I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community.”

我在圣会里，几乎落在诸般恶中。”

在聚集的会众中，我几乎坠入深渊。”

在聚集的会众中，我几乎坠入深渊。”

在众人面前，我几乎身败名裂。”

在众民的集会中，我几乎落在万劫不复之地。”

在聚集的会众里，我几乎身败名裂！”

我在聖會裏，幾乎落在諸般惡中。

在聚集的會眾中，我幾乎墜入深淵。」

在聚集的會眾中，我幾乎墜入深淵。」

在眾人面前，我幾乎身敗名裂。」

在眾民的集會中，我幾乎落在萬劫不復之地。”

如今我在會眾公會中幾乎受到極刑了！』

在聚集的會眾裡，我幾乎身敗名裂！」

於羣眾大會中、幾干諸咎、

在大會中、幾遭扑責。○

我幾乎在群眾、在大會、遭遇諸禍、遭遇諸禍或作受諸責罰

And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”

I was soon in deep trouble. It happened right in front of the whole assembly of God’s people.”

I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, and now I must face public disgrace.”

I was almost in total ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

I was on the verge of total ruin, In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

I was well- nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.

I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community.”

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm.

especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold, arrogant people! They are not afraid to slander the glorious ones;however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord.But these people, like irrational animals— creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed— slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions while they feast with you.They have eyes full of adultery that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wickednessbut received a rebuke for his lawlessness: A speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.These people are springs without water, mists driven by a storm. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

Now these things took place as examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.

Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away one’s understanding.My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to their God.They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and they burn offerings on the hills, and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters act promiscuously and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.

While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.The LORD said to Moses,“ Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD so that his burning anger may turn away from Israel.”So Moses told Israel’s judges,“ Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.In the same way these people— relying on their dreams— defile their flesh, reject authority, and slander glorious ones.Yet when Michael the archangel was disputing with the devil in an argument about Moses’s body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said,“ The Lord rebuke you!”But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct— like irrational animals— by these things they are destroyed.Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, have plunged into Balaam’s error for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn— fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.