Proverbs 14 Cross References - YLT

¹ Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.
² Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted in his ways is despising Him.
³ In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.
⁴ Without oxen a stall is clean, And great is the increase by the power of the ox.
⁵ A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
⁶ A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent is easy.
⁷ Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.
⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, And the folly of fools is deceit.
⁹ Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright—a pleasing thing.
¹⁰ The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.
¹¹ The house of the wicked is destroyed, And the tent of the upright flourisheth.
¹² There is a way—right before a man, And its latter end are ways of death.
¹³ Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.
¹⁴ From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man—from his fruits.
¹⁵ The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.
¹⁶ The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.
¹⁷ Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.
¹⁸ The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
¹⁹ The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
²⁰ Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich are many.
²¹ Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness.
²² Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth are to those devising good,
²³ In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.
²⁴ The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools is folly.
²⁵ A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.
²⁶ In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge. ²⁷ The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
²⁸ In the multitude of a people is the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.
²⁹ Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.
³⁰ A healed heart is life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones is envy.
³¹ An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.
³² In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.
³³ In the heart of the intelligent wisdom doth rest. And in the midst of fools it is known.
³⁴ Righteousness exalteth a nation, And the goodliness of peoples is a sin-offering.
³⁵ The favour of a king is to a wise servant, And an object of his wrath is one causing shame!

¹¹ And all the people who are in the gate say—also the elders—`Witnesses! Jehovah make the woman who is coming in unto thy house as Rachel and as Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel; and do thou virtuously in Ephrathah, and proclaim the Name in Beth-Lehem;

³¹ And it cometh to pass—hath it been light his walking in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat? —then he taketh a wife, Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and goeth and serveth Baal, and boweth himself to it,

²⁴ him who dieth of Ahab in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat; ²⁵ surely there hath none been like Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife hath moved,

¹ And Athaliah is mother of Ahaziah, and she hath seen that her son is dead, and she riseth, and destroyeth all the seed of the kingdom;

¹³ A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what. ¹⁴ And she hath sat at the opening of her house, On a throne—the high places of the city, ¹⁵ To call to those passing by the way, Who are going straight on their paths.

¹³ A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

⁹ Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than with a woman of contentions and a house of company.

¹⁹ Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.

³ By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself. ⁴ And by knowledge the inner parts are filled, With all precious and pleasant wealth.

¹⁰ A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies is her price. ¹¹ The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not. ¹² She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life. ¹³ She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands. ¹⁴ She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread. ¹⁵ Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels. ¹⁶ She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. ¹⁷ She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms. ¹⁸ She hath perceived when her merchandise is good, Her lamp is not extinguished in the night. ¹⁹ Her hands she hath sent forth on a spindle, And her hands have held a distaff. ²⁰ Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy. ²¹ She is not afraid of her household from snow, For all her household are clothed with scarlet. ²² Ornamental coverings she hath made for herself, Silk and purple are her clothing. ²³ Known in the gates is her husband, In his sitting with elders of the land. ²⁴ Linen garments she hath made, and selleth, And a girdle she hath given to the merchant. ²⁵ Strength and honour are her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day. ²⁶ Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness is on her tongue. ²⁷ She is watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not. ²⁸ Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her, ²⁹ `Many are the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.' 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!

⁶ And Solomon saith, `Thou hast done with Thy servant David my father great kindness, as he walked before Thee in truth and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee, and Thou dost keep for him this great kindness, and dost give to him a son sitting on his throne, as at this day.

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz—Job his name—and that man hath been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

⁴ A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one.

²⁸ And He saith to man: —`Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

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

¹ Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly.

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!

¹⁵ Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

¹² Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

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

¹ Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse in his lips, who is a fool.

⁶ Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

¹³ The end of the whole matter let us hear: —`Fear God, and keep His commands, for this is the whole of man.

⁵ My covenant hath been with him of life and of peace, And I make them to him a fear, and he doth fear Me, And because of My name he hath been affrighted. ⁶ The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity.

¹⁶ `He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.'

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

³¹ Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

²² And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.'

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

⁴ or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? —not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation! ⁵ but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

² for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind, ³ without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

³ Ye multiply not—ye speak haughtily—The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge is Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

²¹ When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.

³ Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

¹⁸ Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

¹ To the Overseer. —An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God is all the day. ² Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

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

⁶ The words of the wicked are : `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.

⁶ The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

²⁴ Proud, haughty, scorner is his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.

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

²⁵ Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

²⁰ and concerning the ten horns that are in its heads, and of the other that came up, and before which three have fallen, even of that horn that hath eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and whose appearance is great above its companions.

⁹ that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved, ¹⁰ for with the heart doth one believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

⁵ so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! 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.

¹⁸ for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh—lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

¹⁰ `Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

¹¹ and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life—unto death;

⁵ And after these things I saw, and lo, opened was the sanctuary of the tabernacle of the testimony in the heaven; ⁶ and come forth did the seven messengers having the seven plagues, out of the sanctuary, clothed in linen, pure and shining, and girded round the breasts with golden girdles:

²³ Abundance of food—the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.

⁶ And I also—I have given to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And lack of bread in all your places, And ye have not turned back unto Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.

⁹ for in the law of Moses it hath been written, `thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care? ¹⁰ or because of us by all means doth He say it ? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope. ¹¹ If we to you the spiritual things did sow—great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?

¹⁶ `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

¹ `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

¹³ and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;

¹² and all the prophets are prophesying so, saying, `Go up to Ramoth-Gilead, and prosper, and Jehovah hath given it into the hand of the king.' <sup>13</sup> And the messenger who hath gone to call Micaiah hath spoken unto him, saying, `Lo, I pray thee, the words of the prophets, with one mouth, are good towards the king; let it be, I pray thee, thy word as the word of one of them—and thou hast spoken good.' ¹⁴ And Micaiah saith, `Jehovah liveth; surely that which Jehovah saith unto me—it I speak.'

¹⁹ A false witness who doth breathe out lies—And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

¹⁷ Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness—deceit.

⁵ A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.

²⁵ A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.

⁵ A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

⁹ A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

¹⁸ Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.

⁹⁸ Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age. ⁹⁹ Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

⁹ All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.

²⁴ The face of the intelligent is to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool—at the end of the earth.

² A fool delighteth not in understanding, But—in uncovering his heart.

¹² Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

⁹ Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what—have they?

²² `The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened, ²³ but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness—the darkness, how great!

²⁵ At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes. <sup>26</sup> Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before Thee. <sup>27</sup> `All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him .

¹¹ And he answering said to them that—`To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given, ¹² for whoever hath, it shall be given to him, and he shall have overabundance, and whoever hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.

²¹ because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened, ²² professing to be wise, they were made fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles. ²⁴ Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; ²⁵ who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen. ²⁶ Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; ²⁷ and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving. 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;

³¹ and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive; ³² wherefore? because—not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age—let him become a fool, that he may become wise, ¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

² and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth him to know;

⁵ and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

³ this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on, ⁴ and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;' ⁵ for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

⁶ Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

²⁰ Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

²⁷ Cease, my son, to hear instruction—To err from sayings of knowledge.

¹¹ and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—with such a one not even to eat together;

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom is fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise is standing for ever!

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

³⁴ Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.
³⁵ Cause me to tread in the path of Thy commands, For in it I have delighted.

⁷³ Yod. Thy hands made me and establish me, Cause me to understand, and I learn Thy commands.

⁸ Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul.

⁹ Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.

²⁰ In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,

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

²⁰ Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where is the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?

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?

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

¹⁷ because of this become not fools, but—understanding what is the will of the Lord,

⁹ Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰ to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

¹³ and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus; ¹⁶ every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be fitted—for every good work having been completed.

¹³ Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

¹⁶ Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

⁷ Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water, ⁸ And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness. ⁹ For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

⁴ And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.

³⁵ For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

²³ To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

² The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

¹⁵ Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous is hard.

¹⁸ As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, ¹⁹ So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'

²⁰ So—the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'

¹⁷ for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; ¹⁸ for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.

¹⁸ that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,

²¹ And they say one unto another, `Verily we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

¹⁰ And she is bitter in soul, and prayeth unto Jehovah, and weepeth greatly,

²⁷ And she cometh in unto the man of God, unto the hill, and layeth hold on his feet, and Gehazi cometh nigh to thrust her away, and the man of God saith, `Let her alone, for her soul is bitter to her, and Jehovah hath hidden it from me, and hath not declared it to me.'

² O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together! ³ For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash. ⁴ For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!

¹¹ Also I—I withhold not my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.

¹ My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁴ The secret of Jehovah is for those fearing Him, And His covenant—to cause them to know.

¹³ A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?

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

³³ and he taketh Peter, and James, and John with him, and began to be amazed, and to be very heavy, ³⁴ and he saith to them, `Exceeding sorrowful is my soul—to death; remain here, and watch.'

²⁷ `Now hath my soul been troubled, and what? shall I say—Father, save me from this hour? —but because of this I came to this hour;

¹⁸ `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

⁷ and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

⁸ whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

¹⁷ He who is having an ear—let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving it .

⁶ If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

¹⁵ He leaneth on his house—and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it—and it abideth not.

³⁴ For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.

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.

²¹ Only these are tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

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.

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

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.

² Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed. ³ Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness is standing for ever.

³ Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

³³ The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.

²⁸ Whoso is confident in his wealth he falleth, And as a leaf, the righteous flourish.

⁷ Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.

¹² The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.

