Lamentations 2 Cross References - ECB

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THE SECOND LAMENTATION
How Adonay overclouds the daughter of Siyon in his wrath; - casts the beauty of Yisra El from the heavens to the earth; and remembers not the stool of his feet in the day of his wrath! ² Adonay swallows all the folds of Yaaqov and spares not; in his fury he demolishes the fortresses of the daughter of Yah Hudah; he touches them to the earth; he profanes the sovereigndom and the governors; ³ in his fuming wrath he cuts off all the horn of Yisra El; he turns back his right from the face of the enemy; and he burns against Yaaqov as a flaming fire - consuming all around: ⁴ he bends his bow as an enemy; he stations with his right as a tribulator and slaughters all who are a desire to the eye in the tent of the daughter of Siyon; he pours out his fury as fire. ⁵ Adonay, as an enemy, swallows Yisra El, he swallows all her citadels; he ruins his fortresses; and abounds mourning and sighing in the daughter of Yah Hudah: ⁶ he violates his sukkoth/brush arbor as a garden; he ruins his seasons; Yah Veh has the seasons and shabbaths to be forgotten in Siyon; and in the rage of his wrath scorns the sovereign and the priest: ⁷ Adonay casts off his sacrifice altar; he rejects his holies; he shuts the walls of her citadels to the hand of the enemy; they give voice in the house of Yah Veh as in the day of seasons. ⁸ Yah Veh machinates to ruin the wall of the daughter of Siyon: he spreads a line; he turns not back his hand from swallowing; and he has the trench and the wall lament; they languish together: ⁹ her portals sink into the earth; he destroys and breaks her bars; her sovereign and her governors are among the goyim; the torah is not; her prophets also find no vision from Yah Veh: ¹⁰ the elders of the daughter of Siyon settle on the earth and hush; they ascend dust on their heads; they girt themselves with saq; the virgins of Yeru Shalem lower their heads to the earth. ¹¹ My eyes finish off with tears; my inwards foam; my liver pours on the earth for the breech of the daughter of my people; because the infants and the sucklings languish in the broadways of the city. ¹² They say to their mothers, Where are crop and wine? - as they languish as the pierced in the broadways of the city; as their soul pours into the bosom of their mothers. ¹³ What take I to witness for you? What liken I to you, O daughter of Yeru Shalem? What equate I to you, so that I sigh over you, O virgin daughter of Siyon? For your breach is great as the sea; who heals you? ¹⁴ Your prophets see your vanity and your slime; and they expose not your perversity to turn your captivity; but see for you vain burdens and seductions. ¹⁵ All who pass by the way clap their palms at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Yeru Shalem, Is this the city of whom is said, Total beauty? - the joy of the whole earth? ¹⁶ All your enemies gasp their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We swallowed her! Surely this is the day we awaited! We found! We saw! ¹⁷ Yah Veh works what he intrigued; he cut the saying he commanded in the days of antiquity; he demolished and spared not; and he has your enemy to cheer over you: he lifts the horn of your tribulators. ¹⁸ Their heart cries to Adonay, O wall of the daughter of Siyon, they cascade tears as a wadi day and night; give yourself no breather; may the daughter of your eye not be stilled. ¹⁹ Rise! Cry out in the night, in the head of the watches; pour your heart as water at the face of Adonay; lift your palms toward him for the soul of your infants who languish for famine in the top of all the outways. ²⁰ See, O Yah Veh, and look to whom you thus exploit. Are the women to eat their fruit - infants of a palm span? - priest and the prophet slaughtered in the holies of Adonay? ²¹ The lad and the aged lie on the earth in the outways; my virgins and my young men fall by the sword; you slaughter them in the day of your wrath - slaughter and spare not. ²² You call as in a day of season my terrors all around, so that in the day of the wrath of Yah Veh there is neither escapee nor survivor; they whom I palm spanned and abounded my enemy consumed.

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YAH VEH REVEALS HIS GLORY
And Mosheh strokes the face of Yah Veh his Elohim and says, O Yah Veh, why kindle your wrath against your people whom you brought from the land of Misrayim with great force and with a strong hand?

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DISCIPLINE OF DISOBEDIENCE
And if you hearken not to me and work not all these misvoth; ¹⁵ and if you spurn my statutes or if your soul loathes my judgments; so that you work not all my misvoth to break my covenant ¹⁶ - I also work this to you: I visit terror over you - emaciation and the burning ague to finish off the eyes; and moping of soul: and you seed your seed in vain for your enemies to eat. ¹⁷ And I give my face against you, that you become smitten at the face of your enemies: that they who hate you subjugate you; and that you flee when none pursues you. ¹⁸ And if you yet for all this hearken not to me I add to discipline you seven times for your sins: ¹⁹ and I break the pomp of your strength; and I give your heavens as iron and your earth as copper: ²⁰ and your force consumes in vain: neither your land gives her produce nor the trees of the land give their fruits. ²¹ And if you walk contrary to me and hearken not to me; I add seven strokes on you according to your sins: ²² and I send live beings of the field among you to bereave you and cut your animals and diminish you and desolate your ways. ²³ And if by these, you are not disciplined by me, and walk contrary to me, ²⁴ then I also walk contrary to you and smite you yet seven for your sins: ²⁵ and I bring a sword on you to avenge the avenging of my covenant: and when you gather to your cities, I send the pestilence among you; that you become given into the hand of the enemy: ²⁶ and in breaking the rod of your bread, ten women bake your bread in one oven and they restore your bread by weight: and you eat and satiate not. ²⁷ And if for all this, you hearken not to me and walk contrary to me; ²⁸ then I also walk contrary to you in fury; and I - yes, I discipline you seven for your sins: ²⁹ and you eat the flesh of your sons and you eat the flesh of your daughters.

²⁹ and you eat the flesh of your sons and you eat the flesh of your daughters. ³⁰ And I destroy your bamahs and cut down your sun icons and give your carcases on the carcases of your idols that my soul loathe you: ³¹ and I give your cities as parched areas and desolate your holies and I scent not your scent of rest:

³¹ and I give your cities as parched areas and desolate your holies and I scent not your scent of rest: ³² and I desolate the land and desolate your enemies who settle therein: ³³ and I scatter you among the goyim and draw a sword after you: and desolate your land and parch your cities. ³⁴ Then the land is pleased in her shabbaths as long as it desolates; with you in the land of your enemies; then the land shabbathizes and is pleased in her shabbaths: ³⁵ as long as it desolates, it shabbathizes; because it shabbathizes not in your shabbaths when you settle there. ³⁶ And on those who survive, I send a timidity into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the voice of a driven leaf pursues them; and they flee as retreating from a sword; and they fall when none pursues: ³⁷ and they falter - man to brother as at the face of a sword when none pursues: and you have no resistance at the face of your enemies: ³⁸ and you destruct among the goyim and the land of your enemies eats you: ³⁹ and those of you who survive pine away in their perversity in the lands of your enemies; and also in the perversities of their fathers they pine away with them. ⁴⁰
THE REWARD FOR WRINGING HANDS
And if they wring hands for their perversity and the perversity of their fathers, and the treason they treason against me and also for walking contrary to me; ⁴¹ and that I also, in walking contrary to them bring them into the land of their enemies - if they humble their uncircumcised hearts; and they then be pleased in the punishment of their perversity ⁴² - then I remember my covenant with Yaaqov and also my covenant with Yischaq and also my covenant with Abraham I remember - and I remember the land. ⁴³ For they forsake the land and are pleased in her shabbaths as she lies desolate without them: and they are pleased in their perversity: because - even because they spurn my judgments and because their soul loathes my statutes. ⁴⁴ And yes, for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I neither spurn them nor loathe them to finish them off - to break my covenant with them: for I - Yah Veh their Elohim.

⁴⁴ And yes, for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I neither spurn them nor loathe them to finish them off - to break my covenant with them: for I - Yah Veh their Elohim. ⁴⁵ But I, for their sakes, remember the covenant of their first, whom I brought from the land of Misrayim in the eyes of the goyim, that I become their Elohim: I - Yah Veh. ⁴⁶ These are the statutes and judgments and torahs Yah Veh gave between him and between the sons of Yisra El in mount Sinay by the hand of Mosheh.

²⁶ And I prayed to Yah Veh and said, O Adonay Yah Veh, ruin not your people and your inheritance, which you redeemed through your greatness, which you brought forth from Misrayim with a strong hand:

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THE CURSINGS OF DISOBEDIENCE And so be it, if you hearken not to the voice of Yah Veh your Elohim - to guard to work all his misvoth and his statutes which I misvah you this day, that all these abasements come on you and overtake you: ¹⁶ you, cursed in the city and you, cursed in the field: ¹⁷ cursed, your basket and your doughboard. ¹⁸ cursed, the fruit of your belly and the fruit of your soil; the fetus of your yoke and the riches of your flocks:

¹⁸ cursed, the fruit of your belly and the fruit of your soil; the fetus of your yoke and the riches of your flocks: ¹⁹ cursed in your coming and cursed in your going. ²⁰ Yah Veh sends on you cursing, confusion and rebuke, in all you spread your hand to work, until you become desolated and until you suddenly destruct at the face of the evil of your exploits whereby you forsake me. ²¹ Yah Veh adheres the pestilence to you, until he finishes you off from the soil you go to possess. ²² Yah Veh smites you with an emaciation and with a fever and with an inflammation and with a fevered fever and with the sword and with blasting and with palegreen; and they pursue you until you destruct: ²³ and your heavens over your head become copper and the earth under you becomes iron. ²⁴ Yah Veh gives the rain of your land as powder and dust: to descend on you from the heavens until you desolate: ²⁵ Yah Veh gives you, smitten at the face of your enemies: you go against them one way and flee their face seven ways: - removed into all the sovereigndoms of the earth. ²⁶ And your carcase becomes food for all flyers of the heavens and for the animals of the earth and no man trembles them. ²⁷ Yah Veh smites you with the ulcer of Misrayim and with the hemorrhoids and with the scurvy and with the itch whereof you cannot be healed. ²⁸ Yah Veh smites you with insanity and blindness and consternation of heart: ²⁹ and at noon, you grope in darkness as the blind grope; and you prosper not in your ways: and you become only oppressed and stripped all days and no man saves you. ³⁰ You betroth a woman and another man rapes her; you build a house and you settle not therein; you plant a vineyard and pluck not thereof: ³¹ your ox, slaughtered in front of your eyes and you not eat thereof; your he burro, stripped at your face - never to return to you; your flocks, given to your enemies and no one saves them: ³² your sons and your daughters, given to another people; and your eyes see, and fail for them all the day long; and there is no el in your hand. ³³ The fruit of your soil and all your labours, eaten by a people you know not; and you become only oppressed and crushed all days: ³⁴ so that you become insane because of the visage your eyes see. ³⁵ Yah Veh smites you in the knees and in the legs, with an evil ulcer that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to your scalp: ³⁶ Yah Veh carries you and the sovereign you raise over you, to a goyim whom neither you nor your fathers know; and there you serve other elohim - timber and stone.

³⁶ Yah Veh carries you and the sovereign you raise over you, to a goyim whom neither you nor your fathers know; and there you serve other elohim - timber and stone. ³⁷ And you become a desolation, a proverb and a gibe, among all people Yah Veh drives you. ³⁸ You carry much seed to the field but ingather little; for the locust consumes it: ³⁹ you plant vineyards and serve them, but neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes; for the maggots eat them: ⁴⁰ you have olives throughout all your borders, but you anoint not with the oil; for your olive slips: ⁴¹ you birth sons and daughters but enjoy them not; for they go to captivity: ⁴² all your trees and fruit of your soil the locust possesses. ⁴³ The sojourner in your midst ascends upward and upward; and you descend downward and downward. ⁴⁴ He lends to you and you lend not to him: he becomes the head and you become the tail. ⁴⁵ And all these abasements come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you become desolated - because you hearken not to the voice of Yah Veh your Elohim - to guard his misvoth and his statutes which he misvahed you: ⁴⁶ and they become for a sign and for an omen on you and on your seed eternally: ⁴⁷ because you serve not Yah Veh your Elohim with cheerfulness and with goodness of heart for the abundance of all ⁴⁸ - you serve the enemies Yah Veh sends against you in famine and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all: and he gives a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he desolates you: ⁴⁹ Yah Veh lifts a goyim against you from afar - from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a goyim whose tongue you hear not; ⁵⁰ a goyim strong of face who neither exalts the face of the aged nor grants charism to the lads:

⁵⁰ a goyim strong of face who neither exalts the face of the aged nor grants charism to the lads: ⁵¹ and he eats the fruit of your animals and the fruit of your soil until you desolate: and no crop survives - juice or oil or the fetus of your yoke or the riches of your flocks until he destroys you: ⁵² and he tribulates you in all your portals until your high and fortified walls topple - wherein you confided, throughout all your land: and he tribulates you in all your portals throughout all the land Yah Veh your Elohim gives you: ⁵³ and you eat the fruit of your own belly - the flesh of your sons and of your daughters; whom Yah Veh your Elohim gives you in the siege and in the distress, wherewith your enemies distress you:

⁵³ and you eat the fruit of your own belly - the flesh of your sons and of your daughters; whom Yah Veh your Elohim gives you in the siege and in the distress, wherewith your enemies distress you: ⁵⁴ so that the man among you - tender and mighty delicate, his eye becomes evil toward his brother and toward the woman of his bosom and toward the remnant of his sons who remain:

⁵⁴ so that the man among you - tender and mighty delicate, his eye becomes evil toward his brother and toward the woman of his bosom and toward the remnant of his sons who remain: ⁵⁵ so that he gives not one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eats: because he has none to survive him in the siege and in the distress, wherewith your enemies distress you in all your portals.

⁵⁵ so that he gives not one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eats: because he has none to survive him in the siege and in the distress, wherewith your enemies distress you in all your portals. ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate among you, who tests not to set the sole of her foot on the earth because of delicateness and tenderness, her eye becomes evil toward the man of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter

⁵⁶ The tender and delicate among you, who tests not to set the sole of her foot on the earth because of delicateness and tenderness, her eye becomes evil toward the man of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter ⁵⁷ and toward her fetus coming from between her feet and toward the sons she births: for she eats them covertly for lack of all in the siege and distress, wherewith your enemies distress you in your portals.

⁵⁷ and toward her fetus coming from between her feet and toward the sons she births: for she eats them covertly for lack of all in the siege and distress, wherewith your enemies distress you in your portals. ⁵⁸ If you guard not to work all the words of this torah inscribed in this scroll, to awe this honored and awesome name, YAH VEH YOUR ELOHIM; ⁵⁹ then Yah Veh makes your strokes marvelous and the strokes of your seed, great strokes and trustworthy; and evil sicknesses, trustworthy: ⁶⁰ and he restores on you all the diseases of Misrayim you feared at their face; and they adhere to you: ⁶¹ also every sickness and every stroke not inscribed in the scroll of this torah, Yah Veh ascends them on you until you desolate: ⁶² and you survive, few men in number, whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for abundance; all because you hear not the voice of Yah Veh your Elohim. ⁶³ And so be it, as Yah Veh rejoiced over you to well-please you and to abound you; thus Yah Veh rejoices over you to destroy you and to desolate you; and uproot you from the soil you go to possess: ⁶⁴ and Yah Veh scatters you among all people from the end of the earth to the end of the earth; and there you serve other elohim which neither you nor your fathers know - timber and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these goyim you neither blink nor rest the sole of your foot: and there Yah Veh gives you a quivering heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of soul: ⁶⁶ and suspends your life in front of you; and you fear day and night and trust not in your life: ⁶⁷ in the morning you say, O to give that it become evening! and at evening you say, O to give that it become morning! - for the fear of your heart that you fear and for the vision of your eyes that you see. ⁶⁸ And Yah Veh returns you to Misrayim with ships by the way I said to you, You see it never again: and there you sell yourselves to your enemies for servants and maids - and no man chattels you.

¹⁸ lest there be among you man or woman or family or scion whose heart turns this day from the face of Yah Veh our Elohim, to go and serve the elohim of these goyim; lest there be among you a root that bears the fruit of rosh and wormwood. ¹⁹ And so be it, he hears the words of this oath, and blesses himself in his heart, saying, I have shalom, though I walk in the warp of my heart, to scrape together the satiated with the thirsty: ²⁰ Yah Veh wills to not forgive him; for then the wrath and the jealousy of Yah Veh fumes against that man; and all the oaths inscribed in this scroll crouch upon him; and Yah Veh wipes his name from under the heavens: ²¹ and Yah Veh separates him from all the scions of Yisra El unto evil, according to all the oaths of the covenant inscribed in this scroll of the torah: ²² so that the latter generation of your sons who rise after you and the stranger who comes from a far land, say, - when they see the strokes of that land and the sicknesses Yah Veh strokes thereon

²² so that the latter generation of your sons who rise after you and the stranger who comes from a far land, say, - when they see the strokes of that land and the sicknesses Yah Veh strokes thereon ²³ - and the whole land thereof of sulphur and salt and burning - neither seeded nor sprouting nor any herbage ascending therein - as the overthrow of Sedom and Amorah, Admah and Seboim whom Yah Veh overturned in his wrath and in his fury

²³ - and the whole land thereof of sulphur and salt and burning - neither seeded nor sprouting nor any herbage ascending therein - as the overthrow of Sedom and Amorah, Admah and Seboim whom Yah Veh overturned in his wrath and in his fury ²⁴ - even all goyim say, Why works Yah Veh thus to this land? - this great fuming wrath? ²⁵ Then men say, Because they forsake the covenant of Yah Veh Elohim of their fathers, which he cut with them when he brought them from the land of Misrayim: ²⁶ and they go and serve other elohim and prostrate to them - elohim they never knew and whom he never allotted to them: ²⁷ and Yah Veh kindles his wrath against this land to bring thereon all the abasements inscribed in this scroll: ²⁸ and Yah Veh uproots them from their soil in wrath - in wrath and in great rage and casts them to another land, as this day.

¹⁶ and Yah Veh says to Mosheh, Behold, you lie with your fathers; and this people rises and whores after the elohim of the strangers of the land among whom they go; and forsake me: and break the covenant I cut with them: ¹⁷ and I kindle my wrath against them in that day and I forsake them and I hide my face from them: and they become devoured and many evils and tribulations find them; so that they say in that day, Come not these evils upon us, because our Elohim is not among us?

¹⁵ And Yeshurun fattens and kicks: you fatten; you thicken; you fattened; then he forsakes Elohah who worked him and disgraces the Rock of his salvation. ¹⁶ They arouse his jealousy with strangers and with abominations they vex him: ¹⁷ they sacrifice to demons, not to Elohah; to elohim whom they knew not - new - from nearby, who whirled not your fathers. ¹⁸ Remember the Rock who birthed you: you forgot the El who formed you. ¹⁹ And Yah Veh sees, and scorns, because of the vexation of his sons and of his daughters. ²⁰ And he says, I hide my face from them, I see their finality: - a very froward generation; sons - not trustworthy: ²¹ they move me to jealousy with their non-el; they vex me with their vanities: and I move them to jealousy by a non-people; I vex them by a foolish goyim. ²² For I kindle a fire in my wrath and burn to the nethermost sheol and consume the earth with her produce and inflame the foundations of the mountains.

²² For I kindle a fire in my wrath and burn to the nethermost sheol and consume the earth with her produce and inflame the foundations of the mountains. ²³ I scrape together evils on them; I finish off my arrows on them. ²⁴ Exhausted by famine, devoured by burning heat and bitter ruin: I also send the teeth of animals on them, with the poison of creepers of the dust. ²⁵ The sword outside and terror from the chambers bereaves both youth and virgin, the suckling with the man of grayness. ²⁶ I say, I blow them away, I shabbathize their memorial from among men. ²⁷ If not, I fear the vexation of the enemy, lest their tribulators discern; and lest they say, Our hand is lofty! and, Yah Veh worked not all this.

²¹ and they devote all that is in the city - both man and woman - from lad to old man and ox and lamb and he burro with the mouth of the sword.

⁶ And Yah Shua rips his clothes, and falls to the earth on his face at the face of the ark of Yah Veh until the evening - he and the elders of Yisra El; and ascend dust on their heads.

¹⁹ So Gidon and the hundred men with him, come to the edge of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and in raising, they raise the guard: and they blast the shophars and shatter the pitchers in their hands:

¹⁵ And Hannah answers and says, No, my adoni, I am a woman, hard in spirit: I drink neither wine nor intoxicants, but pour out my soul at the face of Yah Veh:

²¹ and she calls the lad Iy Chabod, saying, The honor is exiled from Yisra El! - because they took the ark of Elohim and because of her father in law and her man.

⁶ And they gather to Mispeh and bail water and pour it out at the face of Yah Veh and fast on that day, and say there, We sinned against Yah Veh. And Shemu El judges the sons of Yisra El in Mispeh.

³ Now go and smite Amaleq and devote all they have and spare them not; deathify both man and woman, from suckling and infant, ox and lamb, camel and he burro.

⁴ And David and the people with him lift their voice and weep, until they have no more force to weep:

¹⁹ The splendor of Yisra El is pierced on your bamahs: how the mighty fall!

²⁰ And David comes to Baal Perasim, and David smites them there, and says, Yah Veh breaches my enemies at my face as the breach of waters: so he calls the name of that place Baal Perasim/Baal Breach.

² and he smites Moab and measures them with a line, having them lie down to the earth; and he measures two lines to deathify and with one full line to live. And the Moabiy become servants of David to lift offerings.

¹⁹ And Tamar takes ashes on her head and rips the coverall coat on her and sets her hand on her head: and in walking, walks on crying.

⁷ then I cut Yisra El from the face of the soil I gave them; and this house I hallowed for my name, I send from my face; and Yisra El becomes a proverb and gibe among all people: ⁸ and at this house, Elyon, every one who passes by desolates and hisses and says, Why works Yah Veh thus to this land and to this house? ⁹ And they say, Because they forsook Yah Veh their Elohim, who brought their fathers from the land of Misrayim; and hold on other elohim and prostrate to them and serve them: therefore Yah Veh brings all this evil on them.

²⁸ And the sovereign says to her, What ails you? And she says, This woman said to me, Give your son to eat today and eat my son tomorrow: ²⁹ so we stewed my son and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, to eat him: and she hid her son.

²¹ This is the word Yah Veh words concerning him: The virgin the daughter of Siyon despises you and derides you; the daughter of Yeru Shalem shakes her head after you.

¹³ and over Yeru Shalem I spread the line of Shomeron and the plumb line of the house of Ach Ab: and I wipe Yeru Shalem - wipe as wiping a bowl, and turn it to descend on its face:

¹² and Yah Yachin the sovereign of Yah Hudah goes to the sovereign of Babel - he and his mother and his servants and his governors and his eunuchs: and the sovereign of Babel takes him in the eighth year of his reign: ¹³ and from there he brings all the treasures of the house of Yah Veh and the treasures of the house of the sovereign; and chops all the instruments of gold Shelomoh sovereign of Yisra El worked in the manse of Yah Veh as Yah Veh worded. ¹⁴ And he exiles all Yeru Shalem and all the governors and all the mighty of valour - ten thousand exiles and all the artificers and locksmiths - none survive except the poorest sort of the people of the land. ¹⁵ And he exiles Yah Yachin to Babel, and the mother of the sovereign and the women of the sovereign and his eunuchs and the mighty of the land: he walks them from Yeru Shalem to Babel into exile: ¹⁶ and all the men of valour seven thousand and artificers and locksmiths a thousand - all the mighty who work war - even them the sovereign of Babel exiles to Babel.

⁷ and they slaughter the sons of Sidqi Yah in front of his eyes; and blind the eyes of Sidqi Yah and bind him with fetters of copper and carry him to Babel.

⁹ and he burns the house of Yah Veh and the house of the sovereign and all the houses of Yeru Shalem and burns every great house with fire:

² And David the sovereign rises on his feet and says, Hear me, my brothers and my people: I had in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yah Veh and for the stool of the feet of our Elohim; and prepared to build.

²¹ And this house, being Elyon, all who pass by, desolate and say, Why works Yah Veh thus to this land and to this house?

³ And many days Yisra El is without the true Elohim and without a teaching priest and without torah:

²¹ Go, enquire of Yah Veh for me and for them who survive in Yisra El and in Yah Hudah, concerning the words of the scroll that is found: for great is the fury of Yah Veh poured out on us because our fathers guarded not the word of Yah Veh - to work according to all inscribed in this scroll.

²⁵ because they forsook me and incensed to other elohim, to vex me with all the works of their hands: and I pour out my fury on this place and quench it not.

¹⁶ and they deride the angels of Elohim and despise his words and deceive his prophets until the fury of Yah Veh ascends against his people - until there is no healing. ¹⁷ And he ascends the sovereign of the Kasdiy on them who slaughters their youths with the sword in the house of their holies: and has no compassion on youth or virgin; old man or aged: he gives them all into his hand:

¹⁷ And he ascends the sovereign of the Kasdiy on them who slaughters their youths with the sword in the house of their holies: and has no compassion on youth or virgin; old man or aged: he gives them all into his hand:

¹⁹ and they burn the house of Elohim and pull down the wall of Yeru Shalem and burn all the citadels thereof with fire and ruin all the instruments of desire thereof:

³ And they say to me, The survivors who survived the captivity there in the jurisdiction are in great evil and reproach: and the wall of Yeru Shalem is broken down and the portals thereof are burned with fire.

¹³ And they send scrolls by the hand of runners into all the jurisdictions of the sovereign - to desolate, to slaughter and to destroy all Yah Hudiym - from lad to old man, toddlers and women, in one day, upon the thirteenth of the twelfth month - the month Adar and spoil their plunder;

³ And Yah Veh says to Satan, Have you set your heart on my servant Iyob - that there is no one like him in the earth; an integrious and straight man; one who awes Elohim and turns aside from evil? And still he upholds his integrity although you goad me to swallow him gratuitously.

¹² And they lift their eyes afar off and recognize him not, and they lift their voice and weep; and each man rips his mantle and sprinkles dust on his head toward the heavens: ¹³ and they settle with him on the ground seven days and seven nights - and no one words a word to him; for they see the pain is mighty great.

²⁴ For my sighing comes at the face of my bread and my roarings pour as the waters.

⁴ for the arrows of Shadday are within me, whereof the poison drinks up my spirit; the terrors of Elohah line up against me.

²¹ remove your palm far from me and let not your terror frighten me.

⁹ in his wrath, my opponent tears me; he gnashes on me with his teeth; my tribulator sharpens his eyes on me; ¹⁰ they gape on me with their mouth; they smite me on the cheek reproachfully; they fulfill against me.

¹² I am serene, and he breaks me; and he takes me by my neck and shatters me; he raises me for his target; ¹³ his archers surround me; he cleaves my reins and spares not; he pours out my bitters on the earth;

¹³ his archers surround me; he cleaves my reins and spares not; he pours out my bitters on the earth; ¹⁴ he breaches me at the face of breach on breach; he runs on me as the mighty. ¹⁵ I sew saq on my skin and exploit my horn in the dust;

²² and casts on him and spares not; in fleeing, he flees from his hand. ²³ They clap their palms at him and hiss him from his place.

⁷ my eye is motheaten in vexation - antiquates because of all my tribulators.

⁹ you set them as a fiery oven at the time of your face: Yah Veh swallows them in his wrath and the fire consumes them:

⁷ All who see me deride me; they bust out the lip, they shake the head,

¹³ they gape on me with their mouths as a tearing and a roaring lion. ¹⁴ I am poured as water and all my bones separate; my heart is as wax melted midst my inwards;

² Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you - when I lift my hands toward the pulpit of your holies.

⁹ grant me charism, O Yah Veh, for I tribulate; my eye, my soul and my belly are motheaten with vexation.

¹³ for I hear the slander of many; terror surrounds as they set counsel against me: they intrigue to take my soul.

¹⁶ With profaners, jeerers at bakings, they gnash on me with their teeth.

²¹ yes, they enlarge their mouth against me and say, Aha, aha, our eye sees!

¹² The wicked intrigues against the just and gnashes on him with his teeth.

¹⁶ For I say, lest they cheer over me; when my foot totters they greaten against me.

⁸ a word of Beli Yaal pours on him; he lies down - never to rise again:

⁸ Yet Yah Veh misvahs his mercy in the day; and in the night his song is with me: and my prayer to the El of my life.

¹⁴ you set us a proverb among the goyim - a shaking of the head among the nations: ¹⁵ all day my shame is in front of me; the shame of my face covers me:

² Beautiful for elevation the joy of the whole earth - mount Siyon on the flanks of the north; the city of the great Sovereign.

² from Siyon, the perfection of beauty, Elohim shines.

² my opponents gulp me daily; for they are many who fight against me, O Elyon.

³ He sends from the heavens and saves me from the reproach of him who swallows after me. Selah. Elohim sends his mercy and his truth.

² You quaked the earth; you broke it: heal the breaches; for it totters:

⁸ Confide in him at all times, you people; pour out your heart at his face: Elohim is our refuge. Selah.

⁴ Thus I bless you while I live; I lift my palms in your name:

³ I belabored of my calling; my throat scorches; my eyes finish off as I await my Elohim.

⁴ He judges the humble of the people; he saves the sons of the needy and crushes the oppressor. ⁵ They awe you at the face of the sun and moon - generation to generation. ⁶ He descends as rain on the mown fleece - as showers that water the earth. ⁷ The just blossom in their day; and abundance of shalom until there is no moon. ⁸ He subjugates from sea to sea - from the river to the finalities of the earth: ⁹ desertdwellers kneel at his face and his enemies lick the dust. ¹⁰ The sovereigns of Tarshish and of the islands return offerings; the sovereigns of Sheba and Seba oblate their hire; ¹¹ yes, all sovereigns prostrate ere in front of him; all goyim serve him. ¹² For he rescues the needy who cries - the humble and he who has no helper; ¹³ he spares the poor and needy and saves the souls of the needy: ¹⁴ he redeems their soul from fraud and violence; and esteems their blood in his eyes: ¹⁵ and he lives and gives him of the gold of Sheba; and prays for him continually; - blesses him all day. ¹⁶ There is an increase of grain in the earth; the top of the mountains quake their fruit as Lebanon; and they of the city flourish as herbage of the earth. ¹⁷ His name, Eternal; his name perpetuates at the face of the sun; and they bless themselves in him: all goyim call him blithesome. ¹⁸ Blessed - Yah Veh Elohim, Elohim of Yisra El, who alone works marvels. ¹⁹ And blessed - his honored name eternally; and may the whole earth fills with his honor; Amen and Amen. ²⁰ The prayers by David the son of Yishay are concluded.

³ Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins; to all that the enemy vilified in the holies. ⁴ Your tribulators roar midst your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs; ⁵ he is known for lifting axes on the thick trees: ⁶ and now they hammer the engravings with axes and sledge hammers; ⁷ they sent fire to your hallowed refuge; they profaned the tabernacle of your name to the earth. ⁸ They say in their hearts, Oppress them together! They burn all the congregations of El in the land. ⁹ We neither see our signs; nor is there any prophet; nor is there among us any who knows until when.

¹¹ Why turn your hand back - even your right? Finish it from your bosom.

⁵ Lift not your horn to the heights or word with an impudent neck:

¹⁰ All the horns of the wicked I cut off; and exalt the horns of the just.

⁵⁹ Elohim heard; he was wroth; and spurned Yisra El mightily; ⁶⁰ so that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh - the tent he tabernacled among humanity; ⁶¹ and gave his strength to captivity and his beauty into the hand of the tribulator; ⁶² he shut up his people to the sword and passed over his inheritance. ⁶³ Fire consumed their youths and their virgins were not halaled; ⁶⁴ their priests fell by the sword and their widows wept not.

⁵ Until when, O Yah Veh? Anger you in perpetuity? Burns your jealousy as fire?

¹² Why breach you her walls, so that all who pass by the way pluck her?

²⁴ And my trustworthiness and my mercy are with him; and in my name his horn is lofted.

³⁹ you reject the covenant of your servant; you profane his separatism to the earth; ⁴⁰ you breach all his walls; you set his fortresses to ruin.

⁴⁰ you breach all his walls; you set his fortresses to ruin.

⁴² You exalt the right of his tribulators; you have all his enemies cheer;

⁴⁶ Until when, O Yah Veh, hide you yourself? In perpetuity? - Burn your fury as fire?

⁵ Exalt Yah Veh our Elohim; prostrate at the stool of his feet; - he is holy.

² for the mouth of wickedness and the mouth of deceit open against me: they word against me with a false tongue;

¹⁰ The wicked sees and vexes - gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked destructs.

⁵⁵ I remembered your name, O Yah Veh, in the night; and guarded your torah:

¹³⁶ Rivulets of waters descend my eyes, because they guard not your torah.

¹⁴⁵ KOPH. I call with my whole heart; answer, O Yah Veh: I guard your statutes.

¹⁴⁷ I anticipate the evening breeze and cry; I await your word: ¹⁴⁸ my eyes anticipate the watches to meditate in your sayings:

³ then they had swallowed us alive when they kindled their wrath against us:

⁷ we enter his tabernacles; we prostrate at the stool of his feet.

¹⁷ there I sprout the horn of David; I arrange a lamp for my anointed;

² lift your hands in the holies and bless Yah Veh:

² I prepare my prayer at your face as incense; and the burden of my palms as the evening offering.

² I pour my meditation at his face; I tell my tribulation to his face:

⁸ And the daughter of Siyon remains as a sukkoth/brush arbor in a vineyard - as a hammock in a cucumber field - as a guarded city.

¹³ Add no more vain offerings; incense is an abhorrence to me; the new moons and shabbaths, the calling of convocations, I cannot; it is mischief: and the private assembly.

³¹ and the powerful become as tuft and his deeds as a spark; and they both burn together, and no one quenches.

²⁶ And her portals mourn and mourn; and being exonerated, she settles upon the land.

⁵ And now go to; I have you know what I work to my vineyard: I turn aside the hedge and burn it; and breach the wall to trample on:

¹⁴ and Yah Veh cuts off from Yisra El head and tail, palm leaf and rush, in one day. ¹⁵ The elder and lifted face, he is the head; and the prophet teaching falsehood, he is the tail.

¹⁵ The elder and lifted face, he is the head; and the prophet teaching falsehood, he is the tail. ¹⁶ For this people who blithe them cause them to stray; and the blithed are swallowed.

¹⁶ For this people who blithe them cause them to stray; and the blithed are swallowed. ¹⁷ So Adonay neither cheers in their youths, nor mercies their orphans and widows: for every one is a profaner and a vilifier and every mouth words folly. For all this he turns not away his wrath and still spreads his hand.

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THE HALALED ONE
How you fell from the heavens, O Halaled one, son of the dawn - cut down to the earth: who vanquished the goyim! ¹³ For you said in your heart, I ascend into the heavens: I exalt my throne above the stars of El: and I sit upon the mount of the congregation in the flanks of the north: ¹⁴ I ascend above the bamahs of the thick clouds - like Elyon. ¹⁵ Surely you are brought down to sheol - to the flanks of the well.

³ In their outways they gird with sackcloth: on their roofs and in their broadways every one howls - descending into weeping abundantly.

⁴ So I say, Look away from me: I am embittered in weeping; hasten not to sigh over me because of the ravage of the daughter of my people.

⁹ Yah Veh Sabaoth counsels it to profane the pomp of all splendour and to abase all the honorable of the earth.

¹⁷ fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O settler of the earth. ¹⁸ And so be it, he who flees from the voice of the fear falls into the pit; and he who ascends from midst the pit is captured in the snare: for the windows from on high open, and the foundations of the earth quake:

¹² And he prostrates the fortress of the secure loft of your walls lower - touches to the earth - to the dust.

⁵ for he prostrates them who settle on high; the exalted city, he lowers - he lowers to the earth; he touches to the dust:

⁹ With my soul I desire you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the settlers of the world learn justness.

¹⁶ Yah Veh, in tribulation they visit you; they pour an enchantment; your chastening is on them. ¹⁷ Such as a woman having conceived, who, approaching her birthing, writhes, cries out in her pangs; so are we at your face, O Yah Veh.

¹¹ when the harvests wither, they break them off: the women come, and light them: for it is a people of no understanding: so he who worked them, mercies them not, and he who formed them, grants them no charism.

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:

¹¹ And the pelican and the bittern possess it; and the owl and the raven tabernacle therein: and thereon, he spreads the line of waste, and the stones of emptiness.

²² And El Yaqim the son of Hilqi Yah who is over the household, comes with Shebna the scribe, and Yah Ach the son of Asaph, the memorializer, to Yechizqi Yah with their clothes ripped, and tell him the words of Rab Shaqeh.

²² this is the word Yah Veh words concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Siyon, despises you, ridicules you; the daughter of Yeru Shalem shakes her head behind you.

¹⁴ As a horse or a swallow, thus I chirp: I coo as a dove: my eyes languish on high: O Yah Veh, I am oppressed; be my pledge.

²⁵ So he pours on him the fury of his wrath and the strength of war: and it inflames him on fire round about, yet he knows it not; and it burns him, yet he sets it not to heart.

²⁸ and I profaned the governors of the holies; and gave Yaaqov to the devotement and Yisra El to revilings.

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THE FALL OF BABEL
Descend, and sit in the dust; O virgin daughter of Babel, sit on the earth; there is no throne, O daughter of the Kesediym: for you add not to be called tender and delicate.

⁵ Sit silent, and get into darkness, O daughter of the Kesediym: for they no more call you, The lady of sovereigndoms. ⁶ I enrage over my people; I profane my inheritance; and give them into your hand: you set them no mercies; you make your yoke on the aged mighty heavy.

¹⁹ For your parched areas and your desolated and the land of your destruction are even now too restricted by reason of the settlers; and they who swallow you are far removed.

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THE CUP OF THE FURY OF YAH VEH
Waken! Waken! Rise, O Yeru Shalem who, at the hand of Yah Veh, drank the cup of his fury; the chalice of the cup of staggering you drank and wrung out. ¹⁸ There is neither one to guide her among all the sons whom she birthed; nor is there any, of all the sons she nourished, who holds her by the hand. ¹⁹ These two confront you. Who wags over you? Ravage and breaking and the famine and the sword! Who except me sighs over you? ²⁰ Your sons languish; they lie at the head of all the outways as an antelope in a net: they are full of the fury of Yah Veh - the rebuke of your Elohim.

²⁰ Your sons languish; they lie at the head of all the outways as an antelope in a net: they are full of the fury of Yah Veh - the rebuke of your Elohim.

¹² So I allot him with the great, and he allots the spoil with the mighty; because he pours his soul to death: numbered with the rebels; and he bears the sin of many, and intercedes for the rebels.

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FASTING
Call out with the throat! Spare not! Lift your voice as a shophar and tell my people their rebellion; and the house of Yaaqov their sins.

⁶ and I trample the people in my anger and intoxicate them in my fury and I bring down their squeezings to the earth.

¹⁰ And they rebelled and contorted his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy - he fought against them:

¹⁶ Assuredly you are our father; though Abraham knew us not and Yisra El acknowledged us not: you, O Yah Veh, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from eternity. ¹⁷ O Yah Veh, why stray us from your ways? Harden our heart from your awe? For sake of your servant, return the scions of your inheritance. ¹⁸ The people of your holiness possessed but a little while: our tribulators trampled your holies.

¹⁸ The people of your holiness possessed but a little while: our tribulators trampled your holies. ¹⁹ We are yours: you neither reigned over them eternally; nor were they called by your name.

⁸ And now, O Yah Veh, you are our father; we are the morter, and you our Former; and we all are the work of your hand. ⁹ Neither enrage not mightily, O Yah Veh, nor remember our perversity eternally: behold, look, we beseech you, - your people - all of us. ¹⁰ Your holy cities are a wilderness: Siyon is a wilderness; Yeru Shalem a desolation:

¹⁰ Your holy cities are a wilderness: Siyon is a wilderness; Yeru Shalem a desolation: ¹¹ our holies of adornment where our fathers halaled you, are burned with fire: and all our desirables are parched.

¹¹ our holies of adornment where our fathers halaled you, are burned with fire: and all our desirables are parched.

¹¹ our holies of adornment where our fathers halaled you, are burned with fire: and all our desirables are parched. ¹² Refrain you yourself for these, O Yah Veh? You hush, and humble us mightily.

⁸ The priests say not, Where is Yah Veh? and they who manipulate the torah know me not and the tenders rebel against me; and the prophets prophesy by Baal and walk after those who benefit not.

⁴ circumcise yourselves to Yah Veh and turn aside the foreskins of your heart, you men of Yah Hudah and settlers of Yeru Shalem: lest my fury comes forth as fire and burns so that no one can quench it at the face of the evil of your exploitations.

¹⁹ My inwards! My inwards! I writhe at the walls of my heart; my heart roars within me; I cannot hush, because you hear, O my soul, the voice of the shophar - the blast of war.

³¹ For I hear a voice as of stroking and the tribulation as of bursting the matrix - the voice of the daughter of Siyon sighing - who spreads her palms, Woe is me I beseech! for my soul languishes because of murderers.

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.

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?

¹¹ and I am filled with the fury of Yah Veh; I am weary of containing: I pour it out on the suckling in the outways and on the private counsel of youths together: for they even capture the man with the woman - the elder with him who is full of days:

¹³ For from their least, even to their greatest, every one greedily gains to greedy gain; and from the prophet, even to the priest, every one works falsely: ¹⁴ and they heal the breeching of my people slightly, saying, Shalom! Shalom! when there is no shalom.

²⁵ Neither go forth into the field nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror is all around.

¹² But come, I beseech, to my place in Shiloh, where I tabernacled my name at the first; and see what I worked to it at the face of the evil of my people Yisra El: ¹³ and I beseech, because you work all these works - an oracle of Yah Veh; and I word to you, starting early and wording, and you hear not; and I call you, and you answer not. ¹⁴ I also work to this house, on which my name is called, wherein you confide, and to the place I gave to you and to your fathers, as I worked to Shiloh:

²⁰ So thus says Adonay Yah Veh; Behold, my wrath and my fury poured on this place - on humanity and on animal and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the soil: and it burns and quenches not.

¹⁰ So I give their women to others and their fields to their successors: for every one from the least even to the greatest greedily gains to greedy gain - from the prophet even to the priest - every one works falsely. ¹¹ And they heal the breech of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Shalom! Shalom! when there is no shalom.

¹⁴ Why sit we? Gather together; and enter the fortified cities: and hush there: for Yah Veh our Elohim hushes us and gives us water of rosh to drink - because we sin against Yah Veh.

¹⁹ Behold! the voice of the shout from the daughter of my people in a land afar: Is not Yah Veh in Siyon? Is not her sovereign in her? Why vex they me with their sculptiles? And with strange vanities?

²² Is there no balm in Gilad? Is there no healer there? Why ascends not the health of the daughter of my people?

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A LAMENTATION OVER SIYON
Oh that it be, that my head be as waters; and my eyes as a fountain of tears; and I weep day and night for the pierced of the daughter of my people!

