1: Behold Yehoweh empties (glug-glugs, bakuk) the land (?whole earth) and she is laid waste. He bent her face and caused her inhabitants to be dispersed.
2: And it happened as with people so with a priest, as with a servant so with his lord, as with a handmaiden so with her mistress, as with a buyer so with a seller, as with union-maker so with a uniter, as with his lender so with in a lender.
3: The land emptyingly empties (glug-glugged)
And was caused to be plunderingly plundered (bazaz).
For Yehoweh had spoken this speech.
4: The land had mourningly mourned (ebal)
A habitable world was weakeningly weakened (amal)
Exalted people of the land were weakened.
5: And the land was polluted (kanaf) under its inhabitants .
For they had crossed over (avar) instructions (toroth – torah pl), they had slipped past a commandment/enactment, they had caused to annull (parar) an everlasting covenant.
6: And so an oath had consumed a land and inhabitants in it are guilty (ashem).
And so a land’s inhabitants had glowed (like embers after being burnt) and a few men had remained (sha’ar).
7: New wine had mourned (ebal),
a vine was weakened (amal),
All gladness of heart was sighed/groaned (anak).
8: Cheer had ceased (shabbat), a tambourine was idle, jubilant uproar had ceased (shabbat) a harp’s cheer.
9: They do not drink with a song, wine drinking is bitter and an intoxication.
10: A city is shattered, laid waste, all of a house was closed to coming/going.
11: A screech (tseeka) over the wine in streets, all joy had darkened, all gladness stripped from the land.
12: Desolation remained in a city, and a gate is caused to be broken in destruction (sheeka).
13: For this happens in the midst of the land amidst the people. Like an olive tree shake and like grape gathering when the grape harvest was finished off.
14: They lift up their voices, they sing of Yehoweh’s majesty, they called out loudly on waters.
15: And then in the fires they glorify Yehoweh’s name on sea coastlands – Yehoweh God of Israel!
Pause and think about that!
16: We had heard songs from the wingtips of the land, A righteous gazelle.
And I say, I am wasted! I am wasted! Ayyo (woe is), me!
Treachousingly treacherous and treachousing Treachery was treachoused (bagad).
17: Fear (Pakad) and a trap ( fakath) and a bird-snare (fak) are upon you, the lands inhabitant.
18: And it happened that an escaper from the voice of fear falls into the trap. And ascending from the midst of the trap is caught in a bird-snare.
For windows from on high were opened and lands foundations quake.
19: The land’s troublesomingly causing troublesome evil -to-itself.
A land is defeatingly causing defeat to itself.
A land is fallingly causing fall to itself.
20: A land totteringly totters like a drunk, like she had made herself waver herself like a flimsy shack.
And rebellious-sin (psha) was heavy upon her and she fell and she had not caused another rising.
Pause and think about that!
21: And in that day it happened that Yehoweh appoints a renowned / exalted parliament to-hold-it-to-account on (it’s) renown / exaltation and kings of the soil (Adamah – the territory of their roots) on the (their) soil.
22: And a gathering was gathered-to -remove (asaph) a prisoner to a dungeon. And they were imprisoned (sagar) in a prison. And after many days they are appointed to be held to account.
23: And the moon had been reproached and the heat (khama – not shemesh) had been shamed for Yehoweh of Parliaments had reigned in mount Zion and in Jerusalem before His elders glory.
Phew!
Prayer: Lord may we not be left behind with the rebellious after the harvest may we not be left behind to fear, defeat, imprisonment whilst still singing to Your Glory. We know that no land or religion is spared the shame of not recognizing that Yehoweh reigns in both His spiritual and earthly residences. Phew!
PS
1. The story of those left behind after the harvest
2. Definitions of vine, fig, olive:
- The vine is the symbol of Israel’s spiritual conditions
[Psalms 80:8-10] - The fig tree symbolizes
Israel’s national/political conditions [Hos. 9:10; Mt
24:32-35; Mk 13:28-31; Luke 21:30 ] - The olive tree symbolizes Israel’s religious conditions
[Jer 11:16; Rom 11:17]. - https://openingtheseals.com/symbolism/trees/
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