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HO TO THE RAVAGER
Ho to you who ravage, and are not ravaged; who deal covertly, and are not dealt covertly: when you consummate ravaging, they ravage you; and when you end dealing covertly, they deal covertly with you. 2 O Yah Veh, grant us charism; we await you: become their arm mornings, and our salvation in the time of tribulation. 3 At the voice of the multitude the people flee; at your exaltation the goyim scatter: 4 and gather your spoil as the ingathering of the caterpiller: as the running about of locusts he yearns on them. 5 Yah Veh is exalted; for he tabernacles on high: he fills Siyon with judgment and justness: 6 and wisdom and knowledge become the trustworthiness of your times and wealth of salvation: the awe of Yah Veh is his treasure. 7 Behold, their heros cry outwardly; the angels of shalom weep bitterly; 8 the highways lie desolate; the passers of the way shabbathize: he breaks the covenant; he spurns the cities; he fabricates no man. 9 The earth mourns and languishes; Lebanon blushes and withers; Sharon is as a plain; and Bashan and Karmel/orchard shake. 10 Now I rise, says Yah Veh; now I am exalted; now I am lifted. 11 You conceive hay, you birth stubble: your spirit, as fire, consumes you: 12 and the people become as the calcinations of lime - as thorns cut up - burned in the fire. 13 Hear, you who are far off, what I worked; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Siyon fear; trembling holds the profaners. Who among us sojourns with the consuming fire? Who among us sojourns with eternal burnings? 15 He who walks in justness and words straightly; he who spurns the gain of oppressions; who shakes his palms from upholding bribes; who shuts his ears from hearing of blood and binds his eyes from seeing evil: 16 he tabernacles on high; his secure loft, the huntholds of rocks: he is given bread; his waters are trustworthy. 17 Your eyes see the sovereign in his beauty; they see a land afar off: 18 your heart meditates terror. Where is the scribe? Where is the weigher? Where is he who scribed the towers? 19 You see not an obstinate people - a people of a lip too deep to hear; of a deriding tongue that you understand not. 20 See on Siyon, the city of our seasons: your eyes see Yeru Shalem - a habitation of rest and relaxation - a tent that neither migrates nor one of the stakes pulled in perpetuity nor any of the cords torn. 21 But there mighty Yah Veh is to us a place of rivers -rivers broad of hand; wherein neither ships with oars go nor mighty ships pass thereby. 22 For Yah Veh our judge; Yah Veh our statute setter; Yah Veh our sovereign; he saves us. 23 Your cords are abandoned; they neither hold the base of their mast nor spread the sail: then they allot the prey of a great spoil: and the lame plunder the plunder: 24 and the fellow tabernacler says not, I am sick: the people who settle therein bear their perversity.
HO TO THE RAVAGER
Ho to you who ravage, and are not ravaged; who deal covertly, and are not dealt covertly: when you consummate ravaging, they ravage you; and when you end dealing covertly, they deal covertly with you. 2 O Yah Veh, grant us charism; we await you: become their arm mornings, and our salvation in the time of tribulation. 3 At the voice of the multitude the people flee; at your exaltation the goyim scatter: 4 and gather your spoil as the ingathering of the caterpiller: as the running about of locusts he yearns on them. 5 Yah Veh is exalted; for he tabernacles on high: he fills Siyon with judgment and justness: 6 and wisdom and knowledge become the trustworthiness of your times and wealth of salvation: the awe of Yah Veh is his treasure. 7 Behold, their heros cry outwardly; the angels of shalom weep bitterly; 8 the highways lie desolate; the passers of the way shabbathize: he breaks the covenant; he spurns the cities; he fabricates no man. 9 The earth mourns and languishes; Lebanon blushes and withers; Sharon is as a plain; and Bashan and Karmel/orchard shake. 10 Now I rise, says Yah Veh; now I am exalted; now I am lifted. 11 You conceive hay, you birth stubble: your spirit, as fire, consumes you: 12 and the people become as the calcinations of lime - as thorns cut up - burned in the fire. 13 Hear, you who are far off, what I worked; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Siyon fear; trembling holds the profaners. Who among us sojourns with the consuming fire? Who among us sojourns with eternal burnings? 15 He who walks in justness and words straightly; he who spurns the gain of oppressions; who shakes his palms from upholding bribes; who shuts his ears from hearing of blood and binds his eyes from seeing evil: 16 he tabernacles on high; his secure loft, the huntholds of rocks: he is given bread; his waters are trustworthy. 17 Your eyes see the sovereign in his beauty; they see a land afar off: 18 your heart meditates terror. Where is the scribe? Where is the weigher? Where is he who scribed the towers? 19 You see not an obstinate people - a people of a lip too deep to hear; of a deriding tongue that you understand not. 20 See on Siyon, the city of our seasons: your eyes see Yeru Shalem - a habitation of rest and relaxation - a tent that neither migrates nor one of the stakes pulled in perpetuity nor any of the cords torn. 21 But there mighty Yah Veh is to us a place of rivers -rivers broad of hand; wherein neither ships with oars go nor mighty ships pass thereby. 22 For Yah Veh our judge; Yah Veh our statute setter; Yah Veh our sovereign; he saves us. 23 Your cords are abandoned; they neither hold the base of their mast nor spread the sail: then they allot the prey of a great spoil: and the lame plunder the plunder: 24 and the fellow tabernacler says not, I am sick: the people who settle therein bear their perversity.