¹⁷ Thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth, You, discern; and call for the lamenters to come; and send for the wise to come:

¹⁷ Thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth, You, discern; and call for the lamenters to come; and send for the wise to come: ¹⁸ Hasten them to lift a lamentation for us so that our eyes drip with tears and our eyelids flow with waters.

¹⁸ Hasten them to lift a lamentation for us so that our eyes drip with tears and our eyelids flow with waters. ¹⁹ For a voice of lamentation is heard from Siyon, How ravaged! We shame mightily because we forsook the land; because they cast out our tabernacles. ²⁰ Yet hear the word of Yah Veh, O you women, and your ear take the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters lamentation and every woman her friend lamentation. ²¹ For death ascends into our windows; it enters into our palaces to cut off the sucklings from the outways, and the youths from the broadways.

²² So thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth, Behold, I visit on them: their youths die by the sword their sons and their daughters die by famine:

¹⁴ and I shatter them, man against brother - even the fathers and the sons together - an oracle of Yah Veh: I neither compassion nor spare nor mercy - for their ruin.

¹⁷ and if you hear it not, my soul weeps in coverts at the face of your arrogance; and my eye weeps sore and drips with tears, for the drove of Yah Veh is captured.

² Yah Hudah mourns and the portals languish - darkened to the earth; and the outcry of Yeru Shalem ascends:

¹³ And I say, Aha! Adonay Yah Veh! Behold, the prophets say to them, You neither see the sword, nor famine; for I give you the shalom of truth in this place. ¹⁴ And Yah Veh says to me, The prophets prophesy falsehoods in my name: I neither sent them nor misvahed them nor worded to them: they prophesy to you a false vision and divination and worthlessness and the deceit of their heart.

¹⁴ And Yah Veh says to me, The prophets prophesy falsehoods in my name: I neither sent them nor misvahed them nor worded to them: they prophesy to you a false vision and divination and worthlessness and the deceit of their heart. ¹⁵ So thus says Yah Veh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, whom I sent not, yet they say, Sword and famine become not in this land; the sword and famine consumes those prophets:

¹⁵ So thus says Yah Veh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, whom I sent not, yet they say, Sword and famine become not in this land; the sword and famine consumes those prophets: ¹⁶ and the people to whom they prophesy are cast out in the outways of Yeru Shalem at the face of the famine and the sword: and there is no one to entomb them - them, their women, their sons and their daughters: for I pour their evil on them. ¹⁷ You, say this word to them; My eyes drip with tears night and day and they cease not: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breaking - with a mighty stroking stroke.

¹⁷ You, say this word to them; My eyes drip with tears night and day and they cease not: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breaking - with a mighty stroking stroke. ¹⁸ If I go forth into the field, then behold, the pierced with the sword! And if I enter the city, then behold, the sickness of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest merchandise into a land they know not.

²⁰ We acknowledge, O Yah Veh, our wickedness, and the perversity of our fathers: for we sinned against you. ²¹ Scorn us not, for sake of your name - the throne of your honor: remember, break not your covenant with us.

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JUDGMENT
And Yah Veh says to me, Though Mosheh and Shemu El stand at my face, yet my soul is not toward this people: send them from my face, and go.

² You, neither take a woman nor have sons or daughters in this place: ³ for thus says Yah Veh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters birthed in this place, and concerning their mothers who birth them, and concerning their fathers who birth them in this land: ⁴ they die deaths of sicknesses; - neither chopped after nor entombed; - as dung on the face of the soil: - finished off by the sword and by famine; and their carcases are meat for the flyers of the heavens and for the animals of the earth.

¹¹ And now I beseech, speak to the men of Yah Hudah and to the settlers of Yeru Shalem, saying, Thus says Yah Veh; Behold, I form evil against you, and fabricate a fabrication against you: you, return I beseech - every man from his evil way, and well-please in your ways and your exploitations.

¹⁶ to set their land desolate - an eternal hissing; every one who passes by astonishes and wags his head.

²¹ So give their sons to the famine and pour them by the hand of the sword; so that their women bereave and become widows; and their men become slaughtered; - their youths smitten by the sword in war.

⁸ and I set this city desolate and a hissing: every one who passes by astonishes and hisses because of all the wounds. ⁹ And I feed them the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and every man eats the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, whereby their enemies and they seeking their souls, distress them.

³ And so be it, on the morrow, Pashchur brings Yirme Yah from the stockades; and Yirme Yah says to him, Yah Veh calls not your name Pashchur, but Magor Mis Sabib/Terror All Around:

⁴ Thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El: Behold, I turn back the vessels of war in your hands with which you fight the sovereign of Babel and the Kesediym who besiege you outside the walls; and I gather them midst this city: ⁵ and I - I fight you with a spread hand and with a strong arm - in wrath and in fury and in great rage:

⁵ and I - I fight you with a spread hand and with a strong arm - in wrath and in fury and in great rage:

⁷ And afterward - an oracle of Yah Veh I give Sidqi Yah sovereign of Yah Hudah and his servants and the people and such as survive in this city from the pestilence and from the sword and from the famine into the hand of Nebukadnets Tsar sovereign of Babel - and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them who seek their soul: and he smites them with the mouth of the sword; he neither spares them - neither spares nor mercies.

¹² O house of David, thus says Yah Veh: Plead the cause in the morning and rescue the stripped from the hand of the oppressor lest my fury go out as fire and burns so no one can quench at the face of the evil of your exploits.

¹⁴ And I visit on you according to the fruit of your exploits - an oracle of Yah Veh and I kindle a fire in the forest and it consumes all around it.

¹¹ For both prophet and priest profane; yes, in my house I found their evil - an oracle of Yah Veh.

¹¹ For both prophet and priest profane; yes, in my house I found their evil - an oracle of Yah Veh. ¹² So their way is to them as slippery in the darkness: they are overthrown and fall therein: for I bring evil on them - the year of their visitation - an oracle of Yah Veh.

¹² So their way is to them as slippery in the darkness: they are overthrown and fall therein: for I bring evil on them - the year of their visitation - an oracle of Yah Veh. ¹³ And I see frivolity in the prophets of Shomeron; they prophesy in Baal, and stray my people Yisra El:

¹³ And I see frivolity in the prophets of Shomeron; they prophesy in Baal, and stray my people Yisra El: ¹⁴ and I see a horror in the prophets of Yeru Shalem; they adulterize and walk in falsehoods: yes, they strengthen the hands of vilifiers so that no man returns from his evil: they all are to me as Sedom and the settlers as Amorah.

¹⁴ and I see a horror in the prophets of Yeru Shalem; they adulterize and walk in falsehoods: yes, they strengthen the hands of vilifiers so that no man returns from his evil: they all are to me as Sedom and the settlers as Amorah. ¹⁵ So thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth concerning the prophets: Behold, I feed them with wormwood and have them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Yeru Shalem profaneness goes into all the land.

¹⁵ So thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth concerning the prophets: Behold, I feed them with wormwood and have them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Yeru Shalem profaneness goes into all the land. ¹⁶ Thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth: Hearken not to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they make you vain: they word a vision of their own heart - not from the mouth of Yah Veh. ¹⁷ In saying, they say to them who scorn me, Yah Veh words, Shalom to you! - and they say to every one who walks after the warp of his own heart, Evil comes not on you!

²² But had they stood in my private counsel and had my people heard my words, then they had turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their exploits.

²⁵ I hear what the prophets say - who prophesy falsehoods in my name, saying, I dreamed! I dreamed! ²⁶ Until when is this in the heart of the prophets who prophesy falsehoods? - yes, prophets of the deceit of their own heart; ²⁷ who fabricate to have my people forget my name by the dreams they scribe every man to his friend - as their fathers forgot my name for Baal. ²⁸ The prophet, having a dream, have him scribe a dream; and he, having my word, have him word my word in truth. What is the straw to the grain? - an oracle of Yah Veh. ²⁹ Is not my word thus as a fire? - an oracle of Yah Veh and as a hammer shattering the rock?

³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets - an oracle of Yah Veh who take their tongues and say, - an oracle! ³² Behold, I am against them who prophesy false dreams - an oracle of Yah Veh and scribe them; and stray my people by their falsehoods and by their frothiness; and I - I neither sent them nor misvahed them: in benefitting, they benefit this people not - an oracle of Yah Veh. ³³ And when this people or the prophet or a priest ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yah Veh? Say to them, What burden? I abandoned you - an oracle of Yah Veh. ³⁴ And the prophet and the priest and the people who say, The burden of Yah Veh! I visit upon that man and upon his house.

³⁶ And you - remember the burden of Yah Veh no more for the word of every man is his burden; for you perverted the words of the living Elohim - of Yah Veh Sabaoth our Elohim.

⁹ Behold, I send and take all the families of the north - an oracle of Yah Veh and Nebukadnets Tsar sovereign of Babel my servant - and bring them against this land and against the settlers and against all these goyim all around; and devote them and set them a desolation and a hissing; and eternal parched areas:

¹⁸ Yeru Shalem and the cities of Yah Hudah; and the sovereigns and the governors - to give them a parched area, a desolation; a hissing and an abasement; as this day:

⁶ then I give this house as Shiloh and give this city for an abasement to all the goyim of the earth.

¹⁸ Michah Yah the Moreshethiy was prophesying in the days of Yechizqi Yah sovereign of Yah Hudah; and said to all the people of Yah Hudah, saying, Thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth; Siyon becomes a plowed field; and Yeru Shalem becomes heaps; and the mountain of the house as the bamahs of a forest.

⁹ And you, hearken neither to your prophets nor to your diviners nor to your dreamers nor to your cloudgazers nor to your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, You, serve not the sovereign of Babel: ¹⁰ for they prophesy a falsehood to you to remove you far from your soil: and that I drive you out and you destruct.

¹⁴ And hearken not to the words of the prophets who say to you, saying, You, serve not the sovereign of Babel: for they prophesy a falsehood to you: ¹⁵ for I sent them not - an oracle of Yah Veh: yet they prophesy a falsehood in my name; so that I drive you out and that you destruct - you and the prophets who prophesy to you. ¹⁶ And I worded to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yah Veh: Hearken not to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the instruments of the house of Yah Veh now return quickly from Babel! - for they prophesy a falsehood to you.

¹⁵ And the prophet Yirme Yah says to Hanan Yah the prophet, Hear, I beseech, Hanan Yah; Yah Veh sent you not; and you have this people confide in a falsehood:

⁸ For thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth Elohim of Yisra El: See that your prophets and your diviners among you deceive you not, and hearken not to the dreams they have you dream: ⁹ for they prophesy falsehood to you in my name: I sent them not - an oracle of Yah Veh.

¹⁸ and I pursue after them with the sword with the famine and with the pestilence; and give them for an agitation to all the sovereigndoms of the earth - for an oath and a desolation and a hissing and a reproach among all the goyim where I drove them:

¹² For thus says Yah Veh: Your breech is incurable and your wound is worn: ¹³ - no one pleads your cause - bandages you, no bandage healers. ¹⁴ All your lovers forget you; they seek you not: for I smite you with the wound of an enemy; with the chastisement of a cruel one; for the abundance of your perversity; your sins are mighty.

¹⁴ All your lovers forget you; they seek you not: for I smite you with the wound of an enemy; with the chastisement of a cruel one; for the abundance of your perversity; your sins are mighty. ¹⁵ Why cry for your breech? your sorrow is incurable for the abundance of your perversity: your sins are mighty, I worked these to you.

²⁹ and the Kesediym who fight against this city come and kindle fire on this city - and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they incensed to Baal and libated libations to other elohim, to vex me:

³ Call to me, and I answer you and tell you great and fortified which you know not. ⁴ For thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the sovereigns of Yah Hudah - which are pulled down by the mounds and by the sword; ⁵ they come to fight the Kesediym, and to to fill them with the carcases of humanity whom I smote in my wrath and in my fury - and for all whose evil I hid my face from this city.

⁷ perhaps they fell their supplications at the face of Yah Veh so that every man returns from his evil way: for great is the wrath and the fury Yah Veh words against this people.

¹⁹ Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The sovereign of Babel comes not against you or against this land?

² and in the eleventh year of Sidqi Yah, in the fourth month, the ninth of the month, the city is split:

⁸ And the Kesediym burn the house of the sovereign and the houses of the people with fire, and break down the walls of Yeru Shalem:

⁷ And now thus says Yah Veh Elohim Sabaoth Elohim of Yisra El; Why work this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling from midst Yah Hudah, that in surviving, none survive;

⁵ Why see I them terrorized? - apostatizing backward and their mighty crushed? - fleeing to a retreat, and not facing back? with terror all around? - an oracle of Yah Veh.

²⁵ The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm broken - an oracle of Yah Veh.

⁷ All who find them devour them: and their tribulators say, We guilt not! - because they sinned against Yah Veh the habitation of rest of justness; - Yah Veh, the expectation of their fathers.

¹⁷ Yisra El is a scattered lamb; the lions drive him away: first the sovereign of Ashshur devours him; and last this Nebukadnets Tsar sovereign of Babel craunches his bones.

⁸ Suddenly Babel falls and breaks: howl for her; take balm for her sorrow, if so be, she heals. ⁹ We heal Babel, and she heals not: forsake her; and go every man into his own land: for her judgment touches to the heavens, - lifts to the vapours.

²² and with you, I shatter man and woman; and with you, I shatter aged and lad; and with you, I shatter the youth and the virgin;

³⁰ The mighty of Babel cease to fight; they settle in their huntholds; their might withers; they became as women: they burn her tabernacles; they break her bars:

³⁴ Nebukadnets Tsar the sovereign of Babel devours us; crushes us: he sets me an empty instrument; he swallows me up as a monster; he fills his belly with my pleasures; he thrusts me away.

³⁷ and Babel becomes heaps - a habitation for monsters - a desolation and a hissing without a settler:

⁸ and the valiant of the Kesediym pursue the sovereign and overtake Sidqi Yah in the plains of Yericho; and all his valiant scatter from him: ⁹ and they apprehend the sovereign, and ascend him to the sovereign of Babel - to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he words judgment on him.

¹¹ and he blinds the eyes of Sidqi Yah; and the sovereign of Babel binds him in coppers and carries him to Babel; and gives him in the house of visitation until the day of his death. ¹² And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month, which year is the nineteenth year of Nebukadnets Tsar sovereign of Babel, Nebu Zaradan the rabbi slaughterer who stands at the face of the sovereign of Babel, comes to Yeru Shalem; ¹³ and burns the house of Yah Veh and the house of the sovereign and all the houses of Yeru Shalem: and all the houses of the great he burns with fire:

¹³ and burns the house of Yah Veh and the house of the sovereign and all the houses of Yeru Shalem: and all the houses of the great he burns with fire: ¹⁴ and all the valiant of the Kesediym with the rabbi slaughterer break down all the walls of Yeru Shalem all around:

¹⁴ and all the valiant of the Kesediym with the rabbi slaughterer break down all the walls of Yeru Shalem all around: ¹⁵ and Nebu Zaradan the rabbi slaughterer exiles certain of the poor people and the remnant of the people who survive in the city and those who fell away - who fell to the sovereign of Babel with the remnant of the multitude: ¹⁶ and Nebu Zaradan the rabbi slaughterer lets some of the poor of the land survive for vinedressers and for plowers. ¹⁷ And the Kesediym break the pillars of copper in the house of Yah Veh and the bases and the copper sea in the house of Yah Veh, and bear all their copper to Babel ¹⁸ - with the caldrons and the shovels and the tweezers and the sprinklers and the hollow bowls: and they take away all the instruments of copper with which they ministered: ¹⁹ and the rabbi slaughterer takes away the basons and the trays and the sprinklers and the caldrons and the menorah and the spoons and the exoneration basins of gold gold and of silver silver ²⁰ - the two pillars, one sea, and twelve copper bulls under the bases, which sovereign Shelomah worked in the house of Yah Veh: the copper of all these instruments without weight: ²¹ and the pillars - the height of one pillar eighteen cubits and a thread of twelve cubits surrounds it; and the thickness, four fingers - hollow: ²² with a cap of copper thereon; and the height of one cap, five cubits; with netting and pomegranates on the caps all around - all of copper: and the second pillar and the pomegranates are like to these: ²³ and there are ninety-six pomegranates on a wind; and all the pomegranates on the netting are a hundred all around. ²⁴ And the rabbi slaughterer takes Sera Yah the chief priest and Sephan Yah the second priest and the three guards of the threshold: ²⁵ and he also takes one eunuch of the city - an overseer of the men of war; and seven of their men who see the face of the sovereign whom they find in the city; and the scribe of the governor of the host who hosts the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land whom they find midst the city. ²⁶ And Nebu Zaradan the rabbi slaughterer takes them and carries them to the sovereign of Babel to Riblah: ²⁷ and the sovereign of Babel smites them and deathifies them in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus they exile Yah Hudah from his own soil.

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THE FIRST LAMENTATION
How she settles solitary - the city abounding with people - become as a widow! This great among the goyim and governess among the jurisdictions - becomes a vassal! ² In weeping, she weeps in the night - her tears on her cheeks; of all her lovers, none sigh over her; all her friends deal treacherously with her - become her enemies. ³ Yah Hudah is exiled because of humiliation and because of abundant servitude; she settles among the goyim, she finds no rest; all her pursuers overtake her between the straits. ⁴ The ways of Siyon mourn; no one comes to the congregation festivals; all her portals are desolate; her priests sigh; her virgins grieve; she is embittered. ⁵ Her tribulators become her heads; her enemies serenify; for Yah Veh grieves her for the abundance of her rebellions; her infants are captured at the face of the tribulator:

⁸ In sinning, Yeru Shalem sinned; so she is removed; all who honored her, disesteem her; because they see her nakedness: yes, she sighs and turns backward.

¹² Is it naught to you, all you who pass by the way? Look and see if there be any sorrow like to the sorrow exploited to me - wherewith Yah Veh afflicted me in the day of his fuming wrath.

¹⁵ Adonay tramples all my mighty in my midst; he calls a congregation against me to break my young men; as in a winepress Adonay treads the virgin daughter of Yah Hudah. ¹⁶ I weep for these; my eye - my eye cascades with water, because the sigher to restore my soul is far from me; my sons desolate, for the enemy prevails mightily.

¹⁸ Yah Veh is just; for I rebelled against his mouth; hear, I pray you, all people and see my sorrow; my virgins and my young men - gone into captivity. ¹⁹ I call for my beloveds; they - they deceive me; my priests and my elders expire in the city while they seek food to restore their souls. ²⁰ See, O Yah Veh, for I tribulate; my inwards foam; my heart turns within me; in rebelling, I rebelled: outwardly the sword bereaves; as death in the house:

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THE SECOND LAMENTATION
How Adonay overclouds the daughter of Siyon in his wrath; - casts the beauty of Yisra El from the heavens to the earth; and remembers not the stool of his feet in the day of his wrath!

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THE SECOND LAMENTATION
How Adonay overclouds the daughter of Siyon in his wrath; - casts the beauty of Yisra El from the heavens to the earth; and remembers not the stool of his feet in the day of his wrath! ² Adonay swallows all the folds of Yaaqov and spares not; in his fury he demolishes the fortresses of the daughter of Yah Hudah; he touches them to the earth; he profanes the sovereigndom and the governors;

² Adonay swallows all the folds of Yaaqov and spares not; in his fury he demolishes the fortresses of the daughter of Yah Hudah; he touches them to the earth; he profanes the sovereigndom and the governors;

⁴ he bends his bow as an enemy; he stations with his right as a tribulator and slaughters all who are a desire to the eye in the tent of the daughter of Siyon; he pours out his fury as fire. ⁵ Adonay, as an enemy, swallows Yisra El, he swallows all her citadels; he ruins his fortresses; and abounds mourning and sighing in the daughter of Yah Hudah: ⁶ he violates his sukkoth/brush arbor as a garden; he ruins his seasons; Yah Veh has the seasons and shabbaths to be forgotten in Siyon; and in the rage of his wrath scorns the sovereign and the priest:

⁸ Yah Veh machinates to ruin the wall of the daughter of Siyon: he spreads a line; he turns not back his hand from swallowing; and he has the trench and the wall lament; they languish together:

¹¹ My eyes finish off with tears; my inwards foam; my liver pours on the earth for the breech of the daughter of my people; because the infants and the sucklings languish in the broadways of the city. ¹² They say to their mothers, Where are crop and wine? - as they languish as the pierced in the broadways of the city; as their soul pours into the bosom of their mothers.

¹⁶ All your enemies gasp their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We swallowed her! Surely this is the day we awaited! We found! We saw! ¹⁷ Yah Veh works what he intrigued; he cut the saying he commanded in the days of antiquity; he demolished and spared not; and he has your enemy to cheer over you: he lifts the horn of your tribulators.

¹⁹ Rise! Cry out in the night, in the head of the watches; pour your heart as water at the face of Adonay; lift your palms toward him for the soul of your infants who languish for famine in the top of all the outways. ²⁰ See, O Yah Veh, and look to whom you thus exploit. Are the women to eat their fruit - infants of a palm span? - priest and the prophet slaughtered in the holies of Adonay? ²¹ The lad and the aged lie on the earth in the outways; my virgins and my young men fall by the sword; you slaughter them in the day of your wrath - slaughter and spare not.

³ surely he turns against me - turns his hand all the day:

¹² he bends his bow and stations me as a target for the arrow; ¹³ he has the sons of his quiver enter my reins.

²⁸ He settles alone and hushes because he bears it on himself:

⁴³ you cover with wrath and pursue us; you slaughter; you spare not:

⁴³ you cover with wrath and pursue us; you slaughter; you spare not: ⁴⁴ you cover with a cloud so our prayer passes not through:

⁴⁶ all our enemies gasp their mouths against us;

⁴⁸ My eye cascades with rivulets of water for the breech of the daughter of my people:

⁴⁸ My eye cascades with rivulets of water for the breech of the daughter of my people: ⁴⁹ my eye flows and ceases not - without any relaxation.

⁴⁹ my eye flows and ceases not - without any relaxation. ⁵⁰ Until Yah Veh looks down and sees from the heavens, ⁵¹ my eye exploits my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

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THE FOURTH LAMENTATION
How the gold fades - the good ore changes; - the stones of the holies poured out in the top of all the outways!

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THE FOURTH LAMENTATION
How the gold fades - the good ore changes; - the stones of the holies poured out in the top of all the outways! ² The esteemed sons of Siyon, balanced to pure gold, how they are reckoned as pottery bottles, the work of the hands of the former! ³ Even the monsters strip the breast; they suckle their whelps: the daughter of my people is cruel, as ostriches in the wilderness.

³ Even the monsters strip the breast; they suckle their whelps: the daughter of my people is cruel, as ostriches in the wilderness. ⁴ The tongue of the suckling adheres to his palate for thirst; the infants ask bread and no one spreads to them;

⁴ The tongue of the suckling adheres to his palate for thirst; the infants ask bread and no one spreads to them; ⁵ they who ate delicately desolate in the outways; those entrusted with scarlet embrace dunghills.

⁵ they who ate delicately desolate in the outways; those entrusted with scarlet embrace dunghills. ⁶ And the perversity of the daughter of my people greatens above the sin of Sodom - overturned as in a blink and no hands writhed over her. ⁷ Her Separatists were purified as snow - dazzling whiter than milk; their bones more reddened than pearls; their separatism of sapphire: ⁸ their form becomes darker than darkness - not recognized in the outways; their skin adheres to their bones - withers; becomes as wood. ⁹ Those pierced with the sword are better than those pierced with famine; for they flow away stabbed because of the produce of the field.

⁹ Those pierced with the sword are better than those pierced with famine; for they flow away stabbed because of the produce of the field. ¹⁰ The hands of the mercied women stew their own children; they chew them in the breech of the daughter of my people.

¹⁰ The hands of the mercied women stew their own children; they chew them in the breech of the daughter of my people.

¹³ Because of the sins of her prophets and the perversities of her priests, who pour the blood of the just in her midst,

¹⁵ They call to them, Turn aside! Foul! Turn aside! Turn aside! Touch not! As they flee and wander, they say among the goyim, Add not to sojourn there. ¹⁶ The anger of Yah Veh allots them; never again to scan them; they neither lifted the face of the priests, nor granted charism to the elders.

²⁰ the spirit/wind of our nostrils, the anointed of Yah Veh, is captured in their pits - of whom we say, Under his shadow we live among the goyim.

¹² governors are hanged by their hand; the faces of elders are not esteemed:

¹⁴ the elders shabbathize from the portal - the young men from their strumming:

¹⁰ and he spreads it at my face; and it is inscribed on the face and on the back: and inscribed therein are lamentations and meditations and woe.

¹⁰ So the fathers eat the sons midst you; and the sons eat their fathers: and I work judgments in you, and I winnow all your survivors into all the winds. ¹¹ So - I live - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh because you foul my holies with all your abominations and with all your abhorrences, I also diminish you; neither my eye spares nor I compassion.

¹³ Thus I finish off my wrath and I rest my fury on them, and sigh: and they know that I Yah Veh word in my zeal when I finish off my fury in them.

¹⁶ I send on them the evil arrows of famine being for their ruin - which I send to ruin you: and I increase the famine on you and break your rod of bread:

¹² he who is afar dies of the pestilence; and he who is near falls by the sword; and he who survives and is under guard dies by the famine: thus I finish off my fury on them:

⁴ And neither my eye spares you nor I compassion: and I give your ways on you, for your abhorrences are midst you: and you know I - Yah Veh.

⁸ Now, soon I pour my fury on you, and finish off my wrath on you: and I judge you according to your ways, and give you for all your abhorrences. ⁹ And neither my eye spares, nor I compassion: I give you according to your ways and your abhorrences midst you; and you know I - Yah Veh who smites.

⁹ And neither my eye spares, nor I compassion: I give you according to your ways and your abhorrences midst you; and you know I - Yah Veh who smites.

¹⁸ they gird with saq and trembling covers them; and shame is on all faces and baldness on all their heads.

²⁰ As for the splendor of his ornament, he sets it in pomp: and they work the images of their abhorrences and of their abominations therein: so I give to exclude it from them: ²¹ and I give it into the hands of the strangers for a plunder; and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they profane it: ²² and I turn my face from them and they profane my hideout; for the tyrants enter it and profane it.

²⁴ And I bring the evil of the goyim to possess their houses: I also shabbathize the pomp of the strong; to profane their hallowed.

²⁶ Calamity on calamity arrives; and report on report: and they seek a vision of the prophet; and the torah destructs from the priest and counsel from the elders.

¹⁸ So I also work in fury: neither my eye spares, nor I compassion: and though they call out in my ears with a great voice, yet I hear them not.

⁵ And to the others he says in my ears, Pass after him through the city, and smite: neither your eye spare nor compassion: ⁶ slaughter to ruin aged and youth and virgin and toddler and women: but come not near any man on whom is the tattoo; and begin at my holies. - and they begin at the aged men at the face of the house.

¹⁰ And I also, neither my eye spares, nor I compassion: I give their way on their head.

¹² and the hierarch among them bears on his shoulder in the dusk, and goes forth: they dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he covers his face so that he sees not the earth with his eyes. ¹³ and I spread my net on him, and apprehend him in my lure: and I bring him to Babel to the land of the Kesediym; yet he sees it not, though he dies there:

¹³ and I spread my net on him, and apprehend him in my lure: and I bring him to Babel to the land of the Kesediym; yet he sees it not, though he dies there:

² Son of humanity, prophesy against the prophets of Yisra El who prophesy: and to them who prophesy from their own hearts, say, Hear the word of Yah Veh; ³ Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Ho to the foolish prophets who walk after their own spirit, and see naught! ⁴ O Yisra El, your prophets are as the foxes in the parched areas. ⁵ You neither ascend into the breaches nor wall the wall for the house of Yisra El to stand in the war in the day of Yah Veh. ⁶ They see vanity and lying divination, saying, - An oracle of Yah Veh! and Yah Veh sent them not: and they hope to confirm the word. ⁷ You saw neither a vain vision, nor a lying divination say, saying, - An oracle of Yah Veh! Have I not worded? ⁸ So thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Because you word vanity and see lies - so behold, I am against you - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh ⁹ and my hand becomes on the prophets, seers of vanity and diviners of lies: they are neither in the private counsel of my people, nor inscribed in the inscribing of the house of Yisra El, nor enter they the soil of Yisra El; and you know I - Adonay Yah Veh. ¹⁰ Because, even because they seduce my people, saying, Shalom; and there is no shalom; and one builds a wall; and behold, others daub it with slime. ¹¹ Say to them who daub it with slime, It falls! There becomes an overflowing downpour; and you, O great hailstones, fall: and a stormy wind splits: ¹² behold, when the wall falls, say they not to you, Where is the daubing with which you daubed? ¹³ So thus says Adonay Yah Veh: I split it with a stormy wind in my fury; and so be it, an overflowing downpour in my wrath and great hailstones in my fury to fully finish it off: ¹⁴ thus I demolish the wall you daubed with slime so that it touches to the earth, so that the foundation exposes and falls and finishes you off in the midst: and you know I - Yah Veh. ¹⁵ Thus I finish off my fury on the wall and on them who daubed it with slime and say to you, The wall is not: they who daubed it are not; ¹⁶ - the prophets of Yisra El who prophesy concerning Yeru Shalem - seers of visions of shalom for her and there is no shalom - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh.

²² Because with falsehoods you pain the heart of the just, whom I pain not; and strengthen the hands of the evil that he not return from his wicked way, by enlivening him:

¹⁸ seeing he despises the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he gives his hand to work all these; he escapes not.

²⁰ And I spread my net on him and apprehend him in my lure; and I bring him to Babel, and there I plead with him for the treason he treasons against me:

²² I turn my hand, and work for sake of my name, not to profane in the eyes of the goyim, in whose eyes I brought them forth.

²² as silver melts midst the furnace, thus you melt in the midst: and you know that I Yah Veh pour my fury on you.

²⁵ - a conspiracy of prophets in her midst: as a roaring lion tearing the prey, they devour souls: they take the wealthy and esteemed; they abound her widows in her midst:

²⁸ and her prophets daub them with slime - seers of vanity, divining lies to them, saying, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: when Yah Veh words not.

²¹ Speak to the house of Yisra El, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Behold, I profane my holies - the pomp of your strength the desire of your eyes and the sympathy of your soul: and your sons and your daughters whom you forsake fall by the sword.

²⁵ And you, son of humanity, is it not in the day I take their stronghold from them - the joy of their adornment - the desire of their eyes and the burden of their souls - their sons and their daughters?

³ and say to the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of Adonay Yah Veh; Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Because you say, Aha! against my holies, when it profanes; and against the soil of Yisra El, when it desolates; and against the house of Yah Hudah, when they go into exile;

⁶ For thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Because you clap the hand, and stamp the foot, and cheer in soul with all your despite against the soil of Yisra El;

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THE WORD OF YAH VEH CONCERNING THE PELESHETHIYM
Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Because the Peleshethiym work avengement; and avenge with a despiteful soul to ruin the eternal enmity;

³ So thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Behold, I am against you, O Sor, and I ascend many goyim against you, as the sea ascends his waves: ⁴ and they ruin the walls of Sor and break down her towers: and I scrape her dust from her and give her as the clearing of a rock.

³¹ and in balding, they balden themselves for you, and gird themselves with saq; and they weep for you with bitterness of soul and bitter chopping:

¹⁴ You, the overspreading cherub who covers; and I gave you on the holy mountain of Elohim; to walk up and down midst the stones of fire. ¹⁵ You, integrious in your ways from the day of your creating, until wickedness was found in you. ¹⁶ By the abundance of your merchandise they filled your midst with violence, and you sinned. So I cast you as profane from the mountain of Elohim: and I destroy you, O covering cherub, from midst the stones of fire:

¹⁸ and spare the day in Tachpanches, when I break the yoke poles of Misrayim: and the pomp of her strength shabbathizes in her: as for her, a cloud covers her and her daughters go into captivity.

²⁴ and I strengthen the arms of the sovereign of Babel and give my sword in his hand: and I break the arms of Paroh, and he groans the groanings of a pierced man at his face.

⁷ and when I put you out, I cover the heavens and darken the stars: I cover the sun with a cloud and the moon lightens not: ⁸ all the lights of the light of the heavens I darken over you and give darkness on your land - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh.

³ so prophesy and say, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Because - yes, because they desolate you and swallow you all around to be a possession to the survivors of the goyim, and ascend you on the lips of tongues - a slander of the people:

¹⁸ and I pour my fury on them for the blood they pour on the land, and for their idols with which they foul it:

¹² And he raises the words he worded against us and against our judges who judge us, by bringing a great evil on us - as never worked under the whole heavens as he works on Yeru Shalem:

⁴ The sons of Yisra El settle for many days with no sovereign and no governor; no sacrifice, no monolith, no ephod, no teraphim:

¹⁴ and they cry not to me with their heart but howl on their beds: they sojourn for crop and juice and they turn aside against me.

⁸ Yisra El is swallowed: they are now among the goyim as an instrument wherein is no delight:

¹² Though they nourish their sons, yet I bereave them - without a human: yes also, woe to them when I turn aside from them! ¹³ Ephrayim, as I saw Sor, is transplanted in a habitation of rest: and Ephrayim brings his sons to the slaughterer. ¹⁴ Give them, O Yah Veh! What give you? Give them an aborting womb and dry breasts. ¹⁵ All their evil is in Gilgal; surely, there I hated them: for the evil of their exploits I drive them from my house; I add not to love them: all their governors are revolters. ¹⁶ Ephrayim is smitten: their root withers; they work no fruit: yes, though they birth, yet I slay the desire of their belly.

⁸ Lament as a virgin girt with saq for the master of her youth:

² a day of dripping darkness and of darkness; a day of clouds and of thick darkness as the dawn spread on the mountains: a great people and a mighty; neither became the like eternally nor adds to become afterward to the years of generation and generation.

⁵ and I send a fire on Yah Hudah, to consume the citadels of Yeru Shalem.

¹⁰ I sent the pestilence among you by the way of Misrayim: I slaughtered your youths with the sword and took away your horses; and I ascended the stink of your camps to your nostrils: yet you returned not to me - an oracle of Yah Veh.

¹³ So, in that time, the comprehending keep still; for it is an evil time.

⁷ Thus he has me see: and behold, Adonay stations a plumb line on a wall and a plumb line in his hand. ⁸ And Yah Veh says to me, Amos, what see you? And I say, A plumbline. Then Yah Veh Adonay says, Behold, I set a plumbline among my people Yisra El: I add not to pass by them any more:

³ And the songstresses of the manse howl in that day - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh: with many carcases in every place; they cast them forth: Hush!

¹¹ Behold, days come, - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh and I send a famine in the land - neither a famine of bread nor a thirst for water; but of hearing the words of Yah Veh: ¹² and they wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the rising; and they flit to seek the word of Yah Veh and find not. ¹³ In that day the beautiful virgins and youths languish for thirst;

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JUDGMENT OF YAH VEH
I see Adonay stationed on the sacrifice altar; and he says, Smite the lintel of the door, so as to quake the thresholds: and crop them in the head - all of them; and I slaughter the last of them with the sword: and he who flees, flees not to them, and the escapee escapes not to them. ² And if they dig into sheol my hand takes them from there; and if they ascend to the heavens I bring them down from there: ³ and if they hide in the top of Karmel/orchard I search and take them from there; and if they hide from my eyes in the floor of the sea I misvah the serpent to bite them there; ⁴ and if they go into captivity at the face of their enemies, I misvah the sword to slaughter them there: and I set my eyes on them for evil and not for good.

¹² and you neither see the day of your brother - the day he is estranged; nor cheer over the sons of Yah Hudah in the day of their destruction; nor greaten your mouth in the day of tribulation. ¹³ nor enter the portal of my people in the day of their calamity; yes, nor see their evil in the day of their calamity; nor spread over their valiant in the day of their calamity; ¹⁴ nor stand in the crossway to cut off his escapees; nor shut up his survivors in the day of tribulation. ¹⁵ For the day of Yah Veh is near on all the goyim: as you work, as worked to you: your dealing returns on your own head: ¹⁶ for as you drink on my holy mountain thus all the goyim drink continually - yes, they drink and they gulp, and they become as though they had never become.

³ So thus says Yah Veh: Behold, I fabricate an evil against this family from which you neither depart your necks nor go haughtily: for this is a time of evil.

¹¹ If a man walking with spirit/wind and with falsehood lies, saying, I drip to you of wine and of intoxicants; he drips to this people.

⁵ Thus says Yah Veh concerning the prophets who stray my people - who bite with their teeth and call out, Shalom; who give not into their mouths, and hallow war against him. ⁶ So your night is without a vision and darkness without a divination: and the sun goes down over the prophets and the day darkens over them: ⁷ and the seers shame and the diviners blush: yes, they all cover their upper lip; for there is no answer, O Elohim.

¹² So because of you Siyon is plowed as a field and Yeru Shalem becomes heaps; and the mountain of the house as the bamahs of the forest.

¹¹ and I cut off the cities of your land and demolish all your fortresses: ¹² and I cut off sorceries from your hand so that you have no cloudgazers:

¹⁶ And you guard the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ach Ab; and you walk in their counsels: and I give you for a desolation, and the settlers for a hissing: and you bear the reproach of my people.

² El is jealous and Yah Veh avenges; Yah Veh avenges and is a master of fury: Yah Veh avenges his tribulators and he guards for his enemies:

⁶ Who stands at the face of his rage? And who rises in the fuming of his wrath? He pours his fury as fire and pulls down the rocks.

¹⁰ Yet was she is exiled; she goes into captivity: even her sucklings splatter at the top of all the outways: and they handle pebbles for her honorable men and chain all her great in chains.

¹⁹ There is no healing of your breach; your wound is worn: all who hear your report clap their palms over you: for on whom passes not your evil continually?

¹¹ For the stone cries from the wall: and the crossbeam of timber answers.

⁸ I hear the reproach of Moab and the revilings of the sons of Ammon - whereby they reproach my people, and greaten against their border: ⁹ so, I live - an oracle of Yah Veh Sabaoth Elohim of Yisra El. Surely Moab is as Sedom and the sons of Ammon as Amorah - the possession of nettles and saltpits - an eternal desolation: the survivors of my people plunder them and the remnant of my goyim inherit them. ¹⁰ This is for their pomp, because they reproach and greaten against the people of Yah Veh Sabaoth.

¹⁵ - this - the city of jumping for joy who settles confidently - who says in her heart, I - and there is no one beside me! How she becomes a desolation - a resting place for live beings! every one who passes by her hisses and wags his hand.

⁴ her prophets are frothy and covert men; her priests profane the holies; they violate the torah:

¹⁸ I gather the grieved from the congregation who became from you; whose reproach was a burden.

⁵ whose chattelers slaughter them, and they guilt not: and they who sell them say, Blessed - Yah Veh; for I enrich: and their own tenders spare them not. ⁶ For I spare the settlers of the land no more - an oracle of Yah Veh. And behold, I present humanity - each man to the hand of his friend and to the hand of his sovereign; and they crush the land: and from their hand I rescue them not:

⁶ For I spare the settlers of the land no more - an oracle of Yah Veh. And behold, I present humanity - each man to the hand of his friend and to the hand of his sovereign; and they crush the land: and from their hand I rescue them not:

⁴ Because Edom says, We are impoverished, and we return and build the parched areas. Thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth: They build, and I break down; and they call them, The border of wickedness: and, The people against whom Yah Veh enrages eternally.

⁹ So I also give you despised and lowly in front of all the people because according to your mouth you guard not my ways, and lift faces against the torah.

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THE DAY OF YAH VEH
For behold, the day approaches that inflames as an oven; and all the arrogant, yes, and all who work wickedly, become stubble: and the day that approaches burns them, says Yah Veh Sabaoth, that it leaves them neither root nor branch.

²³ And you, Kaphar Nachum - exalted to the heavens to descend to sheol/hades: for if the dynamis that became in you had become in Sedom, it had abode until this day.

²⁵ and in the fourth guard of the night Yah Shua goes to them, walking on the sea.

³³ Ought you not also mercy your co-servant even as I mercied you?

² And Yah Shua says to them, See you not all these? Amen! I word to you, Never no way is stone upon stone allowed, that never no way disintegrates.

³⁹ And those passing by blaspheme him, wagging their heads

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YAH SHUA PRAYS AND PREACHES
And very early morning, still extremely night, he rises and goes and departs to a desolate place; and there he prays:

³⁵ So you watch: for you know not when the adoni of the house comes - at evening or at midnight or at the rooster voice or in the morning:

²⁹ And all who pass by blaspheme him, wagging their heads, and wording, Aha, you who disintegrates the nave and builds it in three days:

⁶⁹ and raises a horn of salvation for us in the house of his lad David;

¹⁷ whose winnowing fan is in his hand and he throughly purges his threshing floor; and gathers the grain into his granary; but burns the chaff with fire unquenchable.

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YAH SHUA SELECTS TWELVE APOSTLES
And so be it, in those days, he goes to a mountain to pray, and continues all night in prayer to Elohim.

¹⁵ And you, Kaphar Nachum, exalted to the heavens, you descend to sheol/hades. ^{Isaiah 14:12-15}

¹⁸ And he says to them, I observed Satan as lightning falls from the heavens. ^{John 12:31, 32, Revelation 12:9}

²⁹ For, behold, the days come in which they say, Blessed - the sterile and the wombs that never birthed and the breasts that never nippled.

²⁹ For, behold, the days come in which they say, Blessed - the sterile and the wombs that never birthed and the breasts that never nippled. ³⁰ Then they begin to word to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Veil us.

¹³ and set pseudo witnesses, who word, This human pauses not to speak blasphemous rhema against this holy place and the torah: ¹⁴ for we heard him word, that this Yah Shua the Nazarene disintegrates this place, and changes the customs Mosheh delivered us.

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STEPHANOS IS STONED
They hear these and are cut to the heart; and they gnash on him with their teeth:

⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but able through Elohim to pulling down fortresses;

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COSMIC MANNERS AND COSTUME
So I will that men pray in every place lifting hands of mercy apart from wrath and reasoning.

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PSEUDOPROPHETS AND PSEUDODOCTORS
And so be it also, pseudoprophets among the people - even as pseudodoctors become among you who surreptitiously introduce destructive heresies - even denying the Despotes who marketed them; and bring quick destruction on themselves. ² And many follow their destructive ways - who blaspheme the way of truth: ³ and in avarice they fabricate words and merchandise of you: whose judgment of old idles not and their destruction slumbers not.

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WAR IN THE HEAVENS
And war becomes in the heavens: Michah El and his angels war against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels war; ⁸ and they are not mighty enough and their place is not still found in the heavens. ⁹ And the mega dragon is cast out, that ancient serpent called Diabolos and Satan, who seduces the whole world: he is cast to the earth and his angels are cast out with him.

¹⁹ And they cast dust on their heads and cry, weeping and mourning, wording, Woe! Woe that megalopolis, wherein all who had sailers in the sea enriched from her preciousnesses! Because in one hour she desolated.