Proverbs Cross References - Thomson

¹ The Proverbs of David's son Solomon, who reigned over Israel, ² to give a knowledge of wisdom and instruction; the perception of the words of prudence; ³ the interpretation of sentences; a discernment of true justice; and to direct judgment, ⁴ that he might give sagacity to the innocent; and to the youth knowledge and discretion: ⁵ for by attending to them a wise man will become wiser; and a man of understanding will possess a ride of government ⁶ and will understand a proverb and dark speech and the sayings of the wise and parables. ⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And all who practise this have good understanding. And piety towards God is the beginning of discernment: but the wicked despise wisdom and instruction. ⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father and reject not the maxims of thy mother: ⁹ for thou wilt receive a graceful crown for thy head; and a chain of gold for thy neck. ¹⁰ My son, let not wicked men lead thee astray. Consent not when they advise thee, ¹¹ saying, Come with us; partake of blood; and let us hide in the earth an innocent man without cause, ¹² and swallow him up alive, as the grave, and take away from earth the remembrance of him. ¹³ Let us seize his precious substance and fill our houses with spoils. ¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among us, and let us all have a common purse. Let one scrip serve us. ¹⁵ Go not thou in the way with them; but turn thy foot from their paths. ¹⁶ [Omitted] ¹⁷ For nets are not spread for birds unjustly. ¹⁸ For they who are accomplices to murder, treasure up evils for themselves. And doleful is the destruction of wicked men. ¹⁹ Such are the ways of all who commit iniquitous deeds. For by wickedness they destroy their own soul. ²⁰ Wisdom uttereth her song at the gates and in the streets speaketh boldly; ²¹ and on the tops of walls she maketh proclamation; and at the gates of mighty men taketh a seat and at the gates of a city with confidence saith, 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; ²⁴ seeing I have called and you have not answered: and though I continued my speech, you did not attend: ²⁵ but set at naught my counsels and disregarded my reproofs: ²⁶ therefore I will laugh at your calamity; and mock when your destruction cometh. ²⁷ Yes, when tumult shall suddenly come upon you; and destruction like a whirlwind shall be at hand; even when tribulation and siege approach you; or when destruction is advancing upon you. ²⁸ For when you call upon me I will not listen to you. The wicked may seek me, but they shall not find me. ²⁹ For they hated wisdom and did not chuse the word of the Lord: ³⁰ nor would they attend to my counsels, but contemned my reproofs: ³¹ Let them eat, therefore, the fruits of their own way; and be filled with their own iniquity. ³² For, because they wronged infants they shall be slain: and a rigorous inquest shall destroy the wicked. ³³ But he who hearkeneth to me shall dwell with hope; and rest secure from all evil."

²⁴ Then David comforted his wife Bersabe, and went in unto her; and she conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him, ²⁵ and sent by the ministry of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jeddedi, For the sake of the Lord.

¹² When Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was well established;

³¹ He gave specimens of wisdom beyond all men; far beyond Gaithan the Zarite, and Ainan, and Chelkad and Darala, the sons of Mal. ³² He uttered three thousand parables, and his odes were five thousand.

⁹ Behold a son shall be born to thee. He shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies round about. For his name shall be Solomon; and I will give Israel peace and rest in his days.

⁵ so in preference to all my sons, for the Lord hath given me many sons, he hath made choice of my son Solomon, to set him on the throne of the Lord's kingdom, over Israel.

²⁸ he died at a good old age, full of days, riches and glory. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

¹ A wise son maketh a father glad; but a foolish son is a grief to the mother.

¹ These are the detached instructions of Solomon which the friends of Hezekias king of Judea copied out.

¹ The words of the preacher the son of David, king of Israel in Jerusalem.

⁹ And moreover, because the preacher was wise, because he taught mankind wisdom; that the ear might find what is comely from parables,

²⁵ These things I have spoken to you in parables. But a time is coming when I will no more speak to you in parables, but with plainness of speech tell you respecting the Father.

⁵ Behold, I have taught you rules of rectitude, and judgments, as the Lord commanded me; that you may act agreeably thereto, in the land to which you are going, to take possession of it. ⁶ Therefore keep them, and practise them. For this will be your wisdom, and your understanding, in the sight of all the nations. Whoever shall chance to hear all these rules of rectitude, will say, Behold this is a wise and understanding people a great nation.

⁹ give therefore to thy servant a heart to hear and to judge thy people righteously, and to discern between good and evil; for who can judge this thy people, ¹⁰ this great people which is so numerous? And it was well pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon made this request; ¹¹ therefore the Lord said to him, Because thou hast asked this of me, and hast not asked for thyself many days, nor riches, nor the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment, ¹² behold I have granted thy request; behold I have given thee a wise and understanding heart, so that before thee there hath not been one like thee, nor after thee shall there arise one like thee.

⁵ overlook not the dictate of my mouth: ⁶ forsake it not, and it will defend thee: love it and it will preserve thee: ⁷ [Omitted]

⁴ Implore Wisdom to be thy sister, and make Understanding thine acquaintance:

⁵ Ye who are innocent learn discretion: and ye who are uninstructed give attention.

¹⁶ The productions of wisdom are better than gold: and the productions of prudence are better than silver.

¹⁶ Why should a fool have wealth? For the stupid cannot purchase wisdom. He who buildeth his house high seeketh destruction: and he who is backward to learn shall fall into evils.

¹⁵ and that, from thy childhood, thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise for salvation by trusting in Christ Jesus. 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.

²⁸ And when all Israel heard the judgment which the king had given, they feared the king, for they saw that there was in him the wisdom of God to execute judgment.

²² Receive, I pray thee, from his mouth, the terms of deliverance, and lay up his words in thy heart.

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive the dictate which I enjoin and hide it with thee, ² thine ear will hearken to wisdom; and thou wilt apply thy heart to understanding, and transmit it for instruction to thy son. ³ For if thou wilt call upon wisdom: and utter thy voice for understanding; 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. ⁶ For the Lord giveth wisdom; and from his presence is knowledge and understanding: ⁷ and he treasureth up salvation for the upright. He will protect their going, ⁸ that they may keep the paths of rectitude. And he will guard the way of them who reverence him. ⁹ Then thou shalt understand judgment and justice; and direct all thy wheels right.

¹⁰ Receive instruction in preference to silver, and knowledge rather than fine gold. ¹¹ For wisdom is better than precious stones: and no costly thing is equal to it in value.

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, it restoreth souls: The testimony of the Lord is faithful, it maketh infants wise.

¹¹ Come, ye children, hearken to me: and I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

⁹ BETH. By what can a youth make his way prosperous? By keeping thy words.

¹³⁰ The manifestation of thy words will enlighten, and make the simple wise.

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;

¹⁰ For when wisdom entereth into thine understanding: and knowledge appeareth pleasant to thy soul: ¹¹ good counsel will keep thee, and holy prudence will guard thee:

²¹ My son, be not wanting in retention: but keep my counsel, namely, the sentiment:

⁷ and if among the simple youths she chanceth to see a young man, void of understanding, ⁸ walking near a corner in the passages to her house, ⁹ and talking in the twilight, when the evening is still and duskish: ¹⁰ then this woman, who maketh the hearts of young men flutter, meeteth him, in the attire of a harlot. ¹¹ Indeed she is ever on the wing and insatiable, and her feet abide not at home. ¹² For sometimes she roveth abroad: and sometimes lieth in wait in the streets, at every corner. ¹³ Ha! she hath caught him and kissed him, and with an unblushing countenance, said to him: ¹⁴ "I have a peace offering; today I am paying my vows: ¹⁵ for this reason I came out to meet thee: earnestly longing to see thee. ¹⁶ I have found thee. With cords I have stretched my bed, and decked it with tapestry from Egypt. ¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed with saffron, and my house with cinnamon: ¹⁸ come, and let us take our fill of love till the morning: come and let us solace ourselves with love. ¹⁹ For my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey; ²⁰ he took in his hand a roll of silver, and will return to his house after many days." ²¹ So with much fawning discourse she led him astray; and with the flattery of her lips inveigled him. ²² And he is gone after her, attracted by her; as an ox is led to slaughter, or as a dog to be chained: or like a deer pierced through the liver with a dart. ²³ And he hasteth like a bird to a snare; not knowing that he is running the risk of his life. ²⁴ Now therefore ray son hearken to me; and attend to the words of my mouth.

¹² I wisdom have inhabited counsel and knowledge; and I have made an appeal to understanding.

¹⁷ Them who love me, I love: and they who seek me shall find me.

³² Now therefore, my son hearken to me:

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."

⁹ rejoice then, young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart spotless and not by the sight of thine eyes, and know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment.

⁸ There will be there a pure highway, which shall be called The Holy way. And the unclean shall not come there; nor shall there be there an unclean way. But as for the dispersed, they shall travel it, and shall not be led astray.

²² Fly then the passions of youth and pursue righteousness, fidelity, love, peace with them who invoke the Lord with a pure heart.

⁶ In like manner exhort young men to be sober minded,

³² Thereupon David said to Abigaia, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who hath sent thee this day to meet me. ³³ And blessed be thy conduct, and blessed thou who hast kept me back from coming to blood, that I might save my hand for myself.

¹⁶ But while the prophet was speaking to him lie said to him, Have I made thee a counsellor of the king? Forbear, lest thou be scourged. Thereupon the prophet held his peace, for I know, said he, that he hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.

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.

¹⁶ See that thou be not chastened. Hear these things; listen attentively to the sound of words.

³⁴ For they who are wise in heart will say the same: and a wise man hath heard this word of mine.

⁹⁸ Thou hast given me a knowledge of thy law above mine enemies; because it is mine forever. ⁹⁹ I had more understanding than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my study. ¹⁰⁰ I understood more than elders: because I diligently sought thy commandments.

⁹ Give a wise man a hint and he will be wiser; an intimation to a righteous man and he will proceed to take it.

¹ He who loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he who hateth reproofs is a fool.

¹⁵ I speak to you as men of understanding; judge ye what I say

⁸ Mouth to mouth, I will speak to him personally, and not in dark sentences. He hath actually seen the glory of God. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses.

⁴ I will incline mine ear to a parable: with a psaltery I will unfold my problem.

² I will open my mouth with parables; I will utter dark sayings of old;

¹¹ The words of the wise are like goads and nails ready made, which have been laid up in repositories from one shepherd to another.

¹⁰ Then the disciples accosted him, saying, Why speakest thou to them in parables? ¹¹ And he in reply said to them, To you it hath been granted to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens; but to them it hath not been granted. ¹² For to him who improveth, more shall be given and he shall abound: but from him who improveth not, even that which he hath shall be taken. ¹³ To them I speak in parables for this reason, because they overlook what they see, and are inattentive to what they hear; and they do not understand, ¹⁴ and in them is fulfilled this prophesy of Esaias, which saith, "Hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand, and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive; ¹⁵ for the heart of this people is callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return that I may heal them." ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. ¹⁷ For verily I say to you, "Many prophets and righteous men have earnestly desired to see what you see, and have not seen them; and to hear what you hear and have not heard them."

³⁴ All these things Jesus spake to them in parables, and did not speak to them without a parable, ³⁵ so that there was a full accomplishment of that which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth with parables, I will utter things kept hid from the foundation of the world.

⁵¹ Jesus saith to them, Have you understood all these? They say to him, Yes, Master. ⁵² Then he said to them, Every Scribe then who is instructed for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a family who bringeth out of his treasury things new and old.

¹¹ Whereupon he said to them, To you it is granted to know the secrets of the reign of God; but to those without, all these things are delivered in parables,

³⁴ but without a parable he did not speak to them. And in private he explained all to his disciples.

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.

¹⁴ and this strong food is for full grown men, who by long practice and exercise have their senses improved for the discernment of both good and evil.

¹⁶ as he hath also in all his letters, when speaking of these things; in which there are some things hard to be understood; which the unlearned and unstable torture, as they do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

²⁸ he said to man, "Behold the worshipping of God is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding."

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and all who practise it have good understanding. Let the praise of him endure forever.

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.

²⁹ For they hated wisdom and did not chuse the word of the Lord: ³⁰ nor would they attend to my counsels, but contemned my reproofs:

¹² then thou wilt say, "How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof! ¹³ I hearkened not to the voice of him who instructed me and taught me; nor have I inclined mine ear.

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and knowledge is the counsel of the holy. For to know the law is a characteristick of a good understanding;

⁵ A fool despiseth the instruction of a father: but he who keepeth commands is more prudent. Where righteousness aboundeth there is much power: but the wicked being utterly rooted out of the land, shall perish.

³³ The fear of the Lord is instruction and wisdom: and the beginning of glory will be answerable thereto.

² He who is void of understanding hath no use for wisdom; for he is rather led by folly.

¹³ As a conclusion of the discourse, hear thou the whole sum and substance: Fear God and keep his commandments: for this conclusion every man should draw,

¹⁸ He who believeth in him will not be condemned; but he who believeth not, is condemned already; because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light, because their works were evil. ²⁰ For whosoever doeth evil hateth the light, and doth not come to the light, that his deeds may not be detected. ²¹ But he who practiseth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be open to view, because they are the operations of God."

²⁸ And as they did not search out God to have constantly a due sense of him, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things unseemly,

³ Let every one reverence his father and his mother. And you shall keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God;

¹⁸ If any man hath a stubborn, and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not to the voice of his father, nor to the voice of his mother; and they have corrected him, and he will not hearken to them; ¹⁹ his father and his mother shall take him, and bring him out to the senate of his city, and to the gate of the place; ²⁰ and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he hearkeneth not to our voice. He is devoted to revelling and drunkenness. ²¹ Thereupon the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the wicked from among you; and the rest, who hear, will be struck with awe.

²⁵ If one man sin against another, intercession can be made for him to the Lord; but if he sin against the Lord, who can intercede for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, wherefore the Lord determined to destroy them.

¹⁰ My son, let not wicked men lead thee astray. Consent not when they advise thee,

¹⁵ Go not thou in the way with them; but turn thy foot from their paths.

