And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers.

And I [know] their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see My glory.

because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and [because] they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow citizens, and spoke a word in My name, which I did not command them [to speak], and I am witness, says the Lord.

For the word of God is living and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

And there is no creature hidden before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes, to whom we must give an account.

For it came to pass that the children of Israel [had] transgressed against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and they feared other gods,

and [in those] of the children of Israel, as many as secretly practiced customs, not as [they should have done], against the Lord their God;

And they burned incense there on all the high places, as the nations [did] whom the Lord removed from before them, and dealt with familiar spirits, and they carved [images] to provoke the Lord to anger.

And the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, even by the hand of all His prophets, [and] of every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, [and] all that I sent to them by the hand of My servants the prophets.

And they kept not any of His testimonies which He charged them; and they walked after vanities, and became vain, and after the nations round about them, concerning which the Lord had charged them not to do accordingly.

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and practiced divinations and soothsaying, and sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him.

But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,

Thus says the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,

in which to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly; and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.

And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, says the Lord.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied Him in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

But you denied the Holy and Just One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers,

Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

You have condemned; you have murdered the just. He does not resist you.

And his sons did not walk in his ways, and they turned aside after gain, and took gifts, and perverted judgments.

Destroy not my soul together with the ungodly, nor my life with bloody men;

in whose hands [are] iniquities, [and] their right hand is filled with bribes.

Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

Their heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.

They prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a [reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul;

in which to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly; and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.

perverting the cause of the poor, violently seizing the judgment of the needy ones of My people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.

and they that cause men to sin by a word; and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offense, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.

LAMED. To bring down under His feet all the prisoners of the earth,

And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by My name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord Almighty.

They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.

You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in [your] tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment;

And Boaz went up to the gate, and sat there. And behold, the relative passed by, of whom Boaz spoke. And Boaz said to him, Turn aside, [and] sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down.

When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.

And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.

For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.

Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.

And I broke the fangs of the wicked; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.

Men heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel.

As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they [waited for] my speech.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]:

Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy, neither dishonor the helpless man in the gates.