and Zipporah taketh a flint, and cutteth off the foreskin of her son, and causeth it to touch his feet, and saith, 'Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me;'

'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

'When any person doth sin, and hath committed a trespass against Jehovah, and hath lied to his fellow concerning a deposit, or concerning fellowship, or concerning violent robbery, or hath oppressed his fellow;

'When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostasy,

He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock;

At that time said Jehovah unto Joshua, 'Make for thee knives of flint, and turn back, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time;'

and Joshua maketh for him knives of flint, and circumciseth the sons of Israel at the height of the foreskins.

And it cometh to pass in Joab's watching of the city, that he appointeth Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men are;

Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.

See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.

Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.

For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,

He is turning the rock to a pool of waters, The flint to a fountain of waters!

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.

If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

Whose arrows are sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!

And the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Therefore I have not been ashamed, Therefore I have set my face as a flint, And I know that I am not ashamed.

'And, from the days of John the Baptist till now, the reign of the heavens doth suffer violence, and violent men do take it by force,

and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,