Psalms Cross References - CLV

¹ Happy is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Who neither stands in the way of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of mockers. ² But rather his delight is in the law of Yahweh, And he is soliloquizing from His law by day and night. ³ So he comes to be like a tree transplanted by rillets of water, That yields its fruit in its season, And its leaf does not decay; Hence all that he does shall prosper. ⁴ Not so the wicked, But rather they are like the trash that the wind whisks away. ⁵ Therefore, the wicked shall not rise up in judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. ⁶ For Yahweh is knowing the way of the righteous, Yet the way of the wicked, it shall perish.

²⁴ And walking is Enoch with the Elohim. And not found is he, for taken was he by the Elohim.

³ And seeing is his lord that Yahweh is with him and that all that he is doing Yahweh is prospering in his hand.

²³ Naught is the chief of the round-house prison seeing of all that is in his hand, in that Yahweh is with him, and all that he is doing Yahweh is prospering.

⁶ Into their deliberation you must not come, my soul! And in their assembly you must not contend, my glory. For in their anger they killed men, and in their acceptance they felled a chief.

²⁷ If by this you should not hearken to Me and go contrary to Me, ²⁸ then I will go contrary to you in fury. And I Myself, indeed, will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.

² And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you in case you should hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim. ³ Blessed be you in the city, and blessed be you in the field. ⁴ Blessed be the fruit of your belly, the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beast, the calving of your domestic animals and the lambing of your flock. ⁵ Blessed be your basket and your kneading-trough. ⁶ Blessed be you in your coming in, and blessed be you in your going forth. ⁷ Yahweh shall make your enemies who are rising against you to be struck down before you. By a single road shall they come forth to you, and by seven roads shall they flee before you. ⁸ Yahweh shall instruct the blessing to be with you in your granaries and in every undertaking of your hand, and He will bless you in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you. ⁹ Yahweh shall raise you as a people holy to Himself, just as He had sworn to you, in case you should observe the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim, and walk in His ways, ¹⁰ so that all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of Yahweh is proclaimed over you, and they will fear you. ¹¹ Then through the fruit of your belly, the fruit of your domestic beast and the fruit of your ground, Yahweh will give you surplus in goods on the ground about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers to give to you. ¹² Yahweh shall open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless every work of your hand. You will obligate many nations, yet you shall not borrow. ¹³ So Yahweh will make you to be the head and not the tail, and you will surely be above, and you shall not be below, in case you should hearken to the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim that I am enjoining on you today, to observe and to obey. ¹⁴ You shall not withdraw from any of the words which I am instructing you today, neither to the right nor left, to go after other elohim to serve them. ¹⁵ It will come to be if you do not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim to observe and to do all His instructions and His statutes that I am enjoining on you today, that all these maledictions will come on you and overtake you. ¹⁶ Cursed be you in the city, and cursed be you in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed be your basket and your kneading-trough. ¹⁸ Cursed be the fruit of your belly, the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beast, the calving of your domestic animals and the lambing of your flock. ¹⁹ Cursed be you in your coming in, and cursed be you in your going forth. ²⁰ Yahweh shall send the curse, the discomfiture and the rebuke on you in every undertaking of your hand that you shall do, until you are exterminated and you perish quickly, in view of the evil of your actions in which you have forsaken Me. ²¹ Yahweh shall cause the plague to cling to you until He finishes you off the ground where you are entering to tenant it. ²² Yahweh shall smite you with attenuation, with fever and inflammation, with hot heat and drought, with blasting and mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish. ²³ Your heavens that are over your head will come to be as copper, and the earth that is beneath you as iron. ²⁴ Yahweh shall make the rain of your land to be dust and soil-drifts; from the heavens it shall descend on you until you are exterminated. ²⁵ Yahweh shall make you to be struck down before your enemies. By a single road shall you go forth to them, and by seven roads shall you flee before them. So you will become an object of commotion to all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ Your carcass will become food for every flyer of the heavens and for the beast of the earth, and there will be no one causing them to tremble. ²⁷ Yahweh shall smite you with the boil of Egypt, with piles, with eczema and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. ²⁸ Yahweh shall smite you with madness, with blindness and with derangement of heart;" ²⁹ and you will come to be groping at noon just as the blind one gropes in the gloom, and you shall not prosper in your ways and will only become extorted and pillaged all the days, and there will be no saviour. ³⁰ A wife shall you betroth, yet another man shall ravish her. A house shall you build, yet you shall not dwell in it. A vineyard shall you plant, yet you shall not take it for profane use. ³¹ Your bull shall be slaughtered before your eyes, yet you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be snatched from before you, yet it shall not return to you. Your flock shall be given to your enemies, yet there will be no saviour for you. ³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall be staring and wasting away for them all the day, yet there will be nothing at the disposal of your hand. ³³ A people you do not know shall devour the fruit of your ground and all your labor, and you will surely be extorted and bruised all the days, ³⁴ so that you will become mad because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see. ³⁵ Yahweh shall smite you with an evil boil on both the knees and on both the legs, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot and unto your scalp. ³⁶ Yahweh shall conduct you and your king, whom you shall set up over you, to a nation whom you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, and you will serve there other elohim of wood and stone. ³⁷ You will become an object of astonishment, a proverb and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you. ³⁸ Much seed shall you bring forth to the field, yet little shall you gather, for the locust shall eat it up. ³⁹ You shall plant vineyards, and you will service them, yet you shall neither drink the wine, nor shall you hoard it, for the worm shall devour it. ⁴⁰ You shall come to have olives in all your territory, yet you shall not rub yourself with oil because your olives shall drop off. ⁴¹ You shall generate sons and daughters, yet they shall not become yours, for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² The cicada shall make all your trees and the fruit of your ground destitute. ⁴³ The sojourner who is among you shall ascend over you upward and upward, yet you shall descend downward and downward. ⁴⁴ He shall obligate you, yet you shall not obligate him. He shall become the head, and you shall become the tail. ⁴⁵ All the maledictions will come on you, and they will pursue you and overtake you until you are exterminated, for you would not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim to observe His instructions and His statutes that He enjoined on you. ⁴⁶ They will be a sign and a miracle against you and your seed until the eon. ⁴⁷ Inasmuch as you would not serve Yahweh your Elohim with rejoicing and with goodness of heart over the abundance of everything, ⁴⁸ then you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send forth against you, in famine and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of everything. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has exterminated you. ⁴⁹ Yahweh shall lift up against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, just as the vulture swoops down, a nation whose tongue you have not heard, ⁵⁰ a nation strong of face who neither lifts the face of the old one with partiality nor is gracious to the youth. ⁵¹ It will devour the fruit of your beast and the fruit of your ground until you are exterminated, a nation who shall not let grain, grape juice or clarified oil, the calving of your domestic animals or the lambing of your flock remain for you, until it destroys you. ⁵² It will lay siege against you in all your gates until your lofty and defended walls in which you will be trusting come down in all your land; and he will lay siege against you in all your gates in all your land that Yahweh your Elohim will have given to you. ⁵³ Then you will eat the fruit of your own belly, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom Yahweh your Elohim will have given to you, in the siege and in the constraint with which your enemy shall constrain you. ⁵⁴ The tender-hearted man among you and the one very fastidious, his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the rest of his sons whom he shall have left, ⁵⁵ so as to keep from giving to one of them the flesh of his sons that he is eating because nothing at all remains for him in the siege and in the constraint with which your enemy shall constrain you in all your gates. ⁵⁶ The tender-hearted woman among you, and the fastidious one, who would not try to put the sole of her foot on the earth because of fastidiousness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter, ⁵⁷ even for her afterbirth coming forth from between her feet, even for her sons whom she is bearing, for she shall eat them for lack of everything, in concealment during the siege and during the constraint with which your enemy shall constrain you in your gates. ⁵⁸ Should you not observe to obey all the words of this law, the ones written in this scroll, to fear the name of this glorified and fear-inspiring One, Yahweh your Elohim, ⁵⁹ then Yahweh will make your smitings and the smitings of your seed extraordinary:smitings that are great and constant, and illnesses that are bad and constant. ⁶⁰ Thus He will bring back to you every disease of Egypt from the presence of which you shrank away, and they will cling to you. ⁶¹ Moreover, every illness and every smiting that is not written in the scroll of this law, Yahweh shall bring them up on you until you are exterminated. ⁶² Thus you will remain few in adult males, whereas you would have become as the stars of the heavens for multitude, for you did not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim. ⁶³ So it will come to be, just as Yahweh was elated over you to bring you good and to let you increase, so Yahweh shall be elated over you to destroy you and to exterminate you, so that you will be swept away off the ground where you are entering to tenant it. ⁶⁴ And Yahweh will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth unto the other end of the earth. There you will serve other elohim, those of wood and stone which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. ⁶⁵ And among those nations you shall neither find respite, nor shall there be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh will give to you there a disturbed heart, a failure of the eyes and pining of the soul. ⁶⁶ Then your lives will come to be hung in suspense in front of you. You will be afraid by night and by day, and you shall not put trust in your lives. ⁶⁷ In the morning you shall say:O that it were evening! And in the evening you shall say:O that it were morning! because of the awe of your heart with which you shall be afraid and because of the sight of your eyes which you shall see. ⁶⁸ Then Yahweh will bring you back complaining to Egypt by the way of which I said to you:You should not again see it further. There you will put yourselves up for sale to your enemies as servants and as maids, yet there will be no buyer.

