Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Second Week of Great Lent - Page of 24
harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee
away as a bad courier.
12.
A foolish man and a transgressor
goes in ways that are not good.
13.
And the same winks
with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches
with the beckonings of his fingers.
14.
His perverse heart
devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a
city.
15.
Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly;
overthrow and irretrievable ruin.
16.
For he rejoices in all
things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of
impurity of soul.
17.
The eye of the haughty, a tongue
unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;
18.
and a
heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil,
-- are hateful to God.
19.
An unjust witness kindles
falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.
20.
My
son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the
ordinances of thy mother: