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And now Moses used to tell you before they befell you, and lo! they have befallen you: for you have forsaken the law.

And now Moses used to tell you before they befell you, and lo! they have befallen you: for you have forsaken the law.

No more, we were in our own land [And they helped us when we sinned],

They were exalted unto the stars; They said they would never fall.

They were exalted unto the stars; They said they would never fall.

They were exalted unto the stars; They said they would never fall.

But they became insolent in their prosperity, And they were without understanding,

But they became insolent in their prosperity, And they were without understanding,

Their transgressions (went) beyond those of the heathen before them; They utterly polluted the holy things of the Lord.

Alien nations ascended Thine altar, They trampled (it) proudly with their sandals;

For they had done evil one and all, in not hearkening.

For no man upon it had done what they did,

They set the sons of Jerusalem to be mocked at in return for (the) harlots in her; Every wayfarer entered in in the full light of day.

They made mock with their transgressions, as they themselves were wont to do; In the full light of day they revealed their iniquities. And the daughters of Jerusalem were defiled in accordance with Thy judgment,

They made mock with their transgressions, as they themselves were wont to do; In the full light of day they revealed their iniquities. And the daughters of Jerusalem were defiled in accordance with Thy judgment,

They made mock with their transgressions, as they themselves were wont to do; In the full light of day they revealed their iniquities. And the daughters of Jerusalem were defiled in accordance with Thy judgment,

Because they had defiled themselves with unnatural intercourse. I am pained in my bowels and my inward parts for these things.

For they have made sport unsparingly in wrath and fierce anger;

And they will make an utter end, unless Thou, O Lord, rebuke them in Thy wrath.

For they have done it not in zeal, but in lust of soul,

(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 that fear the Lord shall rise to life eternal, And their life (shall be) in the light of the Lord, and shall come to an end no more.

And their eyes (are fixed) upon any man's house that is (still) secure, That they may, like (the) Serpent, destroy the wisdom of . . . with words of transgressors,

He never ceaseth from scattering (families) as though (they were) orphans, Yea, he layeth waste a house on account of (his) lawless desire.

For they have laid waste many houses of men, in dishonor, And scattered (them) in (their) lust;

And they have not remembered God, Nor feared God in all these things;

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.

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.

Blessed are they that fear the Lord in their flawlessness;

And if they hunger, unto Thee do they lift up their face.

And if they hunger, unto Thee do they lift up their face.

They that fear the Lord rejoice in good (gifts), And Thy goodness is upon Israel in Thy kingdom. Blessed is the glory of the Lord for He is our king.

Make not Thy dwelling afar from us, O God; Lest they assail us that hate us without cause.

I said: They establish their ways in righteousness. I thought upon the judgments of God since the creation of heaven and earth; I held God righteous in His judgments which have been from of old.

They wrought confusion, son with mother and father with daughter;

They committed adultery, every man with his neighbor's wife. They concluded covenants with one another with an oath touching these things;

They committed adultery, every man with his neighbor's wife. They concluded covenants with one another with an oath touching these things;

They plundered the sanctuary of God, as though there was no avenger.

They trode the altar of the Lord, (coming straight) from all manner of uncleanness; And with menstrual blood they defiled the sacrifices, as (though these were) common flesh.

They trode the altar of the Lord, (coming straight) from all manner of uncleanness; And with menstrual blood they defiled the sacrifices, as (though these were) common flesh.

They left no sin undone, wherein they surpassed not the heathen.

They left no sin undone, wherein they surpassed not the heathen.

Therefore God mingled for them a spirit of wandering; And gave them to drink a cup of undiluted wine, that they might become drunken.

The princes of the land went to meet him with joy: they said unto him: Blessed be thy way! Come ye, enter ye in with peace.

They made the rough ways even, before his entering in; They opened the gates to Jerusalem, they crowned its walls.

They made the rough ways even, before his entering in; They opened the gates to Jerusalem, they crowned its walls.

They made the rough ways even, before his entering in; They opened the gates to Jerusalem, they crowned its walls.

For God Himself led him in safety, while they wandered.

He led away their sons and daughters, whom they had begotten in defilement.

They did according to their uncleanness, even as their fathers (had done):

They defiled Jerusalem and the things that had been hallowed to the name of God.

When Israel was led away captive into a strange land, When they fell away from the Lord who redeemed them,

They were cast away from the inheritance, which Lord had given them. Among every nation (were) the dispersed of Israel according to the word of God,

Thou blessest the righteous, and dost not reprove them for the sins that they have committed; And Thy goodness is upon them that sin, when they repent.

Thou blessest the righteous, and dost not reprove them for the sins that they have committed; And Thy goodness is upon them that sin, when they repent.

And, now, Thou art our God, and we the people whom Thou hast loved: Behold and show pity, O God of Israel, for we are Thine; And remove not Thy mercy from us, lest they assail us.

From the North they come in the gladness of their God, From the isles afar off God hath gathered them.

The hills fled at their entrance. The woods gave them shelter as they passed by;

Noisome beasts ran upon them: With their teeth they tore their flesh, And with their molars crushed their bones. But from all these things the Lord delivered us,

Their planting is rooted for ever; They shall not be plucked up all the days of heaven: For the portion and the inheritance of God is Israel.

And they remember not God. For the ways of men are known before Him at all times, And He knoweth the secrets of the heart before they come to pass.

And they remember not God. For the ways of men are known before Him at all times, And He knoweth the secrets of the heart before they come to pass.

Therefore their inheritance is Sheol and darkness and destruction, And they shall not be found in the day when the righteous obtain mercy;

For the mark of God is upon the righteous that they may be saved. Famine and sword and pestilence (shall be) far from the righteous,

For they shall flee away from the pious as men pursued in war; But they shall pursue sinners and overtake (them), And they that do lawlessness shall not escape the judgment of God; As by enemies experienced (in war) shall they be overtaken,

For they shall flee away from the pious as men pursued in war; But they shall pursue sinners and overtake (them), And they that do lawlessness shall not escape the judgment of God; As by enemies experienced (in war) shall they be overtaken,

For they shall flee away from the pious as men pursued in war; But they shall pursue sinners and overtake (them), And they that do lawlessness shall not escape the judgment of God; As by enemies experienced (in war) shall they be overtaken,

For they shall flee away from the pious as men pursued in war; But they shall pursue sinners and overtake (them), And they that do lawlessness shall not escape the judgment of God; As by enemies experienced (in war) shall they be overtaken,

But they that fear the Lord shall find mercy therein, And shall live by the compassion of their God; But sinners shall perish for ever.

But, for our sins, sinners rose up against us; They assailed us and thrust us out; What Thou hadst not promised to them, they took away (from us) with violence.

But, for our sins, sinners rose up against us; They assailed us and thrust us out; What Thou hadst not promised to them, they took away (from us) with violence.

They in no wise glorified Thy honorable name; They set a (worldly) monarchy in place of (that which was) their excellency;

They in no wise glorified Thy honorable name; They set a (worldly) monarchy in place of (that which was) their excellency;

They laid waste the throne of David in tumultuous arrogance. But Thou, O God, didst cast them down and remove their seed from the earth,

The lawless one laid waste our land so that none inhabited it, They destroyed young and old and their children together.

They that loved the synagogues of the pious fled from them, As sparrows that fly from their nest.

They wandered in deserts that their lives might be saved from harm, And precious in the eyes of them that lived abroad was any that escaped alive from them.

Over the whole earth were they scattered by lawless (men).

For he shall know them, that they are all sons of their God. And he shaIl divide them according to their tribes upon the land,

Blessed be they that shall be in those days, In that they shall see the good fortune of Israel which God shall bring to pass in the gathering together of the tribes.

Blessed be they that shall be in those days, In that they shall see the good fortune of Israel which God shall bring to pass in the gathering together of the tribes.

Blessed shall they be that shall be in those days, In that they shall see the goodness of the Lord which He shall perform for the generation that is to come,

Blessed shall they be that shall be in those days, In that they shall see the goodness of the Lord which He shall perform for the generation that is to come,

(It is He) who hath established in (their) courses the lights (of heaven) for determining seasons from year to year, And they have not turned aside from the way which He appointed them

In the fear of God (they pursue) their path every day, From the day God created them and for evermore.

And they have erred not since the day He created them. Since the generations of old they have not withdrawn from their path, Unless God commanded them (so to do) by the command of His servants.

And they have erred not since the day He created them. Since the generations of old they have not withdrawn from their path, Unless God commanded them (so to do) by the command of His servants.

They darkened not with passion, nor concealed

Even like wild beasts they walked with limbs exposed.

Therefore, instead of good, received they evil

Of the sweet fig-tree piercing they made clothes

The sexual parts, because they were ashamed.

Was brought to pass, since hearing they kept not

And straightway they, upon the fruitful soil

Innumerable. And houses they adorned

For they did not worn out with troubles die,

The King, God. But they also did transgress,

They mocked their fathers and their mothers scorned;

Kinsmen they knew not, and they formed intrigues

Kinsmen they knew not, and they formed intrigues