Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
147 Praise ye Hashem: for it is tov to sing praises unto Eloheinu; for it is na’im (pleasant); and tehillah is fitting.
2 Hashem is the Boneh Yerushalayim (builder of Jerusalem): He gathereth together the nidkhei Yisroel (the outcasts Of Israel, those of the Golus).
3 He is the Rofeh (healer) of the Shevurei-lev (broken in heart), binds up their wounds.
4 He determines the mispar of the kokhavim; He calleth them all by their shemot.
5 Gadol is Adoneinu, and of rav ko’ach; to His tevunah (understanding, intelligence) there is no mispar (number, limit).
6 Hashem lifteth up the anavim (meek ones, humble ones); He casteth the resha’im down to the ground.
7 Sing unto Hashem with todah; make music upon the kinnor (harp) unto Eloheinu:
8 Who covereth Shomayim with clouds, Who prepareth matar (rainfall) for ha’aretz, HaMatzemi’ach (Who maketh to spring up) the khatzir (grass) upon the harim (hills, mountains).
9 He giveth to the behemah her lechem, and to the bnei orev (young ravens) when they cry out.
10 He delighteth not in the gevurat hasus: He taketh not pleasure in the shokayim of an ish (legs of a man).
11 Hashem taketh pleasure in them that fear Him, in those that hope in His chesed.
20 He hath not dealt so with any Goy (nation): and as for His mishpatim, they have not known them. Praise ye Hashem.
36 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2 Bear with me a little, and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on behalf of Eloah.
3 I will get my da’as from afar, and will ascribe tzedek to my Maker.
4 For truly my words shall not be sheker; one that is tamim (complete) in da’as is among thee.
5 See, El is kabir (mighty), and despiseth not any; He is kabir in ko’ach lev (strength of understanding).
6 He preserveth not the life of the rasha, but giveth mishpat to the aniyim.
7 He withdraweth not His eyes from the tzaddik, but with melachim are they on the kisse; yea, He doth establish them lanetzach (forever), and they are exalted.
8 And if they be bound in chains, and be held fast in chevlei oni (cords of affliction),
9 Then He showeth them their work, and their peysha’im that they have done arrogantly.
10 He openeth also their ozen to musar (discipline), and commandeth that they make teshuvah and turn from evil.
11 If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their yamim in tov (prosperity), and their shanim in contentment.
12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without da’as.
13 But the chanefei lev (irreligious in heart, hypocrites) incur wrath; they do not cry for help when He bindeth them.
14 They die in youth, their nefesh among the kedeshim (cult male prostitutes, youthful lusts).
15 He delivereth the oni in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16 Even so would He have removed thee out of the tzar (distress) into a rachav (broad place), free from restriction, to the comfort of thy shulchan, full of choice food.
17 But thou hast been fixated on the din of the rasha; din and mishpat take hold on thee.
18 Because there is chemah, beware lest He take thee away with His stroke; then a rav kopher (great ransom) cannot deliver thee.
19 Will He esteem thy riches? No, not zahav, nor all the forces of ko’ach.
20 Desire not halailah (the night), when people are cut off in their place.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than oni.
22 See, El exalted by His ko’ach. Who is a moreh (teacher) like Him?
23 Who hath enjoined Him His derech? Or who can say, Thou hast done wrong?
9 Do I not have cherut [in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach]? Am I not a Shliach? Have I not seen Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu? Are you not my po’al (work) in Adoneinu?
2 If to others I am not a Shliach, surely I am to you, for you are the chotam (seal) of my shlichus (Ga 2:10), in Hashem.
3 My apologetic to the ones cross-examining me is this:
4 Do I not have the privilege of eating and drinking?
5 Is the privilege not mine to take an achot b’Moshiach as isha in my travels for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach’s avodas kodesh, just as the rest of his Shlichim do and the Achim [see p.848] of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu and Kefa?
6 Or is it only Bar-Nabba and I who are denied the privilege of not working at a parnasah?
7 Whoever heard of someone serving as a chaiyal (soldier) but having to pay his own wages for doing so? Who plants a kerem (vineyard) but does not eat the p’ri hakerem? And who serves as a ro’eh (shepherd) over a flock and of the cholov (milk) of the flock does not partake? [Devarim 20:6; Mishle 27:18]
8 Do I say this according to the dvar haBnei Adam? Or does not the Torah say these things?
9 For, in the Torah of Moshe [Rabbenu] it has been written, LO TACHSOM SHOR BEDISHO ("You shall not muzzle an ox treading grain" DEVARIM 25:4). Surely it is not for oxen that Hashem is concerned.
10 Or does he not speak altogether for our sake, and is it not for us that Hashem says this? Ken, for us, because it was written that the one plowing ought to plow on in tikvah, and the one threshing ought to partake with tikvah.
11 If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it too much if we reap in material things from you? [Ro 15:27]
12 If others over you can claim this privilege, can we not even more? But we did not make use of this privilege; we endure all things, lest any hindrance we should give to Moshiach’s Besuras HaGeulah.
13 Do you not have da’as that the kohanim serving in the Beis Hamikdash sherut (service in the Temple) eat the things of the Beis Hamikdash; the kohanim attending the Mizbe’ach (altar) have their share with the Mizbe’ach (altar)?
14 So also Moshiach Adoneinu appointed the ones proclaiming the Besuras HaGeulah to get their parnasah from the Besuras HaGeulah.
15 But I have not used any of these privileges; I did not write these things that it might be so with me; for it’s better for me rather to die than that someone deprive me of my kavod [in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Pp 1:21].
16 For if I preach the Besuras HaGeulah there is nothing for me to boast about, als (since) necessity is laid on me, for Oy Li ("Woe to me!") if I do not preach the Besuras HaGeulah [YIRMEYAH 20:9].
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