Who doth make me as `in' months past, As `in' the days of God's preserving me?
Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath -- round about?
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.
And it hath been, as I watched over them to pluck up, And to break down, and to throw down, And to destroy, and to afflict; So do I watch over them to build, and to plant, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept -- called,