1. Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, neither delight in ungodly sons.

2. Though they multiply, rejoice not in them, except the fear of the Lord be with them.

3. Trust not thou in their life, neither respect their multitude: for one that is just is better than a thousand; and better it is to die without children, than to have them that are ungodly.

4. For by one that hath understanding shall the city be replenished: but the kindred of the wicked shall speedily become desolate.

5. Many such things have I seen with mine eyes, and mine ear hath heard greater things than these.

6. In the congregation of the ungodly shall a fire be kindled; and in a rebellious nation wrath is set on fire.

7. He was not pacified toward the old giants, who fell away in the strength of their foolishness.

8. Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for their pride.

9. He pitied not the people of perdition, who were taken away in their sins:

10. Nor the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.

11. And if there be one stiffnecked among the people, it is marvel if he escape unpunished: for mercy and wrath are with him; he is mighty to forgive, and to pour out displeasure.

12. As his mercy is great, so is his correction also: he judgeth a man according to his works

13. The sinner shall not escape with his spoils: and the patience of the godly shall not be frustrate.

14. Make way for every work of mercy: for every man shall find according to his works.

15. The Lord hardened Pharaoh, that he should not know him, that his powerful works might be known to the world.

16. His mercy is manifest to every creature; and he hath separated his light from the darkness with an adamant.

17. Say not thou, I will hide myself from the Lord: shall any remember me from above? I shall not be remembered among so many people: for what is my soul among such an infinite number of creatures?

18. Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the deep, and the earth, and all that therein is, shall be moved when he shall visit.

19. The mountains also and foundations of the earth be shaken with trembling, when the Lord looketh upon them.

20. No heart can think upon these things worthily: and who is able to conceive his ways?

21. It is a tempest which no man can see: for the most part of his works are hid.

22. Who can declare the works of his justice? or who can endure them? for his covenant is afar off, and the trial of all things is in the end.

23. He that wanteth understanding will think upon vain things: and a foolish man erring imagineth follies.

24. My son, hearken unto me, and learn knowledge, and mark my words with thy heart.

25. I will shew forth doctrine in weight, and declare his knowledge exactly.

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What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

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The application source is AGPL-3.0. Generated text downloads and their structured arrangement are CC BY-SA 4.0; the underlying historic source texts are treated as public-domain inputs. The corpus metadata therefore describes the distributed arrangement with its CC BY-SA license rather than the Public Domain Mark.

Concordance and Related Passages

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

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Every chapter and verse has a permanent URL. Chapter links follow the pattern /scripture/{work}/{book}-{chapter} (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1 for Genesis 1). Verse links append the verse number (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1:26 for Genesis 1:26). These URLs can be shared, bookmarked, or cited directly.

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Scripture supports keyboard navigation throughout: Tab moves between controls, Enter activates verse actions, and arrow keys navigate chapters. The reading pane has a skip-to-content link. All overlays (search, concordance) are focus-trapped ARIA dialogs. Dynamic content regions use aria-live for screen reader announcements. Light and dark themes are available through the theme toggle. Verse numbers are visible to assistive technology. No flashing content or motion hazards.

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