Ezekiel 22 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying: ² Thou, therefore, son of man, Wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge, the city of bloodshed; and cause her to know all her abominations? ³ Thou shalt say then, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, A city shedding blood in her own midst, That her time, might come, Therefore hath she been making manufactured gods for herself, to be defiled. ⁴ Because of the blood which thou hast shed, hast thou become guilty, And, with the manufactured gods which thou hast made, hast thou defiled thyself, Thus hast thou brought near thy days, And hast come unto thy years,––For this cause, have I delivered thee, As a reproach, to the nations, And as a derision, to all the lands. ⁵ They who are near, and they who are far off from thee, shall shew themselves derisive over thee,––O thou of impure name, abounding in confusion! ⁶ Lo! the, princes of Israel, every man for his own arm, have they been in thee, For the sake of shedding blood. ⁷ Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression, in the midst of thee,––The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee: ⁸ My holy things, hast thou despised,––And, my sabbaths, hast thou profaned: ⁹ Slanders, have arisen in thee, For the sake of shedding blood,––And, unto the mountains, have they eaten in thee, Lewdness, have they practised in the midst of thee: ¹⁰ A father’s shame, hath been uncovered in thee, Her that was unclean in her removal, have they humbled in thee; ¹¹ And, one man, with the wife of his neighbour, hath wrought abomination, And, another, hath defiled, his daughter–in–law, by shameful deed,––And, another, his own sister, daughter of his own father, hath humbled in thee: ¹² Bribes, have they accepted in thee, For the sake of shedding blood,––Interest and increase, hast thou accepted, And thou hast overreached thy neighbour, by oppression, And, me, hast thou forgotten, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh. ¹³ Lo! therefore, I have smitten my hand, At thine unjust gain which thou hast made––And over thy bloodshed, which they have caused in thy midst. ¹⁴ Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days when I, am dealing with thee? I, Yahweh, have spoken, and will perform. ¹⁵ Therefore will I disperse thee among the nations, And scatter thee throughout the lands,––And will cause to cease thine impurity out of thee; ¹⁶ So shalt thou be profaned in thyself, before the eyes of nations, Thus shalt thou know, that, I, am Yahweh.
¹⁷ Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying: ¹⁸ Son of man, The house of Israel, hath become to me, dross,––They all, are copper and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of a furnace, The dross of silver, have they become. ¹⁹ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Because ye all are become dross, Therefore, behold me! gathering you, into the midst of Jerusalem: ²⁰ As they gather silver and copper and iron and lead and tin, into the midst of a furnace, to blow upon it the fire, to melt it, So, will I gather, in mine anger and in mine indignation, and will let be, and will melt you; ²¹ Yea I will gather you, together, and blow upon you, with the fire of my wrath,––And ye shall be melted in the midst thereof: ²² As silver is melted, in he midst of a furnace, So, shall ye be melted in the midst thereof,––Then shall ye know, that, I Yahweh, have poured out mine indignation upon you.
²³ And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying: ²⁴ Son of man, say to her, Thou, art a land, that is, not to be rained upon, nor to receive fruitful showers, in the day of indignation. ²⁵ Because, her princes in her midst, are like a roaring lion, rending prey,––Life, have they devoured, Wealth and precious things, have they been wont to take, Her widows, have they multiplied in her midst. ²⁶ Her priests, have done violence to my law, And have profaned my holy things, Between the hallowed and the common, have they put no difference, And, between the unclean and clean, have they not taught men to discern,––And, from my sabbaths, have they hid their eyes, So that I have been profaned in their midst. ²⁷ Her rulers within her, have been like wolves, rending prey,––In shedding blood, In destroying lives, For the sake of getting dishonest gain. ²⁸ And, her prophets, have coated it for them with whitewash, Seeing visions of falsehood, And divining for them lies,––Saying, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, when, Yahweh, hath not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice. ³⁰ Then sought I from among them, a man, Who could build up a wall, And stand in the breach, before me in behalf of the land, So that I might not destroy her,––But I found none. ³¹ Therefore have I poured out upon them mine indignation, In the fire of mine outburst, have I consumed them,––Their way, upon their own head, have I placed, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

²³ So then Abraham drew near, and said,––Wilt thou really sweep away, the righteous, with the lawless? ²⁴ Peradventure there are fifty righteous, in the midst of the city, Wilt thou really sweep away, and not spare the place, for the sake of the fifty righteous, which are therein? ²⁵ Far be it from thee! to do after this manner, to put to death the righteous with the lawless! Then should righteous and lawless be alike,––Far be it from thee! Shall, the Judge of all the earth, not do, justice? ²⁶ And Yahweh said, If I find in Sodom, fifty righteous, in the midst of the city, then will I spare all the place for their sake. ²⁷ And Abraham responded, and said,––Behold, I pray thee, I have ventured to speak unto My Lord, though, I, am dust and ashes: ²⁸ Peradventure there may lack, of the fifty righteous, five, Wilt thou destroy, for five, all the city? And he said,––I will not destroy, if I find there, forty and five. ²⁹ And he added, yet once more, to speak unto him, and said, Peradventure there may be found there––forty. And he said––I will not do it, for the sake of the forty. ³⁰ And he said, Let it not, I pray thee, be vexing to My Lord, but let me speak, Peradventure there may be found there––thirty. And he said, I will not to it, if I find there––thirty. ³¹ And he said, Behold, I pray thee, I have ventured to speak unto My Lord, Peradventure there may be found there––twenty. And he said, I will not destroy [it], for the sake of the twenty. ³² And he said, Let it not, I pray thee, be vexing to My Lord, but let me speak, only this once, Peradventure there may be found there––ten. And he said, I will not destroy [it], for the sake of the ten!

²² And it came to pass, while Israel inhabited that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. And so the Sons of Israel came to be Twelve.

⁴ Boiling over like water, thou mayest not have preeminence, Because thou didst mount the bed of thy father,––Then, wast thou profane––My marriage–bed, he mounted!

²² then will I make to differ, on that day, the land of Goshen, wherein my people do dwell, so that there shall not be, there, a gad–fly! in order that thou mayest know, that, I, Yahweh, am in the midst of the land;

¹² Honour thy father, and thy mother,––that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil, which Yahweh thy God is about to give unto thee.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not testify against thy neighbour, with a witness of falsehood.

¹⁷ And, he who revileth his father or his mother, shall, surely be put to death.

²¹ And, a sojourner, shalt thou not tread down, neither shalt thou drive him away,––for, sojourners, ye became in the land of Egypt.

²¹ And, a sojourner, shalt thou not tread down, neither shalt thou drive him away,––for, sojourners, ye became in the land of Egypt. ²² Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:

²⁵ If, silver, thou wilt lend unto my people––unto the humbled one by thee, thou shalt not be to him like one that lendeth on interest,––thou shalt not lay upon him interest. ²⁶ If thou, do take in pledge, the mantle of thy neighbour, by the going in of the sun, shalt thou restore it to him;

¹ Thou shalt not utter a false report. Do not lay thy hand with a lawless man, to become a witness helping forward violence and wrong.

⁷ From a matter of falsehood, thou shalt keep far away,––and, the innocent one and the righteous, do not thou slay, for I will not justify a lawless man. ⁸ And, a bribe, shalt thou not take,––for, the bribe, blindeth the clear–sighted, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ⁹ And, a sojourner, shalt thou not drive away,––seeing that, ye yourselves, know the soul of a sojourner; for, sojourners, became ye in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ Now, therefore, let me alone, that mine anger may kindle upon them, and that I may consume them, and may make of thee, a great nation. ¹¹ And Moses besought the face of Yahweh his God,––and said––Wherefore, O Yahweh, should thine anger kindle upon thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt, with great might, and with a firm hand? ¹² Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying––For mischief, hath he taken them forth, to slay them among the mountains, and to make an end of them from off the face of the ground? Turn thou from the kindling of thine anger, and be grieved over the calamity to thy people. ¹³ Have remembrance of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself, and didst speak unto them saying, I will multiply your seed, as the stars of the heavens,––and, all this land of which I have spoken, will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it to times age–abiding. ¹⁴ So then Yahweh was grieved,––over the calamity,––which he had spoken of inflicting on his people.

¹ Then Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, took each man his censer, and placed therein fire, and put thereon incense,––and brought near before Yahweh, strange fire, which he had not commanded them. ² Then came there forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed them,––and they died before Yahweh.
³ Then said Moses unto Aaron––The very thing, that Yahweh spake, saying––In them that draw near to me, must I be hallowed, And, before the faces of all the people, must I get myself honour,––And Aaron, was dumb.

¹⁰ That ye may make a difference, between the sacred and the common,––and between the unclean, and the clean;

⁴⁷ That ye may make a difference––between the unclean and the clean,––and between the living thing that may be eaten, and the living thing which may not be eaten.

⁷ The shame of thy father, even the shame of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover,––thy mother, she is, thou shalt not uncover her shame. ⁸ The shame of thy father’s wife, shalt thou not uncover,––thy father’s shame, it is. ⁹ The shame of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born abroad, thou shalt not uncover their shame.

¹⁵ The shame of thy daughter–in–law, shalt thou not uncover,––thy son’s wife, she is, thou shalt not uncover her shame.

¹⁹ And, unto a woman during her removal for uncleanness, shalt thou not approach, to uncover her shame. ²⁰ And, of the wife of thy neighbour, shalt thou not have carnal knowledge,––to commit uncleanness with her.

¹³ Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour nor rob [him], ––The wages of him that is hired shall not tarry with thee, until the morning.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not go about talebearing, among thy people, Thou shalt not stand by, over the blood of thy neighbour: I, am Yahweh.

³⁰ My sabbaths, shall ye observe, And, my sanctuary, shall ye revere,––I, am Yahweh.

³³ And, when there sojourneth with thee a sojourner, in your land, ye shall not oppress him:

⁹ When, any man whatsoever, curseth his father or his mother, he shall, surely be put to death,––his father or his mother, hath he cursed, his blood, shall be upon himself.
¹⁰ And, any man, who committeth adultery with the wife of any other man, he that committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour, shall, surely be put to death––the adulterer, and the adulteress. ¹¹ And, any man who lieth with his father’s wife, the shame of his father, hath uncovered,––they both shall, surely be put to death,––their blood, shall be upon themselves. ¹² And, any man who lieth with his daughter–in–law, they both shall, surely be put to death, confusion, have they wrought––their blood, shall be upon themselves.

¹⁷ And, any man, who taketh his sister––his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and vieweth her shame, and, she, vieweth his shame, a disgrace, it is,––they shall therefore be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people,––the shame of his sister, hath he uncovered––his iniquity, shall he bear. ¹⁸ And, any man, who lieth with a woman having her sickness, and uncovereth her shame, her fountain, hath he exposed, she, also hath uncovered her fountain of blood,––they shall therefore both be cut off, out of the midst of their people.

²⁵ Therefore shall ye make a distinction––Between the clean beasts, and the unclean,––And between the unclean birds, and the clean,––So shall ye not make your persons abominable with beast, or with bird or with anything which creepeth upon the ground, which I have distinguished for you, as unclean.

² Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, That they hold sacredly aloof from the holy things of the sons of Israel, so as not to profane my holy name,––in the things which, they, are hallowing unto me––I, am Yahweh. ³ Say unto them––Unto your generations, as touching any man who cometh near from among any of your seed, unto the hallowed things which the sons of Israel may hallow unto Yahweh, while his uncleanness is upon him, then shall that person be cut off from before me––I, am Yahweh. ⁴ No man soever of the seed of Aaron, who is a leper, or hath a flux, shall eat, of the holy things, until he be clean,––And, as for him who toucheth anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him; ⁵ or a man who toucheth any creeping thing, which is unclean to him,––or [toucheth] any human being who hath uncleanness, to the extent of any thing that maketh him unclean, ⁶ any person who toucheth any such, shall then be unclean until the evening,––and shall not eat of the hallowed things, unless he bathe his flesh in water. ⁷ When the sun tooth in, then is he clean,––and, thereafter, he may eat of the hallowed things, for, his food, it is. ⁸ That which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces, shall he not eat, to make himself unclean thereby,––I, am Yahweh. ⁹ Therefore shall they keep my charge, and shall not bear, for it, sin, and die therein, when they profane it,––I––Yahweh, am hallowing them.
¹⁰ And, no stranger, shall eat what is hallowed,––neither, one who dwelleth with a priest, nor a hireling, shall eat what is hallowed. ¹¹ But, when, a priest, buyeth any person, as the purchase of his silver, he may eat thereof,––and, the children of his household, they, may eat of his food. ¹² And, when, a priest’s daughter, belongeth to a husband who is a stranger, she, of the heave–offering of the hallowed things, may not eat. ¹³ But, when, a priest’s daughter cometh to be a widow or divorced, and hath, no seed, and so she returneth unto the house of her father, as in her youth, of the food of her father, she may eat,––but, no stranger, shall eat thereof. ¹⁴ And, when, any man, eateth what is hallowed, by mistake, then shall he add the fifth part of it thereunto, and give, unto the priest, the hallowed thing: ¹⁵ So shall they not profane the hallowed things of the sons of Israel,––which they heave up unto Yahweh; ¹⁶ nor cause them to bear guilty iniquity, when they eat their hallowed things,––For, I––Yahweh, am hallowing them.
¹⁷ And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying: ¹⁸ Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them––What man, soever, of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, may bring near his oblation, as regardeth any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings which they may bring near unto Yahweh, as an ascending–sacrifice, ¹⁹ that ye may be accepted, [it must be] a male without defect, of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats: ²⁰ whatsoever hath in it a blemish, shall ye not bring near,––for it shall not be accepted for you. ²¹ And, whosoever would bring near a peace–offering unto Yahweh, to consecrate a vow, or as a freewill–offering, with a bullock or a sheep, without defect, shall it be, to be accepted, no, blemish, shall be therein. ²² Blind, or broken, or rent, or having a running sore, or scurvy, or scab, ye shall not bring these near unto Yahweh,––and no, altar–flame, shall ye present therefrom upon the altar, unto Yahweh. ²³ Whether an ox or a lamb, long or short limb, as a free–will offering, thou mayest offer it, but, for a vow, it shall not be accepted. ²⁴ But, that which is bruised in the stones, or broken therein, or torn or cut, shall ye neither bring ear unto Yahweh, nor, on your own land, shall ye offer. ²⁵ Even at the hand of the son of a stranger, shall ye not bring near the food of your God, of any of these,––for, their damage, is in them, a blemish, is in them, they shall not be accepted for you. ²⁶ And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying:–– ²⁷ When, a beeve or a sheep or a goat, is brought forth, then shall it be seven days under its dam,––and, from the eighth day and onwards, it shall be accepted as an oblation of an altar–flame, unto Yahweh, ²⁸ Whether cow or ewe––it and its young, shall ye not slaughter on one day. ²⁹ And, when ye would offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto Yahweh, for your acceptance, shall ye offer it. ³⁰ On the same day, shall it be eaten, ye shall not leave thereof until morning,––I, am Yahweh. ³¹ So then ye shall observe my commandments, and do them,––I, am Yahweh. ³² So shall ye not profane my holy name, So shall I be hallowed in the midst of the sons of Israel,––I, am Yahweh, who am hallowing you; ³³ Who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might become your, God,––I, am Yahweh.

³⁵ And, when thy brother waxeth poor, and his hand becometh feeble with thee, then shalt thou strengthen him, as a sojourner and a settler, so shall he live with thee. ³⁶ Do not accept from him interest or profit, but stand thou in awe of thy God,––so shall thy brother live with thee.

³² And, I, will make the land dumb, And your foes that dwell therein shall regard it with dumb amazement: ³³ When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare, after you, a sword. Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation.

¹⁰ Then kindled the anger of Balak against Balaam, and he smote together his hands,––and Balak said unto Balaam––To revile my foes, I called thee, And lo! thou hast, kept on blessing, these three times.

¹⁴ Lo! therefore, ye have arisen in the room of your fathers, a brood of sinful men,––to heap up yet more upon the heat of the anger of Yahweh, towards Israel.

²⁴ seeing that, as for Yahweh thy God, a consuming fire, he is,––a jealous GOD.

²⁷ and Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples,––and ye shall have left remaining of you, men easily counted, among the nations whither Yahweh will drive you;

¹⁶ Honour thy father, and thy mother, as Yahweh thy God hath commanded, thee,––that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, upon the soil which Yahweh thy God is about to give unto thee:

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest judgment, thou shalt not take note of faces,––nor shalt thou accept a bribe, for, the bribe, blindeth the eyes of wise men, and perverteth the words of righteous men.

²² When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then shall, both, of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman,––so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of Israel.

¹⁹ Thou shalt not lend on interest to thy brother, interest of silver, interest of food,––interest of any thing that can be lent on interest:

¹⁶ Cursed, be he that holdeth in light esteem, his father or his mother. And all the people shall say––Amen.

¹⁹ Cursed, be he that perverteth the right of the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow. And all the people shall say––Amen. ²⁰ Cursed, be he that lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath turned aside his father’s coverlet. And all the people shall say––Amen.

²² Cursed, be he that lieth with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say––Amen. ²³ Cursed, be he that lieth with his mother–in–law. And all the people shall say––Amen.

²⁵ Cursed, be he that taketh a bribe to shed innocent blood. And all the people shall say––Amen.

²⁵ Yahweh, will give thee up to be routed before thine enemies, one way, shalt thou go out against them, and, seven ways, shalt thou flee before them,––and thou shalt become a terror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.

³⁷ Thus shalt thou become a horror, a byword, and a mockery,––among all the peoples whither Yahweh thy God will drive thee.

⁶⁴ and Yahweh will scatter thee among all the peoples, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth,––and thou wilt serve there, other gods, whom thou hast not known––thou, nor thy fathers,––of wood and of stone.

²⁰ Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, but, then, will the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy smoke against that man, and all the oath that is written in this scroll, shall settle down upon him,––and Yahweh wipe out his name from under the heavens;

²⁴ yea all the nations will say, For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land? what meaneth this great heat of anger?

¹⁸ Of the Rock who had begotten thee, thou wast unmindful,––And didst forget GOD who had given thee birth.

²² For, a fire, is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn as far as hades beneath,––And consume the earth with her produce, And set ablaze the foundations of the mountains:

⁶ So I laid hold on my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel,––because they had wrought lewdness and impiety, in Israel.

¹² Now, the sons of Eli, were abandoned men,––they knew not Yahweh. ¹³ And, the custom of the priests with the people, was––when any man offered a sacrifice, then would come the priests young man, as the flesh was boiling, with a three–pronged fork in his hand; ¹⁴ and would strike it into the boiler, or into the trough, or into the kettle, or into the pot, all that the fork would bring up, the priest took for himself. Thus and thus, used they to do unto all Israel, who came thither, in Shiloh. ¹⁵ Also, before any could make perfume with the fat, the priests young man would come in and say to the person who was sacrificing, Come! give flesh for the priest’s roastings,––for he will not take of thee boiled flesh––only raw. ¹⁶ And, if the man said to him, Let them at least, make incense, at once with the fat, then take thou as much as thy soul craveth, Then said he to him, But, at once, shalt thou give it; or else, I will take it by force. ¹⁷ And so it was, that, the sin of the young men, was exceeding great, before Yahweh,––for men scorned the offerings of Yahweh.

²² Now, Eli, was very old,––but he used to hear all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how they even lay with the women who did service, at the opening of the tent of meeting.

²⁹ Wherefore have ye been kicking at my sacrifices, and my presents, which I commanded, to serve for a home,––and shouldest have honoured thy sons more than me: fattening yourselves, with the first of every present of Israel, before me?

²⁹ Moreover also, the Eminence of Israel, will not lie, neither will he repent,––For no, iron of earth, is, he, to repent!

¹ And it came to pass, after this, that, Absolom, son of David, having a beautiful sister, whose name, was Tamar, Amnon son of David loved her.

¹⁴ But he would not hearken unto her voice,––and, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.

²⁸ Now Absolom had commanded his young men, saying––Mark, I pray you, when the heart of Amnon is merry with wine, and I say unto you––Smite ye Amnon, then shall ye put him to death, do not fear,––have not, I myself, commanded you? Be bold, and show yourselves to be sons of valour. ²⁹ So Absolom’s young men did to Amnon as Absolom had commanded. Then arose all the king’s sons, and rode away––each man on his mule, and fled.

²¹ And Ahithophel said unto Absolom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, whom he hath left to keep the house,––so shall all Israel hear that thou hast made thyself odious unto thy father, and the hands of all that are with thee, shall be strengthened. ²² And they stretched out for Absolom a tent, upon the house–top,––and Absolom went in unto his father’s concubines, in the sight of all Israel.

⁷ then will I cut off Israel, from the face of the soil, which I have given unto them, and, the house which I have hallowed for my Name, will I suffer to be carried away from before me,––and Israel shall become a byword and a mockery, among all the peoples;

¹³ And lo! a certain prophet, drew near unto Ahab king of Israel, and said,––Thus, saith Yahweh, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? Behold me! delivering it into thy hand, today, so shalt thou know that, I, am, Yahweh.

²⁸ Then approached the man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said––Thus, saith Yahweh––Because the Syrians have said––A god of the mountains, is Yahweh, but, not a god of the vales, is he, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude, into thy hand, so shalt thou know, that, I, am Yahweh.

¹⁰ then let two reckless men take their seats before him, that they may bear witness against him, saying, Thou hast reviled God and king! then shall ye carry him forth and stone him, that he die. ¹¹ So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did just as Jezebel had sent unto them,––as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them: ¹² they proclaimed a fast,––and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people. ¹³ Then came in the two reckless men, and sat before him, and the men bare witness against him, even against Naboth, before the people, saying, Naboth hath reviled God and king! So they carried him forth, outside the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

¹¹ when Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron,––and said––Thus, saith Yahweh,––With these, shalt thou push down the Syrians, until thou hast consumed them. ¹² And, all the prophets, were being moved to prophesy, in like manner, saying,––Go up to Ramoth–gilead, and thou shalt prosper, and Yahweh will deliver it, into the hand of the king. ¹³ Now, the messenger who went to call Micaiah, spake unto him, saying, Behold, I pray thee, the words of the prophets, with one mouth, are good, as touching the king, let thy word, I pray thee, be as the word of one of them, so wilt thou speak that which is good.

²³ Now, therefore, lo! Yahweh hath suffered a spirit of falsehood to be put into the mouth of all these thy prophets. But, Yahweh himself, hath spoken concerning thee, calamity.

² And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,––after the abominable practices of the nations, whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel. ³ He again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed,––and reared altars to Baal, and made a Sacred Stem, as did Ahab, king of Israel, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served them. ⁴ And he used to build altars in the house of Yahweh,––concerning which Yahweh had said,––In Jerusalem, will I put my Name. ⁵ And he built altars to all the army of the heavens,––in the two courts of the house of Yahweh; ⁶ and caused his son to pass through the fire, and practiced hidden arts and used divination, and dealt with a familiar spirit and wizards,––he exceeded in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, provoking [him] to anger; ⁷ and he set the image of the Sacred Stem which he had made,––in the house, of which Yahweh had said unto David, and unto Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name, unto times age–abiding; ⁸ and I will not again let the foot of Israel wander away from the soil which I gave unto their fathers. Only if they take heed to do according to all that I have commanded them, even to the extent of all the law which, my servant Moses, commanded them. ⁹ But they hearkened not,––and Manasseh led them astray to do the thing that was wicked, more than the nations which Yahweh destroyed from before the sons of Israel.

¹⁶ Moreover also, innocent blood, did Manasseh shed in great abundance, till he had filled Jerusalem, from one end to the other, besides his committing the sins which he caused, Judah, to commit, in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh.

³ Surely, it was, because of the anger of Yahweh, that this came upon Judah, to remove them from his presence,––for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done: ⁴ moreover also, for the innocent blood that he had shed, so that he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,––which Yahweh was not willing to pardon.

⁹ and burned the house of Yahweh, and the house of the king,––yea, all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great man’s house, burned he with fire.

¹ And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, for, he, was the firstborn, but because he defiled the couch of his father, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel,––and he is not to be enrolled in the place of firstborn,

²⁰ then will I root you out from off the soil, which I have given to you, and, this house, which I have hallowed for my Name, will I cast off from before my face,––and will appoint it for a by–word and a mockery, among all the peoples;

²² And, in the time of his distress, he yet further acted unfaithfully with Yahweh,––he, King Ahaz!

¹⁴ Also, all the rulers of the priests and of the people, abounded in committing treachery, according to all the abominable ways of the nations,––and polluted the house of Yahweh, which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And, though Yahweh God of their fathers sent unto them through his messengers, zealously sending them,––because he had compassion upon his people and upon his habitation, ¹⁶ yet became they mockers of the messengers of God, and despisers of his words, and mimics of his prophets,––until the mounting up of the wrath of Yahweh against his people, until there was no healing.

⁸ Remember, I pray thee, the word, which thou didst command Moses thy servant, saying,––If, ye, are unfaithful, I, will scatter you among the peoples:

¹ Then came there to be a great outcry of the people and their wives,––against their brethren the Jews.

⁷ So my heart took counsel unto me and I contended with the nobles and with the deputies, and said to them, A loan on interest––every man to his brother, are ye making,––So I appointed over them a great assembly;

³⁴ and, our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law,––nor given heed unto thy commandments, or unto thy testimonies, wherewith thou hast testified against them.

⁹ If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait, ¹⁰ Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend! ¹¹ Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!

⁹ But if, an arm like GOD, thou hast, and, with a voice like his, thou canst thunder,

¹⁶ To be known is Yahweh, by the sentence he hath executed, By the doing of his own hands, is he about to strike down the lawless one. [Resounding music. Selah.]

⁵ His silver, hath he not put out on interest, nor, a bribe against the innocent, hath he taken. He that doeth these things, shall not be shaken unto times age–abiding.

⁹ Thou wilt make them like a furnace of fire, at the time of thy presence,––Yahweh, in his anger, will swallow them up, and there shall consume them a fire:

¹³ Thou dost make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us: ¹⁴ Thou dost make us, A by–word among the nations,––A shaking of the head among the peoples.

³ Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire––before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:

²⁰ Thou wouldst sit down––Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother’s son, wouldst thou expose a fault:––

² As smoke is driven about, Let them be driven about,––As wax is melted before a fire, Let the lawless perish before God.

⁴ We have become, A reproach to our neighbours,––A mockery and a derision, to them who are round about us.

¹⁸ That men may know that, thou, Whose Name alone is Yahweh, Art Most High over all the earth.

⁴¹ All the passers by the way, have plundered him, He hath become a reproach to his neighbours; ⁴² Thou hast raised the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast gladdened all his enemies;

⁶ The widow and sojourner, they will slay, And, the fatherless, murder.

⁵ He that uttereth slander in secret against his friend, him, will I root out; One of lofty eyes, and of an ambitious heart, him shall I not be able to endure.

²¹ They forgat GOD their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt:

²³ Then would he have bidden to destroy them,––had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying.

²⁸ Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal–peor,––and did eat sacrifices to the dead:

¹⁰ The lawless one, shall see, and be indignant, his teeth, will he gnash and melt away, The craving of the lawless, shall vanish.

¹¹⁹ Dross, have I accounted all the lawless of the earth, therefore do I love thy testimonies.

¹⁹ Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!

¹⁸ He that concealeth hatred, hath false lips, and he that sendeth forth slander, the same, is a dullard.

³ Fining–pot for silver, crucible for gold, but, he that trieth hearts, is Yahweh.

⁸ The words of a tattler, are dainties, they, therefore go down into the chambers of the inner man.

²⁰ Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate; ²³ For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.

²² the words of a tattler, are dainties, they, therefore go down into the chambers of the inner man.

⁸ He that increaseth his substance by interest and profit, for one ready to favour the poor, doth gather it.

¹¹ A generation! Its father, it revileth, and, its mother, it doth not bless.

¹⁷ The eye that mocketh a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young of the eagle shall eat it.

⁵ Why should ye be smitten any more? Ye would again, turn aside! The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint:

²² Thy silver, hath become dross,––Thy wine, weakened with water; ²³ Thy rulers, are unruly, and companions of thieves, Every one of the people, loveth a bribe, and runneth after rewards,––The fatherless, they do not vindicate, And, the plea of the widow, reacheth them not.

²⁵ That I may turn my hand against thee, And smelt away, as with potash, thy dross, And remove all thine alloy;

⁷ Surely, the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts, is the house of Israel, And, the men of Judah, are the plantation in which he dearly delighted,––And he waited, For, equity, but lo! murderous iniquity, For the rule of right, but lo! the cry of the wronged.

¹³ Yet, the people, have not turned unto him that smote them,––And, Yahweh of hosts, have they not sought.

² Turning aside, from judgment, the poor, And robbing, of justice, the oppressed of my people,––So that, widows, become, their spoil, And, of the fatherless, they make prey.

² With tumults, art thou filled, thou citadel in commotion! city exultant! Thy slain, are, Not the slain, of the sword, Nor the dead in battle.

¹⁰ Who have said to, the seers, Ye must not, see! To the prophets, Ye must not prophesy to us reproofs! Speak to us smooth things, Prophesy delusions:

³³ For there hath been set in order, beforehand, a Topheth, Yea, the same, for the king, hath been prepared, He hath made it deep––made it large,––The circumference thereof is for fire and wood in abundance, The breath of Yahweh, like a torrent of brimstone, is ready to kindle it.

³ Now, the Egyptians, are, men, and not, GOD, And, their horses, flesh, and not, spirit; When, Yahweh, shall stretch out his hand, Then, he that is giving help, shall stumble, And, he that is receiving help, shall fall, And, together, shall, all of them, vanish!

⁹ And, his own Cliff, through terror, shall he pass by, And his princes, shall be dismayed at an ensign,––Declareth Yahweh, Who hath a flame in Zion, And hath a furnace in Jerusalem.

¹⁵ He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly,––He that refuseth the gain of exactions, That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,

²⁰ Now, therefore, O Yahweh our God, save us, out of his hand,––That all the kingdoms of the earth, may know, That, thou, art Yahweh, thou alone.

²⁸ So then I must needs profane the rulers of the holy place,––And deliver, Jacob, to be devoted to destruction, and, Israel, unto reviling!

⁹ Alas for him who contendeth with his Fashioner,––A potsherd, [should contend] with the potsherds of the ground! Shall it be said by, the clay, unto him that is fashioning it, What wouldst thou make? Or thy work [say of thee], He hath no hands?

⁶ I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, . . . Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy, thy yoke.

⁴ Because I knew that––Obstinate, thou wast,––And, a sinew of iron, was thy neck, And thy brow, brazen,

¹⁰ Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver,––I have tested thee, in a smelting–pot of affliction.

¹⁶ Lo! I, have created the smith, who bloweth up a fire of coals, And who bringeth forth an instrument for his work,––And, I, have created the waster to destroy:

¹¹ And, the dogs, are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, Yea, they, are shepherds, who know not to discern,––All of them, unto their own way, have turned, Every man to his unjust gain, on every hand:

¹ Cry aloud, do not spare, Like a horn, lift high thy voice,––And declare, To my people, their transgression, and, To the house of Jacob, their sins.

³ For, your hands, are defiled with blood, And, your fingers, with iniquity,––Your lips, have spoken falsehood, and, Your tongue, muttereth, perversity. ⁴ None, sueth in righteousness, and, None, pleadeth in faithfulness,––Men are trusting in confusion, And speaking vanity, Conceiving wickedness, And bringing forth iniquity: ⁵ Viper’s eggs, do they hatch, Spider’s threads, do they weave,––He that eateth of their eggs, dieth, And, that which is crushed, bringeth forth an adder; ⁶ Their threads, shall not become a garment, Neither shall they cover themselves with their fabrics,––Their fabrics, are fabrics of iniquity, Yea, the product of violence, is in their hands; ⁷ Their feet, to mischief, do run, And they speed to shed innocent blood,––Their devices, are devices of iniquity, Wasting and destruction, are in their high roads;

¹⁶ When he saw that there was no, mighty man, Then was he astonished, that there was none to interpose,––So his own arm, brought him salvation, And, his own righteousness, the same, upheld him;

⁵ Therefore looked I around, and there was none to help,––And I was astonished, that there was none to uphold,––So, mine own arm, brought me salvation, And, mine indignation, the same, upheld me;

² At thy presence, had, mountains, quaked: As fire kindleth, brushwood, [As] fire causeth, water, to boil, [So,] if thou wouldst make known thy Name to thine adversaries, At thy presence, nations, would tremble.

⁷ And there was none, To call upon thy Name, To rouse himself to lay firm hold on thee,––For thou hadst hidden thy face from us, And hadst made us despond, by means of our iniquity.

¹ And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying; ² Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying––Thus, saith Yahweh, I remember, in thy behalf, the lovingkindness of thy youthful days, The love of thy bridal estate,––Thy coming out after me, Through the desert, Through a land, not sown: ³ Holiness, was Israel unto Yahweh, The firstfruit of his increase,––All that devoured it, were held guilty, Calamity, used to come upon them,––Declareth Yahweh.

⁸ The priests, said not, Where, is Yahweh? And, they who handled the law, did not acknowledge me, And, the shepherds, transgressed against me,––And, the prophets, prophesied by Baal, And so, after things that could not profit, did they walk.

²⁶ As the shame of a thief when he is found, So, hath been put to shame, the house of Israel,––They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their, prophets: ²⁷ Saying, to a tree, My father, art, thou! And to a stone, Thou, didst give us birth, For they have turned unto me the back, and not the face,––But, in the time of their calamity, they will say, Arise, and save us!

³⁰ In vain, have I smitten your children, Correction, have they not accepted,––Your sword hath devoured, your prophets, as a lion that destroyeth.

³² Can, a virgin, forget, her ornaments,––A bride, her girdle? Yet, my people, have forgotten me, days without number.

³⁴ Even in thy skirts, is there found, The blood of the lives of the helpless innocents,––Not, in the act of breaking in, didst thou find them, yet [the blood is] on all these.

²¹ A voice, on the bare heights, is heard, The weeping of the supplications of the sons of Israel,––Because they have perverted their way, Have forgotten, Yahweh their God.

¹¹ At that time, shall it be said of this people and of Jerusalem,––The sharp wind of the bare heights in the desert, cometh towards the daughter of my people,––not to winnow, nor to cleanse. ¹² A wind too strong for these, cometh in for me. Now, will, I also, pronounce sentences upon them:

²⁰ Breach upon breach, they cry, For, ruined, is all the land,––Suddenly, are ruined my tents, In a moment, my curtains!

¹ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, and seek out in the broad places thereof, Whether ye can find, a man, Whether there is, one Doing justice, Demanding fidelity,––That I may pardon her.

³ O Yahweh! thine own eyes, are they not directed to fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, Yet have they not grieved, Thou hast consumed them––They have refused to receive correction,––They have made their faces bolder than a cliff, They have refused to return.

⁵ I will betake me unto the great men, and will speak, with them! For, they, know, the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God! Yea but, they, with one accord, have, broken the yoke, torn off the bands.

⁷ How, for this, can I pardon thee? Thine own sons, have forsaken me, And have sworn by No–gods,––When I had fed them to the full, Then committed they adultery, And, the house of the unchaste woman, they used to throng: ⁸ Lusty, well–fed horses, had they become, Every man, unto his neighbour’s wife, would neigh!

²⁶ For there have been found among my people, lawless men,––One lieth in wait, as with the stooping of fowlers, They have set a trap, they capture, men:

²⁶ For there have been found among my people, lawless men,––One lieth in wait, as with the stooping of fowlers, They have set a trap, they capture, men: ²⁷ As, a cage, is full of birds, So, are, their houses, full of unrighteous gain,––For this cause, have they become great, and waxen rich:

²⁷ As, a cage, is full of birds, So, are, their houses, full of unrighteous gain,––For this cause, have they become great, and waxen rich: ²⁸ They have waxed fat, they shine, Yea, they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless, that they might prosper,––Yea, justice to the helpless, have they not decreed.

³⁰ An astounding and horrible thing, hath been brought to pass in the land: ³¹ The prophets, have prophesied, falsely, And, the priests, tread down, by their means, And, my people, love it, so,––What then can ye do, as to her latter end?

³¹ The prophets, have prophesied, falsely, And, the priests, tread down, by their means, And, my people, love it, so,––What then can ye do, as to her latter end?

¹³ For, from the least of them, even unto the greatest of them, Every one, graspeth with greed,––And, from the prophet even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely;

²⁸ They all, are rebels of rebels, Slander–walkers, [They are] bronze and iron! As for them all, corrupters, they are!

²⁸ They all, are rebels of rebels, Slander–walkers, [They are] bronze and iron! As for them all, corrupters, they are! ²⁹ Scorched, are the bellows, By fire, is lead, [wont to be], consumed,––In vain, hath he gone on refining, For, the wicked, have not been drawn out:

²⁹ Scorched, are the bellows, By fire, is lead, [wont to be], consumed,––In vain, hath he gone on refining, For, the wicked, have not been drawn out: ³⁰ Rejected silver, are they called, For, Yahweh, hath rejected them.

⁶ The sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, shall not oppress, And, innocent blood, shall not shed in this place,––And, after other gods, shall not walk, to your own hurt,

⁹ Are ye to steal, commit murder, and commit adultery, and swear, falsely, and burn incense unto Baal,––and walk after other gods, whom ye have not known; ¹⁰ And will ye then come in, and stand before me, in this house, whereon my Name hath been called, and say,––We have set ourselves free,––for the purpose of committing all these abominations? ¹¹ A den of robbers, hath this house, on which my Name hath been called, become, in your own eyes? I, also,––lo! I have seen it, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁰ Therefore, will I give––Their wives to others, Their fields, to such as shall take possession of them, For, from the least, even unto the greatest, Every one, is, wholly given to extortion: From the prophet, even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely. ¹¹ And so they have healed the grievous wound of the daughter of my people, slightly,––Saying, Peace! peace! when there was no, peace!

² Oh that I had in the wilderness, a wayfarers’ lodge, That I might leave my people, and go from them,––For, they all, are, Adulterers, An assemblage of traitors;

⁴ Every one, of his neighbour, beware ye, And, in no brother, may ye trust,––For, every brother, supplanteth! And, every neighbour, as a tale–bearer, goeth about;

⁷ Therefore, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold me! melting them, so will I try them,––For, how else should I do, because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people?

⁹ Yahweh therefore said unto me,––There is found a conspiracy, among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

²¹ What wilt thou say when he shall bring punishment upon thee, Since, thou thyself, hast accustomed them to be over thee as friends, in chief? Shall not, pangs, seize thee, as of a woman in childbirth?

¹ Then said Yahweh unto me, Though Moses and Samuel should stand, before me, My soul could not, be toward this people,––Send them away from before me, And let them go forth. ² And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither, shall we go? Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh––Such as are for death, to death, and, Such as are for the sword, to the sword, and, Such as are for famine, to the famine, and, Such as are for captivity, to captivity. ³ And I will set in charge over them––four species, Declareth Yahweh, The sword, to slay, and, The dogs, to trail along,––and, The bird of the heavens, and, The beast of the earth, to devour and to destroy. ⁴ And I will make them a terror, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––On account of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, For what he did in Jerusalem.

⁸ Their widows have become multiplied to me, beyond the sand of the seas, I have brought against them––upon the mother of young men––the spoiler, in the broad noon,––I have let fall upon her, suddenly, excitement and terrors.

¹⁹ Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh––If thou wouldst return, I will cause thee to return, Before me, shalt thou stand, Yea, if thou wilt bring out the precious from among the vile, As mine own mouth, shalt thou be,––Let, them, return unto, thee, But, thou, shalt not return unto, them;

¹⁶ To make their land a desolation, The hissings of age–abiding times,––Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag his head.

¹² O house of David! Thus, saith Yahweh, Administer justice, betimes, And deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,––Lest mine indignation, come forth like fire, And burn, and there be none to quench it, Because of the wickedness of your doings:

²¹ I sent not the prophets, yet, they, ran, I spake not unto them, yet, they, prophesied.

²⁵ I have heard what the prophets, have said, who prophesy in my name falsely, saying,––I have dreamed! I have dreamed! ²⁶ How long, shall it be, in the heart of the prophets, [To be] prophets of falsehood,––And prophets of the deceit of their own heart? ²⁷ Who lay a plot to cause my people, to forget, my name, by their dreams which they relate, every man to his neighbour,––Just as their fathers forgat, my name, for Baal. ²⁸ The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him relate it as, a dream, And, he with whom is my word, Let him speak my word as, truth,––What is the chaff, to the wheat? Demandeth Yahweh: ²⁹ Is not my word, like this, Like fire? Demandeth Yahweh,––And like a hammer, that breaketh in pieces a cliff? ³⁰ Therefore! behold me! against the prophets, Declareth Yahweh,––who steal my words, every man from his neighbour: ³¹ Behold me! against the prophets, Declareth Yahweh, who presume with their tongue and declare, He declareth: ³² Behold me! against such as prophesy the dreams of falsehood, Declareth Yahweh, who have related them, and led astray my people, with their falsehoods and with their recklessness,––whereas, I, had not sent them, nor commanded them, so that they could be of no, profit, to this people, Declareth Yahweh.

⁹ yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––as a reproach, and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them;

² Thus, speaketh Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, saying,––I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon:

¹⁵ Then said Jeremiah the prophet unto Hananiah the prophet,––Hear, I pray thee, Hananiah: Yahweh, hath not sent thee, Thou, therefore, hast caused this people to trust in falsehood!

⁸ For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Let not your prophets that are in your midst, nor your diviners, beguile, you,––Neither hearken ye unto your dreams, which ye, are dreaming; ⁹ For, falsely, are they, prophesying unto you, in my name,––I have not sent them, Declareth Yahweh.

²³ Because they have committed vileness in Israel, And have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbours, And have spoken, as a word in my name, a falsehood, which I commanded them not,––And, I, am one who knoweth––and a witness, Declareth Yahweh.

³² because of all the wickedness of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

¹³ And so it came to pass, he, being in the gate of Benjamin, and there being there, a ward–master whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah son of Hananiah, that he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Unto the Chaldeans, art thou, falling away! ¹⁴ Then said Jeremiah, False! I am not falling away unto the Chaldeans! Howbeit he hearkened not unto him,––so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him in unto the princes. ¹⁵ Then were the princes wroth, against Jeremiah, and smote him,––and put him in prison, in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for, that, had they made the prison.

¹⁹ Where, then are your prophets, who prophesied unto you, saying,––The king of Babylon, shall not come, against you, nor against this land?

⁴ Then said the princes unto the king,––Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death, for, in this way, is he, weakening the hands of the men of war who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking unto them, such words as these; for, this man, is not, seeking, prosperity, for this people, but, misfortune. ⁵ Then said King Zedekiah,––Lo! he, is in your hand; for, the king, is not, one who is able to do anything, against, you. ⁶ Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah son of the king, which was in the guard–court, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes,––now, in the dungeon, was no, water, only mire, so Jeremiah sank, in the mire.

⁸ in that ye provoke me to anger by the works of your own hands, burning incense to other, gods, in the land of Egypt, which ye, have been entering to sojourn,––that ye should cut [them] off, from you, and that ye should become a contempt and a reproach, among all the nations of the earth?

¹⁶ As touching the word which thou hast spoken unto us, in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to hearken unto thee; ¹⁷ but, we will certainly do, the whole thing that hath gone forth out of our own mouth, by burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out to her drink–offerings, just as, we and our fathers, and our kings and our princes, did, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,––then were we filled with bread, and became prosperous, and, calamity, saw we none; ¹⁸ whereas, from the very time we ceased burning incense to the queen of the heavens and pouring out to her drink–offerings, we have lacked, everything,––and, by sword and by famine, have we been consumed. ¹⁹ And, though we, are burning incense to the queen of the heavens and pouring out to her, drink–offerings, is it, without our men, that we have made to her sacrificial cakes as images of her, and poured out to her, drink–offerings?

¹⁴ Thy prophets, have had visions for thee, false and foolish, and have not unveiled thine iniquity, to turn back thy captivity,––Yea they have had visions for thee, oracles of falsehood, and enticements! ¹⁵ All passing by, have clapped, over thee, their hands, have hissed and wagged their head over the daughter of Jerusalem,––[saying], Is, this, the city, of which men used to say––The perfection of beauty! A joy to the whole earth! ¹⁶ All thy foes, have opened wide, over thee their mouth, They have hissed, and gnashed their teeth, They have said––We have swallowed [her] up! Surely, this, is the day for which we have waited, We have found! We have seen!

¹ How is dimmed the gold! changed the most fine gold! Poured out are the stones of the sanctuary, at the top of all the streets. ² The precious sons of Zion, they who were weighed against pure gold, How are they accounted as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

¹³ [It is] for the sins of her prophets, the iniquities of her priests,––who have been pouring out, in her midst, the blood of the righteous!

¹² The third part of thee, by pestilence, shall die, and, by famine, be consumed in thy midst, And, the third part, by the sword, shall fall round about thee,––And, the third part, to every wind, will I scatter, and, a sword, will I make bare after them. ¹³ So shall mine anger, have an end, And, I will cause mine indignation, to find rest, upon them, and will console myself,––And they shall know that, I, Yahweh, have spoken in my jealousy, when mine indignation, hath come to an end, upon them. ¹⁴ And I will deliver thee up to desolation and reproach, among the nations that are round about thee,––in the eyes of every passer–by. ¹⁵ So shall it become a reproach and an insult, a warning and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about thee,––in that I have executed upon thee judgments, in anger and in indignation, and in rebukes of indignation, I, Yahweh, have spoken:

⁷ And the slain, shall fall, in your midst,––So shall ye know, that, I, am Yahweh.

² Thou, therefore, O son of man, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, To the so of Israel, there is an end,––The end, hath come, upon the four skirts of the land. ³ Now, is the end upon thee, Therefore will I send mine anger against thee, And judge thee according to thy ways,––And lay upon thee all thine abominations;

³ Now, is the end upon thee, Therefore will I send mine anger against thee, And judge thee according to thy ways,––And lay upon thee all thine abominations; ⁴ And mine eye, shall not shield thee, Neither will I pity,––For, thy ways––upon thee, will I lay, And, thine abominations, in thy midst, shall be found, So shall ye know, that, I, am Yahweh. ⁵ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh: A calamity, a sole calamity, lo! it hath come. ⁶ An end, hath come, Come, hath the end, It hath roused itself up against thee,––Lo! it hath come. ⁷ The circle, hath come round, unto thee, O inhabitant of the land,––The time, hath come, The day of consternation, hath drawn near, And not the joyful shout of the mountains. ⁸ Now shortly, will I pour out mine indignation upon thee, And will bring to an end mine anger against thee, And will judge thee according to thy ways,––And will lay upon thee all thine abominations.

⁸ Now shortly, will I pour out mine indignation upon thee, And will bring to an end mine anger against thee, And will judge thee according to thy ways,––And will lay upon thee all thine abominations. ⁹ And mine eye shall not shield thee, Neither will I have pity,––According to thy ways, unto thee, will I render, And, thine abominations, in thy midst, shall be found, So shall ye know, that, I, Yahweh, am smiting.

⁹ And mine eye shall not shield thee, Neither will I have pity,––According to thy ways, unto thee, will I render, And, thine abominations, in thy midst, shall be found, So shall ye know, that, I, Yahweh, am smiting. ¹⁰ Lo! the day, Lo! it hath come,––The circle, hath gone forth, The sceptre, hath blossomed, Insolence, hath sprouted: ¹¹ Violence, hath risen up as a sceptre of lawlessness,––There are none of them, And none of their multitude, And none of their throngs, And no lamentation over them. ¹² The time, hath come, The day, hath arrived, The buyer, let him not rejoice, and, The seller, let him not mourn,––For, indignation, is against all her multitude.

²⁴ So then I will bring in the wicked ones of the nations, And they shall take possession of their houses,––And I will cause to cease the pomp of the strong ones, And their holy places, shall be profaned.

⁹ Then said he unto me,––Go in, and see the wicked abominations, which they, are committing here. ¹⁰ So I went in, and looked, and lo! every similitude of creeping thing, and detestable beast, and all the manufactured gods of the house of Israel,––portrayed upon the wall, round about on every side; ¹¹ and, seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan, who stood in their midst, were standing before them, even every man with his censer in his hand,––and the fragrance of the cloud of incense, ascending. ¹² Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen, Son of man, what, the elders of the house of Israel, are doing in the dark, every man in his image–chambers? for they are saying––Yahweh doth not, see us! Yahweh hath forsaken, the land!
¹³ Then said he unto me,––Yet again, shalt thou see great abominations, which they, are committing. ¹⁴ So he brought me into the opening of the gate of the house of Yahweh, which was toward the north,––and Lo! there, women, sitting, weeping for Tammuz. ¹⁵ Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen, O son of man? Yet again, shalt thou see greater abominations than these. ¹⁶ So he brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and lo! at the opening of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, about twenty–five men,––their backs, towards the temple of Yahweh, and, their faces, eastward, and they, were bowing down eastward, unto the Sun. ¹⁷ Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen, O son of man? Is it too small a thing for the house of Judah, to be committing the abominations which they have committed here,––that they have filled the land with violence, and have again, provoked me to anger, and there they are! putting the branch to my nose.

¹⁰ Therefore, as for even me, Mine eye, shall not shield, Neither will I pity,––Their way upon their own head, have I rendered.

⁷ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Your slain, whom ye have laid in her midst, They, are the flesh, and, She, is the caldron,––when, ye, are taken out of her midst.

²¹ But, as for them who, having a heart for their detestable things, and for their abominations, after their own heart, do walk, Their way upon their own heads, will I render, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

¹⁴ And, all who are round about him to help him, and all his troops, will I scatter to every wind,––and, a sword, will I make bare after them. ¹⁵ So shall they know, that, I, am Yahweh,––By my dispersing them among the nations, And scattering them throughout the lands.

²⁵ For, I, Yahweh, will speak whatsoever word I please to speak, And it shall be done, It shall not be delayed any more,––For, in your own days, O perverse house, will I speak a word, and perform it, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

⁵ Ye have not gone up into the breaches, Nor built a wall about the house of Israel,––to stand in the battle, in the day of Yahweh. ⁶ They have had, Visions of falsehood, and, Divinations of lies, Who say, Declareth Yahweh, when, Yahweh, hath not sent them,––Yet have they waited for a fulfilling of the word. ⁷ Is it not, a Vision of falsehood, ye have seen, and, a Divination of lies, ye have spoken, Since ye are saying, Declareth Yahweh! when, I, have not spoken?

¹⁰ Because, yea, even because, they have led astray my people, saying, Prosperity! when there was no, prosperity,––and, one man, was building a partition wall, when, there they were! eating it with whitewash. ¹¹ Say thou, unto them who are coating with whitewash, It shall fall,––There hath come an overflowing rain, And I will make hail–stones fall, And, a tempestuous wind, shall break it down. ¹² Lo! when the wall hath fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where, is the coating, wherewith ye coated it? ¹³ Therefore, Thus, saith my Lord, Yahweh, So will I break down with a tempestuous wind, in mine indignation,––And, an overflowing rain in mine anger, shall there be, With hailstones, in wrath, to make an end; ¹⁴ And I will pull down the wall which ye have coated with whitewash, And will bring it unto the ground, So shall be discovered, its foundation, Yea it shall fall, And ye shall come to an end in the midst thereof, So shall ye know, that, I, am Yahweh. ¹⁵ Thus will I bring to an end mine indignation against the wall, and against them who were coating it with whitewash, And will say to you, No more, is the wall, And no more, are they who were coating it: ¹⁶ [to wit] the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying unto Jerusalem, and are seeing, on her behalf, visions of prosperity,––when there is no, prosperity, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

¹⁹ Thus have ye profaned me unto my people, for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, Putting to death the souls that should not die, and, Keeping alive the souls that should not live,––By your lying to my people, who hearken to lies.

²² Because of the paining of the heart of the righteous man with falsehood, whom, I, have not pained,––And strengthening the hands of the lawless man, that he should not turn from his wicked way, by letting him live. ²³ Therefore––of falsehood, shall ye have no vision, And, a divination, shall ye not divine any more,––So will I deliver my people out of your hand, And ye shall know, that, I, am Yahweh.

⁶ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, As a vine–tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given up to the fire for fuel, so, have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ⁷ Therefore will I set my face against them, Out of one fire, have they come forth, But, another fire, shall devour them,––So shall ye know, that, I, am Yahweh, by my setting my face against them;

¹ And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying: ² Son of man, Let Jerusalem know her abominations, ³ Therefore shalt thou say––Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, To Jerusalem, Thine origin and thy birth, were of the land of the Canaanite,––Thy father, was the Amorite, And, thy mother, a Hittite, ⁴ And, as for thy birth, in the day thou wast born, Thy navel–cord was not cut, And, in water, wast thou not bathed, to cleanse thee,––And, as for being salted, thou was not salted, And, as for being bandaged, thou wast not bandaged. ⁵ No eye, threw a shield over thee, by doing for thee one of these things, taking pity on thee,––But thou wast cast out, on the face of the field, Because thy person, was abhorred, in the day thou wast born.
⁶ And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, thrusting about thee in thy blood, And said to thee––Despite thy blood, live! Yea I said to thee––Despite thy blood, live! ⁷ Into myriads––like the bud of the field, made I thee, And thou didst increase, and become well–grown, and didst attain to most excellent adornments,––Thy breasts, were well–formed, And, thy hair, was grown, But, thou thyself, wast utterly naked. ⁸ And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and lo! thy time, was the time for endearments, So I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy shame,––And took an oath to thee, And entered into covenant with thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, And thou didst become mine. ⁹ And I bathed thee in water, and rinsed thy blood from off thee, And anointed thee with oil; ¹⁰ And clothed thee with an embroidered dress, And sandalled thee in red leather,––And wrapped thee about with fine linen, And put over thee a mantle of silk. ¹¹ Then decked I thee with ornaments,––And put bracelets upon thy hands, And a neckchain upon thy throat; ¹² And put a nose–jewel upon thy nose, And earrings in thine ears,––And a crown of adorning, upon thy head. ¹³ Thus wast thou adorned with gold and silver, And, thy raiment, was of fine linen and silk, and embroidered work, Fine flour and honey and oil, didst thou eat,––And so thou becamest exceedingly, beautiful, And didst attain unto royalty. ¹⁴ Then went forth thy fame among the nations, for thy beauty,––For, perfect, it was––in my splendour which I had put upon thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.
¹⁵ Then didst thou trust in thy beauty, And become unchaste, because of thy fame,––And didst pour out thine unchastity upon every passer–by, his, it was! ¹⁶ Yea thou didst take of thy raiment and madest thee high places of hangings, And didst commit unchastity thereon,––Which ought not to have befallen, And not to have come to pass. ¹⁷ But thou didst take thine adorning, jewels, Of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, And didst make thee, images of the male,––And didst act unchastely with them; ¹⁸ And thou didst take thine embroidered raiment, and cover them,––And, mine oil and mine incense, didst thou set before them; ¹⁹ And my food, which I had given thee, Fine flour and oil and honey wherewith I fed thee, And didst set it before them for a satisfying, odour, Yea so it was,––Saith My Lord, Yahweh. ²⁰ And thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, Whom thou hadst borne unto me, And didst sacrifice them unto them, to be devoured,––Is this, of thine unchastity, a light thing? ²¹ Yea thou didst slay my children,––And didst deliver them up, that they should be caused to pass through [the fire] unto them. ²² And, in all thine abominations, and thine unchaste ways, thou rememberedst not the days of thy youth,––When thou wast utterly naked. When thou wast, thrusting about thee in thy blood! ²³ And it came to pass, after all thy wickedness, Woe! Woe! to thee, Exclaimeth My Lord, Yahweh; ²⁴ That thou didst build thee a brothel,––and didst make thee a height, in every broadway: ²⁵ At the head of every road, didst thou build thy height, And bring thy beauty into disgust, And open thy feet to every passer–by, So didst thou make thine unchaste ways to abound. ²⁶ Then didst thou extend thine unchaste acts unto the sons of Egypt––thy neighbour, great of flesh,––And caused thine unchaste ways to abound, provoking me to anger. ²⁷ Lo! therefore, I have stretched out my hand against thee, And diminished thine allotted portion,––And have delivered thee up unto the desire of them who hate thee, The daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way. ²⁸ Thou didst also extend thine unchastity unto the sons of Assyria, because thou wast insatiable. Yet, though thou didst behave unchastely with them, yet, even so, couldst thou not be satisfied, ²⁹ Thou didst therefore cause thine unchaste ways to abound unto the land of Canaan, as towards Chaldea. Yet, even herewith, wast thou not satisfied. ³⁰ How weak was thy heart! Exclaimeth My Lord, Yahweh,––That thou couldst have done all these things, The doing of a lewd woman, without shame: ³¹ That thou couldst have built thy brothel at the head of every road, And, thy height, couldst have made in every broadway,––Yet becamest not as a harlot, to lay claim to a harlot’s hire. ³² A wife who committeth adultery, instead of her husband, accepteth strangers. ³³ To all harlots, they give a present,––But, thou, didst give thy, presents to all thy lovers, And didst bribe them, to come in unto thee from every side, in thine unchastity! ³⁴ And so there came about, in thee, the reverse of women, in thine unchastity, In that they, did not follow thee, for purposes of lewdness,––And in that thou, gavest a present, while, no present, was given to thee, So didst thou become, the reverse.
³⁵ Therefore, O harlot, hear thou the word of Yahweh; ³⁶ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––Because thy money, was poured out, and thy shame, was uncovered, in thine unchastity, unto thy lovers,––and unto all thine abominable manufactured gods, even as the blood of thy children, whom thou didst deliver up unto them, ³⁷ Therefore, behold me! gathering together all thy lovers, unto whom thou didst make thyself pleasant, Even all whom thou lovedst, With all whom thou hatedst,––Yea I will gather them, together unto thee from every side, And will uncover thy shame unto them, And they shall see all thy shame. ³⁸ So will I judge thee, with the judgments meted out to adulteresses and shedders of blood,––And will repay thee with the blood of indignation and jealousy; ³⁹ And will deliver thee, into their hand, And they shall pull down thy brothel, And break in pieces thy heights, And strip thee of thy raiment, And take away thine adorning, jewels,––And leave thee utterly naked. ⁴⁰ Then will they bring up against thee a gathered host, And they will stone thee with stones,––And cut thee to pieces with their swords; ⁴¹ And burn up thy houses with fire, And execute upon thee judgments, before the eyes of many women,––So will I cause thee to cease from acting unchastely, Moreover also, a present, shalt thou not give any more. ⁴² So will I let mine indignation find rest in thee, And my jealousy shall depart, from thee,––And I will be quiet, and not be provoked any more. ⁴³ Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, But hast enraged me with all these things, Therefore also, behold! I, thy way, upon thine own head, will place, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, And thou shalt not commit a crime above all thine abominations!

⁴³ Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, But hast enraged me with all these things, Therefore also, behold! I, thy way, upon thine own head, will place, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, And thou shalt not commit a crime above all thine abominations!
⁴⁴ Lo! every one who useth proverbs, against thee, shall use a proverb, saying,––Like the mother, [so] her daughter! ⁴⁵ The daughter of thy mother, thou art! One abhorring her own husband, and her own children,––Yea, the sister of thy sisters, thou art, Who abhorred their own husbands, and their own children, Your mother, was a Hittite, And, your father, an Amorite. ⁴⁶ And, thine elder sister, was Samaria, she and her daughters, dwelling on thy left hand,––And, thy sister younger than thou, dwelling on thy right hand, was Sodom, and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet, not in their ways, didst thou walk, nor, according to their abominations, didst thou do,––As though that were quite too little, thou didst corrupt thyself beyond them, in all thy ways. ⁴⁸ As I live, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Very! Sodom thy sister had not done, neither she nor her daughters,––as, thou and thy daughters, have done. ⁴⁹ Lo! this, became the iniquity of Sodom thy sister,––Pride, fulness of bread, and careless security, came to her and to her daughters, And, the hand of the oppressed and the needy, she strengthened not. ⁵⁰ So then they became haughty, and committed abomination before me,––And I took them away, when I saw [it], ⁵¹ Nor did, Samaria, commit, one–half thy sins,––But thou didst multiply thine abominations more than they, And didst cause thy sisters to appear righteous, by all the abominations which thou didst commit. ⁵² Thou also, bear thine own reproach, which thou didst adjudge to thy sisters, by thy sins, in which thou wast more abominable than they, thou didst make them appear more righteous than thou,––Thou also, therefore, turn thou pale, and bear thine own reproach, for making thy sisters appear righteous! ⁵³ When therefore I bring back their captivity, The captivity of Sodom and her daughters, And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, Then will I bring back thy captivities in their midst: ⁵⁴ That thou mayest bear thine own reproach, And take to thyself reproach, because of all that thou didst in comforting them. ⁵⁵ When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, And Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, Then, thou and thy daughters, shall return to your former estate. ⁵⁶ And Sodom thy sister was never heard in thy mouth,––In the day of thy pride: ⁵⁷ Before thy wickedness was discovered, As, now, [thou art] the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all round about her, the daughters of the Philistines,––who are despising thee, on every side.

⁵⁷ Before thy wickedness was discovered, As, now, [thou art] the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all round about her, the daughters of the Philistines,––who are despising thee, on every side. ⁵⁸ As for thy crime, and thine abominations, thou thyself, dost bear them,––Declareth Yahweh. ⁵⁹ For, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Therefore will I deal with thee, just as thou hast dealt,––In that thou didst despise an oath, by breaking a covenant.
⁶⁰ Therefore will, I, remember my covenant with thee, in the days of thy youth,––And will establish for thee, a covenant age–abiding. ⁶¹ Thou shalt therefore remember thy ways, and take to thyself reproach, by receiving thy sisters, The older than thou, And the younger than thou,––And I will give them unto thee for daughters, Though not by thine own covenant. ⁶² But, I myself, will establish my covenant with, thee––And thou shalt know, that, I, am Yahweh: ⁶³ To the end thou mayest remember, and turn pale, and there be to thee, no more, an opening of mouth, because of thy reproach,––In that I have accepted a propitiatory covering for thee, as to all that thou hast done, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

²⁴ So shall all the trees of the field know, that, I, Yahweh, Have laid low the high, tree, Have exalted the low, tree, Have dried up the moist, tree, And have caused to flourish the tree, that was dry,––I, Yahweh, have spoken, and performed.

⁶ Upon the mountains, hath not eaten, And, his eyes, hath not lifted up unto the manufactured gods of the house of Israel, And, the wife of his neighbour, hath not defiled, And, unto a woman during her removal, hath not approached;

⁸ Upon interest, hath not put out [his money], And, increase, hath not accepted, From dishonesty, hath turned back his hand,––Justice, in truth, hath done, between man and man;

¹¹ Whereas, he, none of those other things, doeth, For indeed, upon the mountains, he hath eaten, And, the wife of his neighbour, hath defiled; ¹² The oppressed and the needy, hath treated with violence, Hath ruthlessly plundered, The pledge, hath not restored, But, unto the manufactured gods, hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination, hath wrought; ¹³ Upon interest, hath put out, And, increase, hath accepted,––And shall he, live? He shall not live, All these abominations, he hath done, He shall, surely be put to death, His blood, upon himself, shall be.

¹⁵ Upon the mountains, hath not eaten, And, his eyes, hath not lifted up unto the manufactured gods of the house of Israel, The wife of his neighbour, hath not defiled;

³ And she reared up one of her whelps––A young lion, he became, And he learned to rend prey, Men, he devoured. ⁴ Then nations, heard of him, In their pit, was he caught,––So they brought him with hooks, Into the land of Egypt. ⁵ And she saw she had waited, Lost, was her hope, Then took she another of her whelps, A young lion, she made him. ⁶ Yea he went to and fro amidst lions, A young lion, he became,––And he learned to rend prey, Men, he devoured;

⁴ Wilt thou judge them, wilt thou judge, O son of man? The abominations of their fathers, let them know:

⁸ But they rebelled against me, And were not willing to hearken unto me, Every man, the abominations of their eyes, they cast not away, And, the manufactured gods of Egypt, forsook they not; Therefore spake I of pouring out mine indignation upon them, to bring mine anger to an end against them, in the midst of the land of Egypt.

¹² Moreover also, my sabbaths, gave I unto them, to become a sign betwixt me and them,––that it might be known, that, I, Yahweh, was hallowing them. ¹³ But the house of Israel, rebelled against me, in the desert, In my statutes, walked they not, And my regulations, they rejected, By the which the man, that doeth them, shall live, My sabbaths also, they profaned exceedingly. Therefore spake I of pouring out mine indignation upon them in the desert, to make an end of them.

¹³ But the house of Israel, rebelled against me, in the desert, In my statutes, walked they not, And my regulations, they rejected, By the which the man, that doeth them, shall live, My sabbaths also, they profaned exceedingly. Therefore spake I of pouring out mine indignation upon them in the desert, to make an end of them.

²¹ Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against me, In my statutes, walked they not, And my regulations, observed they not, to do them, Wherein the man, who shall do them, shall live, My sabbaths, they profaned. Therefore spake I of pouring out mine indignation upon them, to bring mine anger to an end against them, in the desert.

²⁴ Because, my regulations, had they not done, And, my statutes, they had rejected, My sabbaths also, they had profaned,––And, after the manufactured gods of their fathers, were their eyes [turned].

³³ As I live, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Surely, with a strong hand, and, With an outstretched arm, and, With outpoured indignation, Will I be king over you;

³⁸ And will sever from you, those who are rebelling and those who are transgressing against me, Out of the land of their sojournings, will I bring them forth, Yet, upon the soil of Israel, shall they not enter, So shall ye know, that, I, am Yahweh.

⁴⁷ And thou shalt say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh,––Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh––Behold me! kindling in thee a fire, And it shall devour in thee every moist tree and every dry tree, The spreading flame, shall not be quenched, Then, shall be scorched thereby, all faces, from south to north; ⁴⁸ And all flesh shall see, that, I, Yahweh, have kindled it,––It shall not be quenched.

⁷ And it shall come to pass, when they shall say unto thee, Wherefore art thou, sighing? that thou shalt say, For the report, because it cometh, When every heart, shall melt, And all hands, be unnerved, And every spirit, shall become faint, And, all knees, shall be weak as water, Lo! it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, Saith My Lord, Yahweh.

¹⁴ Thou, therefore, son of man, Prophesy, and smite thy hands together, And let the sword smite twice, thrice, the sword of the slain! The same, is the great sword of the slain, that which hemmeth them in.

¹⁷ Yea, even I myself, will smite my hands together, And will cause mine indignation to find rest,––I, Yahweh, have spoken.

²⁸ Thou, therefore, son of man, Prophesy and say, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, As to the sons of Ammon, and as to their reproach, Yea thou shalt say, A sword! a sword! Drawn, for slaughter, Furbished, that when it beginneth, it may flash like lightning; ²⁹ Since they see for thee, false visions, Since they divine for thee, lies, To stretch thee upon the necks of them who are the most profaned of lawless ones, Whose day, hath come, in a time of final iniquity,

³¹ Then will I pour out upon thee mine indignation, With the fire of mine outburst, will I blow upon thee; and will deliver thee up into the hand of brutish men, skilled to destroy. ³² For the fire, shalt thou serve as fuel, Thy blood, shall be in the midst of the land,––Thou shalt not be remembered, For, I, Yahweh, have spoken.

² Thou, therefore, son of man, Wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge, the city of bloodshed; and cause her to know all her abominations?

⁴ Because of the blood which thou hast shed, hast thou become guilty, And, with the manufactured gods which thou hast made, hast thou defiled thyself, Thus hast thou brought near thy days, And hast come unto thy years,––For this cause, have I delivered thee, As a reproach, to the nations, And as a derision, to all the lands.

⁶ Lo! the, princes of Israel, every man for his own arm, have they been in thee, For the sake of shedding blood. ⁷ Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression, in the midst of thee,––The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee: ⁸ My holy things, hast thou despised,––And, my sabbaths, hast thou profaned:

¹³ Lo! therefore, I have smitten my hand, At thine unjust gain which thou hast made––And over thy bloodshed, which they have caused in thy midst.

¹⁶ So shalt thou be profaned in thyself, before the eyes of nations, Thus shalt thou know, that, I, am Yahweh.

¹⁸ Son of man, The house of Israel, hath become to me, dross,––They all, are copper and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of a furnace, The dross of silver, have they become.

²⁰ As they gather silver and copper and iron and lead and tin, into the midst of a furnace, to blow upon it the fire, to melt it, So, will I gather, in mine anger and in mine indignation, and will let be, and will melt you;

²⁰ As they gather silver and copper and iron and lead and tin, into the midst of a furnace, to blow upon it the fire, to melt it, So, will I gather, in mine anger and in mine indignation, and will let be, and will melt you; ²¹ Yea I will gather you, together, and blow upon you, with the fire of my wrath,––And ye shall be melted in the midst thereof:

²¹ Yea I will gather you, together, and blow upon you, with the fire of my wrath,––And ye shall be melted in the midst thereof: ²² As silver is melted, in he midst of a furnace, So, shall ye be melted in the midst thereof,––Then shall ye know, that, I Yahweh, have poured out mine indignation upon you.

²² As silver is melted, in he midst of a furnace, So, shall ye be melted in the midst thereof,––Then shall ye know, that, I Yahweh, have poured out mine indignation upon you.

²⁵ Because, her princes in her midst, are like a roaring lion, rending prey,––Life, have they devoured, Wealth and precious things, have they been wont to take, Her widows, have they multiplied in her midst. ²⁶ Her priests, have done violence to my law, And have profaned my holy things, Between the hallowed and the common, have they put no difference, And, between the unclean and clean, have they not taught men to discern,––And, from my sabbaths, have they hid their eyes, So that I have been profaned in their midst. ²⁷ Her rulers within her, have been like wolves, rending prey,––In shedding blood, In destroying lives, For the sake of getting dishonest gain.

²⁷ Her rulers within her, have been like wolves, rending prey,––In shedding blood, In destroying lives, For the sake of getting dishonest gain. ²⁸ And, her prophets, have coated it for them with whitewash, Seeing visions of falsehood, And divining for them lies,––Saying, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, when, Yahweh, hath not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice.

²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice.

³¹ Therefore have I poured out upon them mine indignation, In the fire of mine outburst, have I consumed them,––Their way, upon their own head, have I placed, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

¹ And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying: ² Son of man, Two women, daughters of one mother, there were; ³ And they became unchaste in Egypt, In their youth, became they unchaste, There, were handled their breasts, And, there, were pressed their virgin bosoms. ⁴ And their names were Oholah––the elder, And Oholibah––her sister, And they became mine, and bare sons and daughters,––And as for their names, Samaria, was Oholah, And, Jerusalem, was Oholibah. ⁵ Then became Oholah unchaste, after she had become mine,––And lusted after her lovers, For Assyrians, so warlike, ⁶ Clothed in blue, Governors and deputies, Attractive young men, all of them,––Horsemen, riding on horses. ⁷ So she bestowed her unchastities upon them, The choicest men of Assyria, all, of them,––And, with whomsoever she lusted after––with all their manufactured gods, she defiled herself. ⁸ And, her unchaste doings from the time she was in Egypt, had she not forsaken, For, with her, had they lain in her youth, Yea, they, had pressed her virgin bosoms,––and had poured out their unchastity upon her. ⁹ Therefore, did I deliver her into the hand of her lovers,––Into the hand of the sons of Assyria, after whom she lusted: ¹⁰ They, disclosed her shame, Her sons and her daughters, took they away, And, herself––with the sword, they slew,––Thus became she a by–word among women, when, judgments, they had executed upon her.
¹¹ And, though her sister Oholibah saw, Yet became she more corrupt in her lust than the other,––And, her unchaste doings, exceeded the unchaste doings of her sister. ¹² After the sons of Assyria, she lusted, Governors and deputies so warlike. Clothed in splendid array, Horsemen, riding on horses,––Attractive young men, all, of them. ¹³ So I saw, that she defiled herself,––One way, had they both. ¹⁴ Yet did she add, unto her unchaste doings,––when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, likenesses of Chaldeans, Portrayed with vermilion: ¹⁵ Girded with waistcloths upon their loins, With overhanging high turbans upon their heads, In appearance, knights, all, of them,––The likeness of the sons of Babylon of Chaldea, the land of their birth. ¹⁶ Then lusted she after them, as soon as her eyes beheld them,––And she sent messengers unto them, to Chaldea. ¹⁷ Then, came in unto her, the sons of Babylon, into the bed of endearments, and defiled her with their unchaste doings,––And she, defiled herself with them, And then was her soul torn from them. ¹⁸ Thus disclosed she her unchaste desires, And disclosed, her shame,––So my soul was torn from her, Just as my soul had been torn from her sister. ¹⁹ Yea she multiplied her unchaste desires,––calling to mind the days of her youth, when she was unchaste in the land of Egypt; ²⁰ So she lusted after their courtiers,––Whose flesh was, the flesh of asses, and, Whose issue was, the issue of horses. ²¹ Yea thou didst look about for the lewdness of thy youth,––When were pressed, by the Egyptians, thy bosoms, When they handled thy youthful breasts.
²² Therefore, O Oholibah, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! rousing up thy lovers against thee, Even them from whom thy soul hath been torn,––And I will bring them against thee from every side: ²³ The sons of Babylon and all Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, All the sons of Assyria, with them,––Attractive young men, Governors and deputies, all, of them. Knights and men of renown, Riders on horses, all, of them; ²⁴ And they shall come upon thee––With battle–axe, chariot and wheel, And with a gathered host of peoples, Shield and buckler and helmet, will they array against thee, on every side,––And I will put before them, judgment, And they shall judge thee with their judgments; ²⁵ When I set forth my jealousy against thee, Then will they deal with thee, in indignation, Thy nose and thine ears, will they remove, And, that which is left of thee, by the sword, shall fall,––They, will take away, thy sons and thy daughters, And, that which is left of thee, shall be devoured by the fire; ²⁶ And they shall strip off thy raiment,––And take away thine adorning, jewels! ²⁷ Thus will I cause thy lewdness to cease, from thee, Even thine unchastity [brought] from the land of Egypt,––So that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, And, Egypt, shalt thou not call to mind any more.

²⁷ Thus will I cause thy lewdness to cease, from thee, Even thine unchastity [brought] from the land of Egypt,––So that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, And, Egypt, shalt thou not call to mind any more. ²⁸ For, thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! delivering thee up, into the hand of them whom thou hatest,––Into the hand of them from whom thy soul hath been torn; ²⁹ And they shall deal with thee in hatred, And take away all thy labour, And leave thee utterly naked,––And thine unchaste, shame, shall be disclosed, with thy lewdness and unchastities, ³⁰ These things shall be done, to thee,––In that thou hast gone unchastely after the nations, Because thou hast defiled thyself with their manufactured gods. ³¹ In the way of thy sister, hast thou walked,––Therefore will I put her cup into thy hand. ³² Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, The cup of thy sister, shalt thou drink, The [cup] deep and large, Thou shalt become a laughingstock and a derision, Much, doth it contain! ³³ With drunkenness and grief, shalt thou be filled,––The cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of thy sister Samaria; ³⁴ Yea thou shalt drink it and drain it out, And the sherds thereof, shalt thou gnaw, And, thy breasts, shalt thou tear out,––For, I, have spoken, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh. ³⁵ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Because thou hast forgotten me, and has cast me, behind thy back, Thou also thyself, bear thou thy lewdness, and thine unchaste doings.

³⁵ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Because thou hast forgotten me, and has cast me, behind thy back, Thou also thyself, bear thou thy lewdness, and thine unchaste doings.
³⁶ And Yahweh said unto me, Son of man, Wilt thou judge Oholah, and Oholibah? Then declare thou unto them, their abominations. ³⁷ For they have committed adultery, And, blood, is one their hands, Yea, with their manufactured gods, have they committed adultery. And, even their own children whom they bare unto me, have they set apart for them, to be devoured.

³⁷ For they have committed adultery, And, blood, is one their hands, Yea, with their manufactured gods, have they committed adultery. And, even their own children whom they bare unto me, have they set apart for them, to be devoured. ³⁸ Yet more, this, have they done to me,––They have defiled my sanctuary, on the same day, And, my sabbaths, have they profaned.

³⁸ Yet more, this, have they done to me,––They have defiled my sanctuary, on the same day, And, my sabbaths, have they profaned. ³⁹ Yea, when they had slaughtered their children, to their manufactured gods, then entered they into my sanctuary, on the same day, to profane it,––And lo! thus, have they done, in the midst of mine own house.

³⁹ Yea, when they had slaughtered their children, to their manufactured gods, then entered they into my sanctuary, on the same day, to profane it,––And lo! thus, have they done, in the midst of mine own house. ⁴⁰ Yea verily, that ye must needs send for men, ready to come in, from afar,––in that, a messenger, was sent unto them, and lo! they came, For whom thou didst bathe thyself, Paint thine eyes, And deck thyself with ornaments. ⁴¹ Then satest thou upon a glorious couch, With a table prepared, before it,––And, mine incense and mine oil, didst thou set thereon. ⁴² The noise of careless throng also, was with her, And, besides men out of the mass of mankind, there were brought in drunkards, out of the desert; And they put bracelets upon the hands of both women, And crowns of adorning upon their heads. ⁴³ Then said I, of her that was worn out with adulteries, Will they, now, join in her unchaste doings, even hers? ⁴⁴ Yet came they in unto her, as men go in unto a woman that is a harlot,––So, came they in unto Oholah, and unto Oholibah––the lewd, women! ⁴⁵ But, righteous men, they, shall judge them, With the judgment of adulteresses, and, With the judgment of women that shed blood,––Because, adulteresses, they are, And, blood, is on their hands.

⁴⁵ But, righteous men, they, shall judge them, With the judgment of adulteresses, and, With the judgment of women that shed blood,––Because, adulteresses, they are, And, blood, is on their hands. ⁴⁶ For, thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––There shall be brought up against them a gathered host, Then shall they be delivered up, for a terror and for a prey, ⁴⁷ Yea a gathered host, shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters, shall they slay, And, their houses––in the fire, shall they consume.

⁴⁷ Yea a gathered host, shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters, shall they slay, And, their houses––in the fire, shall they consume. ⁴⁸ So will I make an end of lewdness, out of the land,––And all women, shall be disciplined, and shall not do according to your lewdness.

⁴⁸ So will I make an end of lewdness, out of the land,––And all women, shall be disciplined, and shall not do according to your lewdness. ⁴⁹ Yea the judges shall set your lewdness upon you, And, your sins with manufactured gods, shall ye bear; So shall ye know, that, I, am The Lord, Yahweh.

³ Put thou forth, therefore, against the perverse house, a parable, and say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh: Set on the caldron, set it on, Moreover also, pour into it water: ⁴ Gather the pieces thereof into it, Every good piece, thigh and shoulder,––With the choice of the bones, fill it: ⁵ Take, of the choice of the rock, Moreover also, a pile of bones [place] under it,––Boil the pieces thereof, Yea, let the bones of it seethe, in the midst thereof. ⁶ Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Woe! city of bloodshed. The caldron whose scum is in it, and, whose scum, hath not gone out of it: Piece by piece, bring it out, There hath fallen thereon no lot.

⁶ Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Woe! city of bloodshed. The caldron whose scum is in it, and, whose scum, hath not gone out of it: Piece by piece, bring it out, There hath fallen thereon no lot.

⁶ Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Woe! city of bloodshed. The caldron whose scum is in it, and, whose scum, hath not gone out of it: Piece by piece, bring it out, There hath fallen thereon no lot.

⁶ Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Woe! city of bloodshed. The caldron whose scum is in it, and, whose scum, hath not gone out of it: Piece by piece, bring it out, There hath fallen thereon no lot. ⁷ For, her own blood, hath come to be, in her midst, Upon the smooth face of the cliff, hath she set it,––She hath not poured it out on the earth, that she might cover it with dust.

⁷ For, her own blood, hath come to be, in her midst, Upon the smooth face of the cliff, hath she set it,––She hath not poured it out on the earth, that she might cover it with dust. ⁸ To bring up indignation, to execute an avenging, have I set her blood upon the smooth face of the cliff,––that it may not be covered.

⁸ To bring up indignation, to execute an avenging, have I set her blood upon the smooth face of the cliff,––that it may not be covered. ⁹ Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Woe! city of bloodshed,––Even I myself, will make large the pile.

⁹ Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Woe! city of bloodshed,––Even I myself, will make large the pile.

⁹ Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Woe! city of bloodshed,––Even I myself, will make large the pile. ¹⁰ Heap on the wood, Kindle the fire, Consume the flesh, Yea season with spice, And let the bones be scorched. ¹¹ Then set it upon the live coals thereof, empty,––that the copper of it, may be scorched and burn, So that the impurity thereof, may be annihilated within it, The scum thereof, be consumed. ¹² With toils, hath she wearied herself,––Since her abundant scum will not go out of her, into the fire, with her scum! ¹³ In thine uncleanness, is lewdness; because I purified thee. and thou wast not purified, from thine uncleanness, thou shalt not be purified any more, until I have let mine indignation rest upon thee.

¹³ In thine uncleanness, is lewdness; because I purified thee. and thou wast not purified, from thine uncleanness, thou shalt not be purified any more, until I have let mine indignation rest upon thee. ¹⁴ I, Yahweh, have spoken, It cometh, and I will perform, I will not let alone, neither will I shield, Nor will I repent,––According to thy ways and according to thy doings, have they judged thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

¹⁴ I, Yahweh, have spoken, It cometh, and I will perform, I will not let alone, neither will I shield, Nor will I repent,––According to thy ways and according to thy doings, have they judged thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

³ So then thou shalt say to the sons of Ammon, Hear ye, the word of My Lord, Yahweh: Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh: Because thou saidst, Aha! Against my sanctuary when it was profaned, And against the soil of Israel when it was laid waste, And against the house of Judah, when they went into exile,

⁹ Wilt thou, really say, God, am I, before him who is slaying thee; When, thou, art a man and not a God, in the hand of them who are piercing thee?

⁶ My sheep did wander, through all the mountains, And over every high hill,––And, over all the face of the land, were my sheep scattered, And there was none, to inquire, And none, to seek out.

¹⁹ So I dispersed them among the nations, And they were scattered throughout the lands,––According to their way and according to their doings, I judged them. ²⁰ But, when they entered among the nations where they did enter, then profaned they my holy, Name,––in that it was said of them, The people of Yahweh, these! Yet, from his land, have they come forth!

⁶ And I will send a fire into Magog, And among them who are dwelling in the Coastlands, securely,––So shalt thou know, that, I, am Yahweh. ⁷ And, my holy, Name, will I make known, in the midst of my people Israel, And will not suffer my holy, Name to be profaned any more,––So shall the nations know, that, I, am Yahweh, Holy in Israel.

²⁸ And they shall know, that, I, Yahweh, arm their God, When I have carried them into exile among the nations, And shall then gather them upon their own soil,––And shall no more leave any of them there.

²³ And, my people, shall they instruct, between the holy and the common,––And, between the unclean and the clean, shall they cause them to distinguish.

⁹ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Let it more than suffice you, O princes of Israel, Violence and spoil, remove ye, And, justice and righteousness, execute,––Lift off your acts of expulsion from upon my people, Urgeth My Lord, Yahweh.

²⁵ That, thee, are they going to drive forth from among men, and, along with the wild beasts of the field, shall be thy dwelling, and, grass––like oxen, will they suffer, thee, to eat, and, with the dew of the heavens, will they suffer, thee, to be drenched, and, seven seasons, shall pass over thee,––until that thou come to know, that the Most High, hath dominion, over the kingdom of men, and, to whomsoever he pleaesth, he giveth it.

³² And, from among men, are they going to drive, thee, forth, and, with the wild beast of the field, shall be thy dwelling, grass––like oxen, will they suffer, thee, to eat, and, seven seasons, shall pass over thee,––until that thou come to know that the Most High, hath dominion, over the kingdom of men, and, to whomsoever he pleaseth, he giveth it. ³³ Immediately, the word, was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and, from among men, was he driven forth, and, grass––like oxen, did he eat, and, with the dew of the heavens, his body was drenched,––until that, his hair, like to eagles’ feathers, was grown, and his nails, like birds’ claws.
³⁴ And, at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes unto the heavens, did uplift, and, mine understanding, unto me, returned, and, the Most High, I blessed, and, to him that liveth age–abidingly, I rendered praise and honour,––whose dominion, is an age–abiding dominion, and, his kingdom, lasteth from generation to generation; ³⁵ And, all the inhabitants of the earth, as nothing, are accounted, and, according to his own pleasure, dealeth he––with the army of the heavens, and the inhabitants of the earth,––and none there is who can smite upon his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done?

⁸ O Yahweh, to us, belongeth the shame of faces, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers,––in that we have sinned against thee.

¹⁶ O Lord! according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thine indignation turn away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain,––for, by reason of our sins, and by reason of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people, have become a reproach, to all who are round about us.

² Cursing and lying, and killing and stealing, and committing adultery, have broken forth, and, blood–shedding, unto blood–shedding, doth extend.

¹⁰ And they shall eat, and not be satisfied, they have encouraged unchastity, yet have not been making increase,––for unto, Yahweh, have they left off giving heed:––

¹⁴ I do not bring punishment upon your daughters when they become unchaste, nor upon your brides, when they commit adultery, for, the men themselves, with unchaste women, do seclude themselves, and, with the common women of the shrine, do offer sacrifice,––and, a people who will not discern, must be ruined.

¹⁰ The rulers of Judah have become as they who remove a land–mark. Upon them, will I pour out, like water, my wrath.

⁹ And, like liers in wait for a man, in troops, is a band of priests, on the road, will they murder towards Shechem,––because, a shameful deed, they have done.

¹ When I would have brought healing to Israel, then was disclosed the iniquity of Ephraim, and the wicked doings of Samaria, for they have wrought falsehood,––when, a thief, would enter, a band roamed about, outside, ² And they say not to their own hearts, that, all their wickedness, I remember, now, have their doings, beset them about, right before my face, have they been done. ³ By their wickedness, they gladden a king, and, by their flatteries,––rulers. ⁴ They all, are adulterers, like an oven too hot for the baker,––who leaveth off stoking, after kneading the dough, till the whole be leavened.

⁴ They all, are adulterers, like an oven too hot for the baker,––who leaveth off stoking, after kneading the dough, till the whole be leavened. ⁵ In the day of our king, the rulers, have made themselves ill, with the heat of wine,––he hath extended his hand with scoffers. ⁶ For they have made ready, like an oven, their heart, by their lying in wait,––all the night, their baker sleepeth, in the morning, he, kindleth up as it were a blazing fire. ⁷ They all, become hot as an oven, and devour their judges,––all their kings, have fallen, there hath been none among them crying unto me.

⁶ Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Israel, and because of four, will I not turn it back,––Because they have sold––for silver––the righteous, and the needy––for a pair of shoes: ⁷ Who strive to bring the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and, the way of the oppressed, they pervert,––Yea, a man and his own father, go in unto the maid, to profane my holy Name!

⁷ Who strive to bring the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and, the way of the oppressed, they pervert,––Yea, a man and his own father, go in unto the maid, to profane my holy Name! ⁸ And, on pledged garments, they recline, beside every altar,––and, exacted wine, do they drink, in the house of their God.

¹⁰ Therefore do they not know how to do right, Declareth Yahweh, who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

⁴ Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land: ⁵ Who say, When will the new moon, pass away, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath that we may open grain? who diminish the ephah, and increase the shekel, and who falsify by deceitful weights: ⁶ Who buy––for silver––the poor, and the needy for a pair of shoes,––and that the refuse of the grain we may sell.

¹ Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds,––in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand.

¹ Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds,––in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand. ² Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away,––and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance.

² Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away,––and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance. ³ Therefore,––Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! devising, against this family, a calamity,––from which ye shall not remove your neck, neither shall ye walk loftily, for, a time of calamity, shall it be.

¹ Then said I, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel,––Is it not yours to know justice? ² Ye haters of right, and lovers of wrong,––tearing away their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who indeed have eaten the flesh of my people, and, their skin from off them, have stript, and, their bones, have they broken in pieces,––and will spread them out, as flesh with a fork, and as flesh, in the midst of a pot.

³ Who indeed have eaten the flesh of my people, and, their skin from off them, have stript, and, their bones, have they broken in pieces,––and will spread them out, as flesh with a fork, and as flesh, in the midst of a pot.

⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh, concerning the prophets who are leading astray my people,––who bite with their teeth, and then cry––Prosper! and whoso holdeth not to their mouth, they hallow against him a war! ⁶ Therefore, shall it be night to you, for lack of vision, and darkness to you, for lack of divination,––and the sun, shall go in, over the prophets, and the day, shall be overcast because of them; ⁷ And the men of vision, shall turn pale, and the diviners, shall blush, and shall put a covering upon their lip, all of them,––because there is no answer of God.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel,––who abhor justice, and, all right, do pervert: ¹⁰ Building Zion, with deeds of blood,––and Jerusalem, with perversity. ¹¹ Her heads, for a bribe, pronounce sentence, and, her priests, for a price, give direction, and, her prophets, for silver, divine,––yet, on Yahweh, they lean, saying, Is not, Yahweh, in our midst? there shall not come upon us, calamity.

