ECB(i)
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THE HANDIWORK OF ENGRAVERS
Hear the word, O house of Yisra El, which Yah Veh words to you: 2 thus says Yah Veh, Neither learn the way of the goyim nor dismay at the signs of the heavens; for the goyim dismay at them: 3 for the statutes of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree from the forest - the work of the hands of the engraver with the ax: 4 they beautify with silver and with gold; they strengthen with nails and with hammers so that it wiggles not: 5 round as the palm tree, but word not: in bearing, they bear, because they pace not. Awe them not, for they vilify not; yes, it is not in them to well-please. 6 Because there is no one like you, O Yah Veh; you are great, and your name is great in might. 7 Who awes you not, O Sovereign of goyim? For it becomes you: for among all the wise of the goyim, and in all their sovereigndoms, there is no one like you. 8 And as one, they are brutish and foolish: the tree is a discipline of vanities. 9 They bring expanded silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz - the work of the engraver and of the hands of the refiner: blue and purple is their robe: they are all the work of wise. 10 And Yah Veh is the Elohim of truth; he is the living Elohim and eternal sovereign: the earth quakes at his rage and the goyim contain not his rage. 11 Thus you say to them, The elah who made not the heavens and the earth destructs from the earth and from under these heavens. 12 He worked the earth by his force; he established the world by his wisdom; and spread the heavens by his discernment. 13 He gives his voice; there is a multitude of waters in the heavens: and he ascends the vapours from the ends of the earth: he works lightnings with rain and brings forth the wind from his treasures. 14 All humanity is brutish in knowledge: every refiner is shamed by the sculptile: for his libation is falsehood and there is no spirit in them: 15 they are vanity, the work of frauds: in the time of their visitation they destruct. 16 The allotment of Yaaqov is not like them: for he is the former of all; and Yisra El is the scion of his inheritance: Yah Veh Sabaoth is his name. 17 Gather up your bundles from the land, O settler of the siege: 18 for thus says Yah Veh, Behold, I sling out the settlers of the land at one time and tribulate them that they are found out. 19 Woe to me for my breech; my wound is stricken; and I say, Surely this is a stroke for me to bear. 20 My tent is ravaged and all my cords are torn: my sons are gone from me, and they are not: there is no one to spread my tent any more and to raise my curtains: 21 for the tenders are stupid and seek not Yah Veh: so they comprehend not and all their pastures are scattered. 22 The voice of the report! Behold, it comes! Even a great quake from the north land to set the cities of Yah Hudah desolate - a habitation of monsters. 23 O Yah Veh, I know that the way of humanity is not within humanity: it is not within man who walks to establish his paces. 24 O Yah Veh, correct me; only with judgment; not in your wrath; lest you diminish me. 25 Pour your fury on the goyim who know you not, and on the families who call not on your name: for they consume Yaaqov - consume him and finish him off and desolate his habitation of rest.
THE HANDIWORK OF ENGRAVERS
Hear the word, O house of Yisra El, which Yah Veh words to you: 2 thus says Yah Veh, Neither learn the way of the goyim nor dismay at the signs of the heavens; for the goyim dismay at them: 3 for the statutes of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree from the forest - the work of the hands of the engraver with the ax: 4 they beautify with silver and with gold; they strengthen with nails and with hammers so that it wiggles not: 5 round as the palm tree, but word not: in bearing, they bear, because they pace not. Awe them not, for they vilify not; yes, it is not in them to well-please. 6 Because there is no one like you, O Yah Veh; you are great, and your name is great in might. 7 Who awes you not, O Sovereign of goyim? For it becomes you: for among all the wise of the goyim, and in all their sovereigndoms, there is no one like you. 8 And as one, they are brutish and foolish: the tree is a discipline of vanities. 9 They bring expanded silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz - the work of the engraver and of the hands of the refiner: blue and purple is their robe: they are all the work of wise. 10 And Yah Veh is the Elohim of truth; he is the living Elohim and eternal sovereign: the earth quakes at his rage and the goyim contain not his rage. 11 Thus you say to them, The elah who made not the heavens and the earth destructs from the earth and from under these heavens. 12 He worked the earth by his force; he established the world by his wisdom; and spread the heavens by his discernment. 13 He gives his voice; there is a multitude of waters in the heavens: and he ascends the vapours from the ends of the earth: he works lightnings with rain and brings forth the wind from his treasures. 14 All humanity is brutish in knowledge: every refiner is shamed by the sculptile: for his libation is falsehood and there is no spirit in them: 15 they are vanity, the work of frauds: in the time of their visitation they destruct. 16 The allotment of Yaaqov is not like them: for he is the former of all; and Yisra El is the scion of his inheritance: Yah Veh Sabaoth is his name. 17 Gather up your bundles from the land, O settler of the siege: 18 for thus says Yah Veh, Behold, I sling out the settlers of the land at one time and tribulate them that they are found out. 19 Woe to me for my breech; my wound is stricken; and I say, Surely this is a stroke for me to bear. 20 My tent is ravaged and all my cords are torn: my sons are gone from me, and they are not: there is no one to spread my tent any more and to raise my curtains: 21 for the tenders are stupid and seek not Yah Veh: so they comprehend not and all their pastures are scattered. 22 The voice of the report! Behold, it comes! Even a great quake from the north land to set the cities of Yah Hudah desolate - a habitation of monsters. 23 O Yah Veh, I know that the way of humanity is not within humanity: it is not within man who walks to establish his paces. 24 O Yah Veh, correct me; only with judgment; not in your wrath; lest you diminish me. 25 Pour your fury on the goyim who know you not, and on the families who call not on your name: for they consume Yaaqov - consume him and finish him off and desolate his habitation of rest.