Job 20 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said:–– ² Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me: ³ The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit––out of my understanding, will give me a reply. ⁴ Knowest thou, this––from antiquity, from the placing of man upon earth:–– ⁵ That, the joy–shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment? ⁶ Though his elevation mount up to the heavens, and, his head, to the clouds, doth reach, ⁷ Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he? ⁸ Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him:
¹⁰ His children, shall seek the favour of the poor, and, his own hand, shall give back his wealth. ¹¹ His bones, are full of youthful vigour, yet, with him––in the dust, shall it lie down. ¹² Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue; ¹³ Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but retain it in the midst of his mouth, ¹⁴ His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him! ¹⁵ Wealth, hath he swallowed, and hath vomited the same, Out of his belly, shall, GOD, drive it forth: ¹⁶ The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him; ¹⁷ Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk. ¹⁸ In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult! ¹⁹ For he hath oppressed––hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild. ²⁰ Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind,––With his dearest thing, shall he not get away: ²¹ Nothing escaped his devouring greed,––For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue: ²² When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.
²³ It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will thrust at him the glow of his anger, and rain [it] upon him for his punishment. ²⁴ He shall flee from the armour of iron,––There shall pierce him, a bow of bronze! ²⁵ He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back,––yea the flashing arrow–head, out of his gall, There shall march on him––terrors: ²⁶ Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures,––There shall consume, a fire, not blown up,––it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent: ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and, the earth, be rising up against him: ²⁸ The increase of his house shall vanish, melting away in the day of his anger. ²⁹ This, is the portion of the lawless man, from God, and the inheritance decreed him from the Mighty One.

¹¹ Now when the three friends of Job heard of all this misfortune which had befallen him,––they came, every man from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite,––for they had by appointment met together to come to shew sympathy with him, and to comfort him.

¹ Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said:––

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them,––and Yahweh accepted Job.

² If one attempt a word unto thee, wilt thou be impatient? But, to restrain speech, who, can endure?

¹⁹ Who is it that shall contend with me? For, now, if I should hold my peace, why! I should breathe my last!

³ The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit––out of my understanding, will give me a reply.

¹³ Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom. GOD, must put him to flight, not man. ¹⁴ Since he directed not to me discourse, therefore, with your speeches, will I not reply to him.
¹⁵ They were dismayed, they responded no more, they suffered speech to forsake them; ¹⁶ Though I waited, yet could they not speak, Surely they came to a stand, they responded no more. ¹⁷ I will respond, even I––on my part, I will shew my knowledge, even I! ¹⁸ For I am full of discourse, The spirit in my bosom, presseth me on. ¹⁹ Lo! my bosom, is like wine not opened, Like new wineskins, it will burst. ²⁰ I will speak, that I may freely breathe, I will open my lips and respond.

²² But, I, had said in mine alarm, I am cut off from before thine eyes,––But, indeed, thou didst hear the voice of my supplication, when I cried for help unto thee.

² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been stirred: ³ Hot was my heart within me, While I was musing, there was kindled a fire, I spake with my tongue!

¹¹ I, said in mine alarm, All men, are false!

²⁹ One slow to anger, hath great understanding, but, the hasty in spirit, exalteth folly.

²⁰ Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words,––there is, more hope of a dullard, than of him.

⁹ Do not be rash in thy spirit, to be indignant,––for, indignation, in the bosom of dullards, doth remain.

⁹ Therefore I say––I will not mention him, Neither will I speak any more in his name, But then it becometh in my heart, as a fire that burneth, Shut up in my bones,––And I am weary of restraint, and cannot refrain.

²⁵ And, coming in straightway, with hast, unto the king, she asked, saying––I desire, that, forthwith, thou give me, upon a charger, the head of John the Immerser.

² For I bear them witness that they have, a zeal for God,––but not according to correct knowledge;

¹⁹ Ye know, my brethren beloved,––but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

³ These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.

²⁹ Be ye afraid––on your part––of the face of the sword, because, wrath, [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, to the end ye may know the Almighty.

² Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:

¹¹ I would teach you, by the hand of GOD, That which is with the Almighty, will I not conceal.

³ Mine utterances come straight from mine own heart, and, what I know, my lips have truly spoken;

³ My mouth, shall speak forth Wisdom, And the soft utterance of my heart be Understanding:

² I will open, in a parable, my mouth, I will pour forth enigmas out of antiquity; –– ³ Which we have heard, and come to know, And, our fathers, have recounted to us; ⁴ We will not withhold [them] from their children, To a later generation, recounting the praises of Yahweh, Even his might and his wonders which he wrought; ⁵ When he set up a testimony in Jacob, And, a law, appointed in Israel,––Which he commanded our fathers, That they might make them known to their children;

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said to them––Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it,––and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land.

¹ So God blessed Noah and his sons,––and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth; ² and let, the fear of you and the dread of you, be upon every living creature of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens,––over everything that moveth along on the ground, and over all the fishes of the sea,––into your hand, have they been given. ³ As for every moving thing that hath life, yours, shall it be, for food,––Like the green herb, have I given you, all things.

⁸ For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers; –– ⁹ For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:

¹⁰ Both hoary and venerable, are among us, one mightier than thy father in days!

⁷ I said, Days, should speak,––and, the multitude of years, should make known wisdom.

¹⁶ As for the heavens, the heavens, belong to Yahweh, but the earth, hath he given to the sons of men.

⁹ Said the foe––I will pursue–overtake, divide spoil,––Take her fill of them––shall my soul, I will bare my sword, root them out––shall my hand. ¹⁰ Thou didst blow with thy wind, they were covered by the sea,––They rolled like lead, into the waters so wide.

²¹ And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes,––and took him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze, and it came to pass that he used to grind in the prison.
²² And the hair of his head began to grow, after he had been shaven. ²³ Now, the lords of the Philistines, had gathered themselves together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice,––and they said, Our god hath delivered into our hand, Samson our enemy. ²⁴ And, when the people saw him, they praised their god,––for they said––Our god hath delivered into our hand our enemy, even him who laid waste our land, and who multiplied our slain. ²⁵ And it came to pass, when their heart was merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make sport for us. So they called for Samson out of the prison, and he made sport before them, and they stationed him between the pillars. ²⁶ And Samson said unto the youth that held him by his hand, Place me where I may feel the pillars whereon the house resteth, that I may lean upon them. ²⁷ Now, the house, was full of men and women, there, also were all the lords of the Philistines,––and, on the roof, were about three thousand men and women, looking on while Samson made sport. ²⁸ So then Samson cried unto Yahweh, and said,––My Lord Yahweh! remember me, I pray thee,––and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be avenged, with one avenging, for my two eyes, upon the Philistines. ²⁹ Then did Samson grasp the two middle pillars, whereon the house rested, and whereon it was upheld, and he braced himself against them,––the one with his right hand, and the other with his left. ³⁰ And Samson said––Let my soul die with the Philistines! And he bowed mightily, and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead, whom he slew at his death, were more than they whom he slew in his life.

¹¹ and Haman recounted unto them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children,––and all the things wherein the king had promoted him to power, and how he had advanced him, above the rulers and the servants of the king. ¹² And Haman said, Moreover Esther the queen did bring in no one with the king into the banquet which she had prepared, saving myself,––yea moreover, even for tomorrow, I, am invited unto her, with the king.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai,––and, the wrath of the king, was appeased.

³ I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:

¹² Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither: ¹³ So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:

¹⁹ Lo! that, is the joy of his way,––and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.

²⁹ He shall not be rich, nor shall his substance continue, neither shall their shadow stretch along on the earth; ³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth! ³¹ Let no one trust in him that––by vanity––is deceived, for, vanity, shall be his recompense; ³² Before his day, shall it be accomplished, with, his palm–top, not covered with leaves; ³³ He shall wrong––like a vine––his sour grapes, and shall cast off––as an olive–tree––his blossom. ³⁴ For, the family of the impious, is unfruitful, and, a fire, hath devoured the tents of bribery;

⁵ Even the light of the lawless, shall go out,––Neither shall shine the flame of his fire; ⁶ The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

⁸ For what shall be the hope of the impious, though he graspeth with greed, when GOD shall draw forth his soul?

¹³ This, is the portion of a lawless man with GOD, That, the heritage of tyrants––from the Almighty, he shall receive. ¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, for them, [there is] the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread; ¹⁵ His survivors, by pestilence, shall come to the grave, and, his widows, shall not weep; ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver like, dust, and, like a pile, he prepare clothing, ¹⁷ He may prepare, but, the righteous, shall put on, and, the silver, shall the innocent apportion. ¹⁸ He hath built, like a moth, his house,––like a hut, which a watcher hath made. ¹⁹ The rich man, shall lie down, and not do it again, his eyes, hath he opened, and then is not. ²⁰ There shall reach him––like waters––terrors, By night, a storm–wind hath stolen him away; ²¹ An east wind shall lift him up, and he shall depart, and it shall sweep him away out of his place; ²² And He will cast upon him and not spare, Out of his hand, shall he, swiftly flee; ²³ He shall clap over him his hands, and shall hiss him forth out of his place.

³⁵ I have seen a lawless man, a tyrant, and spreading himself out, like a cedar in Lebanon; ³⁶ Then I passed by, and lo! he had vanished! Yea I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹⁸ Surely, in slippery places, dost thou set them,––Thou hast suffered them to fall into places of danger. ¹⁹ How have they become desolate, as in a moment! They have ceased––come to an end, by reason of calamities. ²⁰ As the dream of him that waketh, O my Lord! when rousing thyself up, their shadowy being, wilt thou despise.

²¹ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord! Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens,––but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

²⁰ And, he on the rocky places sown, the same, is he that, heareth the word, and, straightway, with joy, receiveth it; ²¹ yet hath he no root in himself, but is, only for a season,––and, there arising, tribulation or persecution because of the word, straightway, he findeth cause of stumbling.

²² And, the populace, began to shout––A god’s, voice, and not, a man’s! ²³ And, instantly, there smote him, a messenger of the Lord, because he gave not the glory unto God; and, becoming worm–eaten, he expired.

⁴ But, his own work, let each one be putting to the proof, and, then, for himself alone, the matter of boasting, shall he have, and not for some other,

¹⁶ Whereas, now, are ye boasting in your pretensions:––All boasting like this, is, wicked,

⁴ And they said, Come on! let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower with its head in the heavens, so let us make for ourselves a name,––lest we be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.

¹³ Yet, thou, didst say in thy heart––The heavens, will I ascend, Above the stars of GOD, will I lift up my throne,––That I may sit in the Mount of Assembly, In the Recesses of the North: ¹⁴ I will mount on the hills of the clouds, I will match the Most High!

¹¹ The tree, grew, and became strong,––and, the height thereof, reached unto the heavens, and, the view thereof, unto the end of all the land:

²² Thyself, it is, O king, in that thou art grown, and become strong,––and, thy greatness hath grown, and reached to the heavens, and, thy dominion, to the end of the earth.

² Though they break through into hades, from thence, shall my hand fetch them,––and, though they ascend the heavens, from thence, will I bring them down;

³ The insolence of thy heart, hath deceived thee, O thou that inhabitest the retreats of the crag, the height of his habitation,––that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though thou build high like an eagle, and though, among the stars, thou set thy nest, from thence, will I bring thee down, Declareth Yahweh.

²³ And, thou, Capernaum! Unto heaven, shalt thou be uplifted? Unto hades, thou shall be brought down; because, if, in Sodom, had been done the works of power, which were done in thee, it would, in that case, have remained until this day.

¹⁰ therefore, behold me! bringing misfortune against the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off the meanest pertaining to Jeroboam, whether shut up or left at large, in Israel,––and will consume after the house of Jeroboam, as one consumeth dung, till it be all gone:

³⁷ So shall the carcass of Jezebel become like heaps of dung on the face of the field, in the town–land of Jezreel: So that they cannot say, This, is Jezebel!

²⁰ Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish:

¹⁰ He shall not return again to his house, and his own place shall be acquainted with him no more.

¹⁸ If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying]––I have not seen thee.

¹⁰ Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?

¹⁰ They perished at En–dor, They become manure for the soil!

² And shall spread them out––To the sun, and, To the moon, and, To all the host of the heavens, Whom they have loved, And whom they have served, And after whom they have walked, And whom they have sought, And to whom they have bowed themselves down,––They shall not be gathered, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they be.

¹⁸ Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

¹⁰ Then he rode on a cherub, and flew, and darted on the wings of the wind;

²⁰ As the dream of him that waketh, O my Lord! when rousing thyself up, their shadowy being, wilt thou despise.

⁵ Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up,

⁷ And it shall be like the dream of a night vision, With the multitude of all the nations who have been making war against Ariel,––Even with all who have been making war against her, and her stronghold, and who have been laying siege to her; ⁸ Yea it shall be, As when the hungry man dreameth, and lo! he is eating, But he awaketh, and his soul, is empty, Or as when the thirsty man dreameth, and lo! he is drinking, But he awaketh, and lo! he is faint, and, his soul, is craving, So, shall it be with the multitude of all the nations, that have come forth to war against Mount Zion.

⁸ Nor shall see me––the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not.

⁷ Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?

³ All the while my inspiration is in me, and the spirit of GOD is in my nostrils,

¹⁰ Yet a little, therefore, and the lawless one shall not be, Yea thou shalt look about, over his place––and he shall have vanished!

³⁶ Then I passed by, and lo! he had vanished! Yea I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹⁵ As for man, like grass, are his days, Like the blossom of the field, so, doth he blossom; ¹⁶ For, a wind, hath passed over it, and it is gone, And its own place is acquainted with it no more.

² But, if, refusing, thou art to let them go,––and still art holding them fast,

³⁶ And, Yahweh, gave the people favour in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they gave them gladly,––so they spoiled the Egyptians.

¹ When a man stealeth an ox or a sheep, and slayeth it, or selleth it, with five of the herd, shall he make good––for the ox, or with four of the flock, for the sheep.

³ should the sun have arisen upon him, there would be shedding of blood due for him,––he is, surely to make restitution, if he hath nothing, then is he to be sold, for his theft.

⁶ and, the lamb, shall he pay back sevenfold,––because he did this thing, and, for that he had no pity.

⁴ His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:

¹⁸ In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver like, dust, and, like a pile, he prepare clothing, ¹⁷ He may prepare, but, the righteous, shall put on, and, the silver, shall the innocent apportion.

¹⁰ Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of their ruins;

³¹ Yet, if found, he must pay back sevenfold, All the substance of his house, must he give:

³ A poor man, who oppresseth the helpless, [is like] a rain beating down, leaving no food.

⁸ But, taking his stand, Zacchaeus said unto the Lord––Lo! the half of my possessions, Lord, unto the destitute, I give; and, if, from anyone, I have taken aught by false accusation, I give back fourfold.

²⁶ For thou writest, against me, bitter things, and dost make me inherit the iniquities of my youth;

²⁰ Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.

²⁶ Together, in the dust, they lie down, and, the worm, spreadeth a covering over them.

⁷ The sins of my youth, and my transgressions, do not thou call to mind,––According to thine own lovingkindness, remember thou me, for the sake of thine own goodness, O Yahweh.

¹¹ So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition; ¹² And thou shalt say––How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained; ¹³ Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear:

²² His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized. ²³ He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.

³² By his own wickedness, shall the lawless man, be thrust down, but the righteous, seeketh refuge in his integrity.

¹³ In thine uncleanness, is lewdness; because I purified thee. and thou wast not purified, from thine uncleanness, thou shalt not be purified any more, until I have let mine indignation rest upon thee.

²⁷ Therefore shall they not lie with the mighty men, The fallen ones from age–past times, Who descended into hades with their weapons of war, And their swords were placed under their heads, But their iniquities have come upon their bones, Because of the terror of the mighty, in the land of the living.

²¹ He said unto them again, therefore––I, go, and ye shall seek me,––and yet, in your sin, shall ye die: Whither, I, go, ye, cannot come.

²⁴ Therefore said I unto you, Ye shall die in your sins: For, if ye believe not that, I, am he, ye shall die in your sins.

²⁵ To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas went aside, to go his way unto his own place.

⁶ And, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes, and the tree was pleasant to make one knowing, then took she of the fruit thereof, and did eat,––and she gave to her husband also, along with her, and he did eat.

¹⁶ How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in––like water––perversity.

⁷ With cursing, his mouth is full, and with deceptions and oppression, Under his tongue, are trouble and mischief:

¹⁷ Because he loved cursing, May it have come upon him, Because he delighted not in blessing, May it have kept far from him; ¹⁸ Because he clothed himself in cursing as his outer garment, therefore may it have entered like water into his inward part, and like oil into his bones;

¹⁷ Stolen waters, will be sweet,––and a secret meal, will be pleasant; ¹⁸ But he knoweth not, that the shades are there; In the depths of hades, are her guests.

¹⁷ Sweet to a man, may be the bread of falsehood, but, afterward, shall his mouth be filled with gravel.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart gladden thee in the days of thine early manhood, and walk thou––in the ways of thine own heart, and in that which is seen by thine own eyes,––yet know, that, for all these things, will God bring thee into judgment.

¹⁸ And, unto the people, shalt thou say: Hallow yourselves by tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh, for ye have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying––Who will grant us to eat flesh? for it was well with us in Egypt,––so then Yahweh will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. ¹⁹ Not one day, shall ye eat, nor two days,––nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days: ²⁰ for a month of days, until it cometh forth out of your nostrils, so shall it become to you a loathsome thing,––because ye have refused Yahweh who is in your midst, and have wept before him, saying, Wherefore, now, came we forth out of Egypt?

²⁹ And, if, thy right eye, is causing thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee,––for it profiteth thee, that, one of thy members, should perish, and not, thy whole body, be cast into gehenna. ³⁰ And, if, thy right hand, is causing thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee,––for it profiteth thee, that, one of thy members, should perish, and not, thy whole body, into gehenna, depart.

⁴³ And, if thy hand shall cause thee to stumble, cut it off,––it is, seemly, for thee, maimed, to enter into life, rather than having, the two hands, to depart into the gehenna, into the fire that is not quenched; ⁴⁴ <> ⁴⁵ And, if thy foot be causing thee to stumble, cut it off,––it is, seemly, for thee, to enter into life, lame, rather than having, the two feet, to be cast into the gehenna; ⁴⁶ <> ⁴⁷ And, if thine eye be causing thee to stumble, thrust it out,––it is, seemly, for thee, one–eye, to enter into the kingdom of God, rather than having, two eyes, to be cast into gehenna, ⁴⁸ Where, their worm, dieth not, and, the fire, is not quenched, ⁴⁹ For, everyone, with fire, shall be salted.

¹³ For, if according to flesh ye live, ye are about to die, whereas, if in spirit, the practices of the flesh, ye are putting to death, ye shall attain unto life;

²⁴ The meltings of hunger, The devourings of fever, And the dangerous pestilence,––And, the tooth of beasts, will I send among them, With the poison of crawlers of the dust:

² And it came to pass that, at eventide, David arose from his couch, and walked to and fro on the roof of the king’s house, when, from the roof, he saw a woman bathing herself,––the woman being exceeding beautiful to look upon. ³ And David sent and enquired after the woman,––and one said––Is not, this, Bath–sheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and fetched her, and she came in unto him, and he lay with her, she having purified herself from her uncleanness,––and she returned unto her own house. ⁵ And the woman, having conceived, sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

¹⁰ Now, therefore, the sword shall not depart from thy house, unto age–abiding times,––because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. ¹¹ Thus, saith Yahweh,––Behold me! raising up over thee calamity out of thine own household, and I will take thy wives, before thine eyes, and give unto thy neighbour, and he will lie with thy wives, in the eyes of this sun.

¹⁶ The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him;

³ When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day; ⁴ For, day and night, heavy upon me, was thy hand,––Changed was my life–sap into the drought of summer. [Selah.]

¹ [A Melody of David. To bring to Remembrance.]
O Yahweh, do not, in thine anger, correct me, nor, in thy wrath, chastise me; ² For, thine arrows, have sunk down into me, and thy hand, presseth heavily upon me. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh, By reason of thine indignation, There is no peace in my bones, By reason of my sin; ⁴ For, mine iniquities, have passed over my head, Like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me: ⁵ My wounds are of bad odour––they have festered, by reason of my folly: ⁶ I am bent, I am bowed down very low. All the day, have I gloomily walked; ⁷ For, my loins, are filled with inflammation, and there is no soundness in my flesh: ⁸ I am benumbed and crushed exceedingly,––I have cried aloud because of the groaning of my heart.

⁸ Wilt thou cause me to hear joy and gladness? The bones thou hast crushed would exult. ⁹ Hide thy face from my sins,––And, all mine iniquities, blot out;

³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and, with their own counsels, be filled.

²⁰ Do not be among them who tipple with wine,––among them who are gluttons; ²¹ For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!

²⁹ Who hath woe? Who hath outcry of pain? Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath dullness of eyes? ³⁰ They who tarry over wine, they who go in to search for mixed wine. ³¹ Do not look on wine when it becometh red, when it giveth in the cup its sparkle, glideth down smoothly. ³² Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting. ³³ Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things: ³⁴ So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea,––or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear: ³⁵ They smote me––I felt no pain, They struck me down––I noticed it not,––When shall I wake up? I will go on, I will seek it, again!

¹⁹ Let thy wickedness correct, thee, And, thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see, That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God,––And that the dread of me, should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

² If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my Name, saith Yahweh of hosts, then will I send among you the curse, and will curse your blessings,––and indeed I have cursed them, because ye are not at all laying it to heart.

¹³ A sepulchre opened, is their throat, with their tongues, have they used deceit, the poison of asps, is under their lips,

⁸ As for thy morsel thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit it, so shalt thou waste thy things so sweet.

³ Then, Judas who had delivered him up, seeing that he was condemned, being smitten with remorse, returned the thirty pieces of silver unto the High–priests and Elders, ⁴ saying––I have sinned, in delivering up righteous blood. But, they, said––What is that to us? thou, shalt see to it for thyself.

⁶ The Oracle on the Beasts of the South,––Through a land of distress and oppression––Lioness and lion coming therefrom, Viper and fiery flying serpent, They would carry, on the shoulders of young asses, their wealth, And, on the humps of camels, their treasures, Unto a people that cannot serve them.

⁷ But, seeing, many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming unto his immersion, he said to them,––Broods of vipers! who suggested to you, to be fleeing from the coming wrath?

³ But, when Paul had gathered a certain lot of firewood into a bundle, and laid it on the fire, a viper, by reason of the heat, coming forth, fastened on his hand. ⁴ And, when the natives saw the brute hanging out from his hand, they began to say, one to another––Doubtless, this man is, a murderer, whom, though brought safely through out of the sea, Justice, hath not suffered, to live. ⁵ He, however, shaking of the brute into the fire, suffered no harm; ⁶ whereas, they, were expecting, that he was about to become inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead; ––but, when they had been long expecting, and had observed, nothing unusual, happening unto him, they changed their minds, and began to say he was a god.

²³ shall see the land, which I sware to their fathers,––yea, none of my despisers, shall see it.

¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the land, Caused him to eat the increase of the fields,––And gave him to suck honey out of the cliff, And oil out of the rock of flint: ¹⁴ Curds of kine and milk of sheep,––With fat of well–fed lambs, Yea rams bred in Bashan and he–goats, With the white of the kernels of wheat,––And, the blood of the grape, thou didst drink as it foamed.

²⁹ and honey and cream, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat,––for they said, The people, are hungry and weary and thirsty, in the wilderness.

² Then the officer on whose hand the king leaned responded to the man of God, and said, Even if Yahweh were making windows in the heavens, could this thing, come to pass? And he said––Lo! thou, art about to see it with thine own eyes, but, thereof, shalt thou not eat!

⁶ When my steps were bathed in milk, and, the rock, poured out beside me, rivulets of oil:

⁸ They abundantly relish the fatness of thy house,––And out of the full stream of thine own pleasures, thou givest them to drink. ⁹ For, with thee, is the fountain of life, In thy light, we see light.

¹⁶ Then would he feed them from the marrow of the wheat, Yea, out of the rock––with honey, would I satisfy thee.

¹⁵ Curds and honey, shall he eat, by the time that he knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good;

²² Yea it shall come to pass, for the abundance of the yield of milk, that he shall eat curds,––for, curds and honey, shall every one eat, that is left in the midst of the land.

¹⁷ As for the oppressed and the needy, Seeking water, when there is, none, Their tongue, with thirst, being parched, I––Yahweh, will answer them, The God of Israel, I will not forsake them:

⁶ Therefore shall he become as a shrub in the waste plain, Neither shall he perceive, when good cometh,––But shall inhabit, Parched places in a wilderness, A land of salt that cannot be dwelt in. ⁷ Blessed, is the man, Who trusteth in Yahweh, To whom Yahweh is his ground of confidence; ⁸ For he shall become like a tree planted by waters, And, by a stream, shall he send out his roots, Neither shall he perceive when heat cometh, But his leaf shall continue green: Even, in a year of dearth, shall he not be anxious, Neither shall he cease from bearing fruit.

²⁴ And, he, calling out, said––Father Abraham! have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue,––because I am in anguish in this flame.

¹ And he pointed out to me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, issuing forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

⁵ That, the joy–shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment?

¹⁰ His children, shall seek the favour of the poor, and, his own hand, shall give back his wealth.

¹⁵ Wealth, hath he swallowed, and hath vomited the same, Out of his belly, shall, GOD, drive it forth:

²⁵ If I rejoiced because great was my substance, and, an abundance, my hand had discovered;

²⁹ If rejoiced in the misfortune of him that hated me, or exulted when calamity found him; ––

¹² Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;

⁷ Mourneth, the new wine, Withereth, the vine,––Sighing, are all the merryhearted: ⁸ Ceased, hath the mirth of timbrels, Ended, is the noise of the uproarious,––Ceased, hath the mirth of the lyre: ⁹ With a song, they drink not wine,––Bitter, is strong drink, to them who drink it: ¹⁰ Broken down, is the city of desolation,––Shut up, every house, that it cannot be entered. ¹¹ There is an outcry concerning wine, in the streets,––Darkened, is all joy, Departed, the gladness of the earth.

¹⁵ Why, hath the beloved, in mine own house, done an abomination? Shall, vows and holy flesh, take away from thee thy wickednesses, or shalt thou, by these, escape? ¹⁶ A green olive–tree, fair with goodly fruit, did Yahweh call thy name,––with the noise of a great tumult, hath he kindled fire upon it, and the branches thereof, shall be broken.

¹³ Alas! for him who buildeth, His house without righteousness, And his roof–chambers without justice,––Of his neighbour, taketh service for nought, And, recompense for his work, giveth him not.

¹⁷ Verily thou hast neither eyes, nor heart, save for thy plundering and for thy shedding of, innocent blood, and for oppression and for crushing, to do, them!

³⁴ Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon––Hath devoured me, Hath vexed me, Hath set me down as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed me like a sea–monster, He hath filled his belly with my dainties,––He hath driven me away!

⁴⁴ So will I bring punishment upon Bel in Babylon, And will bring forth what he hath swallowed, out of his mouth, And the nations, shall stream unto him no more,––Even the wall of Babylon, hath fallen!

¹⁶ All thy foes, have opened wide, over thee their mouth, They have hissed, and gnashed their teeth, They have said––We have swallowed [her] up! Surely, this, is the day for which we have waited, We have found! We have seen!

¹² The time, hath come, The day, hath arrived, The buyer, let him not rejoice, and, The seller, let him not mourn,––For, indignation, is against all her multitude.

⁷ For, to the wind, they sow, and, to the whirlwind, they reap: stalk, hath it none, That which shooteth forth, shall yield no meal, If so be it yield, foreigners, swallow it lip,
⁸ Swallowed up, is Israel; Now, have they gone among the nations, like a vessel in which no man taketh, delight.

¹ Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation, like the peoples, for thou hast gone away unchastely from beside thy God,––thou hast loved a present, upon all the threshing–floors of corn!

⁴ Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land:

¹³ But alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye are locking up the kingdom of the heavens before men,––for, ye, are not entering, neither, them who are entering, suffer ye to enter.

²⁴ Blind guides! Straining out the gnat, but, the camel, swallowing.

⁸ Draw near unto God, and he will draw near unto you. Cleanse hands, sinners! Chasten hearts, double souls! ⁹ Be miserable and lament and weep, let, your laughter, into lamentation, be turned, and, your joy, into dejection;

³³ The fruit of thy soil, and all thy toilsome produce, shall a people whom thou knowest not, eat up,––and, thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed, all the days;

³ Behold me! testify against me, before Yahweh, and before his Anointed––Whose, ox, have I taken? or whose, ass, have I taken? or whom have I oppressed? Whom have I crushed? or at whose, hands, have I taken a bribe, to cover up mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it unto you. ⁴ And they said, Thou hast not oppressed us, neither hast thou crushed us,––neither hast thou taken, at the hand of any man, any thing.

¹⁹ Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying––Thus, saith Yahweh, Hast thou committed murder, and also taken possession? Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying: Thus, saith Yahweh, In the place where the dogs have lapped up the blood of Naboth, shall the dogs lap up thy blood, even thine.

¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught–of–his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

²⁷ Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence! ²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the noble–minded? And where the dwelling–tent of the lawless?

⁶ Surely then hast been wont to put thy brother in pledge, for nothing, and, the garments of the ill–clad, hast thou stripped off:

² Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume; ³ The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow; ⁴ They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves. ⁵ Lo! [as] wild asses in the wilderness, they go forth with their work, eager seekers for prey, the waste plain, yieldeth them food for their young; ⁶ In the field––a man’s fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries; ⁷ Ill–clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold; ⁸ With the sweeping rain of the mountains, are they wet, and, through having no shelter, they embrace a rock. ⁹ Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge; ¹⁰ Naked, they go about without clothing, and, famished, they carry the sheaves; ¹¹ Between their walls, are they exposed to the sun, Wine–presses, they tread, and yet are thirsty; ¹² Out of the city––out of the houses, they make outcry. and, the soul of the wounded, calleth for help, and, GOD, doth not regard it as foolish.

¹³ If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me, ¹⁴ What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him? ¹⁵ Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?
¹⁶ If I withheld––from pleasure––the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed; ¹⁷ Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her: ¹⁹ If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ²⁰ If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself; ²¹ If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help, ²² Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder–blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;

³⁸ If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep; ³⁹ If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;

⁹ By reason of the multitude of oppressions, [men] make outcry, They cry for help, by reason of the arm of the mighty;

¹⁸ To vindicate the fatherless and the crushed, A man of the earth, shall, no further, cause terror!

⁵ Because of violence done to the poor, because of the crying of the needy, Now, will I arise! O may Yahweh say,––I will place [him] in safety––let him puff at him!

³¹ The oppressor of the poor, hath reproached his Maker, but he that sheweth favour to the needy, is one who, holdeth Him in honour.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate; ²³ For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.

¹ Then again, I, considered all the oppressive deeds which were done under the sun,––and lo! the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter, and, on the side of their oppressing, is power, and they have no comforter.

⁸ If, the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of justice and righteousness, thou see in the province, do not be astonished over the matter,––for, one high above the highest, is watching, yea, the Most High, is over them.

⁷ Surely, the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts, is the house of Israel, And, the men of Judah, are the plantation in which he dearly delighted,––And he waited, For, equity, but lo! murderous iniquity, For the rule of right, but lo! the cry of the wronged.
⁸ Alas! for them who join house to house, Field to field, bring they near,––Until there is no room, But ye are left to dwell alone, in the midst of the land.

³⁴ To crush, under his feet, any of the prisoners of the earth;

²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice.

¹ Hear ye this word, ye heifers of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,––who say to their lords, Bring in, and let us drink! ² Sworn hath My Lord, Yahweh, by his own holiness, That lo! days, are coming upon you,––when he will take you away with hooks, and your followers with fishhooks; ³ And, through fissures, shall ye go out, every woman, straight before her,––and ye shall be thrust forth towards the castle, Declareth Yahweh.

² Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away,––and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance.

⁹ The wives of my people, ye do even drive out, each from the house of her darlings,––from over her children, ye do take away mine ornament, as long as life shall last.

⁶ Whereas, ye, have dishonoured the destitute man! Do not, the rich, oppress you? and, themselves, drag you into courts of justice?

¹³ For, the judgment, [will be] without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.

⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered:

¹³ Here was an incurable evil, I had seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof, to his hurt; ¹⁴ and those riches perish, by being ill employed,––and though he begetteth a son, yet is there in his hand nothing at all.

²⁰ But, the lawless, are like the sea when tossed,––For, rest, it cannot! But its waters toss out mire and dirt. ²¹ No, well–being, saith my God, to the lawless!

²⁹ He shall not be rich, nor shall his substance continue, neither shall their shadow stretch along on the earth;

¹⁹ Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

¹¹ [As] a partridge gathereth eggs she did not lay, [So] is he that maketh riches, but not with justice,––In the midst of his days, shall he leave them, And, in his latter end, prove to have been base.

²⁴ And, he, calling out, said––Father Abraham! have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue,––because I am in anguish in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said––Child! remember––That thou didst duly received thy good things in thy life, and, Lazarus, in like manner, the evil things; but, now, here, he is comforted, and, thou, art in anguish.

² And Yahweh sent against him troops of Chaldeans, and troops of Syrians, and troops of Moabites, and troops of the sons of Ammon, yea he sent them against Judah, to destroy him,––according to the word of Yahweh, which he spake through his servants the prophets.

¹⁵ when the Sabeans swooped down, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword,––and escaped am, only I alone, too tell thee.

¹⁷ Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said, The Chaldeans, appointed three chiefs, and spread out against the camels, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword; and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.

¹⁷ There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil–worn are at rest:

¹¹ GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.

⁷ The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;

⁵ Lo! as hand–breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life–time, is as nothing before thee,––Surely, a mere breath, are all men, [even] such as stand firm. [Selah.]

¹⁸ Therefore hated, I, all my toil, wherein I was toiling, under the sun,––in that I should leave it for the man who should come after me; ¹⁹ and who could know whether a, wise man, he would be or a foolish, and yet he would lord it over all my toil, wherein I had toiled and wherein I had acted wisely, under the sun,––even this, was vanity. ²⁰ Then resolved I, to give my heart over to despair,––concerning all the toil, wherein I had toiled, under the sun.

⁶ Against an irreligious nation, will I send him, Yea, against the people with whom I am wroth, will I command him,––To capture spoil, And lay hold on prey, And cause them to be trodden down as the mire of the lanes.

⁷ As much as she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give, unto her, torment and grief:––because, in her heart, she saith––I sit a Queen, and, widow, am I not, and, grief, in nowise shall I see!

²⁴ And, Yahweh, rained, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire,––from Yahweh, out of the heavens:

²³ So Moses stretched forth his staff over the heavens, and, Yahweh, gave forth thunderings and hail, and there came fire, towards the earth,––and Yahweh rained down hail, on the land of Egypt.

³³ The flesh, was yet between their teeth, not yet chewed,––when, the anger of Yahweh, had kindled upon the people, and Yahweh smote the people, with an exceeding great plague.

⁶ He will rain upon the lawless live–coals, Fire and brimstone and a burning wind, are the portion of their cup.

³⁰ They had not turned away from what they had longed for, Yet was their food in their mouth, ³¹ When, the anger of God, mounted against them, And he slew of their vigorous youths, And, the choice young men of Israel, caused he to bow down in death.

⁴ My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me,––My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling.

¹⁷ And he began to deliberate within himself, saying––What shall I do? because I have not where I can gather my fruits. ¹⁸ And he said––This, will I do,––I will pull down my barns, and, greater ones, build, and gather, there, all my wheat and good things; ¹⁹ and will say to my soul––Soul! thou hast many good things [lying by for many years: be taking thy rest, eat, drink,] be making merry! ²⁰ But God said unto him––Simple one! on this very night, they are asking, thy soul, from thee; The things, then, which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

³⁵ Teaching my hands, to war,––so that a bow of bronze was bent by mine arms;

³⁰ And they who were left fled to Aphek, into the city, and the wall fell upon twenty–seven thousand men who were left,––and, Ben–hadad, fled, and came into the city, into a chamber within a chamber.

²³ Until an arrow cleaveth his liver, as a bird hasteth into a snare, and knoweth not, that, for his life, it is!

¹⁸ So shall it be––He that fleeth from the sound of the terror, shall fall into the pit, And, he that getteth up out of the midst of the pit, shall be captured in the snare,––For, the windows on high, have opened, And shaken, are the foundations of earth.

⁴³ Terror, and pit, and snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, Declareth Yahweh: ⁴⁴ He that fleeth from the face of the terror, Shall fall into the pit, And, he that getteth up out of the pit, Shall be captured by the snare,––For I will bring against her––against Moab, The year of their visitation, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁹ As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and there should meet him––a bear! or he should have entered the house, and leaned his hand upon the wall, and there should bite him––a serpent!

¹ I saw My Lord stationed by the altar, and he said––Smite the capital––that the sills, may tremble, Yea break them off on the head of them all, and, the last of them, with the sword, will I slay,––He that fleeth of them, shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them, shall not make good his escape. ² Though they break through into hades, from thence, shall my hand fetch them,––and, though they ascend the heavens, from thence, will I bring them down; ³ And, though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, from thence, will I search for them and take them,––and, though they conceal themselves from before mine eyes at the bottom of the sea, from thence, will I command the serpent and he shall bite them;

⁴¹ If I whet my flashing sword, And my hand take hold on justice, I will return vengeance unto mine adversaries, And, them who hate me, will I requite:

¹⁴ And Joab said, Not thus, may I tarry before thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absolom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

⁴ For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

²¹ A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;

¹³ His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall:

¹¹ Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

²⁰ There shall reach him––like waters––terrors, By night, a storm–wind hath stolen him away;

¹² If he turn not, his sword, will he whet,––his bow, hath he bent, and made ready:

¹⁹ How have they become desolate, as in a moment! They have ceased––come to an end, by reason of calamities.

¹⁵ Afflicted have I been, and dying, from youth, I have borne the terror of thee––I shall be distracted!

³ And it came to pass, on the morrow, when Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah, out of the stocks,––that Jeremiah said unto him––Not Pashhur, hath Yahweh called thy name, But Magor–missaviv[=" Terror–round–about"]. ⁴ For, Thus, saith Yahweh––Behold me! making thee a [magor, i. e. a] terror to thyself and to all who love thee, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, thine own eyes also, beholding. And, all Judah, will I deliver into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and smite them with the sword.

¹¹ Knowing, then, the fear of the Lord, we persuade, men, but, unto God, are manifest,––I hope, moreover, even in your consciences, that we are manifest:

¹⁸ Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him; ¹⁹ Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

⁹ Thou wilt make them like a furnace of fire, at the time of thy presence,––Yahweh, in his anger, will swallow them up, and there shall consume them a fire:

⁹ Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow; ¹⁰ Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of their ruins; ¹¹ Let the creditor take aim at all that he hath, and let strangers prey on the fruit of his toil; ¹² Let him have no one to continue lovingkindness, and there be none to favour his fatherless children; ¹³ Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out; ¹⁴ Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped out; ¹⁵ Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.

⁴ The arrows of the hero sharpened, with burning coals of broom.

²² And, unto the land, shall they look hard, And lo! distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, driven away!