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive the dictate which I enjoin and hide it with thee,

¹ My son, forget not my laws; but let thy heart keep my commandments.

¹ Hear, children, the instructions of a father; and attend to know the meaning: ² for I am giving you a good gift: forsake not my law: ³ for I was a son obedient to a father; and beloved in the sight of a mother: ⁴ and they said when they taught me, "Let our words sink deep in thy heart. Keep our commandments; do not forget;

¹ My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thine ear to my words, ² that thou mayst keep a good understanding. Now the sense of my lips giveth thee this injunction; listen not to an abandoned woman;

²⁰ My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the maxims of thy mother.

¹ My son keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee. My son, honor the Lord and thou shall be strong; but besides him, fear no other.

¹⁷ The eye which derideth a father and despiseth the old age of a mother, may the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles devour it.

¹ These words of mine have been dictated by God, they are the prophecy of a king whom his mother instructed

² And lo! they brought to him a paralytic laid on a bed: and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Take courage, my son; thy sins are forgiven thee.

²² And Jesus turned about and when he saw her, said, Daughter, take courage; thy faith hath cured3 thee. And from that instant the woman was cured.

⁵ recollecting that unfeigned belief in thee, which dwelt first in thy grand mother Lois and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in thee also:

⁴² And Pharao took off the ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him with a cotton robe, and put a chain of gold about his neck;

²² that thy soul may live and that grace may be around thy neck: and it will be health to thy flesh and a cure for thy bones;

⁹ that it may be to thy head a crown of graces and cover thee with a crown of pleasure.

²⁰ My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the maxims of thy mother. ²¹ Bind them continually on thy mind: and tie them as a chain around thy neck.

¹⁰ What! thy cheeks are beautiful as a turtle dove's: and thy neck as strings of pearls.

⁹ Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister spouse: thou hast ravished my heart with a glance of thine eyes; with an endearing turn of thy neck.

¹⁹ the solitaire and the ornament of the brow,

¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and put bracelets round thy wrists and a chain round thy neck,

⁷ And the king cried aloud to bring in the magians, Chaldees, gazarenes. And he said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing and explain to me the meaning, he shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold for his neck and shall be a chief, third in rank, in my kingdom.

¹⁶ But I have heard of thee that thou canst solve difficulties. Now therefore if thou canst read that writing and explain to me the meaning of it, thou shalt be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold for thy neck and be a chief, third in rank, in my kingdom.

²⁹ Then Baltasar gave orders and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold about his neck, and proclamation was made concerning him that he was a chief, third in rank, in the kingdom.

⁹ in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in comely apparel, with bashful modesty; not with curls, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; ¹⁰ but with good works, as it becometh women who profess a reverence for God.

³ And let your adorning be, not that which is external by plaiting the hair with appendages of gold, nor finery of dress; ⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, with the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is highly precious in the sight of God.

⁷ and after these things his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, Lie with me; ⁸ but he refused and said to his master's wife, Seeing my lord, on account of his confidence in me, knoweth not any thing in his house, and hath committed to my charge all that he hath ⁹ and there is none in the family superior to me, nor any thing withheld from me, except thyself because thou art his wife; how then can I do this wicked act and commit sin in the presence of God. ¹⁰ And when she had spoken to Joseph day after day and he hearkened not to her to lie down with her to have commerce with her, ¹¹ it came to pass that one day when Joseph went into the house to transact his business and none of the domestics were within, ¹² she took hold of his mantle saying, Lie with me. But he leaving his mantle in her hands fled and went out. ¹³ And when she saw that he had left his mantle in her hands and had fled and was gone,

⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him.

¹⁶ And as she continued to afflict him daily with her speeches, and press him, and tired him even to death, ¹⁷ he at length told her all his heart, and said to her; There hath never come a razor on my head, because I am consecrated to God from my mother's womb. If therefore I were shaven, my strength would depart from me, and I would become weak, and be like all other men. ¹⁸ When Dalida saw that be bad told her all his heart, she sent for two chiefs of two Philistines, and said, Come up this once more, for be hath told me all his heart. So two chiefs of two Philistines went up to her, and carried the money in their hands. ¹⁹ And when Dalida had lulled Sampson to sleep on her knees, she sent for a man, and be shaved off two seven locks of his bead, and began to humble him; for his strength was gone from him. ²⁰ And when Dalida said, The Philistines are upon thee Sampson! He awoke from his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times heretofore, and rouse myself. He indeed did not know that the Lord had departed from him. ²¹ Then the Philistines seized him and put out his eyes, and carried him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he was kept grinding in the prison house.

¹ Happy the man, who hath not walked by the counsel of the wicked; nor stood in the way of sinners; nor sat in the seat of the scornful.

¹⁸ When thou sawest a thief, thou didst run with him; and hast been a partaker with adulterers.

²¹ So with much fawning discourse she led him astray; and with the flattery of her lips inveigled him. ²² And he is gone after her, attracted by her; as an ox is led to slaughter, or as a dog to be chained: or like a deer pierced through the liver with a dart. ²³ And he hasteth like a bird to a snare; not knowing that he is running the risk of his life.

²⁰ By walking with the wise thou wilt be wise; but he who walketh with fools will be known.

²⁹ The man who is a transgressor enticeth friends; and leadeth them in ways which are not good.

¹⁹ [Omitted]

¹⁸ For such men do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their fawning speeches and flattering forms of address, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them:

⁸ Under his tongue there is mischief and sorrow. He sat in secret places with the rich to slay the innocent; His eyes are on the watch for the distressed. ⁹ He lurketh in secret like a lion in his den; He lurketh to make a prey of the poor. To make a prey of the poor when he hath drawn him in; in his net he will humble him. ¹⁰ He will stoop and crouch at his tyrannising over the poor;

¹² They observed me, like a lion eager for prey, and like a young lion lurking in coverts.

⁷ Seeing they have without cause, hid for me their destructive snare; have, without reason, reproached my soul;

⁶ Some are to dwell near and hide themselves: some are to watch my footsteps.

⁵ They strengthened for themselves an evil matter: they talked of hiding snares, saying, Who can see us? ⁶ They searched for iniquity: they failed in the search. A man is to come with a deep heart; and God is to be exalted.

¹⁶ [Omitted]

¹⁸ For they who are accomplices to murder, treasure up evils for themselves. And doleful is the destruction of wicked men.

⁶ The words of the wicked are deceitful: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

¹⁴ A wicked progeny have teeth like swords and grinders like cleavers, so as to consume and devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

²⁶ [J] Since there have been found among my people wicked men, who have set snares to destroy men and have caught them.

¹⁹ As for me I like a lamb led to slaughter did not know. Against me they had formed a wicked design, saying, "Come, let us put poison in his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living; and let his name be mentioned no more."

¹⁸ Upon this they said, "Come let us settle on account with Jeremias. Because law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a word from the prophet, Come and that we may smite him with the tongue, let us hear all his words." ¹⁹ Hear me, Lord, and hearken to my justification. ²⁰ Shall evils be returned for good offices? Because they contrived designs against my life and concealed the punishment they intended for me. Remember how I stood before thee to intercede for them; to turn away thy wrath from them.

² that the pious is perished from the land, and among men there is not an upright man left! [J] They are all indicted for capital crimes: they grievously afflict every man his neighbour:

³ At that time the chief priests, and the Scribes, and the elders of the people, were convened to the court of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, ⁴ and were consulting how they might take Jesus by surprise and kill him.

²⁵ But by this is fulfilled the word which is written in their law, They hated me without cause.

¹⁵ Now therefore do you with the Sanhedrim make application to the commander that he may bring him down to you to morrow, as being about to examine his affair more minutely. And as for us, before he come near, we are prepared to kill him.

³ and earnestly intreated him to favour them so far as to send for him to Jerusalem; [they having laid an ambush to kill him on the road.]

³⁰ but if the Lord demonstrate by a miracle, and the earth opening its mouth, shall swallow up them and their households, and their tents, and all that belong to them; and they go down alive to the mansion of the dead; then you will know that these men have provoked the Lord. ³¹ And when he had made an end of speaking all these words, the earth was rent under them; ³² and the earth opened; and it swallowed up them, and their households, and all the men who were with Kore, and all their cattle. ³³ And they, and all that belonged to them, went down alive to the mansions of the dead, and the earth covered them. And they were destroyed from among the congregation.

¹⁰ And the earth, opening its mouth, swallowed them up with Kore, at the time when his company died; when the fire consumed the two hundred and fifty, and they were made a sign;

⁹ Their heart is false; their throat, an open sepulchre: with their tongue they practised deceit.

¹ A Psalm of David. To thee, Lord, I have cried: O my God, pass me not by in silence. Shouldst thou pass me by in silence: I shall be like them who go down to the pit.

²⁵ Let them not say in their hearts, "Aha! aha! it is to our mind;" nor let them say, "We have swallowed him up."

¹ For the conclusion. For people far removed from the Holies. By David for a monumental inscription, when the Philistines had him in their power at Geth. Pity me, God, for a man hath trodden me down. Fighting all the day long he hath afflicted me. ² Mine enemies have trodden me down the whole day, with the day in their favour. Because they who fight against me are many,

³ He sent from heaven and saved me. He delivered up to reproach them who were treading me down. God sent forth his mercy and his truth;

³ they might have swallowed us up alive; when their wrath was kindled against us,

⁷ Hear me speedily, Lord; my spirit hath failed. Turn not away thy face from me; nor let me be like them who go down to the pit.

⁵ The Lord became like an enemy. He overwhelmed Israel. He sunk her palaces. He destroyed his own munitions, and multiplied on the daughter of Juda humiliation on humiliation.

¹⁶ Against thee all thine enemies opened their mouth; they hissed and gnashed their teeth and said, We have swallowed her up; but this is the day we looked for; we have found it; we have seen it.

² As for them who hate good and seek evil, who tear off the skin from these and the flesh from their bones: ³ as they have devoured the flesh of my people and have flayed off their skin from them; and have broken their bones and chopped them up, as flesh for a kettle and as pieces of meat for a pot:

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre. With their tongues they practised deceit. The poison of asps is under the lips of them,

² and the wicked transgressed all bounds; and ravaged both the flock and the shepherd? ³ They have driven away the ass of the fatherless; and taken the widow's cow for a pledge.

¹⁹ Such are the ways of all who commit iniquitous deeds. For by wickedness they destroy their own soul.

¹³ For he said, "With this power I will perform exploits; and by the wisdom of mine understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and make a prey of their strength, ¹⁴ and shake inhabited cities, and seize with my hand the whole World as a nest; and carry off the inhabitants like deserted eggs. There is none who can escape me or chirp against me."

¹⁶ They did not take cognisance, they did not administer justice to the lowly, nor decide righteously the cause of the needy, is not this owing to thy not knowing me? saith the Lord. ¹⁷ Behold thine eyes are not good, neither is thy heart; but they are bent upon thine inordinate desires and on the shedding of innocent blood, and on injustice, and on murder; that thou mayst perpetrate these things.

¹² The old lion had seized enough for his whelps, and had strangled for his lionesses, and had filled his hole with prey, and his den with ravin:

⁹ Because the glory of this house shall be great, the latter greater than the first, saith the Lord Almighty; therefore in this very place I will give peace, saith the Lord Almighty; even peace of mind for a possession to every one active in again raising up this temple.

¹⁵ Then he said to them, Take heed and be upon your guard against covetousness. For in what affluence soever a man may be, his life doth not depend on his possessions.

⁹ But they who determine to be rich, fall headlong into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful desires, which plunge men into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil; to gratify which, some have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

⁹ And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will wail and beat their breasts for her, when they see the smoke of her burning ¹⁰ standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas! Alas! that great city Babylon! that 'mighty city! for in one hour thy judgment is come. ¹¹ The merchants of the earth also will weep and mourn for her; because no one any more buyeth their merchandize ¹² the merchandize of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls; and of cotton and purple and silk and scarlet; and every sort of odoriferous wood and the various wares of ivory and of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble, ¹³ and cinnamon and frankincense and myrrh and incense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep and horses and chariots and the bodies and souls of men. ¹⁴ Even the autumnal fruits, thy soul's desire are gone from thee; and all these delicious and all those splendid things are gone from thee and thou shalt find them no more. ¹⁵ The venders of these things who have been enriched by her will stand far off for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing ¹⁶ and saying, Alas! Alas! the great city! she that was clothed with cotton and purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!

⁴ I did not sit with the council of vanity; nor can I go with them who transgress: ⁵ I hated the assembly of evil doers; and with the ungodly I cannot sit.

¹⁰¹ From every evil way I restrained my feet; that I might keep thy words.

¹⁴ Go not in the ways of wicked men; nor be fond of the ways of transgressors. ¹⁵ In what place soever they encamp, go not thither: but turn away from them and keep at a distance:

²⁷ Turn not to the right, nor the left; but turn away thy foot from an evil way; for God knoweth the ways on the right, but those on the left are crooked. But he will make thy paths straight and conduct thy steps in peace.

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, go not near the doors of her house;

⁶ Forsake folly, that you may reign forever: and seek prudence and build up understanding with knowledge."

¹⁰ Thus saith the Lord to this people: They have loved to wander and did not refrain, therefore God hath not prospered their ways, He will now remember their iniquity.

¹⁷ therefore come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you,

¹⁶ for they cannot sleep. Unless they do evil; their sleep is taken from them and they cannot lie down to rest.

¹⁸ his heart contriveth wicked purposes, and his feet are swift to do evil:

⁷ Their feet are running to evil; they are swift to shed blood. And their reasonings are reasonings for murders. Destruction and misery are in their ways,

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.

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

²³ And he hasteth like a bird to a snare; not knowing that he is running the risk of his life.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel did not know me. And this people have not regarded me."

⁷ The stork in the heaven knoweth her season; so doth the dove and the swallow of the field; the ostriches observed the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgments of the Lord.

¹⁰ So Haman was hanged on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king's anger was appeased.

¹⁴ Behold this man hath travailed with injustice. He conceived mischief and brought forth iniquity: ¹⁵ he hath digged a pit and covered it: into the pit which he made he will fall: ¹⁶ his mischief will return on his own head; on his own head his injustice will come down.

¹⁶ The Lord is known by executing judgments; by the works of his own hands the sinner is taken.

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.

²² Iniquities hunt a man; but every one is caught by the cords of his own sins. ²³ Such a one dieth with the uninstructed, but from his plentiful means of living he was cast out, and perished by reason of folly.

¹⁷ Taste sweetly bread in secret and water sweeter for being stolen. ¹⁸ He indeed did not know that with her the earth born perish; that he is lighting upon the perch of death. But fly thou away speedily; tarry not in that place, nor fix thine eyes upon her; for in this manner thou shouldst pass by strange water. Abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain; that thou mayst live long, and that years of life may be added to thee.

¹⁷ He who is bail for a man in a case of murder, shall be a fugitive, but not in safety. Correct a son and he will love thee and be an ornament to thy life. He will not hearken to an unrighteous nation.

⁴ saying, I have sinned in having betrayed innocent blood To which they replied, What is that to us? Look thou to that. ⁵ Thereupon he threw down the money in the temple, and withdrew, and went and strangled himself.

¹¹ Whereupon Joab said to the man who told him, And behold thou sawest! Why didst thou not smite him there to the ground; and I would have given thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle? ¹² And the man said, As I live, though I might have a thousand shekels of silver weighed into my hands, I would not lay my hands on the king's son. For in our hearing the king charged thee, and Abessa, and Ethi, saying, Spare, for my sake, the young man Abessalom; touch not his life. ¹³ Now nothing can be hid from the king. Even thou thyself wouldst stand aloof.

²⁰ Now when he had gone a little way from him, Giezi the servant of Elisha said, Behold my master hath spared Naiman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hand what he brought. As the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and receive something from him. ²¹ So Giezi went after Naiman with all speed. And when Naiman saw him running after 22 him, he turned about from his chariot to meet him. And he said, Peace! ²² My master hath sent me saying, Behold there are just come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Give, I pray thee for them a talent of silver and two suits of apparel. ²³ To which he replied, Take two talents of silver. So he took two talents of silver, in two bags, and two suits of raiment and laid them on two of his servants and they carried them before him. ²⁴ And when he came to a dark place, he took them from the hands of his servants, and laid them up in the house. And when he had dismissed the men, ²⁵ he went in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, Whence comest thou, Giezi? To which he replied, Thy servant hath not gone any where. ²⁶ And Elisha said to him, My heart indeed did not go with thee, when the man turned about from his chariot to meet thee. Now thou hast received silver; and thou hast now received the apparel and olive yards and vine yards, and flocks and herds and men servants, and maid servants; ²⁷ but the leprosy of Naiman shall cleave to thee, and thy seed forever. So he went out from his presence, leprous like snow.

³⁹ if I have eaten alone the strength thereof without money, and by rapine caused the heart of the owner of the soil to grieve:

²⁷ He who receiveth bribes destroyeth himself: but he who hateth the receiving of bribes is safe. By acts of kindness and faithfulness sins are purged away: and by the fear of the Lord every one will decline from evil.

³ desire not his dainties; for they give false life. ⁴ If thou art poor, enter not into competition with one who is rich: but be restrained by thine own prudence

¹³ There is a weakness which I have seen under the sun: riches kept by one for his descendant to his own hurt.

¹⁷ Behold thine eyes are not good, neither is thy heart; but they are bent upon thine inordinate desires and on the shedding of innocent blood, and on injustice, and on murder; that thou mayst perpetrate these things. ¹⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord respecting Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man, they shall not utter for him the lamentation "Alas Brother" nor shall they bewail him saying, "Alas lord" ¹⁹ He shall be buried with the burial of an ass; being blotted out he shall be cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God. ² They coveted fields and plundered orphans and tyrannised over houses; they plundered a man and his household; a man and his inheritance; ³ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold against this tribe I am planning evils, from which you shall not withdraw your necks, nor walk erect suddenly. Because it is an evil time,

¹⁰ who are building up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with injustice. ¹¹ [J] Her rulers have judged for rewards; and her priests have given answers for hire; and her prophets have prophesied for silver, without waiting for the Lord, saying, "Is not the Lord among us? No evils shall come upon us:" ¹² therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed like a field; and Jerusalem shall be like a temporary building for summer fruits; and the mountain of the house shall be for a grove of a forest.

⁹ Woe to him who coveteth wicked gain for his house, that he

¹⁹ saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay my hands he may receive a holy spirit. ²⁰ Whereupon Peter said to him, let thy money with thee be for destruction! Because thou hast thought that this free gift of God may be purchased with money,

³ not addicted to wine, no striker, not attached to sordid gain, but of a gentle disposition, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money,

¹ Come, now, ye rich; weep, and raise a mournful cry for the miseries which are coming upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. 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. ⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

³ Indeed, with insatiable covetousness, they will, with smooth words, make merchandize of you. But the judgment prepared of old for them is not idle, nor is their destruction slumbering.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin; ensnaring unstable souls; having a heart practised in greediness; an execrable race; ¹⁵ having forsaken the right road they have gone quite astray, following the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ and was convicted of his transgression. [A dumb beast, speaking with a human voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.]

¹ As for thee thou art to proclaim wisdom; that understanding may attend thee. ² For she is on the lofty summits; and hath taken her stand in the middle of highways. ³ For at the gates of the mighty she hath taken a seat, and at the entrance thereof chanteth her song. 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.

³ She hath sent out her servants, and with a loud proclamation hath given an invitation to her entertainment, saying,

⁵⁴ and being come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues, so that they were astonished, and said. Whence hath this man this wisdom and these miraculous powers?

⁴⁹ on this account indeed said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill, and others they will persecute,

³⁷ It being now the last the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

²⁴ but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God;

³⁰ And it is owing to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who hath been made to us wisdom from God, namely, righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption,

³ in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

²⁷ What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim on the house tops.

² but such great multitudes flocked to him that he went on board the vessel and sat down, and all the multitude stood on the shore,

²⁰ Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world, I taught always in the synagogues and in the temple, to which the Jews always resort. And I have spoken nothing in secret.

²⁰ Go, and having taken your station in the temple, speak to the people all the words of this life.

³ Then Moses and Aaron went in before Pharao and said to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews. How long wilt thou refuse to reverence me? Send away my people that they may serve me.

²⁸ Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to hearken to my commandments and my law?

²⁷ How long shall I bear with this wicked congregation? I have heard what they murmur before me; the murmuring of the Israelites which they have uttered concerning you,

⁷ What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water;

⁸ Consider I beseech you, ye brutish among the people. And ye fools, at length be wise.

⁴ that he might give sagacity to the innocent; and to the youth knowledge and discretion:

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And all who practise this have good understanding. And piety towards God is the beginning of discernment: but the wicked despise wisdom and instruction.

²⁹ For they hated wisdom and did not chuse the word of the Lord:

³⁴ The Lord resisteth the proud; but he granteth favour to the humble.

