Proverbs 15 Cross References - CLV

¹ A tender response turns away fury, Yet grievous speech kindles anger." ² The tongue of the wise uses knowledge well, Yet the mouth of the stupid utters folly." ³ The eyes of Yahweh are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good ones." ⁴ A healing tongue is a tree of life, Yet words of subversion in it are a breaking of the spirit." ⁵ A fool spurns his father's admonition, Yet he who observes correction shall become prudent." ⁶ The house of the righteous man contains great assets, Yet the income of the wicked person brings on trouble." ⁷ The lips of the wise disseminate knowledge, Yet not so the heart of the stupid." ⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abhorrence to Yahweh, Yet the prayer of the upright is acceptable to Him." ⁹ An abhorrence to Yahweh is the way of the wicked one, Yet the one pursuing righteousness He loves." ¹⁰ Admonition is evil to one who forsakes the path; He who hates reproof, he shall die." ¹¹ The unseen and Abaddon lie open in front of Yahweh; How much more, therefore, the hearts of the sons of humanity!" ¹² A mocker does not love any correction of himself; He does not go to the wise. ¹³ A rejoicing heart makes the countenance cheerful, Yet by grief of heart the spirit becomes despondent." ¹⁴ The heart of the understanding person seeks knowledge, Yet the mouth of the stupid grazes on folly." ¹⁵ All the days of a humbled man seem evil, Yet one cheerful of heart has a continual feast." ¹⁶ Better is a little with the fear of Yahweh Than much treasure and discomfiture along with it; ¹⁷ Better a ration of greens when love is there Than a battened ox when hatred is with it. ¹⁸ A venomous man stirs up quarrels, Yet one slow to anger quietens a contention." ¹⁹ The way of a slothful man is like a hedge of prickly nightshade, Yet the path of the upright is a highway." ²⁰ A wise son rejoices his father, Yet a stupid man despises his mother." ²¹ Folly is amusement to one who lacks heart wisdom, Yet a man of comprehension keeps to a straight walk." ²² Designs are quashed when there is no deliberation, Yet with many counselors each plan shall be confirmed." ²³ Rejoicing comes to a man in the apt response of his mouth, And a word in its season, how good!" ²⁴ The path of life leads upward for the intelligent man, That he may keep away from the unseen below." ²⁵ Yahweh shall tear away the house of the proud, Yet He shall keep the widow's boundaries intact." ²⁶ Evil devisings are an abhorrence to Yahweh, Yet the sayings of the pure are pleasantness." ²⁷ He who is greedy for gain brings trouble on his house, Yet he who hates bribes shall live." ²⁸ The heart of the righteous man cogitates on its answers, Yet the mouth of the wicked utters evil things." ²⁹ Yahweh is far from the wicked, Yet He hears the prayer of the righteous." ³⁰ The luminosity of a friend's eyes rejoices the heart; A good report confers richness on the bones. ³¹ The ear that is hearkening to life-giving correction, It shall lodge among the wise." ³² He who renounces discipline rejects his own soul, Yet he who hearkens to correction acquires heart wisdom." ³³ The fear of Yahweh is the discipline of wisdom, And before glory goes humility."

²² And saying is Yahweh Elohim, "Behold! The human becomes as one of us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he stretch forth his hand, moreover, and take of the tree of the living, and eat and live for the eon--! ²³ And Yahweh Elohim is sending him away from the garden of Eden to serve the ground whence he is taken. ²⁴ And He is driving out the human, and is causing him to tabernacle at the east of the garden of Eden. And He set the cherubim, and a flaming sword turning itself, to keep the way of the tree of the living.

⁸ And saying is Abram to Lot, "There must not, pray, come to be contention between me and you, and between my graziers and your graziers, for mortals, brethren are we. ⁹ Is not the entire land before you? Be parted, pray, from me. If to the left, to the right will I go. And if to the right, to the left will I go.

³⁵ And rising are all his sons and all his daughters and they come to console him, yet refusing is he to be consoled and is saying that, "Descend will I to my son, to the unseen, mourning.And lamenting over him is his father.

⁹ And saying is Jacob to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my life's sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil come to be the days of the years of my life, and they do not overtake the days of the years of the life of my forefathers in the days of their sojournings.

²¹ Now you shall perceive among all the people men of ability, fearful of Elohim, men of truth, hating gain. You will place these over them as chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties and chiefs of tens.

¹² Glorify your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged on the ground which Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you.

⁸ You shall not take a bribe, for the bribe is blinding the unclosed eyes and is subverting the words of the righteous.

³ Each of you shall fear his mother and his father, and observe My sabbaths:I, Yahweh, am your Elohim.

¹ The whole congregation lifted up and gave forth their voice, and the people lamented through that night. ² All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them:O that we had died in the land of Egypt or in this wilderness! O that we had died! ³ Why is Yahweh bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones shall be taken as plunder. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?

⁷ and said to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, saying:The land through which we passed to explore it is a very, very good land. ⁸ If Yahweh delights in us then He will bring us into this land, and He will give it to us. It is a land which is gushing with milk and honey. ⁹ Only against Yahweh do not revolt, and you, do not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their protecting shadow has withdrawn from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Do not fear them.

²⁶ You shall not bring an abhorrence into your house, or you will become doomed just like it is. You shall reject it as abominable, yea abominable; you shall reject it as abhorrent, yea abhorrent, for it is doomed.

¹⁷ For Yahweh your Elohim, He is the Elohim of elohim and the Lord of lords, the El, the great, the masterful and the fear-inspiring One, Who neither lifts up faces in partiality nor takes a bribe, ¹⁸ the One executing judgment of orphan and widow, the One loving the sojourner, so as to give him bread and garment.

¹⁹ You shall not turn aside the judgment; you shall neither recognize faces in partiality nor take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the words of the righteous.

¹⁴ You shall not move away the boundary marker of your associate by which the former ones bounded your allotment that you are allotted in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you to tenant it.

¹⁸ In case a son of a man should become stubborn and rebellious, and he is not hearkening to the voice of his father or to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, but he does not hearken to them,

²⁰ They will say to the elders of his city:This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He is not hearkening to our voice. He is a glutton and carouser.

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

¹¹ Israel has sinned, and also they have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them, and also taken of the devoted thing, and also stolen, and also deceived, and also put [it] among their vessels, ¹² and the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; the neck they turn before their enemies, for they have become a devoted thing; I add not to be with you--if you destroy not the devoted thing out of your midst.

²⁴ And Joshua takes Achan son of Zerah, and the silver, and the robe, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his ox, and his ass, and his flock, and his tent, and all that he has, and all Israel with him, and they cause them to go up the valley of Achor. ²⁵ And Joshua said, `What! you have troubled us! --Yahweh does trouble you this day;' and all Israel cast stones at him, and they burn them with fire, and they stone them with stones,

¹ And the men of Ephraim say unto him, `What [is] this thing you have done to us--not to call for us when you did go to fight with Midian?' and they strive with him severely;" <sup>2</sup> and he said unto them, `What have I done now like you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the harvest of Abi-Ezer? ³ Into your hand has Elohim given the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what have I been able to do like you?' Then their temper desisted from off him in his speaking this thing.

³ and I see that you are not a saviour, and I put my life in my hand, and pass over unto the Bene-Ammon, and Yahweh gives them into my hand--and why have you come up unto me this day to fight against me?. ⁴ And Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fights with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead smite Ephraim, because they said, `Fugitives of Ephraim [are] you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim--in the midst of Manasseh.. <sup>5</sup> And Gilead captures the passages of the Jordan to Ephraim, and it has been, when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim say, `Let me pass over,' and the men of Gilead say to him, `An Ephraimite you?' and he said, `No;. ⁶ that they say to him, `Say, I pray you, Shibboleth;' and he said, `Sibboleth,' and is not prepared to speak right--and they seize him, and slaughter him at the passages of the Jordan, and there fall at that time, of Ephraim, forty and two chiefs.

²³ and he said to them, `Why do you things like these? for I am hearing of your evil words from all the people--these!" ²⁴ Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Yahweh to transgress. -. ²⁵ If a man sin against a man, then has Elohim judged him; but if against Yahweh a man sin, who does pray for him?' and they hearken not to the voice of their father, though Yahweh has delighted to put them to death.

³ and his sons have not walked in his ways, and turn aside after the dishonest gain, and take a bribe, and turn aside judgment. ⁴ And all the elders of Israel gather themselves together, and come in unto Samuel to Ramath, ⁵ and say unto him, `Lo, you have become aged, and your sons have not walked in your ways; now, appoint to us a king, to judge us, like all the nations..

⁷ And Yahweh said unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for [it is] not as man sees--for man looks at the eyes, and Yahweh looks at the heart..

¹⁰ And Nabal answers the servants of David and said, `Who [is] David, and who the son of Jesse? to-day have servants been multiplied who are breaking away each from his master;" <sup>11</sup> and I have taken my bread, and my water, and my flesh, which I slaughtered for my shearers, and have given [it] to men whom I have not known whence they [are]!. <sup>12</sup> And the young men of David turn on their way, and turn back, and come in, and declare to him according to all these words. <sup>13</sup> And David said to his men, `Gird you on each his sword;' and they gird on each his sword, and David also girds on his sword, and there go up after David about four hundred men, and two hundred have remained by the vessels.

²¹ And David said, `Only, in vain I have kept all that this [one] has in the wilderness, and nothing has been looked after of all that he has, and he turns back to me evil for good;" <sup>22</sup> thus does Elohim do to the enemies of David, and thus He does add, if I leave of all that he has till the light of the morning--of those sitting on the wall.. <sup>23</sup> And Abigail sees David, and hastes and comes down from off the ass, and falls before David on her face, and bows herself to the earth, <sup>24</sup> and falls at his feet and said, `On me, my lord, the iniquity; and let, I pray you, your handmaid speak in your ear, and hear the words of your handmaid.

²⁴ and falls at his feet and said, `On me, my lord, the iniquity; and let, I pray you, your handmaid speak in your ear, and hear the words of your handmaid. <sup>25</sup> `Let not, I pray you, 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, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom you did send;"

²⁵ `Let not, I pray you, 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, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom you did send;" ²⁶ and now, my lord, Yahweh lives, and your soul lives, in that Yahweh has withheld you from coming in with blood, and to save your hand to you--now let your enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord.

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

²⁷ `And, now, this blessing which your maid-servant has brought to my lord--it has been given to the young men who are going up and down at the feet of my lord. <sup>28</sup> `Bear, I pray you, with the transgression of your handmaid, for Yahweh does certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Yahweh has my lord fought, and evil is not found in you [all] your days.

²⁸ `Bear, I pray you, with the transgression of your handmaid, for Yahweh does certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Yahweh has my lord fought, and evil is not found in you [all] your days. ²⁹ And man rises to pursue you and to seek your soul, and the soul of my lord has been bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your Elohim; as to the soul of your enemies, He does sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.

²⁹ And man rises to pursue you and to seek your soul, and the soul of my lord has been bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your Elohim; as to the soul of your enemies, He does sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling. ³⁰ `And it has been, when Yahweh does to my lord according to all the good which He has spoken concerning you, and appointed you for leader over Israel,

³⁰ `And it has been, when Yahweh does to my lord according to all the good which He has spoken concerning you, and appointed you for leader over Israel, ³¹ that this is not to you 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 Yahweh has done good to my lord, and you have remembered your handmaid..

³¹ that this is not to you 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 Yahweh has done good to my lord, and you have remembered your handmaid.. ³² And David said to Abigail, `Blessed [is] Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me,

³² And David said to Abigail, `Blessed [is] Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me, ³³ and blessed [is] your discretion, and blessed [are] you in that you have restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself.

³³ and blessed [is] your discretion, and blessed [are] you in that you have restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself. ³⁴ And yet, Yahweh lives, Elohim of Israel, who has kept me back from doing evil with you, for unless you hadst hasted, and do come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal till the light of the morning, of those sitting on the wall.. ³⁵ And David receives from her hand that which she has brought to him, and to her he has said, `Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and accept your face.. <sup>36</sup> And Abigail comes in unto Nabal, and lo, he has a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal [is] glad within him, and he [is] drunk unto excess, and she has not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning. <sup>37</sup> And it comes to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declares to him these things, and his heart dies within him, and he has been as a stone. <sup>38</sup> And it comes to pass, [in] about ten days, that Yahweh smites Nabal, and he dies, <sup>39</sup> and David hears that Nabal [is] dead, and said, `Blessed [is] Yahweh who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant has kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal has Yahweh turned back on his own head;' and David sends and speaks with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife. ⁴⁰ And the servants of David come in unto Abigail at Carmel, and speak unto her, saying, `David has sent us unto you to take you to him for a wife.. <sup>41</sup> And she rises and bows herself--face to the earth--and said, `Lo, your handmaid [is] for a maid-servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.. ⁴² And Abigail hastes and rises, and rides on the ass; and five of her young women who are going at her feet; and she goes after the messengers of David, and is to him for a wife. ⁴³ And Ahinoam has David taken from Jezreel, and they are--even both of them--to him for wives;" ⁴⁴ and Saul gave Michal his daughter, wife to David, to Phalti son of Laish, who [is] of Gallim.

¹ And it comes to pass afterwards, that Absalom prepares for himself a chariot, and horses, and fifty men are running before him;" ² and Absalom has risen early, and stood by the side of the way of the gate, and it comes to pass, every man who has a pleading to come unto the king for judgment, that Absalom calls unto him, and said, `Of what city [are] you?' and he said, `Of one of the tribes of Israel [is] your servant.. ³ And Absalom said unto him, `See, your matters [are] good and straightforward--and there is none hearkening to you from the king.. <sup>4</sup> And Absalom said, `Who does make me a judge in the land, that unto me does come every man who has a plea and judgment? --then I have declared him righteous.. ⁵ And it has come to pass, in the drawing nearing of any one to bow himself to him, that he has put forth his hand, and laid hold on him, and given a kiss to him;" ⁶ and Absalom does according to this thing to all Israel who come in for judgment unto the king, and Absalom steals the heart of the men of Israel.

⁴³ And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, `Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have you lightly esteemed us, that our word has not been first to bring back our king?' And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.

⁴³ And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, `Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have you lightly esteemed us, that our word has not been first to bring back our king?' And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.

⁴⁸ and also thus has the king said, Blessed [is] Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, who has given to-day [one] sitting on my throne, and mine eyes seeing..

⁹ and now, acquit him not, for a wise man you [are], and you have known that which you do to him, and have brought down his old age with blood to Sheol..

⁶ And Solomon said, `You have done with Your servant David my father great kindness, as he walked before You in truth and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You, and You do keep for him this great kindness, and do give to him a son sitting on his throne, as [at] this day. <sup>7</sup> And now, O Yahweh my Elohim, You have caused your servant to reign instead of David my father; and I [am] a little child, I do not know to go out and to come in;" <sup>8</sup> and Your servant [is] in the midst of your people, whom You have chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude, <sup>9</sup> and You have given to Your servant an understanding heart, to judge Your people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Your great people?. <sup>10</sup> And the thing is good in the eyes of the Lord, that Solomon has asked this thing, <sup>11</sup> and Elohim said unto him, `Because that you have asked this thing, and have not asked for you many days, nor asked for you riches, nor asked the life of your enemies, and have asked for you discernment to understand judgment, ¹² lo, I have done according to your words; lo, I have given to you a heart, wise and understanding, that like you there has not been before you, and after you there does not arise like you;"

²³ And the king said, `This [one] said, This [is] my son, the living, and your son [is] the dead; and that [one] said, Nay, but your son [is] the dead, and my son the living.. <sup>24</sup> And the king said, `Take for me a sword;' and they bring the sword before the king, ²⁵ and the king said, `Cut the living child into two, and give the half to the one, and the half to the other.. <sup>26</sup> And the woman whose son [is] the living one said unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she said, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this [one] said, `Let it be neither mine or your--cut [it].. <sup>27</sup> And the king answers and said, `Give you to her the living child, and put it not at all to death; she [is] its mother.. ²⁸ And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king has judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of Elohim [is] in his heart, to do judgment.

⁷ And it comes to pass at Hiram's hearing the words of Solomon, that he rejoices exceedingly, and said, `Blessed [is] Yahweh to-day, who has given to David a wise son over this numerous people..

