Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

49 (For the one directing. A Mizmor for the Bnei Korach). Hear this, kol HaAmim; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the cheled (world, duration):

^2 (3) Bnei Adam and bnei ish, ashir (rich) and evyon (poor) alike,

^3 (4) My mouth shall speak chochmot; and the meditation of my lev tevunot (understanding).

^4 (5) I will incline mine ear to a mashal; I will disclose my dark saying upon the kinnor (harp).

^5 (6) Why should I fear in the days of rah, when the avon (iniquity) of my akev (supplanters, deceivers) surrounds me?

^6 (7) They that trust in their chayil (wealth), and boast themselves in the rov of their oshir (riches);

^7 (8) A brother cannot by any means redeem ish (man), nor give to Elohim a kofer (ransom) for him—

^8 (9) For the pidyon [ransom] of their nefesh is costly, and is forever beyond their power to pay—

^9 (10) That he should live on lanetzach, and not see shachat (corruption, decay, the pit [cf Psa16:10]).

^10 (11) For he seeth that chachamim die, likewise the kesil (foolish) and the ba’ar (brutish, senseless person, dolt) perish, and leave their chayil (wealth) to others.

^11 (12) Their inward thought is, that their batim (houses) shall continue l’olam and their mishkenot (dwelling places) l’odor vador; though they call their lands by their shmot (names).

^12 (13) Nevertheless adam in his pomp endureth not; he is like the behemot (beasts) that perish.

24 Be not thou envious of anshei ra’ah, neither desire to be with them.

² For their lev plotteth violence, and their sfatayim (lips) talk of amal (trouble).

³ Through chochmah is a bais built, and by tevunah (understanding) it is established.

⁴ And by da’as shall the chadarim (chambers, rooms) be filled with all precious and pleasant hon (riches, wealth).

⁵ A gever chacham is strong; indeed, an ish da’as (man of knowledge) increaseth ko’ach.

⁶ For by tachbulot (guidance) thou shalt wage thy milchamah (war), and in a multitude of yo’etz (counselors) there is teshu’ah (victory, safety).

⁷ Chochmah is too lofty for a fool; he openeth not his peh (mouth) at the sha’ar.

⁸ He that plotteth to do evil shall be called a ba’al mezimmot (master of schemes).

⁹ The scheme of folly is chattat (sin), and the scoffer is a to’evah to adam (man).

¹⁰ If thou faint in the yom tzarah, thy strength is small.

¹¹ Save those who are drawn away toward mavet, and hold back those stumbling toward slaughter.

¹² If thou sayest, See, we knew it not, doth not He that weigheth the levavot consider it? And He that is guard over thy nefesh, doth not He know it? And shall not He render to every adam according to his works?

¹⁷ This therefore I say and give solemn edut in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu: no longer are you to fier zich (comport oneself) in your derech as also the Goyim walk, in the futility of their machshavot (thoughts),

¹⁸ Their binah (understanding) being in choshech, having been alienated from the life of Hashem because of the ignorance existing in them, because of the KESHI (stubbornness, hardness DEVARIM 9:27) of their levavot, [DEVARIM 29:4]

¹⁹ Who, having put away remorse, gave themselves over to zimah (lewdness) for the practice of every kind of tumah (uncleanness) with chamdanut (covetousness).

²⁰ But you did not so have lernen of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,

²¹ If indeed you heard about Him and took shiurim in Him, as HaEmes is in Yehoshua.

²² For the torah you received was that you must disrobe from your former derech of your old self, the one being corrupted according to the ta’avot of AKOV [deceitful, YIRMEYAH 17:9] remiyah (guile)

²³ And to be renewed by the Ruach Hakodesh controlling your machshavot (thoughts)

²⁴ And to enrobe yourself in the Adam HeChadash (the new Man, humanity) having been created according to the demut Hashem in tzidkat Eloheinu and in the kedushah of HaEmes.