Assemble yourselves and hear ye sons of Jacob,—And hearken unto Israel your father!
Come, ye children! hearken unto me, The reverence of Yahweh, will I teach you.
Oh give, my son, thy mind unto me, and let, thine eyes, observe, my ways;
Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.
Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!
Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend, to the sayings of my mouth;
My son, keep my sayings, and, my commandments, treasure by thee;
Observe thou, my son, the commandment of thy father, and do not decline from the instruction of thy mother:
My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear:
Reuben, my first-born, thou, My vigour, and the first-fruit of my strength,—Pre-eminence of elevation and pre-eminence of power:
Who is the man that desireth life, Loving days, that he may see good?
Assemble yourselves—all of you and hear, Who among them, hath told these things? he whom Yahweh loveth, will execute—His pleasure, on Babylon, And his stroke on the Chaldeans.