¹² then thou wilt say, "How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!

⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, sluggard, and when wilt thou rouse from sleep?

⁷ and if among the simple youths she chanceth to see a young man, void of understanding,

¹⁶ "Let him who is the simplest of you turn aside to me; and them who want prudence I exhort saying,

⁶ Thou mayest seek wisdom among the wicked, but shalt not find it; but knowledge is easily found among the prudent.

¹² An uninstructed man will not love them who reprove him, nor will he associate with the wise.

²⁹ Rods are prepared for the profligate: and punishments in like manner for fools.

¹¹ When a profligate is punished the innocent become more cautious; and the intelligent wise man will gain knowledge.

¹³ Go then and learn what this meaneth, "I desire mercy rather than sacrifice;" for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.

²⁹ Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering, said, O faithless and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you"? How long shall I endure you? Bring him hither to me.

³⁷ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings; but you would not!

⁴² saying, O that thou hadst known; even thou; even in this very ay of thine, the things which were for thy peace! But now they are hidden from thine eyes.

²⁰ For whosoever doeth evil hateth the light, and doth not come to the light, that his deeds may not be detected.

³ knowing this first, that in the last day scoffers will come, walking after their own desires,

¹⁷ Now the spirit and the bride say, Come; and let him who heareth say Come. And let every one who thirsteth come; and let every one who is willing take of the water of life at free cost.

¹ A Psalm of praise. By David, I will extol thee, my God, my king: and bless thy name for ever and ever.

²⁵ but set at naught my counsels and disregarded my reproofs:

³⁰ nor would they attend to my counsels, but contemned my reproofs:

²³ For the command of a law is a lamp and light; and reproof and instruction is the way of life,

¹⁷ Instruction keepeth the just ways of life; but unexamined instruction leadeth astray.

¹ Better is a man of experience, than a man who is stiff-necked: for when the latter is suddenly burned, there is no healing him.

¹⁵ till a spirit come on you from on high. Then will a desert become a Channel and Channel will be accounted a forest;

⁸ [c] Let the heaven above be glad; and the clouds shower down righteousness. Let the earth spring and bloom with mercy and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. [J] I the Lord am he who created thee.

¹ HO! ye who are thirsting, come to water! And ye who have no money, come buy and eat, without money and without price, wine and the choicest bread. 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. ³ Incline your ears and follow in my paths; hearken to me and your soul shall live on good things; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant; the gracious promises to David which are faithful.

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.

¹⁴ Return, O apostate children, saith the Lord: for I will exercise dominion over you, and take one of a city and two of a family and bring you to Sion:

²⁷ And when a wicked man turneth from his wickedness which he committed, and shall practise justice and righteousness; He hath saved his soul. 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.

¹¹ Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked should turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your way. Why do you die, house of Israel.

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

²⁸ And it shall come to pass after these things that I will pour out a portion of my spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; and your old men shall dream dreams; and your young men shall see visions.

¹⁰ And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourning as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first born.

¹³ If you, then, bad as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children; how much more will your heavenly father give a holy spirit to them who ask him?

³⁶ What is the meaning of this saying of his, "You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am going you cannot come?" ³⁷ It being now the last the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified, Lord and Christ. ³⁷ Upon hearing this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men, brethren, What shall we do? ³⁸ Thereupon Peter said to them, Repent and let every one of you be baptized to the remission of sins for the name of Jesus Christ, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

²⁰ but made proclamation first to them at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and to the nations, to reform and turn to God, performing works worthy of the change of mind.

¹⁶ So then; because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit thee out of my mouth, ¹⁷ because thou sayest, "I am rich and become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. ¹⁸ I advise thee to purchase of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayst be rich, and white raiment that thou mayst be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayst see. ¹⁹ Whomsoever I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and reform.

²⁰ In the secret of thy presence thou wilt hide them from the trouble of men; thou wilt shelter them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

² Why, when I came, was there no man? And why, when I called, did none answer? Is my hand unable to save? Or have I no power to rescue? Behold with my rebuke I can dry up the sea, and make the rivers a desert, so that the fishes thereof shall shrivel for want of water, and die for thirst. I can clothe the heaven with darkness, and make its covering like sackcloth.

¹² you I will deliver up to the sword; you shall all bow down to slaughter. Because I called and you answered not: I spake and you would not listen; but did what is evil in my sight; and chose the things in which I did not delight;

⁴ I also will chuse their delusions, and pay them back their sins. Because I called them and they did not answer; I spake, but they did not listen:;but did that which is evil in my sight, and chose the things in which I did not delight;

¹³ Now therefore because you have done all these things: and I have spoken to you and you have not hearkened to me; and I have called you and you have not answered;

¹⁸ therefore I will deal with them with wrath. Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have compassion.

¹¹ but they refused to attend and turned back contemptuously; and stopped their ears that they might not hear; ¹² and made their heart disobedient that they might not hearken to my law; therefore [according to the words which the Lord Almighty by his spirit sent by the ministry of the former prophets] there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty;

⁵ But they turned away with indifference, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise ⁶ and the rest seized his servants, insulted, and slew them.

³⁷ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings; but you would not! ³⁸ behold this house of yours is left desolate

³⁰ when thou stretchest forth thy hand for healing; and signs and. wonders are done by the name of thy holy child, Jesus.

²¹ But concerning Israel he saith, "I have stretched out my hands all the day long to a disobedient and gainsaying people."

²⁵ See that you do not reject him who speaketh. For if they did not escape who rejected him who gave forth oracles on earth, how much less shall we who reject him who is from heaven, ²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth, but he hath now announced, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth but the heaven also."

¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy.

¹¹ But my people did not hearken to my voice; nor did Israel attend to me.

¹¹ because they rebelled against the oracles of God; and contemned the counsel of the Most High:

³⁰ but the Pharisees and the teachers of the law made null, with regard to themselves, the counsel of God, by not submitting to be baptized by him;

¹⁴ Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen for yourselves, and let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

⁴ He who dwelleth in heaven will laugh them to scorn; the Lord will treat them with derision.

¹³ but the Lord will laugh him to scorn, for he foreseeth that his day will come.

¹⁵ For this cause his destruction cometh suddenly; Wounds and incurable bruises.

²⁴ A wicked man is whirled about by destruction; but the desire of the righteous is acceptable.

²⁴ For I say to you, None of the men who have been invited shall taste of my supper.

⁹ Before your bramble bush can make its prickles felt; it will devour you as it were alive, as with wrath.

²² Let their table before them become a snare and a recompence and a stumbling block. ²³ Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their neck continually. ²⁴ Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful ire take hold of them. ²⁵ Let their fold be desolate, and in their dwellings no inhabitant. ²⁶ Because him, whom thou smotest, they persecuted, and have added to the pains of my Wounds; ²⁷ add thou iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness. ²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be enrolled with the righteous.

²⁵ and shalt not fear the bursting in of terror; nor the sudden assaults of wicked men. ²⁶ For the Lord will be over all thy ways, and will support thy foot that thou mayst not be shaken.

