Isaiah 24:2 Cross References - Rotherham

² And it shall be––As the people, so, the priest, As the servant, so, his lord, As the maid, so, her mistress,––As the buyer, so, the seller, As the lender, so, the borrower, As the debtor, so! his creditor.

⁵⁰ Now, to Joseph, were born, two sons, ere yet came in the year of famine,––whom Asenath, daughter of Poti–phera priest of On, bare to him.

³⁶ Do not accept from him interest or profit, but stand thou in awe of thy God,––so shall thy brother live with thee. ³⁷ Thy silver, shalt thou not give him on interest,––neither, for profit, shalt thou give him thy food.

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: ²⁰ to a foreigner, thou mayest lend on interest, but, to thy brother, shalt thou not lend on interest,––that Yahweh thy God may bless thee, in everything whereunto thou puttest thy hand, upon the land which thou art entering to possess.

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. ¹⁷ So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword, in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, elder or ancient,–all, delivered he into his hand.

²⁰ and he exiled the remnant left from the sword, into Babylon,––where they became his and his sons, as servants, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

⁹ So the mean man boweth down, And the great man stoopeth low,––Therefore do not thou forgive them!

² Man of might, and man of war,––Judge and prophet, And diviner and elder; ³ Captain of fifty, and favourite; And counselor, and skilled artificer, And master of magical formulas; ⁴ And I will appoint, boys, to be their princes,––And, petulant children, shall rule over them, ⁵ And the people, will tyrannise, Every man over his fellow–man, And every man over his friend,––And they will rage, The boy, against, the elder, And, the despised, against, the honourable, ⁶ When a man, shall lay hold, on his brother, of the house of his father, [saying]––Clothing, hast thou, Become thou our, ruler, This downfall, be under thy hand. ⁷ He will swear, in that day, saying––I will take no control, When, in mine own house, is neither food nor clothing,––Ye must not set me, for a ruler of people! ⁸ For stumbled, hath Jerusalem, and, Judah, hath fallen,––Because, their tongue and their doings, are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious, presence.

¹⁵ And the mean man hath been bowed down, And the mighty man hath been humbled,––Yea, the looks of the haughty, shall be humbled.

¹⁴ Therefore hath Yahweh cut off from Israel––Head and tail, Palm–top and rush, In one day. ¹⁵ The elder and favourite, he, is the head,––And, the prophet teaching falsehood, he, is the tail; ¹⁶ And, they who should have led this people forward, have been causing them to stray,––And, they who are led of them, are destroyed, ¹⁷ For this cause, over their choice young men, will My Lord not rejoice, And, on their fatherless and their widows, will he not have compassion, For, every one of them, is profane and an evildoer, And, every mouth, is speaking baseness,––For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But, still, is his hand outstretched.

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. ⁴ And, I, said,––Only, poor people, are, they,––They act foolishly, For they know not, the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God! 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. ⁶ For this cause, hath the lion out of the forest smitten them, The wolf of the waste plains, preyeth, upon them, The leopard, is keeping watch over their cities, Every one that goeth out from thence, is torn in pieces,––For they have multiplied their transgressions, Numerous, are their apostasies.

¹¹ For, both prophet and priest, are profane,––Even in my house, have I found their wickedness, Declareth Yahweh. ¹² Therefore, shall their way become to them like slippery places in darkness, They shall be driven on, and shall fall therein,––For I will bring in upon them calamity––The year of their visitation, Declareth Yahweh. ¹³ Even among the prophets of Samaria, had I seen a foolish thing,––They prophesied by Baal, And led astray my people Israel.

² Then arose Ishmael son of Nethaniah––and the ten men who were with him, and they smote Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan––with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon, had set in charge, over the land.

¹⁸ For––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel,––Just as mine anger and mine indignation, have been poured out, upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so, shall mine indignation be poured out upon you, when ye enter into Egypt,––thus shall ye become a curse, and an astonishment, and a contempt, and a reproach, and ye shall no more, see, this place.

¹¹ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! setting my face against you, for calamity,––even to cut off all Judah; ¹² and I will take the remnant of Judah who did set their faces, to enter the land of Egypt, to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, in the land of Egypt, shall they fall by the sword, by famine, shall they be consumed, from the least even unto the greatest, by sword and by famine, shall they die,––so shall they become a curse, and an astonishment, and a contempt, and a reproach; ¹³ and I will bring punishment upon them who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, just as I brought punishment upon Jerusalem,––by sword, by famine, and by pestilence;

²⁴ And the chief of the royal executioners, took away, Seraiah, the first, priest, and Zephaniah, the second, priest,––and the three keepers of the entrance–hall; ²⁵ and, out of the city, took he one eunuch who was in charge over the men of war, and seven men of them who used to watch the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the prince of the host, who used to muster the people of the land,––and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. ²⁶ And, when Nebuzaradan, chief the royal executioners, had taken, them, and brought them unto the king of Babylon, at Riblah, ²⁷ then did the king of Babylon smite, them and put them to death at Riblah, in the land of Hamath,––thus carried he Judah captive, away from off their own soil. ²⁸ This, is the people, whom Nebuchadrezzar, carried away captive,––In the seventh year––of them of Judah, three thousand and twenty–three; ²⁹ In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar––out of Jerusalem, eight hundred and thirty–two souls; ³⁰ In the three–and–twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, chief of the royal executioners, took away captive, of them of Judah, seven hundred and forty–five souls: All, the souls, were four thousand and six hundred.

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 Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured. ¹³ Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered. ¹⁴ Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.

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. ¹³ For, the seller, unto that which is to be sold, shall not return, though, yet, among the living, were their life,––for, the vision, is against all her multitude. He shall not return, And, no man, by his punishment, shall strengthen, his life.

⁸ And will set my face against that man, And will make of him a sign and a proverb, And will cut him off out of the midst of my people: So shall ye know, that, I, am Yahweh. ⁹ Yea, the prophet himself, when he suffereth himself to be deceived, and speaketh a word, I, Yahweh, have suffered that prophet to be deceived. Then will I stretch forth my hand against him, and destroy him out of the midst of my people, Israel: ¹⁰ So shall they bear their punishment, As, the punishment of him that enquireth, So, shall, the punishment of the prophet, be:

⁵ We have sinned and committed iniquity, and been guilty of lawlessness and been rebellious,––even departing from thy commandments, and from thy regulations; ⁶ and have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spake in thy name, unto our kings, our rulers, and our fathers,––and unto all the people of the land. ⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but, to us, the shame of faces, as at this day,––to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, the near and the far off, throughout all the lands whither thou hast driven them, in their treachery, wherewith they had been treacherous against thee. 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.

⁹ So doth it come to be––like people, like priest,––therefore will I visit upon him his ways, and, his doings, will I bring back to him;

⁸ Knowing that, each one, whatsoever he may do that is good, the same, shall he receive back from the Lord, whether bond or free. ⁹ And ye masters, the same things, be doing towards them, forbearing your threat––knowing that, both their and your Master, is in the heavens, and, respect of persons, there is none, with him.