Hosea 14 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up. ² Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities. ³ Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God: speak to him, that you⌃ may not receive [the reward of] unrighteousness, but that you⌃ may receive good things: and we will render in return the fruit of our lips. ⁴ Assur shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in you shall pity the orphan. ⁵ I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him. ⁶ I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus. ⁷ His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as [the smell] of Libanus. ⁸ They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with corn, and he shall flower as a vine: his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus. ⁹ What [has] he to do any more with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him: I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is your fruit found. ¹⁰ Who is wise, and will understand these things? or prudent, and will know them? for the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the ungodly shall fall therein.

³ And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you⌃ do with all your heart return to the Lord, take away the strange gods from the midst of you, and the groves, and prepare your hearts to [serve] the Lord, and serve him only; and he shall deliver you from the hand of the Philistines. ⁴ And the children of Israel took away Baalim and the groves of Astaroth, and served the Lord only.

⁶ And the posts went with the letters from the king and the princes to all Israel and Juda, according to the command of the king, saying, Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraam, and Isaac, and Israel, and bring back them that have escaped [even] those that were left of the hand of the king of Assyria. ⁷ And be not as your fathers, and your brethren, who revolted from the Lord God of their fathers, and he gave them up to desolation, as you⌃ see. ⁸ And now harden not your hearts, as your fathers [did]: give glory to the Lord God, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, and he shall turn away [his] fierce anger from you. ⁹ For when you⌃ turn to the Lord, your brethren and your children shall be pitied before all that have carried them captives, and he will restore [you] to this land: for the Lord our God is merciful and pitiful, and will not turn away his face from you, if we return to him.

⁶ Seek you⌃ the Lord, and when you⌃ find him, call upon him; and when he shall draw near to you, ⁷ let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.

¹⁹ Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you: know then, and see, that your forsaking me [has been] bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.

¹² Go and read these words toward the north, and you shall say, Return to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord; and I will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not be angry with you for ever. ¹³ Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not listen to my voice, says the Lord. ¹⁴ Turn, you⌃ children that have revolted, says the Lord; for I will rule over you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Sion:

¹ If Israel will return to me, says the Lord, he shall return: and if he will remove his abominations out of his mouth, and fear before me, and swear,

¹⁶ The crown has fallen [from] our head: yes, woe to us! for we have sinned.

¹⁴ From the day that you were created you [was] with the cherub: I set you on the holy mount of God; you were in the midst of the stones of fire. ¹⁵ You were faultless in your days, from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you. ¹⁶ Of the abundance of your merchandise you have filled your storehouses with iniquity, and have sinned: therefore you have been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought you out of the midst of the stones of fire.

⁵ And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall with them.

¹ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us;

⁶ You therefore shall return to your God: keep you mercy and judgment, and draw near to your God continually.

⁹ O Israel, who will aid [you] in your destruction?

¹² Now therefore, says the Lord your God, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation: ¹³ and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy, and repents of evils.

³ And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts. ⁴ And be you⌃ not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn you⌃ from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they listened not, and attended not to listen to me, says the Lord.

¹³ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, And the Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die.

¹⁰ And the heart of David struck him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, [in] what I have now done: remove, I pray you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish.

²¹ Why have you not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.

³¹ For [there is] one that says to the Mighty One, I have received [blessings]; I will not take a pledge: ³² I will see apart from myself: do you show me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do [so] any more.

² your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit. ³ You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause. ⁴ You has loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue. ⁵ Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause. ⁶ And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say, ⁷ Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity. ⁸ But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore. ⁹ I will give thanks to you for ever, for you have done [it]: and I will wait on your name; for [it is] good before the saints.

⁷ and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched your lips, and will take away your iniquities, and will purge off your sins.

²⁵ and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you⌃ shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you. ²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

¹⁷ Between the porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare your people, O Lord, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy. ¹⁹ He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, [even] all our sins.

⁴ Now Jesus was clothed in filthy raiment, and stood before the angel.

²² You⌃ shall hurt no widow or orphan. ²³ And if you⌃ should afflict them by ill-treatment, and they should cry aloud to me, I will surely hear their voice. ²⁴ And I will be very angry, and will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.

¹⁶ For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses; for the Lord said, You⌃ shall not any more turn back by that way.

⁷ And at that time came Anani the prophet to Asa king of Juda, and said to him, Because you did trust on the king of Syria, and did not trust on the Lord your God, therefore the army of Syria is escaped out of your hand.

⁷ For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved. ⁸ Let your hand be found by all your enemies: let your right hand find all that hate you.

¹⁷ and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

⁵ O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.

³ He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

⁹ and gives cattle their food, and to the young ravens that call upon him.

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless: ¹¹ for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.

²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.

²⁰ For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made [in order] to worship vanities and bats;

⁹ Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

² [even] they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they might be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians.

¹⁶ but you⌃ said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you⌃ flee: and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

¹ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, [which are] a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord.

³ [even] an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there is no help [in them]: but the Lord shall bring his hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.

⁸ yet now make an agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you⌃ shall be able to set riders upon them.

¹⁸ Come down from [your] glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against you one to ravage your strong-hold. ¹⁹ Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened? ²⁰ Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished. ²¹ And judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas, ²² and upon Daebon, and upon Nabau, and upon the house of Daethlathaim,

²⁵ and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you⌃ shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.

²³ that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be to me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.

⁷ and he said to me, Son of man, you have seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of [their] princes in the midst of them; ⁸ when they set my door-way by their door-way, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter. ⁹ And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.

¹⁷ And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.

¹³ And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judas his pain; then Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Jarim: but he could not heal you, and your pain shall in nowise cease from you.

¹¹ And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.

⁶ Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; therefore your calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:

⁹ For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

¹ But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

⁸ They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with corn, and he shall flower as a vine: his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus.

¹⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, [that] I will utterly destroy the horses out of the midst of you, and destroy your chariots; ¹¹ and I will utterly destroy the cities of your land, and demolish all your strongholds: ¹² and I will utterly destroy your sorceries out of your hands; and there shall be no soothsayers in you. ¹³ And I will utterly destroy your graven images, and your statues out of the midst of you; and you shall never any more worship the works of your hands. ¹⁴ And I will cut off the groves out of the midst of you, and I will abolish your cities.

² And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, [that] I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer [any] remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.

²⁶ and said, If you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord your God, and do things pleasing before him, and will listen to his commands, and keep all his ordinances, no disease which I have brought upon the Egyptians will I bring upon you, for I am the Lord your God that heals you.

⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples [of judgment] for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.

¹¹ Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

⁷ It was not because you⌃ are more numerous than all [other] nations that the Lord preferred you, and the Lord made choice of you: for you⌃ are fewer in number than all [other] nations. ⁸ But because the Lord loved you, and as keeping the oath which he sware to your fathers, the Lord brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt.

¹ And in that day you shall say, I [will] bless you, O Lord; for you were angry with me, but you have turned aside your wrath, and have pitied me.

¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true comfort;

²² Turn, you⌃ children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be your servants; for you are the Lord our God.

⁶ Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.

²² And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?

⁷ Our sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do you for us for your own sake; for our sins are many before you; for we have sinned against you.

¹⁴ Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for you are my boast.

⁶ then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make [this] city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

⁷ and his people [shall] cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.

¹⁷ The Lord your God is in you; the Mighty One shall save you: he shall bring joy upon you, and shall refresh you with his love; and he shall rejoice over you with delight as in a day of feasting.

² Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.

⁴ And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.

³⁰ And he shall increase him that has escaped of the house of Juda: and the remnant [shall strike] root beneath, and it shall produce fruit above.

¹⁹ [My] root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.

⁶ Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

¹⁶ And I undertook to understand this, [but] it is too hard for me,

¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favor.

¹ I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys. ² As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.

¹⁶ My kinsman is mine, and I am his: he feeds [his flock] among the lilies.

⁵ Your two breasts are as two twin fawns, that feed among the lilies.

⁴ For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

¹⁹ The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for the dew from you is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.

⁶ they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

² And the desert places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Libanus has been given to it, and the honor of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of God.

³ For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon your seed, and my blessings upon your children:

²² For thus says the Lord; I will even take of the choice [branches] of the cedar from the top [thereof], I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain: ²³ and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yes, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored. ²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.

²⁷ And he drew near and kissed him, and smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of an abundant field, which the Lord has blessed.

⁹ there shall be no new god in you; neither shall you worship a strange god. ¹⁰ For I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. ¹¹ But my people listened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me.

³ The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.

¹¹ Your lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is as the smell of Libanus. ¹² My sister, [my] spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed. ¹³ Your shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard: ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices: ¹⁵ a fountain of a garden, and a well of water springing and gurgling from Libanus.

¹⁶ The Lord called your name a fair olive tree, of a goodly shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against it; great is the affliction [coming] upon you: her branches are become good for nothing.

⁵ And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place. ⁶ And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that the branches thereof appeared [upon] it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils. ⁷ And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws: and, behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and her roots [were turned] towards him, and she sent forth her branches towards him, that [he] might water her together with the growth of her plantation. ⁸ She thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that she might become a great vine.

³ Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Libanus, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature: his top reached to the midst of the clouds. ⁴ The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field. ⁵ Therefore was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water. ⁶ All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations lived under his shadow. ⁷ And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches: for his roots were amidst much water. ⁸ And such cypresses [as this] were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty, ⁹ because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God's paradise of delight envied him. ¹⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord; Because you are grown great, and have set your top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;

¹⁰ I [*]saw in the night vision upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven and cried aloud, and thus he said, ¹¹ Cut down the tree, and pluck off its branches, and shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the wild beasts be removed from under it, and the birds from its branches. ¹² Only leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and [bind it] with an iron and brass band; and it shall lie in the grass that is without and in the dew of heaven, and its portion [shall be] with the wild beasts in the grass of the field. ¹³ His heart shall be changed from that of man, and the heart of a wild beast shall be given to him; and seven times shall pass over him. ¹⁴ The matter is by the decree of the watcher, and the demand is a word of the holy ones; that the living may known that the Lord is most high [over] the kingdom of men, and he will give it to whoever he shall please, and will set up over it that which is set at nothing of men. ¹⁵ This is the vision which I king Nabuchodonosor saw: and do you, Baltasar, declare the interpretation, for none of the wise men of my kingdom are able to show me the interpretation of it: but you, Daniel, are able; for the Holy Spirit of God is in you.

⁶ Give ear to my prayer, o Lord; and attend to the voice of my supplication.

¹ (92) A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath-day. It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O you Most High;

⁷ Whither shall I go from your Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?

³ As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

¹¹ There I will give you my breasts: my soul knew [it] not: it made me as the chariots of Aminadab.

¹ For, behold, a righteous king shall reign, and princes shall govern with judgment. ² And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

¹¹ And as the earth putting forth her flowers, and as a garden its seed; so shall the Lord, [even] the Lord, cause righteousness to spring forth, and exultation before all nations.

²³ and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yes, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored.

²² and the earth shall listen to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall listen to Jezrael.

² he will strike, and bind us up.

⁵ I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.

¹² But I will show peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the land shall yield her produce, and the heaven shall give its dew: and I will give as an inheritance all these things to the remnant of my people.

²⁷ Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.

³² I will see apart from myself: do you show me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do [so] any more.

¹⁹ I will plant in the dry land the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress, and white poplar:

¹³ And instead of the bramble shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle: and the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and shall not fail.

¹³ And the glory of Libanus shall come to you, with the cypress, and pine, and cedar together, to glorify my holy place.

¹⁸ Come down from [your] glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against you one to ravage your strong-hold. ¹⁹ Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened? ²⁰ Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.

² Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities. ³ Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God: speak to him, that you⌃ may not receive [the reward of] unrighteousness, but that you⌃ may receive good things: and we will render in return the fruit of our lips.

²⁵ By no means shall you do as this thing [is] so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: by no means. You that judge the whole earth, shall you not do right?

⁴ [As for God], his works [are] true, and all his ways [are] judgment: God [is] faithful, and there is no unrighteousness [in him]; just and holy [is] the Lord.

⁹ But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

¹⁰ Therefore hear me, you⌃ that are wise in heart: far be it from me to sin before the Lord, and to pervert righteousness before the almighty. ¹¹ Yes, he renders to a man accordingly as each of them does, and in a man's path he will find him. ¹² And think you that the Lord will do wrong, or will the Almighty who made the earth wrest judgment?

¹⁸ [He is] ungodly that says to a king, You are a transgressor, [that says] to princes, O most ungodly one. ¹⁹ [Such a one] as would not reverence the face of an honorable man, neither knows how to give honor to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

⁷ Some [glory] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will glory in the name of the Lord our God. ⁸ They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright.

⁵ Wouldest you be angry with us for ever? or will you continue your wrath from generation to generation?

⁷ Show us your mercy, O Lord, and grant us your salvation.

⁷ He shall not be afraid of [any] evil report: his heart is ready to trust in the Lord. ⁸ His heart is established, he shall not fear, till he shall see [his desire] upon his enemies.

⁵ For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, and man of understanding will gain direction; ⁶ and will understand a parable, and a dark speech; the saying of the wise also, and riddles.

¹⁸ But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.

²⁹ The fear of the Lord is a strong hold of the saints: but ruin [comes] to them that work wickedness.

²⁸ And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be utterly consumed.

¹³ Sanctify you⌃ the Lord himself; and he shall be your fear. ¹⁴ And if you shall trust in him, he shall be to you for a sanctuary; and you⌃ shall not come against [him] as against a stumbling-stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit. ¹⁵ Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw near, and men shall be taken securely.

⁷ The way of the godly is made straight: the way of the godly is also prepared.

¹² Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? and he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord [addressed] to him, let him tell you therefore the land has been destroyed, has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.

²⁵ Yet you⌃ have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel; will not my way be straight? Is your way straight?

¹⁷ Yet the children of your people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight: whereas this their way is not straight. ¹⁸ When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them. ¹⁹ And when the sinner turns from his iniquity, and shall do judgment and righteousness, he shall live by them. ²⁰ And this is that which you⌃ said, The way of the Lord is [not] straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one for his ways.

¹⁰ Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

⁵ But the just Lord is in the midst of her, and he will never do an unjust thing: morning by morning he will bring out his judgment to the light, and it is not hidden, and he knows not injustice by extortion, nor injustice in strife.