar left hath the locust eaten; and what the locust left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm left hath the cricket eaten.

⁶ For a nation is come up over my land, strong, and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it hath the cutting-teeth of the lioness. ⁷ It hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: it hath peeled it clean bare, and cast it down; made white are its light branches.

⁷ Like mighty men do they run; like men of war they climb up a wall; and they march every one on his own ways, and they turn not aside on their paths. ⁸ And they do not press one another; every one on his beaten track do they go forward: and they pass through between war-like weapons, and change not their purpose. ⁹ Into the city they hasten forward; on the wall they run; into the houses they climb up; through the windows they make their entrance like a thief. ¹⁰ Before them trembleth the earth; the heavens quake; the sun and the moon are obscured, and the stars withdraw their brightness. ¹¹ And the Lord uttereth his voice before his army; for very numerous is his camp; for strong is he that executeth his word; for great is the day of the Lord and very terrible; and who is able to endure it?

²⁵ And I will repay to you the years in which the locust hath eaten all, with the cankerworm, and the cricket, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I had sent against you.

²⁴ Behold, it is a people, that shall rise up as a lioness, and as a lion shall it raise itself: it will not lie down until it have eaten the prey, and have drunk the blood of the slain.

¹⁸ Then said unto him the men of the city on the seventh day before the sun was yet gone down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

¹⁴ The fury of a king is like the messengers of death; but a wise man will appease it.

² Like the roaring of a young lion is the dread of a king: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

⁵ Turn yourselves unto me, and be astounded, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

⁴ Behold, I am too vile: what shall I answer thee? my hand do I place on my mouth.

²⁸ Even a fool, when he keepeth silence, is counted wise: he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

¹² When thou seest a man wise in his own eyes, then is there more hope for a fool than for him.

³ Be not hasty to go out of his presence; engage not in an evil thing; for whatsoever pleaseth him, can he do; ⁴ Because the word of a king is powerful; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?—

¹⁶ Nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened. ¹⁷ They shall lick the dust like the serpent; like those that crawl on the earth, shall they come forth trembling out of their close places: unto the Lord our God shall they hasten in dread, and shall be afraid of thee.

¹⁸ A man of fury stirreth up strife; but he that is slow to anger assuageth contention.

²⁸ A perverse man scattereth strife; and a whisperer separateth confident friends.

¹⁴ As one letteth loose a stream of water, so is the beginning of strife: therefore before it be enkindled, leave off the contest.

²¹ As charcoals are added to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man fitted to enkindle a dispute.

²⁵ He that hath an insatiable desire stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord will be abundantly gratified.

²² A man of anger stirreth up strife; and a man of fury aboundeth in transgression.