¹¹ Her heads, for a bribe, pronounce sentence, and, her priests, for a price, give direction, and, her prophets, for silver, divine,––yet, on Yahweh, they lean, saying, Is not, Yahweh, in our midst? there shall not come upon us, calamity. ¹² Wherefore, for your sake, Zion, as a field, shall be ploughed, and, Jerusalem, unto heaps of ruins, shall be turned,––and, the mountain of the house, shall [be] like mounds in a jungle.

¹² But, they, know not the purposes of Yahweh, neither have they discerned his counsel,––for he hath gathered them, as sheaves, to a threshing–floor.

¹⁰ Even yet, are there, in the house of the lawless one, the treasures of lawlessness,––and the scant measure––accurst? ¹¹ Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with bag of deceitful weights?

² Perished is the man of lovingkindness out of the earth, and, upright among men, is there none,––they all, for bloodshed, lie in wait. Every man––for his brother, do they hunt as for one devoted to destruction. ³ Of wickedness with both hands to make sure, the ruler, doth make demand––and the judge––for a recompense,––and, as for the great man, he, is putting into words the desire of his soul, So have they woven the net!

⁸ Do not rejoice, O mine enemy, against me, Though I fall, I shall rise again! Though I sit in darkness, Yahweh, is a light to me.

⁶ Before his indignation, who shall stand? And who shall abide the glow of his anger? His wrath, hath been poured forth like fire, and, the rocks, have been broken down because of him.

¹ Alas for the city of bloodshed! All of it, deceit, of violence full, none releaseth prey!

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor yet their gold, shall be able to deliver them, in the day of the indignation of Yahweh, but, in the fire of his jealousy, shall the whole earth be consumed; For, a destruction, surely a terrible one, will he make, with all them who dwell in the earth.

² She hath hearkened to no voice, accepted no correction; in Yahweh, hath not trusted, to her God, hath not drawn near: ³ Her rulers in her midst, are roaring lions,––her judges, evening wolves, they have left nothing until morning!

³ Her rulers in her midst, are roaring lions,––her judges, evening wolves, they have left nothing until morning! ⁴ Her prophets, are reckless, treacherous men! her priests, have profaned the holy, done violence to law.

⁴ Her prophets, are reckless, treacherous men! her priests, have profaned the holy, done violence to law.

¹¹ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,––I pray you, ask the priests a direction, saying: ¹² If a man carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and then toucheth with his skirt bread or a cooked dish or wine or oil or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. ¹³ Then said Haggai, If one who is defiled for a dead person touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled. ¹⁴ Then answered Haggai and said, So, is this people and, so, is this nation before me, Declareth Yahweh, and, so, is every work of their hands,––therefore, whatsoever they offer there, is, defiled.

³ Now, Joshua, was clothed with filthy garments,––though standing before the messenger.

¹⁰ And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress,––and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts.

¹⁴ But I whirled them over all the nations whom they had not known, and, the land, was made desolate after them, that none passed through and returned,––Yea they made of a delightful land––a desolation.

⁹ And I will bring the third into the fire, and will smelt them as one smelteth silver, and will try them, as one trieth gold,––It, will call upon my name, and, I, will answer it, and will say, My people, it is! and, it, will say, Yahweh, is my God!

⁶ A son, will honour a father, and, a servant, his lord,–– If then, a father, I am, where is mine honour? And, if, a lord, I am, where is my reverence? saith Yahweh of hosts–– to you, ye priests, who despise my Name, and yet say, Wherein have we despised thy Name? ⁷ In bringing near upon mine altar, polluted food, while yet ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? Because ye say, As for the table of Yahweh, a thing to be despised, it is; ⁸ And when ye bring near the blind as a sacrifice, [saying]––No harm! or when ye bring near the lame or the sick [saying]––No harm! Offer it, I pray you, unto thy pasha, Will he accept thee? or lift up thy countenance? saith Yahweh of hosts.

¹² But ye are profaning me,–– in that ye say, As for the table of the Lord, polluted it is, and, as for his produce, contemptible is his food.

¹ Now, therefore, for you, is this charge, O ye priests:–– ² If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my Name, saith Yahweh of hosts, then will I send among you the curse, and will curse your blessings,––and indeed I have cursed them, because ye are not at all laying it to heart. ³ Behold me! threatening, on your account, the seed, and I will scatter refuse upon your faces, the refuse of your festivals,––and one shall carry you away unto it;

⁸ But, ye, have departed out of the way, ye have caused multitudes to stumble at the deliverance,–– ye have violated the covenant of Levi, saith Yahweh of hosts.

³ Therefore will he sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and will purify the sons of Levi, and will smelt them, as gold and as silver; so shall they belong to Yahweh, offering a gift in righteousness.

⁵ Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood,––and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.

¹ For lo! the day, cometh, that burneth as a furnace,––and, all the proud and everyone who worketh lawlessness, shall be, stubble, and the day that cometh, shall consume them utterly, saith Yahweh of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

¹² Whose fan is in his hand, and he will clear out his threshing–floor,––and will gather his wheat into the granary, but, the chaff, will he burn up with fire unquenchable.

²⁷ Ye have heard, that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: ²⁸ But, I, say unto you, that, Every one who looketh on a woman so as to covet her, already, hath committed adultery with her, in his heart.

³⁰ Suffer both to grow together until the harvest, and at, harvest time, I will say unto the reapers,––Collect ye first, the darnel, and bind it into bundles, with a view to the burning it up; but, the wheat, be gathering it into my barn.

⁴⁰ Just, therefore, as collected is the darnel, and, with fire is burned, so, will it be in the conclusion of the age:–– ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send forth his messengers, and they will collect, out of his kingdom, all the causes of stumbling, and the doers of lawlessness, ⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of fire: there, will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

⁴ For, God, said––Honour thy father and thy mother, and––He that revileth father or mother, let him, surely die! ⁵ But, ye, say––Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother––A gift! Whatsoever, out of me, thou mightest be profited, ⁶ in nowise, shall honour his father or his mother––and so ye have cancelled, the word of God, for the sake of your, tradition.

¹³ and saith unto them––It is written, My house, a house of prayer, shall be called; but, ye, are making it, A den of robbers!

¹³ But alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye are locking up the kingdom of the heavens before men,––for, ye, are not entering, neither, them who are entering, suffer ye to enter.

²⁵ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish,––while, within, they are full of plunder and intemperance.

³² And, ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers! ³³ Serpents! broods of vipers! how should ye flee from the judgment of gehenna?

³⁵ That there may come upon you––all righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the Temple and the altar.

⁴³ A stranger, was I, and ye took me not home, naked, and ye clothed me not, sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

⁵⁹ Now, the High–priests and all the High–council, were seeking false–witness against Jesus, that they might, put him to death;

²⁵ And all the people, answering, said––His blood be upon us and upon our children!

¹⁰ For, Moses, said––Honour thy father and thy mother, and––He that revileth father or mother, let him, surely die,––

⁴⁰ Who devour widows’ houses, and, for a pretence, are long in prayer: these, shall receive a more surpassing judgment.

³¹ The heaven and the earth, shall pass away, but, my words, shall not pass away.

¹³ And, he, said unto them, Nothing more than what is appointed you, exact ye.

⁵⁰ That the blood of all the prophets which hath been shed from the foundation of the world, may be sought out, from this generation,––

¹¹ The Pharisee, taking his stand, these things unto himself was praying: O God! I thank thee, that I am not like the rest of men,––extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or, even as this tax–collector;

⁸ But, taking his stand, Zacchaeus said unto the Lord––Lo! the half of my possessions, Lord, unto the destitute, I give; and, if, from anyone, I have taken aught by false accusation, I give back fourfold.

⁴⁷ Who devour the houses of widows, and, for a show, are a long time at prayer. These, shall receive, a heavier sentence.

¹¹ Then, they set on men who were saying––We have heard him speaking profane things against Moses and God. ¹² And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes; and, coming upon him, they caught him away, and led him into the high–council. ¹³ And they set up false witnesses, who said––This man, ceaseth not speaking things against this holy place and the law;

⁵² Which of the prophets, did not your fathers persecute? Yea they slew them who declared beforehand concerning the coming of the Righteous One––of whom, now, ye, have become, betrayers and murderers!

⁵ For, finding this man a pest, and moving sedition with all the Jews that are throughout the inhabited earth, a leader also of the sect of the Nazarenes,––

¹³ neither can they make good the things concerning which they are, now, accusing me.

⁵ But, according to thy hardness, and [thine] impenitent heart, art treasuring up for thyself anger, in a day of anger and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,––

⁸ Unto them, on the other hand, who are of contention, and are not yielding unto the truth, but are yielding unto unrighteousness, anger and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish––against every soul of man who worketh out what is base, both of Jew first and of Greek,––

²⁴ For the name of God, because of you, is defamed among the nations,––even as it is written.

¹ On all hands, there is reported to be among you––fornication, and such fornication as this––which, not among the nations, [is found], ––as that one should have, his father’s wife:––

¹¹ But, now, I have written unto you not to be mixing yourselves up,––if anyone named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one as this, not so much, as to be eating together,

⁹ Or know ye not that, wrong–doers, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves:––neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners––shall inherit, God’s kingdom.

¹⁸ Be looking at Israel after the flesh:––are not, they who eat the sacrifices, joint partakers with the altar? ¹⁹ What, then, am I saying?––that, an idol–sacrifice, is anything? or that, an idol, is anything? ²⁰ On the contrary––that, the things which the nations sacrifice, unto demons, and not unto God, they sacrifice; and I wish not that ye should become, sharers together with the demons! ²¹ Ye cannot be drinking––a cup of the Lord, and a cup of demons; ye cannot be partaking of, a table of the Lord, and a table of demons. ²² Or are we to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we mightier than he?

¹⁹ Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which, indeed, are––fornication, impurity, wantonness,

¹⁶ Hindering us from speaking, unto the nations, that they might be saved, to the filling up of their own sins, continually; but anger hath overtaken them at length.

⁶ Not over–reaching and defrauding, in the matter, his brother; because, an avenger, is the Lord, concerning all these things,––even as we before told you, and solemnly called you to witness.

³ Not given to wine, not ready to wound, but considerate, averse to contention, not fond of money,

²⁰ But, them who are sinning, before all, do thou reprove, that, the rest also, may have, fear:––

⁹ But, they who are determined to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful covetings, the which, sink men into ruin and destruction,–– ¹⁰ For, a root of all the vices, is the love of money, which, some, being eager for, have been seduced from the faith, and have pierced, themselves, about with many pangs.

³¹ A fearful thing [it is] to fall into the hands of a Living God!

⁴ Let marriage be honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, for, fornicators and adulterers, God, will judge.

⁶ Whereas, ye, have dishonoured the destitute man! Do not, the rich, oppress you? and, themselves, drag you into courts of justice? ⁷ Do not, they, defame the noble name which hath been invoked upon you?

¹ Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you: ² Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth–eaten,–– ³ Your gold and silver, have rusted away, and, their rust, shall be, witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as fire! Ye have laid up treasure in days of extremity:–– ⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered:

⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered:

¹² Beloved! be not held in surprise by the burning among you, which, for putting you to the proof, is befalling you, as though a, surprising, thing were happening unto you;

¹ But there arose false–prophets also among the people, as, among you also, there shall be, false–teachers,––men who will stealthily bring in destructive parties, even the Master that bought them, denying, bringing upon themselves speedy destruction; ² And, many, will follow out their wanton ways,––by reason of whom, the way of truth, will be defamed,
³ And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.

³ And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.

¹¹ Alas for them! because––in the way of Cain have they gone, and, in the error of Balaam’s wage, have they run riot, and, in the gainsaying of Korah, have they perished.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out,––the ancient serpent, he that is called Adversary and the Satan, that deceiveth the whole habitable world,––he was cast to the earth, and his messengers, with him, were cast. ¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying––Now, hath come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; because the accuser of our brethren hath been cast out, who was accusing them before our God day and night;

¹¹ And I saw another wild–beast, coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns, like unto a lamb, and began speaking as a dragon.

¹⁵ And it was given unto it, to give spirit unto the image of the wild–beast, in order that the image of the wild–beast should both speak and should cause that, as many as should not do homage unto the image of the wild–beast, should be slain.

¹ And I heard aloud voice, out of the sanctuary, saying unto the seven messengers––Go, and be pouring out the seven bowls of the wrath of God unto the earth.

⁶ And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I was astonished, when I beheld her, with great astonishment.

¹³ and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and unguent, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and [cargo] of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and lives of men.