²⁰ A treasure to be desired, and oil, Is in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

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. ¹² 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.'

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.'

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.'

¹⁵ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel is wise.

²⁵ There is a way right before a man, And its latter end—ways of death.

¹² A generation—pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

¹³ `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; ¹⁴ how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

²⁴ `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

²¹ what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

³ for if any one doth think himself to be something—being nothing—himself he doth deceive;

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

²² and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

⁴ And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.

² Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What is this it is doing?'

¹⁰ And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour, ¹¹ and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

⁵ Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than for a man to hear a song of fools, ⁶ For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So is the laughter of a fool, even this is vanity.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

²⁵ `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive—thou—thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

⁹ be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

⁷ `As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see; ⁸ because of this, in one day, shall come her plagues, death, and sorrow, and famine; and in fire she shall be utterly burned, because strong is the Lord God who is judging her;

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.

¹⁴ From the fruit of the mouth is one satisfied with good, And the deed of man's hands returneth to him.

¹⁰ The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.

¹⁹ Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing Is thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

⁵ Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back—a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.

⁵ Thus said Jehovah: Cursed is the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.

³¹ And I pour out on them mine indignation, By fire of My wrath I have consumed them, Their way on their own head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

¹⁶ For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

⁶ And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

¹⁴ but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst—to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

⁴ and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

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;

¹² See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

²⁰ for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, ²¹ for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them, 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.'

²⁶ Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, And the folly of fools is deceit.

³ The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.

¹² The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

¹³ Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it is .

⁷ who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,

¹⁸ for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless, ¹⁹ for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;

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,

¹ Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

⁹ And Esau saith, `I have abundance, my brother, let it be to thyself that which thou hast.'

¹⁸ And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

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

¹⁰ And Ben-Hadad sendeth unto him, and saith, `Thus do the gods to me, and thus do they add, if the dust of Samaria suffice for handfuls for all the people who are at my feet.' <sup>11</sup> And the king of Israel answereth and saith, `Speak ye: let not him who is girding on boast himself as him who is loosing his armour .'

¹⁸ And he saith, `If for peace they have come out—catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out—alive catch them.'

¹⁵ the former governors who are before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people—and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.

²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court, ²² My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. ²³ For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

¹⁴ Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

¹²⁰ Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!

⁷ Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.

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,

⁶ In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.

¹⁴ O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

⁹ A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, And the latter end of his mouth Is mischievous madness.

¹⁷ For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her, ¹⁸ for John said to Herod—`It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;' ¹⁹ and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

²⁴ And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;' ²⁵ and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.'

⁴⁰ And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?'

²² from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

⁶ and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who are in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.

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?' <sup>6</sup> 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.

¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity—Feet hasting to run to evil—

¹⁶ The fool—in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

²⁹ Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

¹⁸ A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

³² Better is the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

²⁴ Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

²² An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

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.

²⁶ For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap—men they capture. ²⁷ As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich. ²⁸ They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless—and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged. ²⁹ For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?

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

³⁵ Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!

⁷ The first thing is wisdom—get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her. ⁹ She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.

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.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

¹⁷ for we certainly do everything that hath gone out of our mouth, to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our heads, in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and—we are satisfied with bread, and we are well, and evil we have not seen.

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.

²⁹ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets; ³² and ye—ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord—the Righteous Judge—shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

¹⁸ having known that, not with corruptible things—silver or gold—were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

⁴ and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

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.

²⁸ and they say, `Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive;' and they bow, and do obeisance.

⁸ And Pharaoh calleth for Moses and for Aaron, and saith, `Make supplication unto Jehovah, that he turn aside the frogs from me, and from my people, and I send the people away, and they sacrifice to Jehovah.'

²⁷ And Pharaoh sendeth, and calleth for Moses and for Aaron, and saith unto them, `I have sinned this time, Jehovah is the Righteous, and I and my people are the Wicked, ²⁸ make ye supplication unto Jehovah, and plead that there be no voices of God and hail, and I send you away, and ye add not to remain.'

⁸ and all these thy servants have come down unto me, and bowed themselves to me, saying, Go out, thou and all the people who are at thy feet; and afterwards I do go out;' —and he goeth out from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.

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.'

¹² And Jehoshaphat saith, `The word of Jehovah is with him;' and go down unto him do the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom.

⁷ 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. ⁸ 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.

¹⁴ As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

²⁹ Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant is the fool to the wise of heart.

¹⁴ And come unto thee, bowing down, Have sons of those afflicting thee, And bowed themselves to the soles of thy feet Have all despising thee, And they have cried to thee: `City of Jehovah, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'

⁹ The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness. ¹⁰ And see doth mine enemy, And cover her doth shame, Who saith unto me, `Where is Jehovah thy God?' Mine eyes do look on her, Now she is for a treading-place, As mire of the out-places.

