# verses

book: Hos
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This is why I have cut them to pieces by the prophets, slaughtered them with the words from my mouth — the judgment on you shines out like light.


book: Hos
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just as bands of robbers wait to ambush someone, so does a gang of cohanim. They commit murder on the road to Sh’khem! Their conduct is an outrage!


book: Hos
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In the house of Isra’el I have seen a horrible thing; whoring is found there in Efrayim, Isra’el is defiled.


book: Hos
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when I am ready to heal Isra’el, the crimes of Efrayim confront me, along with the wickedness of Shomron. For they keep practicing deceit; thieves break in, bands of robbers raid outside.


book: Hos
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They never say to themselves that I remember all their evil. Now their own deeds surround them; they are right in front of me.


book: Hos
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They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who doesn’t stoke the fire from kneading time till the dough has risen.


book: Hos
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who ready themselves like an oven while they wait for their chance. Their baker sleeps through the night; then in the morning it bursts into flame.


book: Hos
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They are all as hot as an oven, and they devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; not one of them calls out to me.


book: Hos
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Foreigners have eaten up his strength, but he doesn’t know it; yes, gray hairs appear on him here and there, but he doesn’t know it.


book: Hos
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The pride of Isra’el testifies in his face, but in spite of all this they haven’t returned to Adonai their God or sought him.


book: Hos
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Even as they go, I will spread my net over them; I will bring them down like birds from the sky; I will discipline them, as their assembly was told.


book: Hos
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Woe to them! for they have strayed from me. Destruction to them! for they have wronged me. Am I supposed to redeem them, when they have spoken lies against me?


book: Hos
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They have not cried out to me from their hearts, even though they wail on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and wine, yet turn away from me.


book: Hos
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They return, but not upward; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will die by the sword because of their angry talk. They will become a laughingstock in the land of Egypt.


book: Hos
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“Put the shofar to your lips! Like a vulture [he swoops down] on the house of Adonai, because they have violated my covenant and sinned intentionally against my Torah.


book: Hos
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They make kings, but without my authority; they appoint leaders, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, but these can lead only to their own destruction.


book: Hos
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Your calf, Shomron, has been thrown away; my fury burns against them. How long will it be until they are able to make themselves clean?


book: Hos
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Here is what Isra’el produces: a craftsman makes something — it’s a non-god; the calf of Shomron will be broken to pieces.


book: Hos
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For they sow the wind, so they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no ears, so it will yield no flour; and if it does yield any, foreigners will swallow it up.


book: Hos
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For they have gone up to Ashur; like a wild donkey, alone by itself, Efrayim has bargained for lovers.


book: Hos
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But even if they bargain among the Goyim, now I will round them up. Soon they will start to feel the burden of these kings and leaders.


book: Hos
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They offer me sacrifices of flesh and eat them, but Adonai does not accept them. Now he will recall their crimes and punish their sins — they will return to Egypt.


book: Hos
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For Isra’el forgot his maker and built palaces; and Y’hudah made more fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities, and it will consume their strongholds.”


book: Hos
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Don’t rejoice, Isra’el! Don’t enjoy yourselves as other peoples do; for you have gone whoring away from your God, you love being hired as a whore on every grain-floor.


book: Hos
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They won’t remain in the land of Adonai; instead, Efrayim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Ashur.


book: Hos
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They will not pour out wine offerings to Adonai; they will not be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be for them like mourners’ food — everyone eating it will be polluted. For their food will be merely to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the house of Adonai.


book: Hos
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For suppose they escape the destruction — Egypt will round them up, Memphis will bury them. And their precious treasures of silver? Nettles will possess them, thorns will be in their tents.


book: Hos
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The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution are here, and Isra’el knows it. [Yet they cry,] “The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit has gone crazy!” Because your iniquity is so great, the hostility [against you] is great.


book: Hos
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The watchman of Efrayim is with my God, but a prophet has a fowler’s snare set on all his paths and hostility even in the house of his God.


book: Hos
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They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Giv‘ah. He will remember their guilt, and he will punish their sins.


book: Hos
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“When I found Isra’el, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing a fig tree’s first figs in its first season. But as soon as they came to Ba‘al-P‘or, they dedicated themselves to something shameful; they became as loathsome as the thing they loved.


book: Hos
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Even if they raise their children, I will destroy them till none is left — and woe to them when I leave them, too!”


book: Hos
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Efrayim, as I see it, is like Tzor, planted in a pleasant place; but Efrayim will bring out his children to the slaughterer.


book: Hos
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“All their wickedness was already there in Gilgal; that’s where I came to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will expel them from my house, I will love them no more; all their leaders are rebels.


book: Hos
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Efrayim has been struck down, their root has been dried up, they will bear no fruit. Even if they do give birth, I will kill their cherished offspring.”


book: Hos
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My God will cast them aside, because they wouldn’t listen to him, and they will become wanderers among the Goyim.


book: Hos
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Isra’el was a luxuriant vine, freely putting forth fruit. As his fruit increased, he increased his altars; as his land got better, he improved his standing-stones.


book: Hos
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Their heart is divided; now they will bear their guilt. He will break down their altars and destroy their standing-stones.


book: Hos
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For now they will say, “We have no king, because we didn’t fear Adonai — and what could a king do for us, anyway?”


book: Hos
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They mouth words, swearing falsely, making treaties. Thus judgment spreads like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.


book: Hos
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The inhabitants of Shomron are frightened of the calf-gods of Beit-Aven. Its people mourn over it; its priests tremble over it, over its glory, which has left it.


book: Hos
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It will be carried to Ashur as a present for a warring king. Efrayim will be put to shame, and Isra’el be ashamed of his own advice.


book: Hos
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Destruction will come to the high places of Aven, that is, to the sin of Isra’el. Thorns and thistles will grow over their altars; and they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”


book: Hos
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“Since the days of Giv‘ah you have sinned, Isra’el. There they took their stand. For these arrogant people at Giv‘ah, war was insufficient punishment.


book: Hos
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When I wish to, I will discipline them; and the peoples will be gathered against them to discipline them for their two crimes.”


book: Hos
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Efrayim is a well-taught cow — it loves to tread the grain, and I have spared her fair neck. But I will put Efrayim in harness, Y’hudah will have to plow, Ya‘akov will harrow his own land.


book: Hos
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If you sow righteousness for yourselves, you will reap according to grace. Break up unused ground for yourselves, because it is time to seek Adonai, till he comes and rains down righteousness upon you.


book: Hos
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You have plowed wickedness, reaped iniquity and eaten the fruit of lies. Because you trusted in your own way, in your large numbers of warriors,


book: Hos
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turmoil will erupt among your peoples, and all your fortresses will be destroyed; just as Shalman destroyed Beit-Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces right along with their children.


book: Hos
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Thus will be done to you, Beit-El, because of your great wickedness; at dawn the king of Isra’el will be completely cut off.


book: Hos
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But the more [the prophets] called them, the farther they went from them. They sacrificed to the ba‘alim and offered incense to idols.


book: Hos
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“Yet it was I who taught Efrayim to walk; I took them by their arms. But they did not know that it was I who was healing them,


book: Hos
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who was guiding them on through human means with reins made of love. With them I was like someone removing the yoke from their jaws, and I bent down to feed them.


book: Hos
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He will not return to the land of Egypt, but Ashur will be his king, because they refused to repent.


book: Hos
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The sword will fall on his cities, destroying the bars of his gates, because they follow their own advice.


book: Hos
contenido:
My people are hanging in suspense about returning to me; and though they call them upwards, nobody makes a move.


book: Hos
contenido:
Efrayim, how can I give you up, or surrender you, Isra’el? How could I treat you like Admah or make you like Tzvoyim? My heart recoils at the idea, as compassion warms within me.


book: Hos
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I will not give vent to the fierceness of my rage, I will not return to destroy Efrayim; for I am God, not a human being, the Holy One among you; so I will not come in fury.


book: Hos
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They will go after Adonai, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.


book: Hos
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They will tremble like a bird as they come from Egypt, like a dove as they come from the land of Ashur; and I will resettle them in their own houses, says Adonai.


book: Hos
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“Efrayim surrounds me with lies and the house of Isra’el with deceit. Y’hudah still rules with God and is faithful with holy ones.


book: Hos
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Efrayim is chasing the wind, pursuing the wind from the east. All day he piles up lies and desolation — they make a covenant with Ashur, while sending olive oil to Egypt.


book: Hos
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Adonai also has a grievance against Y’hudah; he will punish Ya‘akov according to his ways and pay him back for his misdeeds.


book: Hos
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Yes, he fought with an angel and won; he wept and pleaded with him. Then at Beit-El he found him, and there he would [later] speak with us —


book: Hos
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Efrayim says, ‘I have gotten so rich! I have made me a fortune! And in all my profits no one will find anything wrong or sinful.’


book: Hos
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“But I am Adonai your God, from the land of Egypt. Again I will make you live in tents, as in the days of the established festival.


book: Hos
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I have spoken to the prophets; it was I who gave vision after vision; through the prophets I gave examples to show what it would all be like.


book: Hos
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Is Gil‘ad given to iniquity? Yes, they have become worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice to bulls; therefore their altars are like piles of stones in a plowed field.”


book: Hos
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Efrayim has given bitter provocation, so the penalty for his bloodshed will be thrown down on him, and his Lord will repay him for his insult.


book: Hos
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“When Efrayim spoke, there was trembling; he was a power in Isra’el. But when he incurred guilt through Ba‘al, he died.


book: Hos
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So now they keep adding sin to sin, casting images from their silver; idols they invent for themselves, all of them the work of craftsmen. ‘Sacrifice to them,’ they say. Men give kisses to calves!


book: Hos
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Therefore they will be like a morning cloud, like the dew that disappears early, like chaff blown by wind from the threshing-floor, or like smoke that goes out the window.


book: Hos
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Still, I am Adonai your God, from the land of Egypt; and you don’t know any God but me or, other than me, any Savior.


book: Hos
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When they were fed, they were satisfied; when satisfied, they became proud. Therefore they forgot me.


book: Hos
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I will meet them like a bear whose cubs have been taken away. I will tear their hearts from their bodies. I will devour them there like a lion, like a wild animal ripping them up.


book: Hos
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So now, where is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and leaders’?


book: Hos
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The pain of being born will come to him; but he is an unwise son. The time has come; and he shouldn’t delay, there at the mouth of the womb.


book: Hos
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Should I ransom them from the power of Sh’ol? Should I redeem them from death? Where are your plagues, death; where is your destruction, Sh’ol? My eyes are closed to compassion.


book: Hos
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For though he flourishes among the reeds, an east wind will come, a wind from Adonai, blowing up from the desert. Then his water source will dry up, then his spring will fail — it will plunder his treasury, removing every precious thing.”


book: Hos
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Shomron will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their little ones will be dashed to pieces and their pregnant women ripped open.


book: Hos
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Take words with you, and return to Adonai; say to him, “Forgive all guilt, and accept what is good; we will pay instead of bulls [the offerings of] our lips.


book: Hos
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Ashur will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer call what we made with our hands our gods. For it is only in you that the fatherless can find mercy.”


book: Hos
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Again they will live in his shade and raise grain; they will blossom like a vine, and its aroma will be like the wine of the L’vanon.


book: Hos
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Efrayim [will say], ‘What have I to do any more with idols?’ And I, I answer and affirm him; I am like a fresh, green cypress tree; your fruitfulness comes from me.”


book: Hos
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Let the wise understand these things, and let the discerning know them. For the ways of Adonai are straight, And the righteous walk in them, but in them sinners stumble.


book: Joel
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“Hear this, you leaders! Listen, all who live in the land! Has anything like this ever happened in your days, or in your ancestors’ days?


book: Joel
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Tell your children about it, and have them tell it to theirs, and have them tell the next generation.


book: Joel
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What the cutter-worms left, the locusts ate; what the locusts left, the grasshoppers ate; what the grasshoppers left, the shearer-worms ate.


book: Joel
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Wake up, drunkards, and weep! wail, all you who drink wine, because the juice of the grape will be withheld from your mouth.


book: Joel
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For a mighty and numberless nation has invaded my land. His teeth are lion’s teeth; his fangs are those of a lioness.


book: Joel
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He has reduced my vines to waste, my fig trees to splinters — he plucked them bare, stripped their bark and left their branches white.”


book: Joel
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Grain offering and drink offering are cut off from the house of Adonai. The cohanim are mourning, those who are serving Adonai.


book: Joel
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The fields are ruined, the ground is grieving; for the grain is ruined, the new wine dried up, and the olive oil is wretched.


book: Joel
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Despair, you farmers; lament, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley — the harvest from the fields is lost.


book: Joel
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The vines have withered, the fig trees wilted, also the pomegranate, date-palm and apple tree — all the trees in the fields have withered, and the people’s joy has withered away.


book: Joel
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Cohanim, put on sackcloth, and weep! Wail, you who serve at the altar! Come, lie in sackcloth all night long, you who serve my God! For the grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.


book: Joel
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Proclaim a holy fast, call for a solemn assembly, gather the leaders and all who live in the land to the house of Adonai your God, and cry out to Adonai,


book: Joel
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The seed-grain is rotting in its furrows; the granaries are deserted, the barns in ruins; because the grain has withered.


book: Joel
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How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep bear the punishment, too.


book: Joel
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Adonai, I cry out to you! For the fire has consumed the pastures in the desert, and the flame set ablaze all the trees in the fields.


book: Joel
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Even the wild animals come to you, panting, because the streambeds have dried up, and fire has consumed the pastures in the desert.”


book: Joel
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“Blow the shofar in Tziyon! Sound an alarm on my holy mountain!” Let all living in the land tremble, for the Day of Adonai is coming! It’s upon us! —


book: Joel
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a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick fog; a great and mighty horde is spreading like blackness over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, nor will there ever be again, not even after the years of many generations.


book: Joel
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Ahead of them a fire devours, behind them a flame consumes; ahead the land is like Gan-‘Eden, behind them a desert waste. From them there is no escape.


book: Joel
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With a rumble like that of chariots they leap over the mountaintops, like crackling flames devouring stubble, like a mighty horde in battle array.


book: Joel
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Like warriors they charge, they scale the wall like soldiers. Each one keeps to his own course, without getting in the other’s way.


book: Joel
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They don’t jostle each other, but stay on their own paths; they burst through defenses unharmed, without even breaking rank.


book: Joel
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They rush into the city, they run along the wall, they climb up into the houses, entering like a thief through the windows.


book: Joel
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At their advance the earth quakes, and the sky shakes, the sun and moon turn black, and the stars stop shining.


book: Joel
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Adonai shouts orders to his forces — his army is immense, mighty, and it does what he says. For great is the Day of Adonai, fearsome, terrifying! Who can endure it?


book: Joel
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Tear your heart, not your garments; and turn to Adonai your God. For he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in grace, and willing to change his mind about disaster.


book: Joel
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Who knows? He may turn, change his mind and leave a blessing behind him, [enough for] grain offerings and drink offerings to present to Adonai your God.


book: Joel
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Gather the people; consecrate the congregation; assemble the leaders; gather the children, even infants sucking at the breast; let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride the bridal chamber.


book: Joel
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Let the cohanim, who serve Adonai, stand weeping between the vestibule and the altar. Let them say, “Spare your people, Adonai! Don’t expose your heritage to mockery, or make them a byward among the Goyim. Why should the peoples say, ‘Where is their God?’”


book: Joel
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Here is how Adonai will answer his people: “I will send you grain, wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you; and no longer will I make you a mockery among the Goyim.


book: Joel
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No, I will take the northerner away, far away from you, and drive him to a land that is waste and barren; with his vanguard toward the eastern sea and his rearguard toward the western sea, his stench and his rottenness will rise, because he has done great things.”


book: Joel
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Don’t be afraid, wild animals; for the desert pastures are green, the trees are putting out their fruit, the fig tree and vine are giving full yield.


book: Joel
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Be glad, people of Tziyon! rejoice in Adonai your God! For he is giving you the right amount of rain in the fall, he makes the rain come down for you, the fall and spring rains — this is what he does first.


book: Joel
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“I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate, the grasshoppers, shearer-worms and cutter-worms, my great army that I sent against you.


book: Joel
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You will eat until you are satisfied and will praise the name of Adonai your God, who has done with you such wonders. Then my people will never again be shamed.


book: Joel
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You will know that I am with Isra’el and that I am Adonai your God, and that there is no other. Then my people will never again be shamed.


book: Joel
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“After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions;


book: Joel
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The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai.”


book: Joel
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At that time, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as Adonai has promised; among the survivors will be those whom Adonai has called.


book: Joel
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I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Y’hoshafat [Adonai judges]. I will enter into judgment there for my people, my heritage Isra’el, whom they scattered among the nations; then they divided my land.


book: Joel
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“Moreover, what have you against me, Tzor, Tzidon, all parts of P’leshet? Are you paying me back for something I did? If you’re paying me back for something I did, then easily, quickly, I’ll pay you back right on your own head.


book: Joel
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The people of Y’hudah and Yerushalayim you sold to the Greeks, so that you could remove them far away from their land.


book: Joel
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I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Y’hudah; and they will sell them to the men of Sh’va, a nation far off; for Adonai has spoken.


book: Joel
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“Proclaim this among the nations: ‘Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men approach and attack.’


book: Joel
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Hammer your plow-blades into swords and your pruning-knives into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’


book: Joel
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Hurry, come, you surrounding nations, gather yourselves together!” Bring your warriors down, Adonai!


book: Joel
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“Let the nations be roused and come up to the Valley of Y’hoshafat [Adonai judges]. For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.”


book: Joel
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Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, and tread, for the winepress is full. The vats are overflowing, for their wickedness is great.


book: Joel
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Such enormous crowds in the Valley of Decision! For the Day of Adonai is upon us in the Valley of Decision!


book: Joel
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Adonai will roar from Tziyon, he will thunder from Yerushalayim, the sky and the earth will shake. But Adonai will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Isra’el.


book: Joel
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“You will know that I am Adonai your God, living on Tziyon my holy mountain.” Then Yerushalayim will be holy, and foreigners will pass through her no more.


book: Joel
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Then, when that time comes, the mountains will drip with sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the streambeds of Y’hudah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of Adonai to water the Sheetim Valley.


book: Joel
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But Egypt will be desolate and Edom a desert waste, because of the violence done to the people of Y’hudah, because they shed innocent blood in their land.


book: Amos
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The words of ‘Amos, one of the sheep owners in T’koa, which he saw concerning Isra’el in the days of ‘Uziyah king of Y’hudah and Yarov‘am the son of Yo’ash, king of Isra’el, two years before the earthquake;


book: Amos
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he said: Adonai is roaring from Tziyon thundering from Yerushalayim; the shepherds’ pastures will mourn, and Mount Karmel’s summit will wither.


book: Amos
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Here is what Adonai says: “For Dammesek’s three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they threshed Gil‘ad with an iron-spiked threshing-sledge;


book: Amos
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I will break the bars of Dammesek’s gates. I will cut off the inhabitants from Bik‘at-Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beit-‘Eden. Then the people of Aram will go into exile in Kir,” says Adonai.


book: Amos
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Here is what Adonai says: “For ‘Azah’s three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they exiled a whole population and handed them over to Edom;


book: Amos
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I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon. I will turn my hand against ‘Ekron, and the rest of the P’lishtim will perish,” says Adonai, God.


book: Amos
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Here is what Adonai says: “For Tzor’s three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they exiled a whole population to Edom and did not remember the covenant with kinsmen;


book: Amos
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Here is what Adonai says: “For Edom’s three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because with sword he pursued his kinsman and threw aside all pity, constantly nursing his anger, forever fomenting his fury;


book: Amos
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Here is what Adonai says: “For the people of ‘Amon’s three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they ripped apart pregnant women just to expand their territory,


book: Amos
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I will set fire to the wall of Rabbah, and it will consume its palaces amid shouts on the day of battle, amid a storm on the day of the whirlwind.


book: Amos
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Here is what Adonai says: “For Mo’av’s three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because he burned the bones of the king of Edom, turning them into lime;


book: Amos
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I will send fire on Mo’av, and it will consume the palaces of K’riot. Mo’av will die with turmoil and shouting, along with the sound of the shofar.


book: Amos
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Here is what Adonai says: “For Y’hudah’s three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they rejected Adonai’s Torah and haven’t observed his laws, and their lies caused them to fall into error and live the way their ancestors did;


book: Amos
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Here is what Adonai says: “For Isra’el’s three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they sell the upright for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes,


book: Amos
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grinding the heads of the poor in the dust and pushing the lowly out of the way; father and son sleep with the same girl, profaning my holy name;


book: Amos
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lying down beside any altar on clothes taken in pledge; drinking wine in the house of their God bought with fines they imposed.


book: Amos
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“I destroyed the Emori before them; though tall as cedars and strong as oaks, I destroyed their fruit above and their root below.


book: Amos
contenido:
More than that, I brought you up from Egypt, led you forty years in the desert, so that you could have the Emori’s land.


book: Amos
contenido:
I raised up some of your sons to be prophets, other young men of yours to be n’zirim. People of Isra’el! Isn’t that true?” asks Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
“Enough! I will make all this crush you, just as a cart overloaded with grain crushes what’s under it.


book: Amos
contenido:
Even the swift won’t be able to flee; the strong won’t be able to use their strength, the warriors won’t save themselves.


book: Amos
contenido:
Archers won’t be able to stand, the fastest runners won’t save themselves, those on horses won’t save themselves.


book: Amos
contenido:
“Listen to this word which Adonai has spoken against you, people of Isra’el, against the entire family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:


book: Amos
contenido:
“Of all the families on earth, only you have I intimately known. This is why I will punish you for all your crimes.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his lair if it has caught nothing?


book: Amos
contenido:
Does a bird get caught in a trap on the ground if it hasn’t been baited? Does a trap spring up from the ground when it has taken nothing?


book: Amos
contenido:
When the shofar is blown in the city, don’t the people tremble? Can disaster befall a city without Adonai’s having done it?


book: Amos
contenido:
“Proclaim it on the palaces in Ashdod and on the palaces in the land of Egypt; say: ‘Assemble yourselves on the hills of Shomron! See what great tumult is seething within it, how much oppression is being done there.’


book: Amos
contenido:
For they don’t know how to do right,” says Adonai. “They store up violence and robbery in their palaces.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Therefore, here is what Adonai Elohim says: “An enemy will surround the land. He will strip you of your strength, and plunder your palaces.”


book: Amos
contenido:
“As a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear; so the people of Isra’el in Shomron will be rescued, huddled under cushions in the corners of their beds. “Hear, and testify against the house of Ya‘akov,” says Adonai Elohim Elohei-Tzva’ot.


book: Amos
contenido:
“For when I punish Isra’el’s crimes, I will also punish the altars of Beit-El. The horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.


book: Amos
contenido:
I will tear down winter houses as well as summer houses; houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed; the mansions will be no more,” says Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
“Listen, you [lovely] cows of Bashan, who live on Mount Shomron, who oppress the poor and grind down the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring something to drink’:


book: Amos
contenido:
Adonai Elohim has sworn by his holiness that your time is surely coming. “You will be dragged away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks.


book: Amos
contenido:
You will leave through breaks in the wall, each woman right behind the next, and be sent off to Harmonah,” says Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
“Come to Beit-El, and commit crimes; to Gilgal, and commit more crimes! Bring your sacrifices in the morning and your tithes after three days;


book: Amos
contenido:
burn leavened bread as a thank offering; brag in public about your voluntary offerings; because that’s what you love to do, Isra’el!” says Adonai Elohim.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, left you nothing to eat in all your villages; still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I withheld the rain from you three months before the harvest. I made it rain on one city and not on another — one field had rain, while another with no rain dried up;


book: Amos
contenido:
from two or three cities they would stagger to one city for water to drink, but there wasn’t enough; still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I struck your crops with hot winds and blight, your many gardens and vineyards; the cutter-worms devoured your fig and olive trees; still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I sent a plague on you like that of Egypt, put your young men to death with the sword; let your horses be captured; and filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps; still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew S’dom and ‘Amora; you were like a burning stick snatched from the fire; still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
“This is why I will deal with you in this way, Isra’el; and because I will deal with you in this way, prepare to meet your God, Isra’el —


book: Amos
contenido:
him who forms mountains and creates wind, who declares to humankind his thoughts, who turns the morning to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth — Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot is his name.”


book: Amos
contenido:
The virgin of Isra’el has fallen; she will not rise again. She lies abandoned on her own soil with no one to lift her up.


book: Amos
contenido:
For thus says Adonai Elohim: “The city from which a thousand marched will be left with a hundred, and the one from which a hundred marched will be left with ten from the house of Isra’el.”


book: Amos
contenido:
but don’t seek Beit-El, or enter Gilgal or pass on into Be’er-Sheva; for Gilgal will certainly go into exile, and Beit-El will come to nothing.”


book: Amos
contenido:
If you seek Adonai, you will survive. Otherwise, he will break out against the house of Yosef like fire, devouring Beit-El, with no one to quench the flames.


book: Amos
contenido:
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who brings deathlike shadows over the morning, who darkens the day into night, who calls for the water in the sea and with it floods the earth — Adonai is his name —


book: Amos
contenido:
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and extort from them levies of grain; although you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; and though you have planted pleasant vineyards, you will not drink their wine.


book: Amos
contenido:
For I know how numerous are your crimes and how outrageous your sins — bullying the innocent, extorting ransoms pushing the poor aside at the gate.


book: Amos
contenido:
Seek good and not evil, so that you will survive. Then Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will be with you, as you say he is.


book: Amos
contenido:
Hate evil, love good, and uphold justice at the gate. Maybe Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will take pity on the survivors of Yosef.


book: Amos
contenido:
Therefore thus says Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, Adonai: “In all public squares there will be lamentation, in all the streets they will cry, ‘Oh, no!’ They will summon farmers to mourn and professional mourners to wail.


book: Amos
contenido:
Woe to you who want the Day of Adonai! Why do you want it, this Day of Adonai? It is darkness, not light;


book: Amos
contenido:
as if someone were to run from a lion, just to be met by a bear; as if he entered a house, put his hand on the wall, just to be bitten by a snake.


book: Amos
contenido:
If you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; nor will I consider the peace offerings of your stall-fed cattle.


book: Amos
contenido:
No, but now you will bear Sikkut as your king and Kiyun, your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves;


book: Amos
contenido:
Woe to those living at ease in Tziyon and to those who feel complacent on the hills of Shomron, renowned men in this foremost of nations, to whom the rest of Isra’el come.


book: Amos
contenido:
Travel to Kalneh and see; from there go on to Hamat the great; then go down to Gat of the P’lishtim. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?


book: Amos
contenido:
You lie on beds of ivory and lounge sprawled out on your couches, dining on meat from lambs in the flock and from calves fattened in stalls.


book: Amos
contenido:
You make up wild songs at your parties, playing the lute and inventing other instruments — [imagining that you’re] like David!


book: Amos
contenido:
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but feel no grief at the ruin of Yosef.


book: Amos
contenido:
Therefore now they will be the first to go into exile with those being exiled, and the revelry of those who lounged, sprawling, will pass away.


book: Amos
contenido:
“Adonai Elohim swears by himself,” says Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, “I detest that Ya‘akov is so proud, and I hate his palaces. I will hand over the city, along with everything in it.”


book: Amos
contenido:
And if a [dead] man’s uncle, coming to bring the corpse out of the house and burn it, finds a survivor hidden in the inmost recesses of the house and asks, “Is anyone else there with you?” — then, when he receives the answer, “No,” he will say, “Don’t say any more, because we mustn’t mention the name of Adonai.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Do horses run on rock? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitter wormwood.


book: Amos
contenido:
“But I will raise up a nation against you, house of Isra’el,” says Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, “and they will oppress you from the entrance of Hamat to the Vadi of the ‘Aravah.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Here is what Adonai Elohim showed me: he was forming a swarm of locusts as the late crop was starting to come up, the late crop after the hay had been cut to pay the king’s tribute.


book: Amos
contenido:
While they were finishing up eating all the vegetation in the land, I said, “Adonai Elohim, forgive — please! How will tiny Ya‘akov survive?”


book: Amos
contenido:
Next Adonai Elohim showed me this: Adonai Elohim was summoning a blazing fire to consume the great abyss, and it would have devoured the land too.


book: Amos
contenido:
Then he showed me this: Adonai was standing by a wall made with a plumbline, and he had a plumbline in his hand.


book: Amos
contenido:
Adonai asked me, “‘Amos, what do you see?” I answered, “A plumbline.” Then Adonai said, “I am going to put a plumbline in among my people Isra’el; I will never again overlook their offenses.


book: Amos
contenido:
The high places of Yitz’chak will be desolate, Isra’el’s sanctuaries will be destroyed, and I will attack the house of Yarov‘am with the sword.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Then Amatzyah the priest of Beit-El sent this message to Yarov‘am king of Isra’el, “‘Amos is conspiring against you there among the people of Isra’el, and the land can’t bear all that he’s saying.


book: Amos
contenido:
For ‘Amos says: ‘Yarov‘am will die by the sword, and Isra’el will be led away from their land into exile.’”


book: Amos
contenido:
Amatzyah also said to ‘Amos, “Go away, seer! Go back to the land of Y’hudah! Earn your living there; and prophesy there;


book: Amos
contenido:
‘Amos gave this answer to Amatzyah: “I am not trained as a prophet, and I’m not one of the guild prophets — I own sheep and grow figs.


book: Amos
contenido:
But Adonai took me away from following the flock, and Adonai said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Isra’el.’


book: Amos
contenido:
So now, hear what Adonai says: ‘You say, “Don’t prophesy against Isra’el, don’t lecture the people of Yitz’chak.”’


book: Amos
contenido:
Therefore Adonai says this: ‘Your wife will become a whore in the city, your sons and daughters will die by the sword, your land will be parcelled out with a measuring line, you yourself will die in an unclean land, and Isra’el will certainly be exiled from their land.’”


book: Amos
contenido:
He asked, “‘Amos, what do you see?” I answered, “A basket of summer  fruit.” Then Adonai said to me, “The end  has come for my people, I will never again overlook their offenses.


book: Amos
contenido:
When that time comes, the songs in the temple will be wailings,” says Adonai Elohim. “There will be many dead bodies; everywhere silence will reign.”


book: Amos
contenido:
You say, “When will Rosh-Hodesh be over, so we can market our grain? and Shabbat, so we can sell wheat?” You measure the grain in a small eifah, but the silver in heavy shekels, fixing the scales, so that you can cheat,


book: Amos
contenido:
buying the needy for money and the poor for a pair of shoes, and sweeping up the refuse of the wheat to sell!”


book: Amos
contenido:
Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn, who lives in the land? It will all rise, just like the Nile, be in turmoil and subside, like the Nile in Egypt.


book: Amos
contenido:
“When that time comes,” says Adonai Elohim, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.


book: Amos
contenido:
I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into wailing; I will make you all put sackcloth around your waists and shave your heads bald in grief. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.


book: Amos
contenido:
“The time is coming,” says Adonai Elohim, “when I will send famine over the land, not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
People will stagger from sea to sea and from north to east, running back and forth, seeking the word of Adonai; but they will not find it.


book: Amos
contenido:
Those who swear by the sin of Shomron, who say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’ and, ‘As the way of Be’er-Sheva lives’ — they will fall and never get up again.”


book: Amos
contenido:
I saw Adonai standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the columns until the thresholds shake! Smash them to pieces on the heads of all the people! Those who remain I will kill with the sword; not one of them will succeed in fleeing, not one of them will escape.


book: Amos
contenido:
If they dig down to Sh’ol, my hand will haul them out; if they climb up to heaven, I will bring them down.


book: Amos
contenido:
If they hide themselves on the top of the Karmel, I will search them out and capture them there; If they hide from me at the bottom of the sea, I will order the serpent to bite them there.


book: Amos
contenido:
If their enemies herd them into exile, I will order the sword to kill them there. I will fix my gaze on them for harm and not for good.”


book: Amos
contenido:
For Adonai Elohim-Tzva’ot is the one who can melt the earth with his touch, and make all who live on it mourn. It will all rise, just like the Nile, and then subside, like the Nile in Egypt.


book: Amos
contenido:
He builds his upper rooms in heaven and establishes his sky-vault over the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them out over the earth. Adonai is his name.


book: Amos
contenido:
“People of Isra’el, are you any different from the Ethiopians to me?” asks Adonai. “True, I brought Isra’el up from Egypt, but I also brought the P’lishtim from Kaftor, and Aram from Kir.


book: Amos
contenido:
Look, the eyes of Adonai Elohim are on the sinful kingdom. I will wipe it off the face of the earth, yet I will not completely destroy the house of Ya‘akov,” says Adonai.


book: Amos
contenido:
“For when I give the order, I will shake the house of Isra’el, there among all the Goyim, as one shakes with a sieve, letting no grain fall to the ground.


book: Amos
contenido:
All the sinners among my people who say, ‘Disaster will never overtake us or confront us,’ will die by the sword.


book: Amos
contenido:
“When that day comes, I will raise up the fallen sukkah of David. I will close up its gaps, raise up its ruins and rebuild it as it used to be,


book: Amos
contenido:
so that Isra’el can possess what is left of Edom and of all the nations bearing my name,” says Adonai, who is doing this.


book: Amos
contenido:
“The days will come,” says Adonai, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the one treading grapes the one sowing seed. Sweet wine will drip down the mountains, and all the hills will flow with it.


book: Amos
contenido:
I will restore the fortunes of my people Isra’el; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities; they will plant vineyards and drink their wine, cultivate gardens and eat their fruit.


book: Amos
contenido:
I will plant them on their own soil, no more to be uprooted from their land, which I gave them,” says Adonai your God.


book: Obad
contenido:
This is the vision of ‘Ovadyah. Here is what Adonai Elohim says about Edom. As a messenger was being sent among the nations saying, “Come on, let’s attack her,” we heard a message from Adonai:


book: Obad
contenido:
Your proud heart has deceived you, you whose homes are caves in the cliffs, who live on the heights and say to yourselves, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’


book: Obad
contenido:
If you make your nest as high as an eagle’s, even if you place it among the stars, I will bring you down from there.” says Adonai.


book: Obad
contenido:
If thieves were to come to you, or if robbers by night (Oh, how destroyed you are!), wouldn’t they stop when they’d stolen enough? If grape-pickers came to you, Wouldn’t they leave some grapes for gleaning?


book: Obad
contenido:
Your allies went with you only to the border, those at peace with you deceived and defeated you, those who ate your food set a trap for you, and you couldn’t discern it.


book: Obad
contenido:
“When that Day comes,” says Adonai, “won’t I destroy all the wise men of Edom and leave no discernment on Mount ‘Esav?


book: Obad
contenido:
For the violence done to your kinsman Ya‘akov, shame will cover you; and you will be forever cut off.


book: Obad
contenido:
On that day you stood aside, while strangers carried off his treasure, and foreigners entered his gates to cast lots for Yerushalayim — you were no different from them.


book: Obad
contenido:
You shouldn’t have gloated over your kinsman on their day of disaster or rejoiced over the people of Y’hudah on their day of destruction. You shouldn’t have spoken arrogantly on a day of trouble


book: Obad
contenido:
or entered the gate of my people on their day of calamity — no, you shouldn’t have gloated over their suffering on their day of calamity or laid hands on their treasure on their day of calamity.


book: Obad
contenido:
You shouldn’t have stood at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives or handed over their survivors on a day of trouble.”


book: Obad
contenido:
For the Day of Adonai is near for all nations; as you did, it will be done to you; your dealings will come back on your own head.


book: Obad
contenido:
For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink in turn; yes, they will drink and gulp it down and be as if they had never existed.


book: Obad
contenido:
But on Mount Tziyon there will be a holy remnant who will escape, and the house of Ya‘akov will repossess their rightful inheritance.


book: Obad
contenido:
The house of Ya‘akov will be a fire and the house of Yosef a flame, setting aflame and consuming the stubble which is the house of ‘Esav. None of the house of ‘Esav will remain, for Adonai has spoken.


book: Obad
contenido:
Those in the Negev will repossess the mountain of ‘Esav, and those in the Sh’felah the land of the P’lishtim; they will repossess the field of Efrayim and the field of Shomron, and Binyamin will occupy Gil‘ad.


book: Obad
contenido:
Those from this army of the people of Isra’el exiled among the Kena‘anim as far away as Tzarfat, and the exiles from Yerushalayim in S’farad, will repossess the cities in the Negev.


book: Obad
contenido:
Then the victorious will ascend Mount Tziyon to rule over Mount ‘Esav, but the kingship will belong to Adonai.


book: Jonah
contenido:
“Set out for the great city of Ninveh, and proclaim to it that their wickedness has come to my attention.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
But Yonah, in order to get away from Adonai, prepared to escape to Tarshish. He went down to Yafo, found a ship headed for Tarshish, paid the fare and went aboard, intending to travel with them to Tarshish and get away from Adonai.


book: Jonah
contenido:
However, Adonai let loose over the sea a violent wind, which created such stormy conditions that the ship threatened to break to pieces.


book: Jonah
contenido:
The sailors were frightened, and each cried out to his god. They threw the cargo overboard to make the ship easier for them to control. Meanwhile, Yonah had gone down below into the hold, where he lay, fast asleep.


book: Jonah
contenido:
The ship’s captain found him and said to him, “What do you mean by sleeping? Get up! Call on your god! Maybe the god will remember us, and we won’t die.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then they said to each other, “Come, let’s draw lots to find out who is to blame for this calamity.” They drew lots, and Yonah was singled out.


book: Jonah
contenido:
They said to him, “Tell us now, why has this calamity come upon us? What work do you do? Where are you from? What is your country? Which is your people?”


book: Jonah
contenido:
He answered them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear Adonai, the God of heaven, who made both the sea and the dry land.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
At this the men grew very afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done?” For the men knew he was trying to get away from Adonai, since he had told them.


book: Jonah
contenido:
They asked him, “What should we do to you, so that the sea will be calm for us?” — for the sea was getting rougher all the time.


book: Jonah
contenido:
“Pick me up,” he told them, “and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; because I know it’s my fault that this terrible storm has come over you.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Nevertheless, the men rowed hard, trying to reach the shore. But they couldn’t, because the sea kept growing wilder against them.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Finally they cried to Adonai, “Please, Adonai, please! Don’t let us perish for causing the death of this man, and don’t hold us to account for shedding innocent blood; because you, Adonai, have done what you saw fit.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Adonai prepared a huge fish to swallow Yonah; and Yonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.


book: Jonah
contenido:
he said, “Out of my distress I called to Adonai, and he answered me; from the belly of Sh’ol I cried, and you heard my voice.


book: Jonah
contenido:
For you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas; and the flood enveloped me; all your surging waves passed over me.


book: Jonah
contenido:
The water surrounded me, threatened my life; the deep closed over me, seaweed twined around my head.


book: Jonah
contenido:
I was going down to the bottoms of the mountains, to a land whose bars would close me in forever; but you brought me up alive from the pit, Adonai, my God!


book: Jonah
contenido:
As my life was ebbing away, I remembered Adonai; and my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.


book: Jonah
contenido:
but I, speaking my thanks aloud, will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed, I will pay. Salvation comes from Adonai!”


book: Jonah
contenido:
So Yonah set out and went to Ninveh, as Adonai had said. Now Ninveh was such a large city that it took three days just to cross it.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Yonah began his entry into the city and had finished only his first day of proclaiming, ‘In forty days Ninveh will be overthrown,’


book: Jonah
contenido:
when the people of Ninveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.


book: Jonah
contenido:
When the news reached the king of Ninveh, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth and sat in ashes.


book: Jonah
contenido:
He then had this proclamation made throughout Ninveh: “By decree of the king and his nobles, no person or animal, herd or flock, is to put anything in his mouth; they are neither to eat nor drink water.


book: Jonah
contenido:
They must be covered with sackcloth, both people and animals; and they are to cry out to God with all their might — let each of them turn from his evil way and from the violence they practice.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Who knows? Maybe God will change his mind, relent and turn from his fierce anger; and then we won’t perish.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
When God saw by their deeds that they had turned from their evil way, he relented and did not bring on them the punishment he had threatened.


book: Jonah
contenido:
He prayed to Adonai, “Now, Adonai, didn’t I say this would happen, when I was still in my own country? That’s why I tried to get away to Tarshish ahead of time! I knew you were a God who is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in grace, and that you relent from inflicting punishment.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Therefore, Adonai, please, just take my life away from me; it’s better for me to be dead than alive!”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Yonah left the city and found a place east of the city, where he made himself a shelter and sat down under it, in its shade, to see what would happen to the city.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Adonai, God, prepared a castor-bean plant and made it grow up over Yonah to shade his head and relieve his discomfort. So Yonah was delighted with the castor-bean plant.


book: Jonah
contenido:
But at dawn the next day God prepared a worm, which attacked the castor-bean plant, so that it dried up.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then, when the sun rose, God prepared a scorching east wind; and the sun beat down on Yonah’s head so hard that he grew faint and begged that he could die, saying, “I would be better off dead than alive.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
God asked Yonah, “Is it right for you to be so angry about the castor-bean plant?” He answered, “Yes, it’s right for me to be so angry that I could die!”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Adonai said, “You’re concerned over the castor-bean plant, which cost you no effort; you didn’t make it grow; it came up in a night and perished in a night.


book: Jonah
contenido:
So shouldn’t I be concerned about the great city of Ninveh, in which there are more than 120,000 people who don’t know their right hand from their left — not to mention all the animals?”


book: Mic
contenido:
This is the word of Adonai that came to Mikhah the Morashti during the days of Yotam, Achaz and Y’chizkiyah, kings of Y’hudah, which he saw concerning Shomron and Yerushalayim:


book: Mic
contenido:
Listen, peoples, all of you! Pay attention, earth, and everything in it! Adonai Elohim will witness against you, Adonai, from his holy temple.


book: Mic
contenido:
For — look! — Adonai is coming out of his place, coming down to tread on the high places of the land.


book: Mic
contenido:
Beneath him the mountains will melt, the valleys split open like wax before fire, like water poured down a steep slope.


book: Mic
contenido:
All this is because of the crime of Ya‘akov and the sins of the house of Isra’el. What is the crime of Ya‘akov? Isn’t it Shomron? And what are the high places of Y’hudah? Aren’t they Yerushalayim?


book: Mic
contenido:
“So I will make Shomron a heap in the countryside, a place for planting vineyards; I will pour her stones down into the valley, laying bare her foundations.


book: Mic
contenido:
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces, all she earned consumed by fire; and I will reduce her idols to rubble. She amassed them from a whore’s wages, and as a whore’s wages they will be spent again.”


book: Mic
contenido:
This is why I howl and wail, why I go barefoot and stripped, why I howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.


book: Mic
contenido:
For her wound cannot be healed, and now it is coming to Y’hudah as well; it reaches even to the gate of my people, to Yerushalayim itself.


book: Mic
contenido:
Don’t tell about it in Gat, don’t shed any tears. At Beit-L‘afrah [house of dust] roll yourself in the dust.


book: Mic
contenido:
Inhabitants of Shafir, pass on your way in nakedness and shame. The inhabitants of Tza’anan have not left yet. The wailing of Beit-Ha’etzel will remove from you their support.


book: Mic
contenido:
The inhabitants of Marot have no hope of anything good; for Adonai has sent down disaster to the very gate of Yerushalayim.


book: Mic
contenido:
Harness the chariots to the fastest horses, inhabitants of Lakhish; she was the beginning of sin for the daughter of Tziyon; for the crimes of Isra’el are traceable to you.


book: Mic
contenido:
Therefore you must bestow parting gifts upon Moreshet-Gat. The houses of Akhziv will disappoint the kings of Isra’el.


book: Mic
contenido:
Inhabitants of Mareshah, I have yet to bring you the one who will [invade and] possess you. The glory of Isra’el will come to ‘Adulam.


book: Mic
contenido:
Shave the hair from your head as you mourn for the children who were your delight; make yourselves as bald as vultures, for they have gone from you into exile.


book: Mic
contenido:
Woe to those who think up evil and plan wickedness as they lie in bed. When morning comes, they do it, since they have it in their power.


book: Mic
contenido:
They covet fields and seize them; they take over houses as well, doing violence to both owner and house, to people and their inherited land.


book: Mic
contenido:
Therefore this is what Adonai says: “Against this family I am planning an evil from which you will not withdraw your necks; nor will you walk with your heads held high, for it will be an evil time.”


book: Mic
contenido:
On that day they will take up a dirge for you; sadly lamenting, they will wail, “We are completely ruined! Our people’s land has changed hands. Our fields are taken away from us; instead of restoring them, he parcels them out.”


book: Mic
contenido:
Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of Adonai to stretch out a measuring line and restore the land assigned by lot.


book: Mic
contenido:
“Don’t preach!” — thus they preach! “They shouldn’t preach about these things. Shame will not overtake us” —


book: Mic
contenido:
is this what the house of Ya‘akov says? Adonai has not grown impatient, and these things are not his doings. “Rather, my words do only good to anyone living uprightly.


book: Mic
contenido:
But lately my people behave like an enemy, stripping both cloaks and tunics from travelers who thought they were secure, so that they become like war refugees.


book: Mic
contenido:
You throw my people’s women out of the homes they love. You deprive their children of my glory forever.


book: Mic
contenido:
Get up and go! You can’t stay here! Because [the land] is now unclean, it will destroy you with a grievous destruction.”


book: Mic
contenido:
If a man who walks in wind and falsehood tells this lie: “I will preach to you of [how good it is to drink] wine and strong liquor” — this people will accept him as their preacher!


book: Mic
contenido:
“I will assemble all of you, Ya‘akov; I will gather the remnant of Isra’el, I will put them together like sheep in a pen, like a herd in its pasture — it will hum with the sounds of people.”


book: Mic
contenido:
The one breaking through went up before them; they broke through, passed the gate and went out. Their king passed on before them; Adonai was leading them.


book: Mic
contenido:
“I said, ‘Please listen, leaders of Ya‘akov, rulers of the house of Isra’el: Shouldn’t you know what justice is?


book: Mic
contenido:
Yet you hate what is good and love what is bad. You strip off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,


book: Mic
contenido:
you eat the flesh of my people, skin them alive, break their bones; yes, they chop them in pieces, like flesh in a caldron, like meat in a pot.’”


book: Mic
contenido:
Then they will call to Adonai, but he will not answer them; when that time comes, he will hide his face from them, because their deeds were so wicked.


book: Mic
contenido:
Here is what Adonai says in regard to the prophets who cause my people to go astray, who cry, “Peace” as soon as they are given food to eat but prepare war against anyone who fails to put something in their mouths:


book: Mic
contenido:
“Therefore you will have night, not vision, darkness and not divination; the sun will go down on the prophets, over them the day will be black.”


book: Mic
contenido:
The seers will be put to shame, the diviners will be disgraced. They will have to cover their mouths, because there will be no answer from God.


book: Mic
contenido:
On the other hand, I am full of power by the Spirit of Adonai, full of justice and full of might, to declare to Ya‘akov his crime, to Isra’el his sin.


book: Mic
contenido:
Hear this, please, leaders of the house of Ya‘akov, rulers of the house of Isra’el, you who abhor what is just and pervert anything that is right,


book: Mic
contenido:
Her leaders sell verdicts for bribes, her cohanim teach for a price, her prophets divine for money — yet they claim to rely on Adonai! “Isn’t Adonai here with us?” they say. “No evil can come upon us.”


book: Mic
contenido:
Therefore, because of you, Tziyon will be plowed under like a field, Yerushalayim will become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like a forested height.


book: Mic
contenido:
But in the acharit-hayamim it will come about that the mountain of Adonai’s house will be established as the most important mountain. It will be regarded more highly than the other hills, and peoples will stream there.


book: Mic
contenido:
Many Gentiles will go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Adonai, to the house of the God of Ya‘akov! He will teach us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Tziyon will go forth Torah, the word of Adonai from Yerushalayim.


book: Mic
contenido:
He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for many nations far away. Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades and their spears into pruning-knives; nations will not raise swords at each other, and they will no longer learn war.


book: Mic
contenido:
Instead, each person will sit under his vine and fig tree, with no one to upset him, for the mouth of Adonai-Tzva’ot has spoken.


book: Mic
contenido:
For all the peoples will walk, each in the name of its god; but we will walk in the name of Adonai our God forever and ever.


book: Mic
contenido:
“When that day comes,” says Adonai, “I will assemble the lame and gather those who were dispersed, along with those I afflicted.


book: Mic
contenido:
I will make the lame a remnant and those who were driven off a strong nation.” Adonai will rule them on Mount Tziyon from that time forth and forever.


book: Mic
contenido:
You, tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Tziyon, to you your former sovereignty will return, the royal power of the daughter of Yerushalayim.


book: Mic
contenido:
Why are you now crying out? Don’t you have a king? Has your counselor been destroyed, that you are seized with pain like a woman in labor?


book: Mic
contenido:
Be in pain! Work to give birth like a woman in labor, daughter of Tziyon! For now you will go out of the city and live in the wilds till you reach Bavel. There you will be rescued; there Adonai will redeem you from the power of your enemies.


book: Mic
contenido:
Now many nations have gathered against you; they say, “Let her be defiled, let’s gloat over Tziyon.”


book: Mic
contenido:
But they don’t know the thoughts of Adonai, they don’t understand his plan; for he has gathered them like sheaves on the threshing-floor.


book: Mic
contenido:
Get up! Start threshing, daughter of Tziyon! “For I will make your horns like iron and your hoofs like bronze.” You will crush many peoples and devote their plunder to Adonai, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.


book: Mic
contenido:
Now gather yourself in troops, you who are accustomed to being in troops; they have laid siege to us. They are striking the judge of Isra’el on the cheek with a stick.


book: Mic
contenido:
But you, Beit-Lechem near Efrat, so small among the clans of Y’hudah, out of you will come forth to me the future ruler of Isra’el, whose origins are far in the past, back in ancient times.


book: Mic
contenido:
Therefore he will give up [Isra’el] only until she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his kinsmen will return to the people of Isra’el.


book: Mic
contenido:
He will stand and feed his flock in the strength of Adonai, in the majesty of the name of Adonai his God; and they will stay put, as he grows great to the very ends of the earth;


book: Mic
contenido:
and this will be peace. If Ashur invades our land, if he overruns our fortresses, we will raise seven shepherds against him, eight leaders of men.


book: Mic
contenido:
They will shepherd the land of Ashur with the sword, the land of Nimrod at its gates; and he will rescue us from Ashur when he invades our land, when he overruns our borders.


book: Mic
contenido:
Then the remnant of Ya‘akov, surrounded by many peoples, will be like dew from Adonai, like showers on the grass, which doesn’t wait for a man or expect anything from mortals.


book: Mic
contenido:
The remnant of Ya‘akov among the nations, surrounded by many peoples, will be like a lion among forest animals, like a young lion among flocks of sheep — if it passes through, tramples and tears to pieces, there is no one to rescue them.


book: Mic
contenido:
“When that day comes,” says Adonai, “I will cut off your horses from among you and destroy your chariots.


book: Mic
contenido:
I will cut off your carved images and standing-stones from among you; no longer will you worship what your own hands have made.


book: Mic
contenido:
So listen now to what Adonai says: “Stand up and state your case to the mountains, let the hills hear what you have to say.”


book: Mic
contenido:
Listen, mountains, to Adonai’s case; also you enduring rocks that support the earth! Adonai has a case against his people; he wants to argue it out with Isra’el:


book: Mic
contenido:
I brought you up from the land of Egypt. I redeemed you from a life of slavery. I sent Moshe, Aharon and Miryam to lead you.


book: Mic
contenido:
My people, just remember what Balak the king of Mo’av had planned, what Bil‘am the son of B‘or answered him, [and what happened] between Sheetim and Gilgal — so that you will understand the saving deeds of Adonai.”


book: Mic
contenido:
“With what can I come before Adonai to bow down before God on high? Should I come before him with burnt offerings? with calves in their first year?


book: Mic
contenido:
Would Adonai take delight in thousands of rams with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Could I give my firstborn to pay for my crimes, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”


book: Mic
contenido:
Human being, you have already been told what is good, what Adonai demands of you — no more than to act justly, love grace and walk in purity with your God.


book: Mic
contenido:
The voice of Adonai! He calls to the city — and it is wisdom to fear your name — “Listen to the rod and to him who commissioned it.


book: Mic
contenido:
Are there still ill-gotten gains in the house of the wicked? still the detestable short eifah-measure?


book: Mic
contenido:
The rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants tell lies, with tongues of deceit in their mouths.


book: Mic
contenido:
You will eat but not be satisfied, with hunger gnawing inside you. You will conceive but not give birth; if you do give birth, I will give him to the sword.


book: Mic
contenido:
You will sow but will not reap, you will press olives but not rub yourself with oil, likewise you will press grapes but not drink the wine.


book: Mic
contenido:
For you keep the regulations of ‘Omri and all the practices of the house of Ach’av, modeling yourselves on their advice. Therefore I will make you an object of horror, the inhabitants of this city a cause for contempt; you will suffer the insults aimed at my people.”


book: Mic
contenido:
Woe to me! for I have become like the leavings of summer fruit, like the gleanings when the vintage is finished — there isn’t a cluster worth eating, no early-ripened fig that appeals to me.


book: Mic
contenido:
The godly have been destroyed from the land, there is no one upright among humankind. They all lie in wait for blood, each hunts his brother with a net.


book: Mic
contenido:
Their hands do evil well. The prince makes his request, the judge grants it for a price, and the great man expresses his evil desires — thus they weave it together.


book: Mic
contenido:
The best of them is a briar, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The time of your watchmen — of your punishment — has come; now they will be confused.


book: Mic
contenido:
Don’t trust in your neighbor; don’t put confidence in a close friend; shut the gates of your mouth even from [your wife], lying there with you in bed.


book: Mic
contenido:
For a son insults his father, a daughter rises against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law — a person’s enemies are the members of his own household.


book: Mic
contenido:
Enemies of mine, don’t gloat over me! Although I have fallen, I will rise; though I live in the dark, Adonai is my light.


book: Mic
contenido:
I will endure Adonai’s rage, because I sinned against him; until he pleads my cause and judges in my favor. Then he will bring me out to the light, and I will see his justice.


book: Mic
contenido:
My enemies will see it too, and shame will cover those who said to me, “Where is Adonai your God?” I will gloat over them, as they are trampled underfoot like mud in the streets.


book: Mic
contenido:
a day when [your] people will come [back] to you from Ashur and from the cities of Egypt, from Egypt and from as far as the Euphrates River, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.


book: Mic
contenido:
Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you, who live alone, like a forest in the middle of a fertile pasture. Let them feed in Bashan and Gil‘ad, as they did in days of old.


book: Mic
contenido:
The nations will see and be put to shame, in spite of all their power. They will cover their mouths with their hands, and their ears will be deafened.


book: Mic
contenido:
They will lick the dust like snakes; they will emerge from their fortresses trembling like reptiles that crawl about on the earth; they will come with fear to Adonai our God, afraid because of you.


book: Mic
contenido:
Who is a God like you, pardoning the sin and overlooking the crimes of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in grace.


book: Mic
contenido:
He will again have compassion on us, he will subdue our iniquities. You will throw all their sins into the depths of the sea.


book: Mic
contenido:
You will show truth to Ya‘akov and grace to Avraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors since days of long ago.


book: Nah
contenido:
Adonai is a jealous and vengeful God. Adonai avenges; he knows how to be angry. Adonai takes vengeance on his foes and stores up wrath for his enemies.


book: Nah
contenido:
Adonai is slow to anger, but great in power; and he does not leave the guilty unpunished. Adonai’s path is in the whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.


book: Nah
contenido:
He rebukes the sea and leaves it dry, he dries up all the rivers. Bashan and the Karmel languish; the flower of the L’vanon withers.


book: Nah
contenido:
The mountains quake before him, and the hills dissolve; the earth collapses in his presence, the world and everyone living in it.


book: Nah
contenido:
Who can withstand his fury? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, the rocks broken to pieces before him.


book: Nah
contenido:
But with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of [Ninveh’s] place, and darkness will pursue his enemies.


book: Nah
contenido:
What are you planning against Adonai? He is making an end [of it]; trouble will not arise a second time.


book: Nah
contenido:
For like men drunk with liquor, they will be burned up like tangled thorns, like straw completely dry.


book: Nah
contenido:
Here is what Adonai says: “Though they be many and strong, they will be cut down, they will pass; and though I have made you suffer, I will make you suffer no more.


book: Nah
contenido:
Adonai gave this order concerning you: you will have no descendants to bear your name; from the house of your god I will cut off carved image and cast metal image; I will prepare your grave, because you are worthless.”


book: Nah
contenido:
Look! On the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, proclaiming shalom. Keep your festivals, Y’hudah, fulfill your vows; for B’liya‘al will never pass through you again; he has been completely destroyed.


book: Nah
contenido:
A destroyer has risen in front of your face; guard the ramparts, keep watch on the road, brace yourselves, marshall all your strength.


book: Nah
contenido:
For Adonai is restoring the pride of Ya‘akov, along with the pride of Isra’el; because plunderers have plundered them and ravaged their vines.


book: Nah
contenido:
The shields of [Ninveh’s] warriors are [dyed] red; the soldiers are wearing scarlet. The steel of the chariots flashes like fire as they prepare for battle. The cypress [spears] are poisoned.


book: Nah
contenido:
The chariots rush madly about in the streets, jostling each other in the open places; their appearance is like torches, they run here and there like lightning.


book: Nah
contenido:
[The king of Ninveh] assigns his officers; they stumble as they march; they hurry to its wall and set up shields to protect the battering ram.


book: Nah
contenido:
Its mistress is stripped and carried away; her handmaids moan, they sound like doves, as they beat their breasts.


book: Nah
contenido:
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the treasure, weighed down with precious things.


book: Nah
contenido:
She is void, vacant; she is made bare. Hearts are melting, knees are knocking; every stomach is churning, every face is drained of color.


book: Nah
contenido:
What has become of the lion’s den, the cave where the young lions fed, where lion and lioness walked with their cubs, and no one made them afraid?


book: Nah
contenido:
The lion would tear up food for his cubs and strangle prey for his lionesses; he used to fill his caves with prey, his lairs with torn flesh.


book: Nah
contenido:
“I am against you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “Her chariots I will send up in smoke, the sword will consume your lion cubs, I will destroy your prey from the earth, and your envoys’ voices will be heard no more.”


book: Nah
contenido:
cavalry charging, swords flashing, spears glittering — and hosts of slain, heaps of bodies; there is no end to the corpses; they stumble over their corpses.


book: Nah
contenido:
“Because of the continual whoring of this whore, this alluring mistress of sorcery, who sells nations with her whoring and families with her sorcery;


book: Nah
contenido:
I am against you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “I will uncover your skirts on your face; I will show the nations your private parts and the kingdoms your shame.


book: Nah
contenido:
Then all who see you will recoil from you; they will say, ‘Ninveh is destroyed!’ Who will mourn for her? Where can I find people to comfort you?”


book: Nah
contenido:
Are you any better than No-Amon, located among the streams of the Nile, with water all around her, the flood her wall of defense?


book: Nah
contenido:
Still she went captive into exile, her infants torn to pieces at every streetcorner. Lots were drawn for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.


book: Nah
contenido:
You too, [Ninveh,] will be drunk; your senses completely overcome. You too will seek a refuge from the enemy.


book: Nah
contenido:
All your fortifications will be like fig trees with early ripening figs; the moment they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.


book: Nah
contenido:
Look at your troops! They behave like women! Your country’s gates are wide open to your foes; fire has consumed their bars.


book: Nah
contenido:
Draw water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go down in the clay, tread the mortar, Take hold of the mold for bricks!


book: Nah
contenido:
There the fire will burn you up; and the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like grasshoppers. Make yourselves as many as grasshoppers, Make yourselves as many as locusts!


book: Nah
contenido:
Your guards are like grasshoppers, your marshals like swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun rises they fly away; they vanish to no one knows where.


book: Nah
contenido:
Your shepherds are slumbering, king of Ashur. Your leaders are asleep. Your people are scattered all over the mountains, with no one to round them up.


book: Nah
contenido:
Your wound cannot be healed. Your injury is fatal. Everyone hearing the news about you claps his hands in joy over you. For who has not been overwhelmed by your relentless cruelty?


book: Hab
contenido:
Why do you make me see wrongdoing, why do you permit oppression? Pillage and cruelty confront me, so that strife and discord prevail.


book: Hab
contenido:
Therefore Torah is not followed; justice never gets rendered, because the wicked fence in the righteous. This is why justice comes out perverted.


book: Hab
contenido:
“Look around among the nations! What you see will completely astound you! For what is going to be done in your days you will not believe, even when you are told.


book: Hab
contenido:
I am raising up the Kasdim, that bitter and impetuous nation, who march far and wide over the earth to seize homes that are not their own.


book: Hab
contenido:
Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at night. Their cavalry gallop in from afar, flying like vultures rushing to feed.


book: Hab
contenido:
They scoff at kings; princes they deride. They laugh at any fortress; they pile up earth and take it.


book: Hab
contenido:
Then they sweep on like the wind, but they become guilty, because they make their strength their god.”


book: Hab
contenido:
Adonai, haven’t you existed forever? My God, my holy one, we will not die. Adonai, you appointed them to execute judgment. Rock, you commissioned them to correct us.


book: Hab
contenido:
Your eyes are too pure to see evil, you cannot countenance oppression. So why do you countenance traitors? Why are you silent when evil people swallow up those more righteous than they?


book: Hab
contenido:
The evil haul them all up with their hooks, catch them in their fish net, or gather them in their dragnet. Then they rejoice and make merry,


book: Hab
contenido:
offering sacrifices to their fishnet and burning incense to their dragnet; because through them they live in luxury, with plenty of food to eat.


book: Hab
contenido:
Should they, therefore, keep emptying their nets? Should they keep slaughtering the nations without pity?


book: Hab
contenido:
I will stand at my watchpost; I will station myself on the rampart. I will look to see what [God] will say through me and what I will answer when I am reproved.


book: Hab
contenido:
Then Adonai answered me; he said, “Write down the vision clearly on tablets, so that even a runner can read it.


book: Hab
contenido:
For the vision is meant for its appointed time; it speaks of the end, and it does not lie. It may take a while, but wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.


book: Hab
contenido:
“Look at the proud: he is inwardly not upright; but the righteous will attain life through trusting faithfulness.


book: Hab
contenido:
Truly, wine is treacherous; the arrogant will not live at peace but keeps expanding his desires like Sh’ol; like death, he can never be satisfied; he keeps collecting all the nations for himself, rallying to himself all the peoples.


book: Hab
contenido:
Won’t all these take up taunting him and say about him, in mocking riddles, ‘Woe to him who amasses other people’s wealth! — how long must it go on? — and to him who adds to himself the weight of goods taken in pledge!


book: Hab
contenido:
Won’t your own creditors suddenly stand, won’t those who make you tremble wake up? You will become their spoil.


book: Hab
contenido:
Because you plundered many nations, all the rest of the peoples will plunder you; because of the bloodshed and violence done to the land, the city and all who live there.


book: Hab
contenido:
“‘Woe to him who seeks unjust gain for his household, putting his nest on the heights, in order to be safe from the reach of harm.


book: Hab
contenido:
so that people toil for what will be burned up, and nations exhaust themselves to no purpose. Isn’t all this from Adonai-Tzva’ot?


book: Hab
contenido:
“‘Woe to him who has his neighbor drink, adds his own poison and makes him drunk, in order to see him naked.


book: Hab
contenido:
You are filled with shame, not glory. You, drink too, and stagger! The cup of Adonai’s right hand will be turned against you; your shame will exceed your glory.


book: Hab
contenido:
For the violence done to the L’vanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the wild animals will terrify you; because of the bloodshed and violence done to the land, the city and all who live there.’”


book: Hab
contenido:
What good is an idol, once its maker has shaped it, a cast metal image and a teacher of lies, that its maker puts his trust in it, and goes on making non-gods, unable to talk?


book: Hab
contenido:
Woe to him who tells a piece of wood, “Wake up!” or a speechless stone, “Rouse yourself!” Can this thing teach? Why, it’s covered with gold and silver, without the slightest breath in it!


book: Hab
contenido:
Adonai, I have heard the report about you. Adonai, I am awed by your deeds. Bring your work to life in our own age, make it known in our own time; but in anger, remember compassion.


book: Hab
contenido:
God comes from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Pa’ran. (Selah) His splendor covers the sky, and his praise fills the earth.


book: Hab
contenido:
His brightness is like the sun, rays come forth from his hand — that is where his power is concealed.


book: Hab
contenido:
When he stands up, the earth shakes; when he looks, the nations tremble, the eternal mountains are smashed to pieces, the ancient hills sink down; the ancient paths are his.


book: Hab
contenido:
Adonai, is it against the rivers, against the rivers that your anger is inflamed? Is your fury directed at the sea? Is that why you ride on your horses, and drive your chariots to victory?


book: Hab
contenido:
You brandish your naked bow and order it filled with arrows. (Selah) You split the earth with rivers.


book: Hab
contenido:
The mountains see you and tremble; a torrent of water streams by; the deep thunders forth, as it raises enormous waves.


book: Hab
contenido:
The sun and moon stand still in the sky at the light of your arrows speeding by, at the gleam of your glittering spear.


book: Hab
contenido:
You come out to save your people, to save your anointed one; you crush the head of the house of the wicked, uncovering its foundation all the way to the neck.


book: Hab
contenido:
With their own rods you pierce the head of their warriors, who come like a whirlwind to scatter us, who rejoice at the prospect of devouring the poor in secret.


book: Hab
contenido:
When I heard, my whole body trembled, my lips shook at the sound; weakness overcame my limbs, my legs gave way beneath me. But I wait calmly for the day of trouble, when it comes upon our assailants.


book: Hab
contenido:
For even if the fig tree doesn’t blossom, and no fruit is on the vines, even if the olive tree fails to produce, and the fields yield no food at all, even if the sheep vanish from the sheep pen, and there are no cows in the stalls;


book: Hab
contenido:
Elohim Adonai is my strength! He makes me swift and sure-footed as a deer and enables me to stride over my high places. For the leader. With my stringed instruments.


book: Zeph
contenido:
This is the word of Adonai that came to Tz’fanyah the son of Kushi, the son of G’dalyah, the son of Amaryah, the son of Hizkiyah, during the reign of Yoshiyahu the son of Amon, king of Y’hudah:


book: Zeph
contenido:
“I will sweep away humans and animals, the birds in the air and the fish in the sea, also the wicked and what makes them stumble; I will wipe humanity off the land,” says Adonai.


book: Zeph
contenido:
“I will stretch out my hand over Y’hudah and all those living in Yerushalayim. I will wipe every remnant of Ba‘al from this place, the idol-serving priests and even their names,


book: Zeph
contenido:
those worshipping heaven’s army on the roofs, also those who worship and swear by Adonai but swear by Malkam as well,


book: Zeph
contenido:
those who turned away from following Adonai, and those who haven’t sought Adonai or consulted him at all.”


book: Zeph
contenido:
Keep silent before Adonai Elohim, for the Day of Adonai is near. Adonai has prepared a sacrifice; he has set apart those he invited.


book: Zeph
contenido:
When the time comes for Adonai’s sacrifice — “I will punish the leaders and the sons of the king, also those who dress in foreign clothes.


book: Zeph
contenido:
On the same day I will also punish all who jump over the threshold to fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Also on that day,” says Adonai, “a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city’s Second Quarter and a loud crash from the hills.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Wail, you who live down in the hollow, because all the merchants are destroyed, all who trade with silver are ruined.


book: Zeph
contenido:
When that time comes, I will search Yerushalayim with lamps and punish those who are [smug and thick, like wine] left too long on its dregs, who say to themselves, ‘Adonai will do nothing — neither good nor bad.’


book: Zeph
contenido:
For this, their wealth will be plundered; and their houses will be destroyed. Yes, they will build houses but not live in them; they will plant vineyards but not drink the wine.”


book: Zeph
contenido:
The great Day of Adonai is near, near and coming very quickly; Hear the sound of the Day of Adonai! When it’s here, even a warrior will cry bitterly.


book: Zeph
contenido:
That Day is a Day of fury, a Day of trouble and distress, a Day of waste and desolation, a Day of darkness and gloom, a Day of clouds and thick fog,


book: Zeph
contenido:
a Day of the shofar and battle-cry against the fortified cities and against the high towers [on the city walls].


book: Zeph
contenido:
“I will bring such distress on people that they will grope their way like the blind, because they have sinned against Adonai. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their bowels like dung.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them. On the day of Adonai’s fury, the whole land will be destroyed in the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, a horrible end, of all those living in the land.”


book: Zeph
contenido:
before the decree takes effect, and the day comes when one passes like chaff; before Adonai’s fierce anger comes on you, before the day of Adonai’s anger comes on you.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Seek Adonai, all you humble in the land, you who exercise his justice; seek righteousness, seek humility — you might be hidden on the day of Adonai’s anger.


book: Zeph
contenido:
For ‘Azah will be abandoned, Ashkelon will be desolate, they will evacuate Ashdod at noon, and ‘Ekron will be uprooted.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the K’reti! The word of Adonai is against you, Kena‘an, land of the P’lishtim: “I will destroy you; no one will be left.”


book: Zeph
contenido:
and the coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Y’hudah. They will pasture their flocks there and in the evening lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. For Adonai their God will remember them and restore their fortunes.


book: Zeph
contenido:
“I have heard the insults of Mo’av and the taunts of the people of ‘Amon, how they reviled my people and boasted of expanding their territory.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Therefore, as I live,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, “Mo’av will become like S’dom and the people of ‘Amon like ‘Amora, a land covered with nettles and salt pits, desolate forever. The remnant of my people will plunder them, the survivors in my nation will inherit them.”


book: Zeph
contenido:
This is what they will earn for their pride, for having reviled and boasted against the people of Adonai-Tzva’ot.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Adonai will be fearsome against them, for he will make all the earth’s gods waste away. Then all the coasts and islands of the nations will worship him, each from its place.


book: Zeph
contenido:
He will stretch out his hand against the north; he will destroy Ashur; he will make Ninveh desolate, as dry as the desert.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Herds will lie down in it, and all kinds of wild animals too — jackdaws and owls will roost on her columns, voices screeching in the windows, desolation on the doorsteps, for its cedarwork is stripped bare.


book: Zeph
contenido:
This is the city, once so joyful, whose people felt themselves secure, who used to say to herself, “I am [the greatest]! I have no rival.” What a ruin she has become — a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone passing by her hisses and shakes his fist!


book: Zeph
contenido:
She wouldn’t listen to the voice, wouldn’t receive correction; she didn’t trust in Adonai, didn’t draw close to her God.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Her leaders there with her are roaring lions, her judges desert wolves, who don’t leave even a bone for tomorrow.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Adonai, who is righteous, is there among them; he never does anything wrong. Every morning he renders his judgment, every morning, without fail; yet the wrongdoer knows no shame.


book: Zeph
contenido:
“I have cut off nations, their battlements are ruined; I have made their streets ruins, no one walks in them. Their cities are destroyed, abandoned, unpeopled.


book: Zeph
contenido:
I said, ‘Surely now you will fear me, you will receive correction’; so that her place will not be cut off by all the punishments I brought on her. But no, they only grew all the more eager to be corrupt in all that they do.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Therefore, wait for me,” says Adonai, “for the day when I rise to witness against you, when I decide to assemble nations, to gather kingdoms together, to pour on them my indignation, all my furious anger; for all the earth will be consumed in the fire of my passion.


book: Zeph
contenido:
For then I will change the peoples, so that they will have pure lips, to call on the name of Adonai, all of them, and serve him with one accord.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Even from beyond Ethiopia’s rivers they will bring those who petition me, the daughter of my dispersed as my offering.


book: Zeph
contenido:
When that day comes, you will not be ashamed of everything you have done, committing wrongs against me; for then I will remove from among you those of you who take joy in arrogance; you will no longer be full of pride on my holy mountain.


book: Zeph
contenido:
I will leave among you a poor and afflicted people, who will find their refuge in the name of Adonai.”


book: Zeph
contenido:
The remnant of Isra’el will not do wrong, nor will they speak lies, nor will there be found in their mouths a tongue given over to deceit; for they will be able to graze and lie down, with no one to disturb them.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Sing, daughter of Tziyon! Shout, Isra’el! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Yerushalayim!


book: Zeph
contenido:
Adonai has removed the judgments against you, he has expelled your enemy; the king of Isra’el, Adonai, is right there with you. You no longer need to fear that anything bad will happen.


book: Zeph
contenido:
On that day, it will be said to Yerushalayim, “Do not fear, Tziyon! don’t let your hands droop down.


book: Zeph
contenido:
Adonai your God is right there with you, as a mighty savior. He will rejoice over you and be glad, he will be silent in his love, he will shout over you with joy.”


book: Zeph
contenido:
“I will gather those of yours who grieve over the appointed feasts and bear the burden of reproach [because they cannot keep them].


book: Zeph
contenido:
When that time comes, I will deal with all those who oppress you. I will save her who is lame, gather her who was driven away, and make them whose shame spread over the earth the object of praise and renown.


book: Zeph
contenido:
When that time comes, I will bring you in; when that time comes, I will gather you and make you the object of fame and praise among all the peoples of the earth — when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes,” says Adonai.


book: Hag
contenido:
In the second year of Daryavesh the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the following word of Adonai came through Hagai the prophet to Z’rubavel the son of Sh’alti’el, governor of Y’hudah, and to Y’hoshua the son of Y’hotzadak, the cohen hagadol:


book: Hag
contenido:
“Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says: ‘This people is saying that now isn’t the time — the time hasn’t yet arrived for Adonai’s house to be rebuilt.’”


book: Hag
contenido:
“So is now the time for you to be living in your own paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?


book: Hag
contenido:
You sow much but bring in little; you eat but aren’t satisfied; you drink but never have enough; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who works for a living earns wages that are put in a bag full of holes.’”


book: Hag
contenido:
Go up into the hills, get wood, and rebuild the house. I will be pleased with that, and then I will be glorified,’ says Adonai.


book: Hag
contenido:
‘You looked for much, but it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?’ asks Adonai-Tzva’ot. ‘Because my house lies in ruins, while every one of you runs to take care of his own house.


book: Hag
contenido:
This is why the sky above you has withheld the dew, so that there is none, and the land withholds its yield.


book: Hag
contenido:
In fact, I called for a drought on the land and on the hills, on the grain, the wine and the olive oil, on what the ground brings up, on men, animals and on all that hands produce.’”


book: Hag
contenido:
Then Z’rubavel the son of Sh’alti’el and Y’hoshua the son of Y’hotzadak, the cohen hagadol, with all the rest of the people, paid attention to what Adonai their God had said and to the words of Hagai the prophet; since Adonai their God had sent him; and the people were filled with fear in the presence of Adonai.


book: Hag
contenido:
Hagai the messenger of Adonai conveyed this message of Adonai to the people: “‘I am with you,’ says Adonai.”


book: Hag
contenido:
Adonai roused the spirit of Z’rubavel the son of Sh’alti’el, governor of Y’hudah, and the spirit of Y’hoshua the son of Y’hotzadak, the cohen hagadol, and the spirits of all the rest of the people; so that they came and began to work on the house of Adonai-Tzva’ot their God.


book: Hag
contenido:
“Speak now to Z’rubavel the son of Sh’alti’el, governor of Y’hudah, and to Y’hoshua the son of Y’hotzadak, the cohen hagadol, and to the rest of the people; say this to them:


book: Hag
contenido:
‘“Who among you is left that saw this house in its former glory? And how does it look to you now? It seems like nothing to you, doesn’t it?


book: Hag
contenido:
Nevertheless, Z’rubavel, take courage now,” says Adonai; “and take courage, Y’hoshua the son of Y’hotzadak, the cohen hagadol; and take courage, all you people of the land,” says Adonai; “and get to work! For I am with you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


book: Hag
contenido:
“This is in keeping with the word that I promised in a covenant with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit remains with you, so don’t be afraid!”


book: Hag
contenido:
For this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says: “It won’t be long before one more time I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land;


book: Hag
contenido:
and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasures of all the nations will flow in; and I will fill this house with glory,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


book: Hag
contenido:
“The glory of this new house will surpass that of the old,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “and in this place I will grant shalom,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.’”


book: Hag
contenido:
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month in the second year of Daryavesh, this word of Adonai came through Hagai the prophet:


book: Hag
contenido:
if someone carries meat that has been set aside as holy in a fold of his cloak; and then he lets his cloak touch bread, stew, wine, olive oil or any other food; does that food become holy too?’” The cohanim answered, “No.”


book: Hag
contenido:
Then Hagai asked, “If someone who is unclean from having had contact with a corpse touches any of these [food items], will they become unclean?” The cohanim answered, “They become unclean.”


book: Hag
contenido:
Hagai then said, “‘That is the condition of this people, that is the condition of this nation before me,’ says Adonai, ‘and that is the condition of everything their hands produce; so that anything they offer there is unclean.


book: Hag
contenido:
Now, please, from this day on, keep this in mind: before you began laying stones on each other to rebuild the temple of Adonai,


book: Hag
contenido:
throughout that whole time, when someone approached a twenty-measure pile [of grain], he found only ten; and when he came to the winepress to draw out fifty measures, there were only twenty.


book: Hag
contenido:
I struck you with blasting winds, mildew and hail on everything your hands produced; but you still wouldn’t return to me,’ says Adonai.


book: Hag
contenido:
‘So please keep this in mind, from this day on, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of Adonai’s temple was laid, consider this:


book: Hag
contenido:
there’s no longer any seed in the barn, is there? and the vine, fig tree, pomegranate tree and olive tree have produced nothing yet, right? However, from this day on, I will bless you.’”


book: Hag
contenido:
I will overturn the thrones of kingdoms, I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and I will overturn the chariots and the people riding in them; the horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.


book: Hag
contenido:
When that day comes,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot, ‘I will take you, Z’rubavel, my servant, the son of Sh’alti’el,’ says Adonai, ‘and wear you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot.”


book: Zech
contenido:
In the eighth month of the second year of Daryavesh, the following message from Adonai came to Z’kharyah the son of Berekhyah, the son of ‘Iddo, the prophet:


book: Zech
contenido:
Therefore, tell them that Adonai-Tzva’ot says this: ‘“Return to me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “and I will return to you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


book: Zech
contenido:
“Don’t be like your ancestors. The earlier prophets proclaimed to them, ‘Adonai-Tzva’ot says to turn back now from your evil ways and deeds’; but they didn’t listen or pay attention to me,” says Adonai.


book: Zech
contenido:
But my words and my laws, which I ordered my servants the prophets, overtook your ancestors, didn’t they? Then they turned and said, ‘Adonai has dealt with us according to our ways and deeds, just as he intended to do.’”’”


book: Zech
contenido:
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Sh’vat, in the second year of Daryavesh, this message from Adonai came to Z’kharyah the son of Berekhyah, the son of ‘Iddo, the prophet:


book: Zech
contenido:
It was night, and I saw there before me a man riding on a russet-colored horse. He stood among the myrtle bushes in the valley; and behind him were other horses, russet, chestnut-colored and white.


book: Zech
contenido:
I asked, “What are these, my Lord?” The angel speaking with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”


book: Zech
contenido:
The man standing among the myrtles said, “These are those whom Adonai has sent to wander throughout the earth.”


book: Zech
contenido:
Then they themselves answered the angel of Adonai standing among the myrtles, “We have been wandering throughout the earth, and the whole world is quiet and at peace.”


book: Zech
contenido:
The angel of Adonai said, “Adonai-Tzva’ot, how long will you keep withholding mercy from Yerushalayim and the cities of Y’hudah? You’ve been angry with them for the past seventy years!”


book: Zech
contenido:
The angel speaking with me then said to me, “Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says: ‘I am extremely jealous on behalf of Yerushalayim and Tziyon;


book: Zech
contenido:
and [to the same degree] I am extremely angry with the nations that are so self-satisfied; because I was only a little angry [at Yerushalayim and Tziyon], but they made the suffering worse.’


book: Zech
contenido:
Therefore Adonai says, ‘I will return to Yerushalayim with merciful deeds. My house will be rebuilt there,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot; ‘yes, a measuring line will be stretched out over Yerushalayim.’


book: Zech
contenido:
In addition, proclaim that Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity.’ Adonai will again comfort Tziyon, and he will again make Yerushalayim the city of his choice.”


book: Zech
contenido:
I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these?” He answered, “These are the horns that scattered Y’hudah, Isra’el and Yerushalayim.”


book: Zech
contenido:
I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “Those horns that scattered Y’hudah so completely that no one could even raise his head — well, these men have come to terrify them, to overthrow the nations that raised their horns against the land of Y’hudah to scatter it.”


book: Zech
contenido:
I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Yerushalayim, to determine its width and length.”


book: Zech
contenido:
and said to him, “Run and tell this young man, ‘Yerushalayim will be inhabited without walls, because there will be so many people and animals;


book: Zech
contenido:
“for,” says Adonai, “I will be for her a wall of fire surrounding her; and I will be the glory within her.


book: Zech
contenido:
Up!” says Adonai, “Move! Flee the land of the north! For I scattered you like the four winds of the sky,” says Adonai.


book: Zech
contenido:
For Adonai-Tzva’ot has sent me on a glorious mission to the nations that plundered you, and this is what he says: “Anyone who injures you injures the very pupil of my eye.


book: Zech
contenido:
But I will shake my hand over them, and they will be plundered by those who were formerly their slaves.” Then you will know that Adonai-Tzva’ot sent me.


book: Zech
contenido:
“Sing, daughter of Tziyon; rejoice! For, here, I am coming; and I will live among you,” says Adonai.


book: Zech
contenido:
When that time comes, many nations will join themselves to Adonai. “They will be my people, and I will live among you.” Then you will know that it was Adonai-Tzva’ot who sent me to you.


book: Zech
contenido:
Adonai will take possession of Y’hudah as his portion in the holy land, and he will again make Yerushalayim his choice.


book: Zech
contenido:
He showed me Y’hoshua the cohen hagadol standing before the angel of Adonai, with the Accuser  standing at his right to accuse him.


book: Zech
contenido:
Adonai said to the Accuser, “May Adonai rebuke you, Accuser! Indeed, may Adonai, who has made Yerushalayim his choice, rebuke you! Isn’t this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”


book: Zech
contenido:
who said to those standing in front of him, “Take those filthy garments off of him.” Then to him he said, “See, I am taking your guilt away. I will clothe you in fine robes.”


book: Zech
contenido:
I said, “They should put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and gave him fine robes to wear, while the angel of Adonai stood by.


book: Zech
contenido:
“Adonai-Tzva’ot says this: ‘If you will walk in my ways, obey my commission, judge my house and guard my courtyards; then I will give you free access among these who are standing here.


book: Zech
contenido:
Listen, cohen gadol Y’hoshua, both you and your colleagues seated here before you, because these men are a sign that I am going to bring my servant Tzemach [Sprout].


book: Zech
contenido:
For look at the stone I have put in front of Y’hoshua: on one stone are seven eyes; I will engrave what is to be written on it,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot; ‘and I will remove the guilt of this land in one day.


book: Zech
contenido:
When that time comes,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot, ‘you will all invite each other to join you under your vines and fig trees.’”


book: Zech
contenido:
Then the angel that had been speaking with me returned and roused me, as if he were waking someone up from being asleep,


book: Zech
contenido:
and asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I’ve been looking at a menorah; it’s all of gold, with a bowl at its top, seven lamps on it, and seven tubes leading to the lamps at its top.


book: Zech
contenido:
I then asked the angel speaking with me, “What are these, my Lord?” The angel speaking with me said,


book: Zech
contenido:
Then he answered me, “This is the word of Adonai to Z’rubavel: ‘Not by force, and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


book: Zech
contenido:
‘What are you, you big mountain? Before Z’rubavel you will become a plain; and he will put the capstone in place, as everyone shouts, “It’s beautiful! Beautiful!”’


book: Zech
contenido:
‘The hands of Z’rubavel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will also finish it.’ Then you will know that Adonai-Tzva’ot sent me to you.


book: Zech
contenido:
For even someone who doesn’t think much of a day when such minor events take place will rejoice at seeing the plumbline in the hand of Z’rubavel. So these seven are the eyes of Adonai that range about over all the earth.”


book: Zech
contenido:
I replied by asking him, “What are those two olive trees on the right and left sides of the menorah?”


book: Zech
contenido:
Then I asked the question again: “What are those two olive branches discharging gold[-colored oil] through the two gold spouts?”


book: Zech
contenido:
He said, “Those are the two who have been anointed with oil; they are standing with the Lord of all the land.”


book: Zech
contenido:
He said to me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.


book: Zech
contenido:
Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of all the land; for [according to what is written] on one side, everyone who steals will be swept away; and [according to what is written] on the other side, everyone who swears will be swept away.


book: Zech
contenido:
‘I will release it,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot, ‘and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name; it will stay there inside the house and consume it completely, even its timbers and stones.’”


book: Zech
contenido:
Then the angel speaking with me went forward and said to me, “Now raise your eyes, and see what this thing is, passing by.”


book: Zech
contenido:
I asked, “What is it?” He said, “This is the eifah-measure [a one-bushel dry-measure] passing by.” Then he added, “This is their eye in all the land.”


book: Zech
contenido:
He said, “This is Evil.” He threw her down into the eifah and pressed the lead weight over its opening.


book: Zech
contenido:
I raised my eyes and saw two women coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like those of a stork. They lifted the eifah up between the earth and the sky.


book: Zech
contenido:
He answered me, “To build it a shrine in the land of Shin‘ar. When it’s ready, [the eifah] will be set down there on its base.”


book: Zech
contenido:
Again I raised my eyes, and I saw in front of me four chariots coming out from between two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of bronze.


book: Zech
contenido:
The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky that go out, after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the land.


book: Zech
contenido:
The one with the black horses is going out toward the land in the north, the white [horses] have gone out after them, and the spotted have gone out toward the land in the south.”


book: Zech
contenido:
Then the gray ones went out and were seeking to go and wander throughout the whole earth, when he said, “Wander throughout the whole earth”; and they did wander throughout the whole earth.


book: Zech
contenido:
Then he called out to me and said, “Look! The ones going to the land in the north have given my Spirit rest in the north country.”


book: Zech
contenido:
“Take [gifts] from the exiles of Heldai, Toviyah, and Y’da‘yah, who have arrived from Bavel; then you, go to the house of Yoshiyah the son of Tz’fanyah.


book: Zech
contenido:
Take silver and gold; make crowns; put one on the head of Y’hoshua the son of Y’hotzadak, the cohen hagadol;


book: Zech
contenido:
and tell him, ‘Adonai-Tzva’ot says: “There is coming a man whose name is Tzemach [Sprout]. He will sprout up from his place and rebuild the temple of Adonai.


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Yes, he will rebuild the temple of Adonai; and he will take up royal splendor, sitting and ruling from his throne. There will be a cohen before his throne; and they will accept each other’s advice in complete harmony.


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The other crowns will be for Helem, Toviyah, Y’da‘yah and Hen the son of Tz’fanyah; then [they are to be kept] as a memorial in the temple of Adonai.


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Those who are now far away will come and help rebuild the temple of Adonai.” Then you will know that it is Adonai-Tzva’ot who sent me to you. And it will all come about, provided you heed carefully what Adonai your God says.’”


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In the fourth year of King Daryavesh, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Kislev, a message from Adonai came to Z’kharyah.


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as they inquired of the cohanim of the house of Adonai-Tzva’ot and the prophets, “Should we go into mourning and abstain from pleasure during the fifth month, as we have been doing for all these years?”


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“Speak to all the people of the land and to the cohanim. Tell them, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months throughout these seventy years, were you really fasting for me? Was it for me?


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Isn’t this just what Adonai proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Yerushalayim was inhabited and prosperous, as were the cities around her; and the Negev and the Sh’felah were inhabited?’”


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“In the past Adonai-Tzva’ot said, ‘Administer true justice. Let everyone show mercy and compassion to his brother.


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But they wouldn’t listen, they stubbornly turned their shoulder away and stopped up their ears, so that they wouldn’t have to hear it.


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Yes, they made their hearts as hard as a diamond, so that they wouldn’t hear the Torah and the messages that Adonai-Tzva’ot had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. This is why great anger came from Adonai-Tzva’ot;


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and it came about that just as they hadn’t listened when he called, so Adonai-Tzva’ot said, ‘I won’t listen when they call;


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but with the power of a whirlwind I will disperse them among all the nations which they have not known.’ Thus the land was left desolate after them, so that no one came or went. They had turned a pleasant land into a desert.”


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“Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘I am extremely jealous on Tziyon’s behalf, and I am jealous for her with great fury.’


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Adonai says, ‘I am returning to Tziyon, and I will live in Yerushalayim. Then Yerushalayim will be called Truth City, Adonai-Tzva’ot’s Mountain, the Mountain of the Holy One.


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Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘Old men and old women will once again sit in the open places of Yerushalayim, each one with his cane in his hand, because of their great age.


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Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘This may seem amazing to the survivors in those days, but must it also seem amazing to me?’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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I will bring them back, and they will live in Yerushalayim. They will be my people; and I will be their God, with faithfulness and justice.’


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“Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘Take courage, you who are hearing only now, in these days, these words spoken by the prophets when the foundation was being laid for rebuilding the temple, the house of Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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For prior to that time, there were wages neither for people nor for animals; moreover, it was unsafe for anyone to go out or come in, because of the enemy; for I set all people each against the other.


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‘Now they will sow in peace, the vine will give its fruit, the ground will produce its yield, the sky will give its dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.


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House of Y’hudah and house of Isra’el, just as you were formerly a curse among the nations, so now I will save you; and you will be a blessing. Don’t be afraid, but take courage!’


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“For Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘Just as I resolved to do you harm when your forefathers provoked me,’ Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘and I did not relent;


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These are the things you are to do: speak the truth to each other; in your courts, administer justice that is true and conducive to peace;


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don’t plot harm against each other; and don’t love perjury; for all these are things I hate,’ says Adonai.”


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“Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘The fast days of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months are to become times of joy, gladness and cheer for the house of Y’hudah. Therefore, love truth and peace.’


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the inhabitants of one city will travel to another and say, “We must go to ask Adonai’s favor and consult Adonai-Tzva’ot. I’ll go too.”


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Yes, many peoples and powerful nations will come to consult Adonai-Tzva’ot in Yerushalayim and to ask Adonai’s favor.’


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Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘When that time comes, ten men will take hold — speaking all the languages of the nations — will grab hold of the cloak of a Jew and say, “We want to go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.”’”


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A prophecy, the word of Adonai: In the land of Hadrakh and Dammesek is where [God] comes to rest, for the eyes of humankind are directed toward Adonai, as are those of all the tribes of Isra’el,


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Tzor built herself a fortified tower, heaping up silver as if it were dust and fine gold as if it were mud in the streets.


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But Adonai will dispossess her and break her power at sea, while the city itself will be destroyed by fire.


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On seeing this, Ashkelon will be terrified; ‘Azah too will writhe in pain; likewise ‘Ekron, as her hopes are dashed. “The king will vanish from ‘Azah, Ashkelon will be without people,


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I will end their eating meat with its blood still in it, snatching the disgusting things from between their teeth.” But the surviving remnant will belong to our God; it will be like a clan in Y’hudah; and ‘Ekron will be like a Y’vusi.


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“Then I will guard my house against armies, so that none will march through or return. No oppressor will ever again overrun them, for now I am watching with my own eyes.


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Rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Tziyon! Shout out loud, daughter of Yerushalayim! Look! Your king is coming to you. He is righteous, and he is victorious. Yet he is humble — he’s riding on a donkey, yes, on a lowly donkey’s colt.


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I will banish chariots from Efrayim and war-horses from Yerushalayim.” The warrior’s bow will be banished, and he will proclaim peace to the nations. He will rule from sea to sea, and from the [Euphrates] River to the ends of the earth.


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“Also you, by the blood of your covenant, I release your prisoners from [the dungeon,] the cistern that has no water in it.


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Return to the stronghold, you prisoners with hope! This day I declare to you that I will grant you double reparation.


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For I have bent Y’hudah as my bow and made Efrayim its arrow. I will rouse your sons, Tziyon, and make you like a warrior’s sword against your sons, Greece.”


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Adonai will appear over them, and his arrow will flash like lightning. Adonai Elohim will blow the shofar and go out in the whirlwinds of the south.


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Adonai-Tzva’ot will defend them; they will devour and trample the sling-stones. They will drink and roar as if they had drunk wine; they will be filled, like basins and like the corners of the altar.


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On that day Adonai their God will save them as the flock of his people; for they will be like gems in a crown, sparkling over his countryside.


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What wealth is theirs, what beauty! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women.


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Ask Adonai for rain in the spring, Adonai who makes the rain clouds; and he will give them showers of rain, grass in the field to each one.


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For the household gods talk nonsense, the diviners have seen a lie; their dreams convey delusions, and the comfort they offer is in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep in distress from lack of a shepherd.


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“My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will vent it on the leaders of the flock.” For Adonai-Tzva’ot will care for his flock, the people of Y’hudah; he will make them like his royal war-horse.


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From them come cornerstone and tent peg, from them the bow for battle, from them all the rulers together.


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They will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, because Adonai is with them; they will rout even those on horseback.


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“I will strengthen the house of Y’hudah and save the house of Yosef. I will bring them back in my compassion for them; they will be as if I hadn’t driven them out; for I am Adonai their God, and I will answer them.


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Efrayim’s men will be like warriors; their hearts will be cheered as if from wine. Their children will see it and rejoice, their hearts will be glad in Adonai.


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“I will whistle for them and gather them, because I have redeemed them; they will be as numerous as they were before;


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and I will sow them among the peoples. In distant lands they will remember me; they will rear their children and then return.


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I will bring them back from the land of Egypt and gather them out of Ashur. I will bring them into Gil‘ad and the L’vanon, until there is no more room for them.


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“Trouble will pass over the sea and stir up waves in the sea; all the depths of the Nile will be dried up, the pride of Ashur will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will leave.


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But I will strengthen [Isra’el] in Adonai; they will travel here and there in his name,” says Adonai.


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Wail, cypress, because the cedar has fallen, those splendid trees are ruined. Wail, oaks of Bashan, because the thick forest has been felled.


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Listen to the wail of the shepherds, because their glory is spoiled. Listen to the roaring of young lions, because the Yarden’s thickets are plundered.


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Their buyers kill them and go unpunished; while those who sell them say, ‘Barukh Adonai! Now I’m rich!’ Even their own shepherds show them no pity.


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I will no longer show pity to the inhabitants of the land,” says Adonai. “No, I will hand every one of them over to the power of a neighbor and to the power of his king; they will crush the land; and I won’t rescue them from their power.”


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So I shepherded the flock for slaughter, truly the most miserable of the sheep; and I took two staffs for myself. I called the one No‘am [pleasantness], the other I called Hovalim [bound together], and I shepherded the flock.


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“In a single month I got rid of three shepherds, because I grew impatient with them; and besides, they detested me.


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I said, ‘I’m not going to shepherd you. Whichever one is going to die, let it die; whichever is going to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and the rest can all devour each other.’”


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I took my staff No‘am and snapped it in two, “in order to break my covenant, which I made with all the peoples.”


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On that day when it was broken, the most miserable of the sheep who paid attention to me knew that this was indeed a message from Adonai.


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I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; if not, don’t.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty silver [shekels, that is, twelve ounces].


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Concerning that “princely sum” at which they valued me, Adonai said, “Throw it into the treasury!” So I took the thirty silver [shekels] and threw them into the treasury in the house of Adonai.


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Then I snapped in two my other staff Hovalim [bound together], in order to break up the brotherhood between Y’hudah and Isra’el.


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For I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who won’t bother about the ones who have been destroyed, won’t seek out the young, won’t heal the broken and won’t feed those standing still; on the contrary, he will eat the meat of the fat ones and break their hoofs in pieces.


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“Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the sheep! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye. May his arm be completely withered and his right eye totally blinded.”


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A prophecy, the word of Adonai concerning Isra’el — here is the message from Adonai, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundation of the earth and formed the spirit inside human beings:


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“I will make Yerushalayim a cup that will stagger the surrounding peoples. Even Y’hudah will be caught up in the siege against Yerushalayim.


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When that day comes, I will make Yerushalayim a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who try to lift it will hurt themselves, and all the earth’s nations will be massed against her.


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When that day comes,” says Adonai, “I will strike all the horses with panic and their riders with madness; I will keep watch over Y’hudah, but I will strike blind all the horses of the peoples.


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The leaders of Y’hudah will say to themselves, ‘Those living in Yerushalayim are my strength through Adonai-Tzva’ot their God.’


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When that day comes, I will make the leaders of Y’hudah like a blazing fire pan in a pile of wood, like a fiery torch among sheaves of grain; they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right and on the left. Yerushalayim will be inhabited in her own place, Yerushalayim.


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Adonai will save the tents of Y’hudah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of those living in Yerushalayim will not appear greater than that of Y’hudah.


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When that day comes, Adonai will defend those living in Yerushalayim. On that day, even someone who stumbles will be like David; and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Adonai before them.


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and I will pour out on the house of David and on those living in Yerushalayim a spirit of grace and prayer; and they will look to me, whom they pierced.” They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son; they will be in bitterness on his behalf like the bitterness for a firstborn son.


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When that day comes, there will be great mourning in Yerushalayim, mourning like that for Hadad-Rimmon in the Megiddo Valley.


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Then the land will mourn, each family by itself — the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Natan by itself, and their wives by themselves;


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the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shim‘i by itself, and their wives by themselves;


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When that day comes, a spring will be opened up for the house of David and the people living in Yerushalayim to cleanse them from sin and impurity.


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“When that day comes,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “I will cut off the very names of the idols from the land, so that no one even remembers them any more. I will also expel the [false] prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the land;


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so that if anyone continues to prophesy, his own father and mother who brought him into the world will tell him, ‘You cannot continue to live, because you are speaking lies in the name of Adonai’; then his own father and mother who brought him into the world will stab him to death.


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When that day comes, each one of the prophets will be shamed by his vision when he prophesies. He will stop wearing a hair cloak to deceive people;


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and instead, he will say, ‘I’m no prophet, I just work the soil; since my youth I’ve only wanted to be an ordinary man.’


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If someone asks him, ‘Then what are these gashes between your shoulders?’ he will answer, ‘I got hurt at my friends’ house.’


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“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the young ones.


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In time, throughout that land,” says Adonai, “two-thirds of those in it will be destroyed — they will die, but one-third will remain.


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That third part I will bring through the fire; I will refine them as silver is refined, I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is my people’ and they will say, ‘Adonai is my God.’”


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Look, a day is coming for Adonai when your plunder, [Yerushalayim], will be divided right there within you.


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“For I will gather all the nations against Yerushalayim for war. The city will be taken, the houses will be rifled, the women will be raped, and half the city will go into exile; but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.”


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On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies to the east of Yerushalayim; and the Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, to make a huge valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.


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You will flee to the valley in the mountains, for the valley in the mountains will reach to Atzel. You will flee, just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of ‘Uziyah king of Y’hudah. Then Adonai my God will come to you with all the holy ones.


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and one day, known to Adonai, will be neither day nor night, although by evening there will be light.


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On that day, fresh water will flow out from Yerushalayim, half toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea, both summer and winter.


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Then Adonai will be king over the whole world. On that day Adonai will be the only one, and his name will be the only name.


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All the land will be made like the ‘Aravah, from Geva to Rimmon in the Negev. Yerushalayim will be raised up and inhabited where she is, from Binyamin’s Gate to the place where the earlier gate stood, and on to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hanan’el to the king’s winepresses.


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Adonai will strike all the peoples who made war against Yerushalayim with a plague in which their flesh rots away while they are standing on their feet, their eyes rot away in their sockets, and their tongues rot away in their mouths.


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When that day comes, there will be among them great panic, sent by Adonai, so that everyone lays hands on his neighbor, who in turn attacks him.


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Y’hudah too will fight against Yerushalayim; and the wealth of all the nations will be assembled — gold, silver and clothing in great abundance.


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A plague like this plague will also affect the horses, mules, camels, donkeys and all the other animals in those camps.


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Finally, everyone remaining from all the nations that came to attack Yerushalayim will go up every year to worship the king, Adonai-Tzva’ot, and to keep the festival of Sukkot.


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If any of the families of the earth does not go up to Yerushalayim to worship the king, Adonai-Tzva’ot, no rain will fall on them.


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If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, if they refuse to come, they will have no [annual] overflow [from the Nile]; moreover, there will be the plague with which Adonai will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the festival of Sukkot.


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This will be Egypt’s punishment and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the festival of Sukkot.


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When that day comes, this will be written on the bells worn by the horses: “Consecrated to Adonai”; and the cooking pots in the house of Adonai will be [as holy] as the sprinkling bowls before the altar.


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Yes, every cooking pot in Yerushalayim and Y’hudah will be consecrated to Adonai-Tzva’ot. Everyone who offers sacrifices will come, take them and use them to stew the meat. When that day comes, there will no longer be merchants in the house of Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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“I love you,” says Adonai. But you ask, “How do you show us your love?” Adonai answers, “‘Esav was Ya‘akov’s brother. Yet I loved Ya‘akov


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Edom says, “We are beaten down now, but we will come back and rebuild the ruins.” Adonai-Tzva’ot answers, “They can build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, the people with whom Adonai is permanently angry.


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“A son honors his father and a servant his master. But if I’m a father, where is the honor due me? and if I’m a master, where is the respect due me? — says Adonai-Tzva’ot to you cohanim who despise my name. You ask, ‘How are we despising your name?’


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By offering polluted food on my altar! Now you ask, ‘How are we polluting you?’ By saying that the table of Adonai doesn’t deserve respect;


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so that there’s nothing wrong with offering a blind animal as a sacrifice, nothing wrong with offering an animal that’s lame or sick. Try offering such an animal to your governor, and see if he will be pleased with you! Would he even receive you?” asks Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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So if you pray now that God will show us favor, what your actions have accomplished is that Adonai-Tzva’ot asks, “Will he receive any of you?


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Why doesn’t even one of you shut the doors and thus stop this useless lighting of fires on my altar? I take no pleasure in you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “and I will not receive an offering from you.


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For from farthest east to farthest west my name is great among the nations. Offerings are presented to my name everywhere, pure gifts; for my name is great among the nations,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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“But you profane it by saying that the table of Adonai is polluted, so that the fruit and food offered deserve contempt.


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You also say, ‘It’s all so tiresome!’ and sniff scornfully at it,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “Then you bring animals that were taken by violence, or they are lame or sick. This is the sort of offering you bring. Am I supposed to accept this from you?” asks Adonai.


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“Moreover, cursed is the deceiver who has a male animal in his flock that is damaged, but vows and sacrifices to Adonai anyway. For I am a great king,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “and my name is respected among the nations.


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If you won’t listen, if you won’t pay attention to honoring my name,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “then I will send the curse on you; I will turn your blessings into curses. Yes, I will curse them, because you pay no attention.


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I will reject your seed; I will throw dung in your faces, the dung from your festival offerings; and you will be carted off with it.


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Then you will know that I sent you this command to affirm my covenant with Levi,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave him these things. It was also one of fear, and he feared me; he was in awe of my name.


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The true Torah was in his mouth, and no dishonesty was found on his lips; he walked with me in peace and uprightness and turned many away from sin.


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A cohen’s lips should safeguard knowledge, and people should seek Torah from his mouth, because he is the messenger of Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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But you turned away from the path, you caused many to fail in the Torah, you corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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“Therefore I have in turn made you contemptible and vile before all the people, because you did not keep my ways but were partial in applying the Torah.”


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Don’t we all have the same father? Didn’t one God create us all? Then why do we break faith with each other, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?


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Y’hudah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Isra’el and Yerushalayim. For Y’hudah has profaned the sanctuary of Adonai, which he loves, by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.


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If a man does this and presents an offering to Adonai-Tzva’ot, may Adonai cut him off from the tents of Ya‘akov, whether initiator or follower.


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Here is something else you do: you cover Adonai’s altar with tears, with weeping and with sighing, because he no longer looks at the offering or receives your gift with favor.


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Nevertheless, you ask, “Why is this?” Because Adonai is witness between you and the wife of your youth that you have broken faith with her, though she is your companion, your wife by covenant.


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And hasn’t he made [them] one [flesh] in order to have spiritual blood-relatives? For what the one [flesh] seeks is a seed from God. Therefore, take heed to your spirit, and don’t break faith with the wife of your youth.


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“For I hate divorce,” says Adonai the God of Isra’el, “and him who covers his clothing with violence,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and don’t break faith.


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You have wearied Adonai with your words. Yet you ask, “How have we wearied him?” By saying that anyone who does wrong is good from Adonai’s perspective, and that he is delighted with them; or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”


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“Look! I am sending my messenger to clear the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Yes, the messenger of the covenant, in whom you take such delight — look! Here he comes,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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But who can endure the day when he comes? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like the soapmaker’s lye.


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He will sit, testing and purifying the silver; he will purify the sons of Levi, refining them like gold and silver, so that they can bring offerings to Adonai uprightly.


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Then the offering of Y’hudah and Yerushalayim will be pleasing to Adonai, as it was in the days of old, as in years gone by.


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“Then I will approach you for judgment; and I will be quick to witness against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers; against those who take advantage of wage-earners, widows and orphans; against those who rob the foreigner of his rights and don’t fear me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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Since the days of your forefathers you have turned from my laws and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “But you ask, ‘In respect to what are we supposed to return?’


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Can a person rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tenths and voluntary contributions.


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Bring the whole tenth into the storehouse, so that there will be food in my house, and put me to the test,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “See if I won’t open for you the floodgates of heaven and pour out for you a blessing far beyond your needs.


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For your sakes I will forbid the devourer to destroy the yield from your soil; and your vine will not lose its fruit before harvest-time,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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By saying, ‘There is no point in serving God. What good is it to obey his orders or to walk about as mourners before Adonai-Tzva’ot?


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We consider the arrogant happy; also evildoers prosper; they put God to the test; nevertheless, they escape.’”


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Then those who feared Adonai spoke together; and Adonai listened and heard. A record book was written in his presence for those who feared Adonai and had respect for his name.


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“They will be mine,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “on the day when I compose my own special treasure. I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.


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Then once again you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and one that doesn’t serve him.


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For the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and evildoers will be stubble; the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “and leave them neither root nor branch.


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But to you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will break out leaping, like calves released from the stall.


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You will trample the wicked, they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I take action,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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“Remember the Torah of Moshe my servant, which I enjoined on him at Horev, laws and rulings for all Isra’el.


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Look, I will send to you Eliyahu the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai.


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He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers; otherwise I will come and strike the land with complete destruction.” [Look, I will send to you Eliyahu the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai.]


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Book I: Psalms 1–41 How blessed are those who reject the advice of the wicked, don’t stand on the way of sinners or sit where scoffers sit!


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They are like trees planted by streams — they bear their fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds.


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For this reason the wicked won’t stand up to the judgment, nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous.


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The earth’s kings are taking positions, leaders conspiring together, against Adonai and his anointed.


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Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance; the whole wide world will be your possession.


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Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish along the way, when suddenly his anger blazes. How blessed are all who take refuge in him.


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Rise up, Adonai! Save me, my God! For you slap all my enemies in the face, you smash the teeth of the wicked.


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O God, my vindicator! Answer me when I call! When I was distressed, you set me free; now have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.


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Understand that Adonai sets apart the godly person for himself; Adonai will hear when I call to him.


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Adonai, in the morning you will hear my voice; in the morning I lay my needs before you and wait expectantly.


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But I can enter your house because of your great grace and love; I will bow down toward your holy temple in reverence for you.


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Lead me, Adonai, in your righteousness because of those lying in wait for me; make your way straight before me.


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For in their mouths there is nothing sincere, within them are calamities, their throats are open tombs, they flatter with their tongues.


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God, declare them guilty! Let them fall through their own intrigues, For their many crimes, throw them down; since they have rebelled against you.


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But let all who take refuge in you rejoice, let them forever shout for joy! Shelter them; and they will be glad, those who love your name.


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For the leader. With stringed instruments. On sh’minit [low-pitched musical instruments?]. A psalm of David:


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Be gracious to me, Adonai, because I am withering away; heal me, Adonai, because my bones are shaking;


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All my enemies will be confounded, completely terrified; they will turn back and be suddenly put to shame.


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if I paid back evil to him who was at peace with me, when I even spared those who opposed me without cause;


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then let the enemy pursue me until he overtakes me and tramples my life down into the earth; yes, let him lay my honor in the dust. (Selah)


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Rise up, Adonai, in your anger! Arouse yourself against the fury of my foes. Wake up for me; you commanded justice.


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Adonai, who dispenses judgment to the peoples, judge me, Adonai, according to my righteousness and as my integrity deserves.


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Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and establish the righteous; since you, righteous God, test hearts and minds.


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Adonai! Our Lord! How glorious is your name throughout the earth! The fame of your majesty spreads even above the heavens!


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From the mouths of babies and infants at the breast you established strength because of your foes, in order that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.


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what are mere mortals, that you concern yourself with them; humans, that you watch over them with such care?


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Those who know your name put their trust in you, for you have not abandoned those who seek you, Adonai.


