Job 29 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And Job continued to take up his parable, and said, ² Who will give me back months like those which are past, days like those when God guarded me; ³ When his lamp shone over my head, when by his light I could walk in darkness; ⁴ As I was in the days of my abundance, when the confidence of God was upon my tent: ⁵ When the Almighty was yet with me, when my servants stood round about me; ⁶ When I bathed my steps in cream, and the rock poured out near me streamlets of oil! ⁷ When I went out to the gate close by the city, when in the open place I established my seat: ⁸ Young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged rose up, and remained standing; ⁹ Princes stopped in the midst of their words, and laid their hand on their mouth: ¹⁰ The voice of nobles was arrested, and their tongue cleaved to their palate. ¹¹ For the ear that heard me called me happy; and the eye that saw me bore witness for me; ¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and the heart of the widow I caused to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me. ¹⁵ Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I. ¹⁶ A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate. ¹⁷ And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey. ¹⁸ And I said then, “In the midst of my nest shall I depart hence, and like the sand shall I have many days. ¹⁹ My root will stand open for the water, and the dew will lodge on my boughs. ²⁰ My glory will ever be new with me, and my bow will acquire fresh strength in my hand.” ²¹ Unto me men listened, and waited, and watched in silence for my counsel ²² After my words they made no reply, and my speech dropped on them like dew. ²³ And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened wide their mouth as for the latter rain. ²⁴ I smiled on those that had lost their confidence; and the light of my countenance they never cast down. ²⁵ I chose their way for them, and I sat as chief, and dwelt as king in his army, as one that comforteth mourners.

¹⁴ And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants; born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them into Dan. ¹⁵ And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. ¹⁶ And he brought back all the goods; and he also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and also the women, and the people. ¹⁷ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from smiting Kedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him at the valley of Shaveh, which is the kings’ dale.

¹² And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

⁴⁰ Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people be ruled, only in regard to the throne will I be greater than thou.

⁴⁹ And Joseph heaped up corn as the sand of the sea, very much; until he left off numbering, for it was without number.

¹³ And ye shall tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall hasten and bring down my father hither.

²⁶ And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive; and that he is governor over all the land of Egypt. But his heart remained cold, for he believed them not.

¹¹ He bindeth unto the vine his foal, and to the vine-branch his ass’s colt; he washeth his garments in wine, and in the blood of grapes his clothes;

²⁴ But his bow abode in strength, and his arm and his hands remained firm; from the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, from there thou becamest the shepherd, the stone of Israel.

²⁶ And they judged the people at all times; any difficult cause they brought unto Moses, but every small cause they judged themselves.

^{22 (22:21)} Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ^{23 (22:22)} If thou afflict him in any wise; for if he cry at all unto me, I will surely hear his cry: ^{24 (22:23)} My wrath shall wax hot, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

³² Before the hoary head shalt thou rise up, and honor the face of the old man; and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I am the Lord.

³¹ And he said, Do not, I pray thee, leave us; since thou didst find out the places where we were to encamp in the wilderness, and thou hast been to us instead of eyes.

⁷ And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram did Balak send for me, the king of Moab, out of the mountains of the east, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

¹⁸ Who executeth justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

^{14 (13:15)} Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be true, the thing is certain, such abomination hath been wrought in the midst of thee:

¹¹ And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which the Lord thy God will choose to let his name dwell there.

¹⁸ Judges and officers shalt thou appoint unto thyself in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with a just judgment.

⁸ If a matter be unknown to thee for decision, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between bodily injury and injury, or matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the Lord thy God will choose; ⁹ And thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge that may be in those days, and thou shalt inquire, and they shall inform thee of the sentence of the case; ¹⁰ And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they may tell thee from that place which the Lord will choose, and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they may instruct thee;

¹⁹ Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

¹³ Thou shalt punctually deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may lie under his own cover, and bless thee; and unto thee shall it be as righteousness before the Lord thy God.

⁵ And thou shalt commence and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian, wandering about, was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a family few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.

² My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as heavy rains upon the grass, and as showers upon herbs.

¹³ He caused him to stride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the products of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty stone; ¹⁴ Cream of cows, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and of the blood of the grape thou drunkest unmixed wine.

⁵ Thus became he king in Yeshurun, when the heads of the people were assembled, as one the tribes of Israel.

²⁴ And of Asher he said, More than all the children be Asher blessed: he shall be the most favored of his brethren, and bathe his foot in oil.

²⁷ Thy refuge is the eternal God, and here beneath, the everlasting arms; and he thrust out the enemy from before thee; and he said, Destroy. ²⁸ And then dwelt Israel in safety, alone, the fountain of Jacob; in a land of corn and wine; also its heavens shall drop down dew. ²⁹ Happy art thou, O Israel! who is like unto thee, O people, saved by the Lord, the Shield of thy help, and who is the Sword of thy excellency! and thy enemies shall fawn upon thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high-places.

⁹ Behold, I have commanded thee, Be strong and of good courage; be not dismayed, neither be thou discouraged; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

¹² And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. ¹³ And Gid’on said unto him, Pardon, my lord, if the Lord be indeed with us, why then hath all this befallen us? and where are all his wonders of which our fathers have told us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt! But now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.

⁸ And the elders of Gil’ad said unto Yiphthach, Therefore are we now come back to thee, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of ‘Ammon; and thou shalt become unto us a head, unto all the inhabitants of Gil’ad.

¹⁹ And they said unto him, Be still, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and become to us a father and a priest: is it better that thou be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

¹ But Bo’az went up to the gate, and sat down there; and, behold, the kinsman of whom Bo’az had spoken came passing by; and he said unto him, Turn aside hither, sit down here, such a one. And he turned aside, and sat down. ² And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord grant that the woman that is coming into thy house be like Rachel and like Leah, who did both build up the house of Israel: and acquire thou wealth in Ephrathah, and let thy name become famous in Beth-lechem;

³⁵ And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he rose up against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

² Already yesterday, and even before, when Saul was king over us, thou wast the one that led out and brought in Israel: And the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt indeed feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a chief over Israel.

¹⁶ Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and placed themselves before him. ¹⁷ And the one woman said, Pardon, my Lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. ¹⁸ And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, that also this woman was delivered: and we were together, there was no stranger with us in the house, only we two were in the house. ¹⁹ And this woman’s son died in the night; because she had overlaid him. ²⁰ And she arose in the midst of the night, and took my son from beside me, while thy hand-maid slept, and laid him in her bosom, and her dead son she laid in my bosom. ²¹ And when I rose in the morning to give my son suck, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I had born. ²² And the other woman said, It is not so; my son is the living one, and thy son is the dead; and this one said, It is not so; thy son is the dead, and my son is the living: thus they spoke before the king. ²³ Then said the king, This one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is dead: and the other saith, It is not so; thy son is the dead, and my son is the living. ²⁴ And the king said, Fetch me a sword: and they brought the sword before the king. ²⁵ And the king said, Hew the living child in two, and give the one half to one, and the other half to the other. ²⁶ Then spoke the woman whose son was the living unto the king, for her love had become enkindled for her son, and she said, O pardon, my Lord, give her the living child, and only do not slay it; but the other said, Neither mine nor thine shall it be, hew it asunder. ²⁷ The king then answered and said, Give her the living child, and do not slay it: she is its mother. ²⁸ And when all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had given, they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to exercise justice.

¹ And David consulted with the officers of the thousands and hundreds, and with every leader. ² And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, if it seem good unto you, and if it be of the Lord our God, let us send widely about unto our brethren who are left in all the lands of Israel, and with them unto the priests and Levites who are in their cities and open districts, that they may gather themselves together unto us. ³ And let us bring round the ark of our God to us; for we have inquired not at it in the days of Saul. ⁴ And all the congregation said that this should be done; for the king was right in the eyes of all the people.

² And there were some that said, Our sons, and our daughters, and ourselves are many; and we must buy corn, that we may eat, and live. ³ And others there were that said, We must pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses, that we may buy corn, in the famine. ⁴ And others there were that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is like the flesh of our brethren, our children are like their children: and, lo, we must force our sons and our daughters to become servants, and some of our daughters are forced to become so, and our hand is powerless; and our fields and our vineyards belong to others. ⁶ And it displeased me greatly when I heard their complaint and these words. ⁷ Then did I consult with my heart, and I upbraided the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, “Ye exact usury, every one of his brother!” And I brought together a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said unto them, We have indeed ransomed our brethren the Jews, who had been sold unto the various nations, as far as our means went: and will ye yourselves even sell your brethren, so that they will be sold again unto us? And they remained silent, and found no answer. ⁹ Then said I, The thing is not good which ye are doing: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the taunting of the nations, our enemies? ¹⁰ And also I, my brothers, and my young men, have lent them money and corn: I pray you, let us relinquish this loan. ¹¹ Give back to them, I pray you, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye have lent them. ¹² Then said they, We will give all back, and of them will we require nothing: so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and made them swear, that they would do in accordance with this promise. ¹³ Also my lap did I shake out, and said, So may God shake out every man that performeth not this promise, from his house and of his toil-gotten wealth, and so let him remain shaken out, and empty. And all the assembly said, Amen, and they praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.

¹⁰ Then said he unto them, Go your way, eat fat things, and drink sweet drinks, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: and do not grieve yourselves; but let the joy of the Lord be your stronghold. ¹¹ So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, Be still! for the day is holy: and do not grieve yourselves. ¹² And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send out portions, and to prepare for themselves great joy: because they had understood the words which the others had made known unto them.

⁷ And he had brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was beautiful in form and handsome in appearance; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai had taken her to himself as a daughter.

¹ There was a man in the land of ‘Uz, Job was his name; And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and eschewing evil. ² And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. ³ And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and he had a very great store of servants: so that this man was greater than all the sons of the east.

³ And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and he had a very great store of servants: so that this man was greater than all the sons of the east. ⁴ And his sons used to go and prepare a feast in the house of every one on his day; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. ⁵ And it happened, when the days of the feast were gone round, that Job sent and sanctified them, and he then rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of all of them; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and have renounced God in their heart. In this manner used Job to do all the time.

¹⁰ Behold, thou hast indeed placed a fence about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side: the work of his hands hast thou blessed, and his cattle are far spread out in the land.

² If we essay to address a word to thee, wilt thou be wearied? yet who is able to refrain from speaking? ³ Behold, thou hast ere this corrected many, and weak hands thou wast wont to strengthen. ⁴ Him that stumbled thy words used to uphold, and to sinking knees thou gavest vigor.

²⁶ Thon wilt go in a ripe age unto the grave, as a shock of corn is carried home in its season.

³ So was I compelled to possess months of vanity, and nights of trouble were counted out unto me.

¹¹ Therefore will I also not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit: I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ And brighter than the noon of day will thy earthly existence arise; and thy obscurity will be like thy morning.

¹² The things you remember are mere proverbs of ashes, your high-places are high-places of clay.

⁸ Hast thou listened to the secret counsel of God? and is wisdom therefore of little esteem with thee?

⁶ The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.

¹⁶ Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away.

⁹ My glory hath he stripped from me, and removed the crown of my head.

¹⁷ He shall not look with pleasure on streams, on flowing brooks of honey and cream.

⁵ Turn yourselves unto me, and be astounded, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked quenched? and how often cometh over them their calamity? and doth God distribute their lot in his anger?

⁵ Is not thy evil great? and no end to thy iniquities? ⁶ For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brothers for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and from the hungry thou hast withholden bread. ⁸ But as for the man of a strong arm, he obtained the land, and the highly honored could dwell therein. ⁹ Widows hast thou sent away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

⁹ Widows hast thou sent away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

²⁸ And if thou decree a thing, it will be fulfilled unto thee; and upon thy ways the light will shine.

³ Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!

⁸ But, lo, I go eastward—and he is not there; and to the west—and I cannot perceive him; ⁹ When he doth great things at the north, I behold him not; he hideth himself in the south—and I see him not. ¹⁰ But he knoweth the way that I take: were he to probe me, I should come forth as gold.

⁴ They chase the needy out of the highway: altogether hide themselves the poor of the earth.

¹ And Job continued taking up his parable, and said,

⁶ I have laid fast hold on my righteousness, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me for my conduct during all my life.

⁹ Princes stopped in the midst of their words, and laid their hand on their mouth: ¹⁰ The voice of nobles was arrested, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.

¹⁴ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me.

¹⁷ Or if ever I ate my bread by myself alone, and the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as though we were of one father, and I have guided her as though she was sprung from my mother’s womb;) ¹⁹ If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy without covering: ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he have not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he have not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ²¹ If I have swung my hand against the fatherless, because I saw in the gate those that would help me:

³⁷ The number of my steps would I tell him: as to a prince would I go near unto him.—

¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words: I gave an attentive ear to your reasonings, till you might have searched out the proper words. ¹² And now I understand you fully, and, behold, there is none that convinceth Job, or, that answereth his speeches among you.

¹⁵ They are dismayed, they answer no more: words have escaped away from them. ¹⁶ And should I wait longer, because they cannot speak, because they stand stilt and answer no more?

³¹ Listen well, O Job, hearken unto me: keep silence, and I will truly speak. ³² If thou hast any words, answer me: speak, for I wish to justify thee. ³³ If not, hearken thou unto me: keep silence, and I will teach thee wisdom.

⁴ Behold, I am too vile: what shall I answer thee? my hand do I place on my mouth.

¹³ He had also seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the name of the first Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. ¹⁵ And there were not found such handsome women as the daughters of Job in all the land; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. ¹⁶ And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years: and he saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

¹⁶ And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years: and he saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. ¹⁷ Then died Job, being old and full of days.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by rivulets of water, that yieldeth its fruit in its season, and the leaf of which doth not wither; and all that he may do shall prosper.

^{3 (3:4)} But thou, O Lord, art a shield around me, my glory, and he that lifteth up my head.

^{7 (3:8)} Arise, O Lord, help me, O my God; for thou smitest all my enemies upon the cheek bone: the teeth of the wicked dost thou break.

^{6 (4:7)} Many say, “Who will show us happiness? Let shine brightly over us the light of thy countenance, O Lord.”

^{28 (18:29)} For thou wilt cause my light to shine: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

^{34 (18:35)} He teacheth my hands for the war, so that a brazen bow is bent by my arms.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil; for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff—they indeed comfort me.

¹⁴ The secret counsel of the Lord is for those that fear him, and his covenant—to make it known to them.

¹ Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; of whom shall I be afraid? the Lord is the fortress of my life; of whom shall I have dread?

⁵ For he will hide me in his pavilion on the day of evil; he will conceal me in the secret of his tabernacle; upon a rock will he place me high.

^{6 (30:7)} And I had said indeed in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ^{7 (30:8)} Lord, by thy favor hadst thou caused my mountain to stand in strength: thou didst hide thy face, and I was terrified.

^{7 (30:8)} Lord, by thy favor hadst thou caused my mountain to stand in strength: thou didst hide thy face, and I was terrified.

²⁸ For the Lord loveth justice, and never forsaketh his pious servants: they are for ever preserved; but the seed of the wicked will be cut off.

² For thou art the God of my fortress: why hast thou abandoned me? why must I walk about grieved, under the oppression of the enemy?

^{8 (44:9)} Of God we boast all the day, and to thy name will we give thanks for ever. Selah. ^{9 (44:10)} But now thou hast cast off, and put us to the blush, and goest not forth with our armies.

^{8 (58:9)} As a snail which melteth, let him pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman which hath not seen the sun.

^{4 (67:5)} Nations will rejoice and sing for joy: when thou judgest the people righteously, and guidest the nations upon earth. Selah.

^{5 (68:6)} A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

⁶ He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers which are dropping on the earth.

¹² For he will deliver the needy when he crieth; the afflicted also, who hath no helper.

^{16 (81:17)} And he would feed him with the best of wheat: and out of the rock would I satisfy thee with honey.

² How long will ye judge unjustly, and treat with favor the face of the wicked? Selah. ³ Judge uprightly the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and indigent. ⁴ Release the poor and needy: deliver them out of the power of the wicked.

^{11 (84:12)} For a sun and shield is the Lord God; grace and glory will the Lord give; he will not withhold any good from those that walk with integrity.

^{15 (89:16)} Happy is the people that know the cornet’s sound: O Lord, in the light of thy countenance will they ever walk firmly.

¹ He who sitteth under the secret protection of the Most High, shall rest under the shadow of the Almighty.

¹⁶ With length of days will I satisfy him, and I will let him see my salvation.

⁵ Who satisfieth with happiness thy spirit, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s plumage.

³ Then would they have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us up as a prey to their teeth.

¹ A song of the degrees. When the Lord bringeth back again the captivity of Zion, then shall we be like dreamers.

³ Lo, children are an inheritance from the Lord: a reward is the fruit of the body. ⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. ⁵ Happy is the man that hath his quiver filled with them: they shall not be put to shame, when they do speak with the enemies in the gate.

³ Thy wife is then as a fruitful vine in the recesses of thy house: thy children, like olive-plants round about thy table.

⁹ Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy pious servants shout for joy.

⁶ May my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember thee: if I recall not Jerusalem at the head of my joy.

³² For the froward is an abomination to the Lord; but with the upright is his good-will.

¹⁹ In a multitude of words transgression cannot be avoided; but he that refraineth his lips is intelligent.

⁹ The light of the righteous burneth joyfully; but the lamp of the wicked will be quenched.

³¹ An ornamental crown is the hoary head, on the way of righteousness can it be found.

⁶ The crown of old men are children’s children; and the ornament of children are their fathers.

⁸ A king that sitteth on the throne of justice scattereth away with his eyes all evil.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father or his mother—his lamp shall be quenched in obscure darkness.

¹³ Whoso stoppeth his ears against the cry of the poor, he also will cry himself, but shall not be answered.

¹¹ Deliver those that are taken unto death, and those that are moved away to the slaughter hold back. ¹² If thou shouldst say, Behold, we know not this man: lo, he that weigheth hearts will truly regard it, and he that keepeth thy soul will surely know it; and he will give a recompense to man according to his doing.

²⁰ For there will be no happy future for the bad man: the lamp of the wicked will be quenched.

² It is the honor of God to conceal a thing; but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

² When the righteous are in authority, the people will rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people groan.

⁷ The righteous considereth the cause of the indigent: but the wicked will not understand the knowledge of justice.

¹⁴ There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and whose string teeth are as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

³² If thou hast become degraded by lifting up thyself, or if thou hast devised evil, put thy hand to thy mouth:

⁶ Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those who have an embittered soul. ⁷ Let such a one drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his trouble no more. ⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all fatherless children. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and decide the cause of the poor and needy.

⁴ He brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me was love.

¹ On my couch during the nights I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. ² Oh, I must rise now, and go about in the city in the streets, and in the open places; I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

¹¹ Of sweet honey drop thy lips, O bride: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the scent of thy garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

⁴ And he will judge among the nations, and decide for many people; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall not learn any more war.

¹³ And it shall come to pass on that day, that the great cornet shall be blown, and then shall come those who are lost in the land of Asshur, and those who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall prostrate themselves before the Lord on the holy mount at Jerusalem.

⁵ On that day will the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

³ Strengthen ye weak hands, and stumbling knees make ye firm. ⁴ Say to the timid of heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God, with vengeance will he come, with God’s recompense; it is he who will come and save you.

³¹ Yet they that wait upon the Lord shall acquire new strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk, and not become faint.

¹⁵ Thus will he cause many nations to jump up in astonishment; at him will kings shut their mouth; for what had not been told unto them shall they see, and what they had never heard shall they understand.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and placed the helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance as raiment, and wrapped himself with zeal as with a cloak.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Eternal is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to announce good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim to captives Liberty, and to prisoners Release; ² To proclaim a year of favor of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all mourners; ³ To grant unto the mourners of Zion,—to give unto them ornament in the place of ashes, oil of gladness in the place of mourning, garments of praise in the place of a grieved spirit; that they may be called, Oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.

¹⁰ I will be greatly glad in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, with the mantle of righteousness hath he enveloped me, as a bridegroom decketh himself with elegant attire, and as a bride adorneth herself with her bridal array.

³ And thou shalt be a crown of ornament in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

¹⁴ Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry out from pain of heart, and from a broken spirit shall ye howl;

⁸ O thou hope of Israel, his saviour in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfarer that turneth aside to lodge for a night?

⁸ And he shall be like a tree that is planted by the waters, and by a stream spreadeth out its roots, which feeleth not when heat cometh, but its leaf remaineth green; and in a year of drought it is undisturbed by care, and ceaseth not from yielding fruit.

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then was it well: is not this the proper knowledge of me? saith the Lord.

²³ O inhabitress of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how full of grace wilt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

^{28 (31:27)} And it shall come to pass, that just as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to overthrow, and to destroy, and to do harm: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant, saith the Lord.

¹⁶ Thy hastiness hath deceived thee, the presumption of thy heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as the eagle, thence would I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

²⁶ And I will let thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not become to them a man who reproveth; for they are a rebellious family.

^{46 (21:2)} Son of man, set thy face in the direction toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the south.

³ And let us feel it, that we may strive to know the Lord; bright as the morning-dawn is his rising; and he will come as the rain unto us, as the latter rain that maketh fruitful the earth.”

^{5 (14:6)} I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall bloom as the lily; and he shall strike his roots as the forests of Lebanon. ^{6 (14:7)} His suckers shall spread out, and his beauty shall be as that of the olive-tree, and his smell as that of the Lebanon. ^{7 (14:8)} They shall return that sat under his shade; they shall revive as corn, and bloom as the vine: the scent of which shall be as that of the wine of Lebanon.

¹⁶ And now hear thou the word of the Lord, Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and preach not against the house of Isaac.

⁴ Though thou wert to rise as high as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

⁶ “Preach not;” but they shall preach: they shall not preach indeed to these, that reproach may not overtake them.

⁹ Woe to him that obtaineth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of the wicked!

¹⁶ These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye the truth every man to his neighbor; with truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates;

¹ Ask from the Lord rain at the time of the latter rain, from the Lord who maketh lightning-clouds: and he will give unto them showers of rain, to every herb in the field.