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Chinese (traditional)Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “None of my words will be deferred any more, but the word which I speak will be performed,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ Like water reflects a face,
so a man’s heart reflects the man. Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you. Casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you. That he may guard the paths of justice,
and preserve the way of his saints. Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child,
and shall give birth to a son.
They shall call his name Immanuel,”
which is, being interpreted, “God with us.” But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.” Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. For it is written,
“‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow.
Every tongue will confess to God.’” In all hard work there is profit,
but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty. ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God. For Yahweh’s word is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness. ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit. A man’s heart plans his course,
but Yahweh directs his steps. Being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name. In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep,
for you alone, Yahweh, make me live in safety. And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.” I have taught you in the way of wisdom.
I have led you in straight paths. I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. So Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me. Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him. He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to the whole creation.”