Nevi'im
Yirmeyahu8
Jeremiah · Chapter 8
At that time, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the kohanim, and the bones of the nevi'im, and the bones of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, out of their graves:
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of shamayim, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) of hosts.
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
Why
then is this people of Yerushalayim slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
I hearkened and heard,
but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
Yea, the stork in the shamayim knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
How do ye say, We
are wise, and the torah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is
with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he
it; the pen of the scribes
is in vain.
The wise
men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); and what wisdom
is in them?
Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
and their fields to them that shall inherit
them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the navi even unto the kohen every one dealeth falsely.
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when
there is no peace.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
I will surely consume them, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH):
there shall be
no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and
the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
We looked for peace, but no good
came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which
will not
be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart
is faint in me.
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country:
Is not 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in Tsiyon?
is
not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images,
and with strange vanities?
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Is there no balm in Gilead;
is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Nevi'im
Yirmeyahu9
Jeremiah · Chapter 9
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they
be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
And they bend their tongues
like their bow
for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,
and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Thine habitation
is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Therefore thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Their tongue
is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:
one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Shall I not visit them for these
things? saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): shall not my nephesh be avenged on such a nation as this?
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through
them; neither can
men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the shamayim and the beast are fled; they are gone.
And I will make Yerushalayim heaps,
and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Who
is the wise man, that may understand this? and
who is he to whom the mouth of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth
and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) saith, Because they have forsaken my torah which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Therefore thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra'el; Behold, I will feed them,
even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning
women, that they may come:
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Tsiyon, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast
us out.
Yet hear the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
For death is come up into our windows,
and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without,
and the young men from the streets.
Speak, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather
them.
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Let not the wise
man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty
man glory in his might, let not the rich
man glory in his riches:
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I
am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these
things
I delight, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Behold, the days come, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), that I will punish all
them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
Mitsrayim, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all
that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all
these nations
are uncircumcised, and all the house of Yisra'el
are uncircumcised in the heart.
Nevi'im
Yirmeyahu10
Jeremiah · Chapter 10
Hear ye the word which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) speaketh unto you, O house of Yisra'el:
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of shamayim; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the people
are vain: for
one
cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
They
are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also
is it in them to do good.
Forasmuch as
there is none like unto thee, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); thou
art great, and thy name is great in might.
Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise
men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms,
there is none like unto thee.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock
is
a doctrine of vanities.
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they
are all the work of cunning
men.
But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is the true Elohim, he
is the living Elohim, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the shamayim and the earth,
even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these shamayim.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the shamayim by his discretion.
When he uttereth his voice,
there is a multitude of waters in the shamayim, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Every man is brutish in
his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
They
are vanity,
and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
The portion of Ya'aqov
is not like them: for he
is
the former of all
things; and Yisra'el
is the rod of his inheritance: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) of hosts
is his name.
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
For thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find
it
so.
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this
is a grief, and I must bear it.
My mishkan is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they
are not:
there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate,
and a den of dragons.
O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), I know that the way of man
is not in himself:
it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Ya'aqov, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.