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THE SEARCH FOR THE MAN WHO WORKS JUDGMENT
Flit through the outways of Yeru Shalem; and see, I beseech, and know; and seek in the broadways - if you find a man - if there be any who work judgment - who seek trustworthiness; and I forgive. 2 And if they say, Yah Veh lives! - surely they oath falsely. 3 O Yah Veh, are not your eyes on trustworthiness? you smite them, and they writhe not; you finish them off, and they refuse to take correction: they toughen their faces as a rock; they refuse to return. 4 And I - I say, Surely these are poor; they folly: for they know neither the way of Yah Veh nor the judgment of their Elohim. 5 I go to the great and word to them - for they know the way of Yah Veh and the judgment of their Elohim: surely these altogether broke the yoke; they tore the bonds. 6 So a lion from the forest smites them; a wolf from the plains ravages them; a leopard watches over their cities; every one who comes out thence is torn - because their rebellions abound by the myriads and their apostasies are mighty. 7 How forgive I you for this? Your sons forsake me, and oath by them who are non-elohim: when I oath them, they adulterize and troop in the whore houses: 8 they wander as nourished horses; every man sounds after the woman of his friend. 9 Visit I not for these? - an oracle of Yah Veh and avenge I not my soul on such a goyim as this? 10 You, ascend on her fortifications, and ruin; and work not a final finish: turn aside her tendrils; for they are not of Yah Veh. 11 For the house of Yisra El and the house of Yah Hudah in dealing covertly, deal covertly against me - an oracle of Yah Veh. 12 They disown Yah Veh, and say, Not him! Neither comes evil on us nor see we sword or famine: 13 and the prophets become wind/spirit, and the word is not in them: thus is it worked to them. 14 So thus says Yah Veh Elohim Sabaoth, Because you word this word, behold, I give my words in your mouth, fire, and this people, timber, and it consumes them. 15 Behold, I bring a goyim on you from afar, O house of Yisra El, - an oracle of Yah Veh - a perennial goyim - an eternal goyim - a goyim - you neither know their tongue nor hear their word: 16 their quiver is as an open tomb; they all are mighty: 17 and they eat your harvest and your bread which your sons and your daughters eat: they eat your flocks and your herds; they eat your vines and your fig trees; they impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you confide, with the sword. 18 And even in those days, - an oracle of Yah Veh I work not a final finish with you. 19 And so be it, when you say, Why works Yah Veh our Elohim all these to us? then you say to them, As you forsook me and served strange elohim in your land, thus you serve strangers in a land that is not yours. 20 Tell this in the house of Yaaqov, and have it heard in Yah Hudah, saying, 21 Hear this, I beseech, O foolish people, and without heart; having eyes, and seeing not; having ears, and hearing not: 22 Awe you not me? - an oracle of Yah Veh: Writhe you not at my face - who set the sand for the border of the sea by an eternal statute, that it not pass? And though the waves agitate, yet they prevail not? And though they roar, yet they pass not over it? 23 And this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they turn aside and go on; 24 they say not in their heart, We now awe Yah Veh our Elohim - who gives downpour - both the early and the after in his time: he guards to us the statute weeks of the harvest. 25 Your perversities pervert and your sins withhold good from you: 26 for wicked are found among my people: they observe, as he who weaves snares; they station a ruin, they captivate men: 27 as a cage full of flyers, thus are their houses full of deceit: so they greaten and enrich; 28 they fatten; they shine: yes, they overpass the words of the evil: they plead not the cause - the cause of the orphan, yet they prosper; and the judgment of the needy they judge not. 29 Visit I not for these? - an oracle of Yah Veh: Avenge I not my soul on such a goyim as this? 30 Desolation and horror is in the land: 31 the prophets prophesy falsely and the priests subjugate by their hands; and thus my people love it. And what work you in the end?
THE SEARCH FOR THE MAN WHO WORKS JUDGMENT
Flit through the outways of Yeru Shalem; and see, I beseech, and know; and seek in the broadways - if you find a man - if there be any who work judgment - who seek trustworthiness; and I forgive. 2 And if they say, Yah Veh lives! - surely they oath falsely. 3 O Yah Veh, are not your eyes on trustworthiness? you smite them, and they writhe not; you finish them off, and they refuse to take correction: they toughen their faces as a rock; they refuse to return. 4 And I - I say, Surely these are poor; they folly: for they know neither the way of Yah Veh nor the judgment of their Elohim. 5 I go to the great and word to them - for they know the way of Yah Veh and the judgment of their Elohim: surely these altogether broke the yoke; they tore the bonds. 6 So a lion from the forest smites them; a wolf from the plains ravages them; a leopard watches over their cities; every one who comes out thence is torn - because their rebellions abound by the myriads and their apostasies are mighty. 7 How forgive I you for this? Your sons forsake me, and oath by them who are non-elohim: when I oath them, they adulterize and troop in the whore houses: 8 they wander as nourished horses; every man sounds after the woman of his friend. 9 Visit I not for these? - an oracle of Yah Veh and avenge I not my soul on such a goyim as this? 10 You, ascend on her fortifications, and ruin; and work not a final finish: turn aside her tendrils; for they are not of Yah Veh. 11 For the house of Yisra El and the house of Yah Hudah in dealing covertly, deal covertly against me - an oracle of Yah Veh. 12 They disown Yah Veh, and say, Not him! Neither comes evil on us nor see we sword or famine: 13 and the prophets become wind/spirit, and the word is not in them: thus is it worked to them. 14 So thus says Yah Veh Elohim Sabaoth, Because you word this word, behold, I give my words in your mouth, fire, and this people, timber, and it consumes them. 15 Behold, I bring a goyim on you from afar, O house of Yisra El, - an oracle of Yah Veh - a perennial goyim - an eternal goyim - a goyim - you neither know their tongue nor hear their word: 16 their quiver is as an open tomb; they all are mighty: 17 and they eat your harvest and your bread which your sons and your daughters eat: they eat your flocks and your herds; they eat your vines and your fig trees; they impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you confide, with the sword. 18 And even in those days, - an oracle of Yah Veh I work not a final finish with you. 19 And so be it, when you say, Why works Yah Veh our Elohim all these to us? then you say to them, As you forsook me and served strange elohim in your land, thus you serve strangers in a land that is not yours. 20 Tell this in the house of Yaaqov, and have it heard in Yah Hudah, saying, 21 Hear this, I beseech, O foolish people, and without heart; having eyes, and seeing not; having ears, and hearing not: 22 Awe you not me? - an oracle of Yah Veh: Writhe you not at my face - who set the sand for the border of the sea by an eternal statute, that it not pass? And though the waves agitate, yet they prevail not? And though they roar, yet they pass not over it? 23 And this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they turn aside and go on; 24 they say not in their heart, We now awe Yah Veh our Elohim - who gives downpour - both the early and the after in his time: he guards to us the statute weeks of the harvest. 25 Your perversities pervert and your sins withhold good from you: 26 for wicked are found among my people: they observe, as he who weaves snares; they station a ruin, they captivate men: 27 as a cage full of flyers, thus are their houses full of deceit: so they greaten and enrich; 28 they fatten; they shine: yes, they overpass the words of the evil: they plead not the cause - the cause of the orphan, yet they prosper; and the judgment of the needy they judge not. 29 Visit I not for these? - an oracle of Yah Veh: Avenge I not my soul on such a goyim as this? 30 Desolation and horror is in the land: 31 the prophets prophesy falsely and the priests subjugate by their hands; and thus my people love it. And what work you in the end?