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14 Therefore, hear the Word of the LORD, you scornful men who rule this people who are at Jerusalem,
15 because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Hell are we in agreement. Though a scourge run over and pass through, it shall not come at us, for we have made falsehood our refuge, and under vanity are we hidden.”
16 Therefore, thus says the LORD God: “Behold, I will lay a stone in Zion, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He who believes shall not hurry.
17 “I will also lay judgment to the rule, and righteousness to the balance. And the hail shall sweep away the vain confidence. And the waters shall overflow the secret place.
18 “And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand. When a scourge shall run over and pass through, then shall you be trampled down by it.
19 “When it passes over, it shall take you away. For it shall pass through every morning, in the day and in the night. And there shall be only fear to make you understand the hearing.”
20 For the bed is so short that it cannot suffice, and the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself.
21 For the LORD shall stand, as on Mount Perazim. He shall be angry, as in the Valley of Gibeon, so that He may do His work (His strange work) and bring to pass His act (His strange act).
22 Now, therefore, do not be mockers, lest your bonds increase. For I have heard the LORD of Hosts has determined a consumption upon the whole Earth.
23 Listen and hear my voice! Listen and hear my speech!
24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clots of his ground?
25 When he has made it level, will he not then sow the black cumin, and sow cumin, and cast in wheat by measure, and the appointed barley and rye in their place?
26 For his God instructs him to have discretion, teaches him.
27 For black cumin shall not be threshed with a threshing instrument, nor shall a cartwheel be turned upon the cumin. But the black cumin is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod.
28 Bread (when it is threshed) he does not always thresh, nor does the wheel of his cart make a noise, nor will he break it with its teeth.
29 This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel, excellent in works.
29 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city in which David dwelt! Add year to year. Let them kill lambs.
2 But I will bring Ariel into distress. And there shall be heaviness and sorrow. And it shall be to Me like Ariel.
3 And I will besiege you with a circle, and fight against you on a siege mount, and will cast up ramparts against you.
4 So shall you be humbled, and shall speak from the ground. And your speech shall be from the dust. Your voice, also, shall be from the ground, like one who has a spirit of divination. And your talking shall whisper from the dust.
5 Moreover, many of your strangers shall be like small dust. And the multitude of strong men shall be as chaff that passes away. And it shall be in a moment, suddenly.
6 You shall be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder, and shaking, and a great noise, a whirlwind, and a tempest, and a flame of a devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel shall be as a dream, a vision by night, all those who make the war against it and strongholds against it and lay siege to it.
8 And it shall be like a hungry man dreams: And behold, he eats. And when he awakens, his soul is empty. Or like a thirsty man dreams: And lo, he is drinking. And when he awakens, behold, he faints. And his soul longs. So shall the multitude of all nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
9 Wait and wonder. Blind yourself and be blinded. They are drunk, but not with wine. They stagger, but not by strong drink.
10 For the LORD has covered you with a spirit of slumber and has shut your eyes. He has covered the Prophet and your chief Seers.
11 And all their visions have become to you as the words of a book that is sealed up, which they deliver to one who can read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he shall say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
12 And the book is given to him who cannot read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he shall say, “I cannot read.”
13 Therefore, the LORD said, “Because this people comes near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but has removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me was taught by the precept of men,
14 “therefore behold, I will again do a marvelous work in this people, a marvelous work and a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.
15 “Woe to those who seek deeply to hide counsel from the LORD. For their works are in darkness. And they say, ‘Who sees us?’ and, ‘Who knows us?’
16 “You pervert things. Shall the potter be thought the same as the clay? For shall the work say of him who made it, ‘He did not make me,’ or the thing formed say of him who fashioned it, ‘He has no understanding’?
17 “Is it not but a little while before Lebanon shall be turned into Carmel, and Carmel shall be counted as a forest?
18 “And on that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book. And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
19 “The meek in the LORD shall receive joy again. And the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 “For the cruel man shall cease and the scornful shall be consumed. And all who hurried to iniquity shall be cut off,
21 “who made a man sin with words and took him who reproved in the gate in a snare and made the just fall without cause.”
22 Therefore, thus says the LORD to the House of Jacob, He who redeemed Abraham: “Jacob shall not be confounded now, nor shall his face be pale now.
23 “But when he sees his children, the work of My Hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify My Name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 “Then, those who erred in spirit shall have understanding. And those who murmured shall learn doctrine.”
30 “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the LORD, “who take counsel, but not from Me, and cover with a covering, but not by My Spirit, so that they may lay sin upon sin.
2 “They walk forth to go down into Egypt to strengthen themselves with the strength of Pharaoh and trust in the shadow of Egypt and have not asked from My Mouth.
3 “But the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 “For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 “They shall all be ashamed of the people who cannot profit them or help or do them good but are a shame and a reproach.”
6 The burden of the beasts of the South: In a land of trouble and anguish—from where comes the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent—they shall bear their riches upon the shoulders of the colts, and their treasures upon the bunches of the camels, to a people that cannot profit.
7 “For the Egyptians are purposeless, and they shall help in vain. Therefore I have cried to her. Their strength is to sit still.
8 “Now go. Write it before them on a tablet, and note it in a Book, so that it may be for the last day, forever and ever,
9 “that it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that would not hear the Law of the LORD.
10 “They say to the Seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the Prophets, ‘Do not Prophesy to us right things. Speak flattering things to us. Prophesy errors.
11 “‘Depart out of the way. Go aside out of the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from us.’”
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the Law, as under guard, and locked up, until that faith which should be revealed.
24 So that the Law was our tutor, bringing us to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.
25 But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26 For you are all the sons of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.
27 For all you who were baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Grecian. There is neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs by promise.
4 Then I say that the heir (as long as he is a child) differs nothing from a servant - though he be Lord of all -
2 but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the Father.
3 Even so, we (when we were children) were in bondage under the basic principles of the world.
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman and made under the Law;
5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law (that we might receive adoption as sons).
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, who cries, “Abba, Father!”
7 Therefore, you are a servant no more, but a son. Now, if you are a son, you are also the heir of God, through Christ.
8 But even then, when you did not know God, you were enslaved by those who, by nature, are not gods.
9 But now, seeing you know God - indeed, rather, are known by God - how can you turn again to weak and poor principals; so that, as before, you will be in bondage again?
10 You observe days and months and times and years.
11 I am in fear for you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
12 Be as me, brothers, I beg you (for I am also like you). You have not hurt me at all.
13 And you know how through weakness of the flesh I preached the Gospel to you at first.
14 And your trial from me (which was in my flesh) you neither despised nor abhorred. But you received me as an angel of God; indeed, as Christ Jesus.
15 Where then is your felicity? For I bear witness that if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.
16 Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
17 They are wrongly jealous for you. Yea, they would separate you from us, so that you would be jealous for them.
18 But it is a good thing to always love earnestly in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you,
19 my little children with whom I travail in birth again, until Christ is formed in you.
20 And I would that I were with you now, so I might change my voice. For I am in doubt of you.
21 Tell me, you who would be under the Law, do you not hear the Law?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by a servant and one by a free woman.
23 But he who was by the servant was born after the flesh. And he who was by the free woman was born by promise.
24 These things are allegorical. For these mothers are the two Testaments. The one called Hagar begat those of mount Sinai, who are enslaved.
25 For Hagar (or Sinai) is a mountain in Arabia, and it is now presently Jerusalem. And she is enslaved with her children.
26 But the Jerusalem above is free and is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who bear no children! Break forth, and cry, you who do not travail! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.”
28 Therefore, brothers, we are like Isaac: children of the promise.
29 But just as at that time the one who was born after the flesh persecuted the one who was born after the Spirit, so also it is now.
30 But what says the Scripture? ‘Put out the servant and her son. For the son of the servant shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.’
31 Then, brothers, we are not children of the servant, but of the free woman.
62 Yet my soul keeps silence to God. From Him comes my salvation.
2 He alone is my strength and my salvation, my defense. I shall not be greatly moved.
3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You shall all be slain. You shall be as a bowed wall, as a wall shaken.
4 Yet, they consult to cast him down from his high position. Their delight is in lies. They bless with their mouths but curse with their hearts. Selah.
5 My soul, keep silent to God only (for my hope is from Him).
6 He alone is my strength and my salvation, my defense. I shall not be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my glory, the rock of my strength. In God is my trust.
8 Trust in Him always, you people. Pour out your hearts before Him, God our Hope. Selah.
9 Surely, men of low degree are a vapor, and the chief men liars. To lay them upon a scale, they are altogether lighter than a breath.
10 Do not trust in oppression or in robbery. Do not be vain. If riches increase, do not set your heart thereon.
11 God has spoken once, twice I have heard it, that power belongs to God;
12 and to You, O LORD, mercy. For You reward everyone according to his work. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah
19 O my son, hear, and be wise. And guide your heart in the way.
20 Do not keep company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall be poor. And the sleeper shall be clothed with rags.
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