Proverbs Cross References - ACV

¹ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, ² to know wisdom and instruction, to discern the words of understanding, ³ to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness and justice and equity, ⁴ to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion, ⁵ that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels, ⁶ to understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. ⁷ The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction. ⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. ⁹ For they shall be a garland of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck. ¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. ¹¹ If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. ¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit. ¹³ We shall find all precious substance. We shall fill our houses with spoil. ¹⁴ Thou shall cast thy lot among us. We will all have one bag. ¹⁵ My son, walk not thou in the way with them. Restrain thy foot from their path. ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird, ¹⁸ and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it. ²⁰ Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places. ²¹ She cries in the chief place of concourse, at the entrance of the gates, in the city. She utters her words: ²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will make my words known to you. ²⁴ Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded, ²⁵ but ye have made all my counsel void, and want none of my reproof, ²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes, ²⁷ when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. ²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me, ²⁹ because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD. ³⁰ They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. ³¹ Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. ³² For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. ³³ But he who hearkens to me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.

²⁴ And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. And she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And LORD loved him, ²⁵ and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet. And he called his name Jedidiah, for LORD's sake.

¹² And Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was established greatly.

³¹ For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame was in all the nations round about. ³² And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five.

⁹ Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest. And I will give him rest from all his enemies round about, for his name shall be Solomon. And I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.

⁵ And of all my sons (for LORD has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of LORD over Israel.

²⁸ And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

¹ These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

¹ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

⁹ And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

²⁵ These things I have spoken to you in veiled words. The hour comes, when I will no more speak to you in veiled words, but will inform you plainly about the Father.

⁵ Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land where ye go in to possess it. ⁶ Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

⁹ Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to judge this thy great people? ¹⁰ And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. ¹¹ And God said to him, Because thou have asked this thing, and have not asked for thyself long life, neither have asked riches for thyself, nor have asked the life of thine enemies, but have asked for thyself understanding to discern justice, ¹² behold, I have done according to thy word. Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like thee.

⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding. Do not forget, nor decline from the words of my mouth. ⁶ Do not forsake her, and she will preserve thee. Love her, and she will keep thee. ⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

⁴ Say to wisdom, Thou are my sister, and call understanding thy kinswoman,

⁵ O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

¹⁶ How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.

¹⁶ Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

¹⁵ And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged. And they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

²² Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

¹ My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee, ² so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding, ³ yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding, ⁴ if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures, ⁵ then thou shall understand the fear of LORD, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding. ⁷ He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity, ⁸ that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his sanctified. ⁹ Then thou shall understand righteousness and justice and equity, yea, every good path.

¹⁰ Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold. ¹¹ For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

⁷ The law of LORD is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of LORD is sure, making a simple man wise.

¹¹ Come, ye children, hearken to me. I will teach you the fear of LORD.

⁹ With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to thy word.

¹³⁰ The opening of thy words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will make my words known to you.

¹⁰ For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul, ¹¹ discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee,

²¹ My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

⁷ and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding ⁸ passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house, ⁹ in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. ¹⁰ And, behold, there met him a woman attired like a harlot, and wily of heart. ¹¹ She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house. ¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lies in wait at every corner. ¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him, ¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. I have paid my vows this day. ¹⁵ Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. ¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love. ¹⁹ For the man is not at home. He has gone a long journey. ²⁰ He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon. ²¹ With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along. ²² He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, ²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life. ²⁴ Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

¹² I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling, and find out knowledge and discretion.

¹⁷ I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.

³² Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways.

⁴ He who is simple, let him turn in here. As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, ⁵ Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. ⁶ Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

⁸ And a highway shall be there, and a way. And it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed, the wayfaring men. Yea fools shall not err in it.

²² And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

⁶ Likewise exhort the younger men to be sober-minded.

³² And David said to Abigail, Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, ³³ and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, who have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Have we made thee of the king's counsel? Cease. Why should thou be smitten? Then the prophet ceased, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee, because thou have done this, and have not hearkened to my counsel.

¹⁰ Therefore hearken to me, ye men of understanding. Far be it from me to sin before the Lord, and pervert righteousness before the Almighty.

¹⁶ If now thou be understanding, hear this. Hearken to the voice of words.

³⁴ Men of understanding will say to me, yes, every wise man who hears me,

⁹⁸ Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the aged because I have kept thy precepts.

⁹ Give opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

¹ He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.

¹⁵ I speak as to wise men, judge ye what I say.

⁸ With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches, and he has beheld the form of LORD. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

⁴ I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

² I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter dark sayings of old,

¹¹ The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. They have been given from one shepherd.

¹⁰ And the disciples having come, they said to him, Why do thou speak to them in parables? ¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever has not, even what he has will be taken away from him. ¹³ Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, nor do they understand. ¹⁴ And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing ye will hear, and will, no, not understand, and seeing ye will see, and will, no, not perceive. ¹⁵ For this people's heart became fat, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are shut, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I will heal them. ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. ¹⁷ For truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men longed to see the things that ye see, and did not see them, and to hear the things that ye hear, and did not hear them.

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes, and he did not speak to them independent of a parable, ³⁵ so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things concealed from the foundation of the world.

⁵¹ Jesus says to them, Have ye understood all these things? They say to him, Yes, Lord. ⁵² And he said to them, Because of this every scholar who has been instructed in the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a house-ruler, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

¹¹ And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those outside, all things occur in parables.

³⁴ And he did not speak to them apart from a parable, but privately he explained all things to his disciples.

³⁰ And after running near, Philip heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. And he said, Do thou also really understand the things that thou read? ³¹ And he said, For how can I unless some man may guide me? And he encouraged Philip, after coming up, to sit with him.

¹⁴ But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

¹⁶ as also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

²⁸ And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

¹⁰ The fear of LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and all who act accordingly have a good understanding. His praise endures forever.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

²⁹ because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD. ³⁰ They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. ¹³ Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

¹⁰ The fear of LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.

⁵ A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.

³³ The fear of LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility.

² A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself.

¹³ This is the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.

¹⁸ He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every man who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed. ²¹ But he who does the truth comes to the light, so that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God.

²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

³ Every man shall fear his mother and his father. And ye shall keep my sabbaths. I am LORD your God.

¹⁸ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken to them, ¹⁹ then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place. ²⁰ And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice. He is a glutton, and a drunkard. ²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

²⁵ If one man sins against another, God shall judge him, but if a man sins against LORD, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they did not hearken to the voice of their father, because LORD intended to kill them.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

¹⁵ My son, walk not thou in the way with them. Restrain thy foot from their path.

¹ My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,

¹ My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For I give you good doctrine. Forsake ye not my law. ³ For I was a son to my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. ⁴ And he taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

¹ My son, attend to my wisdom. Incline thine ear to my understanding, ² that thou may preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

²⁰ My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.

¹ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

¹ The words of king Lemuel, the oracle which his mother taught him.

² And behold, they brought to him a paralyzed man who was placed on a bed. And having seen their faith Jesus said to the paralyzed man, Cheer up, child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.

²² But having turned around and seen her, Jesus said, Cheer up, daughter, thy faith has healed thee. And the woman was healed from that hour.

⁵ taking memory of the non-hypocritical faith in thee, which first dwelt in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that is in thee also.

⁴² And Pharaoh took his signet ring from off his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

²² so they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

⁹ She will give to thy head a garland of grace, a crown of beauty she will deliver to thee.

²⁰ My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother. ²¹ Bind them continually upon thy heart. Tie them about thy neck.

¹⁰ Thy cheeks are comely with plaits of hair, thy neck with strings of jewels.

⁹ Thou have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. Thou have ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

¹⁹ the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation of it, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

¹⁶ But I have heard of thee, that thou can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if thou can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, thou shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

⁹ And similarly, the women to adorn themselves in disciplined decorum, with reverence and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive apparel, ¹⁰ but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works.

³ Of which let it not be the outward world of braiding of hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on apparel, ⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

⁷ And it came to pass, after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, Lie with me. ⁸ But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. ⁹ He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? ¹⁰ And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not hearken to her, to lie by her, or to be with her. ¹¹ And it came to pass, about this time, that he went into the house to do his work, and there was none of the men of the house there inside. ¹² And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me. And he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got out. ¹³ And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

⁸ thou shall not consent to him, nor hearken to him. Neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shall thou spare, neither shall thou conceal him,

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death. ¹⁷ And he told her all his heart, and said to her, There has not come a razor upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. ¹⁸ And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand. ¹⁹ And she made him sleep upon her knees, and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head. And she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. ²⁰ And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free, but he knew not that LORD was departed from him. ²¹ And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he did grinding in the prison-house.

¹ Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers,

¹⁸ When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

²¹ With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along. ²² He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, ²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

²⁰ Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

²⁹ A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

¹⁹ He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.

¹⁸ For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.

¹¹ And do not associate with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even rebuke them.

⁸ He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man. ⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert. He lies in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net. ¹⁰ He crouches, he bows down, and helpless men fall by his strong men.

¹² He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

⁷ For without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

⁶ They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.

⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They converse of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them? ⁶ They search out iniquities, saying, We have accomplished a diligent search. And the inward part of man and the heart are deep.

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

¹⁸ and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

⁶ The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

¹⁴ There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. ¹⁹ Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of those who contend with me. ²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

² The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

³ Then the chief priests, and the scholars, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, ⁴ and they deliberated so that they might take Jesus by trickery, and kill him.

²⁵ But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.

¹⁵ Now therefore ye with the council report to the chief captain that tomorrow he may bring him down to you, as though going to inquire more accurately the things about him. And we, before he comes near, are prepared to kill him.

³ asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to kill him on the way.

³⁰ But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD. ³¹ And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split asunder that was under them, ³² and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that pertained to Korah, and all their goods. ³³ So they, and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

¹⁰ and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, that time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became an example.

⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they deceive.

¹ To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.

²⁵ Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

¹ Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me. ² My enemies would swallow me up all the day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

³ He will send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God will send forth his loving kindness and his truth.

³ then they would have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us,

⁷ Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

³⁴ Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

⁵ The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

¹⁶ All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

² Ye who hate the good, and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones, ³ who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

¹³ Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,

² There are men who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them. ³ They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

¹⁹ So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.

¹³ For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. And I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. And like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit on thrones. ¹⁴ And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples. And like a gathering of eggs that are forsaken, I have gathered all the earth. And there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD. ¹⁷ But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

¹² The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with prey.

⁹ The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says LORD of hosts, and in this place I will give peace, says LORD of hosts.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.

⁹ But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

⁹ And the kings of the earth who fornicated and lived wantonly with her, will weep and will beat their breasts for her when they see the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ having stood from afar because of the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! Because thy judgment has come in one hour. ¹¹ And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because no man buys their merchandise any more, ¹² merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, ¹³ and cinnamon, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and olive oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and sheep, and cattle, and horses, and chariots, and bodies and souls of men. ¹⁴ And the fruit of the lust of thy soul have departed from thee. And all the fat and bright things are destroyed from thee. And thou will, no, not find them any more. ¹⁵ The merchants of these things who became rich from her will stand from afar because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning, ¹⁶ and saying, Alas, alas, the great city, which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls!

⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with dissemblers. ⁵ I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

¹⁰¹ I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I might observe thy word.

¹⁴ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not in the way of evil men. ¹⁵ Avoid it. Do not pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

²⁷ Turn not to the right hand nor to the left. Remove thy foot from evil.

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

⁶ Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

¹⁰ Thus says LORD to this people: Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

¹⁷ Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

¹⁶ For they do not sleep unless they do evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they cause to fall.

¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

⁷ Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous inflicting wrath? (I speak according to a man.)

¹¹ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, but Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

¹⁴ Behold the wicked man, he travails with iniquity. Yea, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. ¹⁵ He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. ¹⁶ His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own scalp.

¹⁶ LORD has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

²³ But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

²² His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin. ²³ He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread in secret is pleasant. ¹⁸ But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

¹⁷ A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.

⁴ saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it. ⁵ And having cast down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed, and after going away, he hanged himself.

¹¹ And Joab said to the man who told him, and, behold, thou saw it, and why did thou not smite him there to the ground? And I would have given thee ten pieces of silver, and a belt. ¹² And the man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet I would not put forth my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom. ¹³ Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then thou thyself would have set thyself against me.

²⁰ But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him. ²¹ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? ²² And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment. ²³ And Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they bore them before him. ²⁴ And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house, and he let the men go, and they departed. ²⁵ But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, From where did thou come, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went nowhere. ²⁶ And he said to him, Did not my heart go with thee when the man turned from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants? ²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cling to thee, and to thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

³⁹ if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,

²⁷ He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live.

³ Be not desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. ⁴ Weary not thyself to be rich. Out of thine own wisdom, cease.

¹³ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches were kept by the owner of it to his hurt.

¹⁷ But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. ¹⁸ Therefore thus says LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, saying Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! ¹⁹ He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

¹ Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. ³ Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which ye shall not remove your necks, nor shall ye walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us. ¹² Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

⁹ Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

¹⁹ saying, Give me also this power, so that on whomever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ But Peter said to him, Thy silver with thee, may it be for destruction, because thou thought to obtain the gift of God by money.

³ no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but gentle, noncontentious, no lover of money,

¹ Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. ² Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days. ⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

³ And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse, ¹⁵ having forsaken a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness. ¹⁶ But he had a rebuke of his own lawbreaking. A mute donkey, uttering in a man's voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.

¹ Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice? ² On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands. ³ Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she cries aloud: ⁴ To you, O men, I call. And my voice is to the sons of men. ⁵ O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

³ She has sent forth her maidens. She cries out upon the highest places of the city:

⁵⁴ And having come into his fatherland he taught them in their synagogue, so as for them to be astonished, and say, From where is this wisdom and powers in this man?

⁴⁹ Because of this also the wisdom of God said, I will send to them prophets and apostles. And some of them they will kill and persecute,

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus had stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

²⁴ But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

³⁰ But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

³ In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

²⁷ What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light, and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

² And many multitudes were gathered to him, so as for him (having entered in) to sit in the boat, and all the multitude had stood on the shore.

²⁰ Jesus answered him, I spoke in public to the world. I always taught in a synagogue, and in the temple where the Jews always gather together, and I spoke nothing in secret.

²⁰ Go ye, and after standing in the temple, speak to the people all the sayings of this Life.

³ And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says LORD, the God of the Hebrews, How long will thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

²⁸ And LORD said to Moses, How long do ye refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

²⁷ How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they murmur against me.

⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,

⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people, and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

⁴ to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion,

⁷ The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

²⁹ because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD.

³⁴ Surely the Lord is opposed to the arrogant, but he gives grace to the lowly.

¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.

⁹ How long will thou sleep, O sluggard? When will thou arise out of thy sleep?

⁷ and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding

¹⁶ He who is simple, let him turn in here. And as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.

¹² A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to the wise.

²⁹ Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and stripes for the back of fools.

¹¹ When a scoffer is punished, a simple man is made wise, and when a wise man is instructed, he receives knowledge.

¹³ But after going, learn what this means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners for repentance.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is befitting, and my burden is light.

¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him here to me.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

⁴² saying, If thou knew, even thou, indeed even in this thy day, the things for thy peace. But now they are hidden from thine eyes.

²⁰ For every man who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed.

³ Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires,

¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he who hears, let him say, Come. And he who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

¹ I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name forever and ever.

²⁵ but ye have made all my counsel void, and want none of my reproof,

³⁰ They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

¹⁷ He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof errs.

¹ He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

¹⁵ until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.

⁸ Distil, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together. I, LORD, have created it.

¹ Ho, everyone who thirsts, come ye to the waters. And he who has no money, come ye, buy, and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. ² Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. ³ Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the faithful holy things of David.

⁶ Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁴ Return, O backsliding sons, says LORD, for I am a husband to you. And I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

²⁷ Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. ²⁸ Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die. ²⁹ Yet the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not equitable. O house of Israel, are not my ways equitable? Are not your ways inequitable? ³⁰ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, says the lord LORD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

¹¹ Say to them, As I live, says the lord LORD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

¹ O Israel, return to LORD thy God, for thou have fallen by thine iniquity.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions.

¹⁰ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they shall look to me whom they have pierced. And they shall mourn for him, as a man mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as a man who is in bitterness for his firstborn.

¹³ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father from heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

³⁶ What is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and will not find me, and, Where I am, ye cannot come? ³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus had stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ. ³⁷ Now having heard this, they were pierced in the heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, Men, brothers, what will we do? ³⁸ And Peter said to them, Repent ye, and be immersed each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹ Repent ye therefore, and be converted in order to wipe away your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

²⁰ but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

¹⁶ So because thou are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spew thee out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because thou say, I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy from me gold refined from fire, so that thou may become wealthy, and white garments, so that thou may clothe thyself, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be made known, and eye-salve, so that thou may anoint thine eyes, so that thou may see. ¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

²⁰ In the covert of thy presence thou will hide them from the plotting of man. Thou will keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

² Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.

¹² I will destine you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter. Because when I called, ye did not answer, when I spoke, ye did not hear, but ye did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not delight.

⁴ I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them. Because when I called, none answered. When I spoke, they did not hear. But they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not delight.

¹³ And now, because ye have done all these works, says LORD. And I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not, and I called you, but ye answered not,

¹⁸ Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.

¹¹ But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. ¹² Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from LORD of hosts.

⁵ But having disregarded, they departed, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, ⁶ and the others having seized his bondmen, abused and killed them.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not. ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

³⁰ by thy stretching forth thy hand for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of thy holy Boy Jesus.

²¹ But to Israel he says, The whole day I stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people.

²⁵ Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens, ²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth. But now he has promised, saying, Yet once, I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

¹¹ But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

¹¹ because they rebelled against the words of God, and scorned the counsel of the Most High.

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers who were not immersed by him, rejected the purpose of God for themselves.

¹⁴ Go and cry to the gods which ye have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress.

⁴ He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

¹³ The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

¹⁵ Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly. Suddenly he shall be broken, and that without remedy.

²⁴ The fear of a wicked man shall come upon him. And the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

²⁴ For I say to you, that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper. For many are called, but few chosen.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

²² Let their table before them become a snare, and when they are in peace, a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them. ²³ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and bow down their back continually. ²⁴ Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them. ²⁵ Let their habitation be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents. ²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou have smitten, and they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou have wounded. ²⁷ Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness. ²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

²⁵ Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes. ²⁶ For LORD will be thy confidence, and will keep thy foot from being taken.

²⁴ The fear of a wicked man shall come upon him. And the desire of the righteous shall be granted. ²⁵ When the whirlwind passes, the wicked man is no more, but the righteous man is an everlasting foundation.

¹³ The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters, but he shall rebuke them. And they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

³ LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty. LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

²³ But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people. ²⁴ And they will fall by the jaw of the sword, and will be led away captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. ²⁵ And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, roaring of sea and of tossing, ²⁶ fainting of men from fear, and of anticipation of the things coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden. ³⁵ For it will come like a trap upon all those who sit upon the face of all the earth.

⁹ pressure and restriction, upon every soul of man who produces evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek,

³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. ¹⁷ Because the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

³ And LORD said, My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

¹⁸ And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you, and LORD will not answer you in that day.

⁹ Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

¹² There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to save, even to LORD, but he answered them not.

³⁴ When he killed them, then they inquired after him, and they returned and sought God earnestly. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer. ³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.

¹¹ Therefore thus says LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape. And they shall cry to me, but I will not hearken to them.

¹² When they fast, I will not hear their cry. And when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

⁴ Then they shall cry to LORD, but he will not answer them. Yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

¹³ And it has come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said LORD of hosts.

²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? ²³ And then I will profess to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness.

¹⁰ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And the prepared entered in with him for the wedding festivities, and the door was shut. ¹¹ But afterward the other virgins also came, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹² But having answered, he said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.

²⁵ From the time the house-ruler has risen up, and has closed the door, and ye begin to stand outside, and to knock the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and having answered, he will say to you, I know not where ye are from, ²⁶ then ye will begin to say, We ate and drank in thy presence, and thou taught in our thoroughfares. ²⁷ And he will say, I tell you, I know not where ye are from. Depart from me, all ye workmen of unrighteousness. ²⁸ There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you being thrust out.

³ Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.

¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

¹⁶ But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth, ¹⁷ since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?

¹¹ When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

⁹ For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the law of LORD, ¹⁰ who say to the seers, Do not see, and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things. Speak to us smooth things. Prophesy deceits. ¹¹ Get you out of the way. Turn aside out of the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. ¹² Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

⁴² but one thing is necessary, and Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.

⁵¹ Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also. ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers, ⁵³ who received the law at directions of agents, and did not keep it. ⁵⁴ Now when they heard these things, they were split with a saw in their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth against him.

²⁵ having chosen rather to be mistreated with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin temporarily.

¹¹¹ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¹⁷³ Let thy hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts.

⁹ The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of LORD, and what manner of wisdom is in them?

¹⁸ And they all from one began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it. I ask thee have me excused. ¹⁹ And another said, I bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to test them. I ask thee have me excused. ²⁰ And another said, I married a wife, and because of this I cannot come.

⁸ According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

¹⁴ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

⁸ He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

¹⁰ Say ye of the righteous, that it is well, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. ¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, LORD of hosts.

¹⁹ Hear, O earth: Behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened to my words. And as for my law, they have rejected it.

⁷ Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap. ⁸ Because he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

¹⁵ But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. Thou have grown fat. Thou have grown thick. Thou have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. ¹⁶ They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. With abominations they provoked him to anger. ¹⁷ They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they knew not, to new gods that came up of late, which your fathers did not dread. ¹⁸ Thou are unmindful of the Rock that begot thee, and have forgotten God who gave thee birth. ¹⁹ And LORD saw, and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. ²⁰ And he said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be. For they are a very perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness. ²¹ They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities, and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. ²² For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. ²³ I will heap evils upon them. I will spend my arrows upon them, ²⁴ to be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. And I will send upon them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of crawling things of the dust. ²⁵ Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror, to both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs. ²⁶ I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men, ²⁷ were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, and LORD has not done all this. ²⁸ For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them. ²⁹ Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! ³⁰ How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them, and LORD had delivered them up? ³¹ For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. ³² For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. ³³ Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps. ³⁴ Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures? ³⁵ Vengeance is for me, and recompense at the time when their foot shall slide. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste. ³⁶ For LORD will judge his people, and regrets for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, shut up or left at large. ³⁷ And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge, ³⁸ which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection. ³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand. ⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, As I live forever, ⁴¹ if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me. ⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy. ⁴³ Rejoice, O ye Gentiles, with his people. For he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will recompense those who hate him, and will make expiation for his land, for his people. ⁴⁴ And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

²² Let their table before them become a snare, and when they are in peace, a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them.

⁶ A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this. ⁷ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

³⁶ But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.

¹¹ Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. ¹² Therefore, behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off. And they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.

¹⁶ And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth well. ¹⁷ And he pondered within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have nowhere I will store my crops? ¹⁸ And he said, I will do this. I will dismantle my barns, and I will build greater, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be? ²¹ So is he who stores up for himself, and is not being rich toward God.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily. ²⁰ But there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been placed near his gate, covered with sores, ²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs that came licked his sores. ²² And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And having lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus by his bosom. ²⁴ And having cried out, he said, Father Abraham, be merciful to me, and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

³⁸ But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him. ³⁹ But we are not of retreat for destruction, but of faith for the preservation of the soul.

⁸ And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons.

²⁵ Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,

⁵ Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

¹² What man is he who fears LORD? Him he shall instruct in the way that he shall choose. ¹³ His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the land.

¹³ O that my people would hearken to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

⁷ He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is fixed, trusting in LORD. ⁸ His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, even until he looks over his adversaries.

²¹ My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion, ²² so they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. ²³ Then thou shall walk in thy way securely, and thy foot shall not stumble. ²⁴ When thou lie down, thou shall not be afraid. Yea, thou shall lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

³² Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways. ³³ Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it. ³⁴ Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. ³⁵ For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of LORD.

¹¹ For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

²⁶ In the fear of LORD is strong confidence, and his sons shall have a place of refuge.

³ Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee.

¹⁸ Oh that thou had hearkened to my commandments! Then thy peace would have been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

³ Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the faithful holy things of David.

⁵ While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

⁹ And when ye may hear of wars and tumults, do not be alarmed, for these things must first happen, but the end is not straightaway.

¹⁹ In your perseverance ye gain your souls.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will, no, not perish into the age, and not any will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who has given to me, is greater than all, and not one is able to snatch out of my Father's hand.

³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.