Moreover I saw under the sun in the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah; I will set him in the safety for which he pants.

Swallow up, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

And man shall say, Truly, there is a reward for the righteous; truly, there is a God who judges in the earth.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me early find me.

O Jehovah, how long shall I cry for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, Violence! But You do not save.

Why do You show me evil, and You cause me to look upon toil? For destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention rises up.

You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and You are not able to look upon vexation. Why do you look on those who deal deceitfully? Will You be silent when the wicked swallows one more righteous than he?

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, will it also be marvelous in My eyes? says Jehovah of Hosts.

Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And the staff in their hand is My indignation.

Yet he does not plan this, nor does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.

declaring the end from the beginning, and from antiquity things which are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure;

calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes my counsel from a distant land. Indeed, I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have formed it; I will also do it.

Are You not from ancient times, Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die, Jehovah, for You have appointed them for judgment. And, my Rock, You have established them for correction.

For truly against Your holy Son Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and consecrated place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His father David.

And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Jehovah: Have you murdered and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Jehovah: In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.

So Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah:

For he has crushed and forsaken the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.

No food is left for him; there is no travail after his well-being.

When he is about to fill his stomach, God will cast upon him the fury of His wrath, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

It has been drawn, and comes out the back; yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors come upon him;

The heavens shall lay bare his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

This is the portion from God for a wicked man, the heritage promised to him by the Mighty God.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite when he is cut off, when God draws out his soul?

Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?

Behold, all of you have seen it. Why then are you vain like a vapor?

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

though he heaps up silver like dust, and provides clothing like clay;

He builds his house like a moth, like a booth which a watchman makes.

Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

It casts him out without pity; he hastens to flee from its hand.

Jehovah, You have heard the desire of the lowly; You will prepare their heart, You will cause Your ear to hear,

to vindicate the fatherless and the oppressed, so that the man of the earth may terrify no more.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah; I will set him in the safety for which he pants.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

And man shall say, Truly, there is a reward for the righteous; truly, there is a God who judges in the earth.

i1 [A Psalm of Asaph.] i0 par God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods.

that they may know that You, whose name alone is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.

Let not a man who speaks evil be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the poor.

What do you mean that you crush My people, and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold an outcry!

in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and backsliding from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Yea, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and to do violence.

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Behold, the rulers of Israel: each one was in you by his power to shed blood in you.

You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.

In you men uncover the nakedness of their fathers; in you they humble women during their menstrual impurity.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken, and will do it.

For I know your many transgressions, and your many sins: afflicting the just, taking bribes, and thrusting away the poor from justice in the gate.

Cross over to Calneh and see; and from there go to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms, or their border than your border?

who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves on their couches; and those eating the lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;

who drink wine from bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of ointments; but they are not grieved for the crushing of Joseph!

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, and make the poor of the land to fail,

in order to buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Woe to those who devise wickedness and do evil on their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Therefore thus says Jehovah: Behold, I am devising evil against this family, from which you shall not remove your necks; nor shall you walk haughtily, for this is an evil time.

And I said, Hear now, O heads of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know justice.

who also eat the flesh of My people, and flay their skin off from them; and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh in the kettle.

Now hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, you who abhor justice and pervert all equity,

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for money; yet they lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come upon us.

Are there yet in the house of the wicked the treasures of wickedness, and the abominable short ephah?

For her rich ones are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true justice, and show goodness and compassion, everyone to his brother.

But they refused to heed, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy that they might not hear.

Therefore it has come to pass that, just as He called, and they would not hear; so they called, and I did not hear, says Jehovah of Hosts.

And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those swearing to a lie; and against those who defraud the hired laborer of his pay, and turn away the widow, and the fatherless, and the alien; and who do not fear Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

For judgment will be without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Indeed, mercy rejoices over judgment.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

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

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

And God sent the Angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was destroying, Jehovah looked and was moved to compassion regarding the evil, and said to the Angel who was destroying, It is enough; now restrain Your hand. And the Angel of Jehovah stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And David lifted his eyes and saw the Angel of Jehovah standing between earth and the heavens, having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

For Jehovah is the great and Mighty God, and the great King above all gods.

Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all the stumbling blocks, and those who practice lawlessness,

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And behold, the Angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, Arise quickly! And his chains fell off his hands.

So he went out and followed Him, and did not know that what was done through the Angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.