Nevi'im
Mikhah6
Micah · Chapter 6
Hear ye now what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
Hear ye, O mountains, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)’S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Yisra'el.
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
For I brought thee up out of the land of Mitsrayim, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Mosheh, Aharon, and Miriam.
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Wherewith shall I come before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
and bow myself before the high Elohim? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
Will 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) be pleased with thousands of rams,
or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn
for my transgression, the fruit of my body
for the sin of my nephesh?
He hath shewed thee, O man, what
is good; and what doth 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy Elohim?
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)’S voice crieth unto the city, and
the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure
that is abominable?
Shall I count
them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue
is deceitful in their mouth.
Therefore also will I make
thee sick in smiting thee, in making
thee desolate because of thy sins.
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down
shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and
that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Nevi'im
Mikhah7
Micah · Chapter 7
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage:
there is no cluster to eat: my nephesh desired the firstripe fruit.
The good
man is perished out of the earth: and
there is
none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge
asketh for a reward; and the great
man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
The best of them
is as a brier: the most upright
is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen
and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in torah against her mother in torah; a man’s enemies
are the men of his own house.
Therefore I will look unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); I will wait for the Elohim of my salvation: my Elohim will hear me.
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
shall be a light unto me.
I will bear the indignation of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light,
and I shall behold his righteousness.
Then
she that is mine enemy shall see
it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
In the day that thy walls are to be built,
in that day shall the decree be far removed.
In that day
also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and
from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and
from mountain to mountain.
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily
in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed
in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Mitsrayim will I shew unto him marvellous
things.
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay
their hand upon
their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim, and shall fear because of thee.
Who
is a Elohim like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth
in mercy.
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Thou wilt perform the truth to Ya'aqov,
and the mercy to Avraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Nevi'im
Nachum1
Nahum · Chapter 1
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Elohim
is jealous, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) revengeth; 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) revengeth, and
is furious; 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth
wrath for his enemies.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit
the wicked: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds
are the dust of his feet.
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
What do ye imagine against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
For while
they be folden together
as thorns, and while they are drunken
as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
There is
one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), a wicked counsellor.
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): Though
they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath given a mitsvah concerning thee,
that
no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.