LXX Concordance for ἄνθρωπος

no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land,[fn] and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

Then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

Every creature perished ​— ​those that crawl on the earth, birds, livestock, wildlife, and those that swarm on the earth, as well as all mankind.

Noah, as a man of the soil, began by planting[fn] a vineyard.

They said to each other, “Come, let's make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.)

“This man will be like a wild donkey. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand will be against him; he will settle near all his relatives.”

while the man silently watched her to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.

Then the man knelt low, worshiped the LORD,

As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and when he had heard his sister Rebekah's words ​— ​“The man said this to me! ” ​— ​he went to the man. He was standing there by the camels at the spring.

So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was brought to wash his feet and the feet of the men with him.

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us? ”

The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.

When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman,[fn] but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.[fn]

and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy.

They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other.[fn] Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

And the man became very rich.[fn] He had many flocks, female and male slaves, and camels and donkeys.

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

A man found him there, wandering in the field, and asked him, “What are you looking for? ”

“They've moved on from here,” the man said. “I heard them say, ‘Let's go to Dothan.' ” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you are.

“The man who is the lord of the country spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.

“The man who is the lord of the country said to us, ‘This is how I will know if you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.

But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.'

“But if you will not send him, we will not go, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.' ”

They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? ' And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here'? ”

The man did as Joseph had said and brought them to Joseph's house.

They answered, “Your servant our father is well. He is still alive.” And they knelt low and paid homage to him.

The steward replied, “What you have said is right, but only the one who is found to have it will be my slave, and the rest of you will be blameless.”

“What have you done? ” Joseph said to them. “Didn't you know that a man like me could uncover the truth by divination? ”

Then Joseph said, “I swear that I will not do this. The man in whose possession the cup was found will be my slave. The rest of you can go in peace to your father.”

They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

The LORD gave[fn] the people favor with the Egyptians. In addition, Moses himself was very highly regarded[fn] in the land of Egypt by[fn] Pharaoh's officials and the people.

“No hand may touch him;[fn] instead he will be stoned or shot with arrows and not live, whether animal or human. When the ram's horn sounds a long blast, they may go up the mountain.”

“if he can later get up and walk around outside leaning on his staff, then the one who struck him will be exempt from punishment. Nevertheless, he must pay for his lost work time[fn] and provide for his complete recovery.

When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods[fn] for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt ​— ​we don't know what has happened to him! ”

“They said to me, ‘Make gods for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt ​— ​we don't know what has happened to him! '

But he added, “You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see me and live.”

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD from the livestock, you may bring your offering from the herd or the flock.

“Or if someone swears rashly to do what is good or evil ​— ​concerning anything a person may speak rashly in an oath ​— ​without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt in such an instance.

“or finds something lost and lies about it; or swears falsely about any of the sinful things a person may do ​— ​

“the man is afflicted with a serious skin disease; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; the infection is on his head.

“Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

“When a man has an emission of semen, he is to bathe himself completely with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

“No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the most holy place until he leaves after he has made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.

“Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, sheep, or goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp,

“Say to them: Anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside among them who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

“Any Israelite or alien residing among them, who hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

“Keep my statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am the LORD.

“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his death is his own fault.[fn]

“Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God.

“Say to them: If any man from any of your descendants throughout your generations is in a state of uncleanness yet approaches the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person will be cut off from my presence; I am the LORD.

“If anyone eats a holy offering in error, he is to add a fifth to its value and give the holy offering to the priest.

“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens in Israel who presents his offering ​— ​whether they present payment of vows or freewill gifts to the LORD as burnt offerings ​— ​

“When a man presents a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or flock, it has to be unblemished to be acceptable; there must be no defect in it.

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was[fn] among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman's son and an Israelite man.

“And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

“If a man kills anyone, he must be put to death.

“If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.

“You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.

“When a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it.

“If a man consecrates to the LORD any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of fifty silver shekels for every six bushels[fn] of barley seed.[fn]

“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the LORD from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the LORD.

“If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value.

“The Israelites are to camp under their respective banners beside the flags of their ancestral families.[fn] They are to camp around the tent of meeting at a distance from it:

“then the man is to bring his wife to the priest. He is also to bring an offering for her of two quarts[fn] of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering for remembrance to draw attention to guilt.

“or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes jealous of his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest will carry out all these instructions for her.

“Tell the Israelites: When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a corpse or is on a distant journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.

“But the man who is ceremonially clean, is not on a journey, and yet fails to observe the Passover is to be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD's offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

Moses was a very humble man, more so than anyone on the face of the earth.

Then the LORD told Moses, “The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp.”

But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “God, God who gives breath to all,[fn] when one man sins, will you vent your wrath on the whole community? ”

“The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of the Israelites' complaints that they have been making about you.”

“A man who is clean is to gather up the cow's ashes and deposit them outside the camp in a ceremonially clean place. The ashes will be kept by the Israelite community for preparing the water to remove impurity; it is a sin offering.

“This is the law when a person dies in a tent: everyone who enters the tent and everyone who is already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,

“But a person who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the assembly because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

God is not a man, that he might lie,

or a son of man, that he might change his mind.

Does he speak and not act,

or promise and not fulfill?

and he proclaimed his poem:

The oracle of Balaam son of Beor,

the oracle of the man whose eyes are opened,

Water will flow from his buckets,

and his seed will be by abundant water.

His king will be greater than Agag,

and his kingdom will be exalted.

Then he proclaimed his poem:

The oracle of Balaam son of Beor,

the oracle of the man whose eyes are opened;

I see him, but not now;

I perceive him, but not near.

A star will come from Jacob,

and a scepter will arise from Israel.

He will smash the forehead[fn] of Moab

and strike down[fn] all the Shethites.[fn]

An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

But among them there was not one of those who had been registered by Moses and the priest Aaron when they registered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

“Tell the Israelites: When a man dies without having a son, transfer his inheritance to his daughter.

“When a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.

“And you saw in the wilderness how the LORD your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place.

“Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.

“He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

“Keep in mind that the LORD your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

“The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the LORD your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

“I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name.

“But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,

“The officers are to address the army, ‘Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

“When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can get food from them. Do not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?

“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man's wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

“But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.

“the man who raped her is to give the young woman's father fifty silver shekels, and she will become his wife because he violated her. He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

“If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp.

“If a man is discovered kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.

“Stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you.

“But if the man doesn't want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He isn't willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.'

“If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,

“‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the LORD, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.'

And all the people will reply, ‘Amen! '

“‘Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.'

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! '

This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave the Israelites before his death.

“No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. I will be with you, just as I was with Moses. I will not leave you or abandon you.

“Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words in all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous! ”

At that time Joshua imposed this curse:

The man who undertakes

the rebuilding of this city, Jericho,

is cursed before the LORD.

He will lay its foundation

at the cost of his firstborn;

he will finish its gates

at the cost of his youngest.

Then the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. He looked like the awe-inspiring angel of God. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name.

Manoah prayed to the LORD and said, “Please, Lord, let the man of God you sent come again to us and teach us what we should do for the boy who will be born.”

There was a man from Ramathaim-zophim in[fn] the hill country of Ephraim. His name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

This man would go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies at Shiloh, where Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the LORD's priests.

When Elkanah and all his household went up to make the annual sacrifice and his vow offering to the LORD,

Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife: “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she[fn] has given to the LORD.” Then they would go home.

A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Didn't I reveal myself to your forefather's family[fn] when they were in Egypt and belonged to Pharaoh's palace?

When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair beside the road waiting, because he was anxious about the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the entire city cried out.

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate, and since he was old and heavy, his neck broke and he died. Eli had judged Israel forty years.

“Look,” the servant said, “there's a man of God in this city who is highly respected; everything he says is sure to come true. Let's go there now. Maybe he'll tell us which way we should go.”

“Good,” Saul replied to his servant. “Come on, let's go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.

When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, “Here is the man I told you about; he will govern my people.”

and the men of Israel were worn out that day, for Saul had[fn] placed the troops under an oath: “The man who eats food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies is cursed.” So none of the troops tasted any food.

Then one of the troops said, “Your father made the troops solemnly swear, ‘The man who eats food today is cursed,' and the troops are exhausted.”

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or his stature because I have rejected him. Humans do not see what the LORD sees,[fn] for humans see what is visible, but the LORD sees the heart.”

A man in Maon had a business in Carmel; he was a very rich man with three thousand sheep and one thousand goats and was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

“Someone is pursuing you and intends to take your life. My lord's life is tucked safely in the place[fn] where the LORD your God protects the living, but he is flinging away your enemies' lives like stones from a sling.

