1 Meqabyan 1:1-28

¹There was one man whose name was called Tseerutsaydan and he loved sin. He would boast in his horses' abundance and his troops' firmness beneath his authority.

²He had many priests who served his idols whom he worshipped, and for whom he bowed and sacrificed sacrifices by night and by daylight.

³But in his heart's dullness, it would seem to him that they gave him firmness and power.

⁴And in his heart, it would seem to him that they gave him authority in all his rule.

⁵And again, in formation time, it would seem to him that they gave him all the desired authority also.

⁶And he would sacrifice sacrifice for them day and night.

⁷He appointed priests who served his idols.

⁸While they ate from that defiled sacrifice, they would tell him, pretending that the idols eat night and day.

⁹Again, they would make other persons diligent like unto them - that they might sacrifice and eat. And again, they would make other persons diligent that they might sacrifice like unto them.

¹⁰But he would trust in his idols that don't profit nor benefit.

¹¹By his timeframe being small - and in his heart's dullness - it would seem to him that they irked him - that they fed him and crowned him.

¹²As they are never well whenever, it is due that he might call them dead ones.

¹³As Satan's authority that misleads them will lodge in that idol image.

¹⁴And they will marvel upon the time they sight up that he fulfilled what they thought for them.

¹⁵They were not sad, for Satan had enjoyed their sacrifice to fulfill their evil agreement.

¹⁶But that Tseerutsaydan were arrogant. He had fifty idols worked in a males pattern and twenty worked in a females pattern. And he would boast in those idols that were of no benefit.

¹⁷And he would command people to offer sacrifices for the idols - and he would eat from that defiled sacrifice.

¹⁸And he would command people to offer sacrifices for the idols - and he would eat from that defiled sacrifice.

¹⁹They had five houses built for themselves, decorated with idols made of iron, brass, and lead.

²⁰They adorned them with silver and gold, and covered them with curtains and tents.

²¹They appointed keepers for the idols and would continually sacrifice forty animals to them.

²²They believed that their idols ate, so they presented them with fifty baskets of grapes and fifty dishes of wheat kneaded with oil.

²³They told their priests to take and give the offerings to them, and they would eat what was slaughtered for them.

²⁴They commanded all to eat and drink from the defiled sacrifice.

²⁵But out of their evil malice, they sent troops throughout the kingdom to find anyone who did not offer sacrifices.

²⁶They said, For they are merciful and great, and they are angry with us for our wickedness.

²⁷And I will show them punishment and tribulation, for they have angered the Earth, the Heaven, the sea.

²⁸But those who worship them will be punished with firm tribulation, and it will not be pleasant for them.