Shirach — 16

YAHUAH’s Punishment for Sinners

1 Do not desire a multitude of useless children, nor rejoice in Unrighteous sons.

2 If they multiply, do not rejoice in them, unless the fear of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is in them.

3 Do not trust in their survival, and do not rely on their multitude; for one is better than a thousand, and to die childless is better than to have Unrighteous children.

4 For through one man of understanding a city will be filled with people, but through a tribe of lawless men it will be made desolate.

5 Many such things my eye has seen, and my ear has heard things more striking than these.

6 In an assembly of sinners a fire will be kindled, and in a disobedient nation wrath was kindled.

7 He was not propitiated for the ancient giants who revolted in their might.

8 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH did not spare the neighbors of Lut, whom he loathed on account of their insolence.

9 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH showed no pity for a nation devoted to destruction, for those destroyed in their sins;

10 nor for the six hundred thousand men on foot, who rebelliously assembled in their stubbornness.

11 Even if there is only one stiff-necked person, it will be a wonder if he remains unpunished, For mercy and wrath are with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, He is mighty to forgive, and He pours out wrath.

12 As great as his mercy, so great is also his reproof; he judges a man according to his deeds.

13 The sinner will not escape with his plunder, and the patience of the righteous will not be frustrated.

14 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will make room for every act of mercy; every one will receive in accordance with his deeds.

17 Do not say, “I shall be hidden from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH and who from on high will remember me? Among so many people I shall not be known, for what is my soul in the boundless creation?

18 Behold, Shamaym and the highest Shamaym, the abyss and the Arath, will tremble at 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH's visitation.

19 The mountains also and the foundations of the Arath shake with trembling when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH looks upon them.

20 And no mind will reflect on this. Who will ponder 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH's ways?

21 Like a tempest which no man can see, so most of the works of  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH are concealed.

22 Who will announce the acts of justice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH? Or who will await them? For the covenant is far off.”

23 This is what one devoid of understanding thinks; a senseless and misguided man thinks foolishly.

YAHUAH’s Wisdom Seen in Creation

24 Listen to me, my son, and acquire knowledge, and pay close attention to my words.

25 I will impart instruction by weight, and declare knowledge accurately.

26 The works of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH have existed from the beginning by His creation, and when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH made them, He determined their divisions.

27 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH arranged His works in an eternal order, and their dominion for all generations; they neither hunger nor grow weary, and they do not cease from their labors.

28 They do not crowd one another aside,    and they will never disobey the Dabar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.

29 After this 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH looked upon the Arath, and filled it with His good things;

30 with all kinds of living beings He covered its surface, and to it they return.