Jeremiah 20 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Pashhur son of Immer the priest—who also is overseer, leader in the house of Jehovah—heareth Jeremiah prophesying these things, ² and Pashhur smiteth Jeremiah the prophet, and putteth him unto the stocks, that are by the high gate of Benjamin, that is by the house of Jehovah. ³ and it cometh to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur bringeth out Jeremiah from the stocks, and Jeremiah saith unto him, `Not Pashhur hath Jehovah called thy name, but—Magor-Missabib. <sup>4</sup> For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am making thee for a fear to thyself, And to all loving thee, And they have fallen by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes are beholding, And all Judah I give into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath removed them to Babylon, And he hath smitten them with the sword. <sup>5</sup> And I have given all the strength of this city, And all its labour, and all its precious things, Yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah I do give into the hand of their enemies, And they have spoiled them, and taken them, And have brought them into Babylon. <sup>6</sup> And thou, Pashhur, and all dwelling in thy house, Do go into captivity. and Babylon thou dost enter, And there thou diest, and there thou art buried, Thou and all loving thee, To whom thou hast prophesied falsely.'
<sup>7</sup> Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me, <sup>8</sup> Because from the time I speak I cry out, `Violence and destruction,' I cry, For the word of Jehovah hath been to me For reproach and for derision all the day. ⁹ And I said, `I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able. <sup>10</sup> For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: `Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching for my halting, `Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.' <sup>11</sup> And Jehovah is with me, as a terrible mighty one, Therefore my persecutors stumble and prevail not, They have been exceedingly ashamed, For they have not acted wisely, Confusion age-during is not forgotten. <sup>12</sup> And, O Jehovah of Hosts, trier of the righteous, Beholder of reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance out of them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause. <sup>13</sup> Sing ye to Jehovah, praise Jehovah, For He hath delivered the soul of the needy From the hand of evil doers.
<sup>14</sup> Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed! <sup>15</sup> Cursed is the man who bore tidings to my father, saying, `Born to thee hath been a child—a male,' Making him very glad! ¹⁶ Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon. ¹⁷ Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me—my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during. ¹⁸ Why is this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

¹⁸ And the chief of the executioners taketh Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold,

¹⁴ for Bilgah the fifteenth, for Immer the sixteenth,

⁸ And his heads, for a willing-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites, have lifted up; Hilkiah, and Zechariah, and Jehiel, leaders in the house of God, to the priests have given for passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred, and oxen three hundred;

³⁷ Sons of Imner, a thousand fifty and two. ³⁸ Sons of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.

⁴⁰ sons of Immer: a thousand fifty and two; ⁴¹ sons of Pashur: a thousand two hundred forty and seven;

¹ And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees—

²⁴ And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come;

²⁷ and thou hast said, Thus said the king, Place ye this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my coming in peace.'

¹⁰ And Asa is angry at the seer, and giveth him to the house of torture, for he is in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresseth some of the people at that time.

²¹ And they conspire against him, and stone him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Jehovah,

²⁷ And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

¹⁹ and they have fought against thee, and they prevail not against thee; for with thee am I, —an affirmation of Jehovah—to deliver thee.

¹⁴ And Jeremiah cometh in from Tophet, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy, and he standeth in the court of the house of Jehovah, and he saith unto all the people: ¹⁵ `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in unto this city, and on all its cities, all the evil that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck—not to hear My words!'

⁸ And it cometh to pass, at the completion of Jeremiah's speaking all that Jehovah hath commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests, and the prophets, and all the people catch him, saying, Thou dost surely die,

²⁶ Jehovah hath made thee priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for there being inspectors of the house of Jehovah, for every one mad and making himself a prophet, and thou hast put him unto the torture and unto the stocks.

²⁶ And the king commandeth Jerahmeel son of Hammelek, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Jehovah doth hide them.

¹³ And it cometh to pass, he is at the gate of Benjamin, and there is a master of the ward—and his name is Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah—and he catcheth Jeremiah the prophet, saying, `Unto the Chaldeans thou art falling.'

¹⁵ and the heads are wroth against Jeremiah, and have smitten him, and put him in the prison-house—the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it they had made for a prison-house. ¹⁶ When Jeremiah hath entered into the house of the dungeon, and unto the cells, then Jeremiah dwelleth there many days,

⁶ And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that is in the court of the prison, and they send down Jeremiah with cords; and in the pit there is no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sinketh in the mire. ⁷ And Ebed-Melech the Cushite, a eunuch who is in the king's house, heareth that they have put Jeremiah into the pit; and the king is sitting at the gate of Benjamin,

¹⁰ And Amaziah priest of Beth-El sendeth unto Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, `Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words, <sup>11</sup> for thus said Amos: By sword die doth Jeroboam, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.' <sup>12</sup> And Amaziah saith unto Amos, `Seer, go flee for thee unto the land of Judah, and eat there bread, and there thou dost prophesy; ¹³ and at Beth-El do not add to prophesy any more, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.'

¹⁰ Changed is all the land as a plain, From Gebo to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, And she hath been high, and hath dwelt in her place, Even from the gate of Benjamin To the place of the first gate, unto the front gate, And from the tower of Hananeel, Unto the wine-vats of the king.

¹⁰ `Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake—because theirs is the reign of the heavens. <sup>11</sup> `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake— ¹² rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

³⁵ and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

³⁴ `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; <sup>35</sup> that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: <sup>36</sup> verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. <sup>37</sup> `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

³ and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;

¹⁸ and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

⁴⁰ And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go;

⁵² which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

²² And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat them with rods, ²³ many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely, ²⁴ who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.

³⁶ and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment; ³⁷ they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins—being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

¹⁰ `Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder—having seen her—with great wonder;

⁵ and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

¹⁵ And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife—thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name;

²⁸ And he saith, `Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men, and dost prevail.'

¹³ For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear is round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

³ And I draw near unto the prophetess, and she conceiveth, and beareth a son; and Jehovah saith unto me, `Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

²⁵ Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear is round about.

³² Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And it is not said any more, `The Tophet,' And `Valley of the son of Hinnom,' But `Valley of the slaughter,' And they have buried in Tophet—without place.

² and thou hast gone forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, that is at the opening of the gate of the pottery, and hast proclaimed there the words that I speak unto thee,

⁶ `Therefore, lo, days are coming—an affirmation of Jehovah—and this place is not called any more, Tophet, and Valley of the son of Hinnom, but, Valley of slaughter.

¹⁰ For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: `Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching for my halting, `Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'

²⁹ And Zephaniah the priest readeth this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

⁵ Wherefore have I seen them dismayed—They are turned backward, And their mighty ones are beaten down, And to a refuge they have fled, and not turned the face? Fear is round about—an affirmation of Jehovah.

²² Thou dost call as at a day of appointment, My fears from round about, And there hath not been in the day of the anger of Jehovah, An escaped and remaining one, They whom I stretched out and nourished, My enemy hath consumed!

⁴ and Jehovah saith unto him, `Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little, and I have charged the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and have caused to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel; <sup>5</sup> and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.' <sup>6</sup> And she conceiveth again, and beareth a daughter, and He saith to him, `Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I add no more to pity the house of Israel, for I do utterly take them away; ⁷ and the house of Judah I pity, and have saved them by Jehovah their God, and do not save them by bow, and by sword, and by battle, by horses, and by horsemen.'
⁸ And she weaneth Lo-Ruhamah, and conceiveth, and beareth a son; ⁹ and He saith, `Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye are not My people, and I am not for you;

⁵ And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem, ⁶ and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest, ⁷ and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'

³⁰ and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do—that I may be saved?'

³⁵ And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, `Let those men go;' <sup>36</sup> and the jailor told these words unto Paul—`The magistrates have sent, that ye may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace;' ³⁷ and Paul said to them, `Having beaten us publicly uncondemned—men, Romans being—they did cast us to prison, and now privately do they cast us forth! why no! but having come themselves, let them bring us forth.' ³⁸ And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans, ³⁹ and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;

³² `Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God! ³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days; ³⁴ and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see.

⁶⁵ `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul; ⁶⁶ and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life; ⁶⁷ in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest.

³³ `And the man I cut not off of thine from Mine altar, is to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house do die men;

⁷ And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon.

¹¹ Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him—at his feet. ¹² Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side. ¹³ It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born. ¹⁴ Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors. ¹⁵ It dwelleth in his tent—out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur. ¹⁶ From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. ¹⁷ His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. ¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. ¹⁹ He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings. ²⁰ At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright. ²¹ Only these are tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

²³ It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating. ²⁴ He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass. ²⁵ One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors. ²⁶ All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors.

¹⁵ `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in unto this city, and on all its cities, all the evil that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck—not to hear My words!'

⁴ Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel: Lo, I am turning round the weapons of battle That are in your hand, With which ye do fight the king of Babylon, And the Chaldeans, who are laying siege against you, At the outside of the wall, And I have gathered them into the midst of this city, ⁵ And I—I have fought against you, With a stretched-out hand, and with a strong arm, And in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, ⁶ And I have smitten the inhabitants of this city, Both man and beast, By a great pestilence do they die. ⁷ And after this—an affirmation of Jehovah, I give Zedekiah king of Judah, And his servants, and the people, And those left in this city, From the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of their enemies, And into the hand of those seeking their life, And he hath smitten them by the mouth of the sword, He hath no pity on them, Nor doth he spare, nor hath he mercy.
⁸ And unto this people thou dost say, Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am setting before you the way of life, And the way of death! ⁹ Whoso is abiding in this city—dieth, By sword, and by famine, and by pestilence, And whoso is going forth, And hath fallen unto the Chaldeans, Who are laying siege against you—liveth, And his life hath been to him for a spoil. ¹⁰ For I have set My face against this city for evil, And not for good—an affirmation of Jehovah. Into the hand of the king of Babylon it is given, And he hath burned it with fire.

⁹ Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north—an affirmation of Jehovah—even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes age-during.