¹³ And the king answers the people sharply, and forsakes the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, ¹⁴ and speaks unto them, according to the counsel of the lads, saying, `My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I--I chastise you with scorpions;. <sup>15</sup> and the king hearkened not unto the people, for the revolution was from Yahweh, in order to establish His word that Yahweh spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam son of Nebat. <sup>16</sup> And all Israel see that the king has not hearkened unto them, and the people send the king back word, saying, `What portion have we in David? yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel; now see your house, O David!' and Israel goes to its tents.

¹⁷ and it comes to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, `Are you he--the troubler of Israel?.

²⁰ And Ahab said unto Elijah, `Have you found me, O mine enemy?' and he said, `I have found--because of your selling yourself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh;"

⁸ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet--one man to seek Yahweh by him, and I have hated him, for he does not prophesy concerning me good, but evil--Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat said, `Let not the king say so..

²⁷ yea, the leprosy of Naaman does cleave to you, and to your seed, --to the eon;' and he goes out from before him--leprous as snow.

¹¹ `Now, my son, Yahweh is with you, and you have prospered, and have built the house of Yahweh your Elohim, as He spoke concerning you. ¹² Only, Yahweh give to you wisdom and understanding, and charge you concerning Israel, even to keep the law of Yahweh your Elohim;" ¹³ then you do prosper, if you do observe to do the statutes and the judgments that Yahweh charged Moses with concerning Israel; be strong and courageous; do not fear, nor be cast down.

⁹ `And you, Solomon, my son, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Yahweh seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if you do seek Him, He is found of you, and if you do forsake Him, He casts you off for ever.

²⁰ And David said to Solomon his son, `Be strong, and courageous, and do; do not fear nor be affrighted, for Yahweh Elohim, my Elohim, [is] with you; He does not fail you, nor forsake you, unto the completion of all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh.

¹⁷ `And I have known, my Elohim, that You are trying the heart, and uprightness do desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these:and now, Your people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to You.

³⁰ then You do hear from the heavens, the settled place of Your dwelling, and have forgiven, and have given to each according to all his ways (because You know his heart, for You--You only--have known the heart of the sons of men),

⁹ for Yahweh--His eyes go to and fro in all the earth, to show Himself strong [for] a people whose heart [is] perfect towards Him; you have been foolish concerning this, because--henceforth there are with you wars..

⁷ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, `Still--one man to seek Yahweh from him, and I--I have hated him, for he is not prophesying concerning me of good, but all his days of evil, he [is] Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat said, `Let not the king say so..

⁸ Yet now for a little moment, grace from Yahweh our Elohim has come to leave us as a remnant for deliverance and to give us a peg in His holy place, so that our Elohim may enlighten our eyes and give us a little revival in our servitudes.

² and the king said to me, `Wherefore [is] your face sad, and you not sick? this is nothing except sadness of heart;' and I fear very much,

¹⁹ For he has maltreated, he has forsaken the poor; He has pillaged a house which he did not build. ²⁰ For he has not known ease from the craving of his belly; From his coveting, he has not tried to escape. ²¹ There was nothing surviving for him as food. Therefore his good state cannot hope to last. ²² When his affluence is full there shall be distress for him; Every means of misery shall come upon him. ²³ It shall come to be, in order to fill his belly, That He shall send against him the heat of His anger And shall rain it upon him as his nourishment.

¹⁴ Yet they say to El, Go away from us, For we do not desire a knowledge of Your ways.

⁶ The unseen was naked in front of Him, And there was no covering for Abaddon.

²⁸ And He said to mankind, Behold, the fear of Yahweh, it is wisdom, And to withdraw from evil is understanding.

⁴ Does He not see my ways And number all my steps?

²¹ For His eyes are on the ways of a man, And He sees all his steps. ²² There is no darkness and no blackest shadow To conceal there the contrivers of lawlessness.

¹¹ Scatter forth the ragings of your anger; Discern every proud one and abase him. ¹² Discern every proud one and make him submit; Crush the wicked where they are. ¹³ Bury them in the soil together; Bind up their faces in the burial crypt.

⁶ For Yahweh is knowing the way of the righteous, Yet the way of the wicked, it shall perish.

⁸ O Yahweh, guide me in Your righteousness on account of those who lie in wait for me. Straighten Your way before me.

⁹ O let the evil of the wicked reach an end, And may You establish the righteous one, Testing the hearts and innermost being, O righteous Elohim.

¹ Why are You standing far off, O Yahweh? Why are You obscuring Yourself in seasons of distress?

¹¹ You shall acquaint me with the path of life; Satisfying rejoicings are in Your presence; Pleasantness is at Your right hand. {Permanent{

¹ {A Davidic Prayer{ O Yahweh, do hear my plea for justice! Do attend to my appeal! Do give ear to my prayer, uttered without deceitful lips."

⁴¹ They implored, yet there was no salvation; They called to Yahweh, yet He would not answer them."

¹⁴ May the sayings of my mouth be acceptable And the soliloquy of my heart be pleasing before You, O Yahweh, my Rock and my Redeemer! {Permanent{ "

⁸ Good and upright is Yahweh; Therefore, He shall direct sinners in the way;" ⁹ He shall cause the humble to tread in right judgment, And He shall teach the humble His way."

¹² Whatever man this is who is fearing Yahweh, He shall direct him in the way he should choose;"

¹¹ Direct me, O Yahweh, in Your way, And guide me in a straight path on account of those lying in wait for me."

¹¹ Come my sons; hearken to me! I shall teach you the devout fear of Yahweh.

¹⁵ The eyes of Yahweh are toward the righteous, And His ears are toward their imploring." ¹⁶ The face of Yahweh is against those doing evil, To cut off their remembrance from the earth." ¹⁷ The righteous cry out, and Yahweh hears, And He rescues them from all their distresses."

¹⁶ Better are a few who are for the righteous one Than a throng of many wicked ones.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous one, it soliloquizes wisdom, And his tongue, it speaks right judgment."

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous one, it soliloquizes wisdom, And his tongue, it speaks right judgment." ³¹ The law of his Elohim is in his heart And his movement is not tottering.

²¹ Would not Elohim Himself investigate this? For He is knowing the obscured secrets of the heart.

¹ {For the Sons of Korah, Contemplating{ {A Song of Darlings{ My heart bubbles over with good words; I shall recite my compositions concerning the King; My tongue is the pen of a swift scribe." ² You are lovely beyond the sons of humanity; Grace is poured out onto Your lips; Therefore Elohim has blessed You for the eon.

¹⁷ For you, you hate admonition, And you fling My words behind you."

¹³ Let me teach transgressors Your ways, That sinners may return to You." ¹⁴ Rescue me from bloodguilt, O Elohim, the Elohim of my salvation, That my tongue may be jubilant at Your righteousness." ¹⁵ O Yahweh, open my lips, That my mouth may tell forth Your praise."

¹ {Contemplating, Davidic{ {When Doeg the Edomite came to tell Saul, saying to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.{ Why are you boasting in evil, O masterful man? Only the benignity of El lasts the entire day." ² Your tongue devises woes, Like a honed razor, you who practice deceit." ³ You love evil rather than good, Falsehood rather than speaking righteousness. {Interlude{ " ⁴ You love all pernicious words, O you deceitful tongue." ⁵ But El, He shall break you down permanently; He shall rake you up and tear you out from your tent, And He will root you out from the land of the living. {Interlude{ "

⁷ Behold, they are uttering growls with their mouth; Swords are on their lips, Saying, Who is hearing?

¹⁸ If I had regarded lawlessness in my heart, Yahweh would not hear." ¹⁹ But Elohim surely hears And attends to the sound of my prayer.

⁵ The Father of orphans and Adjudicator of widows, Elohim in His holy habitation." ⁶ Elohim is causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing forth the bound into successes. But the stubborn tabernacle in a glaring land."

¹⁵ My mouth, it shall recount Your righteousness, The entire day, Your salvation, for I do not know their number." ¹⁶ I shall come with praise of the masterful deeds of my Lord; O Yahweh, I shall mention Your righteousness, Yours alone." ¹⁷ O Elohim, You have taught me from my youth, And hitherto am I telling of Your marvelous works." ¹⁸ Even when I am old and greyhaired, O Elohim, do not forsake me, Until I should tell of Your arm of power to the next generation, Of Your masterful deeds to all who shall come."

²⁷ For behold, those who are far from You, they shall perish; You will efface all who prostitute away from You."

² I will open my mouth with a proverb; I will utter enigmas from aforetime, ³ Which we have heard, and we know them, And our fathers, they have recounted to us." ⁴ We shall not suppress them from their sons, Recounting to the next generation the praises of Yahweh, And His strength and His marvelous works that He has done." ⁵ For He set up a testimony in Jacob, And He placed a law in Israel, Which He enjoined on our fathers To make them known to their sons, ⁶ That the next generation may know, The sons who shall be born; They shall rise and recount them to their sons."

¹⁵ Happy are the people who know the joyful shouting; O Yahweh, they shall walk in the light of Your presence."

⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger, And by Your fury are we filled with panic." ⁸ You have set our depravities in front of You, Our obscured deeds in the full light of Your face." ⁹ Indeed all our days turn around before Your rage; We finish our years like a mumble.

²² For humbled and needy am I, And my heart, it is wounded within me."

¹⁰ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; All who practice it have a good insight. His praise is standing into the future.

³ Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness is standing into the future."

¹³ With my lips I recount All the ordinances from Your mouth.

⁹⁷ How I love Your law! The entire day it is my meditation.

¹⁰⁰ I have gained more understanding than elders, For I preserve Your precepts."

¹ {A Song of Ascents, Davidic{ Behold, how good and how pleasant For brothers to dwell as one." ² It is like the good oil upon the head, Descending upon the beard, Aaron's beard, which is descending over the slit of his coats." ³ It is like the night mist of Hermon, Which is descending upon the mountain ranges of Zion, For there Yahweh has determined the blessing to be, Life for the eon."

⁶ Though Yahweh is exalted, yet He discerns the lowly, And He knows the haughty one from afar."

⁸ If I should climb to the heavens, You are there, And should I make my berth in the unseen, behold, You are there."

²⁴ See if a grievous way is in me, And guide me in the way eonian. {Permanent{ "

⁵ Should the righteous one beat me, it were a kindness, And should he reprove me; it were oil on my head; May my head not repudiate it at all. But still, my prayer is against their evil deeds;"

¹⁸ Near is Yahweh to all calling on Him, To all who are calling on Him in truth." ¹⁹ Benevolence for those fearing Him is He providing, And their imploring is He hearing and is saving them."

⁸ Yahweh, unclosing the eyes of the blind, Yahweh, making erect those who are bent down, Yahweh, loving those who are righteous, ⁹ Yahweh, Guardian over the sojourners; The orphan and the widow shall He bolster up, Yet the way of the wicked shall He overturn."

⁹ Yahweh, Guardian over the sojourners; The orphan and the widow shall He bolster up, Yet the way of the wicked shall He overturn."

⁵ The wise one may also hear and add to his education, And the man of understanding may acquire skills--"

⁷ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; The foolish despise wisdom and discipline.

¹⁹ Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain; It takes away the soul of its possessors.

²³ May you turn back at my correction; Behold, let me utter what is in my spirit to you; Let me make known my words to you." ²⁴ Because I called, and you refused, I stretched out my hand, and no one attended, ²⁵ And you renounced all my counsel, And you would not heed my reproof, ²⁶ Indeed, I myself shall ridicule you in your calamity; I shall deride when alarm comes upon you, ²⁷ When alarm comes upon you like a tumult, And calamity, it arrives upon you like a sweeping whirlwind, When distress and constraint come upon you." ²⁸ Then they shall call me, yet I shall not answer; They shall seek me early, yet shall not find me." ²⁹ Because they hated knowledge And would not choose the fear of Yahweh, ³⁰ They would not heed my counsel, They spurned all my correction,

³⁰ They would not heed my counsel, They spurned all my correction, ³¹ Thus they shall eat of the fruit of their way, And they shall be surfeited with the results of their counsels." ³² For the instability of the simple, it shall kill them, And the carelessness of the stupid, it shall destroy them." ³³ Yet whoever is hearkening to me shall tabernacle in trust, And he will be tranquil, away from alarm of peril."

¹⁸ For she slips down to death with her house And her routes to the Rephaim;

⁶ In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He Himself shall straighten your paths."

⁸ This shall mean health to your flesh And refreshing drink to your bones.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those holding fast to her, And those upholding her will be happy."

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is like gloom; They do not know at what they stumble.

⁵ Her feet are descending to death; To the unseen her steps hold firm.

¹¹ And you have anguish in your latter days When your flesh and your brawn are exhausted, ¹² And you say, How I have hated discipline, And my heart has spurned correction!"

¹² And you say, How I have hated discipline, And my heart has spurned correction!" ¹³ I have not hearkened to the voice of those directing my instruction, And to those teaching me I have not stretched out my ear;"

²¹ For the ways of a man are before the eyes of Yahweh, Who ponders all his routes."

¹⁶ These are six things Yahweh hates, Even seven that are abhorrences to His soul:" ¹⁷ Exalted eyes, a false tongue, And hands shedding innocent blood;" ¹⁸ A heart engrossed with lawless devisings, Feet hastening to run to evil, ¹⁹ A false witness who blows out lies, And one who instigates quarrels between brothers."

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

²⁷ Her house is a road to the unseen, One descending to the chambers of death."

⁹ All of them are correct to the understanding one, And upright to those who find knowledge."

¹³ The fear of Yahweh means to hate evil; Pride and pomp and the way of evil And a mouth of duplicity I hate.

²¹ To allot prosperity to those loving me, So that I fill their treasures."

³³ Hearken to my admonition, and be wise; Do not renounce it." ³⁴ Happy is the man who hearkens to me, Being alert at my doors day by day, Keeping watch at the jambs of my portals." ³⁵ For whoever finds me will find life And shall gain hold of benevolence from Yahweh. ³⁶ Yet whoever misses me wrongs his soul; All who hate me love death.

⁷ He who admonishes a mocker is procuring dishonor to himself, And he who reproves a wicked man gets himself a blemish." ⁸ Do not reprove a mocker lest he should hate you; Reprove a wise man, and he shall love you."

⁸ Do not reprove a mocker lest he should hate you; Reprove a wise man, and he shall love you."

⁸ Do not reprove a mocker lest he should hate you; Reprove a wise man, and he shall love you." ⁹ Give reproof to a wise man, and he shall be wiser still; Inform a righteous man, and he shall add to his education."

⁹ Give reproof to a wise man, and he shall be wiser still; Inform a righteous man, and he shall add to his education."

¹ Proverbs of Solomon:A wise son makes his father rejoice, Yet a stupid son is affliction to his mother."

¹² Hatred, it rouses up quarrels, Yet love covers over all transgressions."

¹⁷ He who keeps admonition is in the path to life, Yet he who forsakes reproof is led astray."

¹⁹ In the multiplying of words, transgression does not halt, Yet he who keeps back his lips is intelligent." ²⁰ Choice silver is the tongue of the righteous one; The heart wisdom of the wicked is of little value. ²¹ The lips of the righteous, they shepherd many, Yet the foolish die from lack of heart wisdom." ²² The blessing of Yahweh, it enriches, And He shall not add grief to it." ²³ To the stupid one it is like sport to commit crime, Yet it is like venom to a man of comprehension."

¹² One who despises his associate has lack of heart wisdom, But the man of comprehension keeps silence."

¹⁴ When there are no strategies a people shall fall, Yet in many counsellors there is safety."

¹⁹ To acquire righteousness leads to life, Yet he who pursues evil goes to his death."

²⁹ He who brings trouble on his own house shall have wind as an allotment, And the foolish one shall be servant to the wise of heart."

¹ He who loves admonition loves knowledge, Yet he who hates reproof is irrational."

⁷ The wicked are overturned, and they become nothing, Yet the house of the righteous shall stand."

¹⁴ From the fruit of a man's mouth he can be satisfied with good As surely as the requital of a man's hands returns to him.

¹⁸ There is talk that is like stabbings of a sword, Yet the tongue of the wise is healing."

²³ A prudent man covers knowledge, Yet the heart of the stupid proclaims its folly."

²⁵ Anxiety in a man's heart shall bow it down, Yet a good word shall make it rejoice."

