Job 18 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: — ² When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak. ³ Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes! ⁴ (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
⁵ Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. ⁶ The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished. ⁷ Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel. ⁸ For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. ⁹ Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. ¹⁰ Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
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.

¹¹ And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

¹ And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —

¹ And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —

⁷ And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job. ⁸ And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job. ⁹ And they go—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite—and do as Jehovah hath spoken unto them; and Jehovah doth accept the face of Job.

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.

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

² Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of thy mouth?

² Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?

⁵ O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom. ⁶ Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

² I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all. ³ Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?

² Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.

¹ And yet, I pray thee, O Job, Hear my speech and to all my words give ear.

¹³ Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

¹⁹ So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

⁷ And yet, ask, I pray thee, One of the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee. ⁸ Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:

⁴ For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

¹⁰ Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.

²² And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

¹⁸ I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.

¹⁰ in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

² For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

¹⁴ Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

¹⁸ And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is removed from its place.

⁹ His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

¹⁰ For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace removeth not, Said hath thy loving one—Jehovah.

⁹ And He saith unto me, `The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said: Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.

⁹ And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me—unto death.'

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

¹⁸ and wherever it doth seize him, it doth tear him, and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples that they may cast it out, and they were not able.'

³⁹ and lo, a spirit doth take him, and suddenly he doth cry out, and it teareth him, with foaming, and it hardly departeth from him, bruising him,

⁵ That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

¹⁷ How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

²⁰ Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

²⁰ For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

¹¹ Lo, all ye kindling a fire, girding on sparks, Walk ye in the light of your fire, And in the sparks ye have caused to burn, From my hand hath this been to you, In grief ye lie down!

²⁸ For Thou—Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

²³ and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,

³¹ and David declared, saying, `Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, `Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.'

¹⁴ And Absalom saith—and all the men of Israel—`Better is the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;' and Jehovah willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Jehovah's bringing unto Absalom the evil.

¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. ¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

⁶ Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

¹⁶ And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place—no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

³⁶ Thou enlargest my step under me, And mine ankles have not slidden.

¹⁰ Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, ³¹ And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. ³² For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

¹² In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not.

⁶ Also it to Asshur is carried, a present to a warlike king, Shame doth Ephraim receive, And ashamed is Israel of its own counsel.

¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

⁹ if to the king it be good, let it be written to destroy them, and ten thousand talents of silver I weigh into the hands of those doing the work, to bring it in unto the treasuries of the king.'

¹³ and Haman recounteth to Zeresh his wife, and to all his friends, all that hath met him, and his wise men say to him, and Zeresh his wife, `If Mordecai is of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou art not able for him, but dost certainly fall before him.'

⁵ And the king Ahasuerus saith, yea, he saith to Esther the queen, `Who is he—this one? and where is this one? —he whose heart hath filled him to do so?'

¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

¹⁰ Therefore round about thee are snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly.

¹⁵ Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

⁸ Meet him doth desolation—he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

⁶ In the transgression of the evil is a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

³ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And—I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee up in My net.

⁷ and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

⁹ and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

²⁶ and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

¹⁵ and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

¹⁷ While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

⁵ Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

¹⁴ And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.

⁶ He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind is the portion of their cup.

¹³ And I have spread My net for him, and he hath been caught in My snare, and I have brought him in to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, and it he doth not see—and there doth he die.

⁹ and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

³⁶ `And those who are left of you—I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled—flight from a sword—and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.

⁶ seeing Jehovah hath caused the camp of Aram to hear a noise of chariot and a noise of horse—a noise of great force, and they say one unto another, `Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Egypt, to come against us.' ⁷ And they rise and flee in the twilight, and forsake their tents, and their horses, and their asses—the camp as it is —and flee for their life.

⁴ For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!

²¹ A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

⁸ As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

²⁵ One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors.

⁵ There they feared a fear—there was no fear, For God hath scattered the bones of him Who is encamping against thee, Thou hast put to shame, For God hath despised them.

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

¹ The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.

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

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. 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.

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.

²⁹ Their tents and their flock they do take, Their curtains, and all their vessels, And their camels, they bear away for themselves, And they called concerning them, Fear is round about.

¹¹ having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

¹⁵ and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chiefs of thousands, and the mighty, and every servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains, ¹⁶ and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, `Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him who is sitting upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,'

⁵ The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

³⁶ and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'

²³ He is wandering for bread—`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness. ²⁴ Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

¹² If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden—He prepareth it, ¹³ Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh. ¹⁴ Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

¹⁰ Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,

¹⁰ And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

²¹ —And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.

