For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
The Hebrew word rendered above as “disquieted” is ragaz, meaning “to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear).” The word rendered “bear” is nasa’, meaning “to lift up.”
The idea of the latter (nasa’) is referring us to what Paul describes explicitly, speaking of this time when wickedness controls the earth and is holding humanity down. As we know, he uses the Greek word katecho, meaning “to hold down (fast),” rendered “withholds” in 2 Thessalonians 2:6, and “lets” in verse 7.
2 Thessalonians 2
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what [misleaders in church and state] withholds [katecho] that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets [katecho] will let, until he be taken out of the way [mesos – out of our midst].
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
As we know, what allows the holding down is what Paul, earlier in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, speaking of the LORD’s coming, says is the apostasy, the falling away from the truth (down from heaven). He says above, these wicked men will hold us where we have fallen (down), until they are taken out of the way (mesos – out of our midst).
The three things that shake the earth, and the fourth thing because of which we haven’t risen, are (in Proverbs 30) written after.
Proverbs 30
22 For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
23 For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
These people: the three, who are taken away, are those spoken of in the previous chapter, and in this one (Proverbs 30), as those lifted up (nasa’ – into power). They are the rulers in power, sitting the seats created by God, who’ve become fools filled with ignorance that’s the so-called wisdom of this world. The odious (sane’ – hate-filled unfaithful) woman is those who’ve joined themselves to these powers: the damned incorrigibles who receive not the love of the truth and have pleasure in unrighteousness.
The heir is the ONE BODY of the LORD Jesus Christ, with Him in New Jerusalem, who’ve waited for Him and who rise with Him as Israel (to reign over the earth as does God: justly and righteously).
Proverbs 29
1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck [becomes incorrigible], shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.
3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoices his Father: but he that keeps company with harlots [the unfaithful woman] spends his substance.
9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest [because the “fool” is incorrigible].n, from China and Ukraine] overthrows it [his own land].
5 A man that flatters [chalaq – speaks smooth, deceitful, words to separate] his neighbor[s] spreads a net for his feet.
6 In the transgression of an evil [misleading] man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing and rejoice.
7 The righteous considers the cause of the poor [those without power, who are oppressed and victimized by those with it]: but the wicked [in power] regards not to know it.
8 Scornful [latsown – only used here and in Proverbs 1:22 & Isaiah 28:14 – see both below] men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath [because God’s wrath is correction, and the wrath of men is the destruction of those who follow them].
9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest [because ethe “fool” is incorrigible].
10 The bloodthirsty [horse-leach] hate [sane’ – odious] the [mouth of the] upright: but the just seek [to save] his soul.
11 A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keep it in till afterwards [because the truth always comes to light, which is the appearing of the LORD, both of which the deceitful and the fool will always deny].
12 If a ruler hearkens to lies, all his servants are wicked.
13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lightens [givens understanding to] both their eyes.
14 The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
16 When the wicked [odious – those motivated by blind hate] are multiplied, transgression increases: but the righteous shall see their fall [when the truth appears].
17 Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.
18 Where [by ignorance or malice] there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.
19 A servant [the foolish in power] will not be corrected by words: for though he understands he will not answer [because, he will never admit or repent from his errors].
23 A man’s pride shall bring him low [brings his fall, from the truth and eventually from power]: but honor [honoring the LORD] shall uphold the humble in spirit. which the deceitful and the fool will always deny].
20 See you a man that is hasty in his words [doesn’t think before he speaks]? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son [His heir] at the length.
22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.
23 A man’s pride shall bring him low [brings his fall, from truth and eventually from power]: but honor [honoring the LORD] shall uphold the humble in spirit.
24 Whoso is partner with a thief [who takes away what isn’t his] hates [sane’] his own soul: he hears cursing [against the innocent, from who the thief has taken], and bewrays [nagad – confronts and stands boldly against] it not.
25 The fear of man [the powers who lead by fear of the unknown they say they know] bringeth a snare: but whoso put his trust in the LORD [who does know] shall be safe.
26 Many seek the ruler’s favor; but every man’s judgment comes from the LORD.
27 An unjust man [the men who now sit in God’s seats of power, in church and state] is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Proverbs 1
10 My son, if sinners [with flattery] entice you, consent you not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave [Sheol – hell]; and whole, as those that go down [fall] into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil [as is the platform of the Democrat Communist Party: to worship other gods, lie, covet, steal, and kill the innocent, unborn and born, privily]:
14 Cast in your lot among [vote for] us; let us all have one purse [let us all be communists]:
15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird [therefore, they spread theirs in secret].
18 And they [unknowingly] lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom cries without [to the just and the unjust]; she utters her voice in the streets [to save those caught in these nets]:
21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning [latsown], and fools hate [sane’] knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But you have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated [sane’] knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Friends, the truth of God is the truth we see, the powers, those who’ve lifted themselves into the seats of God, hate God’s wisdom and the counsel (messenger) He sends them. Therefore, they will perish, go into perdition by their own choice, choosing death over life and hell over understanding. Therefore, they answer the age-old question of the ignorant: “Why is there evil, and why do people go to hell?” Because men choose it.
(Should God be like the communists, oppressing humanity and taking away all choice? If God, knowing all things and Almighty, doesn’t oppress just because He knows better, should men who are ignorant of all this, in their pride and hubris, presume and assume they have license to do so? After seeing the consequences and hearing from one raised from the dead, we understand God’s plan is that men will know to choose the good and refuse the evil, which is the whole duty of man.)
The following, ending with Romans 9, is from the post of 27 December 2021:
Matthew 24
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven [with full understanding]: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass [parerchomai – shall not avert hearing this word of God, which if received is life], till all these things be fulfilled [ginomai – come into being: the unseen will be seen by those watching]. [Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.]
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away [parerchomai – the old understanding and the corrupt world shall be separated from this true word of God, as the waters above were separated from the waters below, in the firmament, by this exposition of light.], but my words [which are the waters bringing rest and refreshing in the new heaven upon the new earth] shall not pass away [parerchomai].
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood [the waters reserved in heaven, for this day, when the Father is known by His knowing the day and His people’s need for His life-giving advice and good leading] they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark [where His testament is carrying those saved above the waters that cover and are destroying the old world],
39 And knew not [because they rejected His word, and refused to hear His warning and receive His salvation] until the flood came [erchomai – the word that must be received, for it is life and salvation], and took them all away [and they shall not remain {yathar}]; so shall also the coming of [parousia – the LORD’s presence manifested in] the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken [away], and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken [away], and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your LORD does come [erchomai – as is His manner, through His messenger speaking Salvation, and the only vexation is to receive the report].
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief [the LORD unknown to those not watching] would come [erchomai], he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up [diorusso – digged through: see the previous post].
44 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes [erchomai – manifested in this word of God received].
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his LORD HAS made ruler over his household, to give them meat [this word of God, which I have given you in this time only the Father knows] in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when he comes [erchomai] shall find so doing.
47 Truly I say unto you, That he shall make him [Has made me] ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My LORD delays his coming [erchomai – not seeing Him because he refused to receive this word as the true word of God, as it is, and instead continued in his old and corrupt ways and ideas];
49 And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken [out of his mind, deluded because of the corruption he is consuming];
50 The LORD of that servant shall come [heko – arrive as He has] in a day when he looks not [watches not] for him, and in an hour that he is not aware [is ignorant] of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The hour only the Father knows, of which, by uttering an entrance, He makes aware His people who are “watching” for Him according to His word (guarded and kept from corruption). What is spoken, as we’ve often seen, is described in Isaiah as the “report,” from the Hebrew word shmuw’ah, which is also rendered “doctrine” and “rumor.”
As we well know, Isaiah 28 is the most precise explanation of this work of the LORD and of those who are opposing Him and defending corruption. There it (shmuw’ah) appears twice; the first asking who He shall teach “doctrine,” and the other saying the only vexation is to understand its “report.” It tells of these (doctrine and report) coming to the drunkards of His people in this generation, who He also describes as the crown of pride: misleader He says led His people into a covenant with death and agreement with hell.
He openly tells these scornful men who rule His people, this is the rest and the refreshing, yet they would not hear, because the words are unto them as the stammering words of another language. This foreign language is the truth, unheard because every table is full of vomit (words eaten, digested, and projected {broadcast} in a mixed up and distorted form), and there is no place clean (uncorrupted).
Isaiah 28
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful [latsown] men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [pinnah] stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [as these water breaking forth upon the enemies who are made His footstool], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [as these water frozen in heaven are released, as hail to destroy this crop of misleaders in this evil generation], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice [for it is sound doctrine]; hearken, and hear my speech [this report in which the LORD’s arm, His strengthening work, is revealed].
When Isaiah describes hearing of the “consumption,” which is “decreed” by the LORD upon the whole earth, it is the “strange” work that brings to pass the act, which he speaks of in the verse before. As we know is His manner, by these words leading us (in His good way) to a deeper understanding of their context when put here together.
The word describing His “strange” work, is the Hebrew word zuwr, which refers us to Isaiah 1, where we see it reversing the apostasy come from following strangers misleading into foreign ways and ideas. The other three words, nokriy, the resulting “strange” act; kalah (#3617), the “consumption;” and charats, the decree (from His voice and speech), refer us to the passages in which each appears once elsewhere in Isaiah.
Hear the word of the LORD: “Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.”
Isaiah 1
24 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon you, and purely purge away your dross, and take away all your tin:
26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed [kalah #3615].
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks [those they say are the upright] which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens [the place of protection] that you have chosen.
Isaiah 1
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away [zuwr – have become strangers, not knowing Me, My words, or My ways] backward [into apostasy].
5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is [all your leaders are] sick, and the whole heart faint [the whole mind is weak].
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises [chabbuwrah – only appearing in Isaiah one other time, in Isaiah 53:5 rendered “stripes”], and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city [without trustworthy protection from its storms and sun].
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom [burning], and we should have been like unto Gomorrah [ruin].
10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me [your strange ways and ideas, and reject My good leading]?
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil [misleading] of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Isaiah 2
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come you, and let us walk in the light [understanding] of the LORD.
6 Therefore you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines [invaders among us], and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man bows down [to their idols], and the great man humbles himself [to the works of their own hands]: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide you in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
Romans 9
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Hosea [2:23], I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Isaiah also cried concerning Israel [Isaiah 10:22 & 23], Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth.
29 And as Isaiah said before [in Isaiah 1:9], Except the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.
Hebrews 1
8 But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they [the angels] not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, and was confirmed unto us by them [the angels] that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Hear now you foolish and become wise, you simple and receive understanding, “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.”
Proverbs 30
1 The words of Agur [who the LORD has gathered] the son of Jakeh [who the LORD has declared blameless], even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel [who God is with] even unto Ithiel [to who God is speaking] and Ucal [to those the wicked have devoured],
2 Surely I am [you are] more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4 Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended [do you understand this is what you have witnessed]? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends [the end of the old and the creation of the new] of the earth? what is his name [it is Jehovah], and what is his son’s name [it is Jehovah’s Salvation in my flesh and I Am Tim], if you can tell?
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
7 Two things have I required of you; deny me them not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
10 Accuse not a servant [who the LORD declares now blameless] unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
11 There is a generation that curses their father [God], and does not bless their mother [wisdom].
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness [the corruption that blinds them].
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up [nasa’].
14 There is a generation, whose teeth [words] are as swords, and their jaw teeth [words] as knives, to devour the poor [the powerless] from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15 The horse-leach [the leach that attaches itself to the mouth of the house when it drinks] has two daughters, crying, Give, give [blood]. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough [they are those who never say this sacrifice is enough, who will never be corrected]:
16 The grave [Sheol – hell]; and the barren womb [that refuses to bring forth children into this new birth]; the earth that is not filled with water [this word of God from heaven]; and the fire [caused by the ways and ideas of men who replaced God and sit in His seats] that saith not, It is enough.
17 The eye that mocks at his father [God], and despises to obey his mother [wisdom], the ravens [those covered in darkness, their own ignorance] of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles [those who are borne on the wings of their Father and mother, until they have the strength to soar in heaven – with full understanding] shall eat it.
18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
19 The way of an eagle in the air [the understanding that raises them there]; the way of a serpent upon a rock [the wicked who men trust]; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea [the church among humanity]; and the way of a man with a maid [the LORD among His heirs].
20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman [the false rock, who left God to follow other men as idols in His place]; she eats [their corrupt bread], and wipes her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
21 For three things the earth is disquieted [ragaz], and for four which it cannot bear [nasa’]:
22 For a [wicked and incorrigible] servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with meat [words he says bring strength, which are wickedness and evil misleading];
23 For an odious [sane’ – hateful] woman when she is married [when she is joined with the wicked in their evil]; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress [the ONE BODY waiting to be joined with Her King].
24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer [and you are now strong and yet you prepare not My people for the battle ahead];
26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks [but you now have wisdom, and your houses remain apart from the Rock];
27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands [and you have a king and gather not to Him in ONE BODY];
28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces [but you have hands, and why do you refuse to come into My presence].
29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
30 A lion [I Am] which is strongest among beasts, and turns not away for any;
31 A greyhound [I have run before you]; a he goat also [and led you]; and a king [in whose name I come], against whom there is no rising up.
32 If you have done foolishly in lifting up [nasa’] yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.
33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
2 Samuel 23
1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he makes it not to grow.
6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
Psalms 18
1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.
15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;
26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the froward you will show yourself froward.
27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
32 It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
33 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me upon my high places.
34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand holds me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
36 You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
39 For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
40 You have also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
48 He delivers me from mine enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
49 Therefore will I give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto your name.
50 Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
