Proverbs 13

English Standard Version

13 A wise son hears his father's instruction,
    but ^(A)a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
²From the fruit of his mouth a man ^(B)eats what is good,
    but the desire of the treacherous ^(C)is for violence.
³^(D)Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
    ^(E)he who opens wide his lips ^(F)comes to ruin.
⁴^(G)The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
    while the soul of the diligent ^(H)is richly supplied.
⁵The righteous hates falsehood,
    but the wicked brings shame^[a] and disgrace.
⁶^(I)Righteousness guards him whose ^(J)way is blameless,
    but sin overthrows the wicked.
⁷^(K)One pretends to be rich,^[b] yet has nothing;
    ^(L)another pretends to be poor,^[c] yet has great wealth.
⁸The ransom of a man's life is his wealth,
    but a poor man ^(M)hears no threat.
⁹^(N)The light of the righteous rejoices,
    but ^(O)the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
¹⁰^(P)By insolence comes nothing but strife,
    but with those who take advice is wisdom.
¹¹^(Q)Wealth gained hastily^[d] will dwindle,
    but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
¹²Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
    ^(R)but a desire fulfilled is ^(S)a tree of life.
¹³Whoever ^(T)despises ^(U)the word^[e] brings destruction on himself,
    but he who reveres the commandment^[f] will be ^(V)rewarded.
¹⁴The teaching of the wise is ^(W)a fountain of life,
    that one may ^(X)turn away from the snares of death.
¹⁵^(Y)Good sense wins ^(Z)favor,
    but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.^[g]
¹⁶^(AA)Every prudent man acts with knowledge,
    ^(AB)but a fool flaunts his folly.
¹⁷A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
    but ^(AC)a faithful envoy brings healing.
¹⁸Poverty and disgrace come to him who ^(AD)ignores instruction,
    ^(AE)but whoever ^(AF)heeds reproof is honored.
¹⁹^(AG)A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul,
    but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.
²⁰Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
    but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
²¹^(AH)Disaster^[h] pursues sinners,
    ^(AI)but the righteous are rewarded with good.
²²^(AJ)A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children,
    but ^(AK)the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
²³The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food,
    but it is swept away through ^(AL)injustice.
²⁴^(AM)Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
    but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.^[i]
²⁵^(AN)The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite,
    but the belly of the wicked suffers want.

Footnotes

Proverbs 13:5 Or stench
Proverbs 13:7 Or One makes himself rich
Proverbs 13:7 Or another makes himself poor
Proverbs 13:11 Or by fraud
Proverbs 13:13 Or a word
Proverbs 13:13 Or a commandment
Proverbs 13:15 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); Hebrew is rugged, or is an enduring rut
Proverbs 13:21 Or Evil
Proverbs 13:24 Or who loves him disciplines him early

Ezekiel 27-28

English Standard Version

A Lament for Tyre

27 The word of the Lord came to me: ²“Now you, ^(A)son of man, ^(B)raise a lamentation over Tyre, ³and say to Tyre, who dwells at ^(C)the entrances to the sea, ^(D)merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord God:

“O Tyre, you have said,
    ‘I am ^(E)perfect in beauty.’
⁴Your borders are ^(F)in the heart of the seas;
    your builders made perfect your beauty.
⁵They made all your planks
    of fir trees from ^(G)Senir;
they took ^(H)a cedar from Lebanon
    to make a mast for you.
⁶Of ^(I)oaks of Bashan
    they made your oars;
they made your deck of pines
    from ^(J)the coasts of Cyprus,
    inlaid with ivory.
⁷^(K)Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt
    was your sail,
    serving as your banner;
blue and purple from ^(L)the coasts of Elishah
    was your awning.
⁸The inhabitants of Sidon and ^(M)Arvad
    were your rowers;
your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you;
    they were ^(N)your pilots.
⁹The elders of ^(O)Gebal and her skilled men were in you,
    ^(P)caulking your seams;
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you
    to barter for your wares.

¹⁰^(Q)“Persia and ^(R)Lud and ^(S)Put were in your army as your men of war. ^(T)They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor. ¹¹Men of ^(U)Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around, and men of Gamad were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they made ^(V)perfect your beauty.

¹²^(W)“Tarshish did ^(X)business with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your ^(Y)wares. ¹³^(Z)Javan, ^(AA)Tubal, and ^(AB)Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. ¹⁴From ^(AC)Beth-togarmah they exchanged horses, war horses, and mules ^(AD)for your wares. ¹⁵The men of ^(AE)Dedan^[a] traded with you. Many coastlands were your own special markets; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony. ¹⁶Syria ^(AF)did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares ^(AG)emeralds, ^(AH)purple, ^(AI)embroidered work, ^(AJ)fine linen, coral, and ^(AK)ruby. ¹⁷Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise ^(AL)wheat of ^(AM)Minnith, meal,^[b] honey, oil, and ^(AN)balm. ¹⁸^(AO)Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon and ^(AP)wool of Sahar ¹⁹and casks of wine^[c] from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, ^(AQ)cassia, and ^(AR)calamus were bartered for your merchandise. ²⁰Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding. ²¹Arabia and all the princes of ^(AS)Kedar were your favored dealers ^(AT)in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you. ²²The traders of ^(AU)Sheba and ^(AV)Raamah traded with you; they exchanged ^(AW)for your wares ^(AX)the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold. ²³^(AY)Haran, Canneh, ^(AZ)Eden, traders of Sheba, ^(BA)Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you. ²⁴In your market these traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of ^(BB)blue and ^(BC)embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure. ²⁵^(BD)The ships of ^(BE)Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden ^(BF)in the heart of the seas.

²⁶“Your rowers have brought you out
    into the high seas.
^(BG)The east wind has wrecked you
    in the heart of the seas.
²⁷Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,
    your mariners and ^(BH)your pilots,
^(BI)your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise,
    and all your men of war who are in you,
with all your crew
    that is in your midst,
sink into the heart of the seas
    ^(BJ)on the day of your fall.
²⁸At the sound of the cry of your pilots
    ^(BK)the countryside shakes,
²⁹and down from their ships
    ^(BL)come all who handle the oar.
The mariners and all the pilots of the sea
    stand on the land
³⁰^(BM)and shout aloud over you
    and cry out bitterly.
^(BN)They cast dust on their heads
    ^(BO)and wallow in ashes;
³¹they ^(BP)make themselves bald for you
    and put sackcloth on their waist,
and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,
    with bitter mourning.
³²In their wailing they ^(BQ)raise a lamentation for you
    and lament over you:
^(BR)‘Who is like Tyre,
    like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?
³³When your wares came from the seas,
    ^(BS)you satisfied many peoples;
with your abundant wealth and merchandise
    ^(BT)you enriched the kings of the earth.
³⁴Now ^(BU)you are wrecked by the seas,
    in the depths of the waters;
your merchandise and all your crew in your midst
    have sunk with you.
³⁵^(BV)All the inhabitants of the coastlands
    are appalled at you,
and ^(BW)the hair of their kings bristles with horror;
    their faces are convulsed.
³⁶^(BX)The merchants among the peoples ^(BY)hiss at you;
    ^(BZ)you have come to a dreadful end
    and shall be no more forever.’”

Prophecy Against the Prince of Tyre

28 The word of the Lord came to me: ²^(CA)“Son of man, say to ^(CB)the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:

^(CC)“Because your heart is proud,
    and ^(CD)you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
    in the heart of the seas,’
yet ^(CE)you are but a man, and no god,
    ^(CF)though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
³^(CG)you are indeed wiser ^(CH)than ^(CI)Daniel;
    no secret is hidden from you;
⁴by your wisdom and your understanding
    ^(CJ)you have made wealth for yourself,
and have gathered gold and silver
    into your treasuries;
⁵by your great wisdom in your trade
    you have increased your wealth,
    and ^(CK)your heart has become proud in your wealth—
⁶therefore thus says the Lord God:
^(CL)Because you make your heart
    like the heart of a god,
⁷therefore, behold, I will bring ^(CM)foreigners upon you,
    the most ruthless of the nations;
and they shall draw their swords against ^(CN)the beauty of your wisdom
    and defile ^(CO)your splendor.
⁸^(CP)They shall thrust you down into the pit,
    ^(CQ)and you shall die the death of the slain
    in the heart of the seas.
⁹^(CR)Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’
    in the presence of those who kill you,
though ^(CS)you are but a man, and no god,
    in the hands of those who slay you?
¹⁰^(CT)You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
    by the hand of foreigners;
    ^(CU)for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.”

A Lament over the King of Tyre

¹¹Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me: ¹²^(CV)“Son of man, ^(CW)raise a lamentation over ^(CX)the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God:

“You were the signet of perfection,^[d]
    ^(CY)full of wisdom and ^(CZ)perfect in beauty.
¹³You were in ^(DA)Eden, the garden of God;
    ^(DB)every precious stone was your covering,
^(DC)sardius, topaz, and diamond,
    beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire,^[e] ^(DD)emerald, and carbuncle;
    and crafted in gold were your settings
    and your engravings.^[f]
^(DE)On the day that you were created
    they were prepared.
¹⁴You were an anointed ^(DF)guardian cherub.
    I placed you;^[g] you were on ^(DG)the holy mountain of God;
    in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
¹⁵You were blameless in your ways
    ^(DH)from the day you were created,
    till unrighteousness was found in you.
¹⁶In the abundance of ^(DI)your trade
    you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;
so I cast you as a profane thing from ^(DJ)the mountain of God,
    and I destroyed you,^[h] ^(DK)O guardian cherub,
    from the midst of the stones of fire.
¹⁷^(DL)Your heart was proud because of ^(DM)your beauty;
    you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
    I exposed you before kings,
    to feast their eyes on you.
¹⁸By the multitude of your iniquities,
    in the unrighteousness of your trade
    you profaned your sanctuaries;
so ^(DN)I brought fire out from your midst;
    it consumed you,
and I turned you to ashes on the earth
    ^(DO)in the sight of all who saw you.
¹⁹All who know you among the peoples
    are appalled at you;
^(DP)you have come to a dreadful end
    and shall be no more forever.”

Prophecy Against Sidon

²⁰The word of the Lord came to me: ²¹^(DQ)“Son of man, ^(DR)set your face toward ^(DS)Sidon, and ^(DT)prophesy against her ²²and say, Thus says the Lord God:

“Behold, ^(DU)I am against you, O Sidon,
    and ^(DV)I will manifest my glory in your midst.
And ^(DW)they shall know that I am the Lord
    ^(DX)when I execute judgments in her
    and ^(DY)manifest my holiness in her;
²³for I will send ^(DZ)pestilence into her,
    and blood into her streets;
and the slain shall fall in her midst,
    by the sword that is against her on every side.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.

²⁴“And for the house of Israel ^(EA)there shall be no more a brier to prick or ^(EB)a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors ^(EC)who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.

Israel Gathered in Security

²⁵“Thus says the Lord God: ^(ED)When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and ^(EE)manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, ^(EF)then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob. ²⁶^(EG)And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, ^(EH)when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors ^(EI)who have treated them with contempt. ^(EJ)Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.”

Footnotes

Ezekiel 27:15 Hebrew; Septuagint Rhodes
Ezekiel 27:17 The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown
Ezekiel 27:19 Probable reading; Hebrew wool of Sahar ¹⁹and Dan and Javan
Ezekiel 28:12 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain
Ezekiel 28:13 Or lapis lazuli
Ezekiel 28:13 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain
Ezekiel 28:14 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain
Ezekiel 28:16 Or banished you

Revelation 5

English Standard Version

The Scroll and the Lamb

5 Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne ^(A)a scroll written within and on the back, ^(B)sealed with seven seals. ²And ^(C)I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” ³And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, ⁴and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. ⁵And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, ^(D)the Lion ^(E)of the tribe of Judah, ^(F)the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

⁶And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw ^(G)a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with ^(H)seven eyes, which are ^(I)the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ⁷And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. ⁸And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders ^(J)fell down before the Lamb, ^(K)each holding a harp, and ^(L)golden bowls full of incense, ^(M)which are the prayers of the saints. ⁹And they sang ^(N)a new song, saying,

“Worthy are you to take the scroll
    and to open its seals,
for ^(O)you were slain, and by your blood ^(P)you ransomed people for God
    from ^(Q)every tribe and language and people and nation,
¹⁰and you have made them ^(R)a kingdom and priests to our God,
    and they shall reign on the earth.”

¹¹Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering ^(S)myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, ¹²saying with a loud voice,

^(T)“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!”

¹³And I heard ^(U)every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

¹⁴And the four living creatures ^(V)said, “Amen!” and the elders ^(W)fell down and worshiped.