¹ A wise son heeds his father's admonition, Yet a mocker does not hearken to rebuke."

⁹ The light of the righteous is radiant, Yet the lamp of the wicked is extinguished."

¹⁶ Every prudent man acts with knowledge, Yet the stupid one spreads folly."

¹⁸ Destitution and dishonor come to one who renounces admonition, Yet he who observes reproof shall be glorified."

²⁰ He who walks with the wise becomes wise, Yet he who associates with the stupid is imperiled."

²² The good man leaves an allotment to his sons' sons, Yet the sinner's estate is stored up for the righteous one."

⁹ Every fool mocks at a guilt offering, Yet among the upright is approval."

¹¹ The house of the wicked, it shall be exterminated, Yet the tent of the upright, it shall burst into bud."

¹⁶ A wise man is fearing and withdrawing from evil, Yet the stupid one is congenial and trusting to it."

²⁹ He who is slow to anger shows great comprehension, Yet he who is short of spirit heightens folly."

¹ A tender response turns away fury, Yet grievous speech kindles anger." ² The tongue of the wise uses knowledge well, Yet the mouth of the stupid utters folly."

⁵ A fool spurns his father's admonition, Yet he who observes correction shall become prudent."

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abhorrence to Yahweh, Yet the prayer of the upright is acceptable to Him."

¹⁰ Admonition is evil to one who forsakes the path; He who hates reproof, he shall die."

¹³ A rejoicing heart makes the countenance cheerful, Yet by grief of heart the spirit becomes despondent." ¹⁴ The heart of the understanding person seeks knowledge, Yet the mouth of the stupid grazes on folly." ¹⁵ All the days of a humbled man seem evil, Yet one cheerful of heart has a continual feast." ¹⁶ Better is a little with the fear of Yahweh Than much treasure and discomfiture along with it;

¹⁸ A venomous man stirs up quarrels, Yet one slow to anger quietens a contention."

²¹ Folly is amusement to one who lacks heart wisdom, Yet a man of comprehension keeps to a straight walk."

²³ Rejoicing comes to a man in the apt response of his mouth, And a word in its season, how good!"

²⁸ The heart of the righteous man cogitates on its answers, Yet the mouth of the wicked utters evil things." ²⁹ Yahweh is far from the wicked, Yet He hears the prayer of the righteous."

³¹ The ear that is hearkening to life-giving correction, It shall lodge among the wise." ³² He who renounces discipline rejects his own soul, Yet he who hearkens to correction acquires heart wisdom."

⁸ Better is a little with righteousness Than much income with injustice.

¹³ Lips of righteousness win the benevolence of a grand king, And he loves the one who speaks upright words."

²² Intelligence is a fountain of life to its possessors, And folly is the flogging of the foolish." ²³ The heart of a wise man gives his mouth intelligence, And to his lips it adds influence." ²⁴ Pleasant sayings are honey of the comb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones."

²⁸ A man of duplicity sends forth a quarrel, And a babbler parts one from his mentor."

¹ Better is a dried-up morsel when ease is with it Than a house full of sacrifices, with contention."

¹⁶ Why then should the price be in the hand of a stupid man To acquire wisdom, since he has no heart understanding?

²² A rejoicing heart does good as a cure, Yet a despondent spirit dries up the ribs."

⁸ The words of a babbler are like tidbits; They descend to the chambers of one's belly.

¹² The heart of a man is haughty before a breaking, Yet humility comes before glory."

¹⁴ A man's spirit sustains him in his illness, Yet a despondent spirit, who can bear it? ¹⁵ The heart of one who understands acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge."

²⁰ Hearken to counsel and receive admonition That you may be wise in your latter days.

¹⁸ Designs should be established by counsel; Execute war according to strategy.

²¹ An allotment rashly gained at first Shall not be blessed at last.

⁴ Conceited eyes and pretentious heart, The lamp of the wicked, are sin."

⁸ Devious is the way of a man laden with guilt, Yet spotless is the upright man in his deeds."

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wilderness land Than with a quarrelsome and vexatious wife. ²⁰ Coveted treasure and oil are in the homestead of the wise man, Yet the stupid man swallows it all up." ²¹ He who pursues righteousness and benignity Shall find life, righteousness and glory."

²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abhorrence; How much more so when such a one brings it with scheming.

⁵ Pricking thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse man; He who guards his soul shall keep far from them.

¹³ The slothful man says:There is a lion outdoors; I shall be murdered in the middle of the square.

¹⁰ Do not move away the boundary marker of the widow, And into the fields of the orphans do not enter,

¹⁴ You shall smite him with the club And so rescue his soul from the unseen. ¹⁵ My son, if your heart is wise, My heart shall rejoice, even I;" ¹⁶ My kidneys shall be joyous When your lips speak upright words.

²² Hearken to your father, this one who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old."

³⁵ They smite me, yet I am not at all wounded; They beat me, yet I have no knowledge of it. When shall I awake? I shall do it again; I shall seek it once more."

⁹ The schemes of folly are sin, And a mocker is an abhorrence to humanity."

²⁶ He kisses the lips Who replies with corrective words.

⁶ Do not honor yourself before the king, And do not install yourself in the place of the great;" ⁷ For it is better that it be said to you, Come up hither, Than for you to be abased before the patron. What your eyes have seen,

¹¹ Apricots of gold in pictures of silver Is a word aptly spoken. ¹² A pendant of gold and an eardrop of certified gold Is the reproof of a wise man upon a hearkening ear.

¹² A pendant of gold and an eardrop of certified gold Is the reproof of a wise man upon a hearkening ear.

¹⁵ By slowness of anger a captain can be enticed, And a tender tongue can break the rib."

²⁵ Alike are cold water to a fainting soul And a good report from a far off land.

¹³ The slothful man says, There is a black lion in the road, A lion in the square!"

¹⁸ Like a frantic man who shoots firebrands, arrows and death, ¹⁹ So is the man who deceives his associate And then says, Did I not make good sport?

²¹ Coal for embers and wood for fire, And a quarrelsome man to heat a contention." ²² The words of a babbler are like tidbits; They descend to the chambers of one's belly.

²⁰ The unseen and Abaddon are never satisfied, And the eyes of man are also never satisfied."

⁶ Better is a destitute man who walks in his integrity Than one whose ways are perverse, though he be rich."

⁹ He who keeps his ear away from hearing the law--Even his prayer is an abhorrence.

¹⁶ A governor attempting many extortions lacks comprehension, But one who hates greed shall prolong his days."

²⁵ A pretentious soul stirs up a quarrel, Yet he who trusts in Yahweh shall be conferred with richness."

¹ The man receiving reproofs who is still stiff necked Shall be broken in an instant, and there will be no healing."

³ A man who loves wisdom rejoices his father, Yet he who associates with prostitutes destroys his wealth." ⁴ A king by right judgment makes a country stand firm, Yet a man greedy for heave offerings pulls it down."

¹¹ A stupid man speaks forth all his spirit of anger, Yet a wise one becalms it back."

²⁰ Do you perceive a man who rushes with his words? There is more expectation for a stupid man than for him.

²² An angry man stirs up a quarrel, And a furious person works much transgression." ²³ A man's pride abases him, Yet he who is lowly of spirit shall take firm hold of glory."

¹⁷ The eye that derides a father And despises the homage due a mother--The ravens of the watercourse shall pick it out, And the vultures shall eat it."

¹⁰ All that my eyes asked for I did not deny to them; I did not withhold my heart from any rejoicing, For my heart had rejoicing from all my toil, And this itself was my portion from all my toil." ¹¹ Yet when I faced all my deeds that my hands had done, And the toil that I had toiled in doing them, Behold, the whole was vanity and a grazing on wind, And there was nothing of advantage under the sun."

¹⁸ And I hated all my toil that I was toiling under the sun, That I would leave to the man who shall come after me." ¹⁹ Who knows if he shall be a wise or a frivolous man? Yet he shall have authority over all the fruit of my toil that I toiled, And in which I was wise under the sun; This too is vanity." ²⁰ So I turned around again with despair in my heart Over all the toil that I had toiled under the sun. ²¹ For there is a man whose toil is in wisdom and in knowledge and in success, Yet to another man who has not toiled for it, he must give it as his portion; This too is vanity and a great evil." ²² For what is coming to a man for all his toil, And for the grazing of his heart which he is toiling under the sun? ²³ For all his days his experience is filled with pains and vexation; Even in the night his heart will not lie down; This too, it is vanity."

¹ For everything there is a stated time, And a season for every event under the heavens:"

⁶ Yet better is one palm full from rest Than both hands full from toil and a grazing on wind.

¹ Guard your feet when you go to the house of Elohim; To go near to hear is better than that the stupid should offer sacrifice, For they know nothing but to do evil." ² Do not be rash with your mouth, And your heart must not hasten to bring forth speech before the One, Elohim; For the One, Elohim, is in the heavens, And you are on the earth; Therefore, let your words become few."

⁶ Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, And do not protest before the temple messenger that it was an error. Why should the One, Elohim, be wrathful at your voice And bring harm to the work of your hands?

¹⁰ One who loves silver is never satisfied with his silver, And one who loves large amounts never has enough income; This too is vanity."

¹⁰ One who loves silver is never satisfied with his silver, And one who loves large amounts never has enough income; This too is vanity." ¹¹ When goods increase those who devour them multiply; And what profit are they to their possessor save for the sight of his eyes?

¹¹ When goods increase those who devour them multiply; And what profit are they to their possessor save for the sight of his eyes? ¹² The sleep of the servant is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; Yet the surfeiting of the rich, it does not permit him to sleep."

¹² The sleep of the servant is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; Yet the surfeiting of the rich, it does not permit him to sleep." ¹³ There is a travailing evil I have seen under the sun:Riches are kept by their possessor to his peril; ¹⁴ Then these riches perish through some experience of evil, When he begets a son, then there is not anything left in his hand."

⁶ For there is time and judgment for every event, Since the evil for a man is great upon him."

⁴ If the spirit of a ruler ascends against you, do not leave your place, For a healing time gives rest to great sins."

¹² Words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, Yet the lips of a stupid man swallow him up."

¹² Words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, Yet the lips of a stupid man swallow him up." ¹³ At the start the words of his mouth are frivolity, And at last from his mouth comes evil raving."

¹³ At the start the words of his mouth are frivolity, And at last from his mouth comes evil raving." ¹⁴ The frivolous man multiplies words; But a man does not know what shall be, And what shall come after him, who can tell him?

⁷ The light is sweet, And it is good for the eyes to see the sun."

⁹ Yet furthermore, because the Assembler was wise, He still taught the people knowledge, And he listened and investigated And set in order many proverbs." ¹⁰ The Assembler sought to find words of delight, And what was written is uprightness and words of truth."

¹⁴ My dove, in the encircling crag, In the concealment of the cliff, Let me see your appearance; Let me hear your voice; For your voice is congenial, And your appearance is comely."

¹¹ Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, O bride; Honey and milk are under your tongue, And the scent of your raiment is like the scent of Lebanon."

⁵ For what are you being smitten still? You are continuing in stubbornness. All of the head is ill, and all of the heart languishes."

⁵ For what are you being smitten still? You are continuing in stubbornness. All of the head is ill, and all of the heart languishes." ⁶ From the sole of the foot unto the head no flawlessness is in it. Injury and welt, and smiting raw; they are not pressed out, nor bound up, nor made tender with oil."

¹⁰ Hear the word of Yahweh, captains of Sodom! Give ear to the law of Elohim, you people of Gomorrah!" ¹¹ Why, to Me, your many sacrifices?saying is Yahweh. "I am surfeited with ascent approaches of rams, and the fat of fatlings, and in the blood of young bulls and he-lambs and he-goats I do not delight." ¹² In case you are coming to appear before Me--Who seeks this from your hand, to tramp My courts? ¹³ Do not continue to bring a futile approach present. Incense--it is an abhorrence to Me! The new moon and the sabbath, the calling of a meeting--! I cannot bear a fast and a day of restraint!" ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointments are hated by My soul. They become an encumbrance to Me. I am tired of bearing them. ¹⁵ And when you spread your palms to Me, I will obscure My eyes from you. Moreover, in case you are increasing your prayers, there is no hearing by Me. Your hands are full of blood. Amidst your fingers extrudes lawlessness."

¹² For a day for Yahweh of hosts is on everyone proud and high, and on everyone lifted up, and abased is he."

⁸ Woe to those touching house to house, bringing field near to field unto the limits of a place! That from an associate they may withdraw it, and it causes you to dwell all alone within the land!" ⁹ For it is heard in the ears of Yahweh of hosts:"Would not many houses great and good come to desolation from having no dweller? ¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard are yielding one bath, and a homer's seed is yielding an ephah."

⁷ The path for the righteous will be straightened. The upright round of the righteous wilt You balance.

¹⁰ who say to the seers, "You shall not direct us!And to the vision seers, "You shall not perceive correctives for us! Speak to us slick things, perceive trifles."

²¹ and your ears shall hear a word from behind you saying, "This is the way, go in it,in case you shall go right, and in case you shall go left."

¹⁵ He who goes in righteousness, and speaks equities, who rejects the gain of extortions, who shakes his palms from upholding a bribe, who contracts his ear from hearkening to blood plans, and restrains his eyes from seeing evil--" ¹⁶ he shall tabernacle on the heights, fastnesses of crags are his impregnable retreat. His bread shall be bestowed. His water shall be assured."

⁸ And there comes to be a highway and a clean one. And the holy way shall it be called. The unclean shall not pass there. And it shall be for those going that way, yet the dispersed shall not go astray on it, and the foolish shall not stray."

²⁰ Grazing on ashes, a trifling heart turns him aside. And he is not rescuing his soul, nor is he saying, "Is not a falsehood in my right hand?

⁴ My Lord Yahweh gives me the tongue of the taught, to know in season to counsel with a word. And He is rousing morning by morning, and He is rousing my ear to hear as the taught."

¹ Hearken to Me, pursuers of righteousness! And seekers of Yahweh! Look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the pierced cistern out of which you were picked."

⁷ Hearken to Me, knowers of righteousness, My people with My law in their heart. You must not fear the reproach of a mortal, and by their taunts you must not be dismayed."

³ Stretch out your ear and go to Me; hear Me, and your soul shall live in good. And I will contract with you a covenant eonian, the kindnesses of David that are faithful."

⁸ For not as My devices are your devices, and not as your ways are My ways,averring is Yahweh." ⁹ For as the heavens are loftier than the earth, so are My ways loftier than your ways, and my devices than your devices."

¹⁴ And he says, "Heap up! Heap up the highway! Surface the way! Heave the stumbling block from the way of my people!"

¹¹ And you are guided by Yahweh continually, and He satisfies, on a garish day, your soul. And your bones will He liberate. And you become as a soaked garden, and as a vent of water whose waters are not defaulting."

⁸ For I, Yahweh, am a lover of judgment, and a hater of pillage by iniquity. And I give them their wage in truth, and a covenant eonian will I contract with them."

³ Yet the wicked one-- the slaying of a bull, to Me is as smiting a man, sacrificing a flockling is as breaking the neck of a cur, bringing up an approach present is as the blood of a swine, making a memorial of frankincense is as blessing lawlessness. Moreover, they choose their own ways, and in their abominations their soul delights."

¹⁴ Wash from evil your heart, O Jerusalem, That you may be saved, Till when do you lodge in your heart Thoughts of your strength?

³ Yahweh, Your eyes, are they not on stedfastness? You have smitten them, and they have not grieved, You have consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back."

²⁰ Why [is] this to Me? frankincense from Sheba comes, And the sweet cane from a land afar off, Your burnt-offerings [are] not for acceptance, And your sacrifices have not been sweet to Me."

²¹ Thus said Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat you flesh." ²² For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice, ²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying:Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for Elohim, And you--you are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you."

¹⁷ For Mine eyes [are] upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor has their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes."

¹⁰ I Yahweh do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings." ¹¹ A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, [Is] one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he does forsake it, And in his latter end--he is a fool."

⁸ And unto this people you do say, Thus said Yahweh:Lo, I am setting before you the way of life, And the way of death!"

²⁴ Is any one hidden in secret places, And I see him not? an affirmation of Yahweh, Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? An affirmation of Yahweh."

¹⁹ Great in counsel, and mighty in act, in that Your eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of Adam, to give to each according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:"

⁴ `And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying:I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated--"

¹³ In your uncleanness [is] wickedness, Because I have cleansed you, And you have not been cleansed, From your uncleanness you are not cleansed again, Till I have caused My fury to rest on you." ¹⁴ I, Yahweh, has spoken, It has come, and I have done [it], I do not free, nor do I spare, nor do I repent, According to your ways, and according to your acts, they have judged you, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh.'"

²⁰ Yet when his heart was exalted and his spirit was mightily arrogant, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and they caused his esteem to pass away from him:"

³ And we shall know--we shall pursue to know Yahweh; as the dawn is prepared we shall find Him, and He will come to us as a downpour, as the latter rain and the former rain of the land."

¹ Ephraim is grazing on wind and is pursuing the east wind. The entire day he is increasing lying and futility, and they are contracting a covenant with Assyria, and oil is being fetched to Egypt."

¹⁰ They hate the corrector in the gateway, and they are abhorring the one speaking flawlessly."

²¹ I hate, I reject your celebrations, and I will not smell the approach presents in your days of restraint." ²² For if you bring up to Me ascent approaches or approach presents, I will not accept them. And on the peace approaches of your fatlings I will not look."

¹³ You are of cleaner eyes than to see evil, and to look at toil You are not able. Why are You looking at the treacherous, are silent when the wicked swallow one up more righteous than he?

⁹ Woe to him gaining an evil gain for his house in order to place his nest in the height, to be rescued from the clutch of evil!" ¹⁰ You counsel shame for your house to cut away many peoples, and are sinning against your soul, ¹¹ for the stone from the sidewall shall cry out, and the knot from the timber shall answer it."

³ And he is saying to me, This is the execration which is faring forth over the surface of the entire land, for every thief, henceforth as death doomed shall be visited with vengeance, and every swearer, henceforth as death doomed shall be visited with vengeance." ⁴ I will bring it forth, (averring is Yahweh of hosts), and it enters into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears in My name falsely, and it lodges in the midst of his house, and it consumes it and its timbers and its stones."

² Yet the Sun of righteousness shall radiate to you who fear My name, and healing is in its wings. And you shall come forth, and you prance as calves of the stall."

⁹ "Happy are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

¹³ Enter through the cramped gate, for broad is the gate and spacious is the way which is leading away into destruction, and many are those entering through it." ¹⁴ Yet what a cramped gate and narrowed way is the one leading away into life, and few are those who are finding it."

²⁴ Everyone, then, who is hearing these sayings of Mine and is doing them shall be likened to a prudent man who builds his house on the rock." ²⁵ And the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blow and they lunge at that house, and it does not fall, for it had been founded on the rock." ²⁶ And everyone who is hearing these sayings of Mine and not doing them shall be likened to a stupid man who builds his house on sand." ²⁷ And the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blow and they dash against that house, and it falls: and the fall of it was great."

²⁷ What I am saying to you in the darkness, say in the light. And what you hearing in the ear, herald on the housetops."

³⁴ Progeny of vipers! How can you be speaking what is good, being wicked? For out of the superabundance of the heart the mouth is speaking."

³⁴ Progeny of vipers! How can you be speaking what is good, being wicked? For out of the superabundance of the heart the mouth is speaking." ³⁵ The good man out of his good treasure is extracting good things; and the wicked man out of his wicked treasure is extracting wicked things. ³⁶ Now I am saying to you that, for every idle declaration which men shall be speaking, they shall be rendering an account concerning it in the day of judging." ³⁷ For by your words shall you be justified, and by your words shall you be convicted."

¹⁹ For out of the heart are coming wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, prostitutions, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies."

⁴ Again he dispatches other slaves, saying, 'Say to those invited, "Lo! my luncheon have I made ready, my bulls and grain-fed animals have been sacrificed, and all is ready: Hither for the wedding festivities!"'"

⁴⁶ And these shall be coming away into chastening eonian, yet the just into life eonian."

¹⁸ And, approaching, Jesus speaks to them saying, "Given to Me was all authority in heaven and on the earth." ¹⁹ Going, then, disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to be keeping all, whatever I direct you. And lo! I am with you all the days till the conclusion of the eon! Amen!"

¹⁵ And He said to them, "Go into all the world; herald the evangel to the entire creation."

¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, "Fear not, for lo! I am bringing you an evangel of great joy which will be for the entire people, ¹¹ for today was brought forth to you a Saviour, Who is Christ, the Lord, ¹² in the city of David. And this is the sign to you: you will be finding a Babe, swaddled and lying in a manger." ¹³ And suddenly with the messenger there came to be a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, ¹⁴ Glory to God among the Highest! And on earth peace, Among men, delight!" ¹⁵ And it occurred, as the messengers came away from them into heaven, that the shepherds spoke to one another, saying, "By all means we may be passing through to Bethlehem, and we may be perceiving this declaration which has come to pass, which the Lord makes known to us." ¹⁶ And they came hurrying, and they found both Miriam and Joseph, and the Babe lying in the manger." ¹⁷ Now, perceiving it, they make known concerning the declaration that is spoken to them concerning this little Boy." ¹⁸ And all who marvel concerning that which is being spoken to them by the shepherds. ¹⁹ Now Miriam preserved all these declarations, parleying them in her heart."

¹¹ For everyone exalting himself shall be humbled, and humbling himself shall be exalted."

²³ And bring the grain-fed calf, sacrifice it, and, eating, we may make merry,

²⁴ Yet Jesus Himself did not entrust Himself to them, because of His knowing all men, ²⁵ for He had no need that anyone should be testifying concerning mankind, for He knew what was in mankind."

¹⁸ He who is believing in Him is not being judged; yet he who is not believing has been judged already, for he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God." ¹⁹ Now this is the judging: that the light has come into the world, and men love the darkness rather than the light, for their acts were wicked." ²⁰ For everyone who is committing bad things is hating the light and is not coming to the light, lest his acts may be exposed."

²⁰ For everyone who is committing bad things is hating the light and is not coming to the light, lest his acts may be exposed." ²¹ Now he who is doing the truth is coming to the light that his acts may be made manifest, for they have been wrought in God."

²⁴ God is spirit, and those who are worshiping Him must be worshiping in spirit and truth."

⁷ The world can not be hating you, yet Me it is hating, for I am testifying concerning it that its acts are wicked."

³¹ We are aware that God is not hearing sinners, but if anyone should be a reverer of God and doing His will, him He is hearing."

¹ Let not your heart be disturbed. Believe in God, and believe in Me."

⁶ Jesus is saying to him, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one is coming to the Father except through Me."

³ Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in Me. I also am in you. According as the branch can not be bringing forth fruit from itself, if it should not be remaining in the grapevine, thus neither you, if you should not be remaining in Me."

¹⁷ He is saying to him the third time, "Simon of John, are you fond of Me?Peter was sorry that He said to him the third time "Are you fond of Me?and he is saying to Him, "Lord, Thou art aware of all things! Thou knowest that I am fond of Thee.And Jesus is saying to him, "Graze My little sheep!"

¹ Now in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came to be a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were overlooked in the daily dispensation." ² Now the twelve, calling the multitude of the disciples to them, say, "It is not pleasing for us, leaving the word of God, to be serving at tables." ³ Now, brethren, pick out seven attested men from among you, full of the spirit and of wisdom, whom we will place over this need." ⁴ Yet we shall be persevering in prayer and the dispensation of the word." ⁵ And, pleased by the word spoken before the entire multitude, they choose Stephen, a man full of faith and holy spirit, and Philip and Prochoros and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicholas, a proselyte of Antioch,

²⁵ Now at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and sang hymns to God. Now the prisoners listened to them.

¹¹ Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who receive the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures day by day, to see if these have it thus."

⁹ Now the Lord said to Paul, in the night, through a vision, "Fear not! but be speaking; and you should not be silent, ¹⁰ because I am with you, and no one shall place hands on you to illtreat you, because there are many people of Mine in this city."

² through Whom we have the access also, by faith, into this grace in which we stand, and we may be glorying in expectation of the glory of God." ³ Yet not only so, but we may be glorying also in afflictions, having perceived that affliction is producing endurance,

¹¹ Yet not only so, but we are glorying also in God, through our Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom we now obtained the conciliation."

²⁶ Now, similarly, the spirit also is aiding our infirmity, for what we should be praying for, to accord with what must be, we are not aware, but the spirit itself is pleading for us with inarticulate groanings." ²⁷ Now He Who is searching the hearts is aware what is the disposition of the spirit, for in accord with God is it pleading for the saints."

¹⁴ How, then, should they be invoking One in Whom they do not believe? Yet how should they be believing One of Whom they do not hear? Yet how should they be hearing apart from one heralding? ¹⁵ Yet how should they be heralding if ever they should not be commissioned? According as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those bringing an evangel of good! ¹⁶ But not all obey the evangel, for Isaiah is saying, "Lord, who believes our tidings? ¹⁷ Consequently, faith is out of tidings, yet the tidings through a declaration of Christ."

¹² rejoicing in expectation, enduring affliction, persevering in prayer,

¹⁸ For I am not daring to speak any of what Christ does not effect through me for the obedience of the nations, in word and work, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and miracles, in the power of God's spirit, so that, from Jerusalem and around unto Illyricum, I have completed the evangel of the Christ." ²⁰ Yet thus I am ambitious to be bringing the evangel where Christ is not named lest I may be building on another's foundation, ²¹ but, according as it is written, "They who were not informed concerning Him shall see, And they who have not heard shall understand."

⁵ seeing that, according as the sufferings of Christ are superabounding in us, thus, through Christ, our consolation also is superabounding."

¹² For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, yet more superabundantly toward you."

⁷ So that, on the contrary, you are rather to deal graciously and console, lest somehow such may be swallowed up by the more excessive sorrow."

¹⁰ as sorrowing, yet ever rejoicing, as poor, yet enriching many, as having nothing, and retaining all."

¹⁰ For sorrow according to God is producing repentance for unregretted salvation, yet the sorrow of the world is producing death."

¹² that you were, in that era, apart from Christ, being alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and guests of the promise covenants, having no expectation, and without God in the world." ¹³ Yet now, in Christ Jesus, you, who once are far off, are become near by the blood of Christ."

²⁹ Let no tainted word at all be issuing out of your mouth, but if any is good toward needful edification, that it may be giving grace to those hearing."

¹⁵ Be observing accurately, then, brethren, how you are walking, not as unwise, but as wise,

¹ If, then, there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any compassion and pity,

⁵ For let this disposition be in you, which is in Christ Jesus also, ⁶ Who, being inherently in the form of God, deems it not pillaging to be equal with God, ⁷ nevertheless empties Himself, taking the form of a slave, coming to be in the likeness of humanity, ⁸ and, being found in fashion as a human, He humbles Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." ⁹ Wherefore, also, God highly exalts Him, and graces Him with the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee should be bowing, celestial and terrestrial and subterranean, ¹¹ and every tongue should be acclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord, for the glory of God, the Father."

²² Now you know his testedness, that, as a child with a father, he slaves with me for the evangel."

²⁰ For our realm is inherent in the heavens, out of which we are awaiting a Saviour also, the Lord, Jesus Christ,

¹ If, then, you were roused together with Christ, be seeking that which is above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God." ² Be disposed to that which is above, not to that on the earth,

³ If anyone is teaching differently and is not approaching with sound words, even those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching in accord with devoutness,

⁶ Now devoutness with contentment is great capital;

¹¹ Now you, O man of God, flee from these things: yet pursue righteousness, devoutness, faith, love, with endurance, suffering, and meekness."

² And what things you hear from me through many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also."

²² Now youthful desires flee: yet pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with all who are invoking the Lord out of a clean heart."

³ For the era will be when they will not tolerate sound teaching, but, their hearing being tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers in accord with their own desires, "

¹⁰ For many are insubordinate, vain praters and imposters, especially those of the Circumcision, ¹¹ who must be gagged, who are subverting whole households, teaching what they must not, on behalf of sordid gain."

¹³ This testimony is true. For which cause be exposing them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁵ Speak of these things and entreat and expose with every injunction. Let no one slight you.

¹³ And there is not a creature which is not apparent in its sight. Now all is naked and bare to the eyes of Him to Whom we are accountable.

²⁶ deeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked away to the reward."

¹⁵ supervising, that no one be wanting of the grace of God, nor any root of bitterness, sprouting up, may be annoying you, and through this the majority may be defiled,

¹⁹ Now you are aware, my beloved brethren! Yet let every man be swift to hear, tardy to speak, tardy to anger, ²⁰ for the anger of man is not working the righteousness of God.

²² Now become doers of the word, and not only listeners, beguiling yourselves."

²⁷ for ritual clean and undefiled with God the Father is this: to be visiting the bereaved and widowed in their affliction, to be keeping oneself unspotted from the world."

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of injustice. The tongue is constituted among our members that which is spotting the whole body, and setting the wheel of our lineage aflame, and is set aflame by Gehenna."

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of injustice. The tongue is constituted among our members that which is spotting the whole body, and setting the wheel of our lineage aflame, and is set aflame by Gehenna." ⁷ For every nature, both of wild beasts and flying creatures, both of reptiles and those of the salt sea, is tamed and has been tamed by human nature." ⁸ Yet the tongue can no man tame - a turbulent evil, distended with death-carrying venom."

¹³ Who is wise and an adept among you? Let him show his works by an ideal behavior in meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ Now if you are having bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, are you not vaunting against and falsifying the truth? ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but terrestrial, soulish, demoniacal. " ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and faction are, there is turbulence also, and every bad practice."

¹⁰ Be humbled, then, in the Lord's sight, and He shall be exalting you."

¹ Come now, you rich, lament, howling for your wretchedness which is coming on you! " ² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become food for moths. ³ Your gold and silver corrode and their venom will be for a testimony against you, and the venom will be eating your flesh as fire. You hoard in the last days."

¹⁶ Then confess sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The operative petition of the just is availing much." ¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like emotions with us, and he prays in prayer for it not to rain, and it does not rain on the land three years and six months." ¹⁸ And again he prays, and heaven gives a shower and the earth germinates her fruit."

⁶ in which you are exulting; briefly at present, if it must be, being sorrowed by various trials, ⁷ that the testing of your faith, much more precious than gold which is perishing, yet, being tested by fire, may be found for applause and glory and honor at the unveiling of Jesus Christ, ⁸ Whom, not perceiving, you are loving; in Whom, not seeing at present, yet believing, you are exulting with joy unspeakable and glorious,

¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the just And His ears are for their petition, Yet the face of the Lord is on evil doers."

¹⁵ yet hallow the Lord Christ in your hearts, ever ready with a defense for everyone who is demanding from you an account concerning the expectation in you, but with meekness and fear,

¹³ but, according as you are participating in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that you may be rejoicing, exulting in the unveiling of His glory also."

⁵ Likewise, younger men may be subject to the elder, yet all wear the servile apron of humility with one another, for God "is resisting the proud, yet is giving grace to the humble."

¹⁸ For, uttering pompous vanity, they are luring by the lusts of the flesh, in wantonness, those who are scarcely fleeing from those who are behaving with deception;"

¹⁸ Yet be growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory now, as well as for the day of the eon. Amen!"

¹⁹ Out of us they come, but they were not of us, for if they were of us, they would have remained with us. But it was that they may be manifested that they are not all of us. "

¹⁶ And we know and believe the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who is remaining in love is remaining in God, and God is remaining in him."

¹⁸ and the Living One: and I became dead, and lo! living am I for the eons of the eons. (Amen!) And I have the keys of death and of the unseen."

⁷ '"Who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit is saying to the ecclesias. "'"To the one who is conquering, to him will I be granting to be eating of the log of life which is in the center of the paradise of God."'"

²³ And her children shall I be killing with death, and all the ecclesias shall know that I an He Who is searching the kidneys and hearts. And I will be giving to each of you in accord with your acts."

¹⁹ '"Whosoever I may be fond of, I am exposing and disciplining. Be zealous, then, and repent!"

²³ And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should be appearing in it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lambkin."

⁵ And night shall be no more, and they have no need of lamplight and sunlight, for the Lord God shall be illuminating them. And they shall be reigning for the eons of the eons."