²⁹ Happy are you, Israel! Who is like you? A people saved by Yahweh, the Shield of your Helper, Who is also the Sword of your augustness! Your enemies shall dissimulate submission to you, yet you, you shall tread on their fane heights.

⁷ `Only, be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; you do not turn aside from it right or left, so that you do act wisely in every [place] whither you go;" ⁸ the book of this law does not depart out of your mouth, and you have meditated in it by day and by night, so that you do observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you do cause your way to prosper, and then you do act wisely.

⁸ the book of this law does not depart out of your mouth, and you have meditated in it by day and by night, so that you do observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you do cause your way to prosper, and then you do act wisely.

³¹ And it comes to pass--has it been light his walking in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat? --then he takes a wife, Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and goes and serves Baal, and bows himself to it,

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.

³ he also has walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother has been his counsellor to do wickedly.

²¹ and in every work that he has begun for the service of the house of Elohim, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his Elohim, with all his heart he has wrought and prospered.

²³ and many are bringing in an offering to Yahweh, to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, and he is lifted up before the eyes of all the nations after this.

³ Is it good to You that You should work harm, That You should reject the labor of Your palms, And that You shine on the counsel of the wicked?

⁹ At the scent of water it shall bud, And it produces harvest branches like a plant.

¹⁶ Behold, is not their good in their hand? (Still, the counsel of the wicked is far from me..

¹⁸ Do they become like crushed straw before the wind, Or like trash that the sweeping whirlwind steals away?

¹⁰ But He knows the way with me; He tests me, and I shall go forth like gold.

¹² From the instruction of His lips I do not remove myself; I have secluded in my bosom the sayings of His mouth.

⁵ If I have walked with hypocrisy, And my foot has hurried after decei.

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

¹² Bear admonition lest He should be angry, And you should perish in the way, For His anger shall consume speedily. Happy are all those taking refuge in Him.

⁵ No boasters may set themselves up in front of Your eyes; You hate all contrivers of lawlessness;

⁶ As for the enemy, they will come to end like permanent deserts, And You will eliminate their cities; their remembrance will perish with them. ⁷ Yet Yahweh, He shall sit enthroned for the eon; He will establish His throne for judgment, ⁸ And He shall judge the habitance with justice; He shall adjudicate the national groups with equity.