²¹ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in My name falsehood: Lo, I am giving them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he hath smitten them before your eyes,

²⁷ `Lo, I am Jehovah, God of all flesh: For Me is anything too wonderful? <sup>28</sup> `Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he hath captured it; ²⁹ And come in have the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city, and they have set this city on fire, and have burned it, and the houses on whose roofs they made perfume to Baal, and poured out libations to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger. ³⁰ For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been only doing evil in Mine eyes, from their youth; for the sons of Israel are only provoking Me with the work of their hands—an affirmation of Jehovah. ³¹ `For a cause of Mine anger, and a cause of My fury, hath this city been to Me, even from the day that they built it, and unto this day—to turn it aside from before My face,

⁶ And the king of Babylon slaughtereth the sons of Zedekiah, in Riblah, before his eyes, yea, all the freemen of Judah hath the king of Babylon slaughtered. ⁷ And the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and he bindeth him with brazen fetters, to bring him in to Babylon.

²⁷ and the king of Babylon smiteth them, and putteth them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he removeth Judah from off its own ground.

¹⁷ And have lifted up for thee a lamentation, And said to thee: How hast thou perished, That art inhabited from the seas, The praised city, that was strong in the sea, She and her inhabitants, Who put their terror on all her inhabitants! ¹⁸ Now they tremble, is it not the day of thy fall? Troubled have been the isles that are in the sea, at thine outgoing. ¹⁹ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: In my making thee a city wasted, Like cities that have not been inhabited, In bringing up against thee the deep, Then covered thee have the great waters. ²⁰ And I have caused thee to go down, With those going down to the pit, Unto the people of old, And I have caused thee to dwell in the land, The lower parts—in wastes of old, With those going down to the pit, So that thou art not inhabited, And I have given beauty in the land of the living. ²¹ Wastes I do make thee, and thou art not, And thou art sought, and art not found any more—to the age, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

⁴ `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What—to us? thou shalt see!' ⁵ and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.

¹⁷ Lo, days are coming, and borne hath been all that is in thy house, and that thy father have treasured up till this day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Jehovah; ¹⁸ and of thy sons who go out from thee, whom thou begettest, they take away, and they have been eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'

¹² and Jehoiachin king of Judah goeth out unto the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his chiefs, and his eunuchs, and the king of Babylon taketh him in the eighth year of his reign, ¹³ and bringeth out thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, and cutteth in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of Israel made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had spoken. ¹⁴ And he hath removed all Jerusalem, and all the chiefs, and all the mighty ones of valour—ten thousand is the removal—and every artificer and smith, none hath been left save the poor of the people of the land. ¹⁵ And he removeth Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the mother of the king, and the wives of the king, and his eunuchs, and the mighty ones of the land—he hath caused a removal to go from Jerusalem to Babylon, ¹⁶ and all the men of valour seven thousand, and the artificers and the smiths a thousand, the whole are mighty men, warriors; and the king of Babylon bringeth them in a captivity to Babylon.

¹³ And the pillars of brass that are in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the sea of brass, that is in the house of Jehovah, have the Chaldeans broken in pieces, and bear away their brass to Babylon. ¹⁴ And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they minister they have taken, ¹⁵ and the fire-pans, and the bowls that are wholly of silver, hath the chief of the executioners taken. ¹⁶ The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, there was no weighing of the brass of all these vessels; ¹⁷ eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and the chapiter on it is of brass, and the height of the chapiter is three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates are on the chapiter round about—the whole is of brass; and like these hath the second pillar, with the net.

¹⁰ and at the turn of the year hath king Nebuchadnezzar sent and bringeth him in to Babylon, with the desirable vessels of the house of Jehovah, and causeth Zedekiah his brother to reign over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁷ And He causeth to go up against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slayeth their chosen ones by the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and hath had no pity on young man and virgin, old man and very aged—the whole He hath given into his hand. ¹⁸ And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king and of his princes—the whole he hath brought in to Babylon. ¹⁹ And they burn the house of God, and break down the wall of Jerusalem, and all its palaces they have burnt with fire, and all its desirable vessels—to destruction.

²⁴ And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.

²⁰ Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment—my curtains.

¹² On all high places in the plain have spoilers come in, For the sword of Jehovah is consuming, From the end of the land even unto the end of the land, There is no peace to any flesh.

¹³ Thy strength and thy treasures For a prey I do give—not for price, Even for all thy sins, and in all thy borders.

³ O My mountain in the field—thy strength, All thy treasures—for a prey I give, Thy high places for sin in all thy borders.

⁸ And like the bad figs, that are not eaten for badness, Surely thus said Jehovah: So do I make Zedekiah king of Judah, And his heads, and the remnant of Jerusalem, Who are left in this land, And who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, ⁹ And I have given them for a trembling, For evil—to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them. ¹⁰ And I have sent against them the sword, The famine and the pestilence, Till their consumption from off the ground, That I gave to them and to their fathers!

¹⁹ For thus said Jehovah of Hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, ²⁰ That Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath not taken, in his removing Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon with all the freemen of Judah and Jerusalem, ²¹ Surely thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left of the house of Jehovah, and of the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: ²² To Babylon they are brought, and there they are till the day of My inspecting them—an affirmation of Jehovah; then I have brought them up, and have brought them back unto this place.'

