1:  And I saw the Lord stationed by the altar and He said

Cause the knobs of the posts to be struck and the cup rims/thresholds quake and break them on a head of them all. 

And I slay the last of them with a sword (flitting, fleeting, self harming, calf worshipping and ritual following folk outlined in Amos 8:14) .

A flee-er does not flee from them.

An escaper is not delivered from them.

2: If they dig into Sheol, My Hand takes them from there.

And if they ascend into the heavens, I will cause them to be brought down from there.

3: And if they are hidden on top of The Carmel (vineyard), I will search our and they were taken from there.

And if they are secreted away from in front of my eyes in the bottom of the sea, I command The serpent (Nagash) and he bit them from there. 

4:  And if they walk into captivity in the face of their enemies, I command The Sword and she slays them from there. 

And I set up/ordain My Eyes upon them for evil/Trouble and not for good. 

5: And The Lord Yehoweh of Parliaments, The One who intimately touches the land and she melts.

And all dwellers there grieve.  

Like a Nile/river (Ore) had swelled and and abated (shka שׁקע ) –  like a Nile/river of Egypt.

6: The Builder of the layered / steps of the heavens and land was established on His strata.(Is this the new heaven on new earth model?)

The Crier to sea water gushes it out on the face of the earth (vs v5 a river in spate which destroys and abates).

His Name is Yehoweh.

7: Are you not like the sons of Ethiopians to me, sons of Israel?

Did not Word Yehoweh cause Israel to ascend to Me from the land of Egypt?

And the Philistines from Kafthor (?Crete)?

And Aram (Syria) from Kir (?Kerak in Jordan)?

8: Behold, the eyes of Lord Yehoweh are on the missing-the-mark-sin (katha) kingdom.

I caused it to be destroyed from the face of the soil. 

For I, Word Yehoweh, however, do not destroyingly destroy the house of Jacob. 

9: For behold, Command-er – I. And I caused the house of Israel to be shaken over the unbelieving nations as like it is shaken from a sieve and not a bag falls on land (they are individually spread – not spread out in groups).   

10: They die by a sword, My missing-the-mark-sin people, those who say troublesome-evil is not caused to touch us or caused to confront us.

11: In that Day, I cause to resurrect The Tent (Sukkoth) of David, which had fallen/died.

And I will close up her breaches.

And I cause to resurrect its ruins.

And I built her as in ancient/ forgotten days

12:  in order that they inherit the remnant of Edom ( Esau’s, southeast dead sea, those who gave inheritance for earthly pleasures).

And all unbelieving nations who were called by My Name, upon Word Yehoweh, He does this. Phew!

13: Behold! Traversing are Word Yehoweh’s Days.  

And a fabricator (engraver) approaches/touches a harvester, and a path treader of grapes to a sower of the seed (? Machines in harvest). 

And the mountains were caused to drip with fresh wine (asees).

And all the hills make themselves melt themselves (vs Amos 8:13 youth making themselves thirsty) .

14:   And I had turned back (shavthi) to My people, the captive (shavooth) Israel.  

And they had built appalling/amazing cities and had inhabited them.

And they had planted vineyards and had drunk their wines.

And they had done gardens and had ate their fruits.

15: And I had planted them in their soil and they are not uprooted again from their soil which I gave them said Yehoweh, your God. 

Prayer: Thank  you Lord Jesus for Your Days. Despite the destruction of the old altar prominences and the kingdom of sin (but not its people), thank you that we and Edom (those who gave up their inheritance for earthly pleasures) are inherited by Your Tent of resurrection which had died. You built it for Israelis and all unbelieving but now Christian nations  including Ethiopian, Palestinian and Syrian christians. For all nations called by Your Name, the second grape harvest of wrath has turned to sweet wine in industrial volumes! Hallelujah!

1: The Lord Yehoweh caused me to see and behold: a basket of summer fruit (first harvest Am 7:1)

2: And Yehoweh says to me, “What are you seeing, Amos”?

And I say, “A basket of summer fruit (kaeetz)”. 

And Yehoweh says to me, The end (kaatz – second harvest of ch 7?) came to my  people Israel.

I will not cause them to add crossing-over (avar, Hebrew) any more (Am 7:8).

3: And they will cause wailing temple songs on that Day of Word Lord Yehoweh.

Many corpses all over the place were caused to be cast out.

Keep quiet! Phew!

4: Hear this, the panting needy ones and the made-to-stop (laid off) poor ones in the land

5: saying when will we cross-over the month and we could trade grain?

And open the grain to cause the volume to reduce and to cause the measure (shekel, value) to increase

and to pervert the scales in deceit?

6: To acquire the poor and needy’s silver for the sake of shoe laces

and cause the chaff of wheat to be traded. 

7: Yehoweh had sworn (Shva) about Heel-Snatcher’s (Jacob) arrogance:

Surely I forget (shkak שׁכח) in perpetuity all their actions.

8: Over this will  the land not shake?

And all dwellers in it grieved (Abal).

Like a Nile/river (Ore) had swelled and displaced all and abated (shka שׁקע ) –  like a Nile/river of Egypt.

Pause and think about that.

9: And it happened in a day – that one – Word Lord Yehoweh’s (?trinity).

I had caused the sun to traverse at midday and I had caused the land to darken in light of day.  

10: And I had overturned your feasts (khag) to grief (Ebal), all your songs to dirges and I caused sack cloth to be pulled up on every waist and baldness on every head.

And I made her (the land) like a single lament (Ebal) and her end as a bitter day.  

11: Behold the Word Lord Yehoweh’s days are traversing.  

And I caused to send a famine on land – not a famine of bread and not a thirst for water, but for a hearing of the words of Yehoweh.  

 12: And they to-and-fro-ed from sea to sea, from north/dark (Tsafon) to east/sunrise (mizra).

They travel to seek the word of Yehoweh and  they do not find (matsa).

13: In that day, the lovely young women and the young men cause themselves to faint from thirst.

14: The ones who are sworn to the guilt of Shomron (Watchers, Omri’s central Israel capital to compete with Jerusalem) and had said to Dan (northern tribe with long standing golden calves and alternative priests not included in Revelation), Your god is life and Beer-Shva’s (southern pivot well to Abraham & Abimelech, Isaac, Jacob’s move to Haran and then Egypt) way is life.

And they fell and do not arise again. 

Pause and think about that.

Prayer: Yehoweh our God, Yshua our Word, Ruach our Lord, may no counterfeit be our life. Deliver us from greed and let cheating never be  our business. Please don’t leave us in the mud when we fall, please don’t leave us hungry for Your Word, thirsting for Your Living Water. Amen.  

1: The Lord Yehoweh caused me to see and behold:

At the first rising of manufactured locusts (?drones/ diggers) in The second Harvest (?grape harvest of wrath Job 24:6, Rev 14:19?)

 – and behold:

 a second harvest after the mowing/shearing of The King (?first grain harvest of salvation).

2: And it happened when thay had finished eating green herbs of the land, I say, “Lord Yehoweh, forgive, na! Who takes a stand for Heel-grasper (Jacob)? For he is insignificant.”

3: Yehoweh relented over this and Yehoweh said it does not happen.

4: The Lord Yehoweh caused me to see and behold:

Lord Yehoweh to contend crying out in a fire which consumes the great deep and consumes the inheritance.

5: And I say, “Lord Yehoweh, stop, na! Who takes a stand for Heel-grasper (Jacob)? For he is insignificant.”

6: Yehoweh relented over this and Lord Yehoweh said it does not happen.

Pause and think about that!

7: He caused me to see and behold, my Lord….,,

Prayer: Lord, will you relent of even a prophesied plan of judgement and contentious fire if we pray?!

…6: Thus said Yehoweh over three Israel (God-Strife) rebellion-sins, and over four, I will cause them to not turn back from the sale of a righteous poor (one’s) silver over shoelaces,

7: panting over the dust of the first (head / first on the list) land of the low (ones) and causing to spread out over the ways (ways and means) of the poor (ones).

A man and his father traverse over the young woman in order to start to make an opening wedge on My Holy Name.

8: And in loaned clothes they cause bending beside every altar and drink fined (imposed levy) wine in their God’s house.

9: And (it was) I who had caused the Amorite (driven-out Cananites) to be brought to nought before their faces! He who was lofty as cedars, lofty and powerful as oaks.

And I caused his fruit above and his roots below to be brought to nought.

10: And (it was) I who had caused you to ascend from the land of Egypt, and caused you to walk for forty years to seize the land of the Amorite.

11: And from your young men,  I caused to raise up to prophets (inspired sigers or speakers – John the Baptist), to Nazarites (consecrated ones – Yshua). Indeed, sons of Israel, is this not The Word Yehoweh?

12: And you cause the Nazarites to drink wine (Ps 69:21, Mt 27:34, Mk 15:23, Jn 19:29,30) ! And you commanded the prophets to say no to prophesying (Mt 13:57, Lk 4: 24,29 in Nazareth),  

13: Behold, I, (am) squashed by-you-by-yourselves, like  the overloaded cart into which squash sheaves. 

14: And the quick to the bunker perished!

And the strong does not strengthen (their grip) on power.

And the valiant does not deliver his own soul.

15:  And the bow grabber does not take a stand,

And quick footed does not deliver,

And the horse rider does not deliver his soul.

16: And the strong hearted mighty ones nakedly flee in That Day (of) The Word Yehoweh.

Phew!

Prayer:

Lord forgive me for squashing You by thinking that being Christian gives me protection. Your first chosen people Israel who rebelled and oppressed their own poor and were misogynist could not save their souls by their strength or speed.  I acknowledge my presumptiousness. I will not squash achievements  on You claiming them to be mine. Forgive me for nailing You on the cross and then trying to minimize Your pain with cheap wine. Forgive me for rejecting You, The Word of God, when You prophetically challenged my narrative. I will remember and glorify You, My Lord and My God. Amen. 

1: Amos’ (burdened) words – (who had been amongst sheep breeders in Tekoa (trumpet/blow)) – on Israel (God-strife) in the days of Uzziah (God’s strength), king of Judah (God-praise) and Jeroboam (contender with people) son of Joash (God’s fire) king of Israel two years before the earthquake.

2: And he says, Yehoweh roars from Zion (Dry hill) and gives His Voice from Jerusalem (shooting peace).

And the shepherds’ pastureland withers on top of Carmel (fertile field, northern mount of Elijah’s showdown, northern town of Saul’s self-memorial and Nabal’s fertile plot).

Phew!

 

3:   Thus said Yehoweh over three Damashek (Damascus) rebellion-sins, and over four, I will cause them to not turn back to a threshing with the sharp iron instruments at Gilead (Laban-Jacob memorial cairn in East Jordan where Reuben, Gad and Manasseh have inheritances. Laban was Aramean/Syrian).

4: And I sent into the house of Khazel (God’s vision) a fire and it devoured palaces of Ben-Hadad (3 syrian kings, Aedomite storm god).

5: And I shattered a Damashek gate and I caused to (covenant) cut an inhabiter of Aven (1 – futile-sin, Beqa in Syria) valley (beqath).

and the upholder sceptre (tribe which upholds) of house of Aden (2 – delight, syrian place)

And the people of Aram Kira (3 – Fortress Syria) were stripped, said Yehoweh.

Phew!

 

6: Thus said Yehoweh over three GAza  rebellion-sins, and over four, I will cause them to not turn back on the caused stripping/capturing  of the complete (all the) stripped/captured, to deliver them to Aedom (red, Esau–Jacob). 

7: And I dispatched a fire into a GAza (impudent brazen strength, southernmost Philistine city) wall and it devoured her palaces. 

8: And I caused to (covenant) cut an Ashdod (1 – despoiler, philistine place) inhabiter

and the upholder sceptre (tribe which upholds) of the house of Ashkelon (2 – weighing place, philistine place)

And I cause to turn My Hand back from Acron (3 – uproot, philistine place)

And the remnant of the Philistines (to roll/wallow) perished,

said Lord Yehoweh.

Phew!

 

9: Thus said Yehoweh over three Tyre (tsor – rock)  rebellion-sins, and over four, I will cause them to not turn back from causing the delivery of the whole stripped/ captured to Aedom (Esau – red). And  they had not remembered  the brothers’ covenant (Esau-Jacob). 

10: And I dispatched a fire on a Tyre wall  and it devoured it’s palaces. 

Phew!

 

11: Thus said Yehoweh over three Aedom (Esau)  rebellion-sins, and over four, I will cause them not to turn back from being in pursuit his brother with a sword. And he cast off his mercy and then tore his temper and watched (nursed) his anger forever. 

12: And I dispatched a fire on Teman (4 –right hand, Aedomite place) and it devoured the Batsra (sheep fold,  Aedomite place) palaces.

Phew!

 

13: Thus said Yehoweh over three Ammon (Lot’s son’s people – ben Ammi by his younger daughter – in northern Jordan – the other daughter’s people – Moab – from father – were in the south)  rebellion-sins, and over four, I will cause them to not turn back from ripping open of pregnant women of the Gilead (memorial cairn) in order to cause to increase their territory.

 14: And I caused a fire to be kindled in Rabba’s (great, capital of Ammonites) wall and it devoured its palaces

in a blast on the day of battle,

in a whirlwind on the day of a tempest. 

15: And their king walked into captivity and his princes as one, said Yehoweh.

Phew!

Amos 2

1:  Thus said Yehoweh over three Moab (Lot’s older daughter’s people – Moab – were in south Jordan whilst ben Ammi by his younger daughter were in north Jordan)  rebellion-sins, and over four, I will cause them to not turn back to setting a fire to Aedom king’s bones to (make it into) whitewash.

2: And I despatched a fire on Moab (4) and it devoured the Kirioth (fortresses,  S. Jordan city ?in Negev) palaces

And Moab died tumultously with a blast and a sound of a trumpet.

3. And I caused to (covenant) cut a judge from its midst and I slay her prince with him says Yehoweh.

Phew!

