1 Meqabyan 7:1-32
1And whether you are a king or a ruler, what important thing are you?
2Isn't it JAH who created you, bringing you from not living to living.
3Just as you beat without mercy those who committed sin.
4Just as you whip him who was not ruled by you.
5Since He is the One who created you so that you love those who might fear you.
6Judge by what is just and true, just as JAH appointed you.
7Just as Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, I have presented water and fire.
8Hear His word that I tell you, so that you might hear His word.
9Lest you say, Who will go up to Heaven again.
10And you did not hear your Creator JAH unless you heard His Book.
11He made you above all, and He crowned you over all His people.
12There are those whom you whip for wronging you.
13And do not show favor or partiality when they argue before you.
14If you do His will, JAH will multiply your days in this world.
15Consider that you will rise after you die.
16If you do good work, you will live in a Garden.
17But when you see your feared fame, your warriors' reward.
18But when you see all this, you make your reasoning lofty.
19For you have totally neglected the appointment He appointed you.
20For death shall suddenly come upon you.
21There are none who will honor this world's kings.
22Judgment is prepared, and a soul shall quake.
23And there are none who shall be hidden.
24And just as clouds cannot prevent rain.
25Just as Moses spoke, saying, It is by words that proceed from JAH's tongue.
26Behold, it was known that dead persons shall arise by JAH's word.
27And again JAH said thus in Deuteronomy.
28And again JAH told those who know His judgment.
29I chastise in tribulation and I pardon.
30JAH said thus because of nobles and kings who did not keep His Law.
31For JAH's calling of righteous ones is for glory.
32He will dismiss the person who did not do His will.