1. This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures for ever: all they that hold it fast are appointed to life; but such as leave it shall die.
2. Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk towards her shining in the presence of the light thereof.
3. Give not your glory to another, nor the things that are profitable to you to a strange nation.
4. O Israel, happy are we: for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.
5. Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
6. You⌃ were sold to the nations, but not for destruction: because you⌃ moved God to wrath, you⌃ were delivered to your adversaries.
7. For you⌃ provoked him that made you by sacrificing to demons, and not to God.
8. You⌃ forgat the everlasting God, that brought you up; you⌃ grieved also Jerusalem, that nursed you.
9. For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Hearken, you⌃ women that dwell about Sion: for God has brought upon me great mourning;
10. for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.
11. For with joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.