Proverbs 11 Cross References - YLT

¹ Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.
² Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly is wisdom.
³ The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.
⁴ Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.
⁵ The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall. ⁶ The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured.
⁷ In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.
⁸ The righteous from distress is drawn out, And the wicked goeth in instead of him.
⁹ With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.
¹⁰ In the good of the righteous a city exulteth, And in the destruction of the wicked is singing. ¹¹ By the blessing of the upright is a city exalted, And by the mouth of the wicked thrown down.
¹² Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence. ¹³ A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.
¹⁴ Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.
¹⁵ Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.
¹⁶ A gracious woman retaineth honour, And terrible men retain riches.
¹⁷ A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh.
¹⁸ The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness—a true reward.
¹⁹ Rightly is righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil—for his own death.
²⁰ An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.
²¹ Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, And the seed of the righteous hath escaped.
²² A ring of gold in the nose of a sow—A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.
²³ The desire of the righteous is only good, The hope of the wicked is transgression.
²⁴ There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.
²⁵ A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.
²⁶ Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing is for the head of him who is selling.
²⁷ Whoso is earnestly seeking good Seeketh a pleasing thing, And whoso is seeking evil—it meeteth him.
²⁸ Whoso is confident in his wealth he falleth, And as a leaf, the righteous flourish.
²⁹ Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant is the fool to the wise of heart.
³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls is wise.
³¹ Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!

³⁵ `Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure; ³⁶ righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

¹³ `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. ¹⁴ Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small. ¹⁵ Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee; ¹⁶ for the abomination of Jehovah thy God is any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

¹¹ A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.

¹⁰ A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

²³ An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.

¹⁰ Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath—ye have. ¹¹ The ephah and the bath is of one measure, for the bath to bear a tenth of the homer, and the ephah a tenth of the homer: according to the homer is its measurement. ¹² And, the shekel is twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels—is your maneh.

⁷ Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

⁵ Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. ⁶ To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

¹⁰ Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? ¹¹ Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

³⁴ If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace. ³⁵ Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!

³³ The fear of Jehovah is the instruction of wisdom, And before honour is humility!

¹⁸ Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling—a haughty spirit.'
¹⁹ Better is humility of spirit with the poor, Than to apportion spoil with the proud.

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour is humility.

²³ The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.

³⁰ the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour? ³¹ `While the word is in the king's mouth a voice from the heavens hath fallen: To thee they are saying: O Nebuchadnezzar the king, the kingdom hath passed from thee, ³² and from men they are driving thee away, and with the beast of the field is thy dwelling, the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it.

⁸ `When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him, <sup>9</sup> and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place. <sup>10</sup> `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee; ¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹ And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; ² and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth him to know;

²¹ Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited on Thee.

¹ By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.

⁵ The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.

⁶ Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.

³ The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

⁷ The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

¹⁸ Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.

¹⁷ Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?

²⁸ And the destruction of transgressors and sinners is together, And those forsaking Jehovah are consumed.

¹⁷ if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or—I do speak from myself.

¹ And Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

¹⁸ Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside. ¹⁹ Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.

⁶ Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish. ⁷ A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement. ⁸ And precious is the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased—to the age.

² Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

²⁸ In the path of righteousness is life, And in the way of that path is no death!

¹⁹ Their silver into out-places they cast, And their gold impurity becometh. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of Jehovah, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it hath been.

¹⁸ Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!

²⁶ for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be?

¹⁷ for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one—Jesus Christ.

⁸ for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

²³ And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.

³ And Esther the queen answereth and saith, `If I have found grace in thine eyes, O king, and if to the king it be good, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request; <sup>4</sup> for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent—but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.' <sup>5</sup> 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?' ⁶ And Esther saith, `The man—adversary and enemy—is this wicked Haman;' and Haman hath been afraid at the presence of the king and of the queen.
<sup>7</sup> And the king hath risen, in his fury, from the banquet of wine, unto the garden of the house, and Haman hath remained to seek for his life from Esther the queen, for he hath seen that evil hath been determined against him by the king. <sup>8</sup> And the king hath turned back out of the garden of the house unto the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman is falling on the couch on which Esther is, and the king saith, `Also to subdue the queen with me in the house?' the word hath gone out from the mouth of the king, and the face of Haman they have covered. ⁹ And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, saith before the king, `Also lo, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height fifty cubits;' and the king saith, `Hang him upon it.' ¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

¹⁵ Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured. ¹⁶ Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

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.

