Jeremiah 4 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ If thou wilt return, O Israel, Declareth Yahweh, Unto me, mayst thou return,––And, if thou wilt remove thine abominations from before me, Then shalt thou not become a wanderer. ² If thou wilt swear, By the life of Yahweh! in faithfulness, in justice, and in righteousness, Then shall the nations bless themselves in him, And, in him, shall they glory.
³ For, thus, saith Yahweh, Unto the men of Judah and unto Jerusalem, Till ye the untilled ground,––And do not sow among thorns. ⁴ Circumcise yourselves unto Yahweh, So shall ye remove the impurity of your heart, ye men of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem,––Lest mine indignation, go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, Because of the wickedness of your doings.
⁵ Declare ye in Judah, And, in Jerusalem, let it be heard, And say, Blow ye a horn in the land,––Cry, with frill voice, And say, Gather yourselves together, And let us enter the defenced, cities. ⁶ Lift up an ensign––Zion–ward, Bring into safety, do not tarry,––For, calamity, am, I, bringing in from the North, Even, a great destruction: ⁷ There hath come up a lion, out of his thicket, Yea, a destroyer of nations––hath set forward, hath come forth out of his place,––To make thy land, a desolation, Thy cities, shall fall in ruins, so as to have no, inhabitant. ⁸ On this account, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl,––Because the glow of the anger of Yahweh, hath not turned, from us. ⁹ And it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth Yahweh, That the courage of the king, shall fail, And the courage of the princes,––And the priests, shall be astonished, And, the prophets, shall be amazed. 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. ¹¹ At that time, shall it be said of this people and of Jerusalem,––The sharp wind of the bare heights in the desert, cometh towards the daughter of my people,––not to winnow, nor to cleanse. ¹² A wind too strong for these, cometh in for me. Now, will, I also, pronounce sentences upon them: ¹³ Lo! like clouds, shall he come up, Even, as a storm–wind, his chariots, Swifter than eagles, his horses,––Woe to us, for we are laid waste! ¹⁴ Wash, from wickedness, thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved,––How long, shall lodge within thee thy wicked, devices? ¹⁵ For, a voice, declareth from, Dan,––And publisheth trouble, from the hill country of Ephraim. ¹⁶ Put ye in mind the nations, Lo! publish ye against Jerusalem, Blockaders, are coming in from a land afar off,––And have uttered, against the cities of Judah, their voice: ¹⁷ As the keepers of a field, have they come against her, round about,––For, against me, hath she rebelled, Declareth Yahweh. 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.
¹⁹ My bowels! My bowels! I am pained in the walls of my heart, My heart beateth aloud to me, I cannot be still! For, the sound of a horn, hast thou heard, O my soul, The loud shout of war! ²⁰ Breach upon breach, they cry, For, ruined, is all the land,––Suddenly, are ruined my tents, In a moment, my curtains! ²¹ How long, shall I, keep on seeing a standard,––continue to hear the sound of a horn? ²² Surely, perverse, is my people, Me, have they not known, Foolish sons, they are, Yea, without understanding, they are, Wise, they are, to commit wickedness, But, how to do well, they know not! ²³ I beheld, The earth, and lo! it was waste and wild,––The heavens also, and their light was, not: ²⁴ I beheld, The mountains, and lo! they were trembling,––And, all the hills, had been violently moved: ²⁵ I beheld, And lo! there was no, human being,––Yea, all the birds of the heavens! had fled: ²⁶ I beheld, And lo! the garden–land, was a desert,––And, all its cities, had been broken down, Because of Yahweh, Because of the glow of his anger! ²⁷ For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become–Nevertheless, a full end, will I not make. 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. ²⁹ At the noise of horseman and archer, The whole city, is in flight, They have entered dark thickets, Yea, unto the crags, have they gone up,––Every city, is forsaken, There remaineth not in them, a man! ³⁰ And, when, thou, art laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with crimson, Though thou deck thyself with ornaments of gold, Though thou enlarge with antimony thine eyes, In vain, shalt thou make thyself fair,––Paramours, have rejected thee, Thy life, will they seek! ³¹ For, a voice as of a woman in pangs, have I heard, Anguish as of her that is bearing her firstborn. The voice of the daughter of Zion! She gaspeth for breath, She spreadeth forth her palms,––Surely woe to me! For my soul fainteth before murderers.

² Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and, darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep,––but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters.

¹⁸ Thorn also and thistle, shall it shoot forth to thee,––when thou hast come to eat of the herb of the field:

¹⁸ So shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves in thy seed,––Because thou didst hearken unto my voice.

⁴⁶ So then Rebekah said unto Isaac, I am disgusted with my life, because of the daughters of Heth,––Should Jacob be taking a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these, of the daughters of the land, wherefore could I wish for life?

² And Jacob said unto his house, and unto all who were with him,––Put away the gods of the alien which are in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;

⁶ Into their circle, do not thou enter, my soul! In their convocation, do not thou join, mine honour! For, in their anger, they slew brave men, And, in their wantonness, they hamstrung oxen.

¹⁴ for, this time, am, I, sending all my plagues unto thy heart, and amongst thy servants, and amongst thy people,––to the intent thou mayest get to know, that there is none like me, in all the earth.

⁵ Then said Yahweh unto Moses––Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye, are a stiff–necked people, in one moment––if I should go up in thy midst, should I make an end of thee,––Now, therefore, lay down thine ornaments from off thee, that I may see what I must do with thee.

¹⁸ And, if even with these things, ye will not hearken unto me, Then will I yet further correct you, seven times, for your sins.

²¹ If, therefore, ye will go in opposition to me, And not be willing to hearken unto me, Then will I yet further plague you seven times, according to your sins;

²⁴ Then will, I also, go in opposition, to you. And I, even I, will plague you seven times, for your sins;

²⁸ Then will I go in a rage of opposition to you,––And I, even I, will correct you seven times, for your sins;

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.

⁹ And, when ye go into war in your land, against the assailant that assaileth you, then shall ye blow an alarm with the trumpets,––and bring yourselves to mind before Yahweh your God, and be saved, from your enemies.

²¹ Separate yourselves out of the midst of this assembly,––that I may consume them in a moment.

⁴⁵ Lift yourselves up out of the midst of this assembly, that I may consume them, as in a moment,––And they fell upon their faces.

¹⁹ GOD is, not a man, that he should lie, Nor, a son of Adam, that he should repent,––Hath, he, said, and will not perform? Yea spoken, and will not make it stand fast?

⁴ And Yahweh said unto Moses––Take all the heads of the people, and crucify them unto Yahweh, in the face of the sun,––that the heat of the anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.

¹⁶ Therefore must ye circumcise the foreskin of your hearts,––and, your necks, must ye stiffen no more.

²⁰ Yahweh thy God, shalt thou revere, Him, shalt thou serve,––And, unto him, shalt thou cleave, And, in his name, shalt thou swear.

¹⁵ Cursed, be the man that maketh an image––cut or molten––an abomination unto Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall respond and say––Amen.

⁴⁹ Yahweh will bring against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as darteth a bird of prey,––a nation whose tongue thou canst not understand;

⁴⁹ Yahweh will bring against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as darteth a bird of prey,––a nation whose tongue thou canst not understand; ⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance,––who wilt not respect an elder, nor to the young, show favour; ⁵¹ then shall he eat the young of thy cattle and the fruit of thy ground, until thou art destroyed, who will not leave for thee corn, new wine or oil, the young of thy kine, or the ewes of thy flock,––until he hath caused thee to perish. ⁵² And he shall lay siege to thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou wast trusting, in all thy land,––yea he will lay siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which, Yahweh thy God, hath given, unto thee.

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: ²⁴ yea all the nations will say, For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land? what meaneth this great heat of anger? ²⁵ Then will men say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers,––which he solemnised with them, when he brought them forth, out of the land of Egypt; ²⁶ and went and served other gods, and bowed down to them,––gods which they had not known, and in which he had given them no share: ²⁷ therefore did the anger of Yahweh kindle upon that land,––to bring in upon it all the curse that is written in this scroll; ²⁸ and therefore hath Yahweh, rooted them out, from off their own soil, in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation,––and cast them into another land, as at this day.

⁶ And Yahweh thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed,––to love Yahweh thy God, with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

⁶ Is it, Yahweh, ye thus requite, O impious people and unwise? Is not, he, thy father who begat thee? He, that made thee, and established thee?

²² For, a fire, is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn as far as hades beneath,––And consume the earth with her produce, And set ablaze the foundations of the mountains:

²⁸ For, a nation of vanished sagacity, they are,––And there is in them no understanding.

²⁰ And it came to pass, when Joshua and the sons of Israel had made an end of smiting them with a very great slaughter, until they were spent, then did, the remainder that were left of them, enter into the fortified cities.

¹⁵ And Joshua said unto them: If, a numerous people, thou art, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there, in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim,––seeing that, too narrow for thee, is the hill country of Ephraim.

⁷ So then they set apart Kadesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath–arba, the same, is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.

¹⁴ Now, therefore, revere ye Yahweh, and serve him, in sincerity and in truth,––and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Yahweh.

⁴ O Yahweh! When thou didst come forth out of Seir, When thou didst march along out of the field of Edom, Earth, trembled, Heaven also, poured forth,––Yea, dark clouds, poured forth waters; ⁵ From, mountains, came down streams In presence of Yahweh,––From this Sinai, In presence of Yahweh, God of Israel.

²¹ The torrent of Kishon, swept them away, the torrent of olden times, the torrent of Kishon! Let my soul march along, with victorious strength!

¹⁶ And they put away the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and served Yahweh,––and his soul was impatient of the misery of Israel.

²⁹ and called the name of the city, Dan, by the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel,––howbeit, Laish, was the name of the city, at the first.

¹ Then went forth all the sons of Israel, and the assembly came together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba with the land of Gilead,––unto Yahweh at Mizpah.

³ And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If, with all your heart, ye are returning unto Yahweh, then put away the gods of the foreigner out of your midst, and the Ashtoreths––and firmly set your heart towards Yahweh, and serve him, alone, that he may deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

⁶ So, the men of Israel, saw they were in a strait, for the people had been harassed,––and the people had hidden themselves in caves, and in thickets, and among cliffs, and in holes, and in pits.

²⁹ Moreover also, the Eminence of Israel, will not lie, neither will he repent,––For no, iron of earth, is, he, to repent!

³⁷ And it came to pass, in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, and his wife told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. ³⁸ And it came to pass, in about ten days, that Yahweh smote Nabal, that he died.

³ But, Amnon, had a friend, whose name, was Jonadab, son of Shimeah, David’s brother,––and, Jonadab, was a very cunning man.

²¹ And Ahithophel said unto Absolom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, whom he hath left to keep the house,––so shall all Israel hear that thou hast made thyself odious unto thy father, and the hands of all that are with thee, shall be strengthened. ²² And they stretched out for Absolom a tent, upon the house–top,––and Absolom went in unto his father’s concubines, in the sight of all Israel. ²³ Now, the counsel of Ahithophel which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God,––so, was all the counsel of Ahithophel, both to David, and also to Absolom.

⁶ Then said Solomon––Thou, didst deal, with thy servant David my father, in great lovingkindness, according as he walked before thee, in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart, with thee,––and thou hast kept, for him, this great lovingkindness, that thou hast given unto him a son, to sit upon his throne, as it is this day.

¹¹ And he said––Go forth tomorrow, and stand in the mountain, before Yahweh. And lo! Yahweh, passing by, and a great and strong wind––rending the mountains, and breaking in pieces the crags, before Yahweh, Not, in the wind, was, Yahweh,––And, after the wind, an, earthquake, Not, in the earthquake, was, Yahweh;

²⁰ And Yahweh said, Who will persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall, at Ramoth–gilead? And, one, said in this manner, and, another, said in that manner. ²¹ Then came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said––I, will persuade him. ²² And Yahweh said unto him––Wherewith? And he said––I will go forth, and become a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets,––So he said,––Thou mayest persuade, yea and prevail, go forth, and do so. ²³ Now, therefore, lo! Yahweh hath suffered a spirit of falsehood to be put into the mouth of all these thy prophets. But, Yahweh himself, hath spoken concerning thee, calamity.

³⁰ Now, when Jehu entered Jezreel and, Jezebel, heard of it, she set her eyes in stibium, and ornamented her head, and looked forth through the lattice.

¹³ and, the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of destruction, which Solomon king of Israel had built unto Ashtoreth––the abomination of the Zidonians, and unto Chemosh––the abomination of the Moabites, and unto Milcom––the disgusting thing of the sons of Ammon, did the king defile;

²⁴ Moreover also, them who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the household gods, and the manufactured gods, and the abominations which were to be seen in the land of Judah, and in Jerusalem, did Josiah consume,––that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of Yahweh.

¹ In his days, came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,––and Jehoiakim became his servant three years, then turned he and rebelled against him.

¹ And it came to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came––he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it,––and they built against it a siege wall, round about.

¹ And it came to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came––he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it,––and they built against it a siege wall, round about. ² And the city came into the siege,––until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ³ 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, ⁴ then was the city broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which is by the garden of the king, the Chaldeans being near the city round about,––and he went the way of the Waste Plain;

⁴ then was the city broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which is by the garden of the king, the Chaldeans being near the city round about,––and he went the way of the Waste Plain;

⁴ then was the city broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which is by the garden of the king, the Chaldeans being near the city round about,––and he went the way of the Waste Plain; ⁵ and the force of the Chaldeans, pursued, the king, and overtook him in the Waste Plains of Jericho,––and, all his force, was scattered from him. ⁶ So they seized the king, and brought him up unto the king of Babylon, at Riblah,––and they pronounced upon him sentence of judgment. ⁷ And, the sons of Zedekiah, they slew before his eyes,––and, the eyes of Zedekiah, put they out, and then bound him with fetters of bronze, and brought him into Babylon.

⁸ And, when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he strengthened himself, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had captured out of the hill country of Ephraim,––and renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.

⁸ So will I not again remove the foot of Israel away from the soil which I appointed for their fathers. Only they must observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the regulations, by the hand of Moses.

¹¹ So Yahweh brought in upon them, the captains of the army that belonged to the king of Assyria, and they captured Manasseh with hooks,––and bound him captive with a pair of bronze fetters, and took him away to Babylon.

²⁵ And Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women in their dirges have spoken concerning Josiah, until this day, and they appointed them by statute for Israel,––and, there they are, written among the dirges.

³ And the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem,––and condemned the land, in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

⁶ Against him, came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,––and bound him in fetters of bronze, to carry him to Babylon. ⁷ And, some of the utensils of the house of Yahweh, did Nebuchadnezzar carry to Babylon,––and put them in his own temple in Babylon.

¹⁰ and, when the year came round, King Nebuchadnezzar sent, and carried him to Babylon, with the precious utensils of the house of Yahweh,––and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁷ So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword, in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, elder or ancient,–all, delivered he into his hand.

²¹ to fulfill the word of God, by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had paid off her sabbaths,––all the days of her lying desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

²⁶ But they murmured and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and, thy prophets, they slew, who testified against them that they might turn them back unto thee,––and they wrought great insults.

³⁰ And thou didst suffer many years to pass over them, and didst testify against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets, yet did they not give ear,––therefore didst thou deliver them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

¹ My soul doth loathe my life,––I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.

⁵ That, the joy–shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment? ⁶ Though his elevation mount up to the heavens, and, his head, to the clouds, doth reach, ⁷ Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he? ⁸ Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him:
¹⁰ His children, shall seek the favour of the poor, and, his own hand, shall give back his wealth. ¹¹ His bones, are full of youthful vigour, yet, with him––in the dust, shall it lie down. ¹² Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue; ¹³ Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but retain it in the midst of his mouth, ¹⁴ His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him! ¹⁵ Wealth, hath he swallowed, and hath vomited the same, Out of his belly, shall, GOD, drive it forth: ¹⁶ The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him;

¹ [To the Chief Musician. David’s.]
The impious hath said in his heart––There is no God! They have acted corruptly, they have done an abominable deed, there is none that doeth good. ² Yahweh, out of the heavens, looked down over the sons of men,––to see whether there was one that showed wisdom, enquiring after God:–– ³ The whole, have turned aside, Together have they become tainted,––There is none that doeth good, not so much as, one!
⁴ Are all the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? devouring my people [as] they devour food! Upon Yahweh, have they not called.

² Thou hast said unto Yahweh, My Lord, art thou! My goodness, mounteth not unto thee.

⁷ Then did the earth shake and quake, Even, the foundations of the mountains, were deeply moved, Yea they did shake, because he was angry.

⁵ Why shouldst thou be cast down, O my soul? And [why] shouldst thou moan over me? Wait thou for God, for yet shall I praise him, As the triumph of my presence.
⁶ My God! over myself, my soul is cast down,––For this cause, will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar. ⁷ Roaring deep unto roaring deep, is calling, at the voice of thy cataracts, All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, have passed.

¹⁸ If, iniquity, I had cared for in my heart, My Lord, had not heard me!

¹⁷ May his Name be age–abiding, In the presence of the sun, let his Name flourish,––And may all the families of the ground bless themselves in him, All nations, pronounce him happy!

¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious Name, unto times ago–abiding,––And filled with his glory be all the earth, Amen and Amen!

⁷ As for thee, to be feared thou art! Who then shall stand before thee, because of the power of thine anger?

¹⁸ The, voice of thy thunder, was in the whirlwind, Thy lightnings illumined the world, The earth, trembled and quaked;

⁴⁹ He sent among them the heat of his anger, Wrath and indignation and distress,––A mission of messengers of misfortune:

⁴ His lightnings, have illumined, the world, The earth, hath seen, and hath trembled;

⁴ Yea, with the strength of a king––justice, he loveth,––Thou, hast established equity, Justice and righteousness in Jacob, thou, hast wrought.

⁴ Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food.

¹ Bless, O my soul, Yahweh,––And all that is within me, his holy Name;

¹⁷ The perverse, by reason of their transgression, and on account of their iniquities, are afflicted;

³⁴ A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

⁴ The mountains, started like rams, The hills like the young of the flock? ⁵ What aileth thee, O sea, that thou fleest? O Jordan, that thou turnest back? ⁶ Ye mountains, that ye start like rams? Ye hills, like the young of the flock? ⁷ Before the Lord, be in anguish, O earth, Before the GOD of Jacob:

⁷ Return, O my soul, to thy rest, For, Yahweh, hath dealt bountifully with thee.

⁵³ A raging heat, hath seized me, by reason of the lawless, who forsake thy law.

¹¹³ [SAMECH.] Half–hearted ones, do I hate, but, thy law, do I love.

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

⁵ Woe is me, That I sojourn in Meshek,––That I abide near the tents of Kedar!

¹ Praise ye Yah, Praise, O my soul, Yahweh.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and, scoffers, in scoffing, delight them? and, dullards, hate knowledge?

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

²² His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

³ An ox, knoweth, his owner, And an ass, his masters crib,––Israel, doth not know, My people, doth not consider.

⁷ Your country––is a desolation, Your cities––are consumed with fire,––Your soil––right before your eyes, foreigners are devouring it, And it is a desolation, a very overthrow by foreigners; ⁸ And left, is the Daughter of Zion, Like a hut in a vineyard,––Like a lodge in a gourd–plot, Like a city besieged.

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.
¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean, Put away the wickedness of your doings from before mine eyes,––Cease to do evil. ¹⁷ Learn to do well––Seek justice, Correct the oppressor,––Vindicate the fatherless, Plead the cause of the widow. ¹⁸ Come, I pray you, and let us settle the dispute, Saith Yahweh,––Though your sins be found like scarlet, As snow, shall they be made white, Though they appear red like crimson, As wool, shall they become. ¹⁹ If ye be willing––and hearken, Of the good of the land, shall ye eat; ²⁰ But, if ye refuse and rebel, With the sword, shall ye be devoured, For, the mouth of Yahweh, hath spoken it.
²¹ How, hath she become unchaste!––The city that was Faithful,––Full of justice, Righteousness lodged in her, But, now, murderers! ²² Thy silver, hath become dross,––Thy wine, weakened with water; ²³ Thy rulers, are unruly, and companions of thieves, Every one of the people, loveth a bribe, and runneth after rewards,––The fatherless, they do not vindicate, And, the plea of the widow, reacheth them not.

¹⁹ And they shall enter, into the holes of the rocks, and, into the caves of clay,––Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic, splendour, When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. ²⁰ In that day, shall the son of earth cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,––which had been made for him to worship, into the hole of the mice, and to the bats; ²¹ That he may enter, into the clefts of the rocks, and, into the fissures of the crags,––Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic, splendour, When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

⁹ In mine ears, [said] Yahweh of hosts,––Verily, houses in abundance, shall become, a desolation, Large and fair, without inhabitant;

⁹ In mine ears, [said] Yahweh of hosts,––Verily, houses in abundance, shall become, a desolation, Large and fair, without inhabitant; ¹⁰ For, ten yokes of vineyard, shall yield, one bath,––And, the seed of a homer, shall yield an ephah.

²⁵ For this cause, did the anger of Yahweh kindle, upon, his own people, And he stretched out his hand against them and smote them––So that the mountains, trembled, And, their dead bodies, served, for fuel, in the midst of the streets. For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But, still, is his hand outstretched,

²⁸ Whose arrows, are sharpened, and, all his bows, bent,––The hoofs of his horses, like flint, are accounted, And, his wheels, [are] like a storm–wind:

³⁰ Yea he will growl at him, in that day, like the growling of the sea,––Though he look hard for the land, lo! the darkness of distress, Yea, the light, hath grown dark in its clouds!

⁵ Then said I––Woe to me!––for I am undone, Because, a man of unclean lips, am, I, And, in the midst of a people of unclean lips, do, I, dwell,––For, the King, Yahweh of hosts, have mine eyes seen!

⁹ Then said he––Go and say unto this people,––Hear on, but do not discern, See on, but do not perceive: ¹⁰ Stupefy thou the heart of this people, And, their ears, make thou heavy, And, their eyes, overspread,––Lest they see with their eyes, And, with their ears, should hear, And, their heart, should discern and come back. And they be healed. ¹¹ Then said I––How long, My Lord? And he said––Until the time that, Cities be wasted, through, having no inhabitant, And houses––through having no men, And, the ground, be laid waste unto desolation;

¹¹ Then said I––How long, My Lord? And he said––Until the time that, Cities be wasted, through, having no inhabitant, And houses––through having no men, And, the ground, be laid waste unto desolation; ¹² And Yahweh have far removed, men,––And great, be the abandonment in the midst of the land.

²⁰ In that day, will My Lord shave, with a hired, razor, even with them of the lands over the River[=Euphrates], with the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet,––yea, even the beard, will it sweep off. ²¹ And it shall come to pass, in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep. ²² Yea it shall come to pass, for the abundance of the yield of milk, that he shall eat curds,––for, curds and honey, shall every one eat, that is left in the midst of the land. ²³ And it shall some to pass, in that day, that, every place wherein there used to be a thousand vines at a thousand pieces of silver,––yea, even for briars and thorns, shall it be. ²⁴ With arrows and with a bow, shall one come in thither,––for, briars and thorns, shall be all the land. ²⁵ But, all the hills which, with the hoe, can be weeded,––there shall not come thither, the fear of briars and thorns,––but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the tread of lesser cattle.

¹² Syrians before, and Philistines behind, Thus have they devoured Israel with open mouth,––For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But, still, is his hand outstretched.

¹⁷ For this cause, over their choice young men, will My Lord not rejoice, And, on their fatherless and their widows, will he not have compassion, For, every one of them, is profane and an evildoer, And, every mouth, is speaking baseness,––For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But, still, is his hand outstretched.

²¹ Manasseh––Ephraim, and Ephraim––Manasseh, They together––against Judah,––For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But, still, is his hand outstretched.

³ What, then, will ye do for the day of visitation, And for the devastation which, from afar, shall come? Unto whom, will ye flee for help? And where, will ye leave your gory? ⁴ Without me, one hath bowed under a prisoner Yea, under the slain, do they fall! For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But, still, is his hand outstretched.

⁵ They are coming in, From a land far away, From the utmost bound of the heavens,––Yahweh––with his weapons of indignation, To destroy the land.
⁶ Howl ye! for at hand, is the day of Yahweh,––As a veritable destruction from the Almighty, shall it come.

⁸ And they shall be in distress––Writhings and pains, shall lay hold, As a woman in childbirth, shall they be in pangs,––Every one, at his neighbour, shall look in amazement, Faces of flames, their faces!

¹⁰ For, the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, shall not flash forth their light,––Obscured, shall be, the sun, in his, going forth, And, the moon, shall not shed her light.

²⁴ Yahweh of hosts, hath sworn, saying,––Surely, as I intended, so, hath it come to pass, And, as I purposed, the same, shall stand:–– ²⁵ That I will break in pieces the Assyrian, in my land, Yea, upon my mountains, will I tread him underfoot,––So shall be removed from off them, his yoke, And, his burden, from off their shoulder, shall be removed. ²⁶ This, is the purpose that is purposed upon all the earth,––And, this, the hand outstretched over all the nations; ²⁷ For, Yahweh of hosts, hath purposed,––And who, shall frustrate? And, his, is the hand outstretched, And who, shall turn it back?

² He hath gone up to Bayith and Dibon, to the high places, to weep,––On Nebo and on Medeba, Moab is howling, On all their heads, a baldness, Every beard, clipped. ³ In their streets, have they girded them with sackcloth,––On their housetops, and in their broadways, every one is howling––melting in tears;

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;

¹¹ For this cause, mine inward parts––for Moab, like a lyre, shall make a plaintive sound,––Yea, what is within me, for Kir–heres.

¹ The oracle on Egypt: Lo! Yahweh, riding upon a swift cloud, and he will enter Egypt, And the idols of Egypt, shall shake, at his presence, And, the heart of Egypt, shall melt within him;

³ And the spirit of Egypt, shall vanish, within them, Yea, the sagacity thereof, will I swallow up,––And they will seek, Unto the idols, and, Unto them that mutter, and, Unto them that have familiar spirits, and, Unto the wizards;

¹¹ Surely, foolish, are the princes of Zoan, the wisest counselors of Pharaoh, in counsel, are brutish,––How can ye say unto Pharaoh, Son of the wise, am I, Son of the kings of olden time? ¹² Where then are, thy wise men? Pray let them tell thee! And let them know what Yahweh of hosts, hath purposed, on Egypt!

¹⁶ In that day, shall Egypt be like unto women,––And shall start and tremble because of the brandishing of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which he, is about to brandish over it.

⁶ And the inhabitant of this shore, shall exclaim, in that day, Lo! such, is our expectation, whereunto we fled for help, that we might be delivered from the presence of the king of Assyria! How then shall, we, escape?

³ For this cause, are my loins filled, with anguish, Pangs, have seized me, as the pangs of her that is giving birth,––I writhe, so that I cannot hear, I tremble, so that I cannot see:

³ For this cause, are my loins filled, with anguish, Pangs, have seized me, as the pangs of her that is giving birth,––I writhe, so that I cannot hear, I tremble, so that I cannot see: ⁴ My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me,––My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling.

³ All thy ruler, having fled, together, by the bow, are taken captive: All found in thee have been taken captive, together, Far away, have they fled. ⁴ For this cause, I said––Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep,––Do not press to comfort me, For the ruin of the daughter of my people.

⁴ For this cause, I said––Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep,––Do not press to comfort me, For the ruin of the daughter of my people. ⁵ For, a day of confusion and downtreading and perplexity, pertaineth to My Lord Yahweh of hosts, in the valley of vision, an undermining of walls, and a crying for help to the mountain.

¹² And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called, in that day,––for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare, and for girding with sackcloth,

¹ Lo! Yahweh emptying the earth, and laying it waste,––And he will overturn the face thereof, And scatter them who dwell therein.

³ Emptied––emptied––shall be the earth, yea pillaged––pillaged,––For, Yahweh, hath spoken this word. ⁴ Mourneth, fadeth, the earth, Languisheth, fadeth, the world,––Languished, have the lofty of the people of the earth.

⁴ Mourneth, fadeth, the earth, Languisheth, fadeth, the world,––Languished, have the lofty of the people of the earth. ⁵ Yea, the earth itself, is profaned under them who dwell therein,––For they have, Set aside laws, Gone beyond statute, Broken an age–abiding covenant. ⁶ For this cause, a curse, hath devoured the earth, And punished are the dwellers therein,––For this cause, are burned the inhabitants of the earth, And the men left remaining––are few. ⁷ Mourneth, the new wine, Withereth, the vine,––Sighing, are all the merryhearted: ⁸ Ceased, hath the mirth of timbrels, Ended, is the noise of the uproarious,––Ceased, hath the mirth of the lyre: ⁹ With a song, they drink not wine,––Bitter, is strong drink, to them who drink it: ¹⁰ Broken down, is the city of desolation,––Shut up, every house, that it cannot be entered. ¹¹ There is an outcry concerning wine, in the streets,––Darkened, is all joy, Departed, the gladness of the earth. ¹² There is left in the city, desolation,––And, to ruins, have been broken the gate.
¹³ When, thus, it shall be, in the earth, in the midst of the peoples, [There shall be,] like the shaking of an olive–tree, like the going round to pick, when closed, is the harvest.

¹⁹ The earth breaketh, breaketh,––The earth crasheth, crasheth, The earth tottereth, tottereth; ²⁰ The earth staggereth–staggereth, like a drunken man, And rocketh to and fro like a night–hut,––So shall be heavy upon her, her transgression, And she shall fall, and, not again, rise. ²¹ And it shall be, in that day, That Yahweh will bring punishment, Upon the host of the height, in the height,––And upon the kings of the ground, on the ground. ²² And they shall be swept together in a crowd, fettered for a pit, And shall be lowered into a dungeon,––And, after many days, shall they be punished. ²³ Then shall blush, the silvery moon, Then turn pale, the glowing sun,––Because Yahweh of hosts, hath become king, In Mount Zion, And in Jerusalem, And before his Elders, in glory.

⁸ By driving her away––by dismissing her, wouldest thou contend with her? He removed her by his rough wind, in a day of east wind.

¹¹ When the cut–off boughs thereof are dry, they shall be broken to pieces, Women, coming, are kindling it! For it is, not a people of understanding, For this cause, Will he that made him, not have compassion upon him, And, he that formed him, will shew him no favour.

⁹ Stand ye stock still, and stare, Besmear your eyes, and be blind,––They are drunken, but not with wine, They reel, but not with strong drink; ¹⁰ For Yahweh, hath poured out upon you, a spirit of deep sleep, Yea hath tightly shut your eyes––the prophets,––And, your heads––the seers, hath he covered,

¹⁰ For Yahweh, hath poured out upon you, a spirit of deep sleep, Yea hath tightly shut your eyes––the prophets,––And, your heads––the seers, hath he covered, ¹¹ And so all, vision hath become unto you, as the words of a writing that is sealed, Which is delivered unto one acquainted with writing, saying, Pray thee, read this, And he saith, I cannot, for it, is, sealed; ¹² And then the writing is delivered to one unacquainted with writing, saying, Pray thee, read this, And he saith, I am not acquainted with writing.

⁹ That it is, a rebellious people, Sons, apt at deceiving,––Sons, unwilling to hear the law of Yahweh: 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:

¹⁷ One, thousand, before the war–cry of one––before the war–cry of five, shall ye flee,––Until ye have been left, As a pole on the top of a mountain, And as an ensign upon a hill.

²⁷ Lo! the Name of Yahweh, coming in from afar, His anger kindling, A heavy storm,––His lips, are full of indignation, And, his tongue, is like a fire that devoureth; ²⁸ And, his breath, like an overflowing torrent, even unto the neck, doth reach, To sift nations, with a sieve of calamity,––A bridle leading to ruin, being upon the jaws of the peoples.

⁶ Return ye unto him, against whom the sons of Israel have deeply, revolted,

¹¹ Tremble, ye women in comfort, Be troubled, ye daughters so confident,––Strip! and bare yourselves, and gird somewhat on your loins:

⁸ The highways, are deserted, The passer–by on the path, hath ceased,––He hath broken covenant, He hath despised cities, He hath made no account of men. 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.

¹⁴ Terror–stricken in Zion,––are sinners, Shuddering hath seized, the impious,––Who, among us can sojourn with a fire that devoureth? Who, among us can sojourn with burnings age–abiding?

²⁰ Look thou on Zion, the city of our appointed feast,––Thine own eyes, shall see Jerusalem––A home of comfort A tent which shall not be packed up––Whose pins, shall not be pulled out, for ever, And none of, whose cords, shall be broken.

¹ Come near, ye nations, to hear, And, ye races, attend,––Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof, The world, and all things produced therefrom:

⁴ Then shall be dissolved, all the host of the heavens, And the heavens, shall roll up as a scroll,––Yea, all their host, shall fade––Like the fading and falling of a leaf from a vine, and, Like what fadeth and falleth from a fig–tree.

³⁵ Thus will I throw a covering over this city, to save it,––For mine own sake, And for the sake of David my servant.

³ Then came Isaiah the prophet, unto King Hezekiah,––and said unto him––What said these men? and whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, From a land far away, came they unto me, from Babylon!

¹⁶ Thou shalt fan them, and, a wind, shall carry them away, And, a whirlwind, scatter, them,––But, thou, shalt exult in Yahweh, And, in the Holy One of Israel, shalt thou boast thyself.

¹⁴ I have held my peace from age–past times, I kept still, I restrained myself,––As a travailing woman, I pant, I breathe hard and gasp, all at once!

¹⁹ Who, is blind, if not my Servant? Or deaf, like, my messenger whom I send? Who, is, blind, like an intimate friend? Or blind, like the Servant of Yahweh? ²⁰ Seeing many things, yet thou heedest not, Opening the ears, yet he heareth not.

²³ By myself, have I sworn, Gone forth out of my mouth, is righteousness as a decree, And shall not turn back,––That, unto myself, Shall bow, every knee, Shall swear, every tongue:

²⁵ In Yahweh, shall be justified and shall boast themselves––All the seed of Israel.

¹⁰ Declaring, from the beginning, the latter end, And, from olden time, that which had never been done,––Saying, My purpose shall stand, and, All my pleasure, will I perform; ¹¹ Calling, From the East, a Bird of Prey, From a far country, the Man I intended,––Yea I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass, I have planned, I will also do it.

⁹ Yet shall there come to thee––both these, in a moment, in one day, Loss of children and widowhood,––To their full, have they come on thee, Spite of the mass of thine incantations, Spite of the great throng of thy spells.

¹ Hear ye this––O house of Jacob, Ye who call yourselves by the name of Israel, Yea, from the waters of Judah, came they forth,––Who swear by the name of Yahweh, And, by the God of Israel, call to remembrance––Not in truth, nor in righteousness; ² For, of the holy city, do they call themselves, And, on the God of Israel, do they stay themselves,––Yahweh of hosts, is his name.

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.

³ I clothe the heavens with gloom, And, of sackcloth, make I their covering.

¹⁷ Rouse thee––rouse, thee, stand up, O Jerusalem, Who hast drunk, at the hand of Yahweh, his cup of indignation: The goblet–cup of confusion, hast thou drunk––hast thou drained.

² Enlarge the space of thy tent, And, the curtains of thy habitations, let them spread forth, do not spare,––Lengthen thy cords, And, thy tent–pins, make thou fast;

⁷ Let the lawless forsake, his way, And the man of iniquity, his thoughts,––And let him return unto Yahweh, That he may have compassion upon him, And unto our God, For he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁰ Pass ye through, pass ye through the gates, Prepare ye the way of the people,––Cast ye up, cast ye up the highway, Clear it of stones, Lift ye high a standard, unto the peoples.

¹⁷ Wherefore, shouldst thou suffer us to wander O Yahweh, from thy ways? [Wherefore] shouldst thou let us harden our heart past revering thee? Return thou, for the sake of, Thy servants, The tribes thou thyself hast inherited.

⁶ But we have become as one unclean, all of us, And, as a garment polluted, were all our righteous doings,––And so we faded like a leaf, all of us, And, our iniquity, as a wind, carried us away;

¹⁶ So that, he who blesseth himself in the earth, Will bless himself in the God of faithfulness, And, he who sweareth in the earth, Will swear by the God of faithfulness––Because the former troubles, have been forgotten, and, Because they are hid from mine eyes.

¹⁵ For lo! Yahweh, with fire, doth come, And, like a storm–wind, [are] his chariots,––To render, with fury, his anger, And his rebuke, with flames of fire.

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

¹³ And the word of Yahweh came unto me, a second time, saying, What canst thou see? And I said, A boiling caldron, can I see, with, the front thereof, on the North. ¹⁴ Then said Yahweh unto me,––Out of the North, shall break forth calamity, against all the inhabitants of the land. ¹⁵ For behold me! calling for all the families of the kingdoms of the North, Declareth Yahweh,––and they shall come, and set every one his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all her walls, round about, and against all the cities of Judah! ¹⁶ Then will I pronounce my judgments against them, concerning all their wickedness,––in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and have bowed down to the works of their own hands.

¹⁵ Against him, have been roaring, wild lions, They have uttered their voice,––and have made his land a desolation, His cities, have been burned, so as to have no inhabitant.

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?

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.

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.

¹² Go, and proclaim these words, towards the North, and say––Return! thou apostate, Israel, Urgeth Yahweh, I will not lower my face against you,––for, full of lovingkindness, I am, Declareth Yahweh, I will not maintain [mine anger] unto times age–abiding.

¹⁴ Return, ye apostate sons, Urgeth Yahweh, for, I, am become your husband,––therefore will I take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion;

²² Return, ye apostate sons, I will heal your apostasies! Behold us! we have come unto thee, For, thou, art Yahweh our God.

⁴ Circumcise yourselves unto Yahweh, So shall ye remove the impurity of your heart, ye men of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem,––Lest mine indignation, go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, Because of the wickedness of your doings.
⁵ Declare ye in Judah, And, in Jerusalem, let it be heard, And say, Blow ye a horn in the land,––Cry, with frill voice, And say, Gather yourselves together, And let us enter the defenced, cities.

⁵ Declare ye in Judah, And, in Jerusalem, let it be heard, And say, Blow ye a horn in the land,––Cry, with frill voice, And say, Gather yourselves together, And let us enter the defenced, cities. ⁶ Lift up an ensign––Zion–ward, Bring into safety, do not tarry,––For, calamity, am, I, bringing in from the North, Even, a great destruction:

⁶ Lift up an ensign––Zion–ward, Bring into safety, do not tarry,––For, calamity, am, I, bringing in from the North, Even, a great destruction: ⁷ There hath come up a lion, out of his thicket, Yea, a destroyer of nations––hath set forward, hath come forth out of his place,––To make thy land, a desolation, Thy cities, shall fall in ruins, so as to have no, inhabitant.

¹⁷ As the keepers of a field, have they come against her, round about,––For, against me, hath she rebelled, Declareth Yahweh. 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.
¹⁹ My bowels! My bowels! I am pained in the walls of my heart, My heart beateth aloud to me, I cannot be still! For, the sound of a horn, hast thou heard, O my soul, The loud shout of war!

²¹ How long, shall I, keep on seeing a standard,––continue to hear the sound of a horn?

²³ I beheld, The earth, and lo! it was waste and wild,––The heavens also, and their light was, not: ²⁴ I beheld, The mountains, and lo! they were trembling,––And, all the hills, had been violently moved: ²⁵ I beheld, And lo! there was no, human being,––Yea, all the birds of the heavens! had fled: ²⁶ I beheld, And lo! the garden–land, was a desert,––And, all its cities, had been broken down, Because of Yahweh, Because of the glow of his anger!

³¹ For, a voice as of a woman in pangs, have I heard, Anguish as of her that is bearing her firstborn. The voice of the daughter of Zion! She gaspeth for breath, She spreadeth forth her palms,––Surely woe to me! For my soul fainteth before murderers.

² Even though they say, By the life of Yahweh, Yet in fact, falsely, do they swear.

⁴ And, I, said,––Only, poor people, are, they,––They act foolishly, For they know not, the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God!

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.

¹⁰ Scale ye her walls, and destroy, But, a full end, do not make,––Remove her tendrils, For, not to Yahweh, do, they, belong!

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;

¹⁵ Behold me! bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh,––A nation invincible, it is, A nation from age–past times, hath it been, A nation whose tongue thou shalt not know, Neither shalt thou understand what it speaketh:

¹⁸ Yet, even in those days, Declareth Yahweh, Will I not make of you, a full end. ¹⁹ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, For what cause, hath Yahweh our God done, to us all these things? Then shalt thou say unto them,––As ye forsook me, and served the gods of the foreigner, in your own land, So, shall ye serve aliens, in a land, not your own.
²⁰ Tell ye this, throughout the house of Jacob,––And let it be heard throughout Judah, saying: ²¹ Hear this, I pray you, ye people––foolish and without heart,––Eyes, have they, and see not, Ears, have they, and hear not!

²³ Yet, this people, hath an obstinate and rebellious heart,––They have turned aside, and gone their way;

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?

¹ Take your goods into safety, ye sons of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, And, in Tekoa, blow ye a horn, And, on Beth–haccherem, raise a fire–signal,––For, calamity, hath looked out from the North, Even a great destruction. ² To a comely and delicate woman, have I likened the daughter of Zion:

² To a comely and delicate woman, have I likened the daughter of Zion: ³ Against her, shall come shepherds, with their flocks; They have pitched against her their tents, round about, They tend their flocks, every one near at hand.

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,

¹⁴ And so they have healed the grievous wound of my people, slightly, Saying, Peace, peace, when there was no, peace,

¹⁸ Therefore, hear, O ye nations,––And take knowledge, O assembly, Of that which befalleth them: ¹⁹ Hear thou––O earth, Lo! I, am bringing in Calamity against this people, the fruit of their own devices,––For, unto my words, have they not given heed, And, as for my law, they have rejected it.

²² Thus, saith Yahweh, Lo! a people coming in from the land of the North,––Yea, a great nation, shall be stirred up out of the remote parts of the earth: ²³ Bow and javelin, shall they grasp, Cruel, is he! So they will not have compassion, Their voice, like the sea, will roar, And, on horses, will they ride,––Arrayed each one, like a man for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Zion! ²⁴ We have heard the report thereof, Relaxed, are our hands,––Anguish, hath taken hold on us, Pangs, as on her that is giving birth.

²⁶ O daughter of my people, Gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes,––The mourning for an only son, make thou for thyself, Most bitter lamentation! For, suddenly, shall the destroyer come upon us.

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.

³⁴ So will I cause to cease, From the cities of Judah, and, From the streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,––For, a desolation, shall the land become.

⁷ Even, the stork in the heavens, knoweth her appointed times, And, the turtle and the swallow and the crane, observe the season for coming; But, my people, know not the just sentence of Yahweh. ⁸ How, can ye say, Wise, are, we, And, the law of Yahweh, is with us? But indeed, lo! falsely, hath dealt the false pen of the scribes! ⁹ Ashamed, are the wise, dismayed, and captured! Lo! the word of Yahweh, have they rejected, And, what wisdom, have, they?

¹¹ And so they have healed the grievous wound of the daughter of my people, slightly,––Saying, Peace! peace! when there was no, peace!

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.

¹⁶ From Dan, was heard the snorting of his horses, At the sound of the neighing of his chargers, the whole land trembled,––Yea they came in and did sat up, The land and the fulness thereof, The city, and them who were dwelling therein.

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?

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!

⁷ Therefore, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold me! melting them, so will I try them,––For, how else should I do, because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people?

¹⁰ Over the mountains, will I take up a weeping and wailing, And, over the oases of the desert, a dirge, For they have been burned, so that no man passeth through, Neither have men heard the lowing of cattle,––Both the bird of the heavens and the beast, have fled, have gone their way: ¹¹ Thus will I give up Jerusalem, To heaps, A habitation for jackals,––And, the cities of Judah, will I give up to desolation, without inhabitant.
¹² Who, is the man that is wise, That he may discern this? And, unto whom, hath the mouth of Yahweh spoken, That he may declare it? For what cause, Hath the land perished, Hath it been burned as a wilderness, that no man passeth through?

²⁴ But, in this, let the glorying one glory––In having intelligence, and in knowing, me, That, I, am Yahweh, Executing lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth,––That, in these things, I delight, Declareth Yahweh.

²⁶ Upon Egypt and upon Judah, And upon Edom, and upon the sons of Ammon, And upon Moab, And upon all the clipped beards, The dwellers in the desert,––For, all the nations, are uncircumcised, And, all the house of Israel, are uncircumcised, in heart.

⁸ But, at once, do they become brutish and stupid,––An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!

¹⁰ But, Yahweh, is God, in truth, He, is a God that, liveth, And a King of times age–abiding,––At his anger, quaketh the earth, And nations cannot endure, his wrath.

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:

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: ²⁰ My tent, is laid waste, And, all my tent–cords, are broken,––My children, are gone forth from me, and they, are not. There is none, To stretch out, any more, my tent, Or to set up my curtains.

² Hear ye the words of this covenant,––and speak ye unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

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!

¹¹ It hath been made, a desolation, It hath mourned unto me, as desolate,––All the land, hath become, a desolation, For, no, man, layeth it to heart.

¹¹ It hath been made, a desolation, It hath mourned unto me, as desolate,––All the land, hath become, a desolation, For, no, man, layeth it to heart. ¹² On all the bare heights in the wilderness, have come despoilers, For, the sword of Yahweh, hath devoured from one end of the land unto the other,––There is peace, for no, flesh!

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass––If they will, diligently learn, the ways of my people––To swear by my Name, [saying], By the life of Yahweh, As they taught my people to swear by Baal, Then shall they be built, in the midst of my people.

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.

²¹ What wilt thou say when he shall bring punishment upon thee, Since, thou thyself, hast accustomed them to be over thee as friends, in chief? Shall not, pangs, seize thee, as of a woman in childbirth?

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.

²⁷ Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, thine unchaste, wickedness, Upon the hills in the field, I have seen thine abominations! Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, Wilt thou not become pure? After how long, yet?

² Judah, mourneth, And, the gates thereof, pine, They lie in gloom on the ground,––And, the outcry of Jerusalem, hath ascended;

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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. ⁴ And I will make them a terror, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––On account of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, For what he did in Jerusalem.

⁴ And I will make them a terror, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––On account of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, For what he did in Jerusalem. ⁵ For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? And who shall lament for thee? And who shall turn aside, to ask for thy welfare? ⁶ Thou, hast abandoned, me, Declareth Yahweh, Backward, thou wilt go, Therefore have I stretched forth my hand against thee and laid thee waste,––I am weary, of having compassion. ⁷ Therefore have I winnowed them with a winnowing shovel, in the gates of the land,––I have bereaved––I have destroyed my people, From their own ways, have they not returned. ⁸ Their widows have become multiplied to me, beyond the sand of the seas, I have brought against them––upon the mother of young men––the spoiler, in the broad noon,––I have let fall upon her, suddenly, excitement and terrors. ⁹ Languisheth! she who had given birth to seven, She hath breathed out her life, Her sun, hath gone in, while yet it was day, She hath turned pale, and hath turned red,––And, the remnant of them, to the sword, will I deliver before their enemies, Declareth Yahweh.

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?

⁶ So shall great and small die in this land, They shall not be buried,––Neither shall men lament for them, Nor cut themselves, Nor make themselves bald for them;

¹⁸ Let my persecutors, turn pale, but let not, me, turn pale, Let, them, be terrified, but let not, me, be terrified,––Bring thou upon them, a day of calamity, And, with a double fracture, destroy them.

¹⁶ To make their land a desolation, The hissings of age–abiding times,––Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag his head.

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.

⁹ Therefore I say––I will not mention him, Neither will I speak any more in his name, But then it becometh in my heart, as a fire that burneth, Shut up in my bones,––And I am weary of restraint, and cannot refrain.

⁵ And, I myself, will fight against you, with a hand outstretched, and with an arm of strength,––and with anger and with wrath, and with great indignation;

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.

¹² O house of David! Thus, saith Yahweh, Administer justice, betimes, And deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,––Lest mine indignation, come forth like fire, And burn, and there be none to quench it, Because of the wickedness of your doings:

³ Thus, saith Yahweh,––Execute ye justice, and righteousness, And deliver the robbed, out of the hand of the oppressor,––But, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, do not oppress, neither commit violence, And, the blood of the innocent, do not ye shed, in this place. ⁴ For, if ye, indeed do, this thing, then shall there enter into the gates of this house––kings, sitting for David upon his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. ⁵ But, if ye will not hear, these words, By myself, have I sworn, Declareth Yahweh––That, a ruin, shall, this house, become.

²⁰ Ascend the Lebanon, and make outcry, And, in Bashan, put forth thy voice,––And make outcry from Abarim, For all thy lovers, are torn in pieces. ²¹ I spake unto thee, in thy carelessness,––Thou saidst, I will not hearken! This, hath been thy way from thy youth, That thou hast not hearkened to my voice. ²² All thy shepherds, the wind, shall feed, And, thy lovers, into captivity, shall depart,––Surely, then, shalt thou turn pale, and be confounded, by reason of all thy wickedness. ²³ O inhabitress of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars,––How hast thou bemoaned thyself, Now that pangs have overtaken thee, Anguish, as of her that giveth birth.

⁹ As for the prophets,––Broken, is my heart within me, Trembled, have all my bones, I have become as a drunken man, And as a strong man whom wine hath overcome,––Because of Yahweh, And because of his holy, words. ¹⁰ For, with adulterers, is the land filled, Yea, because of cursing, doth the land mourn, Dried up are the oases of the desert,––And, their oppression, hath become wicked, And, their might, is not right.

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;

¹⁹ Lo! the tempest of Yahweh! Indignation, hath come forth, Even a tempest whirling along: On the head of the lawless, shall it hurl itself down. ²⁰ The anger of Yahweh, wilt not return, Until he hath executed, nor, Until he hath established, The purposes of his heart,––In the afterpart of the days, shall ye understand it, perfectly.

⁹ yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––as a reproach, and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them;

⁵ saying,––Return, I pray you, every one from his wicked, way and from the wickedness of your doings, So shall ye remain on the soil which Yahweh hath given, to you and to your fathers,––even from age to age;

⁹ Behold me! sending and fetching all the families of the North, Declareth Yahweh, and Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, my servant, And I will bring them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations, round about,––And I will devote them to destruction, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and age–abiding desolations.

³⁸ He hath, left as a lion, his covert, For their land hath become a horror, Because of the fierceness of oppression, and, Because of the fierceness of his anger.

⁹ Why, hast thou prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, Like Shiloh, shall this house become, And, this city, shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people, were gathered together, unto Jeremiah, in the house of Yahweh.

¹⁹ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah, put him to death? Did he not revere Yahweh, and appease the face of Yahweh? And did not Yahweh repent, him, as to the calamity which he had spoken against them? We, therefore, are doing a great wickedness, against our own lives!

⁸ And it shall come to pass, that, the nation or kingdom which will not serve him, even Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,––with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, will I bring punishment upon that nation, Declareth Yahweh, until I have consumed them by his hand.

⁶ Ask, I pray you, and see, whether a male, travaileth with child! Why, have I seen, Every man with his hands upon his loins, like a woman in travail, and, Every face turned into ghastliness?

¹¹ For, with thee, am I, Declareth Yahweh, To save thee,––Though I make an end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, Yet, will I not, of thee, make an end, But will chastise thee in measure, not holding thee, guiltless!

²³ Lo! the tempest of Yahweh! Indignation, hath come forth, A tempest rolling itself upward,––Upon the head of the lawless ones, shall it hurl itself down! ²⁴ The fierceness of the anger of Yahweh will, not turn back, Until he hath executed, nor, Until he hath established, The purposes of his heart,––In the afterpart of the days, shall ye understand it.

²⁴ The fierceness of the anger of Yahweh will, not turn back, Until he hath executed, nor, Until he hath established, The purposes of his heart,––In the afterpart of the days, shall ye understand it.

¹⁰ Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O ye nations, And declare ye in the Coastlands, afar off,––And say––He that scattereth Israel, will gather him, And watch over him, as a shepherd his flock;

¹⁷ Alas! My Lord, Yahweh! Lo! thou thyself, didst make the heavens, and the earth, by thy great might, and by thine outstretched arm,––There is, nothing, too wonderful for thee:

¹⁰ Thus, saith Yahweh––Again, shall be heard in this place, as to which ye, are saying, Deserted, it is, without man or beast, In the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, Which are desolate without man or inhabitant or beast,

²² Behold me! giving command, Declareth Yahweh, and I will bring them back unto this city, and they will fight against it, and capture it, and consume it with fire,––and, the cities of Judah, will I make too desolate to have an inhabitant.

¹¹ And so it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said,––Let us, even enter, Jerusalem, because of the force of the Chaldeans and because of the force of the Syrians: So have we dwelt in Jerusalem.

¹⁵ And I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, betimes, sending, saying, Return, I pray you––every man from his wicked, way, And amend your doings, And do not go after other, gods to serve them, So shall ye remain on the soil, which I gave to you, and to your fathers,––but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened, unto me.

³ Peradventure, the house of Judah will hearken, unto all the calamity, which I, am devising to execute against them,––to the end they may return, every man from his wicked, way, whereupon I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin.

⁷ Peradventure, their supplication, will fall prostrate, before Yahweh, and they return, every man from his wicked way,––For, great, are the anger and the indignation, which Yahweh hath spoken, against this people.

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

¹ In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his force against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

⁴ And it came to pass, as soon as Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw, them, that they fled, and went forth by night out of the city, by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls,––and he went forth by way of the waste plain.

⁴ And it came to pass, as soon as Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw, them, that they fled, and went forth by night out of the city, by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls,––and he went forth by way of the waste plain. ⁵ But the force of the Chaldeans pursued, them, and overtook Zedekiah, in the waste plains of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him up unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath,––and pronounced upon him sentences of judgment.

⁵ But the force of the Chaldeans pursued, them, and overtook Zedekiah, in the waste plains of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him up unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath,––and pronounced upon him sentences of judgment. ⁶ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah, in Riblah, before his eyes,––and, all the nobles of Judah, did the king of Babylon slay;

² Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Unto thee, O Baruch,––

²⁸ Thou, do not fear, O my Servant Jacob, Urgeth Yahweh, For, with thee, am I: Though I make an end of all the nations whither I have driven thee, Yet, of thee, will I not make an end, But will correct thee in, measure, And not hold thee, guiltless!

²⁰ Confounded is Moab! For it is broken down! Howl and make outcry,––Tell ye in Arnon, That Moab, is spoiled;

³¹ For this cause, over Moab, will I howl, And, for all, Moab, will I make outcry,––For the men of Kir–heres, must one, moan! ³² Beyond the weeping of Jazer, will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah, Thy tendrils, have gone over the sea, Unto the sea of Jazer, have they reached, Upon thy summer fruits, And upon thy vintage, the spoiler, hath fallen.

⁴¹ Captured, is Kerioth, And, the fortresses, are seized,––Then shall the heart of the heroes of Moab become in that, day, As the heart of a woman in her pains.

¹⁹ Lo! like a lion, will he come up from the majesty of the Jordan, unto the pasture perennial, But I will wink––I will make him run away therefrom, Who, then shall be the Chosen One whom, over it, I may set in charge? For who, shall be like unto, me? And who, shall appoint, me, a time? And who, is, the Shepherd, that shall stand before, me?

²² Lo! as an eagle, he shall mount and dart, and spread his wings over Bozrah,––So shall the heart of the heroes of Edom, in that day, become as the heart of a woman in her pain.

²⁴ Enfeebled, is Damascus, She hath turned to flee, But, terror, hath seized her,––Anguish and pangs, have seized her, as a woman in childbirth.

² Tell ye among the nations, And let it be heard, And lift ye up a standard, Let it be heard, do not conceal: Say ye––Captured, is Babylon, Confounded, is Bel, Broken in pieces, is Merodach, Confounded, are her images, Broken down, her manufactured gods;

¹⁷ A sheep all alone, is Israel, Lions, have driven him away,––At the first, the king of Assyria, devoured him, And, here, at the last, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, hath broken his bones!

²² The, sound of battle, is in the earth,––And a great destruction.

⁴³ The king of Babylon hath heard, the report of them, And unnerved, are his hands,––Anguish, hath seized him, Writhing pain, as a woman in child–birth. ⁴⁴ Lo! as a lion, shall he come up from the majesty of the Jordan, Unto the pasture perennial, But I will wink––I will make them run away therefrom, Who, then shall be the Chosen One whom, against it, I may set in charge? For who, shall be like unto, me? And who, shall appoint, me, a, time? And who, is, the Shepherd that shall stand before, me?

¹ Thus, saith Yahweh––Behold me! stirring up against Babylon, And against the inhabitants of the centre of them who rise up against me,––A wind that destroyeth; ² And I will send to Babylon winnowers, And they shall winnow her, And shall empty her land,––For they are against her round about, in the day of calamity.

¹² Against the walls of Babylon, Lift ye up a standard, Strengthen ye the watch, Station the watchmen, Make ready the ambuscades,––For Yahweh hath both planned, and also performed, that which he had spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon.

²⁷ Set ye up an ensign in the earth, Blow ye a horn among the nations, Hallow against her––nations, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz,––Set in charge against her a marshal, Bring up cavalry like hairy locusts:

⁵⁴ A voice of outcry from Babylon! And a great crash from the land of the Chaldeans!

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.

² She, weepeth sore, in the night, and, her tear, is on her cheek, She hath none to comfort her, of all her lovers,––All her friends, have betrayed her, have become her foes.

⁸ Jerusalem, hath grievously sinned, For this cause, unto exile, hath she been delivered,––All who used to honour her, have despised her, for they have descried her unseemliness, yea, she herself, hath sighed, and turned back.

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. ¹⁷ Zion, hath spread forth, her hands, there is none to comfort her, Yahweh, hath given command, respecting Jacob, unto them who surround him––his adversaries,––Jerusalem, hath become as a removed woman, in their midst. ¹⁸ Righteous is Yahweh, for, against his bidding, had I rebelled,––Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men, have gone into exile. ¹⁹ I called to my lovers, they, deceived me, My priests and mine elders, in the city, have breathed their last,––for they sought them food, that they might bring back their life. 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. ⁸ Yahweh hath devised to lay in ruins, the wall of the daughter of Zion, he hath stretched out a line, he hath not turned back his hand from swallowing up,––Thus hath he caused to mourn––rampart and wall, together, have they languished! 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.

¹¹ Blinded with tears are mine eyes, In ferment is my body, Poured out to the earth is my grief, for the sore hurt of the daughter of my people,––when child and suckling are swooning, in the broadways of the city.

²¹ Youth and elder, have lain down on the ground in the streets, My virgins and my young men, have fallen by the sword,––Thou hast slain, in the day of thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered, hast not spared!

⁴⁷ Terror and a pit, have befallen us, tumult and grievous injury; ⁴⁸ With streams of water, mine eye runneth down, over the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.

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; ⁵⁰ Until Yahweh out of the heavens shall look forth, and see, ⁵¹ Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

³ Even wild dogs, draw out the breast, give suck to their whelps––The daughter of my people, hath become cruel, like the ostriches in the desert.

⁶ And the punishment of the daughter of my people hath grown greater than the punishment of Sodom,––which was overthrown as in a moment, when no hands had been laid violently upon her.

¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their own children,––they have served as nourishment to them, in the grievous injury of the daughter of my people. ¹¹ Yahweh hath completed his indignation, hath poured out the glow of his anger; and hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured her foundations.

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.

¹⁹ Swifter are our pursuers, than the eagles of the heavens,––Over the mountains, have they come hotly after us, In the wilderness, have they lain in wait for us.

³ And he said unto me––Son of man, I, am sending thee, unto the sons of Israel, unto rebellious, nations, which have rebelled against me,––they, and their fathers, have transgressed against me, until this very day; ⁴ and it is, unto such, sons––of shameless face, and emboldened heart, that I, am sending thee,––therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh. ⁵ And, they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for, a perverse house, they are, shall then know that, a prophet, hath been in their midst.
⁶ But, thou, son of man, Be not afraid of them, Nor, of their words, be afraid, Though, thorns and thistles, are about thee, And, amongst prickly plants, thou dost dwell, Of their words, be not afraid, nor, At their faces, be thou dismayed, For, a perverse house, they are! ⁷ Thou shalt therefore speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, For, perverse, they are!

⁸ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Lo! I am against thee, even I, Therefore will I execute in thy midst, judgments, in the eyes of the nations;

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:

¹¹ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas! regarding all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel,––in that, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, shall they fall: ¹² He that is far off, by pestilence, shall die, and, He that is near, by the sword, shall fall, and, He that is left and is besieged, by the famine, shall die; Thus will I make an end of mine indignation against them.

¹² He that is far off, by pestilence, shall die, and, He that is near, by the sword, shall fall, and, He that is left and is besieged, by the famine, shall die; Thus will I make an end of mine indignation against them. ¹³ So shall ye know, that, I, am Yahweh, In that their slain are in the midst of their manufactured gods, on every side of their altars,––Upon every high hill, In all the tops of the mountains, and, Under every green tree, and, Under every tangled oak, The place where they offered a satisfying, odour to all their manufactured gods. ¹⁴ Thus will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land a greater waste and devastation than the desert toward Diblah, throughout all their dwelling–places,––And they shall know that, I, am Yahweh.

⁸ Now shortly, will I pour out mine indignation upon thee, And will bring to an end mine anger against thee, And will judge thee according to thy ways,––And will lay upon thee all thine abominations. ⁹ And mine eye shall not shield thee, Neither will I have pity,––According to thy ways, unto thee, will I render, And, thine abominations, in thy midst, shall be found, So shall ye know, that, I, Yahweh, am smiting.

²⁵ Destruction, hath entered,––And they shall seek welfare, and there be, none. ²⁶ Disaster upon disaster, shall come, And, report after report, shall arise,––Therefore shall they seek a vision from prophet, And, law, shall perish from priest, And counsel, from elders.

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.

⁵ But, unto these, said he in mine ears, Pass along through the city after him, and smite,––let not your eye, shield, neither have ye pity: ⁶ elder, young man and virgin, and little ones and women, shall ye slay utterly, but, unto any man who hath upon him the mark, do not ye come near, and, at my sanctuary, shall ye begin. So they began with the elder men, who were before the house.

¹³ And it came to pass, as I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah, died,––so then I fell down upon my face, and made outcry with a loud voice, and said––Alas! My Lord, Yahweh! A full end, art thou, making of the remnant of Israel?

¹⁸ So shall they come in thither,––and take away all her detestable things, and all her abominations, out of her;

⁹ So then my hand shall be against the prophets, who have Visions of falsehood, and, who divine Divinations of lies––In the council of my people, shall they not be found, And, in the register of the house of Israel, shall they not be written, And, upon the so of Israel, shall they not enter,––So shall ye know, that, I, am The Lord, Yahweh,
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.

⁹ Yea, the prophet himself, when he suffereth himself to be deceived, and speaketh a word, I, Yahweh, have suffered that prophet to be deceived. Then will I stretch forth my hand against him, and destroy him out of the midst of my people, Israel: 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?

³⁶ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––Because thy money, was poured out, and thy shame, was uncovered, in thine unchastity, unto thy lovers,––and unto all thine abominable manufactured gods, even as the blood of thy children, whom thou didst deliver up unto them, ³⁷ Therefore, behold me! gathering together all thy lovers, unto whom thou didst make thyself pleasant, Even all whom thou lovedst, With all whom thou hatedst,––Yea I will gather them, together unto thee from every side, And will uncover thy shame unto them, And they shall see all thy shame. ³⁸ So will I judge thee, with the judgments meted out to adulteresses and shedders of blood,––And will repay thee with the blood of indignation and jealousy;

³⁸ So will I judge thee, with the judgments meted out to adulteresses and shedders of blood,––And will repay thee with the blood of indignation and jealousy; ³⁹ And will deliver thee, into their hand, And they shall pull down thy brothel, And break in pieces thy heights, And strip thee of thy raiment, And take away thine adorning, jewels,––And leave thee utterly naked. ⁴⁰ Then will they bring up against thee a gathered host, And they will stone thee with stones,––And cut thee to pieces with their swords; ⁴¹ And burn up thy houses with fire, And execute upon thee judgments, before the eyes of many women,––So will I cause thee to cease from acting unchastely, Moreover also, a present, shalt thou not give any more.

¹⁰ Lo! therefore, though [it remain] planted, shall it thrive? As soon as an east wind toucheth, it, will it not, utterly wither? On the beds where it sprang up, will it not wither?

¹³ Upon interest, hath put out, And, increase, hath accepted,––And shall he, live? He shall not live, All these abominations, he hath done, He shall, surely be put to death, His blood, upon himself, shall be.

³¹ Cast off from you, all your transgressions which ye have committed against me, And make you a new heart; And a new spirit,––For why, should ye die, O house of Israel?

¹² Then was she uprooted in indignation, To the ground, was she cast, And, an east wind, dried up her fruit,––Broken off and withered, were her staves of power, A fire, devoured them.

⁷ And I said unto them., Every one, the abomination of his eyes, cast ye away, And, with the manufactured gods of Egypt, let it not be that ye defile yourselves: I, Yahweh, am your God. ⁸ But they rebelled against me, And were not willing to hearken unto me, Every man, the abominations of their eyes, they cast not away, And, the manufactured gods of Egypt, forsook they not; Therefore spake I of pouring out mine indignation upon them, to bring mine anger to an end against them, in the midst of the land of Egypt.

³³ As I live, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Surely, with a strong hand, and, With an outstretched arm, and, With outpoured indignation, Will I be king over you;

⁴⁷ And thou shalt say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh,––Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh––Behold me! kindling in thee a fire, And it shall devour in thee every moist tree and every dry tree, The spreading flame, shall not be quenched, Then, shall be scorched thereby, all faces, from south to north; ⁴⁸ And all flesh shall see, that, I, Yahweh, have kindled it,––It shall not be quenched.

¹² Make an outcry and howl, son of man, For, the same, hath come against my people, The same, is against all the princes of Israel,––Who are, thrown to the sword, with my people, Therefore, smite thou upon thy thigh.

¹⁷ Yea, even I myself, will smite my hands together, And will cause mine indignation to find rest,––I, Yahweh, have spoken.

¹⁹ Thou, therefore, son of man, Appoint thee two ways, For the sword of the king of Babylon to enter, Out of one land shall those two [ways] come,––And, a hand, engrave thou, At the head of the way to the city, engrave it. ²⁰ A way, shalt thou appoint, for the sword, to enter, Even to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon,––And to Judah, against Jerusalem, the defenced, ²¹ For the king of Babylon, hath come to a stand, At the parting of the way, At the head of the two ways, To divine a divination: He hath shaken with arrows, He hath asked of the household gods, He hath inspected the liver. ²² On his right hand, hath come the divination––Jerusalem! To plant battering–rams. To open a hole by breach, To lift up the voice, with a war–shout,––To plant battering–rams against the gates, To cast up an earth–work, To build a siege–wall.

⁹ Therefore, did I deliver her into the hand of her lovers,––Into the hand of the sons of Assyria, after whom she lusted: ¹⁰ They, disclosed her shame, Her sons and her daughters, took they away, And, herself––with the sword, they slew,––Thus became she a by–word among women, when, judgments, they had executed upon her.

²² Therefore, O Oholibah, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! rousing up thy lovers against thee, Even them from whom thy soul hath been torn,––And I will bring them against thee from every side: ²³ The sons of Babylon and all Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, All the sons of Assyria, with them,––Attractive young men, Governors and deputies, all, of them. Knights and men of renown, Riders on horses, all, of them; ²⁴ And they shall come upon thee––With battle–axe, chariot and wheel, And with a gathered host of peoples, Shield and buckler and helmet, will they array against thee, on every side,––And I will put before them, judgment, And they shall judge thee with their judgments;

²⁸ For, thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! delivering thee up, into the hand of them whom thou hatest,––Into the hand of them from whom thy soul hath been torn; ²⁹ And they shall deal with thee in hatred, And take away all thy labour, And leave thee utterly naked,––And thine unchaste, shame, shall be disclosed, with thy lewdness and unchastities,

⁴⁰ Yea verily, that ye must needs send for men, ready to come in, from afar,––in that, a messenger, was sent unto them, and lo! they came, For whom thou didst bathe thyself, Paint thine eyes, And deck thyself with ornaments. ⁴¹ Then satest thou upon a glorious couch, With a table prepared, before it,––And, mine incense and mine oil, didst thou set thereon.

⁴⁶ For, thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––There shall be brought up against them a gathered host, Then shall they be delivered up, for a terror and for a prey, ⁴⁷ Yea a gathered host, shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters, shall they slay, And, their houses––in the fire, shall they consume.

⁸ To bring up indignation, to execute an avenging, have I set her blood upon the smooth face of the cliff,––that it may not be covered.

¹³ In thine uncleanness, is lewdness; because I purified thee. and thou wast not purified, from thine uncleanness, thou shalt not be purified any more, until I have let mine indignation rest upon thee. ¹⁴ I, Yahweh, have spoken, It cometh, and I will perform, I will not let alone, neither will I shield, Nor will I repent,––According to thy ways and according to thy doings, have they judged thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

⁷ For, thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! bringing against Tyre, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon out of the North, a king of kings,––with horses and with chariots and with horsemen, and a gathered host and much people. ⁸ Thy daughters in the field––with the sword, shall he slay,––And shall set against thee a siege–wall, And cast up against thee an earthwork, And set up against thee a large shield; ⁹ And, the stroke of his attacking–engine, will he direct against thy walls,––And, thy towers, will he break down, with his axes. ¹⁰ By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover, thee,––At the noise of horseman and wheel and chariot, shall thy walls tremble, when he entereth into thy gates, Just as they, do who enter a city broken open.