¹⁶ Yahweh is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked are trapped by the deed of His palms. {Chant, Interlude{ "

³ Who shall ascend into the mountain of Yahweh, And who shall rise in His holy place?

⁴ I have not sat with men of hypocrisy, And with dissemblers I shall not enter." ⁵ I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And with the wicked I shall not sit."

⁹ Do not gather up my soul with sinners Or my life with bloodthirsty men,

¹² My foot has stood on level ground; In the assemblies, I shall bless You, O Yahweh."

¹ {Davidic{ {Contemplating{ Happy is he whose transgression is lifted away, Whose sin is covered over!" ² Happy is the human to whom Yahweh is not reckoning depravity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit!"

⁸ Taste and see that Yahweh is good; Happy is the master who takes refuge in Him.

⁵ May they become like trash before the wind, With a messenger of Yahweh expelling them."

⁴ He devises lawlessness on his bed; He stations himself on a pathway that is not good; He does not reject what is evil.

¹⁸ Yahweh is knowing the days of the flawless, And their allotment shall be for the eon." ¹⁹ They shall not be ashamed in an evil season, And in days of famine, they shall be satisfied." ²⁰ But the wicked, they shall perish, even the enemies of Yahweh, Like the precious bloom of the meadows, they will vanish; Like smoke they will vanish." ²¹ The wicked one is borrowing, but he does not repay, Yet the just one is generous and giving." ²² For those being blessed by Him shall tenant the land, Yet those being maledicted by Him shall be cut off." ²³ By Yahweh are the steps of a master prepared, And in His way shall he delight." ²⁴ Though he should fall, he shall not be cast forth, For Yahweh is supporting his hand."

⁸ I delight to do what is acceptable to You, my Elohim, And Your law is in the midst of my internal parts."

² Conceal me from the deliberation of evildoers, From the foregathering of the contrivers of lawlessness,

¹² So I let them go in the obduracy of their own heart; They went in their own counsels.

¹² O Yahweh of hosts, Happy is the human trusting in You. {Permanent{ "

¹ {Contemplating, For Heman the Ezrahite{ O Yahweh, Elohim of my salvation, By day I cry out, Even in the night in front of You."

¹⁴ They shall still produce when greyhaired; They shall be sleek and flourishing,

³⁴ May my meditation be congenial to Him; I shall rejoice in Yahweh.

³ Happy are those keeping right judgment, Executing righteousness in every era."

¹ {Praise Yah{ Happy is the man who fears Yahweh; In His instructions he very much delights.

¹⁰ The wicked one, he shall see and be vexed; He shall gnash his teeth and melt away. The yearning of the wicked shall perish."

¹² Yahweh, He remembers us; He shall bless us; He shall bless the house of Israel; He shall bless the house of Aaron;" ¹³ He shall bless those fearing Yahweh, The small with the great." ¹⁴ May Yahweh add to you, To you and to your sons." ¹⁵ Blessed be you by Yahweh, Maker of the heavens and earth."

¹ Happy are those whose way is flawless, Who are walking in the law of Yahweh."

¹ Happy are those whose way is flawless, Who are walking in the law of Yahweh." ² Happy are those preserving His testimonies; With all their heart, they are seeking after Him."

¹¹ In my heart have I stored up Your promise, That I may not sin against You."

¹⁵ I will meditate in Your precepts, And I will scrutinize Your paths." ¹⁶ In Your statutes am I reveling; I am not forgetting Your word.

³⁵ Cause me to tread in the track of Your instructions, For I delight in it."

⁴⁷ For I am reveling in Your instructions Which I love. ⁴⁸ Thus I am lifting my palms unto Your instructions that I love, And I will meditate on Your statutes."

⁷² Better to me is the law of Your mouth Than thousands of gold and silver.

⁹² Unless Your law had been my delectation, Then I would have perished in my humiliation."

⁹⁷ How I love Your law! The entire day it is my meditation. ⁹⁸ Your instruction makes me wiser than my enemies, For it is with me for the eon." ⁹⁹ I have gained insight more than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation."

¹¹⁵ Go away from me, you evildoers; I will preserve the instructions of my Elohim."

² The fruit of the labor of your palms shall you surely eat; Happy are you, and it will be well for you."

⁸ And those passing by do not even say, Yahweh's blessing be on you. Yet we do bless you all in the Name of Yahweh."

¹ {A Davidic Psalm{ O Yahweh, You have investigated me and are knowing me;" ² You Yourself know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar;

³ When my spirit droops within me, Then it is You Yourself Who knows my tracks; In the path that I am walking, They have buried a snare for me."

¹⁵ Happy is the people for whom it is thus; Happy is the people whose Elohim is Yahweh.

⁵ Happy is he who has the El of Jacob as his Help; His hopefulness is set on Yahweh his Elohim,

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

¹⁵ My son, do not walk in the way with them; Withhold your foot from their track."

²² How long, O simple ones, shall you love simplicity, And mockers covet their mocking, And the stupid hate knowledge?

¹² So as to rescue you from the way of evil, From the man who is speaking duplicity,

³⁴ If as to mockers, He Himself mocks, So as to the humble, He gives grace."

¹⁴ In the path of the wicked, do not enter, And do not progress along the way of evil men." ¹⁵ Renounce it; do not pass within it; Swerve from it, and pass on."

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

¹² If you are wise, you are wise to your gain, And if you mock, you shall bear the results by yourself alone."

¹⁵ Goodness of intelligence produces favor, Yet the way of the treacherous brings calamity."

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

¹² There is a way that seems straight before a man, Yet the ways of death are the end of it."

⁹ An abhorrence to Yahweh is the way of the wicked one, Yet the one pursuing righteousness He loves."

²⁹ Judgments are prepared for mockers And beatings for the body of the stupid.

¹⁰ Say to the righteous that good is his portion, for the fruit of their actions are they eating."

¹³ The folkstems shall be tumulted as the tumult of many waters, yet He rebukes them, and they flee far off, and they will be pursued as the trash of the winnowers before the wind, and as a tumbleweed before a sweeping whirlwind."

¹¹ when its grass is dry. Women shall look forward, coming to enlighten it, for it is not a people of understanding. Therefore no compassion is its Maker showing to it, and its Former will not be gracious to it."

⁵ And, as thin powder, comes the throng of your foes, and, as passing trash, the throng of the terrifiers. And it comes for an instant,

⁴ And they will sprout as grass between water, as oleanders by runnels of water."

¹⁶ Your words have been found, and I eat them, And Your word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Your name is called on me, O Yahweh, Elohim of Hosts." ¹⁷ I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of your hand, --Alone I have sat, For [with] indignation You have filled me."

⁷ Blessed [is] the man who trusts in Yahweh, And whose confidence has been Yahweh." ⁸ And has been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sends forth his roots, And he does not see when heat comes, And his leaf has been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor does he cease from making fruit."

⁸ On a good field, by many waters, it is planted, To make branches, and to bear fruit, To be for an goodly vine."

¹⁰ Your mother [is] as a vine in your blood by waters planted, Fruitful and full of boughs it has been, Because of many waters."

¹⁸ And I say to their sons in the wilderness:In the statutes of your fathers you walk not, And their judgments you do not observe, And with their idols you are not defiled."

¹² And by the stream there comes up on its edge, on this side and on that side, every [kind of] fruit-tree whose leaf fades not, and not consumed is its fruit, according to its months it yields first-fruits, because its waters from the sanctuary are coming forth; and its fruits has been for food, and its leaf for medicine."

³ Wherefore they shall become as a cloud of the morning, and as the early going night mist; as trash which is being tempest-tossed, and as smoke from a crevice."

⁷ Yahweh is good for a stronghold in the day of distress, and He is knowing those taking refuge in Him."

¹⁸ And you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between a servant of Elohim and him who does not serve Him."

¹² Whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will be scouring His threshing floor, and will be gathering His grain into His barn, yet the chaff will He be burning up with unextinguished fire."

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."

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."

⁶ Yet at the rising of the sun, it is scorched, and, because it has no root, it is withered."

⁴⁹ Thus shall it be in the conclusion of the eon. The messengers will be coming out and they will be severing the wicked from the midst of the just.

¹⁷ Now, answering, Jesus said to him, "Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood does not reveal it to you, but My Father Who is in the heavens."

¹⁹ And, perceiving one fig tree on the roadside, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And He is saying to it, "No longer, by any means, may fruit be coming of you for the eon.And withered instantly is the fig tree."

³⁴ Now when the season of the fruits draws near, he dispatches his slaves to the farmers to be getting his fruits."

⁴¹ They are saying to Him, "Evil men! Evilly will he be destroying them, and the vineyard will he be leasing to other farmers, who will be rendering the fruits to him in their seasons."

³² and in front of Him shall be gathered all the nations. And He shall be severing them from one another even as a shepherd is severing the sheep from the kids.

⁴¹ Then shall He be declaring to those also at His left, 'Go from Me, you cursed, into the fire eonian, made ready for the Adversary and his messengers."

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

³⁷ and she is a widow till she is eighty-four years) who does not withdraw from the sanctuary, with fasts and petitions offering divine service night and day."

²⁸ Yet He said, "Indeed then, happy are those who are hearing the word of God and maintaining it!"

⁷ Yet should not God by all means be doing the avenging of His chosen ones, who are imploring Him day and night? And He is patient with them."

³⁶ Now be vigilant, on every occasion beseeching that you may be prevailing to escape all these things which are about to occur, and to stand in front of the Son of Mankind."

⁵¹ (he has not concurred in their counsel and what they had committed), from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, and who also himself anticipated the kingdom of God-"

¹⁴ I am the Shepherd ideal, and I know Mine and Mine know Me,

²⁷ My sheep are hearing My voice, and I know them, and they are following Me."

¹⁷ If you are aware of these things, happy are you if you should be doing them!"

⁶ If anyone should not be remaining in Me, he was cast out as a branch, and it withered. And they are gathering them, and into the fire are they casting them, and they are being burned."

²⁹ Now Jesus is saying to him, "Seeing that you have seen Me, you have believed. Happy are those who are not perceiving and believe."

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."

²² For I am gratified with the law of God as to the man within,

¹³ Therefore take up the panoply of God that you may be enabled to withstand in the wicked day, and having effected all, to stand."

⁹ For you remember, brethren, our toil and labor: working night and day so as not to be burdensome to any of you, we herald to you the evangel of God."

¹⁵ On these things meditate. In these be, that your progress may be apparent to all."

³ Grateful am I to God, to Whom I am offering divine service from my ancestors with a clear conscience, as I have an unintermittent remembrance concerning you in my petitions, night and day,

¹⁹ Howbeit, the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: The Lord knew those who are His, and, Let everyone who is naming the name of the Lord withdraw from injustice. "

³ For sufficient is the time which has passed by to have effected the intention of the nations, having gone on in wantonness, lusts, debauches, revelries, drinking bouts, and illicit idolatries,

¹² Now these, as irrational animals, born naturally for capture and corruption, calumniating that in which they are ignorant in their corruption, also shall be corrupted, "

³ For this is the love of God, that we may be keeping His precepts. And His precepts are not heavy,

¹² These are the reefs in your love feasts, carousing with you fearlessly, shepherding themselves; waterless clouds carried aside by winds; trees that are sear, unfruitful, twice dying, uprooted;"

¹⁵ to do judging against all, and to expose all the irreverent concerning all their irreverent acts in which they are irreverent, and concerning all the hard words which irreverent sinners speak against Him."

² In the center of its square, and on either side of the river, is the log of life, producing twelve fruits, rendering its fruit in accord with each month. And the leaves of the log are for the cure of the nations."

¹⁴ Happy are those who are rinsing their robes, that it will be their license to the log of life, and they may be entering the portals into the city."