1. This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law, that is for ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have forsaken it, to death.
2. Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its brightness, in the presence of the light thereof.
3. Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation.
4. We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us.
5. Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:
6. You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.
7. For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.
8. For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.
9. For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning:
10. For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.