When they sin against you —

for there is no one who does not sin —

and you are angry with them

and hand them over to the enemy,

and their captors deport them to the enemy's country —

whether distant or nearby —

Now the man Jeroboam was capable, and Solomon noticed the young man because he was getting things done. So he appointed him over the entire labor force of the house of Joseph.

A man of God came, however, from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD while Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense.

The altar was ripped apart, and the ashes poured from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your house, I still wouldn't go with you, and I wouldn't eat food or drink water in this place,

Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel. His son[fn] came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. His sons also told their father the words that he had spoken to the king.

He followed the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah? ”

“I am,” he said.

When the prophet who had brought him back from his way heard about it, he said, “He is the man of God who disobeyed the LORD's command. The LORD has given him to the lion, and it has mauled and killed him, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke to him.”

After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,

Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know you are a man of God and the LORD's word from your mouth is true.”

Then the man of God approached and said to the king of Israel, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because the Arameans have said, “The LORD is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,” I will hand over all this whole huge army to you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.' ”

One of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow prophet by the word of the LORD, “Strike me! ” But the man refused to strike him.

The prophet found another man and said to him, “Strike me! ” So the man struck him, inflicting a wound.

Elijah responded to the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

Elijah responded, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” So a divine fire[fn] came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

Then she said to her husband, “I know that the one who often passes by here is a holy man of God,

Then the man of God asked, “Where did it fall? ”

When he showed him the place, the man of God cut a piece of wood, threw it there, and made the iron float.

The king had appointed the captain, his right-hand man, to be in charge of the city gate, but the people trampled him in the gate. He died, just as the man of God had predicted when the king had come to him.

Elisha came to Damascus while King Ben-hadad of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”

Then he stared steadily at him until he was ashamed.

The man of God wept,

The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to them, but now you will strike down Aram only three times.”

As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar. He defiled it according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God[fn] who proclaimed these things.

As for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

David's uncle Jonathan was a counselor; he was a man of understanding and a scribe. Jehiel son of Hachmoni attended[fn] the king's sons.

“but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.'

every prayer or petition

that any person or that all your people Israel may have —

they each know their own affliction[fn] and suffering —

as they spread out their hands toward this temple,

When they sin against you —

for there is no one who does not sin —

and you are angry with them

and hand them over to the enemy,

and their captors deport them

to a distant or nearby country,

Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God, “LORD, there is no one besides you to help the mighty and those without strength. Help us, LORD our God, for we depend on you, and in your name we have come against this large army. LORD, you are our God. Do not let a mere mortal hinder you.”

However, a man of God came to him and said, “King, do not let Israel's army go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel ​— ​all the Ephraimites.

Then Amaziah said to the man of God, “What should I do about the 7,500 pounds of silver I gave to Israel's division? ”

The man of God replied, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”

I also issue a decree concerning any man who interferes with this directive:

Let a beam be torn from his house and raised up; he will be impaled on it, and his house will be made into a garbage dump because of this offense.

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to pursue the prosperity of the Israelites, they were greatly displeased.

You warned them to turn back to your law,

but they acted arrogantly

and would not obey your commands.

They sinned against your ordinances,

which a person will live by if he does them.

They stubbornly resisted,[fn]

stiffened their necks, and would not obey.

In the fortress of Susa, there was a Jewish man named Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite.

“All the royal officials and the people of the royal provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner courtyard and who has not been summoned ​— ​the death penalty ​— ​ unless the king extends the gold scepter, allowing that person to live. I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the last[fn] thirty days.”

Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman.”

Haman stood terrified before the king and queen.

There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.

His estate included seven thousand sheep and goats, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.”

But humans are born for trouble

as surely as sparks fly upward.

See how happy is the person whom God corrects;

so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

As a cloud fades away and vanishes,

so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

What is a mere human, that you think so highly of him

and pay so much attention to him?

For he is not a man like me, that I can answer him,

that we can take each other to court.

“Do you have eyes of flesh,

or do you see as a human sees?

But a stupid person will gain understanding

as soon as a wild donkey is born a human!

so people lie down never to rise again.

They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;

they will not stir from their sleep.

When a person dies, will he come back to life?

If so, I would wait all the days of my struggle

until my relief comes.

Don't you know that ever since antiquity,

from the time a human was placed on earth,

The dirt on his grave is[fn] sweet to him.

Everyone follows behind him,

and those who go before him are without number.

how much less a human, who is a maggot,

a son of man,[fn] who is a worm!

He will look at men and say,

“I have sinned and perverted what was right;

yet I did not get what I deserved.[fn]

All mankind has seen it;

people have looked at it from a distance.

serve as his sign to all mankind,

so that all men may know his work.

to bring rain on an uninhabited land,

on a desert with no human life,[fn]

what is a human being that you remember him,

a son of man[fn] that you look after him?

Rise up, LORD! Do not let mere humans prevail;

let the nations be judged in your presence.

doing justice for the fatherless and the oppressed

so that mere humans from the earth may terrify them no more.

But I am a worm and not a man,

scorned by mankind and despised by people.

Who is this person who fears the LORD?

He will show him the way he should choose.

Who is someone who desires life,

loving a long life to enjoy what is good?

I am like a man who does not hear

and has no arguments in his mouth.

“In fact, you have made my days just inches long,

and my life span is as nothing to you.

Yes, every human being stands as only a vapor.Selah

“You discipline a person with punishment for iniquity,

consuming like a moth what is precious to him;

yes, every human being is only a vapor.Selah

Even my friend[fn] in whom I trusted,

one who ate my bread,

has raised his heel against me.

Yet these cannot redeem a person[fn]

or pay his ransom to God —

But despite his assets,[fn] mankind will not last;

he is like the animals that perish.

Do not be afraid when a person gets rich,

when the wealth[fn] of his house increases.

Mankind, with his assets

but without understanding,

is like the animals that perish.

“Here is the man

who would not make God his refuge,

but trusted in the abundance of his riches,

taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”

Be gracious to me, God, for a man is trampling me;

he fights and oppresses me all day long.

in God I trust; I will not be afraid.

What can mere humans do to me?

Then people will say,

“Yes, there is a reward for the righteous!

There is a God who judges on earth! ”

They devise crimes and say,

“We have perfected a secret plan.”

The inner man and the heart are mysterious.

Then everyone will fear

and will tell about God's work,

for they will understand what he has done.

People[fn] ate the bread of angels.[fn]

He sent them an abundant supply of food.

Happy is the person who trusts in you,

LORD of Armies!

And it will be said of Zion,

“This one and that one were born in her.”

The Most High himself will establish her.

I am counted among those going down to the Pit.

I am like a man without strength,

What courageous person can live and never see death?

Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?Selah

LORD, how happy is anyone you discipline

and teach from your law

As for man, his days are like grass —

he blooms like a flower of the field;

Man goes out to his work

and to his labor until evening.

In my alarm I said,

“Everyone is a liar.”

The LORD is for me; I will not be afraid.

What can a mere mortal do to me?

Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them.

They will never be put to shame

when they speak with their enemies at the city gate.

In this very way

the man who fears the LORD

will be blessed.

LORD, what is a human that you care for him,

a son of man[fn] that you think of him?

Happy is a man who finds wisdom

and who acquires understanding,

“Anyone who listens to me is happy,

watching at my doors every day,

waiting by the posts of my doorway.

No one can be made secure by wickedness,

but the root of the righteous is immovable.

Many a person proclaims his own loyalty,

but who can find a trustworthy person?

I went by the field of a slacker

and by the vineyard of one lacking sense.

Anyone wandering from his home

is like a bird wandering from its nest.

Then I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly, for what will the king's successor[fn] be like? He[fn] will do what has already been done.

When there is a person whose work was done with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a person who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great wrong.

He has made everything appropriate[fn] in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts,[fn] but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.

It is also the gift of God whenever anyone eats, drinks, and enjoys all his efforts.

For the fate of the children of Adam and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies?[fn]

Furthermore, everyone to whom God has given riches and wealth, he has also allowed him to enjoy them, take his reward, and rejoice in his labor. This is a gift of God,

Whatever exists was given its name long ago,[fn] and it is known what mankind is. But he is not able to contend with the one stronger than he.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that no one can discover anything that will come after him.

There is certainly no one righteous on the earth

who does good and never sins.

No one has authority over the wind[fn] to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; no one is discharged during battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

I observed all the work of God and concluded that a person is unable to discover the work that is done under the sun. Even though a person labors hard to explore it, he cannot find it; even if a wise person claims to know it, he is unable to discover it.

Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: The righteous, the wise, and their works are in God's hands. People don't know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.

For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.

Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

yet the fool multiplies words.

No one knows what will happen,

and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?

Indeed, if someone lives many years,

let him rejoice in them all,

and let him remember the days of darkness, since they will be many.

All that comes is futile.

Also, they are afraid of heights and dangers on the road;

the almond tree blossoms,

the grasshopper loses its spring,[fn]

and the caper berry has no effect;

for the mere mortal is headed to his eternal home,

and mourners will walk around in the street;

When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: fear God and keep his commands, because this is for all[fn] humanity.

So humanity is brought low,

and each person is humbled.

Do not forgive them!

The pride of mankind[fn] will be humbled,

and human loftiness will be brought low;

the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.

The pride of mankind will be brought low,

and human loftiness will be humbled;

the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.

On that day people will throw

their worthless idols of silver and gold,

which they made to worship,

to the moles and the bats.

The people will oppress one another,

man against man, neighbor against neighbor;

the young will act arrogantly toward the old,

and the worthless toward the honorable.

So now, residents of Jerusalem

and men of Judah,

please judge between me

and my vineyard.

For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies

is the house of Israel,

and the men[fn] of Judah,

the plant he delighted in.

He expected justice

but saw injustice;

he expected righteousness

but heard cries of despair.

Humanity is brought low, each person is humbled,

and haughty eyes are humbled.

Then I said:

Woe is me for I am ruined[fn]

because I am a man of unclean lips

and live among a people of unclean lips,

and because my eyes have seen the King,

the LORD of Armies.

On that day

a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,

The land is scorched

by the wrath of the LORD of Armies,

and the people are like fuel for the fire.

No one has compassion on his brother.

I will make a human more scarce than fine gold,

and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.

Those who see you will stare at you;

they will look closely at you:

“Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble,

who shook the kingdoms,

All the kings of the nations

lie in splendor, each in his own tomb.

On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

I will provoke Egyptians against Egyptians;

each will fight against his brother

and each against his friend,

city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

“On that day” ​— ​the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​“the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

Each will be like a shelter from the wind,

a refuge from the rain,

like flowing streams in a dry land

and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.

“This is what they are to you —

those who have wearied you

and have traded with you from your youth —

each wanders on his own way;

no one can save you.

Why was no one there when I came?

Why was there no one to answer when I called?

Is my arm too weak to redeem?

Or do I have no power to rescue?

Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;

I turn the rivers into a wilderness;

their fish rot because of lack of water

and die of thirst.

He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.

He was like someone people turned away from;[fn]

he was despised, and we didn't value him.

We all went astray like sheep;

we all have turned to our own way;

and the LORD has punished him

for[fn] the iniquity of us all.

Happy is the person who does this,

the son of man who holds it fast,

who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,

and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

I looked, and there was no human being,

and all the birds of the sky had fled.

Every city flees

at the sound of the horseman and the archer.

They enter the thickets

and climb among the rocks.

Every city is abandoned;

no inhabitant is left.

“I have paid careful attention.

They do not speak what is right.

No one regrets his evil,

asking, ‘What have I done? '

Everyone has stayed his course

like a horse rushing into battle.

Who is the person wise enough to understand this? Who has the LORD spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so no one can pass through?

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.

Every goldsmith is put to shame

by his carved image,

for his cast images are a lie;

there is no breath in them.

“Tell them, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: “Let a curse be on the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

Why are you like a helpless man,

like a warrior unable to save?

Yet you are among us, LORD,

and we bear your name.

Don't leave us!

Can one make gods for himself?

But they are not gods.

This is what the LORD says:

Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind.

He makes human flesh his strength,

and his heart turns from the LORD.

The person who trusts in the LORD,

whose confidence indeed is the LORD, is blessed.

May the man be cursed

who brought the news to my father, saying,

“A male child is born to you,”

bringing him great joy.

Concerning the prophets:

My heart is broken within me,

and all my bones tremble.

I have become like a drunkard,

like a man overcome by wine,

because of the LORD,

because of his holy words.

“Can a person hide in secret places where I cannot see him? ” ​— ​the LORD's declaration. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? ” ​— ​the LORD's declaration.

Another man was also prophesying in the name of the LORD ​— ​Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like all those of Jeremiah.

“this is what the LORD says: I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be even one of his descendants living among these people, nor will any ever see the good that I will bring to my people ​— ​this is the LORD's declaration ​— ​for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.' ”

The officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide and tell no one where you are.”

“You are to proclaim concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll, asking, “Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and cause it to be without people or animals? ”

But when he was at the Benjamin Gate, an officer of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, and he apprehended the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans.”

The officials then said to the king, “This man ought to die, because he is weakening the morale[fn] of the warriors who remain in this city and of all the people by speaking to them in this way. This man is not pursuing the welfare of this people, but their harm.”

Then Zedekiah warned Jeremiah, “Don't let anyone know about this conversation[fn] or you will die.

On the day after he had killed Gedaliah, when no one knew yet,

How can you say, “We are warriors —

valiant men for battle”?

“As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.

Hazor will become a jackals' den,

a desolation forever.

No one will live there;

no human being will stay in it even temporarily.

Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrah

and their neighboring towns —

this is the LORD's declaration —

so no one will live there;

no human being will stay in it even temporarily

as a temporary resident.

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.

Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,

for his cast images are a lie;

there is no breath in them.

Why should any living person complain,

any man, because of the punishment for his sins?

“for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.

The seller will certainly not return

to what was sold

as long as he and the buyer remain alive.[fn]

For the vision concerning her whole crowd

will not be revoked,

and because of the iniquity of each one,

none will preserve his life.

“Therefore, speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: When anyone from the house of Israel sets up idols in his heart and puts his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet, I, the LORD, will answer him appropriately.[fn] I will answer him according to his many idols,

“For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside in Israel separates himself from me, setting up idols in his heart and putting his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of me, I, the LORD, will answer him myself.

“Suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:

“Then I gave them my statutes and explained my ordinances to them ​— ​the person who does them will live by them.

“ ‘But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and they rejected my ordinances ​— ​the person who does them will live by them. They also completely profaned my Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them in the wilderness to put an end to them.

“ ‘But the children rebelled against me. They did not follow my statutes or carefully keep my ordinances ​— ​the person who does them will live by them. They also profaned my Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them and exhausting my anger against them in the wilderness.

“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Your[fn] heart is proud, and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.” Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

“Will you still say, “I am a god,”

in the presence of those who slay[fn] you?

Yet you will be only a man, not a god,

in the hands of those who kill you.

“As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One person speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear what the message is that comes from the LORD! '

The Chaldeans answered the king, “No one on earth can make known what the king requests. Consequently, no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, medium, or Chaldean.

So they approached the king and asked about his edict: “Didn't you sign an edict that for thirty days any person who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions' den? ”

The king answered, “As a law of the Medes and Persians, the order stands[fn] and is irrevocable.”

But they, like Adam,[fn] have violated the covenant;

there they have betrayed me.

The days of punishment have come;

the days of retribution have come.

Let Israel recognize it!

The prophet is a fool,

and the inspired man is insane,

because of the magnitude

of your iniquity and hostility.

I led them with human cords,

with ropes of love.

To them I was like one

who eases the yoke from their jaws;

I bent down to give them food.

I will not vent the full fury of my anger;

I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim.

For I am God and not man,

the Holy One among you;

I will not come in rage.[fn]

It will be like a man who flees from a lion

only to have a bear confront him.

He goes home and rests his hand against the wall

only to have a snake bite him.

Teman,[fn] your warriors will be terrified

so that everyone from the hill country of Esau

will be destroyed by slaughter.

I will sweep away people and animals;

I will sweep away the birds of the sky

and the fish of the sea,

and the ruins[fn] along with the wicked.

I will cut off mankind

from the face of the earth.

This is the LORD's declaration.

“If a man is carrying consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does it become holy? ”

The priests answered, “No.”

The angel who was speaking with me then returned and roused me as one awakened out of sleep.

“If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You cannot remain alive because you have spoken a lie in the name of the LORD.' When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.

“He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased[fn] me as a servant since my youth.'

“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me! ”

“How do we rob you? ” you ask.

“By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.

“They will be mine,” says the LORD of Armies, “my own possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.