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HO TO EPHRAYIM
Ho, to the crown of pomp - to the intoxicated of Ephrayim whose adornment of splendor is a withering blossom on the head of the valleys of ointment of them who are hammered with wine! 2 Behold, might and strength to Adonay - as a tempest of hail and a ruinous whirling; as a flood of many waters overflowing set to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pomp - the intoxicated of Ephrayim are trampled under foot: 4 and the adornment of splendor on the head of the valley of ointment is a withering blossom, - as the firstfruits ere the summer; which when he who sees, sees; and while it is yet in his palm, swallows. 5 In that day, Yah Veh Sabaoth becomes for a crown of splendor; and for a corona of adornment to the survivors of his people; 6 and for a spirit of judgment to him sitting in judgment; and for might to them turning the war to the portal. 7 And even they, through wine, err inadvertently; and through intoxicants, stagger; the priest and the prophet, through intoxicants, err inadvertently - swallowed by wine: they stagger through intoxicants; they err inadvertently in sight; they waver in judgment. 8 For all tables are filled with vomit and dung, without a clean place. 9 By whom teaches he knowledge? And by whom discerns he the report? By those weaned from the milk - weaned from the breasts. 10 For misvah upon misvah, misvah upon misvah; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little: 11 for with jeering lips and another tongue he words to this people 12 - to whom he says, This is the rest! Rest the languid; and, This is the rest! - yet they will to not hear. 13 And the word of Yah Veh is to them - misvah upon misvah, misvah upon misvah; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; so that they go and falter backward, - broken and snared and captured. 14 So hear the word of Yah Veh, you scornful men who reign over this people in Yeru Shalem: 15 because you say, We cut a covenant with death and with sheol we work seers: when the overflowing whip passes through, it comes not to us: for we set lies our refuge, and under falsehood we hide ourselves. 16 So Adonay Yah Veh says thus, Behold, I lay a stone in Siyon for a foundation - a proofed stone; an esteemed corner; a founded foundation: he who trusts, hastens not. 17 And I set judgment to the line and justness to the plumb line: and the hail snatches away the refuge of lies, and the waters overflow the covert: 18 and your covenant with death is kapared/atoned and your vision with sheol rises not; when the overflowing whip passes through, then you become trampled thereby. 19 As often as it passes over, it takes you: for morning by morning it passes over - by day and by night: and it becomes an agitation even to discern the report: 20 for the bed is shorter than to spread thereon: and the covering narrower than to enfold therein. 21 For Yah Veh rises as the mount of breaches, he quivers as Gay Gibon, to work his work - his strange work; and serve his service -his strange service. 22 So now be not translators, lest your bonds be strengthened: for from Adonay Yah Veh Sabaoth I heard the final finish appointed on the whole earth. 23 You, hearken, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my saying. 24 Plows the plower all day to seed? Opens and harrows he his soil? 25 When he equalizes the face, scatters he not the fennelflowers? And scatters the cummin and sets the wheat in rows? And the designated barley and the spelt in their border? 26 For his Elohim disciplines him to judgment, and teaches him: 27 for neither are the fennelflowers threshed with a sickle, nor a wagon wheel turned around on the cummin; for the fennelflowers are threshed with a rod and the cummin with a scion. 28 Bread is pulverized; because in threshing, he neither threshes in perpetuity nor crushes with the wheel of his wagon nor pulverizes with his cavalry. 29 This also comes from Yah Veh Sabaoth, - marvellous in counsel and greatened in support.
HO TO EPHRAYIM
Ho, to the crown of pomp - to the intoxicated of Ephrayim whose adornment of splendor is a withering blossom on the head of the valleys of ointment of them who are hammered with wine! 2 Behold, might and strength to Adonay - as a tempest of hail and a ruinous whirling; as a flood of many waters overflowing set to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pomp - the intoxicated of Ephrayim are trampled under foot: 4 and the adornment of splendor on the head of the valley of ointment is a withering blossom, - as the firstfruits ere the summer; which when he who sees, sees; and while it is yet in his palm, swallows. 5 In that day, Yah Veh Sabaoth becomes for a crown of splendor; and for a corona of adornment to the survivors of his people; 6 and for a spirit of judgment to him sitting in judgment; and for might to them turning the war to the portal. 7 And even they, through wine, err inadvertently; and through intoxicants, stagger; the priest and the prophet, through intoxicants, err inadvertently - swallowed by wine: they stagger through intoxicants; they err inadvertently in sight; they waver in judgment. 8 For all tables are filled with vomit and dung, without a clean place. 9 By whom teaches he knowledge? And by whom discerns he the report? By those weaned from the milk - weaned from the breasts. 10 For misvah upon misvah, misvah upon misvah; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little: 11 for with jeering lips and another tongue he words to this people 12 - to whom he says, This is the rest! Rest the languid; and, This is the rest! - yet they will to not hear. 13 And the word of Yah Veh is to them - misvah upon misvah, misvah upon misvah; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; so that they go and falter backward, - broken and snared and captured. 14 So hear the word of Yah Veh, you scornful men who reign over this people in Yeru Shalem: 15 because you say, We cut a covenant with death and with sheol we work seers: when the overflowing whip passes through, it comes not to us: for we set lies our refuge, and under falsehood we hide ourselves. 16 So Adonay Yah Veh says thus, Behold, I lay a stone in Siyon for a foundation - a proofed stone; an esteemed corner; a founded foundation: he who trusts, hastens not. 17 And I set judgment to the line and justness to the plumb line: and the hail snatches away the refuge of lies, and the waters overflow the covert: 18 and your covenant with death is kapared/atoned and your vision with sheol rises not; when the overflowing whip passes through, then you become trampled thereby. 19 As often as it passes over, it takes you: for morning by morning it passes over - by day and by night: and it becomes an agitation even to discern the report: 20 for the bed is shorter than to spread thereon: and the covering narrower than to enfold therein. 21 For Yah Veh rises as the mount of breaches, he quivers as Gay Gibon, to work his work - his strange work; and serve his service -his strange service. 22 So now be not translators, lest your bonds be strengthened: for from Adonay Yah Veh Sabaoth I heard the final finish appointed on the whole earth. 23 You, hearken, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my saying. 24 Plows the plower all day to seed? Opens and harrows he his soil? 25 When he equalizes the face, scatters he not the fennelflowers? And scatters the cummin and sets the wheat in rows? And the designated barley and the spelt in their border? 26 For his Elohim disciplines him to judgment, and teaches him: 27 for neither are the fennelflowers threshed with a sickle, nor a wagon wheel turned around on the cummin; for the fennelflowers are threshed with a rod and the cummin with a scion. 28 Bread is pulverized; because in threshing, he neither threshes in perpetuity nor crushes with the wheel of his wagon nor pulverizes with his cavalry. 29 This also comes from Yah Veh Sabaoth, - marvellous in counsel and greatened in support.