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“Have mercy on me, Adonai! See how I suffer from those who hate me; you raise me from the gates of death,


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so that I can proclaim all your praises at the gates of the daughter of Tziyon and rejoice in this deliverance of yours.”


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Adonai made himself known and executed judgment; the wicked are ensnared in the work of their own hands. (Higgayon; Selah)


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Every scheme of the wicked in his arrogance [says], “There is no God, [so] it won’t be held against me.”


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His ways prosper at all times. Your judgments are way up there, so he takes no notice. His adversaries? He scoffs at them all.


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He waits near settlements in ambush and kills an innocent man in secret; his eyes are on the hunt for the helpless.


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Lurking unseen like a lion in his lair, he lies in wait to pounce on the poor, then seizes the poor and drags him off in his net.


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You have seen; for you look at mischief and grief, so that you can take the matter in hand. The helpless commits himself to you; you help the fatherless.


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Break the arm of the wicked! As for the evil man, search out his wickedness until there is none left.


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For the leader. By David: In Adonai I find refuge. So how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains!


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See how the wicked are drawing their bows and setting their arrows on the string, to shoot from the shadows at honest men.


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He will rain hot coals down on the wicked, fire, sulfur and scorching wind will be what they get to drink.


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“Because the poor are oppressed, because the needy are groaning, I will now rise up,” says Adonai, “and grant security to those whom they scorn.”


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The words of Adonai are pure words, silver in a melting-pot set in the earth, refined and purified seven times over.


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How long must I keep asking myself what to do, with sorrow in my heart every day? How long must my enemy dominate me?


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But I trust in your grace, my heart rejoices as you bring me to safety. I will sing to Adonai, because he gives me even more than I need.


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For the leader. By David: Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They deal corruptly, their deeds are vile, not one does what is right.


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Don’t they ever learn, all those evildoers, who eat up my people as if eating bread and never call on Adonai?


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How I wish Isra’el’s salvation would come out of Tziyon! When Adonai restores his people’s fortunes, Ya‘akov will rejoice, Isra’el will be glad!


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who look with scorn on the vile, but honor those who fear Adonai; who hold to an oath, no matter the cost;


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who refuse usury when they lend money and refuse a bribe to damage the innocent. Those who do these things never will be moved.


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Those who run after another god multiply their sorrows; To such gods I will not offer drink offerings of blood or take their names on my lips.


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You make me know the path of life; in your presence is unbounded joy, in your right hand eternal delight.


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You probed my heart, you visited me at night, and you assayed me without finding evil thoughts that should not pass my lips.


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contenido:
Show how wonderful is your grace, savior of those who seek at your right hand refuge from their foes.


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with your hand, Adonai, from human beings, from people whose portion in life is this world. You fill their stomachs with your treasure, their children will be satisfied too and will leave their wealth to their little ones.


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But my prayer, in righteousness, is to see your face; on waking, may I be satisfied with a vision of you.


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For the leader. By David the servant of Adonai, who addressed the words of this song to Adonai on the day when Adonai delivered him from the power of all his enemies, including from the power of Sha’ul.


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“Adonai is my Rock, my fortress and deliverer, my God, my Rock, in whom I find shelter, my shield, the power that saves me, my stronghold.


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In my distress I called to Adonai; I cried out to my God. Out of his temple he heard my voice; my cry reached his ears.


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“Then the earth quaked and shook, the foundations of the mountains trembled. They were shaken because he was angry.


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The channels of water appeared, the foundations of the world were exposed at your rebuke, Adonai, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.


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“You give me your shield, which is salvation, your right hand holds me up, your humility makes me great.


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“You also freed me from the quarrels of my people. You made me head of the nations; a people I did not know now serve me —


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Great salvation he gives to his king; he displays grace to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”


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their line goes out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In them he places a tent for the sun,


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which comes out like a bridegroom from the bridal chamber, with delight like an athlete to run his race.


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The Torah of Adonai is perfect, restoring the inner person. The instruction of Adonai is sure, making wise the thoughtless.


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The precepts of Adonai are right, rejoicing the heart. The mitzvah of Adonai is pure, enlightening the eyes.


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The fear of Adonai is clean, enduring forever. The rulings of Adonai are true, they are righteous altogether,


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more desirable than gold, than much fine gold, also sweeter than honey or drippings from the honeycomb.


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Also keep your servant from presumptuous sins, so that they won’t control me. Then I will be blameless and free of great offense.


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May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be acceptable in your presence, Adonai, my Rock and Redeemer.


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Then we will shout for joy at your victory and fly our flags in the name of our God. May Adonai fulfill all your requests.


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Now I know that Adonai gives victory to his anointed one — he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.


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At your appearing, you will make them like a fiery furnace. Adonai will swallow them up in his anger; fire will consume them.


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My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why so far from helping me, so far from my anguished cries?


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“He committed himself to Adonai, so let him rescue him! Let him set him free if he takes such delight in him!”


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I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint; my heart has become like wax — it melts inside me;


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my mouth is as dry as a fragment of a pot, my tongue sticks to my palate; you lay me down in the dust of death.


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“You who fear Adonai, praise him! All descendants of Ya‘akov, glorify him! All descendants of Isra’el, stand in awe of him!


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For he has not despised or abhorred the poverty of the poor; he did not hide his face from him but listened to his cry.”


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Because of you I give praise in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows in the sight of those who fear him.


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The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek Adonai will praise him; Your hearts will enjoy life forever.


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All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Adonai; all the clans of the nations will worship in your presence.


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All who prosper on the earth will eat and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him, including him who can’t keep himself alive,


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They will come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he is the one who did it.


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Even if I pass through death-dark ravines, I will fear no disaster; for you are with me; your rod and staff reassure me.


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You prepare a table for me, even as my enemies watch; you anoint my head with oil from an overflowing cup.


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Goodness and grace will pursue me every day of my life; and I will live in the house of Adonai for years and years to come.


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By David. A psalm: The earth is Adonai’s, with all that is in it, the world and those who live there;


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Those with clean hands and pure hearts, who don’t make vanities the purpose of their lives or swear oaths just to deceive.


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Lift up your heads, you gates! Lift them up, everlasting doors, so that the glorious king can enter!


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Guide me in your truth, and teach me; for you are the God who saves me, my hope is in you all day long.


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Don’t remember my youthful sins or transgressions; but remember me according to your grace for the sake of your goodness, Adonai.


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By David: Adonai is my light and salvation; whom do I need to fear? Adonai is the stronghold of my life; of whom should I be afraid?


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If an army encamps against me, my heart will not fear; if war breaks out against me, even then I will keep trusting.


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Just one thing have I asked of Adonai; only this will I seek: to live in the house of Adonai all the days of my life, to see the beauty of Adonai and visit in his temple.


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For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of trouble, he will hide me in the folds of his tent, he will set me high on a rock.


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Then my head will be lifted up above my surrounding foes, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, sing praises to Adonai.


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Do not hide your face from me, don’t turn your servant away in anger. You are my help; don’t abandon me; don’t leave me, God my savior.


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contenido:
don’t give me up to the whims of my foes; for false witnesses have risen against me, also those who are breathing violence.


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By David: Adonai, I am calling to you; my Rock, don’t be deaf to my cry. For if you answer me with silence, I will be like those who fall in a pit.


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Don’t drag me off with the wicked, with those whose deeds are evil; they speak words of peace to their fellowmen, but evil is in their hearts.


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Pay them back for their deeds, as befits their evil acts; repay them for what they have done, give them what they deserve.


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For they don’t understand the deeds of Adonai or what he has done. He will break them down; he will not build them up.


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Adonai is my strength and shield; in him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. Therefore my heart is filled with joy, and I will sing praises to him.


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A psalm of David: Give Adonai his due, you who are godly; give Adonai his due of glory and strength;


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The voice of Adonai causes deer to give birth and strips the forests bare — while in his temple, all cry, “Glory!”


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For his anger is momentary, but his favor lasts a lifetime. Tears may linger for the night, but with dawn come cries of joy.


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when you showed me favor, Adonai, I was firm as a mighty mountain. But when you hid your face, I was struck with terror.


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“What advantage is there in my death, in my going down to the pit? Can the dust praise you? Can it proclaim your truth?


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Turn your ear toward me, come quickly to my rescue, be for me a rock of strength, a fortress to keep me safe.


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For my life is worn out with sorrow and my years with sighing; my strength gives out under my guilt, and my bones are wasting away.


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I am scorned by all my adversaries, and even more by my neighbors; even to acquaintances I am an object of fear — when they see me in the street, they turn away from me.


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All I hear is whispering, terror is all around me; they plot together against me, scheming to take my life.


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Adonai, don’t let me be put to shame, for I have called on you; let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silenced in Sh’ol.


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May lying lips be struck dumb, that speak insolently against the righteous with such pride and contempt.


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But oh, how great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you do for those who take refuge in you, before people’s very eyes!


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In the shelter of your presence you hide them from human plots, you conceal them in your shelter, safe from contentious tongues.


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As for me, in my alarm I said, “I have been cut off from your sight!” Nevertheless, you heard my pleas when I cried out to you.


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When I acknowledged my sin to you, when I stopped concealing my guilt, and said, “I will confess my offenses to Adonai”; then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)


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This is what everyone faithful should pray at a time when you can be found. Then, when the floodwaters are raging, they will not reach to him.


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You are a hiding-place for me, you will keep me from distress; you will surround me with songs of deliverance. (Selah)


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“I will instruct and teach you in this way that you are to go; I will give you counsel; my eyes will be watching you.”


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Don’t be like a horse or mule that has no understanding, that has to be curbed with bit and bridle, or else it won’t come near you.


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May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to confusion; may those who are plotting harm for me be repulsed and put to shame.


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May destruction come over him unawares. May the net he concealed catch himself; may he fall into it and be destroyed.


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All my bones will say, “Who is like you? Who can rescue the weak from those stronger than they, the poor and needy from those who exploit them?”


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But I, when they were ill, wore sackcloth; I put myself out and fasted; I can pray that what I prayed for them might also happen to me.


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But when I stumble, they gather in glee; they gather against me and strike me unawares; they tear me apart unceasingly.


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Adonai, how much longer will you look on? Rescue me from their assaults, save the one life I have from the lions!


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Don’t let those who are wrongfully my enemies gloat over me; and those who hate me unprovoked — don’t let them smirk at me.


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May those who gloat over my distress be disgraced and humiliated. May those who aggrandize themselves at my expense be covered with shame and confusion.


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But may those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad! Let them say always, “How great is Adonai, who delights in the peace of his servant!”


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For, the way he sees it, crime makes his life easy — that is, until his wrongs are discovered; then, he is hated.


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Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, your judgments are like the great deep. You save man and beast, Adonai.


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they feast on the rich bounty of your house, and you have them drink from the stream of your delights.


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He will make your vindication shine forth like light, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.


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Be still before Adonai; wait patiently till he comes. Don’t be upset by those whose way succeeds because of their wicked plans.


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contenido:
The wicked have unsheathed their swords, they have strung their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slaughter those whose way is upright.


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I have been young; now I am old; yet not once have I seen the righteous abandoned or his descendants begging for bread.


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For Adonai loves justice and will not abandon his faithful; they are preserved forever. But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.


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Put your hope in Adonai, keep to his way, and he will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.


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Adonai helps them and rescues them, rescues them from the wicked and saves them; because they take refuge in him.


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Those seeking my life lay snares for me, those seeking to harm me speak of disaster and think up deceptions all day long.


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contenido:
I said, “I will watch how I behave, so that I won’t sin with my tongue; I will put a muzzle on my mouth whenever the wicked confront me.”


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contenido:
My heart grew hot within me; whenever I thought of it, the fire burned. Then, [at last,] I let my tongue speak:


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“Make me grasp, Adonai, what my end must be, what it means that my days are numbered; let me know what a transient creature I am.


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You have made my days like handbreadths; for you, the length of my life is like nothing.” Yes, everyone, no matter how firmly he stands, is merely a puff of wind. (Selah)


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Humans go about like shadows; their turmoil is all for nothing. They accumulate wealth, not knowing who will enjoy its benefits.


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With rebukes you discipline people for their guilt; like a moth, you destroy what makes them attractive; yes, everyone is merely a puff of wind. (Selah)


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Hear my prayer, Adonai, listen to my cry, don’t be deaf to my weeping; for with you, I am just a traveler passing through, like all my ancestors.


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He brought me up from the roaring pit, up from the muddy ooze, and set my feet on a rock, making my footing firm.


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contenido:
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will look on in awe and put their trust in Adonai.


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How blessed the man who trusts in Adonai and does not look to the arrogant or to those who rely on things that are false.


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contenido:
How much you have done, Adonai my God! Your wonders and your thoughts toward us — none can compare with you! I would proclaim them, I would speak about them; but there’s too much to tell!


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Sacrifices and grain offerings you don’t want; burnt offerings and sin offerings you don’t demand. Instead, you have given me open ears;


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I have proclaimed what is right in the great assembly; I did not restrain my lips, Adonai, as you know.


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I did not hide your righteousness in my heart but declared your faithfulness and salvation; I did not conceal your grace and truth from the great assembly.”


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For numberless evils surround me; my iniquities engulf me — I can’t even see; there are more of them than hairs on my head, so that my courage fails me.


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May those who seek to sweep me away be disgraced and humiliated together. May those who take pleasure in doing me harm be turned back and put to confusion.


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But may all those who seek you be glad and take joy in you. May those who love your salvation say always, “Adonai is great and glorious!”


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But I am poor and needy; may Adonai think of me. You are my helper and rescuer; my God, don’t delay!


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contenido:
Adonai will preserve them, keep them alive, and make them happy in the land. You will not hand them over to the whims of their enemies.


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When they come to see me they speak insincerely, their hearts meanwhile gathering falsehoods; then they go out and spread bad reports.


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I recall, as my feelings well up within me, how I’d go with the crowd to the house of God, with sounds of joy and praise from the throngs observing the festival.


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My soul, why are you so downcast? Why are you groaning inside me? Hope in God, since I will praise him again for the salvation that comes from his presence.


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My God, when I feel so downcast, I remind myself of you from the land of Yarden, from the peaks of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.


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contenido:
Deep is calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls; all your surging rapids and waves are sweeping over me.


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contenido:
By day Adonai commands his grace, and at night his song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.


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contenido:
I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, under pressure by the enemy?


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contenido:
My adversaries’ taunts make me feel as if my bones were crushed, as they ask me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’ ”


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contenido:
My soul, why are you so downcast? Why are you groaning inside me? Hope in God, since I will praise him again for being my Savior and God.


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contenido:
Judge me, God, and plead my cause against a faithless nation. Rescue me from those who deceive and from those who are unjust.


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contenido:
For you are the God of my strength; why have you thrust me aside? Why must I go about mourning, under pressure by the enemy?


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contenido:
Send out your light and your truth; let them be my guide; let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the places where you live.


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contenido:
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and delight; I will praise you on the lyre, God, my God.


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contenido:
God, we heard it with our ears; our fathers told us about it — a deed which you did in their days, back in days of old.


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contenido:
With your hand you drove out nations to plant them in [the land], you crushed peoples to make room for them.


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For not by their own swords did they conquer the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; rather, it was your right hand, your arm and the light of your face; because you favored them.


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contenido:
My heart is stirred by a noble theme; I address my verses to the king; My tongue is the pen of an expert scribe.


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contenido:
You are the most handsome of men; gracious speech flows from your lips. For God has blessed you forever.


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contenido:
In your majesty, succeed, ride on in the cause of truth, meekness and righteousness. May your right hand teach you awesome things.


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contenido:
Your arrows are sharp. The people fall under you, as they penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies.


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contenido:
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy in preference to your companions.


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contenido:
Your robes are all fragrant with myrrh, aloes and cassia; from ivory palaces stringed instruments bring you joy.


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contenido:
Inside [the palace], the king’s daughter looks splendid, attired in checker-work embroidered with gold.


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contenido:
I will make your name known through all generations; thus the peoples will praise you forever and ever.


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contenido:
For the leader. By the descendants of Korach. On ‘alamot [high-pitched musical instruments?]. A song:


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contenido:
Therefore we are unafraid, even if the earth gives way, even if the mountains tumble into the depths of the sea,


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contenido:
To the ends of the earth he makes wars cease — he breaks the bow, snaps the spear, burns the shields in the fire.


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contenido:
The leaders of the people gather together, the people of the God of Avraham; for the rulers of the earth belong to God, who is exalted on high.


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beautiful in its elevation, the joy of all the earth, Mount Tziyon, in the far north, the city of the great king.


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We heard it, and now we see for ourselves in the city of Adonai-Tzva’ot, in the city of our God. May God establish it forever. (Selah)


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God, your praise, like your name, extends to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.


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Let Mount Tziyon rejoice, let the daughters of Y’hudah be glad, because of your judgment [on the enemy].


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For he can see that wise men will die, likewise the fool and the brute will perish and leave their wealth to others.


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contenido:
They think their homes will last forever, their dwellings through all generations; they give their own names to their estates.


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Like sheep, they are destined for Sh’ol; death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning; and their forms will waste away in Sh’ol, until they need no dwelling.


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contenido:
Our God is coming and not staying silent. With a fire devouring ahead of him and a great storm raging around him,


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But to the wicked God says: “What right do you have to proclaim my laws or take my covenant on your lips,


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When you do such things, should I stay silent? You may have thought I was just like you; but I will rebuke and indict you to your face.


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“Whoever offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; and to him who goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.”


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contenido:
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil from your perspective; so that you are right in accusing me and justified in passing sentence.


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contenido:
Rescue me from the guilt of shedding blood, God, God of my salvation! Then my tongue will sing about your righteousness —


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Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then they will offer bulls on your altar.


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This is why God will strike you down, seize you, pluck you from your tent and uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)


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“This fellow would not make God his refuge, but trusted in his own great wealth, relying on his evil plots.”


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But I am like a leafy olive tree in the house of God; I put my trust in the grace of God forever and ever.


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I will praise you forever for what you have done, and I will put my hope in your name; for this is what is good in the presence of your faithful.


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A brutish fool tells himself, “There isn’t any God.” Such people are depraved, all their deeds are vile, not one of them does what is good.


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Every one of them is unclean, altogether corrupt; not one of them does what is good, not a single one.


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contenido:
Won’t these evildoers ever learn? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, and they never call on God!


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contenido:
They will be gripped with terror, even though now they are not afraid; for God will scatter the bones of him who is besieging you. You are putting them to shame, because God has rejected them.


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contenido:
If only salvation for Isra’el would come out of Tziyon! When God restores his people’s fortunes, what joy for Ya‘akov! what gladness for Isra’el!


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For foreigners are rising against me, violent men are seeking my life; they give no thought to God. (Selah)


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contenido:
at how the enemy shouts, at how the wicked oppress; for they keep heaping trouble on me and angrily tormenting me.


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contenido:
For it was not an enemy who insulted me; if it had been, I could have borne it. It was not my adversary who treated me with scorn; if it had been, I could have hidden myself.


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contenido:
May he put death on them; let them go down alive to Sh’ol; for evil is in their homes and also in their hearts.


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contenido:
He redeems me and gives me peace, so that no one can come near me. For there were many who fought me.


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contenido:
God will hear and will humble them, yes, he who has sat on his throne from the start. (Selah) For they never change, and they don’t fear God.


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contenido:
What he said sounded smoother than butter, but his heart was at war. His words seemed more soothing than oil, but in fact they were sharp swords.


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contenido:
Unload your burden on Adonai, and he will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved.


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But you will bring them down, God, into the deepest pit. Those men, so bloodthirsty and treacherous, will not live out half their days. But for my part, [Adonai,] I put my trust in you.


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contenido:
For the leader. Set to “The Silent Dove in the Distance.” By David; a mikhtam, when the P’lishtim captured him in Gat:


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Those who are lying in wait for me would trample on me all day. For those fighting against me are many. Most High,


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contenido:
You have kept count of my wanderings; store my tears in your water-skin — aren’t they already recorded in your book?


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contenido:
For you rescued me from death, you kept my feet from stumbling, so that I can walk in God’s presence, in the light of life.


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contenido:
For the leader. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” By David, a mikhtam, when he fled from Sha’ul into the cave:


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Show me favor, God, show me favor; for in you I have taken refuge. Yes, I will find refuge in the shadow of your wings until the storms have passed.


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He will send from heaven and save me when those who would trample me down mock me. (Selah) God will send his grace and his truth.


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contenido:
I am surrounded by lions, I am lying down among people breathing fire, men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongues sharp-edged swords.


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They prepared a snare for my feet, but I am bending over [to avoid it]. They dug a pit ahead of me, but they fell into it themselves. (Selah)


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contenido:
Before your cook-pots feel the heat of the burning thorns, may he blow them away, green and blazing alike.


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contenido:
The righteous will rejoice to see vengeance done, they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked;


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and people will say, “Yes, the righteous are rewarded; there is, after all, a God who judges the earth.”


book: Ps
contenido:
For the leader. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” By David; a mikhtam, when Sha’ul sent men to keep watch on David’s house in order to kill him:


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For there they are, lying in wait to kill me. Openly they gather themselves against me, and not because I committed a crime or sinned, Adonai.


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contenido:
You, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, God of Isra’el, arouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those wicked traitors. (Selah)


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contenido:
Look what pours out of their mouth, what swords are on their lips, [as they say to themselves,] “No one is listening, anyway.”


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contenido:
Don’t kill them, or my people will forget; instead, by your power, make them wander to and fro; but bring them down, Adonai our Shield,


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contenido:
for the sins their mouths make with each word from their lips. Let them be trapped by their pride for the curses and falsehoods they utter.


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contenido:
Finish them off in wrath, finish them off, put an end to them, and let them know to the ends of the earth that God is Ruler in Ya‘akov. (Selah)


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contenido:
But as for me, I will sing of your strength; in the morning I will sing aloud of your grace. For you are my fortress, a refuge when I am in trouble.


book: Ps
contenido:
when he fought with Aram-Naharayim and with Aram-Tzovah, and Yo’av returned and killed 12,000 from Edom in the Salt Valley:


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contenido:
God in his holiness spoke, and I took joy [in his promise]: “I will divide Sh’khem and determine the shares in the Sukkot Valley.


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contenido:
From the end of the earth, with fainting heart, I call out to you. Set me down on a rock far above where I am now.


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contenido:
How long will you assail a person in order to murder him, all of you, as if he were a sagging wall or a shaky fence?


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contenido:
They only want to shake him from his height, they take delight in lying — with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. (Selah)


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contenido:
Ordinary folks are merely a breath and important people a sham; if you lay them on a balance-scale, they go up — both together are lighter than nothing.


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contenido:
Don’t put your trust in extortion, don’t put false hopes in robbery; even if wealth increases, don’t set your heart on it.


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contenido:
O God, you are my God; I will seek you eagerly. My heart thirsts for you, my body longs for you in a land parched and exhausted, where no water can be found.


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contenido:
But the king will rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be silenced.


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contenido:
They search for ways to commit crimes, bringing their diligent search to completion when each of them has thought it through in the depth of his heart.


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contenido:
The righteous will rejoice in Adonai; they will take refuge in him; all the upright in heart will exult.


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contenido:
How blessed are those you choose and bring near, so that they can remain in your courtyards! We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the Holy Place of your temple.


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contenido:
It is just that you answer us with awesome deeds, God of our salvation, you in whom all put their trust, to the ends of the earth and on distant seas.


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contenido:
This is why those living at the ends of the earth stand in awe of your signs. The places where the sun rises and sets you cause to sing for joy.


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contenido:
You care for the earth and water it, you enrich it greatly; with the river of God, full of water, you provide them grain and prepare the ground.


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contenido:
the meadows are clothed with flocks and the valleys blanketed with grain, so they shout for joy and break into song.


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contenido:
With his power he rules forever; his eyes keep watch on the nations. Let no rebel arise to challenge him. (Selah)


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contenido:
You made men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water. But you brought us out to a place of plenty.


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contenido:
I will offer you burnt offerings of fattened animals, along with the sweet smoke of rams; I will offer bulls and goats. (Selah)


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contenido:
Let the nations be glad and shout for joy, for you will judge the peoples fairly and guide the nations on earth. (Selah)


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contenido:
Drive them away as smoke is driven away; like wax melting in the presence of a fire, let the wicked perish in the presence of God.


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contenido:
Sing to God, sing praises to his name; extol him who rides on the clouds by his name, Yah; and be glad in his presence.


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contenido:
God gives homes to those who are alone and leads prisoners out into prosperity. But rebels must live in a parched wasteland.


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contenido:
God, when you went out at the head of your people, when you marched out through the wilderness, (Selah)


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contenido:
the earth quaked, and rain poured from the sky, at the presence of God. Even Sinai [shook] at the presence of God, the God of Isra’el.


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contenido:
Even if you lie among the animal stalls, there are wings of a dove covered with silver and its plumes with green gold.


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contenido:
You rugged mountain, why look with envy at the mountain God wants for his place to live? Truly, Adonai will live there forever.


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contenido:
After you went up into the heights, you led captivity captive, you took gifts among mankind, yes, even among the rebels, so that Yah, God, might live there.


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contenido:
God will surely crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy crowns of those who continue in their guilt.


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contenido:
Adonai said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will fetch [those rebels] even from the depths of the sea;


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contenido:
so that you can wash your feet in their blood, and your dogs’ tongues too can get their share from your foes.


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contenido:
There is Binyamin, the youngest, at the head; the princes of Y’hudah, crowding along; the princes of Z’vulun; the princes of Naftali.


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contenido:
Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, that herd of bulls with their calves, the peoples, who ingratiate themselves with bars of silver; let him scatter the peoples who take pleasure in fighting.


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contenido:
Acknowledge that strength belongs to God, with his majesty over Isra’el and his strength in the skies.


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contenido:
How awe-inspiring you are, God, from your holy places, the God of Isra’el, who gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God!


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contenido:
I am sinking down in the mud, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep water; the flood is sweeping over me.


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contenido:
I am exhausted from crying, my throat is dry and sore, my eyes are worn out with looking for my God.


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contenido:
Those who hate me for no reason outnumber the hairs on my head. My persecutors are powerful, my enemies accuse me falsely. Am I expected to return things I didn’t steal?


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contenido:
Let those who put their hope in you, Adonai Elohim-Tzva’ot, not be put to shame through me; let those who are seeking you, God of Isra’el, not be disgraced through me.


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contenido:
because zeal for your house is eating me up, and on me are falling the insults of those insulting you.


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contenido:
As for me, Adonai, let my prayer to you come at an acceptable time; In your great grace, God, answer me with the truth of your salvation.


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contenido:
Rescue me from the mud! Don’t let me sink! Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.


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contenido:
Don’t let the floodwaters overwhelm me, don’t let the deep swallow me up, don’t let the pit close its mouth over me.


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contenido:
Insults have broken my heart to the point that I could die. I hoped that someone would show compassion, but nobody did; and that there would be comforters, but I found none.


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contenido:
For God will save Tziyon, he will build the cities of Y’hudah. [His people] will settle there and possess it.


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contenido:
May those who seek my life be disgraced and humiliated. May those who take pleasure in doing me harm be turned back and put to confusion.


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contenido:
But may all those who seek you be glad and take joy in you. May those who love your salvation say always, “God is great and glorious!”


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contenido:
Be for me a sheltering rock, where I can always come. You have determined to save me, because you are my bedrock and stronghold.


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contenido:
May those who are opposed to me be put to shame and ruin; may those who seek to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace.


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contenido:
All day long my mouth will tell of your righteous deeds and acts of salvation, though their number is past my knowing.


book: Ps
contenido:
So now that I’m old, and my hair is gray, don’t abandon me, God, till I have proclaimed your strength to the next generation, your power to all who will come,


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contenido:
your righteousness too, God, which reaches to the heights. God, you have done great things; who is there like you?


book: Ps
contenido:
You have made me see much trouble and hardship, but you will revive me again and bring me up from the depths of the earth.


book: Ps
contenido:
As for me, I will praise you with a lyre for your faithfulness, my God. I will sing praises to you with a lute, Holy One of Isra’el.


book: Ps
contenido:
All day long my tongue will speak of your righteousness. For those who are seeking to harm me will be put to shame and disgraced.


book: Ps
contenido:
By Shlomo: God, give the king your fairness in judgment, endow this son of kings with your righteousness,


book: Ps
contenido:
The kings of Tarshish and the coasts will pay him tribute; the kings of Sh’va and S’va will offer gifts.


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contenido:
May [the king] live long! May they give him gold from the land of Sh’va! May they pray for him continually; yes, bless him all day long.


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contenido:
May there be an abundance of grain in the land, all the way to the tops of the mountains. May its crops rustle like the L’vanon. May people blossom in the city like the grasses in the fields.


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contenido:
May his name endure forever, his name, Yinnon, as long as the sun. May people bless themselves in him, may all nations call him happy.


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contenido:
They are like a dream when one awakens; Adonai, when you rouse yourself, you will despise their phantoms.


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contenido:
But for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made Adonai Elohim my refuge, so that I can tell of all your works.


book: Ps
contenido:
A maskil of Asaf: Why have you rejected us forever, God, with your anger smoking against the sheep you once pastured?


book: Ps
contenido:
Remember your community, which you acquired long ago, the tribe you redeemed to be your very own. Remember Mount Tziyon, where you came to live.


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contenido:
The roar of your foes filled your meeting-place; they raised their own banners as a sign of their conquest.


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contenido:
They said to themselves, “We will oppress them completely.” They have burned down all God’s meeting-places in the land.


book: Ps
contenido:
In Adonai’s hand there is a cup of wine, foaming, richly spiced; when he pours it out, all the wicked of the earth will drain it, drinking it to the dregs.”


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contenido:
The bravest have been stripped of their spoil and now are sleeping their final sleep; not one of these courageous men finds strength to raise his hands.


book: Ps
contenido:
Make vows to Adonai your God, and keep them; all who are around him must bring presents to the one who should be feared.


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contenido:
On the day of my distress I am seeking Adonai; my hands are lifted up; my tears flow all night without ceasing; my heart refuses comfort.


book: Ps
contenido:
The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind, the lightning flashes lit up the world, the earth trembled and shook.


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contenido:
Your way went through the sea, your path through the turbulent waters; but your footsteps could not be traced.


book: Ps
contenido:
we will not hide from their descendants; we will tell the generation to come the praises of Adonai and his strength, the wonders that he has performed.


book: Ps
contenido:
He raised up a testimony in Ya‘akov and established a Torah in Isra’el. He commanded our ancestors to make this known to their children,


book: Ps
contenido:
so that the next generation would know it, the children not yet born, who would themselves arise and tell their own children,


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contenido:
Then they would not be like their ancestors, a stubborn, rebellious generation, a generation with unprepared hearts, with spirits unfaithful to God.


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contenido:
He had done wonderful things in the presence of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Tzo‘an.


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contenido:
True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, until the vadis overflowed; but what about bread? Can he give that? Can he provide meat for his people?”


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contenido:
Therefore, when Adonai heard, he was angry; fire blazed up against Ya‘akov; his anger mounted against Isra’el;


book: Ps
contenido:
when the anger of God rose up against them and slaughtered their strongest men, laying low the young men of Isra’el.


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contenido:
Yet he, because he is full of compassion, forgave their sin and did not destroy; many times he turned away his anger and didn’t rouse all his wrath.


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contenido:
He sent over them his fierce anger, fury, indignation and trouble, with a company of destroying angels


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contenido:
He expelled nations before them, apportioned them property to inherit and made Isra’el’s tribes live in their tents.


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contenido:
They turned away and were faithless, like their fathers; they were unreliable, like a bow without tension.


book: Ps
contenido:
A psalm of Asaf: God, the pagans have entered your heritage. They have defiled your holy temple and turned Yerushalayim into rubble.


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contenido:
They have given the corpses of your servants as food for the birds in the air, yes, the flesh of those faithful to you for the wild animals of the earth.


book: Ps
contenido:
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call out your name;


book: Ps
contenido:
Don’t count past iniquities against us, but let your compassion come quickly to meet us, for we have been brought very low.


book: Ps
contenido:
Help us, God of our salvation, for the sake of the glory of your name. Deliver us, forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.


book: Ps
contenido:
Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Let the vengeance taken on your servants’ shed blood be known among the nations before our eyes.


book: Ps
contenido:
Let the groaning of the captives come before you; by your great strength save those condemned to death.


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contenido:
Then we, your people and the flock in your pasture, will give you thanks forever. From generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.


book: Ps
contenido:
Shepherd of Isra’el, listen! You who lead Yosef like a flock, you whose throne is on the k’ruvim, shine out!


book: Ps
contenido:
He placed it as a testimony in Y’hosef when he went out against the land of Egypt. I heard an unfamiliar voice say,


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contenido:
You called out when you were in trouble, and I rescued you; I answered you from the thundercloud; I tested you at the M’rivah Spring [by saying,] (Selah)


book: Ps
contenido:
I am Adonai your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth, and I will fill it.’


book: Ps
contenido:
A psalm of Asaf: Elohim [God] stands in the divine assembly; there with the elohim [judges], he judges:


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contenido:
They don’t know, they don’t understand, they wander about in darkness; meanwhile, all the foundations of the earth are being undermined.


book: Ps
contenido:
My soul yearns, yes, faints with longing for the courtyards of Adonai; my heart and body cry for joy to the living God.


book: Ps
contenido:
As the sparrow finds herself a home and the swallow her nest, where she lays her young, [so my resting-place is] by your altars, Adonai-Tzva’ot, my king and my God.


book: Ps
contenido:
Passing through the [dry] Baka Valley, they make it a place of springs, and the early rain clothes it with blessings.


book: Ps
contenido:
Better a day in your courtyards than a thousand [days elsewhere]. Better just standing at the door of my God’s house than living in the tents of the wicked.


book: Ps
contenido:
For Adonai, God, is a sun and a shield; Adonai bestows favor and honor; he will not withhold anything good from those whose lives are pure.


book: Ps
contenido:
I am listening. What will God, Adonai, say? For he will speak peace to his people, to his holy ones — but only if they don’t relapse into folly.


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Preserve my life, for I am faithful; save your servant, who puts his trust in you because you are my God.


book: Ps
contenido:
Adonai, teach me your way, so that I can live by your truth; make me single-hearted, so that I can fear your name.


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contenido:
God, arrogant men are rising against me, a gang of brutes is seeking my life, and to you they pay no attention.


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contenido:
Give me a sign of your favor, so that those who hate me will see it and be ashamed, because you, Adonai, have helped and comforted me.


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contenido:
I count Rahav and Bavel among those who know me; Of P’leshet, Tzor and Ethiopia [they will say], “This one was born there.”


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But of Tziyon it will be said, “This one and that was born in it, for the Most High himself establishes it.”


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contenido:
A song. A psalm of the sons of Korach. For the leader. Set to “Sickness that Causes Suffering.” A maskil of Heiman the Ezrachi.


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left by myself among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave — you no longer remember them; they are cut off from your care.


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contenido:
Since my youth I have been miserable, close to death; I am numb from bearing these terrors of yours.


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contenido:
I will sing about Adonai’s acts of grace forever, with my mouth proclaim your faithfulness to all generations;


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because I said, “Grace is built to last forever; in the heavens themselves you established your faithfulness.”


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contenido:
How happy are the people who know the joyful shout! They walk in the light of your presence, Adonai.


book: Ps
contenido:
There was a time when you spoke in a vision; you declared to your loyal [prophets], “I have given help to a warrior, I have raised up someone chosen from the people.


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It will be established forever, like the moon, which remains a faithful witness in the sky.” (Selah)


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contenido:
Where, Adonai, are the acts of grace you once did, those which, in your faithfulness, you swore to David?


book: Ps
contenido:
Remember, Adonai, the taunts hurled at your servants, which I carry in my heart [from] so many peoples!


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contenido:
Book IV: Psalms 90–106 A prayer of Moshe the man of God: Adonai, you have been our dwelling place in every generation.


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Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, from eternity past to eternity future you are God.


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The span of our life is seventy years, or if we are strong, eighty; yet at best it is toil and sorrow, over in a moment, and then we are gone.


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Let our joy last as long as the time you made us suffer, for as many years as we experienced trouble.


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contenido:
May the favor of Adonai our God be on us, prosper for us all the work that we do — yes, prosper the work that we do.


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he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his truth is a shield and protection.


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contenido:
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble. I will extricate him and bring him honor.


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that when the wicked sprout like grass, and all who do evil prosper, it is so that they can be eternally destroyed,


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contenido:
My eyes have gazed with pleasure on my enemies’ ruin, my ears have delighted in the fall of my foes.


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Adonai is king, robed in majesty; Adonai is robed, girded with strength; The world is well established; it cannot be moved.


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Adonai, the deep is raising up, the deep is raising up its voice, the deep is raising its crashing waves.


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But he repays them as their guilt deserves; he will cut them off with their own evil; Adonai our God will cut them off.


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For he is our God, and we are the people in his pasture, the sheep in his care. If only today you would listen to his voice:


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For forty years I loathed that generation; I said, ‘This is a people whose hearts go astray, they don’t understand how I do things.’


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Say among the nations, “Adonai is king!” The world is firmly established, immovable. He will judge the peoples fairly.


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before Adonai, because he has come, he has come to judge the earth; he will judge the world rightly and the peoples with his faithfulness.


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The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Adonai, at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.


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All who worship images will be put to shame, those who make their boast in worthless idols. Bow down to him, all you gods!


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contenido:
You who love Adonai, hate evil! He keeps his faithful servants safe. He rescues them from the power of the wicked.


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A psalm: Sing a new song to Adonai, because he has done wonders. His right hand, his holy arm have won him victory.


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remembered his grace and faithfulness to the house of Isra’el. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.


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before Adonai, for he has come to judge the earth; he will judge the world rightly and the peoples fairly.


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Moshe and Aharon among his cohanim and Sh’mu’el among those who call on his name called on Adonai, and he answered them.


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Adonai our God, you answered them. To them you were a forgiving God, although you took vengeance on their wrongdoings.


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Be aware that Adonai is God; it is he who made us; and we are his, his people, the flock in his pasture.


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Enter his gates with thanksgiving, enter his courtyards with praise; give thanks to him, and bless his name.


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For Adonai is good, his grace continues forever, and his faithfulness lasts through all generations.


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I will follow the path of integrity; when will you come to me? I will run my life with a sincere heart inside my own house.


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I will not allow before my eyes any shameful thing. I hate those who act crookedly; what they do does not attract me.


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If someone slanders another in secret, I will cut him off. Haughty eyes and proud hearts I cannot abide.


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I look to the faithful of the land, so that they can be my companions; those who live lives of integrity can be servants of mine.


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Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, cutting off all evildoers from the city of Adonai.


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Don’t hide your face from me when I am in such distress! Turn your ear toward me; when I call, be quick to reply!


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You will arise and take pity on Tziyon, for the time has come to have mercy on her; the time determined has come.


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I plead, “God, your years last through all generations; so don’t take me away when my life is half over!


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They will vanish, but you will remain; like clothing, they will all grow old; yes, you will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.


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The children of your servants will live securely and their descendants be established in your presence.”


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But the mercy of Adonai on those who fear him is from eternity past to eternity future, and his righteousness extends to his children’s children,


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you laid the beams of your palace on the water. You make the clouds your chariot, you ride on the wings of the wind.


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contenido:
You grow grass for the cattle; and for people you grow the plants they need to bring forth bread from the earth,


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What variety there is in your works, Adonai! How many [of them there are]! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creations.


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Look at the sea, so great, so wide! It teems with countless creatures, living beings, both large and small.


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If you hide your face, they vanish; if you hold back their breath, they perish and return to their dust.


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so I can see how well things are going with those whom you have chosen, so that I can rejoice in your nation’s joy, and glory in your heritage.


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Our ancestors in Egypt failed to grasp the meaning of your wonders. They didn’t keep in mind your great deeds of grace but rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Suf.


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Therefore he said that he would destroy them, [and he would have,] had not Moshe his chosen one stood before him in the breach to turn back his destroying fury.


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Yes, they shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to Kena‘an’s false gods, polluting the land with blood.


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Many times [God] rescued them, but they kept making plans to rebel. Thus they were brought low by their own wrongdoing.


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Save us, Adonai our God! Gather us from among the nations, so that we can thank your holy name and glory in praising you.


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Blessed be Adonai, the God of Isra’el, from eternity past to eternity future. Now let all the people say, “Amen! Halleluyah!”


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contenido:
The sailors were raised up to the sky, then plunged into the depths. At the danger, their courage failed them,


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For wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me, spoken against me with lying tongues,


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May the wrongs of his ancestors be remembered by Adonai, and may the sin of his mother not be erased;


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For he did not remember to show kindness but hounded the downtrodden, the poor and the brokenhearted to death.


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contenido:
He clothed himself with cursing as routinely as with his coat; May it enter inside him as easily as water, as easily as oil into his bones.


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Let them go on cursing; but you, bless! When they attack, let them be put to shame; but let your servant rejoice.


book: Ps
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A psalm of David: Adonai says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”


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Adonai will send your powerful scepter out from Tziyon, so that you will rule over your enemies around you.


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On the day your forces mobilize, your people willingly offer themselves in holy splendors from the womb of the dawn; the dew of your youth is yours.


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Adonai has sworn it, and he will never retract — “You are a cohen forever, to be compared with Malki-Tzedek.”


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He will pass judgment among the nations, filling it with dead bodies; he will shatter heads throughout an extensive territory.


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contenido:
Halleluyah! I will wholeheartedly give thanks to Adonai in the council of the upright and in the assembly.


book: Ps
contenido:
He sent redemption to his people and decreed that his covenant should last forever. His name is holy and fearsome —


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the first and foremost point of wisdom is the fear of Adonai; all those living by it gain good common sense. His praise stands forever.


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contenido:
He distributes freely, he gives to the poor; his righteousness stands forever. His power will be increased honorably.


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contenido:
The wicked will be angry when they see this; they will gnash their teeth and waste away, the desires of the wicked will come to nothing.


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contenido:
they have hands, but they can’t feel; they have feet, but they can’t walk; with their throats they can’t make a sound.


book: Ps
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Adonai has kept us in mind, and he will bless. He will bless the house of Isra’el; he will bless the house of Aharon;


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The cords of death were all around me, Sh’ol’s constrictions held me fast; I was finding only distress and anguish.


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Oh, Adonai! I am your slave; I am your slave, the son of your slave-girl; you have removed my fetters.


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They surrounded me like bees but were extinguished [as quickly] as a fire in thorns; in the name of Adonai I cut them down.


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The sound of rejoicing and victory is heard in the tents of the righteous: “Adonai’s right hand struck powerfully!


book: Ps
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Adonai is God, and he gives us light. Join in the pilgrim festival with branches all the way to the horns of the altar.


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Let the proud be ashamed, because they wrong me with lies; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.


book: Ps
contenido:
The tribes have gone up there, the tribes of Adonai, as a witness to Isra’el, to give thanks to the name of Adonai.


book: Ps
contenido:
As a servant looks to the hand of his master, or a slave-girl to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes turn to Adonai our God, until he has mercy on us.


book: Ps
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A song of ascents: Those who trust in Adonai are like Mount Tziyon, which cannot be moved but remains forever.


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For the scepter of wickedness will not rule the inheritance of the righteous, so that the righteous will not themselves turn their hands to evil.


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But as for those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, may Adonai turn them away, along with those who do evil. Shalom on Isra’el!


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Our mouths were full of laughter, and our tongues shouted for joy. Among the nations it was said, “Adonai has done great things for them!”


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He who goes out weeping as he carries his sack of seed will come home with cries of joy as he carries his sheaves of grain.


book: Ps
contenido:
A song of ascents. By Shlomo: Unless Adonai builds the house, its builders work in vain. Unless Adonai guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.


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In vain do you get up early and put off going to bed, working hard to earn a living; for he provides for his beloved, even when they sleep.


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How blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them; he will not have to be embarrassed when contending with foes at the city gate.


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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner parts of your house. Your children around the table will be like shoots from an olive tree.


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Everything in me waits for Adonai more than guards on watch wait for morning, more than guards on watch wait for morning.


book: Ps
contenido:
Isra’el, put your hope in Adonai! For grace is found with Adonai, and with him is unlimited redemption.


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A song of ascents. By David: Adonai, my heart isn’t proud; I don’t set my sight too high, I don’t take part in great affairs or in wonders far beyond me.


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No, I keep myself calm and quiet, like a little child on its mother’s lap — I keep myself like a little child.


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contenido:
Adonai swore an oath to David, an oath he will not break: “One of the sons from your own body I will set on your throne.


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If your sons keep my covenant and my instruction, which I will teach them, then their descendants too, forever, will sit on your throne.”


book: Ps
contenido:
A song of ascents. By David: Oh, how good, how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in harmony.


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It is like fragrant oil on the head that runs down over the beard, over the beard of Aharon, and flows down on the collar of his robes.


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It is like the dew of Hermon that settles on the mountains of Tziyon. For it was there that Adonai ordained the blessing of everlasting life.


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A song of ascents: Come, bless Adonai, all you servants of Adonai, who serve each night in the house of Adonai.


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He raises clouds from the ends of the earth, he makes the lightning flash in the rain and brings the wind out from his storehouses.


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contenido:
when those who had taken us captive asked us to sing them a song; our tormentors demanded joy from us — “Sing us one of the songs from Tziyon!”


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May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I fail to remember you, if I fail to count Yerushalayim the greatest of all my joys.


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Remember, Adonai, against the people of Edom the day of Yerushalayim’s fall, how they cried, “Tear it down! Tear it down! Raze it to the ground!”


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Daughter of Bavel, you will be destroyed! A blessing on anyone who pays you back for the way you treated us!


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contenido:
I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your grace and truth; for you have made your word [even] greater than the whole of your reputation.


book: Ps
contenido:
You keep me alive when surrounded by danger; you put out your hand when my enemies rage; with your right hand you save me.


book: Ps
contenido:
Adonai will fulfill his purpose for me. Your grace, Adonai, continues forever. Don’t abandon the work of your hands!


book: Ps
contenido:
even darkness like this is not too dark for you; rather, night is as clear as day, darkness and light are the same.


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contenido:
I thank you because I am awesomely made, wonderfully; your works are wonders — I know this very well.


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My bones were not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.


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Your eyes could see me as an embryo, but in your book all my days were already written; my days had been shaped before any of them existed.


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Keep me, Adonai, from the hands of the wicked, protect me from violent people who are trying to trip me up.


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The arrogant hide snares for me; they spread nets by the side of the road, hoping to trap me there. (Selah)


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Adonai, don’t grant the wicked their wishes; make their plot fail, so they won’t grow proud. (Selah)


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contenido:
May burning coals rain down on them, may they be flung into the fire, flung into deep pits, never to rise again.


book: Ps
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A psalm of David: Adonai, I have called you; come to me quickly! Listen to my plea when I call to you.


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contenido:
Don’t let my heart turn to anything evil or allow me to act wickedly with men who are evildoers; keep me from eating their delicacies.


book: Ps
contenido:
Let the righteous strike me, let him correct me; it will be an act of love. Let my head not refuse such choice oil, for I will keep on praying about their wickedness.


book: Ps
contenido:
When their rulers are thrown down from the cliff, [the wicked] will hear that my words were fitting.


book: Ps
contenido:
When my spirit faints within me, you watch over my path. By the road that I am walking they have hidden a snare for me.


book: Ps
contenido:
Listen to my cry, for I have been brought very low. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.


book: Ps
contenido:
Lead me out of prison, so that I can give thanks to your name; in me the righteous will be crowning themselves, because you will have treated me generously.


book: Ps
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A psalm of David: Adonai, hear my prayer; listen to my pleas for mercy. In your faithfulness, answer me, and in your righteousness.


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For an enemy is pursuing me; he has crushed my life into the ground and left me to live in darkness, like those who have been long dead.


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Answer me quickly, Adonai, because my spirit is fainting. Don’t hide your face from me, or I’ll be like those who drop down into a pit.


book: Ps
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Make me hear of your love in the morning, because I rely on you. Make me know the way I should walk, because I entrust myself to you.


book: Ps
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Teach me to do your will, because you are my God; Let your good Spirit guide me on ground that is level.


book: Ps
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He shows me grace; and he is my fortress, my stronghold, in whom I find shelter, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.


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Reach out your hands from on high; rescue me; save me out of deep water, out of the power of strangers,


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contenido:
Rescue me, save me from the power of strangers, whose mouths speak worthless words and whose right hands swear false oaths.


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contenido:
Our sons in their youth will be like full-grown saplings, our daughters will be like sculptured pillars fit for the corner of a palace.


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contenido:
Our barns are full with crops of every kind; the sheep in our fields number thousands, tens of thousands.


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our oxen are well-fed, our city walls have no breach, our people are not taken captive, and there are no cries of protest in our cities’ open places.


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Praise. By David: I will praise you to the heights, my God, the king; I will bless your name forever and ever.


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contenido:
Adonai opens the eyes of the blind, Adonai lifts up those who are bent over. Adonai loves the righteous.


book: Ps
contenido:
Adonai watches over strangers, he sustains the fatherless and widows; but the way of the wicked he twists.


book: Ps
contenido:
Let them praise the name of Adonai, for his name alone is exalted; his glory is above both earth and heaven.


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He has increased the power of his people, granted praise to all his faithful, to the descendants of Isra’el, a people close to him. Halleluyah!


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contenido:
Someone who is already wise will hear and learn still more; someone who already understands will gain the ability to counsel well;


book: Prov
contenido:
Suppose they say, “Come with us: we’ll ambush somebody and kill him, we’ll waylay some harmless soul, just for fun;


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“How long, you whose lives have no purpose, will you love thoughtless living? How long will scorners find pleasure in mocking? How long will fools hate knowledge?


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yes, when terror overtakes you like a storm and your disaster approaches like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble assail you.


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For the aimless wandering of the thoughtless will kill them, and the smug overconfidence of fools will destroy them;


book: Prov
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Do not let grace and truth leave you — bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.


book: Prov
contenido:
Don’t tell your neighbor, “Go away! Come another time; I’ll give it to you tomorrow,” when you have it now.


book: Prov
contenido:
For they can’t sleep if they haven’t done evil, they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone fall.


book: Prov
contenido:
a lovely deer, a graceful fawn; let her breasts satisfy you at all times, always be infatuated with her love.


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contenido:
My son, if you have put up security for your friend, if you committed yourself on behalf of another;


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Do this now, my son, and extricate yourself, since you put yourself in your friend’s power: go, humble yourself, and pester your friend;


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contenido:
When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you wake up, they will talk with you.


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but even he, if caught, must pay back sevenfold; he may have to give up all the wealth that he owns.


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contenido:
when I saw among the young men there, among those who don’t think for themselves, a young fellow devoid of all sense.


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contenido:
At once he follows her like an ox on its way to be slaughtered; like a fool to be punished in the stocks;


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or like a bird rushing into a trap, not knowing its life is at stake till an arrow pierces its liver.


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contenido:
when he prescribed boundaries for the sea, so that its water would not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,


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I was with him as someone he could trust. For me, every day was pure delight, as I played in his presence all the time,.


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But he doesn’t realize that the dead are there, and that those who accept her invitation are in the depths of Sh’ol.


book: Prov
contenido:
The proverbs of Shlomo: A wise son is a joy to his father, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.


book: Prov
contenido:
The speech of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the speech of the wicked is a cover for violence.


book: Prov
contenido:
He who observes discipline is on the way to life; but he who ignores correction is making a mistake.


book: Prov
contenido:
The righteousness of the upright rescues them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own intrigues.


book: Prov
contenido:
A person wins praise in keeping with his common sense, but a person with a warped mind is treated with contempt.


book: Prov
contenido:
One can be filled with good as the result of one’s words, and one gets the reward one’s deeds deserve.


book: Prov
contenido:
A [good] man enjoys good as a result of what he says, but the essence of the treacherous is violence.


book: Prov
contenido:
There are those with nothing who pretend they are rich, also those with great wealth who pretend they are poor.


book: Prov
contenido:
Wealth gotten by worthless means dwindles away, but he who amasses it by hard work will increase it.


book: Prov
contenido:
A good man leaves an inheritance to his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.


book: Prov
contenido:
The home of the righteous is a storehouse of treasure, but the earnings of the wicked bring trouble.


book: Prov
contenido:
The balance and scales of justice have their origin in Adonai; all the weights in the bag are his doing.


book: Prov
contenido:
How much better than gold it is to gain wisdom! Yes, rather than money, choose to gain understanding.


book: Prov
contenido:
Common sense is a fountain of life to one who has it, whereas fools are punished by their own folly.


book: Prov
contenido:
One who winks knowingly is planning deceit; one who pinches his lips together has already done wrong.


book: Prov
contenido:
He who controls his temper is better than a war hero, he who rules his spirit better than he who captures a city.


book: Prov
contenido:
Starting a fight is like letting water through [a dike] — better stop the quarrel before it gets worse.


book: Prov
contenido:
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous — both alike are an abomination to Adonai.


book: Prov
contenido:
Those who love quarreling love giving offense; those who make their gates tall are courting disaster.


book: Prov
contenido:
The discerning person focuses on wisdom there before him, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.


book: Prov
contenido:
The name of Adonai is a strong tower; a righteous person runs to it and is raised high [above danger].


book: Prov
contenido:
It is harder to win an offended brother than a strong city; their fights are like the bars of a fortress.


book: Prov
contenido:
A person’s belly will be filled with the fruit of his mouth; with what his lips produce he will be filled.


book: Prov
contenido:
Better to be poor and live one’s life uprightly than engage in crooked speech, for such a one is a fool.


book: Prov
contenido:
To act without knowing how you function is not good; and if you rush ahead, you will miss your goal.


book: Prov
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A poor man’s relatives all hate him; even more his friends stay away from him. He may pursue them with entreaties, but they aren’t there to be found.


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If you strike a scorner, the simple will learn to act wisely; if you reprove the intelligent, he will understand what you mean.


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The dread of a king is like when a lion roars; he who makes him angry commits a life-threatening sin.


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Seize his clothes, because he guaranteed a stranger’s loan; take them as security for that unknown woman.


book: Prov
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When a scorner is punished, the simple become wiser; and when the wise is instructed, he takes hold of knowledge.


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contenido:
Thorns and snares beset the way of the stubborn; he who values his life keeps his distance from them.


book: Prov
contenido:
Doing wrong is firmly tied to the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away from him.


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so you will know that these sayings are certainly true and bring back true sayings to him who sent you.


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contenido:
If you make your eyes rush at it, it’s no longer there! For wealth will surely grow wings, like an eagle flying off to the sky.


book: Prov
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For he is like someone who keeps accounts — “Eat! Drink!” he says to you, but he doesn’t really mean it.


book: Prov
contenido:
Who has misery? Who has regret? Who fights and complains all the time? Who gets bruised for no good reason? Who has bloodshot eyes?


book: Prov
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;but in the end, it bites like a serpent — yes, it strikes like a poisonous snake.


book: Prov
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“They hit me, but I didn’t feel it! They beat me up, and I didn’t even know it! When will I wake up? . . . I’ll go get another drink.”


book: Prov
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If you say, “We knew nothing about it,” won’t he who weighs hearts discern it? Yes, he who guards you will know it and repay each one as his deeds deserve.


book: Prov
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Know that wisdom is similar[ly sweet] to your soul; if you find it, then you will have a future, what you hope for will not be cut off.


book: Prov
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Prepare your outside work, and get things ready for yourself on the land; after that, build your house.


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There it was, overgrown with thistles; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.


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For it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than be degraded in the presence of a nobleman. What your eyes have seen,


book: Prov
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;don’t rush to present in a dispute. For what will you do later on, if your neighbor puts you to shame?


book: Prov
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Like the coldness of snow in the heat of the harvest is a faithful messenger to the one who sends him; he refreshes his master’s spirit.


book: Prov
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Relying on an untrustworthy person in a time of trouble is like [relying on] a broken tooth or an unsteady leg.


book: Prov
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Like removing clothes on a chilly day or like vinegar on soda is someone who sings songs to a heavy heart.


book: Prov
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If someone who hates you is hungry, give him food to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.


book: Prov
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Telling a message to a fool and sending him out is like cutting off one’s feet and drinking violence.


book: Prov
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Don’t abandon a friend who is also a friend of your father. Don’t enter your brother’s house on the day of your calamity — better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.


book: Prov
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Seize his clothes because he guaranteed a stranger’s loan; take them as security for that unknown woman.


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whoever can restrain her can restrain the wind or keep perfume on his hand from making itself known.


book: Prov
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Whoever tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be honored.


book: Prov
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The crucible [tests] silver, and the furnace [tests] gold, but a person [is tested] by [his reaction to] praise.


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You can crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle, along with the grain being crushed; yet his foolishness will not leave him.


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and there will be enough goat’s milk to [buy] food for you and your household and maintenance for your servant-girls.


book: Prov
contenido:
A land which transgresses [is punished by] having many rulers; but with a man of understanding and knowledge, stability is prolonged.


book: Prov
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He who increases his wealth by charging exorbitant interest amasses it for someone who will bestow it on the poor.


book: Prov
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Whoever causes the honest to pursue evil ways will himself fall into his own pit, but the pure-hearted will inherit good.


book: Prov
contenido:
Whoever lives blamelessly will be saved, but he whose ways are crooked will fall in one [of those ways].


book: Prov
contenido:
He who farms his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows futilities will have plenty of poverty.


book: Prov
contenido:
A trustworthy person will receive many blessings, but one rushing to get rich will not go unpunished.


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When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice; but when the wicked are in power, the people groan.


book: Prov
contenido:
An unjust person is an abomination to the righteous, but he who lives uprightly is an abomination to the wicked.


book: Prov
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Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has cupped the wind in the palms of his hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak? Who established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!


book: Prov
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keep falsehood and futility far from me, and give me neither poverty nor wealth. Yes, provide just the food I need today;


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for if I have too much, I might deny you and say, “Who is Adonai?” And if I am poor, I might steal and thus profane the name of my God.


book: Prov
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There is a type of people whose teeth are like swords, yes, their fangs are knives; they devour the poor from the earth, the needy from humankind.


book: Prov
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The leech has two daughters; they cry, “Give! Give!” Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough!” —


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sh’ol and a barren womb; the earth, never satisfied with water; and fire, which never says, “Enough!”


book: Prov
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The eye that mocks his father and scorns obeying his mother will be pecked out by the ravens in the valley, and the vultures will eat it.


book: Prov
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the open sea, and the way of a man with a girl.


book: Prov
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a hated [wife] when her husband takes her [back], and a slave-girl who inherits from her mistress.


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If you have been boorish, exalting yourself, or if you have been scheming, lay your hand on your mouth.


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For as pressing milk produces butter and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing out anger produces strife.


book: Prov
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It is not for kings, L’mu’el, not for kings to drink wine; it is not for rulers to ask, “Where can I find strong liquor?”


book: Prov
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ו It’s still dark when she rises to give food to her household and orders to the young women serving her.


book: Job
contenido:
There was a man in the land of ‘Utz whose name was Iyov. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.


book: Job
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He owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 pairs of oxen and 500 female donkeys, as well as a great number of servants; so that he was the wealthiest man in the east.


book: Job
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It was the custom of his sons to give banquets, each on his set day in his own house; and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.


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After a cycle of banquets, Iyov would send for them to come and be consecrated; then he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings for each of them, because Iyov said, “My sons might have sinned and blasphemed God in their thoughts.” This is what Iyov did every time.


book: Job
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Adonai asked the Adversary, “Where are you coming from?” The Adversary answered Adonai, “From roaming through the earth, wandering here and there.”


book: Job
contenido:
Adonai asked the Adversary, “Did you notice my servant Iyov, that there’s no one like him on earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil?”


book: Job
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You’ve put a protective hedge around him, his house and everything he has. You’ve prospered his work, and his livestock are spread out all over the land.


book: Job
contenido:
But if you reach out your hand and touch whatever he has, without doubt he’ll curse you to your face!”


book: Job
contenido:
Adonai said to the Adversary, “Here! Everything he has is in your hands, except that you are not to lay a finger on his person.” Then the Adversary went out from the presence of Adonai.


book: Job
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when a raiding party from Sh’va came and carried them off; they put the servants to the sword too, and I’m the only one who escaped to tell you.”


book: Job
contenido:
While he was still speaking, another one came and said, “Fire from God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants; it completely destroyed them, and I’m the only one who escaped to tell you.”


book: Job
contenido:
While he was still speaking, another one came and said, “The Kasdim, three bands of them, fell on the camels and carried them off; they put the servants to the sword too, and I’m the only one who escaped to tell you.”


book: Job
contenido:
While he was still speaking, another one came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,


book: Job
contenido:
when suddenly a strong wind blew in from over the desert. It struck the four corners of the house, so that it fell on the young people; they are dead, and I’m the only one who escaped to tell you.”


book: Job
contenido:
he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. Adonai gave; Adonai took; blessed be the name of Adonai.”


book: Job
contenido:
Another day came when the sons of God came to serve Adonai, and among them came the Adversary to serve Adonai.


book: Job
contenido:
Adonai asked the Adversary, “Did you notice my servant Iyov, that there’s no one like him on earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil, and that he still holds on to his integrity, even though you provoked me against him to destroy him for no reason?”


book: Job
contenido:
The Adversary answered Adonai, “Skin for skin! A person will give up everything he has to save his life.


book: Job
contenido:
But if you reach out your hand and touch his flesh and bone, without doubt he’ll curse you to your face!”


book: Job
contenido:
Then the Adversary went out from the presence of Adonai and struck Iyov down with horrible infected sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.


book: Job
contenido:
But he answered her, “You’re talking like a low-class woman! Are we to receive the good at God’s hands but reject the bad?” In all this Iyov did not say one sinful word.


book: Job
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Now when Iyov’s three friends heard of all the calamities that had overwhelmed him, they all came. Each came from his own home — Elifaz from Teiman, Bildad from Shuach and Tzofar from Na‘amah. They had agreed to meet together in order to come and offer him sympathy and comfort.


book: Job
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When they saw him from a distance, they couldn’t even recognize him. They wept aloud, tore their coats and threw dust over their heads toward heaven.


book: Job
contenido:
Then they sat down with him on the ground. For seven days and seven nights, no one spoke a word to him; because they saw how much he was suffering.


book: Job
contenido:
may gloom dark as death defile it, may clouds settle on it, may it be terrified by its own blackness.


book: Job
contenido:
“As for that night, may thick darkness seize it, may it not be joined to the days of the year, may it not be numbered among the months;


book: Job
contenido:
may the stars of its twilight be dark, may it look for light but get none, may it never see the shimmer of dawn —


book: Job
contenido:
It stood still, but I couldn’t make out its appearance; yet the form stayed there before my eyes. Then I heard a subdued voice:


book: Job
contenido:
much more those living in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust. They are crushed more easily than a worm;


book: Job
contenido:
the hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, while the thirsty are panting, eager to swallow his wealth.


book: Job
contenido:
You will be shielded from the lash of the tongue, and you won’t have to fear destruction when it comes —


book: Job
contenido:
for you will be in league with the stones in the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.


book: Job
contenido:
You will know that your descendants are many, your offspring like grass [growing thick] in the fields.


book: Job
contenido:
For the arrows of Shaddai find their mark in me, and my spirit is drinking in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.


book: Job
contenido:
Then I would feel consoled; so that even in the face of unending pain, I would be able to rejoice; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.


book: Job
contenido:
Do you think [your own] words constitute argument, while the speech of a desperate man is merely wind?


book: Job
contenido:
“Human life on earth is like serving in the army; yes, we drudge through our days like a hired worker,


book: Job
contenido:
When I lie down, I ask, ‘When can I get up?’ But the night is long, and I keep tossing to and fro until daybreak.


book: Job
contenido:
“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth but will speak in my anguish of spirit and complain in my bitterness of soul.


book: Job
contenido:
“Suppose I do sin — how do I harm you, you scrutinizer of humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I am a burden to you?


book: Job
contenido:
Why don’t you pardon my offense and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust; you will seek me, but I will be gone.”


book: Job
contenido:
[for its destruction will come] like the lush growth of a plant in the sun, its shoots may spread out all over its garden,


book: Job
contenido:
Yes, this is the “joy” of the way [of the godless], and out of the dust will spring up others [like him].’


book: Job
contenido:
The earth has been given to the power of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges — if it isn’t he, then who is it?


book: Job
contenido:
“For he is not merely human like me; there is no answer that I could give him if we were to come together in court.


book: Job
contenido:
“I am just worn out. “By my life [I swear], I will never abandon my complaint; I will speak out in my soul’s bitterness.


book: Job
contenido:
Do you gain some advantage from oppressing, from spurning what your own hands made, from shining on the schemes of the wicked?


book: Job
contenido:
If I am wicked, woe to me! — but if righteous, I still don’t dare raise my head, because I am so filled with shame, so soaked in my misery.


book: Job
contenido:
You keep producing fresh witnesses against me, your anger against me keeps growing, your troops assail me, wave after wave.


book: Job
contenido:
a land of gloom like darkness itself, of dense darkness and utter disorder, where even the light is dark.’”


book: Job
contenido:
would tell you the secrets of wisdom, which is worth twice as much as common sense. Understand that God is demanding of you less than your guilt deserves.


book: Job
contenido:
but the eyes of the wicked will fail [to find comfort]. They will find no way to escape, and their hope will turn to complete disappointment.”


book: Job
contenido:
But I too have a brain, as much as you, In no way am I inferior to you. Besides, who doesn’t know things like these?


book: Job
contenido:
“Anyone who calls on God, and he answers him, becomes a laughingstock to his friends — they make fun of an innocent, blameless man.


book: Job
contenido:
The tents of robbers prosper, [the homes of] those who anger God are secure, those who carry their gods in their hands.


book: Job
contenido:
When he breaks something down, it can’t be rebuilt; when he imprisons someone, he can’t be released.


book: Job
contenido:
You put my feet in the stocks, you watch me closely wherever I go, you trace out each footprint of mine —


book: Job
contenido:
Since his days are fixed in advance, the number of his months is known to you, and you have fixed the limits which he can’t cross;


book: Job
contenido:
“For a tree, there is hope that if cut down, it will sprout again, that its shoots will continue to grow.


book: Job
contenido:
so a person lies down and doesn’t arise — until the sky no longer exists; it will not awaken, it won’t be roused from its sleep.


book: Job
contenido:
“I wish you would hide me in Sh’ol, conceal me until your anger has passed, then fix a time and remember me!


book: Job
contenido:
“Should a wise man answer with hot-air arguments? Should he fill up his belly with the hot east wind?


book: Job
contenido:
“What is a human being, that he could be innocent, someone born from a woman, that he could be righteous?


book: Job
contenido:
therefore he will not remain rich, his wealth will not endure, his produce will not bend [the grain stalks] to the earth.


book: Job
contenido:
“He will not escape from darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. By a breath from the mouth of [God], he will go away.


book: Job
contenido:
Let him not rely on futile methods, thereby deceiving himself; for what he will receive in exchange will be only futility.


book: Job
contenido:
“If I were in your place, I too could speak as you do — I could string phrases together against you and shake my head at you.


book: Job
contenido:
Besides, you have shriveled me up; and this serves to witness against me. My being so thin rises up against me and testifies to my face.


book: Job
contenido:
He tears me apart in his anger; he holds a grudge against me; he gnashes on me with his teeth. “My enemies look daggers at me.


book: Job
contenido:
Wide-mouthed, they gape at me; with scorn, they slap my cheeks; they gather themselves together against me.


book: Job
contenido:
I was at peace, and he shook me apart. Yes, he grabbed me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target —


book: Job
contenido:
his archers surrounded me. He slashes my innards and shows no mercy, he pours my gall on the ground.


book: Job
contenido:
You can tear yourself to pieces in your anger, but the earth won’t be abandoned just for your sake; not even a rock will be moved from its place.


book: Job
contenido:
Those who come after will be appalled at his fate, just as those there before were struck with horror.


book: Job
contenido:
“This is how things are in the homes of the wicked, and this is the place of those who don’t know God.”


book: Job
contenido:
Those living in my house consider me a stranger; my slave-girls too — in their view I’m a foreigner.


book: Job
contenido:
I will see him for myself, my eyes, not someone else’s, will behold him. My heart grows weak inside me!


book: Job
contenido:
You had best fear the sword, for anger brings the punishment of the sword, so that you will know there is judgment!”


book: Job
contenido:
that the triumph of the wicked is always short-lived, and the joy of the ungodly is gone in a moment?


book: Job
contenido:
but he will vanish completely, like his own dung — those who used to see him will ask, ‘Where is he?’


book: Job
contenido:
He will have to give back what he toiled for; he won’t get to swallow it down — to the degree that he acquired wealth, he won’t get to enjoy it.


book: Job
contenido:
“This is what will fill his belly! — [God] will lay on him all his burning anger and make it rain over him, into his insides.


book: Job
contenido:
he pulls the arrow out of his back, the shining tip comes out from his innards; terrors come upon him.


book: Job
contenido:
“Total darkness is laid up for his treasures, a fire fanned by no one will consume him, and calamity awaits what is left in his tent.


book: Job
contenido:
“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their calamity come upon them? How often does [God] deal out pain in his anger,


book: Job
contenido:
God lays up for their children [the punishment for their] iniquity. He should lay it on [the wicked] themselves, so that they can feel it!


book: Job
contenido:
the clods of the valley are sweet to him; so everyone follows his example, just as before him were countless others.


book: Job
contenido:
“For you kept your kinsmen’s goods as collateral for no reason, you stripped the poorly clothed of what clothing they have,


book: Job
contenido:
Yet he himself had filled their homes with good things! (But the advice of the wicked is far away from me.)


book: Job
contenido:
like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they have to go out and scavenge food, [hoping that] the desert will provide food for their children.


book: Job
contenido:
They must reap in fields that are not their own and gather late grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.


book: Job
contenido:
“There are those who pluck orphans from the breast and [those who] take [the clothes of] the poor in pledge,


book: Job
contenido:
between these men’s rows [of olives], they make oil; treading their winepresses, they suffer thirst.


book: Job
contenido:
Men are groaning in the city, the mortally wounded are crying for help, yet God finds nothing amiss!


book: Job
contenido:
The eye of the adulterer too waits for twilight; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me’; but [to be sure], he covers his face.


book: Job
contenido:
When it’s dark, they break into houses; in the daytime, they stay out of sight. [None of them] know the light.


book: Job
contenido:
For to all of them deep darkness is like morning, for the terrors of deep darkness are familiar to them.


book: Job
contenido:
“May they be scum on the surface of the water, may their share of land be cursed, may no one turn on the way of their vineyards,


book: Job
contenido:
May the womb forget them, may worms find them sweet, may they no longer be remembered — thus may iniquity be snapped like a stick.


book: Job
contenido:
They are exalted for a little while; and then they are gone, brought low, gathered in like all others, shriveled up like ears of grain.


book: Job
contenido:
“And even if it isn’t so now, still no one can prove me a liar and show that my words are worthless.”


book: Job
contenido:
And these are but the fringes of his ways; how faint the echo we hear of him! But who is able to grasp the meaning of his thundering power?”


book: Job
contenido:
“I swear by the living God, who is denying me justice, and by Shaddai, who deals with me so bitterly,


book: Job
contenido:
There where no one lives, they break open a shaft; the feet passing over are oblivious to them; far from people, suspended in space, they swing to and fro.


book: Job
contenido:
inasmuch as it is hidden from the eyes of all living and kept secret from the birds flying around in the sky?


book: Job
contenido:
for I delivered the poor when they cried for assistance, the orphan too, who had no one to help him.


book: Job
contenido:
I clothed myself with righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; my justice was like a robe and a crown.


book: Job
contenido:
I chose their way [for them], sitting as chief; I lived like a king in the army, like one who comforts mourners.


book: Job
contenido:
“But now those younger than I hold me in derision, men whose fathers I wouldn’t even have put with the dogs that guarded my sheep.


book: Job
contenido:
At my right the street urchins attack, pushing me from place to place, besieging me with their ways of destruction,


book: Job
contenido:
Terrors tumble over me, chasing my honor away like the wind; my [hope of] salvation passes like a cloud.


book: Job
contenido:
“If my steps have wandered from the way, if my heart has followed my eyes, if the least dirt has stuck to my hands;


book: Job
contenido:
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make them too? Didn’t the same one shape us both before our birth?


book: Job
contenido:
No! From my youth he grew up with me as if with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother’s womb! —


book: Job
contenido:
For calamity from God has always terrified me; before his majesty I could never do a thing [like that].


book: Job
contenido:
“Did I rejoice at the destruction of him who hated me? Was I filled with glee when disaster overtook him?


book: Job
contenido:
“Was there anyone in my tent who didn’t say, ‘No one can find a single person whom he has not filled with his meat’?


book: Job
contenido:
from fear of general gossip or dread of some family’s contempt. keeping silent and not going outdoors —


book: Job
contenido:
I wish I had someone who would listen to me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! I wish I had the indictment my adversary has written!


