ECB(i)
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DROUGHT, FAMINE, SWORD, AND PESTILENCE
And so be the word of Yah Veh to Yirme Yah concerning the dearth: 2 Yah Hudah mourns and the portals languish - darkened to the earth; and the outcry of Yeru Shalem ascends: 3 and the mighty send their little ones to the waters: they come to the dugouts and find no water; they return with their instruments empty: they shame and are ashamed and cover their heads: 4 because the soil is broken for there is no downpour in the earth: the cultivators shame; they cover their heads. 5 And even the hind births in the field, and forsakes; because there is no sprout: 6 and the wild runners stand in the barrens; they gulp the wind as monsters; their eyes finish off because there is no herbage. 7 O Yah Veh, though our perversities answer against us, work this for sake of your name: for our apostasies abound by the myriads; we sin against you. 8 O the expectation of Yisra El, the saviour in time of tribulation! Why are you as a sojourner in the land? And as a caravan that spreads to stay overnight? 9 Why are you as a man dumbfounded - as a mighty who cannot save? Yet you, O Yah Veh, are among us; and we are called by your name; leave us not. 10 Thus says Yah Veh to this people, Thus they love to wander; they spare not their feet: so Yah Veh is not pleased in them; now he remembers their perversity and visits their sins. 11 And Yah Veh says to me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they fast, I hear not their shout; and when they holocaust a holocaust and an offering, they please me not: and I finish them off by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence. 13 And I say, Aha! Adonay Yah Veh! Behold, the prophets say to them, You neither see the sword, nor famine; for I give you the shalom of truth in this place. 14 And Yah Veh says to me, The prophets prophesy falsehoods in my name: I neither sent them nor misvahed them nor worded to them: they prophesy to you a false vision and divination and worthlessness and the deceit of their heart. 15 So thus says Yah Veh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, whom I sent not, yet they say, Sword and famine become not in this land; the sword and famine consumes those prophets: 16 and the people to whom they prophesy are cast out in the outways of Yeru Shalem at the face of the famine and the sword: and there is no one to entomb them - them, their women, their sons and their daughters: for I pour their evil on them. 17 You, say this word to them; My eyes drip with tears night and day and they cease not: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breaking - with a mighty stroking stroke. 18 If I go forth into the field, then behold, the pierced with the sword! And if I enter the city, then behold, the sickness of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest merchandise into a land they know not. 19 In spurning, spurn you Yah Hudah? Loathes your soul Siyon? Why smite you us? And is there no healing for us? We await shalom, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold, fright. 20 We acknowledge, O Yah Veh, our wickedness, and the perversity of our fathers: for we sinned against you. 21 Scorn us not, for sake of your name - the throne of your honor: remember, break not your covenant with us. 22 Are there any among the vanities of the goyim who can cause downpour? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Yah Veh our Elohim? So we await you: for you worked all these.
DROUGHT, FAMINE, SWORD, AND PESTILENCE
And so be the word of Yah Veh to Yirme Yah concerning the dearth: 2 Yah Hudah mourns and the portals languish - darkened to the earth; and the outcry of Yeru Shalem ascends: 3 and the mighty send their little ones to the waters: they come to the dugouts and find no water; they return with their instruments empty: they shame and are ashamed and cover their heads: 4 because the soil is broken for there is no downpour in the earth: the cultivators shame; they cover their heads. 5 And even the hind births in the field, and forsakes; because there is no sprout: 6 and the wild runners stand in the barrens; they gulp the wind as monsters; their eyes finish off because there is no herbage. 7 O Yah Veh, though our perversities answer against us, work this for sake of your name: for our apostasies abound by the myriads; we sin against you. 8 O the expectation of Yisra El, the saviour in time of tribulation! Why are you as a sojourner in the land? And as a caravan that spreads to stay overnight? 9 Why are you as a man dumbfounded - as a mighty who cannot save? Yet you, O Yah Veh, are among us; and we are called by your name; leave us not. 10 Thus says Yah Veh to this people, Thus they love to wander; they spare not their feet: so Yah Veh is not pleased in them; now he remembers their perversity and visits their sins. 11 And Yah Veh says to me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they fast, I hear not their shout; and when they holocaust a holocaust and an offering, they please me not: and I finish them off by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence. 13 And I say, Aha! Adonay Yah Veh! Behold, the prophets say to them, You neither see the sword, nor famine; for I give you the shalom of truth in this place. 14 And Yah Veh says to me, The prophets prophesy falsehoods in my name: I neither sent them nor misvahed them nor worded to them: they prophesy to you a false vision and divination and worthlessness and the deceit of their heart. 15 So thus says Yah Veh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, whom I sent not, yet they say, Sword and famine become not in this land; the sword and famine consumes those prophets: 16 and the people to whom they prophesy are cast out in the outways of Yeru Shalem at the face of the famine and the sword: and there is no one to entomb them - them, their women, their sons and their daughters: for I pour their evil on them. 17 You, say this word to them; My eyes drip with tears night and day and they cease not: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breaking - with a mighty stroking stroke. 18 If I go forth into the field, then behold, the pierced with the sword! And if I enter the city, then behold, the sickness of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest merchandise into a land they know not. 19 In spurning, spurn you Yah Hudah? Loathes your soul Siyon? Why smite you us? And is there no healing for us? We await shalom, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold, fright. 20 We acknowledge, O Yah Veh, our wickedness, and the perversity of our fathers: for we sinned against you. 21 Scorn us not, for sake of your name - the throne of your honor: remember, break not your covenant with us. 22 Are there any among the vanities of the goyim who can cause downpour? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Yah Veh our Elohim? So we await you: for you worked all these.