Proverbs 6 Cross References - Thomson

¹ My son, if thou become surety for thy friend, thou wilt deliver up thy hand to an enemy. ² For a man's own lips are a powerful snare, and he is caught by the words of his own mouth. ³ Do, my son, what I enjoin thee, and save thyself; for thou art come into the hands of bad men on thy friend's account. Be not remiss, but importune thy friend for whom thou art surety. ⁴ Give no sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids, ⁵ that thou mayst be saved like a roe from a toil, and like a bird from a snare. ⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; and having seen its ways follow the example and be wiser than it. ⁷ For having no cultivated field, no driver, nor master, ⁸ it provideth its food in summer, and layeth up a plentiful supply in harvest. Or go to the bee and learn what a Worker she is: and how seriously she performeth her work, to the labours of which both kings and subjects apply themselves as far as health permits; and to all it is agreeable and honourable. And though her strength be small, having honoured wisdom she is diligently employed. ⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, sluggard, and when wilt thou rouse from sleep? ¹⁰ Thou art sleeping a little; but resting a little; but taking a short nap; but folding thy hands a little while on thy breast! ¹¹ But is not poverty coming upon thee like an unwelcome traveller? And want like a speedy courier? Whereas if thou be diligent; thy harvest will come like a fountain, and want like a bad courier will run away. ¹² A man void of understanding, and a transgressor, walketh in ways which are not good. ¹³ But he winketh with his eye and maketh a sign with his foot; and teacheth, by pointing his fingers; ¹⁴ his depraved heart contriveth mischief. Such a one is continually raising tumults in a city. ¹⁵ For this cause his destruction cometh suddenly; Wounds and incurable bruises. ¹⁶ Because he delighteth in all those things which God hateth: therefore he is destroyed for the depravity of his soul. ¹⁷ His eye is that of a scorner; his tongue is false; his hands are employed in shedding innocent blood; ¹⁸ his heart contriveth wicked purposes, and his feet are swift to do evil: ¹⁹ as a false witness he spreadeth lies, and soweth discord among brethren. 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. ²² When thou walkest, take this along and let it be with thee: and when thou sleepest, let it guard thee; that when thou awakest, it may talk with thee. ²³ For the command of a law is a lamp and light; and reproof and instruction is the way of life, ²⁴ to keep thee from a married woman; and from the flattering tongue of a strange woman. ²⁵ Let not a lust for beauty overcome thee: be not captivated by thine eyes, nor ensnared by her eyelids. ²⁶ For the price of a harlot is scarce that of a single loaf; but an adulteress hunteth for the precious lives of men. ²⁷ Can any one put fire in his bosom and not burn his clothes? ²⁸ Or can one walk on coals of fire and not burn his feet? ²⁹ So he who goeth in, to a married woman, cannot escape punishment; no, nor any one who toucheth her. ³⁰ It exciteth no wonder, if one be caught stealing; for a hungry man stealeth to satisfy his soul; ³¹ but if he be caught, he is to pay seven fold; and by giving all that he hath, he will deliver himself. ³² But he, who through want of understanding, committeth adultery, provideth destruction for his soul. ³³ He suffereth pangs and dishonour; and his reproach can never be wiped away. ³⁴ For the rage of her husband being full of jealousy, will not spare in the day of vengeance; ³⁵ nor will he abate his enmity for any ransom; nor be appeased by many gifts.

⁹ I undertake the charge of him. At my hand require him. If I bring him not back to thee and set him before thee let me be a sinner against thee for ever.

³² Besides as thy servant received this son from his father and said, If I bring him not back to thee and set him before thee, let me be as a sinner against my father for ever; ³³ now therefore let me stay with thee instead of him as a slave to my lord, and let this son go up with his brothers [for how can I go up to my father and this son not with us?] that I may not see the evils which will befal my father.

³ Let him be brought to trial with me.

¹⁵ A wicked man doth hurt, when he associateth with the just: but he hateth the sound of safety.

¹⁸ A man void of understanding clappeth his hands and applaudeth himself on becoming surety for his friends,

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²⁶ Do not out of respect for a person become surety.

¹³ Take away his mantle, for a scorner passed by who wasteth the property of others.

¹⁸ And if he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee any thing, place it to my account. ¹⁹ I Paul myself have written with my own hand. I will make compensation. Not to mention to thee that thou owest me even thine own self.

²² by so much Jesus is made the surety of a better covenant.

¹³ By the transgression of his lips a sinner falleth into snares: but out of them a righteous man maketh his escape. He whose looks are mild will gain compassion: but he who contendeth in the gates will afflict souls.

⁷ The mouth of a fool is his destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soul.

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.

¹⁴ Thereupon David said to Gad, I am in great straits on every side. Pray let me fall into the hands of the Lord; for very many and great are his mercies. But let me not fall into the hands of men.

⁵ Samaias the prophet went to Roboam and to the chiefs of Juda who were assembled at Jerusalem for fear of Sousakim, and said to them Thus saith the Lord, You have left me, therefore I will leave you in the hands of Sousakim.

¹² and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and was not brought to a sense of shame by Jeremias, the prophet, speaking from the mouth of the Lord,

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

¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will exalt you. Speak not, brethren, against one another. He who speaketh against a brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against law, and judgeth law. Now if thou judgest law, thou art not a doer of law, but a judge.

⁴ nor give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids;

¹⁰ Thou art sleeping a little; but resting a little; but taking a short nap; but folding thy hands a little while on thy breast! ¹¹ But is not poverty coming upon thee like an unwelcome traveller? And want like a speedy courier? Whereas if thou be diligent; thy harvest will come like a fountain, and want like a bad courier will run away.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might; since there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge nor wisdom in the mansion of the dead to which thou must go.

¹⁷ and let not him who is on the house top go down, to carry away any thing out of the house, ¹⁸ nor him who is in the field turn back to take up his clothes.

³⁵ watch ye therefore; for you do not know when the master of the family cometh; whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning, ³⁶ lest coming unexpectedly, he find you asleep.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. In the Lord I have placed my confidence, how say ye to my soul, "away to the mountains as an ostrich.

³ Because he will deliver thee from the snare of hunters; and tumultuous accusation;

⁷ Our soul hath escaped as a bird from the fowler's snare. The snare was broken and we have escaped.

¹⁷ For nets are not spread for birds unjustly.

⁷ But ask, I pray thee, the beasts of the field, if they could speak to thee; and the birds of the air, if they could tell thee; ⁸ speak to the earth, if it could converse with thee; even the fishes of the sea can tell thee.

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

²⁶ As vinegar is hurtful to the teeth; and smoke to the eyes; so is transgression to them who commit it.

⁴ Every sluggard is employed in wishing: but the hands of the diligent, in procuring.

¹⁹ The ways of the slothful are strewed with thorns; but those of the diligent are well beaten.

⁹ He who doth not use his endeavours to cure himself is brother to him who destroyeth himself.

¹⁵ Fear restraineth the effeminate; but the soul of the slothful shall suffer want.

²⁴ He who hideth his hands in his bosom unjustly; should not bring them out for his mouth.

⁴ Though a sluggard is reproached he is not ashamed: and the same is the case with him who borroweth corn in harvest.

²⁵ Wishing killeth the slothful; for his hands do not chuse to labour.

¹³ A slothful man maketh excuse and saith, There is a lion in the highways and murderers in the streets.

³⁰ A fool is like a field, and a man void of understanding, like a vineyard; ³¹ if thou lettest them alone, they will be overrun with weeds and grass, and become useless, and their stone fences will be thrown down. ³² I have at length repented and looked about, with a view to chuse instruction. ³³ I am dozing a little: just taking a short nap; just infolding my breast with my hands. ³⁴ If such indeed be thy conduct; poverty will come upon thee like a traveller and want like a swift courier.

¹³ A slothful man sent on a journey saith, There is a lion in the way and murderers in the streets. ¹⁴ As a door turneth on its hinges so doth a slothful man on his bed. ¹⁵ A slothful man having hid his hand in his bosom cannot bring it out to his mouth. ¹⁶ A slothful man thinketh himself wiser than him who in plenty carrieth a message.

²⁵ the ants, which not having strength, provide their food in summer;

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."

²⁶ Observe those birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor lay up in granaries; yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are not you much more valuable than they?

²⁶ Thereupon his master said to him in reply, Malignant and slothful servant! Thou knowest that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter!

¹¹ in business be not slothful: Be fervent in spirit; constant in serving the Lord;

¹² that you may not become languid, but imitators of them who through faith and long suffering inherit the promises.

³⁹ Wilt thou hunt the prey for lions, or satisfy the appetites of dragons?

²⁶ Hath the hawk by thy wisdom poised herself aloft with wings expanded, unmoved, surveying the regions of the south? ²⁷ At thy command doth the eagle soar, and the vulture abide seated on its nest, ²⁸ on the high crag of a rock, and in secret, ²⁹ and continuing there seek its food? Its eyes take an extensive survey, ³⁰ and its young are besmeared with blood. Wherever carcasses are, there are they suddenly found.

⁴ Will he make a covenant with thee? And wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant? ⁵ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, or bind him as a sparrow for a child? ⁶ Do the nations feed upon him, or the Phoenicians divide him among them? ⁷ With their whole fleet they could not carry the first skin of his tail, nor his head in their fishing barks. ⁸ Wilt thou lay thine hand on him, recollecting the battle made by his mouth? Do not so again. ⁹ Hast thou not seen him? Hast thou not been amazed at what is said of him? Hast thou not been afraid that he was prepared against me? ¹⁰ But who is there, who hath risen up against me; ¹¹ or who can rise up against me and stand to it? If the whole world is mine, ¹² I cannot be put to silence by him. On the account of his power one may pity his equal. ¹³ Who can strip off his outer robe, or who can come within the folds of his breast plate? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of his mouth? His teeth are encompassed with terror. ¹⁵ His scales are shields of brass; and his ligature, like a smyrite stone. ¹⁶ They are glued one to another, so that no air may pass through to him. ¹⁷ They are to adhere close to each other; they stick so close that they cannot be torn asunder. ¹⁸ At his sneezing lightnings flash: and his eyes have the lustre of the morning star. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth issue as it were burning lamps; and flaky flames, in appearance, are belched out. ²⁰ From his nostrils issueth the smoke of a furnace, ²¹ flaming with a fire of burning coals. His animal life is glowing coals; and a flame proceedeth out of his mouth. ²² In his neck, strength maketh its abode; and destruction runneth before him. ²³ The flesh of his body is glued together; it is so abundant that he cannot be shaken. ²⁴ His heart is hard as a stone, and firm as an immoveable anvil. ²⁵ When he turneth himself about, all the four footed beasts on the earth shrink with fear. Though spears oppose him, ²⁶ they effect nothing; for with regard to the lance and the breast plate, ²⁷ he considereth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. ²⁸ The bow of steel cannot wound him; and stones from a sling he considereth as grass. ²⁹ Battering rams are accounted as stubble; and he laugheth at the shock of eruptive fire. ³⁰ His bed is sharp pointed obelisks; and all the gold in the sea under him, is but as dirt. ³¹ He causeth the deep to boil like a cauldron; and considereth the sea as a pot of ointment. ³² The deepest gulf of the sea he accounteth his captive; and reckoneth the abyss itself as his parade. ³³ Upon the earth there is not his fellow; made to be insulted only by my angels. ³⁴ He beholdeth every thing that is high; and he is king over all that are in the waters.

²⁷ the locusts, which having no king encamp regularly at the word of command;

⁵ A prudent son is safe from heat; but a transgressing son is blasted in harvest.

¹⁹ laying up for themselves a good deposit for the time to come, that they may obtain the life everlasting.

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

¹⁴ Jerusalem! wash thy heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved. How long do ill grounded reasonings for thy troubles remain in thee?

⁶ There was a man sent from God: his name was John.

¹¹ Furthermore, as we know the season, that it is now high time for us to rouse from sleep, for our deliverance is nearer now than when we first believed:

¹⁴ therefore it is said, "Awake thou who sleepest and arise from the dead and the Christ will shine upon thee.

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. ⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that this day should break upon you at unawares as a thief. ⁵ You are all children of light and children of the day. We are not of night, nor of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep as others do; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they who sleep, sleep at night; and they who get drunk are drunk at night.

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; and having seen its ways follow the example and be wiser than it.

³³ When thine eyes behold a strange woman; then will thy mouth speak perversely. ³⁴ And thou wilt lie as in the midst of the sea: and like a pilot in a mighty storm.

⁴ Want humbleth a man; but the hands of the diligent enrich. A well instructed son will be wise, and shall have the simple for a servant.

³⁴ If such indeed be thy conduct; poverty will come upon thee like a traveller and want like a swift courier.

²⁸ [Omitted]

³ Because the sinner is praised for the desires of his soul; therefore he who committeth injustice is blessed.

⁷ Is not his mouth full of cursing, and bitterness and deceit?

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He would not be wise to do good.

² Thy tongue is like a sharp razor: thou hast practised deceit. ³ Thou hast loved evil more than good; lying more than speaking the truth. ⁴ Thou hast loved all the decrees of destruction; a tongue practised in deceit.

⁷ Behold they are to speak oraculously with their mouth; and have a sword in their lips; For who heard?

⁸ They thought and spoke wickedly; they spoke injustice with a lofty air. ⁹ They set their mouth against heaven; and their tongue passed on over the earth.

¹² that she may deliver thee from an evil way and from a man who speaketh perversely.

²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put perverse lips far from thee.

¹⁴ his depraved heart contriveth mischief. Such a one is continually raising tumults in a city.

¹³ The fear of the Lord hateth injustice and insolence and haughtiness and the ways of the wicked: and I have hated the crooked ways of bad men.

⁶ The righteousness of upright men delivereth them: but transgressors are caught by their destruction.

²⁷ He who is utterly perverse carrieth destruction in his mouth. A man void of understanding diggeth up evils for himself; and treasureth up fire with his lips.

⁴ A wicked man hearkeneth to the tongue of transgressors: but a righteous man payeth no attention to lying lips.

² The one was a basket of very fine figs, such as are first ripe; and the other was a basket of very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

⁸ But like those bad figs which for their badness cannot be eaten, thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver up Zedekias king of Juda and his nobles and the remnant of Jerusalem; them who are left in this land and them who dwell in Egypt. ⁹ Them indeed I will devote to dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth; and they shall be for a reproach and for a by-word and for a taunt and a curse in every place whither I shall drive them. ¹⁰ And I will send against them famine and pestilence and the sword, until they are utterly consumed from this land which I gave them.

³⁴ Brood of vipers! how can you who are evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

³⁰ Yes, even from among yourselves men will start up, speaking perverse things to draw the disciples after them.

¹³ Add to this, that, being idle, they learn to ramble from house to house, and are not only idle, but are indeed tatlers, and intermedlers, speaking tilings which are unbecoming.

¹⁰ For there are many who are disorderly, vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision, ¹¹ who ought to be curbed, who subvert whole houses teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

²¹ Therefore having thrown off all the filth and scum of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls;

⁶ Now, the tongue is a fire, the leader of iniquity; the tongue is set among the members, staining the whole body, and setting the wheel of nature in a blaze, when it is itself set in a blaze by hell.

¹² Thou hast spoken with excessive haughtiness. To what a pitch of boldness is thy heart raised; or at what have thine eyes taken aim;

¹⁹ Over me, let not these, my bitter enemies, vainly rejoice; who hate me without cause, and give assent with their eyes.

⁶ for she walketh not in the ways of life. Her paths are slippery and not easily known.

¹⁰ He who winketh deceitfully with his eyes, collecteth sorrows for men; but he who reproveth freely maketh peace.

⁴ He contrived mischief on his bed; he persisted in every course which was not good, and did not abhor wickedness.

¹⁴ who are delighted with evils and have joy in evil perversion;

²⁹ Devise not evils against thy friend; who sojourneth with thee and confideth in thee.

¹⁸ his heart contriveth wicked purposes, and his feet are swift to do evil: ¹⁹ as a false witness he spreadeth lies, and soweth discord among brethren.

²⁸ A froward man spreadeth mischief. He will light up a lamp of deceit for evils; and he separateth them who were friends. ²⁹ The man who is a transgressor enticeth friends; and leadeth them in ways which are not good. ³⁰ But he who fixeth his eyes and deviseth froward things; and with his month enforceth all his evil purposes; is a very furnace of wickedness.

⁸ To the perverse God sendeth crooked ways: for his works are pure and right.

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.

¹⁷ He who meddleth with another's strife, is like one who taketh a dog by the tail. ¹⁸ As they who undertake to cure throw out words for men; and he who falleth in with the proposal will be first supplanted; ¹⁹ so all who ensnare their friends, when they are found out say, "I did it in sport." ²⁰ By much fuel a fire is nourished: but where there is no stirrer up of quarrels, contention ceaseth. ²¹ A hearth is for coals and fuel for fire: and a contentious man for the bustle of strife. ²² The words of the crafty are soft: but they pierce the inmost recesses of the soul.

⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise unlawful devices to destroy the poor with unjust pleas; and to baffle the pleas of the poor in judgment.

²⁰ But the wicked shall be tossed like waves and shall not be able to rest. "There is no peace, "said God, "to the wicked."

² And the Lord said to me, son of man, these are the men who devise vanities and who give bad advice in the city,

⁷ because they sowed blasted seed, therefore the catastrophe was correspondent; there is not a handful capable of yielding meal. And had it succeeded, strangers would have devoured it.

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.

¹⁷ Now I exhort you, brethren, to mark them who make the divisions and the stumbling blocks contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.

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;

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.

²² Now then, consider this, ye who forget God; lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver.

¹⁸ It is but for their frauds thou hast dealt thus with them. Thou hast overthrown them by their exaltation.! ¹⁹ how they were for destruction! They are gone in a moment! They perished for their iniquity! ²⁰ As a dream of one awaked out of sleep. Thou, Lord, in thy city wilt spurn their ghost;

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.

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.

¹³ therefore this sin shall be to you like the tottering wall of a fortified city, which hath been taken by surprise; the fall of which is instantaneous. ¹⁴ And its fall shall be like the breaking of an earthen vessel, the fragments of which are so small that there cannot be found among them a sherd on which thou canst carry fire or with which thou canst scoop up a little water.

¹¹ and say, Thus saith the Lord, So will I break this people and this city: as this earthen pitcher is broken and cannot be mended,

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.

¹⁰ Let there not be found among you any one who purifieth his son, or his daughter, with fire; or who practiseth divinations, or consulteth omens, or augury, ¹¹ or maketh use of drugs to practise incantation, or a belly speaker, or an astrologer, or a necromancer; ¹² for every one who practiseth such things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for, because of these abominations, the Lord will root them out from before you.

¹⁸ There shall not be a prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall any of the Israelites be a votary of prostitution. Thou shalt not bring the hire of an harlot, nor the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord, for any vow, for both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

⁴ her former husband, who put her away, shall not be at liberty to return and take her again to wife; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God; and you must not defile the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession.

¹⁶ for every one who doth these things; every one who committeth injustice, is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

⁵ the Lord examineth both the righteous and the wicked. He then who loveth iniquity hateth his own soul.

³² For every transgressor is impure in the sight of the Lord; and among the righteous he taketh not a seat.

¹ A deceitful balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

²⁰ Crooked ways are an abomination to the Lord: but all who are blameless in their ways are his delight.

⁸ The sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of the upright are acceptable to him. ⁹ The ways of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord; but he loveth them who follow righteousness.

¹⁵ He who acquitteth the wicked and condemneth the just, is unclean and abominable in the sight of God.

¹⁰ Diverse weights and diverse measures are impure in the sight of the Lord. Yes, both they and he who useth them.

²³ A diverse weight is an abomination to the Lord: and a deceitful balance is not good in his sight.

¹⁸ There are three things which I cannot perceive, and a fourth which I do not know:

²¹ By three things a land is disturbed, and a fourth it cannot bear:

²⁴ There are four things on the earth which are very small, yet they are wiser than the wise:

²⁹ There are three things which march well and a fourth which is stately in its gait;

³ And the Lord said, "For the three transgressions of Damascus, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because with iron saws they sawed asunder the pregnant wives of the men of Galaad;

⁶ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, shall I not be averse from them? Because they captivated the captives of the Salamonites, to deliver them up to Idumea;

⁹ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Tyre, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because they delivered up the captives of the Salamonites to Idumea, and did not remember the covenant of brothers;

¹¹ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Idumea, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because they pursued their brother with a sword, and violated a mother on the ground: he indeed to evidence his intention seized by force; he kept up his horror and his onset till he accomplished his purpose;

¹ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Moab, and for four shall I not be averse from him? Because he burned into lime the bones of the king of Idumea;

⁴ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of the children of Juda, and for four, shall I not be averse from him? Because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and have been led astray by their vanities which they made, which their fathers had followed;

⁶ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Israel, and for four, shall I not be averse from him? Because they sold a righteous one for silver and a needy one for a pair of sandals;

²⁷ And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing which defileth or maketh an abomination or [uttereth] a lie; none but they who are enrolled in the Lamb's book of life.

¹⁰ so that guiltless blood may not be shed in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession.

²⁵ Cursed he who taketh bribes to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

⁴ Joakim shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with it. Therefore the Lord would not be pacified.

⁶ thou wilt destroy all them who speak lies; a bloody and deceitful man the Lord abhorreth.

⁴ The sinner hath greatly provoked the Lord; according to his great anger will he not make inquisition? God is not before his eyes;

²⁷ Because thou wilt save a dejected people; therefore the eyes of the lofty thou wilt humble.

¹⁸ Let those deceitful lips become speechless, which speak injustice against the righteous with pride and contempt.

⁶ Therefore haughtiness hath got a mastery over them; they have clothed themselves with their iniquity and impiety. ⁷ Their iniquity springeth up as it were out of fatness; they passed on to the purpose of their heart. ⁸ They thought and spoke wickedly; they spoke injustice with a lofty air.

⁵ Him, who privily slandered his neighbour, I expelled. With one of a haughty eye and unsatiable heart I would not eat.

² Lord, deliver my soul from false lips, and from a deceitful tongue. ³ What should be given thee? Or what return made thee for a deceitful tongue?

¹ A Song of the steps. O LORD, my heart is not exalted, nor are mine eyes lofty; Nor have I exercised myself in great things: nor in things too wonderful for me.

¹¹ saying, Come with us; partake of blood; and let us hide in the earth an innocent man without cause,

²² Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but he who dealeth faithfully is acceptable to him.

⁵ A faithful witness doth not lie; but a false witness kindleth lies.

⁷ Faithful lips will not harmonize with a fool; nor lying lips with a righteous man.

⁴ A high minded man is contentious and stubborn: but sin is the lamp of the wicked.

²⁸ A lying tongue hateth truth; and a flattering mouth Worketh ruin.

¹³ A wicked progeny have lofty eyes and uplifted eyebrows.

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 "For the eyes of the Lord are lofty; but man is low; and the loftiness of these men shall be humbled; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

⁹ Because their glory is now humbled; and the shame of their countenance is risen up against them: their sin therefore, like the Sodomites, they proclaimed and openly avowed.

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty and have walked with outstretched neck and wanton eyes, trailing with them in their gait flowing robes, and moving in set pace with their feet;

³ For your hands are polluted with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips have spoken iniquity, and your tongue contriveth injustice. ⁴ None speaketh just things, nor is there any just judgment. They trusted in vanities and they speak lies. Because they hatch mischief, therefore they bring forth iniquity. ⁵ They hatched the eggs of asps, and are weaving a spider's web; and he who was about to eat some of their eggs, upon breaking one that was hatched found therein a viper. ⁶ Their web will not serve for a mantle, nor can they clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity 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,

¹ [p] Hear a word of the Lord, children of Israel! the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of this land; because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land; ² Cursing and lying and murder and theft and adultery are burst out on the land, and blood mingleth with blood;

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and bent upon executing the desires of your father. He was a manslayer from the beginning, and did .not abide in the truth. Because there is no truth in him, when he speaketh falsehood he speaketh what is. natural to him, for he is a liar, and the father of it.

⁵ Likewise ye who are young, submit to those more advanced in years. And being all submissive to one another; adorn yourselves with humility; because "God resisteth the proud and granteth favour to the humble;"

¹⁵ but without are the dogs and the sorcerers and the prostitutes and the murderers and the idolaters and every one who loveth and practiseth falsehood.

⁵ So when the Lord God saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was multiplied, and that every one was in his heart studiously and continually bent upon evils,

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⁸ but they consult in counsels.

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,

¹⁷ and devise not evil in your hearts every one against his neighbour; and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

¹ Thou shalt not countenance an idle report, nor conspire with the unrighteous to be a false witness.

¹⁶ And if a false witness rise up against a man, and accuse him of any crime, ¹⁷ the two men between whom is the controversy, shall stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days. ¹⁸ And when the judges have made a strict examination, if the false witness hath testified falsehoods, and risen up against his brother; ¹⁹ you shall do to him as he wickedly thought to do to his brother. thou shalt remove the evil from among you; ²⁰ and the rest, when they hear, will be afraid, and thenceforth proceed no more to commit such evil among you.

¹⁰ and suborn two wicked men and let them testify against him saying, He renounced God and the king. Then let him be led out and stoned to death. ¹¹ And the men of the city, the elders and freemen who dwelt in his city did as Jezabel had sent to them, even as it was written in the letter she sent them. ¹² So having proclaimed a fast, they set Nabuthi at the head of the people, ¹³ and there came in two wicked men and sat over against him and testified against him saying, Thou hast renounced God and the king. Upon which they led him out of the city, and stoned him with stones so that he died. ¹⁴ Then they sent to Jezabel saying, Nabuthi hath been stoned and is dead. ¹⁵ When Jezabel heard she said to Achab, Arise and take possession of the vineyard of Nabuthi the Jezraelite, who would not give it to thee for money, for he is not alive, for he is dead.

¹² Deliver me not up to the will of them who are afflicting me. Because false witnesses have risen up against me and injustice hath belied itself;

¹¹ False witnesses having risen up against me, laid to my charge things which I knew not;

¹⁷ A righteous man declareth the truth as it appeareth to him: but a false witness is deceitful.

²⁸ A froward man spreadeth mischief. He will light up a lamp of deceit for evils; and he separateth them who were friends.

⁵ A false witness shall not go unpunished; and he who accuseth unjustly shall not escape.

⁹ Let not a false witness go unpunished; and let him who kindleth mischief perish by it.

¹⁰ Expel from council an overbearing man; and contention will go out with him: for if he sitteth in council he dishonoureth all.

¹⁸ Sharp is a nail and a sword and an arrow: so is a man who beareth false witness against his friend.

²⁰ By much fuel a fire is nourished: but where there is no stirrer up of quarrels, contention ceaseth.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come malicious surmises, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies.

⁵⁹ And the chief priests and the elders, even the whole Sanhedrim, sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,

¹³ and set up false witnesses, who said, This man is incessantly speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law;

²³ And avoid foolish and ignorant debates, knowing that they generate strifes.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh down from above; but that which is of an earthly, sensual, and devilish nature. ¹⁶ For where there is a zeal with strife, there will be confusion, and every thing which is bad.

¹⁸ And the fruit of this righteousness is peaceably sown by them who cultivate peace.

⁹ I wrote to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who affecteth a preeminence among them, doth not regard us. ¹⁰ For this cause, when I come I will take notice of his works which he doth, talking lightly of us with malicious words, and not content with this, he doth not entertain the brethren himself, and them who would, he hindereth, and casteth them out of the congregation.

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;

¹⁶ Cursed he who slighteth his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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.

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. ² Keep my commandments, that thou mayst live; and my words as the apple of thine eye. ³ Bind them about thy fingers, and write them on the table of thy heart. ⁴ Implore Wisdom to be thy sister, and make Understanding thine acquaintance:

²² Hearken, my son, to the father who begot thee: and despise not thy mother because she is old.

¹¹ A wicked progeny curse their father and bless not their mother.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

¹⁶ And it shall be for a sign on thy hand, and immoveably before thy eyes. For with a strong hand the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.

⁸ and thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy right hand, and it shall be immoveably before thine eyes.

³ Let not acts of kindness and faithfulness forsake thee: but bind them about thy neck

⁶ forsake it not, and it will defend thee: love it and it will preserve thee:

²¹ That thy fountains may not fail thee, keep them in thy heart;

³ You are shewn publickly because you are the letter of Christ which we make use of. It is written, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart.

⁴ That my mouth might not speak the works of these men; I, because of the words of thy lips, kept rugged ways.

³ send forth thy light and thy truth; these have conducted me, and led me to thy holy mountain, and to thy tabernacles.

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

¹¹ I have hid thine oracles in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.

²⁴ for thy testimonies are my study, thy statutes, my counsellors.

⁵⁴ Thy statutes were the subject of my songs, in the place of my pilgrimage.

⁹⁷ MEM. O! how I have loved thy law, Lord! It is my meditation all the day.

¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes were awake before the morning dawn, that I might

¹¹ good counsel will keep thee, and holy prudence will guard thee:

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;

¹⁸ Then he will turn his face to the islands, and take many, and cause chiefs to cease their reproaches: but his own reproach will be turned upon him. ¹⁹ Then he will turn his face to the strength of his own land, and will be weak and fall, and will not be found. ²⁰ And from his root there will be set upon his throne a plant of royalty plundering, and taxing the glory of a kingdom. And in those days he also will be destroyed, but not with open violence nor in battle. ²¹ And on his throne one will be settled, who was despised and on whom they did not confer the honour of a kingdom. But he will come to it peaceably and obtain the kingdom by obsequiousness.

¹⁷ thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart. With rebuke thou shalt correct thy neighbour, and not contract guilt on his account;

⁸ The statutes of the Lord are right, they rejoice the heart. The commandment of the Lord is clear, it enlighteneth the eyes.

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.

¹⁰⁵ NUN. Thy law is a lamp to my feet; and a light to my paths.

⁵ Let a righteous man correct me with mercy; and he will work conviction in me: but let not the oil of a sinner [for this shall still be my prayer] anoint my head at their pleasure.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all who take hold of her; and safe for them who rely on her, as on the Lord.

⁴ and they said when they taught me, "Let our words sink deep in thy heart. Keep our commandments; do not forget;

¹³ Take fast hold of mine instruction, let it not go: but keep it for thyself during thy life.

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

²⁴ The determinations of the wise are ways of life; that he may turn from the mansion of the dead and be saved.

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¹⁵ The rod and reproofs give wisdom: but a child led astray shameth his parents.

²⁰ For he hath given a law for assistance; that they may not speak like such an oracle as this, which is not worth the giving of gifts for it.

⁸ And to this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I have set before you the way of life and the way of death.

¹⁹ Therefore we have a more complete confirmation of the prophetic word, to which you do well in giving attention, as to a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawn, and the bringer of light rise in your hearts;

⁵ Remember therefore from what thou hast fallen, and reform, and do thy first works; else I will come to thee quickly, and remove thy candlestick out of its place, unless thou reform.

¹⁶ and estrange thee from a just determination.

³ for honey droppeth from the lips of a harlot, which for a while pleaseth thy palate;

⁵ that she may keep thee from a strange and wicked woman, in case she, with alluring words should attack thee.

²⁶ That bitterer than death is that whole class of women who are prostitutes. Though their heart is nets and their hands chains, he who is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from them; but a sinner shall be taken by them.

² And it happened, that one afternoon, David arose from his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and from the top of the house he saw a woman bathing, and she was very beautiful. ³ So David sent and sought out the woman, and one said, Is not this Bersabe, the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Ourias, the Chettite? ⁴ Whereupon David sent messengers, and took her, and went in unto her, and lay with her. And when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house. ⁵ And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, saying, I am with child.

³⁰ Now when Jehu came to Jezrael and Jezabel heard, she painted her eyes and dressed her head and looked out at a window.

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.

²⁸ But I say to you, whoever looketh on a married woman so as to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁴ But every one is tempted by his own desire, when allured and ensnared. ¹⁵ In that case desire having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when grown up, produceth death.

¹⁴ she called those who were in the house and spoke to them saying, See! He hath brought in amongst us a Hebrew slave to insult us. He came to me saying, Lie with me. But I cried with a loud voice.

³⁶ And it shall be, that he who is left in thy house, will come to bow down before him, for a piece of silver, saying, Put me into one of the priestly offices that I may eat bread.

¹⁰ that strangers may not be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours go into the houses of strangers,

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

³ When a man loveth wisdom his father is gladdened: but he who feedeth harlots spendeth his substance.

⁸ Men regardless of law, set a city in a flame: but wise men avert wrath.

⁸ "now therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, Because your words are false and your prophesies vain; therefore behold I am against you, saith the Lord;

¹⁸ and say, Thus saith the Lord, Woe to those women who sew pillows under every elbow; and make coverings for every head of every age, to lead souls astray. The souls of my people have been turned out of the way.

¹³ And not many days after, the younger son having gathered all together, took a journey to a distant country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. ¹⁴ And when he had spent all, there came a grievous famine over all that country, and he began to be in want. ¹⁵ So he went and connected himself with one of the citizens of that country who sent him to his farm to feed swine,

³⁰ but soon as this son of thine is come, who hath devoured thy substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

⁹ If my heart hath gone after another man's wife, or if I have lain in wait at her gates; ¹⁰ let my wife gratify another, and mine infant children be dishonoured. ¹¹ For the defiling of another man's wife exciteth a fury of wrath not to be restrained. ¹² For it is a fire burning in all the limbs; which will not go out, till it hath utterly consumed.

⁴ They all burn with adultery, like an oven for baking cakes, which, after putting in the fire, after mixing the dough, is kept burning, till the dough is leavened. ⁵ With regard to the days of your kings, the chiefs had begun to be inflamed with wine. He had stretched forth his hand with turbulent men. ⁶ Because their hearts were heated like an oven, when they had revelled the whole night, Ephraim fell fast asleep. The morning came, he was heated again like a flaming fire. ⁷ They were all hot as an oven and devoured their judges; all their kings fell; there was none among them who appealed to me.

⁵ So also the tongue is a very small member, yet it boasteth great things. See what a great pile of wood a little fire kindleth to a flame!

¹⁸ And Pharaoh called Abram and said, Why hast thou acted thus with me and didst not tell me that she is thy wife? Why didst thou say, She is my sister? I indeed took her to be my wife, but now there is thy wife before thee. Take her and begone. ¹⁹ And Pharaoh gave strict orders to men touching Abram, to convoy away him and his wife and all that he had.

⁴ Now Abimelech had not touched her. And Abimelech said, Lord, wilt thou destroy an unknowing and righteous nation? ⁵ Did he not tell me, She is my sister? And did not she say to me, He is my brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands I have done this. ⁶ And God said to him in a dream, I know indeed that with a pure heart thou hast done this, and out of compassion I withheld thee from sinning against me. For this cause I suffered thee not to touch her. ⁷ Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet; and he will pray for thee and thou shalt live. But if thou restore not, be assured that thou and all belonging to thee shall die.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said to him, Why hast thou dealt thus with us? In a little while some person of my family might have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guilt upon us through ignorance. ¹¹ Then Abimelech gave a strict charge to all his people saying, Whoever toucheth this man or his wife shall be liable to death.

¹⁰ Whosoever committeth adultery with the wife of a man who is head of a family, or who shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let both the adulterer and the adulteress be put to death.

³ So David sent and sought out the woman, and one said, Is not this Bersabe, the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Ourias, the Chettite? ⁴ Whereupon David sent messengers, and took her, and went in unto her, and lay with her. And when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

⁹ Why then hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast slain Ourias the Chettite with the sword, and taken his wife to be thy wife. Thou hast indeed slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house. Because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Ourias the Chettite to be thy wife,

²¹ Thereupon Achitophel said to Abessalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, whom he hath left to keep his house; and all Israel will hear that thou hast dishonoured thy father, and the hands of all who are with thee will be strengthened.

⁵ Every lofted minded man is impure in the sight of God: and he who hath joined hand to hand unjustly shall not go unpunished.

⁸ They became furious wanton steeds; they neighed every one for his neigh hour's wife. ⁹ Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, and on such a nation as this shall not my soul be avenged?

¹¹ In thee one debauched his neighbour's wife; another wantonly defiled his daughter in law; and another humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹ Now with respect to those matters about which you wrote to me, it is well for a man not to marry:

³⁹ Wilt thou hunt the prey for lions, or satisfy the appetites of dragons?

¹ If any man steal an ox or a sheep and kill, or sell it, he shall pay as a fine five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep. ² If a thief be found in the act of breaking in and be struck and die, he who struck him is not liable to death; ³ but if the sun was risen upon him he is liable and may be put to death. If a thief hath no property, let him be sold for the theft. ⁴ If the thing stolen, whatever it be from an ass to a sheep, be left alive and found in his hand, he shall be fined double.

⁶ and shall make sevenfold restitution for the lamb, because he hath done such a deed and had no compassion.

¹⁸ He hath wearied himself for emptiness and vanity; for riches, of which he shall not have a taste, which are like a bur, neither to be chewed nor drunk.

²⁵ And as he had not wherewithal to pay; his lord ordered him and his wife and all that he had, to be sold and payment to be made.

⁸ Whereupon Zaccheus, standing up, said to the Lord, Behold, Sir, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have wronged any man, I make him fourfold restitution:

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,

³⁹ Then Pharao said to Joseph, Seeing God hath shewn thee all these things, there is none more prudent and wise than thou thyself.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not steal.

¹⁸ For she hath placed her house near death; and her wheels with the earth born near the mansion of the dead. ¹⁹ None who walk by her direction can ever return; nor ever recover the right paths.

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.

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

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.

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

⁴ "Whosoever is simple, let him come to me." And to them who want understanding she saith,

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

²⁵ I took a circuit with my heart to know and examine carefully and to seek wisdom and a mode of calculating, and to gain a knowledge of a particular folly and disquietude and madness of one destitute of the fear of God; and I find and an declare, ²⁶ That bitterer than death is that whole class of women who are prostitutes. Though their heart is nets and their hands chains, he who is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from them; but a sinner shall be taken by them.

⁸ They became furious wanton steeds; they neighed every one for his neigh hour's wife.

²¹ [p] Hear these things I beseech you, O foolish and stupid people! [J] They have eyes, but they do not see; ears they have, but they do not hear.

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,

¹¹ to attend to fornication and wine, therefore the heart of my people embraced drunkenness. ¹² They consulted by symbols and gave them answers by their staves. By a spirit of fornication they were led astray; and they went a whoring from their God.

⁹ In thy destruction, Israel, who can give succour?

²² pretending to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for an image representing coruptible man, and birds, and four footed beasts, and reptiles; ²⁴ therefore God delivered them up, by the desires of their own hearts, to impurity, that by themselves their own bodies might be dishonoured.

⁴ Let marriage be held in esteem by all, and its bed be undefiled: for whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

⁴ In the excess of thy insolence, Thou shouldst not have burst forth like water. For thou wentest up to thy father's bed, Then thou pollutedst the couch to which thou wentest up.

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.

⁵ as David had done what was right in the sight of the Lord, and had not deviated all the days of his life from all that he commanded him.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by doing so? Though among many nations there was not a king like him? Though he was beloved by God, and God had made him king over all Israel, yet strange women led him astray.

¹ A Psalm for remembrance, respecting rest. Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath; nor chasten me in thine anger. ² For in me thy shafts are deeply fixed; and on me thou hast heavily laid thy hand. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; no rest to my bones, because of my sins. ⁴ Because mine iniquities mounted above my head; like a heavy burden they were heavy on me. ⁵ The Wounds, on account of my folly putrefied and became corrupt. ⁶ I was in misery and wholly bent down: all the longsome day I went mourning. ⁷ For my soul was filled with illusions; and there was no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I was afflicted and exceedingly depressed: I roared because of the groans of my heart.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bersabe. Have mercy upon me, God, according to thy great compassion: and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out this my crime,

⁸ Cause me to hear joy and gladness; let the bones, which have been humbled, rejoice.

⁹ That thou mayst not give thy life to others, and thy substance to the cruel: ¹⁰ that strangers may not be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours go into the houses of strangers, ¹¹ and thou at last be grieved. When the flesh of thy body is consumed,

⁶ and Jesse begat David the king, and David the king had Solomon by her who had been the wife of Urias,

¹⁴ and a spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be polluted; or a spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, though she be not polluted,

¹¹ Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath stayed my wrath from Israel, by shewing a zeal for me among them, so that in my jealousy I have not utterly consumed the children of Israel.

²⁹ and took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her into twelve pieces, and sent them through all the borders of Israel. ³⁰ Whereupon every one who saw them said, There never was such a thing done or seen from the day the children of Israel came out of Egypt to this day. Appoint for yourselves a counsel over her and speak.

⁴ Wrath is cruel and anger outrageous: but nothing can withstand envy.

⁶ set me as a seal on thy heart as a seal on thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy inflexible as Hades: its wings are wings of fire its flames;

²² Are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

¹ Naiman the captain general of the army of Syria, was a man great in the sight of his master and highly honoured; because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syria. But this man who was mighty in power, was leprous.

³ for I was a son obedient to a father; and beloved in the sight of a mother:

¹³ Ha! she hath caught him and kissed him, and with an unblushing countenance, said to him:

²⁵ before the mountains were established; and before all the hills, he bringeth me forth.

⁹ and the commoner bowed down and the noble humbled himself; therefore I will not forgive them."

⁹ therefore I have made you contemptible and outcasts among all the nations, because you did not keep my ways, but in law have had respect to persons.