Proverbs 14 Cross References - MLV

¹ Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman plucks it down with her own hands.
² He who walks in his uprightness fears Jehovah, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
³ A rod of pride is in the mouth of a fool, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
⁴ Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but by the strength of the ox is much increase.
⁵ A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness breathes-out lies.
⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds it not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.
⁷ Go into the presence of a foolish man and you will not perceive the lips of knowledge.
⁸ The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
⁹ Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will.
¹⁰ The heart knows its own bitterness and a stranger does not share with its joy.
¹¹ The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
¹² There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it are the ways of death.
¹³ Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful and the end of gladness is heaviness.
¹⁴ The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways and a good man from his own fruits.
¹⁵ A simple man believes every word, but the prudent man looks well to his going.
¹⁶ A wise man fears and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently and is confident.
¹⁷ He who is soon angry will deal foolishly. And a man of wicked devices is hated.
¹⁸ The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
¹⁹ The evil bow down before the good and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
²⁰ The poor man is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich man has many friends.
²¹ He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor, he is fortunate. ²² Do they not go-astray, those who devise evil? But mercy and truth are to those who devise good.
²³ There is profit in all labor, but the talk of the lips tends only to poverty.
²⁴ The crown of the wise is their riches. The foolishness of fools is folly.
²⁵ A true witness delivers souls, but he who breathes-out lies causes deceit.
²⁶ Strong confidence is in the fear of Jehovah and his sons will have a place of refuge.
²⁷ The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
²⁸ The king's glory is in the multitude of people, but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
²⁹ He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
³⁰ A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.
³² An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.
³³ Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the inward part of fools is made known.
³⁴ Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
³⁵ The king's favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath will be to him who causes shame.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel and do you worthily in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

³¹ And it happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took a wife, Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

²⁴ He who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs will eat and he who dies in the field will the birds of the heavens eat. ²⁵ (But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

¹ Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed.

¹³ The foolish woman is clamorous, simple and knows nothing. ¹⁴ And she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, ¹⁵ to call to those who pass by, who go right on their ways:
He who is simple, let him turn in here.

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

⁹ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and angry woman.

³ Through wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established, ⁴ and by knowledge the chambers are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

¹⁰ A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her and he will have no lack of gain. ¹² She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.
¹³ She seeks wool and flax and works willingly with her hands. ¹⁴ She is like the merchant ships: she brings her bread from afar.
¹⁵ She also rises while it is yet night and gives food to her household and their task to her maidens.
¹⁶ She considers a field and buys it. She plants a vineyard with the fruit of her hands.
¹⁷ She girds her loins with strength and makes her arms strong. ¹⁸ She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out by night.
¹⁹ She lays her hands to the distaff and her hands hold the spindle.
²⁰ She stretches out her hand to the poor, yes, she reaches forth her hands to the needy.
²¹ She is not afraid of the snow for her household, because all her household are clothed with scarlet.
²² She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
²³ Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.
²⁴ She makes linen garments and sells them and delivers belts to the merchant.
²⁵ Strength and dignity are her clothing and she laughs at the time to come.
²⁶ She opens her mouth with wisdom and the law of kindness is on her tongue.
²⁷ She looks well to the traveling of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
²⁸ Her sons rise up and call her fortunate. Her husband also and he praises her.
²⁹ Many daughters have done worthily, but you excel them all. ³⁰ Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears Jehovah, she will be praised.
³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her works praise her in the gates.

⁶ And Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, just-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 loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job and that man was perfect and upright and one who feared God and turned away from evil.

⁴ I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

²⁸ And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding.

²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you.

¹ Praise Jehovah. The man is fortunate who fears Jehovah, who delights greatly in his commandments.

³ Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us, because we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease and with the contempt of the proud.

¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways and wayward in their paths,

¹² He who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

¹⁷ The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

¹ Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

⁶ Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.

¹³ This is the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole of man.

⁵ My covenant of life and peace was with him. And I gave them to him that he might fear and he feared me and stood in awe of my name. ⁶ The law of truth was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness and turned many away from iniquity.

¹⁶ He who hears you, hears me; and he who is rejecting you, rejects me; and he who rejects me, rejects the one who sent me.

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees, who are money-lovers, were also hearing all these things, and they were ridiculing him.

³¹ Therefore indeed, all the congregations throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace. They were being multiplied, being built up, and having conducted-themselves in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

²² Now they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and fearing God, being well testified of by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely-warned by a holy messenger to send for you to come to his house and to hear words from you.

³⁵ but in every nation, he who fears him and is working righteousness, is acceptable to him.

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance? ⁵ But you store up wrath for yourself according to your hardness and unrepentant heart in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

² For men will be lovers of themselves, money-lovers, braggarts, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ cold-hearted, implacable, slanderers, with no self-control, untamed, not lovers of good,

³ Talk no more so very proudly. Do not let arrogance come out of your* mouth, for Jehovah is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed.

²¹ You will be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

³ Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be dumb, which arrogantly speak against the righteous man, with pride and contempt.

¹ Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual. ² Your tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

⁴ My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue is a sharp sword.

⁶ The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

⁶ A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calls for stripes.

²⁴ The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name. He works in the arrogance of pride.

⁸ He who sows unrighteousness will reap calamity and the rod of his wrath will fail.

²⁵ He who is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in Jehovah will be made fat.

²⁰ and concerning the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was greater than its fellows.

⁹ that if you confessed the Lord Jesus in your mouth and if you have believed in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved; ¹⁰ for it is believed in the heart toward righteousness and it is confessed with the mouth toward salvation.

⁵ So the tongue is also a little member and boasts of magnificent things. Behold, how-vast a forest it lights with such a small fire! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus the tongue is designated among our members as what stains the whole body and ignites the birth cycle and is ignited by hell.

¹⁸ For while speaking flattering-words of futility, they entice (with the lusts of the flesh to unbridled-lusts) those who really had fled away from those who conduct themselves in error.

¹⁰ Because you kept the word of my endurance, I also will be keeping you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole inhabited-earth, to test those who are dwelling upon the earth.

¹¹ And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.

⁵ And after I saw these things and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony was opened in heaven; ⁶ and there came out from the temple the seven messengers who had the seven wounds, they were clothing themselves with clean bright flax-linen and golden belts had been girded around their chests.

²³ Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but when there no justice, it is swept away.

⁶ And I also have given you* cleanness of teeth in all your* cities and want of bread in all your* places.
Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.

⁹ For it has been written in the Law of Moses, ‘You will not muzzle a threshing bull.’God does not care only for the bulls, does he? ¹⁰ Or does he certainly say it because of us? For it was written because of us, that the one who is plowing ought to plow in hope, and the one who is threshing ought to thresh in hope to partake of his hope.
¹¹ If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a big thing if we will be reaping your fleshly things?

¹⁶ You will not bear false witness against your neighbor.

¹ You will not take up a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.

¹³ And the two men, the worthless fellows, came in and sat before him. And the worthless fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth cursed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

¹² And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for Jehovah will deliver it into the hand of the king.
¹³ And the messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. I beseech you, let your word be like the word of one of them and speak good. ¹⁴ And Micaiah said, As Jehovah lives, what Jehovah says to me, that I will speak.

¹⁹ a false witness who breathes-out lies and he who sows discord among brothers.

¹⁷ He who breathes-out truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness, deceit.

⁵ A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

²⁵ A true witness delivers souls, but he who breathes-out lies causes deceit.

⁵ A false witness will not be unpunished and he who breathes-out lies will not escape.

⁹ A false witness will not be unpunished and he who breathes-out lies will perish.

¹⁸ Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

⁹⁸ Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, because they are everlasting with me. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers, because your testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the aged because I have kept your precepts.

⁹ They are all straightforward to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.

²⁴ Wisdom is before the face of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

² A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself.

¹² See a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.

²⁰ Seek to the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

⁹ The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of Jehovah and what manner of wisdom is in them?

²² The lamp of the body is the eye, because if your eye is clear, your whole body will be radiant. ²³ But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore, if the light which is in you is darkness, how much greater is the darkness!

²⁵ Jesus answered and said at that time, I profess you, O Father, Lord of heaven and the earth, that you hid these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants. ²⁶ Yes, Father, because thus it became a delight before you. ²⁷ All things have been given to me by my Father and no one fully knows the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father fully, except the Son and he to whomever the Son wills to reveal him. \ulnone\nosupersub

¹¹ But he answered and said to them, It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but it has not given to those men. ¹² For who ever has, to him will be given and he will abound, but who ever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

²¹ because having known God, they did not glorify him as God, nor gave-thanks, but became-futile in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding. ²² They were foolish, claiming to be wise, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and of four footed mammals and of reptiles.
²⁴ Hence also, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts into uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and gave-divine service to the created thing contrary to the one who created it, who is gracious forever. Amen.
²⁶ Because of this, God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for even their females exchanged the natural use into what is contrary to anything natural; ²⁷ and the males also likewise, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward one another, males with males working forth indecency and receiving in themselves the recompense which was essential from their error.
²⁸ And just-as they did not approve to have God in their full knowledge, God gave them up to an unapproved mind, to do those things which are not proper.

³¹ But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain that law of righteousness. ³² Why? Because it was not from the faith, but as it was from works of the law, for they stumbled on the stone of stumbling;

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone seems to be wise in this age among you, let him become foolish, in order that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, ‘ It is he who grabs the wise in their craftiness';

² But if anyone thinks to know anything, he has known nothing yet like it is essential to know;

⁵ But if anyone of you is deficient of wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach any, and it will be given to him.

³ Knowing this first, that mockers will be coming in the last of the days, conducting-themselves according to their own lusts, ⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his presence? For from which time the fathers fell-asleep, thus all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation. ⁵ For this is eluding them, (willing it to be so): that there were heavens from long-ago, and an earth established out of water and through water by the word of God;

⁶ Forsake you* simpleness and live and advance in the way of understanding.

²⁰ Walk with wise men and you will be wise. But the companion of fools will be evil for it.

²⁷ To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.

¹¹ But now, I have written to you not to socialize together with anyone if he is named a brother, who is either a fornicator or greedy, or an idolater or a reviler, or a drunkard or a swindler, not to even eat together with such a person. \ulnone\nosupersub

¹¹ And have no fellowship together with the unfruitful works of darkness, but also rather reprove them;

¹⁰ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom and all who act accordingly have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever.

⁵ O that my ways were established to observe your statutes!

³⁴ Give me understanding and I will keep your law, yes, I will observe it with my whole heart. ³⁵ Make me to go in the path of your commandments, because I do delight in it.

⁷³ Your hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

⁸ Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, because I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, because I lift up my soul to you.

⁹ Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness, yes, every good path.

²⁰ I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice,

¹⁸ A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness has a sure reward.

²⁰ Lift up your* eyes and behold those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?

¹⁹ And I will be saying to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; rest yourself, eat, drink, and be joyous.
²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, your soul is asked back from you in this night, and the things which you prepared, whose will they be?

²² to place away from yourselves the old man, according to your former conduct, the one who is corrupted according to the lusts of deception;

¹⁷ Because of this, do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

⁹ Because of this, we also do not cease praying and asking on your behalf from the day we heard it, in order that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and intelligence, ¹⁰ for you to walk worthy of the Lord for pleasing him in everything, bearing-fruit in every good work and growing into the full knowledge of God;

¹³ But evil men and impostors will be progressing from bad on to worse, misleading and being misled.

¹⁵ And you have known, that from a baby, the sacred Scriptures which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
¹⁶ All Scripture is God breathed and is profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for education which is in righteousness, ¹⁷ in order that the man of God may be equipped, having been utterly equipped for every good work.

¹³ Who is wise and knowledgeable among you? Let him show out of his good conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.

¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and morally-corrupt, a man who drinks unrighteousness like water!

⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water, ⁸ saying, I have not sinned, nor committed unrighteousness, nor had fellowship with workers of wickedness to go with the profane. ⁹ For you should not say, There will be no visitation to a man; visitation is to him from the Lord.

²² How long, you* simple ones, will you* love simplicity? And scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

⁴ so you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

³⁵ Because he who finds me finds life and will obtain favor of Jehovah.

²³ It is as sport to a fool to do mischief and so is wisdom to a man of understanding.

² A good man will obtain favor of Jehovah, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

¹⁵ Good understanding gives favor, but the way of the transgressor is hard.

¹⁸ As a madman who casts firebrands, arrows and death, ¹⁹ so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not amusing?

²⁰ So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wickedness.

¹⁷ for the kingdom of God is not about food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For the one who is serving Christ in these things is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

¹⁸ that they were saying to you that in the last time there will be mockers, conducting-themselves according to their own lusts of ungodlinesses.

²¹ And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us.

¹⁰ And she was in bitterness of soul and prayed to Jehovah and wept much.

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away, but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is distressed within her and Jehovah has hid it from me and has not told me.

² O that my grief were but weighed and all my calamity laid in the balances! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

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

¹⁸ He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

¹ My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁴ The friendship of Jehovah is with those who fear him and he will show them his covenant.

¹³ A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

¹⁴ So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. And I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.

³³ And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be utterly amazed and disheartened. ³⁴ And he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful until death, remain here and watch.

²⁷ Now my soul has been disturbed, and what should I say? Father, save me from this hour? But I came to this hour because of this.

¹⁸ I will not be leaving you orphans. I am coming to you.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will be keeping my word and my Father will love him, and we will be coming to him and we will be making our abode with him.

⁷ And the peace of God, which is superior to all perception, will be guarding your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

⁸ You love whom you have not seen; now you believe in whom you do not see; in both you are glad with unspeakable and glorified joy;

¹⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations. To the one who overcomes, I will be giving to him to eat from the manna which has been hidden and I will be giving him a white voting-pebble and a new name that has been written upon the voting-pebble, which no one knows except he who receives it.

⁶ if you were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for you and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

¹⁵ He will lean upon his house, but it will not stand. He will hold fast to it, but it will not endure.

³⁴ For the company of the hypocrites will be barren and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

¹⁴ He will be rooted out of his tent where he trusts and he will be brought to the king of terrors. ¹⁵ There will dwell in his tent what is none of his. Brimstone will be scattered upon his habitation.

²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous and this is the place of him who does not know God.

²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown will devour him. It will consume what is left in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens will reveal his iniquity and the earth will rise up against him. ²⁸ The increase of his house will depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.

²⁸ For you* say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
¹⁵ Those who remain of him will be buried in death and his widows will make no lamentation.
¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust and prepares garments as the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just will put it on and the innocent will divide the silver. ¹⁸ He builds his house as the moth and as a booth which the keeper makes.
¹⁹ He lies down rich, but he will not be gathered to his fathers. He opens his eyes and he is not. ²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind carries him away and he departs and it whirlwinds him out of his place.
²² For God will hurl at him and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand. ²³ Men will clap their hands at him and will hiss him out of his place.

² His seed will be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
³ Wealth and riches are in his house and his righteousness endures forever.

³ Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your sons like olive plants all around your table.

³³ The curse of Jehovah is in the house of a wicked man, but he graces the habitation of the righteous.

²⁸ He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish as the green leaf.

⁷ The wicked are overthrown and are not, but the house of the righteous will stand.

¹² A righteous man considers the house of the wicked: the wicked are overthrown to ruin.

²⁰ There is desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of a wise man, but a foolish man swallows it up.

¹¹ And Jehovah will guide you continually and satisfy your soul in dry places and make strong your bones. And you will be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. ¹² And those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of generations and generations and you will be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

⁴ I will cause it to go forth, says Jehovah of hosts and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it will abide in the midst of his house and will consume it, with the timber of it and the stones of it.

²⁶ And everyone hearing these words of mine and who is not doing them, will be similar to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain came down and the rivers came up and the winds blew and hit that house and it fell and great was its fall.

¹⁵ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

²⁵ There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it are the ways of death.

¹² There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

¹³ Enter in through the narrow gate, because wide is the gate and broad is the way, which leads to destruction and there are many who are entering through it. ¹⁴ Why is it? Narrow is the gate and pressed is the way, which is leading to life and few are those who are finding it.

²⁴ Struggle to enter in through the narrow gate, because I am saying to you, Many will be seeking to enter in and will not be strong-enough.

²¹ Therefore, what fruit were you having then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

³ For if anyone thinks himself to be something, being nothing, he is deceiving himself.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

²² But become doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

⁴ But in the end, she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

² I said of laughter, It is mad and from gladness, What does it do?

¹⁰ And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. Because my heart rejoiced because of all my labor and this was my portion from all my labor.
¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked and on the labor that I had labored to do, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.

⁵ It is better to hear the rebuke of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools. ⁶ Because as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

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 and in the sight of your eyes. But know, that upon all these things God will bring you into judgment.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that you received your good things in your life and Lazarus likewise evil things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy be turned to gloom.

⁷ In how-much she glorified herself and was promiscuous, give to her so-much more torment and mourning, because she says in her heart, I am sitting as a queen and I am no widow and may never see mourning. ⁸ Because of this, in one day her wounds will come–death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned in fire, because strong is the Lord God who judged her.

³¹ Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices.
³² Because the backsliding of the simple will kill them and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

¹⁴ A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth and the actions of a man's hands will be rendered to him.

¹⁰ The heart knows its own bitterness and a stranger does not share with its joy.

¹⁹ Your own wickedness will discipline you and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Jehovah your God and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

⁵ Why has this people of Jerusalem then slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.

⁵ Jehovah says thus: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from Jehovah.

³¹ Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says the lord Jehovah.

¹⁶ For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following Jehovah and those who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.

¹⁴ but whoever is drinking from the water that I will be giving him may never be thirsty, but the water that I will be giving him will become in him a well of water leaping up to everlasting life.

¹² For this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you.

⁴ But let each one test his own work and then he will have his boasting toward himself alone and not toward the other.

⁸ Because he who is sowing to his own flesh will be reaping corruption from his flesh, but he who is sowing to the Spirit will be reaping everlasting life from the Spirit.

¹² Beware brethren, lest there will be an evil heart of unbelief in anyone of you, in withdrawing away from the living God.

²⁰ For if, having fled away from the defilements of the world in the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and having been again entangled, they are succumbed in these things, the last state has become worse to them than the first. ²¹ For it was better for them to have not known fully the way of righteousness, than to turn away from the holy commandment given to them after having fully known it. ²² But it has befallen to them as the way of the true proverb, ‘ The dog having turning again toward his own vomit,’and the sow that had fully-washed, to wallowing in the mud.

²⁶ Make the path of your feet level and let all your ways be established.

⁸ The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

³ A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and suffer for it.

¹² A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself. The simple pass on and suffer for it.

¹³ Therefore he who is prudent will keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.

⁷ who was together with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This one sought to hear the word of God, having called to him Barnabas and Saul.

¹⁸ For such are not serving our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and they are deceiving the hearts of the guiltless through their smooth-talk and blessings.
¹⁹ For your obedience has reached out to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I wish for you to be indeed wise as to what is good, and harmless to what is evil.

¹⁴ in order that we may no longer be infants, bobbing on the waves and being carried around in every wind of teaching, in the trickery of men, in craftiness, toward the schemes of error.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁹ And Esau said, I have enough, my brother, let what you have be yours.

¹⁸ And Joseph said to them the third day, Do this and live, because I fear God.

² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

¹⁰ And Ben-hadad sent to him and said, The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. ¹¹ And the King of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let he who girds on his armor boast himself as he who puts it off.

¹⁸ And he said, Whether they come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they come out for war, take them alive.

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me charged the people and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, ²² then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade and my arm be broken from the bone. ²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me and I can do nothing because of his majesty.

¹⁴ Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembles for fear of you and I am afraid of your judgments.

⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

²² He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,

⁶ Iniquity is atoned for by mercy and truth and men depart from evil by the fear of Jehovah.

¹⁴ The man who fears always is fortunate, but he who hardens his heart will fall into mischief.

⁹ If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, whether he is angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

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

¹⁷ For Herod himself had sent forth and took-hold of John and bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her. ¹⁸ For John said to Herod, ‘It is not legal for you to have your brother’s wife.’ ¹⁹ But Herodias was holding it against him. And she was willing to kill him and was not able;

²⁴ Now she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask for?
Now she said, The head of John the Immerser.
²⁵ And she came in promptly to the king and diligently asked, saying, I wish that you might give me immediately the head of John the Immerser upon a platter.

⁴⁰ And those who were with him from the Pharisees heard these things and said to him, We are not also blind, are we?

²² Abstain from every form of evil.

⁶ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

⁵ Then king Ahasuerus spoke and said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he, who dares presume in his heart to do so? ⁶ And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

¹⁶ A fool's anger is instantly known, but a prudent man conceals shame.

²⁹ He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

¹⁸ A wrathful man stirs up contention, but he who is slow to anger appeases strife.

³² He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

²⁴ Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger and you will not go with a wrathful man,

²² An angry man stirs up strife and a wrathful man abounds in transgression.

⁹ Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry, because anger rests in the bosom of fools.

⁷ And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. ²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich. ²⁸ They have grown fat. They shine. Yes, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.
²⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says Jehovah. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁹ So-then my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

³⁵ The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, yes, get understanding with all your substance.
⁸ Exalt her and she will promote you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.
⁹ She will give to your head a wreath of beauty and of charm; she will deliver a crown of beauty to you.

²⁹ He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind. And a foolish man will be servant to a wise man of heart.
³⁰ The fruit of a righteous man is a tree of life and he who is wise wins souls.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and will say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.

¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that has gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food and were well and saw no evil.

³ And those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars everlasting and forever.

²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the burial chambers of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, If we were in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So-then you are testifying to yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² And you, fill up the measure of your fathers.

⁸ Furthermore the crown of righteousness is laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will be giving to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹⁸ knowing that you were redeemed from your futile conduct handed down from your forefathers not with corruptible things like with silver or with gold.

⁴ And when the Chief-Shepherd is made manifest, you will be getting the unfading crown of glory.

⁶ And Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves to him with their faces to the earth.

²⁸ And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And they bowed the head and then bowed-down to him.

⁸ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, Entreat Jehovah, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Jehovah.

²⁷ And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, I have sinned this time. Jehovah is righteous and I and my people are wicked. ²⁸ Entreat Jehovah, let it be enough of these mighty thunderings and hail and I will let you* go and you* will stay no longer.

⁸ And all these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves down to me, saying, You get out and all the people who follow you. And after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

³⁶ And it will happen, that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and will say, I beseech you, put me into one of the priests' offices that I may eat a morsel of bread.

¹² And Jehoshaphat said, The word of Jehovah is with him. So the King of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

⁷ And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. And Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen, for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
⁸ Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. Then the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

¹⁴ They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd and the upright will have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty will be for Sheol to consume, that there is no habitation for it.

²⁹ He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind. And a foolish man will be servant to a wise man of heart.

¹⁴ And the sons of those who afflicted you will come bending to you. And all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. And they will call you The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light and I will behold his righteousness.
¹⁰ Then my enemy will see it and shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes will see my desire upon her. Now she will be trodden down as the mud of the streets.

¹⁶ The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears will be deaf. ¹⁷ They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they will come trembling out of their borders. They will come with fear to Jehovah our God and will be afraid because of you.

³ And you* will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your* feet in the day that I make, says Jehovah of hosts.

³⁹ And when they came, they pleaded with them, and having led them outside, they asked them to go out away from the city.

⁹ Behold, I give those from the synagogue of the Adversary, those who say they are themselves Jews and they are not, but are lying, behold, I will make them in order that they should come and should worship in the sight of your feet and should know that I have loved you.

² And all the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, bowed down and did reverence to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down, nor do him reverence.

¹⁰ Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.
¹¹ And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches and the multitude of his sons and all the things in which the king had promoted him and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.

²¹ For now you* are nothing. You* see a terror and are afraid. ²² Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your* substance? ²³ Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

¹³ He has put my brothers far from me and my acquaintances are entirely estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁰ They abhor me. They stand far away from me and do not refrain to spit in my face.

¹⁵ The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

⁴ Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

⁶ Many will entreat the favor of a generous man and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.
⁷ All the brothers of a poor man regard him inferior, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues with words, but they are gone.

¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

⁵ Look to the heavens and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than you. ⁶ If you have sinned, what do you effect against him? And if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?

²⁴ Because he has not despised nor made abominable the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard.

¹ He who considers a poor man is fortunate. Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil. ² Jehovah will preserve him and keep him alive and he will be fortunate upon the earth. And you do not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

⁵ It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment,

⁹ He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

²⁴ There is he who scatters and increases yet more and there is he who withholds more than is proper, but only to want.
²⁵ The generous soul will be made prosperous and he who waters will also be watered himself.

³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

⁵ He who mocks a poor man reproaches his maker. He who is glad at calamity will not be unpunished.

³ When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes and with disgrace, reproach.

¹⁷ He who has pity upon a poor man lends to Jehovah and he will repay him his good deed.

²⁷ He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many a curse.

¹ Cast your bread upon the waters, because you will find it after many days. ² Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight, because you do not know what evil will be upon the earth.

⁷ Is it not to deal your bread to a hungry man and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house, when you see a naked man, that you cover him and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
⁸ Then your light will break forth as the morning and your healing will spring forth speedily. And your righteousness will go before you. The glory of Jehovah will be your rearward. ⁹ Then you will call and Jehovah will answer, you will cry and he will say, Here I am. If you take the yoke away from the midst of you, the putting forth of the finger and speaking wickedly, ¹⁰ and if you draw out your soul to a hungry man and satisfy an afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness and your obscurity be as the noonday.

²⁷ Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you and break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

³⁴ Then the King will be saying to those at his right, Come-here, those who have been blessed from my Father, inherit the kingdom which has been prepared for you from the conception of the world: ³⁵ for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me a drink; I was a stranger and you led me in; ³⁶ I was naked and you dressed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.
³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and nourish you? Or thirsty and gave you a drink? ³⁸ But when did we see you as a stranger and lead you in? Or naked and dressed you? ³⁹ But when did we see you sick or in prison and came to you?
⁴⁰ And when the King answers, he will say to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of these, my brethren, even the least, you did it to me. ⁴¹ Then he will also say to them at the left, Travel away from me, you those who have been cursed into the everlasting fire which has been prepared for the devil and his messengers: ⁴² for I was hungry and you did not give me anything to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink; ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not lead me in; naked and you did not dress me; sick and in prison and you did not visit me.
⁴⁴ Then they will also answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, or as a stranger or naked, or sick or in prison, and did not serve you?
⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, saying, Assuredly I am saying to you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of these, the least, neither did you do it to me. ⁴⁶ And these will be going away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.

³⁰ Give to everyone who asks you, and from the one who takes away what is yours, do not ask for it back.

³¹ And just-as you wish that men may do to you, you also, do likewise to them. ³² And if you love those who love you, what gratitude do you have? For even sinners love those who love them. ³³ And if you do good to those who are doing good to you, what gratitude do you have? For even sinners are doing the same. ³⁴ And if you lend to those from whom you are hoping to receive, what gratitude do you have? For even sinners are lending to sinners, in order that they might receive equally. ³⁵ However, love^*\'b0 your enemies and do good things for them and lend, hoping for nothing again. And your reward will be much, and you will be sons of the Highest, because he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. ³⁶ Therefore, become compassionate, just-as your Father is also compassionate.

⁹ Now he spoke this parable to some who have confidence in themselves, that they were righteous, and scorning the rest:

³⁵ I showed to you an example in all things, that so laboring, it is essential to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more fortunate to give than to receive.

¹² in order that you should not become sluggish, but imitators of those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patience.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren. Did God not choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor. Are the rich not oppressing you? And are they themselves not dragging you into the courts?

¹⁴ My brethren, what is the profit, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Is that faith able to save him? ¹⁵ But if a brother or sister is naked and may be deficient of daily nourishment, ¹⁶ and anyone out of you may say to them, Go away in peace. Be warmed and be fed, but do not give to them the body’s requirements; what is the profit?

¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s good life and should view his brother having need and then should lock his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My little-children, do not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in work and in truth. ¹⁹ And we know in this that we are from the truth and will persuade our hearts before him; ²⁰ because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and he knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have boldness toward God; ²² and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we are keeping his commandments and are practicing the things which are pleasing in his sight.

²⁷ And he said, Praise Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master, I being in the way, Jehovah has led me to the house of my master's brothers.

⁸ But Jehovah said to David my father, Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

⁷ He will abide before God everlasting.
O prepare loving kindness and truth that they may preserve him.

²⁹ Do not devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

¹⁷ He who is soon angry will deal foolishly. And a man of wicked devices is hated.

²² What makes a man to be desired is his kindness and a poor man is better than a liar.

⁷ And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. ⁸ But a noble man devises noble things and in noble things he will continue.

⁷ The merciful are fortunate, because they will be shown-mercy.

¹⁷ Because the law was given through Moses; the favor and the truth became through Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ He who winks with the eye causes sorrow. And a fool will fall from his lips.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent will rule, but the slothful will be put under forced-labor.

¹⁹ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows after vanity will have poverty enough.

³ Because a dream comes the greatness of the task and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

²⁷ Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will be giving to you; for God, the Father, has sealed this one.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we were commanding you this, If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat. ¹¹ For we hear there are some who are walking disorderly among you, working at nothing, but are busybodies. ¹² Now we are commanding to such and are encouraging through our Lord Jesus Christ, in order that they work with quietness and should eat their own bread.

¹³ Now at the same time, they also are learning to be idle, strolling the houses, and not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not to speak.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the labor of the love which you showed toward his name, having served the holy-ones and still serving them. ¹¹ But we are desiring each of you to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope till the end;

¹⁰ Because he will see it.
Wise men die. The fool and the stupid alike perish and leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Their inward thought is that their houses are everlasting, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names.
¹² Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish. ¹³ This way of theirs is their folly. Yet men approve their sayings after them. Selah.

²² Though you should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

¹¹ Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun. ¹² Because wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense. But the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

⁶ And there will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom and knowledge. The fear of Jehovah is your treasure.

⁹ And I say to you, Make^*\'b0 friends for yourselves out of the money of unrighteousness; in order that, whenever it fails, they may accept you into the everlasting tabernacles.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man and he was clothing himself in purple and fine-linen, having been radiantly joyous daily. ²⁰ Now there was a certain poor man, Lazarus by name, who had been put at his gate, having been full of sores, ²¹ and desiring to be fed from the falling crumbs of the rich man’s table. But even the dogs, coming to him, were licking his sores. ²² Now it happened, that the poor man died and that he was carried away by the messengers into Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and he sees Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.
²⁴ And having shouted, he said, Father Abraham, show-mercy to me, and send Lazarus in order that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and may cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this flame.
²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that you received your good things in your life and Lazarus likewise evil things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

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

²¹ thoroughly testifying both to Jews and to Greeks the repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

²⁶ because I testify to you on this very day, that I am clean from the blood of all men. ²⁷ For I did not retreat back from proclaiming to you the whole plan of God.

¹⁶ But rise up and stand upon your feet; for to this end I have appeared to you, to assign you to be an attendant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which will be seen by you. ¹⁷ I will be liberating you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been made holy in faith, the faith in me.
¹⁹ Hence, O King Agrippa, I did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision. ²⁰ But I was proclaiming first to them in Damascus, and in Jerusalem, and then to all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, to repent and to turn to God, practicing works worthy of repentance.

¹ But the Spirit expressly says, In later times some will be withdrawing from the faith, taking-heed to misleading spirits and teachings of demons, ² through the hypocrisy from the speakers of lies, having been branded in their own conscience; ³ forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the believing and those who have fully known the truth,

³ Knowing this first, that mockers will be coming in the last of the days, conducting-themselves according to their own lusts,

⁴² Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.

⁷ The messenger of Jehovah encamps all around those who fear him and delivers them.
⁸ O taste and see that Jehovah is good. The man who takes refuge in him is fortunate. ⁹ O fear Jehovah, you* his, holy ones, because there is no want to those who fear him.
¹⁰ The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek Jehovah will not want any good thing.
¹¹ Come, you* children, listen to me. I will teach you* the fear of Jehovah.

⁶ because he will never be moved. The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.
⁷ He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah. ⁸ His heart is established, he will not be afraid, even until he looks over his adversaries.

¹³ He will bless those who fear Jehovah, both small and great. ¹⁴ Jehovah increase you* more and more, you* and your* sons.

⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear Jehovah and depart from evil. ⁸ It will be health to your navel and marrow to your bones.

²⁵ Do not be afraid of sudden fear, nor of the desolation of the wicked, because it comes. ²⁶ Because Jehovah will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being taken.

¹⁰ The name of Jehovah is a strong tower. A righteous man runs into it and is safe.

²³ The fear of Jehovah is life to a man and he will abide satisfied. He will not be visited with evil.

¹⁸ It is good that you should take hold of this, yes, also do not withdraw your hand from that. Because he who fears God will come out from them all.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter you into your chambers and shut your doors around you. Hide yourself for a little moment until the indignation have passed over.
²¹ For, behold, Jehovah comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood and will no more cover her slain.

¹¹ Jehovah said, Truly I will strengthen you for good. Truly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them and of their sons after them.
⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. And I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

¹⁶ Then those who feared Jehovah spoke one with another and Jehovah listened and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared Jehovah and who thought upon his name. ¹⁷ And they will be mine, says Jehovah of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. ¹⁸ Then you* will return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between he who serves God and he who does not serve him.

² But to you* who fear my name the sun of righteousness will arise with healing in its wings and you* will go forth and frolic as calves of the stall.

⁵ The cords of Sheol were all around me. The snares of death came upon me.

¹⁰ Because wisdom will enter into your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul, ¹¹ discretion will watch over you, understanding will keep you, ¹² to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, ¹³ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, ¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, ¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways and wayward in their paths, ¹⁶ to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreign woman who flatters with her words, ¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God ¹⁸ (because her house inclines to death and her paths to the dead;

¹⁴ The law of a wise man is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul will be far from them.

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

⁶ And he said to me, I have become the Alpha and the Omega, I am the beginning and the end. I will be giving freely to the one who is thirsty out of the spring of the water of life.

¹² But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. And they were grieved because of the sons of Israel.

²² And Pharaoh ordered all his people, saying, Every son that is born you* will cast into the river and every daughter you* will save alive.

²⁰ Judah and Israel were as many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. ²¹ And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

²⁷ And the sons of Israel were mustered and were supported and went against them. And the sons of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids, but the Syrians filled the country.

³² In those days Jehovah began to cut off from Israel. And Hazael killed* them in all the borders of Israel, ³³ from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

⁷ For he did not leave to Jehoahaz of the people except fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria destroyed them and made them like the dust in threshing.

³ Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men who were upon the face of the earth.

⁸ Exalt her and she will promote you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.

¹¹ The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

²⁴ Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger and you will not go with a wrathful man, ²⁵ lest you learn this ways and get a snare for your soul.

⁸ Do not go forth hastily to strive. What will you do in the end of it when your neighbor has put you to shame?

²⁸ He whose spirit is without restraint is a city that is broken down and without walls.

⁶ Folly is set in great dignity and the rich sit in a low place.

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. Therefore he spoke and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was accustomed to be heated. ²⁰ And he commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
²¹ Then these men were bound in their coats, their tunics and their head coverings and their other garments and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
²² Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent and the furnace very hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. ²³ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
²⁴ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said to the king, True, O king. ²⁵ He answered and said, Behold, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire and they have no harm. And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.

¹⁶ Then Herod, having seen that he was mocked by the wise-men, was exceedingly furious, and sent forth soldiers and assassinated all the boys who were in Bethlehem, and in all her borders, from two years and downward, according to the time which he had ascertained accurately from the wise-men.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart and you will be finding rest for your souls.

⁴ Love has patience. It is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag. It is not arrogant. ⁵ It does not behave improperly. It does not seek its own. It does not irritate. It does not reason evil.

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, thereafter is peaceful, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-pretended. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who are making peace.

² For vexation kills the foolish man and jealousy slays the silly one.

¹⁰ A wicked man will see it and be grieved. He will gnash with his teeth and melt away. The desire of wicked men will perish.

⁸⁰ Let my heart be perfect in your statutes that I am not put to shame.

⁸ It will be health to your navel and marrow to your bones.

²³ Keep your heart with all diligence, because out of it are the things of life.

⁴ A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

²² A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

⁹ And the patriarchs, having been jealous of Joseph, gave him into Egypt. And God was with him,

²⁹ They have been filled with all: unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of: envy, murder, strife, treachery, maliciousness. They are: malicious whisperers,

⁷ For God did not give to us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline.

⁵ Or are you thinking that the Scripture speaks with emptiness? Does the Spirit who dwells in us long to envy?

¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says Jehovah. I will set him into the safety he breathes for.

²¹ He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor, he is fortunate.

² The rich and the poor meet together. Jehovah is the maker of them all.

¹⁶ He who oppresses a poor man to his increase and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ²³ Because Jehovah will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.

⁸ If you see the oppression of a poor man and the violent robbery of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. Because a man higher than the high is observing and there are higher men than they.

⁸ For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.

⁷ But just-as you are abounding in everything, in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all diligence and in the love from you to us, see that you also may abound in this favor. ⁸ I do not speak according to commandment, but I am testing the genuineness of your love through the diligence of others. ⁹ For you know the favor of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet he became-poor because of you, in order that you might be enriched through that poverty.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s good life and should view his brother having need and then should lock his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My little-children, do not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in work and in truth. ¹⁹ And we know in this that we are from the truth and will persuade our hearts before him; ²⁰ because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and he knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

²¹ And we have this commandment from him, in order that he who loves God should also love his brother.

¹⁸ I have waited for your salvation, O Jehovah.

¹⁵ Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

¹⁸ He will be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives and at last he will stand up upon the earth. ²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I will see God, ²⁷ whom I, even I, will see on my side and my eyes will behold and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind carries him away and he departs and it whirlwinds him out of his place.
²² For God will hurl at him and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.

¹¹ You made known to me the path of life. You will fill me of joy with your countenance.

¹⁵ As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness. I will be satisfied, when I awake, with your form.

⁴ Even, because I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

³⁷ Keep as the perfect man and behold the upright, because there is a happy end to the man of peace.

⁹ Before your* pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

¹⁵ Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. Suddenly he will be broken and that without remedy.

¹⁶ Because a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

²⁶ This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God has numbered your kingdom and brought it to an end. ²⁷ TEKEL, you are weighed in the balances and are found wanting. ²⁸ PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold about his neck and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
³⁰ In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

²⁹ Now Master, dismiss your bondservant according to your word in peace,

²¹ Therefore Jesus said again to them, I am going away and you will be seeking me and will be dying in your sin; where I am going, you are not able to come.

²⁴ Therefore I said to you, that you will be dying in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am, you will be dying in your sins.

²² But what if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, carried us, vessels of wrath having been framed for destruction, in much patience;

⁵⁵ O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; ⁵⁷ but gratitude to God, who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ So-then my beloved brethren, become grounded, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in the Lord.

⁹ But, we ourselves have had the verdict of death in ourselves, in order that we should not have confidence in ourselves, but in God, who is raising up the dead;

⁸ But we are courageous and are delighted rather to be away from home, away from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

²³ But I am troubled from the two ends, having the desire, that I should vacate and be together with Christ, but it is much better rather

³ For whenever they are saying, Peace and security; then sudden utter-destruction stands by them, just-like the travail a woman has in her womb, and they may never flee away from it.

¹⁸ The Lord will be rescuing me from every evil work and will save me for his heavenly kingdom: in whom is the glory, forevermore. Amen.

¹³ And I heard the voice from heaven saying to me, Write, the dead ones who die in the Lord are fortunate from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, in order that they should rest themselves from their labors, and their works follow after them.

²³ A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

¹⁶ Every prudent man works with knowledge, but a fool flaunts folly.

² The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out folly.

²⁸ The heart of a righteous man meditates to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

¹¹ A fool utters all his anger, but a wise man keeps it back and calms it.

³ Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

⁶ Keep therefore and do them, for this is your* wisdom and your* understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. ⁷ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them, as Jehovah our God is whenever we call upon him? ⁸ And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you* this day?

¹ And it will happen, if you will listen diligently to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Jehovah your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth, ² and all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God:
³ You will be blessed in the city and you will be blessed in the field. ⁴ The fruit of your body will be blessed and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock. ⁵ Your basket and your kneading-trough will be blessed. ⁶ You will be blessed when you come in and you will be blessed when you go out.
⁷ Jehovah will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways. ⁸ Jehovah will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to. And he will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
⁹ Jehovah will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you will keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of Jehovah and they will be afraid of you.
¹¹ And Jehovah will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.
¹² Jehovah will open to you his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand. And you will lend to many nations and you will not borrow.
¹³ And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail. And you will only be above and you will not be beneath, if you will listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do, ¹⁴ and will not turn aside from any of the words which I command you* this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
¹⁵ But it will happen, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
¹⁶ You will be cursed in the city and you will be cursed in the field. ¹⁷ Your basket and your kneading-trough will be cursed. ¹⁸ The fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock will be cursed. ¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and you be will cursed when you go out. ²⁰ Jehovah will send upon you cursing, confusion and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your practices, by which you have forsaken me.
²¹ Jehovah will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from the land, where you go in to possess it. ²² Jehovah will kill* you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew. And they will pursue you until you perish.
²³ And your sky that is over your head will be brass and the earth that is under you will be iron. ²⁴ Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust. From the sky it will come down upon you, until you are destroyed.
²⁵ Jehovah will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and will flee seven ways before them. And you will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And your dead body will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth and there will be none to frighten them away.
²⁷ Jehovah will kill* you with the boils of Egypt and with the tumors and with the scurvy and with the itch, of which you cannot be healed.
²⁸ Jehovah will kill* you with madness and with blindness and with confusion of mind, ²⁹ and you will grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And you will not prosper in your ways. And you will only be oppressed and robbed always and there will be none to save you.
³⁰ You will betroth a wife and another man will lie with her. You will build a house and you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard and will not use the fruit of it. ³¹ Your ox will be slain before your eyes and you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies and you will have none to save you. ³² Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. And your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all the day and there will be nothing in the power of your hand. ³³ The fruit of your ground and all your labors, will a nation eat up which you do not know. And you will only be oppressed and crushed always, ³⁴ so that you will be mad because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.
³⁵ Jehovah will kill* you in the knees and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
³⁶ Jehovah will bring you and your king whom you will set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. And there you will serve other gods, wood and stone. ³⁷ And you will become an astonishment, a proverb and a parable, among all the peoples where Jehovah will lead you away.
³⁸ You will carry much seed out into the field and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it. ³⁹ You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm will eat them. ⁴⁰ You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olive will drop off. ⁴¹ You will beget sons and daughters, but they will not be your, for they will go into captivity. ⁴² All your trees and the fruit of your ground will the locust possess.
⁴³ The traveler who is in the midst of you will mount up above you higher and higher and you will come down lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He will lend to you and you will not lend to him. He will be the head and you will be the tail.
⁴⁵ And all these curses will come upon you and will pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you listened not to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you, ⁴⁶ and they will be upon you for a sign and for a wonder and upon your seed everlasting. ⁴⁷ Because you served not Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things, ⁴⁸ therefore you will serve your enemies that Jehovah will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things. And he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.
⁴⁹ Jehovah will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue you will not understand, ⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance, that will not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, ⁵¹ and will eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed, that also will not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. ⁵² And they will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. And they will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Jehovah your God has given you.
⁵³ And you will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you. ⁵⁴ The man who is tender among you* and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining, ⁵⁵ so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you*, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter, ⁵⁷ and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet and toward her sons whom she will bear, for she will eat them secretly for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
⁵⁸ If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD, ⁵⁹ then Jehovah will make your calamities extraordinary and the calamities of your seed, even great calamities and of long continuance and severe sicknesses and of long continuance.
⁶⁰ And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of and they will cling to you. ⁶¹ Also every sickness and every calamity, which is not written in the book of this law, them Jehovah will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. ⁶² And you* will be left few in number, in that you* were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.
⁶³ And it will happen, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you* to do you* good and to multiply you*, so Jehovah will rejoice over you* to cause you* to perish and to destroy you*. And you* will be plucked from the land where you go in to possess it.
⁶⁴ And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And you will serve other gods there, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone ones.
⁶⁵ And among these nations you will find no ease and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot, but Jehovah will give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and pining of soul. ⁶⁶ And your life will hang in doubt before you and you will fear night and day and will have no assurance of your life. ⁶⁷ In the morning you will say, Would it were evening! and at evening you will say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you will fear and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. ⁶⁸ And Jehovah will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will see it no more again. And there you* will sell yourselves to your* enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen and no man will buy you*.

¹⁸ Lest there should be among you* man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations. Lest there should be among you* a root that bears gall and wormwood, ¹⁹ and it happens, when he hears the words of this curse, that he graces himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
²⁰ Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man and all the curse that is written in this book will lie upon him and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And Jehovah will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
²² And the generation to come, your* sons who will rise up after you* and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the calamities of that land and the sicknesses with which Jehovah has made it sick. ²³ The whole land of it is brimstone and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath, ²⁴ even all the nations will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger?
²⁵ Then men will say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that he had not given to them. ²⁷ Therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book. ²⁸ And Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land, as at this day.

⁶ Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the sons of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land. ⁷ And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Jehovah that he had worked for Israel.
⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years old. ⁹ And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. ¹⁰ And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers.
And there arose another generation after them that did not know Jehovah, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel. ¹¹ And the sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah and served the Baals.
¹² And they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were all around them and bowed themselves down to them. And they provoked Jehovah to anger. ¹³ And they forsook Jehovah and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
¹⁴ And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that despoiled them. And he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

³⁴ a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

² Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Jehovah says thus, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. ³ Israel was holiness to Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come upon them, says Jehovah.
⁴ Hear the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel. ⁵ Jehovah says thus: What unrighteousness have your* fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me and have walked after vanity and have become vain?
⁶ Nor did they say, Where is Jehovah who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through and where no man dwelt? ⁷ And I brought you* into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it.
But when you* entered, you* defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination. ⁸ The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me. And the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.
⁹ Therefore I will yet contend with you*, says Jehovah and I will contend with your* son's sons. ¹⁰ For pass over to the isles of Kittim and see and send to Kedar and consider diligently and see if there has been such a thing. ¹¹ Has a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for what does not profit.
¹² Be astonished, O you* heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be you* very desolate, says Jehovah. ¹³ For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
¹⁴ Is Israel a servant? Is he a born in a house? Why has he become a prey? ¹⁵ The young lions have roared upon him and yelled and they have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant. ¹⁶ The sons also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
¹⁷ Have you not procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God when he led you by the way?
¹⁸ And now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
¹⁹ Your own wickedness will discipline you and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Jehovah your God and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
²⁰ For from old time I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds. And you said, I will not serve, for upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute. ²¹ Yet I had planted you a noble vine, entirely a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
²² For though you wash with lye and take much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the lord Jehovah. ²³ How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done, a swift dromedary traversing her ways, ²⁴ a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs up the wind in her desire. In her time of estrus who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month they will find her.
²⁵ Withhold your foot from being unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers and after them I will go.

¹ Again the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ² Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, ³ and say, The lord Jehovah says thus to Jerusalem: Your birth and your nativity is from the land of the Canaanite. The Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.
⁴ And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you. You were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. ⁵ No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion upon you, but you were cast out in the open field. For with loathing of your soul in the day you were born.
⁶ And when I passed by you and saw you treading in your blood, I said to you, Live in your blood! Yes, I said to you, Live in your blood! ⁷ I caused you to multiply as what grows in the field and you increased and grew great. And you attained to excellent ornament, your breasts were fashioned and your hair was grown. Yet you were naked and bare.
⁸ Now when I passed by you and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the lord Jehovah and you became mine.
⁹ Then I washed you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you and I anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ I also clothed you with embroidered work and shod you with a certain skin. And I girded you around with fine linen and covered you with silk. ¹¹ And I decked you with ornaments and I put bracelets upon your hands and a chain on your neck. ¹² And I put a ring upon your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown upon your head.
¹³ Thus you were decked with gold and silver and your garments was of fine linen and silk and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil.
And you were very beautiful and you prospered to royalty. ¹⁴ And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty. For it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put upon you, says the lord Jehovah.
¹⁵ But you trusted in your beauty and played the prostitute because of your renown and poured out your prostitutions on everyone who passed by; his it was. ¹⁶ And you took of your garments and made high places for you, decked with various colors and played the prostitute upon them, things which should not come, nor should it be.
¹⁷ You also took your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you and made for you images of men and played the prostitute with them. ¹⁸ And you took your embroidered garments and covered them and set my oil and my incense before them. ¹⁹ My bread also which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a sweet aroma and thus it was, says the lord Jehovah.
²⁰ Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Were your prostitutions a small matter, ²¹ that you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
²² And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you have not remembered the days of your youth when you were naked and bare and were weltering in your blood.
²³ And it has happen according to all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the lord Jehovah), ²⁴ that you have built yourself a vaulted place and have made you a lofty place in every street. ²⁵ You have built your lofty place at the head of every way and have made your beauty an abomination. And have opened your feet to everyone who passed by and multiplied your prostitution. ²⁶ You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
²⁷ Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you and have diminished your portion and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. ²⁸ You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable. Yes, you have played the prostitute with them and yet you were not satisfied. ²⁹ You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of traffic, to Chaldea and yet you were not satisfied with this.
³⁰ How weak is your heart, says the lord Jehovah, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute, ³¹ in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way and make your lofty place in every street. And have not even been as a prostitute, in that you scorn hire. ³² A wife who commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
³³ They give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitutions. ³⁴ And you are different from other women in your prostitutions, in that none follows you to play the prostitute. And in your giving a hire and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.
³⁵ Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of Jehovah. ³⁶ The lord Jehovah says thus: Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitutions with your lovers and because of all the idols of your abominations and for the blood of your sons, that you gave to them, ³⁷ therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure and all those whom you have loved, with all those whom you have hated, I will even gather them against you on every side. And I will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
³⁸ And I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged. And I will bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. ³⁹ I will also give you into their hand and they will throw down your vaulted place and break down your lofty places. And they will strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels and they will leave you naked and bare.
⁴⁰ They will also bring up a company against you and they will stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords. ⁴¹ And they will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. And I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute and you will also give no wage any more. ⁴² So I will cause my wrath toward you to rest and my jealousy will depart from you and I will be quiet and will no more be angry.
⁴³ Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things, therefore, behold, I also will bring your way upon your head, says the lord Jehovah. And you will not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
⁴⁴ Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. ⁴⁵ You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her sons. And you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their sons. Your* mother was a Hittite and your* father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ And your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters. And your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
⁴⁷ Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations, but, like it was a very little thing, you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
⁴⁸ As I live, says the lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. ⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man. ⁵⁰ And they were haughty and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
⁵¹ Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins, but you have multiplied your abominations more than they and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
⁵² You also, bear your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters, through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
⁵³ And I will turn back again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them, ⁵⁴ that you may bear your own shame and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
⁵⁵ And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate and you and your daughters will return to your* former estate.
⁵⁶ For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, ⁵⁷ before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and of all who are all around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you all around. ⁵⁸ You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Jehovah.
⁵⁹ For thus says the lord Jehovah: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
⁶⁰ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. ⁶¹ Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you will receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
⁶² And I will establish my covenant with you and you will know that I am Jehovah, ⁶³ that you may remember and be confounded and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the lord Jehovah.

¹ Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ² And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
³ And you will say, The lord Jehovah says thus: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come and who makes idols against herself to defile her! ⁴ You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed and are defiled in your idols which you have made. And you have caused your days to draw near and have come even to your years.
Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the countries. ⁵ Those that are near and those that are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
⁶ Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. ⁷ In you they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of you they have dealt with the traveler by oppression. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. ⁸ You have despised my holy things and have profaned my Sabbaths. ⁹ Slanderers have been in you to shed blood and in you they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of you they have committed lewdness. ¹⁰ In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness. In you they have humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. ¹¹ And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
¹² In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. And you have greedily gained from your neighbors by oppression and have forgotten me, says the lord Jehovah.
¹³ Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
¹⁴ Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken it and will do it.
¹⁵ And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries and I will consume your filthiness out of you. ¹⁶ And you will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations.
And you will know that I am Jehovah.
¹⁷ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ¹⁸ Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
¹⁹ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you* have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you* into the midst of Jerusalem ²⁰ as they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it. So I will gather you* in my anger and in my wrath and I will lay you* there and melt you*. ²¹ Yes, I will gather you* and blow upon you* with the fire of my wrath and you* will be melted in the midst of it.
²² As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you* will be melted in the midst of it. And you* will know that I, Jehovah, have poured out my wrath upon you*.
²³ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

¹ When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he offended in Baal, he died.

⁴ A perverse heart will depart from me. I will know no evil thing.
⁵ He who slanders his neighbor secretly, I will destroy him. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.
⁶ My eyes will be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will minister to me.
⁷ He who works deceit will not dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood will not be established before my eyes.
⁸ Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of wickedness from the city of Jehovah.

⁵ He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

² A servant who deals wisely will have rule over a son who causes shame and will have part in the inheritance among the brothers.

¹² The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass.
¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

²⁶ He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.

⁸ A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

²⁶ A wise king scatters the wicked and brings the wheel over them.

¹¹ He who loves pureness of heart, for the favor of his lips, the king will be his friend.

⁵ Take away the wicked from before the king and his throne will be established in righteousness.

¹² If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and prudent bondservant, whom his lord has designated over his bondservants, to give them their nourishment in season? ⁴⁶ That fortunate bondservant, whom, when his lord comes will find him doing so. ⁴⁷ Assuredly I am saying to you, that he will be designating him over all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But if that evil bondservant says in his heart, My lord is delaying to come; ⁴⁹ and may begin to beat his fellow bondservants and to eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the lord of that bondservant will be coming in a day in which he is not expecting him, and in an hour which he does not know, ⁵¹ and will flog him, and will place his part with the hypocrites–the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there.

²¹ But his lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful bondservant. You were over a few things, I will be designating you over many things; enter into the joy of your lord.

²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful bondservant. You were faithful over a few things, I will be designating you over many things; enter into the joy of your lord.

⁴² But the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will be designating over his bondservants, to give them their food-allowance in season? ⁴³ That fortunate bondservant, whom his lord will find so doing when he has come. ⁴⁴ Truly I say to you, that he will be designating him over all his possessions. ⁴⁵ But if that bondservant says in his heart, my lord delays his coming, and may begin to beat the young-servants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; ⁴⁶ the lord of that bondservant will be coming in a day in which he is not expecting, and in an hour in which he does not know, and will be flogging him and will be placing his part with the unbelieving. ⁴⁷ But that bondservant, who knew his lord’s will and did not prepare, nor did according to his will, will be whipped with many lashes; ⁴⁸ but he who did not know and did things worthy of lashes, will be whipped with few lashes. But to whomever much is given, much will be required from him, and to whom they consign much, they will be asking even-more from him.