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And because I shall love Him that, is the Son, I shall become a son;
And it is not (possible) that he should change it and put it in another place: because he hath no power over it:
I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, because I love thee;
For my hope is upon the Lord, and I will not fear, and because the Lord is my salvation, I will not fear:
And if all things visible should perish, I shall not die; because the Lord is with me and I am with Him. Hallelujah.
And I trembled not when I saw Him: because He was gracious to me:
Because He it is that is incorrupt, the fulness of the ages and the Father of them.
And they shall praise the Lord for His love: because He is near and beholdeth.
For ignorance hath been destroyed, because the knowledge of the Lord hath arrived.
Ye, therefore, that were despised, be henceforth lifted up, because your righteousness hath been exalted.
And I was unpolluted by my love for them, because they confessed me in high places: and the traces of the light were set upon their heart:
And He has caused His knowledge to abound in me, because the mouth of the Lord is the true Word, and the door of His light;
And they knew Him who made them, because they were in concord; for the mouth of the Most High spake to them; and His explanation ran by means of it:
Let me be well-pleasing before thee, because of thy glory and because of thy name:
Let me be well-pleasing before thee, because of thy glory and because of thy name:
Because He is my Sun and His rays have lifted me up; and His light hath dispelled all darkness from my face.
Because His love bath nourished my heart, and even to my lips His fruits He poured out.
Nothing appeared closed to me: because I was the door of everything.
And they were gathered to me and were saved; because they were to me as my own members and I was their head. Glory to thee our head, the Lord Messiah. Hallelujah.
And the Holy Spirit milked Him: because His breasts were full, and it was necessary for Him that His milk should be sufficiently released;
And because she was not sufficiently prepared, and she had not sought a midwife (for He brought her to bear) she brought forth, as if she were a man, of her own will;
My arms I lifted up to the Most High, even to the grace of the Lord: because He had cast off my bonds from me: and my Helper had lifted me up to His grace and to His salvation:
Because it was not permitted to them to loose its seal: for the power that was over the seal was greater than they.
The Dove fluttered over the Messiah, because He was her head; and she sang over Him and her voice was heard:
And no food was given to them, because it did not belong to them;
For they who in their hearts were lifted up were deficient in wisdom, and so they were rejected, because the truth was not with them.
And I shall see him no more: because thy face was with me, which saved me by thy grace.
They who saw me marvelled at me, because I was persecuted, and they supposed that I was swallowed up: for I seemed to them as one of the lost;
And my oppression became my salvation; and I was their reprobation because there was no zeal in me;
Because I did good to every man I was hated,
And I gave praise to the Most High because He exalted me His servant and the son of His handmaid. Hallelujah.
And it went with me and made me rest, and suffered me not to wander, because it was the Truth;
And I ran no risk, because I walked with Him;
And I did not make an error in anything because I obeyed the Truth.
And I was made wise so as not to fall into the hands of the deceiver; and I congratulated myself because the Truth went with me,
And my foundations were laid on the hand of the Lord: because He established me.
All my persecutors are dead; and they sought after me who hoped in me, because I was alive:
Because my word shall not be void:
But as for us who live, woe unto us, Because we see the afflictions of Zion, And what has befallen Jerusalem.
Because you have been astonished at what has befallen Zion, you shall therefore be assuredly preserved to the consummation of the times, that you may be for a testimony.
On this account he had aforetime no mercy on His own sons, But afflicted them as His enemies, because they sinned,
But now, you peoples and nations, you are guilty Because you have always trodden down the earth, And used the creation unrighteously.
For the righteous justly hope for the end, and without fear depart from this habitation, because they have with you a store of works preserved in treasuries.
But now, because he transgressed wittingly, yea, just on this ground that he knows (about it), he shall be tormented.
Now regarding everything that is, it is I that judge, but do not you take counsel in your soul regarding these things, nor afflict thyself because of those which have been.
Because if a man be prospered in his beginnings and shamefully entreated in his old age, he forgets all the prosperity that he had.
And show to those who know not, that everything that has befallen us and our city until now has been according to the long-suffering of Your power, because on account of Your name you have called us a beloved people.
Because when Adam sinned and death was decreed against those who should be born, then the multitude of those who should be born was numbered, and for that number a place was prepared where the living might dwell and the dead might be guarded.
And it shall come to pass at that self-same time that the treasury of manna shall again descend from on high, and they will eat of it in those years, because these are they who have come to the consummation of time.
[Because after a little time the building of Zion will be shaken in order that it may be built again.
Because in that place where I am now prostrate, Of old the high priest offered holy sacrifices, And placed thereon an incense of fragrant odors.
Because whatever is now is nothing, But that which shall be is very great. For everything that is corruptible shall pass away,
And it shall come to pass in those days that all the inhabitants of the earth shall be moved one against another, because they know not that My judgment has drawn nigh.
And it shall come to pass at the self-same time, That a change of times shall manifestly appeal to every man, Because in all those times they polluted themselves And they practiced oppression, And walked every man in his own works, And remembered not the law of the Mighty One.
Because each of the inhabitants of the earth knew when he was transgressing. But My Law they knew not by reason of their pride.
But now, as for you, you wicked that now are, turn you to destruction, because you shall speedily be visited, in that formerly you rejected the understanding of the Most High.
And I wondered and was astonished, and pondered in my thoughts regarding the multitude of goodness which sinners who are upon the earth have rejected, and regarding the great torment which they have despised, though they knew that they should be tormented because of the sin they had committed.
'Nevertheless, because you have besought the Most High to reveal to you the interpretation of the vision which you have seen, I have been sent to tell you.
Because at that time the unwritten law was named amongst them, And the works of the commandments were then fulfilled, And belief in the coming judgment was then generated, And hope of the world that was to be renewed was then built up, And the promise of the life that should come hereafter was implanted.
And the land [which] was then beloved by the Lord, And because its inhabitants sinned not, it was glorified beyond all lands, And the city Zion ruled then over all lands and regions.
And the time of their captivity which came upon the nine tribes and a half, because they were in many sins.
And the Mighty One heard him, for Hezekiah was wise, And He had respect unto his prayer, because he was righteous.
Because so far as Zion is delivered up And Jerusalem laid waste, Shall idols prosper in the cities of the Gentiles, And the vapor of the smoke of the incense of the righteousness which is by the law is extinguished in Zion, And in the region of Zion in every place lo! there is the smoke of impiety.
For the Most High made division from the beginning, because He alone knows what will befall.
For I have come to tell you these things, because your prayer has been heard with the Most High.
And this because some out of every nation shall be subjected to your people.
Because, if assuredly you did not have compassion on man, Those who are under Your right hand, They could not come to those things, But those who are in the numbers named can be called.
But if now we know not wherefore we have come, And recognize not the principate of Him who brought us up out of Egypt, We shall come again and seek after those things which have been now, And be grieved with pain because of those things which have befallen.'
And because your brethren transgressed the commandments of the Most High, And He spared not the former, And the latter also He gave into captivity: And He left not a residue of them,
And when they had done these things, they delivered thereupon to the enemy the overthrown wall, and the plundered house, and the burnt temple, and the people who were overcome because they were delivered up, lest the enemy should boast and say: 'Thus by force have we been able to lay waste even the house of the Most High in war.'
Let none therefore of these present things ascend into your hearts, but above all let us be expectant, because that which is promised to us shall come.
I thought in my heart that I was full of righteousness, Because I was well off and had become rich in children.
Because the sons of Jerusalem had defiled the holy things of the Lord, Had profaned with iniquities the offerings of God.
Because they had defiled themselves with unnatural intercourse. I am pained in my bowels and my inward parts for these things.
His body, ( too,) borne hither and thither on the billows with much insolence, With none to bury (him), because He had rejected him with dishonour. He reflected not that he was man.
(It is He) who setteth me up in glory, And bringeth down the proud to eternal destruction in dishonour, Because they knew Him not.
But they have provoked God's anger and vexed Him. May He remove them from off the earth, Because with deceit they beguiled the souls of the flawless.
The sexual parts, because they were ashamed.
Because they had a sleepless mind within
Because of a people disobedient,
Because they hoped to look upon the land.
Because upon it all were to be saved
Because of counsels of the mighty God.
Heavenly its name, because all things to God
Because he promised that again no flood
Away from them, because they slew the Son
For wars, because of thee, and pillaging
Because they had a care for wicked deeds.
Because she his great temple had destroyed.
Because of wasting famine; Corsica
Number and tribe, because of unjust speech
Because of which ye were taught foolish thoughts.
Because they would not honor piously
Because of gold and silver they shall come--
Because of thine own follies thou shalt fall.
Is now thy mighty pride? Because thou didst
Because of sorrow for which Rhea came,
Because of honor, which was first assigned
And the land of Italy, because, of which
because of the great city and just people