⁶ Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.

²³ may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful `is' He who did promise),

¹⁴⁰ Tried `is' thy saying exceedingly, And Thy servant hath loved it.

²⁰ for as many as `are' promises of God, in him `are' the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

²¹ and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, `is' God,

²² who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³ And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

³ For yet the vision `is' for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

⁵⁶ `Blessed `is' Jehovah who hath given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He hath spoken; there hath not fallen one word of all His good word, which He spake by the hand of Moses his servant.

¹² Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

¹³ Thy kingdom `is' a kingdom of all ages, And Thy dominion `is' in all generations.

¹⁴ Jehovah is supporting all who are falling, And raising up all who are bowed down.

¹⁵ The eyes of all unto Thee do look, And Thou art giving to them their food in its season,

⁵ Jehovah `is' righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.

¹¹ The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.

¹³ in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

¹⁴ which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

¹⁵ Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,