Psalm 2

Psalm 2:1 Why are the nations so angry? Why are the people muttering empty thoughts?

Psalm 2:2 The kings of the land[1] take their stand; And the rulers join together in a league against Yahveh and his messiah.

Psalm 2:3 “Let’s break their yokes, and throw their harness ropes off of us.”

Psalm 2:4 The one sitting in the sky[2] laughs; the master ridicules them.

Psalm 2:5 Then he will speak to them angrily, terrifying them in his fury.

Psalm 2:6 “I personally have set up my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”

Psalm 2:7 I am announcing Yahveh’s decree. He said to me, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.”

Psalm 2:8 “Ask of me, and I will give nations as your inheritance and ends of the land as your possession.”

Psalm 2:9 “You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like pottery.”

Psalm 2:10 Kings should show insight[3] now; judges[4] of the land should take warning.

Psalm 2:11 Serve Yahveh with fear and celebrate as you tremble.

Psalm 2:12 Get things in order with the Son, or he will be angry, and you will be destroyed on your journey. His anger may ignite at any moment. All who take refuge in him are fortunate.

[1]אֶרֶץ = land, ground. Psalm 2:2, 8, 10; 7:5; 8:1, 9; 10:16, 18; 12:6; 16:3; 17:11; 18:7; 19:4; 21:10; 22:27, 29; 24:1; 25:13; 27:13; 33:5, 8, 14; 34:16; 35:20; 37:3, 9, 11, 22, 29, 34; 41:2.

[2]שָׁמַיִם = sky. Psalm 2:4; 8:1, 3, 8; 11:4; 14:2; 18:9, 13; 19:1, 6; 20:6; 33:6, 13; 36:5.

[3]שָׂכַל = show insight. Psalm 2:10; 14:2; 32:8; 36:3; 41:1; 53:2; 64:9; 94:8; 101:2; 106:7; 119:99.

[4]שָׁפַט = judge. Psalm 2:10; 7:8, 11; 9:4, 8, 19; 10:18; 26:1; 35:24; 37:33.

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Psalm 1

Psalm 1

Psalm 1:1 That person is fortunate who does not walk at the advice of wicked ones and on the sinners’ road he does not stand and in the critics’ chair he does not sit.

Psalm 1:2 But his treasure is doing what Yahveh[1] has taught and he keeps thinking about Yahveh’s instructions daily and nightly.

Psalm 1:3 He is like a tree planted opposite irrigation channels. It bears its seasonal fruit. Its leaf does not shrivel. Whatever it does will be successful.
Psalm 1:4 It isn’t like that with the wicked ones. Instead, they are like husks that the wind will blow away.

Psalm 1:5 That’s why the wicked ones will not survive the judgment. Neither will sinners when the righteous ones are gathered.

Psalm 1:6 Because Yahveh knows the journey of the righteous ones. But the wicked ones are on the road to destruction

[1]יהוה = Yahveh. Psalm 1:2, 6; 2:2, 7, 11; 3:1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8; 4:3, 5, 6, 8; 5:1, 3, 6, 8, 12; 6:1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9; 7:1, 3, 6, 8, 17; 8:1, 9; 9:1, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 19, 20; 10:1, 3, 12, 16, 17; 11:1, 4, 5, 7; 12:1, 3, 5, 6, 7; 13:1, 3, 6; 14:2, 4, 6, 7; 15:1, 4; 16:2, 5, 7, 8; 17:1, 13, 14; 18:1, 2, 3, 6, 13, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 28, 30, 31, 41, 46, 49; 19:7, 8, 9, 14; 20:1, 5, 6, 7, 9; 21:1, 7, 9, 13; 22:8, 19, 23, 26, 27, 28; 23:1, 6; 24:1, 3, 5, 8, 10; 25:1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15; 26:1, 2, 6, 8, 12; 27:1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14; 28:1, 5, 6, 7, 8; 29:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; 30:1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12; 31:1, 5, 6, 9, 14, 17, 21, 23, 24; 32:2, 5, 10, 11; 33:1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 22; 34:1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22; 35:1, 5, 6, 9, 10, 22, 24, 27; 36:1, 5, 6; 37:3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 28, 33, 34, 39, 40; 38:1, 15, 21; 39:4, 12; 40:1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 13, 16; 41:1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 13.

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Job 42

Job 42

Job 42:1 Then Job answered and said to Yahveh:

Job 42:2 I know that you can do anything, and no plan of yours can be thwarted.

Job 42:3 You asked, “Who is this who conceals my counsel with ignorance?” Surely, I spoke about things I did not understand, things too wondrous for me to know.

Job 42:4 You said, “Listen now, and I will speak. When I question you, you will inform me.”

Job 42:5 I had heard what my ears could listen to about you, but now my eyes have seen you.

Job 42:6 Therefore, I reject my words and regret them; I am dust and ashes.

Job 42:7 After Yahveh had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

Job 42:8 Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your stupidity deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”

Job 42:9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Yahveh had told them, and Yahveh accepted Job’s prayer.

Job 42:10 After Job had prayed for his friends, Yahveh restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.

Job 42:11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity Yahveh had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold earring.

Job 42:12 So Yahveh blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

Job 42:13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

Job 42:14 He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

Job 42:15 No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

Job 42:16 Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Job 42:17 Then Job died, old and full of days.

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Job 41

Job 41

Job 41:1 Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie his tongue down with a rope?

Job 41:2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 41:3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you?

Job 41:4 Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave forever?

Job 41:5 Can you play with him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?

Job 41:6 Will traders bargain for him or divide him among the merchants?

Job 41:7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

Job 41:8 Lay a hand on him. You will remember the battle and never repeat it!

Job 41:9 Any hope of capturing him proves false. Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?

Job 41:10 No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan; who then can stand against me?

Job 41:11 Who confronted me, that I should repay him? Everything under the sky belongs to me.

Job 41:12 I cannot be silent about his limbs, his power, and his graceful proportions.

Job 41:13 Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?

Job 41:14 Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

Job 41:15 His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together.

Job 41:16 One scale is so close to another that no air can pass between them.

Job 41:17 They are joined to one another, so closely connected they cannot be separated.

Job 41:18 His snorting flashes with light, while his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Job 41:19 Flaming torches shoot from his mouth; fiery sparks fly out!

Job 41:20 Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.

Job 41:21 His throat sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.

Job 41:22 Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances before him.

Job 41:23 The folds of his flesh are joined together, solid as metal and immovable.

Job 41:24 His heart is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

Job 41:25 When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw because of his thrashing.

Job 41:26 The sword that reaches him will have no effect, nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

Job 41:27 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:28 No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.

Job 41:29 A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.

Job 41:30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

Job 41:31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

Job 41:32 He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair!

Job 41:33 He has no equal on the land– a creature devoid of fear!

Job 41:34 He surveys everything that is haughty; he is king over all the proud beasts.

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Job 40

Job 40

Job 40:1 Yahveh answered Job and said:

Job 40:2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who argues with God answer.

Job 40:3 Then Job answered Yahveh:

Job 40:4 I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I place my hand over my mouth.

Job 40:5 I have spoken once, and I will not reply; twice, but now I can add nothing.

Job 40:6 Then Yahveh answered Job from the whirlwind:

Job 40:7 Get ready to answer me like a healthy man; When I question you, you will inform me.

Job 40:8 Would you really challenge my justice? Would you declare me guilty to justify yourself?

Job 40:9 Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like his?

Job 40:10 Adorn yourself with majesty and splendor and clothe yourself with honor and glory.

Job 40:11 Pour out your raging anger; look on every proud person and humiliate him.

Job 40:12 Look on every proud person and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

Job 40:13 Hide them together in the dust; imprison them in the grave.

Job 40:14 Then I will confess to you that your own right hand can deliver you.

Job 40:15 Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like cattle.

Job 40:16 Look at the strength of his back and the power in the muscles of his belly.

Job 40:17 He stiffens his tail like a cedar tree; the tendons of his thighs are woven firmly together.

Job 40:18 His bones are bronze tubes; his limbs are like iron rods.

Job 40:19 He is the first of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

Job 40:20 The hills yield food for him, while all sorts of wild animals play there.

Job 40:21 He lies under the lotus plants, hiding in the protection of marshy reeds.

Job 40:22 Lotus plants cover him with their shade; the willows by the brook surround him.

Job 40:23 Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains confident, even if the Jordan surges up to his mouth.

Job 40:24 Can anyone capture him while he looks on, or pierce his nose with snares?

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