In  ¹like manner, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that even if any disobey the  ²word, they will be gained without the word through the manner of life of their wives,

Seeing with their own eyes your  ¹pure manner of life  ²in  ³fear.

Let your adorning not be the outward  ¹plaiting of hair and putting on of gold or clothing with garments,

But the  ¹hidden man of the heart in the incorruptible adornment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is very costly in the sight of God.

For in this manner formerly the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you have become, if you do good and do not fear any  ¹terror.

Husbands, in like manner dwell together with them  ¹according to knowledge, as with the  ²weaker, female  ³vessel,  ⁴assigning honor to them as also to fellow heirs of the  ⁵grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

And finally be all of the same mind, sympathetic, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, humble-minded;

Not rendering evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary  ¹blessing one another, because you were called  ²to this, that you might inherit blessing.

For "he who desires to love life and see  ¹good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips to speak no guile.

And let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it;

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears incline to their petition; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

And who will harm you if you become zealous for what is good?

For thus says the Lord Jehovah,  ¹I Myself, even I, will search for My sheep and seek them out.

As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day when he is among his sheep which are scattered, so I will seek out My sheep; and I will deliver them from all the places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

And I will  ¹bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land, and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the  ²streams and in all the inhabited places of the land.

I will feed them with good pasture, and their dwelling place will be upon the mountains of the heights of Israel; there they will  ¹lie down in a good dwelling place, and on rich pasture they will feed upon the mountains of Israel.

I Myself will shepherd My flock, and I will cause them to lie down, declares the Lord Jehovah.

I will seek the lost one and bring back the one that was driven away and bind up the broken one and strengthen the sick one; but the fat one and the strong one I will destroy — I will feed them with judgment.

And as for you, O My flock, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will  ¹judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture and trample down the rest of your pasture with your feet and drink the clear water and foul the rest with your feet?

Meanwhile My flock must feed on what is trampled by your feet and drink what is fouled by your feet.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah to them, It is I who am about to judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.

Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted all the weak with your horns until you scattered them abroad,

I will rescue My flock, and they will no longer be prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

And I will set up over them one Shepherd, My Servant  ¹David, and He will feed them; He will feed them, and He will be their Shepherd.

And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and My Servant David will be a  ¹Prince among them. I, Jehovah, have spoken.

And I will make with them a  ¹covenant of peace and banish evil beasts from the land, so that they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

And I will make them and the places around My hill a  ¹blessing, and I will cause the showers to come down in their season; there will be showers of  ¹blessing.

And the trees of the field will yield their fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land; then they will know that I am Jehovah, when I break the bars of their yoke and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

And they will no longer be prey to the nations, nor will the beasts of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid.

And I will raise up for them a planting place of renown, and they will no longer be consumed with famine in the land and no longer bear the disgrace of the nations.

Thus they will know that I, Jehovah their God, am  ¹with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people, declares the Lord Jehovah.

And you are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Son of man, set your face against  ¹Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

And say to it, Thus says the Lord Jehovah,
Indeed I am against you, O Mount Seir,
And I will stretch out My hand against you
And make you a desolation and a waste.

I will lay your cities waste,
And you will be desolate;
And you will know that I am Jehovah.

Because you have had a perpetual enmity and handed the children of Israel over to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, in the time of the punishment of the end;

Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.

Thus I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

And I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain will fall by the sword in your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited, and you will know that I am Jehovah.

Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries will belong to me, and we will possess  ¹them — even though Jehovah was there —

Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy, which you displayed in your hatred of them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

And you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your reviling which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are desolate; they have been given to us to devour.

And you have magnified yourselves against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir and all Edom, the whole  ¹land. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.