⁸ Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.

²⁹ If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

²⁰ My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

¹⁷ But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!

⁷ This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

⁵ For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

²⁸ Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

⁸ But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

⁷ And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.

¹⁸ They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

¹⁹ And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

²⁰ As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

²¹ Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.

¹⁸ Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

⁸ Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

¹⁴ For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.