Proverbs 31 Cross References - YLT

¹ Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: ² `What, my son? and what, son of my womb? And what, son of my vows? <sup>3</sup> Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings. <sup>4</sup> Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink. <sup>5</sup> Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction. <sup>6</sup> Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul, <sup>7</sup> He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again. <sup>8</sup> Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change. <sup>9</sup> Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'
<sup>10</sup> A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies is her price. <sup>11</sup> The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not. <sup>12</sup> She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life. <sup>13</sup> She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands. <sup>14</sup> She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread. <sup>15</sup> Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels. <sup>16</sup> She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. <sup>17</sup> She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms. <sup>18</sup> She hath perceived when her merchandise is good, Her lamp is not extinguished in the night. <sup>19</sup> Her hands she hath sent forth on a spindle, And her hands have held a distaff. <sup>20</sup> Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy. <sup>21</sup> She is not afraid of her household from snow, For all her household are clothed with scarlet. <sup>22</sup> Ornamental coverings she hath made for herself, Silk and purple are her clothing. <sup>23</sup> Known in the gates is her husband, In his sitting with elders of the land. <sup>24</sup> Linen garments she hath made, and selleth, And a girdle she hath given to the merchant. <sup>25</sup> Strength and honour are her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day. <sup>26</sup> Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness is on her tongue. <sup>27</sup> She is watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not. <sup>28</sup> Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her, <sup>29</sup> `Many are the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.' ³⁰ The grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself. ³¹ Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

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

²⁰ Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

¹ Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: —I have wearied myself for God, I have wearied myself for God, and am consumed.

⁵ taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

¹¹ and voweth a vow, and saith, `Jehovah of Hosts, if Thou dost certainly look on the affliction of Thy handmaid, and hast remembered me, and dost not forget Thy handmaid, and hast given to Thy handmaid seed of men—then I have given him to Jehovah all days of his life, and a razor doth not go up upon his head.'

²⁸ and also I have caused him to be asked for Jehovah, all the days that he hath lived—he is asked for Jehovah;' and he boweth himself there before Jehovah.

¹⁵ Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one—the son of her womb? Yea, these forget—but I—I forget not thee.

¹⁷ And he doth not multiply to himself wives, and his heart doth not turn aside, and silver and gold he doth not multiply to himself—exceedingly.

¹ And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, and of the Hittites,

²⁶ `By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel—even him did the strange women cause to sin.

⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

²⁶ For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones. ²⁷ The ways of Sheol—her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

¹¹ Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

⁹ `Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not—a statute age-during to your generations; ¹⁰ so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;

¹² And it cometh to pass at the hearing of this word—and he is drinking, he and the kings, in the booths—that he saith unto his servants, `Set yourselves;' and they set themselves against the city.

¹⁶ and they go out at noon, and Ben-Hadad is drinking—drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings, helping him. ¹⁷ And the young men of the heads of the provinces go out at the first, and Ben-Hadad sendeth, and they declare to him, saying, `Men have come out of Samaria.' <sup>18</sup> And he saith, `If for peace they have come out—catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out—alive catch them.' ¹⁹ And these have gone out of the city—the young men of the heads of the provinces—and the force that is after them, ²⁰ and smite each his man, and Aram fleeth, and Israel pursueth them, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram escapeth on a horse, and the horsemen;

¹⁵ The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.

¹ Wine is a scorner—strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

¹⁷ Happy art thou, O land, When thy king is a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.

²² Woe to the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

⁷ And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially. ⁸ For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth—without place!

² Belshazzar hath said—while tasting the wine—to bring in the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple that is in Jerusalem, that drink with them may the king, and his great men, his wives, and his concubines. ³ Then they have brought in the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple of the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and drunk with them have the king and his great men, his wives and his concubines; ⁴ they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

¹¹ Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,
¹² My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

³ With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies—princes. ⁴ All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening. ⁵ A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves with the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.

⁵ And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

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

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

⁶ and David hath great distress, for the people have said to stone him, for the soul of all the people hath been bitter, each for his sons and for his daughters; and David doth strengthen himself in Jehovah his God.

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

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

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

¹⁵ And wine—it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread—the heart of man it supporteth.

²³ no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

¹⁸ and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

⁴ And Jonathan speaketh good of David unto Saul his father, and saith unto him, `Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works for thee are very good; <sup>5</sup> yea, he putteth his life in his hand, and smiteth the Philistine, and Jehovah worketh a great salvation for all Israel; thou hast seen, and dost rejoice, and why dost thou sin against innocent blood, to put David to death for nought?' <sup>6</sup> And Saul hearkeneth to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul sweareth, `Jehovah liveth—he doth not die.' ⁷ And Jonathan calleth for David, and Jonathan declareth to him all these words, and Jonathan bringeth in David unto Saul, and he is before him as heretofore.

³² And Jonathan answereth Saul his father, and saith unto him, `Why is he put to death? what hath he done?'

¹⁴ And Ahimelech answereth the king and saith, `And who among all thy servants is as David—faithful, and son-in-law of the king, and hath turned aside unto thy council, and is honoured in thy house? ¹⁵ To-day have I begun to ask for him at God? far be it from me! let not the king lay anything against his servant, against any of the house of my father, for thy servant hath known nothing of all this, less or more.'

¹³ and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: `Do not think in thy soul to be delivered in the house of the king, more than all the Jews, <sup>14</sup> but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?' <sup>15</sup> And Esther speaketh to send back unto Mordecai: <sup>16</sup> `Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, by night and by day; also I and my young women do fast likewise, and so I go in unto the king, that is not according to law, and when I have perished—I have perished.'

⁹ Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

¹² For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper. ¹³ The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing. ¹⁴ Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice. ¹⁵ Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I. ¹⁶ A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out. ¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

¹¹ Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before Thee, According to the greatness of Thine arm, Leave Thou the sons of death.

³ Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. ⁴ Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

⁷ Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.

¹¹ If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter—thou keepest back. ¹² When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.

¹⁶ And the heads and all the people say unto the priests and unto the prophets, `There is not for this man a judgment of death, for in the name of Jehovah our God he hath spoken unto us.' <sup>17</sup> And certain of the elders of the land rise up, and speak unto all the assembly of the people, saying, <sup>18</sup> `Micah the Morashtite hath been prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he saith unto all the people of Judah, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Zion is a plowed field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mountain of the house is for high places of a forest. ¹⁹ `Put him at all to death did Hezekiah king of Judah, and all Judah? Did he not fear Jehovah? yea, he appeaseth the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah repenteth concerning the evil that He spake against them; and we are doing great evil against our souls.

²⁴ Only, the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan hath been with Jeremiah so as not to give him up into the hand of the people to put him to death.

⁷ And Ebed-Melech the Cushite, a eunuch who is in the king's house, heareth that they have put Jeremiah into the pit; and the king is sitting at the gate of Benjamin, ⁸ and Ebed-Melech goeth forth from the king's house, and speaketh unto the king, saying, ⁹ `My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit, and he dieth in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.' <sup>10</sup> And the king commandeth Ebed-Melech the Cushite, saying, `Take with thee from this thirty men, and thou hast brought up Jeremiah the prophet from the pit, before he dieth.'

⁵¹ `Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'

¹⁵ `Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

¹⁶ And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren—then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;

¹⁸ `Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people—a righteous judgment. ¹⁹ Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ²⁰ Righteousness—righteousness thou dost pursue, so that thou livest, and hast possessed the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

¹⁵ And David reigneth over all Israel, and David is doing judgment and righteousness to all his people,

¹² For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

¹⁵ Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I. ¹⁶ A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

¹ To the Overseer. —`Destroy not.' —A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men? ² Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

¹ By Solomon. O God, Thy judgments to the king give, And Thy righteousness to the king's son.
² He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment.

¹² An abomination to kings is doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.

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

¹⁷ Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

²³ Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

⁴ And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.

¹ Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule. ² And each hath been as a hiding-place from wind, And as a secret hiding-place from inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.

²⁸ They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless—and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

³ Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

¹⁵ Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father—did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then it is well with him. ¹⁶ He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then it is well—is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵ Lo, days are coming—an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth.

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

¹¹ Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine. ¹² For I have known—many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

⁹ `Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

⁹ Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous—and saved is He, Afflicted—and riding on an ass, And on a colt—a son of she-asses.

²⁴ judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'

⁹ thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee—God, thy God—with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

¹¹ And I saw the heaven having been opened, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness doth he judge and war,

¹¹ And now, my daughter, fear not, all that thou sayest I do to thee, for all the gate of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.

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

¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

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

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

²² Whoso hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

¹⁴ House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah is an understanding wife.

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

²⁸ (that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

⁸ Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number. ⁹ One is my dove, my perfect one, One she is of her mother, The choice one she is of her that bare her, Daughters saw, and pronounce her happy, Queens and concubines, and they praise her.

²⁵ The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying, ²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; ²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—himself he doth love; ²⁹ for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord—the assembly, ³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; ³¹ `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be—the two—for one flesh;' ³² this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; ³³ but ye also, every one in particular—let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife—that she may reverence the husband.

⁹ and she saith unto her husband, `Lo, I pray thee, I have known that a holy man of God he is, passing over by us continually; ¹⁰ let us make, I pray thee, a little upper chamber of the wall, and we set for him there a bed, and a table, and a high seat, and a candlestick; and it hath been, in his coming in unto us, he doth turn aside thither.'

²² and calleth unto her husband, and saith, `Send, I pray thee, to me, one of the young men, and one of the asses, and I run unto the man of God, and return.' <sup>23</sup> And he saith, `Wherefore art thou going unto him to-day? —neither new moon nor sabbath!' and she saith, `Peace to thee!'

¹ In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, ² having beheld your pure behaviour in fear, ³ whose adorning—let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, ⁴ but—the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price, ⁵ for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands, ⁶ as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror. ⁷ The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel—to the wife—imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

¹⁸ And Abigail hasteth, and taketh two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep, prepared, and five measures of roasted corn, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred bunches of figs, and setteth them on the asses. ¹⁹ And she saith to her young men, `Pass over before me; lo, after you I am coming;' and to her husband Nabal she hath not declared it; <sup>20</sup> and it hath come to pass, she is riding on the ass and is coming down in the secret part of the hill-country, and lo, David and his men are coming down to meet her, and she meeteth them. <sup>21</sup> And David said, `Only, in vain I have kept all that this one hath in the wilderness, and nothing hath been looked after of all that he hath, and he turneth back to me evil for good; ²² thus doth God do to the enemies of David, and thus He doth add, if I leave of all that he hath till the light of the morning—of those sitting on the wall.'

²⁶ and now, my lord, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, in that Jehovah hath withheld thee from coming in with blood, and to save thy hand to thee—now let thine enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord. ²⁷ `And, now, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord—it hath been given to the young men who are going up and down at the feet of my lord.

⁶ And Abraham hasteth towards the tent, unto Sarah, and saith, `Hasten three measures of flour-meal, knead, and make cakes;' ⁷ and Abraham ran unto the herd, and taketh a son of the herd, tender and good, and giveth unto the young man, and he hasteth to prepare it; ⁸ and he taketh butter and milk, and the son of the herd which he hath prepared, and setteth before them; and he is standing by them under the tree, and they do eat.

¹³ lo, I am standing by the fountain of water, and daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water; ¹⁴ and it hath been, the young person unto whom I say, Incline, I pray thee, thy pitcher, and I drink, and she hath said, Drink, and I water also thy camels) —her Thou hast decided for Thy servant, for Isaac; and by it I know that Thou hast done kindness with my lord.'

¹⁸ and she saith, `Drink, my lord;' and she hasteth, and letteth down her pitcher upon her hand, and giveth him drink. <sup>19</sup> And she finisheth giving him drink, and saith, `Also for thy camels I draw till they have finished drinking;' ²⁰ and she hasteth, and emptieth her pitcher into the drinking-trough, and runneth again unto the well to draw, and draweth for all his camels.