 

4: Thus said Yehoweh over three Judah (God-Praise) rebellion-sins, and over four, I will cause them to not turn back from despisement of Yehoweh’s instruction manual.

And they did not watch over His commandments.

And He caused them to wander (in) their lies after which their fathers had walked.

5: And I despatched a fire on Judah (4) and it devoured Jerusalem’s  palaces.

Phew!

 

6: Thus said Yehoweh over three Israel (God-Strife) rebellion-sins, and over four, I will cause them to not turn back from the sale of a righteous poor (one’s) silver over shoelaces.

 …..to be continued next Tuesday

Prayer:

Our agreements with dubious extended family ended up with us bared and burnt. Thank You for burning terrorist strongholds and preventing terrorists from threshing in other’s fields, chasing and exposing and knifing people and thank you for getting them imprisoned.  Amen.

1: Watch your step when you walk to The Lord God’s house to hear more than to give sacrifice to the self indulgent (fat ones). 

They do not know that they do evil/trouble.

2: Don’t panic with your heart in your mouth.

Don’t hurry to cause to utter a word (don’t make yourself shoot off your mouth)  in front of The Lord. 

For The Lord God is in heaven and you are upon the earth (land/eretz) and then  there happens to be (/let it be) less of your words. 

3: For The dream traversed through great work. 

But the voice of the self indulgent through great words.  

4: For when you vow a vow to The Lord God, do not loiter to fulfill it for there is no delight in the self indulgent. That which you vow, fulfill.

5: Good which you do not vow than you vow and you do not fulfill. 

6: Do not give your mouth  cause to miss-the-mark-sin over your flesh and do not say to The Messenger’s face, “it (she) was an inadvertent mistake”.

For why (should) The Lord God be angry about your voice and destroy the work of your hand?

7: For great (are) dreams

and vanities and words are made great,

 but fear The Lord God. 

8: If you see fraud on the defrauded and Plunder of justice and righteousness in a jurisdiction (Medina), do not be shocked over the delight, for the official over the official is watching –  and the officials over them.

9: For a king is served by all the land profit of a field.

10: Silver lovers are not satisfied with silver.

And who loves abundance but not revenue?

This is also a vanity (empty/ unsatisfactory/ transitory).

11: To increase in the good(s), is to increase its consumer.

And what is success to owners if but to see it with their eyes?

12: A working man’s sleep is sweet – whether a little or caused to be a lot. 

He eats.

But none of the riches of the rich cause him to slacken. 

 13: There is a sickening evil/Trouble I had seen under the sun:

To their owner/lord, watched-over riches (is) to evil/Trouble.

14: And riches perished which had been evilly/troublesomely in labour and caused to bear a son,

(who) for no fault (of his) had nothing in his hand

15: as he broke forth naked from his mum’s tummy, (so) he turned back to walk as he came,

And,for no fault (of his), lifts nothing up  from his job in his hand.  He is made to walk away (resign/laid off). 

16: And this also is worne-out, all- encompassing evil/Trouble:

He came (was appointed),

then walks (resigns)!

For what profit does he toil?

For Wind!

17: Also he eats in darkness all his days –  and increasing sorrow, disease and indignation.

18: Behold what good had I seen which is pleasant  to me is to eat and to drink and to see all the good in his toil. He labours under the sun for a (contractual, accounted) period of days in his life which The Lord gave him.

For this is his inheritance. 

19: Also for every man whom The Lord gave wealth and treasures, He caused him to exert dominion, to eat of it and to lift up his inheritance and to be glad in his job.

This is it – God’s gift.

20: For He is not made to increasingly remember the days of his (working) life for The Lord kept (his head) down in gladness of heart. 

Prayer:

Lord, thank you for your advice on working life priorities. Let me enjoy my work daily.  May I always keep my word.  May I never misuse my power over the disempowered and make empty profit from what is Your gift. And when I retire,  let me remember work satisfaction – not the personal gain. Amen. 

Deilos (Strong’s 1169) = negative fear of timidity is contrasted with phobos – positive fear (Strong’s 5401 mentioned re’ fear of God etc)

It is linked to a lack of faith (pistei):

Mt 8:26, Mk 4:40 – why afraid, men of little faith?

Rev 21:8: Deilos and unbelieving (a-pisteos) folk are assigned to the a second death.  

1: Remember (Mark out/commemorate) your Creator in days of youth, when

days which are troublesome/evil (Ra) do not come and cause to touch (affect),

years of which you say ‘there was not one of them in which I had pleasure,

2: (years in) which, when  the sun, moonlight and stars darken and the clouds turn back after the shower of rain,

3:  in a day (when) house watchers shake off and strong men made themselves contort and food processors stood idle, for there were (too) few and window see-ers darkened,

4:  and swing doors were boarded up in a street, soft the sound of a food processor as the bird song rises up and  depressed are the songster daughters.

5: The high-and-mighty are also afraid of the terrorists in the way.

The almond tree is caused to be spurned and the grasshopper causes itself to drag a heavy load.

The aphrodisiac causes frustration.

For the human traveller goes to his eternal home and

the mourners encircled the streets. 

6: Till when a silver noose is not loosened,

the golden bowl (Zech 4:2 vision) cracks and

 a pail is shattered at the spring and the

 wheel/pulley at the well was cracked.  

7: And the dust turns back to the land as it happened to be.

And the spirit returns to the God who had given it.

8:” Vanity (empty/ unsatisfactory/ transitory) of vanities”, says the preacher, “the complete vanity”.

9: And to profit the people, taught a preacher of wisdom, was (why) knowledge was still there.    

And he intently listened and sought and straightened out/organized and magnified/increased proverbs.

10: A preacher intensely searched to find words of delight and written, upright words of truth.

11: The words of the wise are like a cattle prod and like a driven cattle peg given by my Lord-archivists and The One Pasturer-Shepherd. 

12: And to profit from them, my son, be polished.

There is no end of making many/great books.

And much concentration (l’hag) is flesh (physical) fatigue (y’giha).

13:  Let God’s last word be heard: Fear His Commands. Watch for this. All the man.

14: For all God’s work causes to bring to judgement over all concealed – whether good or bad.

Prayer: Lord, we  keep memories of good times – transitory as they are, frail as we are. There were bad days – and even years – for us, our kitchens, our homes and our high streets.  Terrorists terrorised government and our own mortality seemed inevitable. Burgeoning, organized, published and evidenced knowledge was unsatisfying, empty and transitory even if it profited to prod and tie us down and make us polished.  So we take Your last Word on this matter, The One Shepherd. We Fear You because You make judgements on good and bad. 

1: And Dvora (words) and Barak (blessing) son of Abinoam (pleasant father) sing on that day and say,

2: “In uncovering (firo) long haired leaderesses (paroth) in Israel,

In people making themselves volunteer themselves,

Bless, Yehoweh.

3: Hear, kings;

Give ear, rulers (razanim);

I, even I, I sing to Yehoweh. 

I will strum to Yehoweh, God of God-strife (Israel).

4: Yehoweh,

in emeging  from Seir,

in marching from Edom’s fields,

(Deut 2:4,5 –  Yehoweh gave Esau land from Mt Seir and told Israel not to meddle with the Edomites)

The land trembled

Heavens also oozed

Clouds also oozed water.

5:  Mountains gushed before Yehoweh’s Face – this Sinai before Yehoweh, Israel’s God. 

6: In Shamgar son of Anath’s days, in Yael’s (Ibex) days,

caravan routes were neglected and walking tracks are zigzag routes. 

7: Villages in Israel were neglected,

Neglected till I, Dvora, stood up,

I, Israel’s mum (eema) stood up.

8: They choose new gods!

Then war openings / gates*.  

(But is) If among the 40000of Israel is a shield or a spear seen?

9: My heart is with Israel’s printers ( law engravers)#,

the people who make themselves volunteer themselves:

Bless Yehoweh!

10: White donkey riders,

ones who permanently settle in robes,

Ones who walk on paths,

Meditate!

11: (Far) From the cry, from the divisions,

there between the watering places, they commemorate the righteousness of Yehoweh,

 righteousness  of His villages in Israel.

Then people of Yehoweh descend to the gates*. 

12: Wake up, Wake up, Dvora,

Wake up, wake up, sing a song.

Rise up, Barak,

And capture captives, son of Abinoam.

13:  Then a remnant descended to nobles,

Yehoweh’s people descended to me against the mighty.

14: Out of Ephraim (covered/Fruitful replaced by Joseph in Rev 7:4,8. Revelation’s tribe list excludes Dan and Ephraim and includes Levi and Joseph but Simon, Levi, Judah and Gad dont find mention in this song) are Amalek’s roots (war and memory loss in every generation Ex 17: 15,19) after you and your people, Benjamin. 

Out of Makir (Manasseh’s son from Gilead) descend printers (law engravers)#  from prolonger Zebulun (dweller) in a tribal tally.

15:  And Issakar’s (God’s wage) princes with Dvora. 

And like Issakar, Barak, was sent into a valley underfoot with Reuben’s (Yehoweh saw my trouble) divisions (with) great resolutenesses of heart. 

16: For What did you permanently settle between sheepfolds?

To hear the bleatings of the flocks?

(Or) for a great search of Reuben’s heart?

17: He permanently settled in Gilead (memorial cairn) in a crossover of the Jordan (descenders).

And Dan (judge) – for what does he turn aside to stay on boats?

And Asher (happy) permanently settled on the sea shore and permanently settles in his harbours.

18:  People of Zebulun stripped their souls to death

And Naphthali (was wrestled) on exalted field.

19: Kings came and were then fought, fought by the kings of Canaan (humble) in Tanach by the waters of Megiddo. They did not carry away spoils of silver.

20: From the heavens the stars were fought in their orbits,

they were fought against Sisera.

21: Kishon (winding) stream swept them away,

a stream from befores,

Kishon stream.

My soul marches on in strength.

22: Then horse hooves pounded – a gallop.

A gallop of His steeds.

23: Curse Meroz (?Cedar place) said Yehoweh’s Messenger, cursingly curse its permanent residents. For they did not come to Yehoweh’s aid,

To Yehoweh’s aid against the mighty.

24: Jael, Heber the Kenite’s lady, blessed is she among women,

Among women in tents blessed is she. 

25: He asked for water

She gave him milk in a bowl,

She put  excellent curd next to him.

26: Her hand to a nail

Her right hand stretched out  to a  workmens’ hammer

And she pounded Sisera, smashed his head, she pierced and went through his temple,

27: Between her feet he knelt, he lay, Between her feet he knelt, he lay,

And where he knelt, he fell devastated.

28: Sisera’s mother looked out of the window and keened, through the lattice.

“what is known of why his chariot is ashamed to come?

What is known of why the sound of his chariot is delayed?”

29: Her wise noblewomen answer her, “indeed”. 

She makes her answer turn back to her,

30: Do they not find and divide spoil?

A womb, wombs per mighty one’s head.

Plunder of dyed garments for Sisera

Plunder of dyed embroidery, embroidered dyed garments,

Spoil on the neck.

31: So destroy all Your enemies, Yehoweh!

And like the sun breaks forth in might, (are) those who love You.

And the land was quiet for forty years.

Phew!

Prayer: Lord, your battles are fought not only by some warrior tribes ordained to do so, but fought – and won – by volunteers, by publishers and statisticians, by unbelieving brave and strong leaders – including women who were familiar with work tools who come – unbelievable as it sounds – to Your aid! Wow!

1: Yehoweh’s Messenger ascends from the Stone circle (ha Gilgal) to the Sobbing (Ha bokkim).  Phew!

And He says, “ I caused to ascend from Egypt and I caused to traverse to the land which I had been sworn to to your fathers.”

And I say, “ No cause to dissolve My Covenant with you forever.  

2: And all of Yous: No cutting a covenant with the permanent residents of this, The land – Their altars you cast down.”

And you had not listened to My Voice!

What is this you had done!

3: And then I said, “ No expatriation of them from (in front of) your face.  They were being (haya) on your sides and their gods are (haya) a bait-hook to you.

4: And so it happens that these Yehoweh’s Messenger’s  emphatic spoken words are to the sons of Israel. 

And the people raise their voices and weep (va-yi-bukku). 

5: And they call the name of that place (Bokkim). 

And they sacrifice there to Yehoweh. Phew!

6: And Joshua sends forth the people. And the sons of Israel walk forth to their inheritance to possess / dispossess The Land.

7: And the people serve Yehoweh all of Joshua’s days and all the days of the elders who had  longer days after Joshua, who had seen all of Yehoweh’s great work which He had done for Israel.

8: And Joshua son of Nun (sapling propogation), Yehoweh’s servant,  dies  – a son of a hundred and ten years.

9:  And they bury (‘Cover’) him within the territory of his inheritance – at Timna (mana- portion) Keres (itchy sunburn) – in Ephraim’s north (Tsafon) mountain  – on Mount Gaash (Quake). 

10: And then all that generation are gathered to their fathers.

And another generation takes a stand after them who did not discern / acknowledge Yehoweh and also the work He had done for Israel.

Pause  and think about that!

11: And the sons of Israel create The Bad / Trouble / Evil in Yehoweh’s eyes and serve The lords.

12:  And they forsake Yehoweh, God of their fathers, The One Who made them traverse out of the land of Egypt.

And they walk after other gods, others from the gods of the people who surrounded them and they make themselves bow themselves and they make Yehoweh angered.

13: And they forsake Yehoweh and they serve a lord and richness (Ashtaroths). 

14: And Yehoweh’s nostrils burned (anger kindle) against Israel.  And He gave them to the plunderers’ hand and they plundered them. 

And He sold them to their encircling  enemies.

And they could not stand (up) to their enemies’ face  any longer.

15:  Everywhere they went Yehoweh’s hand happened to be against them for Bad / Trouble / Evil (Ra’ah) which was as  Yehoweh had said and which was as Yehoweh had sworn to them.

And they are greatly constrained.

16:  And Yehoweh caused Judges to stand up and they caused them to be saved from the plunderers’ hand. 