³ for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

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.

³ Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength;

¹⁶ To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

³⁰ And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.

⁶ To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars are behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

¹² And this is the plague with which Jehovah Doth plague all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem, He hath consumed away its flesh, And it is standing on its feet, And its eyes are consumed in their holes, And its tongue is consumed in their mouth.

⁸ and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him—his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.

¹⁴ Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

²² Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

²⁰ And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

¹⁷ When together, morning is to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

³⁴ Every high thing he doth see, He is king over all sons of pride.

⁴ My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

¹⁰ The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

²⁸ The hope of the righteous is joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

³² In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.

²⁶ `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

⁵⁵ where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?' ⁵⁶ and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law;

¹⁵ and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,

²⁴ and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

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,) —

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.

¹⁸ He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not. ¹⁹ For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. ²⁰ For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. ²¹ There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

³⁸ If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, ³⁹ If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

⁹ And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch. ¹⁰ By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.

¹³ Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.

⁶ Do not these—all of them—against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges? ⁷ Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them? ⁸ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of violence to the land, To the city, and to all dwelling in it. ⁹ Woe to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil, ¹⁰ Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful is thy soul. ¹¹ For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

⁴ `I have brought it out—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts—and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

²⁰ and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast—the two—to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

⁸ and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

³ I—I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway, ⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

³⁰ He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

¹⁹ My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.

²⁴ Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

¹⁶ Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.

⁹ And I—I have destroyed the Amorite from before them, Whose height is as the height of cedars, And strong he is as the oaks, And I destroy his fruit from above, And his roots from beneath.

¹ For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,

¹² Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

¹⁶ (The face of Jehovah is on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.)

⁴ They have said, `Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

¹³ His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.

²² And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

⁷ The remembrance of the righteous is for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot.

²⁰ Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

¹⁴ By day they meet darkness, And as night—they grope at noon.

²² A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'

¹⁴ If iniquity is in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

²¹ —And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards. ²² And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! —Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

¹³ Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane. ¹⁴ At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This is the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

³³ `In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as birds.'

²¹ and from the sons of men he is driven, and his heart with the beasts hath been like, and with the wild asses is his dwelling; the herb like oxen they cause him to eat, and by the dew of the heavens is his body wet, till that he hath known that God Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and whom He willeth He raiseth up over it.

¹³ wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

¹⁹ And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

⁴ If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

²⁶ All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent. ²⁷ Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. ²⁸ Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

¹⁴ If his sons multiply—for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.

¹³ And he hath seven sons and three daughters; ¹⁴ and he calleth the name of the one Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. ¹⁵ And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren. ¹⁶ And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;

⁸ Woe to those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land! ⁹ By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

²¹ Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world with cities. ²² And I have risen up against them, (The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts,) And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, Name and remnant, and continuator and successor, The affirmation of Jehovah.

³⁰ Thus said Jehovah: Write ye this man childless, A man—he doth not prosper in his days, For none of his seed doth prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling again in Judah!

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,) — ²⁴ yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?

⁸ as to this house, that is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

¹² and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads—heavenward. ¹³ And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.

¹³ My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me. ¹⁴ Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me, ¹⁵ Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes. ¹⁶ To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him. ¹⁷ My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb. ¹⁸ Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me. ¹⁹ Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

¹³ The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh.

⁷ Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, `Rase, rase to its foundation!'

¹⁶ To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

²⁷ Slay all her kine, they go down to slaughter, Woe is on them, for come hath their day, The time of their inspection.

²⁵ And thou, wounded, wicked one, Prince of Israel, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end!

¹¹ In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou art as one of them! ¹² And—thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress. ¹³ Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity, ¹⁴ Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress. ¹⁵ For near is the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.

⁴² saying—`If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.

⁴⁴ and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'

² and Pharaoh saith, `Who is Jehovah, that I hearken to His voice, to send Israel away? I have not known Jehovah, and Israel also I do not send away.'

¹⁰ and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation riseth after them who have not known Jehovah, and even the work which He hath done to Israel.

¹² and the sons of Eli are sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah.

⁹ `And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.

¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

²⁸ For ye say, `Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent—The tabernacles of the wicked?'

⁶ Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name.

³ And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

²⁵ Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!

²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

⁵ not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

⁸ in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹⁶ God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.