³ Where Zedekiah king of Judah hath shut him up, saying, `Wherefore art thou prophesying, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he hath captured it; ⁴ And Zedekiah king of Judah doth not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but is certainly given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and his mouth hath spoken with his mouth, and his eyes see his eyes, ⁵ And to Babylon he leadeth Zedekiah, and there he is till My inspecting him, —an affirmation of Jehovah—because ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye do not prosper.'

² in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, hath the city been broken up;

⁸ And the house of the king, and the house of the people, have the Chaldeans burnt with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem they have broken down.

⁷ then is the city broken up, and all the men of war flee, and go forth from the city by night, the way of the gate between the two walls, that is by the king's garden—and the Chaldeans are by the city round about—and they go the way of the plain. ⁸ And the forces of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his forces have been scattered from him, ⁹ and they capture the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he speaketh with him—judgments. ¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slaughtereth the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also all the princes of Judah hath he slaughtered in Riblah; ¹¹ and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and he bindeth him in brazen fetters, and the king of Babylon bringeth him to Babylon, and putteth him in the house of inspection unto the day of his death.
¹² And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month—it is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon—come hath Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners; he hath stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem, ¹³ and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he hath burned with fire, ¹⁴ and all the walls of Jerusalem round about broken down have all the forces of the Chaldeans that are with the chief of the executioners. ¹⁵ And of the poor of the people, and the remnant of the people who are left in the city, and those who are falling away, who have fallen unto the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the multitude, hath Nebuzar-Adan chief of the executioners, removed; ¹⁶ and of the poor of the land hath Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, left for vine-dressers and for husbandmen. ¹⁷ And the pillars of brass that are to the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the brasen sea that is in the house of Jehovah, have the Chaldeans broken, and they bear away all the brass of them to Babylon; ¹⁸ and the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they minister, they have taken away; ¹⁹ and the basins, and the fire-pans, and the bowls, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups, the gold of that which is gold, and the silver of that which is silver, hath the chief of the executioners taken. ²⁰ The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen that are beneath the bases, that king Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, there was no weighing of the brass of all these vessels. ²¹ As to the pillars, eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits doth compass it, and its thickness is four fingers hollow. ²² And the chapiter upon it is of brass, and the height of the one chapiter is five cubits, and net-work and pomegranates are on the chapiter round about, the whole is of brass; and like these have the second pillar, and pomegranates. ²³ And the pomegranates are ninety and six on a side, all the pomegranates are a hundred on the net-work round about.

⁷ Remembered hath Jerusalem In the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, And she hath no helper; Seen her have adversaries, They have laughed at her cessation.

¹⁰ His hand spread out hath an adversary On all her desirable things, For she hath seen—Nations have entered her sanctuary, Concerning which Thou didst command, `They do not come into the assembly to thee.'

¹² Believe not did the kings of earth, And any of the inhabitants of the world, That come would an adversary and enemy Into the gates of Jerusalem.

²⁵ A conspiracy of its prophets is in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.

² and the Lord giveth into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, and some of the vessels of the house of God, and he bringeth them in to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he hath brought in to the treasure-house of his god.

¹⁷ and I have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing you.

²⁵ `Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;

¹⁵ Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail.

³¹ The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?

¹³ For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely, ¹⁴ And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, `Peace, peace!' and there is no peace. ¹⁵ They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah.

¹⁰ Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely. ¹¹ And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! and there is no peace.

¹⁴ And Jehovah saith unto me: Falsehood the prophets are prophesying in My name, I did not send them, nor command them, Nor have I spoken unto them: A false vision, and divination, and vanity, And the deceit of their own heart, they are prophesying to you. ¹⁵ Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, and I have not sent them, and they are saying, Sword and famine is not in this land: By sword and by famine are these prophets consumed.

⁴ For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am making thee for a fear to thyself, And to all loving thee, And they have fallen by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes are beholding, And all Judah I give into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath removed them to Babylon, And he hath smitten them with the sword.

¹⁴ And in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing, Committing adultery, and walking falsely, Yea, they strengthened the hands of evil doers, So that they have not turned back Each from his wickedness, They have been to me—all of them—as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, concerning the prophets: Lo, I am causing them to eat wormwood, And have caused them to drink water of gall, For, from prophets of Jerusalem Hath profanity gone forth to all the land. ¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Ye do not hearken unto the words Of the prophets who are prophesying to you, They are making you vain things, A vision of their own heart they speak, Not from the mouth of Jehovah. ¹⁷ Saying diligently to those despising The word of Jehovah: Peace is for you, And to every one walking in the stubbornness of his heart they have said: Evil doth not come in unto you.

²⁵ I have heard that which the prophets said, Who prophesy in My name falsehood, saying, `I have dreamed, I have dreamed.' ²⁶ Till when is it in the heart of the prophets? The prophets of falsehood, Yea, prophets of the deceit of their heart,

³² Lo, I am against the prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I—I have not sent them, Nor have I commanded them, And they are not at all profitable to this people, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁵ And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto Hananiah the prophet, `Hear, I pray thee, O Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, and thou hast caused this people to trust on falsehood. ¹⁶ Therefore thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am casting thee from off the face of the ground; this year thou diest, for apostasy thou hast spoken concerning Jehovah.' ¹⁷ And Hananiah the prophet dieth in that year, in the seventh month.