²⁰ As for them who go down to the stones of the Pit, Thou shalt not be united with them in burial; For, thy land, thou didst ruin, Thy people, didst slay,––Unnamed to times ago–abiding, Be the seed of the wicked! ²¹ Prepare––for his sons––shambles, For the iniquity of their fathers,––They shall not rise, nor possess the earth, Nor fill the face of the world with cities. ²² I will rise, Then, against them, Declareth Yahweh of hosts,––And will cut off from Babylon, Record and remnant, And scion and seed, Declareth Yahweh.

³³ For there hath been set in order, beforehand, a Topheth, Yea, the same, for the king, hath been prepared, He hath made it deep––made it large,––The circumference thereof is for fire and wood in abundance, The breath of Yahweh, like a torrent of brimstone, is ready to kindle it.

¹² Whose fan is in his hand, and he will clear out his threshing–floor,––and will gather his wheat into the granary, but, the chaff, will he burn up with fire unquenchable.

¹² Whereas, the sons of the kingdom, shall be cast forth into the darkness outside,––There, will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

¹³ Wild waves of sea, foaming out their own infamies, wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness age–abiding hath been reserved.

²⁸ Call together unto me, all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,––and let me speak in their hearing these words, and let me take to witness against them the heavens and the earth.

¹⁸ O earth! do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for mine outcry.

²⁰ If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner, ²¹ Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?

²¹ For lo! Yahweh, is coming forth out of his place, To visit the iniquity of earth’s inhabitant upon him,––Therefore shall the earth unveil her shed–blood, And throw a covering, no longer, over her slain.

²³ Because they have committed vileness in Israel, And have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbours, And have spoken, as a word in my name, a falsehood, which I commanded them not,––And, I, am one who knoweth––and a witness, Declareth Yahweh.

⁵ Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood,––and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.

² But, nothing, hath been, covered up, which shall not be uncovered, and hidden, which shall not be made known. ³ Because, as many things as, in the darkness, ye have said, in the light, shall be heard; and, what to the ear ye spake, in the chambers, shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

¹⁶ In the day on which God judgeth the secrets of men according to my glad–message through Christ Jesus.

⁵ So then, not before the fitting time, be judging anything,––until the Lord shall come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and, then, the praise shall come to each one, from God.

³¹ Thine ox slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof, Thine ass stolen from before thee, and shall not be restored to thee,––Thy flock given to thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save.

¹⁷ Lo! days are coming, when all that is in thine house, and that thy fathers have treasured up, unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon,––nothing shall be left, saith Yahweh;

⁵ Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

¹⁸ In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult! ¹⁹ For he hath oppressed––hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild. ²⁰ Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind,––With his dearest thing, shall he not get away: ²¹ Nothing escaped his devouring greed,––For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue: ²² When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.

³⁰ That, to the day of calamity, is the wicked reserved, to the day of indignant visitation, are they led.

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, for them, [there is] the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread; ¹⁵ His survivors, by pestilence, shall come to the grave, and, his widows, shall not weep; ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver like, dust, and, like a pile, he prepare clothing, ¹⁷ He may prepare, but, the righteous, shall put on, and, the silver, shall the innocent apportion. ¹⁸ He hath built, like a moth, his house,––like a hut, which a watcher hath made. ¹⁹ The rich man, shall lie down, and not do it again, his eyes, hath he opened, and then is not.

⁴ Wealth, shall not profit, in the day of wrath, but, righteousness, shall deliver from death.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor yet their gold, shall be able to deliver them, in the day of the indignation of Yahweh, but, in the fire of his jealousy, shall the whole earth be consumed; For, a destruction, surely a terrible one, will he make, with all them who dwell in the earth.

²⁶ For what shall a man be profited, though, the whole world, he gain, and, his life, he forfeit? Or what shall a man give, in exchange for his life?

¹ Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you: ² Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth–eaten,–– ³ Your gold and silver, have rusted away, and, their rust, shall be, witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as fire! Ye have laid up treasure in days of extremity:––

¹⁷ That, in one hour, hath been laid waste, such great wealth as this! And, every pilot, and every passenger, and mariners, and as many as, by the sea, carry on traffic, afar off did stand,

²⁰ Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, but, then, will the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy smoke against that man, and all the oath that is written in this scroll, shall settle down upon him,––and Yahweh wipe out his name from under the heavens; ²¹ and Yahweh single him out for calamity, out of all the tribes of Israel,––according to all the oaths of the covenant that is written in this scroll of the law. ²² So that the generation coming after––your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come in from a far–off land, will say––when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses thereof wherewith Yahweh hath made it sick: ²³ brimstone and salt, burning up all the land thereof, it shall not be sown, neither shall it shoot forth, neither shall there come up thereon any herbage,––like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrow in his anger and in his wrath: ²⁴ yea all the nations will say, For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land? what meaneth this great heat of anger? ²⁵ Then will men say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers,––which he solemnised with them, when he brought them forth, out of the land of Egypt; ²⁶ and went and served other gods, and bowed down to them,––gods which they had not known, and in which he had given them no share: ²⁷ therefore did the anger of Yahweh kindle upon that land,––to bring in upon it all the curse that is written in this scroll; ²⁸ and therefore hath Yahweh, rooted them out, from off their own soil, in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation,––and cast them into another land, as at this day.

²¹ Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.

¹³ This, is the portion of a lawless man with GOD, That, the heritage of tyrants––from the Almighty, he shall receive.

² Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?

⁵ Yahweh, putteth, the righteous, to the test,––But the lawless one and the lover of violence, his soul doth hate. ⁶ He will rain upon the lawless live–coals, Fire and brimstone and a burning wind, are the portion of their cup.

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High, Proceed there not misfortunes and blessing?

⁵¹ And will cut him asunder; and, his part, with the hypocrites, will appoint: There, shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth!