Psalms 37 Cross References - YLT

¹ By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity, ² For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade. ³ Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell in the land, and enjoy faithfulness, ⁴ And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart. ⁵ Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh, ⁶ And hath brought out as light thy righteousness, And thy judgment as noon-day.
⁷ Be silent for Jehovah, and stay thyself for Him, Do not fret because of him Who is making prosperous his way, Because of a man doing wicked devices. ⁸ Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil. ⁹ For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land. ¹⁰ And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not. ¹¹ And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace. ¹² The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth. ¹³ The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh. ¹⁴ A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way. ¹⁵ Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered. ¹⁶ Better is the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked. ¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous. ¹⁸ Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect, And their inheritance is—to the age. ¹⁹ They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied. ²⁰ But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.
²¹ The wicked is borrowing and repayeth not, And the righteous is gracious and giving. ²² For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off. ²³ From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth. ²⁴ When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand. ²⁵ Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread. ²⁶ All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed is for a blessing. ²⁷ Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age. ²⁸ For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off. ²⁹ The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it. ³⁰ The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment. ³¹ The law of his God is his heart, His steps do not slide. ³² The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death. ³³ Jehovah doth not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him in his being judged.
³⁴ Look unto Jehovah, and keep His way, And He doth exalt thee to possess the land, In the wicked being cut off—thou seest! ³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant, ³⁶ And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found! ³⁷ Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each is peace. ³⁸ And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off. ³⁹ And the salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah, Their strong place in a time of adversity. ⁴⁰ And Jehovah doth help them and deliver them, He delivereth them from the wicked, And saveth them, Because they trusted in Him!

⁶ and her adversity hath also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for Jehovah hath shut up her womb. ⁷ And so he doth year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of Jehovah, so it provoketh her, and she weepeth, and doth not eat. ⁸ And Elkanah her husband saith to her, `Hannah, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why is thy heart afflicted? am I not better to thee than ten sons?'

⁷ Be silent for Jehovah, and stay thyself for Him, Do not fret because of him Who is making prosperous his way, Because of a man doing wicked devices.

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

³¹ Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways.

³ The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

¹⁷ Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

¹ Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them.

¹⁹ Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked,

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

⁵ Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' <sup>6</sup> and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

² As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

⁵ That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment, ⁶ Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike— ⁷ As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where is he?' ⁸ As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night, ⁹ The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant, ³⁶ And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

¹⁷ Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end. 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.

⁵ Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. ⁶ In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.

⁷ When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity—For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

⁵ Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion. ⁶ They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth, ⁷ That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.

¹⁰ and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away; ¹¹ for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

²⁴ because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

² And Jehovah appeareth unto him, and saith, `Go not down towards Egypt, tabernacle in the land concerning which I speak unto thee,

²⁰ to love Jehovah thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave to Him (for He is thy life, and the length of thy days), to dwell on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.'

¹⁹ And, now, let, I pray thee, my lord the king hear the words of his servant: if Jehovah hath moved thee against me, let Him accept a present; and if the sons of men—cursed are they before Jehovah, for they have cast me out to-day from being admitted into the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.

⁵ Sacrifice ye sacrifices of righteousness, And trust ye unto Jehovah.

¹ By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.

¹⁹ To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.

⁹ Fear Jehovah, ye His holy ones, For there is no lack to those fearing Him. ¹⁰ Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,

⁸ Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God is a refuge for us. Selah.

¹⁶ Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good. ¹⁷ Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow. ¹⁸ Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be! ¹⁹ If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

¹¹ As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth them : Suckling ones He leadeth.

¹⁰ Who is among you, fearing Jehovah, Hearkening to the voice of His servant, That hath walked in dark places, And there is no brightness for him? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And lean upon his God.

⁷ Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah. ⁸ And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.

³¹ therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round? ³² for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these; ³³ but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

³⁵ And he said to them, `When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and sandals, did ye lack anything?' and they said, `Nothing.'

⁵⁷ and to God—thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;
⁵⁸ so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

¹⁰ for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering; ¹¹ and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end, ¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

¹³ In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, ¹⁴ for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; ¹⁵ and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, ¹⁶ but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

²⁶ For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face,

¹⁰ On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

⁹ For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David. Jehovah, in Thy strength is the king joyful, In Thy salvation how greatly he rejoiceth. ² The desire of his heart Thou gavest to him, And the request of his lips Thou hast not withheld. Selah.

⁴ And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.

³⁴ Sweet is my meditation on Him, I—I do rejoice in Jehovah.

¹⁹ The desire of those fearing Him He doth, And their cry He heareth, and saveth them.

³ As a citron among trees of the forest, So is my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit is sweet to my palate.

¹⁴ Then dost thou delight thyself on Jehovah, And I have caused thee to ride on high places of earth, And have caused thee to eat the inheritance of Jacob thy father, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken!

⁷ if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

¹⁶ `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

⁸ whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

¹⁴ And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us, ¹⁵ and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.

²⁸ And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone.

⁸ `Roll unto Jehovah, He doth deliver him, He doth deliver him, for he delighted in him.'

²² Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.

³ Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

¹ But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole is before them.

³⁷ Who is this—he hath said, and it is, And the Lord hath not commanded it ?

²⁵ `Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

²² And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

²⁹ `And ye—seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense, ³⁰ for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

⁶ for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; ⁷ and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

⁷ all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

¹⁷ And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest—as the morning thou art.

²⁰ Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

¹⁷ No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!

⁸ Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee.

¹⁰ And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon.

⁸ Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me. ⁹ The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness.

¹⁸ And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

⁴³ `Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who is having ears to hear—let him hear.

⁵ so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

¹² Then speaketh Joshua to Jehovah in the day of Jehovah's giving up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he saith, before the eyes of Israel, `Sun—in Gibeon stand still; and moon—in the valley of Ajalon;'

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. ⁸ Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. ¹¹ They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, ¹² They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. ¹³ They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down. ¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. <sup>15</sup> What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?' <sup>16</sup> Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
<sup>17</sup> How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger. <sup>18</sup> They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away, <sup>19</sup> God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him—and he knoweth. <sup>20</sup> His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh. <sup>21</sup> For what is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off? <sup>22</sup> To God doth one teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge? <sup>23</sup> This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet. <sup>24</sup> His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten. <sup>25</sup> And this one dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness. <sup>26</sup> Together—on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
<sup>27</sup> Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully. <sup>28</sup> For ye say, `Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent—The tabernacles of the wicked?' ²⁹ Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know? ³⁰ That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought. ³¹ Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him? ³² And he—to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept. ³³ Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering. ³⁴ And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

¹⁴ Look unto Jehovah—be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David. I have diligently expected Jehovah, And He inclineth to me, and heareth my cry,

⁸ Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings Are before Me continually.

¹ To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. —A Psalm of David. Only—toward God is my soul silent, From Him is my salvation.

⁵ Only—for God, be silent, O my soul, For from Him is my hope.

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, ⁴ And their might is firm. ⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. 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. ⁹ They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth. ¹⁰ Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them. ¹¹ And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?' ¹² Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength. ¹³ Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands, ¹⁴ And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.

²² Do not say, `I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.

⁸ If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

¹⁷ And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.

¹³ For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants, ¹⁴ And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I—I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.'

¹⁵ For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.

¹ Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.

²⁵ Good is Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him. ²⁶ Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

³⁶ `And the king hath done according to his will, and exalteth himself, and magnifieth himself against every god, and against the God of gods he speaketh wonderful things, and hath prospered till the indignation hath been completed, for that which is determined hath been done.

¹¹ And they say unto him, `What do we do to thee that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more tempestuous?'

³ For yet the vision is for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

⁹ and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap—not desponding;

³⁶ for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise, ³⁷ for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

⁷ Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain—early and latter; ⁸ be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh; ⁹ murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood. ¹⁰ An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord; ¹¹ lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

³ And I saw one of its heads as slain to death, and its deadly stroke was healed, and all the earth did wonder after the beast, ⁴ and they did bow before the dragon who did give authority to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, `Who is like to the beast? who is able to war with it?' ⁵ And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months, ⁶ and it did open its mouth for evil-speaking toward God, to speak evil of His name, and of His tabernacle, and of those who in the heaven tabernacle, ⁷ and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and tongue, and nation. ⁸ And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; ⁹ if any one hath an ear—let him hear: ¹⁰ if any one a captivity doth gather, into captivity he doth go away; if any one by sword doth kill, it behoveth him by sword to be killed; here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

²¹ And David said, `Only, in vain I have kept all that this one hath in the wilderness, and nothing hath been looked after of all that he hath, and he turneth back to me evil for good; ²² thus doth God do to the enemies of David, and thus He doth add, if I leave of all that he hath till the light of the morning—of those sitting on the wall.' ²³ And Abigail seeth David, and hasteth and cometh down from off the ass, and falleth before David on her face, and boweth herself to the earth,

² For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

⁴ (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

²² And I—I have said in my haste, `I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

¹⁵ If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

¹¹ I said in my haste, `Every man is a liar.'

²⁹ Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

³² Better is the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

¹⁴ Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed! ¹⁵ Cursed is the man who bore tidings to my father, saying, `Born to thee hath been a child—a male,' Making him very glad!

¹ And it is grievous unto Jonah—a great evil—and he is displeased at it;

⁹ And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me—unto death.'

⁵⁴ And his disciples James and John having seen, said, `Sir, wilt thou that we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?' <sup>55</sup> and having turned, he rebuked them, and said, `Ye have not known of what spirit ye are;

²⁶ be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

⁸ but now put off, even ye, the whole—anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking—out of your mouth.

¹⁹ So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, ²⁰ for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;

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; ¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: — ¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

²³ It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating. ²⁴ He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass. ²⁵ One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors. ²⁶ All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent. ²⁷ Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. ²⁸ Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

¹³ This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive. ¹⁴ If his sons multiply—for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep. ¹⁶ If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, ¹⁷ He prepareth—and the righteous putteth it on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion. ¹⁸ He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made. ¹⁹ Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not. ²⁰ Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind. ²¹ Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place, ²² And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth. ²³ It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

¹³ His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

¹¹ And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace. ¹² The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

²⁹ The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.

²³ And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I—I do trust in Thee!

²¹ For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,

¹³ When thou criest, let thy gatherings deliver thee, And all of them carry away doth wind, Take away doth vanity, And whoso is trusting in Me inheriteth the land, And doth possess My holy mountain.

²¹ And thy people are all of them righteous, To the age they possess the earth, A branch of My planting, A work of My hands, to be beautified.

¹⁶ but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

¹⁰ and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.'

³⁸ And it cometh to pass, in about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth, ³⁹ and David heareth that Nabal is dead, and saith, `Blessed is Jehovah who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant hath kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal hath Jehovah turned back on his own head;' and David sendeth and speaketh with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife.

²⁵ And Jehu saith unto Bidkar his captain, `Lift up, cast him into the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite—for, remember, I and thou were riding together after Ahab his father, and Jehovah lifted upon him this burden:

³⁴ And he cometh in, and eateth, and drinketh, and saith, `Look after, I pray you, this cursed one, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.' <sup>35</sup> And they go to bury her, and have not found of her except the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands. <sup>36</sup> And they turn back, and declare to him, and he saith, `The word of Jehovah it is, that He spake by the hand of this servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel do the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel, ³⁷ and the carcase of Jezebel hath been as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, that they say not, This is Jezebel.'

¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

¹⁰ He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

²¹ Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me—and I am not!

¹⁰ And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where is he?

²⁴ High they were for a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all others they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

¹⁰ For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

⁵ Also—God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

¹⁰ The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹ And man saith: `Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

¹⁶ For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.

⁴² The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth. ⁴³ Who is wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!

¹⁶ Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms? ¹⁷ He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house. ¹⁸ All kings of nations—all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house, ¹⁹ And—thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.

²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be? ²¹ so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

²⁷ `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father, ²⁸ for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

⁷ And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

¹⁰ and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?' ¹¹ and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed—even as they.

⁸ They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.

⁷ Flourish in his days doth the righteous, And abundance of peace till the moon is not.

¹⁶⁵ Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.

³ An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace—peace! For in Thee it is confident.

¹⁸ O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

¹⁸ His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones. ¹⁹ Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,' to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah. 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. ²¹ There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!

⁵ `Happy the meek—because they shall inherit the land.

²⁷ `Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

²² And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

⁷ and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

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;

¹³ Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

²¹ and Saul saith, `I give her to him, and she is to him for a snare, and the hand of the Philistines is on him;' and Saul saith unto David, `By the second—thou dost become my son-in-law to-day.'

⁷ And it is declared to Saul that David hath come in to Keilah, and Saul saith, `God hath made him known for my hand, for he hath been shut in, to enter into a city of doors and bar.' <sup>8</sup> And Saul summoneth the whole of the people to battle, to go down to Keilah, to lay siege unto David and unto his men. <sup>9</sup> And David knoweth that against him Saul is devising the evil, and saith unto Abiathar the priest, `Bring nigh the ephod.'

¹⁰ and Absalom sendeth spies through all the tribes of Israel, saying, `At your hearing the voice of the trumpet, then ye have said, Absalom hath reigned in Hebron.' ¹¹ And with Absalom have gone two hundred men, out of Jerusalem, invited ones, and they are going in their simplicity, and have not known anything; ¹² and Absalom sendeth Ahithophel the Gilonite, a counsellor of David, out of his city, out of Gilo, in his sacrificing sacrifices; and the conspiracy is strong, and the people are going and increasing with Absalom.

⁶ and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who are in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.

¹³ For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear is round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

¹⁶ With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

³² The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

¹² And the host is given up, with the continual sacrifice, through transgression, and it throweth down truth to the earth, and it hath worked, and prospered.

²⁴ and his power hath been mighty, and not by his own power; and wonderful things he destroyeth, and he hath prospered, and wrought, and destroyed mighty ones, and the people of the Holy Ones.

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.

⁴ and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill him,

¹⁶ and from that time he was seeking a convenient season to deliver him up.

¹⁰ And David saith, `Jehovah liveth; except Jehovah doth smite him, or his day come that he hath died, or into battle he go down, and hath been consumed—

²⁰ At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.

⁴ He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.

²⁶ I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

²⁷ Slay all her kine, they go down to slaughter, Woe is on them, for come hath their day, The time of their inspection.

²⁵ And thou, wounded, wicked one, Prince of Israel, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end!

²⁹ In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end.

²⁶ This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered—God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

¹¹ `And, my father, see, yea see the skirt of thine upper robe in my hand; for by cutting off the skirt of thy upper robe, and I have not slain thee, know and see that there is not in my hand evil and transgression, and I have not sinned against thee, and thou art hunting my soul to take it!

¹⁷ And he saith unto David, `More righteous thou art than I; for thou hast done me good, and I have done thee evil;

² For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

¹⁰ All my bones say, `Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'

² Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity. ³ Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow—a bitter word. ⁴ To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not. ⁵ They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?' <sup>6</sup> They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

¹⁰ Men of blood hate the perfect, And the upright seek his soul.

²⁷ An abomination to the righteous is the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked is the upright in the way!

¹³ Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets; ³² and ye—ye fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
<sup>34</sup> `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;

⁵² which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

² and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword, ³ and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also—and they were the days of the unleavened food—

¹¹ And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'

²³ and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

¹² not as Cain—of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

⁴ Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

⁴ and Saul saith to the bearer of his weapons, `Draw thy sword, and pierce me with it, lest they come—these uncircumcised—and have pierced me, and rolled themselves on me;' and the bearer of his weapons hath not been willing, for he is greatly afraid, and Saul taketh the sword, and falleth upon it.

²³ And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.

⁹ And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, saith before the king, `Also lo, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height fifty cubits;' and the king saith, `Hang him upon it.' ¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

¹⁴ Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood. ¹⁵ A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

⁸ Meet him doth desolation—he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

⁹ Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.

³ There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah. ⁴ Bright art Thou, honourable above hills of prey. ⁵ Spoiled themselves have the mighty of heart, They have slept their sleep, And none of the men of might found their hands. ⁶ From Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both rider and horse have been fast asleep.

³⁸ And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.

⁵⁶ For come in against it—against Babylon—hath a spoiler, And captured have been its mighty ones, Broken have been their bows, For the God of recompences—Jehovah—doth certainly repay.

⁵ and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.'

¹⁸ And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.

⁶ And they have afflicted the land of Asshur with the sword, And the land of Nimrod at its openings, And he hath delivered from Asshur when he doth come into our land, And when he treadeth in our borders.

⁴ `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What—to us? thou shalt see!' ⁵ and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.

³³ The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.

²⁵ The righteous is eating to the satiety of his soul, And the belly of the wicked lacketh!

¹⁶ Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it. ¹⁷ Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

⁸ Better is a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.

⁹ Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

²⁶ For to a man who is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁶ `Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'

¹¹ `Our appointed bread give us to-day.

⁶ but it is great gain—the piety with contentment;

¹⁵ And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

²⁴ When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

¹² As to me, in mine integrity, Thou hast taken hold upon me, And causest me to stand before Thee to the age.

¹² Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation, And a willing spirit doth sustain me.

⁸ Cleaved hath my soul after Thee, On me hath Thy right hand taken hold.

¹¹⁶ Sustain me according to Thy saying, And I live, and Thou puttest me not to shame Because of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Support Thou me, and I am saved, And I look on Thy statutes continually.

¹⁴ Jehovah is supporting all who are falling, And raising up all who are bowed down.

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

¹ Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one—My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.

²¹ The arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, I have broken, And lo, it hath not been bound up to give healing, To put a bandage to bind it, To strengthen it—to lay hold on the sword. ²² Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, And I have broken his arms, The strong one and the broken one, And have caused the sword to fall out of his hand, ²³ And scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands, ²⁴ And strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And I have given My sword into his hand, And I have broken the arms of Pharaoh, And he hath groaned the groans of a pierced one—before him. ²⁵ And I have strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And the arms of Pharaoh do fall down, And they have known that I am Jehovah, In My giving My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath stretched it out toward the land of Egypt.

²⁴ And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set you in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

²⁵ Iron and brass are thy shoes, And as thy days—thy strength.

⁶ For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

¹¹ Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys is with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

⁴ Life he hath asked from Thee, Thou hast given to him—length of days, Age-during—and for ever.

⁷ I rejoice, and am glad in Thy kindness, In that Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast known in adversities my soul.

¹⁵ In Thy hand are my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

¹³ The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh.

⁵ Why do I fear in days of evil? The iniquity of my supplanters doth compass me.

²⁴ With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

¹⁷ And the kindness of Jehovah Is from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,

³² for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

²¹ for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be. ²² And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened. ²³ `Then if any one may say to you, Lo, here is the Christ! or here! ye may not believe; ²⁴ for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.

²¹ that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁹ sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness—every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

¹ And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, ² for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind, ³ without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good, ⁴ traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

² preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching, ³ for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers—itching in the hearing, ⁴ and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

⁴ to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you, ⁵ who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

²⁵ and this is the promise that He did promise us—the life the age-during.

³ and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth; ⁴ these are the two olive trees, and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand; ⁵ and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed.

²⁰ In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword. ²¹ When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh. ²² At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

³ Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away.

¹² For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

¹⁶ He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

¹³ Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it is .

³ Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it is .

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

²⁸ and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.

³ `And he hath brought near from the sacrifice of the peace-offerings a fire-offering to Jehovah, the fat which is covering the inwards, and all the fat which is on the inwards, <sup>4</sup> and the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, which is on the flanks, and the redundance above the liver, (beside the kidneys he doth turn it aside), <sup>5</sup> and sons of Aaron have made it a perfume on the altar, on the burnt-offering which is on the wood, which is on the fire—a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah.
<sup>6</sup> `And if his offering is out of the flock for a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, male or female, a perfect one he doth bring near; ⁷ if a sheep he is bringing near for his offering, then he hath brought it near before Jehovah, ⁸ and hath laid his hand on the head of his offering, and hath slaughtered it before the tent of meeting, and sons of Aaron have sprinkled its blood on the altar round about. ⁹ `And he hath brought near from the sacrifice of the peace-offerings a fire-offering to Jehovah, its fat, the whole fat tail (over-against the bone he doth turn it aside), and the fat which is covering the inwards, and all the fat which is on the inwards, ¹⁰ and the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, which is on the flanks, and the redundance above the liver, (beside the kidneys he doth turn it aside), ¹¹ and the priest hath made it a perfume on the altar—bread of a fire-offering to Jehovah.

¹⁶ and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar—bread of a fire-offering, for sweet fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah's.

²⁰ Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,

¹⁴ And by precious things—fruits of the sun, And by precious things—cast forth by the moons, ¹⁵ And by chief things—of the ancient mountains, And by precious things—of the age-during heights, ¹⁶ And by precious things—of earth and its fulness, And the good pleasure Of Him who is dwelling in the bush, —Let it come for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of him Who is separate from his brethren.

³¹ So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him are As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.

² As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.

⁹ For, lo, Thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, Thine enemies, do perish, Separate themselves do all workers of iniquity.

³ For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.

³ No—I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

⁵ No—I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

²⁹ for also our God is a consuming fire.

¹² and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed—in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil—in their destruction shall be destroyed,

⁹ `Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart—worthless, saying, Near is the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin; ¹⁰ thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand; ¹¹ because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

¹² `Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure—the heavens—to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou—thou dost not borrow.

⁴³ the sojourner who is in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low; ⁴⁴ he doth lend to thee, and thou dost not lend to him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.

¹ And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, `Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.' <sup>2</sup> And Elisha saith unto her, `What do I do for thee? declare to me, what hast thou in the house?' and she saith, `Thy maid-servant hath nothing in the house except a pot of oil.' <sup>3</sup> And he saith, `Go, ask for thee vessels from without, from all thy neighbours—empty vessels—let them not be few; ⁴ and thou hast entered, and shut the door upon thee, and upon thy sons, and hast poured out into all these vessels, and the full ones thou dost remove.' ⁵ And she goeth from him, and shutteth the door upon her, and upon her sons; they are bringing nigh unto her, and she is pouring out,

¹ And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews, ² yea, there are who are saying, `Our sons, and our daughters, we—are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.' <sup>3</sup> And there are who are saying, `Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.' ⁴ And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, on our fields, and our vineyards; ⁵ and now, as the flesh of our brethren is our flesh, as their sons are our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards are to others.'

¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, ¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, ¹⁸ (But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) ¹⁹ If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

⁵ Good is the man—gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

⁹ He hath scattered—hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

⁷ The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.

⁸ And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.

⁷ Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?
⁸ Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee. ⁹ Then thou callest, and Jehovah answereth, Thou criest, and He saith, `Behold Me.' If thou turn aside from thy midst the yoke, The sending forth of the finger, And the speaking of vanity, ¹⁰ And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon.

³⁰ `And to every one who is asking of thee, be giving; and from him who is taking away thy goods, be not asking again;

²⁹ and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,

³⁵ all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

⁹ for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor—being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

⁶ And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; ⁷ each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, ⁸ and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work, ⁹ (according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,') ¹⁰ and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God, ¹² because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God, ¹³ through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and for the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all, ¹⁴ and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you; ¹⁵ thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift!

¹⁰ for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

¹⁶ and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

³ I—I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

¹ By David. —An Instruction. O the happiness of him whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

⁹ For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land.

¹¹ And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace.

¹⁸ Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect, And their inheritance is—to the age.

²⁸ For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

¹⁵ Blessed are ye of Jehovah, maker of heaven and earth,

²¹ Thou hast rebuked the cursed proud, Who are erring from Thy commands.

¹ A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways.

³ And he saith unto me, `This is the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent. <sup>4</sup> `I have brought it out—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts—and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

⁴¹ Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

²² if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ—let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

¹⁰ for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law—to do them,'

¹³ Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

¹¹ On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, ¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

⁵ To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.

² And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation—from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.

¹³ Righteousness before Him goeth, And maketh His footsteps for a way!

⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

¹³³ My steps establish by Thy saying, And any iniquity doth not rule over me.

³ He suffereth not thy foot to be moved, Thy preserver slumbereth not.

⁸ Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!

¹⁰ Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased. ¹¹ Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.

²⁶ Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established.

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.

⁹ The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.

²⁴ But—in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I am Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

²³ I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man is his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

¹⁹ Many are the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him. ²⁰ He is keeping all his bones, One of them hath not been broken.

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.

¹² On the hands they bear thee up, Lest thou smite against a stone thy foot.

¹⁸ If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

⁶ Jehovah is causing the meek to stand, Making low the wicked unto the earth.

¹⁶ For seven times doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

⁷ And I—in Jehovah I do watch, I do wait for the God of my salvation, Hear me doth my God. ⁸ Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me.

³⁴ and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, `Lo, this one is set for the falling and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against—

³¹ And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat, ³² and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

⁶⁰ and Peter said, `Man, I have not known what thou sayest;' and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew. <sup>61</sup> And the Lord having turned did look on Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him—`Before a cock shall crow, thou mayest disown me thrice;' ⁶² and Peter having gone without, wept bitterly.

²⁷ according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me, ²⁸ and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish—to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; ²⁹ my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father; ³⁰ I and the Father are one.'

⁷ `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

⁵ `No man doth station himself before thee all days of thy life; as I have been with Moses, I am with thee, I do not fail thee, nor forsake thee;

²² for Jehovah doth not leave His people, on account of His great name; for Jehovah hath been pleased to make you to Him for a people.

²³ He is wandering for bread—`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

⁶ And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: —Young I am in days, and ye are age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion. ⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

¹⁵ They—they wander for food, If they are not satisfied—then they murmur.

⁹ Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

¹⁸ And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

¹⁴ For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.

¹⁰ And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

² Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

²² A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous is the sinner's wealth.

¹⁶ And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.

⁵³ The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty, ⁵⁴ He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness, ⁵⁵ As He spake unto our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed—to the age.'

¹⁶ and there went also of the disciples from Caesarea with us, bringing with them him with whom we may lodge, a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an aged disciple.

⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

⁸ Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit— ⁹ because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, ⁶ for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

⁵ Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

⁸ for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh. ⁹ `Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart—worthless, saying, Near is the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin; ¹⁰ thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;

²¹ The wicked is borrowing and repayeth not, And the righteous is gracious and giving.

¹³ For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.

⁷ The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!

³⁹ and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:

⁷ `Happy the kind—because they shall find kindness.

³⁵ `But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil; <sup>36</sup> be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.
<sup>37</sup> `And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released. ³⁸ `Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

²⁸ And He saith to man: —`Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

¹⁴ Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

²⁸ The sons of Thy servants do continue, And their seed before Thee is established!

⁶ In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.

¹⁷ A highway of the upright is, `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

¹⁶ Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good. ¹⁷ Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

¹⁵ see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

¹¹ For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, ¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

⁸ Stedfast is the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works—who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,

¹⁴ and let them learn—ours also—to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

²¹ make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory—to the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹⁶ because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world, ¹⁷ and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain—to the age.

⁵ Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

¹⁹ He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

¹⁴ If his sons multiply—for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.

⁷ For righteous is Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

¹⁰ Their fruit from earth Thou destroyest, And their seed from the sons of men.

²⁵ Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

⁴⁰ And Jehovah doth help them and deliver them, He delivereth them from the wicked, And saveth them, Because they trusted in Him!

⁶ Thy throne, O God, is age-during, and for ever, A sceptre of uprightness Is the sceptre of Thy kingdom. ⁷ Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

¹³ Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish. ¹⁴ Still they bring forth in old age, Fat and flourishing are they, ¹⁵ To declare that upright is Jehovah my rock, And there is no perverseness in Him!

⁴ And the strength of the king Hath loved judgment, Thou—Thou hast established uprightness; Judgment and righteousness in Jacob, Thou—Thou hast done.

²² And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

²⁰ Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers. ²¹ Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world with cities.

¹⁸ And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment is Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.

²¹ And I—this is My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that is on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!

⁸ For I am Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.

⁴⁰ and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me; ⁴¹ and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My soul.

²⁴ `Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

³⁹ `And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day; ⁴⁰ and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

⁹ According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

⁵ who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

¹⁹ out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but—that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

¹ Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept—called,

²⁷ Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age.

¹³ and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

³ and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them—their God, ⁴ and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

⁷ he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him—a God, and he shall be to me—the son,

⁷ and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, ⁸ and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes, ⁹ and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

¹⁵ My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers.

²⁴ My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed—because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!

²¹ The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.

³¹ The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.

⁷ The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools is not right.

¹¹ Apples of gold in imagery of silver, Is the word spoken at its fit times. ¹² A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, Is the wise reprover to an attentive ear.
¹³ As a vessel of snow in a day of harvest, So is a faithful ambassador to those sending him, And the soul of his masters he refresheth.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend—from counsel of the soul.

³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

⁶ your word always in grace—with salt being seasoned—to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

⁶ and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,

¹⁸ `And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes; ¹⁹ and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, ²⁰ and hast written them on the side-posts of thy house, and on thy gates,

¹¹ On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

² But—in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

²³ From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

² And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation—from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps. ³ And He putteth in my mouth a new song, `Praise to our God.' Many do see and fear, and trust in Jehovah.

⁸ To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

¹⁸ We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.

² As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

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

⁹⁸ Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age.

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

¹⁵ The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.

⁷ Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart is My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

³³ For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.

⁶ Of oaks of Bashan they made thine oars, Thy bench they have made of ivory, A branch of Ashurim from isles of Chittim.

¹⁰ because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;

⁸ He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly, ⁹ He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net. ¹⁰ He is bruised—he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

¹² The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

¹⁰ For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: `Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching for my halting, `Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'

⁷ and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him, if on the sabbath he will heal, that they might find an accusation against him.

⁵⁴ laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

¹ And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him,

⁴⁷ And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him—also the chiefs of the people— ⁴⁸ and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.

²⁰ And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,

²⁴ and their counsel against him was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him,

²⁶ And Saul goeth on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain, and David is hastened to go from the face of Saul, and Saul and his men are compassing David and his men, to catch them. ²⁷ And a messenger hath come in unto Saul, saying, `Haste, and come, for the Philistines have pushed against the land.' <sup>28</sup> And Saul turneth back from pursuing after David, and goeth to meet the Philistines, therefore they have called that place `The Rock of Divisions.'

⁷ I rejoice, and am glad in Thy kindness, In that Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast known in adversities my soul. 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.

³¹ For He standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.

⁶ Blessed is Jehovah who hath not given us, A prey to their teeth. ⁷ Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

¹ There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

³³ Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous, ³⁴ who is he that is condemning? Christ is He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God—who also doth intercede for us.

¹⁷ and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

⁹ The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

⁹ And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And—dumb are they all.

¹⁰ For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me—as gold I go forth.

³ Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell in the land, and enjoy faithfulness,

⁵ Also—God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.
⁶ And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him.

⁸ But with thine eyes thou lookest, And the reward of the wicked thou seest,

¹⁰ And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil. ¹¹ And mine eye looketh on mine enemies, Of those rising up against me, The evil doers, do mine ears hear.

²⁵ Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee. ²⁶ Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established. ²⁷ Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

¹³ but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

⁷ that the proof of your faith—much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved—may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

⁶ be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

¹¹ and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads and servants of the king.

¹³ So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish, ¹⁴ Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust. ¹⁵ He leaneth on his house—and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it—and it abideth not. ¹⁶ Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out. ¹⁷ By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for. ¹⁸ If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee! ¹⁹ Lo, this is the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. ⁸ Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. ¹¹ They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, ¹² They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. ¹³ They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down. ¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. ¹⁵ What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?' ¹⁶ Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
¹⁷ How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, ⁴ And their might is firm. ⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. 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. ⁹ They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth. ¹⁰ Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them. ¹¹ And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

¹⁴ I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High. ¹⁵ Only—unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.

⁶ In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations. ⁷ And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters. ⁸ Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty, ⁹ Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that are in the garden of God.
¹⁰ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,

¹⁸ Unto whom hast thou been thus like, In honour and in greatness among the trees of Eden, And thou hast been brought down with the trees of Eden, Unto the earth—the lower part, In the midst of the uncircumcised thou liest, With the pierced of the sword? It is Pharaoh, and all his multitude, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

