Proverbs 31 Cross References - Leeser

¹ The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy with which his mother instructed him. ² What hast thou done, O my son: and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my vows? ³ Give not unto women thy vigor, nor thy ways to those that ruin kings. ⁴ Not for kings, O Lemoel, not for kings it is fitting to drink wine, nor for princes, strong drink: ⁵ Lest either might drink, and forget what is written in the law, and pervert the cause of all the afflicted. ⁶ Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those who have an embittered soul. ⁷ Let such a one drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his trouble no more. ⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all fatherless children. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and decide the cause of the poor and needy. ¹⁰ Who can find a virtuous woman: for far above pearls is her value. ¹¹ The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, and he will not see his gain diminish. ¹² She treateth him well and not ill, all the days of her life. ¹³ She seeketh for wool and flax, and worketh with her willing hands. ¹⁴ She is become like the merchant’s ships: from afar doth she bring her food. ¹⁵ And she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth provision to her household, and a task to her maidens. ¹⁶ She thinketh of a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. ¹⁷ She girdeth with strength her loins, and giveth vigor to her arms. ¹⁸ She perceiveth that her profit is good: therefore her lamp goeth not out by night. ¹⁹ She stretcheth out her hands to the spindle, and her palms hold fast the distaff. ²⁰ She spreadeth out wide her open palm to the poor: yea, her hands she stretcheth forth to the needy. ²¹ She hath no fear for her household of the snow: for all her household are clothed in scarlet. ²² Tapestry-covering she maketh for herself: of linen and purple is her attire. ²³ Well known is in the gates her husband, when he sitteth with the elders of the land. ²⁴ Fine tunics she maketh, and selleth them, and girdles she furnisheth unto the merchant. ²⁵ Strength and dignity are her clothing: and she smileth at the coming of the last day. ²⁶ She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and the law of kindness is on her tongue. ²⁷ She looketh well to the ways of her household, and the bread of idleness she doth not eat. ²⁸ Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband, also, and he praiseth her: ²⁹ “Many daughters have done virtuously; but thou excellest them all.” ³⁰ False is grace, and vain is beauty: a woman only that feareth the Lord shall indeed be praised. ³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.

⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and cast not off the teaching of thy mother;

²⁰ Keep, O my son, the commandment of thy father, and reject not the teaching of thy mother:

¹ The words of Agur the son of Yakeh, even the prophecy: the man said unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ukkal,

¹¹ And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but wilt give unto thy handmaid a man-child: then will I give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.

²⁸ Therefore also have I lent him, for my part, to the Lord; all the days that have been assigned to him shall he be lent to the Lord. And he bowed himself there before the Lord.

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, not to have mercy on the son of her body? yea, should these even forget, yet would I not forget thee.

¹⁷ Neither shall he take to himself many wives, that his heart may not turn away; nor shall he acquire for himself too much silver and gold.

¹ But king Solomon loved many strange women, beside the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, ‘Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.

²⁶ Did not Solomon the king of Israel sin by these things? and although among the many nations there was never a king like him, and beloved as he was by his God, and God had placed him as king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did the alien women mislead to sin.

⁹ That thou mayest not give up unto others thy vigor, and thy years unto the cruel; ¹⁰ That strangers may not satisfy themselves with thy strength, and with thy exertions, in the house of an alien: ¹¹ While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end,

²⁶ For many deadly wounded hath she caused to fall: yea, very numerous are all those slain by her. ²⁷ The ways to the nether world is her house leading down to the chambers of death.

¹¹ Lewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart.

⁹ Wine or strong drink shalt thou not drink, neither thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations. ¹⁰ So that ye may be able to distinguish between the holy and the unholy, and between the unclean and the clean;

¹² And it came to pass, when he heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Get ready for the attack. And they got ready for the attack against the city.

¹⁶ And they went out at midday; while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. ¹⁷ And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out at first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, Some men are come out of Samaria. ¹⁸ And he said, If they be come out for peace, catch them alive; and if they be come out for war, alive must ye catch them. ¹⁹ So these, the young men of the princes of the provinces, came out of the city, with the army which followed them. ²⁰ And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen.

¹⁵ The runners went out with all speed with the king’s decree, and the law was given out in Shushan the capital: and the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is noisy; and whosoever indulgeth therein will never be wise.

¹⁷ Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is noble-spirited, and thy princes eat in proper time, for strengthening, and not for gluttony!—

²² Woe unto those that are heroes to drink wine, and men of might to mingle strong drink;

⁷ But these also are now stumbling through wine, and reeling through strong drink: priest and prophet are stumbling through strong drink, they are overpowered with wine, they reel through strong drink; they stumble in divine vision, they are unsteady in giving judgment. ⁸ For all tables are full of vomit of filthiness, there is no place clean.

² Belshazzar ordered, through the counsel of the wine, to bring in the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken away out of the temple which was in Jerusalem: that the king, and his lords, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therefrom. ³ Then they brought in the golden vessels that were taken away out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his lords, his wives, and his concubines, drank from them. ⁴ They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of copper, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

¹¹ Lewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart. ¹² My people ask counsel of their stick of wood, and their staff shall tell them the future: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they are gone astray unfaithful to their God.

³ With their wickedness they make the king glad, and with their lies the princes. ⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven well heated by the baker: when he that stirreth the fire resteth awhile from kneading the dough, until it be leavened. ⁵ On the day of our king’s entering on his rule the princes are made sick with the fumes of wine: the king joineth his hand with scorners.

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:

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

⁶ And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was imbittered, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David fortified himself in the Lord his God.

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.

²⁰ Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?

¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and the heart of the widow I caused to sing for joy.

¹⁵ And wine that maketh joyful the heart of man, and oil to brighten his face, and bread which strengtheneth the heart of man.

⁴ And Jonathan spoke favorably of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; since he hath not sinned against thee, and because his deeds are very good for thee; ⁵ And he did put his life in his hand, and he slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel; thou sawest it, and wast rejoiced: wherefore then wilt thou commit sin on innocent blood, by slaying David without a cause? ⁶ And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As the Lord liveth, he shall not be put to death. ⁷ And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.

³² And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be put to death? what hath he done?

¹⁴ Then answered Achimelech the king, and said, And who is among all thy servants so trusted as David, and the king’s son-in-law, and freely admitted to thy private council, and is honored in thy house? ¹⁵ Did I this day then begin to ask counsel for him of God? far be it from me; let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knew not of all this, either a little or great thing.

¹³ Then said Mordecai to bring this answer back to Esther, Imagine not in thy soul to be able to escape in the king’s house out of all the Jews. ¹⁴ For if thou do indeed maintain silence at this time, enlargement and deliverance will arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house will perish: and who knoweth whether thou hast not for a time like this attained to the royal dignity? ¹⁵ Then said Esther to bring this answer back to Mordecai, ¹⁶ Go, assemble together all the Jews who are now present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, so that ye neither eat nor drink three days, either night or day; also I myself with my maidens will fast in like manner; and then will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I then perish, I perish.

⁹ Princes stopped in the midst of their words, and laid their hand on their mouth:

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and the heart of the widow I caused to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me. ¹⁵ Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I. ¹⁶ A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate. ¹⁷ And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.

¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: according to the greatness of thy almighty power preserve thou those that are doomed to death;

³ Judge uprightly the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and indigent. ⁴ Release the poor and needy: deliver them out of the power of the wicked.

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool: in the gate can he not open his mouth.

¹¹ Deliver those that are taken unto death, and those that are moved away to the slaughter hold back. ¹² If thou shouldst say, Behold, we know not this man: lo, he that weigheth hearts will truly regard it, and he that keepeth thy soul will surely know it; and he will give a recompense to man according to his doing.

¹⁶ Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets, This man is not deserving the punishment of death; for in the name of the Lord our God hath he spoken unto us. ¹⁷ And then rose up certain men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the people, as followeth, ¹⁸ Michah the Morashthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah the king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah, as followeth, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be ploughed up like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house, woody high-places. ¹⁹ Did Hezekiah the king of Judah and all Judah attempt to put him to death? behold, he did fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord bethought him of the evil which he had spoken against them. And shall we bring a great wickedness on our souls?

²⁴ But the hand of Achikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so as not to give him up into the hand of the people to put him to death.

⁷ Now when ‘Ebed-melech the Cushi, a eunuch who was in the king’s house, heard that they had placed Jeremiah into the pit; while the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin: ⁸ ‘Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying, ⁹ My lord, O king, these men have done wrong in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit; and he would have had to die as it is in the place where he was for hunger; for there is no more bread in the city. ¹⁰ The king then commanded ‘Ebed-melech the Cushi, saying, Take with thee from here thirty men, and bring up Jeremiah the prophet out of the pit, before he die.

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the great; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

¹⁶ And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously, between a man and his brother, and between his stranger.

¹⁸ Judges and officers shalt thou appoint unto thyself in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with a just judgment. ¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, and thou shalt not take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ²⁰ Justice, only justice shalt thou pursue; in order that thou mayest live, and retain possession of the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

¹⁵ And David reigned over all Israel; and David did what is just and right unto all his people.

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him.

¹⁵ Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I. ¹⁶ A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate.

¹ To the chief musician Al-tashcheth, by David, a Michtham. ^(58:2) Do you indeed, who are dumb, speak righteously? do ye judge in uprightness, O ye sons of men? ^{2 (58:3)} Even in your heart ye work injustice: on the earth do ye weigh out the violence of your hands.

¹ By Solomon. O God, give unto the king thy decisions, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son. ² He shall decide for thy people with righteousness, and for thy afflicted with justice.

¹² It should be an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; for through righteousness alone can a throne be established.

⁸ A king that sitteth on the throne of justice scattereth away with his eyes all evil.

¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.

²³ Thy princes are rebels, and companions of thieves; every one loveth brides, and runneth after rewards; to the fatherless they will not do justice, and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them.

⁴ But he shall judge with righteousness the poor, and decide with equity for the suffering ones of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

¹ Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. ² And every one shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivulets of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a large rock in a languishing land.

²⁸ They are grown fat, they are stout; yea, they surpass even the deeds of the wicked: they pronounce no just sentence, the sentence of the fatherless, that they might prosper; and the cause of the needy do they not judge.

³ Thus hath said the Lord, Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor; and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow shall ye not oppress, and do them no violence, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

¹⁵ Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel with cedar buildings? behold, thy father ate and drank, but he executed justice and righteousness: then was it well with him! ¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then was it well: is not this the proper knowledge of me? saith the Lord.

⁵ Behold, days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will raise up unto David a righteous sprout, and he shall reign as king, and prosper, and he shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.

^{27 (4:24)} Therefore, O king, let my counsel be agreeable unto thee, and atone for thy sins by righteousness, and for thy iniquities by showing kindness to the poor: perhaps thy prosperity may thereby endure long.

¹¹ Therefore forasmuch as you tread down upon the poor, and ye take from him onerous contributions of corn: if ye have built houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; if ye have planted pleasant vineyards, ye shall not drink their wine. ¹² For I know your manifold transgressions and your numerous sins: ye are those that are the adversaries of the just, that take a ransom, and that wrest the cause of the needy in the gate.

⁹ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true justice, and show kindness and mercy every man to his brother;

⁹ Be greatly glad, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, thy King will come unto thee, righteous and victorious is he, lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of a she-ass.

¹¹ And now, my daughter, fear not: all that thou mayest say will I do for thee; for all the men in the gate of my people know that thou art a virtuous woman.

¹⁸ Coral and crystal will not be thought of; and the value of wisdom is above pearls.

¹⁵ She is more precious than pearls; and all the things thou valuest are not equal unto her.

¹¹ For wisdom is better than pearls; and all the things that men wish for are not equal to her.

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but as rottenness in his bones is one that bringeth shame on him.

²² Whoso hath found a wife hath found happiness, and hath obtained favor from the Lord.

¹⁴ House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but from the Lord cometh an intelligent wife.

¹⁵ There is gold, and a multitude of pearls; but a precious vessel are the lips of knowledge.

²⁸ What my soul constantly sought, but I found it not; one man among a thousand did I find; but a woman among all these did I not find.

⁸ Sixty are the queens, and eighty the concubines, and the young women without number; ⁹ But one alone is my dove, my guiltless one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the chosen of her that bore her: maidens see her, and call her happy; yea, queens and concubines, and praise her.

⁹ And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passeth through by us continually. ¹⁰ Let us then make a little upper chamber, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a chair, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

²² And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the she-asses, that I may hasten as far as the man of God, and return. ²³ And he said, Wherefore art thou going to him today? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It is well.

¹⁸ And Abigayil made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. ¹⁹ And she said unto her young men, Pass on before me: behold, I come after you. But to her husband Nabal she told nothing. ²⁰ And it was so, as she was riding on the ass, and coming down by the covert of the mount, that, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them. ²¹ Now David had said, Yea, for naught only have I guarded all that belongeth to this fellow in the wilderness, so that not the least was missed of all that pertained unto him; and he hath requited me evil instead of good. ²² So may God do unto the enemies of David, and do so yet farther, if I leave of all that pertaineth to him by the morning light, as much as a dog.

²⁶ And now, my lord, as the Eternal liveth, and as thy soul liveth, it is the Lord who hath withholden thee from coming to blood-guiltiness, and from helping thyself with thy own hand; and now may like Nabal be thy enemies, and those that seek to do my Lord evil. ²⁷ And now this present which thy hand-maid hath brought unto my Lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow in the train my Lord.

⁶ And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. ⁷ And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man, and he hastened to dress it. ⁸ And he took cream and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

¹³ Behold, I stand by the well of water: and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water. ¹⁴ And let it come to pass that the maiden to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and to thy camels also will I give drink, be the one thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shown kindness unto my master.

¹⁸ And she said, Drink, my lord; and she hastened, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him to drink. ¹⁹ And when she had finished giving him drink, she said, Also for thy camels will I draw water, until they have finished drinking. ²⁰ And she hastened, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

⁹ And while he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep; for she was a shepherdess. ¹⁰ And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

² And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Na’omi, Let me go, I pray thee, into the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose eyes I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. ³ And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and the accident happened to her, that it was a part of the field belonging unto Bo’az, who was of the family of Elimelech.

²³ So she kept close company with the maidens of Bo’az in gleaning until the end of the barley-harvest and of the wheat-harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

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: ¹⁷ Therefore will the Lord smite with leprosy the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay open their nakedness. ¹⁸ On that day will the Lord take away the beauty of their tinkling shoe-buckles, and the hair-nets, and the crescent-shaped ornaments, ¹⁹ The drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, ²⁰ The bonnets, and the foot-chains, and the head-bands, and the tablets, and the earrings, ²¹ The finger-rings, and nose-jewels, ²² The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the pockets. ²³ The mirrors, and the chemisettes, and the turbans, and the long vails. ²⁴ And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be corruption; and instead of a girdle a rope; and instead of curled hair baldness; and instead of a wide garment a girding of sackcloth, a mark of burning instead of beauty.

⁹ Ye careless women rise up, hear my voice; ye daughters that are secure, give ear unto my speech. ¹⁰ After days and years shall ye shudder, ye women that are secure; for ended is the vintage, the fruit gathering shall nowise come. ¹¹ Tremble, ye careless women; shudder, ye that are secure, strip off your garments and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon the loins.

²⁶ And king Solomon made a ship in ‘Ezyon-geber, which is near Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. ²⁷ And Hiram sent in the ship his servants, seamen, that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. ²⁸ And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

¹⁰ And also the servants of Churam, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought sandal-trees and precious stones.

²⁴ Fine tunics she maketh, and selleth them, and girdles she furnisheth unto the merchant.