²¹ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in My name falsehood: Lo, I am giving them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he hath smitten them before your eyes, ²² And taken from them hath been a reviling by all the removed of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah doth set thee as Zedekiah, and as Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted with fire;

³² Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am seeing after Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and after his seed, he hath none dwelling in the midst of this people, nor doth he look on the good that I am doing to My people—an affirmation of Jehovah—for apostasy he hath spoken against Jehovah.'

¹⁴ Thy prophets have seen for thee a false and insipid thing, And have not revealed concerning thine iniquity, To turn back thy captivity, And they see for thee false burdens and causes of expulsion.

⁴ As foxes in the wastes, Thy prophets, O Israel, have been. ⁵ Ye have not gone up into breaches, Nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel, To stand in battle in a day of Jehovah. ⁶ They have seen vanity, and lying divination, Who are saying: An affirmation of Jehovah, And Jehovah hath not sent them, And they have hoped to establish a word. ⁷ A vain vision have ye not seen, And a lying divination spoken, When ye say: An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have not spoken? ⁸ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen a lie, Therefore, lo, I am against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. ⁹ And My hand hath been on the prophets, Who are seeing vanity, and who are divining a lie, In the assembly of My people they are not, And in the writing of the house of Israel they are not written, And unto the ground of Israel they come not, And ye have known that I am the Lord Jehovah.
¹⁰ Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk. ¹¹ Say to those daubing with chalk—It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend, ¹² And lo, fallen hath the wall! Doth not one say unto you, Where is the daubing that ye daubed? ¹³ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have rent with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overflowing shower is in Mine anger, And hailstones in My fury—to consume. ¹⁴ And I have broken down the wall that ye daubed with chalk, And have caused it to come unto the earth, And revealed hath been its foundation, And it hath fallen, And ye have been consumed in its midst, And ye have known that I am Jehovah. ¹⁵ And I have completed My wrath on the wall, And on those daubing it with chalk, And I say to you: The wall is not, And those daubing it are not; ¹⁶ The prophets of Israel who are prophesying concerning Jerusalem, And who are seeing for her a vision of peace, And there is no peace, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

²² Because of paining the heart of the righteous with falsehood, And I have not pained it, And strengthening the hands of the wicked, So as not to turn back from his evil way, To keep him alive, ²³ Therefore, vanity ye do not see, And divination ye do not divine again, And I have delivered My people out of your hand, And ye have known that I am Jehovah!'

²⁸ And its prophets have daubed for them with chalk, Seeing a vain thing, and divining for them a lie, Saying, `Thus said the Lord Jehovah:' And Jehovah hath not spoken.

¹¹ If one is going with the wind, And with falsehood hath lied: `I prophesy to thee of wine, and of strong drink,' He hath been the prophet of this people!

³ And it hath been, when one prophesieth again, That said unto him have his father and his mother, his parents, `Thou dost not live, For falsehood thou hast spoken in the name of Jehovah,' And pierced him through have his father and his mother, his parents, in his prophesying.

⁸ and there withstood them Elymas the magian—for so is his name interpreted—seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith. ⁹ And Saul—who also is Paul—having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him, ¹⁰ said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹ and now, lo, a hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead him by the hand;

¹ And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction, ² and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,
³ and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

²² And Moses turneth back unto Jehovah, and saith, `Lord, why hast Thou done evil to this people? why is this? —Thou hast sent me! ²³ and since I have come unto Pharaoh, to speak in Thy name, he hath done evil to this people, and Thou hast not at all delivered Thy people.'

¹¹ And Moses saith unto Jehovah, `Why hast Thou done evil to Thy servant? and why have I not found grace in Thine eyes—to put the burden of all this people upon me? ¹² I—have I conceived all this people? I—have I begotten it, that Thou sayest unto me, Carry it in thy bosom as the nursing father beareth the suckling, unto the ground which Thou hast sworn to its fathers? ¹³ Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give to us flesh, and we eat. ¹⁴ I am not able—I alone—to bear all this people, for it is too heavy for me; ¹⁵ and if thus Thou art doing to me—slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'

²³ And he goeth up thence to Beth-El, and he is going up in the way, and little youths have come out from the city, and scoff at him, and say to him, `Go up, bald-head! go up, bald-head!'

⁶ And I am a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people. ⁷ All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip—shake the head,

¹⁵ And—in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased; ¹⁶ With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

⁹ For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me. ¹⁰ And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me. ¹¹ And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile. ¹² Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, And those drinking strong drink, Play on instruments.

⁶ And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah! lo, I have not known—to speak, for I am a youth.' <sup>7</sup> And Jehovah saith unto me, `Do not say, I am a youth, for to all to whom I send thee thou goest, and all that I command thee thou speakest. ⁸ Be not afraid of their faces, for with thee am I to deliver thee, —an affirmation of Jehovah.'

¹⁸ And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land; ¹⁹ and they have fought against thee, and they prevail not against thee; for with thee am I, —an affirmation of Jehovah—to deliver thee.

