Proverbs 24 Cross References - LITV

¹ Do not envy evil men, nor desire to be with them. ² For their heart studies violence, and their lips talk of mischief. ³ Through wisdom a house is built, and it is established by understanding, ⁴ and by knowledge the rooms shall be filled with precious and pleasant riches. ⁵ A wise warrior is in strength: yes, a man of knowledge firms up power. ⁶ For you shall make war for yourself by wise advice, and safety is in the great Counselor. ⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool, he does not open his mouth in the gate. ⁸ He who plots to do evil shall be called a lord of evil plots. ⁹ The plot of foolishness is sin, and the scorner is hateful to men. ¹⁰ Your strength is small if you faint in the day of distress, ¹¹ if you hold back to deliver those being taken to death, and those stumbling for killing. ¹² For you say, Behold, we did not know this. Does not He who weighs the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He not know? Yea, He repays to a man according to his work. ¹³ My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate; ¹⁴ so shall knowledge of wisdom be to your soul, when you have found there is a future, and your hope is not cut off. ¹⁵ Oh wicked one, do not lie in ambush against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violate his resting place, ¹⁶ for a just one falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked shall stumble into evil. ¹⁷ Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles, ¹⁸ that Jehovah not see and it be evil in His eyes, and He turn away His anger from him. ¹⁹ Do not burn in anger because of evildoers, and do not envy the wicked; ²⁰ for no hereafter shall be to the evil; the lamp of the wicked will be put out. ²¹ My son, fear Jehovah and the king; do not meddle with those who change, ²² for their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of both of them? ²³ These also are for the wise: to respect persons in judgment is not good. ²⁴ He who says to the wicked, You are righteous, the peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him. ²⁵ But to those who rebuke, it is pleasant, and a good blessing comes to them. ²⁶ He shall kiss the lips that return right words. ²⁷ Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field, and afterwards build your house. ²⁸ Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, or deceive with your lips,. ²⁹ Do not say, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay each according to his work. ³⁰ I went over the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man lacking heart, ³¹ and, lo, it was all risen up with thistles, nettles had covered its surface, and its stone wall was broken down. ³² Then I saw, I set my heart on it; I looked, I received instruction: ³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down, ³⁴ so shall your poverty come stalking, and your want like a man with a shield.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan, that it was well-watered before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar. ¹¹ Then Lot chose all the circuit of Jordan for himself. And Lot pulled up toward the east. And they were separated, each one from his brother. ¹² And Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the circuit, and tented as far as Sodom. ¹³ And the men of Sodom were evil and sinners before Jehovah, exceedingly so.

¹ And the two angels came into Sodom at evening. And Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw, and he rose up to meet them and bowed his face to the earth. ² And he said, Behold, now, my lords, please turn into your servant's house and lodge, and wash your feet; and rise early and go to your way. And they said, No, for we will lodge in the street. ³ And he much urged them, and they turned into him and came into his house. And he made a feast for them. And he baked unleavened cakes, and they ate. ⁴ Before they had laid down, even the men of the city, the men of Sodom, circled the house; from the young to the aged, all the people from its limits. ⁵ And they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them. ⁶ And Lot went out to them, to the door, and he closed the door behind him. ⁷ And he said, My brothers, please do not act evilly. ⁸ Behold, now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please let me bring them out to you and do to them as you see fit; only do not do a thing to these men, because on account of this they came into the shade of my roof. ⁹ And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came into visit, and must he always judge? Now we will do evil to you rather than to them. And they pressed on the man, upon Lot violently, and drew near to break the door. ¹⁰ But the men put out their hands and pulled Lot to them, into the house, and shut the door. ¹¹ And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, from the small to the great; and they struggled to find the door.

⁹ Do not take away my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men,

¹ A Psalm of David. Do not inflame yourself with evildoers; and do not be envious against workers of perversity;

⁷ Rest in Jehovah and wait patiently for Him; inflame not yourself with him who prospers in his way, with the man practicing evil wiles.

³ For I was jealous of the proud; I looked upon the peace of the wicked.

¹¹ If they say, Walk with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us secretly lurk for the innocent without cause, ¹² let us swallow them up alive as Sheol; and whole, as those who go down into the Pit, ¹³ we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; ¹⁴ cast in your lot among us; one purse shall be to all of us. ¹⁵ My son, do not walk in the way with them! Hold back your foot from their path;

³¹ Do not envy the cruel man, and choose not among all his ways.

²⁰ He who walks with the wise shall be wise, but one associating with fools shall be broken.

¹⁷ Do not let your heart envy sinners, but only be in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

¹⁹ Do not burn in anger because of evildoers, and do not envy the wicked;

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, fightings, jealousies, angers, rivalries, divisions, heresies, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, wild parties, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that the ones practicing such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

⁵ Or do you think that vainly the Scripture says, The spirit which has dwelt in us yearns to envy? No OT passage ⁶ But He gives greater grace. Because of this it says, "God sets Himself against proud ones, but He gives grace to humble ones." Prov. 3:34

⁹ But David knew that Saul was devising evil against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod near.

⁶ And it was light in his eyes to reach forth a hand against Mordecai alone; for they had revealed to him Mordecai's people. And Haman sought to destroy all the Jews in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai. ⁷ In the first month, it is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they made fall Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman day by day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, the month Adar.

³⁵ they conceive mischief and generate evil; and their belly prepares deceit.

¹⁴ Behold, he writhes with iniquity and he will conceive mischief: and he has fathered falsehood;

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and injury; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.

³ Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; who speak peace with their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts.

⁴ He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself on a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

⁴ so that they may shoot at the innocent from a lurking place; suddenly they shoot at him, and fear not. ⁵ They make themselves strong in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them? ⁶ They search into injustice, saying, We have finished a well laid plan. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are deep!

² who devises evil things in the heart; they gather wars all the day.

¹⁴ Perversity is in his heart; he is plotting evil at every time, he sends out strife.

⁸ He who plots to do evil shall be called a lord of evil plots.

⁴ No one calls for righteousness; and no one pleads with truth. Trusting emptiness, and speaking vanity, they conceive mischief, and give birth to evil.

³ Both palms are on evil, to do it well. The ruler is asking for a bribe, also the judge. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; he acts, and they weave it together.

³ Then the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people were assembled to the court of the high priest, the one named Caiaphas. ⁴ And they plotted together in order that they might seize Jesus by guile and kill Him .

²⁰ Then Pilate again called out, desiring to release Jesus. ²¹ But they shouted, saying, Crucify! Crucify him!

¹⁰ he said, O son of the Devil, full of all guile and of all cunning, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

²⁶ And Your name shall be great forever, saying, Jehovah of hosts is God over Israel, and the house of Your servant David is established before You.

¹ Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars;

¹ A wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her own hands.

¹² It is He who made the earth by His power, who established the world by His wisdom, and who stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

⁹ For we are fellow workers of God, a field of God, and you are a building of God.

⁷ having been rooted and built up in Him, and having been confirmed in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

²² And Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, ²³ ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides deer and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. ²⁴ For he had the rule over all on this side of the River, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side of the River. And he had peace on all sides from around him. ²⁵ And Judah and Israel lived securely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree; from Dan even to Beersheba all the days of Solomon. ²⁶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ²⁷ And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, a man in his month. they did not lack anything. ²⁸ They also brought barley and straw for the horses and mules to the place where the officers were, each man according to his charge.

²⁵ And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel. And Jehonathan the son of Uzziah was over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the strongholds. ²⁶ Ezri the son of Chelub was over those who did the work of the field for working the ground. ²⁷ Shimei of Ramah was over the vineyards. Zabdi the Shiphmite was over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars. ²⁸ And Baa-lhanan of Geder was over the olive trees and sycamore trees in the lowlands. And Joash was over the oil cellars. ²⁹ And Shitrai of Sharon was over the herds that fed in Sharon. And Shaphat the son of Adlai was over the herds in the valleys. ³⁰ And Obil the Ishmaelite was over the camels And Jehdeiah the Meronothite was over the asses. ³¹ And Jaziz the Hagerite was over the flocks All these were the rulers of the possessions which king David had.

² And with all my power I have prepared for the house of my God, the gold for things of gold, and the silver for silver, and the bronze for bronze, the iron for iron things, and the wood for wood, onyx stones, and settings, and also stones of antimony and of different colors, and every precious stone, and stones of alabaster, in abundance. ³ And also, because I delighted in the house of my God, I have treasure of gold and silver which I give for the house of my God, even more than all that I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary: ⁴ three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir; and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses; ⁵ even gold for things of gold, and silver for silver, and for all the work of the hands of the skilled workers. And who is he that will willingly offer to consecrate his hand today to Jehovah? ⁶ And the chiefs of the fathers, and the chiefs of the tribes of Israel, and the commanders of the thousands, and the hundreds, even the chiefs of the king's work, offered willingly, ⁷ and gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents, and a myriad of darics; and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. ⁸ And he having stones gave them to the treasury of the house of Jehovah, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. ⁹ And the people rejoiced because of their willing offering, for they offered willingly to Jehovah with a perfect heart; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

¹⁸ And Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance, so that the weight of the bronze could not be searched out. ¹⁹ And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, and the golden altar, and the tables on which the Bread of the Presence rested; ²⁰ and the lampstands, and their lamps, for their burning was according to the ordinance, before the holy place, of refined gold; ²¹ and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold (it was perfect gold). ²² and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the firepans, of pure gold; and the entrance to the house, its innermost doors to the Holy of Holies, and the doors of the house to the temple, of gold.

⁴ And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah did. ⁵ And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and in the days he sought Jehovah, God made him prosper. ⁶ And he went out and fought with the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities around Ashdod, and among the Philistines. ⁷ And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal, and the Meunim. ⁸ And the Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah; and his name spread abroad to the entrance of Egypt; for he became exceedingly strong. ⁹ And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, and at the Valley Gate, and at the Turning, and fortified them. ¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plain; also he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the earth. ¹¹ And Uzziah had an army making war, going out to the battle by troops, according to the number of their account by the. hand of Jeiel the scribe, and Maaseiah the superintendent under the hand of Hananiah, of the king's leaders.

³⁹ For the sons of Israel, and the sons of Levi, shall bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine, and the oil, to the rooms, and there shall be the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests ministering, and the gatekeepers and the singers. And we will not forsake the house of our God.

⁵ (and he had prepared for himself a large room where they had in days past laid the food offering, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the offerings of the priests). ⁶ But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem. For in the thirty second year of Artaxerxes the king of Babylon, I came to the king. And after some days I asked leave from the king. ⁷ And I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil which Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing a room for him in the courts of the house of God. ⁸ And it grieved me very much. And I threw all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room. ⁹ Then I commanded, and they purified the rooms. And I returned there the vessels of the house of God, with the food offering and the frankincense. ¹⁰ And I was aware that the portions of the Levites had not been given, for the Levites and the singers who did the work had each one fled to his field. ¹¹ Then I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them and set them in their place. ¹² Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, into the treasuries. ¹³ And I made treasurers over the treasuries: Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah. And next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah. For they were counted faithful, and on them was the duty to distribute to their brothers.

²¹ to cause those who love me to inherit wealth, and I will fill up their treasuries.

⁶ In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the gain of the wicked is tumult.

¹⁵ There is gold and a multitude of gems, but the lips of knowledge are a rare vessel.

²⁰ A desirable treasure and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man devours it.

²³ Know well the face of your flock; set your heart on your herds, ²⁴ for wealth is not forever, nor the crown from generation to generation. ²⁵ When the hay is removed, and the tender grass is seen, and the mountain plants are taken up, ²⁶ The lambs will be for your clothing, and the he goats the price for a field, ²⁷ and there will be goat's milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the life of your maidens.

⁵² And He said to them, Because of this, every scribe schooled to the kingdom of Heaven is like a man, a master of a house, who puts forth out of his treasure new and old.

⁷ They go from strength to strength, being seen in Zion before God.

¹⁴ Counsel and sound wisdom are mine; I am understanding; I have strength.

²⁹ The way of Jehovah is strength to the upright, but ruin is to workers of iniquity.

²² A wise one ascends the city of the mighty and topples the strength in which it trusts.

¹⁹ Wisdom makes the wise stronger than ten rulers who are in the city.

¹⁴ There was a little city, and few men in it. And a great king came against it, and besieged it, and built huge siege works against it. ¹⁵ And there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom saved the city. Yet no man remembered that poor man! ¹⁶ And I said, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. ¹⁷ The words of wise men are heard in quiet, more than the cry of one who rules among fools. ¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of conflict; but one sinner destroys much good.

³¹ but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew power; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!

¹¹ being empowered with all power according to the might of His glory, to all patience and longsuffering with joy;

¹⁴ Without guidance the people fall, but safety is in a great counselor.

²² Without counsel purposes are broken, but by many counselors they rise.

¹⁸ Purposes are established in counsel, and make war with wise guidance.

³¹ Or what king going to attack another king in war does not first sit down and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet those coming upon him with twenty thousands?

²⁵ But everyone striving controls himself in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ²⁶ So I run accordingly, as not uncertainly; so I fight, as not beating air; ²⁷ but I buffet my body and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.

¹⁰ For the rest, my brothers, be made powerful in the Lord and in the might of His strength. ¹¹ Put on all the armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil, ¹² because we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenlies. ¹³ Because of this, take up all of the armor of God that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having worked out all things, to stand. ¹⁴ Then stand firm, "having girded your loins about with truth" and having put "on the breastplate of righteousness," Isa. 11:5; 59:17 ¹⁵ and having shod the feet with the preparation of the "gospel of peace." Isa. 52:7 ¹⁶ Above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the darts of the evil one, having been made fiery. ¹⁷ Also, take "the helmet of salvation," and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God; Isa. 59:17 LXX-Isa. 11:4; MT-Isa. 49:2; LXX and MT-Hos. 6:5 ¹⁸ through all prayer and petition, praying at every time in the Spirit, and watching to this same thing with all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints. ¹⁹ Pray also for me, that to me may be given speech in the opening of my mouth with boldness to make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak boldly as it is right for me to speak.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

⁷ I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

⁴ His sons are far from safety; yea, they are crushed in the gate; nor is there any deliverer.

⁷ when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street. ⁸ The young men saw me and hid themselves; the aged rose up, stood up; ⁹ the rulers held back with words, and they laid a hand on their mouth; ¹⁰ the leaders' voice was hidden; yea, their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw, and witnessed for me. ¹² For I delivered the poor who cried for help and the orphan who had no helper to him. ¹³ The blessing of the perishing came on me; and I made the widow's heart to sing. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet for the lame. ¹⁶ I was father to the poor, and the cause which I did not know, I searched out. ¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the perverse, and cast the prey out of his teeth. ¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply days like the sand. ¹⁹ My root was open to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch. ²⁰ My glory was fresh with me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. ²¹ They listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel. ²² After my words, they did not go on, and my speech dropped on them. ²³ And they waited for me like the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. ²⁴ I laughed on those when they did not believe, and they did not make the light of my face to fall. ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king among the troops; as the mourners, and he who comforts.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, when I watched over my help in the gate;

⁵ His ways are perverted at all times. Your judgments are high from his sight; as for all his vexers, he puffs at them.

⁵ O Jehovah, Your purposes are very deep. How great are Your works! ⁶ An animal-like man does not know; a fool does not understand this.

⁶ A scorner seeks wisdom, but finds it not, yet knowledge is swift to the discerning.

²⁴ The path of life is upward to the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol downward.

²⁴ With the face of the wise is wisdom, but a fool's eyes are in the ends of the earth.

²² Rob not the poor because he is poor, and oppress not the afflicted in the gate.

⁸ Open your mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all the sons of those passing away. ⁹ Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the poor and needy.

²¹ those who make a man sin by a word, even laying a trap for the reprover in the gate, and turn aside the just for a worthless thing.

¹⁰ They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they despise him who speaks uprightly.

¹² For I know your many transgressions, and your many sins: afflicting the just, taking of a bribe, and turning aside the poor in the gate.

¹⁵ Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah the God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁴ But a natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

⁴⁴ And the king said to Shimei, You shall know all the evil that your heart has known, that which you did to my father David. Now Jehovah has turned back your evil on your head.

¹¹ For they stretched forth evil against You; they imagined a plot; they cannot prevail,

¹⁸ a heart that plots evil plans, feet hurrying to run to mischief,

²² Do not those who think evil go astray? But mercy and truth will be to those who think of good.

² For their heart studies violence, and their lips talk of mischief.

⁹ The plot of foolishness is sin, and the scorner is hateful to men.

⁷ Yet he does not purpose this, nor does his heart think so. For it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. ⁸ For he says, Are not my commanders all like kings? ⁹ Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is Hamath not like Arpad? Is Samaria not like Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols (for their carved images excelled Jerusalem's and Samaria's); ¹¹ shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her idols? ¹² And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will visit on the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his lofty eyes. ¹³ For he says, I have worked by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom; for I am wise. And I take away the borders of peoples, and have robbed their treasures. And like a mighty one, I subdue inhabitants.

⁷ And the weapons of the miser are evil; he devises wicked plots to destroy the poor with lying words, even the needy when he speaks right.

¹⁰ So says the Lord Jehovah: And it shall be in that day, words shall come up into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan. ¹¹ And you shall say, I will go up to the land of open spaces. I will go to those at ease, who live securely, all of them living with no walls, and there are no bars and gates to them,

¹¹ One who devises evil against Jehovah has come forth from you, one counseling worthlessness.

³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, proud, braggarts, devisers of evil things, disobedient to parents,

⁵ And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day long.

²¹ And Jehovah smelled the soothing fragrance, and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for the sake of man, because the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth. Yea, I will not again smite every living thing as I have done;

¹¹³ Samech. I hate the halfhearted; but I love Your law.

¹⁰ Throw the scorner out and strife shall go out; yea, quarrels and shame shall cease.

⁷ for as he thinks in his heart, so is he! He says to you, Eat and drink, but his heart is not with you.

⁸ Scornful men puff against a city, but the wise turn away anger.

⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way and the vain man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. Until when will your vain thoughts lodge within you?

²⁸ But I say to you, Everyone looking at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

⁴ And seeing their thoughts, Jesus said, Why do you think evil in your hearts?

¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, blasphemies.

²² Repent, then, from this wickedness of yours, and petition God if perhaps you will be forgiven the thought of your heart.

⁵ pulling down imaginations and every high thing lifting up itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ,

¹ And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. Nothing is better for me than that I speedily escape to the land of the Philistines. And Saul will despair of me, to still seek me in all the border of Israel. And I shall escape out of his hand.

⁵ But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Jehovah, the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth; He is not faint, nor does He grow weary; there is no searching to His understanding. ²⁹ He gives power to the faint, and to him with no vigor He increases might. ³⁰ Even youths are faint and fatigued, and young men surely shall stumble; ³¹ but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew power; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!

⁴⁶ And that your heart not faint, and you fear the report that shall be heard in the land, the report shall come in a year. And after that the report shall come in another year, and there shall be violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions.

¹ Therefore, having this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we do not faint.

¹³ Therefore, I ask you not to faint at my troubles on your behalf, which is your glory.

³ For consider Him who had endured such gainsaying of sinners against Himself, that you do not grow weary, fainting in your souls. ⁴ You did not yet resist unto blood, wrestling against sin. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation which He speaks with you, as with sons, "My sons, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint while being corrected by Him.

³ And I know you bore up and have patience and on account of My name you have labored and have not wearied,

¹³ I know your works, and where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is . And you hold My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful witness; who was killed alongside you, where Satan dwells.

⁸ And Abishai said to David, God has shut up your enemy into your hand today. And now, I beg you, let me strike him with a spear, even to the earth one time, and I will not repeat it to him. ⁹ And David said to Abishai, Do not destroy him. For who shall put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah and be guiltless?

¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the perverse, and cast the prey out of his teeth.

⁴ Deliver the poor and needy; save out of the hand of the wicked.

⁶ Is this not the fast I have chosen: to open bands of wickedness, to undo thongs of the yoke, and to let the oppressed ones go free; even that you pull off every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, that you should bring the wandering poor home? When will you see the naked and cover him; and you will not hide yourself from your flesh?

³¹ But by a coincidence, a certain priest was going on that road; and seeing him, he passed on the opposite side . ³² And in the same way, a Levite, also being at the place, coming and seeing him, he passed on the opposite side .

²³ But with loud voices they insisted, asking for Him to be crucified. And their voices, and that of the chief priests, prevailed. ²⁴ And Pilate adjudged their request to be done. ²⁵ And he released to them the one thrown into prison due to revolt and murder, whom they asked. But he delivered Jesus to their will.

¹⁷ And all the Greeks having seized Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, they beat him before the tribunal. And not one of these things mattered to Gallio.

³¹ But as they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the chiliarch of the cohort, that all Jerusalem is in a tumult. ³² He at once ran down to them, taking soldiers and centurions. And seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

¹⁰ And discord having arisen, fearing lest Paul should be torn by them, the chiliarch commanded the soldiery to go down to snatch him out of their midst, and to bring him into the fortress.

²³ And having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, Get two hundred soldiers ready, so that they may go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, from the third hour of the night; ²⁴ and animals to stand by, so that setting Paul on, they may bring him to Felix the governor. ²⁵ For he was writing a letter, having this form: ²⁶ Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor, Felix, greeting: ²⁷ This man being seized by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, coming on with the soldiers I rescued him, learning that he was a Roman. ²⁸ And being minded to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrin; ²⁹ I found him to be accused concerning questions of their law, and having no charge worthy of death or of bonds. ³⁰ And it being revealed to me that a plot against the man was about to be executed by the Jews, I at once sent him to you, also commanding the accusers to say the things against him before you. Farewell. ³¹ Then indeed taking up Paul according to the thing appointed to them, the soldiers brought him through the night to Antipatris. ³² And on the morrow, allowing the horsemen to go with him, they returned to the fortress. ³³ Entering into Caesarea, and giving the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him. ³⁴ And reading it, the governor asked from what province he is. And having learned that he was from Cilicia, ³⁵ he said, I will hear you fully when your accusers arrive. And he commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

¹⁶ By this we have known the love of God, because that One laid down His life for us; and on behalf of the brothers we ought to lay down our lives. ¹⁷ Whoever has the means of life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

⁶ Jehovah kills, and keeps alive; He brings down and causes to go to Sheol.

⁷ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Do not look on his appearance, nor to the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For man does not see what He sees. For man looks for the eyes, but Jehovah looks for the heart.

²⁹ And if a man rises up to pursue you, and to seek your soul (and the soul of my lord has been bound up in the bundle of life with Jehovah your God). And the souls of your enemies, He shall sling them from the hollow of the sling.

¹¹ For He repays man's work to him; and according to a man's day, He causes him to find.

⁹ Oh let the evil of the wicked come to an end; and You will establish the just; for the righteous God is a trier of hearts and reins.

³ You will test my heart; You will visit in the night; You will refine me; You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.

²¹ shall not God search out this? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

¹² Also mercy belongs to You, O Lord, for You reward a man according to his work.

⁹ Who holds our soul in life and does not allow our foot to slide.

³ He will not give your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber.

⁸ Jehovah shall keep your going out, and your coming in, from now on and till forever.

²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He ponders all his tracks.

² Every way of a man is upright in his own eyes, but Jehovah measures the hearts.

⁸ If you see the oppression of the poor, or the removing of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be amazed at the purpose. For a high one over a high one is watching; and high ones are over them.

¹⁰ I, Jehovah, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

¹⁹ He is great in counsel and mighty in work. For Your eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give to each man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

²³ But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you. And you, and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, and do not know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand your life breath and all your ways is .

²⁷ For the Son of man is about to come with His angels in the glory of His Father. And then "He will give reward to each according to his actions." LXX-Psa. 61:13; Pro. 24:12; MT-Psa. 62:12

²⁸ For in Him we live and move and exist, as also some of the poets among you have said, For we are also His offspring.

⁶ He "will give to each according to his works:" LXX-Psa. 61:13; MT-Psa. 62:12

¹⁶ in a day when God judges the hidden things of men, according to my gospel, through Jesus Christ.

⁵ Then do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes, who will both shed light on the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of the hearts. And then praise will be to each one from God.

¹⁰ For we all must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to what he did, whether good or bad.

¹² For the word of God is living, and powerfully working, and sharper than every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge of the thoughts and intentions of the heart; ¹³ and there is no creature unrevealed before Him; but all things are naked and laid open to His eyes, with whom is our account.

¹⁸ and the Living One; and I became dead; and, behold, I am living forever and ever. Amen. And I have the keys to Hades, and of death.

¹⁸ And to the angel of the church in Thyatira, write: These things says the Son of God, the One having His eyes as a flame of fire, and His feet like burnished brass:

²³ And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches will know that I am the One searching the inner parts and hearts. And I will give to each of you according to your works.

¹² And I saw the dead, the small and the great, standing before God. And books were opened. And another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books, according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death and Hades gave up the dead in them. And they were each judged according to their works. ¹⁴ And death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵ And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.

¹² And, behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to each as his work is.

¹⁰ They are more precious than gold, even much fine gold, and sweeter than honey and drops from the honeycomb.

¹⁰³ How sweet are Your words to my palate! More than honey to my mouth!

¹⁶ Have you found honey? Eat only your fill, lest you be satiated, and vomit it out.

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey, and to search out their glory is not glory.

¹¹ Your lips, My spouse, drip like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue. And the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

¹ I have come into My garden, My sister, My spouse; I have gathered My myrrh with My spice. I have eaten My honeycomb with My honey; I have drunk My wine with My milk. Eat and drink, O friends; yea, drink fully, beloved ones.

¹⁵ He shall eat curds and honey until He knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

⁴ And John himself had his clothing from hairs of a camel, and a belt of leather about his loin. And his food was locusts and wild honey.

¹⁰ They are more precious than gold, even much fine gold, and sweeter than honey and drops from the honeycomb. ¹¹ Also Your servant is warned by them; in keeping of them is great reward.

¹¹¹ I have inherited Your testimonies forever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¹ My son, if you will receive My words, and treasure up My commandments with you, ² so that you attend to wisdom, you shall extend your heart to understanding. ³ For if you cry for discernment, lifting up your voice for understanding; ⁴ if you seek her as silver, and search for her as hidden treasures, ⁵ then you shall understand the fear of Jehovah and find knowledge of God.

¹⁰ When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasing to your soul,

¹³ Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding. ¹⁴ For its profit is better than the gain from silver, and its increase more than fine gold; ¹⁵ she is more precious than rubies, and all the things you can desire are not to be compared with her. ¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand; riches and honor in her left hand. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths peace. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to the ones who lay hold on her; and happy are the ones holding her fast.

¹⁸ for they are pleasant when you keep them within you; they shall all be fixed together on your lips,

¹⁸ For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope shall not be cut off.

¹⁶ Your words were found and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart. For I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

²¹ Jesus said to him, If you desire to be perfect, go sell your property and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow Me.

²⁵ But the one looking into the perfect law of liberty, and continuing in it, this one not having become a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his doing.

¹¹ They were going up the ascent to the city, and found young women going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer in this place?

¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, You turn and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell on the priests and killed eighty five men bearing a linen ephod in that day. ¹⁹ And he struck Nob, the city of the priests with the mouth of the sword, from man even to woman, from child even to suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, with the mouth of the sword.

²⁰ And now, come down according to all the desires of your soul, O king. Come down, and our duty is to deliver him up into the king's hand. ²¹ And Saul said, You are blessed of Jehovah, for you have had pity on me. ²² Please go, make yet more sure, and know, and see his place where his foot is; who has seen him there, for one has said to me, He is very subtle. ²³ And see and know of all the hiding places where he hides himself. And you shall return to me ready, and I shall go with you, and it shall be, if he is in the land, that I shall search him out through all the thousands of Judah.

⁸ He sits in the hiding places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes watch against the poor. ⁹ He lies in wait secretly like a lion in his den; he lies in ambush to catch the poor; he seizes the poor, drawing him into his net; ¹⁰ and being crushed, he bows; and the poor have fallen by his strong ones.

³² The wicked spies on the righteous and seeks to kill him.

⁶ They stir up strife; they hide; they observe my footprints as they wait for my soul.

³ For lo, they lie in wait for my soul, mighty ones gather against me; not for my transgression, and not my sin, O Jehovah.

⁵ The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah.

¹¹ If they say, Walk with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us secretly lurk for the innocent without cause,

²⁸ Do not move the old landmark which your fathers have set.

¹⁸ And My people shall live in a peaceful home, and in safe dwellings, and in secure resting places.

¹⁹ And I was like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had plotted schemes against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; and let us cut him off from the land of the living so that his name may be remembered no more.

⁴ And they plotted together in order that they might seize Jesus by guile and kill Him .

²⁴ But their plot was known to Saul. And they carefully watched the gates both by day and by night so that to do away with him.

¹⁶ But the son of Paul's sister hearing of the ambush, having come near, and entering into the fortress, reported to Paul.

³ asking a favor against him, so as he might send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on the way.

¹⁰ And David said, As Jehovah lives, except Jehovah strike him, or his day shall come and he dies, or he goes down and is devoured in battle,

⁴ And Saul said to his armorbearer, Draw your sword and thrust it through me, lest come these uncircumcised ones and thrust it through me and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

¹⁰ And they hanged Haman on the wooden gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath lay down.

¹⁹ He will deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven no evil shall touch you.

¹⁶ His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violence shall come down on his own crown.

¹⁹ Many are the evils of the righteous, but Jehovah helps him out of them all,

²⁴ Though he falls, he is not cast down; for Jehovah upholds his hand.

⁵ God will likewise break you forever; He shall take you away, even pluck you from your tent, and uproot you out of the land of the living. Selah.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful ambassador is healing.

³² The wicked is thrust out in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

¹⁴ Oh the happiness of a man who is awed by God constantly! But he who hardens his heart falls into evil. ¹⁵ The wicked ruler is a roaring lion and a ranging bear over a helpless people. ¹⁶ The ruler that lacks understanding even adds oppressions, but he who hates unjust gain prolongs his days. ¹⁷ Any man oppressed with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; let them not uphold him. ¹⁸ He who walks uprightly shall be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

² The virgin of Israel has fallen, and will not arise again; she lies forsaken on her land; there is no one raising her up.

¹⁴ They who swear by the guilt of Samaria, and say, As your God lives, O Dan! And, As the way of Beer-sheba lives! Even they shall fall, and not rise again.

⁸ Rejoice not against me, my enemy; for if I fall, I shall arise. For if sit in darkness, Jehovah is a light to me. ⁹ I will bear the fury of Jehovah because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my cause and brings forth justice for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall see His righteousness. ¹⁰ And my enemy shall see; and shame shall cover her, the one saying to me, Where is He, Jehovah your God? My eyes shall look on her. Now she shall be for a trampling, as the mud of the streets.

²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give the glory to God. And having been eaten by worms, his soul went out.

⁸ For, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant as to our affliction having happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed down beyond our power, so as for us even to despair of living. ⁹ But we ourselves have the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust on ourselves, but on God, the One raising the dead, ¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we have hope that He will still deliver us,

⁸ in every way being troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss; ⁹ being persecuted, but not having been forsaken; being thrown down, but not having been destroyed; ¹⁰ always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, that also the life of Jesus may be revealed in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always being delivered up to death on account of Jesus, that also the life of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh; ¹² so that death indeed works in us, and life in you.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself.) I being beyond them : in labors, more abundantly; in stripes, beyond measure; in prisons, much more; in deaths, many times. ²⁴ Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews. ²⁵ I was flogged three times; I was stoned once; I was shipwrecked three times; I have spent a night and a day in the deep. ²⁶ I have been in travels often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my race, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the desert, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers, ²⁷ in hardship and toil, often in watchings, in hunger and thirst, often in fastings, in cold and nakedness,

³ For when they say, Peace and safety! Then suddenly destruction comes upon them, like travail to the pregnant woman, and they shall not at all escape.

²⁰ Rejoice over her, Heaven, and the holy apostles, and the prophets, because God judged your judgment on her. ²¹ And one strong angel lifted a stone like a great millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, This way, on a violent impulse, Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and it will never more still be found.

²⁵ And it happened when their heart felt good, they said, Call for Samson, and he shall entertain us. And they called for Samson from the prison house. And he entertained them. And they made him stand between the pillars.

⁵ And king David came to Bahurim. And, behold, a man was coming out from there, of the family of the house of Saul; and his name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and he came cursing. ⁶ And he stoned David with stones and all the servants of king David, and all the people, and all the mighty men on his right and on his left. ⁷ And Shimei said this in his cursing, Go out! Go out, O man of blood, O worthless man! ⁸ Jehovah has turned back on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. And Jehovah shall give the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. And, behold, you are taken in your mischief, for you are a man of blood. ⁹ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me pass over, I beg you, and I will take off his head. ¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you, sons of Zeruiah? For let him curse, even because Jehovah has said to him, Curse David. And who shall say, Why have you done so? ¹¹ And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son who came out of my loins is seeking my life, and surely now also the Benjamite. Leave him alone, and let him curse, for Jehovah has spoken to him. ¹² It may be Jehovah will look on my affliction, and Jehovah will return good to me for his cursing this day. ¹³ And David went with his men in the highway, and Shimei was going along at the side of the hill across from him. As he went, he cursed, and stoned with stones across from him, and dusted with dust. ¹⁴ And the king came in wearied, and all the people with him; and he was refreshed there.

²⁹ If I rejoiced at the ruin of my enemy, and I was excited when evil found him;

¹⁵ But they rejoiced in my stumbling, and assembled; the defamers assembled themselves against me, and I knew not; they tore and were not silent,

¹⁹ Let not my lying enemies rejoice over me, do not let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

¹⁰ My oppressors reproach me with crushing in my bones. when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

⁵ Whoever scorns the poor reviles his Maker, he who rejoices at calamity shall not be innocent.

¹² But you should not have looked on the day of your brother, on the day of his alienation; nor should you have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have enlarged your mouth in the day of distress.

⁶ does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth. ⁷ Love quietly covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz, The cup also shall pass through to you; you shall be drunken and stripped naked. ²² Your perversity is complete, daughter of Zion; He will not continue to exile you. He will visit your perversity, daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.

¹⁵ And with great anger I am angry at the nations at ease; in that I was but a little angry, and they gave help for evil. ¹⁶ So Jehovah says this: I have returned to Jerusalem with compassions; My house shall be built in it, says Jehovah of hosts, and a line shall be stretched over Jerusalem.

²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything that they have, lest you be consumed in all their sins.

¹ Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners and has not sat in the seat of scorners.

⁴ I have not sat with lying men; and I will not go in with hypocrites; ⁵ I have hated the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.

¹¹⁵ Depart from me, O evildoers, for I will keep my God's commands.

¹ Do not envy evil men, nor desire to be with them.

¹⁷ Because of this, "come out from among them" "and be separated," says the Lord, "and do not touch the unclean thing," and I will receive you. Isa. 52:11

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them .

² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, braggarts, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural feeling, unyielding, slanderers, without self-control, savage, haters of good, ⁴ betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these.

⁴ And I heard another voice out of Heaven saying, My people, come out of her, that you may not share in her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues; ⁵ Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out; and the spark of his fire shall not blaze. ⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent; and his lamp shall be put out above him;

¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their calamity comes on them! He shares out pangs in His anger;

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned to Sheol, all the nations forgetting God.

⁶ He shall rain snares on the wicked; fire and brimstone and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

²⁰ Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! For the evil, the doing of his hand will be done to him.

¹² but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames, wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

³¹ And Israel saw the great hand with which Jehovah worked against Egypt. And the people feared Jehovah, and they believed in Jehovah and in His servant Moses.

¹ And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, took both Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben; ² and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the congregation, elect men of the assembly, men of name. ³ And they were assembled against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much! For all the congregation, all of them are holy, and Jehovah is among them. Why then do you lift up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah?

⁵ And they said to him, Behold, you have become old, and your sons have not walked in your ways. Now appoint a king to us, to judge us, like all the nations. ⁶ And the thing was evil in Samuel's eyes when they said, Give to us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to Jehovah. ⁷ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people, to all that they say to you. For they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from reigning over them.

¹² And you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, and you said to me, No, for a king shall reign over us even though Jehovah your God was king over you. ¹³ And now, behold the king whom you chose, whom you requested. And behold Jehovah gave a king over you. ¹⁴ If you will fear Jehovah and serve Him, and listen to His voice, and do not rebel against the mouth of Jehovah, then you, both you and also the king who reigns over you, shall follow Jehovah your God. ¹⁵ But if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah, and you rebel against the mouth of Jehovah, then the hand of Jehovah shall be against you and against your fathers. ¹⁶ Also, now present yourselves and see this great thing that Jehovah will do before your eyes. ¹⁷ Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to Jehovah and He will give sounds and rain. And know and see that your evil is great, that which you have done in the eyes of Jehovah, to ask a king for yourselves. ¹⁸ And Samuel called to Jehovah. And Jehovah gave sounds and rain in that day. And all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel. ¹⁹ And all the people said to Samuel, Pray to Jehovah your God for your servants, and not we will die, for we have added this evil to all our sins to ask a king for ourselves.

⁶ And he said to his men, Far be it from me, by Jehovah. I shall not do this thing to my lord, to the anointed of Jehovah, to put out my hand against him. For he is the anointed of Jehovah.

¹³ And a messenger came to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom. ¹⁴ And David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, Rise up, and we will flee; for we have no escape from the face of Absalom. Hurry to leave, that he not overtake us and bring evil down on us, and strike the city with the mouth of the sword. ¹⁵ And the king's servants said to the king, According to all that my lord the king desires, behold, your servants will do . ¹⁶ And the king went out, and all his household at his feet. And the king left ten women, concubines, to keep the house. ¹⁷ And the king went out, and all the people at his feet. And they stood still at the house farthest away. ¹⁸ And all his servants were passing on by his side, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came at his feet from Gath. These were passing on before the king. ¹⁹ And the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why do you go, even you with us? Turn back and remain with the king, for you are an alien, and also you are an exile. Go to your place. ²⁰ You came in yesterday and today. Should I make you go with us, to go while I go, where I go? Turn back and take your brothers with you in kindness and truth. ²¹ And Ittai replied to the king and said, As Jehovah lives, and my lord the king lives, surely in the place where my lord the king is, there your servant shall be, whether for death or for life. ²² And David said to Ittai, Go on and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones with him. ²³ And all the land was weeping with a loud voice. And all the people were passing over. And the king was passing over through the torrent Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness. ²⁴ And, behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set the ark of God down. And Abiathar went up until all the people finished passing on out of the city. ²⁵ And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find grace in the eyes of Jehovah, then He will bring me back and show it and His dwelling place to me. ²⁶ And if He says this, I have not delighted in you, behold, I am here. He shall do to me as seems good in His eyes. ²⁷ And the king said to Zadok the priest, Are you a seer? Return to the city in peace, and your two sons with you, your son Ahimaaz, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. ²⁸ Behold, I will wait in the plain of the wilderness until word comes from you to report to me. ²⁹ And Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem. And they remained there. ³⁰ And David was going up in the ascent of the olives, going up and weeping. And his head was covered, and he was going barefooted. And all the people who were with him each had covered his head, and had gone up, going up and weeping. ³¹ And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray You, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolish. ³² And it happened as David had come to the top, there where he bowed to God. And, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him, his tunic torn, and earth on his head. ³³ And David said to him, If you pass on with me, then you shall be a burden to me. ³⁴ But if you return to the city, and shall say to Absalom, I also will be your servant, O king; I was servant of your father before now; and now I am also your servant. Then you can break down the counsel of Ahithophel for me. ³⁵ And do you not have there with you Zadok and Abiathar, the priests? And it shall be, you shall declare everything that you hear from the house of the king; you shall report to Zadok and to Abiathar, the priests. ³⁶ Behold, there are with them their two sons, Ahimaaz to Zadok, and Jonathan to Abiathar. And you shall send to me by their hand anything that you hear. ³⁷ And David's friend Hushai came into the city. And Absalom came into Jerusalem.

¹⁶ And all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, and the people sent the king back word, saying, What portion do we have in David? Yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, O David! And Israel went to its tents.

² I say, Keep the king's word, even on the matter of the oath of God; ³ do not be hasty to go from before him. Do not take a stand in an evil thing, for he does whatever he pleases. ⁴ Because the king's word is that which has power; who then will say to him, What are you doing? ⁵ Whoever keeps the command shall know no evil thing. A wise man's heart knows both time and judgment.

²¹ They said to Him, Caesar's. Then He said to them, Then give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God.

¹ Let every soul be subject to higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, but the existing authorities have been ordained by God. ² So that the one resisting authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and the ones opposing will receive judgment to themselves. ³ For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire not to fear the authority? Do the good, and you will have praise from it; ⁴ for it is a servant of God to you for the good. But if you practice evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing evil. ⁵ Because of this, it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience. ⁶ For on this account you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God, always giving attention to this very thing. ⁷ Then give to all their dues: to the one due tax, the tax; to the one due tribute, the tribute; to the one due fear, the fear; to the one due honor, the honor.

¹ Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready in every good work,

¹³ Then be in obedience to every ordinance of men because of the Lord; whether to a king, as being supreme; ¹⁴ or to governors, as through Him having indeed been sent for vengeance on evildoers, but praise on well doers, ¹⁵ because so is the will of God, doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish men; ¹⁶ as free, and not having freedom as a cover of evil, but as slaves of God; ¹⁷ honor all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

³¹ And it happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, the ground which was under them split apart, ³² and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them, and their houses, and all the men who were for Korah, and all their possessions. ³³ And they went down, they and all that they had, alive to Sheol, and the earth covered over them; and they perished from the midst of the assembly. ³⁴ And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. ³⁵ And fire came forth from Jehovah and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

¹ And the Philistines were fighting against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from the face of the Philistines, and they fell down wounded in Mount Gilboa. ² And the Philistines followed Saul and his sons. And the Philistines struck Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons. ³ And the battle went hard against Saul. And the archers, men with the bow, found him and he was sorely wounded by the archers. ⁴ And Saul said to his armorbearer, Draw your sword and thrust it through me, lest come these uncircumcised ones and thrust it through me and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it. ⁵ And his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, and he also fell on his sword and died with him. ⁶ And Saul and three of his sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men died together on that day. ⁷ And the men of Israel who were beyond the valley, and who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled, and that Saul and his sons had died. And they abandoned the cities and fled. And the Philistines came in and lived in them.

⁷ And the people of Israel were stricken before David's servants. And there was a great destruction on that day of twenty thousand. ⁸ And the battle was scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest devoured among the people more than the sword had devoured in that day.

¹⁶ And the sons of Israel fled from the face of Judah, and God gave them into their hand. ¹⁷ And Abijah and his people struck them with a great blow, and five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell slain.

¹¹ Who knows the power of Your anger? And as Your fear is, so is Your fury.

¹⁴ A king's fury is as messengers of death, but a wise man will cover it.

² The fear of a king is as the roar of a lion, he who stirs him up to anger wrongs his own soul.

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment; because he was pleased, he walked after the command.

¹⁰ Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And where are your judges of whom you said, Give to me a king and rulers? ¹¹ I gave to you a king in My anger, and took him away in My fury.

¹⁵ You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor favor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

¹⁷ You shall not respect persons in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid because of the face of a man, for the judgment is God's; and the thing too hard for you, you shall bring near to me, and I shall hear it.

¹⁹ You shall not pervert judgment. You shall not regard faces, nor shall you take a bribe; for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁷ and now, let the fear of Jehovah be upon you; watch and act, for there is no perverseness with Jehovah our God, nor lifting up of faces, nor taking of a bribe.

² Until when will you judge unjustly, and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah. ³ Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. ⁴ Deliver the poor and needy; save out of the hand of the wicked.

⁴³ Whoever is wise and will observe these things, they shall discern the mercies of Jehovah.

⁶ to understand a proverb and an enigma; the words of the wise, and their acute sayings.

⁵ To lift up the face of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

¹⁷ Stretch your ear and hear the words of the wise, and set your heart to My knowledge,

²¹ To respect faces is not good, yea, for a man will transgress for a piece of bread.

¹ Who is as the wise? And who knows the meaning of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the strength of his face is changed.

⁹ Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but transgressors shall stumble in them.

²⁴ Do not judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

²⁰ The ones sinning before all, rebuke, that the rest also may have fear. ²¹ I solemnly witness before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, that you should guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by way of partiality.

⁴ did you not also make a difference among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? ⁵ Hear, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to the ones loving Him? ⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not the rich ones oppress you, and they drag you to judgment seats?

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is firstly truly pure, then peaceable, forbearing, yielding, full of mercy and of good fruits, not partial and not pretended.

¹⁷ And if you call on the Father, the One judging according to the work of each one without respect to persons, pass the time of your sojourning in fear,

⁶ You shall not pervert the judgment of your needy one in his lawsuit. ⁷ You shall keep far away from a false matter. And do not kill the innocent and the righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

²⁶ One holding back grain, the people curse him; but a blessing is to the head of one selling grain.

¹⁵ He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, even both of them are disgusting to Jehovah.

²⁷ He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes shall have plenty of curses.

¹⁰ Do not slander a servant to his master, that he not curse you, and you be found guilty.

²⁰ Woe to those who say to evil, good; and to good, evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

²³ who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn aside the righteousness of the righteous from him!

²⁴ And they shall go out and see the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against Me; for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be put out; and they shall be an object of disgust to all flesh.

¹³ For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them cuts off a profit. And from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. ¹⁴ They have also healed the break of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

¹⁰ So I will give their wives to others, their fields to those who shall inherit. For everyone from the least even to the greatest cuts off a profit. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. ¹¹ For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace! And there is no peace.

²² Because you have saddened the heart of the righteous with lies, and I have not made him sad, and you have made the hands of the wicked strong, so that he should not turn from his evil way, to keep him alive.

¹⁷ You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall certainly reprove your neighbor, and not allow sin on him.

¹³ And I declare to him that I am judging his house forever, for the iniquity which he has known; for his sons have been making themselves vile, and he has not restrained them.

¹⁹ And you shall speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah, Have you murdered, and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah, In the place where the dogs lick the blood of Naboth, so the dogs shall lick your blood, even yours. ²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he said, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁷ Then my heart ruled within myself, and I contended with the nobles and the magistrates. And I said to them, You are each man lending at interest, from his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you yet sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and did not find a word. ⁹ Also I said, The thing you do is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

⁸ And it grieved me very much. And I threw all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room. ⁹ Then I commanded, and they purified the rooms. And I returned there the vessels of the house of God, with the food offering and the frankincense. ¹⁰ And I was aware that the portions of the Levites had not been given, for the Levites and the singers who did the work had each one fled to his field. ¹¹ Then I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them and set them in their place.

¹⁷ And I contended with the nobles of Judah and said to them, What is this evil thing that you do, defiling the Sabbath day?

²⁵ And I contended with them, and put a curse on them, and struck some of them, and I plucked their hair. And I made them swear by the name of God, saying, You shall not give your daughter to their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons, or for yourselves.

²⁸ And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I chased him from me.

¹⁶ I was father to the poor, and the cause which I did not know, I searched out. ¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the perverse, and cast the prey out of his teeth. ¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply days like the sand.

²³ He who reproves a man afterwards finds grace, more than he who flatters with the tongue.

⁴ For John said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her.

²⁰ The ones sinning before all, rebuke, that the rest also may have fear.

² preach the Word, be urgent in season, out of season, convict, warn, encourage with all long-suffering and teaching.

¹³ This testimony is true; for which cause convict them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁵ Speak these things and exhort and convict with all authority. Let no one despise you.

³⁸ And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find any man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God? ³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has taught you all this, there is no one wise and intelligent like you. ⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and at your mouth all my people shall kiss the hand . Only in respect to the throne will I be greater than you. ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt. ⁴² And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; and he clothed him with fine linen robes, and put a golden chain on his neck. ⁴³ And he caused him to ride in a chariot which was the second to him. And they cried before him, Bow the knee! And he put him over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without a word from you not a man shall lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called Joseph by the name of Zaphnath-paaneah. And He gave him Asenath the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. ⁴⁶ And Joseph was a son of thirty years as he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the face of Pharaoh and passed over in all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And the land produced by handfuls in the seven years of plenty ⁴⁸ And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and he put food in the cities. The food of the field of the city which was around it, he put in the middle of it. ⁴⁹ And Joseph heaped up grain like the sand of the sea, exceedingly much, until he ceased to count it, because it was without number. ⁵⁰ And two sons were born to Joseph before the year of the famine came in, whom Asenath the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, bore to him. ⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of the first born Manasseh; for he said, God has made me forget all my toil, and all the house of my father. ⁵² And the name of the second he called Ephraim; for he said, God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction. ⁵³ And the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Egypt were ended. ⁵⁴ And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said. And the famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵ And all the land of Egypt hungered and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all Egypt, Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do. ⁵⁶ And the famine was on the face of all the land. And Joseph opened all which was in them, and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was strong in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ And all the earth came to Egypt to buy, to Joseph. For the famine was strong in all the earth.

²⁵ Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue?

²³ A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and how good is a word in its season!

¹ The orderings of the heart are for man, and the answer of the tongue from Jehovah.

¹¹ A word rightly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. ¹² As a ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover on a hearing ear.

⁴⁶ Then king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and did homage to Daniel. And he commanded an offering, even to offer incense to him. ⁴⁷ The king answered Daniel and said, Your God truly is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and a Revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret. ⁴⁸ Then the king made Daniel great and gave many great gifts to him. And he made him ruler over all the province of Babylon, and chief of the prefects over all the wise men of Babylon.

¹⁷ And answering, Jesus said to them, Render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God. And they marveled at Him. ¹⁸ And Sadducees came to Him, who say there is no resurrection. And they questioned Him, saying,

³² And the scribe said to Him, You say well, Teacher. You have spoken according to truth, "that God is one," Deut. 6:4, 5 and "there is no other besides Him;" Deut. 4:35 ³³ "and to love Him from all the heart", and from all the understanding, "and from all the soul, and from all the strength;" Deut. 6:4, 5 and "to love one's neighbor as oneself" Lev. 19:18 is more than all the burnt offerings and the sacrifices. ³⁴ And seeing that he answered intelligently, Jesus said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared to question Him any more.

¹⁷ And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, quarried stones, to lay the foundation of the house. ¹⁸ And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders, and the Giblites, cut and prepared the wood and the stones to build the house.

⁷ And when it was being built, the house was built of finished stone made ready beforehand. And there was not heard in the house a hammer or an axe, or any iron tool, while it was being built.

²⁸ For who of you desiring to build a tower does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has the things to finish; ²⁹ that having laid a foundation, and not having strength to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him, ³⁰ saying, This man began to build, and did not have strength to finish.

¹⁶ You shall not testify a witness of falsehood against your neighbor.

¹ You shall not utter a false report; You shall not put your hand with the wicked, to become a violent witness.

⁹ And Doeg the Edomite, even he was set over Saul's servants, answered and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. ¹⁰ And he asked for him of Jehovah, and gave provisions to him, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

⁹ And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. ¹⁰ And set two men, sons of worthlessness, across from him; and they shall testify of him, saying, You have cursed God and the king. And they shall bring him out and stone him; and he shall die. ¹¹ And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as was written in the letters that she sent to them. ¹² They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth to sit at the head of the people. ¹³ And two men, sons of worthlessness, came in and sat across from him. And the men of worthlessness testified of him before the people, even Naboth, saying, Naboth has cursed God and the king. And they took him out to the outside of the city, and stoned him with stones. And he died.

³ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, fearing God, and turning away from evil? And he is still holding to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to swallow him for nothing.

⁷ For they have hidden their pit-net for me without cause; without cause they have dug for my soul.

¹¹ Witnesses of violence rise up; they asked me what I did not know;

¹ To the chief musician. A Contemplation. A Psalm of David when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O hero? The mercy of God is all the day.

⁵ A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness breathes lies.

⁵ A false witness shall not be acquitted; yea, a breather of lies shall not escape.

⁹ A false witness shall not be acquitted; yea, he who speaks lies shall perish.

²⁸ A false witness shall perish, but the man who attends will speak forever.

¹⁸ A man who gives false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword and a sharp arrow.

⁵⁹ And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrin looked for false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death, ⁶⁰ but did not find any, even though there were many false witnesses coming forward, they did not find any. But at last, coming up two false witnesses

²³ But the governor said, For what wrong did he do? But they the more cried out, saying, Let him be crucified.

²⁵ But that may be fulfilled the Word that has been written in their Law, "They hated Me without a cause." Psa. 69:4

²⁵ Therefore, putting off the false," speak truth each with his neighbor," because we are members of one another. Zech. 8:16

⁹ Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his practices,

⁸ But for the cowardly and unbelieving, and those having become foul, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the lying ones, their part will be in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹⁵ But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone loving a lie, and making it.

¹¹ And three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? And what is this that you have done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so I did to them.

²² But Absalom did not speak either good or evil with Amnon, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had humbled his sister Tamar. ²³ And after two years it happened that Absalom had shearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim. And Absalom called to all the sons of the king. ²⁴ And Absalom came to the king and said, Behold, your servant now has shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant. ²⁵ And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go now, and we shall not be too heavy on you. But he urged him, and he was not willing to go, but he blessed him. ²⁶ And Absalom said, If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Why should he go with you? ²⁷ And Absalom urged him, and he sent Amnon with him, and all the king's sons. ²⁸ And Absalom commanded his young men, saying, Now watch when Amnon's heart is glad with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon, you shall kill him. Do not fear. Did not I command you? Be strong, and be valiant.

²² Do not say, I will repay evil; wait on Jehovah, and He will save you.

²¹ If your hater is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, ²² for you shall heap coals of fire on his head, and Jehovah shall reward you.

³⁹ but I say to you, Do not resist the evil; but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also. ⁴⁰ And to him desiring to sue you, and to take your tunic, allow him also to have the coat. ⁴¹ And whoever shall compel you to go one mile, go two with him. ⁴² He asking you to give, and he wishing to borrow from you, do not turn away. ⁴³ You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor" and hate your enemy; Lev. 19:18 ⁴⁴ but I say to you, Love your enemies; bless those cursing you, do well to those hating you; and pray for those abusing and persecuting you,

¹⁷ Repay no one evil for evil, having provided right things before all men. Prov. 3:4 ¹⁸ If possible, as far as is in you, seeking peace with all men; ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath, for it has been written, "Vengeance is Mine," "I will repay," says the Lord. Deut. 32:35 ²⁰ Then "if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head." Prov. 25:21, 22 ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome the evil with good.

¹⁵ See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.

⁸ As I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity and sow misery reap the same.

²⁷ Consider this. We have searched it out; it is so. Hear it, and know it for yourself.

¹⁷ I will tell you; hear me, and I will declare this that I have seen;

²⁵ I have been young and am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread.

⁴² The upright shall see and be glad; and all iniquity shuts its mouth.

⁶ Go to the ant, lazy man; consider her ways and be wise; ⁷ who, having no guide, overseer or ruler, ⁸ provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. ⁹ How long will you lie down, O lazy man? When will you arise out of your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down; ¹¹ So shall your poverty come as one walking, and your need like an armed man. ¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, ¹³ winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, teaching with his fingers. ¹⁴ Perversity is in his heart; he is plotting evil at every time, he sends out strife. ¹⁵ On account of this, calamity shall come suddenly; he is broken quickly and there is no healing. ¹⁶ These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul; ¹⁷ a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ a heart that plots evil plans, feet hurrying to run to mischief, ¹⁹ a false witness who breathes lies, and he who causes strife among brothers.

³² He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; he who does it is a destroyer of his own soul.

¹³ Wisdom is found in the lips of him who has understanding, but a rod is waiting for the back of him who lacks heart.

¹¹ He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he chasing vanities lacks heart.

¹ So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter! And at the hand of those who oppressed them was power; but there was no comforter to them. ² And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who are alive until now. ³ Yea, better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. ⁴ And I considered every labor, and every advantage of the work, that it is the envy of a man against his neighbor; this is also vanity and striving after wind. ⁵ The fool folds his hands together and eats his own flesh. ⁶ Better is a palm filled with rest, than two fists with labor and striving after wind. ⁷ Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. ⁸ There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; and there is no end to all his labor; even his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor, and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil task.

¹⁵ All things I have seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked one who prolongs his life in his evil.

⁹ All this I have seen. I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which a man rules over a man for his evil. ¹⁰ And so I saw the wicked buried; and they came and went from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city, these things that they had done. This is also vanity. ¹¹ Where sentence on an evil work is not executed speedily, on account of this the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

¹⁷ And He said to the man, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it, the ground shall be cursed because of you; you shall eat of it in sorrow all the days of your life. ¹⁸ And it shall bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you shall eat the plant of the field. ¹⁹ By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until your return to the ground. For you have been taken out of it; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

⁴⁰ let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and a weed instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.

²³ The fear of Jehovah tends to life, and he shall rest satisfied, he shall not be visited with evil.

⁴ The lazy man will not plow, after autumn he begs at harvest, and nothing is there.

¹³ The lazy one says, A lion is outside! I will be killed in the streets!

²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe one with rags.

¹⁸ The framework tumbles through indolence; and through lowering of hands, the house leaks.

⁵ And now I will make known to you what I will do then to My vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be burned. I will breach its wall, and it will become a trampling ground.

³ For so says Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow to the thorns.

⁷ And other fell on the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

²² And that sown into the thorns is this: the one hearing the Word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceit of riches, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

⁸ "but bearing thorns and thistles," it is deemed unfit and near a curse, of which the end is for burning.) Gen. 3:17, 18

¹¹ And all Israel shall hear and fear, and shall not again do any such wicked thing as this among you.

²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die. So you shall put away the evil from among you, that all Israel shall hear, and fear.

²⁹ If they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their latter end.

¹⁷ What is man, that You should magnify him, and that You should set Your heart on him,

⁴ Tremble and do not sin. Speak within your own heart on your bed and be still. Selah.

¹⁹ And Mariam kept all these words, meditating in her heart.

⁵¹ And He went with them and came to Nazareth and was being subject to them. And His mother carefully kept all these words in her heart.

⁶ But these things became examples for us, so that we may not be lusters after evil, even as those indeed lusted.

¹¹ And all these things happened to those as examples, and it was written for our warning, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

⁵ But I intend to remind you, you once knowing these things, that the Lord having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed the ones not believing. ⁶ And those angels not having kept their first place, but having deserted their dwelling-place, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of a great Day; ⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, committing fornication, and going away after other flesh, laid down an example before-times, undergoing vengeance of everlasting fire.

⁴ Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids. ⁵ Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hand of a hunter, and as a bird from the fowler's hand. ⁶ Go to the ant, lazy man; consider her ways and be wise; ⁷ who, having no guide, overseer or ruler, ⁸ provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. ⁹ How long will you lie down, O lazy man? When will you arise out of your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down; ¹¹ So shall your poverty come as one walking, and your need like an armed man.

¹¹ Also this, knowing the time, that it is now the hour for you to be aroused from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

¹⁴ Because of this, He says, Arise, sleeping ones and stand up out of the dead ones, and Christ will shine on you. No OT passage

⁶ So then, we should not sleep, as the rest also do, but we should watch and be sober. ⁷ For those sleeping sleep by night, and those having been drunk are drunk by night. ⁸ But we being of day should be sober, "having put on the breastplate" of faith and love, and the hope of "salvation as a helmet;" Isa. 59:17

⁴ He who deals with a lazy palm becomes poor, but the hand of the hard worker makes him rich.

⁴ The sluggard's soul is craving, but is not getting, but the soul of the hard workers shall be made fat.