If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.”

This will bring healing to your body, and refreshment to your inner self.

Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.

In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil, and floggings cleanse the innermost being.

Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease.

She is like the merchant ships; she brings her food from afar.

She begins her work vigorously, and she strengthens her arms.

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.

Indeed, he says: “Are not my officials all kings?

But I see the prophets of Jerusalem doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.

For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord who rules over all, affirm it!’

For I, the Lord, affirm that I will be with you and will rescue you. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you. But I will not completely destroy you. I will indeed discipline you, but only in due measure. I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.”

Moreover, all the Judeans who were in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other countries heard what had happened. They heard that the king of Babylon had allowed some people to stay in Judah and that he had appointed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, to govern them.

“Announce the news among the nations! Proclaim it! Signal for people to pay attention! Declare the news! Do not hide it! Say: ‘Babylon will be captured. Bel will be put to shame. Marduk will be dismayed. Babylon’s idols will be put to shame. Her disgusting images will be dismayed.

He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

ת (Tav) Pay them back what they deserve, O Lord, according to what they have done.