{2:9} You who fear the Lord, hope in him. And mercy will approach you, to your delight.
{2:10} You who fear the Lord, love him. And your hearts will be illuminated.
{2:11} My sons, consider the nations of men, and know that not one of them hoped in the Lord and was confounded.
{2:12} For who has remained in his commandment and been abandoned? Or who has called upon him, and yet he despised him?
{2:13} For God is upright and merciful, and he will forgive sins in the day of tribulation. And he is the Protector to all those who seek him in truth.
{2:14} Woe to the duplicitous heart, and to the wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner who walks the earth by two ways!
{2:15} Woe to the dissolute in heart, who do not trust God! For, as a result, they will not be protected by him.
{2:16} Woe to those who have lost endurance, and who have abandoned upright ways, and who have turned aside to depraved ways!
{2:17} And what will they do when the Lord begins to examine them?