Proverbs 3 Cross References - YLT

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, ² For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee. ³ Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, ⁴ And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man. ⁵ Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. ⁶ In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.
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. ⁹ Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase; ¹⁰ And filled are thy barns with plenty, And with new wine thy presses break forth. ¹¹ Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof, ¹² For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.
¹³ O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding. ¹⁴ For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold—her increase. ¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her. ¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. ¹⁸ A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy. ¹⁹ Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding. ²⁰ By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew.
²¹ My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness, ²² And they are life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. ²³ Then thou goest thy way confidently, And thy foot doth not stumble. ²⁴ If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep. 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.
²⁷ Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand is toward God to do it . ²⁸ Say not thou to thy friend, `Go, and return, and to-morrow I give,' And substance with thee. ²⁹ Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee. ³⁰ Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil. ³¹ Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways. ³² For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel. ³³ The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth. ³⁴ If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace. ³⁵ Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!

⁹ `Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

²³ `Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image, a similitude of anything concerning which Jehovah thy God hath charged thee:

⁶ and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, ⁷ and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, ⁸ and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes, ⁹ and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

¹ `All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers;

¹⁶ in that I am commanding thee to-day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and thou hast lived and multiplied, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in the land whither thou art going in to possess it. ¹⁷ `And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them, <sup>18</sup> I have declared to you this day, that ye do certainly perish, ye do not prolong days on the ground which thou art passing over the Jordan to go in thither to possess it. <sup>19</sup> `I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed, ²⁰ to love Jehovah thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave to Him (for He is thy life, and the length of thy days), to dwell on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.'

¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

¹⁶ In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.

³⁴ Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.

⁴⁷ And I delight myself in Thy commands, That I have loved, ⁴⁸ And I lift up my hands unto Thy commands, That I have loved, And I do meditate on Thy statutes!

⁹³ To the age I forget not Thy precepts, For by them Thou hast quickened me.

¹⁵³ Resh. See my affliction, and deliver Thou me, For Thy law I have not forgotten.

¹⁷⁶ I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.

⁵ Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

¹⁷ Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.

³³ For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.

⁶ Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' ²² Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?' <sup>23</sup> 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; ²⁴ he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

²⁶ Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

⁴ Life he hath asked from Thee, Thou hast given to him—length of days, Age-during—and for ever.

¹¹ Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you. ¹² Who is the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good? ¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit. ¹⁴ Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁶ With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

¹⁶⁵ Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.

⁶ And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!

¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee.

¹¹ For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.

²⁷ The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

¹⁷ And a work of the righteousness hath been peace, And a service of the righteousness—Keeping quiet and confidence unto the age.

¹⁹ Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,' to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah. ²⁰ And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire. ²¹ There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!

¹ Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁷ for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

¹³ and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

¹ The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; ² honour thy father and mother, ³ which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

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

⁹ and it hath been to thee for a sign on thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, so that the law of Jehovah is in thy mouth, for by a strong hand hath Jehovah brought thee out from Egypt;

⁸ and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,

¹⁸ `And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes; ¹⁹ and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, ²⁰ and hast written them on the side-posts of thy house, and on thy gates, ²¹ so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens on the earth.

²⁰ Yesterday is thy coming in, and to-day I move thee to go with us, and I am going on that which I am going! —turn back, and take back thy brethren with thee, —kindness and truth.'

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

⁹ For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

²¹ Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

³ Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.

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

²⁸ Kindness and truth keep a king, And he hath supported by kindness his throne.

¹ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,

¹ `Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,

¹⁸ Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He—He delighteth in kindness. ¹⁹ He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins. ²⁰ Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!

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.

²³ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law—the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved you to do, and those not to neglect.

³ manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

¹ Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, ² and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

⁹ for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

¹⁶ `This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,'

² And Jehovah is with Joseph, and he is a prosperous man, and he is in the house of his lord the Egyptian, ³ and his lord seeth that Jehovah is with him, and all that he is doing Jehovah is causing to prosper in his hand, ⁴ and Joseph findeth grace in his eyes and serveth him, and he appointeth him over his house, and all that he hath he hath given into his hand.

²¹ And Jehovah is with Joseph, and stretcheth out kindness unto him, and putteth his grace in the eyes of the chief of the round-house;

⁷ `Only, be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded thee; thou dost not turn aside from it right or left, so that thou dost act wisely in every place whither thou goest; ⁸ the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

²⁶ And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and is good both with Jehovah, and also with men.

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

⁹ And God giveth Daniel for kindness and for mercies before the chief of the eunuchs;

⁵² and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

⁴⁷ praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

¹⁸ for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.

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

³ Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell in the land, and enjoy faithfulness,

⁵ Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh,

⁷ Be silent for Jehovah, and stay thyself for Him, Do not fret because of him Who is making prosperous his way, Because of a man doing wicked devices.

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

⁹ O Israel, trust in Jehovah, `Their help and their shield is He.' <sup>10</sup> O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah, `Their help and their shield is He.' ¹¹ Ye fearing Jehovah, trust in Jehovah, `Their help and their shield is He.'

¹ A Song of the Ascents. Those trusting in Jehovah are as Mount Zion, It is not moved—to the age it abideth.

³ Trust not in princes—in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance. ⁴ His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.
⁵ O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope is on Jehovah his God,

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

¹⁹ That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou.

⁴ Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

²⁶ Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.

² Lo, God is my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.

³ An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace—peace! For in Thee it is confident. ⁴ Trust ye in Jehovah for ever, For in Jah Jehovah is a rock of ages,

²³ Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,

²³ I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man is his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

⁷ Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah. ⁸ And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.

¹⁶ of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

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;' <sup>20</sup> and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

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

¹² for our being to the praise of His glory, even those who did first hope in the Christ,

¹¹ and the ark of God hath been taken, and the two sons of Eli have died, Hophni and Phinehas.
¹² And a man of Benjamin runneth out of the ranks, and cometh into Shiloh, on that day, and his long robes are rent, and earth on his head;

⁸ and David asketh at Jehovah, saying, `I pursue after this troop—do I overtake it?' And He saith to him, `Pursue, for thou dost certainly overtake, and dost certainly deliver.'

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

²⁷ Blessed is Jehovah, God of our fathers, who hath given such a thing as this in the heart of the king, to beautify the house of Jehovah that is in Jerusalem,

²² for I was ashamed to ask from the king a force and horsemen to help us because of the enemy in the way, for we spake to the king, saying, `The hand of our God is upon all seeking Him for good, and His strength and His wrath is upon all forsaking Him.' ²³ And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.

¹¹ `I beseech Thee, O Lord, let, I pray Thee, Thine ear be attentive unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto the prayer of Thy servants, those delighting to fear Thy Name; and give prosperity, I pray Thee, to Thy servant to-day, and give him for mercies before this man;' and I have been butler to the king.

⁴ And the king saith to me, `For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens,

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. ⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

⁸ I cause thee to act wisely, And direct thee in the way that thou goest, I cause mine eye to take counsel concerning thee.

³ Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

⁹ The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.

¹⁷ Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

²¹ And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This is the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.

¹³ I have stirred him up in righteousness, And all his ways I make straight, He doth build My city, and My captivity doth send out, Not for price, nor for bribe, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

³¹ Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

¹⁶ And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,

⁶ for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

¹⁷ and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus—giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

²³ and all, whatever ye may do—out of soul work—as to the Lord, and not to men,

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;

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.

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.

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

²⁷ The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

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

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

²¹ Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And—before their own faces—intelligent!

²⁵ For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret—that ye may not be wise in your own conceits—that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

²⁴ His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten.

³ Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.

²² For life they are to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.

²⁴ Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

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

¹² For thus said Jehovah: Incurable is thy breach, grievous thy stroke, ¹³ There is none judging thy cause to bind up, Healing medicines there are none for thee.

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!

¹⁸ And Melchizedek king of Salem hath brought out bread and wine, and he is priest of God Most High; ¹⁹ and he blesseth him, and saith, `Blessed is Abram to God Most High, possessing heaven and earth; <sup>20</sup> and blessed is God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.
<sup>21</sup> And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, `Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,'

²² then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that Thou dost give to me—tithing I tithe to Thee.'

²⁹ `Thy fulness and thy liquids thou dost not delay; the first-born of thy sons thou dost give to Me;

¹⁹ the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

²⁶ the first of the first-fruits of the land thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.'

²⁰ And all the company of the sons of Israel go out from the presence of Moses, ²¹ and they come in—every man whom his heart hath lifted up, and every one whom his spirit hath made willing—they have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. ²² And they come in—the men with the women—every willing-hearted one—they have brought in nose-ring, and ear-ring, and seal-ring, and necklace, all golden goods, even every one who hath waved a wave-offering of gold to Jehovah. ²³ And every man with whom hath been found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, have brought them in; ²⁴ every one lifting up a heave-offering of silver and brass have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah; and every one with whom hath been found shittim wood for any work of the service brought it in. ²⁵ And every wise-hearted woman hath spun with her hands, and they bring in yarn, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the linen; ²⁶ and all the women whose heart hath lifted them up in wisdom, have spun the goats' hair . ²⁷ And the princes have brought in the shoham stones, and the stones for settings, for the ephod, and for the breastplate, ²⁸ and the spices, and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the spice perfume; ²⁹ every man and woman (whom their heart hath made willing to bring in for all the work which Jehovah commanded to be done by the hand of Moses) of the sons of Israel brought in a willing-offering to Jehovah.