17: And again they did not listen to their judges and prostituted behind other gods, making themselves bow themselves down to others, hastily turned aside from the way which their fathers had walked for they had not committed to discerning Yehoweh’s commandments.

18: And if Yehoweh caused Judges to be raised up for them and it happened that Yehoweh was with the judge and caused them to be saved from the hand of their enemies for all the days of the judge- for Yehoweh was sorry for their groans in front of their oppressor and their dispellers,

19: But when the judge happened to die, they turn back and they caused more ruin than their fathers by walking after other gods, to serve them and to make themselves bow themselves to them and did not put down what they were doing and their hard ways. 

20: And Yehoweh’s nostrils burn (anger kindles) against Israel and He says, “Because of what this unbelieving nation had crossed over in My Covenant which I had appointed to their fathers and not discerned My Voice,

21: I also will not cause an increased dispossessing of a man before them from the unbelieving nations when Joshua died and had left

22:  in order that I test Israel through them – they who discern The Way of Yehoweh, walking in them as their fathers had watched or not.”

23: And Yehoweh caused these nations to be let alone. These were not hastily cast out and were not given into Joshua’s hand. Phew!

Prayer:

What a tragedy that every generation keeps forgetting You and worshipping other lords and gods and riches. And so when Israel is persecuted or the church is persecuted, when we always have enemies around us, we wonder why You haven’t saved us from them. Send us a Judge, we pray. Soften our nation’s heart, the persecuted church’s heart to repent, we pray.  Amen.

Ratsak – Murder

No murder – pause and think about that.

(One of the 10 commandments in Exo 20:13, Deut 5: 17).

Intention to murder with a sentence of death  is defined as

1. Cause to strike (Nakah) with an iron, stone, wood which could kill (Num 35: 16-18)
2. Pushing or lying in wait (Deut 19: 11) and cause to hurl something with hatred at the person (Num 35: 20, Deut 19: 18)
3. Cause to strike with hand in enemity (Num 35: 21)

 

Cities of refuge were instructed for those who causes murder unintentionally (manslaughter) Num 35:15.

Unintentional murder with a sentence of life (life of the Anointed high priest who sentenced him – not the accused!  (Num 35: 25) in a refuge city is defined as:

1. Instantaneous, without enemity pushing  (Num 35: 22a, Deut 4: 42, 19:4, Josh 20:5– past hatred also)
2. Throwing without lying in wait (Num 35: 22b)
3. Causing to throw a stone instrument without seeing the  person (Num 35: 23a)
4. And without him being an enemy (Num 35: 23b)
5. And without seeking trouble / evil on him (Num 35: 23c)
6. Without knowing (Deut 4: 42, 19:4, Josh 20:5)
7. Work place accident (axe head slips off and kills neighbour)

Other words for killing:  

Karag (slay) and naka (strike) both appear together in  Gen 4:15, kalal (slay by piercing) and naka in Judg 20:39, thus indicating that naka does not mean either kill or murder on their own.

Muth (Strong’s 4191) is used 897  times – most often with death happening as a result of natural process or disobeying God except the Hifil –hamit –  cause to die – around 62 times in variant suffixes.

Amalekites attacked Israel at Rephidim and were defeated as folk held Moses’ arms up. God said He would wipe out their memory from under the skies and there would be war between them in every generation (Ex 17:15,19).  They attacked the feeble and stragglers and so their memory was wiped out (Deut 25:17-19).  

Saul was specifically asked to strike (Hifil of naka), flatten nose (Hifil of karam) and not have pity (kamal) on Amalek but cause death (Hifil of muth – die) from man to woman, infant to child, ox to sheep, camel to donkey (1Sam 15:3).  

So, nit-picky as it may seem, God is careful in His Instructions to Saul: not murder, not killing but striking and flattening nose and thus giving cause to die (as the wage of sin?).

 

Prayer:

Lord, distanced as we are from violent death, help us understand Your Instructions to Saul in order to defend Your Name when critics call you a god of Amalekite infant-killing.  Amen.  

PS Incidentally Saul was rejected as king by God because he disobediently kept the spoils of war –  sheep, oxen and lambs (1 Sam 15:19).  Samuel says he was obedient in karam-ing (nose flattening) the Amalekites (1 Sam 15:18). 

1: Happy the man who

had not walked in the plans of the wilfully troublesome and

had not stood in the paths of those who miss-the-mark sin,

had not settled for the assembly of the scornful.

2: For if* his pleasure (kafetzo) ( is) in Yehoweh’s instruction manual (Torah) and

 in His instruction manual he mutters/meditates  day and night,

3: and he became like a tree transplanted on an irrigation channel of water

who gives fruit at its time and

its leaf does not fall and

all which he does makes a profit.

4: Not so the wicked ones.

For if * like a husk (kamotz) which the wind (Spirit) tosses off.

5: Over then to the wicked ones:

They do not rise up to

mishfat (shafat is sentencing/making laws)

and the miss-the-mark sinful ones (do not rise up to)

the council of the Righteous ones. 

6: For discerning Yehoweh (is) the righteous ones’ Way (Jn 14:6 I am The Way).

And the wicked ones’ way perishes.

Prayer:

Lord, my Way, I walk in You, happy, running a profit. I steer clear of the wilfully rebellious and shoddy, inaccurate folk. You’ve transplanted me to a fruitful, irrigated, evergreen garden.

On the other hand, You do not let the wicked ones sentence us in court or council – they are not going to last. Husks of themselves. The Holy Spirit-Wind blows them away.   

Amen.  

PS Italics are my comments

1: To David’s choir director for an instrumental:

You have investigated** me.

And You know me.

2: You knew my resting place (permanent address).

And my rising up (principles I stand for).

You discerned my (pasturing) thought* from the past (old or deep memory).

3: You disrupted (piel of dispense) with my well-trodden paths (habits) and my sleeping.

And You made (yourself) familiar with all  my ways.

4:  For there is not an utterance /matter on my tongue – Behold! Yehoweh, You know it all together!

5: Behind/before and in front/east/future, You have beseiged me and You cup your palm over me.

6: This is (too) incomprehensible, elevated knowledge for me to be able to (get) it.  

7: Where can I walk from Your Spirit?

And where can I flee from Your Face?

8: If I ascend into a heaven/sky, there You are!

If I cause my bed to be made in a Sheol (an underworld), behold You!

9: If I lift up wings (on a) morning and and lodge at the other end of a sea (eg fly and stay in an overseas hotel)

10: Even there Your hand causes me to be led, Your right hand grips me.

11: And I say, “Surely darkness overwhelms me”.

And night (is) light for my sake / about me.

12: Indeed darkness is not caused to be dark from You. 

And night is caused to shine like day. 

Like darkness, Like light.

13: For You had purchased my kidney / mind/ emotion.

You overshadow me in my mother’s womb.

14: I cause praise Over You.

Reverentially I was distinguished. Your work is to distinguish and my soul is to know that very well.

15: My frame was not concealed when I was fashioned, embroidered in the nether land.

16: You saw my embryo with your eyes and in your  book is written not ONE of them (but) ALL the days –– fashioned for me. 

17: And to me how precious is Your god(ly) (pasturing) thought*. How ossified (bony strong) they are – they (are) principled (primary, leading, first).  

18: I count them – they are greater than sand!

I caused to startle-awake and I am still with You.

19: O God, if you kill wickedness, then turn away a bloody man from me

20: who speaks machinations of You, vainly lifting up Your adversaries.

21: Do I not hate Your haters, Yehoweh?

Do I not make myself disgusted by those who stand up against You?

22: I hated them with complete hatred.

They became my enemies.  

23: Investigate** me, god and know my heart.

Examine me and know my anxieties

24: and see if there is an idolatrous path in me

And lead me in an everlasting path.  

 

Prayer: O Great Physician, You confirm my address, take my history – including  my developmental and psychological and psychiatric  issues – and examine me externally –  and internally scope me shining a light under anaesthesia. You stay with me as I wake up. You make a unique diagnosis and I accept Your reverential recommendations and avoid supporters of your adversaries. Your disgusting and vain adversaries are my adversaries. And unlike a doctors appointment, there is no time limit and I don’t have to leave. My Doctor is also my Pastor. You lead me forever! 

1: For David

To Yehoweh – Bless my soul.

To His Holy  Name – all around me.

 2: To Yehoweh – Bless my soul.

And do not mislay His rewards.

3: The Forgiver of your futile-sins

The Healer of your  chronic disease.

4: The Redeemer of your life-prison (life sentence).

The Investiturer / crowner of kindness and rakham- mercy. 

5: The Satiater of good finery (taste).

He makes Himself repair your youth like an eagle’s.

6: The Yehoweh Justice Maker for all judgements for the defrauded.

7: He causes to make known His Ways to Moses

and His Acts to the sons of Israel.

8: Kind and Rakham-meecy Yehoweh, even-tempered (long nostril) and great mercy.

9: No exaggerations (emphasis) in his contending,

No begrudging forever.

10: He did not do us in for our missing-the-mark sins (Khatha),

And he did not repay us for our futile-sins (Aven). 

11: For as exalted as the heavens are above the earth,

so mighty is His Mercy over those who fear Him.

12: As far as the sunrise (east = mi- zarak) is from the sunset (mi- erev – west),

So He caused our rebellious- sin (psha) to be distanced / receeded from us.

13: As  a father Rakham (womb)-mercies his children, so Yehoweh Rakham-mercies over His fearful.

14:  For He knew our form,

Rememberer that we are dust. 

15: A man is like grass, his days like a blossoming flower of the field. Thus he blossoms.

16: For a wind passed over it,  and no one is there.

And noone in their place causes (him) to be recognized anymore. 

17: But Yehoweh’s kindness is from forever and to forever over His fearful and His Righteousness to His children’s children,

18:  to keepers of His Covenant, to rememberer of his appointments-to-hold-to-account, to do-ers of them.

19: In the heavens, Yehoweh caused to establish His throne and His Kingdom dominated over all.

20: Bless Yehoweh, His mighty strong messengers, do-ers of His speech, to discern a voice in His speech.

21: Bless Yehoweh, all His Parliaments, His servers, do-ers of His pleasure. 

22: Bless Yehoweh all His works in all places of His kingdom

Bless Yehoweh, my soul

Prayer: On Simchat Torah, the joy of Your Instruction Manual, You explain how, though we see our Khatha, Aven and Psha through the Torah, we bless You joyfully because You know that though we fear You, we are frail and You do not do us in for missing the mark, You do not repay us for futile sinful less and You distance our rebellious sins from us as far as the east is from the west! Hallelujah!

1: These are the decrees and the judgements which you watch over to do in occupied land (f) which Yehoweh, God of your fathers, gave you for all the days that you have life on the soil(f).

2: Destroying destroy all the places (m) where unbelieving nations served – there (m), where you,  you destroyers of their gods on their high mountains and hills and under every luxuriant tree.

3: You had flattened their memorials and you burnt their creative images with fire.

And you break their reverential statues into pieces and their (famous) names are eliminated from that place. 

4: You are not to do this for Yehoweh your God.

5: For if there is a place(m) which Yehoweh your God chooses for all the tribes to establish His Name there for His dwelling, you find it (m) and come there (f). 

6: And you cause to traverse there(f), your burnt offerings, your slaughter-sacrifices and from your tenths, your gifts from your hands and your vows, and your spontaneous free-will volunteering, and the firstborn of your herd and flock.

7: And you ate there(m) in Yehoweh your God’s face. And you cheered up there in all the export of your hand, you and your houses, which Yehoweh your God had you blessed (with).

8: Don’t do like all which we are doing here on the day, every man straight in his own eyes.

9: For you have not as yet traversed the rest  and the inheritance which Yehoweh your God is giving to you.

10: And when you had crossed over the Jordan (Descender) in the land which Yehoweh your God is causing you to inherit and had caused rest for you from all your surrounding enemies and caused you to permanently reside in safety.

11: And there happened the place where Yehoweh your God chooses to dwell in – His Name is there. There (f) you cause to traverse all that I commanded you, your burnt offerings, your slaughter-sacrifices and from your tenths, your gifts from your hands and all your best vows which you vow to Yehoweh. 

12: And you rejoiced in Yehoweh’s Face, you, your sons, your daughters, your servants, your Ammahs (maids) and the Levites who is at your gates (for he has no allotment or inheritance with you).

13: Be watched (make yourself accountable) to you that you cause to raise up your burnt offering in every place  which you see.

14: So if a place in which Yehoweh chooses is there in one tribe’s (place), raise up your burnt offering.  And there you shall do all which I command you.

15: However, in each meat of your soul’s desire you sacrifice and eat like Yehoweh your God’s blessing which He had given to you in each of your gates, he eats the impure and the pure, like gazelle and like deer.

16: Only don’t eat the blood. Shed it over the earth like water. (Acts 15:29)

17: Don’t eating eat of the tenth of your grain and your fresh wine and your anointing oil and the firstborn of your herd and flock and the vows you vow, and your freewill offering and the gifts of your hands within your gates.

18: For you eat them before Yehoweh your God’s face in the place which Yehoweh your God chooses – you, your sons, your daughters, your servants, your Ammahs (maids) and the Levites who is at your gates.

And you rejoiced in  Yehoweh your God’s face – in each presentation of your hand.

19:  Be watched (make yourself accountable) to you that you let off the Levite on the days on your soil (field).

Pause and think about that!

20:  When Yehoweh your God extends your boundary as He had spoken to you, (addition of the Gentiles), and you said, “ I eat meat”. If your soul desires to eat meat, You eat all the meat your soul desires.

21: If the place where Yehoweh your God chooses to establish His Name is too far, and you sacrificed of your herd and of your flock which Yehoweh gave you, as I commanded you, you eat within your gates to all your soul’s desire. 

22: Indeed, just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so eat them – the unclean and the clean – they eat them as one. (Peter’s dream for Cornelius Acts 10:1-48)

23: But emphatically eat except the blood.

For the blood is the soul. And you don’t eat the soul with the meat.

24: Don’t eat it. Shed it over the earth like water.

25: Don’t  eat it so that it is good

 for you and for your children after you

– if you do what is straight in Yehoweh’s eyes. 

26: Only go up with your separated/holy which you have and take your vows in the place where Yehoweh you God chooses.

27: And make the meat and the blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of Yehoweh your God. And let the blood of your sacrifice be poured out on the altar of Yehoweh your God and you eat the meat.

28: Watch watchingly over all these words which I have commanded you

 in order that it goes well with you and your children after you for ever

if what you do is the good and the straight in Yehoweh your God’s eyes.

Pause and think about that!

29: If Yehoweh your God covenant-cuts the unbelieving nations where you traverse – to disposess them in your face and occupy them and dwell in their land

30: Be watched (make yourself accountable) to you that you are not ensnared after them after they are destroyed in from of you and that you seek after their gods to say “ How did these nations serve their gods ? So I also will make that. “

31: Then don’t make for every abomination to Yehoweh your God which He hated.

For even their sons they made and their daughters they burnt in a fire to their gods.

32: For every Word which I commanded to you, you watch and you do.

Do not cause to be added to it.

And do not deduct from it. (Rev 22:18).

Phew!

Prayer:

Your prophetic Instruction Manual! From the start, Your Plan was always that gentile would join jew in Your Family. Lord you gave us the flexible principles of Your Instructions on eating when that would happen. Forgive us that we, like Peter, only saw rigidity and used that rigidity to build a fence. Meanwhile  You were extending our boundary!. May we be accountable to ourselves to keep Your Portion of what we eat as a holy communion in Your Place but may we eat meat to our soul’s desire in our homes always remembering to say,  Thank YOU Yehoweh our God.  

 

PS Blood is the soul

PPS no adding or subtraction g from The Word – every jot and tittle counts.  

1: To David’s music director

I took refuge in Yehoweh.

How can you say to my soul, “Little-hopping-bird, Flutter away off to your mountain?”

2: For behold the wicked bend the bow, direct the arrow on the bowstring in the gloom to shoot the heart of the straight*. 

3: What did He do if the foundations of the righteous are being torn down?

4: Yehoweh in His holy temple,

Yehoweh on His throne in the heavens,

His Eyes gaze, His Eyelashes test sons of man.

5. Righteous Yehoweh tests.

He hates the soul of a wicked one who loves violence (Hamas).

6: He causes spring-loaded -snares, fire, to rain on the wicked.

And sulphur and a boiling wind of rage is the serving in their cup. 

7: For righteous Yehoweh loves righteousness.

The straight* gaze on His Face.  

Prayer:

You gaze at men up close, eyelash-to-eyelash,  to test their straightness.  The straight gaze back at You. You hate those who love violence and serve out sulphurous rage into the cups of tbe wicked, pelting fire down if the foundations of righteous are torn down, if arrows are trained on the straight hearted. Gosh, this is all too dangerous! I’m taking refuge in You, my Mountain!

1: To a music director – a poetic (mizmor from zamar – skilfully plucking for pruning and instruments) song to Jeduthun (praise), to David, saying,

I keep watch on my ways from missing-the-mark sin.

I keep watch on my tongue – with a muzzle on my mouth when wrongness is around.

2: I was muted**.

Silence (fem*).

I caused stillness in good and grief was troubled.

3: My heart was inflamed to my core. With a groan, she* (silence) burns in the fire. (So) I spoke with my tongue.

4: (And) Yehoweh cause me to know my limit and measure my days.

Why her* (silence) ? That I know how forsaken am I.

5: Behold, You gave me a palm-breadth of days and my lifespan is like nothing opposite You – it’s almost certainly vanity  (even if) all man is  stood up.

Stop and think about that!

6: A man is certainly like a shadow making itself walk about.

They certainly clamour about in vain.

He heaps up and does not know who will gather up to remove.

7: And now, Lord, what did I wait for?

It’s my hope – in You.

8: From all my rebellious-sin, cause to snatch me.   

Don’t set me up for foolish public disgrace.

 9: I was muted**.

I do not open my mouth for You have done it.

10: Cause Your infection to be despatched from me with a blow of Your Hand (for) I was finished off. 

11: You corrected a man with rebukes over futile-sin and he was caused to melt. Every man’s attractiveness, like a moth, is vanity.

Stop and think about that!

12: Hear my Intercession, Yehoweh and incline Your Ear to  my cry for help. Don’t be silent over my tears. For I am a stranger and a foreign resident with You as all my fathers.

13: Make Your Eyes turn from me and I make myself composed  (presentable) before I walk off as a nobody.  

Prayer:

Lord every time  I open my mouth to defend good or disclaim bad, let me remember that I’m trying to be like a shadow making itself walk! It’s sinful rebellion against you to think that we can fight Your fight with our words. Public disgrace. A puff and we are gone as Charlie Kirk’s assassination reminds us. Forgive our foolish ways! Let me hope in Your Word – not my words.. Not lording it over others, willing to be a nobody. A slave of all (Mark 10:42-45). 

1: It happens that Yehoweh’s teaching-word (dabar) comes to Jeremiah a second time while he was yet detained in a prison cell of the court saying

2: So said Making-Yehoweh, Fashioning-Yehoweh, The-One-Who-causes-to-establish Yehoweh-is-His-Name,

3: Cry out to Me and I will respond to you and make conspicuous to you greats and inaccessibles which you did not know.

Stop and think about that!

4: For so says Yehoweh, God of Israel (masc), over the houses of this the city (fem)* and over the houses of the kings of Judah (masc), the ones demolished towards the seige runways and toward the sword, (?air force and army),

5: Coming (conscripted) to be consumed with the Kashdim (Chaldeans are mostly the non-Iranian middle east), to their fill of corpses of the humans whom I had caused to slay in My temper and in My Hot Anger and from whom I had caused My Face to hide, in this the city over all it’s trouble,

6: behold, I (am to) fill it with restoration and healing.

I healed them.

I exposed an abundance of peace and truth to them. 

7: And I caused the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to be turned back and constructed as at first.

8: And I cleansed them then from all their futile sin which they missed the mark -sinned to Me.

And I forgave them in all their futile-sins which they missed the mark -sinned to Me and which (they) rebel-sinned against Me. 

9: And she* was to Me a name

for Sassoon – cheerfulness,

for Hallel-praise and

for Paereth-beautiful brave

before all the unbelieving nations of the land who hear of all the good which I am doing to them.

They feared and raged over all the  goodness and over all the shalom-completeness which I made for her.

Stop and think  about that!

10: Thus said Yehoweh, “Again is heard in this place of which was said

 ‘Kharab’ (desolate waste), it is without even a man and without even an animal in cities of Judah and in streets of Jerusalem;

‘HaN – Shamoth’ (plural of Shamen – appalling) without even a man and without even a resident and without even an animal;

11: A voice of cheerfulness

A voice of joy

A voice of a Bridegroom and

A voice of a perfect-daughter-in-law

A voice of

those saying

“Cause to praise The Yehoweh of Parliaments.

For Yehoweh is good all the time

For His Mercy causes to bring in praise to Yehoweh’s house.” 

For I cause a prisoner (shavooth / hostage) of the land to turn back (from shoov) like the first time says Yehoweh.

Stop and think  about that!

12: Thus said Yehoweh of Parliaments again, in this place, this The Kharab, without even a man, without even an animal,and in all it’s cities,  a sheep- pen of the shepherds for flocks to lie-down-to-rest.

13: In the mountain cities

In the lowland cities

In the dry land (Negev) cities,

And in Benjamin’s land in Jerusalem’s surroundings,

And in Judah’s cities,

The flock cross over the hands of enumerators again (conversions and  membership in churches?), says Yehoweh.

 Stop and think  about that!

14: Behold! Coming days of Word Yehoweh!

I will cause to establish the good case which I promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

15:  In those days and at that time I cause a righteous sprout of David to sprout. He made justice and righteousness on earth.

16:  In those days Judah is saved and Jerusalem (fem) dwells confidently.

And this what He calls out to her: “Yehoweh our righteousness”. 

 Stop and think  about that!

17: For thus says Yehoweh, ‘An Uncovenant-cut man of David sitting on the throne of the house of Israel,

18: And the priests and the Levites are not covenant-cut in front of Me to cause burnt offerings to be lifted up and to cause grain offerings to be burnt and to make sacrifices on all the days. 

Stop and think  about that!

19: And it happens that Yehoweh’s teaching-word (dabar) to Jeremiah is to say,

20: Thus says the Lord, “If you can break-off the day covenant and the night covenant and there is no day and night at their time,

21: also My Covenant with David my servant causes to be broken up from him having a son to reign on his throne,

And for the priests and Levites to minister to Me.

22: Whereas The Heavenly Parliament cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured,

Thereunto I cause the seed of David My servant to be enlarged and of the Levites who minister to Me. 

Stop and think  about that!

23: And it happens that Yehoweh’s teaching-word (dabar) to Jeremiah is to say,

24: Have you not seen what this people have spoken to say, two families into which Yehoweh had chosen, He abhors.  They blaspheme to my people, “there happens to be no nation before them anymore” ( replacement theology?).  

Stop and think  about that!

25: Thus says Yehoweh, If my covenant for day and night, statutes of heaven and earth are not ordained,

26: then I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant.

27: In taking of his seed as rulers of the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  

For I cause a prisoner (shavooth / hostage) of the land to turn back (from shoov)  and I have mercy (rakam) on them. 

 Stop and think  about that!

Prayer:

Our hearts jump for joy when we hear that despite our wicked ways, your punishment notwithstanding, your covenants stand. All your people are covenanted as long as day and night are covenanted! What a reassurance that You have mercy on those who repent! Come to rule Son of David!

Amen. 

1: To the music director – a poetic (mizmor from zamar – skilfully plucking for pruning and instruments) song for stringed instruments.

God is merciful to us

And He blesses us – makes His face to enlighten upon us.

Stop and think about that!

2: To know Your way on earth.

In all unbelieving nations – Your Yshua.

3: Peoples make praise (throw, acknowledge) for You, God.

All peoples make praise for You.

4: They are glad and they sing for joy for the people groups.

For You judge people groups on a level playing field

and You cause the people groups in the land to be led.

Stop and think about that!

5: Peoples make praise (throw, acknowledge) for You, God.

All peoples make praise for You.

6: A land gave wealth

and God, our God, He blesses us.

7: God, He blesses us and all ends of land, they fear Him.

Prayer:

Thank You God for blessing us which is

• You lighting up Your Face on us,
• You making unbelieving nations know Your Way,
• all people and people groups praising You and
• You judging them evenly and leading them and
• land yielding wealth and land’s ends fearing of Him.

Amen.

1: Yehoweh, my Light and my Jesus – whom do I fear?

Yehoweh, my life’s stronghold – what do I dread?

2: From those making evil approaching me? 

From the flesh-gobbling enemies who are being hostile to me?

Them? They stumbled and fell!

3:  Though an encampment encamps around me, My heart does not fear.

Though a war arises over me,

in this I am confident,

4: the one thing I begged of Yehoweh

that very thing I demanded:

 

To dwell in the house of Yehoweh,

To behold thebeauty of Yehoweh all of the days of my life,

And To do research in His palace.

 

5: For He hides me in His Sukkoth (hut, covering, pavilion, tabernacle) on a troublesome-evil day.

He causes me to be hid in a secret tent on Rock – He lifts me up.

6: And thus He raises my head above my surrounding enemies

And in His Tent I sacrifice –  sacrifices of Thruah (trumpets and shouts of joy).  

I sing and I make (instrumental) music to Yehoweh:

7: Hear Yehoweh – my voice cries out –

And have mercy on me Vey chanaeni

And answer me Vey anaeyni

8: My heart said to you

My face desirously seeks Your face

9: Don’t make your face to hide from me.

Don’t turn away in a temper (nostril) from your servant.

You have been my help.

Dont you leave me

Dont you forsake me

My God, My Jesus.

10: When my father and my mother departed from me

And Yehoweh gathers me up to take me away.

11: Yehoweh, cause me to aim towards Your Way –

because there are my treacherous onlookers –

guide me to an upright (level) path.

12: Don’t give me to narrow minded souls when they stood up as false witnesses against me and breathers of violence.

13: Will I not have confirmed (made Amen-ed) to see the goodness of God in the land of the living?

14: Wait on Yehoweh

Be courageous – He strengthens your heart.

And wait on Yehoweh.

 

Prayer:

This land of the dying is not mine! When I demanded to be with You and You promised to take me way to the Secret Place, to Jesus The Rock, to The Sukkoth, as you did our fathers and mothers, You did so through the sacrifice of Thruah – trumpetting Joy – Your upcoming autumn festivals of Trumpets and Sukkoth remind me to wait in good cheer for Your Goodness.  Even if body and soul hasn’t died yet, my spirit – my voice, my face, my heart – is raptured in the land of the living already!

 

PS

1. Jer 29:11 tikvah (hope) is based on Kaveh (wait)
2. This Psalm’s Chiastic pattern becomes clear when written in a circle

1: David’s recommendation prayer when being in a tomb:

A supplication – my voice shrieks out to Yehoweh, my voice makes Yehoweh show me favour.

2: I pour out my complaint to His Face

I emphasize my trouble to His Face.

3: When my spirit causes me to cover up / shroud myself and You knew my preferred track/lane in the path wherein I walk where they concealed a spring loaded snare for me.

4: Scan to the right and see! There is no one who causes to notice me. Flight destroyed for me. No one sought my soul.

5: Yehoweh, I shrieked out to You.

I said , “you are my refuge in a land of the living(s).

6: Cause Your ears to prick up to my joyful shout for I was greatly depressed.

Cause to snatch me away from pursuers for they are more obstinate than I.

7: Cause my soul to break out of prison so I cause my hands to be lifting up in praise to Your Name, righteous ones surround me for You made a good deal over me.

