Friday, March 28, 2025

^29:13And the Lord has said, This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and they honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me: but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men. ¹⁴Therefore behold I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them: and I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent. ¹⁵Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? and who shall know us, or what we do? ¹⁶Shall ye not be counted as clay of the potter? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Thou didst not form me? or the work to the maker, Thou hast not made me wisely? ¹⁷Is it not yet a little while, and Libanus shall be changed as the mountain of Chermel, and Chermel shall be reckoned as a forest? ¹⁸And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and they that are in darkness, and they that are in mist: the eyes of the blind shall see, ¹⁹and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy. ²⁰The lawless man has come to nought, and the proud man has perished, and they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed: ²¹and they that cause men to sin by a word: and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offence, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous. ²²Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the house of Jacob, whom he set apart from Abraam, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall he now change countenance. ²³But when their children shall have seen my works, they shall sanctify my name for my sake, and they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

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^12:1And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and out of the house of thy father, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. ²And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed. ³And I will bless those that bless thee, and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed. ⁴And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Charrhan. ⁵And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan. ⁶And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Sychem, to the high oak, and the Chananites then inhabited the land. ⁷And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I will give this land to thy seed. And Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who appeared to him.

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^14:15The simple believes every word: but the prudent man betakes himself to after-thought. ¹⁶A wise man fears, and departs from evil; but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor. ¹⁷A passionate man acts inconsiderately; but a sensible man bears up under many things. ¹⁸Fools shall have mischief for their portion; but the prudent shall take fast hold of understanding. ¹⁹Evil men shall fall before the good; and the ungodly shall attend at the gates of the righteous. ²⁰Friends will hate poor friends; but the friends of the rich are many. ²¹He that dishonours the needy sins: but he that has pity on the poor is most blessed. ²²They that go astray devise evils: but the good devise mercy and truth. The framers of evil do not understand mercy and truth: but compassion and faithfulness are with the framers of good. ²³With every one who is careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in want. ²⁴A prudent man is the crown of the wise: but the occupation of fools is evil. ²⁵A faithful witness shall deliver a soul from evil: but a deceitful man kindles falsehoods. ²⁶In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and he leaves his children a support.

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