book: Job
contenido:
then let thistles grow instead of wheat and noxious weeds instead of barley! “The words of Iyov are finished.”


book: Job
contenido:
So these three men stopped trying to answer Iyov, because he remained convinced of his own righteousness.


book: Job
contenido:
But then the anger of Elihu the son of Barakh’el the Buzi, from the family of Ram, blazed up against Iyov for thinking he was right and God wrong.


book: Job
contenido:
His anger also blazed up against his three friends, because they had found no answer to Iyov but condemned him anyway.


book: Job
contenido:
Elihu the son of Barakh’el the Buzi said: “I am young, and you are old, so I held back from telling you my opinion.


book: Job
contenido:
“Here, I waited for your words, I listened to your reasoning, as you were searching for what to say.


book: Job
contenido:
“If there is for him an angel, a mediator, one among a thousand, who can vouch for the man’s uprightness;


book: Job
contenido:
then [God] is gracious to him and says, ‘Redeem him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.’


book: Job
contenido:
He prays to God and is accepted by him, so that he sees [God’s] face with joy, and [God] repays the man for his righteousness.


book: Job
contenido:
Should a hater of justice be in control? If you wouldn’t tell a king, ‘You’re a scoundrel!’ or nobles, ‘You are wicked men!’ then you shouldn’t condemn the Just and Mighty One,


book: Job
contenido:
who is neither partial toward princes nor favors the rich over the poor, since they all are the work of his hands.


book: Job
contenido:
They may die in a moment, in the middle of the night — the people are shaken and pass away, the mighty are removed without human hands.


book: Job
contenido:
“But if God is silent, who can accuse him; if he hides his face, who can see him? He may do this to nations and persons alike,


book: Job
contenido:
Must his rewards meet your approval? Well, you are the one who doesn’t like them, so you, not I, should pick the alternative; come on, say what you think!


book: Job
contenido:
For now to his sin he adds rebellion; he [mockingly] claps his hands among us and keeps adding to his words against God.”


book: Job
contenido:
But now, just because he doesn’t get angry and punish, does it mean he doesn’t know what arrogance is?


book: Job
contenido:
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but when he sets kings on their throne forever, they may become proud;


book: Job
contenido:
“If they pay attention and obey him, they spend their days in prosperity; their years pass pleasantly.


book: Job
contenido:
Indeed [Iyov], he is drawing you away from distress to an untroubled open place, with rich food on your table.


book: Job
contenido:
There follows a sound, a roar — he is thundering with his majestic voice, and he keeps releasing [the lightning] even while his voice is being heard.


book: Job
contenido:
Now people don’t see the light, which is bright in the sky; but then the wind blows and clears [the clouds] away.


book: Job
contenido:
Shaddai, whom we cannot find, whose power is immense, in his great righteousness does not pervert justice.


book: Job
contenido:
Then the earth is changed like clay under a seal, until its colors are fixed like those of a garment.


book: Job
contenido:
Can you lead out the constellations of the zodiac in their season or guide the Great Bear and its cubs?


book: Job
contenido:
It treats its chicks heartlessly, as if they were not its own; even if her labor is in vain, it really doesn’t care;


book: Job
contenido:
At the sound of the shofar it whinnies; as from afar it scents the battle, the roar of the chiefs and the shouting.


book: Job
contenido:
If the river overflows, it doesn’t worry him; he is confident even if the Yarden rushes by his mouth.


book: Job
contenido:
“[You asked,] ‘Who is this, hiding counsel, without having knowledge?’ Yes, I spoke, without understanding, of wonders far beyond me, which I didn’t know.


book: Job
contenido:
After Adonai had spoken these words to Iyov, Adonai said to Elifaz the Teimani, “My anger is blazing against you and your two friends, because, unlike my servant Iyov, you have not spoken rightly about me.


book: Job
contenido:
So now, get yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Iyov, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. My servant Iyov will pray for you — because him I will accept — so that I won’t punish you as your boorishness deserves; because you have not spoken rightly about me, as my servant Iyov has.”


book: Job
contenido:
So Elifaz the Teimani, Bildad the Shuchi and Tzofar the Na‘amati went and did what Adonai had ordered them to do, and Adonai accepted Iyov[’s prayer].


book: Job
contenido:
When Iyov prayed for his friends, Adonai restored his fortunes; Adonai gave Iyov twice as much as he had had before.


book: Job
contenido:
Then all his brothers and sisters came to him, also all who had known him before, and they ate a meal with him in his house. They consoled and comforted him for all the evils Adonai had inflicted on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.


book: Job
contenido:
Adonai blessed Iyov’s later situation even more than his earlier one — he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 pairs of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.


book: Job
contenido:
Nowhere in the land could women be found as beautiful as Iyov’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritances along with their brothers.


book: Song
contenido:
Your anointing oils have a wonderful fragrance; your name is like anointing oil poured out. This is why young women love you —


book: Song
contenido:
“Take me with you. We will run after you.” The king has brought me into his rooms. [Chorus] We will be glad and rejoice for you. We will praise your love more than wine. How right it is for them to love you!


book: Song
contenido:
[She] I am dark tan but beautiful, you daughters of Yerushalayim, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Shlomo.


book: Song
contenido:
Don’t stare at me because I’m dark; it’s the sun that tanned me. My mother’s sons were angry with me and made me look after the vineyards. But I haven’t cared for my own vineyard.


book: Song
contenido:
Tell me, my love, where you pasture your flock, where you have them rest at noon; for why should I veil myself [like a whore] beside the flocks of your friends?


book: Song
contenido:
[Chorus] If you do not know, you most beautiful of women, then follow the footprints of the flock and let your kids graze by the shepherds’ tents.


book: Song
contenido:
[She] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;— Look at you! So handsome, so pleasing, my darling! Our bed is the greenery;


book: Song
contenido:
[She] Like an apple tree among the other trees in the forest is my darling among the other men. I love to sit in his shadow; his fruit is sweet to my taste.


book: Song
contenido:
I warn you, daughters of Yerushalayim, by the gazelles and deer in the wilds, not to awaken or stir up love until it wants to arise!


book: Song
contenido:
My darling is like a gazelle or young stag. There he is, standing outside our wall, looking in through the windows, peering in through the lattice.


book: Song
contenido:
the flowers are appearing in the countryside, the time has come for [the birds] to sing, and the cooing of doves can be heard in the land.


book: Song
contenido:
The fig trees are forming their unripe figs, and the grapevines in bloom give out their perfume. Get up, my love, my beauty! Come away!”


book: Song
contenido:
[He] My dove, hiding in holes in the rock, in the secret recesses of the cliff, let me see your face and hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.


book: Song
contenido:
[She] “Catch the foxes for us, yes, the little foxes! They are ruining the vineyards when our vineyards are in bloom!”


book: Song
contenido:
Before the daytime breeze rises and the shadows flee, return, my love, like a stag or gazelle on the hills of Beter.


book: Song
contenido:
“I will get up now and roam the city, through the streets and the open places, I will look for the man I love.” I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.


book: Song
contenido:
Scarcely had I left them, when I found the man I love. I took hold of him and would not let him go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the bedroom of the woman who conceived me.


book: Song
contenido:
Who is this, coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, chosen from the merchant’s crushed spices?


book: Song
contenido:
all of them wield the sword and are expert fighters; each one has his sword ready at his side to combat the terrors of night.


book: Song
contenido:
He made its columns of silver, its roof of gold, its seat of purple cloth; its inside was lovingly inlaid by the daughters of Yerushalayim.


book: Song
contenido:
Daughters of Tziyon, come out, and gaze upon King Shlomo, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, his day of joy!


book: Song
contenido:
[He] How beautiful you are, my love! How beautiful you are! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gil‘ad.


book: Song
contenido:
Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep that have just come up from being washed; each of them is matched, and none of them is missing.


book: Song
contenido:
Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like a pomegranate split open behind your veil.


book: Song
contenido:
Your neck is like the tower of David, built magnificently, on which hang a thousand bucklers, each one a brave warrior’s shield.


book: Song
contenido:
When the day’s cool breeze comes up and the shadows lengthen, I will get myself to the mountain of myrrh to the hill of frankincense.


book: Song
contenido:
Come with me from the L’vanon, my bride, come with me from the L’vanon. Come down from the heights of Amanah, from the heights of S’nir and Hermon, down from the lions’ lairs and the leopard-haunted hills.


book: Song
contenido:
My sister, my bride, you have carried my heart away! With just one glance, with one bead of your necklace you have carried my heart away.


book: Song
contenido:
My sister, my bride, how sweet is your love! How much better your love than wine, more fragrant your perfumes than any spice!


book: Song
contenido:
Your lips, my bride, drip honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the scent of your garments is like the scent of the L’vanon.


book: Song
contenido:
nard, saffron and aromatic cane, cinnamon and all kinds of frankincense trees, myrrh, aloes, all the best spices.


book: Song
contenido:
[She] Awake, north wind! Come, south wind! Blow on my garden to spread its fragrance. Let my darling enter his garden and eat its finest fruit.


book: Song
contenido:
[He] My sister, my bride, I have entered my garden; I am gathering my myrrh and my spices; I am eating my honeycomb along with my honey; I am drinking my wine as well as my milk. [Chorus] Eat, friends, and drink, until you are drunk with love!


book: Song
contenido:
[She] I am asleep, but my heart is awake. Listen! I hear my darling knocking! [He] Open for me, my sister, my love, my dove, my flawless one! For my head is wet with dew, my hair with the moisture of the night.


book: Song
contenido:
The man I love put his hand through the hole by the door-latch, and my heart began pounding at the thought of him.


book: Song
contenido:
I got up to open for the man I love. My hands were dripping with myrrh — pure myrrh ran off my fingers onto the handle of the bolt.


book: Song
contenido:
I opened for my darling, but my darling had turned and gone. My heart had failed me when he spoke — I sought him, but I couldn’t find him; I called him, but he didn’t answer.


book: Song
contenido:
The watchmen roaming the city found me; they beat me, they wounded me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls!


book: Song
contenido:
I charge you, daughters of Yerushalayim, that if you find the man I love, what are you to tell him? That I am sick with love.


book: Song
contenido:
[Chorus] How does the man you love differ from any other, you most beautiful of women? How does the man you love differ from any other, that you should give us this charge?


book: Song
contenido:
His cheeks are like beds of spices, like banks of fragrant herbs. His lips are like lilies dripping with sweet myrrh.


book: Song
contenido:
His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like the L’vanon, as imposing as the cedars.


book: Song
contenido:
His words are sweetness itself; he is altogether desirable. This is my darling, and this is my friend, daughters of Yerushalayim.


book: Song
contenido:
[Chorus] Where has your darling gone, you most beautiful of women? Which way did your darling turn, so that we can help you find him?


book: Song
contenido:
[She] My darling went down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.


book: Song
contenido:
[He] You are as beautiful as Tirtzah, my love, as lovely as Yerushalayim, but formidable as an army marching under banners.


book: Song
contenido:
Turn your eyes away from me, because they overwhelm me! Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Gil‘ad.


book: Song
contenido:
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that have just come up from being washed; each of them is matched, and none of them is missing.


book: Song
contenido:
but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, her mother’s only child, the darling of the one who bore her. The daughters see her and call her happy; the queens and concubines praise her.


book: Song
contenido:
“Who is this, shining forth like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun” — but formidable as an army marching under banners?


book: Song
contenido:
[She] I had gone down to the nut orchard to see the fresh green plants in the valley, to see if the vine had budded, or if the pomegranate trees were in bloom.


book: Song
contenido:
[Chorus] Come back, come back, girl from Shulam! Come back, come back to where we can see you! Why are you looking at the girl from Shulam as if she were dancing for two army camps?


book: Song
contenido:
[He] How beautiful are your feet in sandals, you daughter of princes! The curves of your thighs are like a necklace made by a skilled craftsman.


book: Song
contenido:
Your navel is like a round goblet that never lacks spiced wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat encircled by lilies.


book: Song
contenido:
Your neck is like a tower of ivory, your eyes like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bat-Rabbim, your nose like a tower in the L’vanon overlooking Dammesek.


book: Song
contenido:
You hold your head like the Karmel, and the hair on your head is like purple cloth — the king is held captive in its tresses.


book: Song
contenido:
I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches.” May your breasts be like clusters of grapes, your breath as fragrant as apples,


book: Song
contenido:
and your mouth like the finest wine. [She] May the wine go straight to the man I love and gently move the lips of those who are asleep.


book: Song
contenido:
We’ll get up early and go to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, to see if their flowers have opened, or if the pomegranate trees are in bloom. There I will give you my love.


book: Song
contenido:
The mandrakes are sending out their fragrance, all kinds of choice fruits are at our doors, fruits both new and old, my darling, which I have kept in store for you.


book: Song
contenido:
I wish you were my brother, who nursed at my mother’s breast; then, if I met you outdoors, I could kiss you, and no one would look down on me.


book: Song
contenido:
I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house, and she would instruct me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, fresh juice from my pomegranates.


book: Song
contenido:
[Chorus] Who is this, coming up from the desert, leaning on her darling? [He] I awakened you under the apple tree. It was there that your mother conceived you; there she who bore you conceived you.


book: Song
contenido:
[She] Set me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, passion as cruel as Sh’ol; its flashes are flashes of fire, [as fierce as the] flame of Yah.


book: Song
contenido:
No amount of water can quench love, torrents cannot drown it. If someone gave all the wealth in his house for love, he would gain only utter contempt.


book: Song
contenido:
[Chorus] We have a little sister; her breasts are still unformed. What are we to do with our sister when she is asked for in marriage?


book: Song
contenido:
If she is a wall, we will build on her a palace of silver; and if she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.


book: Song
contenido:
Shlomo had a vineyard at Ba‘al-Hamon, and he gave the vineyard to caretakers; each of them would pay for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.


book: Song
contenido:
My vineyard is mine; I tend it, myself. You can have the thousand, Shlomo, and the fruit-caretakers, two hundred!


book: Song
contenido:
[She] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;— Flee, my darling! Be like a gazelle or young stag on the mountains of spices!


book: Ruth
contenido:
Back in the days when the judges were judging, at a time when there was a famine in the land, a certain man from Beit-Lechem went to live in the territory of Mo’av — he, his wife and his two sons.


book: Ruth
contenido:
The man’s name was Elimelekh, his wife’s name was Na‘omi, and his two sons were named Machlon and Kilyon; they were Efratim from Beit-Lechem in Y’hudah. They arrived in the plain of Mo’av and settled there.


book: Ruth
contenido:
They took wives for themselves from the women of Mo’av; the name of the one was ‘Orpah; and the name of the other was Rut. They lived there for about ten years.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Then Machlon and Kilyon died, both of them; and the woman was left with neither her two sons nor her husband.


book: Ruth
contenido:
So she prepared to return with her daughters-in-law from the plain of Mo’av; for in the plain of Mo’av she had heard how Adonai had paid attention to his people by giving them food.


book: Ruth
contenido:
She left the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law and took the road leading back to Y’hudah.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Na‘omi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Each of you, go back to your mother’s house. May Adonai show grace to you, as you did to those who died and to me.


book: Ruth
contenido:
May Adonai grant you security in the home of a new husband.” Then she kissed them, but they began weeping aloud.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Na‘omi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb who could become your husbands?


book: Ruth
contenido:
Go back, my daughters; go your way; for I’m too old to have a husband. Even if I were to say, ‘I still have hope’; even if I had a husband tonight and bore sons;


book: Ruth
contenido:
would you wait for them until they grew up? Would you refuse to marry, just for them? No, my daughters. On your behalf I feel very bitter that the hand of Adonai has gone out against me.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
She said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god; go back, after your sister-in-law.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
But Rut said, “Don’t press me to leave you and stop following you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Where you die, I will die; and there I will be buried. May Adonai bring terrible curses on me, and worse ones as well, if anything but death separates you and me.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
So the two of them went on until they came to Beit-Lechem. When they arrived in Beit-Lechem, the whole city was stirred with excitement over them. The women asked, “Can this be Na‘omi?”


book: Ruth
contenido:
“Don’t call me Na‘omi [pleasant],” she answered them; “call me Marah [bitter], because Shaddai has made my life very bitter.


book: Ruth
contenido:
I went out full, and Adonai has brought me back empty. Why call me Na‘omi? Adonai has testified against me, Shaddai has afflicted me.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
This is how Na‘omi returned, with Rut the woman from Mo’av, her daughter-in-law, accompanying her from the plain of Mo’av. They arrived in Beit-Lechem at the beginning of the barley harvest.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Na‘omi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent and wealthy member of Elimelekh’s clan, whose name was Bo‘az.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Rut the woman from Mo’av said to Na‘omi, “Let me go into the field and glean ears of grain behind anyone who will allow me to.” She answered her, “Go, my daughter.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
So she set out, arrived at the field and gleaned behind the reapers. She happened to be in the part of the field that belonged to Bo‘az from Elimelekh’s clan,


book: Ruth
contenido:
when Bo‘az arrived from Beit-Lechem. He said to the reapers, “Adonai be with you”; and they answered him, “Adonai bless you.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
The servant supervising the reapers answered, “She’s a girl from Mo’av who returned with Na‘omi from the plain of Mo’av.


book: Ruth
contenido:
She said, ‘Please, let me glean and gather what falls from the sheaves behind the reapers.’ So she went and has kept at it from morning until now, except for a little rest in the shelter.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
Bo‘az said to Rut, “Did you hear that, my daughter? Don’t go to glean in another field, don’t leave this place, but stick here with my working girls.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Keep your eyes on whichever field the reapers are working in, and follow the girls. I’ve ordered the young men not to bother you. Whenever you get thirsty, go and drink from the water jars the young men have filled.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
She fell on her face, prostrating herself, and said to him, “Why are you showing me such favor? Why are you paying attention to me? After all, I’m only a foreigner.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
Bo‘az answered her, “I’ve heard the whole story, everything you’ve done for your mother-in-law since your husband died, including how you left your father and mother and the land you were born in to come to a people about whom you knew nothing beforehand.


book: Ruth
contenido:
May Adonai reward you for what you’ve done; may you be rewarded in full by Adonai the God of Isra’el, under whose wings you have come for refuge.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
She said, “My lord, I hope I continue pleasing you. You have comforted and encouraged me, even though I’m not one of your servants.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
When meal-time came, Bo‘az said to her, “Come here, have something to eat, and dip your piece of bread in the [olive oil and] vinegar.” She sat by the reapers, and they passed her some roasted grain. She ate till she was full, and she had some left over.


book: Ruth
contenido:
When she got up to glean, Bo‘az ordered his young men, “Let her glean even among the sheaves themselves, without making her feel ashamed.


book: Ruth
contenido:
In fact, pull some ears of grain out from the sheaves on purpose. Leave them for her to glean, and don’t rebuke her.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
So she gleaned in the field until evening. When she beat out what she had gathered, it came to about a bushel of barley.


book: Ruth
contenido:
She picked it up and went back to the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and Rut brought out and gave her what she had left over after eating her fill.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where were you working? Blessed be the one who took such good care of you!” She told her mother-in-law with whom she had been working; she said, “The name of the man with whom I was working today is Bo‘az.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
Na‘omi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Adonai, who has never stopped showing grace, neither to the living nor to the dead.” Na‘omi also told her, “The man is closely related to us; he’s one of our redeeming kinsmen.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
Rut the woman from Mo’av said, “Moreover, he even said to me, ‘Stay close to my young men until they’ve finished my harvest.’”


book: Ruth
contenido:
Na‘omi said to Rut her daughter-in-law, “It’s good, my daughter, for you to keep going out with his girls; so that you won’t encounter hostility in some other field.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
So she stayed close to Bo‘az’s girls to glean, until the end of the barley and wheat harvests; and she lived with her mother-in-law.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Na‘omi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, I should be seeking security for you; so that things will go well with you.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Now there’s Bo‘az our relative — you were with his girls. He’s going to be winnowing barley tonight at the threshing-floor.


book: Ruth
contenido:
So bathe, anoint yourself, put on your good clothes, and go down to the threshing-floor; but don’t reveal your presence to the man until he’s finished eating and drinking.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Then, when he lies down, take note of where he’s lying; later, go in, uncover his feet, and lie down. He will tell you what to do.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
After Bo‘az was through eating and drinking and was feeling good, he went to lie down at the end of the pile of grain. She stole in, uncovered his feet and lay down.


book: Ruth
contenido:
In the middle of the night the man was startled and turned over, and — there was a woman lying at his feet!


book: Ruth
contenido:
He asked, “Who are you?” and she answered, “I’m your handmaid Rut. Spread your robe over your handmaid, because you are a redeeming kinsman.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
He said, “May Adonai bless you, my daughter. Your latest kindness is even greater than your first, in that you didn’t go after the young men, neither the rich ones nor the poor.


book: Ruth
contenido:
And now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do for you everything you say, for all the city leaders among my people know that you are a woman of good character.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Now, it is true that I am a redeeming kinsman; but there is a redeemer who is a closer relative than I am.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Stay tonight. If, in the morning, he will redeem you, fine! — let him redeem you. But if he doesn’t want to redeem you, then, as Adonai lives, I will redeem you. Now, lie down until morning.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
She lay at his feet until morning; then, before [it was light enough that] people could recognize each other, she got up; because he said, “No one should know that the woman came to the threshing-floor.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
He also said, “Bring the shawl you are wearing, and take hold of it.” She held it while he put six measures of barley into it; then he went into the city.


book: Ruth
contenido:
When she came to her mother-in-law, she asked, “Who are you? My daughter?” She told her everything the man had done for her.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Then she added, “He gave me these six measures of barley; because he said to me, “You shouldn’t return to your mother-in-law with nothing.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
Na‘omi said, “My daughter, just stay where you are, until you learn how the matter comes out; for the man won’t rest unless he resolves the matter today.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
Meanwhile, Bo‘az had gone up to the gate and had sat down there, when the redeemer of whom Bo‘az had spoken passed by. “Such-and-such,” he said, “come over, and sit down”; so he came over and sat down.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Then he said to the redeeming kinsman, “The parcel of land which used to belong to our relative Elimelekh is being offered for sale by Na‘omi, who has returned from the plain of Mo’av.


book: Ruth
contenido:
I thought I should tell you about it and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of the people sitting here and in the presence of the leaders of my people. If you want to redeem it, redeem it. But if it is not to be redeemed, then tell me, so that I can know, because there is no one else in line to redeem it, and I’m after you.” He said, “I want to redeem it.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
Then Bo‘az said, “The same day you buy the field from Na‘omi, you must also buy Rut the woman from Mo’av, the wife of the deceased [son], in order to raise up in the name of the deceased an heir for his property.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
The redeemer said, “Then I can’t redeem it for myself, because I might put my own inheritance at risk. You, take my right of redemption on yourself; because I can’t redeem it.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
In the past, this is what was done in Isra’el to validate all transactions involving redemption and exchange: a man took off his shoe and gave it to the other party; this was the form of attestation in Isra’el.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Bo‘az addressed the leaders and all the people: “You are witnesses today that I am purchasing from Na‘omi all that belonged to Elimelekh and all that belonged to Kilyon and Machlon.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Also I am acquiring as my wife Rut the woman from Mo’av, the wife of Machlon, in order to raise up in the name of the deceased an heir for his property; so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his kinsmen and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
All the people at the gate and the leaders said, “We are witnesses. May Adonai make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Le’ah, who between them built up the house of Isra’el. Do worthy deeds in Efrat; become renowned in Beit-Lechem.


book: Ruth
contenido:
May your house, because of the seed Adonai will give you from this young woman, become like the house of Peretz, whom Tamar bore to Y’hudah.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
So Bo‘az took Rut, and she became his wife. He had sexual relations with her, Adonai enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.


book: Ruth
contenido:
Then the women said to Na‘omi, “Blessed be Adonai, who today has provided you a redeemer! May his name be renowned in Isra’el.


book: Ruth
contenido:
May he restore your life and provide for your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”


book: Ruth
contenido:
The women who were her neighbors gave it a name; they said, “A son has been born to Na‘omi,” and called it ‘Oved. He was the father of Yishai the father of David.


book: Lam
contenido:
How lonely lies the city that once thronged with people! Once great among the nations, now she is like a widow! Once princess among provinces, she has become a vassal.


book: Lam
contenido:
Bitterly she weeps at night, tears running down her cheeks. Not one of all her lovers is there to comfort her. Her friends have all betrayed her; they have become her enemies.


book: Lam
contenido:
Y’hudah has fled into exile from oppression and endless slavery. She lives among the nations, but there she finds no rest. Her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.


book: Lam
contenido:
The roads to Tziyon are mourning because no one comes to the festivals. Her gateways are all deserted, her cohanim are groaning, her unmarried girls are grieving — how bitter it is for her!


book: Lam
contenido:
Her foes have become the head, her enemies relax, for Adonai has made her suffer because of her many sins. Her young children have gone away captive before the foe.


book: Lam
contenido:
All splendor has departed from the daughter of Tziyon. Her princes have become like deer unable to find pasture, running on, exhausted, fleeing from the hunter.


book: Lam
contenido:
In the days of her affliction and anguish, Yerushalayim remembers all the treasures that were hers, ever since ancient times. Now her people fall into the power of the foe, and she has no one to help her; her enemies are gloating over her, mocking her desolation.


book: Lam
contenido:
Yerushalayim sinned grievously; therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her now despise her, because they have seen her naked. She herself also moans and turns her face away.


book: Lam
contenido:
Her filthiness was in her skirts; she gave no thought to how it would end. Hence her astounding downfall, with no one to console her. “Look, Adonai, how I suffer; for the foe has triumphed!”


book: Lam
contenido:
Enemies have reached out their hands to seize all her treasures. She has seen Goyim approach and go inside her sanctuary, those whom you forbade even to enter your assembly.


book: Lam
contenido:
All her people are groaning, as they search for something to eat. They barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, Adonai! See how despised I am.


book: Lam
contenido:
“May it not happen to you, all you passers-by! Just look, and see if there is any pain like the pain inflicted on me, which Adonai made me suffer on the day of his blazing anger.


book: Lam
contenido:
“From on high, he sent down fire deep into my bones; he spread a net to catch my feet; he turned me back; he left me desolate, in misery all day long.


book: Lam
contenido:
“My sins have been bound into a yoke, knit together by his hand. It weighs down on my neck, and it saps my strength. Adonai has put me into the power of those I cannot withstand.


book: Lam
contenido:
“All the strong men within my walls Adonai has rejected. He has set a specific time for crushing my young men. Adonai has trodden, like grapes in a winepress, the virgin daughter of Y’hudah.


book: Lam
contenido:
“Because of these things, I weep; my eyes, my eyes stream with tears; for anyone who could comfort me and revive my courage is far away. My children are in a state of shock, because the enemy has prevailed.”


book: Lam
contenido:
Tziyon spreads out her hands, but no one is there to console her. Concerning Ya‘akov, Adonai has ordered those around him to be his foes; Yerushalayim has become for them an unclean, filthy thing.


book: Lam
contenido:
“Adonai is in the right, for I rebelled against his word. Listen, please, all you peoples; and see how I am in pain! My young women and my young men have gone into captivity.


book: Lam
contenido:
“I called out to my lovers, but they let me down. My cohanim and leaders perished in the city, as they were seeking food to keep themselves alive.


book: Lam
contenido:
“See, Adonai, how distressed I am! Everything in me is churning! My heart turns over inside me, because I have been so rebellious. Outside, the sword brings bereavement; inside, it is like death.


book: Lam
contenido:
“People have heard how I groan, with no one to comfort me. All my foes have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring the day you have promised, so that they will suffer like me!


book: Lam
contenido:
“Let all their wickedness come before you. Then do to them as you have done to me because of all my offenses. For my groans are many, and I am sick at heart.”


book: Lam
contenido:
How enveloped in darkness Adonai, in his anger, has made the daughter of Tziyon! He has thrown down from heaven to earth the splendor of Isra’el, forgotten his footstool [the sanctuary] on the day of his anger.


book: Lam
contenido:
Without pity Adonai swallowed up all the dwellings of Ya‘akov. In his wrath he broke down the strongholds of the daughter of Y’hudah, brought them down to the ground, thus profaning the kingdom and its rulers.


book: Lam
contenido:
In his fierce anger he cut off all the power of Isra’el, withdrew his protecting right hand at the approach of the enemy, and blazed up in Ya‘akov like a flaming fire devouring everything around it.


book: Lam
contenido:
He bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe. He killed all who were pleasant to see. In the tent of the daughter of Tziyon, he poured out his fury like fire.


book: Lam
contenido:
Adonai became like an enemy; he swallowed up Isra’el, swallowed up all its palaces, and destroyed all its strongholds. For the daughter of Y’hudah he has multiplied mourning and moaning.


book: Lam
contenido:
He wrecked his tabernacle as easily as a garden, destroyed his place of assembly. Adonai caused Isra’el to forget designated times and Shabbats. In the heat of his anger he rejected both king and cohen.


book: Lam
contenido:
Adonai rejected his altar, disowned his sanctuary, and gave her palace walls over to the power of the foe, who raised such shouts in the house of Adonai that it sounded like a festival day.


book: Lam
contenido:
Adonai resolved to destroy the wall of the daughter of Tziyon. He measured it with his line and did not stay his hand until it was all in ruins. He brought grief to rampart and wall; together they lie dejected.


book: Lam
contenido:
Her gates have sunk into the ground; he destroyed and broke their bars. Her king and rulers are among the Goyim, there is no more Torah, and her prophets do not receive visions from Adonai.


book: Lam
contenido:
The leaders of the daughter of Tziyon sit on the ground in silence. They throw dust on their heads; they are wearing sackcloth. The unmarried women of Yerushalayim lower their heads to the ground.


book: Lam
contenido:
My eyes are worn out from weeping, everything in me is churning; I am empty of emotion because of the wounds to my people, because children and infants are fainting away in the streets of the city.


book: Lam
contenido:
They keep asking their mothers, “Where is something to eat or drink?” as they faint away in the streets of the city, gasping out their last breath in their mother’s bosom.


book: Lam
contenido:
What can be said to you, what can be compared with you, daughter of Yerushalayim? What example can I give to comfort you, virgin daughter of Tziyon? For your downfall is as vast as the sea; who can heal you?


book: Lam
contenido:
The visions your prophets saw for you were futile, just a whitewash. They did not expose your guilt, so as to reverse your fortunes — no, the visions they saw for you were alluring, but futile.


book: Lam
contenido:
All who pass your way clap their hands at you, hissing and shaking their heads at the daughter of Yerushalayim: “This city was called ‘perfection in beauty’? ‘the joy of the whole earth’?”


book: Lam
contenido:
All your adversaries open their mouths to jeer at you. They hiss, they grind their teeth; they say, “We have swallowed her up! This is the day we were waiting for, and now we have lived to see it!”


book: Lam
contenido:
Adonai has done what he planned, he has fulfilled his promise, which he decreed in ancient times. He has destroyed without pity, he has let the enemy gloat over you and filled your foes with pride.


book: Lam
contenido:
Their hearts cried out to Adonai, “Wall of the daughter of Tziyon! Let your tears stream down like a torrent, day and night! Give yourself no respite, give your eyes no rest!


book: Lam
contenido:
“Get up! Cry out in the night, at the beginning of every watch! Pour your heart out like water before the face of Adonai! Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your babies, who are fainting away from hunger at every streetcorner.”


book: Lam
contenido:
Adonai, look and see who it is you have thus tormented! Should women eat the fruit of their wombs, the children they have held in their hands? Should cohanim and prophets be slaughtered in the sanctuary of Adonai?


book: Lam
contenido:
Youths and old men are lying on the ground in the streets, my unmarried women and young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them on the day of your anger, you slaughtered them without pity.


book: Lam
contenido:
You have summoned my terrors from every direction, as on a festival day. On the day of Adonai’s anger, not one escaped; not one survived — the children I held in my arms and raised, my enemy has destroyed.


book: Lam
contenido:
How the gold has lost its luster! How the fine gold has changed! How the stones of the sanctuary lie scattered at every streetcorner!


book: Lam
contenido:
The precious sons of Tziyon, as precious as fine gold — to think they are now worth no more than clay jars made by a potter!


book: Lam
contenido:
Even jackals bare their breasts in order to nurse their young, but the daughters of my people have become as cruel as ostriches in the desert.


book: Lam
contenido:
The tongue of the baby at the breast sticks to the roof of its mouth from thirst; young children are begging for bread, but no one is giving them any.


book: Lam
contenido:
People who once ate only the best lie dying in the streets; those who were raised wearing purple are clawing at piles of garbage.


book: Lam
contenido:
For the offense of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of S’dom, which was overthrown in an instant, without a hand to help her.


book: Lam
contenido:
Her princes were purer than snow; they were whiter than milk, their bodies more ruddy than pink pearls, as beautiful as sapphires.


book: Lam
contenido:
Now their faces are blacker than coal; in the streets they go unrecognized. Their skin has shriveled over their bones and become as dry as a stick.


book: Lam
contenido:
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who are dying from hunger; since these waste away as if pierced through, for lack of food from the fields.


book: Lam
contenido:
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children; their children became their food when the daughter of my people was destroyed.


book: Lam
contenido:
Adonai has finished with his fury, he has poured out his blazing wrath; he kindled a fire in Tziyon that consumed its very foundations.


book: Lam
contenido:
The kings of the earth could not believe, neither could anyone living in the world, that enemy or foe would ever enter the gates of Yerushalayim.


book: Lam
contenido:
It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the offenses of her cohanim, who, within her walls, shed the blood of the righteous.


book: Lam
contenido:
They wander in the streets like the blind; they are so polluted with blood that nobody is able even to touch their clothing.


book: Lam
contenido:
“Keep away! Unclean!” people shout at them, “Keep away! Away! Don’t touch us!” They flee, to wander here and there; but no nation allows them to stay.


book: Lam
contenido:
Adonai himself scattered them; he will no longer look after them; they had no respect for cohanim and showed no kindness to the leaders.


book: Lam
contenido:
As for us, our eyes are worn out from looking in vain for help; we kept on watching and watching for a nation that couldn’t save us.


book: Lam
contenido:
They keep dogging our steps, so that we can’t go out in our streets. Our end is near, our time is up; yes, our end has come.


book: Lam
contenido:
Those who pursued us were swifter than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains and waylaid us in the desert.


book: Lam
contenido:
Adonai’s anointed, our life-breath, was caught in their pits; though of him we had said, “Under his protection, we can live among the nations.”


book: Lam
contenido:
Rejoice, be glad, daughter of Edom, who lives in the land of ‘Utz. To you too the cup will pass; you will get drunk and strip yourself naked!


book: Lam
contenido:
Your offenses, daughter of Tziyon, are atoned for; he will keep you in exile no longer. Your offenses, daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will expose your sins.


book: Lam
contenido:
unless you have totally rejected us in a fury that knows no limits. [Adonai, turn us back to you; and we will come back; renew our days, as they were in the past.]


book: Eccl
contenido:
The wind blows south, then it turns north; the wind blows all around and keeps returning to its rounds.


book: Eccl
contenido:
All the rivers flow to the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers flow, there they keep on flowing.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Everything is wearisome, more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, the ear not filled up with hearing.


book: Eccl
contenido:
What has been is what will be, what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Is there something of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It existed already in the ages before us.


book: Eccl
contenido:
No one remembers the people of long ago; and those to come will not be remembered by those who come after them.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I wisely applied myself to seek out and investigate everything done under heaven. What a bothersome task God has given humanity to keep us occupied!


book: Eccl
contenido:
I have seen all the activities that are done under the sun, and it’s all pointless, feeding on wind.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I said to myself, “Look, I have acquired much wisdom, more than anyone ruling Yerushalayim before me.” Yes, I experienced a great deal of wisdom and knowledge;


book: Eccl
contenido:
yet when I applied myself to understanding wisdom and knowledge, as well as stupidity and folly, I came to see that this too was merely feeding on wind.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test myself with pleasure and enjoying good things”; but this too was pointless.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I searched my mind for how to gratify my body with wine and, with my mind still guiding me with wisdom, how to pursue foolishness; my object was to find out what was the best thing for people to do during the short time they have under heaven to live.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I bought male and female slaves, and I had my home-born slaves as well. I also had growing herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, more than anyone before me in Yerushalayim.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I amassed silver and gold, the wealth of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, things that provide sensual delight, and a good many concubines.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I denied my eyes nothing they wanted. I withheld no pleasure from myself; for I took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward for all my work.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Then I looked at all that my hands had accomplished and at the work I had toiled at; and I saw that it was all meaningless and feeding on wind, and that there was nothing to be gained under the sun.


book: Eccl
contenido:
So I decided to look more carefully at wisdom, stupidity and foolishness; for what can the man who succeeds the king do, except what has already been done?


book: Eccl
contenido:
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet the same fate awaits them all.


book: Eccl
contenido:
So I said to myself, “If the same thing happens to the fool as to me, then what did I gain by being wise?” and I thought to myself, “This too is pointless.


book: Eccl
contenido:
For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered, inasmuch as in the times to come, everything will long ago have been forgotten. The wise man, no less than the fool, must die.”


book: Eccl
contenido:
So I came to hate life, because the activities done under the sun were loathesome to me, since everything is meaningless and feeding on wind.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I hated all the things for which I had worked under the sun, because I saw that I would have to leave them to the man who will come after me.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the things I worked for and which demonstrated how wise I am under the sun. This too is pointless.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Here is a man whose work is done with wisdom, knowledge and skill; yet he has to leave it to someone who has put no work into it. This is not only pointless, but a great evil.


book: Eccl
contenido:
For what does a person get from all his efforts and ambitions permeating the work he does under the sun?


book: Eccl
contenido:
His whole life is one of pain, and his work is full of stress; even at night his mind gets no rest. This too is pointless.


book: Eccl
contenido:
So there is nothing better for a man to do than eat, drink and and let himself enjoy the good that results from his work. I also realized that this is from God’s hand.


book: Eccl
contenido:
For to the man who is good from [God’s] viewpoint he gives wisdom, knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of collecting and accumulating things to leave to him who is good from God’s viewpoint. This too is pointless and feeding on wind.


book: Eccl
contenido:
He has made everything suited to its time; also, he has given human beings an awareness of eternity; but in such a way that they can’t fully comprehend, from beginning to end, the things God does.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I know that there is nothing better for them to do than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Still, the fact that everyone can eat and drink and enjoy the good that results from all his work, is a gift of God.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I know that whatever God does will last forever; there is nothing to add or subtract from it; and God has done it so that people will fear him.


book: Eccl
contenido:
That which was is here already; and that which will be has already been, but God seeks out what people chase after.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Another thing I observed under the sun: There, in the same place as justice, was wickedness; there, in the same place as righteousness, was wickedness.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I said to myself, “The righteous and the wicked God will judge, because there is a right time for every intention and for every action.”


book: Eccl
contenido:
Concerning people, I said to myself, “God is testing them, so that they will see that by themselves they are just animals.


book: Eccl
contenido:
After all, the same things that happen to people happen to animals, the very same thing — just as the one dies, so does the other. Yes, their breath is the same; so that humans are no better than animals; since nothing matters, anyway.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Who knows if the spirit of a human being goes upward and the spirit of an animal goes downward into the earth?”


book: Eccl
contenido:
So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person to do than take joy in his activities, that that is his allotted portion; for who can enable him to see what will happen after him?


book: Eccl
contenido:
But I turned away and thought about all the kinds of oppression being done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them. The power was on the side of their oppressors, and they had no one to comfort them.


book: Eccl
contenido:
So I considered the dead happier, because they were already dead, than the living, who must still live their lives;


book: Eccl
contenido:
but happier than either of them is the one who has not yet been born, because he has not yet seen the evil things that are done under the sun.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Next I realized that all effort and achievement stem from one person’s envy of another. This too is futility and feeding on wind.


book: Eccl
contenido:
the situation in which a solitary individual without a companion, with neither son nor brother, keeps on working endlessly but never has enough wealth. “For whom” [he should ask], “am I working so hard and denying myself pleasure?” This too is truly pointless, a sorry business.


book: Eccl
contenido:
if one of them falls, the other will help his partner up — woe to him who is alone when he falls and has no one to help him up.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Again, if two people sleep together, they keep each other warm; but how can one person be warm by himself?


book: Eccl
contenido:
Moreover, an attacker may defeat someone who is alone, but two can resist him; and a three-stranded cord is not easily broken.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Better a youth who is poor but wise than a king who is old but foolish, no longer willing to listen to advice.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I observed that all who live and walk under the sun took the side of the youth mentioned first who would rule in place of the king,


book: Eccl
contenido:
and that no limit was set for the number of his subjects. Nevertheless, those who come afterwards will not regard him highly. This too is certainly pointless and feeding on wind.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Watch your step when you go to the house of God. Offering to listen is better than fools offering sacrifices, because they don’t discern whether or not they are doing evil.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Don’t speak impulsively — don’t be in a hurry to give voice to your words before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth; so let your words be few.


book: Eccl
contenido:
If you make a vow to God, don’t delay in discharging it. For God takes no pleasure in fools, so discharge your vow!


book: Eccl
contenido:
Don’t let your words make you guilty, and don’t tell the temple official that you made the vow by mistake. Why give God reason to be angry at what you say and destroy what you have accomplished?


book: Eccl
contenido:
For [this is what happens when there are too] many dreams, aimless activities and words. Instead, just fear God!


book: Eccl
contenido:
If you see the poor oppressed, rights violated and justice perverted in the province, don’t be surprised; for a high official has one higher watching him, and there are others above them.


book: Eccl
contenido:
The lover of money never has enough money; the lover of luxury never has enough income. This too is pointless.


book: Eccl
contenido:
When the quantity of goods increases, so does the number of parasites consuming them; so the only advantage to the owner is that he gets to watch them do it.


book: Eccl
contenido:
The sleep of a working man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the overfullness of the rich won’t let them sleep at all.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Here is a gross evil which I have seen under the sun: the owner of wealth hoards it to his own hurt.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Due to some misfortune, the wealth turns to loss; and then if he has fathered a son, he has nothing to leave him.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Just as he came from his mother’s womb, so he will go back naked as he came, and for his efforts he will take nothing that he can carry away in his hand.


book: Eccl
contenido:
This too is a gross evil, that in every respect as he came, so will he go; thus what profit does he have after toiling to earn the wind?


book: Eccl
contenido:
This is what I have seen to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, drink and enjoy the good that results from all his work that he engages in under the sun for all the days of his life that God has given him, for this is his allotted portion.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Also, everyone to whom God has given riches and wealth, along with the power to enjoy it, so that he takes his allotted portion and finds pleasure in his work — this is a gift of God;


book: Eccl
contenido:
for he will not brood over the fact that his life is short, since God keeps him occupied with what will bring him joy.


book: Eccl
contenido:
the case in which God gives someone riches, wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing that he wants; but God does not give him the power to enjoy them, and some stranger gets to enjoy them — this is meaningless, evil, sick.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Suppose a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that he has a long life, but he fails to enjoy himself; then, even if he were to [live indefinitely and therefore] never be buried, I say that it would be better to be born dead.


book: Eccl
contenido:
For the arrival of a stillborn baby is a futile thing, and its departure is in darkness; its name is [forgotten,] covered in darkness;


book: Eccl
contenido:
without enjoying himself, even if he were to live a thousand years twice over. Doesn’t everyone go to the same place?


book: Eccl
contenido:
Whatever he is, he was named long ago, and it is known that he is merely human; moreover, he cannot defeat what is mightier than he [death].


book: Eccl
contenido:
For who knows what is good for someone during life, during the days of his pointless life spent like a shadow? Who can tell what will happen under the sun after a person is gone?


book: Eccl
contenido:
Better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for all are destined to be mourned; the living should lay this to heart.


book: Eccl
contenido:
The thoughts of the wise are in the house of mourning, but the thoughts of fools are in the house of pleasure.


book: Eccl
contenido:
For the laughter of fools is like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot; this too is pointless.


book: Eccl
contenido:
For wisdom is a shelter, and money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom keeps the one who has it alive.


book: Eccl
contenido:
When things are going well, enjoy yourself; but when things are going badly, consider that God made the one alongside the other, so that people would learn nothing of their futures.


book: Eccl
contenido:
In my pointless life, I’ve seen everything — from the righteous person perishing in his uprightness to the wicked one who lives a long life and keeps on doing wrong.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Don’t grasp just one of these rules; take hold of the other as well; for he who is in fear of God will live by both of them.


book: Eccl
contenido:
Also, don’t take seriously every word spoken, such as when you hear your servant speaking badly of you;


book: Eccl
contenido:
All this I have put to the test of wisdom; I said, “I will acquire wisdom”; but wisdom remained far away from me.


book: Eccl
contenido:
So I turned myself and my thoughts to know, search out and seek wisdom and the reasons behind things, also to know how foolish it is to be wicked and how stupid to act like a fool.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is a snare and whose hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God will escape from her, but the sinner will be caught by her.


book: Eccl
contenido:
I searched a long time without finding it: one man in a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found.


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contenido:
This is the only thing I have found, that God made human beings upright, but they have devised many schemes.


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contenido:
Who can be compared with a wise person? Who else knows what a thing means? Wisdom lights up the face and softens a grim appearance.


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Don’t be quick to leave his presence, and don’t persist in doing what is wrong, for he does whatever he pleases.


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contenido:
Whoever obeys his command will never come to harm, and the wise person will know the right time and judgment.


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contenido:
Just as no one has the power to keep the wind from blowing, so no one has power over the day of death. If one is drafted to fight a war, one can’t send a substitute; likewise the wicked won’t escape death by their wickedness.


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contenido:
All this I have seen, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun when one person tyrannizes another.


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contenido:
Thus I saw the wicked buried; they had even come from the Holy Place. But those who had acted uprightly were forgotten in the city. This too is a futile thing;


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contenido:
because the punishment decreed for an evil act is not promptly carried out; therefore people who plan to do evil are strengthened in their intentions.


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contenido:
For a sinner can do evil a hundred times and still live a long life; although I know that in the end things will go well with those who fear God, because they fear him.


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contenido:
But things will not go well with the wicked; and, like a shadow, he will not prolong his days; because he doesn’t fear God.


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contenido:
There is something frustrating that occurs on earth, namely, that there are righteous people to whom things happen as if they were doing wicked deeds; and, again, there are wicked people to whom things happen as if they were doing righteous deeds. I say that this too is pointless.


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contenido:
So I recommend enjoyment — a person can do nothing better under the sun than eat, drink and enjoy himself; this is what should accompany him as he does his work for as long as God gives him to live under the sun.


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contenido:
When I applied myself to gain wisdom and to observe how people occupy themselves on earth, that people’s eyes don’t see sleep either by day or by night,


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contenido:
then, on looking over all of God’s work, I realized that it is impossible to grasp all the activity taking place under the sun; because even if a person works hard at searching it out, he won’t grasp it; and even if a wise person thinks he knows it, he still won’t be able to grasp it.


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contenido:
I applied myself to all of this, sifted through it and concluded that the righteous and the wise, along with their deeds, are in God’s hands — a person cannot know whether these people and deeds will be rewarded with love or with hatred; all options are open.


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contenido:
Anything can happen to anyone; the same thing can happen to the righteous as to the wicked, to the good and clean and to the unclean, to someone who offers a sacrifice and to someone who doesn’t offer a sacrifice; it is the same for a good person as for a sinner, for someone who takes an oath rashly as for someone who fears to take an oath.


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contenido:
This is another evil among all those done under the sun, that the same events can occur to anyone. Truly, the human mind is full of evil; and as long as people live, folly is in their hearts; after which they go to be with the dead.


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contenido:
For as long as a person is linked with the living, there is hope — better to be a living dog than a dead lion!


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contenido:
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; there is no longer any reward for them, because all memory of them is lost.


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contenido:
What they loved, what they hated and what they envied all disappeared long ago, and they no longer have a share in anything done under the sun.


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contenido:
So go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God has already accepted your deeds.


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contenido:
Enjoy life with the wife you have loved throughout your meaningless life that he has given you under the sun, all the days of your futility; for that is your allotted portion in life and in your labor that you work at under the sun.


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contenido:
Whatever task comes your way to do, do it with all your strength; because in Sh’ol, where you will go, there is neither working nor planning, neither knowledge nor wisdom.


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contenido:
Yet another thing I observed under the sun is that races aren’t won by the swift or battles by the strong, and that food doesn’t go to the wise or wealth to the intelligent or favor to the experts; rather, time and chance rule them all.


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contenido:
For people don’t know when their time will come any more than fish taken in the fatal net or birds caught in a snare; similarly, people are snared at an unfortunate time, when suddenly it falls on them.


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contenido:
there was a small town with few people in it; and a great king came to attack it; he surrounded it and built massive siege-works against it.


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contenido:
Now there was found in it a man who was poor but wise, and by his wisdom he saved the city; yet afterwards, nobody remembered that poor man.


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contenido:
So, although I say that wisdom is better than strength, nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised; nobody pays attention to what he says.


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contenido:
If the [hatchet’s] iron [blade] is blunt, and [its user] doesn’t sharpen it, he will have to exert more effort; but the expert has the advantage of his skill.


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contenido:
A fool keeps talking and talking, yet no one knows what the future will bring — can anyone tell a person what will happen after he’s gone?


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contenido:
Happy are you, land, when your king is well-born, and your princes eat at the proper time, in order to stay strong, not to get drunk!


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contenido:
Parties are made for having a good time, wine adds cheer to life, and money has an answer for everything.


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contenido:
Don’t insult the king, not even in your thoughts; and don’t insult the wealthy, not even in your bedroom; for a bird in the air might carry the news, a creature with wings might repeat what you said.


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contenido:
Divide your merchandise into seven or eight shares, since you don’t know what disasters may come on the earth.


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contenido:
If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth. Whether a tree falls toward the north or the south, the place where the tree falls is where it stays.


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contenido:
Just as you don’t know the way of the wind or how bones grow in a pregnant woman’s womb, so you don’t know the work of God, the maker of everything.


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contenido:
In the morning, sow your seed; and don’t slack off until evening; for you don’t know which sowing will succeed, this, or that, or if both will do well.


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contenido:
For if a person lives many years, let him take joy in them all; yet remembering that there will be many days of darkness, that all to come is futile.


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Young person, if you spend your youth only having fun, if you use your early years just to entertain yourself, if you follow your heart as you live your life, and let your eyes be your guide; understand that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.


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contenido:
Therefore, remove anger from your heart; and keep from harming your body; for neither adolescence nor youth has any lasting value.


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contenido:
So remember your creator while you are young, before the evil days come, and the years approach when you will say, “They no longer give me pleasure”;


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contenido:
before the sun and the light grow dim, also the moon and the stars; before the clouds return after the rain;


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contenido:
on the day when the guards of the house are trembling, and men of courage are bent over double; when the women stop grinding grain, because there are so few; when the women at the windows can no longer see out;


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contenido:
when the doors to the streets are kept shut; when the noise from the grain-mill fades; when a person is startled by the chirp of a bird, yet their singing is hard to hear;


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contenido:
when they will be afraid to go up a hill, and terrors will stalk the way, even though the almond tree is in bloom; when the locust can only drag itself along, and the caper berry has no [aphrodisiac] effect — because the person is headed for his eternal home, and the mourners are already gathering in the marketplace —


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contenido:
before the silver cord is snapped the bowl of gold is cracked, the pitcher is shattered at the spring, the pulley is broken at the cistern,


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contenido:
Not only was Kohelet wise, he also taught the people what he knew; also he weighed, researched and corrected many ethical sayings.


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contenido:
Kohelet worked to develop an attractive writing style, in which he expressed the truth straightforwardly.


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contenido:
The sayings of the wise are as sharp as goads, and those given by leaders of assemblies are like well-fixed nails; [in this case,] they are presented by a single shepherd.


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contenido:
In addition, my son, take heed: one can write many books — there’s no end to it; and one can study so much that it wearies the flesh.


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contenido:
Here is the final conclusion, now that you have heard everything: fear God, and keep his mitzvot; this is what being human is all about.


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contenido:
For God will bring to judgment everything we do, including every secret, whether good or bad. [Here is the final conclusion, now that you have heard everything: fear God, and keep his mitzvot; this is what being human is all about.]


book: Esth
contenido:
These events took place in the time of Achashverosh, the Achashverosh who ruled over 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia.


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contenido:
in the third year of his reign, that he gave a banquet for all his officials and courtiers. The army of Persia and Media, the nobles and the provincial officials were in attendance.


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contenido:
At the end of that time, the king gave a seven-day banquet in the courtyard of the royal palace garden for all the people, both great and small, there in Shushan the capital.


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contenido:
There were white cotton curtains and blue hangings fastened to silver rods, with cords of fine linen and purple; the columns were marble; the couches [for reclining at table] were of gold and silver on a mosaic flooring of malachite, marble, mother-of-pearl and onyx.


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Drinks were served in gold goblets, with each goblet different from the others. There was royal wine in abundance, as befits royal bounty.


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contenido:
The drinking was not according to any fixed rule, for the king had ordered the stewards to serve each man what he wanted.


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contenido:
Also Vashti the queen gave a banquet for the women in the royal house belonging to King Achashverosh.


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contenido:
On the seventh day, when the king was in high spirits from the wine, he ordered Mehuman, Bizta, Harvona, Bigta, Avagta, Zetar and Karkas, the seven officers who attended him,


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contenido:
to bring Queen Vashti before the king with the royal crown, in order to show the people and the officials her beauty, for she was indeed a good-looking woman.


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contenido:
But Queen Vashti refused to come at the order of the king, which he had sent through his officers. This enraged the king — his anger blazed inside him.


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contenido:
With him were Karshna, Shetar, Admata, Tarshish, Meres, Marsna and Memukhan, the seven vice-regents of Persia and Media, who were part of the king’s inner circle and were the most important officials in the kingdom.


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contenido:
[The king asked the sages,] “According to the law, what should we do to Queen Vashti, since she didn’t obey the order of King Achashverosh conveyed by the officers?”


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contenido:
Memukhan presented the king and vice-regents this answer: “Vashti the queen has wronged not only the king, but also all the officials and all the peoples in all the provinces of King Achashverosh;


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contenido:
because this act of the queen’s will become known to all the women, who will then start showing disrespect toward their own husbands; they will say, ‘King Achashverosh ordered Vashti the queen to be brought before him, but she wouldn’t come.’


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Moreover, the noble ladies of Persia and Media who hear of the queen’s conduct will mention it to all the king’s officials, which will bring about no end of disrespect and discord.


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contenido:
If it pleases his majesty, let him issue a royal decree — and let it be written as one of the laws of the Persians and Medes, which are irrevocable — that Vashti is never again to be admitted into the presence of King Achashverosh, and that the king give her royal position to someone better than she.


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contenido:
When the edict made by the king is proclaimed throughout the length and breadth of the kingdom, then all wives will honor their husbands, whether great or small.”


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contenido:
he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, that every man should be master in his own house and speak the language of his own people.


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contenido:
A while later, when King Achashverosh’s anger had subsided, he remembered Vashti, what she had done and what had been decreed against her.


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contenido:
The king should appoint officials in all the provinces of the kingdom to gather all the young, good-looking virgins to the house for the harem, in Shushan the capital. They should be put under the care of Hegai the king’s officer in charge of the women, and he should give them the cosmetics they require.


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contenido:
Then, the girl who seems best to the king should become queen instead of Vashti.” This proposal pleased the king, so he acted accordingly.


book: Esth
contenido:
There was in Shushan the capital a man who was a Jew, whose name was Mordekhai the son of Ya’ir, the son of Shim‘i, the son of Kish, a Binyamini.


book: Esth
contenido:
He had been exiled from Yerushalayim with the captives exiled with Y’khanyah king of Y’hudah, whom N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel had carried off.


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contenido:
He had raised Hadassah, that is, Ester, his uncle’s daughter; because she had neither father nor mother. The girl was shapely and good-looking; after her father’s and mother’s death, Mordekhai had adopted her as his own daughter.


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contenido:
When the king’s order and decree were proclaimed, and many girls assembled in Shushan the capital under the care of Hegai, Ester too was taken into the king’s house and put under the care of Hegai, who was in charge of the women.


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contenido:
The girl pleased him and won his favor, so that he lost no time in giving her her cosmetics, her portions [of special food] and seven girls from the king’s palace to attend her; he also promoted her and the girls attending her to the best place in the harem’s quarters.


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contenido:
Ester did not disclose her people or family ties, because Mordekhai had instructed her not to tell anyone.


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contenido:
Every day Mordekhai would walk around in front of the courtyard of the harem’s house in order to know how Ester was doing and what was happening to her.


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contenido:
Each girl had her turn to appear before King Achashverosh after she had undergone the full twelve-month preparation period prescribed for the women, consisting of a six-month treatment with oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and other cosmetics for women.


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contenido:
Then, when the girl went to see the king, whatever she wanted would be given to her as she went from the harem’s house to the king’s palace.


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contenido:
She would go in the evening, and on the following day she would return to another part of the harem’s house and be under the care of Sha‘ashgaz the king’s officer in charge of the concubines. She would not go to the king again unless he was especially pleased with her and had her summoned by name.


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contenido:
When the turn came for Ester the daughter of Avichayil, whom Mordekhai had adopted as his own daughter, to appear before the king, she didn’t ask for anything other than what Hegai the king’s officer in charge of the harem advised. Yet Ester was admired by all who saw her.


book: Esth
contenido:
She was brought to King Achashverosh in his royal palace in the tenth month, Tevet, during the seventh year of his reign.


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contenido:
The king liked Ester more than any of his wives; none of the other virgins obtained such favor and approval from him. So he put the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.


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contenido:
The king then gave a great banquet in Ester’s honor for all his officers and servants, decreed a holiday for the provinces and distributed gifts worthy of royal bounty.


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contenido:
Ester had not yet revealed her family ties or her people, as Mordekhai had ordered her; for Ester continued obeying what Mordekhai told her to do, as she had when he was raising her.


book: Esth
contenido:
On one of those occasions, when Mordekhai was sitting at the King’s Gate, two of the king’s officers, Bigtan and Teresh, from the group in charge of the private entryways, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Achashverosh.


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contenido:
But Mordekhai learned about it and told Ester the queen. Ester reported it to the king, crediting Mordekhai.


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contenido:
The matter was investigated, found to be true, and both were hanged on a stake. All this was recorded in the daily journal that was kept with the king.


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contenido:
Some time later King Achashverosh began to single out Haman the son of Hamdata the Agagi for advancement; eventually he gave him precedence over all his fellow officers.


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contenido:
All the king’s servants at the King’s Gate would kneel and bow down before Haman, because the king had so ordered. But Mordekhai would neither kneel nor bow down to him.


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contenido:
But after they had confronted him a number of times without his paying attention to them, they told Haman, in order to find out whether Mordekhai’s explanation that he was a Jew would suffice to justify his behavior.


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contenido:
However, on learning what people Mordekhai belonged to, it seemed to him a waste to lay hands on Mordekhai alone. Rather, he decided to destroy all of Mordekhai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole of Achashverosh’s kingdom.


book: Esth
contenido:
In the first month, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of Achashverosh, they began throwing pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman every day and every month until the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.


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contenido:
Then Haman said to Achashverosh, “There is a particular people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people; moreover, they don’t observe the king’s laws. It doesn’t befit the king to tolerate them.


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contenido:
If it please the king, have a decree written for their destruction; and I will hand over 330 tons of silver to the officials in charge of the king’s affairs to deposit in the royal treasury.”


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contenido:
The king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the son of Hamdata the Agagi, the enemy of the Jews.


book: Esth
contenido:
The king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, and the people too, to do with as seems good to you.”


book: Esth
contenido:
The king’s secretaries were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month. They wrote down all Haman’s orders to the king’s army commanders and governors in all the provinces and to the officials of every people, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language; everything was written in the name of King Achashverosh and sealed with the king’s signet ring.


book: Esth
contenido:
Letters were sent by courier to all the royal provinces “to destroy, kill and exterminate all Jews, from young to old, including small children and women, on a specific day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to seize their goods as plunder.”


book: Esth
contenido:
A copy of the document to be issued as a decree in every province was to be publicly proclaimed to all the peoples, so that they would be ready for that day.


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contenido:
At the king’s order the runners went out quickly, and the decree was issued in Shushan the capital. Then the king and Haman sat down for a drink together, but the city of Shushan was thrown into confusion.


book: Esth
contenido:
When Mordekhai learned everything that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes and went out through the city, lamenting and crying bitterly.


book: Esth
contenido:
He stopped before entering the King’s Gate, since no one was allowed to go inside the King’s Gate wearing sackcloth.


book: Esth
contenido:
In every province reached by the king’s order and decree, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing, as many lay down on sackcloth and ashes.


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contenido:
When the girls and officials attending Ester came and informed her of this, the queen became deeply distressed. She sent clothes for Mordekhai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he wouldn’t accept them.


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contenido:
So Ester summoned Hatakh, one of the king’s officials attending her, and instructed him to go to Mordekhai and find out what this was all about and why.


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contenido:
and Mordekhai told him everything that had happened to him and exactly how much silver Haman had promised to put in the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.


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contenido:
He also gave him a copy of the decree for their destruction issued in Shushan; so that he could show it to Ester, explain it to her, and then instruct her to approach the king, intercede with him and implore his favor on behalf of her people.


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contenido:
“All the king’s officials, as well as the people in the royal provinces, know that if anyone, man or woman, approaches the king in the inner courtyard without being summoned, there is just one law — he must be put to death — unless the king holds out the gold scepter for him to remain alive; and I haven’t been summoned to the king for the past thirty days.”


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contenido:
asked them to give Ester this answer: “Don’t suppose that merely because you happen to be in the royal palace you will escape any more than the other Jews.


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contenido:
For if you fail to speak up now, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from a different direction; but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows whether you didn’t come into your royal position precisely for such a time as this.”


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contenido:
“Go, assemble all the Jews to be found in Shushan, and have them fast for me, neither eating nor drinking for three days, night and day; also I and the girls attending me will fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”


book: Esth
contenido:
On the third day, Ester put on her royal robes and stood in the inner courtyard of the king’s palace, opposite the king’s hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the king’s hall, across from the entrance to the hall.


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contenido:
When the king saw Ester the queen standing in the courtyard, she won his favor; so the king extended the gold scepter in his hand toward Ester. Ester approached and touched the tip of the scepter.


book: Esth
contenido:
“What is it you want, Queen Ester?” the king asked her. “Whatever your request, up to half the kingdom, it will be given to you.”


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contenido:
“If it is all right with the king,” answered Ester, “let the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for him.”


book: Esth
contenido:
The king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that what Ester has asked for can be done.” So the king and Haman came to the banquet Ester had prepared.


book: Esth
contenido:
At the banquet of wine the king again said to Ester, “Whatever your request, you will be granted it; whatever you want, up to half the kingdom, it will be done.”


book: Esth
contenido:
if I have won the king’s favor, if it pleases the king to grant my request and do what I want, let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them; and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”


book: Esth
contenido:
That day Haman went out happy and in good spirits. But when Haman saw Mordekhai at the King’s Gate, that he neither rose nor moved for him, Haman was infuriated with Mordekhai.


book: Esth
contenido:
Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, where he summoned and brought his friends and Zeresh his wife.


book: Esth
contenido:
Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and everything connected with how the king had promoted him and given him precedence over the other officials and servants of the king.


book: Esth
contenido:
“Indeed,” Haman added, “Ester the queen let nobody into the banquet with the king that she had prepared except myself; and tomorrow, too, I am invited by her, together with the king.


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contenido:
Yet none of this does me any good at all, as long as I keep seeing Mordekhai the Jew remaining seated at the King’s Gate.”


book: Esth
contenido:
At this Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows seventy-five feet high constructed, and in the morning speak to the king about having Mordekhai hanged on it. Then go in, and enjoy yourself with the king at the banquet.” Haman liked the idea, so he had a gallows made.


book: Esth
contenido:
That night, the king couldn’t sleep; so he ordered the records of the daily journal brought, and they were read to the king.


book: Esth
contenido:
It was found written that Mordekhai had told about Bigtana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers from the group in charge of the private entryways, who had conspired to assassinate King Achashverosh.


book: Esth
contenido:
The king asked, “What honor or distinction was conferred on Mordekhai for this?” The king’s servants answered, “Nothing was done for him.”


book: Esth
contenido:
The king then asked, “Who’s that in the courtyard?” For Haman had come into the outer courtyard of the king’s palace to speak to the king about hanging Mordekhai on the gallows he had prepared for him.


book: Esth
contenido:
The king’s servants told him, “It’s Haman standing there in the courtyard.” The king said, “Have him come in.”


book: Esth
contenido:
So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What should be done for a man that the king wants to honor?” Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king want to honor more than me?”


book: Esth
contenido:
have royal robes brought which the king himself wears and the horse the king himself rides, with a royal crown on its head.


book: Esth
contenido:
The robes and the horse should be handed over to one of the king’s most respected officials, and they should put the robes on the man the king wants to honor and lead him on horseback through the streets of the city, proclaiming ahead of him, ‘This is what is done for a man whom the king wants to honor.’”


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contenido:
The king said to Haman, “Hurry, and take the robes and the horse, as you said, and do this for Mordekhai the Jew, who sits at the King’s Gate. Don’t leave out anything you mentioned.”


book: Esth
contenido:
So Haman took the robes and the horse, dressed Mordekhai and led him riding through the streets of the city, as he proclaimed ahead of him, “This is what is done for a man whom the king wants to honor.”


book: Esth
contenido:
Then Mordekhai returned to the King’s Gate; but Haman rushed home with his head covered in mourning.


book: Esth
contenido:
After Haman had told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordekhai, before whom you have begun to fall, is a Jew, you will not get the better of him; on the contrary, your downfall before him is certain.”


book: Esth
contenido:
While they were still talking with him, the king’s officials came, hurrying to bring Haman to the banquet Ester had prepared.


book: Esth
contenido:
and the king again said to Ester at the wine banquet, “Whatever your request, Queen Ester, you will be granted it; whatever you want, up to half the kingdom, it will be done.”


book: Esth
contenido:
Ester the queen answered, “If I have won your favor, king, and if it pleases the king, then what I ask be given me is my own life and the lives of my people.


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For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, exterminated. If we had only been sold as men- and women-slaves, I would have remained quiet; since then [our] trouble would not have been worth the damage it would have caused the king [to alter the situation].”


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King Achashverosh asked Ester the queen, “Who is he? Where is the man who dared to do such a thing?”


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Ester said, “A ruthless enemy — it’s this wicked Haman!” Haman stood aghast, terrified before the king and queen.


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In a rage, the king got up from the wine banquet and went out to the palace garden. But Haman remained, pleading with Ester the queen to spare his life; for he could see that the king had decided to do him in.


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Haman had just fallen on the couch where Ester was, when the king returned from the palace garden to the wine banquet. He shouted, “Is he even going to rape the queen here in the palace, before my very eyes?” The moment these words left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.


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Harvonah, one of the king’s attendants, said, “Look! The gallows seventy-five feet high that Haman made for Mordekhai, who spoke only good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it.”


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That same day King Achashverosh gave the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, to Ester the queen. Also Mordekhai appeared before the king, for Ester had revealed his relationship to her.


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The king removed his signet ring, which he had taken back from Haman, and gave it to Mordekhai. Then Ester put Mordekhai in charge of Haman’s house.


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Again Ester spoke to the king; she fell at his feet and begged him with tears to put an end to the mischief Haman the Agagi had caused by the scheme he had worked out against the Jews.


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She said, “If it pleases the king, if I have won his favor, if the matter seem right to the king and if I have his approval, then let an order be written rescinding the letters devised by Haman the son of Hamdata the Agagi, which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the royal provinces.


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For how can I bear to see the disaster that will overcome my people? How can I endure seeing the extermination of my kinsmen?”


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King Achashverosh said to Ester the queen and Mordekhai the Jew, “Listen! I gave Ester the house of Haman, and they hanged him on the gallows, because he threatened the lives of the Jews.


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You should issue a decree in the king’s name for whatever you want concerning the Jews, and seal it with the king’s signet ring; because a decree written in the king’s name and sealed with the king’s ring can’t be rescinded by anyone.”


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The king’s secretaries were summoned at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan; and a decree was written according to everything Mordekhai ordered concerning the Jews, to the army commanders, governors and officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its script and to each people in their language, also to the Jews in their script and language.


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They wrote in the name of King Achashverosh and sealed it with the king’s signet ring; they sent the letters by couriers on horseback riding fast horses used in the king’s service and bred from the royal stock.


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The letters said that the king had granted the Jews in every city the right “to assemble and defend their lives by destroying, killing and exterminating any forces of any people or province that would attack them, their little ones or their women or would try to seize their goods as plunder


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on the designated day in any of the provinces of King Achashverosh, namely, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.”


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A copy of the edict was to be issued as a decree in every province and proclaimed to all the peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance against their enemies.


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Couriers riding fast horses used in the king’s service left quickly, pressed by the king’s order; and the decree was issued in Shushan the capital.


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Meanwhile, Mordekhai left the king’s presence arrayed in royal blue and white, wearing a large gold crown and a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Shushan shouted for joy.


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In every province and city where the king’s order and decree arrived, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a holiday. Many from the peoples of the land became Jews, because fear of the Jews had overcome them.


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The time approached for the king’s order and decree to be carried out, the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to overpower them. But, as it turned out, the opposite took place — the Jews overpowered those who hated them. Thus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar,


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the Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Achashverosh to attack anyone who tried to do them harm; and no one was able to withstand them; because all the peoples were afraid of them.


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All the officials of the provinces, the army commanders, the governors and those occupied with the king’s affairs helped the Jews; because they were afraid of Mordekhai.


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For Mordekhai had become a powerful person in the king’s palace, and his fame had spread through all the provinces; Mordekhai continued to grow increasingly powerful.


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The Jews put all their enemies to the sword; there was great slaughter and destruction, as they did whatever they wanted to those who hated them;


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They put to death the ten sons of Haman the son of Hamdata, the enemy of the Jews — Parshandata, Dalfon, Aspata, Porata, Adalya, Aridata, Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai and Vaizata. But they did not touch the spoil.


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he said to Ester the queen, “If the Jews have slaughtered 500 men in Shushan the capital and the ten sons of Haman, what have they done in the rest of the royal provinces! Now, whatever your request, you will be granted it; whatever more you want, it will be done.”


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Ester replied, “If it pleases the king, let the Jews in Shushan act again tomorrow in accordance with today’s decree; also have Haman’s ten sons hanged on the gallows.”


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The king ordered these things done — a decree was issued in Shushan, and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.


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So the Jews in Shushan assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed 300 men in Shushan, but they did not touch the spoil.


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The other Jews, those in the royal provinces, had assembled, defended their lives and won rest from their enemies, killing 75,000 of those who hated them, but without touching the spoil,


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on the thirteenth day of the month Adar. So on the fourteenth day of Adar they rested and made it a holiday for celebrating and rejoicing.


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However, the Jews of Shushan assembled on both the thirteenth and fourteenth days of Adar, so it was on the fifteenth that they rested and made it a holiday for celebrating and rejoicing.


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This is why the Jews of the villages, those who live in unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar a day for celebrating and rejoicing, a holiday and a time for sending each other portions [of food].


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Mordekhai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Achashverosh, both near and far,


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instructing them to observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and the fifteenth day, every year,


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[to commemorate] the days on which the Jews obtained rest from their enemies and the month which for them was turned from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; they were to make them days of celebrating and rejoicing, sending portions [of food] to each other and giving gifts to the poor.


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So the Jews took it upon themselves to continue what they had already begun to do, and as Mordekhai had written to them;


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because Haman the son of Hamdata the Agagi, the enemy of the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had thrown pur (that is, “cast lots”) to crush and destroy them;


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but when Ester came before the king, he ordered by letters that [Haman’s] wicked scheme, which he had plotted against the Jews, should recoil on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.


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This is why these days have been called Purim, after the word pur. Thus, because of everything written in this letter, and what they had seen concerning this matter, and what had come upon them,


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the Jews resolved and took upon themselves, their descendants and all who might join them that without fail they would observe these two days in accordance with what was written in [this letter] and at the appointed time, every year;


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and that these days would be remembered and observed throughout every generation, every family, every province and every city; and that these days of Purim would never cease among the Jews or their memory be lost by their descendants.


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Then Ester the queen, the daughter of Avichayil, and Mordekhai the Jew, gave full written authority to confirm a second letter about Purim.


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He sent copies of it to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Achashverosh, ensuring their peace and security


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and requiring the observance of these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordekhai the Jew and Ester the queen had enjoined them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants concerning the matters of fasting and lamenting.


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All the acts of his power and might, along with a full account of the high honor to which the king advanced Mordekhai, are written in the Annals of the Kings of Media and Persia.


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For Mordekhai the Jew was second only to King Achashverosh; he was a great man among the Jews, popular with all his many countrymen. He sought the good of his people and interceded for the welfare of all their descendants.