⁶ In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

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

³ The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.

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.

³³ and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; —every one which is not speckled and spotted among my goats, and brown among my lambs—it is stolen with me.'

³⁷ for thou hast felt all my vessels: what hast thou found of all the vessels of thy house? set here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and they decide between us both.

³ `Lo, here am I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? —and I restore to you.' <sup>4</sup> And they say, `Thou hast not oppressed us, nor hast thou crushed us, nor hast thou taken from the hand of any one anything.'

³² and Jehovah hath turned back his blood on his own head, who hath fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and slayeth them with the sword, —and my father David knew not—Abner son of Ner, head of the host of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, head of the host of Judah; ³³ yea, turned back hath their blood on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed to the age; and for David, and for his seed, and for his house, and for his throne, there is peace unto the age, from Jehovah.'

⁴⁴ And the king saith unto Shimei, `Thou hast known all the evil that thy heart hath known, which thou didst to David my father, and Jehovah hath turned back thine evil on thy head,

¹⁵ A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh. ¹⁶ Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

⁸ Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

⁹ The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: — ¹⁰ Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.

¹³ So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish, ¹⁴ Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

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

⁴ His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

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.

⁹ Dost thou really say, `I am God,' Before him who is slaying thee? And thou art man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be?

¹⁸ The wicked is an atonement for the righteous, And for the upright the treacherous dealer.

³ For I—Jehovah thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour, I have appointed Egypt thine atonement, Cush and Seba in thy stead. ⁴ Since thou wast precious in Mine eyes, Thou wast honoured, and I have loved thee, And I appoint men in thy stead, And peoples instead of thy life.

²³ Then was the king very glad for him, and he hath commanded Daniel to be taken up out of the den, and Daniel hath been taken up out of the den, and no injury hath been found in him, because he hath believed in his God. ²⁴ And the king hath said, and they have brought those men who had accused Daniel, and to the den of lions they have cast them, they, their sons, and their wives; and they have not come to the lower part of the den till that the lions have power over them, and all their bones they have broken small.

¹⁸ And he saith to him, `I also am a prophet like thee, and a messenger spake unto me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with thee unto thy house, and he doth eat bread and drink water;' —he hath lied to him. <sup>19</sup> And he turneth back with him, and eateth bread in his house, and drinketh water. <sup>20</sup> And it cometh to pass—they are sitting at the table—and a word of Jehovah is unto the prophet who brought him back, <sup>21</sup> and he calleth unto the man of God who came from Judah, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, Because that thou hast provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and hast not kept the command that Jehovah thy God charged thee, ²² and turnest back and dost eat bread and drink water in the place of which He said unto thee, Thou dost not eat bread nor drink water—thy carcase cometh not in unto the burying-place of thy fathers.'

⁶ and the king of Israel gathereth the prophets, about four hundred men, and saith unto them, `Do I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?' and they say, `Go up, and the Lord doth give it into the hand of the king.'

²⁰ and Jehovah saith, Who doth entice Ahab, and he doth go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? and this one saith thus, and that one is saying thus. ²¹ `And the spirit goeth out, and standeth before Jehovah, and saith, I—I do entice him; and Jehovah saith unto him, By what? ²² and he saith, I go out, and have been a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets; and He saith, Thou dost entice, and also thou art able; go out and do so. ²³ And now, lo, Jehovah hath put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and Jehovah hath spoken concerning thee—evil.'

¹³ So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

³⁰ From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;

¹² For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear it, He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.

²⁰ He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant. ²¹ Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords .

¹⁰ For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant, ¹¹ Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee, ¹² To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, ¹³ Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, ¹⁴ Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, ¹⁵ Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways. ¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

²³ For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction, ²⁴ To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

¹⁵ `But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

⁵ but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering is whatever thou mayest be profited by me; — ⁶ and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition. ⁷ `Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, <sup>8</sup> This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me; <sup>9</sup> and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings—commands of men.'
<sup>10</sup> And having called near the multitude, he said to them, `Hear and understand: ¹¹ not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.' ¹² Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?' <sup>13</sup> And he answering said, `Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up; ¹⁴ let them alone, guides they are—blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

¹⁴ `And when ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (whoever is reading let him understand), then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains;

²² for there shall rise false Christs and false prophets, and they shall give signs and wonders, to seduce, if possible, also the chosen; ²³ and ye, take heed; lo, I have foretold you all things.

³⁰ and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

¹³ for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ, ¹⁴ and no wonder—for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; ¹⁵ no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness—whose end shall be according to their works.

¹³ till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ, ¹⁴ that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

⁸ and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence, ⁹ him, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

¹ And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, ² in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry—to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

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.

¹⁶ as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction. ¹⁷ Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness, ¹⁸ and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

²¹ I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

²⁷ and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

²¹ and Miriam answereth to them: —`Sing ye to Jehovah, For Triumphing He hath triumphed; The horse and its rider He hath thrown into the sea!'

³¹ So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him are As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.

¹⁵ And Mordecai went out from before the king, in royal clothing of blue and white, and a great crown of gold, and a garment of fine linen and purple, and the city of Shushan hath rejoiced and been glad; ¹⁶ to the Jews hath been light, and gladness, and joy, and honour,

²³ It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

¹⁰ The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹ And man saith: `Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

¹² In the exulting of the righteous the glory is abundant, And in the rising of the wicked man is apprehensive.

²⁸ In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!

¹ And after these things I heard a great voice of a great multitude in the heaven, saying, `Alleluia! the salvation, and the glory, and the honour, and the power, is to the Lord our God; <sup>2</sup> 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;' <sup>3</sup> and a second time they said, `Alleluia;' and her smoke doth come up—to the ages of the ages! ⁴ And fall down did the elders—the twenty and four—and the four living creatures, and they did bow before God who is sitting upon the throne, saying, `Amen, Alleluia.'
<sup>5</sup> And a voice out of the throne did come forth, saying, `Praise our God, all ye His servants, and those fearing Him, both the small and the great;' ⁶ and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God—the Almighty! ⁷ may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;

³⁸ and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, `Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God is ?' <sup>39</sup> and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou; ⁴⁰ thou—thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.' ⁴¹ And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `See, I have put thee over all the land of Egypt.' ⁴² And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him with garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,

⁸ and now, ye—ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

¹ And there hath been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name is Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and saith, `We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.'

²⁰ And Hezekiah the king prayeth, and Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, concerning this, and they cry to the heavens, ²¹ and Jehovah sendeth a messenger, and cutteth off every mighty one of valour—both leader and head—in the camp of the king of Asshur, and he turneth back with shame of face to his land, and entereth the house of his god, and those coming out of his bowels have caused him to fall there by the sword. ²² And Jehovah saveth Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Asshur, and from the hand of all, and He leadeth them round about;

⁸ And Haman saith to the king Ahasuerus, `There is one people scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are diverse from all people, and the laws of the king they are not doing, and for the king it is not profitable to suffer them; <sup>9</sup> 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.' <sup>10</sup> And the king turneth aside his signet from off his hand, and giveth it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of the Jews; <sup>11</sup> and the king saith to Haman, `The silver is given to thee, and the people, to do with it as it is good in thine eyes.' ¹² And scribes of the king are called, on the first month, on the thirteenth day of it, and it is written according to all that Haman hath commanded, unto lieutenants of the king, and unto the governors who are over province and province, and unto the heads of people and people, province and province, according to its writing, and people and people according to its tongue, in the name of the king Ahasuerus it hath been written and sealed with the signet of the king, ¹³ and letters to be sent by the hand of the runners unto all provinces of the king, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy all the Jews, from young even unto old, infant and women, on one day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month—it is the month of Adar—and their spoil to seize, ¹⁴ a copy of the writing to be made law in every province and province is revealed to all the peoples, to be ready for this day. ¹⁵ The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.

¹ And in the twelfth month—it is the month of Adar—on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them— ² the Jews have been assembled in their cities, in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to put forth a hand on those seeking their evil, and no man hath stood in their presence, for their fear hath fallen on all the peoples. ³ And all heads of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the governors, and those doing the work that the king hath, are lifting up the Jews, for a fear of Mordecai hath fallen upon them; ⁴ for great is Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame is going into all the provinces, for the man Mordecai is going on and becoming great. ⁵ And the Jews smite among all their enemies—a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction—and do with those hating them according to their pleasure, ⁶ and in Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men; ⁷ and Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, ⁸ and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, ⁹ and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, ¹⁰ ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, adversary of the Jews, they have slain, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand. ¹¹ On that day hath come the number of the slain in Shushan the palace before the king, ¹² and the king saith to Esther the queen, `In Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the provinces of the king what have they done? and what is thy petition? and it is given to thee; and what thy request again? and it is done.' <sup>13</sup> And Esther saith, `If to the king it be good, let it be given also to-morrow, to the Jews who are in Shushan, to do according to the law of to-day; and the ten sons of Haman they hang on the tree.' ¹⁴ And the king saith—`to be done so;' and a law is given in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged. ¹⁵ And the Jews who are in Shushan are assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they slay in Shushan three hundred men, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand. ¹⁶ And the rest of the Jews, who are in the provinces of the king, have been assembled, even to stand for their life, and to rest from their enemies, and to slay among those hating them five and seventy thousand, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand;

³⁰ He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.

³⁴ Righteousness exalteth a nation, And the goodliness of peoples is a sin-offering.

⁸ Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.

¹⁵ and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!

⁶ and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

²⁷ and go out into the field, and gather their vineyards, and tread, and make praises, and go into the house of their god, and eat and drink, and revile Abimelech. ²⁸ And Gaal son of Ebed saith, `Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we serve him? is he not son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his commander? Serve ye the men of Hamor father of Shechem, and wherefore do we serve him—we? <sup>29</sup> and oh that this people were in my hand—then I turn Abimelech aside;' and he saith to Abimelech, `Increase thy host, and come out.'

³⁸ And Zebul saith unto him, `Where is now thy mouth, in that thou sayest, Who is Abimelech that we serve him? is not this the people against which thou hast kicked? go out, I pray thee now, and fight against it.'

²⁷ and the sons of worthlessness have said, `What! this one doth save us!' and they despise him, and have not brought to him a present; and he is as one deaf.

³⁶ And the people have kept silent, and have not answered him a word, for the command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'

² and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What are the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? —and they burnt!' <sup>3</sup> And Tobiah the Ammonite is by him and saith, `Also, that which they are building—if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.' ⁴ Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;

³ Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt, ⁴ Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!

¹⁹ In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips is wise.

²¹ Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness.

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

⁹ And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

⁴⁸ did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.' ⁵⁰ Nicodemus saith unto them—he who came by night unto him—being one of them, ⁵¹ `Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?' <sup>52</sup> They answered and said to him, `Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;'

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

¹⁶ `Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am Jehovah.

¹⁴ And the men say to her, `Our soul for yours—to die; if ye declare not this our matter, then it hath been, in Jehovah's giving to us this land, that we have done with thee kindness and truth.'

²⁰ and if thou declare this our matter, then we have been acquitted from thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear.'

¹⁷ Also, in those days the freemen of Judah are multiplying their letters going unto Tobiah, and those of Tobiah are coming in unto them; ¹⁸ for many in Judah are sworn to him, for he is son-in-law to Shechaniah son of Arah, and Jehohanan his son hath taken the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah; ¹⁹ also, his good deeds they have been saying before me, and my words they have been taking out to him; letters hath Tobiah sent to make me afraid.

⁵ A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.

¹⁹ A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.

⁹ Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

²⁰ Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth, ²¹ Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife. ²² The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

²⁷ And all the heads come in unto Jeremiah, and ask him, and he declareth to them according to all these words that the king commanded, and they keep silent from him, for the matter was not heard;

¹³ and at the same time also, they learn to be idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

¹ And Rehoboam goeth to Shechem, for to Shechem hath all Israel come to make him king. ² And it cometh to pass, at Jeroboam son of Nebat's hearing (and he is yet in Egypt where he hath fled from the presence of Solomon the king, and Jeroboam dwelleth in Egypt), ³ that they send and call for him; and they come—Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel—and speak unto Rehoboam, saying, ⁴ `Thy father made hard our yoke, and thou, now, make light some of the hard service of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we serve thee.' <sup>5</sup> And he saith unto them, `Go—yet three days, and come back unto me;' and the people go. ⁶ And king Rehoboam consulteth with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, `How are ye counselling to answer this people?' <sup>7</sup> And they speak unto him, saying, `If, to-day, thou art servant to this people, and hast served them, and answered them, and spoken unto them good words, then they have been to thee servants all the days.' ⁸ And he forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, who are standing before him; ⁹ and he saith unto them, `What are ye counselling, and we answer this people, who have spoken unto me, saying, Lighten somewhat of the yoke that thy father put upon us?' <sup>10</sup> And they speak unto him—the lads who had grown up with him—saying, `Thus dost thou say to this people who have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and thou, make it light upon us; thus dost thou speak unto them, My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father; ¹¹ and now, my father laid on you a heavy yoke, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I—I chastise you with scorpions.' ¹² And they come—Jeroboam and all the people—unto Rehoboam, on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, `Come back unto me on the third day.' <sup>13</sup> And the king answereth the people sharply, and forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, <sup>14</sup> and speaketh unto them, according to the counsel of the lads, saying, `My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I—I chastise you with scorpions;' ¹⁵ and the king hearkened not unto the people, for the revolution was from Jehovah, in order to establish His word that Jehovah spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam son of Nebat.
¹⁶ And all Israel see that the king hath not hearkened unto them, and the people send the king back word, saying, `What portion have we in David? yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to thy tents, O Israel; now see thy house, O David!' and Israel goeth to its tents. ¹⁷ As to the sons of Israel, those dwelling in the cities of Judah—over them reign doth Rehoboam. ¹⁸ And king Rehoboam sendeth Adoram who is over the tribute, and all Israel cast at him stones, and he dieth; and king Rehoboam hath strengthened himself to go up into a chariot to flee to Jerusalem; ¹⁹ and Israel transgresseth against the house of David unto this day.

²² Without counsel is the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

²² A fountain of life is understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.

¹⁸ Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.

⁶ For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.

¹¹ Only, fools are the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?' ¹² Where are they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt! ¹³ Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes. ¹⁴ Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.

⁶ And there were gathered together the apostles and the elders, to see about this matter, ⁷ and there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, `Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe; <sup>8</sup> and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us, <sup>9</sup> and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts; <sup>10</sup> now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? <sup>11</sup> but, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, even as also they.' <sup>12</sup> And all the multitude did keep silence, and were hearkening to Barnabas and Paul, declaring as many signs and wonders as God did among the nations through them; <sup>13</sup> and after they are silent, James answered, saying, `Men, brethren, hearken to me; ¹⁴ Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name, ¹⁵ and to this agree the words of the prophets, as it hath been written: ¹⁶ After these things I will turn back, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and its ruins I will build again, and will set it upright— ¹⁷ that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things. ¹⁸ `Known from the ages to God are all His works; ¹⁹ wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God, ²⁰ but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood; ²¹ for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him—in the synagogues every sabbath being read.'

¹ My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand, ² Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth, ³ Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend, ⁴ Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids, ⁵ Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

¹⁸ A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.

¹⁶ Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

²⁶ Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens. ²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?

³² And David saith to Abigail, `Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath sent thee this day to meet me, ³³ and blessed is thy discretion, and blessed art thou in that thou hast restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself.

¹⁶ And a wise woman calleth out of the city, `Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, and I speak unto thee.' <sup>17</sup> And he cometh near unto her, and the woman saith, `Art thou Joab?' and he saith, `I am .' And she saith to him, `Hear the words of thy handmaid;' and he saith, `I am hearing.' <sup>18</sup> and she speaketh, saying, `They spake often in former times, saying, Let them diligently ask at Abel, and so they finished. ¹⁹ I am of the peaceable—faithful ones of Israel; thou art seeking to destroy a city, and a mother in Israel; why dost thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah? ²⁰ And Joab answereth and saith, `Far be it—far be it from me; I do not swallow up nor destroy. <sup>21</sup> The matter is not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim—Sheba son of Bichri his name—hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.' And the woman saith unto Joab, `Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.' ²² And the woman cometh unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast it unto Joab, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and they are scattered from the city, each to his tents, and Joab hath turned back to Jerusalem unto the king.

