⁵ As to those turning `to' their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!

¹⁵ Whose paths `are' crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

⁶ And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!

¹⁶ and as many as by this rule do walk -- peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

⁸ A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

⁴ O the happiness of the man Who hath made Jehovah his trust, And hath not turned unto the proud, And those turning aside to lies.

³ I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

² according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

³⁸ and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

²⁷ `Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

⁴⁸ `And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

⁴⁹ and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,

⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

⁵¹ and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

²³ and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

⁶ And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

¹¹ On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

⁷ When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

⁴ They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.

¹⁴ From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man -- from his fruits.

¹⁰ For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace removeth not, Said hath thy loving one -- Jehovah.

¹³ And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant `is' the peace of thy sons.

¹⁹ Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing `Is' thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

²⁶ And I have made to them a covenant of peace, A covenant age-during it is with them, And I have placed them, and multiplied them, And placed My sanctuary in their midst -- to the age.

¹⁸ And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.

¹³ And Saul dieth because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he kept not, and also for asking at a familiar spirit -- to inquire, --

¹⁴ and he inquired not at Jehovah, and He putteth him to death, and turneth round the kingdom to David son of Jesse.