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Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it. A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!




A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.




The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.


A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these. Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?




But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;




For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?


Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:


Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain