📖 This chapter exists in 1 other originals — side by side (Ge'ez Bible)
ℹ️ This corpus has no morphological tagging. Glosses are matched by word form against a dictionary — a match does not prove it is the same word (an inflected form can coincide with another word’s lemma). Verify against the original and a specialist lexicon where precision matters.
ℹ️ The Chinese and English alongside are this site's own translation, made directly from the original text on this page (not the CUV or the WEB, which follow the Masoretic Text and a different textual tradition).
Play chapterRead aloud in the original (synthesised on this site)–:––Download mp3
Kings are not appointed save by My will, and the needy are not impoverished save by My commandment, and the mighty are not made strong save by My will.
And further from the hand of Saul the king, and further from the hand of the other watchman who opposed him, and from the hand of all who opposed him and contended against him, because he kept My commandment.
And I loved him; and all those who keep My commandment, kings and governors, I too love them and give them strength and victory over their enemies; for they too have gladdened Me.
And again I will give them the land of inheritance which I swore to their fathers, a land pure and bright, that they may inherit the land of their fathers.