 Prayer: Lord if I get frightened when my soul is dying and my spirit is being raised to be in front of You in the land of the living, hear my cry and snatch me up from strange pursuers, unentangle me from my prison ropes. May I be surrounded by the righteous in the land of the living and raise my hands in praise to You. Amen.

Related notes about what happens when we die from 1 Cor 15:

If you don’t like going to sleep (keimai 18), you wont like dying.

If you don’t like being woken up with an alarm, you wont like resurrection (ana+histemi – stand up again, egeira – wake up).

I Cor 15 also concurs with Ps 116 in the pictures of a trumpet waking up those resting in sleep.

Jesus awoke on the third day and appeared to Kepha and the 12 (so Judas was still around or is it a different 12 not including Kepha) and then 500 (vv a5-8).

 Jesus wakes up / is raised up  (egeira) but we are resurrected / stood up again (anastasia – ana + histemi) (vv 20-21).

The anastasia is when we are sown and the seed dies (happens at our dying) and a new body breaks forth:

Sown in decay (fthora), raised in immortality (afthora) (v43,53)

Sown in dishonour (atimia), raised in glory (doxe)

Sown in weakness (asthenia), raised in power (dynamei) (v43)

Sown in a soul (psyche) body, raised in a spirit (pnema) body (v44)

The mortal (thanatos – death) sinks into (en+dunay) immortality (a+thanatos) (v53)

like the first Adam who was a living soul (from roots psyche + zoe)

The last (eschatos) Adam is made into a living spirit (from roots pneuma + zoe + poieio – to make) (v45)

The first man was from earth’s dust (from ges, koos),

the Second Man was from heaven (ouranu) (v47)

And as we bear the image (icon) of the dust (koos)

We will bear the image of the heaven (epi +ouranos) (v49).

 

Mysteriously not everyone sleeps (keimai) though.

But all are changed (allo) (v51).

In an instant / indivisible (a (not) + tomos (divisible) = atomos)

At The blink /glance/jerk (ripto from rapido) of an eye

At the last (eschato) trumpet (salpingi) (v52 – is this a single trumpet for all or one for every person?)

Isaiah 57

1: The righteous perished and no man took it / set it up to heart.

And merciful men are gathered to be taken away and no one takes into consideration (Hifil of discerns) that the righteous are gathered to be taken away from the face of The trouble (H’ Ra).

2: He enters wholeness.

The straightforward (N’kokho from Nokha) walkers settle down to rest (y’nukhu from Noah) in their beds.

1: Who gives (makes) my head water (swim)?

And my eyes a fountain of tears

And I weep day and night for the pierced daughter of my people.

2: Who gives me a traveller’s inn in the wilderness?

And I forsake my people and walk (away) from them

for they are all adulterers and a treacherous assembly (church).

3: And they make their tongues strung as bows – for a lie.

And truth they did not strenghten in the land (eretz).

For they extracted / pulled out trouble from trouble (Ra).

And they did not discern Me – Word Yehoweh!

Stop and think about that!

4: A man is listened to by his neighbour and does not trust any brother for any brother supplantingly supplants (jacobs) and every neighbour walks with slander.

5: And a man makes fun of his neighbour and he does not speak truth. They taught their tongues to speak lies. They were exhausted by futile sin (Aven).

6: Your permanent residence is in the middle of deceit.  In deceit they refused to be acquainted with me, Word Yehoweh. .

Pause and think about that!

7: So thus says Yehoweh of Parliaments, refining and testing. For what shall I make of the face of a daughter of my people?

8: Their Slaughtering-arrow tongues spoke deceit. He exclaims peace with his mouth to his neighbour and deep within he sets up an ambush.

9: For these things, shall I, Word Yehoweh,

not appoint them, an unbelieving nation such as this, call them to account?

not make my soul avenge myself of her?

10: On the mountains I raise up a weep and a wail.  

And on the wilderness pastures, a dirge.

For they are burnt up. Without anyone crossing over. And no voice heard. Possessions, birds of the heavens and the cattle fled – walked!

11: And I gave Jerusalem to a rubble heap, a monster house.

And I give Judah’s cities to waste – without an inhabitant.

Pause and think!

12: Who is the wise man who understands this, who speaks to Yehoweh’s mouth?

And makes a declaration of why the land was destroyed and burnt like a wilderness and noone crossing over?

13: And Yehoweh says – on forsaking my instructions which I gave to their faces and have not heard my voice and not walked in it.

14: And they walk after stubbornness of their hearts, and after the masters (baals) who taught their fathers.

Pause and think!

15: And so, thus said Yehoweh of Parliaments, Israel’s God, “Behold I cause the people the eating of this with bitterness and caused them to drink polluted water.

16: And I scattered them among Gentiles whom they knew not – they and their fathers. And I sent a sword after them until I finished them off.”

Phew!

17:  Thus said Yehoweh of Parliaments, “Make yourselves discern and cry out for lamentresses – and they come.  And send  for wise women – and they come.”

18: And they hasten and raise up a wail for us.

And they bring down tears from our eyes, and our eyelashes stream water. 

19: For a cry, a wail was heard from Zion:

How we are ravaged (Shuddad)!

Greatly ashamed are we!

For we departed a land,

for we were made to be cast out of our homes!

Pause and think

20: For hear, women, Yehoweh’s speech and take the speech of His mouth to your ears and teach your daughters a wail, and a woman her neighbour a dirge.

21: For death ascended (aliyah) through our windows, traversed our fortresses, to cut (as in a covenant) a child outside, young men in the squares.

22: Speak this, Word Yehoweh, and the corpses of man fell as dung on the face of the field, and like the sheaves after the harvester. And not a gatherer (to remove them – asaph).  

Pause and think!

23: And Yehoweh said,

“(Let) no wise man make himself praise (hallel) himself in his wisdom

And (let) no great man make himself praise (hallel) himself in his greatness

And (let) no rich man make himself praise (hallel) himself in his riches.  

24: For if in this he makes himself praise himself, (let) him make himself praise himself that he made a success and knows Me –

that I am Yehoweh, making loving kindness, justice and righteousness on earth for in these I, Word Yehoweh, have been delighted.”

Pause and think!

25:  Behold in coming days, I, Word Yehoweh, appointed to hold to account all circumcised with foreskins –

26: over Egypt and over Judah and over Edom and over sons of Ammon and over Moab and over all dwellers in cut off corners of the wilderness.

For all the foreskinned unbelieving nations and all the house of Israel (are) heart foreskinned.  

Pause and think!

Prayer: Circumcize my heart O Word of God, Yshua, that I may glory in Yehoweh, maker of loving kindness, justice and righteousness on earth even if all the believing and unbelieving exiled nations and churches are treacherous, uncircumcised, rebellious liars who learnt from their fathers’ Masters, rather than You. For Jesus, Word of God, You come to appoint to hold us all to account. Amen.  

(This is a reading for Tisha b’av (August 3, 2025) – the day when both temples were destroyed – a cautionary tale from Jews for today’s apostate church) 

1: To the chief musician – for flutes. A David melody.

To my words cause to give the ear Yehoweh.

Discern my groaning (pleasure, anger, musings, predominating thoughts).

2: Cause to pay attention to my distress cry (SOS), my King and my God.

For to You I will make myself pray myself.

3: Yehoweh in the morning You hear my voice

In the morning I line up and peer for you at the viewpoint.

4: For not a lawlessness (rasha)-favouring God are You,

nor does trouble (ra’a)  sojourn with You.

5: The hollerers (hallel) do not make themselves present themselves in Your eyes. You hate workers of futile sin(Aven).

6: You annihilate lie-speakers, a bloody deceitful man You abhor, Yehoweh.

7: And I, in Your great loving kindness, come to Your House, I prostrate on Your Holy Temple in fear of You.

8: Yehoweh, lead me on your righteousness for the sake of my hostile opposers.

Cause to lead my face in Your Way.

9: For there is no affirmative in their mouths, their gut is mischief, their throat an opened grave, they cause division with their tongues.

10: Cause them to be guilty, God, by their own counsels.

Cause them to be banished in their great rebellion-sins for they were embittered by You.

11: And rejoice all who take refuge in You, forever sing.

And You cover them and they, lovers of Your Name, exult in You.

12: For You bless the righteous, Yehoweh, like a shield.

With acceptance You crown (encompass) Him.  

Prayer: Lord, we know You love and accept us even when You see us groaning deep and predominant gut emotions – both pleasure and pain. You listen to our rants and requests about those who bully or oppose us. Thank You for undeservedly covering, blessing and accepting us –  notwithstanding who we are, warts and all! Amen.  

1: To a chief musician for a song of David for stringed instruments.

When I cry out, reply me.

In my tight spot (tsar/trouble), He made space (caused enlargement) for me.

Favour me, hear my plea.

2: Sons of a man, for how long is My Glory to shame? (Will) you love vanity? (Will) you seek lies?

Pause.

3: And know that Yehoweh sets apart the godly (kasid) for Him.

Yehoweh hears when I cry out to Him.

4: Don’t rage! You miss-the-mark-sin.

Say (this) to to your heart in your bed and shut up!

Pause.

5: Sacrifice (-kill, slaughter-) sacrifices of righteousness.

And trust in Yehoweh.

6: Those who say ‘Who makes us see good?’ (are) many.

Yehoweh (it is You who).

Raise Your Face Light on us.

7: You had given exceeding joy in my heart – more than their grain and their great new wine.

8: In singular peace I lie down and I sleep deeply for, Yehoweh, You alone cause me to dwell in trust.

Prayer: Lord, thank you that You save us from our tight spots of trouble and anger. Let us sacrifice righteously, and unlike cynics who see no good or are ashamed of You or who seek good elsewhere, let us trust Your Face Light to shine on us. Thank You for exceeding joy, singular peace and deep sleep. Amen.  

1: The word which came to Jeremiah (Y+room – God is risen or Y+remiya – God is slacking?) from Yehoweh after Nebuzaradan, great butcher from the Ramah, had expelled him whilst carrying him off. He bound him in chains in the midst of all the Jerusalem and Judah exiles, the ashamed in Babylon.

2: And the great butcher took Jeremiah and said to him, Your God, Yehoweh, has declared The Trouble on this The Place, This (one)!

3:  And Yehoweh causes to bring and do just as He said. For you rebelled against Yehoweh and did not hear His Voice. And this, the word, happened to you.

4: And now, I free you in a day from the chains which were on your hand.

If it is good in your eyes to traverse Babel witn me, traverse. And I will keep my eye on you.

And if it is troublesome in your eyes to traverse Babel with me, be idle.

See all the land is before you (is) to good.

And to the pleasant /convenient walk in your eyes, walk.

5: And for a while yet do not return and then return to Gedaliah (God is great), son of Ahikam (Brother of awakening – koom) son of Shafan (rock rabbit), who was caused to appoint to hold to account by king of Babel in cities of Judah and reside with him in the midst of the people.

Or to wherever is is pleasant / convenient to walk in your eyes, walk.

And so the great butcher gives him an allowance and a gift and despatches him.

6: And Jeremiah goes to Gedaliah son of Ahikam and resides in Mitzpah (from watchtower / lookout) amidst the people who are remnant in the land.

Pause.

7: And when they heard all the regimental chiefs were in the field, they and all their men (for Gedaliah son of Ahikam was caused to appoint to hold to account by king of Babel in in the land and for he was caused to appoint to hold to account men, women and toddlers and from the poor in the land and who were not shamed by Babel.

8: And they traverse to Gedaliah at Mitzpah. And Ishmael (God hears) ben Nathaniah (God gives) and Yokanan (Y+kanan- God favours) and Yonathan (God gives) sons of Kareah (korah – baldy) and Sariah (God strives~Sarah/Israel)  the Tankumeth (consolation – from nakam) and sons of Ofai (bird) and Yazaniah (ozen- ear, God hears) the Maakthi ( maak – pierce) – they and their men.

9: And Gedaliah ben Ahikam ben Shafan and their men are sworn saying Fear not to serve the Kashdim (Chaldeans) in the land and serve the king of Babel. And it is good for you.

10: And even I (am) server in Mitzpah, in the Kashdim’s face, who traverse over us. But you gather-to-remove wine and harvest and oil to place them in your vessels and reside in your cities which you had seized.

11: And when all the Jews who were in Moab and with sons of Ammon and Edom and who were in all lands had heard that king of Babel had given a remnant in Judah and he had caused to appoint to hold to account Gedaliah ben Ahikam ben Shafan over them,

12: and the Jews returned there from all the places where they had been banished and traverse  the land of Judah to Gedaliah at Mitzpah and gather to remove a lot of great wine and harvest.

Phew!

13: And Yokanan ben Kareah and all the regimental chiefs who were in the field traversed to Gedaliah at Mitzpah.

14: Do you knowing know that Baalis, king of Ammon’s sons sent Ishmael ben Netaniah to strike your soul down? Did you not believe it, Gedaliah ben Ahikam?

15: And Jonathan ben Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in secret in Mizpah saying, Elkana (let me please go) and strike Ishmael ben Netaniah. And noone will not know why he strikes down your soul and why should all the Jews who were dispersed and the remnant in Judah gathered to you perish?

16: And Gedaliah ben Ahikam said to Jonathan ben Kareah, Don’t you do this word for you speak falsely about Ishmael.

Prayer: Lord, even if you don’t speak to the remnant, You give is Your word through circumstance and you make politicians and nations arrange to sustain prophet and exile as they watch from a high place and ‘Standeth God within the shadow keeping watch above His Own’.* Amen.

 

*Ref: James Russell Lowell, The present crisis. https://poets.org/poem/present-crisis

1: And the heavens and the earth, they are completing and all their institution(tsaba).

2:  And God completed his production which He had done on the seventh day. And He rests on the seventh day from all production which He had done. 

3:  And God blesses the seventh day and makes it holy for in it He had rested from all productions which God had created to make.  Phew!

 

4: This is the genealogy of the heavens and the earth when they were created:

In a day Yehoweh God makes earth and heavens.   

5: And all shrub of the fields before are in the earth and all greenery of the fields before has not sprung for Yehoweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth and tnere was no man to slave/serve  the ground.

6: And a mist rose up from the earth and caused to water the surface of all the ground.

7: And Yehoweh God fashions The man from the dust of the ground and blows into his nostrils the breath of life (spirit – nishma) and the man becomes a living soul (nafesh). 

8: And Yehoweh God plants a garden in Eden in the east and He appointed the man whom He had formed there.

9: And Yehoweh God causes every delighting-to-look-at tree from the ground to grow – and good for food.  

10: And a river goes out from Eden to cause to water the garden and from ghere it is separated and it became 4 heads:

11: The first name is Pishon – it is the surrounding of the whole land of the Havilah where there is the gold. 

12: And the gold of that land is good – and the bdella (gum/resin, colour of manna Num 11:7) and the stone gem.

13: And the name of tbe second river is Gihon – it is the surrounding of the whole land of Cush (Egypt). 

14: And the name of the third river is Kidekel (Tigris) – it is the running on the east of Ashur (Assyria). And the fourth river is Ferath (euphrates).

15: And Yehoweh God took the man and laid him down in the garden of Eden to serve/slave and to watch.

16: And Yehoweh God commands the man to say of every tree in the garden eating-eat (imperf).

17: And of the tree of the knowledge of good and trouble don’t eat. For from the day you eat of it, you dying- die (imperf).

18: And Yehoweh God says it is not becoming the man to be alone. I make (imperf) him a counterpart helper.

19: And Yehoweh God  moulds out of the ground every living being of the field, every bird of the heavens and causes to brings them to the man to see what he calls them. And whatever the man calls them, that was the living soul’s name.

20: And the man calls the names of every animal and bird of the heavens and living being of the field but to man no counterpart helper was found.

21: And Yehoweh God made the man lie down in a deep sleep. And he sleeps  long. And He takes out one side from (him) and closes the flesh over it.

22: And Yehoweh God builds from the side which he has taken out of the man (Adam)for a woman and He causes her to be brought to the man (Adam).

23: And the man says, “This is the time! Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, this one is called Isha (a woman) for this one was taken out of Ish (a man).”

24: And so a man (ish)  leaves his father and his mother and clung to his woman and they became one flesh.

25: And it happens that the naked two – the man (Adam) and his woman did not make themselves shame themselves.

Prayer: Lord your creation is still not complete, your rest is still not complete. We are a work in progress, together with counterpart helpers whom You made from a side of us. O God our help in ages past, Thank you for giving us a helper on earth too who is of our flesh. Amen. 

Yshua ( Strong’s no. 3444) – Jesus occurs 68 times in the old testament and the act of saving is noted to be a feminine passive participle of yasha (to save, Strongs 3467). But could it be prophetically double coded for the name of Yshua – Jesus centuries before Jesus. So could it gramatically be a masculine proper noun? I think, largely, yes. But whilst this awaits an expert review, I present it as food for thought because..

Thus a majority of the ‘Yshuas’ in the old testament are likely to be taken to mean conventional salvation as a concept but also as a specific reference to Yshua – Jesus and the context of the sentences are often astoundingly direct and deepen our love and our relationship to OUR Yshua as a person not just his role in our salvation.

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, Yshua, you saved us, once and for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, but You were Our Saviour even before Salvation!! Hallelujah! 

1: I loved it that Yehoweh, He hears my voice, my entreaties.

2: Because he made his ear stretch to me. And in my days, I call out.

3: Ropes of death entwined me. Sheol’s distress found / caught up with me. I find trouble (tsara) and sorrow.

4: And I called out Yehoweh’s Name. And now Yehoweh, deliver my soul!

5: Gracious Yehoweh. And Just. Our God – Loving Kindness (rakam)!

6: Watching-out-for-the-open-minded Yehoweh, I was depressed and He caused for me to continue be saved (yehoshia, imperf).

7: Turn back my soul (fem) to your (fem) rest-after-work. Yehoweh recompensed (perf) over you.

8: You excised/lifted out my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

9: I will make me walk myself in Yehoweh’s face in the lands (eretz) of those (who are) the living (pl).

10: I had made affirmed, so I speak. I was greatly afflicted.

11: I alarmedly said all men are liars.

12: How shall I cause to turn back to Yehoweh for all His benefits/ His weaning  to me?

13: I lift up a cup of salvations and call out Yehoweh’s Name.

14: I will wholly complete my vows to Yehoweh, wont I (Na!), in front of all His people. *

15: Precious in the eyes of Yehoweh, is the death of His righteous. 

16: I pray thee (Ana), Yehoweh, for I am your servant, your servant, the son of your maidservant (amma).  You opened my shackles.

17: To You I slaughter-sacrifice a slaughter-sacrifice of thanks / praise (thodah from yadah – hands (outstretched). And I call out Yehoweh’s Name.

18: I will wholly complete my vows to Yehoweh, wont I (Na!), in front of all His people.*

19: In the courtyard of Yehoweh’s house, in the centre of you, Jerusalem, Shout in joy to Yah (Hallelu-Yah). 

Prayer: Lord when our loved ones in You die, it is precious to You. Like Jesus, they rest after their labours but thank you that You then unshackle them. May they all be enjoying seeing your face and walking amongst Jesus and other ‘dead in Christ who rise’ in the lands of the living. May we all be there soon too!  Hallelujah.   

1: And God uttered all These (following) words saying –

Stop and think! –

2: “ I, Yehoweh, your God, who caused you to be drawn out of the land of Egypt, from a house of slaveries,

3: He does not happen other gods for you before My Face.

4: He does not make engravings (paysel – same word to Moses for the 2 boards in Exod 34:1,4 – for an unchangeable / uneditable carving or cutting or writing) of you and pictures of all which are of heaven above and which are of earth below and which are of water under the earth.  

5: You do not cause yourself to prostrate to them and cause you to serve them. For I, Yehoweh, your God am ‘Jealous God’ (El Kana), appointing-to-hold-to-account the father’s punishable sins over the sons above a third; and above a fourth of My haters.

6: And I make loving kindness for thousands of my lovers and commandment watchers.

Pause.

7: You do not lift The Name of Yehoweh your God in falsehood for he is not guiltless to Yehoweh who takes His Name falsely.

Pause.

8: Remembering the Stop (seventh) day to keep it holy.

9: Six days you labour (avad – slavery) and do all your production (malak – messenger -producing),

10: and on the seventh day, the stopping (sabbath) to Yehoweh your God, you do not make production – you and your son and your daughter, your bondsman (avad) and your servant maid (amma*) and your livestock and your immigrant who is in your gates.

11: For in six days Yehoweh made The heavens and The earth and The water and all that is in them and He rested (Noah) on the seventh day. And so then Yehoweh blessed the stopping day and makes it holy.

Pause.

12: Glorify (kavod) your father and your mother in order that your days are lengthened on the soil (adamah) which Yehoweh your God is giving you.

Pause.

13: Don’t you murder (ratsek).

Pause.

14: Don’t you be unfaithful in marriage.

Pause.

15: Don’t you steal /deceive.

Pause.

16: Don’t you answer your neighbour/friend/fellow with a false witness.

Pause.

17: Don’t you covet your friend’s house. Don’t you covet your friend’s woman/wife. Your friend’s bondsman and his servant maid*, and his ox and his donkey and all which is your friend’s.

Phew!

18: And all the people were seeing the hullabaloo and the flashes and the voice of the shofar and the smoking mountain. And the people see and shake and stand afar.

19: And they say to Moses, “You speak with us and we’ll hear. But (let) not God speak with us lest we die.

20: And Moses says to the people, “Do not fear. God came for the intent of testing you. To intend for His Fear to be in your face, for you to be without sinning.

21: And so the people stand afar and Moses draws near the thick darkness where God was. Phew!

22: And Yehoweh says to Moses, “Say thus to the sons of Israel: You saw that I talked from heaven with you.

23: Do not make a silver god of me and do not make for yourselves a gold god.

24: Make an earth (adamah) altar for me. And you slaughter sacrificed on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings and your sheep and your oxen in every place where I cause to remember My Name. I come to you and I bless you.

25: And if you make an altar of stones for Me, don’t you build it with cut stone. For the carving tool you caused to wield, causes to profane over it.

26: And dont  be going up by steps to My altar. Which (should) not (let) your nakedness be exposed over it. Phew!

 

Prayer: El Kana, Jealous Yehoweh the only uneditable chiselling on stone was the law on tablets – not pictures of you, not cut altar stones. You have strange priorities and nit picky details focussed on love and obedience to You, 1:7 rest, pro-life, pro-marriage, pro- family, pro- friends. You test us with fearfulness of You with the intention of preventing us from sinning. And You want to be interacting with us – not a silent, powerless, unmoved idol. And you don’t like hierarchy because it exposes ugliness. May I be up in the mountains speaking with You, O God whom I love. May I not be shrinking away from You or fearful of hearing You. Amen. 

1: An instrumental song of the sons of a baldy (Korah):

His foundation in the mountains is holy.

2: Loving Yehoweh (at?)  Zion’s gates, than (instead of?) in all Jacob’s tabernacles (churches/synagogues – miskan in plural is never used of The Tabernacle)

3: Glorified, spoken of you, God’s city.

Stop!

4: In those who know Me, I will cause to remember Rahab (embolden – Egypt) and Babel (confused- includes most of the Middle East except parts of Persia).

Behold Palestine (wallow) and Tsor (rock – Tyre – Lebanon?) with Cush (Ethiopia)!

He was delivered (a man being delivered = born again) there.

5: And in Zion is being said, a man and a delivered man (born again) are in her.  

And he stands her (Zion) firmly in The Most High.

6: Yehoweh accounts in peoples’ writing (?birth registers) – this one (masc) was born there. (Isaiah 4:3 also has God registering us in Jerusalem for life – See Isaiah 4 post below)

Stop!

7: And all singers and pipers are fountains in you (fem- Zion).

Prayer: Yehoweh stands welcoming us at Zion’s gates. We leave our tabernacles to Your holy high and dry hill-city. We are born again and Zion is the registered place of our new birth and home to born again Israelis and Palestinians, Egyptians and Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis, Jordanians, Turks, Lebanese and Ethiopians. Hallelujah!

 

PS See also Isaiah 2:2-3, 19:20-25, 27:12-13.

1: David’s (darling’s) song of Ascension:

Yehoweh, my heart was (would have) not lifted up.

And my eyes did /(would have not arisen)  not arise.

And I did /  (would have not walked) not walk in greatness and being accomplished for myself,

2: if I had not evened-out and silenced my soul as a satiated (child) upon his mother.

as (a) satiated (child) upon (is) my soul.

3: Israel wait upon Yehoweh (Yakal – wait as a sprinter at the start waits for the starting shot)

From now and forever.

Prayer: Yehoweh, as I humble myself and am content in the numerous blessings which have satiated me, may I be waiting for your command to start running the new race for which You have placed me. Amen.

1: And Yehoweh said to Moses, Carve two stone boards yourself like the first ones.  And I will write the words which were on the first boards which you shattered.

2: And be prepared in the morning. You had gone up to Mount Sinai (Seenai – wilderness) and you had stationed yourself for Me there on top of The Mountain.

3: And no man comes up with you. And also no man is to be seen in all The Mountain. Also no flock or herd to pasture in front of That Mountain.

4: And he carves two stone boards like the first ones. And Moses makes himself rise early in the morning and goes up to Mount Sinai as Yehoweh commanded him. And he takes in his hand, two stone boards.

5: And Yehoweh descends in a cloud and stations with him there. And he calls out the name Yehoweh.

6: And Yehoweh crosses over his face and calls out, “Yehoweh, Yehoweh, compassionate and gracious (rakhum v khanoon) God, long nostril (slow to lose temper), and great (in) mercy (khesed) and truth (emet),

7: To guard/ preserve (notser) mercy (khesed) for thousands,

 lifting off (notsey) futile-sin (aven- see Amos 5:5) and rebellious-sin/ (see Amos 5:12 psha) and missing-the-mark-sin (see Amos 5:12 – katha),

And not absolving-absolve (u-nkah-yi-nkey) appointing (to-call-to-account pakad) futile-sin (avon) of fathers upon sons and upon sons of sons to third and to fourth.

8: And Moses hastens and bows head to earth and makes himself prostrate.

9: And he says, “If, na (please), I have found grace in Your Eyes, The Lord(s) (Adonai), walk, na, Adonai, in  the midst of us. For (even if) a stubborn neck people is he.

And You forgave our futile-sin (avon) and our missing-the-mark sin (katha) and inherited us (nakal).

10: And He says, Behold I cut a covenant in front of all your people.

I make  wonderous works (nifal of paal) which have not been created (nifal of bara)in all the earth and in all the unbelieving nations and all the people saw who you are in the midst of Yehoweh’s Work for it is frightening what I am doing with you.

11: You watch! What I commanded for you (on) The Day! Behold! Before your face are driving out the Amorite and the Cannanite and the Khitite and the Perizite and the Kivite and the Jebusite.

 12: You watch! Lest you cut a covenant with the residents of the earth over which you afe traversing. Lest it is a trap amidst you.

13: For their altars you tear down and their memorial columns you shatter and their happiness (Asherah goddess of happiness) you cut (3 paragogic nuns ?shall).

14: For don’t you make yourself bow down to another god. For Yehoweh is jealous – Hos Name is ‘He is a jealous god’ (El Kaanah Hu)

15: lest you cut a covenant with the residents of the earth.

And they prostituted after their gods and they sacrificed to their gods.

And he called out to you and you ate of his sacrifice.

16: And you took his daughter for your son and prostitiuted his daughter after their gods and caused your Sons to prostitute after their gods.

17: You don’t make Molten (die-cast) Gods for you.

18: You guard The Celebration (kag) of unleavened bread (matsot). You eat matsot for seven days as I had commanded you in the appointed time (Moed) of the month of fresh heads of grain (Aviv = Nisan 1^st month, spring/Pesach/Passover 13/4/25) for in the month of fresh heads of grain (Aviv) you had gone out of Egypt.

19: All Womb openings (first-borns) are Mine – and all cattle remembered as open cow and sheep.

20: And ransom an open/first-born donkey with a sheep. And break his neck if you don’t ransom him.

You ransom all first-born (bakor-first fruit of field) sons and don’t appear before My Face empty.

21: You slave/serve six days

and on the seventh (Ha Shvi) day, you stop (Thi Shvoth).

In ploughing/ planning  and in harvesting, you stop.

22: And you make the celebration of weeks (Shvuot 2/6/25 13 Sivan 3^rd month, Pentecost) for you in the first fruits of the wheat harvest and the celebration of adding-on (Ha Asif – Ingathering – Sukkoth 7/10/25 15 Tishrei 7th month) at the coming-round (nakaf – a revolution – earth’s orbit and cyclical time connection to celebrating moed/kag) of the year.

23: Three times a year all your men appear before the face of the Lord (Adoni) Yehoweh, God of Israel.

24: For I cause to disinherit unbelieving nations before your face and caused your boundaries to widen.

And a man does not covet your earth when you ascend to appear at your God Yehoweh’s face three times a year.

25: You don’t kill my blood sacrifice over leavened bread. And you don’t tarry the passover celebration sacrifice overnight till dawn.

26: You cause the first of the first fruit of the land (Adamah) to traverse the house of Yehoweh your God.

You dont boil a kid in his mother’s milk.

Phew!

 

27: And Yehoweh said to Moses, “ Write for yourself these The Words for over the mouth of these words I have cut a covenant with you and with Israel.

28: And he happened there with Yehoweh for forty days and forty nights. He ate not bread and drank not water. And he writes on boards  The Words of the covenant, the ten words.

29: And it happens that Moses, descending from Mount Sinai, Moses, has 2 boards of testimonies in his hand when he descended from the mountain. Moses did not know that the skin of his face radiated (horns/rays) whe he talked with Him.

30: And Aaron and all the sons of Israel sees Moses and behold, the skin of hos face radiated. And they fear to approach him.

31: And Moses calls out to them and Aaron and all the chiefs of the congregation return to him and Moses speaks with them.

32: And thereafter all the sons of Israel were approached and he commands them of all that Yehoweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

33: And Moses finishes off speaking with them, he gives his face a mask.

34: And when Moses goes to speak with Him, he causes  the mask to be taken off till he comes out. And he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he was commanded.

35: And the sons of Israel saw that if the face of Moses radiated, Moses would cause a mask to be put on his face till he again went to speak with Him.

Pause!

Prayer: Compassionate and Merciful God, You lift  away our futile, falling-short sin. We are fortunate that Your temper is fleeting. Just and True God, You jealously ensure our separate-ness, discipline our waywardness by letting us face our enemies,  warn us off false covenants with them and You covenant with us. You demand 1:7 rest even from planning and receiving earnings. You celebrate face to face meetings with us at least thrice every year and thus protect our land from the covetous. You own us all but only lay claim to the first of our first fruit. You make us radiant if we meet You daily. Thank you Lord.

1: And Yehoweh spoke to Moses (M + Ysha?), “ Walk out, Ascend. You and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt to the land which I had sworned to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob saying, “ I give to your descendants ”.

2: And I sent A Messenger facing you to drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Khittite and the Perrizite, the Khivite and the Jebusite

3: into the land flowing with milk and honey. For I am not going up amidst you for you are a stubborn-neck people, lest I eat you up on the way.

4: And the people heard this unpleasant speech, they made themselves mourn and a man did not put on his jewellery.

5: And says Yehoweh to Moses,say to the sons of Israel, You are a stubborn-neck people. In one wink of an eye, I come up amidst you and eat you up. Now get your jewellery brought down from above and I know what to do to you.

6: So the sons of Israel got their jewellery snatched off by Mount Horeb (desolation).

7: And Moses took The Tent and stretched it outside the encampment, separate from the encampment and called it ‘The Tent of Appointed Time’ and it happened that all who sought Yehoweh came out to the The Tent of Appointed Time whxih was separate from the encampment.

8: And it happened that as Moses went out to The Tent, all the people stood up and a (each?) man was stationed at a door of his tent and made to look intently at Moses’ back till he traversed to The Tent.

9: And it happened that as Moses traversed The Tent, a pillar (Amod from stand – a column /pedestal to stand on) of cloud descends and stood at the door of The Tent and he / it talked with Moses.

10: And all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at tbe door of The Tent and arose and made themselves bow down – a (each) man at the door of his tent.

11: And Yehoweh spoke to Moses, faces to faces, just like a man speaks woth a friend and returned to the encampment. And his minister, Joshua son of Nun, did not depart from The Tent.

Stop.

12: And Moses says to Yehoweh, “See, You say to me “Get This people up”. And You did not cause me to know whom You send with me. And You said,” I know you by name” and also “You have found favour in My Eyes”.

13: And, if you please (na), I have found favour in Your Eyes, Please cause me to know Your Way and I know You in order that I (continue to) find favour in Your Eyes and You see if This Unbelieving Nation is Your people”

14: And He said, “My Face walks and caused to rest (rest after labour – Hifil of Noah) to you.”

15: And he said to Him, “ If anyone is not walking in front of Your Face, do not cause us to ascend from here.

16: And in what is it known, then, that I found favour in Your Eyes – I and Your people –  unless You walk with us and we are distinguished (separated) – I and Your people – from all the people who are on the face of earth’s dust (Adamah – of human race)?”

Phew!

17: And Yehoweh said to Moses, “This The Matter / Word (dabar) which you enunciated /said (dabar), I am doing for you found favour in My Eyes and I know you by name.”

18: And he says, “Please (na) cause me to see Your Glory”.

19: And He says, “I cause to cross over (Hifil of avar) all my goodness over your face and I cried out, “In Yehoweh’s Name”in your face and I favoured whom I favour and I showed compassion to whom I have compassion.”

20: And He says, “ You are not able to see My Face for no human (The Adam) sees Me and lived.”

21: And Yehoweh says, “Here is My Place. And you are stationed on The Rock”

22: And it happened that in My Glory crossing over, I set you in a hollow (of) The Rock and I protected you with my palm as I cross over.

23: And I make my palm to be removed and you saw My Back and My Face is not seen.

Stop!

Prayer: Father God, may I never, in a moment of licentious weakness, melt my décor to worship a golden calf and cause You to let enemies enter my promised land. Rather, may I be faithful and stand in the hollow of My Rock, Yshua, that I may see You. Amen. 

1: Let me sing, na (please),

to My Darling. A song of my Darling about His vineyard. My Darling had a vineyard on a hill (called) Oil’s son (BenShamen).

2: And He fences it and throws out stones and plants the best vine. And He builds a tower in the centre and also a winepress excavated in it. And He waits for it to make good grapes and it makes stinkers.

3: And now Jerusalem’s (shooting peace) inhabitants and Judah’s men, “Judge, na (please),

between Me and between My vineyard”.

4: What more to do with my vineyard that I did not do in it? For what reason did I wait for it to make good grapes and it made stinkers? (Matt 7:16-20,12:33, Luke 6:43)

5: And now you let Me know, na, what do I do to my vineyard? Turn aside its fence? Have it burned? Breach its walls? Have it trampled?

6: And assign it to waste? Not prune it? Not organize it? And (let) thorns and thistles over(grow)? And not command the clouds to make rain rain down on it?

7: For the vineyard of Yehoweh of Parliaments is the house of Israel (nation/institution) and the men (individuals/community) of Judah.

A plantation for enjoyment.

And He waited for Justice (mishpath)

And behold ritual killing (mispakh).

For righteousness (Tsadikah)

And behold a shriek (Tsaeykah).

Stop!

8: Ayyo! They cause to adjoin house to house, cause to approximate field to field till there is no more place to cause to be settled down in the midst of the land.

9: In Yehoweh of Parliament’s ears, even if there are many houses not empty, great and beautiful ones are without residents.

10: For ten acres (area unit for land, yoked pair for animals) of vineyard makes 1 bath (unit of volume – 10 baths = 1 khomer Ezek 45:14).

A Khomer of seeds make an ephah (actually 10 khomer should make 1 ephah Ex 16:36).

Phew!

11: Ayyo! They make (themselves) rise up early and chase hard drink till after evening breeze / twilight. Bubbly Wine makes them fired up.

12: And they had a harp, bagpipe (bag), drum (tambourine), flute in bubbly wine drinking parties.

And they do not cause to look at the work of Yehoweh.

And they did not perceive the doing of His Hand.

13: Therefore my people were uncovered, lacking knowledge, their glorious mature men (had) hunger, their parched hordes (had) thirst.

14: Therefore Sheol had been made larger (for) a soul.

And she opened her mouth beyond the legal (limit). And he descended. Adorned magnificence and their hordes (shamona), a roar (sha’ona) and a rejoicing – into it.

15: And Adam (a human) bows down

and a man is humble

And arrogant (gevo) eyes are humble.

16: And Yehoweh of Parliaments mounts up (geva) in judgement.

And The Holy (the) God is being ‘holied’ (sanctified) in righteousness.

17: And a male lamb pastured according to their words / pastures.

And in desolation a rich fat temporary resider eats.

18: Ayyo! Pulling punishable offences out (of a pit) with a cord of vanity (pretence/deceit) and a rebellion sin cart with a braided rope,

19: who are saying, “he speeds, he causes excited eagerness for the sake of his work in order that we see it. The counsel of Holy (One of) Israel draws near and traverses.”

Stop!

20: Ayyo to the callers (calling) harmful  good and good harmful. Establishers of darkness for light and light for darkness. Establishers of bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Stop!

21: Ayyo to wise in their (own) eyes and appearing understood to their faces.

22: Ayyo to mighty, drinking wine and men efficient to mix hard liquor.

23: Making the harmful righteous  concequent to a donation and taking righteousness away from the righteous.

Stop!

24: So then, as a tongue of fire eats chaff, as a blaze weakens a root like rot, it happens: and a bloom goes up in fine dust.

For they spurned Yehoweh of Parliament’s Instructions and rejected Israel’s Holy One’s sayings.

25: Then, Yehoweh’s burning temper rose over His people and he stretches out His hand over them and causes them to be struck / slain.

And the hills tremble and their carcasses like garbage in the middle of a street.

(Even) For all this, He does not repent of His temper. And His Hand is stretched out.

26: He raised up a banner to the unbelieving nations from afar and whistled for them from the ends of the earth. And behold! They come swiftly and lightfooted.

27: Not one weary, not one stumbling among them. Not a snooze, not a sleep and not a loosed belt on their waist and not a broken lace on their shoe.

28: Whose sharpened arrows and all their bent bows, their horses hooves are reckoned as oppressive wheels, like a hurricane.

29: Their roar like a lion roar. Like a young lion snarls and  tears off a bit of its prey to make it slip it away (where)  no one will make a snatch at it.

30: And in That Day he snarls at them like the sea snarls.

And he looks intently at earth and behold! Oppressive darkness.

And light was darkened by a downpour

Phew!

Prayer: Lord, we repent. We see our namesake churches destroyed, our rebellious families torn apart. You are calling for our unfaithful nations who call good evil and evil good  to be darkened. What should have been our plantation of enjoyment with our Darling, we have exchanged for oppression, murder, corpses in our streets, thunderous hurricanes, earthquakes, terror from unbelieving nations, big empty houses. Sheol widens its mouth beyond its limit to make space when one more is thrown in . You are rising up in Judgement. Lord, we repent.

1: And seven women caused one man to be seized in that day saying, “We eat our bread, we put on our coats. We only are being called by your name. Take away our shameful exposure.”

Stop!

2: In that day, Yehoweh’s budding sprout happens (ehyeh – first Name of God) to be gazelle-like-splendourous and to be glorious.

And The earth’s fruit is to be proud, to be ornamented-beauty, to have escaped Israel.

3: And it happened that those left behind in Zion and those preserved in Jerusalem are called holy to all those registered living in Jerusalem.

4: When the Lord washes excrement (from) Zion’s daughters

and Jerusalem’s blood is rinsed from her midst,

by a judgement spirit-wind and a burning spirit-wind.

5: And Yehoweh created (bara as in Gen 1) Mount Zion above every place and above every beseeching-assembly.

A cloud by day and smoke and brilliant flames of fire by night.

For Glory (is) a canopy (kuppa – cover – Passover) over all.

6: And there happens to be a Tent (sukkoth – Tabernacles) for shade in the day, a refuge from dry heat, a secret hiding place from a gush of rain.

Phew!

Prayer: Thank You Lord that over every little fellowship, You have a daily Passover appointed time and a Tent of Meeting appointed time. The New Covenant Feasts are daily (not yearly)! The remnant is cleansed by the (pentecost) fiery Holy Spirit! Praise You! 

1: For behold The Lord Yehoweh of Parliaments causes supply and aid (walking stick) to be turned away from Jerusalem and Judah: All supply of bread and all supply of water.

2: A hero and a man of war, a judger and a prophet, a diviner and an elder,

3: A leader of fifty (Sar = captain) and a lifted face and a wise technician/ builder and a discerning advisor (enchanter)!

4: And gave young princes and children to rule over them.

5: And the people were oppressed. A man by a man and a man by his neighbour/ friend.

The young person is insolent to an elder and the dishonoured to the honoured.

6: When a man manipulates his brother, his father’s house, (saying) “You walk (in) uniform (robes) of a ruler (who cuts off) – you happen to be ours. And this, the obstacle, is in your hand.”

7: And in that day he will rise up saying, “I cannot happen to bandage and there is no food and no uniform in my house. Do not set me up as a ruler of people.”

8: For Jerusalem tottered and Judah fell for their tongues and their doings to Yehoweh – to rebel in the eyes of His Glory.

9: The look of their faces testified against them and they did not cause to declare their missing-the-mark sin as Sodom’s.

Ayyo! They hid it from their (own) souls for they recompensed trouble on them(selves).

