Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁶¹ Sarim (princes) have persecuted me without a cause; but my lev standeth in awe of Thy Davar.

¹⁶² I rejoice at Thy imrah (word), as one that findeth great plunder.

¹⁶³ I hate and abhor sheker; but Thy torah do I love.

¹⁶⁴ Shevah times a day do I praise Thee because of Thy righteous mishpatim.

¹⁶⁵ Great shalom have they which love Thy torah; nothing shall cause them to stumble.

¹⁶⁶ Hashem, I have hoped for Thy Yeshuah (salvation), and do Thy mitzvot.

¹⁶⁷ My nefesh is shomer over Thy edot (testimonies); and I love them exceedingly.

¹⁶⁸ I have kept Thy pikkudim and Thy edot; for all my ways are before Thee. TAV

¹⁷ And the Devar Hashem came to Eliyahu the Tishbi, saying,

¹⁸ Arise, go down to meet Ach’av Melech Yisroel, which is in Shomron; hinei, he is in the kerem of Navot, where he has gone down to take [inheritance] possession of it.

¹⁹ And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Hashem, Hast thou committed murder, then also hast thou inherited? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Hashem, In the makom (place) where kelavim licked the dahm Navot shall kelavim lick thy dahm also, even thine.

²⁰ And Ach’av said to Eliyahu, Hast thou found me, O mine oyev? And he answered, I have found thee; because thou hast sold thyself to work rah in front of the eyes of Hashem.

²¹ Hineni, I will bring ra’ah upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away, and will cut off from Ach’av mashtin b’kir (him that urinates against a wall, i. e., all males), atzur (bond) and azuv (free) in Yisroel,

²² And will make thine Bais like the Bais Yarov‘am Ben Nevat, and like the Bais Ba’asha Ben Achiyah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked Me to anger, and caused Yisroel to sin.

²³ And of Izevel also spoke Hashem, saying, The kelavim shall devour Izevel by the wall of Yizre’el.

²⁴ Him of Ach’av that dieth in the Ir the kelavim shall devour; and him that dieth in the sadeh shall the oph haShomayim devour.

²⁵ But there was none like unto Ach’av, which did sell himself to work rah before the eyes of Hashem, whom Izevel his isha urged on.

²⁶ And he acted monstrously in going after gillulim (idols), according to all things as did HaEmori, whom Hashem drove out before the Bnei Yisroel.

²⁷ And it came to pass, when Ach’av heard those words, that he tore his begadim, put sackcloth upon his basar, did a tzom, lay in sackcloth, and walked about subdued.

²⁸ And the Devar Hashem came to Eliyahu the Tishbi, saying,

²⁹ Seest thou how Ach’av humbleth himself before Me? because he humbleth himself before Me, I will not bring hara’ah in his days: but in the yamim bno will I bring ra’ah (disaster) upon his Bais [See 2Kgs 9:23-26].

4 Chaverim, do not believe every ruach. [YIRMEYAH 29:8] But test the ruchot (spirits), if they be of Hashem, because many nevi’ei sheker have gone out into the Olam Hazeh.

² By this we have da’as of the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem: every ruach which makes hoda’ah (confession) of Yehoshua, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach as having come in the basar is of Hashem,

³ And every ruach which does not make hoda’ah of Yehoshua is not of Hashem. And this is the ruach of the Anti-Moshiach, which you have heard that it is coming; and now it already is in the Olam Hazeh.

⁴ Yeladim, you are of Hashem, and you have overcome them, because greater is the One in you than the one in the Olam Hazeh. [MELACHIM BAIS 6:16]

⁵ They are of the Olam Hazeh; therefore, of the Olam Hazeh they speak, and the Olam Hazeh pays heed to them.

⁶ We are of Hashem; the one having da’as of Hashem pays heed to us; he who is not of Hashem does not pay heed to us. From this we have da’as of the Ruach [Hakodesh] of Emes and the ruach tatu’im (spirit of delusion, error).