⁹ An abomination to Jehovah `is' the way of the wicked, And whoso is pursuing righteousness He loveth.

¹¹ and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

²¹ Whoso is pursuing righteousness and kindness, Findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

²² and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

¹³ `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide `is' the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

¹³ Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

³ And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'

⁴ `And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated --

⁷ Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart `is' My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

¹ Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged.

⁷ The path for the righteous `is' uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.

⁸ Froward `is' the way of a man who is vile, And the pure -- upright `is' his work.

⁴ Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked `is' sin.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

⁸ Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

⁹ Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

⁶ For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!