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In the third year of the reign of Y’hoyakim king of Y’hudah, N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel came to Yerushalayim and laid siege to it;


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and Adonai handed Y’hoyakim king of Y’hudah over to him, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He took them to the land of Shin‘ar, to the house of his god and placed the articles in the storehouse of his god.


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The king ordered Ashp’naz, the eunuch serving as his chief officer, to bring into the palace from the people of Isra’el some of royal or noble descent.


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They were to be boys without physical defect, handsome in appearance, versed in all kinds of wisdom, quick to learn, discerning, and having the capacity to serve in the king’s palace; and he was to teach them the language and literature of the Kasdim.


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The king assigned them a daily portion of his own food and the wine he drank, and they were to be cared for in this way for three years. At the end of this time they were to become the king’s attendants.


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The chief officer gave them other names — to Dani’el he gave the name Belt’shatzar; to Hananyah, Shadrakh; to Misha’el, Meishakh; and to ‘Azaryah, ‘Aved-N’go.


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But Dani’el resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or the wine he drank, so he asked the chief officer to be excused from defiling himself.


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however, the chief officer said to Dani’el, “I’m afraid of my lord the king. After all, he has given you an allowance of food and drink; so if he were to see you boys looking worse than the others your age, you would be putting my own head in danger from the king.”


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Then Dani’el said to the guard whom the chief officer had put in charge of Dani’el, Hananyah, Misha’el and ‘Azaryah,


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“Please! Try an experiment on your servants — for ten days have them give us only vegetables to eat and water to drink.


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Then see how we look, and compare us with how the boys who eat the king’s food look; and deal with your servants according to what you see.”


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At the end of ten days they looked better and more robust than all the boys who were eating the king’s food.


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So the guard took away their food and the wine they were supposed to drink, and gave them vegetables.


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To these four boys God had given knowledge and skill in every aspect of learning and wisdom; moreover, Dani’el could understand all kinds of visions and dreams.


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When the time the king had set for them to be presented came, the chief officer presented them to N’vukhadnetzar;


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and when the king spoke with them, none was found among all of them to compare with Dani’el, Hananyah, Misha’el and ‘Azaryah. So they entered the king’s service;


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and in all matters requiring wisdom and understanding, whenever the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and exorcists in his entire kingdom.


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In the second year of the reign of N’vukhadnetzar, N’vukhadnetzar became so troubled by a series of dreams he had that he couldn’t sleep.


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So the king ordered the magicians, exorcists, sorcerers and astrologers summoned to interpret the king’s dreams to him. They came and stood in his presence.


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The king said to them, “I had a dream which will keep troubling my spirit until I know what it means.”


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The astrologers spoke to the king in Aramaic: “May the king live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will interpret it.”


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The king answered the astrologers, “Here is what I have decided: if you don’t tell me both the dream and its interpretation, you will be torn limb from limb and your houses reduced to rubble.


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But if you do state the dream and its interpretation, I will give you presents, rewards and great honor. Just tell me the dream and its interpretation.”


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that if you don’t tell me the dream, there is only one sentence passed on all of you. So you’ve conspired to mislead me with lies in the hope that time will change things. Now, just tell me the dream! That will convince me that you will also be able to give me its correct interpretation.”


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The astrologers answered the king, “Your majesty, nobody in the world can do this! Never has a king, no matter how great and powerful, asked such a thing of any magician or exorcist or astrologer.


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The king is asking a difficult thing; nobody but the gods could tell this to your majesty, and they don’t live with mere mortals.”


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When the decree was published that the sages were to be slain, they sought Dani’el and his companions in order to have them put to death.


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Then, choosing his words carefully, Dani’el consulted Aryokh, captain of the royal guard, who had already gone out to kill the sages of Bavel.


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He said to Aryokh, “Since you are the king’s official, let me ask: why has the king issued such a harsh decree?” Aryokh explained the matter to Dani’el.


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so that they could ask the God of heaven for mercy concerning this secret, and thus save Dani’el and his companions from dying along with the other sages of Bavel.


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in these words: “Blessed be the name of God from eternity past to eternity future! For wisdom and power are his alone;


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he brings the changes of seasons and times; he installs and deposes kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those with discernment.


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I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors, for giving me wisdom and power, and revealing to me what we wanted from you, for giving us the answer for the king.”


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So Dani’el went to see Aryokh, whom the king had charged with destroying the sages of Bavel, and said to him, “Don’t destroy the sages of Bavel! Bring me before the king, and I will give the king the interpretation.”


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Quickly Aryokh brought Dani’el before the king and told him, “I have found one of the exiles of Y’hudah who will reveal the interpretation to his majesty.”


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The king said to Dani’el (who had been renamed Belt’shatzar), “Can you tell me what I dreamt and what it means?”


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Dani’el answered the king, “No sage, exorcist, magician or astrologer can tell his majesty the secret he has asked about.


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But there is a God in heaven who unlocks mysteries, and he has revealed to King N’vukhadnetzar what will happen in the acharit-hayamim. Here are your dream and the visions you had in your head when you were in bed.


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“Your majesty, when you were in bed, you began thinking about what would take place in the future; and he who reveals secrets has revealed to you what will happen.


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Yet this secret has not been revealed to me because I am wiser than anyone living, but so that the meaning can be made known to your majesty, and then you can understand the thoughts of your own mind.


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“Your majesty had a vision of a statue, very large and extremely bright; it stood in front of you and its appearance was terrifying.


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The head of the statue was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its trunk and thighs of bronze,


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As you watched, a stone separated itself without any human hand, struck the statue on its feet made of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.


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Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken into pieces which became like the chaff on a threshing-floor in summer; the wind blew them away without leaving a trace. But the stone which had struck the statue grew into a huge mountain that filled the whole earth.


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Your majesty, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength and the glory;


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so that wherever people, wild animals or birds in the air live, he has handed them over to you and enabled you to rule them all — you are the head of gold.


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But after you another kingdom will rise, inferior to you; then a third kingdom, of bronze, which will rule the whole world.


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The fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron. Iron can break anything into pieces, pulverize it and crush it. So just as iron can crush anything, this kingdom will break the other kingdoms into pieces and crush them.


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Finally, you saw the feet and toes made partly of pottery clay and partly of iron; this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the firmness of iron, since you saw the iron mixed with clay from the ground.


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Just as the toes of the feet were part iron and part clay, this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.


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You saw the iron mixed with clay; that means that they will cement their alliances by intermarriages; but they won’t stick together any more than iron blends with clay.


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“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will establish a kingdom that will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not pass into the hands of another people. It will break to pieces and consume all those kingdoms; but it, itself, will stand forever —


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like the stone you saw, which, without human hands, separated itself from the mountain and broke to pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold. The great God has revealed to the king what will come about in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is reliable.”


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Then King N’vukhadnetzar fell on his face and worshipped Dani’el; he ordered that a grain offering and incense be offered to him.


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To Dani’el the king said, “Your God is indeed the God of gods, the Lord of kings and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”


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The king promoted Dani’el to a high rank, gave him many rich gifts and made him governor of the entire province of Bavel and head of all the sages of Bavel.


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At Dani’el’s request, the king put Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go in charge of the affairs of the province of Bavel, while Dani’el remained in attendance on the king.


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N’vukhadnetzar the king had a gold statue made, ninety feet high and nine feet wide, which he set up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Bavel.


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Then N’vukhadnetzar the king summoned the viceroys, prefects, governors, judges, treasurers, counselors, sheriffs and all the provincial officials to assemble and come to the dedication of the statue which N’vukhadnetzar the king had set up.


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The viceroys, prefects, governors, judges, treasurers, counselors, sheriffs and all the provincial officials assembled for the dedication of the statue which N’vukhadnetzar the king had set up. They stood in front of the statue that N’vukhadnetzar had set up;


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that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, zither, lute, bagpipe and the rest of the musical instruments, you fall down and worship the gold statue that N’vukhadnetzar the king has set up.


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Therefore, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, zither, lute and the rest of the musical instruments, all the peoples, nations and languages fell down and worshipped the gold statue that N’vukhadnetzar the king had set up.


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Your majesty, you have ordered that everyone who hears sound of the horn, pipe, harp, zither, lute, bagpipe and the rest of the musical instruments is to fall down and worship the gold statue;


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There are some Jews whom you have put in charge of the affairs of the province of Bavel, Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go; and these men, your majesty, have paid no attention to you. They do not serve your gods, and they do not worship the gold statue you set up.”


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In a raging fury N’vukhadnetzar ordered that Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go be brought. When the men had been brought before the king,


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N’vukhadnetzar said to them, “Shadrakh! Meishakh! ‘Aved-N’go! Is it true that you neither serve my gods nor worship the gold statue I set up?


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All right, then. If you are prepared, when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, zither, lute, bagpipe and the rest of the musical instruments, to fall down and worship the gold statue, very well. But if you won’t worship, you will immediately be thrown into a blazing hot furnace — and what god will save you from my power then?”


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Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go answered the king, “Your question doesn’t require an answer from us.


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Your majesty, if our God, whom we serve, is able to save us, he will save us from the blazing hot furnace and from your power.


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But even if he doesn’t, we want you to know, your majesty, that we will neither serve your gods nor worship the gold statue which you have set up.”


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N’vukhadnetzar became so utterly enraged that his face was distorted with anger against Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go. He ordered the furnace made seven times hotter than usual.


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Then he ordered some of the strongest men in his army to tie up Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go and throw them into the blazing hot furnace.


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So these men were tied up in their cloaks, tunics, robes and other clothes, and thrown into the blazing hot furnace.


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The king’s order was so urgent and the furnace so overheated that the men carrying Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go were burned to death by the flames.


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Suddenly N’vukhadnetzar sprang to his feet. Alarmed, he asked his advisers, “Didn’t we throw three men, bound, into the flames?” They answered the king, “Yes, of course, your majesty.”


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But he exclaimed, “Look! I see four men, not tied up, walking around there in the flames, unhurt; and the fourth looks like one of the gods!”


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N’vukhadnetzar approached the opening of the blazing hot furnace and said, “Shadrakh! Meishakh! ‘Aved-N’go! You servants of El ‘Elyon! Come out, and come here!” Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go emerged from the flames.


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The viceroys, prefects, governors and royal advisers who were there saw that the fire had had no power on the bodies of these men — not even their hair was singed, their clothes looked the same, and they didn’t smell of fire.


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N’vukhadnetzar said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go! He sent his angel to deliver his servants who trusted in him. They defied the royal order to the point of being willing to give up their bodies, in order not to serve or worship any god but their own God.


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Therefore I herewith decree that anyone, no matter from which people, nation or language, who says anything to insult the God of Shadrakh, Meishakh and ‘Aved-N’go is to be torn limb from limb, and his house is to be reduced to rubble; because there is no other god who can save like this.”


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contenido:
[The following letter was sent out:] “From: N’vukhadnetzar the king “To: All the peoples, nations and languages living throughout the earth: “Shalom rav! [Abundant peace!]


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“How great are his signs! How powerful his wonders! His kingdom lasts forever, and he rules all generations.


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but as I lay on my bed, I had a dream which frightened me, followed by fantasies and visions in my head which frightened me even more.


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So I ordered all the sages of Bavel to present themselves to me, so that they could tell me the interpretation of the dream.


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When the magicians, exorcists, astrologers and diviners came, I told them the dream; but they couldn’t interpret it for me.


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Finally, however, Dani’el (renamed Belt’shatzar, after the name of my god), in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, came before me; and I told him the dream:


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‘Belt’shatzar, chief of the magicians! Because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you, tell me the meaning of the visions I saw in my dream.


book: Dan
contenido:
Here are the visions I had in my head as I lay on my bed: I looked, and there before me was a tree at the center of the earth; it was very tall.


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The tree grew and became strong until its crown reached the sky, and it could be seen from anywhere on earth.


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Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant; it produced enough food for everyone. The wild animals enjoyed its shade, the birds in the air lived in its branches, and it gave food to every living creature.


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I looked in the visions of my head as I lay on my bed, and there appeared a holy watcher coming down from heaven.


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He cried out: “‘“Cut down the tree, cut off its branches, strip off its leaves, scatter its fruit! Let the wild animals flee from its shelter! Let the birds abandon its branches!


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But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze, in the lush grass of the countryside; let him be drenched with dew from the sky and share the lot of animals in the pasture;


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let his heart and mind cease to be human and become those of an animal; and let seven seasons pass over him.


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“‘“This order is issued by the watchers, the sentence is announced by the holy ones, so that all who live may know that the Most High rules the human kingdom, that he gives it to whomever he wishes and can raise up over it the lowliest of mortals.”


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“‘This is the dream which I, King N’vukhadnetzar, saw. Now you, Belt’shatzar, tell me its interpretation. None of the sages of my kingdom can tell me the interpretation, but you can do it, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.’


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“Dani’el, whose name was Belt’shatzar, was in shock awhile, frightened by his thoughts. The king said, ‘Belt’shatzar, don’t let the dream or the interpretation frighten you.’ Belt’shatzar answered, ‘My lord, if only the dream were about those who hate you, and the interpretation about your enemies!


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The tree you saw which grew and became strong until its crown reached the sky, and it could be seen throughout the whole earth,


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that had beautiful foliage and abundant fruit, enough to feed everyone, under which the wild animals lived, and on whose branches the birds in the air built their nests —


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it’s you, your majesty! You have grown and become strong — your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your rule extends to the end of the earth.


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“‘Now the king saw a holy watcher coming down from heaven, who said, “‘“Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze, in the lush grass of the countryside; let him be drenched with dew from the sky and share the lot of the wild animals until seven seasons pass over him.”


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“‘This is the interpretation, your majesty; and it is the decree of the Most High that has come upon my lord the king:


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“‘You will be driven from human society to live with the wild animals. You will be made to eat grass like an ox and be drenched with dew from the sky, as seven seasons pass over you; until you learn that the Most High rules in the human kingdom and gives it to whomever he pleases.


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“‘But since it was ordered to leave the stump of the tree with its roots, your kingdom will be kept for you until you have learned that Heaven rules everything.


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Therefore, your majesty, please take my advice: break with your sins by replacing them with acts of charity, and break with your crimes by showing mercy to the poor; this may extend the time of your prosperity.’


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the king said, ‘Bavel the great! I built it as a royal residence by my power and force to enhance the glory of my majesty!’


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No sooner had the king spoken these words when a voice came down from heaven: ‘King N’vukhadnetzar! These words are for you: ‘“The kingdom has left you.


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You will be driven from human society to live with the wild animals. You will be made to eat grass like an ox and be drenched with dew from the sky, as seven seasons pass over you, until you learn that the Most High rules in the human kingdom and gives it to whomever he pleases.’


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“Within the hour the word was fulfilled. N’vukhadnetzar was driven from human society, he ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.


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“When this period was over, I, N’vukhadnetzar, lifted my eyes toward heaven, and my understanding came back to me. I blessed the Most High, I praised and gave honor to him who lives forever. “‘For his rulership is everlasting, his kingdom endures through all generations.


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All who live on earth are counted as nothing. He does what he wishes with the army of heaven and with those living on earth. No one can hold back his hand or ask him, “What are you doing?”’


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“It was at that moment that my understanding came back to me; and for the sake of the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor also came back to me. My advisers and lords sought me out, I was re-established in my kingdom, and to my previous greatness even more was added.


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So now I, N’vukhadnetzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven: “‘For all his works are truth, and his ways are just; and he can humble those who walk in pride.’”


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Belshatzar the king gave a great banquet for a thousand of his lords, and in the presence of the thousand he was drinking wine.


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While tasting the wine, Belshatzar ordered that the gold and silver vessels which his father N’vukhadnetzar had removed from the temple in Yerushalayim be brought; so that the king, his lords, his wives and his concubines could drink from them.


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So they brought the gold vessels which had been removed from the sanctuary of the house of God in Yerushalayim; and the king, his lords, his wives and his concubines drank from them.


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Suddenly, the fingers of a human hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the palace wall by the lampstand. When the king saw the palm of the hand that was writing,


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the king’s face took on a different look. As frightening thoughts rose up within him, his hip joints gave way and his knees started knocking together.


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The king cried out to bring in the exorcists, astrologers and diviners. The king said to the sages of Bavel, “Whoever can read this inscription and tell me what it means will be dressed in royal purple, wear a gold chain around his neck and be one of the three men ruling the kingdom.”


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But although all the king’s sages came in, none could read the inscription or tell the king what it meant.


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Then King Belshatzar became terrified; his face turned pale, and his lords were thrown into confusion.


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At this point the queen mother, because of what the king and his lords were saying, entered the banquet hall. The queen mother said, “May the king live forever! Don’t be scared by your thoughts or let your face be so pale.


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There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, he was found to have light, discernment and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods. King N’vukhadnetzar your father — the king, your father — made him chief of the magicians, exorcists, astrologers and diviners;


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because he was found to have an extraordinary spirit, knowledge, discernment, and the ability to interpret dreams, unlock mysteries and solve knotty problems. He is called Dani’el, but the king gave him the name Belt’shatzar. Now have Dani’el summoned, and he will tell you what this means.”


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Dani’el was brought into the king’s presence. The king said to Dani’el, “Are you Dani’el, one of the exiles from Y’hudah whom the king my father brought out of Y’hudah?


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I’ve heard about you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that you have been found to have light, discernment and extraordinary wisdom.


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Now the sages, the exorcists, were brought in to me so that they could read this inscription and tell me what it means, but they couldn’t interpret it for me.


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However, I’ve heard that you can give interpretations and solve knotty problems. Now if you can read the inscription and tell me what it means, you will be dressed in royal purple, wear a gold chain around your neck and be one of the three men ruling the kingdom.”


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Dani’el answered the king, “Keep your gifts, and give your rewards to someone else. However, I will read the inscription to the king and tell him what it means.


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Your majesty, the Most High God gave N’vukhadnetzar your father the kingdom, as well as greatness, glory and majesty.


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Because of the greatness he gave him, all the peoples, nations and languages trembled with fear before him. Anyone he wanted to, he put to death; anyone he wanted to, he kept alive; anyone he wanted to, he advanced; and anyone he wanted to, he humbled.


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But when he grew proud and his spirit became hard, he began treating people arrogantly, so he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken away from him.


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He was driven from human society, his heart was made like that of an animal, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed with grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky; until he learned that the Most High God rules in the human kingdom and sets up over it whomever he pleases.


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Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven by having them bring you the vessels from his house; and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them; then you offered praise to your gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood and stone, which can’t see, hear or know anything. Meanwhile, God, who holds your very breath in his hands, and to whom belongs everything you do, you have not glorified.


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Then Belshatzar gave the order; and they clothed Dani’el in royal purple, put a gold chain around his neck and proclaimed of him that he was to be one of the three men ruling the kingdom.


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with three chiefs over them, of whom Dani’el was one, so that these viceroys could be responsible to them and so that the king’s interests would be safeguarded.


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But because an extraordinary spirit was in this Dani’el, he so distinguished himself above the other chiefs and the viceroys that the king considered putting him in charge of the whole kingdom.


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The other chiefs and the viceroys tried to find a cause for complaint against Dani’el in regard to how he performed his governing duties, but they could find nothing to complain about, no fault; on the contrary, because he was so faithful, not a single instance of negligence or faulty administration could be found.


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Then these men said, “We’re not going to find any cause for complaint against this Dani’el unless we can find something against him in regard to the law of his god.”


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All the chiefs of the kingdom, along with the prefects, viceroys, advisers and governors, have met and agreed that the king should issue a decree putting in force the following law: ‘Whoever makes a request of any god or man during the next thirty days, except of you, your majesty, is to be thrown into the lion pit.’


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Now, your majesty, issue this decree over your signature, so that it cannot be revoked, as required by the law of the Medes and Persians, which is itself irrevocable.”


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On learning that the document had been signed, Dani’el went home. The windows of his upstairs room were open in the direction of Yerushalayim; and there he kneeled down three times a day and prayed, giving thanks before his God, just as he had been doing before.


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So they went to remind the king of his royal decree: “Didn’t you sign a law prohibiting anyone from making requests of any god or man within thirty days, except yourself, your majesty, on pain of being thrown into the lion pit?” The king answered, “Yes, that is true, as required by the law of the Medes and Persians, which is itself irrevocable.”


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They replied to the king, “That Dani’el, one of the exiles from Y’hudah, respects neither you, your majesty, nor the decree you signed; instead, he continues praying three times a day.”


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When the king heard this report, he was very upset. He determined to save Dani’el and worked until sunset to find a way to rescue him.


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But these men descended on the king and said to him, “Remember, your majesty, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no decree or edict, once issued by the king, can be revoked.”


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So the king gave the order, and they brought Dani’el and threw him into the lion pit. The king said to Dani’el, “Your God, whom you are always serving, will save you.”


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A stone was brought to block the opening of the pit, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, so that nothing concerning Dani’el could be changed.


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Then the king returned to his palace. He spent the night fasting and refusing to be entertained, as sleep eluded him.


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On approaching the pit where Dani’el was, the king cried in a pained voice to Dani’el, “Dani’el, servant of the living God! Has your God, whom you are always serving, been able to save you from the lions?”


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My God sent his angel to shut the lions’ mouths, so they haven’t hurt me. This is because before him I was found innocent; and also I have done no harm to you, your majesty.”


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The king was overjoyed and ordered Dani’el taken up from the pit. So Dani’el was taken up from the pit, and he was found to be completely unharmed, because he had trusted in his God.


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Then the king gave an order, and they brought those men who had accused Dani’el, and they threw them into the lion pit — them, their children and their wives — and before they even reached the bottom of the pit, the lions had them in their control and broke all their bones to pieces.


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King Daryavesh wrote all the peoples, nations and languages living anywhere on earth: “Shalom rav! [Abundant peace!]


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“I herewith issue a decree that everywhere in my kingdom, people are to tremble and be in awe of the God of Dani’el. “For he is the living God; he endures forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed; his rulership will last till the end.


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He saves, rescues, does signs and wonders both in heaven and on earth. He delivered Dani’el from the power of the lions.”


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So this Dani’el prospered during the reign of Daryavesh, and also during the reign of Koresh the Persian.


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In the first year of Belshatzar king of Bavel, Dani’el had a dream and visions in his head, as he was lying on his bed. He wrote the dream down, and this is his account:


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“I had a vision at night; I saw there before me the four winds of the sky breaking out over the great sea,


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The first was like a lion, but it had eagle’s wings. As I watched, its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted off the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a human heart was given to it.


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Then there was another animal, a second one, like a bear. It raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, ‘Get up, and gorge yourself with flesh!’


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After this, I looked; and there was another one, like a leopard with four bird’s wings on its sides. The animal also had four heads, and it was given power to rule.


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After this, I looked in the night visions; and there before me was a fourth animal, dreadful, horrible, extremely strong, and with great iron teeth. It devoured, crushed and stamped its feet on what was left. It was different from all the animals that had gone before it, and it had ten horns.


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“While I was considering the horns, another horn sprang up among them, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. In this horn were eyes like human eyes and a mouth speaking arrogantly.


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“As I watched, thrones were set in place; and the Ancient One took his seat. His clothing was white as snow, the hair on his head was like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, with wheels of burning fire.


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A stream of fire flowed from his presence; thousands and thousands ministered to him, millions and millions stood before him. Then the court was convened, and the books were opened.


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“I kept watching. Then, because of the arrogant words which the horn was speaking, I watched as the animal was killed; its body was destroyed; and it was given over to be burned up completely.


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As for the other animals, their rulership was taken away; but their lives were prolonged for a time and a season.


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“I kept watching the night visions, when I saw, coming with the clouds of heaven, someone like a son of man. He approached the Ancient One and was led into his presence.


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To him was given rulership, glory and a kingdom, so that all peoples, nations and languages should serve him. His rulership is an eternal rulership that will not pass away; and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.


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I approached one of those standing by and asked him what all this really meant. He said that he would make me understand how to interpret these things.


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But the holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, yes, forever and ever.’


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“Then I wanted to know what the fourth beast meant, the one that was different from all the others, so very terrifying, with iron teeth and bronze nails, which devoured, crushed and stamped its feet on what was left;


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and what the ten horns on its head meant; and the other horn which sprang up and before which three fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth speaking arrogantly and seemed greater than the others.


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until the Ancient One came, judgment was given in favor of the holy ones of the Most High, and the time came for the holy ones to take over the kingdom.


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This is what he said: ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth. It will be different from the other kingdoms; it will devour the whole earth, trample it down and crush it.


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As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and yet another will arise after them. Now he will be different from the earlier ones, and he will put down three kings.


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He will speak words against the Most High and try to exhaust the holy ones of the Most High. He will attempt to alter the seasons and the law; and [the holy ones] will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time.


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But when the court goes into session, he will be stripped of his rulership, which will be consumed and completely destroyed.


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Then the kingdom, the rulership and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the holy people of the Most High. Their kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will serve and obey them.’”


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This is the end of the account. As for me, Dani’el, my thoughts frightened me so much that I turned pale; but I kept the matter to myself.


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After that first vision, it was in the third year of the reign of King Belshatzar that another vision appeared to me, Dani’el.


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I looked into the vision; and as I looked, I found myself in Shushan the capital, in the province of ‘Eilam. I looked into the vision, and I was by the Ulai canal.


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I looked up; and as I watched, there in front of the stream stood a ram with two horns. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one came up later [than the other].


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I saw the ram pushing to the west, north and south; and no animals could stand up against it; nor was there anyone that could rescue from its power. So it did as it pleased and became very strong.


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I was beginning to understand, when a male goat came from the west, passing over the whole earth without touching the ground. The goat had a prominent horn between its eyes.


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It approached the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the river, and charged it with savage force.


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I watched as it advanced on the ram, filled with rage against it, and struck the ram, breaking its two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against it. It threw the ram to the ground and trampled it down, and there was no one that could rescue it from the goat’s power.


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The male goat then became extremely strong; but when it was strong, the big horn was broken; and in its place arose what appeared to be four horns in the directions of the four winds of heaven.


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Out of one of them came a little horn which grew extremely big in the directions of the south and east, and in the direction of the Glory.


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It grew so great that it reached the army of heaven; it hurled some of the army and the stars to the ground and trampled on them.


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Yes, it even considered itself as great as the prince of the army; the regular burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was thrown down.


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Through sin, the army was put in its power, along with the regular burnt offering. It flung truth on the ground as it acted and prospered.


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Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the speaker, “How long will the events of the vision last, this vision concerning the regular offering and the transgression which is so appalling, that allows the sanctuary and the army to be trampled underfoot?”


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The first said to me, “Two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings, after which the sanctuary will be restored to its rightful state.”


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After I, Dani’el, had seen the vision and was trying to understand it, suddenly there stood in front of me someone who appeared to be a man.


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I heard a human voice calling from between the banks of the Ulai, “Gavri’el, make this man understand the vision!”


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He came up to where I was standing, and his approach so terrified me that I fell on my face. But he said to me, “Human being! Understand that the vision refers to the time of the end.”


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As he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, set me on my feet,


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and said, “I am going to explain to you what will happen at the end of the period of fury, because [the vision] has to do with the time at the end.


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The shaggy male goat is the king of Greece, and the prominent horn between its eyes is the first king.


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As for the horn that broke and the four which rose up in its place, four kingdoms will arise out of this nation, but not with the power the first king had.


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In the latter part of their reign, when the evildoers have become as evil as possible, there will arise an arrogant king skilled in intrigue.


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His power will be great, but not with the power the first king had. He will be amazingly destructive, he will succeed in whatever he does, and he will destroy the mighty and the holy ones.


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He will succeed through craftiness and deceit, become swelled with pride, and destroy many people just when they feel the most secure. He will even challenge the prince of princes; but, without human intervention, he will be broken.


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The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but you are to keep the vision secret, because it is about days in the distant future.”


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I, Dani’el, grew weak and was ill for some days. Then I got up and took care of the king’s affairs; but I was appalled at the vision and still couldn’t understand it.


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In the first year of Daryavesh the son of Achashverosh, a Mede by birth who was made king over the kingdom of the Kasdim —


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in the first year of his reign, I, Dani’el, was reading the Scriptures and thinking about the number of years which Adonai had told Yirmeyah the prophet would be the period of Yerushalayim’s desolation, seventy years.


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I turned to Adonai, God, to seek an answer, pleading with him in prayer, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.


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I prayed to Adonai my God and made this confession: “Please, Adonai, great and fearsome God, who keeps his covenant and extends grace to those who love him and observe his mitzvot!


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We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our leaders, our ancestors and to all the people of the land.


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“To you, Adonai, belongs righteousness; but to us today belongs shame — to us, the men of Y’hudah, the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and all Isra’el, including those nearby and those far away, throughout all the countries where you have driven them; because they broke faith with you.


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Yes, Adonai, shame falls on us, our kings, our leaders and our ancestors; because we sinned against you.


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We didn’t listen to the voice of Adonai our God, so that we could live by his laws, which he presented to us through his servants the prophets.


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Yes, all Isra’el flouted your Torah and turned away, unwilling to listen to your voice. Therefore the curse and oath written in the Torah of Moshe the servant of God was poured out on us, because we sinned against him.


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He carried out the threats he spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us disaster so great that under all of heaven, nothing has been done like what has been done to Yerushalayim.


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As written in the Torah of Moshe, this whole disaster came upon us. Yet we did not appease Adonai our God by renouncing our wrongdoing and discerning your truth.


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So Adonai watched for the right moment to bring this disaster upon us, for Adonai our God was just in everything he did, yet we didn’t listen when he spoke.


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“Now, Adonai our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, thereby winning renown for yourself, as is the case today — we sinned, we acted wickedly.


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Adonai, in keeping with all your justice, please allow your anger and fury to be turned away from your city Yerushalayim, your holy mountain; because it is due to our sins and the wrongdoings of our ancestors that Yerushalayim and your people have become objects of scorn among everyone around us.


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Therefore, our God, listen to the prayer and pleadings of your servant; and cause your face to shine on your desolated sanctuary, for your own sake.


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My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes and see how desolated we are, as well as the city which bears your name. For we plead with you not because of our own righteousness, but because of your compassion.


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Adonai, hear! Adonai, forgive! Adonai, pay attention, and don’t delay action — for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people bear your name!”


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While I was speaking, praying, confessing my own sin and the sin of my people Isra’el, and pleading before Adonai my God for the holy mountain of my God —


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yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gavri’el, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, swooped down on me in full flight at about the time of the evening sacrifice,


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and explained things to me. He said, “I have come now, Dani’el, to enable you to understand this vision clearly.


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At the beginning of your prayers, an answer was given; and I have come to say what it is; because you are greatly loved. Therefore look into this answer, and understand the vision.


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“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and for your holy city for putting an end to the transgression, for making an end of sin, for forgiving iniquity, for bringing in everlasting justice, for setting the seal on vision and prophet, and for anointing the Especially Holy Place.


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Know, therefore, and discern that seven weeks [of years] will elapse between the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Yerushalayim until an anointed prince comes. It will remain built for sixty-two weeks [of years], with open spaces and moats; but these will be troubled times.


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Then, after the sixty-two weeks, Mashiach will be cut off and have nothing. The people of a prince yet to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary, but his end will come with a flood, and desolations are decreed until the war is over.


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He will make a strong covenant with leaders for one week [of years]. For half of the week he will put a stop to the sacrifice and the grain offering. On the wing of detestable things the desolator will come and continue until the already decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.”


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In the third year of Koresh king of Persia, a word was revealed to Dani’el, also called Belt’shatzar. The word was certain: a great war. He understood the word, having gained understanding in the vision.


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I hadn’t eaten any food that satisfied me — neither meat nor wine had entered my mouth, and I didn’t anoint myself once, until three full weeks had passed.


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when I looked up, and there before me was a man dressed in linen wearing a belt made of fine Ufaz gold.


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His body was like beryl, his face looked like lightning and his eyes like fiery torches; his arms and feet were the color of burnished bronze; and when he spoke, it sounded like the roar of a crowd.


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Only I, Dani’el, saw the vision; the men who were with me did not see the vision; however, a great trembling fell over them; so that they rushed to hide themselves.


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Thus I was left alone; and when I saw this great vision, there was no strength left in me — my face, normally pleasant-looking, became disfigured; and I had no strength.


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I heard his voice speaking; and when I heard him speaking, I fell down in a faint, with my face to the ground.


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He said to me, “Dani’el, you are a greatly loved man. Now pay attention to the words I am saying to you, and stand upright; for it is to you that I have been sent now.” After he had said this to me, I stood up, trembling.


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Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Dani’el; because since the first day that you determined to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words have been heard; and I have come because of what you said.


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The prince of the kingdom of Persia prevented me from coming for twenty-one days; but Mikha’el, one of the chief princes, came to assist me; so that I was no longer needed there with the kings of Persia.


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So I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the acharit-hayamim; for there is still another vision which will relate to those days.”


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Then someone who looked like a human being touched my lips, after which I could open my mouth and speak; I said to the one standing in front of me, “My lord, it is because of the vision that I am seized with such anguish; I don’t have any strength.


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For how can this servant of my lord speak with my lord, when my strength and breath have failed me?”


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He said, “You man so greatly loved, don’t be afraid. Shalom to you; and be strong, yes, truly strong.” His speaking to me strengthened me, and I said, “My lord, keep speaking; because you’ve given me strength.”


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Then he said, “Do you know why I came to you? Although now I must return to fight the prince of Persia; and when I leave, the prince of Greece will come;


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nevertheless, I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. There is no one standing with me against them except Mikha’el your prince;


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however, I was already standing up to support and help Daryavesh the Mede in the first year of his reign.


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What I am going to tell you now is true. “Three kings will arise in Persia, followed by a fourth, who will be far wealthier than all of them; and when he has grown strong by means of his wealth, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.


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But once he appears, his kingdom will be broken up and divided to the four winds of heaven. It won’t be inherited by his descendants, and it won’t be ruled with the power he had, because his kingship will be uprooted and will pass to others than his own posterity.


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“The king in the south will be strong, and one of his princes will gain power over him and have dominion; his domain will be a great dominion.


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After a number of years they will form an alliance. The daughter of the king of the south will approach the king of the north to make an agreement, but she won’t retain her power; and he and his power won’t last either. Rather, she will be surrendered, along with her attendants, her father and the one who supported her during those times.


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But another branch from the same roots as hers will appear in her father’s place. He will attack the army of the king of the north, enter his fortress and succeed in conquering them.


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He will also carry off as booty to Egypt their gods, their cast metal images and their valuable gold and silver vessels. Then for some years, he will refrain from attacking the king of the north.


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“Afterwards, the king of the north will invade the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will retire to his own land.


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His sons will rouse themselves to muster a large and powerful army, which will advance like a flood passing through. In another campaign, it will march on the enemy stronghold.


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The king of the south, enraged, will set out to do battle with the king of the north, who, in turn, will muster a large army; but this army will be defeated by his enemy


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and carried off. The conqueror will grow proud as he slaughters tens of thousands, yet he will not prevail.


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Rather, the king of the north will again muster an army, larger than the first one, at the end of this period, after a number of years; it will be a large, well-supplied army.


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Those will be times in which many will resist the king of the south; and the more violent ones among your own people will rebel in order to fulfill their vision; but they will fail.


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“Then the king of the north will come, set up siege-works and capture a fortified city; the forces of the south will be insufficient defense, even his elite troops will not be strong enough to resist.


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The invader will do as he pleases; no one will be able to withstand him. So he will establish himself in the Land of Glory, and he will have the power to destroy it.


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He will determinedly advance with the full force of his kingdom, but he will make an agreement with the king of the south and give him a daughter in marriage. His object will be to destroy him, but the agreement will not last or work out in his favor.


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Next, he will put his attention on the coastlands and islands and capture many, but an army commander will put a stop to his outrages and cause his outrages to come back upon him.


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After this, he will put his attention on the strongholds in his own land; but he will stumble, fall and not be seen again.


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“In his place will arise one who will send a tax collector through the Glorious Kingdom; but within a few days, he will be broken, though neither in anger nor in battle.


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“There will arise in his place a despicable man not entitled to inherit the majesty of the kingdom, but he will come without warning and gain the kingdom by intrigue.


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Alliances will be made with him, but he will undermine them by deceit. Then, although he will have but a small following, he will emerge and become strong.


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Without warning, he will assail the most powerful men in each province and do things his predecessors never did, either recently or in the distant past; he will reward them with plunder, spoil and wealth while devising plots against their strongholds, but only for a time.


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“He will summon his power and courage against the king of the south with a great army, and the king of the south will fight back with a very large and powerful army; but he will not succeed, because of plots devised against him.


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Yes, those who shared his food will destroy him; his army will be swept away; and many will fall in the slaughter.