¹⁶ See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf. ¹⁷ They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, They tremble from their enclosures, Of Jehovah our God they are afraid, Yea, they are afraid of Thee.

³ And ye have trodden down the wicked, For they are ashes under the soles of your feet, In the day that I am appointing, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

³⁹ and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;

⁹ lo, I make of the synagogue of the Adversary those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but do lie; lo, I will make them that they may come and bow before thy feet, and may know that I loved thee.

² and all servants of the king, who are in the gate of the king, are bowing and doing obeisance to Haman, for so hath the king commanded for him; and Mordecai doth not bow nor do obeisance.

¹⁰ And Haman forceth himself, and cometh in unto his house, and sendeth, and bringeth in his friends, and Zeresh his wife, ¹¹ and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads and servants of the king.

²¹ Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
²² Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me? ²³ And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?

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,

¹⁰ They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

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

⁴ Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

⁶ Many entreat the face of the noble, And all have made friendship to a man of gifts. ⁷ All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words—they are not!

¹³ If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, ¹⁴ Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

⁵ Behold attentively the heavens—and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou. ⁶ If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

²⁴ For He hath not despised, nor abominated, The affliction of the afflicted, Nor hath He hidden His face from him, And in his crying unto Him He heareth.

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.

⁵ Good is the man—gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

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

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.

³¹ An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

⁵ Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.

³ With the coming of the wicked come also hath contempt, And with shame—reproach.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 . <sup>41</sup> Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers; <sup>42</sup> for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink; <sup>43</sup> a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me. <sup>44</sup> `Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee? ⁴⁵ `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these, the least, ye did it not to me. ⁴⁶ And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

³⁰ `And to every one who is asking of thee, be giving; and from him who is taking away thy goods, be not asking again; <sup>31</sup> and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner; <sup>32</sup> and—if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them; <sup>33</sup> and if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful do the same; <sup>34</sup> and if ye lend to those of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners—that they may receive again as much. <sup>35</sup> `But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil; ³⁶ be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

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:

³⁵ all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

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

¹⁴ What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? ¹⁵ and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food, ¹⁶ and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what is the profit?

¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸ My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth! ¹⁹ and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

²⁷ and saith, `Blessed is Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, who hath not left off His kindness and His truth with my lord; —I being in the way, Jehovah hath led me to the house of my lord's brethren.'

⁸ and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart,

¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah are kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.

⁷ He dwelleth to the age before God, Kindness and truth appoint—they keep him.

²⁹ Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee.

¹⁷ Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

²² The desirableness of a man is his kindness, And better is the poor than a liar.

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.

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

¹⁷ for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

¹⁰ Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.

¹⁹ Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled with poverty.

³ For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

²⁷ work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal—even God.'

¹⁰ for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat, ¹¹ for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working, ¹² and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

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;

¹⁰ for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering; ¹¹ and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,

¹⁰ For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth. ¹¹ Their heart is : Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands. ¹² And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off. ¹³ This their way is folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

²² If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things—with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

¹¹ Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun. ¹² For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is, She reviveth her possessors.

⁶ And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah—it is His treasure.

⁹ and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

¹⁹ `And—a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, <sup>20</sup> and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores, <sup>21</sup> and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores. <sup>22</sup> `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham—and the rich man also died, and was buried; ²³ and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom, ²⁴ and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame. ²⁵ `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive—thou—thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

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

²¹ testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁶ wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all, ²⁷ for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

¹⁶ but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things in which I will appear to thee, ¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me. ¹⁹ `Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

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,

³ this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

⁴² unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'

⁷ A messenger of Jehovah is encamping, Round about those who fear Him, And He armeth them. ⁸ Taste ye and see that Jehovah is good, O the happiness of the man who trusteth in Him. ⁹ Fear Jehovah, ye His holy ones, For there is no lack to those fearing Him. ¹⁰ Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,
¹¹ Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.

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.

¹³ He blesseth those fearing Jehovah, The small with the great. ¹⁴ Jehovah addeth to you, to you, and to your sons.

⁷ Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil. ⁸ Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.

²⁵ Be not afraid of sudden fear, And of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh. ²⁶ For Jehovah is at thy side, And He hath kept thy foot from capture.

¹⁰ A tower of strength is the name of Jehovah, Into it the righteous runneth, and is set on high.

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

¹⁸ It is good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.

²⁰ Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over. ²¹ For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'

¹¹ Jehovah said, Did I not direct thee for good? Did not I intercede for thee in a time of evil, And in a time of adversity, with the enemy?