³ And say unto Tyre, O thou that art situated at the entrances of the sea, the merchant of the people unto many isles, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, O Tyre, thou hast indeed said, I am perfect in beauty. ⁴ In the heart of the seas were thy boundaries, thy builders had perfected thy beauty. ⁵ Of the fir-trees from Senir had they built thee all thy woodwork: cedars from Lebanon had they taken to make masts for thee. ⁶ Of the oaks of Bashan had they made thy oars; thy rudder had they made inlaid with ivory of boxwood, brought out of the isles of the Kittim. ⁷ Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy flag to be unto thee a sign: of blue and purple from the isles of Ellishah was thy cover. ⁸ The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy oarsmen: thy wise men, O Tyre, that were in thee, these were thy pilots. ⁹ The elders of Gebal and her wise men were in thee thy caulkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to carry on thy commerce. ¹⁰ They of Persia and of Lud and of Put were in thy army, thy men of war: the shield and the helmet did they hang up in thee; these gave thee thy elegance. ¹¹ The men of Arvad with thy army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadim were in thy towers: their quivers they hung upon thy walls round about; these made perfect thy beauty. ¹² Tharshish was thy merchant through the abundance of all kind of wealth: with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they supplied thy markets. ¹³ Javan, Thubal, and Meshech; these were thy merchants: with the persons of men and vessels of copper they carried on thy commerce. ¹⁴ They of the family of Thogarmah furnished thy supplies in horses and horsemen and mules. ¹⁵ The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles fetched the merchandise from thy place: chamois horns, ivory, and ebony did they bring as presents for thee. ¹⁶ Syria was thy trader by reason of the multitude of thy productions: with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies they made deposits in thy treasuries. ¹⁷ Judah, and the land of Israel, these were thy merchants: in wheat of Minnith, and balsam, and honey, and oil, and balm they carried on thy commerce. 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? ³³ When thy supplies went forth out of the seas, thou didst satisfy many people: with the multitude of thy wealth and of thy commerce thou didst enrich the kings of the earth. ³⁴ Now at the time thou art broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy commerce and all thy assemblage fell in the midst of thee. ³⁵ All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and the hair of their kings stand at an end, grieved are their countenances. ³⁶ The traders among the people shall hiss concerning thee: thou wast rendered as though thou hadst not been, and thou shalt not be any more for ever.

¹ And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they broke up from Shittim, and came close to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.

¹⁵ And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them by means of his messengers, making them rise early, and sending them: because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place;

¹⁴⁷ I come before thee in the dawn of morning, and cry: for thy word do I wait. ¹⁴⁸ My eyes are awake before the night-watches, that I may meditate in thy saying.

¹³ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty: open thy eyes, so wilt thou be satisfied with bread.

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.—

¹⁸ And it came to pass, as she came thither, that she persuaded him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What aileth thee?

¹² My vineyard, which was mine, was before me: thine, O Solomon, be the thousand, and let two hundred be for those that keep its fruit.—

²⁴ But his bow abode in strength, and his arm and his hands remained firm; from the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, from there thou becamest the shepherd, the stone of Israel.

⁴⁶ And the inspiration of the Lord came over Elijah, and he girded up his loins; and he ran before Achab up to the entrance of Yizre’el.

²⁹ Then said he to Gechazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, thou shalt not salute him; and if any salute thee, thou shalt not answer him; and lay my staff upon the face of the lad.

³ Do but gird up like a mighty man thy loins: and I will ask thee, and do thou inform me.

¹² The iron-smith maketh an axe and worketh it in the coals, and with hammers he fashioneth it, and worketh it with his powerful arm; he also, when he is hungry, loseth his strength: when he drinketh no water, he becometh faint.

¹⁵ And I desired to instruct and to strengthen their arms; yet would they devise evil against me.

⁴⁰ Where I was in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.

² It is in vain for you to be early in rising, to be late in sitting up, eating the bread of painful toils; for so doth he give unto his beloved during sleep.

