1 Truly, God is loving to Israel, ♦︎
to those who are pure in heart.
2 Nevertheless, my feet were almost gone; ♦︎
my steps had well-nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious of the proud; ♦︎
I saw the wicked in such prosperity;
4 For they suffer no pains ♦︎
and their bodies are sleek and sound;
5 They come to no misfortune like other folk; ♦︎
nor are they plagued as others are;
6 Therefore pride is their necklace ♦︎
and violence wraps them like a cloak.
7 Their iniquity comes from within; ♦︎
the conceits of their hearts overflow.
8 They scoff, and speak only of evil; ♦︎
they talk of oppression from on high.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, ♦︎
and their tongue ranges round the earth;
10 And so the people turn to them ♦︎
and find in them no fault.
11 They say, How should God know? ♦︎
Is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the wicked; ♦︎
ever at ease, they increase their wealth.
13 Is it in vain that I cleansed my heart ♦︎
and washed my hands in innocence?
14 All day long have I been stricken ♦︎
and chastened every morning.
15 If I had said, I will speak as they do, ♦︎
I should have betrayed the generation of your children.
16 Then thought I to understand this, ♦︎
but it was too hard for me,
17 Until I entered the sanctuary of God ♦︎
and understood the end of the wicked:
18 How you set them in slippery places; ♦︎
you cast them down to destruction.
19 How suddenly do they come to destruction, ♦︎
perish and come to a fearful end!
20 As with a dream when one awakes, ♦︎
so, Lord, when you arise you will despise their image.
21 When my heart became embittered ♦︎
and I was pierced to the quick,
22 I was but foolish and ignorant; ♦︎
I was like a brute beast in your presence.
23 Yet I am always with you; ♦︎
you hold me by my right hand.
24 You will guide me with your counsel ♦︎
and afterwards receive me with glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you? ♦︎
And there is nothing upon earth that I desire
in comparison with you.
26 Though my flesh and my heart fail me, ♦︎
God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
27 Truly, those who forsake you will perish; ♦︎
you will put to silence the faithless who betray you.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God; ♦︎
in the Lord God have I made my refuge,
that I may tell of all your works.
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7This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the kings mowings).
2When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!
3 The Lord relented concerning this;
It shall not be, said the Lord.
4 This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire,* and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
5Then I said,
O Lord God, cease, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!
6 The Lord relented concerning this;
This also shall not be, said the Lord God.
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18 I am giving you these instructions, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight,
19having faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have suffered shipwreck in the faith;
20among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan, so that they may learn not to blaspheme.
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