Job 36 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Then Elius proceeded further and said, ² Bear with me a little longer that I may teach thee: for I have still something further to say; ³ taking my knowledge from abroad and from my own works, ⁴ I will speak righteous things with truth, without considering in an unjust manner things which are unjust. ⁵ Know then that the Lord, who is mighty in power and wisdom; ⁶ will not reject the innocent, nor save the wicked: and that he will administer justice to the oppressed. ⁷ He will not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but will seat them at last with kings on a throne and they shall be exalted. ⁸ When they shall be bound with fetters or held with cords of affliction, ⁹ he will shew them their works and their transgressions, that they bear; ¹⁰ But he will hearken to what is just, and hath ordered them to turn from iniquity. ¹¹ If they hearken and serve; they shall end their days in prosperity and their years in the enjoyment of things convenient. ¹² But the impious he saveth not: because they would not know the Lord, and because, when they were admonished, they were disobedient, ¹³ the hypocrites in heart shall incur wrath: they will not cry because he bound them: ¹⁴ Let their soul therefore perish in youth and their life be wounded by angels. ¹⁵ Because they afflicted the weak and feeble, he will support the cause of the meek. ¹⁶ Though the abyss from the mouth of an enemy; ¹⁷ the overflow of that from underneath hath deceived thee; and thy table which was full of fatness hath fallen: yet the cause of the righteous shall not fail. ¹⁸ But there shall be wrath against the ungodly, on account of the wicked bribes which they received for injustice. ¹⁹ Let not the earnest entreaty of the weak in distress turn aside thee and all those in the exercise of authority. ²⁰ Do not spin out the night that crowds may come to their assistance. ²¹ But be careful not to do improper things: for by such a conduct thou wilt extricate thyself from distress. ²² Behold the Almighty will strengthen with his strength: for who is powerful as he? Or who can examine his works? ²³ Or who can say, He hath done unjust things? ²⁴ Remember that his works are greater than what men have attempted. ²⁵ Every man hath seen by himself how many mortals are wounded. ²⁶ Behold the Almighty is multifarious in operations beyond our comprehension. The number of his years are indeed infinite ²⁷ and by him the particles of rain can be counted. ²⁸ When they are collected into a cloud for rain, the heavens will pour down. But when the clouds cast a shade over the dumb creation he impressed a care on beasts, and they know the order for going to bed. ²⁹ At all these things is not thine understanding confounded? And is not thy heart starting from the body? Now though the outspread cloud be rushing together, to the whole extent of his pavilion, ³⁰ behold! with a clap of thunder he will expand it over him. He hath indeed covered the out branchings of the sea! ³¹ For with what he judgeth nations he can give food in abundance. ³² When with his hands he hath covered the light, and hath given provisional orders concerning food; ³³ the Lord will warn his friend that there is a portion also for injustice. Therefore

¹⁶ He shall speak to the people for thee and he shall be thy mouth and thou shalt be to him as the Oracle of God.

⁷ Are you not speaking in the presence of the Lord? ⁸ And do you in his presence utter deceit in a solemn manner? Or will you keep back any thing? Judge for yourselves.

³ Bear with me, and when I speak do not deride me.

⁶ Thou art formed out of clay, and so am I: we are both made of the same material.

³¹ Listen attentively, Job, and hear me: keep silence that I may speak. ³² If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak; for I wish thee to be justified. ³³ If not: hearken to me: keep silence and I will teach thee.

¹⁹ [J] Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt return I will reinstate thee; and in My presence thou shalt stand. And if thou wilt lead out the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth; and they shall turn to thee and thou shalt not turn to them.

⁷ therefore thou shalt deliver my words to them whether they hear or be affrighted.

²⁰ we therefore as ambassadors for Christ; as if God were exhorting by us, we, in behalf of Christ, intreat, "Be reconciled to God;

²² Now I beseech you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have sent it to you in brief.

⁴ He is God, his works are perfect; All his ways are acts of judgment; A faithful God; he doth no injustice; Righteous and holy is the Lord.

³ Will the Lord in judging pass an unrighteous judgment? Or will he who made all things pervert justice?

¹² But where is wisdom to be found? And where is the place of understanding? ¹³ A mortal knoweth not the way thereof; nor hath it indeed been found out by men.

²⁰ But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? ²¹ It hath escaped the knowledge of every man; and is hid from the birds of the air. ²² Destruction and death said, We have heard the fame of it. ²³ God is perfectly acquainted with its way and knoweth its place. ²⁴ For he surveyeth the whole world; and knoweth all on the earth;

² Then was kindled the wrath of Elius the son of Barachiel the Buzite, of the family of Earn, of the country of Ausitis. His wrath was kindled against Job to a high degree, because he had declared himself just before the Lord:

⁸ But there is a spirit in mortals; and it is the inspiration of the Almighty which teacheth.

⁵ For Job hath said, "I am righteous: the Lord hath removed from me the trial;

¹⁰ Therefore hearken to me, ye who are wise in heart. Far be it from me to be profane before the Lord; or before the Almighty to disturb the course of justice. ¹¹ "But he should render to every man according to each one's work; so that in his own paths every man may find him." ¹² But dost thou think that the Lord will do improper things? Or will the Almighty who made the earth, pervert judgment?

²³ For these things great is the glory and honour of the Almighty. As we cannot find another equal to him in majesty; dost thou not think that he who judgeth righteously will hear?

⁷ Because the Lord is righteous, therefore he loved righteousness; his countenance beheld uprightness.

¹⁷ The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and bountiful in all his works.

⁴ if thou wilt seek for it as silver; and search for it as for treasures; ⁵ then thou shalt understand the fear of the Lord; and find the knowledge of God.

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy?

⁷ To thee, Lord, belongeth righteousness; but to us confusion of face as at this day; to the man Juda and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel; and to those near and to them far off, in every land where thou hast scattered them for their breach of covenant of which they have been guilty.

¹⁴ the Lord hath indeed been watchful and hath brought upon us these things. For the Lord our God is righteous in every act of his which he hath done, and we have not hearkened to his voice.

¹ After the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold there came magians from the east2 to Jerusalem, ² saying, Where is he who is born to be king of the Jews? For we have seen his star at its rise, and are come to pay him homage.

⁴² The queen of the south will be raised up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the extremities of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold something greater than Solomon is here,

²⁷ So he arose and went. And lo! a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, a grandee of Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was her high treasurer, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸ and was on his return, was sitting in a chariot and reading the prophet Esaias. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and keep close to that chariot. ³⁰ So Philip ran close up and heard him reading the prophet Esaias. Whereupon he said, Dost thou understand what thou art reading? ³¹ To which he replied, How can I unless some one guide me? Then he invited Philip to come up and take a seat with him. ³² Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. ³³ In his humiliation his legal trial is taken away. Who will declare his manner of life? Because his life is taken from the earth. ³⁴ And the eunuch addressing Philip, said, Of whom, I pray thee, doth the prophet say this? Of himself or of some other person? ³⁵ Then Philip opened His mouth, and beginning with this scripture, told him the glad tidings of Jesus. ³⁶ And as they continued the journey, they came to a certain water. Whereupon the eunuch said, Behold! here is water. What hindereth my being baptized? ³⁷ And Philip said, If thou believest with thy whole heart, it may be done. To which he replied, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. ³⁸ Then he ordered the chariot to stop. And they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. ³⁹ And when they came up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord conveyed Philip away. And the eunuch saw him no more. For he proceeded on in his journey rejoicing, ⁴⁰ and Philip was found at Azotus. And passing on he proclaimed the glad tidings in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

²⁵ whom God heretofore exhibited as a mercy seat by faith in his blood, that, on account of the remission of past sins, during the forbearance of God, ²⁶ it might be an indication of this justification of his, pointing to a display of this justification of his at this time, in order to shew this, That he is just and the justifier of him who is a believer in Jesus.

¹⁴ What then shall we say"? Is there injustice with God? No by no means.

⁶ but the righteousness because of believing speaketh in this manner: Say not in thy heart, Who will ascend up to heaven [that is to bring Christ down]; ⁷ or who will go down to the abyss [that is to bring up Christ from the dead] ⁸ But what doth it say? The matter is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is, the matter of this belief, which we proclaim,

⁵ And if any of you wanteth wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.

¹⁷ Every good donation, and every perfect gift, is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will he hath impregnated us with a word of truth, that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁷ Now the wisdom which cometh from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

³ and they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord, God, Almighty; Just and true are thy ways O thou king of the saints;

⁴ Now you are all bad physicians and curers of maladies.

⁷ Are you not speaking in the presence of the Lord?

²⁷ I know you charge me with presumption,

³⁴ How then do ye comfort me with vanity? There is nothing from you to give me consolation.

⁶ Thou hast taken pledges of thy brethren for nought, and hast stripped the naked of their cloathing. ⁷ Thou hast not given drink to the thirsty: but hast robbed the hungry of their morsel. ⁸ Thou hast respected the persons of some and settled them in the land; ⁹ but hast sent widows away empty, and done injustice to orphans. ¹⁰ Therefore snares have beset thee, and an unexpected war hath made thee shudder. ¹¹ The light hath become darkness to thee, and water hath overwhelmed thee when asleep. ¹² Doth not he who dwelleth on high, observe; but hath he humbled the haughty? ¹³ Yes, thou hast said, How can the Almighty know? Can he judge in darkness? ¹⁴ A cloud is his covering, so that be cannot be seen, though he traverse the circuit of heaven. ¹⁵ Thou wilt not keep the ancient way, which righteous men trod, ¹⁶ who were borne aloft, and whose foundations were the surgy stream. As for them ¹⁷ who said, What can the Lord do to us, or what can the Almighty bring upon us? ¹⁸ [He, who had indeed filled their houses with good things, though the counsel of the wicked is far from him.] ¹⁹ When the righteous saw them, they smiled, and he who was blameless laughed them to scorn. ²⁰ Had not the whole of them disappeared, a fire would have consumed the residue. ²¹ Become hardened now, if thou remainest; and shalt thou be rewarded with good things? ²² Receive, I pray thee, from his mouth, the terms of deliverance, and lay up his words in thy heart. ²³ If thou wilt return and humble thyself before the Lord, having removed iniquity far from thy dwelling, ²⁴ thou shalt be placed on a mount, founded on a rock, and be like the rock of the torrent Sophir. ²⁵ Then will the Almighty be thy defence from enemies; and he will make thee pure as silver tried by fire. ²⁶ Then indeed thou shalt have confidence before the Lord; and mayst look up to heaven with cheerfulness. ²⁷ And when thou prayest to him, he will hearken to thee, and will enable thee to pay thy vows; ²⁸ and he will assign thee an habitation of righteousness, and light shall shine upon thy ways. ²⁹ Because thou hast humbled thyself, thou wilt say, Such a one was insolent; but he will save him whose eyes are lowly. ³⁰ He indeed will save the innocent. Save thyself therefore, with clean hands.

³ My words shall proceed from a pure heart; and the sentiments of my lips shall be pure.

¹⁶ That he knoweth the different purposes of clouds, and the miraculous fall of wicked men.

³ My mouth shall speak wisdom; and the meditation of my heart understanding.

⁷ For my mouth shall speak truth; lying lips are indeed abominable in my sight. ⁸ All the words of my mouth are with righteousness; they have nothing crooked; nothing deceitful in them.

²⁰ Write thou them for thyself three times over; for counsel and knowledge, on the table of thy heart. ²¹ For this purpose I teach thee sound doctrine and knowledge good to be listened to: that thou mayst answer them who propound to thee words of truth.

³ it seemed good to me. also, when I had accurately traced every thing from the very first, immediately afterwards to write to thee, most excellent Theophilus,

²² When Felix heard these things he put them off, saying, Having gained a more accurate knowledge of the things respecting this way when Lysias the commander comes down, I will inquire fully into your business.

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in your understandings; but be infants in malice; and in your understandings full grown men.

¹⁷ For we do not like the many, adulterate the word of God, but as men of sincerity, but as men of God, in the presence of God in Christ we speak.

¹² Epaphras who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always in his prayers making the most fervent supplications for you, that you may stand perfect and confirmed in all the will of God.

¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for reformation, for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly fitted for every good work.

¹⁴ But if he will come to a trial with me, or will take cognisance of my affairs;

¹⁹ For because he is strong, he prevaileth. Who then can withstand his decrees?

³ Is it agreeable to thee that I should commit iniquity; seeing thou hast rejected the works of thy hands; and favoured the counsel of the wicked?

¹³ With him is wisdom and power; with him counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ If he demolish who can rebuild? If he shut against men, who can open? ¹⁵ If he withhold water he drieth the earth. And when he let it loose, he overthrew and destroyed it, ¹⁶ With him is strength and power; with him knowledge and understanding.

¹² By his power he calmed the sea; and by his knowledge the monster was overthrown. ¹³ The bars of heaven were terrified at him; and by a decree he doomed to death the apostate dragon. ¹⁴ Behold these are parts of his ways. But let us hear the least breath of reason for him. As for the strength of his thunder; who knoweth when he shall employ it?

¹³ If I have slighted the cause of my man servant or maid servant when they had a controversy with me,

²⁴ for he hath not slighted, nor abhorred the prayer of the distressed; nor turned away his face from me: but hearkened to me when I cried to him.

⁴ As the honour of a king loveth judgment; thou hast provided rules of rectitude; and executed judgment and justice in Israel.

⁶ For the Lord is high and looketh down on the things which are low: and from afar he knoweth the things which are high.

⁵ Great is our Lord and great his power; and infinite in his understanding.

¹² It is the Lord who made the earth by his power, who established the World by his wisdom: and by his understanding spread out the heaven,

¹⁹ Thou art the God, the Great, the Mighty One, the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in works, the Mighty Omnipotent God, and the Lord of great renown. Thine eyes are on the ways of the children of men to give to every one according to his way.

²⁴ but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God; ²⁵ because this foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and this weak thing of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ For observe, brethren, this call of you, that there are not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many of illustrious birth; ²⁷ but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world God hath made choice of to put to shame the strong ²⁸ and the ignoble of this world, and those of no account, God hath chosen; nay, the very nothings, to put a stop to the operation of the things which are,

²² A widow and an orphan you shall not afflict. ²³ If you in anywise afflict them and they cry to me, I will hear their voice ²⁴ and my wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

¹⁵ and that they may perish in battle, and the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.

²² and their enemies shall be clothed with shame; and the dwellings of the wicked shall come to naught.

⁷ Why do the wicked live and grow old, abounding in wealth? ⁸ Their crops are to their wish, and their children before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses flourish and they have no dread; and a scourge from the Lord is not upon them.

³⁰ Because the wicked is reserved for a day of destruction: let them be carried to prison for the day of his indignation.

¹² for I saved the poor from the hand of the mighty; and assisted the orphan who had no helper. ¹³ The blessing of him who was perishing came upon me: and the mouth of the widow blessed me. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness and cloathed myself with justice as with a mantle. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to those in distress; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous; and plucked the prey from betwixt their teeth.

¹² for in making inquisition for blood, he had them in remembrance; he forgot not the prayer of the distressed.

¹⁴ Thou seest [for thou observest mischief and wrath]; That they have delivered themselves into thy hands. To thee the poor hath committed himself; Thou art the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break the arm of the sinful and malicious man. Let his sin be sought out till no more can be found.

²³ But thou, O God, wilt drag them down to the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days. But as for me I will trust in thee, Lord.

⁴ Let him judge righteously such of the people as are distressed; and save the children of the needy: and humble oppressors:

¹² Because he delivered the poor from the oppressor, and the needy who had no helper: ¹³ he will spare the afflicted and needy; and save the lives of those in distress; ¹⁴ from usury and injustice he will redeem their lives; and their name will be precious in his sight:

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD standeth in the assembly of gods and in the midst he judgeth gods. ² [J] How long will you judge unjustly; and respect the persons of sinners? [[J] Jehovah [p] the prophet or psalmist.] ³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy and deliver the afflicted out of the sinner's hand.

¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the needy:

²² Oppress not the needy because he is poor: nor treat with disrespect at the gates one who is weak. ²³ For the Lord will judge his cause; and thou shouldst preserve thy life safe and secure.

⁴ but he will administer justice to the lowly, and work conviction in the meek of the earth. And he will smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with a breath from his lips destroy the wicked.

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy? ² Thou hast planted them and they have taken root, they have generated and produced fruit. Thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.

⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from, temptation, and to reserve the wicked to the day of judgment, to be punished;

⁶ Nay, Sir, rather hearken to us. Thou art a king from God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury thy dead; for there is none of us who will deny thee his tomb to bury there thy dead.

⁴⁰ Thou shalt be over my household and to thy command all my people shall pay obedience. Only on the throne will I be greater than thou.

⁸ He lifteth up the needy from the ground; And raiseth the beggar from a dunghill; To seat them among a people's princes; And he causeth them to possess a throne of glory.

¹³ He shall build a house for my name, and I will raise up again his throne for ever. ¹⁴ I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And when his iniquity shall come, I will correct him with a rod of men, and with scourges of the children of men, ¹⁵ but I will not withdraw my mercy from him as I withdrew it from them whom I removed from my presence. ¹⁶ His house and his kingdom shall be established for ever before me and his throne shall be raised up again for ever.

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord look throughout the whole earth, to strengthen them whose heart is perfect towards him. In this matter thou hast acted foolishly. Henceforward thou shalt have war.

³ Now Mordecai was viceroy of king Artaxerxes, and was great in the kingdom, and being honoured by the Jews and beloved, he enforced the observance of their religion on all his nation. And Mordecai said, These things have been done by God; for I remember the dream I had concerning these matters, and not one particular has failed [to occur]. A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water. This river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen; and the two dragons are myself and Haman. And the nations were those that gathered to destroy the name of the Jews; and my nation is Israel, they that cried unto God and were delivered. For the Lord hath delivered His people, and the Lord hath saved us from all these evils. And God hath wrought signs and great wonders that have not been performed among the gentiles. Therefore hath he ordained two lots; one for the people of God and another for all the gentiles. And these two lots came in an hour and time and day of judgment before the face of God, and for all nations. And God remembered His people, and vindicated His inheritance. And they shall observe those days in the month Adar-the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month-with an assembly, and joy and gladness before God, among His people Israel throughout the generations forever. In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheos, who said he was a priest and a Levite, and his son, Ptolemy, brought this published epistle of Phrurai, which they said was the same [as the original by Mordecai], and which Lysimachos, the son of Ptolemy [Dositheos' son], had interpreted.

³ His attendants were numerous, and his works great in the country. He was also a man of illustrious birth, among the people of the east.

¹² And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than the former; so that his stock was fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand breeding asses.

¹⁸ Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them who fear him; on them who confide in his mercy;

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous: and his ears are open to their prayer.

⁷⁰ and he chose David his servant and took him from the flocks of sheep; ⁷¹ he took them from tending the ewes with young to feed his servant Jacob and Israel his inheritance. ⁷² And he fed them in the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skill of his hands.

⁷ at bad news he will not be terrified: his heart is prepared to trust in the Lord. ⁸ His heart is established, he could not be terrified; even when he beheld his enemies. ⁹ He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; his righteousness shall endure forever. His horn shall be gloriously exalted: ¹⁰ the wicked shall see and be enraged. Let him gnash his teeth and pine away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.

⁷ Who raiseth the distressed from the ground, and lifteth the needy from a dunghill: ⁸ to seat him with princes; with the chiefs of his people.

¹⁷ The Lord thy God is with thee. The Mighty one will save thee. He will bring thee gladness and renew thee in his love; and rejoice over thee with joy as in the day of a festival;

³ But the Lord is faithful, and will establish you, and guard you from the wicked one:

¹² Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their prayers: But the face of the Lord is against them who do evil."

²⁷ and put my feet in a clog and watched all my doings; and hast tracked the soles of my feet.

⁶ Know then, That it is the Lord who hath terrified me, and raised his bulwark against me.

¹⁸ and hath rescued his soul from death; and hath not suffered him to fall in battle. ¹⁹ Again he hath rebuked him with sickness on a bed, and benumbed all his bones;

⁵ The pangs of Hades surrounded me, and the snares of death were before me.

¹⁰ As for them who sat in darkness and the shadow of death; bound with affliction and irons;

³ The pangs of death encompassed me; the perils of Hades found me: I met with distress and sorrow:

²² Iniquities hunt a man; but every one is caught by the cords of his own sins.

⁹ He walled up my ways; he blocked up my paths;

²¹ but with me the Lord God was angry for the things spoken by you, and he solemnly said that I should not cross this Jordan, and that I should not enter that land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession. ²² For I am to die in this land, and not to cross that Jordan; but you are to cross it. When you shall possess that good land,

¹¹ the Lord brought against them the chiefs of the army of the king of Asur, and they took Manasses, and having bound him with chains and fetters they carried him to Babylon. ¹² And when he was afflicted he sought the favour of the Lord his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and prayed to him, and he hearkened to him and heard his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. So Manasses knew that the Lord himself is God.

² and say to the Lord, Teach me not to be impious. Now, for what cause hast thou thus condemned me?

²⁵ Because he lifted up his hands against the Lord, and hardened his neck against the Lord Almighty:

¹⁰ Judge them, God; let them fall for their devices: according to the multitude of their crimes cast them out; because they have provoked thee, Lord.

¹² Happy the man, whom thou, O Lord wilt instruct; and whom thou wilt teach out of thy law;

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; for this cause I have kept thy word.

⁷¹ It is good for me that thou hast humbled me: that I might learn thy rules of rectitude.

¹² For our manifold iniquity is before thee; and our sins are risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our transgressions.

³⁹ Why should a living man murmur; a man for his sin offering? ⁴⁰ Our way hath been searched and tried; let us then return to the Lord.

²⁸ He hath turned away from all his wicked acts which he committed; he shall surely live; he shall not die. ²⁹ Yet the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not straight. Is not my way straight, house of Israel? Is it not your way which is not straight? ³⁰ I will judge you, saith the Lord, house of Israel, every one according to his way. Be converted and turn from all your acts of wickedness, and they shall not bring upon you the punishment of iniquity. ³¹ Cast away from you all your impious acts; which you have impiously committed against me; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: now why do you die, house of Israel,

¹⁷ At length, coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing with hunger? ¹⁸ I will rise and go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, ¹⁹ and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

²⁰ Now the law came in a little way, so that transgression abounded, but where sin abounded, favour superabounded,

³² And being judged, we are corrected by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

¹⁵ This is a faithful word and worthy of all acceptation, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am a chief;

¹³ And though the Lord testified to Israel and to Juda by the ministry of all his prophets; of every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes and all my law which I enjoined on your fathers, and which I sent them by the ministry of my servants the prophets;

¹⁶ then doth he open the understanding of men. ¹⁷ With such appearances of terror he frighted them, to turn man away from iniquity. Again he hath saved his body from a fall, ¹⁸ and hath rescued his soul from death; and hath not suffered him to fall in battle. ¹⁹ Again he hath rebuked him with sickness on a bed, and benumbed all his bones; ²⁰ so that he cannot take any nourishment, [though his soul longeth for food] ²¹ until his flesh become rotten, and he can show his bones bare. ²² When his soul hath come near to death, and his life near to the mansion of the dead, ²³ though there may be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them can mortally wound him.

¹⁵ Because they afflicted the weak and feeble, he will support the cause of the meek.

⁶ Sacrifice and offerings thou didst not desire, but preparedst for me a body; whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin thou didst not require.

²² "While the innocent adhere to justice they shall not be put to shame: but as for fools who delight in mischief, having become wicked they hated knowledge and are become liable to censures. ²³ Behold I will pour forth to you the dictate of my spirit: and teach you this word of mine;

⁴ "To you, men, I call, and utter my voice to the sons of men. ⁵ Ye who are innocent learn discretion: and ye who are uninstructed give attention.

⁴ "Whosoever is simple, let him come to me." And to them who want understanding she saith, ⁵ "Come, eat of my bread and drink the wine which I have mixed for you. ⁶ Forsake folly, that you may reign forever: and seek prudence and build up understanding with knowledge."

¹⁶ Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; in my presence, cease from your evil deeds; ¹⁷ learn to do good; seek judgment; deliver him who is injured; administer justice to the orphan, and plead the cause of the widow: ¹⁸ then come: [let our controversy be brought to issue, saith the Lord] and though your sins be as a purple stain; I will make you white as snow; though they be as a stain of scarlet; I will make you white as wool. ¹⁹ If you indeed be willing and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land: ²⁰ but if you refuse and hearken not to me, the sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these words."

