17. And you explained mysteries by means of parables. Your name became known to far off islands, and you were beloved for your peace.
18. The earth was in wonder over your canticles, and proverbs, and parables, and interpretations,
19. and over the name of the Lord God, who is known as the God of Israel.
20. You gathered gold like copper, and you multiplied silver like lead.
21. But you bent your thigh to women, and you were held by the power of your body.
22. You brought a stain upon your glory, and you profaned your seed, so as to bring wrath upon your children, and to incite your foolishness,
23. so that you would cause the kingdom to be divided, and an obstinate kingdom to rule from Ephraim.
24. But God will not abandon his mercy, nor will he corrupt or abolish his own works. And he will not perish the stock of the descendents of his elect. And he will not destroy the offspring of him who loves the Lord.
25. Therefore, he left behind a remnant for Jacob and for David, from the same stock.
26. And Solomon had his end with his fathers.
27. And he left behind himself some of his offspring, as the folly of the nation:
28. both Rehoboam, who had little prudence, and who turned away the people by his counsel,
29. and Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, and who provided a way of sin to Ephraim. And their sins were multiplied exceedingly.
30. They thoroughly turned them away from their own land.
31. And they sought every kind of wickedness, even until punishment overwhelmed them, and freed them from every kind of sin.