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my justices: and receive my/ testament by your mouth./ Certainly you have hated discipline:/ and banished my talk behind you./ If you saw a thief you ran with him:/ and with adulterers you did put your share./ Your mouth abounded in malice: and your tongue produced sorrow./ Sitting you spoke against your brother:/ and against your mother’s son you did put/ an offence: these things you have done and I have said nothing./ You have considered unjustly that I will be like you:/ I will reprove you and set it against your face. Understand these things you that forget god:/ lest sometime he seize you violently and there be none to deliver you./ The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me:/ and there is the way by which I will show him the salvation of god./

Transcription

iusticias meas: et assumis testamentum / meum per os tuum. / Tu vero odisti disciplinam: / et proiecisti sermones meos retrorsu[m]. / Si videbas furem currebas cum eo: / et cum adulteris portione tua[m] ponebas. / Os tuum habundavit malitia: et lingua tua concinnabat dolos. / Sedens adversus fratrem tuu[m] loquebaris: / et adversus filium matris tu[a]e ponebas / scandalu[m]: h[a]ec fecisti et tacui. / Existimasti inique q[u]od ero tui similis: / arguam te et statua[m] contra faciem tua[m]. Intelligite h[a]ec qui obliviscimini deum: / nequando rapiat et non sit qui eripiat. / Sacrificium laudis honorificabit me: / et illic iter quod ostendam illis salutare dei. /

Translation

my justices: and receive my/ testament by your mouth./ Certainly you have hated discipline:/ and banished my talk behind you./ If you saw a thief you ran with him:/ and with adulterers you did put your share./ Your mouth abounded in malice: and your tongue produced sorrow./ Sitting you spoke against your brother:/ and against your mother’s son you did put/ an offence: these things you have done and I have said nothing./ You have considered unjustly that I will be like you:/ I will reprove you and set it against your face. Understand these things you that forget god:/ lest sometime he seize you violently and there be none to deliver you./ The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me:/ and there is the way by which I will show him the salvation of god./

 

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