For LORD takes pleasure in his people. He will beautify the meek with salvation.

Thou shall cast thy lot among us. We will all have one bag.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will make my words known to you.

I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes,

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me,

My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,

For length of days, and years of life, and peace, they will add to thee.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

It will be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

For LORD will be thy confidence, and will keep thy foot from being taken.

Do not say to thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give, when thou have it by thee.

Do not forsake her, and she will preserve thee. Love her, and she will keep thee.

Exalt her, and she will promote thee. She will bring thee to honor when thou embrace her.

She will give to thy head a garland of grace, a crown of beauty she will deliver to thee.

How long will thou sleep, O sluggard? When will thou arise out of thy sleep?

For jealousy is a man's fury, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

He will not regard any ransom, nor will he be satisfied, though thou give many gifts.

And, behold, there met him a woman attired like a harlot, and wily of heart.

He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.

Hear, for I will speak excellent things. And the opening of my lips shall be right things.

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee. Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Give opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

LORD will not allow the soul of a righteous man to famish, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool shall fall.

A good man shall obtain favor of LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

A faithful witness will not lie, but a FALSE witness utters lies.

Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will.

He who is soon angry will deal foolishly. And a man of wicked devices is hated.

The king's favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath will be [to] him who causes shame.

A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to the wise.

LORD will root up the house of the proud, but he will establish the border of the widow.

The wrath of a king is messengers of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

Many will entreat the favor of a generous man, and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.

He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Smite a scoffer, and a simple man will learn prudence. And reprove him who has understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling.

The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Purpose in the heart of man is deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.

The king's heart is in the hand of LORD as the watercourses. He turns it wherever he will.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.

He who loves pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.

For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.

Go not forth hastily to strive. What will thou do in the end of it when thy neighbor has put thee to shame?

For thou will heap coals of fire upon his head, and LORD will reward thee.

Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

And [then will be] goats' milk enough for thy food; for the food of thy household, and maintenance for thy maidens.

If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest, yea, he will give delight to thy soul.

A servant will not be corrected by words, for though he understands, he will not give heed.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And, behold, this also was vanity.

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it will happen even to me, and why then was I more wise? Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous man and the wicked man, for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. For that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgmen

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

Draw me, we will run after thee. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in thee. We will make mention of thy love more than of wine. Rightly do they love thee.

We will make thee plaits of gold with studs of silver.

[I said], I will rise now, and go around the city. In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

Return, return, O Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon thee. Why will ye look upon the Shulammite, as upon the dance of two armies?

I said, I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of the branches of it. Let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy breath like apples,

Let us get up early to the vineyards. Let us see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give thee my love.

If she is a wall, we will build upon her a turret of silver. And if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.

Therefore says the Lord, LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies.

And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin.

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning. Afterward thou shall be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town.

And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and th

And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall the

And I will give sons to be their rulers, and babes shall rule over them.

in that day he shall lift up [his voice], saying, I will not be a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. Ye shall not make me ruler of the people.

LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the rulers of it. It is ye who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of a poor man is in your houses.

therefore LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and LORD will lay bare their secret parts.

In that day LORD will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the hair nets, and the crescents,

And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel. Only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.

And LORD will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory, a covering.

What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes?

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down.

And I will lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will whistle for them from the end of the earth, and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.

And I heard the voice of LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, I am here, send me.

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I challenge LORD.

And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David. Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?

Therefore LORD himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

LORD will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah--[even] the king of Assyria.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the outermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

In that day LORD will shave with a razor what is hired in the parts beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, and it shall also consume the beard.