²⁰ The tree that thou hast seen, that hath become great and strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to all the land, ²¹ and its leaves are fair, and its budding great, and food for all is in it, under it dwell doth the beast of the field, and on its boughs sit do the birds of the heavens. ²² `Thou it is, O king, for thou hast become great and mighty, and thy greatness hath become great, and hath reached to the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth; <sup>23</sup> and that which the king hath seen—a sifter, even a holy one, coming down from the heavens, and he hath said, Cut down the tree, and destroy it; but the stump of its roots leave in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and with the dew of the heavens it is wet, and with the beast of the field is his portion, till that seven times pass over him. <sup>24</sup> `This is the interpretation, O king, and the decree of the Most High it is that hath come against my lord the king: ²⁵ and they are driving thee away from men, and with the beast of the field is thy dwelling, and the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and by the dew of the heavens they are wetting thee, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it. ²⁶ And that which they said—to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom for thee abideth, after that thou knowest that the heavens are ruling. ²⁷ `Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.
<sup>28</sup> `All—hath come on Nebuchadnezzar the king. ²⁹ `At the end of twelve months, on the palace of the kingdom of Babylon he hath been walking; <sup>30</sup> the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour? <sup>31</sup> `While the word is in the king's mouth a voice from the heavens hath fallen: To thee they are saying: O Nebuchadnezzar the king, the kingdom hath passed from thee, ³² and from men they are driving thee away, and with the beast of the field is thy dwelling, the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it. ³³ `In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as birds.'

⁹ The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: — ¹⁰ Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.

¹⁹ For the horse of Pharaoh hath gone in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah turneth back on them the waters of the sea, and the sons of Israel have gone on dry land in the midst of the sea.

⁵ That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment, ⁶ Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike— ⁷ As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where is he?' ⁸ As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night, ⁹ The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
¹⁰ His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth. ¹¹ His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down. ¹² Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue, ¹³ Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate, ¹⁴ His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart. ¹⁵ Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out. ¹⁶ Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper. ¹⁷ He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. ¹⁸ He is giving back what he laboured for, And doth not consume it; As a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not. ¹⁹ For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. ²⁰ For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. ²¹ There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. ²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

¹⁰ And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.

¹⁶ Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire. ¹⁷ And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day. ¹⁸ And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the fainting of a standard-bearer. ¹⁹ And the rest of the trees of his forest are few, And a youth doth write them.

³³ Lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is lopping a branch with violence, And the high of stature are cut down, And the lofty are become low, ³⁴ And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!

²² and the populace were shouting, `The voice of a god, and not of a man;' ²³ and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz—Job his name—and that man hath been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

¹² And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. ¹³ And he hath seven sons and three daughters; ¹⁴ and he calleth the name of the one Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. ¹⁵ And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren. ¹⁶ And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations; ¹⁷ and Job dieth, aged and satisfied with days.

³² In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.

¹⁷ And a work of the righteousness hath been peace, And a service of the righteousness—Keeping quiet and confidence unto the age.

¹ The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying it to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. ² He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, Each is going straightforward.

²⁵ And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name is Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him, ²⁶ and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit—not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord. ²⁷ And he came in the Spirit to the temple, and in the parents bringing in the child Jesus, for their doing according to the custom of the law regarding him, ²⁸ then he took him in his arms, and blessed God, and he said, ²⁹ `Now Thou dost send away Thy servant, Lord, according to Thy word, in peace,

⁵⁹ and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;' <sup>60</sup> and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.

⁶ for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived; ⁷ the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord—the Righteous Judge—shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

¹⁴ having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,

⁴ Not so the wicked: But—as chaff that wind driveth away! ⁵ Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous, ⁶ For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

¹⁷ The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

¹⁷ Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

³⁰ suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'

⁴⁹ so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous, ⁵⁰ and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

⁴⁶ And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

⁸ in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ who shall suffer justice—destruction age-during—from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

⁸ Of Jehovah is this salvation; On Thy people is Thy blessing! Selah.

⁹ And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

¹ To the Overseer. —By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' —A song. God is to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

¹⁵ He doth call Me, and I answer him, I am with him in distress, I deliver him, and honour him.

² Lo, God is my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.

² O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.

⁹ And I—with a voice of thanksgiving—I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation is of Jehovah.

⁸ for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift,

¹¹ in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

²⁰ and they are helped against them, and the Hagarites are given into their hand, and all who are with them, for they cried to God in battle, and He was entreated of them, because they trusted in Him.

¹³ Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Thy sword,

⁴ In Thee did our fathers trust—they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them. ⁵ Unto Thee they cried, and were delivered, In Thee they trusted, and were not ashamed.

² When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

⁵ As birds flying, so doth Jehovah of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.'

⁴ Even to old age I am He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.

¹⁷ Lo, it is; our God whom we are serving, is able to deliver us from a burning fiery furnace; and from thy hand, O king, He doth deliver.

²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar hath answered and hath said, `Blessed is the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who hath sent His messenger, and hath delivered His servants who trusted on Him, and the word of the king changed, and gave up their bodies that they might not serve nor do obeisance to any god except to their own God.

²³ Then was the king very glad for him, and he hath commanded Daniel to be taken up out of the den, and Daniel hath been taken up out of the den, and no injury hath been found in him, because he hath believed in his God.

¹³ I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father: ¹⁴ I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.

¹⁸ We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;