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: ⁴⁰ and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;

¹⁶ Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name. ¹⁷ And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing—a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him. ¹⁸ And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

² And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness—and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

⁵ Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

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, ¹⁷ Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. ¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

¹⁴ The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

⁵ Thorns—snares are in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

²⁶ And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

⁶ and He said to me, `It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;

¹² and as they afflict it, so it multiplieth, and so it breaketh forth, and they are vexed because of the sons of Israel;

²² and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, `Every son who is born—into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'

²⁰ Judah and Israel are many, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing. ²¹ And Solomon hath been ruling over all the kingdoms, from the River to the land of the Philistines and unto the border of Egypt: they are bringing nigh a present, and serving Solomon, all days of his life.

²⁷ and the sons of Israel have been inspected, and supported, and go to meet them, and the sons of Israel encamp before them, like two flocks of goats, and the Aramaeans have filled the land.

³² In those days hath Jehovah begun to cut off some in Israel, and Hazael smiteth them in all the border of Israel, ³³ from the Jordan, at the sun-rising, the whole land of Gilead, of the Gadite, and the Reubenite, and the Manassahite (from Aroer, that is by the brook Arnon), even Gilead and Bashan.

⁷ for he left not to Jehoahaz of the people except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Aram hath destroyed them, and maketh them as dust for threshing.

³ And the man Moses is very humble, more than any of the men who are on the face of the ground.

⁸ Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.

¹¹ The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory is to pass over transgression.

²⁴ Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, ²⁵ Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.

⁸ Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

²⁸ A city broken down without walls, Is a man without restraint over his spirit!

⁶ He hath set the fool in many high places, And the rich in a low place do sit.

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar hath been full of fury, and the expression of his face hath been changed concerning Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; he answered and said to heat the furnace seven times above that which it is seen to be heated; ²⁰ and to certain mighty men who are in his force he hath said to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, to cast into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then these men have been bound in their coats, their tunics, and their turbans, and their clothing, and have been cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ²² Therefore, because that the word of the king is urgent, and the furnace heated exceedingly, those men who have taken up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego—killed them hath the spark of the fire. ²³ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, have fallen down in the midst of the burning fiery furnace—bound. ²⁴ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king hath been astonished, and hath risen in haste; he hath answered and said to his counsellors, `Have we not cast three men into the midst of the fire—bound?' They have answered and are saying to the king, `Certainly, O king.' ²⁵ He answered and hath said, `Lo, I am seeing four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like to a son of the gods.'

¹⁶ Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

²⁹ take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

⁴ The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: — ¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

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

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

⁸⁰ My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed.

⁸ Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.

²³ Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones is one causing shame.

²² A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

⁹ and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

⁷ for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

⁵ Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

¹³ If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, ¹⁴ Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.
¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

⁵ Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

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

² Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all is Jehovah.

¹⁶ He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich—only to want.

²² Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. ²³ For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

⁸ If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

⁸ for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'

⁷ but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound; ⁸ not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness, ⁹ for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor—being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸ My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth! ¹⁹ and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

²¹ and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

¹⁸ For Thy salvation I have waited, Jehovah!

¹⁵ Lo, He doth slay me—I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

²⁵ That—I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise. ²⁶ And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God: ²⁷ Whom I—I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

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.

¹¹ Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys is with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

¹⁵ I—in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, with Thy form!

⁴ Also—when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff—they comfort me.

³⁷ Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each is peace.

⁹ Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

¹⁵ Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken—and no healing.

¹⁶ For seven times doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

²⁶ This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered—God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it. ²⁷ Weighed—Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking. ²⁸ Divided—Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.' ²⁹ Then hath Belshazzar said, and they have clothed Daniel with purple, and a bracelet of gold is on his neck, and they have proclaimed concerning him that he is the third ruler in the kingdom.
³⁰ In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,

²⁹ `Now Thou dost send away Thy servant, Lord, according to Thy word, in peace,

²¹ therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

²⁴ I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.'

²² And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

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; ⁵⁷ and to God—thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;
⁵⁸ so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

⁹ but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

⁸ we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

²¹ for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

²³ for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

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;

¹⁸ and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save me —to his heavenly kingdom; to whom is the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹³ And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours—and their works do follow them!'

²³ A prudent man is concealing knowledge, And the heart of fools proclaimeth folly.

¹⁶ Every prudent one dealeth with knowledge, And a fool spreadeth out folly.

² The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.

²⁸ The heart of the righteous meditateth to answer, And the mouth of the wicked uttereth evil things.

¹¹ A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

³ And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, `He is a fool.'

⁶ and ye have kept and done them (for it is your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding is this great nation. ⁷ `For which is the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him? ⁸ and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

¹ `And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth, <sup>2</sup> and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God: <sup>3</sup> `Blessed art thou in the city, and blessed art thou in the field. ⁴ `Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. <sup>5</sup> `Blessed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ⁶ `Blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out. <sup>7</sup> `Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee—smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee. ⁸ `Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee. <sup>9</sup> `Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways; ¹⁰ and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee. ¹¹ `And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee. <sup>12</sup> `Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure—the heavens—to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou—thou dost not borrow. ¹³ `And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do, <sup>14</sup> and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day—right or left—to go after other gods, to serve them.
<sup>15</sup> `And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee: ¹⁶ `Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field. <sup>17</sup> `Cursed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ¹⁸ `Cursed is the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. <sup>19</sup> `Cursed art thou in thy coming in, and cursed art thou in thy going out. ²⁰ `Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings by which thou hast forsaken Me. <sup>21</sup> `Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till He consume thee from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it. ²² `Jehovah doth smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued thee till thou perish <sup>23</sup> `And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron; ²⁴ Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land—dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed. ²⁵ `Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth; <sup>26</sup> and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling. <sup>27</sup> `Jehovah doth smite thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and with emerods, and with scurvy, and with itch, of which thou art not able to be healed. ²⁸ `Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; <sup>29</sup> and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour. <sup>30</sup> `A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common; ³¹ thine ox is slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it; thine ass is taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee; thy sheep are given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee. ³² `Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God! <sup>33</sup> The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days; <sup>34</sup> and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see. <sup>35</sup> `Jehovah doth smite thee with an evil ulcer, on the knees, and on the legs (of which thou art not able to be healed), from the sole of thy foot even unto thy crown. ³⁶ `Jehovah doth cause thee to go, and thy king whom thou raisest up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, and thou hast served there other gods, wood and stone; <sup>37</sup> and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee. <sup>38</sup> `Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it; ³⁹ vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it; ⁴⁰ olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off. ⁴¹ `Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity; <sup>42</sup> all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess; <sup>43</sup> the sojourner who is in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low; <sup>44</sup> he doth lend to thee, and thou dost not lend to him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
<sup>45</sup> `And come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee, and overtaken thee, till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which he hath commanded thee; ⁴⁶ and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed—to the age. ⁴⁷ `Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things— <sup>48</sup> thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee. <sup>49</sup> `Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard, ⁵⁰ a nation—fierce of countenance—which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour; ⁵¹ and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee. ⁵² `And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee; <sup>53</sup> and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee. <sup>54</sup> `The man who is tender in thee, and who is very delicate—his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth, ⁵⁵ against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates. ⁵⁶ `The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness—her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter, <sup>57</sup> and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates. <sup>58</sup> `If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name—Jehovah thy God— ⁵⁹ then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed—great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast. ⁶⁰ `And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee; <sup>61</sup> also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law; Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed, <sup>62</sup> and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God. <sup>63</sup> `And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it; ⁶⁴ and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers—wood and stone. ⁶⁵ `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul; <sup>66</sup> and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life; <sup>67</sup> in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest. <sup>68</sup> `And Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, Thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men-servants and for maid-servants, and there is no buyer.'

¹⁸ lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood: ¹⁹ `And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst. <sup>20</sup> Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens, <sup>21</sup> and Jehovah hath separated him for evil, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this book of the law. <sup>22</sup> `And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who cometh in from a land afar off, have said when they have seen the strokes of that land, and its sicknesses which Jehovah hath sent into it, — 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? ²⁵ `And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them—gods which they have not known, and which He hath not apportioned to them; ²⁷ and the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this book, ²⁸ and Jehovah doth pluck them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and doth cast them unto another land, as at this day.

⁶ And Joshua sendeth the people away, and the sons of Israel go, each to his inheritance, to possess the land; ⁷ and the people serve Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of Jehovah which He did to Israel. ⁸ And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Jehovah, dieth, a son of a hundred and ten years, ⁹ and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of mount Gaash; 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. ¹¹ And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and serve the Baalim, ¹² and forsake Jehovah, God of their fathers, who bringeth them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other gods (of the gods of the peoples who are round about them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke Jehovah, ¹³ yea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ And the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He giveth them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He selleth them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they have not been able any more to stand before their enemies;

³⁴ A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

² `Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown. <sup>3</sup> Holy is Israel to Jehovah, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil cometh in unto them, an affirmation of Jehovah. <sup>4</sup> Hear a word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, And all ye families of the house of Israel. <sup>5</sup> Thus said Jehovah: What—have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain, <sup>6</sup> And have not said, Where is Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land—none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?' <sup>7</sup> Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And ye come in and defile My land, And Mine inheritance have made an abomination. <sup>8</sup> The priests have not said, `Where is Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.
⁹ Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead. ¹⁰ For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there hath been like this: ¹¹ Hath a nation changed gods? (And they are no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit. ¹² Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah. ¹³ For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells—broken wells, That contain not the waters.
¹⁴ A servant is Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey? ¹⁵ Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant. ¹⁶ Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee—the crown of the head! ¹⁷ Dost thou not do this to thyself? By thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way? ¹⁸ And now, what—to thee in the way of Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? And what—to thee in the way of Asshur, To drink the waters of the River? ¹⁹ Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing Is thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
²⁰ For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, `I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering—a harlot. <sup>21</sup> And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine? <sup>22</sup> But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. <sup>23</sup> How sayest thou, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways, ²⁴ A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting—who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her. ²⁵ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, `It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.'

