Jeremiah 14 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ So much of the word of Yahweh as came unto Jeremiah, concerning the matter of the drought:–– ² Judah, mourneth, And, the gates thereof, pine, They lie in gloom on the ground,––And, the outcry of Jerusalem, hath ascended; ³ And, their nobles, have sent their menials to the waters,––They have been to the pits, They have found no water, They have returned, their vessels, empty, They are pale and ashamed, and have covered their heads. ⁴ Because, the ground, is cracked, For there hath been no rain in the land, The plowmen are pale, They have covered their heads. ⁵ For, even the hind of the field, hath calved, and forsaken, Because there is no, young herbage; ⁶ Yea, wild asses, stand still on the bare heights, They pant for air like jackals,––Dimmed, are their eyes, Because there is, no grass. ⁷ Though, our iniquities, have testified against us, O Yahweh, effectually work thou, for the sake of thy Name,––For our apostasies have abounded, Against thee, have we sinned. ⁸ Thou Hope of Israel, His Saviour in the time of distress,––Wherefore, shouldst thou be as a sojourner in the and? Or as a wayfarer, who hath turned aside to lodge for the night? ⁹ Wherefore, shouldst thou be as a man astounded, As a mighty man, who cannot save? Yet, thou, art in our midst––O Yahweh, And, thy Name, on us, hath been called, Do not abandon us!
¹⁰ Thus, saith Yahweh, To this people, In this way, have they loved to wander, Their feet, have they not restrained,––Yahweh, therefore hath not accepted them, Now, will he call to mind their iniquity,––That he may punish their sins. ¹¹ And Yahweh said, unto me,––Do not pray for this people, for blessing; ¹² Though they fast, I am not going to hearken unto their loud cry, and, Though they offer ascending–sacrifice and meal–offering, I am not going to accept them,––For, with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, am, I, about to consume them. ¹³ Then said I, Ah, My Lord, Yahweh! Lo! the prophets, are saying to them––Ye shall not see the sword, And, famine, shall ye not have,––For, prosperity in truth, will I give you, in this place. ¹⁴ So then Yahweh said unto me, Falsehood, are the prophets prophesying in my name, I have not sent them, Neither have I commanded them, Neither have I spoken unto them,––A vision of falsehood, and, A divination of worthlessness, and, A fraud of their own hearts, They, are prophesying unto you. ¹⁵ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, concerning the prophets who are prophesying in my Name, though, I, sent them not, and yet, they, have been saying, Neither sword nor famine, shall there be in this land,––By sword or by famine, shall, those, prophets, be consumed; ¹⁶ And, the people to whom they, have been prophesying, shall be getting cast out into the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword, and of there being none, to give burial, unto them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters,––So will I pour out upon them their own wickedness.
¹⁷ Therefore shalt thou say unto them this word, Let mine eyes, run down, with tears night and day, And let them not rest,––For, with a grievous injury, hath been injured the virgin, the daughter of my people, With a wound, severe indeed! ¹⁸ If I have gone out into the field, Then lo! the slain of the sword! And, if I have entered the city, Then lo! the diseases of famine! For, both prophet and priest, have trafficked against the land, unnoticed. ¹⁹ Hast thou, utterly rejected, Judah? Zion itself, hath thy soul loathed? Why, hast thou smitten us, so that there is for us no, healing? A waiting For prosperity, but no, welfare, and, For a time of healing, but lo! terror! ²⁰ We acknowledge, O Yahweh, Our own lawlessness, The iniquity of our fathers,––For we have sinned against thee. ²¹ Do not despise––for the sake of thy Name, Do not treat with contempt––the throne of thy glory,––Remember!––do not break thy covenant with us. ²² Are, there, among the vanities of the nations, senders of rain? Or can, the heavens themselves, give myriad drops? Art not, thou, he, O Yahweh our God? Therefore will we wait for thee, For, thou, hast made all these.

²⁴ And God heard their groaning,––and God remembered his covenant, with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob;

⁴⁵ Thus will I make my habitation in the midst of the sons of Israel,––and will be their God; ⁴⁶ and they shall know that, I––Yahweh, am their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might make my habitation in their midst, I––Yahweh, their God.

¹⁰ Now, therefore, let me alone, that mine anger may kindle upon them, and that I may consume them, and may make of thee, a great nation.

¹³ Have remembrance of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself, and didst speak unto them saying, I will multiply your seed, as the stars of the heavens,––and, all this land of which I have spoken, will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it to times age–abiding.

³² Now, therefore, if thou wilt forgive their sin, . . . but, if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book, which thou hast written. ³³ And Yahweh said unto Moses,––Him who hath sinned against me, must I blot out of my book. ³⁴ Now, therefore, go lead the people to the place of which I spake to thee, lo! my messenger, shall go before thee,––But, in the day when I do visit, then will I visit upon them, their sin.

¹¹ And I will set my habitation in your midst,––And my soul shall not abhor, you;

¹¹ And I will set my habitation in your midst,––And my soul shall not abhor, you; ¹² But I will walk to and fro in your midst, And will be unto you, a God, And, ye, shall be unto me, a people.

¹⁹ So will I break your pomp of power, And will set your heavens as iron, and your land as bronze; ²⁰ And your strength shall be spent in vain,––And your land shall not yield her increase, And, the trees of the land, shall not yield their fruit.

⁴⁰ Then shall they confess their iniquity, And the iniquity of their fathers, In their unfaithfulness wherewith they had been unfaithful towards me; Yea moreover, because they had gone in opposition to me, ⁴¹ I also, must needs go in opposition to them, and bring them into the land of their foes,––Save only that, if, even then, their uncircumcised heart shall be humbled, And, even then, they shall accept as a payment the punishment of their iniquity, ⁴² Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, Yea moreover, my covenant with Isaac, Yea moreover, my covenant with Abraham, will I remember; And, the land, will I remember.

⁴² Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, Yea moreover, my covenant with Isaac, Yea moreover, my covenant with Abraham, will I remember; And, the land, will I remember. ⁴³ For, the land, shall be left of them, And shall be paid her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them, They also, accepting as a payment the punishment of their iniquity, Because, yea because, my regulations, they refused, And, my statutes, their soul abhorred. ⁴⁴ And yet, even so, when they are in the land of their foes, I have not refused them, Neither have I abhorred them, To make an end of them, To break my covenant with them,––For, I––Yahweh, am their God. ⁴⁵ Therefore will I remember in their behalf, the covenant of their ancestors,––Whom, I brought forth out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God––I––Yahweh.

²³ Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Shall, the hand of Yahweh, fail? Now, shalt thou see whether my word come to pass unto thee, or not.

¹⁵ As soon, therefore, as thou hast put to death this people, as one man, so soon will the nations who have heard thy fame speak, saying: ¹⁶ Because Yahweh, was not able, to bring in this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, therefore did he slay them in the desert.

¹⁴ for, Yahweh thy God, walketh to and fro in the midst of thy camp, to rescue thee, and to deliver up thine enemies before thee, so shall thy camps be holy,––and he shall see in thee no shameful thing, that he should turn away from following thee.

¹² Yahweh will open unto thee his rich storehouse––the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless every work of thy hand, so shalt thou lend unto many nations, but, thou, shalt not borrow:

²³ And thy heavens which are over thy head, shall become bronze,––and the earth which is under thee iron. ²⁴ Yahweh will cause the rain of thy land to be powder and dust,––out of the heavens, shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

³⁶ Yahweh will bring thee, and thy king whom thou wilt set up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers,––and thou shalt serve, there, other gods, of wood and of stone.

⁶⁴ and Yahweh will scatter thee among all the peoples, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth,––and thou wilt serve there, other gods, whom thou hast not known––thou, nor thy fathers,––of wood and of stone.

²³ brimstone and salt, burning up all the land thereof, it shall not be sown, neither shall it shoot forth, neither shall there come up thereon any herbage,––like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrow in his anger and in his wrath:

¹⁹ When Yahweh saw, he derided,––Because his sons and his daughters gave provocation.

²¹ They, have moved me to jealousy with a No–GOD, They have angered me with their vanities: I, therefore, will move them to jealousy, with a No–people, With an impious nation, will I anger them.

²⁷ Were it not that, the taunt of the foe, I feared, Lest their adversaries should mistake,––Lest they should say––Our own hand, is exalted, It is, not Yahweh, therefore, who hath wrought all this!

⁹ Only let the Canaanite and all the inhabitants of the land hear, and they will surround us, and cut off our name out of the earth,––what then wilt thou do for thy great name?

¹⁷ So he lifted up his eyes, and saw a wayfaring man in the broadway of the city,––and the old man said––Whither goest thou? and from whence hast thou come?

¹² And, the men who died not, were smitten with the tumours,––so the cry of the city for help, ascended the heavens.

¹⁶ About this time tomorrow, will I send unto thee, a man out of the land of Benjamin, whom thou shalt anoint, to be leader over my people Israel, and he shall save my people, out of the hand of the Philistines,––for I have looked upon the oppression, because their outcry hath come in unto me.

²² For Yahweh will not give up his people, because of his great name, for Yahweh was minded to make you his people.

²⁹ Then said Jonathan: My father hath afflicted the land,––See, I pray you, how my own eyes have been brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

² Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, I have well considered what Amalek did unto Israel––how he lay in wait for him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

¹³ And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against Yahweh. Then said Nathan unto David,––Yahweh also, hath put away thy sin, thou shalt not die!

³⁰ Now, David, was going up by the ascent of Olivet, weeping as he went up, with his head covered, himself, passing on barefoot,––and all the people who were with him, covered every man his head, and went up, weeping as they went.

⁴ But, the king, muffled his face, and the king made outcry, with a loud voice,––O my son Absolom, O Absolom, my son, my son!

¹⁰ And the heart of David smote him, after he had reckoned up the people,––and David said unto Yahweh––I have sinned greatly, in what I have done, Now, therefore, O Yahweh, take away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foolishly.

³⁶ then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou mayest teach them the good way, wherein they should walk,––and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people, for an inheritance?

¹ Then said Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, unto Ahab, By the life of Yahweh, God of Israel, before whom I stand, there shall not, these two years, be either dew or rain,––save at the bidding of my word.

⁷ But it came to pass, at the end of [certain] days, that the torrent dried up,––because there had been no rain in the land.

¹⁴ For, thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, The jar of meal, shall not waste, and, the cruse of oil, shall not fail,––until the day that Yahweh giveth rain upon the face of the ground.

¹⁸ Then said she unto Elijah, What have I in common with thee, O man of God? Hast thou come unto me, to call to remembrance mine iniquity, and to cause the death of my son?

¹ And it came to pass, after many days, that, the word of Yahweh, came unto Elijah, in the third year, saying,––Go, shew thyself unto Ahab, that I may send rain upon the face of the ground.

⁵ So then Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go, and let us pass throughout the land, unto all the fountains of water, and unto all the ravines, peradventure we may find grass, and save alive horse and mule, and not have more of the beasts cut off. ⁶ So they divided to them the land, to pass through it,––Ahab, went one way, by himself, and, Obadiah, went another way, by himself.

³⁹ And, when all the people saw it, they fell upon their faces,––and said, Yahweh, he, is GOD, Yahweh, he, is GOD. ⁴⁰ And Elijah said unto them––Seize ye the prophets of Baal––let not, a man, of them escape. So they seized them. And Elijah took them down unto the ravine of Kishon, and slaughtered them there.
⁴¹ Then said Elijah unto Ahab, Go up, eat and drink,––for there is a sound of a downpour of rain. ⁴² So Ahab went up, to eat and to drink,––but, Elijah, went up to the top of Carmel, and bowed himself to the earth, and put his face between his knees. ⁴³ Then said he unto his young man––Go up, I pray thee, and look about in the direction of the sea. So he went up, and looked about, and said––There is, nothing whatever. Then said he––Go again, seven times. ⁴⁴ And it came to pass, at the seventh time, that he said, Lo! a little cloud, like a man’s hand coming up from the sea. Then he said––Go up, say unto Ahab––Harness, and get thee down, lest the rain shut thee in. ⁴⁵ And it came to pass, meanwhile, that, the heavens, had enshrouded themselves with clouds and wind, and there came a great rain, and Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel;

²⁵ Then said Micaiah, Lo! thou art about to see, on that day,––when thou enterest a chamber within a chamber, to hide thyself.

¹⁹ Even Judah, kept not the commandments of Yahweh their God,––but walked in the statutes of Israel, which they had made. ²⁰ So Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and humiliated them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,––until he had cast them out from his presence;

³¹ Do not hearken unto Hezekiah,––for, thus, saith the king of Assyria, Deal with me thankfully, and come out unto me, then shall ye eat––every one of his own vine, and every one of his own fig–tree, and drink every one the waters of his own cistern;

¹⁶ yet became they mockers of the messengers of God, and despisers of his words, and mimics of his prophets,––until the mounting up of the wrath of Yahweh against his people, until there was no healing.

⁶ and said, O my God, I turn pale and am ashamed, to lift up, O my God, my face unto thee,––for, our iniquities, have multiplied above the head, and our guilt hath magnified itself unto the heavens. ⁷ Since the days of our fathers, we, have been in great guilt, until this day,––and, for our iniquities, have we been given up––we, our kings, our priests,––into the hand of the kings of the lands, by sword and by captivity and by spoiling and by a turning pale of face, as at this day.

¹⁵ O Yahweh, God of Israel, righteous thou art, for we have had left us a deliverance as at this day,––here we are, before thee, in our guilty deeds, for there is no standing before thee, because of this thing!

² And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all the sons of the foreigner,––and stood and made confession over their own sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

³³ But, thou, art righteous, as to all that hath fallen upon us,––for, faithfulness, hast thou wrought, whereas, we, have been lawless; ³⁴ and, our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law,––nor given heed unto thy commandments, or unto thy testimonies, wherewith thou hast testified against them.

¹² Then Mordecai returned unto the gate of the king,––but, Haman, hurried unto his own house, mourning, and with covered head.

¹⁰ Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;

²⁰ They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.

²⁶ Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;

²⁷ He sang before men, and said, I sinned, and, uprightness, I perverted, yet he requited me not;

²⁸ Causing to reach him the outcry of the poor, Yea, the outcry of the oppressed, he heareth.

²⁶ To give rain over the no–man’s land, the desert, where no son of earth is; ²⁷ To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass? ²⁸ Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

¹ Knowest thou the season when the Wild Goats of the crags beget? The bringing forth of the hinds, canst thou observe? ² Canst thou count the months they fulfill? Or knowest thou the time when they give birth? ³ They kneel down, their young, they bring forth; their pains, they throw off; ⁴ Their young become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go out, and return not unto them. ⁵ Who hath sent forth the Wild Ass free? And, the bands of the swift–runner, who hath loosed? ⁶ Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt:

⁹ Thus be Yahweh a refuge for the crushed one, a refuge for times of destitution:

¹ Wherefore, O Yahweh, shouldst thou stand afar off? [Wherefore] hide thyself, in times of destitution?

³ Yea let, none who wait for thee, be put to shame, Let them be put to shame who act covertly without cause!

¹¹ For the sake of thy Name, O Yahweh, Therefore wilt thou pardon mine iniquity, for great it is.

²¹ Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.

⁹ Do not hide thy face from me, Do not repulse, in thine anger, thine own servant,––My help, thou hast been, Do not send me away nor forsake me, O my saving God!

¹⁴ Wait thou for Yahweh,––Be strong, and let thy heart be bold, Wait, then, for Yahweh!

⁹ The voice of Yahweh, causeth the gazelles to bring forth, and hath stript forests; and, in his own temple, every one there, is saying, Glory!

⁵ My sin, would I own unto thee, and, mine iniquity, not hide, I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Yahweh, And, thou, didst forgive the iniquity of my sin. [Selah.]

³⁹ But, the deliverance of the righteous, is from Yahweh, their refuge in a time of distress. ⁴⁰ Thus hath Yahweh helped them, thus hath he delivered them,––He will deliver them from the lawless, and will save them, because they have sought refuge in him.

¹⁰ Remove from off me thy stroke, Because of the hostility of thy hand, am, I, consumed.

¹⁴ Let them turn pale and then at once blush, who are seeking my life to snatch it away,––Let them draw back, and be confounded, who are taking pleasure in my calamity;

²³ Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether! ²⁴ Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression? ²⁵ For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth. ²⁶ Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.

¹ [To the Chief Musician. For the Sons of Korah, on Alamoth. A Song.]
God––for us, is a refuge and strength, A help in distresses, soon found.

⁵ God, is in the midst of her, she shall not be shaken, God will help her, by the turnings of the morning.

¹⁵ Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest glorify me.

³ For, my transgressions, do, I, acknowledge, And, my sin, is before me continually: ⁴ Against thee––against thee alone, have I sinned, And, wickedness––in thine eyes, have I done,––That thou mayest, Be justified when thou speakest,––Be clear when thou judgest.

¹¹ Do not cast me away from thy presence, And, thy Holy Spirit, do not take from me:

¹ [An Instructive Psalm. Asaph’s.]
Wherefore, O God, hast thou cast off utterly? Shall thine anger smoke against the flock of thine own pasturing? ² Remember thine own assembly thou didst acquire aforetime, Thou didst redeem the tribe of thine own inheritance, Mount Zion, wherein thou didst take up thy habitation.

² Remember thine own assembly thou didst acquire aforetime, Thou didst redeem the tribe of thine own inheritance, Mount Zion, wherein thou didst take up thy habitation. ³ Lift up thy steps unto the places utterly unsafe, All the mischief!––the foe in the sanctuary! ⁴ Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine appointed meeting, They have set their ensigns as tokens! ⁵ One used to be known according as he carried up high––into the thicket of trees––the axes; ⁶ But, now, the doors thereof all together, with axes and hammers, they batter down. ⁷ They have cast, into the fire, thy sanctuary, To the ground, have they profaned the habitation of thy Name.

¹⁸ Remember this, An enemy, hath reproached Yahweh, Yea, an impious people, have reviled thy Name. ¹⁹ Do not deliver up, to a wild beast, the life of thy turtle–dove, The living host of thine oppressed ones, do not forget perpetually. ²⁰ Have respect to thy covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

⁵⁹ God heard and was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

² They have given, The dead bodies of thy servants, As food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy men of lovingkindness, Unto the wild beast of the earth: ³ They have poured out their blood like water, Round about Jerusalem, With none to bury.

⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, on account of the glory of thy Name,––Rescue us then, and put a propitiatory–covering over our sins, For the sake of thy Name. ¹⁰ Wherefore should the nations say––Where is their God? Let him be known among the nations before our eyes! [Yea! By] the avenging of the blood of thy servants which hath been shed!

⁴ O Yahweh, God of hosts! How long hast thou been wroth with the prayer of thy people? ⁵ Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.

¹² Wherefore hast thou broken down its fences, So that all who pass along the way, pluck its fruit? ¹³ The boar out of the forest, browseth upon it, And, the wild beast of the field, pastureth thereon.

³⁸ Yet, thou thyself, hast cast off, and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine Anointed One! ³⁹ Thou hast cast down the covenant of thy Servant, Thou hast profaned, to the earth, his crown; ⁴⁰ Thou hast broken down all his defenses, Thou hast laid his fortresses in ruins;

¹⁵ He shall call me, and I will answer him, With him, will, I, be, in distress, I will rescue him, and will honour him;

⁶ We have sinned––with our fathers, We have acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness; ⁷ Our fathers, in Egypt, understood not thy wonders, They remembered not the abounding of thy lovingkindnesses, but rebelled by the sea––at the Red Sea. ⁸ Yet he saved them, for the sake of his Name, to make known his mighty power; ⁹ So he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, And he led them through deeps, as pasture–land; ¹⁰ And saved them from the hand of one full of hatred, And redeemed them out of the hand of the foe; ¹¹ So the waters covered their adversaries, Not one from among them, was left. ¹² They believed therefore in his words, They sang his praise.
¹³ Soon forgat they his works,––They waited not for his counsel; ¹⁴ But lusted a lust in the desert, and tested GOD in the waste. ¹⁵ So he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. ¹⁶ And they became jealous of Moses in the camp,––of Aaron the holy one of Yahweh; ¹⁷ The earth opened and engulfed Dathan, and covered up the assembly of Abiram; ¹⁸ Then was kindled a fire in their assembly,––a flame, consumed the lawless ones. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb,––and bowed down to a molten image; ²⁰ Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. ²¹ They forgat GOD their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt: ²² Wonders in the land of Ham, Terrible things by the Red Sea. ²³ Then would he have bidden to destroy them,––had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying. ²⁴ And they refused the delightful land, They believed not his word; ²⁵ But murmured in their tents,––They hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh. ²⁶ So he lifted up his hand unto them, that he would let them fall in the desert; ²⁷ And would disperse their seed among the nations, and would scatter them throughout the lands. ²⁸ Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal–peor,––and did eat sacrifices to the dead: ²⁹ So they provoked to anger by their doings, and a plague, made a breach among them. ³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and interposed, and stayed was the plague: ³¹ So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding. ³² And they provoked by the waters of Meribah,––And it fared ill with Moses, for their sakes; ³³ For they embittered his spirit, and he spake rashly with his lips.
³⁴ They destroyed not the peoples of which Yahweh had spoken to them; ³⁵ But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings; ³⁶ Yea they served their idols, and they became to them a snare: ³⁷ Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to mischievous demons; ³⁸ And poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was polluted with blood–shed; ³⁹ And they became unclean by their works, and became unchaste in their doings. ⁴⁰ Then was kindled the anger of Yahweh with his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance.

⁴⁰ Then was kindled the anger of Yahweh with his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance. ⁴¹ So he delivered them up into the hand of the nations, And they who hated them, had dominion over them; ⁴² And their enemies oppressed them, And they were bowed down under their hand. ⁴³ Many times, did he rescue them,––But, they, rebelled by their counsel, and sank low in their iniquity. ⁴⁴ Then looked he on the distress which befell them,––when he heard their loud cry; ⁴⁵ Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses;

⁴⁵ Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses; ⁴⁶ And granted them compassion before all their captors. ⁴⁷ Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks unto thy holy Name, That we may triumph aloud in thy praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed be Yahweh, God of Israel, from one age even unto another, And all the people, shall say, Amen! Praise ye Yah!

¹⁴ Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped out; ¹⁵ Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.

²⁹ Mine accusers shall be clothed with confusion, and shall wrap about them, like a cloak, their own shame.

¹ Not unto us, O Yahweh, not unto us,––but, unto thine own Name, give glory, concerning thy lovingkindness, concerning thy faithfulness.

¹⁰¹ From every way of wickedness, have I withheld my feet, that I might keep thy word.

¹³⁶ Streams of water, have run down mine eyes, Because men have not kept thy law.

⁵ I have waited for Yahweh, My soul hath waited for his word;

⁷ Causing vapours to ascend from the end of the earth,––Lightnings for the rain, hath he made, bringing forth wind out of his treasuries.

⁷ Though I walk in the midst of distress, thou wilt give me life,––Because of the anger of my foes, thou wilt thrust forth thy hand, and thy right hand, will save me:

⁸ Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass:

²⁸ Then, will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me diligently, but shall not find me.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and, with their own counsels, be filled.

⁸ The sacrifice of lawless men, is an abomination to Yahweh, but, the prayer of the upright, is his delight.

²⁷ The sacrifice of the lawless, is an abomination, how much more, when, with wickedness, he bringeth it in!

⁹ He that turneth away his ear from hearing instruction, even his prayer, is an abomination.

¹¹ Of what use to me, is your multitude of sacrifices? Saith Yahweh: I am sated with ascending–offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts,––In the blood of bulls and young rams and he–goats, have I no pleasure. ¹² When ye enter to see my face, Who hath required this at your hand, trampling my courts? ¹³ Ye shall not again, bring in an empty, present, Incense, an abomination, is that, unto me! New moon, and sabbath, calling an assembly––I cannot endure, iniquity and sacred festival! ¹⁴ Your new moons, and your appointed feasts, my soul, hateth,––They have become unto me a burden I am too weary to bear: ¹⁵ Even when ye spread forth your open palms, I hide mine eyes from you; Yea, though ye multiply, prayers, I am not hearkening,––Your hands, with deeds of blood, are filled.

²⁶ And her gates shall mourn and lament,––And, forsaken, on the ground, shall she sit.

⁷ Surely, the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts, is the house of Israel, And, the men of Judah, are the plantation in which he dearly delighted,––And he waited, For, equity, but lo! murderous iniquity, For the rule of right, but lo! the cry of the wronged.

¹⁵ The elder and favourite, he, is the head,––And, the prophet teaching falsehood, he, is the tail; ¹⁶ And, they who should have led this people forward, have been causing them to stray,––And, they who are led of them, are destroyed,

⁶ Make shrill thy voice and sing out, thou inhabitress of Zion,––That, great in the midst of thee, is, the Holy One of Israel.

⁵ Mine own heart, for Moab continueth to make outcry, Her fugitive, as far as Zoar, is like a heifer of three years; For, the accent of Luhith, with weeping, they ascend, For, by the way of Horonaim––an outcry of destruction, they excite;
⁶ For, the waters of Nimrim, shall become, desolation,––For grass, hath dried up, Herbage, hath failed, Green thing, hath not sprung up!

⁴ Mourneth, fadeth, the earth, Languisheth, fadeth, the world,––Languished, have the lofty of the people of the earth.

⁷ Mourneth, the new wine, Withereth, the vine,––Sighing, are all the merryhearted:

⁷ But, as for these, With wine, do they reel, and, With strong drink, do they stagger,––Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink, They are swallowed up through wine, They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment.

¹⁰ Who have said to, the seers, Ye must not, see! To the prophets, Ye must not prophesy to us reproofs! Speak to us smooth things, Prophesy delusions: ¹¹ Depart ye from the way, Turn aside from the path,––Desist, from setting before us, the, Holy One of Israel.

¹⁸ And, therefore, will Yahweh wait, That he may grant you favour, And, therefore, will he lift himself up, That he may show you compassion,––For, A God of justice, is, Yahweh, How happy all they who are waiting for him.

²³ Then will he give–Rain, for thy seed––wherewith thou shalt sow thy ground, and, Bread, as the increase of thy ground, which shall be fertile and fat,––Thy cattle, in that day, shall feed, in broad pasture:

⁹ The land mourneth, languisheth, Lebanon, displayeth shame, is withered,––Sharon, hath become, as the waste plain, And Bashan and Carmel, are shaking off their leaves.

²² this, is the word which Yahweh hath spoken concerning him,––The virgin daughter of Zion, laugheth thee to scorn––mocketh thee, The daughter of Jerusalem, after thee, doth wag her head!

²⁹ Lo! as to all of them, Vanity––nothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!

³ For, I––Yahweh, am, Thy God, The Holy One of Israel, Ready to save thee,––I have given, as thy ransom, Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba, in thy stead.

¹¹ I––I, am Yahweh,––And there is none, besides me, ready to save:

¹² As for the smith, [with his] cutting–tool,––When he hath wrought in the live coals, And, with hammers, hath fashioned it,––And hath wrought it with his strong, arm, Anon, he is hungry, and hath no, strength, He hath drunk no water, and so hath become faint! ¹³ As for the carpenter,––He hath stretched out a line, hath drawn it with a pencil, Hath made it with carving tools, With compasses, hath rounded it,––And so hath made it after the figure of a great man, After the beauty of a son of earth, that it may remain in a house! ¹⁴ When one was cutting him down cedars, Then took he a holm–tree, and an oak, And secured them for himself, among the trees of the forest,––He planted a fir–tree, and the pouring rain made it grow; ¹⁵ So it serveth for a man to burn, And he hath taken of [the branches] and warmed himself, Also, he kindleth a fire, and baketh bread,––Also, he maketh a GOD, and hath bowed himself down, Hath made of it a carved image, and adored it: ¹⁶ The half thereof, hath he burned in the fire, Over half thereof, he eateth, flesh, He roasteth roast, that he may be satisfied,––Also, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen a blaze; ¹⁷ And, the residue thereof, Into a GOD, he maketh, Into his carved image,––Adoreth it, and boweth down, and prayeth unto it, And saith, Deliver me, for, my GOD, thou art! ¹⁸ They have not taken note, neither can they perceive,––He hath besmeared––past seeing––their eyes, Past understanding, their hearts; ¹⁹ And no one reflecteth––There is neither knowledge nor discernment––to say, Half thereof, have I burned up in the fire, Moreover also, I have baked, on the coals thereof, bread, I roasted flesh, and have been eating,––And, of the remainder thereof, an abomination, shall I make? And, to a log of wood, shall I pay adoration? ²⁰ He is feeding on ashes, A deluded heart, hath turned him aside,––And he cannot deliver his own soul, nor say, Is there not a falsehood in my right hand?

¹⁵ Surely, thou, art a GOD utterly hiding thyself,––O God of Israel, able to save! ¹⁶ They have turned pale and, even been put to shame, all of them,––Together, have they gone into disgrace, have the makers of images: ¹⁷ Israel, hath been delivered by Yahweh, with an age–abiding deliverance,––Ye shall neither turn pale nor he put to shame, unto the ages of futurity.

²¹ Tell ye––and bring near, Yea let them take counsel, together,––Who, let this be known aforetime, In time past, declared it? Was it not, I––Yahweh? And there is none else that is God, besides me, A GOD, righteous and ready to save, There is none, besides, me!

¹ Thus, saith Yahweh––Where then is the scroll of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or, which of my creditors, is it, to whom I have sold you? Lo! for your iniquities, have ye been sold, And, for your transgressions, hath your mother been put away. ² Wherefore, When I came in, was there no, one? When I called, was there none, to answer? Is mine own hand, really shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or is there not, in me, strength, to deliver? Lo! by my rebuke, I dry up the sea, I make rivers a desert, Their fish, Stinketh, for want of water, Yea dieth, for thirst:

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Yahweh, Awake, As in days of old, The generations of bygone ages: Art not thou, that which––Hewed down Rahab, Piercing the Crocodile?

³ Wherefore have we Fasted and thou hast not seen? Humbled our soul, and thou wouldst take no note? Lo! in the day of your fast, ye take pleasure, But all your toilers, ye drive on!

¹ Lo! the hand of Yahweh is not too short, to save,––Neither is his ear too heavy, to hear.

¹² For our transgressions have multiplied, before thee, And, our sins, have witnessed against us,––For, our transgressions, are with us, And, as for our iniquities, we acknowledge them:

¹⁹ We have become like those, Over whom, from age–past times, thou hast not ruled, Who have never, been called by thy name!

⁹ Do not be indignant, O Yahweh, so very greatly, Neither, perpetually, do thou recall iniquity,––Lo! look around, we pray thee. . . thy people, are, we all. ¹⁰ Thy holy, cities, have become a wilderness,––Zion, a wilderness, hath become, Jerusalem, a desolation! ¹¹ Our holy, and our beautiful, house, Where our fathers praised, thee, Hath become a conflagration,––And, all our delightful, places, are in ruins! ¹² In view of these things, wilt thou restrain thyself, O Yahweh? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and humble us so very greatly?

⁶ Then said I––Ah! My Lord, Yahweh! Lo! I know not how to speak,––For, a child, am, I!

⁸ The priests, said not, Where, is Yahweh? And, they who handled the law, did not acknowledge me, And, the shepherds, transgressed against me,––And, the prophets, prophesied by Baal, And so, after things that could not profit, did they walk.

¹³ For, two wicked things, have my people committed,––Me, have they forsaken, a fountain of living water, To hew out for themselves, cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.

¹⁷ Is not this, what thou wast certain to do for thyself,––in that thou didst forsake Yahweh thy God, when he was leading thee by the way? ¹⁸ Now, therefore, what hast thou to do with the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? Or what hast thou to do with the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River[=Euphrates]? ¹⁹ Let thy wickedness correct, thee, And, thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see, That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God,––And that the dread of me, should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

¹⁹ Let thy wickedness correct, thee, And, thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see, That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God,––And that the dread of me, should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

²³ How canst thou say, I have not defiled myself, After the Baalim, have I not gone? See thy way, in the valley, Own, what thou hast done,––A nimble young she–camel, crossing her own ways; ²⁴ A wild ass, taught of the desert, In the desire of her soul, she snuffeth the wind, In her occasion, who can turn her back? None who seek her, will weary themselves, In her month, they shall find her!

²⁴ A wild ass, taught of the desert, In the desire of her soul, she snuffeth the wind, In her occasion, who can turn her back? None who seek her, will weary themselves, In her month, they shall find her! ²⁵ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst! But thou saidst, Hopeless! No! for I love foreigners, and, after them, will I go. ²⁶ As the shame of a thief when he is found, So, hath been put to shame, the house of Israel,––They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their, prophets: ²⁷ Saying, to a tree, My father, art, thou! And to a stone, Thou, didst give us birth, For they have turned unto me the back, and not the face,––But, in the time of their calamity, they will say, Arise, and save us!

³⁶ How vigorously, thou goest about, changing thy way! Even of Egypt, shalt thou be ashamed, just as thou wast ashamed of Assyria:

¹ He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet [thinkest] to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh. ² Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see––where thou hast not been unchastely embraced! beside the ways, hast thou sat to them, like the Arabian in the desert,––and hast defiled the land, with thine unchastities, and with thy wickedness. ³ Therefore have been withholden the showers, And, the latter rain, hath not come,––Yet, the forehead of an unchaste woman, hast thou, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.

⁶ And Yahweh said unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what, apostate Israel, did? She used to go upon every high mountain, and beneath every green tree, and commit unchastity there.

¹³ Only, acknowledge thine iniquity, that, against Yahweh thy God, hast thou transgressed,––and hast gone hither and thither unto foreigners under every green tree, and, unto my voice, ye have not hearkened, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁷ At that time, shall they call Jerusalem, The throne of Yahweh, and there shall be gathered unto her all the nations––to the Name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem; and they shall walk no more, after the stubbornness of their own wicked, heart.

²⁵ We must lie down in our shame, And our reproach, be our covering, For, against Yahweh our God, have we sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth, even until this day,––Neither have we hearkened, unto the voice of Yahweh our God.

¹⁰ Then said I,––Ah! My Lord Yahweh! Surely, thou hast suffered this people and Jerusalem, to be beguiled, saying, Peace, shall ye have,––whereas the sword shall reach, unto the soul.

¹⁸ Thine own way, And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee,––This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.

²⁸ For this cause, shall the land mourn, and the heavens above be overcast: Because I have spoken, have purposed, and have not repented, nor will I turn back therefrom.

⁶ For this cause, hath the lion out of the forest smitten them, The wolf of the waste plains, preyeth, upon them, The leopard, is keeping watch over their cities, Every one that goeth out from thence, is torn in pieces,––For they have multiplied their transgressions, Numerous, are their apostasies.

¹² They have acted deceptively against Yahweh, And have said, Not He! Neither shall there come, upon us, calamity, Nor sword nor famine, shall we see;

¹² They have acted deceptively against Yahweh, And have said, Not He! Neither shall there come, upon us, calamity, Nor sword nor famine, shall we see; ¹³ But, the prophets, shall prove to be wind, And there is, no one, speaking in them,––Thus, shall it be done to themselves!

²⁴ Neither have they said in their heart,––Let us, we pray you, revere Yahweh our God, Who giveth rain, even the early and the latter, in its season,––The appointed weeks of harvest, he reserveth for us.

³¹ The prophets, have prophesied, falsely, And, the priests, tread down, by their means, And, my people, love it, so,––What then can ye do, as to her latter end?

¹³ For, from the least of them, even unto the greatest of them, Every one, graspeth with greed,––And, from the prophet even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely; ¹⁴ And so they have healed the grievous wound of my people, slightly, Saying, Peace, peace, when there was no, peace, ¹⁵ Were they led to turn pale, because, an abominable thing, they had done! Nay! they did not, at all turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame, Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when I punish them, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh.

²⁰ What then is, it to me, that––Frankincense from Shebah, come in, or, Sweet cane, from a land afar off? Your own ascending–offerings, are not acceptable, Nor are, your sacrifices, pleasing to me.

³⁰ Rejected silver, are they called, For, Yahweh, hath rejected them.

¹⁶ Thou, therefore––Do not pray for this people, Neither lift up for them cry or prayer, Neither intercede with me,––For I am not going to hear thee.

²¹ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel,––Your ascending–offerings, add ye unto your peace–offerings, and eat ye flesh. ²² For I bade not your fathers, Neither commanded I them, In the day I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,––Concerning the matter of ascending–offering and peace–offering;

²⁹ Cut thou off thy crown of hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, And lift thou up on the bare heights, a dirge,––For Yahweh hath rejected and cast out the generation with which he was wroth.

³³ And the dead bodies of this people shall become food, For the bird of the heavens, and, For the beast of the earth,––And there shall be none, to drive them away.

⁵ Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem apostatized with an enduring apostacy,––Taken fast hold of deceit, Refused to come back?

¹⁰ Therefore, will I give––Their wives to others, Their fields, to such as shall take possession of them, For, from the least, even unto the greatest, Every one, is, wholly given to extortion: From the prophet, even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely. ¹¹ And so they have healed the grievous wound of the daughter of my people, slightly,––Saying, Peace! peace! when there was no, peace! ¹² Were they led to turn pale, because, an abominable thing, they had done? Nay! they did not, at all, turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame! Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when they are punished, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh:

¹⁴ Why, are, we, sitting still? Gather yourselves together, and let us enter the defenced, cities, And let us be silent there,––For, Yahweh our God, hath put us to silence, And made us drink poisoned water, Because we have sinned against Yahweh. ¹⁵ A waiting, For prosperity, but no, welfare,––For a time of healing, but lo! terror.

¹⁸ When I would have cheered myself against sorrow, Against me, mine own heart sickened:–– ¹⁹ Lo! the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people, from a land far away, Is, Yahweh, not, in Zion? Is, her King, not, within her? Why, have they provoked me, with their carved images, with their foreign vanities?

²¹ For the grievous injury of the daughter of my people, I am grievously injured,––I am enshrouded in gloom, Horror, hath seized me:–– ²² Balsam, is there none, in Gilead? Is there no, physician, there? Why hath not appeared the healing of the daughter of my people?

¹ Oh that my head were waters, And mine eyes, a fountain of tears,––That I might weep day and night, For the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁶ And will scatter them among the nations, which neither they nor their fathers, have known,––And will send after them the sword, until I have consumed them.

²² Speak thou, Thus, declareth Yahweh, So shall fall the dead bodies of men, Like dung heaps on the face of the field,––And like swaths after the harvestman, With none to gather.

¹³ At the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth,––The lightnings for rain, he made, And brought forth wind out of his treasuries.

¹⁵ Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries,––In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.

¹⁹ Woe to me! for my grievous injury, Severe, is my wound,––But, I, said, Verily, this, is an affliction, and I must bear it:

¹¹ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! bringing upon them calamity, which they shall not be able to escape,––and, though they make outcry unto me, yet will I not hearken unto them.

¹⁴ Thou, therefore, do not pray for this people, Neither lift thou up for them cry or prayer,––For I am not going to hear, in the time that they cry unto me concerning their calamity.

⁴ How long, shall the land mourn, And, the herbage of the whole field, wither? For the wickedness of them that dwell therein, beast and bird, have perished, For, say they, He will not see our latter end!

⁸ Mine inheritance, hath become to me, as a lion in a jungle,––She hath given forth against me her voice, For this cause, have I hated her.

¹⁷ But, if ye will not hear it, In secret places, shall my soul weep, Because of the pride,––And mine eye, shall flow over, and run down, with tears, Because captive, hath been taken the flock of Yahweh.

²² But, if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore, have these things befallen, me? For the greatness of thine iniquity, have, Thy skirts, been turned aside, Thy heels, suffered violence! ²³ Can, the Ethiopian, change, his skin, Or, the leopard, his spots? Even, ye, may be able to do right, Who are accustomed to do wrong. ²⁴ Therefore have I scattered them, As broken straw passing away, by the wind of the desert. ²⁵ This, is thy lot, Thy measured portion from me, Declareth Yahweh; For that thou didst forget me, And confide in falsehood:

⁴ Because, the ground, is cracked, For there hath been no rain in the land, The plowmen are pale, They have covered their heads.

⁷ Though, our iniquities, have testified against us, O Yahweh, effectually work thou, for the sake of thy Name,––For our apostasies have abounded, Against thee, have we sinned.

¹⁹ Hast thou, utterly rejected, Judah? Zion itself, hath thy soul loathed? Why, hast thou smitten us, so that there is for us no, healing? A waiting For prosperity, but no, welfare, and, For a time of healing, but lo! terror! ²⁰ We acknowledge, O Yahweh, Our own lawlessness, The iniquity of our fathers,––For we have sinned against thee. ²¹ Do not despise––for the sake of thy Name, Do not treat with contempt––the throne of thy glory,––Remember!––do not break thy covenant with us.

¹ Then said Yahweh unto me, Though Moses and Samuel should stand, before me, My soul could not, be toward this people,––Send them away from before me, And let them go forth. ² And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither, shall we go? Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh––Such as are for death, to death, and, Such as are for the sword, to the sword, and, Such as are for famine, to the famine, and, Such as are for captivity, to captivity. ³ And I will set in charge over them––four species, Declareth Yahweh, The sword, to slay, and, The dogs, to trail along,––and, The bird of the heavens, and, The beast of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

¹⁶ Thy words, were found, and I did eat them, Then became thy words unto me, the joy and gladness of my heart,––For, thy Name, hath been called, upon me, O Yahweh, God of hosts!

¹⁸ Wherefore, hath my pain become, perpetual? And my wound, incurable? Refuseth to be healed? Wilt thou, indeed be, to me [As a brook] that disappointeth, Waters that cannot be trusted?

⁴ Of deaths from diseases, shall they die, They shall not be lamented, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they serve,––Yea, by sword and by famine, shall they be consumed, And, their dead bodies, shall become, food––To the bird of the heavens, and, To the beast of the earth.

¹⁹ O Yahweh, my strength, and my refuge, and my place to fly to, in the day of distress,––Unto thee, shall nations come in, out of the ends of the earth, that they may say––Surely! Falsehood, did our fathers inherit, Vanity, among whom is none that can profit:

⁸ For he shall become like a tree planted by waters, And, by a stream, shall he send out his roots, Neither shall he perceive when heat cometh, But his leaf shall continue green: Even, in a year of dearth, shall he not be anxious, Neither shall he cease from bearing fruit.

¹² A throne of glory, exalted from the beginning, hath been the place of our sanctuary. ¹³ Thou hope of Israel, Yahweh, All who forsake thee, shall turn pale,––Yea, all who depart from me, in the ground, shall be written, For they have forsaken a fountain of living water, even Yahweh.

²¹ Therefore, give thou up their sons, to the famine, And deliver them into the hands of the sword, And let their, wives, become, childless and widows, And let, their men, be slain by death, Their young men, be smitten by the sword in battle. ²² Let there be heard a cry out of their houses, When thou shalt bring in upon them a troop, suddenly,––Because they digged a pit to capture me, And, snares, did they hide for my feet.

⁶ Therefore, lo! days coming, Declareth Yahweh, When this place shall be called no longer, The Topheth, or, The Valley of Ben–hinnom,––but––The Valley of Slaughter; ⁷ And I will pour out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem, in this place, And I will cause them to fall by the sword, before their enemies, and by the hand of them who seek their life,––

⁶ And, thou, Pashhur, and all who are dwelling in thy house, shall go into captivity,––Yea, into Babylon, shalt thou enter And, there, shalt thou die, And, there, shalt thou be buried, Thou, and all who love thee, to whom thou hast prophesied, falsely.

¹¹ But, Yahweh, is with me, as a mighty one striking terror, For this cause, shall my persecutors stumble, and not prevail,––They have turned very pale, For they have not prospered, Confusion age–abiding, it shall not be forgotten!

⁷ And, after that, Declareth Yahweh––Will I deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people,––even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine,––into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, even into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them who are seeking their life,––and he will smite them with the edge of the sword, he will not have pity on them, nor will he spare, nor will he have compassion.
⁸ And, unto this people, shalt thou say, Thus, saith Yahweh,––Behold me! setting before you, the way, of life, and the way, of death: ⁹ He that remaineth in this city, shall die––by the sword, or by the famine, or by the pestilence,––Whereas, he that goeth forth and falleth unto the Chaldeans, who are besieging you,––then shall he live, and, his life, shall become to him, a spoil;

¹⁴ But, among the prophets of Jerusalem, have I seen a horrible thing,––Committing adultery, And walking in falsehood, And so strengthening the hands of doers of wickedness, not to return any man from his wickedness: They have, all of them, become, to me, as Sodom, And her inhabitants, as Gomorrah.

¹⁴ But, among the prophets of Jerusalem, have I seen a horrible thing,––Committing adultery, And walking in falsehood, And so strengthening the hands of doers of wickedness, not to return any man from his wickedness: They have, all of them, become, to me, as Sodom, And her inhabitants, as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Concerning the prophets,––Behold me! Feeding them with wormwood, And I will cause them to drink poisoned water,––For, from the prophets of Jerusalem, hath there gone forth profanity unto all the land.

¹⁵ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Concerning the prophets,––Behold me! Feeding them with wormwood, And I will cause them to drink poisoned water,––For, from the prophets of Jerusalem, hath there gone forth profanity unto all the land. ¹⁶ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,––Do not hearken unto the words of the prophets who are prophesying unto you, They, are filling you, with vain, hopes,––The vision of their own hearts, do they speak, Not from the mouth of Yahweh! ¹⁷ They keep on saying to them who despise me, Yahweh, hath spoken, [saying], Prosperity, shall ye have! And, to every one who is going on in the stubbornness of his own heart, have they said, There shall come on you, no calamity;

²¹ I sent not the prophets, yet, they, ran, I spake not unto them, yet, they, prophesied.

²¹ I sent not the prophets, yet, they, ran, I spake not unto them, yet, they, prophesied. ²² But, if they had stood in my council, Then might they have announced my words unto my people, And have turned them from their wicked, way and from the wickedness of their doings. ²³ Am I, a God at hand, Demandeth Yahweh, And not a God afar off? ²⁴ Can any hide, himself in secret places, that, I, shall not see him? Demandeth Yahweh,––The heavens and the earth, do I, not fill? Demandeth Yahweh. ²⁵ I have heard what the prophets, have said, who prophesy in my name falsely, saying,––I have dreamed! I have dreamed! ²⁶ How long, shall it be, in the heart of the prophets, [To be] prophets of falsehood,––And prophets of the deceit of their own heart? ²⁷ Who lay a plot to cause my people, to forget, my name, by their dreams which they relate, every man to his neighbour,––Just as their fathers forgat, my name, for Baal. ²⁸ The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him relate it as, a dream, And, he with whom is my word, Let him speak my word as, truth,––What is the chaff, to the wheat? Demandeth Yahweh: ²⁹ Is not my word, like this, Like fire? Demandeth Yahweh,––And like a hammer, that breaketh in pieces a cliff? ³⁰ Therefore! behold me! against the prophets, Declareth Yahweh,––who steal my words, every man from his neighbour: ³¹ Behold me! against the prophets, Declareth Yahweh, who presume with their tongue and declare, He declareth: ³² Behold me! against such as prophesy the dreams of falsehood, Declareth Yahweh, who have related them, and led astray my people, with their falsehoods and with their recklessness,––whereas, I, had not sent them, nor commanded them, so that they could be of no, profit, to this people, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁰ and I will send among them, sword, famine and pestilence,––until they are consumed from off the soil, which I gave to them, and to their fathers.

⁹ Ye, therefore, do not ye hearken unto your prophets, nor unto your diviners, nor unto your dreams, nor unto your users of hidden arts, nor unto your mutterers of incantations,––in that, they, are speaking unto you saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; ¹⁰ for falsehood, are they, prophesying unto you, that ye may be far removed from off your own soil, and I drive you out, and ye be destroyed.

¹⁴ Do not, then, hearken unto the words of the prophets who are speaking unto you, saying––Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon,––for, falsehood, are they, prophesying unto you. ¹⁵ For I have not sent them, Declareth Yahweh, but they, are prophesying in my name, falsely,––to the end I may drive you out and ye be destroyed, ye, and the prophets who are prophesying unto you.

² Thus, speaketh Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, saying,––I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon: ³ within the space of two years, I, am bringing back into this place, all the vessels of the house of Yahweh,––which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, hath taken away, from this place, and carried into Babylon. ⁴ Jeconiah also, son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who have entered Babylon, am I, bringing back into this place, Declareth Yahweh,––for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. ⁵ Then said Jeremiah the prophet, unto Hananiah the prophet, in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people, who were standing in the house of Yahweh,

¹³ Go and speak unto Hananiah, saying––Thus, saith Yahweh, Yokes of wood, thou hast broken,––But thou shalt make, in their stead, yokes of iron!

¹⁵ Then said Jeremiah the prophet unto Hananiah the prophet,––Hear, I pray thee, Hananiah: Yahweh, hath not sent thee, Thou, therefore, hast caused this people to trust in falsehood!

¹⁵ Then said Jeremiah the prophet unto Hananiah the prophet,––Hear, I pray thee, Hananiah: Yahweh, hath not sent thee, Thou, therefore, hast caused this people to trust in falsehood! ¹⁶ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! driving thee away from off the face of the ground,––This year, art thou, to die, Because, revolt, hast thou spoken against Yahweh. ¹⁷ So Hananiah the prophet, died, the same year, in the seventh month.

⁸ For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Let not your prophets that are in your midst, nor your diviners, beguile, you,––Neither hearken ye unto your dreams, which ye, are dreaming; ⁹ For, falsely, are they, prophesying unto you, in my name,––I have not sent them, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁷ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold me! sending upon them, sword, famine, and pestilence,––So will I make them like the horrid figs, that cannot be eaten for badness; ¹⁸ Therefore will I pursue them, with sword, with famine, and with pestilence,––And will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, A curse and an astonishment and a hissing and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

²⁰ Ye, therefore, hear ye the word of Yahweh, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: ²¹ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in my name, a falsehood, Behold me! delivering them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he will smite them before your eyes:

²¹ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in my name, a falsehood, Behold me! delivering them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he will smite them before your eyes:

³¹ Send thou unto all them of the captivity, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh, Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite,––Because Shemaiah, hath prophesied to you, when, I, had not sent him, And hath caused you to trust in falsehood,

³¹ Send thou unto all them of the captivity, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh, Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite,––Because Shemaiah, hath prophesied to you, when, I, had not sent him, And hath caused you to trust in falsehood, ³² Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh,––Behold me! bringing punishment upon Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and upon his seed, He shall have no man to dwell in the midst of this people, Nor shall he see the good that I am about to do for my people, Declareth Yahweh; Because, revolt, hath he spoken against Yahweh.

¹³ There is none, to plead thy cause, for binding thee up,––Healing bandages, hast thou none: ¹⁴ All thy lovers, have forgotten thee, Thyself, do they not seek,––For, With the wounding of an enemy, have I wounded thee, With the correction of one who is cruel, Because of the abounding of, thine iniquity, [Because] numerous, have been thy sins. ¹⁵ Why, shouldst thou make outcry over thine injury, Incurable, is thy pain? Because of the abounding of thine iniquity, [Because] numerous, have been thy sins, Have I done these things unto thee.

³⁴ Then shall they no longer teach, Every man his neighbour, and, Every man his brother, saying, Know ye Yahweh,––For, they all, shall know, me, From the least of them, Even unto the greatest of them, Declareth Yahweh, For I will forgive their iniquity, And, their sin, will I remember, no more.

¹⁹ Where, then are your prophets, who prophesied unto you, saying,––The king of Babylon, shall not come, against you, nor against this land?

²¹ Was it not, the very incense which ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, was it not, those very things, that Yahweh did remember, and that came up on his heart; ²² so that Yahweh could, no longer forbear, because of the wickedness of your doings, because of the abominations which ye committed,––and your land became, a desolation, and an astonishment, and a contempt, without inhabitant––as at this day? ²³ Because that ye burned incense, and that ye sinned against Yahweh, and hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh, and, in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies, did not walk, for this cause, did this calamity befall, you––as at this day.

⁷ All who found them, devoured them, And, their adversaries, said––We shall not be guilty,––Because they have sinned, Against, Yahweh, the pasturage of righteousness, Yea, the hope of their fathers––Yahweh.

¹⁶ By the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the end of the earth,––Lightnings for the rain, made he, And brought forth wind out of his treasures.

⁶ In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe, in the city,––and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land, ⁷ then was the city, broken up, and, all the men of war, beginning to flee, went forth out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the garden of the king (the Chaldeans being near the city round about), ––and they went the way towards the Waste Plain.

¹⁰ His hand, hath the adversary spread out, over all her precious things,––for she saw that, the nations, entered her sanctuary, as to whom thou didst command they should not enter––in the convocation––unto thee!

¹⁵ My Lord, hath flouted at all my magnates, in my midst, He hath called against me a host, to crush my young men,––A winepress, hath My Lord trodden, to the virgin, the daughter of Judah. ¹⁶ For these things, am, I, weeping, Mine eye, mine eye, is running down with waters, for, far from me, is any who could comfort, could bring back my life,––My sons are amazed, for strong is the foe.

²⁰ See, O Yahweh, that I am in distress, Mine inward parts, are in ferment, My heart is turned within me, for I have obstinately rebelled,––Without, bereaveth the sword, Within, is like death,

⁶ Thus hath he destroyed, like a garden, his pavilion, hath laid waste his place of assembly,––Yahweh, hath caused to be forgotten, in Zion, the appointed assembly and the sabbath, and hath spurned, in the indignation of his anger, the king and the priest. ⁷ My Lord hath rejected his altar, hath abhorred his sanctuary, hath delivered, into the hand of the foe, the walls of her castles,––A voice, have they uttered in the house of Yahweh, as on the day of an appointed assembly.

⁹ Her gates, have sunk in the earth, He hath destroyed and broken in pieces, her bars,––Her king and her princes, are among the nations, There is no instruction, Even her prophets, have found no vision, from Yahweh.

¹³ How shall I solemnly admonish thee? What shall I liken to thee, thou daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare with thee, that I may comfort thee, thou virgin, daughter of Zion? for, great as the sea, is thy grievous injury, Who can heal thee? ¹⁴ Thy prophets, have had visions for thee, false and foolish, and have not unveiled thine iniquity, to turn back thy captivity,––Yea they have had visions for thee, oracles of falsehood, and enticements!

¹⁸ Their heart, hath made outcry, unto My Lord,––O wall of the daughter of Zion––Let tears run down as a torrent day and night, Do not give thyself relief, Let not the weeping of thine eye cease!

²⁰ See, O Yahweh, and do consider, to whom thou hast acted thus severely,––Will women, devour, their own fruit––the children they have dandled? Shall priest and prophet, be slain in the sanctuary of My Lord?

²⁵ Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will seek him; ²⁶ Good it is––both to wait and to be silent, for the deliverance of Yahweh;

⁴⁸ With streams of water, mine eye runneth down, over the grievous injury of the daughter of my people. ⁴⁹ Mine eye, poureth itself out and ceaseth not, without relief;

⁸ Darker than a coal, is their visage, They are not known in the streets––Their skin shrivelleth on their bones, is withered, become like a stick. ⁹ Better are the slain of the sword, than the slain of the famine,––for, these, pine away, stricken through, wanting the produce of the field.

⁹ Better are the slain of the sword, than the slain of the famine,––for, these, pine away, stricken through, wanting the produce of the field.

¹³ [It is] for the sins of her prophets, the iniquities of her priests,––who have been pouring out, in her midst, the blood of the righteous! ¹⁴ They have wandered––blind––in the streets, have defiled themselves with blood; so that men may not touch their garments. ¹⁵ Turn aside! Unclean! have they cried to them, Turn aside! Turn aside! Do not touch! because they have fled, yea, wandered, Men said among the nations, They will not again tarry; ¹⁶ The face of Yahweh, hath scattered them, He will look them out no more: The persons of the priests, they have not respected, To the elders, have they shown no favour. ¹⁷ Silly shall our eyes fail, for our help that is vain: In our watchtower, have we watched––for a nation that will not save.

¹⁰ Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.

¹⁷ For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:

²² For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us––exceedingly!

¹² The third part of thee, by pestilence, shall die, and, by famine, be consumed in thy midst, And, the third part, by the sword, shall fall round about thee,––And, the third part, to every wind, will I scatter, and, a sword, will I make bare after them. ¹³ So shall mine anger, have an end, And, I will cause mine indignation, to find rest, upon them, and will console myself,––And they shall know that, I, Yahweh, have spoken in my jealousy, when mine indignation, hath come to an end, upon them. ¹⁴ And I will deliver thee up to desolation and reproach, among the nations that are round about thee,––in the eyes of every passer–by. ¹⁵ So shall it become a reproach and an insult, a warning and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about thee,––in that I have executed upon thee judgments, in anger and in indignation, and in rebukes of indignation, I, Yahweh, have spoken: ¹⁶ In that I have sent the malignant arrows of famine among them, which were for destruction, which I will send to destroy you,––and, famine, will I increase upon you, and will break for you the staff of bread. ¹⁷ So will I send upon you famine and mischievous beast, and they shall bereave thee,––and, pestilence and blood, shall pass through thee,––and, a sword, will I bring in upon thee, I, Yahweh, have spoken.

¹⁵ The sword, without, and, Pestilence and famine, within,––He that is in the field, by the sword, shall die, and, He that is in the city, famine or pestilence, shall devour him;

²⁰ When, the beauty of his own ornament, he had, in majesty, placed, Then, the images, of their abominations, Their detestable things, Made they therein,––For this cause, have I delivered it up to them for removal; ²¹ Yea I will deliver it, Into the hand of foreigners, for a prey, And to the lawless ones of the earth, for a spoil, And they will profane it; ²² And I will turn away my face from them, And they will profane my cherished place,––Yea there will enter it violent men, Who will profane it.

¹⁸ Therefore, even I, will act with indignation, Mine eye, shall not shield, Neither will I pity,––Though they have cried in mine ears, with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

²⁴ For there shall no more be––Any vision of falsehood, Or divination of deceit, In the midst of the house of Israel.

⁶ They have had, Visions of falsehood, and, Divinations of lies, Who say, Declareth Yahweh, when, Yahweh, hath not sent them,––Yet have they waited for a fulfilling of the word. ⁷ Is it not, a Vision of falsehood, ye have seen, and, a Divination of lies, ye have spoken, Since ye are saying, Declareth Yahweh! when, I, have not spoken?

¹⁰ Because, yea, even because, they have led astray my people, saying, Prosperity! when there was no, prosperity,––and, one man, was building a partition wall, when, there they were! eating it with whitewash. ¹¹ Say thou, unto them who are coating with whitewash, It shall fall,––There hath come an overflowing rain, And I will make hail–stones fall, And, a tempestuous wind, shall break it down. ¹² Lo! when the wall hath fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where, is the coating, wherewith ye coated it? ¹³ Therefore, Thus, saith my Lord, Yahweh, So will I break down with a tempestuous wind, in mine indignation,––And, an overflowing rain in mine anger, shall there be, With hailstones, in wrath, to make an end; ¹⁴ And I will pull down the wall which ye have coated with whitewash, And will bring it unto the ground, So shall be discovered, its foundation, Yea it shall fall, And ye shall come to an end in the midst thereof, So shall ye know, that, I, am Yahweh. ¹⁵ Thus will I bring to an end mine indignation against the wall, and against them who were coating it with whitewash, And will say to you, No more, is the wall, And no more, are they who were coating it: ¹⁶ [to wit] the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying unto Jerusalem, and are seeing, on her behalf, visions of prosperity,––when there is no, prosperity, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

²² Because of the paining of the heart of the righteous man with falsehood, whom, I, have not pained,––And strengthening the hands of the lawless man, that he should not turn from his wicked way, by letting him live. ²³ Therefore––of falsehood, shall ye have no vision, And, a divination, shall ye not divine any more,––So will I deliver my people out of your hand, And ye shall know, that, I, am Yahweh.

¹⁰ So shall they bear their punishment, As, the punishment of him that enquireth, So, shall, the punishment of the prophet, be:

²¹ For, thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, How much less [should they avail] when, my four calamitous judgments, sword, and, famine, and, mischievous wild beast, and, pestilence, I have sent against Jerusalem,––to cut off therefrom, man and beast?

⁹ Howbeit I wrought with effect, for the sake of mine own Name, that it might not be profaned––before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were,––before whose eyes I made myself known unto them, by bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ Howbeit I wrought with effect, for the sake of mine own Name,––that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, in whose eyes I had brought them forth.

²² Howbeit I withdrew my hand, and wrought with effect, for the sake of mine own Name,––that it should not be profaned before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them forth:

²⁹ Since they see for thee, false visions, Since they divine for thee, lies, To stretch thee upon the necks of them who are the most profaned of lawless ones, Whose day, hath come, in a time of final iniquity,

²¹ Say to the house of Israel, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! profaning my sanctuary, The pride of your strength, The delight of your eyes, And the object of the tender regard of your soul,––And, your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind, by the sword, shall fall.

²² Therefore, say thou to the house of Israel, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Not for your sakes, am I, working, O house of Israel, But for my holy, Name, which ye have profaned, among the nations where ye have entered; ²³ Therefore will I hallow my great, Name, that hath been profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in their midst,––So shall the nations know, that, I, am Yahweh, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, When I have hallowed myself in you, before their eyes.

²⁵ Therefore,––Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Now, will I bring back them of the captivity of Jacob, And have compassion upon all the house of Israel,––And will be jealous for my holy, Name;

⁷ Then said he unto me, Son of man, [This is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I would dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, to times age–abiding,––But the house of Israel, must, no more defile, my holy, Name. They, nor their kings, by their unchastity, and by the carcases of their kings, in their high places,

¹¹ even as far as the ruler of the host, shewed he his greatness,––and, because of him, was taken away the continual [ascending–sacrifice], and the place of the sanctuary, was cast down; ¹² and, a host, was set over the continual [ascending–sacrifice], by transgression,––and faithfulness, was cast down, to the ground, and so he acted with effect, and succeeded. ¹³ Then heard I a certain holy one, speaking,––and another holy one said to that certain holy one who was speaking––How long is the vision of the continual [ascending–sacrifice] as taken away, and the transgression which astoundeth, for both sanctuary and host to be given over to be trampled underfoot?

⁵ We have sinned and committed iniquity, and been guilty of lawlessness and been rebellious,––even departing from thy commandments, and from thy regulations;

⁵ We have sinned and committed iniquity, and been guilty of lawlessness and been rebellious,––even departing from thy commandments, and from thy regulations; ⁶ and have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spake in thy name, unto our kings, our rulers, and our fathers,––and unto all the people of the land.

⁶ and have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spake in thy name, unto our kings, our rulers, and our fathers,––and unto all the people of the land. ⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but, to us, the shame of faces, as at this day,––to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, the near and the far off, throughout all the lands whither thou hast driven them, in their treachery, wherewith they had been treacherous against thee.

⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but, to us, the shame of faces, as at this day,––to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, the near and the far off, throughout all the lands whither thou hast driven them, in their treachery, wherewith they had been treacherous against thee.

⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but, to us, the shame of faces, as at this day,––to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, the near and the far off, throughout all the lands whither thou hast driven them, in their treachery, wherewith they had been treacherous against thee. ⁸ O Yahweh, to us, belongeth the shame of faces, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers,––in that we have sinned against thee.

⁸ O Yahweh, to us, belongeth the shame of faces, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers,––in that we have sinned against thee. ⁹ To the Lord our God, belong compassions, and forgivenesses,––for we have rebelled against him; ¹⁰ and have not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh our God,––to walk in his instructions which he set before us, through means of his servants the prophets; ¹¹ yea, all Israel, have transgressed thy law, even going away, so as not to hearken unto thy voice,––therefore, were poured out upon us, the curse and the oath which had been written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we had sinned against him. ¹² Thus hath he confirmed his words which he had spoken against us, and against our judges who had judged us, by bringing in upon us a great calamity,––as to which there had not been done, under all the heavens, as hath been done unto Jerusalem. ¹³ Even as written in the law of Moses, hath, all this calamity, come in upon us,––yet entreated we not the face of Yahweh our God, by turning away from our iniquities, and by getting intelligence in thy truth. ¹⁴ Therefore hath Yahweh, kept watch, for the calamity, and brought it in upon us,––for righteous is Yahweh our God concerning all his deeds which he hath done, seeing that we had not hearkened unto his voice. ¹⁵ Now, therefore, O Lord our God, who didst bring forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a firm hand, and didst make for thyself a name, as at this day,––we have sinned, we have been guilty of lawlessness.

¹⁵ Now, therefore, O Lord our God, who didst bring forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a firm hand, and didst make for thyself a name, as at this day,––we have sinned, we have been guilty of lawlessness. ¹⁶ O Lord! according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thine indignation turn away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain,––for, by reason of our sins, and by reason of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people, have become a reproach, to all who are round about us.

¹⁶ O Lord! according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thine indignation turn away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain,––for, by reason of our sins, and by reason of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people, have become a reproach, to all who are round about us. ¹⁷ Now, therefore, hearken, O our God, unto the prayer of thy servant, and unto his supplications, and let thy face shine, upon thy sanctuary, that is desolate,––for the sake of thy servants, O Lord. ¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hearken, open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city on which hath been called thy name; for, not on the ground of our own righteousnesses, are we causing our supplications to fall down before thee, but on the ground of thine abounding compassions. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hearken and perform! Do not delay! For thine own sake, O my God, because, thine own name, hath been called, upon thy city, and upon thy people.

³ For this cause, shall the land mourn, and everyone who dwelleth therein shall languish, with the wild beast of the field and with the bird of the heavens,––moreover also, the fishes of the sea, shall be withdrawn.

⁵ Therefore will the Excellency of Israel, answer, to his face,––and, Israel and Ephraim, shall stumble in their iniquity, even Judah with them, hath stumbled.

¹⁰ Therefore doth the Excellency of Israel, answer, to his face; yet have they not returned unto Yahweh their God, nor have they sought him, in spite of all this!

¹³ My sacrificial gifts, have they been sacrificing as [common] flesh, and have eaten, Yahweh, hath not accepted them,––Now, will he call to mind their iniquity, that he may punish their sin, they, to Egypt, will return.

⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves, like the days of Gibeah: he will call to mind their iniquity, he will punish their sins.

⁷ But, my people, are bent towards turning from me, though upwards they call them, none of them can lift them.

⁹ I cannot execute the glow of mine anger, I cannot turn to destroy Ephraim,––for, GOD, am, I, and not man, When thou drawest near, [I am] a Holy One, though I do not enter a city.

¹⁰ Laid waste is the field, in grief is the soil,––for laid waste is the corn, abashed is the new wine, languisheth the oil. ¹¹ Turn pale, ye husbandmen, howl, ye vinedressers, over the wheat, and over the barley,––for perished is the harvest of the field.

¹⁷ Rotted hath the seed, under their clods, Laid waste are their stores, Thrown down are the garners,––Yea abashed is the corn. ¹⁸ How do the beasts groan! Perplexed are the herds of oxen, because there is no pasture for them,––even, the flocks of sheep, are destroyed! ¹⁹ Unto thee, O Yahweh, will I cry,––for, a fire, hath consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and, a flame, hath set ablaze all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Even the beasts of the field, moan unto thee,––because dried up are the channels of water, and, a fire, hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

²⁰ Even the beasts of the field, moan unto thee,––because dried up are the channels of water, and, a fire, hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

⁶ Because of him, shall peoples’, be in anguish,––all faces, have withdrawn their colour.

²³ Ye sons of Zion, then, exult and be glad in Yahweh your God, for he hath given you the seed–rain, in right manner,––Yea he hath caused to descend for you a down–pour, of seed–rain and of the harvest–rain in the first month;

¹⁶ And, Yahweh, out of Zion, will roar, and, out of Jerusalem, will utter his voice, and the heavens and the earth, shall tremble,––but, Yahweh, shall be a shelter to his people, and a refuge to the sons of Israel.

⁷ Moreover also, I, have withholden from you the abundant rain, when yet there were only three mouths to the harvest, Or I might rain upon one city, and, on another city, might not rain,––One portion, would be rained upon, and, the portion whereupon it should not rain, would be dried up; ⁸ Then would two or three cities totter to one city to drink water, without being satisfied,––Yet have ye not returned unto me, Declareth Yahweh.

² She hath fallen––she cannot again rise, the virgin, Israel,––she lieth forsaken on her soil, there is none to raise her up.

²² Nay, though ye cause to ascend unto me ascending–sacrifices, and your meal–offerings, I will not accept [them], ––nor, the peace–offering of your fat heifers, will I regard.

⁸ Sworn hath the Lord, Yahweh, by his own life, Declareth Yahweh, God of hosts, abhorring am I, the grandeur of Jacob, and, his palaces, I hate,––therefore will I cast off the city and the fulness thereof.

¹⁷ Therefore––Thus, saith Yahweh, Thy wife, in the city, will commit unchastity, and, thy sons and thy daughters, by the sword, shall fall, and, thine own soil, by line, shall he apportioned,––and, thou, on a polluted soil, shalt die, and, Israel, shall, surely go into exile, away from his own soil.

⁴ Then, shall they make outcry unto Yahweh, but he will not answer them,––that he may hide his face from them, at that time, even as they have made wicked their doings.

¹¹ Her heads, for a bribe, pronounce sentence, and, her priests, for a price, give direction, and, her prophets, for silver, divine,––yet, on Yahweh, they lean, saying, Is not, Yahweh, in our midst? there shall not come upon us, calamity.

¹³ Moreover also, I, have made thee sick with smiting thee,––laying thee waste because of thy sins.

⁷ But, I, for Yahweh, will watch, I will wait for the God of my salvation,––My God, will hear me.

¹⁷ Though, the fig–tree, should not blossom, and there be no sprouting in the vines, the yield of the olive, should have deceived, and, the fields, not have brought forth food,––the flock, have been consumed out of the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls, ¹⁸ Yet, I, in Yahweh, will rejoice,––I will exult in the God of my salvation. ¹⁹ Yahweh, My Lord, is my strength, therefore hath he made my feet like hinds, and, upon my high places, will he cause me to march along. To the chief musician, on my double harp.

⁵ And, I, will become to her, declareth Yahweh, A wall of fire round about,––and, a glory, will I become in her midst.

¹³ Therefore came it to pass that––just as he cried out and they hearkened not, so, used they to cry out, and I used not to hearken, saith Yahweh of hosts;

¹ Ask ye from Yahweh rain, in the time of the latter rain, Yahweh, who causeth flashes of lightning,––and, rain in abundant showers, giveth he unto them, to every man, herbage in the field; ² For, the household gods, have spoken vanity, and, the diviners, have had vision of falsehood, and, deceitful dreams, do they relate, vainly, do they console,––for this reason, have they moved about like a flock, they suffer ill, because there is no shepherd.

² For, the household gods, have spoken vanity, and, the diviners, have had vision of falsehood, and, deceitful dreams, do they relate, vainly, do they console,––for this reason, have they moved about like a flock, they suffer ill, because there is no shepherd.

⁸ And I sent off three shepherds, in one month,––for impatient was my soul with them, moreover also, their soul, felt a loathing against me. ⁹ Then said I––I will not tend you,––the dying, may die, and, the disappearing, may disappear, and, the remainder, may devour one another. ¹⁰ So I took my staff Grace, and cut it in two,––that I might set aside my covenant which I had solemnised with all the peoples. ¹¹ When it was broken, on that day, then did the sheep– merchants who were watching me, know, that, the word of Yahweh, it was.

³ So shall it come about that, when any man shall prophesy again, then will his own father and his own mother, of whom he was born, say unto him,––Thou shalt not live! For falsehood hast thou spoken in the name of Yahweh,––So will his own father and his own mother of whom he was born, pierce him through, when he prophesieth,

⁸ And when ye bring near the blind as a sacrifice, [saying]––No harm! or when ye bring near the lame or the sick [saying]––No harm! Offer it, I pray you, unto thy pasha, Will he accept thee? or lift up thy countenance? saith Yahweh of hosts. ⁹ Now, therefore, pacify, I pray you, the face of GOD, that he may grant us favour,––at your hands, hath this come to pass, Will he lift up the countenances, of any of you? saith Yahweh of hosts. ¹⁰ Who is there, even among you, that will shut the doors, so as not to set light to mine altar, for nothing? I can take no pleasure in you, saith Yahweh of hosts, and, your present, can I not accept at your hand. ¹¹ For, from the rising of the sun, even unto the going in thereof, great is my Name among the nations, and, in every place, incense, is offered to my Name, and a pure present,––for great is my Name among the nations, saith Yahweh of hosts. ¹² But ye are profaning me,–– in that ye say, As for the table of the Lord, polluted it is, and, as for his produce, contemptible is his food. ¹³ And ye have said, Lo! what a weariness! And ye have snuffed at Me, saith Yahweh of hosts, and have brought in the torn and the lame and the sick, thus have ye brought the present,–– Could I accept it at your hand? saith Yahweh.

⁴⁵ That ye may become sons of your Father who is in the heavens: because, his sun, he maketh arise on evil and good, and sendeth rain, on just and unjust.

¹⁴ Let them alone! they are, blind leaders; and, if the, blind, lead the, blind, both, into a ditch, will fall.

⁷² To perform mercy with our fathers, and to be mindful of his holy covenant,––

¹⁸ I will arise, and go unto my father, and will say unto him––Father! I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: ¹⁹ No longer, am I worthy to be called a son of thine,––Make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came unto his own father. ²⁰ Now, while yet he was holding afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and, running, fell upon his neck, and tenderly kissed him. ²¹ And the son said unto him––Father! I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: No longer, am I worthy to be called a son of thine,––[make me as one of thy hired servants.]

²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried away captive into all the nations, and, Jerusalem, shall be trodden down by the nations, until the seasons of the nations shall be fulfilled [and shall be].

¹⁵ and saying––Men! Why, these things, are ye doing? We also, of like nature with you, are men, bringing you the good news, that from these vain things, ye should be turning unto a living God:––Who made heaven and the earth and the sea and all things therein; ¹⁶ Who in the bygone generations suffered all the nations to be going on in their own ways,–– ¹⁷ Although, not without witness, he left himself, doing good, from heaven, upon you, giving rain and fruitful seasons, filling, with food and gladness, your hearts.

²⁰ For this cause, therefore, have I called for you, to see and to speak with you; for, on account of the hope of Israel, this chain, have I about me!

¹ I say, then––Hath God cast off his people? Far be it! For, I also, am an Israelite,––of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: ² God hath not cast off his people, whom he fore approved. Or know ye not, in [the account of] Elijah what the scripture saith, when he intercedeth with God against Israel? ³ Lord! Thy prophets, have they slain, thine altars, have they overthrown, and, I, am left alone, and they are seeking my life! ⁴ But what saith unto him the response? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who, indeed, have not bowed a knee unto Baal. ⁵ Thus, then, in the present season also, a remnant, by way of an election of favour, hath come into being. ⁶ If, however, by favour, no longer of works; else, favour, no longer proveth to be favour!

⁴ Who encourageth us in all our tribulation, to the end we may be able to encourage them who are in any tribulation––through means of the encouragement wherewith we, ourselves, are encouraged by God. ⁵ Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ overflow unto us, so, through the Christ, overfloweth, our encouragement also.

¹⁶ And what agreement hath a shrine of God with idols? For, we, are [the] shrine of a God, that liveth:––even as God hath said––will dwell in them, and walk, and will be their God, and, they, shall be my people.

⁶ Unto the praise of the glory of his favour wherewith he favoured us in the Beloved One,––

¹² That we should be for the praise of his glory––we who had hoped beforehand in the Christ,––

⁷ That he might point out, in the oncoming ages, the surpassing riches of his favour in graciousness upon us, in Christ Jesus;

³ As soon as they begin to say––Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction,––just as the birth–throe unto her that is with child,––and in nowise shall they escape.

⁹ Whose, presence, [shall be] according to an inworking of Satan, with all manner of mighty work and signs and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ And with all manner of deceit of unrighteousness, in them who are destroying themselves, because, the love of the truth, they did not welcome, that they might be saved; –– ¹¹ And, for this cause, God sendeth them an inworking of error, to the end they should believe in the falsehood,––

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus––by injunction of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope,––

² in hypocrisy, speaking falsehood, [of demons] cauterised in their own conscience,––

⁶ But, now, hath he attained unto, a more distinguished public ministry,––by as much as of a better covenant also he is, mediator, which indeed, upon better promises, hath been legislated. ⁷ For, if, that first, had been, faultless, not, in that case, for a second, had there been sought, a place. ⁸ For, finding fault with them, he saith––Lo! days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude, for the house of Israel and the house of Judah, a covenant of a new sort: ⁹ Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by their hand, to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt,––because, they, abode not in my covenant, and, I, disregarded them, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ Because, this, is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord:––giving my laws into their understanding, upon their hearts also, will I inscribe them: and I will become their God, and, they, shall become my people; ¹¹ And in nowise shall they teach––every one his fellow–citizen, and every one his brother, saying,––Get to know the Lord! Because, all, shall know me, from the least unto the greatest of them; ¹² Because, propitious, will I be as to their unrighteousnesses, and, of their sins, in nowise will I be mindful, any more.

¹² Because, propitious, will I be as to their unrighteousnesses, and, of their sins, in nowise will I be mindful, any more. ¹³ In saying, Of a new sort, he hath made obsolete, the first; but, the thing that is becoming obsolete and aged, is near, disappearing!

⁵ Without fondness for money, be your way of life,––being content with the present things,––for, he, hath said: In nowise, thee, will I leave, no indeed! in nowise, thee, will I forsake:

¹ But there arose false–prophets also among the people, as, among you also, there shall be, false–teachers,––men who will stealthily bring in destructive parties, even the Master that bought them, denying, bringing upon themselves speedy destruction;

¹ But there arose false–prophets also among the people, as, among you also, there shall be, false–teachers,––men who will stealthily bring in destructive parties, even the Master that bought them, denying, bringing upon themselves speedy destruction; ² And, many, will follow out their wanton ways,––by reason of whom, the way of truth, will be defamed,
³ And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.

³ And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.

¹⁴ Having, eyes, full of an adulteress, and that cannot rest from sin, enticing unstable souls, having, a heart trained in greed,––children of a curse,–– ¹⁵ Forsaking a straight path, they have gone astray, following out the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved, a reward of wrong, ¹⁶ But had, a reproof, of his own transgression, a dumb beast of burden, in man’s voice, finding utterance, forbade the prophet’s madness. ¹⁷ These, are fountains without water, and mists, by a tempest, driven along,––for whom, the gloom of darkness, hath been reserved;

⁷ Whereas, if, in the light, we are walking, as, he, is in the light, we have, fellowship one with another, and, the blood of Jesus his Son, is cleansing us from all sin.
⁸ If we say––Sin, have we none! we are deceiving, ourselves, and, the truth, is not in us. ⁹ If we are confessing our sins, faithful, is he and, righteous––that he should forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

² and, the court that is outside the Sanctuary, cast thou outside, and do not measure, it, because it hath been given unto the nations, and, the holy city, shall they tread under foot, forty and two months.

¹ And I heard aloud voice, out of the sanctuary, saying unto the seven messengers––Go, and be pouring out the seven bowls of the wrath of God unto the earth.

²⁰ And the wild–beast, was taken, and, with him, the false prophet who wrought the signs before him, whereby he deceived them who received the mark of the wild–beast and them who were doing homage unto his image,––alive, were they two cast into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone.

³ And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, saying––Lo! the tent of God, is with men, and he will tabernacle with them, and, they, shall be, his peoples, and, he, shall be, God with them;