“When you see a thief, you are pleased with him and condone his behavior,
And you associate with adulterers.

Thou didst cause thy people to see a hard thing: thou didst give us to drink the wine of reeling.

To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, 'A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity.

Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

He shouted at the Reed Sea and it dried up; and led them through the sea as though through a desert.

And He guided them by the right way, so as to go to a city to live in.

So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.

To the upright, the way of the LORD is a place of safety, but it's a place of ruin to those who practice evil.

A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

There is a pathway that seems right to a man, but in the end it's a road to death.

An uncontrolled man is only looking for trouble, so a cruel servant will be sent against him.

To show respect to the wicked person is not good,
Nor to push aside and deprive the righteous of justice.

Correct thy son, because there is hope, yet, not so as to slay him, let thy passion be excited.

The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

A false witness shall perish; But the man that heareth shall speak so as to endure.

The slacker says, “There’s a lion outside!
I’ll be killed in the public square!”

Do you see a man skillful and experienced in his work?
He will stand [in honor] before kings;
He will not stand before obscure men.

The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

As the sparrow for flitting about, as the swallow for flying, so a curse undeserved shall not come.

As a dog turneth back to its vomit, so a fool repeateth his folly.

Do you see a man [who is unteachable and] wise in his own eyes and full of self-conceit?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The slacker says, “There’s a lion in the road—
a lion in the public square!”

Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.

[As] charcoal [is] to hot embers and wood [is] to fire, so a man of quarrels [is] to kindling strife.

Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
So a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.

As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person is proved by the praise he receives.

Do you see a [conceited] man who speaks quickly [offering his opinions or answering without thinking]?
There is more hope for a [thickheaded] fool than for him.

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.

And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.

If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

For what profit hath the wise man, over the dullard? What can, the poor man, know - so as to walk before the living?

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.

All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

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.

I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me.

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to stink and ferment; so a little folly is weightier than wisdom and honour.

Furthermore, the way a fool lives shows he has no sense; he proclaims to everyone that he's a fool.

If someone's ax is blunt the edge isn't sharpened then more strength will be needed. Putting wisdom to work will bring success.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. There's a sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open up for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."

If she's a wall, on her we will build a battlement of silver. If she's a door, we will enclose her with planks of cedar.

Come, let's consider your options," says the Lord. "Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.

So, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame burns up the chaff; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have cast away the Law of Jehovah of Hosts, and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel.

for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no more a people;

Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.

So as to deprive the needy of justice
And rob the poor of My people of their rights,
So that widows may be their spoil
And that they may plunder the orphans.

So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, A remnant doth return of it, A consumption determined, Overflowing with righteousness.

And the Lord of Hosts will brandish a whip against him as He did when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and He will raise His staff over the sea as He did in Egypt.

You will draw water joyfully from the wells of salvation. And you will say at that time:

"Listen! There's a noise on the mountains like that of a great multitude! Listen! There's an uproar among the kingdoms, like that of nations massing together! The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is mustering an army for battle.

All you who live in the world, who reside on the earth, you will see a signal flag raised on the mountains; you will hear a trumpet being blown.

And Jehovah will say, As my servant Isaiah went naked and barefoot three years, a sign and miracle upon Egypt and upon Cush:

The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

Therefore are my loins filled with pain; anguish hath taken hold upon me, as the anguish of a woman in travail: I am bowed down so as not to hear, I am dismayed so as not to see.

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

And look [at] this! A man's a chariot [is] coming, a pair of horsemen!" Then he responded and said, "It has fallen! Babylon has fallen! And all the images of her gods are smashed on the ground!"

As at the report of Egypt they are pained, So at the report of Tyre.

Go through thy land, O thou daughter of the sea, as men go over the water; for thou hast no more strength.

And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting it on himself.

So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.

So a strong nation will extol you; the towns of powerful nations will fear you.

"And you will say at that time, "Look! It's the LORD! This is our God! We waited for him, and he saved us. This is the LORD! We waited for him, so let us rejoice, and we will be glad that he has saved us."

Open the gates
so a righteous nation can come in—
one that remains faithful.

Woe to apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.

See, a king will rule according to righteousness, and princes will rule according to justice.

A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.

Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

so as to put their gods into fire -- for they are no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they destroy them.

All this do I, that they altogether may see a mark, perceive with their hearts and consider, that the hand of the LORD maketh these things, and that the holy one of Israel bringeth them to pass.

Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving in the sea a way, And in the strong waters a path.

This one, will say Yahweh's, am I, and That one, will call himself by the name of Jacob, and Yonder one will write on his hand - Yahweh's, And after the name of Israel, will one entitle himself.

He tends ashes. A deceived mind has lead him astray. It cannot be his life, nor can he say, "There's a lie in my right hand."

Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, And all my delight He doth perfect, So as to say of Jerusalem, Thou art built, And of the temple, Thou art founded.

For My name's sake I defer Mine anger, And My praise I restrain for thee, So as not to cut thee off.

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.

Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath subjected him to suffering. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.

“Blessed (happy, fortunate) is the man who does this,
And the son of man who takes hold of it,
Who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

“Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
To minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord,
To be His servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it
And holds fast to My covenant [by conscientious obedience];

“Behind the door and the doorpost
You have set up your [pagan] symbol;
Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself,
And have gone up and made your bed wide.
And you have made a [new] agreement for yourself with the adulterers,
You have loved their bed,
You have looked [with passion] on their manhood.

Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

So they will fear the name of the Lord from the west
And His glory from the rising of the sun.
For He will come in like a narrow, rushing stream
Which the breath of the Lord drives [overwhelming the enemy].

Yet remembered he the old time of Moses and his people: How he brought them from the water of the sea, as a shepherd doth with his sheep; how he had given his holy spirit among them;

And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah! lo, I have not known -- to speak, for I am a youth.'

Then said Yahweh unto me, Do not say, A child, am, I, - For against whomsoever I send thee, shalt thou go, And whatsoever I command thee, shalt thou speak: