⁸ Remember this, and shew yourselves men, Turn `it' back, O transgressors, to the heart.

²⁹ If they were wise -- They deal wisely `with' this; They attend to their latter end:

²⁰ Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

¹⁷ `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

⁷ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.

⁵ And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

²⁸ And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

⁸ And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.

⁷ And thou sayest, `To the age I am mistress,' While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.

¹⁸ They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

¹⁹ And none doth turn `it' back unto his heart, Nor hath knowledge nor understanding to say, `Half of it I have burned in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.'

²⁰ Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'

²¹ Remember these, O Jacob, and Israel, For My servant thou `art', I formed thee, a servant to Me thou `art', O Israel, thou dost not forget Me.

¹⁸ Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

⁸ Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

¹⁴ wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'