² and the princes of Israel (heads of the house of their fathers, they are princes of the tribes, they who are standing over those numbered) bring near, ³ yea, they bring their offering before Jehovah, six waggons covered, and twelve oxen—a waggon for two of the princes, and an ox for one—and they bring them near before the tabernacle. ⁴ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ⁵ `Receive from them, and they have been to do the service of the tent of meeting, and thou hast given them unto the Levites, each according to his service.' <sup>6</sup> And Moses taketh the waggons and the oxen, and giveth them unto the Levites. <sup>7</sup> The two of the waggons and the four of the oxen he hath given to the sons of Gershon, according to their service, <sup>8</sup> and the four of the waggons and the eight of the oxen he hath given to the sons of Merari, according to their service, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest; <sup>9</sup> and to the sons of Kohath he hath not given, for the service of the sanctuary is on them: on the shoulder they bear.
<sup>10</sup> And the princes bring near the dedication of the altar in the day of its being anointed; yea, the princes bring near their offering before the altar. <sup>11</sup> And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `One prince a day—one prince a day—do they bring near their offering for the dedication of the altar.' ¹² And he who is bringing near on the first day his offering is Nahshon son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah. ¹³ And his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ¹⁴ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ¹⁵ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ¹⁶ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ¹⁷ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab. ¹⁸ On the second day hath Nethaneel son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, brought near. ¹⁹ He hath brought near his offering, one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ²⁰ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ²¹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ²² one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ²³ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Nethaneel son of Zuar. ²⁴ On the third day, the prince of the sons of Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon; — ²⁵ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ²⁶ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ²⁷ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ²⁸ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ²⁹ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Eliab son of Helon. ³⁰ On the fourth day, Elizur, son of Shedeur, prince of the sons of Reuben; — ³¹ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ³² one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ³³ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ³⁴ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ³⁵ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur. ³⁶ On the fifth day, the prince of the sons of Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; — ³⁷ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ³⁸ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ³⁹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁴⁰ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴¹ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ⁴² On the sixth day, the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; — ⁴³ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁴⁴ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁴⁵ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁴⁶ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴⁷ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel. ⁴⁸ On the seventh day, the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; — ⁴⁹ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁵⁰ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁵¹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁵² one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵³ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud. ⁵⁴ On the eighth day, the prince of the sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur; — ⁵⁵ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁵⁶ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁵⁷ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁵⁸ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵⁹ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. ⁶⁰ On the ninth day, the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni; — ⁶¹ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁶² one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁶³ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁶⁴ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering: ⁶⁵ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni. ⁶⁶ On the tenth day, the prince of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; — ⁶⁷ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁶⁸ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁶⁹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁷⁰ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷¹ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. ⁷² On the eleventh day, the prince of the sons of Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran; — ⁷³ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁷⁴ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁷⁵ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁷⁶ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷⁷ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran. ⁷⁸ On the twelfth day, the prince of the sons of Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan; — ⁷⁹ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁸⁰ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁸¹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁸² one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁸³ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Ahira son of Enan. ⁸⁴ This is the dedication of the altar, in the day of its being anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons; ⁸⁵ a hundred and thirty shekels each silver dish, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels is two thousand and four hundred shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁸⁶ Golden spoons are twelve, full of perfume; ten shekels each spoon, by the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons is a hundred and twenty shekels; ⁸⁷ all the oxen for burnt-offering are twelve bullocks, rams twelve, lambs, sons of a year twelve, and their present; and kids of the goats twelve, for sin-offering; ⁸⁸ and all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace-offerings are twenty and four bullocks, rams sixty, he-goats sixty, lambs, sons of a year, sixty; this is the dedication of the altar, in the day of its being anointed. ⁸⁹ And in the going in of Moses unto the tent of meeting to speak with Him—he doth even hear the voice speaking unto him from off the mercy-seat which is upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubs; and He speaketh unto him.

⁵⁰ and we bring near Jehovah's offering, each that which he hath found, vessels of gold—chain, and bracelet, seal-ring, ear -ring, and bead—to make atonement for ourselves before Jehovah.' ⁵¹ And Moses receiveth—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from them, every made vessel, ⁵² and all the gold of the heave-offering which they have lifted up to Jehovah is sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from heads of the thousands, and from heads of the hundreds; ⁵³ (the men of the host have spoiled each for himself); ⁵⁴ and Moses taketh—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they bring it in unto the tent of meeting—a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah.

² that thou hast taken of the first of all the fruits of the ground which thou dost bring in out of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and hast put it in a basket, and gone unto the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there. ³ `And thou hast come in unto the priest who is in those days, and hast said unto him, I have declared to-day to Jehovah thy God, that I have come in unto the land which Jehovah hath sworn to our fathers to give to us; <sup>4</sup> and the priest hath taken the basket out of thy hand, and placed it before the altar of Jehovah thy God. <sup>5</sup> `And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean is my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous; ⁶ and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service; ⁷ and we cry unto Jehovah, God of our fathers, and Jehovah heareth our voice, and seeth our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression; ⁸ and Jehovah bringeth us out from Egypt, by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great fear, and by signs, and by wonders, ⁹ and he bringeth us in unto this place, and giveth to us this land—a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ `And now, lo, I have brought in the first of the fruits of the ground which thou hast given to me, O Jehovah; —and thou hast placed it before Jehovah thy God, and bowed thyself before Jehovah thy God, <sup>11</sup> and rejoiced in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is in thy midst.
<sup>12</sup> `When thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates, and been satisfied, ¹³ and thou hast said before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the separated thing out of the house, and also have given it to the Levite, and to the sojourner, and to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all Thy command which Thou hast commanded me; I have not passed over from Thy commands, nor have I forgotten. ¹⁴ I have not eaten in mine affliction of it, nor have I put away of it for uncleanness, nor have I given of it for the dead; I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that Thou hast commanded me; ¹⁵ look from Thy holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless Thy people Israel, and the ground which Thou hast given to us, as Thou hast sworn to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.

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

⁴ Is it time for you—you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste? ⁵ And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways. ⁶ Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through. ⁷ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways. ⁸ Go up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah. ⁹ Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? —an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running—each to his house,

⁸ Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering! ⁹ With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving—this nation—all of it. ¹⁰ Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.

⁷ for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always; ⁸ what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.

¹⁰ And Judas the Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away unto the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them, ¹¹ and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.
¹² And the first day of the unleavened food, when they were killing the passover, his disciples say to him, `Where wilt thou, that, having gone, we may prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?' <sup>13</sup> And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith to them, `Go ye away to the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water, follow him; ¹⁴ and wherever he may go in, say ye to the master of the house—The Teacher saith, Where is the guest-chamber, where the passover, with my disciples, I may eat? ¹⁵ and he will shew you a large upper room, furnished, prepared—there make ready for us.' ¹⁶ And his disciples went forth, and came to the city, and found as he said to them, and they made ready the passover. ¹⁷ And evening having come, he cometh with the twelve, ¹⁸ and as they are reclining, and eating, Jesus said, `Verily I say to you—one of you, who is eating with me—shall deliver me up.' <sup>19</sup> And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to him, one by one, `Is it I?' and another, `Is it I?' <sup>20</sup> And he answering said to them, `One of the twelve who is dipping with me in the dish; ²¹ the Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is delivered up; good were it to him if that man had not been born.'

¹³ but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind, ¹⁴ and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

² on every first day of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

² because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality; ³ because, according to their power, I testify, and above their power, they were willing of themselves,

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 not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account; ¹⁸ and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you—an odour of a sweet smell—a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:

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!

² `My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I am Jehovah. <sup>3</sup> `If in My statutes ye walk, and My commands ye keep, and have done them, ⁴ then I have given your rains in their season, and the land hath given her produce, and the tree of the field doth give its fruit; ⁵ and reached to you hath the threshing, the gathering, and the gathering doth reach the sowing-time; and ye have eaten your bread to satiety, and have dwelt confidently in your land.

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.

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.

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

⁹ The good of eye—he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.

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.

²⁴ And full have been the floors with pure corn, And overflown have the presses with new wine and oil.

¹⁹ Is the seed yet in the barn? And hitherto the vine and the fig, And the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, Have not borne—from this day I bless.'

¹⁰ Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space. ¹¹ And I have pushed for you against the consumer, And He doth not destroy to you the fruit of the ground, Nor miscarry to you doth the vine in the field, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁴² and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

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

⁵ But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.

¹⁷ Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

¹² O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

¹⁰ Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

³⁰ Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble, ³¹ But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

³² and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

¹ Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

¹⁶ wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; ¹⁷ for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us—

³ for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.

⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, ⁶ for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' ⁷ if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? ⁸ and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. ⁹ Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? ¹⁰ for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; ¹¹ and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it—it doth yield. ¹² Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

⁵ and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee,

¹³ As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.

²⁴ Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

¹⁷ Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

¹ And the queen of Sheba is hearing of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, and cometh to try him with enigmas, ² and she cometh to Jerusalem, with a very great company, camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stone, and she cometh unto Solomon, and speaketh unto him all that hath been with her heart. ³ And Solomon declareth to her all her matters—there hath not been a thing hid from the king that he hath not declared to her. ⁴ And the queen of Sheba seeth all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he built, ⁵ and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and their clothing, and his butlers, and his burnt-offering that he causeth to ascend in the house of Jehovah, and there hath not been in her any more spirit. ⁶ And she saith unto the king, `True hath been the word that I heard in my land, concerning thy matters and thy wisdom; ⁷ and I gave no credence to the words till that I have come, and my eyes see, and lo, it was not declared to me—the half; thou hast added wisdom and goodness unto the report that I heard. ⁸ O the happiness of thy men, O the happiness of thy servants—these—who are standing before thee continually, who are hearing thy wisdom! ⁹ Jehovah thy God is blessed who delighted in thee, to put thee on the throne of Israel; in Jehovah's loving Israel to the age He doth set thee for king, to do judgment and righteousness.

²³ And king Solomon is greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom, ²⁴ and all the earth is seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom that God hath put into his heart,

⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

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

³² And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways. ³³ Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not. ³⁴ O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance. ³⁵ For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

¹ For an object of desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

¹⁵ and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man! ¹⁶ And I said, `Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' — ¹⁷ The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools. ¹⁸ Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!

¹¹ And God saith to Solomon, `Because that this hath been with thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, and honour, and the life of those hating thee, and also many days hast not asked, and dost ask for thyself wisdom and knowledge, so that thou dost judge My people over which I have caused thee to reign— ¹² the wisdom and the knowledge is given to thee, and riches and wealth and honour I give to thee, that there hath not been so to the kings who are before thee, and after thee it is not so.'

¹³ Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.
¹⁴ The deep hath said, `It is not in me,' And the sea hath said, `It is not with me.' ¹⁵ Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed—its price. ¹⁶ It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire, ¹⁷ Not equal it do gold and crystal, Nor is its exchange a vessel of fine gold. ¹⁸ Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom is above rubies. ¹⁹ Not equal it doth the topaz of Cush, With pure gold it is not valued.

⁷² Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!

¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart are they.

¹⁶² I do rejoice concerning Thy saying, As one finding abundant spoil.

¹⁰ Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold. ¹¹ For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.

¹⁹ Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.

¹⁶ To get wisdom—how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!

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

⁸ yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
⁹ not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ—the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

¹⁸ Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom is above rubies.

³ Because better is Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee.

²⁵ Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth. ²⁶ Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

¹¹ For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.

¹⁵ Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, are lips of knowledge.

¹⁰ A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies is her price.

⁴⁴ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field. <sup>45</sup> `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls, ⁴⁶ who having found one pearl of great price, having gone away, hath sold all, as much as he had, and bought it.

¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory about to be revealed in us;

¹³ and also, that which thou hast not asked I have given to thee, both riches and honour, that there hath not been like thee a man among the kings all thy days;

⁹ Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

² For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

⁶ Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee. 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. ¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee.

¹⁸ Wealth and honour are with me, Lasting substance and righteousness. ¹⁹ Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver. ²⁰ In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment, ²¹ To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill.

⁴ The end of humility is the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.

³⁰ who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;

²¹ So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours, ²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be—all are yours, ²³ and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

¹⁰ as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb. ¹¹ Also—Thy servant is warned by them, `In keeping them is a great reward.'

¹¹ And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace.

³ Because better is Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee. ⁴ So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands. ⁵ As with milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And with singing lips doth my mouth praise.

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

¹⁴ In the way of Thy testimonies I have joyed, As over all wealth.

⁴⁷ And I delight myself in Thy commands, That I have loved,

¹⁰³ How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.

¹⁷⁴ I have longed for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy law is my delight.

¹⁰ For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

⁷ When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

¹⁸ For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.

³ An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace—peace! For in Thee it is confident.

¹⁹ Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,' to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah.

²⁸ `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, 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, ³⁰ for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.'

⁷⁹ To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'

⁸ As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as are grave, as many as are righteous, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely, as many as are of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon; ⁹ the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.

⁹ and Jehovah God causeth to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

²² And Jehovah God saith, `Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' —

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls is wise.

¹² Hope prolonged is making the heart sick, And a tree of life is the coming desire.

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

⁷ 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 of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.

² in the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this side and on that, is a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits, in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of the tree are for the service of the nations;

²⁴ How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.

⁵ To Him making the heavens by understanding, For to the age is His kindness.

²⁷ In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep, ²⁸ In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep, ²⁹ In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

¹² The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,

¹⁵ The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,

³ all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

⁹ And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

²⁸ and God doth give to thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine;

³⁷ And Isaac answereth and saith to Esau, `Lo, a mighty one have I set him over thee, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants, and with corn and wine have I sustained him; and for thee now, what shall I do, my son?' <sup>38</sup> And Esau saith unto his father, `One blessing hast thou my father? bless me, me also, O my father;' and Esau lifteth up his voice, and weepeth. ³⁹ And Isaac his father answereth and saith unto him, `Lo, of the fatness of the earth is thy dwelling, and of the dew of the heavens from above;

²⁸ And Israel doth tabernacle in confidence alone; The eye of Jacob is unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew.

²⁷ When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour, ²⁸ Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

⁸ And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out. ⁹ In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band, ¹⁰ And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors, ¹¹ And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

²⁶ To cause it to rain on a land—no man, A wilderness—no man in it. ²⁷ To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass? ²⁸ Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

⁹ Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it, ¹⁰ Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest. ¹¹ Thou hast crowned the year of Thy goodness, And Thy paths drop fatness. ¹² Drop do the pastures of a wilderness, And joy of the heights Thou girdest on.

⁸ They go up hills—they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them. ⁹ A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

²² Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou—Thou hast done all these!

²³ And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered—in the beginning.

⁴⁶ and saith unto them, `Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law, ⁴⁷ for it is not a vain thing for you, for it is your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'

⁸ the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

⁷ Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, ² For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee. ³ Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

²¹ Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

⁶ if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned; ⁷ if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

¹ Because of this it behoveth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside, ² for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense, ³ how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving—to be spoken through the Lord—by those having heard was confirmed to us,

²⁴ Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,

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

¹⁶ Lord, by these do men live, And by all in them is the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,

⁴⁹ because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak, ⁵⁰ and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.'

²³ From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth. ²⁴ When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

³¹ The law of his God is his heart, His steps do not slide.

¹¹ For His messengers He chargeth for thee, To keep thee in all thy ways, ¹² On the hands they bear thee up, Lest thou smite against a stone thy foot.

³ He suffereth not thy foot to be moved, Thy preserver slumbereth not.

⁸ Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!

⁸ To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.

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

⁹ Whoso is walking in integrity walketh confidently, And whoso is perverting his ways is known.

¹² And I have made them mighty in Jehovah, And in His name they walk up and down, An affirmation of Jehovah!

⁶ `And I have given peace in the land, and ye have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword doth not pass over into your land.

¹⁹ And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;

⁵ I—I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

⁸ In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!

⁴ Lo, He slumbereth not, nor sleepeth, He who is preserving Israel. ⁵ Jehovah is thy preserver, Jehovah is thy shade on thy right hand, ⁶ By day the sun doth not smite thee, Nor the moon by night. ⁷ Jehovah preserveth thee from all evil, He doth preserve thy soul.

² Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

²² In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked—it talketh with thee.

²⁶ On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.

¹⁵ I feed My flock, and cause them to lie down, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

⁶ and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,

¹³ And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, ¹⁴ for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

²¹ When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh. ²² At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

¹³ If thou—thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands, ¹⁴ If iniquity is in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents. ¹⁵ For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.

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

¹ To the Overseer. —By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' —A song. God is to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely. ² Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas. ³ Roar—troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.

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

⁵ Thou art not afraid of fear by night, Of arrow that flieth by day,

⁷ Of an evil report he is not afraid, Prepared is His heart, confident in Jehovah.

²⁷ When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

¹² `Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful. ¹³ Jehovah of Hosts—Him ye do sanctify, And He is your Fear, and He your Dread,

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness. ¹¹ Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive with thee. ¹² Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee. ¹³ For I, Jehovah thy God, Am strengthening thy right hand, He who is saying to thee, `Fear not, I have helped thee.' ¹⁴ Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁷ Lo, it is; our God whom we are serving, is able to deliver us from a burning fiery furnace; and from thy hand, O king, He doth deliver. ¹⁸ And lo—not! be it known to thee, O king, that thy gods we are not serving, and to the golden image thou hast raised up we do no obeisance.'

²⁴ and lo, a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves, but he was sleeping, ²⁵ and his disciples having come to him, awoke him, saying, `Sir, save us; we are perishing.' <sup>26</sup> And he saith to them, `Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm;

⁶ and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

¹⁵ `Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe)

⁴⁰ and he said to them, `Why are ye so fearful? how have ye not faith?'

⁹ and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end is not immediately.'

¹⁸ and a hair out of your head shall not perish; ¹⁹ in your patience possess ye your souls.
²⁰ `And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation; <sup>21</sup> then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her; <sup>22</sup> because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written. <sup>23</sup> `And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people; ²⁴ and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled. ²⁵ `And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring; <sup>26</sup> men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. <sup>27</sup> `And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory; ²⁸ and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'

¹ `Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

¹⁴ but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy are ye! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,

⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

³ For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence.

⁹ (For Thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge,) The Most High thou madest thy habitation. ¹⁰ Evil happeneth not unto thee, And a plague cometh not near thy tent,

²⁶ In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.

¹⁷ Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls. ¹⁸ Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my salvation.

²⁹ my hand is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father yesternight hath spoken unto me, saying, Take heed to thyself from speaking with Jacob from good unto evil.

¹ Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is—to God.

⁷ render, therefore, to all their dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.

¹⁰ therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
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?

⁴ lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

¹³ `Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

¹² `And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge; <sup>13</sup> thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.
<sup>14</sup> `Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates; ¹⁵ in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he is poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee—sin.

¹ Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

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

¹¹ and now also finish doing it, that even as there is the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,

³ and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,

¹⁸ to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,

²⁰ For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

²⁰ He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant.

³ For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.

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

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

²² Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth are to those devising good,

²⁹ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good. ³⁰ Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

¹⁸ And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words. ¹⁹ Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me. ²⁰ Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

¹ Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is—to God. ² And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

¹⁴ The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

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

⁸ Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush? ⁹ Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

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

³⁹ but I—I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other; ⁴⁰ and whoever is willing to take thee to law, and thy coat to take—suffer to him also the cloak. ⁴¹ `And whoever shall impress thee one mile, go with him two,

¹⁸ If possible—so far as in you—with all men being in peace; ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance is Mine, ²⁰ I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head; ²¹ Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

⁶ but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers! ⁷ Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded? ⁸ but ye—ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these—brethren!

²⁴ and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

¹ By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity,

⁷ Be silent for Jehovah, and stay thyself for Him, Do not fret because of him Who is making prosperous his way, Because of a man doing wicked devices. ⁸ Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil. ⁹ For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land.

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

¹⁵ My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, ¹⁶ For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. ¹⁸ And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

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.

¹² The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth.

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.
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.

¹ Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them.

¹⁹ Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked, ²⁰ For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

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.

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

⁴ As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

²⁶ With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

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

⁶ Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; ⁷ Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler, ⁸ She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food. ⁹ Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest, ¹¹ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
¹² A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth, ¹³ Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers, ¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth. ¹⁵ Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken—and no healing. ¹⁶ These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul. ¹⁷ Eyes high—tongues false—And hands shedding innocent blood— ¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity—Feet hasting to run to evil— ¹⁹ A false witness who doth breathe out lies—And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

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

²⁰ An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.

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

¹⁵ Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.

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.

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,

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;

¹⁵ no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

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 .

¹⁴ `And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands; <sup>15</sup> and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands—to your breaking My covenant— <sup>16</sup> I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it; <sup>17</sup> and I have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing you. <sup>18</sup> `And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, —then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins; ¹⁹ and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass; ²⁰ and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit. ²¹ `And if ye walk with Me in opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins, <sup>22</sup> and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate. <sup>23</sup> `And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, ²⁴ then I have walked—I also—with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins; ²⁵ and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy. ²⁶ `In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied. <sup>27</sup> `And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, ²⁸ then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins. ²⁹ `And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat. <sup>30</sup> And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and My soul hath loathed you; <sup>31</sup> and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances; <sup>32</sup> and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it. <sup>33</sup> And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste. <sup>34</sup> `Then doth the land enjoy its sabbaths—all the days of the desolation, and ye in the land of your enemies—then doth the land rest, and hath enjoyed its sabbaths; ³⁵ all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on it. ³⁶ `And those who are left of you—I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled—flight from a sword—and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing. <sup>37</sup> And they have stumbled one on another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and ye have no standing before your enemies, <sup>38</sup> and ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you. <sup>39</sup> `And those who are left of you—they consume away in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, with them they consume away.
⁴⁰ `And—they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition, <sup>41</sup> also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies—or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, — <sup>42</sup> then I have remembered My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I remember, and the land I remember. <sup>43</sup> `And—the land is left of them, and doth enjoy its sabbaths, in the desolation without them, and they accept the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because, against My judgments they have kicked, and My statutes hath their soul loathed, ⁴⁴ and also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God; — ⁴⁵ then I have remembered for them the covenant of the ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations to become their God; I am Jehovah.' ⁴⁶ These are the statutes, and the judgments, and the laws, which Jehovah hath given between Him and the sons of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

²⁶ and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house—or thou hast been devoted like it; —thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it is devoted.

