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For great are your judgements, and hard to interpret; Therefore souls undisciplined went astray. For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, They, themselves, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, Close kept beneath ...

The Lord created man of the earth, And turned him back to it again. He gave them days by number, and a set time, And gave them authority over the things that are thereon. He endued them with strength proper to them; And made them according to his own image. Mentions: Jacob/Israel .

Love righteousness, you⌃ that be judges of the earth, Think you⌃ of the Lord with a good mind, And in singleness of heart seek you⌃ him; Because he is found of them that tempt him not, And is manifested to them that do not distrust him. For crooked thoughts separate from God; An...

For they said within themselves, reasoning not aright, Short and sorrowful is our life; And there is no healing when a man comes to his end, And none was ever known that gave release from Hades. Because by mere chance were we born, And hereafter we shall be as though we had nev...

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, And no torment shall touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died; And their departure was accounted to be their hurt, And their journeying away from us to be their ruin: But they are in peace.

Better than this is childishness with virtue; For in the memory of virtue is immortality: Because it is recognized both before God and before men. When it is present, men imitate it; And they long after it when it is departed: And throughout all time it marcheth crowned in tr...

Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness Before the face of them that afflicted him, And them that make his labors of no account. When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, And shall be amazed at the marvel of God’s salvation. They shall say withi...

Hear therefore, you⌃ kings, and understand; Learn, you⌃ judges of the ends of the earth: Give ear, you⌃ that have dominion over much people, And make your boast in multitudes of nations. Because your dominion was given you from the Lord, And your sovereignty from the Most High; ...

I myself also am mortal, like to all, And am sprung from one born of the earth, the man first formed, And in the womb of a mother was I moulded into flesh in the time of ten months, Being compacted in blood of the seed of man and pleasure that came with sleep. And I also, when ...

But she reaches from one end of the world to the other with full strength, And ordereth all things graciously. Her I loved and sought out from my youth, And I sought to take her for my bride, And I became enamoured of her beauty. She glorifieth her noble birth in that it is g...

O God of the fathers, and Lord who keep your mercy, Who made all things by your word; And by your wisdom you formedst man, That he should have dominion over the creatures that were made by you, And rule the world in holiness and righteousness, And execute judgement in uprightne...

Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, And delivered him out of his own transgression, And gave him strength to get dominion over all things. But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger, He perished himself in the r...

She prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet. They journeyed through a desert without inhabitant, And in trackless regions they pitched their tents. They withstood enemies, and repelled foes.

For your incorruptible spirit is in all things. Wherefore you convictest by little and little them that fall from the right way, And, putting them in remembrance by the very things wherein they sin, do you admonish them, That escaping from their wickedness they may believe on y...

For verily all men by nature were but vain who had no perception of God, And from the good things that are seen they gained not power to know him that is, Neither by giving heed to the works did they recognize the artificer; But either fire, or wind, or swift air, Or circling ...

Again, one preparing to sail, and about to journey over raging waves, Calleth upon a piece of wood more rotten than the vessel that carries him; For that vessel the hunger for gains devised, And an artificer, even wisdom, built it; And your providence, O Father, guideth it alon...

But you, our God, are gracious and true, Longsuffering, and in mercy ordering all things. For even if we sin, we are your, knowing your dominion; But we shall not sin, knowing that we have been accounted your: For to be acquainted with you is perfect righteousness, And to know y...

For this cause were these men worthily punished through creatures like those which they worship, And tormented through a multitude of vermin. Instead of which punishment, you, bestowing benefits on your people, Preparedst quails for food, Food of rare taste, to satisfy the d...

But for your holy ones there was great light; And the Egyptians, hearing their voice but seeing not their form, Counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered, Yet for that they do not hurt them now, though wronged by them before, they are thankful; And because they had b...

But upon the ungodly there came to the end indignation without mercy; For their future also God foreknew, How that, having changed their minds to let your people go, And having speeded them eagerly on their way, They would repent themselves and pursue them. For while they were ... Mentions: Sodom .

And after him rose up Nathan To prophesy in the days of David . As is the fat when it is separated from the peace offering, So was David separated from the children of Israel . He played with lions as with kids, And with bears as with lambs of the flock. Mentions: Nathan , David, Jacob/Israel , Solomon , Ephraim .