1 Why do you glory in evil, you tyrant, ♦︎
while the goodness of God endures continually?
2 You plot destruction, you deceiver; ♦︎
your tongue is like a sharpened razor.
3 You love evil rather than good, ♦︎
falsehood rather than the word of truth.
4 You love all words that hurt, ♦︎
O you deceitful tongue.
5 Therefore God shall utterly bring you down; ♦︎
he shall take you and pluck you out of your tent
and root you out of the land of the living.
6 The righteous shall see this and tremble; ♦︎
they shall laugh you to scorn, and say:
7 This is the one who did not take God for a refuge, ♦︎
but trusted in great riches and relied upon wickedness.
8 But I am like a spreading olive tree in the house of God; ♦︎
I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever.
9 I will always give thanks to you for what you have done; ♦︎
I will hope in your name,
for your faithful ones delight in it.
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30 Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, 31just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn* stones, on which no iron tool has been used; and they offered on it burnt-offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed offerings of well-being. 32And there, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua* wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 33All Israel, alien as well as citizen, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark in front of the levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. 34And afterwards he read all the words of the law, blessings and curses, according to all that is written in the book of the law. 35There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the aliens who resided among them.
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2Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgement on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things. 2You say,* We know that Gods judgement on those who do such things is in accordance with truth. 3Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgement of God? 4Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that Gods kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when Gods righteous judgement will be revealed. 6For he will repay according to each ones deeds: 7to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honour and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. 9There will be anguish and distress for everyone who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10but glory and honour and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 11For God shows no partiality.
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