10. I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
11. A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, [Is] one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end--he is a fool.
12. A throne of honour on high from the beginning, The place of our sanctuary,
13. The hope of Israel [is] Jehovah, All forsaking Thee are ashamed, And `My apostates' in the earth are written, For they have forsaken Jehovah, A fountain of living waters.
14. Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise [art] Thou.
15. Lo, they are saying unto me: `Where [is] the word of Jehovah? pray, let it come.'
16. And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou--Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,
17. Be not Thou to me for a terror, My hope [art] Thou in a day of evil.
18. Let my pursuers be ashamed, and let not me be ashamed--me! Let them be affrighted, and let not me be affrighted--me! Bring in on them a day of evil, And a second time [with] destruction destroy them.
19. Thus said Jehovah unto me: `Go, and thou hast stood in the gate of the sons of the people, by which kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all gates of Jerusalem,
20. and thou hast said unto them: Hear a word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are coming in by these gates,