How can young people keep their way pure? By guarding it according to your word. | How can a young man lead a spotless life? By living according to your word. |
The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. | The powerful suffer want and go hungry, but those who seek the Lord want for no good thing. |
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I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin? | I have made a covenant with my eyes not to look with desire upon a virgin. |
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel. | Therefore, you will be given this sign by the Lord himself: The virgin will be with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will name him Immanuel. |
Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. | Let no one regard you with contempt because of your youth, but serve as an example to the believers in your speech and conduct, in your love, your faith, and your purity. |
May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth. | Let my teaching fall down like rain, and my words descend like the dew. Like rain upon the sprouts, and like showers upon the grass. |
Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish. | Go, and assemble all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same thing. After that, I will go to the king—against the law. And if I perish, I perish! |