²⁵ and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

³⁰ The grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself. ³¹ Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

¹³ Verily I say to you, Wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this one did shall also be spoken of—for a memorial of her.'

³ and Joanna wife of Chuza, steward of Herod, and Susanna, and many others, who were ministering to him from their substance.

⁴² but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'

²¹ `When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods; ²² but when the stronger than he, having come upon him, may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;

² and he saw also a certain poor widow casting there two mites, ³ and he said, `Truly I say to you, that this poor widow did cast in more than all; ⁴ for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.'

³⁹ And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.

¹⁴ and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul; ¹⁵ and when she was baptized, and her household, she did call upon us, saying, `If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain;' and she constrained us.

² that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you—for she also became a leader of many, and of myself. ³ Salute Priscilla and Aquilas, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus— ⁴ who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations—

⁶ Salute Mary, who did labour much for us;

¹ The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,

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

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him. ² Jehovah doth preserve him and revive him, He is happy in the land, And Thou givest him not into the will of his enemies. ³ Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness. ⁴ I—I said, `O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,'

⁴ Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous. ⁵ Good is the man—gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.
⁶ For—to the age he is not moved; For a memorial age-during is the righteous. ⁷ Of an evil report he is not afraid, Prepared is His heart, confident in Jehovah. ⁸ Sustained is his heart—he feareth not, Till that he look on his adversaries. ⁹ He hath scattered—hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

²⁷ A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

⁸ There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

⁷ And the miser—his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly. ⁸ And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.

¹ The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying it to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one.

⁷ Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?
⁸ Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee. ⁹ Then thou callest, and Jehovah answereth, Thou criest, and He saith, `Behold Me.' If thou turn aside from thy midst the yoke, The sending forth of the finger, And the speaking of vanity, <sup>10</sup> And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon. <sup>11</sup> And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters lie not. <sup>12</sup> And they have built out of thee the wastes of old, The foundations of many generations thou raisest up, And one calleth thee, `Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to rest in.'

²⁷ `Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.

⁷ `Happy the kind—because they shall find kindness.

¹⁴ `For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you—your Father who is in the heavens; ¹⁵ but if ye may not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

³⁴ `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world; <sup>35</sup> for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me; <sup>36</sup> naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me. <sup>37</sup> `Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and we nourished? or thirsting, and we gave to drink? ³⁸ and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around? ³⁹ and when did we see thee infirm, or in prison, and we came unto thee? ⁴⁰ `And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren—the least—to me ye did it .

³⁸ `Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

⁶ And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; ⁷ each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, ⁸ and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work, ⁹ (according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,') ¹⁰ and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God, ¹² because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God, ¹³ through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and for the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all, ¹⁴ and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;

¹⁷ not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;

¹³ for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

¹ Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you; ² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days! ⁴ lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; ⁵ ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

¹³ This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive. 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. ¹⁶ If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, ¹⁷ He prepareth—and the righteous putteth it on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion. ¹⁸ He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made. ¹⁹ Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not. ²⁰ Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind. ²¹ Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place, ²² And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth. ²³ It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

⁵ Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap, ⁶ Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

¹⁸ And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

⁸ Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

⁵ Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper. ⁶ Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works are works of iniquity, And a deed of violence is in their hands. ⁷ Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways. ⁸ A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

¹² Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you. ¹³ Ye have ploughed wickedness, Perversity ye have reaped, Ye have eaten the fruit of lying, For thou hast trusted in thy way, In the abundance of thy might.

⁸ because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during; ⁹ and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap—not desponding;

²² ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

¹⁶ For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. ¹⁸ And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, ²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.

³⁶ And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

¹⁶ The wage of the righteous is for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

⁴ Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.

²³ The fear of Jehovah is to life, And satisfied he remaineth—he is not charged with evil.

³⁵ but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

⁸ and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

²³ for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁷ Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

¹⁰ In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

¹⁷ `And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

⁷ For righteous is Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

²⁵ With the kind Thou showest Thyself kind, With a perfect man showest Thyself perfect. ²⁶ With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

⁶ Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.

¹ Aleph. O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah,

¹³ Only—the righteous give thanks to Thy name, The upright do dwell with Thy presence!

¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

¹⁶ These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul. ¹⁷ Eyes high—tongues false—And hands shedding innocent blood— ¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity—Feet hasting to run to evil— ¹⁹ A false witness who doth breathe out lies—And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

⁷ The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it—shame, And a reprover of the wicked—his blemish.

²² An abomination to Jehovah are lying lips, And stedfast doers are his delight.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

¹⁷ A highway of the upright is, `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

²⁹ A wicked man hath hardened by his face, And the upright—he prepareth his way.

⁷ `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee; ⁸ and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

² `Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause others to turn aside;

²⁶ All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed is for a blessing.

¹ Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly. ² Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

²² A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous is the sinner's wealth.

⁵ An abomination to Jehovah is every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.

⁴ Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier—a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

³⁹ and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:

³⁹ for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

⁴⁷ `And I ask her, and say, Whose daughter art thou? and she saith, Daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah hath borne to him, and I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands,

¹⁰ And, lo, a woman to meet him—(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

¹³ A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

³⁰ The grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

¹⁵ And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by—to him it is. ¹⁶ And thou dost take of thy garments, And dost make to thee spotted high-places, And dost go a-whoring upon them, They are not coming in—nor shall it be! ¹⁷ And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee, And dost make to thee images of a male, And dost go a-whoring with them, ¹⁸ And dost take the garments of thy embroidery, And thou dost cover them, And My oil and My perfume thou hast set before them. ¹⁹ And My bread, that I gave to thee, Fine flour, and oil, and honey, that I caused thee to eat. Thou hast even set it before them, For a sweet fragrance—thus it is, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. ²⁰ And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me, And dost sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms, ²¹ That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them? ²² And with all thine abominations and thy whoredoms, Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, When thou wast naked and bare, Trodden down in thy blood thou wast!

⁴ Because of the abundance of the fornications of an harlot, The goodness of the grace of the lady of witchcrafts, Who is selling nations by her fornications, And families by her witchcrafts. ⁵ Lo, I am against thee, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And have removed thy skirts before thy face, And have shewed nations thy nakedness, And kingdoms thy shame, ⁶ And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.

³ whose adorning—let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, ⁴ but—the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

²² and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself—to rolling in mire.'

¹⁷ The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

⁴ One thing I asked of Jehovah—it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

⁴ And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

⁷ And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it is of Thee. ⁸ From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

¹⁰ With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

⁷ In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.

⁹ With my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, with my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments are on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

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,

⁶ `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness—because they shall be filled.

²⁷ but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

¹⁰ thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;

⁹ He hath scattered—hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

¹⁸ The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness—a true reward.

¹⁷ Whoso is lending to Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

⁸ Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

¹ Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it. ² Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.

⁶ In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike are good.

⁶ Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

⁹ Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? —an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running—each to his house, ¹⁰ Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase. ¹¹ And I proclaim draught on the land, And on the mountains, and on the corn, And on the new wine, and on the oil, And on what the ground doth bring forth, And on man, and on beast, And on all labour of the hands.'

¹⁶ From that time one hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty. ¹⁷ I have smitten you with blasting, And with mildew, and with hail—All the work of your hands, And there is none of you with Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. ¹⁸ Set it, I pray you, to your heart, from this day and onwards, from the twenty and fourth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the temple of Jehovah hath been founded, set it to your heart. ¹⁹ Is the seed yet in the barn? And hitherto the vine and the fig, And the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, Have not borne—from this day I bless.'

²⁹ and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea, ³⁰ which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

⁵ Necessary, therefore, I thought it to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.
⁶ And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; ⁷ each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, ⁸ and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work, ⁹ (according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,') ¹⁰ and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God,

¹³ The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing. ¹⁴ Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice. ¹⁵ Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I. ¹⁶ A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out. ¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
¹⁸ And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, ¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, ¹⁸ (But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) ¹⁹ If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

²⁷ Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

⁸ And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.

⁷ Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?
⁸ Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee. ⁹ Then thou callest, and Jehovah answereth, Thou criest, and He saith, `Behold Me.' If thou turn aside from thy midst the yoke, The sending forth of the finger, And the speaking of vanity, ¹⁰ And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon. ¹¹ And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters lie not.

³⁴ `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world; ³⁵ for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me;

⁶ And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; ⁷ each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, ⁸ and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work, ⁹ (according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')

⁶ and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren come and bow themselves to him—face to the earth.

¹³ The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

²⁴ Whoso is saying to the wicked, `Thou art righteous,' Peoples execrate him—nations abhor him.

⁴ Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

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

² Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

⁶ A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

¹¹ An evil man seeketh only rebellion, And a fierce messenger is sent against him.

¹² lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited; ¹³ and thy herd and thy flock be multiplied, and silver and gold be multiplied to thee; and all that is thine be multiplied: ¹⁴ `And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

²⁴ If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,' ²⁵ If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,

³ And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

⁶ Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish.

⁷ `Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.' ⁸ And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth—when it increaseth—set not the heart.

¹² The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth. ¹³ Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish. ¹⁴ Still they bring forth in old age, Fat and flourishing are they,

¹⁵ The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

²¹ And thy people are all of them righteous, To the age they possess the earth, A branch of My planting, A work of My hands, to be beautified.

⁸ And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.

²⁴ And the disciples were astonished at his words, and Jesus again answering saith to them, `Children, how hard is it to those trusting on the riches to enter into the reign of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel through the eye of the needle to enter, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'

¹⁷ Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; —

³⁰ And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, `Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I am few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.'

²⁴ And Joshua taketh Achan son of Zerah, and the silver, and the robe, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his ox, and his ass, and his flock, and his tent, and all that he hath, and all Israel with him, and they cause them to go up the valley of Achor. ²⁵ And Joshua saith, `What! thou hast troubled us! —Jehovah doth trouble thee this day;' and all Israel cast stones at him, and they burn them with fire, and they stone them with stones,

³ And the name of the man is Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, and the woman is of good understanding, and of fair form, and the man is hard and evil in doings; and he is a Calebite.

¹⁷ `And, now, know and consider what thou dost; for evil hath been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he is too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.'

³⁸ And it cometh to pass, in about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth,

¹⁹ The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

¹⁶ And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind?

⁷ For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers do swallow it up.

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.

¹⁸ A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.

⁴ A healed tongue is a tree of life, And perverseness in it—a breach in the spirit.

³ And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.

¹⁹ and he saith to them, `Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men,'

⁹ for astonishment seized him, and all those with him, at the draught of the fishes that they took, ¹⁰ and in like manner also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon; and Jesus said unto Simon, `Fear not, henceforth thou shalt be catching men;'

³⁶ `And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

¹⁹ for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain; ²⁰ and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain; ²¹ to those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) —that I might gain those without law; ²² I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some. ²³ And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

¹⁹ for what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?

²⁰ let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

¹⁴ I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam, ¹⁵ and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,

⁹ `Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do the evil thing in His eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten by the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to thee for a wife, and him thou hast slain by the sword of the Bene-Ammon. <sup>10</sup> `And now, the sword doth not turn aside from thy house unto the age, because thou hast despised Me, and dost take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for a wife; ¹¹ thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am raising up against thee evil, out of thy house, and have taken thy wives before thine eyes, and given to thy neighbour, and he hath lain with thy wives before the eyes of this sun; ¹² for thou hast done it in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'

²⁴ and he goeth, and a lion findeth him in the way, and putteth him to death, and his carcase is cast in the way, and the ass is standing near it, and the lion is standing near the carcase.

²¹ Evil pursueth sinners, And good recompenseth the righteous.

²⁹ For lo, in the city over which My name is called, I am beginning to do evil, And ye—ye are entirely acquitted! Ye are not acquitted, for a sword I am proclaiming, For all inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

³⁰ Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many; ³¹ for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged, ³² and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

¹⁷ because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God? ¹⁸ And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner—where shall he appear?