And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with [him]:

And the children of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest that he had, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and burned the city with fire.

And there was no deliverer, because the city is far from the Sidonians, and they have no intercourse with men, and it is in the valley of the house of Raab; and they built the city, and dwelt in it.

For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He has turned away His face so as never to look.

Why has the wicked provoked God? For he has said in his heart, He will not require [it].

My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

[This translation omits this verse.]

So the gold and silver vessels were brought which [Nebuchadnezzar] had taken out of the temple of God in Jerusalem; and the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines drank out of them.

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote.

For [the enemy] shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.

But just as the days of Noah [were], so also shall be the coming of the Son of Man.

and they didn't know [a thing] until the flood came and took [them] all away, so also shall be the coming of the Son of Man.

And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man.

Likewise also as it happened in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

In the same way it shall be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

For it will come as a snare on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; I will satisfy my soul, I will destroy with my sword, my hand shall have dominion.

You sent forth Your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

And when the inhabitants of Ai looked round behind them, then they saw the smoke going up out of the city to heaven, and they were no longer able to flee this way or that way.

And these came forth out of the city to meet them; and they were in the midst of the army, some on this side, and some on that; and they struck them until there was not one of them left who survived and escaped.

And the men of Israel turned back, and the men of Benjamin panicked, because they saw that evil had come upon them.

And they turned to the way of the wilderness from before the children of Israel, and fled: but the battle overtook them, and those from the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.

And he spoke against the God of Jerusalem, even as against the gods of the nations of the earth, the works of the hands of men.

And the Lord sent an angel, and He destroyed every mighty man and warrior, and leader and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria; and he returned with shame of face to his own land and came into the house of his god. And [some] of his own offspring killed him with the sword.

Surely You have appointed [judgments] to them because of their crafty dealings; You have cast them down when they were lifted up.

As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in Your city You will despise their image.

A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man, for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.

therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very close at hand.

They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed [them] all.

but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed [them] all.

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

For it will come as a snare on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.

And the populace was calling out, "[This is the] voice of a god and not of a man!"

Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And becoming eaten by worms, he died.

"Behold, you despisers, and marvel and perish! For I will work a work in your days which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you.'"

These shall pay a penalty--eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might,

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but rather confined [them] to Tartarus, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, reserved for judgment;

In as many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no means see sorrow.'

"On account of this her plagues will come in one day--death, sorrow, and famine. And she shall be burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who has judged her.

Trembling took hold of them; there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.

I will say to the north, Bring; and to the south, Keep not back; bring My sons from the [land] afar off, and My daughters from the ends of the earth;

and I have brought forth the blind people; for [their] eyes are alike blind, and those that have ears are deaf.

Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman; I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.

For I have heard your groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, [saying], Woe is me, for my soul faints because of the slain!

We have heard the report of them; our hands are weakened. Anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.

What will you say when they shall visit you, for you have taught them lessons to rule over you; shall not pangs seize you as a woman in travail?

O inhabitant of Lebanon, making your nest in the cedars, you shall groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman have come upon you.

Pains as of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is your wise son, because he shall not stay in the destruction of [your] children.

And now, why have you known calamities? Is there no king in you? Or has your counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in labor have seized upon you?

Be in pain, and strengthen yourself, and draw near, O daughter of Zion, as a woman in labor: for now you shall go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the plain, and you shall reach even to Babylon: there shall the Lord your God deliver you, and there shall He redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.

Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which in the beginning was spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard [Him],

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn having been enrolled in [the] heavens, to God the Judge of all, and to spirits of just men made perfect,