And now hearken unto me all ye who have entered into the covenant, And I will disclose to you the ways of the wicked.
2God loveth wisdom: And counsel He hath set before Him; Prudence and knowledge minister unto Him.
3Longsuffering is with Him And plenteousness of forgivenesses To pardon those who repent of transgression.
4And power and might and great fury with flames of fire therein are all the angels of destruction For them who turned aside out of the way, And abhorred the statute,
5So that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape of them.
6For God chose them not from the beginning of the world, And ere they were formed He knew their works.
7And He abhorred their generations from of old, And hid His face from their land till they were consumed.
8And He knew the years of their office and the number and exact statement of their periods for all the things that belong to the ages and have been, moreover whatsoever shall come to pass in their periods for all the years of eternity.
9Yet in all of them He raised Him up men called by name, In order to leave a remnant to the earth, And to fill the face of the earth with their seed.
10And through His Messiah He shall make them know His holy spirit. And he is true, and in the true interpretation of his name are their names: But them He hated He made to go astray.