²⁴ A wicked man is whirled about by destruction; but the desire of the righteous is acceptable. ²⁵ In a passing tempest a wicked man vanisheth; but the righteous turn aside and are safe forever.

¹³ The multitude of nations being like a great flood, their flight shall be like that of a mighty torrent rolling on impetuously. For he will repulse them with scorn, and pursue them to a great distance, like chaff before the wind when men winnow, or as a tempest driveth the dust of a wheel.

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]

²³ alas therefore for the women with child and for them who give suck in those days; for there will be great distress in this land and wrath on this people. ²⁴ They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captives to all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by nations until the times of nations shall be fulfilled. ²⁵ There will indeed be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth, anguish of desponding nations, while the sea is roaring and the billows thereof; ²⁶ and men are fainting with fear and apprehension of the things which are coming on the world. For the powers of heaven will be shaken,

³⁴ Take heed therefore to yourselves that your hearts be not overloaded with excess of meat, or drink, or worldly cares, and that day come upon you unawares. ³⁵ For it will come as a net upon all who are settled on the face of the whole earth

⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who doth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

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.

¹⁵ and the kings of the earth and the nobles and the rich and the chief commanders and the under officers and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, ¹⁶ saying to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him who is sitting on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, ¹⁷ for the great day of His wrath is come and who is able to stand?"

³ then the Lord God said, "My breath must not continue in these men to this age, because they are flesh; their days however, shall be an hundred and twenty years."

¹⁸ And in that day you will cry aloud, because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves: but the Lord will not hearken to you in those days,

⁹ Or will God hear his prayer? Or when trouble cometh upon him,

¹² There let them scream. He indeed may not hearken even at the abuse of bad men.

⁴¹ They cried aloud, but there was no saviour; to the Lord, but he hearkened not to them.

³⁴ When he smote them and they sought him, and returned and inquired early after God, ³⁵ and remembered that God was their helper, and that God the Most High was their redeemer; ³⁶ though they expressed love for him with their mouth, they lied to him with their tongue,

¹⁵ When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn mine eyes from you: and though you multiply prayer, I will not hearken to you: for your hands are full of blood.

¹¹ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I am bringing upon this people evils, from which they shall not be able to escape. And when they cry to me I will not hearken to them.

¹² for though they fast I will not hear their prayer; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will not accept them. For with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, I will utterly consume them.

¹⁵ I will sally forth and return to my place until they are made desolate, then they will seek my face.

⁴ so they shall cry to the Lord but he will not hearken to them; but will turn away his face from them at that time, because by their devices they have committed evil against these.

¹³ that it might come to pass as he said, "As they hearkened not, so they shall cry and I will not listen, saith the Lord Almighty,

²² Many will say to me on that day Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many miracles, ²³ to whom I will then declare, I never acknowledged you; Depart from me ye who work iniquity.

¹⁰ And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and they who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut. ¹¹ And after that the other virgins came, saying, Master, master, Open to us. ¹² But he in reply, said, Verily I say to you, I do not know you.

²⁵ When the master of the house is raised up, and shall have shut the door and you begin to stand without and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, he will Answer and say to you, I do not know you, whence you are. ²⁶ Then you will begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. ²⁷ But he will say, I tell you I do not know you whence you are. Depart from me all you workers of iniquity. ²⁸ Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there, when you shall see Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves cast out.

³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may lavish on your sensual appetites.

¹⁴ Yet he saith to the Lord, Depart from me, I desire not to know thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him: and what the advantage, that we should wait on him?

¹⁶ But to the sinner God said, "Why dost thou mention my judgments, or take my covenant in thy mouth? ¹⁷ As for thee, thou hast hated instruction, and cast my words behind thy back.

¹¹ And after a time there will be no verdure in it, by reason of its being parched up. [p] ye women who are coming from a goddess attend! For this is not a people, who have understanding; therefore he[c] the city. [v] the vineyard. who made them will not have pity on them; nor will he who formed them shew them any favour.

⁹ Because this is a rebellious people; lying children, who would not hear the law of God, ¹⁰ who say to the prophets, " Preach not to us, " and to them who see visions, " Speak not to us, nay, speak to us and tell us another error, ¹¹ and turn us from this way, and take from us this path, and take from us the oracle of Israel." ¹² Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, because you have disbelieved these words and placed your hopes on a lie: and because thou hast murmured, and been confident in this matter;

⁴² But there is one thing necessary. As for Mary, she hath chosen that good portion which shall not be taken from her.

⁵¹ O stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do ye. ⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? Indeed they have slain them who prophesied concerning the coming of that Righteous one, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers: ⁵³ you who have received the law through ranks of angels, but have not kept it. ⁵⁴ At hearing this they were cut to the heart and gnashed their teeth at him.

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

¹¹¹ I have taken thy testimonies for an everlasting inheritance: for they are the joy of my heart.

¹⁷³ Let thy hand be near to save me: because I have chosen thy statutes.

⁹ Are the wise ashamed? They are indeed dismayed and taken. Because they rejected the law of the Lord; therefore be their wisdom what it may,

¹⁸ they all, from one [motive] began to make excuses. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. I pray thee make my excuse. ¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them: I pray thee make my excuse. ²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot go.

⁸ As I have seen men ploughing improper grounds: they who sow such places shall reap sorrows.

¹⁴ A bold hearted man will be satisfied with his own ways; but a good man, with his intentions.

⁸ He who soweth iniquity shall reap evils; and compleat the punishment of his deeds. God blesseth a cheerful giver; and will supply the deficiency of his works.

¹⁰ Alas for their souls! Because they have counselled an evil counsel against themselves, saying, "Let us bind the just one, for he is disagreeable to us;" let them therefore eat the fruits of their deeds. ¹¹ Alas for the wicked! according to the works of his hands evils shall befal him. my people!

¹⁹ Let this apostacy of thine correct thee. And thy wickedness work conviction in thee. And know and see how bitter a thing it is to forsake me, saith the Lord thy God.

¹⁹ Hear earth, behold upon this people I am bringing evils; the fruit of their apostacy, because they attended not to my words and rejected my law.

