Proverbs 21:29 Cross References - Thomson

²⁹ A wicked man impudently hardeneth his face: but the upright will himself consider his ways.

⁵ O that my ways may be directed, that I may keep thy rules of rectitude.

⁵⁹ I revolved thy ways in my mind, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

⁵ Righteousness maketh spotless ways straight: but wickedness falleth by iniquity.

¹⁴ Happy the man who piously feareth all things: but he who is of an intractable temper will fall into evils.

¹ Better is a man of experience, than a man who is stiff-necked: for when the latter is suddenly burned, there is no healing him.

² Raise thine eyes, look forward and take a view! where is there a place in which thou hast not prostituted thyself? In the highways thou hast sat for them like a deserted daw, and polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wicked acts, ³ and retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to thyself: yet with the face of a harlot and behaving indecently before them all,

³ [p] Lord, thine eyes look for faithfulness. Thou hast chastised them: but they have not grieved. Thou hast consumed them and they would not receive instruction. They have made their faces harder than a rock and refused to return.

¹² [Omitted]

¹⁶ In regard to this word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, ¹⁷ we will not hearken to thee; for we will continue to perform every word which shall proceed from our mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her; as we and our fathers and our kings and our chiefs did in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem; for we had then plenty of bread and were in happy circumstances and saw no evils:

²⁸ He hath turned away from all his wicked acts which he committed; he shall surely live; he shall not die.

⁵ Now therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, "Turn your thoughts on your ways.

⁷ Thus saith the Lord Almighty apply your thoughts to these ways of yours:

¹⁵ Recollect now, I beseech you, from that day back, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord, What were ye?

¹⁸ Turn now your thoughts from this day forward, from this twenty fourth of the ninth month: and from the day on which the foundation of the house of the Lord is laid, ¹⁹ lay up in your minds whether that will be the case in the threshing floor? whether the vine or the fig tree or the pomegranate or the olive tree will any more be unproductive? From this very day I will bless.

¹⁷ At length, coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing with hunger? ¹⁸ I will rise and go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight,

¹¹ now may he himself, our God and father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you!