⁹ Wilt thou, really say, God, am I, before him who is slaying thee; When, thou, art a man and not a God, in the hand of them who are piercing thee?

¹³ In Eden, the garden of God, thou wast, Of every precious stone, was thy covering––Sardius, topaz, and diamond, Chrysolite, beryl, and jasper, Sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald,––And, of gold, was the work of thy timbrels and thy flutes, within thee, In the day thou wast created, were they prepared:

² Son of man, Prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––Howl ye, Alas for the day!

¹⁰ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––Therefore will I cause to cease, the multitude of Egypt, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. ¹¹ He, and his people with him, the terrible ones of the nations, are about to be brought in to destroy the land,––Therefore shall they unsheathe their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain;

⁷ And, when I quench thee, I will cover the heavens, And obscure their stars,––The sun––with a cloud, will I cover, And, the moon, shall not shed her light; ⁸ As for all the light–bearers in the heavens, I will obscure them over thee,––And will stretch out darkness over thy land, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

² Son of man, Speak unto the sons of thy people, and thou shalt say unto them, A land,––when I bring upon it a sword, And the people of the land shall take, one man out of their whole number, and appoint him for them, as watchman; ³ And he shall see the sword coming upon the land,––and shall blow with the horn, and warn the people, ⁴ Then, as for him who, really heard, the sound of the horn, and took not warning, The sword indeed, hath come, and taken him away,––His blood, upon his own head, shall remain:–– ⁵ The sound of the horn, he heard, but took not warning, His blood, upon himself, shall remain,––Whereas, had, he, taken warning, his own soul, he should have delivered. ⁶ But, as for the watchman––When he seeth the sword coming, And hath not blown with the horn, And, the people, have not been warned, And the sword, hath come, and taken away from among them any person, He, for his iniquity, hath been taken away, But, his blood, at the hand of the watchman, will I require.

²⁸ And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment, So shall be made to cease, the pride of her strength,––And the mountains of Israel shall be too desolate for any, to pass through.

²⁰ Then shall tremble before me, The fishes of the sea, and, The bird of the heavens, and, The wild beast of the field, and, Every creeping thing that creepeth on the ground, and, All the men, who are on the face of the ground,––and, The mountains, shall be torn asunder, and, The steep places, shall sink down, and, Every wall, to the earth, shall be thrown.

⁹ Now, let them remove their unchastity, and the carcases of their kings, far from me,––So will I make my habitation in the midst of them, to times age–abiding.

¹⁹ and, for the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, races and tongues, used to tremble and to withdraw falteringly from before him,––Whom he would, he slew, and, whom he would, he kept alive, and, whom he would, he set up, and, whom he would, he put down.

⁴ The foremost, like a lion, having, the wings of an eagle,––I looked until the wings thereof, were torn out, and it was lifted up from the earth, and, upon its feet, like a man, was it caused to stand, and, the heart of a man, was given to it.

¹⁵ The spirit of, me, Daniel, was grieved in the midst of the sheath,––and, the visions of my head, terrified me.

²⁸ Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, greatly did my thoughts terrify me, and, my bright looks, were changed upon me, but, the matter––in mine own heart, I kept.

²⁷ Now, as for me Daniel, then was I sick for days, but I arose and did the business of the king,––and, though I was confounded concerning the revelation, yet could no one discern it.

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. 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. 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.

² Contend ye with your mother, contend, for she is no wife of mine, and I am no husband of hers, Let her then put away her paramours from before her, and her partners in adultery, from her embraces:

¹⁹ And I will take thee unto myself, unto times age–abiding,––yea I will take thee unto myself, in righteousness and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in abounding compassion:

¹ Hear the word of Yahweh, ye sons of Israel,––that, a controversy, hath Yahweh with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no faithfulness, nor lovingkindness, nor knowledge of God, in the land:

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.

⁶ My people, are destroyed, for lack of knowledge,––Because, thou, hast rejected knowledge, therefore will I reject thee from ministering as priest unto me, and, because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also, will forget thy children.

⁴ Their doings, will not suffer, them to return unto their God,––for, the spirit of unchastity, is within them, and, Yahweh, have they not known.

¹⁶ They would return––not to him who is on high! They have become like a deceitful bow, their rulers, shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue, this, [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.

¹ To thy mouth, with a horn! Like an eagle, on the house of Yahweh,––because they have violated my covenant, and, against my law, have they transgressed.

¹² Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap ye at thc bidding of lovingkindness, furrow to yourselves the newly–ploughed soil,––then will be the time to seek Yahweh, until he come, that he may rain down righteousness for you.

³ Therefore, shall they become like the morning cloud, and like the dew early departing,––like chaff storm–driven out of the threshing–floor, and like smoke out of a chimney.

¹³ The pangs of a woman in labour, shall overtake him,––he, is a son, not wise, for, now, he cannot stand still, when children are about to be born. ¹⁴ Out of the hand of hades, will I ransom them, out of death, will I redeem them,––Where is thy pestilence, O death? Where thy plague, O hades? Repentance, shall be hid from mine eyes. ¹⁵ Though, he, among brethren, be fruitful, there shall come in an east wind, the blast of Yahweh out of the desert coming up, that his spring, may dry up, and his fountain, be exhausted, he, will rob the treasure–house of all the vessels of delight.

¹ Return thou, O Israel, unto Yahweh thy God,––for thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

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.

¹⁵ Alas for the day! For near is the day of Yahweh, and, as a veritable Destruction from the Destroyer, shall it come.

¹⁰ Before him, hath quaked the earth, have trembled the heavens,––the sun and the moon, have become dark, and, the stars, have withdrawn their shining;

¹² Even now, therefore, urgeth Yahweh, Turn ye unto me, with all your heart,––and with fasting and with weeping, and with lamentation;

¹² Even now, therefore, urgeth Yahweh, Turn ye unto me, with all your heart,––and with fasting and with weeping, and with lamentation; ¹³ And rend your heart, and not your garments, turn therefore, unto Yahweh your God,––for, gracious and full of compassion, is he, slow to anger, and abundant in loving– kindness, and will grieve over calamity.

³⁰ And I will set forth wonders in the heavens, and in the earth,––blood, and fire, and columns of smoke: ³¹ The sun, shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,––before the coming of the great and awful day of Yahweh.

¹⁵ The sun and the moon, have become dark,––and, the stars, have withdrawn their shining, 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.

⁶ Or a horn be blown in a city, and, a people, not tremble? Or calamity happen in a city, and, Yahweh, not have wrought with effect?

⁸ A lion, hath roared, Who will not fear? My Lord Yahweh, hath spoken, Who can forbear to prophesy?

⁶ Seek ye Yahweh, and live,––lest he break forth, like a fire, upon the house of Joseph, and it devour with none to quench it, for Bethel.

⁹ Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will cause the sun to go in at high noon,––and will darken the earth on a day of brightness.! ¹⁰ So will I turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into a dirge, and I will bring up––on all loins––sackcloth, and upon every head––baldness,––and I will make it like the mourning for an only one, even the afterpart thereof, as a day of bitterness.

¹ I saw My Lord stationed by the altar, and he said––Smite the capital––that the sills, may tremble, Yea break them off on the head of them all, and, the last of them, with the sword, will I slay,––He that fleeth of them, shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them, shall not make good his escape.

⁸ Lo! the eyes of My Lord, Yahweh, are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the ground,––save only that I will not, utterly destroy, the house of Jacob, Declareth Yahweh. ⁹ For lo! I am giving command, and will sift, throughout all the nations, the house of Israel,––as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall there not fall a kernel, to the earth.

⁴ Then shall the mountains be melted beneath him, and, the valleys, be cleft,––as wax before the fire, as waters poured out in a steep place.

¹ Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds,––in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand.

¹² Wherefore, for your sake, Zion, as a field, shall be ploughed, and, Jerusalem, unto heaps of ruins, shall be turned,––and, the mountain of the house, shall [be] like mounds in a jungle.

¹ Alas for me! for I am become as gatherings of summer fruit, as gleaning–grapes in harvest, there is no cluster to eat, the first ripe fruit, my soul, craved.

³ Yahweh, is slow to anger, but great in vigour, He will not leave, unpunished, as for Yahweh, in storm–wind and in tempest, is his way, and, clouds, are the dust of his feet.

⁵ Mountains, have trembled because of him, and, the hills, have melted,––and the earth, hath lifted itself up, at his presence, the world also, and all who dwell therein. ⁶ Before his indignation, who shall stand? And who shall abide the glow of his anger? His wrath, hath been poured forth like fire, and, the rocks, have been broken down because of him.

³ The shield of his heroes, is made red, the men of war, are clad in crimson, on fire, are the chariot–steels, on the day he maketh ready,––and, the lances, are put in motion. ⁴ In the streets, madly go the chariots, they rush along in the broadways,––their appearance, is like torches, as lightnings, hither and thither do they run.

⁸ Then, swifter than leopards, are his horses, and, more sharply they attack, than evening wolves, and forward have leapt his chargers,––Yea, his chargers, from afar, will come in, they will fly as an eagle hath hastened to devour.

⁶ He hath stood and measured the earth, he hath looked, and caused nations to tremble, and, scattered as dust, are the perpetual mountains, and, sunk, are the age–abiding hills,––Forthgoings age–abiding, are his. ⁷ Under distress, saw I the tents of Ethiopia,––tremble, do the curtains of the land of Midian.

¹⁰ The mountains, have seen thee––they tremble, a downpour of waters, hath passed along,––the roaring deep, hath given forth, his voice, on high––his hand, hath he uplifted.

¹⁶ I heard, and I trembled within me, at the voice, my lips, quivered, decay, entered, my bones, and, in my limbs, I trembled,––though I am to find rest, in the day of distress, when their invader, cometh up against the people.

² I will take clean away everything from off the face of the ground, Declareth Yahweh. ³ I will take away man and beast, I will take away the bird of the heavens and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks, even them who are lawless,––and will cut off mankind, from off the face of the ground, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁰ And there shall come to be, in that day, declareth Yahweh, The noise of an outcry from the fish–gate, and of a howling out of the new city,––and of a great crashing, from the hills.

¹⁵ A day of indignation,––that day! day of danger and distress, day of rush, and of crash, day of obscurity, and deep gloom, day of cloud, and thick darkness; ¹⁶ day of horn, and war–shout,––against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.

² Ere yet the decree, have given birth, like chaff, the day, have vanished,––ere yet shall come upon you, the glow of the anger of Yahweh, ere yet shall come upon you, the day of the anger of Yahweh.

⁸ And I will bring them in, and they shall have their habitation in the midst of Jerusalem,––and shall become my people, and, I, will become their God, In faithfulness and in righteousness.

¹² Whose fan is in his hand, and he will clear out his threshing–floor,––and will gather his wheat into the granary, but, the chaff, will he burn up with fire unquenchable.

²⁸ And be not in fear, by reason of them that are killing the body,––and, the soul, are not able to kill. But fear, rather, him who is able, both soul and body, to destroy in gehenna!

³³ Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree worthless, and its fruit worthless; for, from the fruit, the tree is known.

⁷ And, some, fell upon the thorns, and the thorns came up, and choked it;

²² And, he among the thorns sown, the same, is he that, heareth the word,––and, the anxiety of the age and the deceit of riches, choke up the word, and, unfruitful, it becometh.

¹⁹ For, out of the heart, come forth wicked designs,––murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, profane speakings: ²⁰ these, are the things which defile the man, but, the eating with unwashed hands, doth not defile the man.

⁵ Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Lo! thy King, is coming unto thee, meek and mounted upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of a toiling ass.

¹⁶ Alas for you, blind guides! that say––Whosoever shall swear by the Temple, it is, nothing, but, whosoever shall swear by the gold of the Temple, is bound: ¹⁷ Foolish and blind! for which is, greater, The gold, or the Temple that hath hallowed the gold? ¹⁸ And, whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is, nothing, but, whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, is bound: ¹⁹ Blind! for which is greater, The gift, or the altar that halloweth the gift? ²⁰ He therefore that hath sworn by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all that is upon it; ²¹ And, he that hath sworn by the Temple, sweareth by it, and by him who dwelleth therein; ²² And, he that hath sworn by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him who sitteth thereupon. ²³ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye tithe the mint and the anise and the cummin,––and have dismissed the weightier matters of the law––the justice, the mercy, and the faith; whereas, these, it was binding, to do, and, those, not to, dismiss. ²⁴ Blind guides! Straining out the gnat, but, the camel, swallowing. ²⁵ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish,––while, within, they are full of plunder and intemperance. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! cleanse, first, the inside, of the cup [and of the dish], that, the outside thereof, may become, clean.

²⁶ Blind Pharisee! cleanse, first, the inside, of the cup [and of the dish], that, the outside thereof, may become, clean. ²⁷ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye make yourselves like sepulchres whitewashed, which, outside, indeed, appear, beautiful, but, within, are full, of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness,––

²⁹ But, straightway after the tribulation of those days, the sun, will be darkened, and, the moon, will not give her brightness, and, the stars, will fall from heaven,––and, the powers of the heavens, will be shaken; ³⁰ And, then, will be displayed––The sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and, then, will smite their breasts––all the tribes of the earth; and they will see the Son of Man––coming upon the clouds of heaven, with great power and glory.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth, shall pass away, but, my words, shall, in nowise, pass away.

⁴⁵ Now, from the sixth hour, darkness, came upon all the land––until the ninth hour.

⁷ And, some, fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and, fruit, it yielded not;

¹⁸ And others are they who among thorns are sown,––these are they who hear the word, ¹⁹ and, the anxieties of the age, and the deceit of wealth, and the covetings about the remaining things, entering in, choke up the word, and, unfruitful, it becometh;

⁴³ And, if thy hand shall cause thee to stumble, cut it off,––it is, seemly, for thee, maimed, to enter into life, rather than having, the two hands, to depart into the gehenna, into the fire that is not quenched; ⁴⁴ <> ⁴⁵ And, if thy foot be causing thee to stumble, cut it off,––it is, seemly, for thee, to enter into life, lame, rather than having, the two feet, to be cast into the gehenna; ⁴⁶ <> ⁴⁷ And, if thine eye be causing thee to stumble, thrust it out,––it is, seemly, for thee, one–eye, to enter into the kingdom of God, rather than having, two eyes, to be cast into gehenna, ⁴⁸ Where, their worm, dieth not, and, the fire, is not quenched, ⁴⁹ For, everyone, with fire, shall be salted. ⁵⁰ Salt is, good: but, if, salt, become, saltless, wherewith will ye, prepare, it? Have, within yourselves, salt, and be at peace, one with another.

²⁴ But, in those days, after that tribulation, the sun, shall be darkened, and, the moon, will not give her brightness, ²⁵ And, the stars, will, out of the heavens, be falling,––and, the powers which are in the heavens, will be shaken;

³³ And, when it was the sixth hour, darkness, came on all the land––until the ninth hour;

¹⁷ whose fan is in his hand, to clear out his threshing–floor, and to gather the wheat into his granary; but, the chaff, will he burn up with fire unquenchable.

⁷ And, other, fell and thorns; and, growing together, the thorns, choked it.

¹⁴ And, that which in among the thorns fell, these, are they who have heard; and, by anxieties and wealth and pleasures of life being borne along, are choked up, and bear not to perfection.

³⁹ And the Lord said unto him: Now, ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the tray, do make pure; but, your inward part, is full of plunder and wickedness.

⁸ And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, in that with forethought he acted:––Because, the sons of this age, have more forethought than the sons of light, respecting their own generation.

⁴¹ And, when he drew near, beholding the city, he wept over it, saying–– ⁴² If thou hadst got to know, in this day, even thou, the conditions of peace. . . But, now, are they hid from thine eyes: ⁴³ Because days will have come upon thee, that thine enemies will throw around a rampart against thee, and enclose thee; and hem thee in from every side,–– ⁴⁴ And will level thee with the ground, and thy children within thee, and will not leave, stone on stone, within thee: because thou didst not get to know the season of thy visitation.

²⁰ But whensoever ye shall see Jerusalem, encompassed by armies, then, know, that her desolation hath drawn near. ²¹ Then they who are in Judaea, let them flee into the mountains, and they who are in her midst, let them go forth,––and they who are in the fields, let them not enter into her; ²² For, days of avenging, are, these, for all the things written to be fulfilled. ²³ Alas! for the women with child, and for them who are giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land, and anger against this people. 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]. ²⁵ And there will he signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and, on the earth, anguish of nations in embarrassment––sea and surge resounding,–– ²⁶ Men fainting, from fear and expectation of the things overtaking the inhabited earth. For, the powers of the heavens, will be shaken.

³⁰ Then, will they begin to say––unto the mountains, Fall upon us! and unto the hills, Cover us!

⁴⁴ And it was already about the sixth hour, and, darkness, came upon the whole land, until the ninth hour,––

³ And, these things, will they do, because they got to know, neither the Father nor me.

¹⁹ And I will set forth wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath,––blood and fire and vapour of smoke: ²⁰ The sun, shall be turned into darkness and, the moon, into blood,––before the coming of the day of the Lord, the great and manifest [day];

²² Repent, therefore, from this thy baseness, and entreat of the Lord––whether, after all, the purpose of thy heart shall be forgiven thee;

⁴¹ See, ye despisers, and marvel, and disappear: in that, a work, am, I, working in your days,––a work, which in nowise will ye believe, though one relate it in full unto you.

²¹ Inasmuch as, having come to know God, not, as God, did they glorify him, or give him thanks, but were made fruitless in their reasonings, and darkened was their undiscerning heart, ²² Professing to be wise, they were made foolish,

²⁴ Wherefore God gave them up in the covetings of their hearts unto impurity, so as to be dishonouring their bodies among them,––

²⁶ For this cause, God gave them up unto dishonourable passions; for, even their females, exchanged away the natural use into that which is against nature,––

²⁸ And, even as they did not approve to be holding, God, in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a disapproved mind to be doing the things that are not becoming,

²⁸ For, not he who is one in appearance, is a Jew, nor is, that which is such in appearance in flesh, circumcision; ²⁹ But, he who is one in secret, is a Jew,––and, [that is], circumcision, which is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter,––whose, praise, is not of men, but of God.

¹¹ There is none that discerneth, There is none that seeketh out God:

² That I have great grief and incessant travail in my heart; ³ For I could have wished to be accursed, even I myself, from the Christ, in behalf of my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh; ––

²⁷ Isaiah, moreover, exclaimeth over Israel––Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant, shall be saved; ²⁸ For, a complete and concise account, will the Lord make upon the earth. ²⁹ And, even as Isaiah hath before said,––If, the Lord of hosts, had not left us a seed, as Sodom, had we become, and, as Gomorrha, had we been made like.

¹ Brethren! the delight of my own heart and my supplication God–ward in their behalf, are for salvation;

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! ⁷ What then? That which Israel seeketh after, the same, it hath not obtained:––the election, however, have obtained it, and, the rest, have been hardened; ––

¹⁹ For, your obedience, unto all hath reached,––over you, therefore, I rejoice! But I wish you––to be wise, [indeed], as to that which is good, yet pure, as to that which is evil.

²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ²¹ For, seeing that, in the wisdom of God, the world, through its wisdom, did not get to knew God, God was well–pleased––through the foolishness of the thing proclaimed, to save them that believe.

³¹ In order that, even as it is written––He that boasteth, in the Lord, let him boast.

²⁰ And again––The Lord taketh note of the speculations of the wise, that they are vain.

¹⁶ For, if I be telling the glad–message, it is, with me, no matter of boasting; for, necessity, upon me, lieth,––for it is, Woe to me, if I should not be telling the glad–message;

²⁰ Brethren! do not become children, in your understandings; but, in baseness, become babes, while, in your understandings, ye become, full–grown.

¹⁷ He that boasteth, however, in the Lord, let him boast;

⁸ And, the scripture, foreseeing, that, by faith, God would declare the nations righteous, fore–announced the good news unto Abraham, saying, All the nations shall be blessed in thee.

¹⁹ My dear children! for whom I, again, am in birth–pains, until Christ be formed within you; ––

⁷ Be not deceiving yourselves! God, is not to be mocked; for, whatsoever a man soweth, the same, shall he also reap,–– ⁸ Because, he that soweth into his own flesh, out of the flesh, shall reap corruption, whereas, he that soweth into the Spirit, out of the Spirit, shall reap age–abiding life.

⁹ making known to us the sacred secret of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him,––

¹¹ In whom also we were taken as an inheritance, according to the purpose of him who energiseth all things according to the counsel of his will,

²² That ye were to strip off––as regardeth the former behaviour––the old man, who corrupteth himself according to his deceitful covetings, ²³ And were to be getting young again in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness. ²⁵ Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another; ²⁶ Be ye angry, and not committing sin, let not the sun be going down upon your angry mood, ²⁷ Neither be giving place unto the adversary; ²⁸ Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling,––working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have [wherewith] to be giving away to him that hath need; ²⁹ Let, no putrid discourse, out of your mouth, be going forth, but if anything is good––suited to the needful upbuilding,––that it may give benefit unto them that hear; ³⁰ And be not grieving the Holy Spirit of God, wherewith ye have been sealed unto a day of redemption; ³¹ All bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and outcry, and profane speaking, let it be taken away from you, with all baseness;

³ For, we, are the circumcision, who in the Spirit of God, are doing divine service, and are boasting in Christ Jesus, and, not in flesh, having confidence,––

¹¹ In whom, ye have also been circumcised with a circumcision not done by hand, in the despoiling of the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ,––

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 Who, indeed, a penalty, shall pay––age–abiding destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might––

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,–– ¹² In order that should be judged who would not believe in the truth, but were well–pleased with the unrighteousness.

³ how shall, we, escape, if, so great a salvation as this, we have neglected,––which, indeed, having received, a beginning, of being spoken through the Lord, by them who heard, unto us was confirmed,

²¹ For, they, indeed, apart from oath–taking, have been made priests, but, he, with an oath–taking, through him that was saying unto him––The Lord sware, and will not regret,––Thou, art a priest, age–abidingly

⁸ Draw near unto God, and he will draw near unto you. Cleanse hands, sinners! Chasten hearts, double souls!

⁷ Lo! he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, such also as pierced him; and all the tribes of the land shall smite themselves for him. Yea! Amen.

¹² And I saw, when he opened the sixth seal, that a, great earthquake, took place; and, the sun, became black as sackcloth of hair, and, the full moon, became as blood,

¹⁵ And, the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rulers of thousands, and the rich, and the mighty, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves within the caves and within the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶ and they say, unto the mountains and unto the rocks––Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb; ¹⁷ Because the great day of their anger is come, and who is able to stand?

² with whom the kings of the earth committed lewdness,––and they who were dwelling upon the earth were made drunk with the wine of her lewdness.

⁴ And, the woman, was arrayed with purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls,––having a cup of gold in her hand, full of abominations and the impurities of her lewdness;

¹³ These, have, one mind, and, their power and authority, unto the wild–beast, they give.

¹⁶ And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the wild–beast, these, shall hate the harlot, and, desolate, shall make her, and naked, and, her flesh, shall they eat, and, herself, shall they burn up with fire. ¹⁷ For, God, hath put into their hearts, to do his mind, and to do one mind,––and to give their sovereignty unto the wild–beast, until the words of God shall be completed. ¹⁸ And, the woman whom thou sawest, is the great city, which hath sovereignty over the kings of the earth.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him that was sitting thereon, from whose face fled the earth and heaven, and, place, was not found for them.