Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.
The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will give his people the blessing of peace.
<A Psalm. A song at the blessing of the House. Of David.> I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.
My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.
<Of David. Maschil.> happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.
I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)
The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
<Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went.> I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.
Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.
<To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.
For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.
Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.
The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.
The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.
Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.
All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.
The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.
But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.
My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.
<To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David.> I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.
Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.
By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.
For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.
Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.
You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.
But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.> Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.
Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.
For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.
Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,
Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)
So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.
Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.
You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.
You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.
Give blessings to our God, O you peoples, let the voice of his praise be loud;
<To the chief music-maker. With corded instruments. A Psalm. A Song.> May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us; (Selah.)
The earth has given her increase; and God, even our God, will give us his blessing.
God will give us his blessing; so let all the ends of the earth be in fear of him.
The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel.
The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.
This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth.
O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.
But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.
May he have long life, and may gold from Sheba be given to him: may prayers be made for him at all times; may blessings be on him every day.
May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.
Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.
I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.
For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.
By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.
And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;
For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.
But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.
Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.
Give us help, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; take us out of danger and give us forgiveness for our sins, because of your name.
So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.
As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,
Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)
Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.
For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)
Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.
You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?
So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.
Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?
What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.
Make songs to the Lord, blessing his name; give the good news of his salvation day by day.
You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.
Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.
Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.
You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.
Come into his doors with joy, and into his house with praise; give him honour, blessing his name.
Morning by morning will I put to death all the sinners in the land, so that all evil-doers may be cut off from Jerusalem.
Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory.
He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases;
He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.
Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.
Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.
We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.
And a fire was lighted among their tents; the sinners were burned up by the flames.
And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.
Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.
Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;
Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in the great waters;
He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
The upright see it and are glad: the mouth of the sinner is stopped.
For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.
When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.
Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.
As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.
He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.
His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.
The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
Let blessing be on the name of the Lord, from this time and for ever.
But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
The Lord has kept us in mind and will give us his blessing; he will send blessings on the house of Israel and on the house of Aaron.
He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great.
May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Send salvation now, O Lord; Lord, send us your blessing.
A blessing be on him who comes in the name of the Lord; we give you blessing from the house of the Lord.
<ALEPH> happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.
I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.
The sinners have been waiting for me to give me up to destruction; but I will give all my mind to your unchanging ward.
Sinners have put a net to take me; but I was true to your orders.
All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.
Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.
For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.
See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.
May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.
O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
And he will make Israel free from all his sins.
My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.
<A song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!
Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.
May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, send you blessing out of Zion,
Give praise to Jah, for he is good: make melody to his name, for it is pleasing.
The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.
I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.
If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.
O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.
Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.
Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.
<A song of praise. Of David.> Let me give glory to you, O God, my King; and blessing to your name for ever and ever.
Every day will I give you blessing, praising your name for ever and ever.
All the works of your hands give praise to you, O Lord; and your saints give you blessing.
The Lord will keep all his worshippers from danger; but he will send destruction on all sinners.
My mouth will give praise to the Lord; let all flesh be blessing his holy name for ever and ever.
The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
Give praise to the Lord; for it is good to make melody to our God; praise is pleasing and beautiful.
The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.
He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.
To give the nations the reward of their sins, and the peoples their punishment;
My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.
Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.
The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;
So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.
He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.
Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.
The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.
Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.
The lips of the upright man have knowledge of what is pleasing, but twisted are the mouths of evil-doers.
The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.
When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.
By the blessing of the upright man the town is made great, but it is overturned by the mouth of the evil-doer.
The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.
He who gives blessing will be made fat, but the curser will himself be cursed.
He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.
If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!
The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.
The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.
In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.
Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.
No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.
Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.
Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.
The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.
The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.
He who has no respect for his neighbour is a sinner, but he who has pity for the poor is happy.
The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.
In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.
Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.
When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.
The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.
Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.
He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.
The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.
The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.
He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?
Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.
He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide.
A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.
The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.
All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.
He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.
The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
And by knowledge its rooms are full of all dear and pleasing things.
The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.
Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:
For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.
But those who say sharp words to him will have delight, and a blessing of good will come on them.
The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.
He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.
Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.
He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.
Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.
He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.
For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.
She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.
And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.
If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.
The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.
My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.
O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.
And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.
Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.
Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.
Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.
And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;
You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.
And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.
In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.
In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.
In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth:
Because of the blessing of the Lord of armies which he has given them, saying, A blessing on Egypt my people, and on Assyria the work of my hands, and on Israel my heritage.
And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.
By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?
For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.
The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.
The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.
So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.
This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.
For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.
Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;
And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.
The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?
And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.
And a highway will be there; its name will be, The holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go into a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.
He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.
You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.
I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.
Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.
For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.
I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.
I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.
Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.
See, these are coming from far; and these from the north and the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.
This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.
They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.
And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth.
... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.
For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:
Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
If you keep the sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;
But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:
And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.
All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.
And their seed will be noted among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples: it will be clear to all who see them that they are the seed to which the Lord has given his blessing.
But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.
Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.
For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.
Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.
This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.
Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.
So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.
Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.
Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.
And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.
And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.
Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.
To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.
They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.
How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.
And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.
And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.
Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.
This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.
We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.
I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.
Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.
And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?
And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.
The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.
A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.
But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.
A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
And I will send a great disease on the people living in this town, on man and on beast, causing their death.
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.
And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.
Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.
But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.
For I have not sent them, says the Lord, but they are saying what is false in my name, so that I might send you out by force, causing destruction to come on you and on your prophets.
Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;
For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.
For he has sent to us in babylon saying, The time will be long: go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them.
Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.
So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Again will these words be used in the land of Judah and in its towns, when I have let their fate be changed: May the blessing of the Lord be on you, O resting-place of righteousness, O holy mountain.
And it will come about that, as I have been watching over them for the purpose of uprooting and smashing down and overturning and sending destruction and causing trouble; so I will be watching over them for the purpose of building up and planting, says the Lord.
And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.
So I took the paper witnessing the business, one copy rolled up and stamped, and one copy open:
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take these papers, the witness of this business, the one which is rolled up and stamped, and the one which is open; and put them in a vessel of earth so that they may be kept for a long time.
And have taken your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, causing great fear;
And you have said to me, Give the money to get yourself a property, and have the business witnessed; though the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans.
And they put up the high places of the baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.
Men will get fields for money, and put the business in writing, stamping the papers and having them witnessed, in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill-country and in the towns of the lowland and in the towns of the South: for I will let their fate be changed, says the Lord.
And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.
And I put before the sons of the Rechabites basins full of wine and cups, and I said to them, Take some wine.
It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways; so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.
And about Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: You have put this book into the fire, saying, Why have you put in it that the king of babylon will certainly come, causing the destruction of this land and putting an end to every man and beast in it?
Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What has been my sin against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
All the captains of the king of babylon came in and took their places in the middle doorway of the town, Nergal-shar-ezer, ruler of Sin-magir, the Rabmag, and Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and all the captains of the king of Babylon.
*** and the Lord has made it come, and has done as he said; because of your sin against the Lord in not giving ear to his voice; and that is why this thing has come on you.
So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;
Because you have been burning perfumes, and sinning against the Lord, and have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, or gone in the way of his law or his rules or his orders; for this reason this evil has come on you, as it is today.
Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.
In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.
For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.
And the cups and the fire-trays and the basins and the pots and the supports for the lights and the spoons and the wide basins; the gold of the gold vessels, and the silver of the silver vessels, the captain of the armed men took away.
Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.
Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.
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