⁹ Who doesn't know that in all these, The hand of Yahweh has done this,

²⁰ that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

⁷ Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

³⁶ For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

³⁵ When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

¹⁷ Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

¹⁸ You king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:

⁵ I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

⁶ Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.

¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

⁷ Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.

¹⁷ and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

¹⁸ But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.