⁹ He is yet speaking with them, and Rachel hath come with the flock which her father hath, for she is shepherdess; ¹⁰ and it cometh to pass when Jacob hath seen Rachel, daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the flock of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob cometh nigh and rolleth the stone from off the mouth of the well, and watereth the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

¹⁶ And to a priest of Midian are seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs, to water the flock of their father,

² And Ruth the Moabitess saith unto Naomi, `Let me go, I pray thee, into the field, and I gather among the ears of corn after him in whose eyes I find grace;' and she saith to her, `Go, my daughter.' ³ And she goeth and cometh and gathereth in a field after the reapers, and her chance happeneth—the portion of the field is Boaz's who is of the family of Elimelech.

²³ And she cleaveth to the young women of Boaz to glean, till the completion of the barley-harvest, and of the wheat-harvest, and she dwelleth with her mother-in-law.

¹⁶ `Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving with the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling, ¹⁷ The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth. ¹⁸ In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons, ¹⁹ Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, ²⁰ Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets, ²¹ Of the seals, and of the nose-rings, ²² Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses, ²³ Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails, ²⁴ And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.

⁹ Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear to my saying, ¹⁰ Days and a year ye are troubled, O confident ones, For consumed hath been harvest, The gathering cometh not. ¹¹ Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,

³⁹ And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them. ⁴⁰ And Peter having put them all forth without, having bowed the knees, did pray, and having turned unto the body said, `Tabitha, arise;' and she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up,

¹¹ and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

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

¹⁰ in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

¹⁴ I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

⁵ sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

²⁶ And a navy hath king Solomon made in Ezion-Geber, that is beside Eloth, on the edge of the Sea of Suph, in the land of Edom. ²⁷ And Hiram sendeth in the navy his servants, shipmen knowing the sea, with servants of Solomon, ²⁸ and they come in to Ophir and take thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and bring it in unto king Solomon.

¹⁰ And also, servants of Huram, and servants of Solomon, who brought in gold from Ophir, have brought in algum-trees and precious stone.

²⁴ Linen garments she hath made, and selleth, And a girdle she hath given to the merchant.

³ O dweller on the entrances of the sea, Merchant of the peoples unto many isles, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, thou—thou hast said: I am the perfection of beauty. ⁴ In the heart of the seas are thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty. ⁵ Of firs of Senir they have built to thee all thy double-boarded ships, Of cedars of Lebanon they have taken to make a mast for thee, ⁶ Of oaks of Bashan they made thine oars, Thy bench they have made of ivory, A branch of Ashurim from isles of Chittim. ⁷ Of fine linen with embroidery from Egypt hath been thy sail, To be to thee for an ensign, Of blue and purple from isles of Elishah hath been thy covering. ⁸ Inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad have been rowers to thee, Thy wise men, O Tyre, have been in thee, They are thy pilots. ⁹ Elders of Gebal and its wise men have been in thee, Strengthening thy breach; All ships of the sea and their mariners, Have been in thee, to trade with thy merchandise. ¹⁰ Persian and Lud and Phut Have been in thy forces—thy men of war. Shield and helmet they hung up in thee, They—they have given out thine honour. ¹¹ The sons of Arvad, and thy force, Are on thy walls round about, And short swordsmen in thy towers have been, Their shields they have hung up on thy walls round about, They—they have perfected thy beauty. ¹² Tarshish is thy merchant, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For silver, iron, tin, and lead, They have given out thy remnants. ¹³ Javan, Tubal, and Meshech—they are thy merchants, For persons of men, and vessels of brass, They have given out thy merchandise. ¹⁴ They of the house of Togarmah, For horses, and riding steeds, and mules, They have given out thy remnants. ¹⁵ Sons of Dedan are thy merchants, Many isles are the mart of thy hand, Horns of ivory and ebony they sent back thy reward. ¹⁶ Aram is thy merchant, Because of the abundance of thy works, For emerald, purple, and embroidery, And fine linen, and coral, and agate, They have given out thy remnants. ¹⁷ Judah and the land of Israel—they are thy merchants, For wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, And honey, and oil, and balm, They have given out thy merchandise. ¹⁸ Damascus is thy merchant, For the abundance of thy works, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For wine of Helbon, and white wool. ¹⁹ Vedan and Javan go about with thy remnants, They have given shining iron, cassia, and cane, In thy merchandise it hath been. ²⁰ Dedan is thy merchant, For clothes of freedom for riding. ²¹ Arabia, and all princes of Kedar, They are the traders of thy hand, For lambs, and rams, and he-goats, In these thy merchants. ²² Merchants of Sheba and Raamah—they are thy merchants, For the chief of all spices, And for every precious stone, and gold, They have given out thy remnants. ²³ Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, merchants of Sheba, Asshur—Chilmad—are thy merchants, ²⁴ They are thy merchants for perfect things, For wrappings of blue, and embroidery, And for treasuries of rich apparel, With cords bound and girded, for thy merchandise, ²⁵ Ships of Tarshish are thy double walls of thy merchandise, And thou art filled and honoured greatly, In the heart of the seas.
²⁶ Into great waters have they brought thee, Those rowing thee, The east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas. ²⁷ Thy wealth and thy remnants, Thy merchandise, thy mariners, And thy pilots, strengtheners of thy breach, And the traders of thy merchandise, And all thy men of war, who are in thee, And in all thine assembly that is in thy midst, Fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall, ²⁸ At the voice of the cry of thy pilots shake do the suburbs. ²⁹ And come down from their ships have all handling an oar, Mariners, all the pilots of the sea, on the land they stand, ³⁰ And have sounded for thee with their voice, And cry bitterly, and cause dust to go up on their heads, In ashes they do roll themselves. ³¹ And they have made for thee baldness, And they have girded on sackcloth, And they have wept for thee, In bitterness of soul—a bitter mourning. ³² And lifted up for thee have their sons a lamentation, And they have lamented over thee, who is as Tyre? As the cut-off one in the midst of the sea? ³³ With the outgoing of thy remnants from the seas, Thou hast filled many peoples, With the abundance of thy riches, and thy merchandise, Thou hast made rich things of earth. ³⁴ The time of thy being broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, Thy merchandise and all thy assembly in thy midst have fallen. ³⁵ All inhabitants of the isles have been astonished at thee, And their kings have been sore afraid, They have been troubled in countenance. ³⁶ Merchants among the peoples have shrieked for thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not—to the age!'

¹ And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and they journey from Shittim, and come in unto the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they lodge there before they pass over.

¹⁵ And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers—rising early and sending—for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation,

¹⁴⁷ I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped. ¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.

¹³ Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes—be satisfied with bread.

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.

²⁵ Lo, I did tell you beforehand.

³⁵ And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

⁴² And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?

¹¹ in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

¹⁸ And it cometh to pass, in her coming in, that she persuadeth him to ask from her father a field, and she lighteth from off the ass, and Caleb saith to her, `What—to thee?'

¹² My vineyard—my own—is before me, The thousand is for thee, O Solomon. And the two hundred for those keeping its fruit. O dweller in gardens!

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.

²⁴ And his bow abideth in strength, And strengthened are the arms of his hands By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, Whence is a shepherd, a son of Israel.

⁴⁶ and the hand of Jehovah hath been on Elijah, and he girdeth up his loins, and runneth before Ahab, till thine entering Jezreel.

²⁹ And he saith to Gehazi, `Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go; when thou dost meet a man, thou dost not salute him; and when a man doth salute thee, thou dost not answer him; and thou hast laid my staff on the face of the youth.'

³ Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

¹² He hath wrought iron with an axe, And hath wrought with coals, And with hammers doth form it, And doth work it by his powerful arm, Yea, he is hungry, and there is no power, He doth not drink water, and he is wearied.

¹⁵ And I instructed—I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!

³⁵ `Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

¹⁰ As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

¹³ Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

⁴⁰ I have been thus : in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

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

³ they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil; ⁴ and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps. ⁵ `And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping, <sup>6</sup> and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him. <sup>7</sup> `Then rose all those virgins, and trimmed their lamps, ⁸ and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out; ⁹ and the prudent answered, saying—Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ `And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut;

⁹ for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

⁷ for yourselves have known how it behoveth you to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you; ⁸ nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you; ⁹ not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

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 .

¹¹ because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

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

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

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

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

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.

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;

³⁹ And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them. ⁴⁰ And Peter having put them all forth without, having bowed the knees, did pray, and having turned unto the body said, `Tabitha, arise;' and she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up, ⁴¹ and having given her his hand, he lifted her up, and having called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive,

³⁴ and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands; ³⁵ all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

²¹ and unto Israel He saith, `All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'

¹³ to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

²⁸ whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

¹⁶ and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

²² to all of them hath he given—to each changes of garments, and to Benjamin he hath given three hundred silverlings, and five changes of garments;

²⁴ Daughters of Israel! for Saul weep ye, Who is clothing you in scarlet with delights. Who is lifting up ornaments of gold on your clothing.

²⁰ Whoso is taking away a garment in a cold day, Is as vinegar on nitre, And a singer of songs on a sad heart.

⁴² And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him with garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,

²⁶ and the weight of the rings of gold which he asked is a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, apart from the round ornaments, and the drops, and the purple garments, which are on the kings of Midian, and apart from the chains which are on the necks of their camels,

¹ And it cometh to pass on the third day, that Esther putteth on royalty, and standeth in the inner-court of the house of the king over-against the house of the king, and the king is sitting on his royal throne, in the royal-house, over-against the opening of the house,

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

¹³ All glory is the daughter of the king within, Of gold-embroidered work is her clothing. ¹⁴ In divers colours she is brought to the king, Virgins—after her—her companions, Are brought to thee.

¹⁶ With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works—cotton of Egypt.

¹⁰ And I clothe thee with embroidery, And I shoe thee with badger's skin, And I gird thee with fine linen, And I cover thee with figured silk. ¹¹ And I adorn thee with adornments, And I give bracelets for thy hands, And a chain for thy neck. ¹² And I give a ring for thy nose, And rings for thine ears, And a crown of beauty on thy head. ¹³ And thou dost put on gold and silver, And thy clothing is fine linen, And figured silk and embroidery, Fine flour, and honey, and oil thou hast eaten, And thou art very very beautiful, And dost go prosperously to the kingdom.

³ whose adorning—let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

⁸ and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.'

¹⁴ And the armies in the heaven were following him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen—white and pure;

¹⁸ `Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people—a righteous judgment.

¹⁹ then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place,

¹ And Boaz hath gone up to the gate, and sitteth there, and lo, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he saith, `Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one;' and he turneth aside and sitteth down.

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

⁷ When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

¹² And Samson saith to them, `Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me in the seven days of the banquet, and have found it out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;

²⁸ And the outgoing of the horses that king Solomon hath is from Egypt, and from Keveh; merchants of the king take from Keveh at a price;

¹³ She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands.

¹⁹ Her hands she hath sent forth on a spindle, And her hands have held a distaff.

¹⁶ Aram is thy merchant, Because of the abundance of thy works, For emerald, purple, and embroidery, And fine linen, and coral, and agate, They have given out thy remnants.

¹⁹ `And—a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

¹⁴ Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.

¹⁰ Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.

¹¹ Light is sown for the righteous, And for the upright of heart—joy. ¹² Rejoice, ye righteous, in Jehovah, And give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness!

⁹ Thy priests do put on righteousness, And Thy pious ones cry aloud.

¹⁶ And her priests I clothe with salvation, And her pious ones do sing aloud.

¹⁰ I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

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.

²⁰ and he who did receive the five talents having come, brought other five talents, saying, `Sir, five talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other five talents did I gain besides them. <sup>21</sup> `And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

¹⁴ but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought—for desires.

²⁴ and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

¹⁰ but—which becometh women professing godly piety—through good works.

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; ⁶ be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

²³ And his wife saith to him, `If Jehovah were desirous to put us to death, He had not received from our hands burnt-offering and present, nor shewed us all these things, nor as at this time caused us to hear anything like this.'

²⁴ and falleth at his feet and saith, `On me, my lord, the iniquity; and let, I pray thee, thy handmaid speak in thine ear, and hear the words of thy handmaid. <sup>25</sup> `Let not, I pray thee, my lord set his heart to this man of worthlessness, on Nabal, for as his name is so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I, thine handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom thou didst send; ²⁶ and now, my lord, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, in that Jehovah hath withheld thee from coming in with blood, and to save thy hand to thee—now let thine enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord. ²⁷ `And, now, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord—it hath been given to the young men who are going up and down at the feet of my lord. <sup>28</sup> `Bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy handmaid, for Jehovah doth certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Jehovah hath my lord fought, and evil is not found in thee all thy days. ²⁹ And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling. ³⁰ `And it hath been, when Jehovah doth to my lord according to all the good which He hath spoken concerning thee, and appointed thee for leader over Israel, ³¹ that this is not to thee for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord—either to shed blood for nought, or my lord's restraining himself; and Jehovah hath done good to my lord, and thou hast remembered thy handmaid.'

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

¹⁵ And she saith unto them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Say to the man who hath sent you unto me: <sup>16</sup> Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am bringing in evil unto this place and on its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah hath read, <sup>17</sup> because that they have forsaken Me, and make perfume to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger with every work of their hands, and My wrath hath been kindled against this place, and it is not quenched. <sup>18</sup> `And unto the king of Judah, who is sending you to seek Jehovah, thus do ye say unto him, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, The words that thou hast heard— ¹⁹ because thy heart is tender, and thou art humbled because of Jehovah, in thy hearing that which I have spoken against this place, and against its inhabitants, to be for a desolation, and for a reviling, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me—I also have heard—the affirmation of Jehovah— ²⁰ therefore, lo, I am gathering thee unto thy fathers, and thou hast been gathered unto thy grave in peace, and thine eyes do not look on any of the evil that I am bringing in on this place;' and they bring the king back word.

⁴ And young women of Esther come in and her eunuchs, and declare it to her, and the queen is exceedingly pained, and sendeth garments to clothe Mordecai, and to turn aside his sackcloth from off him, and he hath not received them .

⁸ if I have found grace in the eyes of the king, and if unto the king it be good, to give my petition, and to perform my request, the king doth come, and Haman, unto the banquet that I make for them, and to-morrow I do according to the word of the king.'

³ And Esther the queen answereth and saith, `If I have found grace in thine eyes, O king, and if to the king it be good, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request; <sup>4</sup> for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent—but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.' <sup>5</sup> And the king Ahasuerus saith, yea, he saith to Esther the queen, `Who is he—this one? and where is this one? —he whose heart hath filled him to do so?' ⁶ And Esther saith, `The man—adversary and enemy—is this wicked Haman;' and Haman hath been afraid at the presence of the king and of the queen.

³ And Esther addeth, and speaketh before the king, and falleth before his feet, and weepeth, and maketh supplication to him, to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his device that he had devised against the Jews; ⁴ and the king holdeth out to Esther the golden sceptre, and Esther riseth, and standeth before the king, ⁵ and saith, `If to the king it be good, and if I have found grace before him, and the thing hath been right before the king, and I be good in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the letters—a device of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite—that he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all provinces of the king, ⁶ for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?'

³¹ The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.

¹⁸ A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

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

¹⁵ By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

¹⁴ My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice is sweet, and thy appearance comely.

¹¹ Thy lips drop honey, O spouse, Honey and milk are under thy tongue, And the fragrance of thy garments Is as the fragrance of Lebanon.

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.

³⁸ And Mary said, `Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,' and the messenger went away from her.

⁴² and spake out with a loud voice, and said, `Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb; <sup>43</sup> and whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord might come unto me? <sup>44</sup> for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb; <sup>45</sup> and happy is she who did believe, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.' <sup>46</sup> And Mary said, `My soul doth magnify the Lord, ⁴⁷ And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour, ⁴⁸ Because He looked on the lowliness of His maid-servant, For, lo, henceforth call me happy shall all the generations, ⁴⁹ For He who is mighty did to me great things, And holy is His name, ⁵⁰ And His kindness is to generations of generations, To those fearing Him, ⁵¹ He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart, ⁵² He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly, ⁵³ The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty, ⁵⁴ He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness, ⁵⁵ As He spake unto our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed—to the age.' ⁵⁶ And Mary remained with her about three months, and turned back to her house.

¹⁵ and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.

²⁶ this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to them, and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,

²⁹ Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

⁵ in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;

¹ In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

⁴ but—the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price, ⁵ for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

⁸ And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous, ⁹ not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

¹ Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

⁶ And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

⁴ that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

¹⁹ And Bath-Sheba cometh in unto king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, and the king riseth to meet her, and boweth himself to her, and sitteth on his throne, and placeth a throne for the mother of the king, and she sitteth at his right hand.

¹⁶ Cause it to come, O Jehovah, for I am Thy servant. I am Thy servant, son of Thy handmaid, Thou hast opened my bonds.

¹ Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him:

¹ As the chorus of `Mahanaim.' How beautiful were thy feet with sandals, O daughter of Nadib. The turnings of thy sides are as ornaments, Work of the hands of an artificer. <sup>2</sup> Thy waist is a basin of roundness, It lacketh not the mixture, Thy body a heap of wheat, fenced with lilies, <sup>3</sup> Thy two breasts as two young ones, twins of a roe, <sup>4</sup> Thy neck as a tower of the ivory, Thine eyes pools in Heshbon, near the gate of Bath-Rabbim, Thy face as a tower of Lebanon looking to Damascus, <sup>5</sup> Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings! <sup>6</sup> How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights. <sup>7</sup> This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters. <sup>8</sup> I said, `Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons, ⁹ And thy palate as the good wine—'Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!

⁴ It is not said of thee any more, `Forsaken!' And of thy land it is not said any more, `Desolate,' For to thee is cried, `My delight is in her,' And to thy land, `Married,' For Jehovah hath delighted in thee, And thy land is married. ⁵ For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.

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

²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

¹⁷ And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt hath spoken unto them, and keep the lads alive; ¹⁸ and the king of Egypt calleth for the midwives, and saith to them, `Wherefore have ye done this thing, and keep the lads alive?' <sup>19</sup> And the midwives say unto Pharaoh, `Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are lively; before the midwife cometh in unto them—they have borne!' ²⁰ And God doth good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty; ²¹ and it cometh to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He maketh for them households;

²⁵ And like Absalom there was no man so fair in all Israel, to praise greatly; from the sole of his foot even unto his crown there was no blemish in him;

¹¹ to bring in Vashti the queen before the king, with a royal crown, to shew the peoples and the heads her beauty, for she is of good appearance, ¹² and the queen Vashti refuseth to come in at the word of the king that is by the hand of the eunuchs, and the king is very wroth, and his fury hath burned in him.

¹¹ Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.

⁷ Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

²⁵ Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

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

²² A ring of gold in the nose of a sow—A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

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

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

¹⁵ And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by—to him it is.

⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

⁴⁶ And Mary said, `My soul doth magnify the Lord, ⁴⁷ And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour, ⁴⁸ Because He looked on the lowliness of His maid-servant, For, lo, henceforth call me happy shall all the generations, ⁴⁹ For He who is mighty did to me great things, And holy is His name, ⁵⁰ And His kindness is to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,

²⁹ but a Jew is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

⁵ so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

¹¹ for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

⁷ that the proof of your faith—much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved—may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

²⁴ because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

² The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee.

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

¹⁶ She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.

¹⁶ From their fruits ye shall know them; do men gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?

²⁰ therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.

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. ⁹ Verily I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what also this woman did shall be spoken of—for a memorial of her.'

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

²¹ what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death. ²² And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

¹ And I commend you to Phebe our sister—being a ministrant of the assembly that is in Cenchrea— ² that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you—for she also became a leader of many, and of myself. ³ Salute Priscilla and Aquilas, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus— ⁴ who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations—

⁶ Salute Mary, who did labour much for us;

¹² salute Tryphaena, and Tryphosa, who are labouring in the Lord; salute Persis, the beloved, who did labour much in the Lord.

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

²⁵ in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.

¹⁰ for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

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