⁷ Be not deceived. God is not to be imposed on; for whatever a man soweth, that he shall reap. ⁸ Because he who soweth for his flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption; but he who soweth for the spirit shall from the spirit reap life everlasting;

¹⁵ When Jacob had eaten and was filled, Then he who was beloved began to kick; He grew fat, waxed thick, and became corpulent, Then he forsook the God who made him; And apostatised from God his saviour. ¹⁶ They exasperated me with strange gods, With their abominations they provoked me, ¹⁷ They sacrificed to demons, and not to God; To gods, which they had never known, Which had started up, new and fictitious, Of which their fathers had no knowledge, ¹⁸ The God who begot thee, thou hast forsaken, And hast forgot the God who nourished thee; ¹⁹ And the Lord saw, and was provoked to jealousy; He was provoked at the temper of his sons and daughters, ²⁰ and said, I will turn away my face from them, And shew what shall befal them in the latter days. Because they are a perverse generation; Children, who have no faith in them; ²¹ They have provoked me by what is not God; Have exasperated me with their idols; I therefore will provoke them by what is not a nation, By a foolish nation I will vex them. ²² Since a fire is kindled because of my wrath, It shall burn down to the lowest Hades; It shall consume the land, and the products thereof; It shall set on fire the foundations of mountains: ²³ I will assemble evils against them, And hurl my bolts at them. ²⁴ While they are wasting by famine, and voracious birds; The burning carbuncle also shall be incurable; I will send against them the teeth of wild beasts, With the venom of serpents, trailing on the ground. ²⁵ Abroad the sword shall bereave them of children, And in their chambers terror shall destroy. The youth shall perish with the young virgin, The sucking infant with the venerable sage. ²⁶ I had determined to disperse them, And cause the remembrance of them to cease among men; ²⁷ Had it not been for the temper of enemies; That the adversaries might not out live them; That they might not fall upon them at once; Lest they should say, Our own high hand, And not the Lord, hath done all this. ²⁸ It is a nation devoid of counsel; There is no knowledge among them. ²⁹ They have not bent their minds to understand; Let them lay up these things for time to come. ³⁰ How could one man chase a thousand, And two put myriads to flight, Had not God cast them off; Had not the Lord delivered them up? ³¹ For their gods are not like our God; And our enemies are without understanding. ³² As their vine is from the vine of Sodom And their shoot from that of Gomorra; Their cluster of grapes will be a cluster of gall; A cluster of bitterness it shall be to them: ³³ Their wine shall be the venom of dragons; The incurable venom of asps. ³⁴ Behold! are not these things stored up with me? And sealed up among my treasures? ³⁵ In the day of vengeance I will requite, When their foot shall be supplanted. Because the day of destruction is nigh for them, Therefore at hand are the things prepared for you. ³⁶ Because the Lord will judge his people; When he shall be appeased for his servants, [For he saw that they were enfeebled, Made faint by hostile invasions and dejected] ³⁷ Then the Lord said, where are their gods; The gods in which they placed their confidence? ³⁸ The fat of those sacrifices you ate And drank the wine of their libations? Let them arise and help you, And let them be your protectors. ³⁹ See! See! that I am the Self existent, And that there is no Clod besides me; I kill, and I can cause to live, I can smite and I can heal, And none can rescue out of my hand: ⁴⁰ For I can lift up my hand to heaven, And swear by my right hand, and say, as I live forever, ⁴¹ I will make my sword sharp as lightning, And my hand will support judgment; And I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, And make retribution to them who hate me. ⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh With the blood of slain and captives. From the head of enemy chiefs. ⁴³ Rejoice, heavens, with him, And let all the angels of God worship him: Rejoice, nations, with his people, And let all the children of God rely on him: For he avengeth the blood of his children, And will judge, and execute vengeance on his enemies, To them who hate him he will render retribution, And the Lord will purify the land of his people. ⁴⁴ Now on that day when Moses had written this Ode and taught it to the children of Israel; and he, and Joshua the son of Nave, had come, and spoken all the words of this law in the hearing of the people,

²² Let their table before them become a snare and a recompence and a stumbling block.

⁶ A senseless man cannot know; nor can the foolish comprehend them. ⁷ When the wicked sprang up like grass; all the workers of iniquity had a glimpse that they should be destroyed forever.

³⁶ But they who sin against me act wickedly against their own souls; and they who hate me love death."

¹¹ Moab enjoyed rest from his youth and trusted in his glory; he hath not been decanted from vessel to vessel; and into banishment he hath never gone. Therefore his taste remaineth in him and his flavour is not lost: ¹² Therefore behold the days are coming saith the Lord, when I will send decanters and they shall decant him; and they shall break his vessels and cut to pieces his drinking horns;

¹⁶ Then he spoke a parable to them saying, There was a certain rich man, whose ground produced plenteously. ¹⁷ Whereupon he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do; for I have not room to store my crops. ¹⁸ Then he said, I will do this. I will pull down my store houses and build larger, and there lay up all my produce and my good things. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. 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? ²¹ Thus let every one [say] to himself who is heaping up treasure and is not rich for God.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man who was clad with purple and cotton robes, and who feasted daily in a splendid manner. ²⁰ And there was a certain poor man, named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores, ²¹ desirous indeed to be fed with the crumbs which fell from his table: and moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. ²² At length this poor man died, and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man died also, and was buried. ²³ And in the mansion of the dead having lifted up his eyes, being in torment, he seeth Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ Whereupon he cried and said, Father, Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. ²⁵ And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou receivedst thy good things in thy life time; and Lazarus in like manner, his evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

³⁶ He who believeth in the son, hath an everlasting life; but he who disbelieveth the son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God will abide on him.

³⁸ now the just shall live because of faith; but if he, through fear, draw back; my soul hath no pleasure in him." ³⁹ But we are not of them who draw back for perdition; but of them who believe for the attainment of life.

⁸ Now if you are without correction, of which all are partakers, you are indeed bastards and not sons.

²⁵ See that you do not reject him who speaketh. For if they did not escape who rejected him who gave forth oracles on earth, how much less shall we who reject him who is from heaven,

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

¹² What man soever habitually feareth the Lord; him He will instruct in the way he hath chosen; ¹³ his life shall be spent in the enjoyment of good things and his offspring shall inherit the land.

¹³ Had my people hearkened to me; had Israel walked in my ways:

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.

²¹ My son, be not wanting in retention: but keep my counsel, namely, the sentiment: ²² that thy soul may live and that grace may be around thy neck: and it will be health to thy flesh and a cure for thy bones; ²³ that thou mayst proceed on in all thy ways in peace and security; and that thy foot may not stumble. ²⁴ For when thou liest down, thou shalt be free from fear: and when thou sleepest, thou shalt sleep sweetly;

³² Now therefore, my son hearken to me: ³³ [Omitted] ³⁴ happy is the man who will hearken to me: and the man who will keep my ways; watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. ³⁵ For my ways are the ways of life; and volition is obtained from the Lord.

¹¹ for by this means thou shalt live long, and years of life will be added to thee.

²⁶ In the fear of the Lord a man hath hope of strength; and to his children he leaveth a support.

³ who support truth and keep peace; because their confidence is placed in thee, Lord!

¹⁸ And hadst thou hearkened to my commandments thy peace would have been like a river and thy righteousness like a wave of the sea;

³ Incline your ears and follow in my paths; hearken to me and your soul shall live on good things; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant; the gracious promises to David which are faithful.

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo! from the cloud, a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

⁹ And when you hear of wars and insurrections, be not terrified; for these things must first happen; but the end will not follow immediately.

¹⁹ By your perseverance preserve your lives;

²⁷ My sheep, as I told you, hearken to my voice and I know them, and they follow me: ²⁸ and I give them everlasting life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one wrest them out of my hand. ²⁹ My father who gave them to me, is greater than all, and none is able to wrest them out of my father's hand.

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ [As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long, And accounted as sheep for slaughter" ³⁷ We indeed in all these things are more than conquerors by means of him who hath loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created being shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ who are, during belief, kept safely by the power of God, for a deliverance prepared to be revealed in the last time;