¹ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, ² `Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and thou hast said: ³ Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity Are of the land of the Canaanite, Thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite. ⁴ As to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, Thou—thy navel hath not been cut, And in water thou wast not washed for ease, And thou hast not been salted at all, And thou hast not been swaddled at all. ⁵ No eye hath had pity on thee, to do to thee any of these, To have compassion on thee, And thou art cast on the face of the field, With loathing of thy person. In the day thou hast been born—thou!
⁶ And I do pass over by thee, And I see thee trodden down in thy blood, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live. ⁷ A myriad—as the shoot of the field I have made thee, And thou art multiplied, and art great, And comest in with an excellent adornment, Breasts have been formed, and thy hair hath grown—And thou, naked and bare! ⁸ And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time is a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine. ⁹ And I do wash thee with water, And I wash away thy blood from off thee, And I anoint thee with perfume. ¹⁰ And I clothe thee with embroidery, And I shoe thee with badger's skin, And I gird thee with fine linen, And I cover thee with figured silk. ¹¹ And I adorn thee with adornments, And I give bracelets for thy hands, And a chain for thy neck. ¹² And I give a ring for thy nose, And rings for thine ears, And a crown of beauty on thy head. ¹³ And thou dost put on gold and silver, And thy clothing is fine linen, And figured silk and embroidery, Fine flour, and honey, and oil thou hast eaten, And thou art very very beautiful, And dost go prosperously to the kingdom. ¹⁴ And go forth doth thy name among nations, Because of thy beauty—for it is complete, In My honour that I have set upon thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
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! ²³ And it cometh to pass, after all thy wickedness, (Woe, woe, to thee—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah), ²⁴ That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place. ²⁵ At every head of the way thou hast built thy high place, And thou dost make thy beauty abominable, And dost open wide thy feet to every passer by, And dost multiply thy whoredoms, ²⁶ And dost go a-whoring unto sons of Egypt, Thy neighbours—great of appetite! And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms, To provoke Me to anger. ²⁷ And lo, I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I diminish thy portion, And give thee to the desire of those hating thee, The daughters of the Philistines, Who are ashamed of thy wicked way. ²⁸ And thou goest a-whoring unto sons of Asshur, Without thy being satisfied, And thou dost go a-whoring with them, And also—thou hast not been satisfied. ²⁹ And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms On the land of Canaan—toward Chaldea, And even with this thou hast not been satisfied. ³⁰ How weak is thy heart, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In thy doing all these, The work of a domineering whorish woman. ³¹ In thy building thine arch at the head of every way, Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, And—hast not been as a whore deriding a gift. ³² The wife who committeth adultery—Under her husband—doth receive strangers. ³³ To all whores they give a gift, And—thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, And dost bribe them to come in unto thee, From round about—in thy whoredoms. ³⁴ And the contrary is in thee from women in thy whoredoms, That after thee none doth go a-whoring; And in thy giving a gift, And a gift hath not been given to thee; And thou art become contrary.
³⁵ Therefore, O whore, hear a word of Jehovah, ³⁶ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them; ³⁷ Therefore, lo, I am assembling all thy lovers, To whom thou hast been sweet, And all whom thou hast loved, Besides all whom thou hast hated; And I have assembled them by thee round about, And have revealed thy nakedness to them, And they have seen all thy nakedness. ³⁸ And I have judged thee—judgments of adulteresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy. ³⁹ And I have given thee into their hand, And they have thrown down thine arch, And they have broken down thy high places, And they have stript thee of thy garments, And they have taken thy beauteous vessels, And they have left thee naked and bare. ⁴⁰ And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords, ⁴¹ And burnt thy houses with fire, And done in thee judgments before the eyes of many women, And I have caused thee to cease from going a-whoring, And also a gift thou givest no more. ⁴² And I have caused My fury against thee to rest, And My jealousy hath turned aside from thee, And I have been quiet, and I am not angry any more. ⁴³ Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, And dost give trouble to Me in all these, Lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I did not this thought for all thine abominations.
⁴⁴ Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother—her daughter! ⁴⁵ Thy mother's daughter thou art, Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters' sister thou art, Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, Who is dwelling at thy left hand, And thy younger sister, who is dwelling on thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ And—in their ways thou hast not walked, And according to their abominations done, As a little thing it hath been loathed, And thou dost more corruptly than they in all thy ways. ⁴⁸ I live—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done—she and her daughters—As thou hast done—thou and thy daughters. ⁴⁹ Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened. ⁵⁰ And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen. ⁵¹ As to Samaria, as the half of thy sins—she hath not sinned, And thou dost multiply thine abominations more than they, And dost justify thy sisters by all thy abominations that thou hast done. ⁵² Thou also—bear thy shame, That thou hast adjudged to thy sisters, Because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they, They are more righteous than thou, And thou, also, be ashamed and bear thy shame, In thy justifying thy sisters. ⁵³ And I have turned back to their captivity, The captivity of Sodom and her daughters, And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, And the captivity of thy captives in their midst, ⁵⁴ So that thou dost bear thy shame, And hast been ashamed of all that thou hast done, In thy comforting them. ⁵⁵ And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, Do turn back to their former state, And Samaria and her daughters Do turn back to their former state, And thou and thy daughters do turn back to your former state. ⁵⁶ And thy sister Sodom hath not been for a report in thy mouth, In the day of thine arrogancy, ⁵⁷ Before thy wickedness is revealed, As at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, And of all her neighbours, the daughters of the Philistines, Who are despising thee round about. ⁵⁸ Thy devices and thine abominations, Thou hast borne them, an affirmation of Jehovah. ⁵⁹ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath—to break covenant.
⁶⁰ And I—I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during. ⁶¹ And thou hast remembered thy ways, And thou hast been ashamed, In thy receiving thy sisters—Thine elder with thy younger, And I have given them to thee for daughters, And not by thy covenant. ⁶² And I—I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah. ⁶³ So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

¹ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, ² `And thou, son of man, dost thou judge? dost thou judge the city of blood? then thou hast caused it to know all its abominations, <sup>3</sup> and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city is shedding blood in its midst, For the coming in of its time, And it hath made idols on it for defilement. <sup>4</sup> By thy blood that thou hast shed thou hast been guilty, And by thine idols that thou hast made thou hast been defiled, And thou causest thy days to draw near, And art come in unto thine years, Therefore I have given thee a reproach to nations, And a derision to all the lands. <sup>5</sup> The near and the far-off from thee scoff at thee, O defiled of name—abounding in trouble. <sup>6</sup> Lo, princes of Israel—each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood. <sup>7</sup> Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee. <sup>8</sup> My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted. <sup>9</sup> Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst. <sup>10</sup> The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee. <sup>11</sup> And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee. <sup>12</sup> A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah! <sup>13</sup> And lo, I have smitten My hand, Because of thy dishonest gain that thou hast gained, And for thy blood that hath been in thy midst. <sup>14</sup> Doth thy heart stand—are thy hands strong, For the days that I am dealing with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it . <sup>15</sup> And I have scattered thee among nations, And have spread thee out among lands, And consumed thy uncleanness out of thee. <sup>16</sup> And thou hast been polluted in thyself Before the eyes of nations, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.'
<sup>17</sup> And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, ¹⁸ The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace—dross hath silver been, ¹⁹ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your all becoming dross, Therefore, lo, I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem, ²⁰ A gathering of silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, Unto the midst of a furnace—to blow on it fire, to melt it, So do I gather in Mine anger and in My fury, And I have let rest, and have melted you. ²¹ And I have heaped you up, And blown on you in the fire of My wrath, And ye have been melted in its midst. ²² As the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, So are ye melted in its midst, And ye have known that I, Jehovah, I have poured out My fury upon you.'
²³ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

¹ When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth.

⁴ A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not. ⁵ Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not. ⁶ Mine eyes are on the faithful of the land, To dwell with me, Whoso is walking in a perfect way, he serveth me. ⁷ He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes. ⁸ At morning I cut off all the wicked of the land, To cut off from the city of Jehovah All the workers of iniquity!

⁵ Whoso is gathering in summer is a wise son, Whoso is sleeping in harvest is a son causing shame.

² A wise servant ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance.

¹² The wrath of a king is a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.
¹³ A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

²⁶ Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.

⁸ A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,

²⁶ A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.

¹¹ Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace are his lips, a king is his friend.

⁵ Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.

¹² A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers are wicked.

⁴⁵ `Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season? <sup>46</sup> Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so; <sup>47</sup> verily I say to you, that over all his substance he will set him. <sup>48</sup> `And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come, ⁴⁹ and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken, ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know, ⁵¹ and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

²¹ `And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

²³ `His lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

⁴² And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure? <sup>43</sup> Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so; <sup>44</sup> truly I say to you, that over all his goods he will set him. <sup>45</sup> `And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken; ⁴⁶ the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for him, and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint. ⁴⁷ `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes, ⁴⁸ and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.