Nevi'im
Hoshea13
Hosea · Chapter 13
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Yisra'el; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver,
and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff
that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Yet I
am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim from the land of Mitsrayim, and thou shalt know no elohim but me: for
there is no saviour beside me.
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe
them:
I will meet them as a bear
that is bereaved
of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
O Yisra'el, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me
is thine help.
I will be thy king: where
is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took
him away in my wrath.
The iniquity of Ephraim
is bound up; his sin
is
hid.
The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he
is
an unwise son; for he should not stay long in
the place of
the breaking forth of children.
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Though he be fruitful among
his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her Elohim: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Nevi'im
Hoshea14
Hosea · Chapter 14
O Yisra'el, return unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Take with you words, and turn to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive
us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands,
Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
I will be as the dew unto Yisra'el: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive
as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof
shall be
as the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim
shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard
him, and observed him: I
am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
Who
is wise, and he shall understand these
things?
prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
are
right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Nevi'im
Yo'el1
Joel · Chapter 1
The word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Tell ye your children of it, and
let your children
tell
their children, and their children another generation.
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth
are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast
it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); the kohanim, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)’S ministers, mourn.
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye kohanim: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my Elohim: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your Elohim.
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders
and all the inhabitants of the land
into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim, and cry unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
Alas for the day! for the day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes,
yea, joy and gladness from the house of our Elohim?
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.