²⁰ for it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let another take.

²⁵ Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no dweller.

⁸ His days are few, his oversight another taketh,

⁹ His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

¹⁰ And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

¹¹ An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.

¹² He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans.

¹³ His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.

¹⁴ The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered unto Jehovah, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out.

¹⁵ They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

³ And he saith unto me, `This `is' the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent.

⁴ `I have brought it out -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts -- and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

⁴² and David himself saith in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These `are' the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

²⁵ to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'

³³ God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee.