Proverbs 6 Cross References - YLT

¹ My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand, ² Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth, ³ Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend, ⁴ Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids, ⁵ Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
⁶ Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; ⁷ Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler, ⁸ She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food. ⁹ Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest, ¹¹ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
¹² A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth, ¹³ Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers, ¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth. ¹⁵ Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken—and no healing. ¹⁶ These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul. ¹⁷ Eyes high—tongues false—And hands shedding innocent blood— ¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity—Feet hasting to run to evil— ¹⁹ A false witness who doth breathe out lies—And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
²⁰ Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. ²¹ Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck. ²² In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked—it talketh with thee. ²³ For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction, ²⁴ To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. ²⁵ Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids. ²⁶ For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth. ²⁷ Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt? ²⁸ Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched? ²⁹ So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent. ³⁰ They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry, ³¹ And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth. ³² He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it. ³³ A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away, ³⁴ For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance. ³⁵ He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!

⁹ I—I am surety for him, from my hand thou dost require him; if I have not brought him in unto thee, and set him before thee—then I have sinned against thee all the days;

³² for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee—then I have sinned against my father all the days. ³³ `And now, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the youth a servant to my lord, and the youth goeth up with his brethren,

³ Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?

¹⁵ Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.

¹⁸ A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.

¹⁶ Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

²⁶ Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens.

¹³ Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

¹⁸ and if he did hurt to thee, or doth owe anything, this to me be reckoning; ¹⁹ I, Paul did write with my hand, I—I will repay; that I may not say that also thyself, besides, to me thou dost owe.

²² by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,

¹³ In transgression of the lips is the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.

⁷ The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

³ And Moses cometh in—Aaron also—unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,

¹⁴ And David saith unto Gad, `I have great distress, let us fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for many are His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.'

⁵ And Shemaiah the prophet hath come in unto Rehoboam and the heads of Judah who have been gathered unto Jerusalem from the presence of Shishak, and saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, Ye have forsaken Me, and also, I have left you in the hand of Shishak;'

¹² and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah his God, he hath not been humbled before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of Jehovah;

⁸ And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

¹⁰ be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

⁴ If I give sleep to mine eyes, To mine eyelids—slumber,

¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest, ¹¹ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

¹⁷ he on the house-top—let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house; ¹⁸ and he in the field—let him not turn back to take his garments.

³⁵ watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning; ³⁶ lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

¹ To the Overseer. —By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, `They moved to Thy mountain for the bird?

³ For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence.

⁷ Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

¹⁷ Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

⁷ And yet, ask, I pray thee, One of the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee. ⁸ Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:

⁹ Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?

²⁶ As vinegar to the teeth, And as smoke to the eyes, So is the slothful to those sending him.

⁴ The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

¹⁹ The way of the slothful is as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up.

⁹ He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he is to a destroyer.

¹⁵ Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

²⁴ The slothful hath hidden his hand in a dish, Even unto his mouth he bringeth it not back.

⁴ Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.

²⁵ The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.

¹³ The slothful hath said, `A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

³⁰ Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart. ³¹ And lo, it hath gone up—all of it—thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down. ³² And I see—I—I do set my heart, I have seen—I have received instruction, ³³ A little sleep—a little slumber—A little folding of the hands to lie down. ³⁴ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

¹³ The slothful hath said, `A lion is in the way, A lion is in the broad places.'
¹⁴ The door turneth round on its hinge, And the slothful on his bed.
¹⁵ The slothful hath hid his hand in a dish, He is weary of bringing it back to his mouth.
¹⁶ Wiser is the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven men returning a reason.

²⁵ The ants are a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,

³ An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

²⁶ look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

²⁶ `And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

¹¹ in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

³⁹ Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?

²⁶ By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south? ²⁷ At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest? ²⁸ A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress. ²⁹ From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively, ³⁰ And his brood gulp up blood, And where the pierced are —there is he!

⁴ Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during? ⁵ Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels? ⁶ (Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!) ⁷ Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head? ⁸ Place on him thy hand, Remember the battle—do not add! ⁹ Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down? ¹⁰ None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who is he before Me stationeth himself?
¹¹ Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it is mine. ¹² I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter of might, And the grace of his arrangement. ¹³ Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his double bridle who doth enter? ¹⁴ The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth are terrible. ¹⁵ A pride—strong ones of shields, Shut up—a close seal. ¹⁶ One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter between them. ¹⁷ One unto another they adhere, They stick together and are not separated. ¹⁸ His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes are as the eyelids of the dawn. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth do flames go, sparks of fire escape. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and reeds. ²¹ His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth. ²² In his neck lodge doth strength, And before him doth grief exult. ²³ The flakes of his flesh have adhered—Firm upon him—it is not moved. ²⁴ His heart is firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the lower piece. ²⁵ From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free. ²⁶ The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear—dart—and lance. ²⁷ He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood. ²⁸ The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling. ²⁹ As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin. ³⁰ Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire. ³¹ He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment. ³² After him he causeth a path to shine, One thinketh the deep to be hoary. ³³ There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror. ³⁴ Every high thing he doth see, He is king over all sons of pride.

²⁷ A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out—each one shouting,

⁵ Whoso is gathering in summer is a wise son, Whoso is sleeping in harvest is a son causing shame.

¹⁹ treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.

⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

¹⁴ Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

⁶ There came a man—having been sent from God—whose name is John,

¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;

¹⁴ wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

² for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come, ³ for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape; ⁴ and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief; ⁵ all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,
⁶ so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, ⁷ for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

⁶ Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

³³ Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things. ³⁴ And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.

⁴ Poor is he who is working—a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

³⁴ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

²⁸ And Eliab, his eldest brother, heareth when he speaketh unto the men, and the anger of Eliab burneth against David, and he saith, `Why is this—thou hast come down! and to whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known thy pride, and the evil of thy heart—for, to see the battle thou hast come down.'

³ Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

⁷ Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently—to do good.

² Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. ³ Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. ⁴ Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

⁷ Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for `Who heareth?'

⁸ They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. ⁹ They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

¹² To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

²⁴ Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

⁶ The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured.

²⁷ A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips—as a burning fire.

⁴ An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.

² In the one basket are figs very good, like the first-ripe figs, and in the other basket are figs very bad, that are not eaten for badness.

⁸ And like the bad figs, that are not eaten for badness, Surely thus said Jehovah: So do I make Zedekiah king of Judah, And his heads, and the remnant of Jerusalem, Who are left in this land, And who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, ⁹ And I have given them for a trembling, For evil—to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them. ¹⁰ And I have sent against them the sword, The famine and the pestilence, Till their consumption from off the ground, That I gave to them and to their fathers!

³⁴ `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things—being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

³⁰ and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

¹³ and at the same time also, they learn to be idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

¹⁰ for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers—especially they of the circumcision— ¹¹ whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

²¹ wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

⁶ and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

¹² What—doth thine heart take thee away? And what—are thine eyes high?

¹⁹ Mine enemies rejoice not over me with falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye.

⁶ The path of life—lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths—thou knowest not.

¹⁰ Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.

⁴ Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

¹⁴ Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

²⁹ Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee.

¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity—Feet hasting to run to evil— ¹⁹ A false witness who doth breathe out lies—And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

²⁸ A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.
²⁹ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good. ³⁰ Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

⁸ Froward is the way of a man who is vile, And the pure—upright is his work.

⁸ Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

¹⁷ Laying hold on the ears of a dog, Is a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.
¹⁸ As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, ¹⁹ So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'
²⁰ Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth, ²¹ Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife. ²² The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

⁷ And the miser—his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

²⁰ And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire.

² And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these are the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;

⁷ For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers do swallow it up.

¹ Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is—to God.

¹⁷ And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

⁷ Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow—that also he shall reap, ⁸ because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

¹⁶ and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people—till there is no healing.

²² Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

¹⁸ Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. ¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

²⁷ When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

¹ A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

¹³ Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh. ¹⁴ And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down—He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.

¹¹ and hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Thus do I break this people and this city, as one breaketh the potter's vessel, that is not able to be repaired again, and in Tophet they bury—without place to bury;

³ for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

¹⁰ there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer, ¹¹ and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead. ¹² `For the abomination of Jehovah is every one doing these, and because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from thy presence.

¹⁸ thou dost not bring a gift of a whore, or a price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow; for the abomination of Jehovah thy God are even both of them.

⁴ `Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled; for an abomination it is before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee—an inheritance.

¹⁶ for the abomination of Jehovah thy God is any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

⁵ Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

³² For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel.

¹ Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.

²⁰ An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.
⁹ An abomination to Jehovah is the way of the wicked, And whoso is pursuing righteousness He loveth.

¹⁵ Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.

¹⁰ A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

²³ An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.

¹⁸ Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:

²¹ For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four—it is not able to bear:

²⁴ Four are little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:

²⁹ Three there are going well, Yea, four are good in going:

³ And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons,

⁶ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their removing a complete captivity, To deliver up to Edom,

⁹ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their delivering up a complete captivity to Edom, And they remembered not the brotherly covenant,

¹¹ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of his pursuing with a sword his brother, And he hath destroyed his mercies, And tear perpetually doth his anger, And his wrath—he hath kept it for ever,

¹ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of his burning the bones of the king of Edom to lime,

⁴ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, And for four, I do not reserve it, Because of their loathing the law of Jehovah, And His statutes they have not kept, And their lies do cause them to err, After which their fathers did walk,

⁶ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.

²⁷ and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but—those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

¹⁰ and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee—an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.

²⁵ `Cursed is he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, —and all the people have said, Amen.

⁴ and also the innocent blood that he hath shed, and he filleth Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

⁶ Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.

⁴ The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' are all his devices.

²⁷ For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.

¹⁸ Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

⁶ Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. ⁷ Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; ⁸ They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

⁵ Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

² O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue! ³ What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

¹ A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful for me.

¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

²² An abomination to Jehovah are lying lips, And stedfast doers are his delight.

⁵ A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.

⁷ Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

⁴ Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked is sin.

²⁸ A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

¹³ A generation—how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

¹⁵ And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

¹¹ The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

⁹ The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

¹⁶ `Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving with the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,

³ For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter. ⁴ There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. ⁵ Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper. ⁶ Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works are works of iniquity, And a deed of violence is in their hands. ⁷ Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways.

¹ `Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land, ² Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery—have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

⁴⁴ `Ye are of a father—the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar—also his father.

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

¹⁵ and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

⁵ And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

¹⁶ For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

⁸ Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.

⁷ Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways.

¹⁷ And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these are things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

¹⁵ Swift are their feet to shed blood.

¹⁶ `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

¹ `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

¹⁶ `When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostasy, <sup>17</sup> then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days, <sup>18</sup> and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness is a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother: <sup>19</sup> `Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst, ²⁰ and those who are left do hear and fear, and add not to do any more according to this evil thing in thy midst;

¹⁰ and cause two men—sons of worthlessness—to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.' ¹¹ And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel hath sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them, ¹² they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people, ¹³ and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth; <sup>14</sup> and they send unto Jezebel, saying, `Naboth was stoned, and is dead.' ¹⁵ And it cometh to pass, at Jezebel's hearing that Naboth hath been stoned, and is dead, that Jezebel saith unto Ahab, `Rise, possess the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, that he refused to give to thee for money, for Naboth is not alive but dead.'

¹² Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

¹¹ Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

¹⁷ Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness—deceit.

²⁸ A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

⁵ A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

⁹ A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

¹⁰ Cast out a scorner—and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

¹⁸ A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

²⁰ Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

¹⁹ for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

⁵⁹ And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

¹³ they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

²³ and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; ¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, ¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter;

¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

⁹ I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them—Diotrephes—doth not receive us; ¹⁰ because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.

¹⁸ `When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious—he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them—

¹⁶ `Cursed is He who is making light of his father and his mother, —and all the people have said, Amen.

⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, ⁹ For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

¹ My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. ² Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye. ³ Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart. ⁴ Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou art .' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!'

²² Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

¹¹ A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

¹ The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

¹⁶ and it hath been for a token on thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes, for by strength of hand hath Jehovah brought us out of Egypt.'

⁸ and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,

³ Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

⁶ Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

²¹ Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.

³ manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

⁴ As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

³ Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They—they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.

⁹ Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe—according to Thy word.

¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

²⁴ Thy testimonies also are my delight, The men of my counsel!

⁵⁴ Songs have been to me Thy statutes, In the house of my sojournings.

⁹⁷ Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.

¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.

¹¹ Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

²³ Then thou goest thy way confidently, And thy foot doth not stumble. ²⁴ If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.

¹⁸ `And he turneth back his face to the isles, and hath captured many; and a prince hath caused his reproach of himself to cease; without his reproach he turneth it back to him. <sup>19</sup> And he turneth back his face to the strongholds of his land, and hath stumbled and fallen, and is not found. <sup>20</sup> `And stood up on his station hath one causing an exactor to pass over the honour of the kingdom, and in a few days he is destroyed, and not in anger, nor in battle.
²¹ `And stood up on his station hath a despicable one, and they have not given unto him the honour of the kingdom, and he hath come in quietly, and hath strengthened the kingdom by flatteries.

¹⁷ `Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

⁸ The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes,

⁹⁸ Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age. ⁹⁹ Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

¹⁰⁵ Nun. A lamp to my foot is Thy word, And a light to my path.

⁵ The righteous doth beat me in kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer is about their vexations.

¹⁸ A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.

⁴ And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.

¹³ Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.

¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

²⁴ A path of life is on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

³¹ An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.

¹⁵ A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

⁸ And unto this people thou dost say, Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am setting before you the way of life, And the way of death!

¹⁹ And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise—in your hearts;

⁵ remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place—if thou mayest not reform;

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,

⁵ To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

²⁶ And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

² and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance, ³ and David sendeth and inquireth about the woman, and saith, `Is not this Bath-Sheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?' <sup>4</sup> And David sendeth messengers, and taketh her, and she cometh unto him, and he lieth with her—and she is purifying herself from her uncleanness—and she turneth back unto her house; <sup>5</sup> and the woman conceiveth, and sendeth, and declareth to David, and saith, `I am conceiving.'

³⁰ And Jehu cometh in to Jezreel, and Jezebel hath heard, and putteth her eyes in paint and maketh right her head, and looketh out through the window.

⁹ Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

²⁸ but I—I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁴ and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed, ¹⁵ afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

¹⁴ that she calleth for the men of her house, and speaketh to them, saying, `See, he hath brought in to us a man, a Hebrew, to play with us; he hath come in unto me, to lie with me, and I call with a loud voice,

³⁶ and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.

³ A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.

⁸ Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.

⁸ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen a lie, Therefore, lo, I am against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁸ And thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe to those sowing pillows for all joints of the arm, And to those making the kerchiefs For the head of every stature—to hunt souls, The souls do ye hunt of My people? And the souls ye have do ye keep alive?

¹³ `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously; ¹⁴ and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want; ¹⁵ and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

³⁰ but when thy son—this one who did devour thy living with harlots—came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

⁹ If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, ¹⁰ Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. ¹¹ For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; ¹² For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

⁴ All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening. ⁵ A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves with the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners. ⁶ For they have drawn near, As an oven is their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire. ⁷ All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling unto Me among them.

⁵ so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

¹⁸ And Pharaoh calleth for Abram, and saith, `What is this thou hast done to me? why hast thou not declared to me that she is thy wife? ¹⁹ Why hast thou said, She is my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? and now, lo, thy wife, take and go.'

⁴ And Abimelech hath not drawn near unto her, and he saith, `Lord, also a righteous nation dost thou slay? <sup>5</sup> hath not he himself said to me, She is my sister! and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocency of my hands, I have done this.' <sup>6</sup> And God saith unto him in the dream, `Yea, I—I have known that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I withhold thee, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not suffered thee to come against her; ⁷ and now send back the man's wife, for he is inspired, and he doth pray for thee, and live thou; and if thou do not send back, know that dying thou dost die, thou, and all that thou hast.'

¹⁰ And Abimelech saith, `What is this thou hast done to us? as a little thing one of the people had lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us guilt;' <sup>11</sup> and Abimelech commandeth all the people, saying, `He who cometh against this man or against his wife, dying doth die.'

¹⁰ `And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife—who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour—the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

³ and David sendeth and inquireth about the woman, and saith, `Is not this Bath-Sheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?' ⁴ And David sendeth messengers, and taketh her, and she cometh unto him, and he lieth with her—and she is purifying herself from her uncleanness—and she turneth back unto her house;

⁹ `Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do the evil thing in His eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten by the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to thee for a wife, and him thou hast slain by the sword of the Bene-Ammon. <sup>10</sup> `And now, the sword doth not turn aside from thy house unto the age, because thou hast despised Me, and dost take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for a wife;

²¹ And Ahithophel saith unto Absalom, `Go in unto the concubines of thy father, whom he left to keep the house, and all Israel hath heard that thou hast been abhorred by thy father, and the hands of all who are with thee have been strong.'

⁵ An abomination to Jehovah is every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.

⁸ Fed horses—they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh. ⁹ For these do I not lay a charge? An affirmation of Jehovah, And on a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?

¹¹ And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee.

⁵ And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹ And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

³⁹ Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?

¹ `When a man doth steal an ox or sheep, and hath slaughtered it or sold it, five of the herd he doth repay for the ox, and four of the flock for the sheep. <sup>2</sup> `If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him; ³ if the sun hath risen upon him, blood is for him, he doth certainly repay; if he have nothing, then he hath been sold for his theft; ⁴ if the theft is certainly found in his hand alive, whether ox, or ass, or sheep—double he repayeth.

⁶ and the ewe-lamb he doth repay fourfold, because that he hath done this thing, and because that he had no pity.'

¹⁸ He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not.

²⁵ and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.

⁸ And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, `Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.'

⁹ none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou art his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? —then have I sinned against God.' ¹⁰ And it cometh to pass at her speaking unto Joseph day by day, that he hath not hearkened unto her, to lie near her, to be with her;

³⁹ and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

¹⁴ `Thou dost not commit adultery.

¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. ¹⁹ None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. ²³ He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!

⁷ And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, ²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.

³⁶ And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

⁴ `Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,

¹⁶ `Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart—she said to him, <sup>17</sup> `Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.' ¹⁸ And he hath not known that Rephaim are there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

²⁵ I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness. ²⁶ And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

⁸ Fed horses—they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.

²¹ Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

³¹ Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?

¹¹ Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,
¹² My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

⁹ And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.

²² professing to be wise, they were made fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles. ²⁴ Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

⁴ honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

⁴ Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!

¹⁹ and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him; ²⁰ and she saith, `Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him. ²¹ And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.

⁵ in that David did that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from all that He commanded him all days of his life—only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite;

²⁶ `By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel—even him did the strange women cause to sin.

¹ A Psalm of David, `To cause to remember.' Jehovah, in Thy wrath reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me. ² For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand. ³ Soundness is not in my flesh, Because of Thine indignation, Peace is not in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden—too heavy for me. ⁵ Stunk—become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly. ⁶ I have been bent down, I have been bowed down—unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning. ⁷ For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh. ⁸ I have been feeble and smitten—unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

⁸ Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised.

⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

⁶ and Jesse begat David the king. And David the king begat Solomon, of her who had been Uriah's,

¹⁴ and a spirit of jealousy hath passed over him, and he hath been jealous of his wife, and she hath been defiled; —or, a spirit of jealousy hath passed over him, and he hath been jealous of his wife, and she hath not been defiled—

¹¹ `Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath turned back My fury from the sons of Israel, by his being zealous with My zeal in their midst, and I have not consumed the sons of Israel in My zeal.

²⁹ and cometh in unto his house, and taketh the knife, and layeth hold on his concubine, and cutteth her in pieces to her bones—into twelve pieces, and sendeth her into all the border of Israel. ³⁰ And it hath come to pass, every one who seeth hath said, `There hath not been—yea, there hath not been seen like this, from the day of the coming up of the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt till this day; set your heart upon it, take counsel, and speak.'

⁴ Fury is fierce, and anger is overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?

⁶ Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings are burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

²² do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

¹ And Naaman, head of the host of the king of Aram, was a great man before his lord, and accepted of face, for by him had Jehovah given salvation to Aram, and the man was mighty in valour—leprous.

³ For, a son I have been to my father—tender, And an only one before my mother.

¹³ And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

²⁵ Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.

⁹ And the low boweth down, and the high is humbled, And Thou acceptest them not.

⁹ And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.