Proverbs 14 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ Wise women build houses: but a foolish one digs [hers] down with her hands. ² He that walks uprightly fears the Lord; but he that is perverse in his ways shall be dishonored. ³ Out of the mouth of fools [comes] a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise preserve them. ⁴ Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean; but where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent. ⁵ A faithful witness does not lie; but an unjust witness kindles falsehoods. ⁶ You shall seek wisdom with bad men, and shall not find it; but discretion is easily available with the prudent. ⁷ All things are adverse to a foolish man; but wise lips are the weapons of discretion. ⁸ The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways; but the folly of fools leads astray. ⁹ The houses of transgressors will need purification; but the houses of the just are acceptable. ¹⁰ [If] a man's mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride. ¹¹ The houses of ungodly men shall be utterly destroyed; but the tabernacles of them that walk uprightly shall stand. ¹² There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it reach to the depths of hell. ¹³ Grief mingles not with mirth; and joy in the end comes to grief. ¹⁴ A stout-hearted [man] shall be filled with his own ways; and a good man with his own thoughts. ¹⁵ The simple believes every word: but the prudent man betakes himself to afterthought. ¹⁶ A wise man fears, and departs from evil; but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor. ¹⁷ A passionate man acts inconsiderately; but a sensible man bears up under many things. ¹⁸ Fools shall have mischief for their portion; but the prudent shall take fast hold of understanding. ¹⁹ Evil men shall fall before the good; and the ungodly shall attend at the gates of the righteous. ²⁰ Friends will hate poor friends; but the friends of the rich are many. ²¹ He that dishonors the needy sins: but he that has pity on the poor is most blessed. ²² They that go astray devise evils: but the good devise mercy and truth. The framers of evil do not understand mercy and truth: but compassion and faithfulness are with the framers of good. ²³ With every one [who is] careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in lack. ²⁴ A prudent man is the crown of the wise: but the occupation of fools is evil. ²⁵ A faithful witness shall deliver a soul from evil: but a deceitful [man] kindles falsehoods. ²⁶ In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and he leaves his children a support. ²⁷ The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; and it causes [men] to turn aside from the snare of death. ²⁸ In a populous nation is the glory of a king: but in the failure of people is the ruin of a prince. ²⁹ A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish. ³⁰ A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart: but a sensitive heart is a corruption of the bones. ³¹ He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honors him has pity upon the poor. ³² The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but he who is secure in his own holiness is just. ³³ There is wisdom in the good heart of a man: but in the heart of fools it is not discerned. ³⁴ Righteousness exalts a nation: but sins diminish tribes. ³⁵ An understanding servant is acceptable to a king; and by his good behavior he removes disgrace.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate said, [We are] witnesses: and the elders said, The Lord make your wife who goes into your house, as Rachel and as Lia, who both [together] built the house of Israel, and wrought mightily in Ephratha, and there shall be a name [to you] in Bethleem.

³¹ And it was not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, but he took as wife, Jezabel the daughter of Jethebaal king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

²⁴ And do you this thing: Send away the kings, each one to his place, and set princes in their stead. ²⁵ And we will give you [another] army according to the army that was destroyed, and cavalry according to the cavalry, and chariots according to the chariots, and we will fight against them in the plain, and we shall prevail against them. And he listened to their voice, and did so.

¹ And Gotholia the mother of Ochozias saw that her son was dead, and she destroyed all the seed royal.

¹³ A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to lack a morsel. ¹⁴ She sits at the doors of her house, on a seat openly in the streets, ¹⁵ calling to passers by, and to those that are going right on their ways;

¹³ A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows [paid out] of the hire of a harlot are not pure.

⁹ [It is] better to dwell in a corner on the house-top, than in plastered [rooms] with unrighteousness, and in an open house.

¹⁹ [It is] better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.

³ A house is built by wisdom, and is set up by understanding. ⁴ By discretion the chambers are filled with all precious and excellent wealth.

¹⁰ Who shall find a virtuous woman? for such a one is more valuable than precious stones. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her: such a one shall stand in no need of fine spoils. ¹² For she employs all her living for her husband's good. ¹³ Gathering wool and flax, she makes it serviceable with her hands. ¹⁴ She is like a ship trading from a distance: so she procures her livelihood. ¹⁵ And she rises by night, and gives food to her household, and [appointed] tasks to her maidens. ¹⁶ She views a farm, and buys it: and with the fruit of her hands she plants and a possession. ¹⁷ She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work. ¹⁸ And she finds by experience that working is good; and her candle goes not out all night. ¹⁹ She reaches forth her arms to needful [works], and applies her hands to the spindle. ²⁰ And she opens her hands to the needy, and reaches out fruit to the poor. ²¹ Her husband is not anxious about those at home when he tarries anywhere abroad: for all her household are clothed. ²² She makes for her husband clothes of double texture, and garments for herself of fine linen and scarlet. ²³ And her husband becomes a distinguished [person] in the gates, when he sits in council with the old inhabitants of the land. ²⁴ She makes fine linens, and sells girdles to the Chananites: she opens her mouth heedfully and with propriety, and controls her tongue. ²⁵ She puts on strength and honor; and rejoices in the last days. ²⁶ But she opens her mouth wisely, and according to law. ²⁷ The ways of her household are careful, and she eats not the bread of idleness. ²⁸ And [her] kindness to them sets up her children for them, and they grow rich, and her husband praises her. ²⁹ Many daughters have obtained wealth, many have wrought valiantly; but you have exceeded, you have surpassed all. ³⁰ Charms are false, and woman's beauty is vain: for it is a wise woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear the Lord. ³¹ Give her of the fruit of her lips; and let her husband be praised in the gates.

⁶ And Solomon said, You have dealt very mercifully with your servant David my father according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you, and you have kept for him this great mercy, to set his son upon his throne, as [it is] this day.

¹ There was a certain man in the land of Ausis, whose name [was] Job; and than man was true, blameless, righteous, [and] godly, abstaining from everything evil.

⁴ For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.

²⁸ And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

¹ (113) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, you⌃ servants [of his], praise, the name of the Lord.

³ verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: ⁴ verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

¹² A man void of understanding sneers at [his fellow] citizens: but a sensible man is quiet.

¹⁷ The paths of life turn aside from evil; and the ways of righteousness are length of life. He that receives instruction shall be in prosperity; and he that regards reproofs shall be made wise. He that keeps his ways, preserves his own soul; and he that loves his life will spare his mouth.

⁶ A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar.

¹³ Hear the end of the matter, the sun: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole man.

⁵ My covenant of life and peace was with him, and I gave [it] him that he might reverently fear me, and that he might be awe-struck at my name. ⁶ The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before me directing [his way] in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness.

³ Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high-sounding words come out of your mouth, for the Lord [is] a God of knowledge, and God prepares his own designs.

²¹ He shall hide you from the scourge of the tongue: and you shall not be afraid of coming evils.

³ Look on me, listen to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;

¹ (53) For the end, [a Psalm] of David upon Maeleth, of instruction. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted [themselves], and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that does good. ² God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

⁴ Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

⁶ The words of ungodly men are crafty; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

⁶ The lips of a fool bring [him] into troubles, and his bold mouth calls for death.

²⁴ A bold and self-willed and insolent [man] is called a pest: and he that remembers injuries is a transgressor.

⁸ He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but [a man] shall fully prove the folly of his works.

²⁵ An unbelieving man judges rashly: but he that trusts in the Lord will act carefully.

²⁰ and concerning it ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up [some] of the former, which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was bolder than the rest.

²³ The righteous shall spend many years in wealth: but the unrighteous shall perish suddenly.

⁶ And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet you⌃ returned not to me, says the Lord.

¹⁶ You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

¹ You shall not receive a vain report: you shall not agree with the unjust [man] to become an unjust witness.

¹³ And, behold, a prophet came to Achaab king of Israel, and said, Thus says the Lord, Hast you seen this great multitude? behold, I give it this day into your hands; and you shall know that I [am] the Lord.

¹² And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying, Go up to Remmath Galaad, and [the thing] shall prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it and the king of Syria into your hands. ¹³ And the messenger that went to call Michaias spoke to him, saying, Behold now, all the prophets speak with one mouth good concerning the king, let now your words be like the words of one of them, and speak good things. ¹⁴ And Michaias said, [As] the Lord lives, whatever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.

¹⁹ An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.

¹⁷ A righteous man declares the open truth; but an unjust witness is deceitful.

⁵ A righteous man hates an unjust word: but an ungodly man is ashamed, and will have no confidence.

²⁵ A faithful witness shall deliver a soul from evil: but a deceitful [man] kindles falsehoods.

⁵ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that accuses unjustly shall not escape.

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.

⁹ They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.

²⁴ The countenance of a wise man is sensible; but the eyes of a fool [go] to the ends of the earth.

² A senseless man feels no need of wisdom, for he is rather led by folly.

¹² I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.

²⁰ For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.

⁹ The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?

⁶ Leave folly, that you⌃ may reign for ever; and seek wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.

²⁰ If you walk with wise men you shall be wise: but he that walks with fools shall be known.

²⁷ A son who ceases to attend to the instruction of a father will cherish evil designs.

¹⁰ The sinner shall see and be angry, he shall gnash his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the sinner shall perish.

⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.

⁸ whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

⁹ Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment; and shall direct all your course aright.

²⁰ I walk in ways of righteousness, and [am] conversant with the paths of judgment;

¹⁸ An ungodly man performs unrighteous works: but the seed of the righteous is a reward of truth.

²⁰ Lift up your eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given you, the sheep of your glory?

¹⁶ Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

⁷ What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water? ⁸ [saying], I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, to go with the ungodly. ⁹ For you should not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas [there is] a visitation on him from the Lord.

²² So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs.

⁴ so shall you find favor: and do you provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.

³⁵ For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and [in them] is prepared favor from the Lord.

²³ A fool does mischief in sport; but wisdom brings forth prudence for a man.

² He that has found favor with the Lord [is made] better; but a transgressor shall be passed over in silence.

¹⁵ Sound discretion gives favor, and to know the law is the part of a sound understanding: but the ways of scorners tend to destruction.

¹⁸ As those who need correction put forth [fair] words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown; ¹⁹ so are all that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are discovered, say, I did it in jest.

²⁰ Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing amiss.

²¹ And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he implored us, and we listened not to him; and therefore has this affliction come upon us.

¹⁰ And she [was] very much grieved in spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.

²⁷ And she came to Elisaie to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Giezi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisaie said, Let her alone, for her soul [is] much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden [it] from me, and has not told [it] me.

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together! ³ And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain. ⁴ For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

¹¹ Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

¹ Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

¹³ When the heart rejoices the countenance is cheerful; but when it is in sorrow, [the countenance] is sad.

¹⁴ A wise servant calms a man's anger; but who can endure a faint-hearted man?

¹⁴ And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.

⁶ If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.

¹⁵ If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

³⁴ For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

¹⁴ And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king. ¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

²¹ These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

²⁶ And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house. ²⁷ And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him. ²⁸ Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.

²⁸ so that you⌃ will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

¹³ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty. ¹⁴ And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg. ¹⁵ And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows. ¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay; ¹⁷ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess his wealth. ¹⁸ And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web. ¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night. ²¹ And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place. ²² And [God] shall cast [trouble] upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. ²³ He shall cause [men] to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

² Let the name of the Lord be blessed, from this present time and for ever. ³ From the rising of the sun to his setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised.

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

³³ The curse of God is in the houses of the ungodly; but the habitations of the just are blessed.

²⁸ He that trusts in wealth shall fall; but he that helps righteous men shall rise.

⁷ When the ungodly is overthrown, he vanishes away; but the houses of the just remain.

¹² A righteous man understands the hearts of the ungodly: and despises the ungodly for their wickedness.

²⁰ A desirable treasure will rest on the mouth of the wise; but foolish men will swallow it up.

¹¹ and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain [from] which the water has not failed. ¹² And your old waste desert [places] shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace.

⁴ And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

¹⁵ The ways of fools are right in their own eyes; but a wise man hearkens to counsels.

²⁵ There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell.

¹² A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

⁴ but afterwards you will find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.

² I said to laughter, Madness: and to mirth, Why do you this:

¹⁰ And whatever mine eyes desired, I withheld not from them, I withheld not my heart from all my mirth: for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my portion of all my labor. ¹¹ And I looked on all my works which my hands had wrought, and on my labor which I laboured to perform: and behold, all was vanity and waywardness of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun.

⁵ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. ⁶ [It is] better to hear a reproof of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness. ³² For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.

¹⁴ The soul of a man shall be filled with good from the fruits of his mouth; and the recompence of his lips shall be given to him.

¹⁰ [If] a man's mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride.

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.

⁵ Therefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?

³¹ So I have poured out my wrath upon her in the fury of mine anger, to accomplish [it]. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, says the Lord God.

¹⁶ For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

⁶ and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

²⁶ Make straight paths for your feet, and order your ways aright.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways; but the folly of fools leads astray.

³ An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, but fools pass by and are punished.

¹² A wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself; but fools pass on, and will be punished.

¹³ Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.

⁹ And Esau said, I have much, my brother; keep your own.

¹⁸ And he said to them on the third day, This do, and you⌃ shall live, for I fear God.

² And Jezabel sent to Eliu, and said, If you are Eliu and I am Jezabel, God do so to me, and more also, if I do not make your life by this time to-morrow as the life of one of them.

¹⁰ And set two men, sons of transgressors, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, He blessed God and the king: and let them lead him forth, and stone him, and let them die. ¹¹ And the men of his city, the elders, and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezabel sent to them, and as it had been written in the letters which she sent to them.

¹⁸ Arise, and go down to meet Achaab king of Israel, who is in Samaria, for he [is] in the vineyard of Nabuthai, for he has gone down there to take possession of it.

¹⁵ But as for the former acts of extortion wherein [those who were] before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachmas for bread and wine; and the [very] outcasts of them exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]: ²² let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow. ²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden.

¹⁴ I behaved agreeably towards them as [if it had been] our neighbor [or] brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.

⁷ Be not wise in your own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil.

²² And he followed her, being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:

¹⁴ Blessed is the man who religiously fears always: but the hard of heart shall fall into mischiefs.

⁹ A wise man shall judge nations: but a worthless man being angry laughs and fears not.

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly: and the end of his talk mischievous madness.

⁶ and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.

⁵ And the king said, Who [is] this that has dared to do this thing? ⁶ And Esther said, the adversary [is] Aman, this wicked man. Then Aman was troubled before the king and the queen.

¹⁸ and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —[are hateful to God].

¹⁶ A fool declares his wrath the same day; but a prudent man hides his own disgrace.

²⁹ A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.

¹⁸ A passionate man stirs up strife; but [he that is] slow to anger appeases even a rising one. A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs [them] up.

³² A man slow to anger is better than a strong [man]; and he that governs [his] temper better than he that takes a city.

²⁴ Be not companion to a furious man; neither lodge with a passionate man:

²² A furious man stirs up strife, and a passionate man digs up sin.

⁹ The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.

⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.

²⁶ For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught [them]. ²⁷ As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich: ²⁸ and they have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow. ²⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

³⁵ The wise shall inherit glory; but the ungodly have exalted [their own] dishonor.

⁸ Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you; ⁹ that it may give to your head a crown of graces, and may cover you with a crown of delight.

²⁹ He that deals not graciously with his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise man. ³⁰ Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life; but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.

¹⁹ O Lord, you are my strength, and mine help, and my refuge in days of evil: to you the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain [were the] idols [which] our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.

¹⁷ Then Sedekias sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? and he said, There is: you shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

³ And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and [some] of the many righteous as the stars for ever and ever.

⁶ And Joseph was ruler of the land; he sold to all the people of the land. And the brethren of Joseph, having come, did reverence to him, [bowing] with the face to the ground.

²⁸ And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And he said, Blessed be that man by God; —and they bowed, and did him reverence.

⁸ And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said, Pray for me to the Lord, and let him take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will send them away, and they shall sacrifice to the Lord.

²⁷ And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the Lord [is] righteous, and I and my people are wicked. ²⁸ Pray then for me to the Lord, and let him cause the thunderings of God to cease, and the hail and the fire, and I will send you forth and you⌃ shall remain no longer.

⁸ And all these your servants shall come down to me, and do me reverence, saying, Go forth, you and all the people over whom you preside, and afterwards I will go forth.

³⁶ And it shall come to pass that he that survives in your house, shall come to do obeisance before him for a little piece of silver, saying, Put me into one of your priest's offices to eat bread.

¹² And Josaphat said, He has the word of the Lord. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went down to him.

⁷ And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden: and Aman began to entreat the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case. ⁸ And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed, intreating the queen. And the king said, Will you even force [my] wife in my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

²⁹ He that deals not graciously with his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise man.

¹⁴ And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you in fear; and you shall be called Sion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness. ¹⁰ And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where [is] the Lord your God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened. ¹⁷ They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of you.

³ And you⌃ shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, says the Lord Almighty.

² And all in the palace did him obeisance, for so the king had given orders to do: but Mardochaeus did not do him obeisance.

¹⁰ And having gone into his own house, he called his friends, and his wife Zosara. ¹¹ And he showed them his wealth, and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had caused him to take precedence and bear chief rule in the kingdom.

²¹ But you⌃ also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound you⌃ are afraid. ²² What? have I made any demand of you? or do I ask for strength from you, ²³ to deliver me from enemies, or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?

¹³ My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognized strangers [rather] than me: and my friends have become pitiless. ¹⁴ My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me.

¹⁰ And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.

¹⁵ The wealth of rich men is a strong city; but poverty is the ruin of the ungodly.

⁴ Wealth acquires many friends; but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has.

⁶ Many court the favor of kings; but every bad man becomes a reproach to [another] man. ⁷ Every one who hates [his] poor brother shall also be far from friendship. Good understanding will draw near to them that know it, and a sensible man will find it. He that does much harm perfects mischief; and he that used provoking words shall not escape.

¹³ And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yes, we were formed in the same womb.

⁵ If you have sinned, what will you do? ⁶ and if too you have transgressed much, what can you perform?

¹ (42) For the end, [a Psalm] for instruction, for the sons of Core. As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for you, O God. ² My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

⁵ Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places,

⁹ who settles the barren [woman] in a house, [as] a mother rejoicing over children.

²⁴ There are [some] who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are [some] also who gather, [yet] have less. ²⁵ Every sincere soul is blessed: but a passionate man is not graceful.

³¹ He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honors him has pity upon the poor.

⁵ He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: but he that has compassion shall find mercy.

³ When an ungodly man comes into a depth of evils, he despises [them]; but dishonor and reproach come upon him.

¹⁷ He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; and he will recompense to him according to his gift.

²⁷ He that gives to the poor shall not be in lack: but he that turns away his eye [from him] shall be in great distress.

¹ Send forth your bread upon the face of the water: for you shall find it after many days. ² Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

⁷ Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house: if you see one naked, clothe [him], and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed. ⁸ Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth: and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall compass you. ⁹ Then shall you cry, and God shall listen to you; while you are yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech; ¹⁰ and [if] you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness [shall be] as noon-day:

²⁷ the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

²⁷ and said, Blessed be the Lord the God of my master Abraam, who has not suffered his righteousness to fail, nor his truth from my master, and the Lord has brought me prosperously to the house of the brother of my lord.

⁸ But the Lord said to my father David, Whereas it came into your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it came into your heart.

¹⁰ in whose hands [are] iniquities, [and] their right hand is filled with bribes.

⁷ In God [is] my salvation and my glory: [he is] the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

²⁹ Devise not evil against your friend, living near you and trusting in you.

¹⁷ A passionate man acts inconsiderately; but a sensible man bears up under many things.

²² Mercy is a fruit to a man: and a poor man is better than a rich liar.

⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment. ⁸ But the godly have devised wise [measures], and this counsel shall stand.

¹⁰ He that winks with his eyes deceitfully, procures griefs for men; but he that reproves boldly is a peacemaker.

²⁴ The hand of chosen men shall easily obtain rule; but the deceitful shall be for a prey.

¹⁹ He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.

³ Whenever you shall vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he has] no pleasure in fools: pay you therefore whatever you shall have vowed.

¹⁰ For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen. ¹¹ I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine. ¹² If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it. ¹³ Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

²² Though you scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, you will [still] in no wise remove his folly from him.

¹¹ Say not, What has happened, that the former days were better than these? for you do not enquire in wisdom concerning this. ¹² Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and [there is] an advantage [by it] to them that see the sun.

⁶ They shall be delivered up to the law: our salvation is our treasure: there are wisdom and knowledge and piety toward the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.

⁵ A faithful witness does not lie; but an unjust witness kindles falsehoods.

⁴² Unless I had the God of my father Abraam, and the fear of Isaac, now you would have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you yesterday.

⁷ For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare: without a cause they have reproached my soul. ⁸ Let a snare which they know not come upon them; and the gin which they hid take them; and let them fall into the very same snare. ⁹ But my soul shall exult in the Lord: it shall delight in his salvation. ¹⁰ All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to you? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yes, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him. ¹¹ Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not.

⁶ and [yet] looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth: ⁷ who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill; ⁸ to set him with princes, [even] with the princes of his people:

¹³ I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁴ I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all his people.

⁷ Be not wise in your own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil. ⁸ Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones.

²⁵ And you shall not be afraid of alarm coming upon you, neither of approaching attacks of ungodly men. ²⁶ For the Lord shall be over all your ways, and shall establish your foot that you be not moved.

¹⁰ The name of the Lord is of great strength; and the righteous running to it are exalted.

²³ The fear of the Lord is life to a man: and he shall lodge without fear in places where knowledge is not seen.

¹⁸ Be not very wicked; and be not stubborn: lest you should die before your time.

²⁰ Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord have passed away. ²¹ For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from [his] holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

¹¹ Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before you in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for [their] good against the enemy.

¹⁶ Thus spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbor: and the Lord gave heed, and listened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced his name. ¹⁷ And they shall be mine, says the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him. ¹⁸ Then shall you⌃ return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves [him] not.

² But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing [shall be] in his wings: and you⌃ shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.

⁵ In the sun he has set his tabernacle; and he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he will exult as a giant to run his course.

¹⁰ For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul, ¹¹ good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you; ¹² to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully. ¹³ Alas [for those] who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness; ¹⁴ who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness; ¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding; ¹⁶ to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake you, ¹⁷ [of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God. ¹⁸ For she has fixed her house near death, and [guided] her wheels near Hades with the giants.

¹⁴ The law of the wise is fountain of life: but the man void of understanding shall die by a snare.

⁵ Thistles and snares are in perverse ways; but he that keeps his soul will refrain from them.

²⁶ I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account [of things], and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

¹² But as they humbled them, by so much they multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong; and the Egyptians greatly abhorred the children of Israel.

²² And Pharao charged all his people, saying, Whatever male [child] shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.

²⁰ And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and [they execute] every one in his month all the orders for the table of the king, they omit nothing. ²¹ And they carried the barley and the straw for the horses and the chariots to the place where the king might be, each according to his charge.

²⁷ And because of the word, Achaab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and tore his garment, and girded sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he struck Nabuthai the Jezraelite, and went his way.

³² In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short; and Azael struck them in every coast of Israel; ³³ from Jordan eastward all the land of Galaad belonging to the Gadites, of Gaddi and that of Ruben, and of Manasses, from Aroer, which is on the brink of the brook of Arnon, and Galaad and Basan.

⁷ Whereas there was not left any army to Joachaz, except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.

³ And the man Moses was very meek beyond all the men that were upon the earth.

⁸ Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you;

¹¹ A merciful man is longsuffering; and his triumph overtakes transgressors.

²⁴ Be not companion to a furious man; neither lodge with a passionate man: ²⁵ lest you learn of his ways, and get snares to your soul.

⁸ Get not suddenly into a quarrel, lest you repent at last.

²⁸ As a city whose walls are broken down, and which is unfortified, so is a man who does anything without counsel.

⁶ The fool has been set in very high places, while rich men would sit in a low one.

¹⁹ Then Nabuchodonosor was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed toward Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago: and he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times [more than usual], until it should burn to the uttermost. ²⁰ And he commanded mighty men to bind Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast [them] into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then those men were bound with their coats, and caps, and hose, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace, ²² forasmuch as the king's word prevailed; and the furnace was made exceeding hot. ²³ Then these three men, Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell bound into the midst of the burning furnace, and walked in the midst of the flame, singing praise to God, and blessing the Lord. ²⁴ And Nabuchodonosor heard them singing praises; and he wondered, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? and they said to the king, Yes, O king. ²⁵ And the king said, But I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there has no harm happened to them; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God.

² For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.

⁸ Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones.

²³ Keep your heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life.

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but as a worm in wood, so a bad woman destroys her husband.

²² A glad heart promotes health; but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.

¹³ And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yes, we were formed in the same womb. ¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

⁵ But I have hoped in your mercy; my heart shall exult in your salvation.

²¹ He that dishonors the needy sins: but he that has pity on the poor is most blessed.

² The rich and the poor meet together; but the Lord made them both.

¹⁶ He that oppresses the poor, increases his own substance, yet gives to the rich so as to make it less.

²² Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy: neither dishonor the helpless [man] in the gates. ²³ For the Lord will plead his cause, and you shall deliver your soul in safety.

⁸ Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king [is dependent on] the tilled field.

¹⁸ waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

¹⁸ Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

²⁵ For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me, ²⁶ [and] to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these [sufferings]: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord; ²⁷ which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in [my] bosom.

²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night. ²¹ And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place. ²² And [God] shall cast [trouble] upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

¹¹ They have now cast me out and compassed me round about: they have set their eyes [so as] to bow them down to the ground.

¹⁵ And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of your wrath.

⁴ He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.

⁹ will keep my strength, [looking] to you; for you, O God, are my helper.

¹⁵ Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.

¹⁶ For a righteous man will fall seven times, and rise [again]: but the ungodly shall be without strength in troubles.

²⁶ This is the interpretation of the sentence: Mane; God has measured your kingdom, and finished it. ²⁷ Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found lacking. ²⁸ Phares; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then Baltasar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put the golden chain about his neck, and proclaimed concerning him that he was the third ruler in the kingdom. ³⁰ In the same night was Baltasar the Chaldean king slain.

²³ An understanding man is a throne of wisdom; but the heart of fools shall meet with curses.

¹⁶ Every prudent man acts with knowledge: but the fool displays his own mischief.

² The tongue of the wise knows what is good: but the mouth of the foolish tells out evil things.

²⁸ The hearts of the righteous meditate faithfulness; but the mouth of the ungodly answers evil things. The ways of righteous men are acceptable with the Lord; and through them even enemies become friends.

¹¹ A fool utters all is mind: but the wise reserves his in part.

³ Yes, and whenever a fool walks by the way, his heart will fail him, and all that he thinks of is folly.

⁶ And you⌃ shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people. ⁷ For what manner of nation [is so] great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God [is] in all things in whatever we may call upon him? ⁸ And what manner of nation [is so] great, which has righteous ordinances and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?

¹ And it shall come to pass, if you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord your God, to observe and do all these commands, which I charge you this day, that the Lord your God shall set you on high above all the nations of the earth; ² and all these blessings shall come upon you, and shall find you. If you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord your God, ³ blessed [shall] you [be] in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. ⁴ Blessed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, and the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep. ⁵ Blessed shall be your barns, and your stores. ⁶ Blessed shall you be in your coming in, and blessed shall you be in your going out. ⁷ The Lord deliver your enemies that withstand you utterly broken before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before you. ⁸ The Lord send upon you his blessing in your barns, and on all on which you shall put your hand, in the land which the Lord your God gives you. ⁹ The Lord raise you up for himself a holy people, as he sware to your fathers; if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways. ¹⁰ And all the nations of the earth shall see you, that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they shall stand in awe of you. ¹¹ And the Lord your God shall multiply you for good in the offspring of your body, and in the offspring of your cattle, and in the fruits of your land, on your land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to you. ¹² May the Lord open to you his good treasure, the heaven, to give rain to your land in season: may he bless all the works of your hands: so shall you lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. ¹³ The Lord your God make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall then be above and you shall not be below, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, in all things that I charge you this day to observe. ¹⁴ You shall not turn aside from any of the commandments, which I charge you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. ¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe all his commandments, as many as I charge you this day, then all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. ¹⁶ Cursed [shall] you [be] in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be your barns and your stores. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep. ¹⁹ Cursed shall you be in your coming in, and cursed shall you be in your going out. ²⁰ The Lord send upon you lack, and famine, and consumption of all things on which you shall put your hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed you, and until he shall have consumed you quickly because of your evil devices, because you have forsaken me. ²¹ The Lord cause the pestilence to cleave to you, until he shall have consumed you off the land into which you go to inherit it. ²² The Lord strike you with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue you until they have destroyed you. ²³ And you shall have over your head a sky of brass, and the earth under you shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord your God make the rain of your land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed you, and until it shall have quickly consumed you. ²⁵ The Lord give you up for slaughter before your enemies: you shall go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and you shall be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away. ²⁷ The Lord strike you with the botch of Egypt in the seat, and with a malignant scab, and itch, so that you can not be healed. ²⁸ The Lord strike you with insanity, and blindness, and astonishment of mind. ²⁹ And you shall grope at mid-day, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper. ³⁰ you shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it. ³¹ Your calf [shall be] slain before you, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away from you, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no helper. ³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes wasting away shall look for them: your hand shall have no strength. ³³ A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be injured and crushed always. ³⁴ And you shall be distracted, because of the sights of your eyes which you shall see. ³⁵ The Lord strike you with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so that you shall not be able to be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. ³⁶ The Lord carry away you and your princes, whom you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers know; and you shall there serve other gods, wood and stone. ³⁷ An you shall be there for a wonder, and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord your God shall carry you away. ³⁸ You shall carry forth much seed into the field, and you shall bring in little, because the locust shall devour it. ³⁹ You shall plant a vineyard, and dress it, and shall not drink the wine, neither shall you delight yourself with it, because the worm shall devour it. ⁴⁰ You shall have olive trees in all your borders, and you shall not anoint you with oil, because your olive shall utterly cast [its fruit]. ⁴¹ You shall beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be [your], for they shall depart into captivity. ⁴² All your trees and the fruits of your land shall the blight consume. ⁴³ The stranger that is within you shall get up very high, and you shall come down very low. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. ⁴⁵ And all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and shall overtake you, until he shall have consumed you, and until he shall have destroyed you; because you did not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commands, and his ordinances which he has commanded you. ⁴⁶ And [these things] shall be signs in you, and wonders among your seed for ever; ⁴⁷ because you did not serve the Lord your God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things. ⁴⁸ And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed you. ⁴⁹ The Lord shall bring upon you a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice you shall not understand; ⁵⁰ a nation bold in countenance, which shall not respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young. ⁵¹ And it shall eat up the young of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you corn, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it shall have destroyed you; ⁵² and have utterly crushed you in your cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed, in which you trust, in all your land; and it shall afflict you in your cities, which he has given to you. ⁵³ And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, all that he has given you, in your straitness and your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you. ⁵⁴ He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him; ⁵⁵ so as [not] to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in your straitness, and in your affliction, with which your enemies shall afflict you in all your cities. ⁵⁶ And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter, ⁵⁷ and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the lack of all things, secretly in your straitness, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities. ⁵⁸ If you will not listen to do all the words of this law, which have been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful name, the Lord your God; ⁵⁹ then the Lord shall magnify your plagues, and the plagues of your seed, great and wonderful plagues, and evil and dwelling diseases. ⁶⁰ And he shall bring upon you all the evil pain of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you. ⁶¹ And the Lord shall bring upon you every sickness, and every plague that is not written, and every one that is written in the book of this law, until he shall have destroyed you. ⁶² And you⌃ shall be left few in number, whereas you⌃ were as the stars of the sky in multitude; because you did not listen to the voice of the Lord your God. ⁶³ And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you; and you⌃ shall be quickly removed from the land, into which you⌃ go to inherit it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord your God shall scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and you shall there serve other gods, wood and stone, which you have not known, nor your fathers. ⁶⁵ Moreover among those nations he will not give you quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of your foot have rest; and the Lord shall give you there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul. ⁶⁶ And your life shall be in suspense before your eyes; and you shall be afraid by day and by night, and you shall have no assurance of your life. ⁶⁷ In the morning you shall say, Would it were evening! and in the evening you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sights of your eyes which you shall see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord shall bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said, You shall not see it again; and you⌃ shall be sold there to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and none shall buy you.

¹⁸ Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness. ¹⁹ And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with [him]: ²⁰ God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law. ²² And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it, ²³ brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:)— ²⁴ and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what [is] this great fierceness of anger? ²⁵ And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt: ²⁶ and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign [them] to them. ²⁷ And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law. ²⁸ And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present.

⁶ And Joshua dismissed the people, and they went every man to his inheritance, to inherit the land. ⁷ And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that lived many days with Joshua, as many as knew all the great work of the Lord, what things he had wrought in Israel. ⁸ And Joshua the son of Naue, the servant of the Lord, died, a hundred and ten years old. ⁹ And they buried him in the border of his inheritance, in Thamnathares, in mount Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaas. ¹⁰ And all that generation were laid to their fathers: and another generation rose up after them, who knew not the Lord, nor yet the work which he wrought in Israel. ¹¹ And the children of Israel wrought evil before the Lord, and served Baalim. ¹² And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and walked after other gods, of the gods of the nations round about them; and they worshipped them. ¹³ And they provoked the Lord, and forsook him, and served Baal and the Astartes. ¹⁴ And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and he gave them into the hands of the spoilers, and they spoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, and they could not any longer resist their enemies,

² I remember the kindness of your youth, and the love of your espousals, ³ in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was the holy [people] to the Lord, [and] the first fruits of his increase: all that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord. ⁴ Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain? ⁶ And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man lived there? ⁷ And I brought you to Carmel, that you⌃ should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and you⌃ went in, and defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. ⁸ The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not. ⁹ Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children. ¹⁰ For go to the isles of the Chettians, and se; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done; ¹¹ if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory, [for that] from which they shall not be profited. ¹² The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horror-struck, says the Lord. ¹³ For my people has committed two [faults], and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water. ¹⁴ Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil? ¹⁵ The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited. ¹⁶ Also the children of Memphis and Taphnas have known you, and mocked you. ¹⁷ Has not your forsaking me brought these things upon you? says the Lord your God. ¹⁸ And now what have you to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Geon? and what have you to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers? 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. ²⁰ For of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you has said, I will not serve you, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication. ²¹ Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness! ²² Though you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, [still] you are stained by your iniquities before me, says the Lord. ²³ How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold your ways in the burial-ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening: ²⁴ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find her. ²⁵ Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went after them.

¹ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, testify to Jerusalem [of] her iniquities; ³ and you shall say, Thus says the Lord to Jerusalem; Your root and your birth are of the land of Chanaan: your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Chettite. ⁴ And [as for] your birth in the day wherein you were born, you did not bind your breasts, and you were not washed in water, neither was you salted with salt, neither was you swathed in swaddling-bands. ⁵ Nor did mine eye pity you, to do for you one of all these things, to feel at all for you; but you were cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of your person, in the day wherein you were born. ⁶ And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, [Let there be] life out of your blood: ⁷ increase; I have made you as the springing grass of the field. So you did increase and grow, and did enter into great cities: your breasts were set, and your hair grew, whereas you were naked and bare. ⁸ And I passed by you and saw you, and, behold, [it was] your time and a time of resting; and I spread my wings over you, and covered your shame, and swear to you: and I entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became mine. ⁹ And I washed you in water, and washed your blood from you, and anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ And I clothed you with embroidered [garments], and clothed you beneath with purple, and girded you with fine linen, and clothed you with silk, ¹¹ and decked you also with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands, and a necklace on your neck. ¹² And I put a pendant on your nostril, and rings in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head. ¹³ So you were adorned with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and variegated work: you did eat fine flour, and oil, and honey, and did become extremely beautiful. ¹⁴ And your name went forth among the nations for your beauty: because it was perfected with elegance, [and] in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord. ¹⁵ You did trust in your beauty, and did go a-whoring because of your renown, and did pour out your fornication on every passer by. ¹⁶ And you did take of your garments, and made to yourself idols of needlework, and did go a-whoring after them; therefore you shall never come in, nor shall [the like] take place. ¹⁷ And you took your fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of what I gave you, and you made to yourself male images, and you did commit whoredom with them. ¹⁸ And you did take your variegated apparel and did clothe them, and you did set before them mine oil and mine incense. ¹⁹ And [you took] my bread which I gave you, ([yes] I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey) and did set them before them for a sweet smelling savor: yes, it was so, says the Lord. ²⁰ And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore, and did sacrifice [these] to them to be destroyed. You did go a-whoring as [if that were] little, ²¹ and did kill your children, and gave them up in offering them to them for an expiation. ²² This is beyond all your fornication, and you did not remember your infancy, when you were naked and bare, [and] did live [though] defiled in your blood. ²³ And it came to pass after all your wickedness, says the Lord, ²⁴ that you did build yourself a house of fornication, and did make yourself a public place in every street; ²⁵ and on the head of every way you did set up your fornications, and did defile your beauty, and did open your feet to every passer by, and did multiply your fornication. ²⁶ And you did go a-whoring after the children of Egypt your neighbors, great of flesh; and did go a-whoring, often to provoke me to anger. ²⁷ And if I stretch out my hand against you, then will I abolish your statutes, and deliver [you] up to the wills of them that hate you, [even to] the daughters of the Philistines that turned you aside from the way wherein you sinned. ²⁸ And you did go a-whoring to the daughters of Assur, and not even thus was you satisfied; yes, you did go a-whoring, and was not satisfied. ²⁹ And you did multiply your covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these was you satisfied. ³⁰ Why should I make a covenant with your daughter, says the Lord, while you do all these things, the works of a harlot? and you have gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with your daughters. ³¹ You have built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and have set up your high place in every street; and you did become as a harlot gathering hires. ³² An adulteress resembles you, taking rewards of her husband. ³³ She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and you have given rewards to all your lovers, yes, you did load them with rewards, that they should come to you from every side for your fornication. ³⁴ And there has happened in you perverseness in your fornication beyond [other] women, and they have committed fornication with you, in that you give hires over and above, and hires were not given to you; and [thus] perverseness happened in you. ³⁵ Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord: ³⁶ Thus says the Lord, Because you have poured forth your money, therefore your shame shall be discovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and [with] regard to all the imaginations of your iniquities, and for the blood of your children which you have given to them. ³⁷ Therefore, behold, I [will] gather all your lovers with whom you have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you did hate; and I will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to them, and they shall see all your shame. ³⁸ And I will be avenged on you with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon you blood of fury and jealousy. ³⁹ And I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall break down your house of harlotry, and destroy your high place; and they shall strip you of your garments, and shall take your proud ornaments, and leave you naked and bare. ⁴⁰ And they shall bring multitudes upon you, and they shall stone you with stones, and pierce you with their swords. ⁴¹ And they shall burn your houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on you in the sight of many women: and I will turn you back from harlotry, and I will no more give [you] rewards. ⁴² So will I slacken my fury against you, and my jealousy shall be removed from you, and I will rest, and be no more careful [for you]. ⁴³ Because you did not remember your infancy, and you did grieve me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed your ways upon your head, says the Lord: for thus have you wrought ungodliness above all your [other] iniquities. ⁴⁴ These are all the things they have spoken against you in a proverb, saying, ⁴⁵ As is the mother, so is your mother's daughter: you are she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of your sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and [your] father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ Your elder sister who dwells on your left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, that dwells on the right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet notwithstanding you have not walked in their ways, neither have you done according to their iniquities within a little, but you have exceeded them in all your ways. ⁴⁸ [As] I live, says the Lord, this Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹ Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom, pride: she and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread [and] in abundance: this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ And they boasted, and wrought iniquities before me: so I cut them off as I saw [fit]. ⁵¹ Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of your sins; but you have multiplied your iniquities beyond them, and you have justified your sisters in all your iniquities which you have committed. ⁵² You therefore bear your punishment, for that you have corrupted your sisters by your sins which you have committed beyond them; and you have made them [appear] more righteous than yourself: you therefore be ashamed, and bear your dishonor, in that you have justified your sisters. ⁵³ And I will turn their captivity, [even] the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them: ⁵⁴ that you may bear your punishment, and be dishonored for all that you have done in provoking me to anger. ⁵⁵ And your sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and you and your daughters shall be restored as you⌃ were at the beginning. ⁵⁶ And surely your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the days of your pride: ⁵⁷ before your wickedness was discovered, even now you are the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, [even] of the daughters of the Philistines that compass you round about. ⁵⁸ [As for] your ungodliness and your iniquities, you have borne them, says the Lord. ⁵⁹ Thus says the Lord; I will even do to you as you have done, as you have dealt shamefully in these things to transgress my covenant. ⁶⁰ And I will remember my covenant [made] with you in the days of your infancy, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. ⁶¹ Then you shall remember your way, and shall be utterly dishonored when you receive your elder sisters with your younger ones: and I will give them to you for building up, but not by your covenant. ⁶² And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the Lord: ⁶³ that you may remember, and be ashamed, and may no more be able to open your mouth for your shame, when I am reconciled to you for all that you have done, says the Lord.

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² And you, son of man, will you judge the bloody city? yes, declare you to her all her iniquities. ³ And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself; ⁴ in their blood which you have shed, you have transgressed; and in your devices which you have formed, you have polluted yourself; and you have brought near your days, and have brought on the time of your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries, ⁵ to those near you, and to those far distant from you; and they shall mock you, [you that are] notoriously unclean, and abundant in iniquities. ⁶ Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood. ⁷ In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow. ⁸ And they have set at nothing my holy things, and in you they have profaned my sabbaths. ⁹ [There are] robbers in you, to shed blood in you; and in you they have eaten upon the mountains: they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of you. ¹⁰ In you they have uncovered the father's shame; and in you they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness. ¹¹ They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father. ¹² In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten me, says the Lord. ¹³ And if I shall strike my hand at [your iniquities] which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you, ¹⁴ shall your heart endure? shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it]. ¹⁵ And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you in the countries, and your uncleanness shall be removed out of you. ¹⁶ And I will give heritages in you in the sight of the nations, and you⌃ shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁷ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸ Son of man, behold, the house of Israel are all become to me [as it were] mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver. ¹⁹ Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God; Because you⌃ have become one mixture, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. ²⁰ As silver, and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead, are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take [you] in my wrath, and I will gather and melt you. ²¹ And I will blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and you⌃ shall be melted in the midst thereof. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you⌃ be melted in the midst thereof; and you⌃ shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you. ²³ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹ According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.

⁴ I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread. ⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh. ⁶ I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; ⁷ I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof. ⁸ All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me.

⁵ A wise son is saved from heat: but a lawless son is blighted of the winds in harvest.

² A wise servant shall have rule over foolish masters, and shall divide portions among brethren.

¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favor. ¹³ A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows [paid out] of the hire of a harlot are not pure.

²⁶ He that dishonors his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.

⁸ Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.

²⁶ A wise king utterly crushes the ungodly, and will bring a wheel upon them.

¹¹ The Lord loves holy hearts, and all blameless persons are acceptable with him: a king rules with his lips.

⁵ Slay the ungodly from before the king, and his throne shall prosper in righteousness.

¹² When a king hearkens to unjust language, all his subjects are transgressors.