So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.

Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.

For kings and all those in authority; so that we may have a calm and quiet life in all fear of God and serious behaviour.

And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.

For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.

Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.