Ketuvim
Rut4
Ruth · Chapter 4
Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which
was our brother Elimelech’s:
And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy
it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem
it, redeem
it: but if thou wilt not redeem
it, then
tell me, that I may know: for
there is none to redeem
it beside thee; and I
am after thee. And he said, I will redeem
it.
Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy
it also of Rut the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem
it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
Now this
was the manner in former time in Yisra'el concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave
it to his neighbour: and this
was
a testimony in Yisra'el.
Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy
it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.
And Boaz said unto the elders, and
unto all the people, Ye
are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that
was
Elimelech’s, and all that
was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi.
Moreover Rut the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye
are witnesses this day.
And all the people that
were in the gate, and the elders, said,
We are witnesses. 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Le'ah, which two did build the house of Yisra'el: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beit Lechem:
And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall give thee of this young woman.
So Boaz took Rut, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) gave her conception, and she bare a son.
And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed
be 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Yisra'el.
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of
thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in torah, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he
is the father of Jesse, the father of Dawid.
Now these
are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat Dawid.
Ketuvim
Eikhah1
Lamentations · Chapter 1
How doth the city sit solitary,
that was full of people
how is she become as a widow she
that was great among the nations,
and princess among the provinces,
how is she become tributary
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears
are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort
her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
The ways of Tsiyon do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her kohanim sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she
is in bitterness.
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
And from the daughter of Tsiyon all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts
that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Yerushalayim remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her,
and did mock at her sabbaths.
Yerushalayim hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Her filthiness
is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified
himself.
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen
that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command
that they should not enter into thy congregation.
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the nephesh: see, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and consider; for I am become vile.
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath afflicted
me in the day of his fierce anger.
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate
and faint all the day.
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed,
and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the master hath delivered me into
their hands,
from whom I am not able to rise up.
The master hath trodden under foot all my mighty
men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the master hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah,
as in a winepress.
For these
things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my nephesh is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Tsiyon spreadeth forth her hands,
and there is none to comfort her: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath commanded concerning Ya'aqov,
that his adversaries
should be round about him: Yerushalayim is as a menstruous woman among them.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) is righteous; for I have rebelled against his mitsvah: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
I called for my lovers,
but they deceived me: my kohanim and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Behold, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); for I
am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home
there is as death.
They have heard that I sigh:
there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done
it: thou wilt bring the day
that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs
are many, and my heart
is faint.
Ketuvim
Eikhah2
Lamentations · Chapter 2
How hath the master covered the daughter of Tsiyon with a cloud in his anger,
and cast down from shamayim unto the earth the beauty of Yisra'el, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
The master hath swallowed up all the habitations of Ya'aqov, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought
them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
He hath cut off in
his fierce anger all the horn of Yisra'el: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Ya'aqov like a flaming fire,
which devoureth round about.
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all
that were pleasant to the eye in the mishkan of the daughter of Tsiyon: he poured out his fury like fire.
The master was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Yisra'el, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
And he hath violently taken away his mishkan, as
if it were of
a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Tsiyon, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the kohen.
The master hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), as in the day of a solemn feast.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Tsiyon: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes
are among the Gentiles: the torah
is no
more; her nevi'im also find no vision from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
The elders of the daughter of Tsiyon sit upon the ground,
and
keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Yerushalayim hang down their heads to the ground.
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
They say to their mothers, Where
is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their nephesh was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Yerushalayim? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Tsiyon? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Thy nevi'im have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
All that pass by clap
their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Yerushalayim,
saying, Is this the city that
men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed
her up: certainly this
is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen
it.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath done
that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused
thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
Their heart cried unto the master, O wall of the daughter of Tsiyon, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the master: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Behold, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit,
and children of a span long? shall the kohen and the navi be slain in the sanctuary of the master?
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain
them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed,
and not pitied.
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)’S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.