¹⁰ Woe to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me—All of them are reviling me.

¹⁸ Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.

¹⁶ And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou—Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,

⁹ And I said, `I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able.

¹⁴ I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.

¹⁴ And a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah on me is strong.

⁷ Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool is the prophet, Mad is the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great is the hatred.

⁸ And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

¹⁴ And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

⁶³ And the men who were holding Jesus were mocking him, beating him; ⁶⁴ and having blindfolded him, they were striking him on the face, and were questioning him, saying, `Prophesy who he is who smote thee?'

¹¹ and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

³⁵ And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.' ³⁶ And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,

¹⁸ And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

³² And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, `We will hear thee again concerning this;'

⁹ for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last—as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men; ¹⁰ we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured; ¹¹ unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about, ¹² and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer; ¹³ being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become—of all things an offscouring—till now.

⁶ or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority—not to work?

³⁶ and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

¹⁶ and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people—till there is no healing.

¹⁹ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul—a shout of battle! ²⁰ Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment—my curtains. ²¹ Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet? ²² For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

¹ Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness—Then am I propitious to her.

⁶ Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.

¹⁵ Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation—strong it is, a nation—from of old it is, A nation—thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh. ¹⁶ Its quiver is as an open sepulchre, All of them—mighty ones. ¹⁷ And it hath consumed thy harvest and thy bread, They consume thy sons, and thy daughters, It consumeth thy flock, and thy herd, It consumeth thy vine, and thy fig-tree, It maketh poor thy fenced cities, In which thou art trusting—by the sword.

⁶ For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Cut down her wood, And pour out against Jerusalem a mount, She is the city to be inspected, Wholly—she is oppression in her midst. ⁷ As the digging of a well, is for its waters, So she hath digged for her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually are sickness and smiting.

¹⁰ To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear is uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.

⁹ Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not.

¹³ And thou hast said unto them, `Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am filling all the inhabitants of this land, And the kings who sit for David on his throne, And the priests, and the prophets, And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, With drunkenness, ¹⁴ And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them.

¹ And Jehovah saith unto me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people, Send from before My face, and they go out. ² And it hath come to pass, when they say to thee, Whither do we go out? that thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah: Those who are for death—to death, And those who are for the sword, to the sword, And those who are for famine, to famine, And those who are for captivity, to captivity. ³ And I have appointed over them four kinds, an affirmation of Jehovah, The sword to slay, and the dogs to drag, And the fowl of the heavens, And the beast of the earth, to consume and to devour. ⁴ And I have given them for a trembling To all kingdoms of the earth, Because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah, For that which he did in Jerusalem.

¹³ Thy strength and thy treasures For a prey I do give—not for price, Even for all thy sins, and in all thy borders. ¹⁴ And I have caused thine enemies To pass over into the land—Thou hast not known, For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, Against you it doth burn.

²⁷ And if ye do not hearken unto me to sanctify the day of rest, And so as not to bear a burden, And to come in at the gates of Jerusalem on the day of rest, Then I have kindled a fire in its gates, And it hath consumed the high places of Jerusalem, And it is not quenched!'

¹⁶ To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head. ¹⁷ As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'

⁷ And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, ⁸ and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues. ⁹ And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.
¹⁰ `And thou hast broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with thee, ¹¹ and hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Thus do I break this people and this city, as one breaketh the potter's vessel, that is not able to be repaired again, and in Tophet they bury—without place to bury;

⁷ Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me,

⁸ The prophets who have been before me, and before thee, from of old, even they prophesy concerning many lands, and concerning great kingdoms, of battle, and of evil, and of pestilence.

⁶¹ Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me, ⁶² The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day. ⁶³ Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I am their song.

⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;'

²⁶ greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

¹³ now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;

¹⁴ if ye be reproached in the name of Christ—happy are ye, because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;

³ And he feareth, and riseth, and goeth for his life, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, that is Judah's, and leaveth his young man there, ⁴ and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'

¹⁸ For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the spirit of my breast, ¹⁹ Lo, my breast is as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up. ²⁰ I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.

³ Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.

¹¹ And with the fury of Jehovah I have been filled, (I have been weary of containing,) To pour it on the suckling in the street, And on the assembly of youths together, For even husband with wife are captured, An elder with one full of days,

⁶² and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

² this one was in the beginning with God; ³ all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

² (though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,) ³ he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

²⁰ for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

³⁷ And Barnabas counselled to take with them John called Mark, ³⁸ and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;

¹⁶ and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,

⁵ And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

¹⁶ for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news; ¹⁷ for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly—with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

¹³ for whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; whether we be of sound mind—it is to you, ¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, ¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

² and Jezebel sendeth a messenger unto Elijah, saying, `Thus doth the gods, and thus do they add, surely about this time to-morrow, I make thy life as the life of one of them.'

²⁰ And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found—because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

⁸ And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet—one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil—Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'

⁶ it is written in it, `Among the nations it hath been heard, and Gashmu is saying: Thou and the Jews are thinking to rebel, therefore thou art building the wall, and thou hast been to them for a king—according to these words! <sup>7</sup> And also, prophets thou hast appointed to call for thee in Jerusalem, saying, A king is in Judah, and now it is heard by the king according to these words; and now come, and we take counsel together.' <sup>8</sup> And I send unto him, saying, `It hath not been according to these words that thou art saying, for from thine own heart thou art devising them;' ⁹ for all of them are making us afraid, saying, `Their hands are too feeble for the work, and it is not done;' and now, strengthen Thou my hands.
<sup>10</sup> And I have entered the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabeel—and he is restrained—and he saith, `Let us meet at the house of God, at the inside of the temple, and we shut the doors of the temple, for they are coming in to slay thee—yea, by night they are coming in to slay thee.' ¹¹ And I say, `A man such as I—doth he flee? and who as I, that doth go in unto the temple, and live? —I do not go in.' ¹² And I discern, and lo, God hath not sent him, for in the prophecy he hath spoken unto me both Tobiah and Sanballat hired him, ¹³ so that he is an hireling, that I may fear and do so, and I had sinned, and it had been to them for an evil name that they may reproach me.

¹⁹ Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

⁹ Even mine ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, made great the heel against me,

¹³ But thou, a man—as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance. ¹⁴ When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

⁴ My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames—sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

² Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity. ³ Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow—a bitter word. ⁴ To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

¹⁸ Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

²¹ Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

¹⁸ And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

⁹ Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst.

⁵⁹ And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death, ⁶⁰ and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,

¹⁹ and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able, ²⁰ for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly. ²¹ And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee, ²² and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, `Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,' <sup>23</sup> and he sware to her—`Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee—unto the half of my kingdom.' ²⁴ And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;' ²⁵ and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.' ²⁶ And the king—made very sorrowful—because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away, ²⁷ and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought, ²⁸ and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;

⁵³ And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things, ⁵⁴ laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

⁵² for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided—three against two, and two against three; ⁵³ a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

²⁰ And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,

³³ And they having heard, were cut to the heart, and were taking counsel to slay them,

¹¹ then they suborned men, saying—`We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.' <sup>12</sup> They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim; <sup>13</sup> they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law, ¹⁴ for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;' ¹⁵ and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.

⁵⁴ And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;

¹² And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul; ¹³ and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath, ¹⁴ who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, `With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves—to taste nothing till we have killed Paul; ¹⁵ now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'

¹ And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator—Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor the things against Paul; ² and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought, ³ always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness; ⁴ and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness; ⁵ for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world—a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes— ⁶ who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge, ⁷ and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away, ⁸ having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;' ⁹ and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.

¹³ nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

³⁵ Mine are vengeance and recompense, At the due time—doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them. ³⁶ For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth—the going away of power, And none is restrained and left.

¹⁰ Ashamed and troubled greatly are all mine enemies, They turn back—ashamed in a moment!

¹ By David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid? ² When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

²⁶ They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, Who are magnifying themselves against me.

¹⁴ They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are seeking my soul to destroy it, They are turned backward, And are ashamed, who are desiring my evil.

² For Jehovah Most High is fearful, A great king over all the earth.

⁵ By fearful things in righteousness Thou answerest us, O God of our salvation, The confidence of all far off ends of earth and sea.

⁵ Come ye, and see the works of God, Fearful acts toward the sons of men.

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

¹⁴ Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁶ They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed—all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.

⁸ Be not afraid of their faces, for with thee am I to deliver thee, —an affirmation of Jehovah.'

²⁰ And I have made thee to this people For a wall—brazen—fenced, And they have fought against thee, And they do not prevail against thee, For with thee am I to save thee, And to deliver thee—an affirmation of Jehovah,

¹⁸ Let my pursuers be ashamed, and let not me be ashamed—me! Let them be affrighted, and let not me be affrighted—me! Bring in on them a day of evil, And a second time with destruction destroy them.

⁴⁰ And I have put on you reproach age-during, And shame age-during that is not forgotten!

² `And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches—to abhorrence age-during.

⁴ Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?' <sup>5</sup> they answered him, `Jesus the Nazarene;' Jesus saith to them, `I am he;' —and Judas who delivered him up was standing with them; — <sup>6</sup> when, therefore, he said to them—`I am he,' they went away backward, and fell to the ground.

³¹ What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us?

¹⁷ and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

¹⁵ And Hannah answereth and saith, `No, my lord, A woman sharply pained in spirit I am, and wine and strong drink I have not drunk, and I pour out my soul before Jehovah;

²² and Joash the king hath not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slayeth his son, and in his death he said, `Jehovah doth see, and require.'

⁹ Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.

⁵ Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

³ Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.

² Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified are my reins and my heart. ³ For Thy kindness is before mine eyes, And I have walked habitually in Thy truth.

⁷ For, from all adversity He delivered me, And on mine enemies hath mine eye looked!

¹⁰ God doth go before me, He causeth me to look on mine enemies.

⁸ Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God is a refuge for us. Selah.

⁴ Rejoice the soul of Thy servant, For unto Thee, O Lord, my soul I lift up.

