Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 Why, seeing that times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those that know him not see his days?
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“Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
2 <em>Some</em> remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed <em>thereof</em>.
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There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way; and all the poor of the earth hide themselves <em>from them</em>.
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They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 Behold, <em>as</em> wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness <em>yields</em> food for them <em>and</em> for <em>their</em> children.
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Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
6 In the field they reap their fodder, and the wicked gather the vintage <em>that is not theirs</em>.
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They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that <em>they have</em> no covering in the cold.
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Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8 They are wet with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a covering.
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They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.
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The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 They cause the naked to go without clothing, and they take away the sheaves <em>from</em> the hungry.
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Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They press oil within their walls <em>and</em> tread <em>their</em> winepresses and suffer thirst.
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They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder <em>them</em>.
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The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.
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“There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14 The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises <em>his</em> face.
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The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, <em>which</em> they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
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In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
17 For the morning <em>is</em> to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death <em>come over them</em>.
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For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 They are swift upon the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; they never come by the way of the vineyards.
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“Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters; <em>so does</em> Sheol <em>consume those who</em> have sinned.
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As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20 The Merciful One shall forget them; the worm shall feed sweetly on them; they shall never be remembered again; and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
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The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
21 He afflicted the barren woman that did not conceive and never did good unto the widow.
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They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.
22 He furthered the violent with his power; he did not lend to anyone in his life.
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But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
23 <em>If</em> he gave credit <em>to some</em> to take <em>them</em> over, his eyes <em>were</em> upon their ways.
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He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
24 They were exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all <em>others</em> and cut off as the tops of the heads of grain.
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For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
25 And if <em>it is</em> not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?
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“If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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