for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way
And
God said, Let us make man in our image,
- after - our likeness:
So God
created man in his own image,
in the image of God - created he him; male and female created he them.
**
And
the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to
know good
and evil:
**
And
Adam lived an hundred and thirty
years, and begat a son in his own likeness,
- after - his image; and called his name Seth:
**
When
the men of Israel saw that they
were in a strait,
(for the people were distressed,)
then the people did hide
themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in
rocks,
and in high places, and in pits.
**
And
David said unto Gad, I am in
a great strait:
let us fall now into the hand
of the Lord;
for his mercies are great: and let me - not fall into the hand of man.
**
And
the sons of the prophets
said unto Elisha,
Behold now, the place where - we dwell - with thee - is too strait for
us.
Let us
go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
And
one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.
And he answered, I will go.
So he
went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down
wood.
But
as one was felling a beam, the axe
head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas,
master! - for it
was
borrowed.
**
To
him that is afflicted pity should be shewed - from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream
of brooks they pass away;
Which are blackish by reason of the ice,
and wherein the snow is hid:
What
time
- they wax warm, they vanish: - when it is hot, they are consumed out
of their place. The paths
of their way are turned aside; - they go to nothing, and perish.
**
And
the man of God said, Where fell it?
And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and
cast it in thither;
and the iron did swim.
Therefore
said he,
- Take it up
to thee. And he put out his hand, - and
took it.
*****
Enter
ye in at the strait gate:
*****
After my words - they spake not again;
and my speech
dropped upon them. And they waited for me as for the rain;
and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
If
I laughed on them, - they
believed it
not;
and the light of my countenance - they cast not down. I chose out their way, and
sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one
that
comforteth the mourners.
But now they
that are younger than I have me in
derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs
of my flock.
Yea,
whereto might the strength of their hands
profit
me,
in whom old age was perished? For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. . .
**
And
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,
. . .
**
And
Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon - both their shoulders,
and went backward, and covered the nakedness
of their
father;
and their faces were backward,
and they saw
not
their father's nakedness.
**
. . . and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness
of Beersheba.
And
the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
under - one of the shrubs.
**
And
the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the
midst of a bush:
and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
**
. . . waste. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for
their meat.
They were driven forth from among men,
(they cried
-
after
them as
after a thief;) To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys,
in
caves of the earth, and in the rocks. Among the bushes
they
brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
They were
children of fools, yea,
children of base men: they were viler than the earth. And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. They abhor me, they flee far from me,
and spare not to spit in my face.
Because he hath loosed my
cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Upon my right
hand
rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. They mar my
path,
they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. They
came upon me as a wide breaking
in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves
upon me.
Terrors are turned upon me:
they pursue my soul as the wind: and my
welfare
passeth
away as a cloud. And now my soul is poured out upon
me; the days of affliction have taken
hold upon me.
My
bones are pierced in me in the night
season: and my sinews
take no rest. By the great force of my disease is my
garment changed: it
bindeth
me about as the collar of my coat.
He
hath cast me into
the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me:
I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
Thou
art
become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Thou liftest me
up
to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it,
and dissolvest my substance. For I know
that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Howbeit
he will
not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. Did not I
weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for
the poor? When I looked for good,
then evil came unto me:
and when I waited for light, there
came darkness.
My
bowels boiled, and
rested not: the days of affliction
prevented me. I went mourning without
the sun:
I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
I
am a
brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
**
And
Adah bare Jabal: . . . And his brother's
name was Jubal: he
was
the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
**
My skin is black upon me, and
my
bones are
burned with heat. My harp also is turned
to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
I
made a covenant with mine eyes; why - then should I think upon a maid? For what portion of God is there from
above? and
what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Is
not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
***
Against whom
do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out
the tongue? are ye not children
of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children
in the valleys under the clifts
of the rocks?
Among the smooth
stones of the stream is thy portion;
they,
- they are thy lot:
even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering.
Should I receive comfort in these?
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Behind
the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance:
for thou
hast discovered thyself to another
than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst
their bed where thou sawest it.
And
thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase
thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase
thyself even unto hell.
Thou
art
wearied in the greatness
of
thy way; yet saidst thou
not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
And
of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me,
nor laid it to thy heart? have not I
held
my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall - not profit thee.
When
thou
criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that
putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy
mountain;
And
shall say, Cast ye up,
- cast ye up, prepare the way,
take up the stumblingblock out of the
way of my people.
For
thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also
that is of a contrite
and
humble spirit, to revive the spirit of
the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite
ones.
. .
***
And
Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot
his brother's son, and - all their substance - that they
had gathered, - and the souls - that they had gotten - in Haran; and they went forth to go
into
the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan - they came.
***
.
. . For I will not
contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me,
and the souls which I have made.
For
the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly
in the way of his heart.
I
have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also,
and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
I
create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.
But
the wicked are like the troubled
sea, when it cannot
rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
There
is no peace, saith my God,
to the wicked.
*****
for
wide
is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
ISamuelyeaon-Am-Allah