⁸ Thou didst neither know nor didst thou believe, nor did I from the beginning open thine ear: for I knew that, being in rebellion, thou wilt continue to rebel and wilt still be called a transgressor from the womb.

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord who hath redeemed thee, the Holy One of Israel, I am thy God. I pointed out to thee, how to find the way in which thou shouldst walk.

⁵ And the instruction of the Lord, Lord openeth mine ears and I am not rebellious, nor do I gainsay.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord; and when you find him call upon him. And when he draweth near to you; ⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

³ For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up for yourselves fallow grounds and sow not among thorns: ⁴ be circumcised for your God and circumcise the stubbornness of your hearts, O men of Juda and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath break out like a fire and burn; and there be none to quench it, because of the wickedness of your devices.

³ thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: amend your ways and your pursuits: and I will cause you to dwell in this place. ⁴ Trust not in yourselves; in lying words: for you will derive no benefit from them who say, "The temple of the Lord! it is the temple of the Lord!" ⁵ For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your pursuits, and actually execute judgment between man and man: ⁶ and do not oppress the stranger and orphan and widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after strange gods to your hurt: ⁷ then will I cause you to dwell in this place; [in the land which I gave to your fathers] from age to age.

¹ [p] Israel, return to the Lord thy God. Seeing they have been weakened for thine iniquities,

⁸ Produce therefore fruits worthy of this reformation,

¹⁹ Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be blotted out, that seasons of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord;

¹⁴ And a certain woman, named Lydia, a dealer in purple, of the city of Thyatira, a worshipper of God, was listening. The Lord had opened her heart to attend to the things which were spoken by Paul.

³⁰ God indeed having overlooked the ages of this ignorance; now maketh proclamation to all men every where to reform,

⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

³⁰ In thy affliction, when all these things have come upon thee in the latter days, when thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice;

¹³ For if thou hast made thy heart pure, and lift thy hands to him: ¹⁴ if there be any iniquity in thy hand, put it far from thee; and let not injustice lodge in thy dwelling. ¹⁵ For thus will thy countenance brighten like pure water: thou wilt disrobe thyself of filth, and no more be terrified: ¹⁶ thou shalt forget thy trouble like a wave that is past and not be afraid; and thy wish will spring up like the morning star; ¹⁷ and life will arise for thee from noon day: ¹⁸ and thou shalt be in a state of security because thou hast hope. And out of sorrow and care, peace will shine upon thee. ¹⁹ For thou shalt rest at ease, and none shall be at war with thee: and many, changing their conduct, will intreat thy favour.

¹¹ They abide continually like a flock, and their little ones frolick about them.

²¹ Become hardened now, if thou remainest; and shalt thou be rewarded with good things?

²³ If thou wilt return and humble thyself before the Lord, having removed iniquity far from thy dwelling,

² The same event happeneth to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; to the clean and to the unclean; to him who sacrificeth and to him who sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; as is he who sweareth, so is he who feareth the oath. ³ There is this evil in every thing done under the sun, that one event happeneth to them all, so that the heart of the children of men being filled with evil there is an instability in their heart during their life, and it followeth them to the dead.

¹⁹ If you indeed be willing and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land:

²³ but only gave them this charge saying, "Hearken to my voice and I will be your God and you shall be my people; and walk in all my ways which I command you that it may be well with you."

¹³ Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to the voice of the Lord; and the Lord will refrain from all the evils which he hath denounced against you.

¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that though you were slaves of sin, yet from the heart you have conformed to the mould of doctrine in which you were cast,

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called, shewed obedience by going to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and set out on his journey not knowing whither he was going.

⁵ You have lived luxuriously on the earth. You have indulged voluptuousness. You have pampered your hearts, as on a day of public feasting.

⁷ In proportion to her ostentation and luxury inflict on her torment and grief. Because she saith in her heart, I am enthroned a queen and am not a widow, and shall not see sorrow;

¹⁵ The Lord thy God will raise up for thee, from among thy brethren, a prophet like me; to him you shall hearken. ¹⁶ According to all that thou didst request of the Lord thy God at Choreb, in the day of the solemn assembly, when you said, Let us no more hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and let us no more behold this great fire, lest we die, ¹⁷ the Lord then said to me, They have spoken right in all that they have said to thee: ¹⁸ I will raise up for them, from among their brethren, a prophet like thee, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them as I command him: ¹⁹ and whosoever will not hearken to what that prophet shall speak in my name, I will execute vengeance on him. ²⁰ But the prophet who shall wickedly presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall be put to death. ²¹ Now if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall I know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? ²² When the things which that prophet hath spoken in the name of the Lord shall not happen, nor come to pass, the Lord hath not spoken that word. The prophet hath spoken wickedly. You shall not spare him.

¹⁵ but both with those who are here this day, with you before the Lord your God, and with those who are not here with you this day. ¹⁶ Inasmuch as you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and have seen, as we passed through the nations, through which you passed, ¹⁷ their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them; ¹⁸ is there any man among you, or any woman, or family, or tribe, whose understanding hath turned them from the Lord your God, to go and serve the gods of those nations? Is there any such root among you, springing up for gall and bitterness? ¹⁹ Now in case any one shall hear the words of this curse, and bless himself in his heart, saying, Good luck betide me! I will walk in the error of my own heart, that the sinner may not involve the guiltless in ruin with himself. ²⁰ God will not be propitious to him, but most assuredly the anger of the Lord, and his indignation, will then be kindled against that man; and all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book, shall cleave to him; and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

²¹ Because they could not help themselves they were destroyed. For he blowed on them and they withered: they perished because they had not wisdom.

²² Let him not hope to return out of darkness; for he is already doomed to the edge of the sword;

²⁰ but if you refuse and hearken not to me, the sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these words."

¹¹ Alas for the wicked! according to the works of his hands evils shall befal him. my people!

²¹ therefore Jesus said to them again, I am. going away, and you will seek me and die in your sins. Whither I go you cannot come. ²² Upon this, the Jews said, Will he kill himself, that he saith, Whither I go you cannot come? ²³ Then he said to them, You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world; ²⁴ therefore I said to you, You will die in your sins: for if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.

⁸ but for them who are contentious and disobedient to the truth and in subjection to unrighteousness, there will be indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who doth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

¹⁴ Behold you are risen up in your fathers' stead, a set of sinful men, to augment the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

¹³ and said to them, You shall not bring these captives here to us, for that would be to bring your guilt on us. Because you have sinned against the Lord, do you mean to lay it on us, to add to our sins and to heighten our folly, because our sins are many, and the fervent anger of the Lord is hanging over Israel?

²² but only added to his distress, and contributed to his apostacy from the Lord. For king Achaz said,

⁴ Hast thou not cast off fear, and used such arguments before the Lord?

⁸ Now whatever hope a wicked man hath, that he persisteth; shall he who hath trusted in the Lord be indeed safe? ⁹ Or will God hear his prayer? Or when trouble cometh upon him, ¹⁰ hath he any assurance before him? Or upon his calling, will he hearken to him?

⁹ On the account of a multitude, they who are falsely accused will scream: They will call aloud because of the arm of many, ¹⁰ but none said, where is the God who made me;

⁸ When they shall be bound with fetters or held with cords of affliction,

¹² Companion, how camest thou hither without having on a wedding garment. And he was struck speechless. ¹³ Then the king said to the attendants, Bind his hands and feet and carry him out and cast him into the outer darkness. Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there.

⁵ Indeed according to this obduracy, and impenitent heart of thine thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against a day of the wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁵ And they called out Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to thee this night? Bring them out to us that we may know them.

²⁴ and the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorra brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. ²⁵ And he overthrew these cities, and all the circumjacent country, and all the inhabitants of those cities, and all the productions of the ground.

⁷ But Er the first born of Judas was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and God slew him. ⁸ Whereupon Judas said to Aunan, Go in unto thy brother's wife and be a husband to her and raise up a seed for thy brother. ⁹ But when Aunan knew that the seed would not be his, it came to pass that when he went in unto his brother's wife he shed it on the ground; that he might not give seed to his brother. ¹⁰ And it appeared evil in the sight of God that he had done this, therefore he caused him also to die.

¹ and the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abiud, having taken each his censer, laid fire on it, and threw incense thereon, and presented before the Lord strange fire, which the Lord had not ordered them; ² upon which a fire darted forth from the Lord, and destroyed them, and they died before the Lord.

¹⁷ There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a whoremonger of the sons of Israel.

³² Let his branch lopped unseasonably, die; and let not his young shoot flourish.

²³ One is to die in his full strength, all his life being successful and prosperous; ²⁴ his entrails are cloathed with fat, and his bones abound with marrow. ²⁵ Another dieth with bitterness of soul, having never tasted any thing good.

¹⁶ who were borne aloft, and whose foundations were the surgy stream. As for them

⁸ Nevertheless they shall be servants, that they may know my service and the service of the kings of the earth.

¹⁰ But he will hearken to what is just, and hath ordered them to turn from iniquity.

⁸ I am fenced about and cannot get out. Before me he hath placed darkness.

¹⁰ And the Lord increased Job. upon his making supplication for his friends, the Lord forgave them their sins, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. ¹¹ When all his brethren and his sisters heard what had befallen him, they came to him, together with all those who were formerly acquainted with him, and having eaten and drank at his house, they comforted him, and expressed their amazement at all that the Lord had brought upon him. And every one presented him a lamb, and a quarter of a drachm of gold bullion. ¹² And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than the former; so that his stock was fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand breeding asses. ¹³ And he had seven sons born to him, and three daughters, the eldest of whom he called Hemera, and the second Kasia, ¹⁴ and the third Amalthaiakeres. ¹⁵ And in all the land there were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. ¹⁶ And Job lived after this affliction a hundred and seventy years. So that all the years which he lived were two hundred and forty. And Job saw his children and his children's children, to the fourth generation, ¹⁷ and died an old man and full of days. And it is written that he will rise again with them whom the Lord raiseth up. This is translated out of a book in the Syrian language: For he dwelt in the land of Ausitis, on the confines of Idumea and Arabia. His first name was Jobab, and having married an Arabian woman, he had by her a son whose name was Ennon. Now he himself was a son of father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and his mother"s name was Bosorra: so that he was the fifth in descent from Abraham. Now these were the kings who reigned in Edom, over which country he also bore rule. The first was Balak, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dannaba. And after Balak, Jobab, who is called Job; and after him, Asom who was general from the region of Thaimanitis; and after him, Adad, son of Barad, who smote Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And the friends who came to Job were Eliphaz, of the sons of Esau, the king of the Thaimanites; Baldad, the sovereign of the Saucheans, and Sophar, the king of the Minaians.

¹⁹ and brought me out to a large place. He will deliver me because he delighted in me.

⁵ Thou hast spread a table before me; in the presence of them who afflict me. With oil thou hast anointed my head; and thine exhilarating cup is the very best.

⁸ hast not shut me up into an enemy's hand; hast set my feet in a roomy place.

⁸ With the fatness of thy house they shall be plentifully fed; and thou wilt give them for drink, the full flowing stream of thy pleasures:

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. I Waited patiently for the Lord and he attended to me and heard my prayer: ² and brought me up from a horrible pit and from miry clay; and set my feet on a rock and directed my steps, ³ and put in my mouth a new song; a hymn to our God. Many will see and be struck with awe, and trust in the Lord.

⁵ Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: that my joyful lips may praise thy name.

⁵ Because of affliction I called on the Lord, and he heard me for enlargement.

⁶ then will the Lord of Hosts make provision for all the nations. On this mount they shall drink gladness:

² Why are you expending money and labour for that which will not satisfy? Hearken to me and you shall eat good things; and your soul will be regaled with delicacies.

¹⁴ therefore behold I will cause her to wander, and order her to a wilderness and speak to her heart.

⁵ And should there be strength in my mouth; would I not spare moving my lips?

¹¹ The light hath become darkness to thee, and water hath overwhelmed thee when asleep.

⁸ who hath neither sinned, nor been guilty of impiety; nor associated with the workers of iniquity to walk with impious men?

³⁶ Therefore let Job learn and no more make reply like the foolish;

³² Some having recognised God's law, That they who do such things deserve death, not only do the same things themselves, but have even a complacency in them who commit them;

⁴ And I heard another voice out of heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that you may not partake of her sins and that you may not receive of her punishments.

²⁴ If he determine in his heart to turn to the Lord, when he shall have shewn man his charge against him, and pointed out to him his folly, he will support him, that he may not fall to death,

⁵ Then will he speak to them in his wrath and trouble them with his sore displeasure.

¹² Keep fast hold of instruction; the Lord may be angry and you may perish out of the right way. When his anger suddenly blazeth forth, happy are all they who have trusted in him.

¹⁰ Remove thy scourges from me: by the blow of thy hand I fainted.

⁷ A brother is not redeemed. Is a man to redeem himself? ⁸ He cannot give to God an atonement for himself; and the price for the redemption of his life:

⁵ The Lord at thy right hand hath crushed kings in the day of his wrath.

⁶ He smote a nation in wrath with an incurable wound; he smote a nation with a vengeful wound which did not spare. The confidant is gone to rest;

¹⁶ Son of man, Behold I take from thee the desires of thine eyes with a stroke. Thou must not mourn, nor utter lamentation.

⁷ And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them," Brood of vipers! who hath prompted you to flee from the impending wrath.

¹⁸ for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of the men, who by unrighteousness repress truth.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain discourses; for on the account of these things the wrath of God is coining on these children of disobedience,

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all; as the testimony for his own times;

³ how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which was first published by the Lord, and confirmed for us by them who heard him,

¹³ For he himself slighted anger; by him the monsters under heaven were bowed down.

²⁰ But it should be in vain for them to cry or to entreat a man, for they behaved wickedly in turning aside the weak.

¹⁶ A king is not saved because of a numerous army: nor can a giant be saved by his abundant strength. ¹⁷ A horse is a false thing for safety; nor can he with all his power save himself.

² Treasures cannot profit the wicked; but righteousness will deliver from death.

⁴ [Omitted]

²¹ He who wickedly joineth hand to hand shall not go unpunished: but he who soweth righteousness shall receive a just reward.

²⁰ For on that day men will cast to the bats their abominations both of silver and gold, which they made to worship vanities;

³⁶ Thereupon Sennacherim king of the Assyrians retreated and went and dwelt in Ninive.

¹⁸ . And their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of the indignation of the Lord. By the fire of his zeal the whole land shall be consumed, for he will bring speedy destruction on all the inhabitants of this land.

³ Your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and corrode your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.

²⁹ And when they had so done, it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharao, who sat on the throne to the first born of the captive in the dungeon, and even the first born of all the cattle.

³⁵ Accordingly in the night an angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when they rose early in the morning, behold all these were dead corpses.

²⁰ For why is light given to them in misery; or life to souls distressed with sorrow, ²¹ who long for death but find it not; though they dig for it as for treasures;

⁹ Let the Lord, having begun, wound me, but not utterly destroy me.

¹⁵ Wilt thou drive away my life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death?

¹³ O! that thou hadst kept me in the mansion of the dead; and hid me till thine indignation should cease: and that thou wouldst set me a time when thou wouldst remember me;

¹³ For though I have waited patiently, the mansion of the dead is to be my house, and my bed is made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called on death to be my father; and on corruption to be my sister and mother.

²⁵ "As he knoweth their works: he should bring on night and they should be humbled.

³² A wicked man shall be driven away by his wickedness; but in his sanctity the righteous is secure.

³ When the clouds are filled with rain they empty themselves on the earth: and if a tree falleth, whether it be to the south or north, in the place where it shall fall there it shall be.

³⁰ And that very night Baltasar the Chaldean king was slain,

²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

²⁵ to take the share of this ministration and apostleship which Judas abandoned to go to his own place,"

² for you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord cometh as a thief at night. ³ For whilst they are saying, there is peace and safety, sudden destruction is then upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they cannot escape.

⁷ What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water; ⁸ who hath neither sinned, nor been guilty of impiety; nor associated with the workers of iniquity to walk with impious men? ⁹ For thou shouldst not say, There shall be no visitation of man. He shall indeed have a visitation from the Lord.

³ Or wilt thou say, "What can I do if I sin?"

¹⁸ If I have regarded iniquity in my heart; let not the Lord hearken.

⁴ Therefore speak to them, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Be the man who he may of the house of Israel, who giveth his imagination the rule over his understanding, when he hath set before his eyes the punishment of his iniquity, and cometh to a prophet: I the Lord will answer him by the things with which his mind is entangled,

¹⁶ In reply to this, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago said to the king Nabuchodonosar, We are at no loss to answer thee in respect to this matter. ¹⁷ For our God in heaven, whom we worship, is able to deliver us out of the furnace of fire which is heated, and he will deliver us, king, out of thy hands. ¹⁸ But even though he do not, be it known to thee, king, that we cannot serve thy gods, nor will we worship the image which thou hast set up.

¹⁰ Now when Daniel knew that the decree was passed, he went home and the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem were opened for him, and three times a day, kneeling down on his knees, he prayed and gave thanks before his God as he had done heretofore.

²⁹ Therefore if thy right eye cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee to lose one of thy members, than that thy whole body be cast into a vale of fire. ³⁰ And if thy right hand causeth thee to stumble, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee to lose one of thy members, than that thy whole body be cast into a vale of fire.

²¹ but not having it rooted in him, it is only temporary; and when tribulation and persecution cometh on account of the word, he is immediately stumbled.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples if any one wisheth to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

⁴⁰ So to him they agreed: and having called in the apostles and scourged them, they charged them not to speak about the name of Jesus and dismissed them. ⁴¹ Thereupon they went from the presence of the Sanhedrim, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

²⁵ chusing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

¹⁷ For if it be the will of God that you should suffer, it is better that you should suffer as well doers than as evil doers.

¹⁵ For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or a malefactor, or as a usurper of authority; ¹⁶ and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this respect.

⁷ The Lord impoverished, and maketh rich; He humbleth, and he exalteth on high. ⁸ He lifteth up the needy from the ground; And raiseth the beggar from a dunghill; To seat them among a people's princes; And he causeth them to possess a throne of glory.

¹¹ who regulateth the watches of the night; who distinguisheth me from the beasts of the earth and from the birds of the air?

⁷ for God is judge; he humbleth one and he exalteth another.

¹⁰ Will not he, who chastiseth nations, reprove? He who teacheth man knowledge?

⁵ The Lord hath broken the yoke of the sinners; the yoke of the rulers.

¹³ even thy sons, all instructed of God; and thy children in great prosperity.

⁵ As I have made the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm, I can give it to whom it seemeth good in mine eyes. ⁶ I have given this land to Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon to serve him, and the beasts of the field to work for him. ⁷ [Omitted] ⁸ And the nation and the kingdom; all who will not submit their neck to the yoke of the king of Babylon, them I will visit with sword and famine, said the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.

³⁸ Thus said the Lord who hath given the sun to enlighten the day and the moon and stars to enlighten the night, and hath caused the sea to roar and its billows to resound, the Lord Almighty is his name; Behold days are coming, saith the Lord, when a city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of the corner;

²⁵ Thou wilt be driven from among men; and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they will feed thee with grass like an ox; and thou shalt lodge in the dew of heaven; and seven seasons shall revolve over thee, till thou be made sensible that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will.

³² and thou shalt be driven from among men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they shall feed thee with grass like an ox; and seven seasons shall revolve over thee, that thou mayst know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will.

¹⁸ O king, God, the Most High gave to Nabuchodonosar thy father this kingdom and majesty and glory and honour.

⁵² From thrones he hath hurled potentates, and exalted them of low degree.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, They shall be all taught of God. Every one therefore who hath heard and learned from the Father, cometh to me.

¹ Let every soul be subject to the ruling powers; for there is no power but from God. The powers in being are arranged by God;

¹⁰ Therefore hearken to me, ye who are wise in heart. Far be it from me to be profane before the Lord; or before the Almighty to disturb the course of justice.

¹³ Now who is this maker of the World and of all the things therein? ¹⁴ For were it his pleasure to confine, and keep to himself, the wind, ¹⁵ all flesh would expire together; and every mortal would return to earth, of which they were formed. ¹⁶ See that thou be not chastened. Hear these things; listen attentively to the sound of words. ¹⁷ Consider that he who hateth iniquity; and that he who destroyeth the wicked, being eternal, is just. ¹⁸ He is irreverent, who saith to a king, Thou transgressest: to princes, you are acting impiously. ¹⁹ Who hath no respect for the person of an honourable man; nor knoweth how to honour nobles by respecting their persons." ²⁰ But it should be in vain for them to cry or to entreat a man, for they behaved wickedly in turning aside the weak. ²¹ For he is the observer of men"s actions, and nothing that they do can escape his notice: ²² nor can there be a place, where the workers of iniquity can be concealed." ²³ That he will not yet set himself against a man; ²⁴ is because the Lord superintended all in ways unsearchable; glorious and wonderful, not to be numbered. ²⁵ "As he knoweth their works: he should bring on night and they should be humbled. ²⁶ But hath he extinguished the wicked though they are visible before him? ²⁷ Because they turned aside from the law of God and did not acknowledge his judgments, ²⁸ when they cause the cry of the poor to ascend to him, he should hearken to the cry of the poor." ²⁹ But when he giveth rest, who shall call him to account? When he hideth his face, who can see him? Both against a nation, and against a man at the same time, ³⁰ he maketh a hypocritick man king; because of the perverseness of a people. ³¹ Because one saith to the Almighty, "I have taken, I will not again take a pledge: ³² I will look beyond myself; do thou shew me: If I have done iniquity, I will do so no more." ³³ Will he for thee punish that iniquity? Because thou must deny; because thou must draw the conclusion, not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

⁸ Decline not the trial with Me. Dost thou think that I have spoken to thee for any other purpose, but that thou mayst appear justified?

¹³ Who hath known the mind of the Lord? and who hath been of his counsel to teach him? ¹⁴ or whom hath he consulted that he might instruct him? or who hath pointed out judgment to him? or who hath shewn him the way of knowledge?

⁵ If then our unrighteousness established the righteousness of God, what shall we say, Is not God unjust who taketh vengeance? I speak as a man.

³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord"? Or who hath been his counsellor?

¹⁶ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Who can instruct him? As for us we have the mind of Christ.

¹¹ by whom we, [having been previously marked out in a determinate manner, according to the purpose of him who effecteth all things according to the counsel of his will] were made his inheritance,

¹⁹ and that upon looking up to heaven, and seeing the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the host of heaven, thou mayst not be led astray, and worship them, and perform religious service to those things which the Lord thy God hath arranged in due order, for all the nations which are under heaven.

¹³ With him is wisdom and power; with him counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ If he demolish who can rebuild? If he shut against men, who can open? ¹⁵ If he withhold water he drieth the earth. And when he let it loose, he overthrew and destroyed it, ¹⁶ With him is strength and power; with him knowledge and understanding. ¹⁷ He hath led counsellors away captive. And confounded the judges of the earth. ¹⁸ It is he who settleth kings on thrones and girded their loins with a girdle; ¹⁹ who sendeth priests into captivity and overthrew the sovereigns of the earth; ²⁰ who changeth the lips of liege men and knoweth the wisdom of elders; ²¹ who poureth contempt on princes and hath healed them who were low; ²² who revealeth deep things from darkness; and hath brought to light the shades of death; ²³ who leadeth nations into error and destroyeth them; who prostrateth nations and conducteth them; ²⁴ who changeth the hearts of the rulers of a land and hath caused them to wander in a way which they knew not: ²⁵ That they might grope in darkness without light; and that they might stagger like a drunken man.

⁵ Are giants going to rise up from beneath the water and the places in its neighbourhood? ⁶ The mansion of the dead is naked before him: and destruction hath no covering. ⁷ He it is, who stretcheth out Boreas over empty space; who suspendeth the earth upon nothing; ⁸ who bindeth up water in his clouds; and the cloud under it is not rent; ⁹ who taketh possession of the front of his throne and over it spreadeth his cloud. ¹⁰ His decree had drawn a circle on the face of the water; at the confines of light and darkness. ¹¹ The pillars of heaven flutter and are struck with consternation at his rebuke.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth the work of his hands. ² Day to day pronounceth a decree; and night to night proclaimeth knowledge. ³ Are they not speeches and are they not words, of which is not their utterance heard? ⁴ To every land their sound is gone forth: and their doctrines to the limits of the World.

⁵ Because they did not regard the works of the Lord; nor the operations of his hands: thou wilt utterly destroy them and not build them up again.

³ magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together.

¹⁶ But I will sing of thy power; and in the morning exult in thy mercy: because thou wast my supporter, and my refuge in the day of my affliction. Thou art my helper;

¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; who alone doth wonderful things.

⁸ There is none among gods like thee, Lord: nor are any works to be compared to thine. ⁹ Let all the nations which thou hast made, come and worship before thee, Lord, and praise thy name; ¹⁰ for thou art great and doest wonders; thou art the Only, the Great God.

⁴ Because thou, Lord, with thy work hast made me glad: therefore in the works of thy hands I will triumph. ⁵ How great are thy works, Lord! How very deep are thy designs!

²⁴ How manifold are thy works, Lord, with wisdom thou hast done them all. The earth is filled with thy creatures;

⁸ O let them praise the Lord for his mercies; and for his wonderful dealings with the sons of men:

¹⁵ let them praise the Lord for his mercies, and for his wonderful dealings with the sons of men;

² The works of the Lord are great; exquisitely contrived for all his purposes. ³ Thanksgiving and majesty, his work and his righteousness shall endure forever. ⁴ He hath made a memorial of his wonders: merciful and gracious is the Lord.

⁸ They are firmly established forever: they are done with truth and uprightness.

⁵ And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: because the glory of the Lord is great.

¹⁰ Let all thy works, O Lord, praise thee, and let thy saints bless thee; ¹¹ let them speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy government: ¹² to make known thy government to the sons of men, and the transcendant glory of thy kingdom.

³ How great and mighty is his kingdom. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom; and his dominion is to endless ages.

³⁷ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosar praise and extol and glorify the king of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are judgments and all them who walk in pride he can abase.

⁴⁶ Then Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord:

²⁷ Will God indeed dwell with men on the earth! If the heaven and the heaven of heaven will not suffice thee, far less indeed this house which I have built for thy name.

⁵ Are thy days as the days of a mortal; or thy years, the years of a man;

⁷ Canst thou trace the footsteps of the Lord? Or hast thou reached the extent of what the Almighty hath done? ⁸ The heaven is high, what then canst thou do? And there are things deeper than the mansion of the dead; what dost thou know? ⁹ Of greater extent than the measure of the earth or the breadth of the sea.

¹⁴ Behold these are parts of his ways. But let us hear the least breath of reason for him. As for the strength of his thunder; who knoweth when he shall employ it?

⁵ With his voice the Almighty will thunder to our astonishment; for he hath done great things which we cannot comprehend;

² Before the mountains were brought forth; or the earth or the world was formed: even from everlasting to everlasting thou existest.

²⁴ call me not away in the midst of them; thy years are throughout all generations. ²⁵ Thou Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ²⁶ They shall perish; but thou wilt endure: they shall all wax old like a garment; and like a mantle thou wilt fold them up and they shall be changed: ²⁷ but as for thee, thou art the same; and thy years shall have no end.

³ The Lord is great and greatly to be praised; and of his greatness there is no end.

¹² For we now by means of a mirrour see a representation of things; but we shall then see face to face. I now know in part; but I shall then know as I am known.

¹² And like a mantle thou wilt fold them up and they shall be changed :But as for thee, thou art the same And thy years shall have no end".

⁸ Now let not this one thing, my beloved, escape you, That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.

⁵ and all the verdure of the field, before it was on the earth, and every herb of the field, before it sprang up, [for God had not rained on the earth, nor was there a man to till it; ⁶ but a fountain ascended out of the earth and watered the whole face of the ground,]

⁹ who doth great and unsearchable things; things glorious and wonderful, not to be numbered.

³³ the Lord will warn his friend that there is a portion also for injustice. Therefore

²⁵ Who hath prepared a course for the tempest, ²⁶ and a way for impetuous storms to water the ground, where there is not a man; the desert where no man dwelleth; to saturate an untrodden, uninhabited land ²⁷ and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring? ²⁸ Who is the father of rain, and who hath begotten the drops of dew?

³⁴ Canst thou summon a cloud with thy voice, and will it, with the trembling of a water spout, answer thee?

⁹ Thou hast visited the earth and watered it: thou hast multiplied the means of enriching it. The river of God is full of water: thou hast provided the supply for it. Because such is thy provision, O! water its furrows plenteously: multiply its productions. ¹⁰ By these showers on it, it will be gladdened; and will give a spring to vegetation. ¹¹ Bless the crown of the year with thy goodness: and let the fields be filled with fatness; ¹² let the mountains of the wilderness be made fertile; and the hills be girt with joy. ¹³ The rams of the flocks have clothed themselves: and the valleys abound with corn. Let them shout and hymn thy praise.

⁸ to him who covereth the heaven with clouds; to him who provideth rain for the earth; to him who causeth grass to grow on mountains, and bladed corn for the use of man;

⁸ Fire, hail, snow, ice, tempestuous wind, which execute his commands!

⁶ and I will abandon my vineyard that it may neither be pruned nor digged; and brambles shall overrun it as a waste; and I will give a charge to the clouds not to shed rain upon it.

²² Is there any among the idols of the nations who can give rain? and if the heaven shed its abundance, art Thou not He who causeth it. Therefore we will wait on Thee, O Lord, for Thou hast done all these things

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noe's life, the second month and twenty seventh day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the abyss were burst open and the cataracts of heaven were opened, ¹² and there came rain on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹¹ But when a cloud covereth a man of his choice, his light can disperse the cloud: ¹² and he at his sovereign pleasure, can cause the revolving agents to return to their works. ¹³ What things soever he giveth them in charge: these are ordered by him on the earth; and whether they be for correction, or for the benefit of the earth; or for mercy, he is to be found in them.

²⁰ By knowledge the deeps were broken up and the clouds distilled dew.

⁴⁴ So the servant returned seven times, and at the seventh time he said, Behold there is a little cloud like a man's foot drawing up water. Whereupon he said, Go up and say to Achab, Prepare thy chariot and go down lest the rain overtake thee. ⁴⁵ In the mean while the heaven gradually darkened with clouds and wind, and there came on a great rain, and while Achab wept and was travelling on to Jezrael

² Hear the report made by the fierce anger of the Lord! when a threat shall proceed from his mouth; ³ as his dominion extendeth over all under heaven, and his light over the wings of the earth; ⁴ after it he will thunder with a voice; he will thunder with the voice of his indignation. [And should it not make a change in those men when he shall cause his voice to be heard?] ⁵ With his voice the Almighty will thunder to our astonishment; for he hath done great things which we cannot comprehend;

⁹ It was I who made a cloud its cloathing; and thick darkness its swaddling bands.

³⁷ Who is it who numbereth the clouds with wisdom, and hath caused the heaven to incline to the earth,

¹³ Then the Lord thundered from heaven, the Most High uttered his voice:

³ The voice of the Lord on the waters! The God of the glory thundered! The Lord is over many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is with power: the voice of the Lord is with majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord rending the cedars! The Lord will rend the cedars of Lebanon, and shatter them to pieces: ⁶ as a young unicorn would a calf; so will the beloved [shatter] Lebanon itself. ⁷ The voice of the Lord bursting through a flame of fire! The voice of the Lord shaking the wilderness. ⁸ The Lord will shake the wilderness of Kades. ⁹ The voice of the Lord collecting the hinds; when he shall lay the forests bare. When in his temple every one uttereth praise; ¹⁰ the Lord will cause that which was deluged to be inhabited: and the Lord will sit enthroned king forever.

¹⁶ The waters saw thee, God!; the waters saw thee and were terrified, and the deep gulphs were troubled. ¹⁷ Great was the roaring of the waters; the clouds uttered a sound: for thy bolts were passing through them. ¹⁸ The sound of thy thunder was in the round expanse: thy lightnings illumed the World; the earth shook and trembled. ¹⁹ Thy way was through the sea, and thy paths through many waters; but thy footsteps could not be known.

³ Thou art he who covereth his chambers with waters who maketh clouds his chariot; who walketh on the wings of winds;

⁷ At thy rebuke they shall flee; at the peal of thy thunder they will tremble.

³ [a] The Lord is slow to anger, though his power is great; will not the Lord then acquit the innocent? Is his way in destruction and whirlwind, when clouds are the dust of his feet? [[a] An objection, [b] The answer]

¹⁰ peoples shall see and be in pangs." Thou art scattering the rolling waters. The deep roared. It swelled high.

⁹ Then God said, "Let the water which is below the heaven be gathered into one receptacle and let the dry land appear."

²² And the Israelites went into the midst of the sea as on dry ground. And the water thereof was a wall on the right and a wall on the left.

²⁸ and the water being brought back to its place overwhelmed the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharao who had marched after the Israelites into the sea, so that not one of them was left.

⁴ Pharao's chariots and host he threw in the sea; Chosen bands; Officers of highest rank. They were swallowed up in the Red sea. ⁵ In the sea, he whelmed them; They sank to the bottom like a stone.

⁸ It was I who shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed eagerly from its mother's womb. ⁹ It was I who made a cloud its cloathing; and thick darkness its swaddling bands. ¹⁰ It was I who set bounds to it; surrounded it with bars and gates; ¹¹ and said to it, Thus far thou shalt come and no farther: but in thyself thy waves shall be spent.

²⁵ Who hath prepared a course for the tempest,

³⁴ Canst thou summon a cloud with thy voice, and will it, with the trembling of a water spout, answer thee? ³⁵ Canst thou despatch thunders, that they may go, and will they say to thee, Here we are?

¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air. ¹² At the flash of the lightning before him, the clouds burst. Hail stones and coals of fire! ¹³ Then the Lord thundered from heaven, the Most High uttered his voice: ¹⁴ He sent forth his bolts and scattered them: he multiplied his lightnings and confounded them. ¹⁵ Then were seen the head springs of waters, and the foundations of the World were disclosed, at thy rebuke. Lord; at the blowing of the blast of thine anger. ¹⁶ He sent from on high and took me; he took me to himself from many waters.

⁵ Who founded the earth on its firm basis, that it may not be moved forever. ⁶ Is the abyss like a garment to be its covering; are waters to stand above the mountains? ⁷ At thy rebuke they shall flee; at the peal of thy thunder they will tremble. ⁸ They ascend mountains, they go down vallies; to the place which thou hast founded for them. ⁹ Thou has set a bound which they shall not pass; nor shall they return to cover the earth.

²⁴ For as the lightning flasheth from one part of the sky to another, so will the son of man be in his day.

¹⁷ Now behold I am going to bring a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and all that are on the earth shall die;

¹⁷ and the deluge came on the earth forty days and forty nights. And the water increased exceedingly and lifted up the ark, and it was raised up from the earth. ¹⁸ And the water prevailed and was exceedingly increased on the earth: And the ark was borne up above the water. ¹⁹ Still the water prevailed more and more on the earth and covered all the high mountains which were under the heaven. ²⁰ Fifteen cubits above was the water raised when it had covered all the high mountains. ²¹ And all animate flesh on the earth of fowls and cattle and wild beasts and every moving reptile on the earth and every man died. ²² Every thing which hath the breath of life, even every thing which was on the dry land died. ²³ It swept away every thing raised up, which was on the face of the earth, man and cattle and reptiles and the fowls of the air. They were swept away from the earth, and Noe alone was left and they who were with him in the ark. ²⁴ And the water was raised up above the earth a hundred and fifty days.

²⁴ and the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorra brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire streamed along the ground. And the Lord poured down a storm of hail on all the land of Egypt. ²⁴ And there was hail, with flaming fire among the hail. And the hail storm was excessively great such as had never been in Egypt from the day there was a nation in it. ²⁵ And throughout all the land of Egypt the hail smote both man and beast. The hail also smote every herb of the field and broke to pieces all the trees in the fields.

² and thou shalt keep in remembrance all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and prove thee, and know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or not.

¹⁵ who conducted you through that great and frightful wilderness, where there were biting serpents and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought a fountain of water for thee out of a flinty rock;

¹¹ And as they were fleeing from before Israel, at the descent of Oronin, the Lord poured a storm of hail stones from heaven upon them, all the way to Azeka; so that there were more who died by the hail stones, than the children of Israel slew with the sword in battle.

¹⁰ The Lord will make his adversary weak. Holy is the Lord. Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, Nor the mighty man boast of his power; Nor let the rich man boast of his riches: But let him who boasteth, boast of this; That the Lord understandeth, and knoweth, And that he executeth judgment and justice in the land. The Lord ascended up to heaven and thundered; He will judge the highest on earth: To our kings he giveth power, And he will exalt the horn of his anointed.

¹⁰ Now while Samuel was offering the whole burnt offering, the Philistines advanced to battle against Israel; and the Lord thundered that day with a great voice against the Philistines, and they were discomfited, and fled before Israel.

¹⁸ Then Samuel invoked the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that very day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

¹³ What things soever he giveth them in charge: these are ordered by him on the earth; and whether they be for correction, or for the benefit of the earth; or for mercy, he is to be found in them.

²² Hast thou gone to the treasuries of snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of hail? ²³ Are they stored up for thee, for a time of enemies; for a day of battles and combat?

²⁶ and a way for impetuous storms to water the ground, where there is not a man; the desert where no man dwelleth; to saturate an untrodden, uninhabited land ²⁷ and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring?

¹³ Thou art he who watereth mountains from his chambers. With the fruit of thy works the earth will be satisfied. ¹⁴ Thou art he who causeth grass to grow for cattle; even verdant grass for the service of man. That he may bring food out of the earth: ¹⁵ wine cheereth the heart of man: that he might exhilarate his countenance with oil; the heart of man is strengthened with bread.

²⁷ All wait on thee to give them food in due season. ²⁸ When thou givest them, they gather; by opening thy hand all are bountifully supplied.

²⁵ He it is who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth forever.

¹⁷ though at the same time he did not fail to give an evidence of himself, by conferring favours, giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

²¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven and let there be darkness over the land of Egypt; a palpable darkness. ²² So Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven, and there was a darkness; a thick, turbid darkness over the whole land of Egypt three days. ²³ And for three days one saw not another, nor did any one rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in all the places where they were.

⁹ who taketh possession of the front of his throne and over it spreadeth his cloud.

¹² and he at his sovereign pleasure, can cause the revolving agents to return to their works.

¹⁵ We know that God hath disposed his works; that he hath made light out of darkness;

¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air.

⁷ When he brought clouds from the end of the earth; he made lightnings for the purpose of rain. He it is who bringeth winds out of his treasuries:

⁸ to him who covereth the heaven with clouds; to him who provideth rain for the earth; to him who causeth grass to grow on mountains, and bladed corn for the use of man; ⁹ and who giveth suitable food to cattle, and to the young ravens which call on him.

²⁰ Now as neither sun nor stars appeared for several days, and the tempest still bore hard upon us, all hopes of escaping were at last taken away.

¹⁴ The Lord thundered from heaven, The Most High uttered his voice.

⁴¹ Then Elias said to Achab, Go up and eat and drink, for there is a sound of coming rain. ⁴² So when Achab went up to eat and drink, Elias went up to the top of Carmel, and having bowed down on the earth, he put his face between his knees ⁴³ and said to his servant, Go up and look towards the sea. And when the servant looked and said, There is nothing, Elias said, Return thou again seven times

²⁹ At all these things is not thine understanding confounded? And is not thy heart starting from the body? Now though the outspread cloud be rushing together, to the whole extent of his pavilion,

² Hear the report made by the fierce anger of the Lord! when a threat shall proceed from his mouth;

⁴ A stop was put to the works of the field because there was no rain. The husbandmen were confounded; they covered their heads. ⁵ The hinds calved in the field and left their young because there was not a green plant. ⁶ The wild asses stood in the forests and snuffed up the wind: their eyes failed because there was no grass.

¹⁸ what shall we substitute for ourselves? The herds of cattle uttered mournful lowings, because there was no pasture for them; and the flocks of sheep are utterly destroyed.

²² Take courage, beasts of the field; for the plains of the wilderness are in bloom. Because the trees have yielded their fruit; the fig tree and the vine have put forth their strength;