They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,

And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.

O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

Give praise to the Lord, O children of Israel: give praise to the Lord, O sons of Aaron:

Give praise to the Lord, O sons of Levi: let all the worshippers of the Lord give him praise.

For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.

How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Let the Lord be praised. Make a new song to the Lord, let his praise be in the meeting of his saints.

The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:

For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,

Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

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.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

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 has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh, from Massa. The man says: I am full of weariness, O God, I am full of weariness; O God, I have come to an end:

Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.

I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.

Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh.

The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.

Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it.

Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;

And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel:

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not have faith, your kingdom will be broken.

For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.

And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.

And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;

For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.

See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.

Make a song to the Lord; for he has done noble things: give news of them through all the earth.

The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.

That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;

All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.

How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!

For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.

The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?

At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.

And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:

And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.

There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.