RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

have also thrown off restraint before me.
12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my
feet, and they raise up against me the derech of their
destruction.
13 They have broken my path, they set forward my
calamity, and they have no one to restrain them.
14 They came on me as a wide breaking in of mayim: in
the desolation they rolled themselves on me.
15 Destruction has turned on me: they pursue my being as
the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.
16 And now my being is poured out on me; the days of
affliction have taken hold on me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and
my sinews take no rest.
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment
changed: it binds me around as the collar of my coat.
19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am become like
dust and ashes.
20 I cry to You, and You do not hear me: I stand up, and
You regard me not.
21 You have become cruel to me: with Your strong hand
You oppose me.
22 You lift me up to the wind; You cause me to ride on it,
and dissolve my possessions.
23 For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the
bayit appointed for all living.
24 But He will not stretch out His hand against me to kill
me, though I cry in destruction.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not
my being grieved for the poor?
26 When I looked for tov, then evil came to me: and
when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27 My inward parts boiled, and rested not: the days of
affliction were before me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I
cried in the congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30 My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with
heat.
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my flute into
the voice of them that weep.
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I made a brit with my eyes; why then should I think
on a maid?
2 For what portion of tvkt is there from above? And
what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? And strange
punishment to the workers of iniquity?
4 Does He not see my halacha, and count all my steps?
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has been led
to deceit;
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that tvkt may
know my integrity.
7 If my step has turned away from His halacha, and my
lev walked after my eyes, and if any blemish has cleaved
to my hands;
8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my
offspring be rooted out.
9 If my lev has been deceived by a woman, or if I have
laid wait at my neighbor’s door;
10 Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow
down on her.
11 For this is a heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be
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punished by the shophtim.
12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would
root out all my increase.
13 If I did despise the cause of my male eved, or of my
female eved, when they complained against me;
14 Then what shall I do when El rises up? And when He
visits, what shall I answer Him?
15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him also?
And did not the Echad Himself fashion us in the womb?
16 If I have withheld from the poor their desire, or have
caused the eyes of the widow to lose tikvah;
17 Or, have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the
fatherless have not eaten of it;
18 For from my youth he was brought up with me, as
with an abba, and I have guided her from my eema’s
womb;
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any
poor without a covering;
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he did not
warm himself with the fleece of my sheep;
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when
I saw I had help in the gate:
22 Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my
arm be broken from the bone.
23 For destruction from El was a terror to me, and by
reason of His excellence I could not endure.
24 If I have made gold my tikvah, or have said to the fine
gold, You are my confidence;
25 If I had gilah because my wealth was great, and
because my hand had gotten much;
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon
walking in brightness;
27 And my lev has been secretly enticed, or my mouth
has kissed my hand:
28 This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the
Shophet: for then I would have denied the El that is
above.
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or
lifted up myself when evil found him:
30 Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin by wishing a
curse to his being.
31 If the men of my tent did not say, Who is there that has
not been satisfied with some food?
32 The ger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my
doors to the traveler.
33 If I covered my transgressions like Ahdahm, by hiding
my iniquity in my bosom:
34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of
mishpachot frighten me, that I kept silent, and went not
out of the door?
35 Oh that one would hear me! See, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that my accuser had
written an accusation bill.
36 Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a
keter to me.
37 I would declare to Him the number of my steps; as a
sar, would I go near to Him.
38 If my land cries against me, or that the furrows
likewise of it complain;
39 If I have eaten the fruits of it without payment, or if I
have caused the owners of it to die.
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead