“Let it rest on the head of Yo’aḇ and on all his father’s house. And let there never fail to be in the house of Yo’aḇ one who has a discharge or is a leper, or who is taking hold of a staff or falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
Psalm 7:17 - The Scriptures 2009 I give thanks to יהוה according to His righteousness, And praise the Name of יהוה Most High. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: And will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will give to the Lord the thanks due to His rightness and justice, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High. American Standard Version (1901) I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most High. Common English Bible But I will thank the LORD for his righteousness; I will sing praises to the name of the LORD Most High. Catholic Public Domain Version His sorrow will be turned upon his own head, and his iniquity will descend upon his highest point. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown. |
“Let it rest on the head of Yo’aḇ and on all his father’s house. And let there never fail to be in the house of Yo’aḇ one who has a discharge or is a leper, or who is taking hold of a staff or falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
“Thus יהוה shall return his blood on his head, because he had fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, while my father Dawiḏ did not know it: Aḇnĕr son of Nĕr, commander of the army of Yisra’ĕl, and Amasa son of Yether, commander of the army of Yehuḏah.
But when she came before the sovereign, he commanded by letter that his evil plot which Haman had plotted against the Yehuḏim should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the wooden structure.
Hĕ Splendour and greatness are His work, Waw And His righteousness stands forever.
Let burning coals fall on them; Let them be made to fall into the fire, Into deep pits, let them not rise again.”
They send forth the remembrance of Your great goodness, And they sing of Your righteousness.
And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness, Your praise, All day long.
Deliver me from blood-guilt, O Elohim, Elohim of my deliverance, Let my tongue sing aloud of Your righteousness.
I rejoice and exult in You; I sing praise to Your Name, O Most High.
It is good to give thanks to יהוה, And to sing praises to Your Name, O Most High;
יהוה has made known His deliverance; His righteousness He has openly shown Before the eyes of the nations.
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of the set-apart ones, so that the living know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and gives it to whomever He wishes, and sets over it the lowest of men.’
“That you are going to be driven away from men, and your dwelling be with the beasts of the field, and you be given grass to eat like oxen, and you be wetted with the dew of the heavens, and seven times pass over you, till you know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and that He gives it to whomever He wishes.
And at the end of the days I, Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar, lifted my eyes to the heavens, and my understanding returned to me. And I blessed the Most High and praised and made Him great who lives forever, whose rule is an everlasting rule, and His reign is from generation to generation.
“However, the Most High does not dwell in dwellings made with hands, as the prophet says:
in order that the violence done to the seventy sons of Yerubba‛al might come, and their blood be laid on Aḇimeleḵ their brother, who killed them, and on the masters of Sheḵem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
And all the evil of the men of Sheḵem Elohim turned back on their own heads, and the curse of Yotham son of Yerubba‛al came on them.