²⁸ and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

² and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God: ³ `Blessed art thou in the city, and blessed art thou in the field. <sup>4</sup> `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. ⁵ `Blessed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough. <sup>6</sup> `Blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out. ⁷ `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. <sup>8</sup> `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. ⁹ `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; <sup>10</sup> 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. <sup>11</sup> `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. ¹² `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. <sup>13</sup> `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, ¹⁴ 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.
¹⁵ `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: <sup>16</sup> `Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field. ¹⁷ `Cursed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough. <sup>18</sup> `Cursed is the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. ¹⁹ `Cursed art thou in thy coming in, and cursed art thou in thy going out. <sup>20</sup> `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. ²¹ `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. <sup>22</sup> `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 ²³ `And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron; <sup>24</sup> Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land—dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed. <sup>25</sup> `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; ²⁶ 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. ²⁷ `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. <sup>28</sup> `Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; ²⁹ 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. ³⁰ `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; <sup>31</sup> 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. <sup>32</sup> `Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God! ³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days; ³⁴ and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see. ³⁵ `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. <sup>36</sup> `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; ³⁷ and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee. ³⁸ `Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it; <sup>39</sup> vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it; <sup>40</sup> olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off. <sup>41</sup> `Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity; ⁴² all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess; ⁴³ the sojourner who is in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low; ⁴⁴ he doth lend to thee, and thou dost not lend to him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
⁴⁵ `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; <sup>46</sup> and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed—to the age. <sup>47</sup> `Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things— ⁴⁸ 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. ⁴⁹ `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, <sup>50</sup> a nation—fierce of countenance—which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour; <sup>51</sup> 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. <sup>52</sup> `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; ⁵³ 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. ⁵⁴ `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, <sup>55</sup> 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. <sup>56</sup> `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, ⁵⁷ 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. ⁵⁸ `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— <sup>59</sup> then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed—great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast. <sup>60</sup> `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; ⁶¹ 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, ⁶² 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. ⁶³ `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; <sup>64</sup> 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. <sup>65</sup> `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul; ⁶⁶ and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life; ⁶⁷ in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest. ⁶⁸ `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.'

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, <sup>26</sup> 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; <sup>27</sup> and the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this book, <sup>28</sup> 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. <sup>29</sup> `The things hidden are to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed are to us and to our sons—to the age, to do all the words of this law.

¹⁸ and surely ye have kept from the devoted thing, lest ye devote yourselves, and have taken from the devoted thing, and have made the camp of Israel become a devoted thing, and have troubled it;

¹³ `Rise, sanctify the people, and thou hast said, Sanctify yourselves for to-morrow; for thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, A devoted thing is in thy midst, O Israel, thou art not able to stand before thine enemies till your turning aside of the devoted thing out of your midst;

¹¹ and the ark of Jehovah doth inhabit the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months, and Jehovah blesseth Obed-Edom and all his house.

⁶ If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness. ⁷ And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

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

²² For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

¹⁰ Evil happeneth not unto thee, And a plague cometh not near thy tent,

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

³ And he saith unto me, `This is the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent. <sup>4</sup> `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.'

² If ye hearken not, and if ye lay it not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying it to heart.

⁶ For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

⁷ The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it—shame, And a reprover of the wicked—his blemish. ⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

¹² If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned—thyself bearest it .

²⁹ Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!

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

¹⁵ For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

⁶ and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

³⁰ `Therefore—the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel—I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now—the affirmation of Jehovah—Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.

²⁴ With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

¹⁸ His enemies I do clothe with shame, And upon him doth his crown flourish!

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

⁸ The ransom of a man's life are his riches, And the poor hath not heard rebuke.

¹³ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, My servants do eat, and ye do hunger, Lo, My servants do drink, and ye do thirst, Lo, My servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed, ¹⁴ Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl. ¹⁵ And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His servants He giveth another name.

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