⁶ Appoint Thou over him the wicked, And an adversary standeth at his right hand. ⁷ In his being judged, he goeth forth wicked, And his prayer is for sin. ⁸ His days are few, his oversight another taketh, ⁹ His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places. ¹¹ An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour. ¹² He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans. ¹³ His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out. ¹⁴ The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered unto Jehovah, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out. ¹⁵ They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial. ¹⁶ Because that he hath not remembered to do kindness, And pursueth the poor man and needy, And the smitten of heart—to slay, ¹⁷ And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him. ¹⁸ And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones. ¹⁹ It is to him as apparel—he covereth himself, And for a continual girdle he girdeth it on. ²⁰ This is the wage of mine accusers from Jehovah, And of those speaking evil against my soul.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,

¹⁴ And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and Hezekiah goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.

¹⁴ As a crane—a swallow—so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.

²⁰ And O Jehovah of Hosts, judging righteousness, Trying reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance against them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause.'

⁸ Mine inheritance hath been to Me as a lion in a forest, She gave forth against Me with her voice, Therefore I have hated her.

¹⁰ I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

¹⁹ Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me. ²⁰ Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them. ²¹ Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle, ²² A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet. ²³ And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me is for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!

²³ who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

¹⁹ so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

²³ and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you—to each—according to your works.

¹⁰ and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'

²⁰ `Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'

² because true and righteous are His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;' ³ and a second time they said, `Alleluia;' and her smoke doth come up—to the ages of the ages!

⁶ This poor one called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.

⁹ And my soul is joyful in Jehovah, It rejoiceth in His salvation. ¹⁰ All my bones say, `Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'
¹¹ Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

³³ For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.

⁴ He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

³⁰ I thank Jehovah greatly with my mouth, And in the midst of many I praise Him, ³¹ For He standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.

⁴ For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible is as a storm—a wall.

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him? ⁶ and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

³ Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.' ⁴ That day—let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it. ⁵ Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days. ⁶ That night—let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come. ⁷ Lo! that night—let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it. ⁸ Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan. ⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn. ¹⁰ Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
¹¹ Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp! ¹² Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck? ¹³ For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me, ¹⁴ With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves. ¹⁵ Or with princes—they have gold, They are filling their houses with silver. ¹⁶ (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants—they have not seen light.)

⁵ And Abraham is a son of a hundred years in Isaac his son being born to him, ⁶ and Sarah saith, `God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.'

⁵ `Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

¹⁴ and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

²⁴ and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens; ²⁵ and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.

²³ (with brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) —

¹⁹ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul—a shout of battle!

⁸ And that nation hath turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have repented of the evil that I thought to do to it.

²² A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

¹³ And now, amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God, and Jehovah doth repent concerning the evil that He hath spoken against you.

³ A voice of a cry is from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction. ⁴ Destroyed hath been Moab, Caused a cry to be heard have her little ones.

²² At his right hath been the divination—Jerusalem, To place battering-rams, To open the mouth with slaughter, To lift up a voice with shouting, To place battering-rams against the gates, To pour out a mount, to build a fortification.

¹⁴ And rise doth a tumult among thy people, And all thy fortresses are spoiled, As the spoiling of Shalman of Beth-Arbel, In a day of battle, Mother against sons dashed in pieces.

⁸ How do I give thee up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver thee up, O Israel? How do I make thee as Admah? Do I set thee as Zeboim? Turned in Me is My heart, kindled together have been My repentings.

¹⁴ And I have kindled a fire against the wall of Rabbah, And it hath consumed her palaces, With a shout in a day of battle, With a whirlwind in a day of hurricane,

² And I have sent a fire against Moab, And it hath consumed the palaces of Kerioth, And dying with noise is Moab, With shouting, with voice of a trumpet.

¹¹ I have overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye are as a brand delivered from a burning, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁴ And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, `Yet forty days—and Nineveh is overturned.'

⁹ Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.' ¹⁰ And God seeth their works, that they have turned back from their evil way, and God repenteth of the evil that He spake of doing to them, and he hath not done it .

² and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land—therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish—that I have known that Thou art a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

¹⁶ A day of trumpet and shouting against the fenced cities, And against the high corners.

⁹ Therefore, I live, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Surely, Moab is as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, An overrunning of nettles and salt-pits, And a desolation—unto the age. A residue of My people do seize them, And a remnant of My nation inherit them.

²⁹ and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

⁶ and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set them;

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before—an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

¹⁰ Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
¹¹ Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

¹⁶ (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants—they have not seen light.)

¹⁸ And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me. ¹⁹ As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,

³ If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he is the untimely birth.'

¹⁶ Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband is thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
<sup>17</sup> And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, ¹⁸ and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; ¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'
²⁰ Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

¹ Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

¹³ O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

¹⁹ Thou—Thou hast known my reproach, And my shame, and my blushing, Before Thee are all mine adversaries.

⁹ For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. ¹⁰ Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

⁶ From the sole of the foot—unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.

⁷ Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart is My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

¹⁸ My refreshing for me is sorrow, For me my heart is sick.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.

¹ I am the man who hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

²⁰ verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

⁴¹ they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

¹² for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard—to that day.

³⁶ for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

² looking to the author and perfecter of faith—Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him—did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

¹⁴ if ye be reproached in the name of Christ—happy are ye, because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified; ¹⁵ for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters; ¹⁶ and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;