²⁵ And all the women that were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and they brought that which they had spun, of the blue, and of the purple, and of the scarlet yarn, and of the linen thread. ²⁶ And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

¹¹ For the needy will not cease out of the land; therefore do I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open wide thy hand unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

¹⁶ If ever I denied the wish of the indigent, or ever allowed the eyes of the widow to fall in vain hopes; ¹⁷ Or if ever I ate my bread by myself alone, and the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as though we were of one father, and I have guided her as though she was sprung from my mother’s womb;) ¹⁹ If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy without covering: ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he have not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm of David. ^(41:2) Happy is he that careth for the poor: on the day of evil will the Lord deliver him.

⁹ He distributeth, he giveth to the needy: his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted in honor.

²⁴ Whereas I called, and ye refused; I stretched out my hand, and no man was attentive;

¹⁷ He lendeth unto the Lord that is liberal to the poor, and his good deed will he repay unto him.

⁹ A man of a benevolent eye will indeed be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

¹ Cast thy bread upon the face of the waters; for after many days wilt thou find it again. ² Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil may come upon the earth.—

²² To all of them he gave to each changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

²⁴ O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with beautiful dresses, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

²⁰ As he that taketh off his garment on a cold day, as vinegar is upon natron: so is he that singeth songs before an unhappy heart.

⁴² And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a golden chain about his neck;

²⁶ And the weight of the golden earrings that he had requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the crescent ornaments, and ear-drops, and purple garments that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels’ necks.

¹ And it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and placed herself in the inner court of the king’s house, opposite the king’s apartment; and the king was sitting upon his royal throne in the royal apartment, opposite to the entrance of the house.

¹⁵ And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in a royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a cloak of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan was glad and joyful.

^{13 (45:14)} All gloriously attired awaiteth the king’s daughter in the inner chamber: of wrought gold is her garment. ^{14 (45:15)} In embroidered clothes will she be brought unto the king: virgins that follow her, her companions, are brought unto thee.

¹⁶ With tapestry coverings have I decked my bed, with embroidered coverlids of the fine linen of Egypt.

¹⁰ I clothed thee also with broidered work, and made thee shoes of badger’s skin, and I placed on thy head a turban of fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. ¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and I placed bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain around thy neck. ¹² And I placed a ring on thy nose, and earrings in thy ears, and a crown of splendor on thy head. ¹³ Thus wast thou ornamented with gold and silver; and thy garments were of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; fine flour, and honey, and oil didst thou eat: and thou wast exceedingly beautiful, and thou didst succeed to acquire dominion.

¹⁸ Judges and officers shalt thou appoint unto thyself in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with a just judgment.

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;

¹ But Bo’az went up to the gate, and sat down there; and, behold, the kinsman of whom Bo’az had spoken came passing by; and he said unto him, Turn aside hither, sit down here, such a one. And he turned aside, and sat down.

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord grant that the woman that is coming into thy house be like Rachel and like Leah, who did both build up the house of Israel: and acquire thou wealth in Ephrathah, and let thy name become famous in Beth-lechem;

⁷ When I went out to the gate close by the city, when in the open place I established my seat:

¹² And Samson said unto them, I will now propound unto you a riddle; if ye can in anywise tell it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then will I give you thirty shirts and thirty changes of garments;

²⁸ And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt; and a company of the king’s merchants bought a quantity at a price.

¹³ She seeketh for wool and flax, and worketh with her willing hands.

¹⁹ She stretcheth out her hands to the spindle, and her palms hold fast the distaff.

¹⁶ Syria was thy trader by reason of the multitude of thy productions: with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies they made deposits in thy treasuries.

¹⁴ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me.

¹⁰ Then do deck thyself with excellence and greatness, and clothe thyself in majesty and glory.

¹¹ Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. ¹² Rejoice, ye righteous, in the Lord, and give thanks to his holy memorial.

⁹ Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy pious servants shout for joy.

¹⁶ And her priests will I clothe with salvation: and her pious ones shall shout aloud for joy.

¹⁰ I will be greatly glad in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, with the mantle of righteousness hath he enveloped me, as a bridegroom decketh himself with elegant attire, and as a bride adorneth herself with her bridal array.

¹³ Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be made ashamed; ¹⁴ Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry out from pain of heart, and from a broken spirit shall ye howl;

²³ But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received from our hand a burnt-offering and a meat-offering, nor would he have let us see all these things, and at this time he would not have let us hear such a thing as this.

²⁴ And she fell at his feet, and said, On me, me, my lord, is the fault: and let thy hand-maid, I pray thee, speak in thy hearing, and listen to the words of thy hand-maid. 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. ²⁶ And now, my lord, as the Eternal liveth, and as thy soul liveth, it is the Lord who hath withholden thee from coming to blood-guiltiness, and from helping thyself with thy own hand; and now may like Nabal be thy enemies, and those that seek to do my Lord evil. ²⁷ And now this present which thy hand-maid hath brought unto my Lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow in the train my Lord. ²⁸ Pardon, I pray thee, the trespass of thy hand-maid; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house; because the battles of the Lord doth my lord fight, and evil will not be found in thee all thy days. ²⁹ And though a man is risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: yet will the soul of my Lord be bound in the bond of life with the Lord thy God; and the soul of thy enemies will he hurl away, as out of the middle of the sling. ³⁰ And it shall come to pass, when the Lord will do to my lord, in accordance with all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and will ordain thee as ruler over Israel, ³¹ That this shall not be unto thee as a cause of offense and as a reproach of heart unto my lord, both by having shed blood without cause, and by my lord having righted himself; and when the Lord will do good unto my lord, then do thou remember thy hand-maid.

¹⁶ Then called a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear: say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near as far as hither, that I may speak with thee. ¹⁷ And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he said, I am. Then said she unto him, Hear the words of thy hand-maid. And he said, I do hear. ¹⁸ Then said she, thus, They ought surely first to have spoken, saying, “Let them ask at least in Abel:” and so would they have come to an end. ¹⁹ I am one of the peaceful and faithful cities in Israel; thou seekest to overthrow a city and a metropolis in Israel: why wilt thou destroy the inheritance of the Lord? ²⁰ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should destroy or ruin. ²¹ The matter is not so; but a man from the mountains of Ephraim, Sheba’ the son of Bichri is his name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David: give him up alone, and I will withdraw from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be cast down to thee over the wall. ²² And the woman came unto all the people with her wisdom; and they cut off the head of Sheba’ the son of Bichri, and cast it down to Joab: and he blew the cornet, and they scattered themselves from the city, every man to his tents. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

¹⁵ And she said unto them, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, Say unto the man that hath sent you to me, ¹⁶ Thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read; ¹⁷ Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense unto other gods, in order to provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands: therefore is my wrath kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. ¹⁸ But with respect to the king of Judah who sendeth you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, Concerning the words which thou hast heard; ¹⁹ Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I had spoken against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become an astonishment and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me: I also have heard it, saith the Lord. ²⁰ Therefore, behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered unto thy graves in peace; and thy eyes shall not look on all the evil which I am bringing over this place. And they brought the king word again.

⁴ Then came the maidens of Esther with her chamberlains and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly terrified; and she sent garments to clothe Mordecai, and to remove his sackcloth from him, but he accepted them not.

⁸ If I have found grace in the eyes of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to fulfill my request, that the king may come with Haman to the banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow will I do according to the word of the king.

³ Then answered Esther the queen and said, If I have found grace in thy eyes, O king! and if it be pleasing unto the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request; ⁴ For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain and to be exterminated; and if we had been only sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I would have remained silent; for the adversary regardeth not the damage of the king. ⁵ Then spoke king Achashverosh and said unto Esther the queen, Who is this, and where is he, whose heart hath emboldened him to do so? ⁶ And Esther said, An adversary, and inimical man, this wicked Haman. Then became Haman terrified before the king and the queen.

³ And Esther spoke again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and wept, and besought him to do away the evil of Haman the Agagite, and his device which he had devised against the Jews. ⁴ And the king held out toward Esther the golden sceptre; and Esther arose, and stood up before the king; ⁵ And she said, If it be pleasing to the king, and if I have found grace before him, and the thing seem proper before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to recall the letters, the device of Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he hath written to exterminate the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. ⁶ For how could I endure to look on the evil that is to befall my people? and how could I endure to look on the extermination of my kindred?

³¹ The mouth of the just uttereth wisdom; but the tongue of perverseness shall be cut out.

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

²⁴ Like the droppings of honey are pleasant sayings, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.

¹⁵ By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh bones.

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all fatherless children. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and decide the cause of the poor and needy.

¹⁴ O my dove, who art in the clefts of the rock, in the recesses of the cliffs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is comely.—

¹¹ Of sweet honey drop thy lips, O bride: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the scent of thy garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

⁶ The law of truth was in his mouth, and falsehood was not found on his lips: in peace and equity he walked with me, and many did he turn away from iniquity.

¹ The wise among women buildeth her house; but the foolish pulleth it down with her own hands.

¹⁹ Bath-sheba’ thereupon went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adoniyah; and the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and then sat down on his throne, and placed a chair for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

¹⁶ O Lord, truly am I thy servant, I am thy servant,—the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosened my fetters.

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

^{1 (7:2)} How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince’s daughter! the roundings of thy thighs are like jewelled ornaments, the work of the hands of the artificer. ^{2 (7:3)} Thy navel is like a round goblet which lacketh not the mixed wine: thy body is like a heap of wheat fenced about with lilies. ^{3 (7:4)} Thy two breasts are like two fawns, the twins of the roe. ^{4 (7:5)} Thy neck is like a tower of ivory; thy eyes are like the pools in Cheshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim; thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. ^{5 (7:6)} Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple: a king is held bound in the tresses. ^{6 (7:7)} How beautiful and how pleasant art thou, O love, in thy attractions! ^{7 (7:8)} This thy stature is like a palm-tree, and thy breasts are like clusters of grapes. ^{8 (7:9)} I thought, I wish to climb up the palm-tree, I wish to take hold of its boughs; and, oh, that thy breasts might be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; ^{9 (7:10)} And thy palate like the best wine, that glideth down for my friend gently, exciting the lips of those that are asleep.—

⁴ Thou shalt not be termed any more “Forsaken,” and thy land shall not be termed any more “Desolate;” for thou shalt be called “My delight in her” [Chephzi-bah], and thy land “Espoused” [Be’ulah]; for the Lord will have delight in thee, and thy land shall be espoused. ⁵ For as a young man espouseth a virgin, so shall thy sons espouse thee; and as the bridegroom is glad over the bride, so will be glad over thee thy God.

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and they did not as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. ¹⁸ And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and he said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive? ¹⁹ And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively; ere the midwife cometh in unto them they are delivered. ²⁰ And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. ²¹ And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

²⁵ And like Abshalom there was no man as handsome in all Israel, so that he was greatly praised: from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head there was no blemish on him.

¹¹ To bring Vashti the queen before the king ornamented with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was handsome in appearance. ¹² But queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king brought by the hand of the chamberlains; and the king was very wroth, and his fury burnt in him.

¹¹ The Lord taketh pleasure in those that fear him, that wait for his kindness.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools alone despise.

²⁵ Covet not her beauty in thy heart, and let her not conquer thee with her eyelids.

¹³ The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride and arrogance, and the evil way: and the mouth of perverseness do I hate.

²² As a golden ring in a swine’s snout, so is a handsome woman that hath thrown off discretion.

¹⁸ It is good that thou shouldst take hold of that, and that also from this thou withdraw not thy hand; for he that feareth God will come forth out of them all.

¹³ The end of the matter is, let us hear the whole: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

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.

² When thou eatest the labor of thy hands: then wilt thou be happy, and it shall be well with thee.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is of the tree of life, and the wise draweth souls to himself.

¹⁶ She thinketh of a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.