10: Say to the righteous, “(it is) For good – for the fruit of their doings they eat.

11: Ayyo! To the guilty – trouble! For the reward of his hand is made for him.

12: My people’s oppressors – suckling children and women – ruled over them.

My people’s leaders caused them to stray and the way of their trodden paths were engulfed.

Stop!

13: Be stood up to debate, Yehoweh. And stand to judge people.

14: Yehoweh traverses judgement with elders of His people and His princes (sar):

And you burnt a vineyard.

Robbery from the downtrodded is in your houses.

15: For what did you crush My people and grind (between millstones as meal prep) the faces of the downtrodden?

(Signed) Word Yehoweh Of Parliaments.

Stop.

16: And Yehoweh says because daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched neck and in seducing eyes, walking mincing walk, ankletting their feet.

17: And the Lord excised-and-direct-closured scalps of daughters of Zion and Yehoweh bares their openings/ hinges .

Stop.

18: In that day He causes prettiness, anklets and hijabs and crescents to be taken away.

19: Ear pendants and bangles and fluttery veils,

20: the beauty and the belled anklets and sashes and the homely spirits and the incantations,

21: the signet rings and the nose rings,

22: the hooded jackets and the shawls and the capes and the purses,

23: and the dressing mirrors and chemises and the hats and the scarves.

24: And it happened that instead of balsam scents is a putrid stench happening. 

And instead of a belt, a noose.

And instead of a skilled / coiffured braid, baldness.

And instead of a cummerbund (formal contoured girdle), sackcloth.

For instead of loveliness,

25: Your men fall by a sword and your heroes in war.

26: and her entrances replied and bewailed and were freed, residing in the land.

Prayer: Yshua, Our Word, Yehoweh of Parliaments You are causing trouble to come upon Your people who are oppression of their own by allowing  their national leadership to decompose and internal strife to consume them, their insolent strength and seductive beauty to be shamed. Forgive us. Could You cause us to repent of our oppressions and seductions? Could You cause us to get back our sense of justice and love? Amen

1: In that day, The Song  is caused to be sung in this, Judah’s land strong city:

Yshua is established – protective walls and a fortress – for us.

2: Gates – Open! A Righteous unbelieving nation enters keeping (watch on) fidelity,

3: upholding paradigms.

You keep peace.

Peace for (because of) trusting in You.

4: Trust in Yehoweh to unending end. For in A Being (Yah) (is) Yehoweh, a cliff, eternities.

5: For a lofty native citizenry, He causes to be humbled,

He causes an exalted city, to be laid low.

He causes her to be laid low to the ground.

He causes her to be laid hands upon to the dust.

6: She creeps a foot on the foot of the depressed, the footsteps of the weak.

7: You weigh up trodden paths  in just fairness – a fair, just track circuit.

8: Indeed, a trodden path in your judgement-collection, Yehoweh.  

We waited hopefully for You.

A soul craving for Your Name and for Your Memory –

9: My soul craving You in the night.

Indeed, my spirit within me seeking You (shakar aso means day-break)  for when a global citizen learnt that Your judgement-collection on earth (is) right.

10: The wicked (punishable) did not learn righteousness from being given mercy.

He does wrong with uprightness in the land and does not look at Yehoweh’s majesty.

Stop!

11: Yehoweh, You exalted Your Hand. They do not envision it. They envision and they are ashamed by people’s jealousy. Yes, the fire of Your oppressors (tsar*) consume them.

Stop!

12: Yehoweh, You locate peace for us. For also You have done all our work for us.

13: Yehoweh, our God (Elohim) husbanded/mastered (baal) us excluding other lords (adon) – only by You are we remembered by Your Name.

14: Dead, not living are they. Resting spirits (*also rapha!) not raised up are they. So You appointed to hold to account and You are causing them to be destroyed and ruin all memory of them.

15: You increased to an unbelieving nation, Yehoweh. 

You increased to an unbelieving nation.

You are glorified.

You made all the land borders (ketsev – weary ie tired of how far to go) far away.

16: Yehoweh, in oppression they appointed You to hold to account, they poured out incantations. Your discipline was on them.

17: As a pregnancy nears delivery, writhing and crying out in pain, so are we in front of You, Yehoweh.

18: We were pregnant, we were writhing like to deliver a spirit of Yshua’s not being made on earth and not being felled by global citizens.

19: It happens that your dead and my corpse arises, caused to rudely startled awake and sing!

“Permanent dwellers of dust

For the dew(drop) light is your dew.

And earth’s resting spirits (*rapha) are made to lie down.”

Stop!

20: Walk, My people. Go/come to your bedroom and close the batwing doors behind you. Hide for a little wink till indignation crosses over.

21: For, behold, Yehoweh, comes forth to appoint to hold to account earth’s inhabitants for their punishable guilt.

The earth uncovers her blood.

And no cover anymore for her slain.

Stop!

Prayer: Lord, our wall and protector. Who is this unbelieving nation brought to Your city who has upheld peace, righteousness and whose borders You increased? And there is no cover and no rest for wicked oppressive global citizens – whether dead or alive! You have done our work for us. Thank You Lord and our Master whose Name we are known by. Hallelujah!

1: The word (dabar) which Isaiah son of Amoz perceived (kaza-vision) over Judah and Jerusalem.

2: And it happened in the latter days, there is a mountain house of Yehoweh was established on top of mountains and lifted up from hills and all the unbeleiving nations flowed to it.

3: And a great many people walked and said, “Come and ascend to Yehoweh’s mountain, to Jacob’s Gods’ (Elohayee) House.  

And He will instruct (yara -help us to aim and shoot) us in His ways.

And we walk in His Trodden Paths.

For from Zion comes Torah (from yara – instruction)

and Yehoweh’s word (dabar) from Jerusalem.

4: And He judged between the unbeleiving nations. And He caused a great many people to course-correct. And they shattered their swords into things and their spears into shears (pruning equipment). And they do not lift up a sword, an unbelieving nation against an unbelieving nation and they study war no more.

Phew!

5: Come house of Jacob and walk in Yehoweh’s light.

6: For You thrust down Your people, the house of Jacob, for they were replete with the east/tradition. And diviners like Philistines and children of foreigners cause applause.

7: And their land (eretz) is filled with silver and gold

and there is no end to their treasuries.

And their land is filled with horses

And there is no end to their chariots.

8: And their land is filled with false gods (elil) of work of their hands.

They cause themselves to bow dow to what they made with their fingers.

9: Adam is bowed down*.

And a man is low^ and he does not lift them up.

10: Traverse rock and be concealed in dust from Yehoweh’s terror and majesty, His exaltation (v19).

11: Exaltation in Adam’s eyes was lowered^ and the rising up of men was bowed down*.

And in that Day, Yehoweh alone was made inaccessibly elevated.

Stop and think!

12: For its a day to Yehoweh of Parliaments

over all proud and elevated and all lifted up and bowed down*,

13: over all Lebanon’s (whites’) building trees (cedars) which were elevated and lifted up,

and over all Bashan’s (fertile Golan heights) ancient shady trees (oak – Zech 11:1),

14: and over all The elevated mountains ,

And over all the lifted up hillocks,

15: and over all elevated tower-blocks,

And over all protective walls to (batsar – to allow grapes to be cut off and gathered)fortify (?tariffs, immigration checks),

16: and over all the cruise and container ships of Tarshish (sea trade),

And over all the veiled pleasantries.

17: And the Pride of Adam was bowed ,

and the elevation of men was lowered.

And in that Day, Yehoweh alone was in accessibly lifted up (sagav).

18: And the false gods are completely hastened away.

19: and they traversed into caves of rocks, into caves of dust (?concrete)  from Yehoweh’s (face of) terror and majesty, His exaltation (v10)

when He rises-to-establish,

 to tremble the earth (v21).

20: In that Day, the Adam causes to hurl his silver false gods and his gold false gods – which he had made for himself to make himself bow down to himself – to rats and bats to bury.

21: Traversing into clefts of the rocks, into fissures of the crags, from Yehoweh’s (face of) terror and majesty, His exaltation (v10)

when He rises-to-establish,

 to tremble the earth (v19).

22: Cut ye off from the Adam who is panting from his nostrils for what he thought he was.

Phew!

Prayer: Lord Yehoweh, I turn away from Pride, Idols and work-worship. Steady my hand and teach me haptic skills as I bend the bow You gave me. May I never be deceived into chasing after what will be buried on that day of Yours. Amen.

1: David’s engraving:

Watch over me, God (El)

For I took refuge in You.

2: You(f) said to Yehoweh,

“My Lord, You are my goodness.

Lest over You

3: In holy-ones who are on earth  – and they all are majestic – I delight in them (as my goodness).

4: Hurts increase (on) hurrying to others.

Don’t cause to anoint their blood anointings.

Don’t raise their names up to my lips.

5: Yehoweh, my measured-out portion and my cup.

You are my allotment supporter-sustainer.

6: My territory-lines were laid down pleasantly.

Indeed, a beautiful heirloom upon me.

7: I bless The Yehoweh who counselled me.

Indeed, in the nights He educated my kidneys/subconscious/ innermost thoughts and feelings.

8: I constantly placed  Yehoweh before me for He is at my right hand*.

I don’t totter/slip.

9: And so my heart was gladdened and my glory exults.

Indeed my flesh permanently resides in hope.

10: For You don’t abandon/forsake my soul in death’s rest (Sheol).

You do not give your separated/holy one to see decay.

11: You cause me to know (yada-know by practice/skill vs b’een which is to know by thought):

trodden paths of life,

Satisfaction,

Joy in Your Pleasant Face,

Perpetuity in Your right hand*.

Prayer: Thank you for coming to wake us up and educate and familiarise us with eternal life trails and walks when we die Lord, or even when we are just asleep at night. You give us territory but You also ARE our territory. Praise You!

1: A vision of Isaiah (Ysha-Yahu = Our God saves/ Ysha) son of Amots (strengthen) which he visioned over Judah (God-Praise) and Jerusalem (Shooting-Peace) in days of Uziyahu (God-our power), Yotham (complete/perfect), Akhaz (seize), Judah’s kings.

2: Listen, heavens. Cause to hear, earth. For Yehoweh spoke: “ I made great and I lifted children up. And they rebelled againt Me!

3: A bull knew (Yada – to know from skilled practice) his owner and a donkey a manger. Israel (God-strife) does not know of its lord (Bael). My people do not make themselves discern (Been – to know from thinking).

4: Ayyo! An unbelieving missing-the-mark nation, a sin-glorifying people, seed of evil-makers, children of those who make corrupters. They forsook their Yehoweh. They scorned their Holy One of Israel. They were estranged to before (the past).

5: For what are you caused to be beaten again? You caused apostasy to be increased?

The whole head – sickness.

The heart – faint.

6: There is nothing wholesome in it from the arch of the foot to the top of the head. Bruises and blows and oozing sores not turned aside not bandaged and not softened with oils.

7: Your earth (eretz) – desolation. Your fire-burnt cities. In front of your land (adamah) there are devouring strangers. And the desolation is – like – overturning strangers.

8: And ZION’s daughter was left behind like a tent (sukka) in a vineyard, like an overnight shelter in a craftworkshop /cucumber garden, like a guarded city.

9: Unless Yehoweh of Parliaments caused a small remnant of us to remain, like Sodom we were, like Gomorrah we resembled.

10: Hear Yehoweh’s word (dabar), government officials of Sodom.  Cause your ears to hear our God’s instructions (torah), people of Gomorrah.

11: For what are your many slaughter sacrifices to Me, said Yehoweh. I had enough with rams offered up and the fat of stall fed (muhrim also means rebellious from mara) and the blood of bulls and lambs and rams. I was not pleased.

12: For you come to be seen before my face. Who required this from your hand to creep about my courtyard?

13: No cause to increase the making of a flow (coming/going) of Gift-Aid (f). Vanity-incense (Shaveh (f)- as in taking the Lord’s name in vain Ex 20:7, qatar incense) – She is an abomination to Me.

A new Moon (~anniversaries or inaugurations) and

a sabbath,

calling a convention (kara mikra both from kara, mikra referring to a festival convention week Ex 12:16)

– I don’t take the trouble (aven) –

and (also/not even) a church service (atserah – from restraining/fasting/ not working on the eighth day of a mikra would be an atserah – a worship meeting at the end of the Passover week Lev 23:36).

14: My Soul hates your New moons and your appointed times (Moedim). They are trouble on Me. Lifting them up exhausted Me.

15: And when you spread out your palms, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you cause a massive supplication, I heard not. Your hands are full of blood.

16: Wash! Make clean! Cause to put aside your bad work from in front of My Eyes. Desist from doing bad.

17: Learn to be pleasing.  Seek justice. Make the sour happy.

Judge (for) an orphan, contend (for) a vulnerable (silent) woman. *{v23}

Think.

18: Come, Na, we are reproved together says Yehoweh.

If your missing-the-mark is like scarlet (priestly colour- not blood), they are made whitened like snow.

If like a ruddy worm, they are like wool.

19: If you are willing and listened to good, you eat of the land.

20: And if you refuse and you rebelled, a sword devoured you.

For the mouth of Yehoweh spoke.

Think.

21: in what way did a faithful city full of justice become a harlot? Righteousness is permanently resident in it but now murderers.

22: Your silver became dross, your intoxicating drink diluted with water.

23: Your stubborn princes and associates – Thieves. Everyone loves bribes and pursues compensations. No Judge (for) an orphan, no contending (for) a vulnerable (silent) woman traverses before them. *{v17}

Stop.

24: Therefore The Word of The Lord, Yehoweh of Parliaments, Mighty one of Israel, Ayyo, I am comforted from my restrainers, I am avenged of my enemies!

25: And I make my hand repent of you. I smelt pure your dross and make all alloy/impurities turn away.

26: And I will make your judges repent as at first, and your counsels as in the beginning.

After that you are called city of righteousness and confirmed a famed town.

27: Zion (parched hill) is redeemed with justice and her repentant with righteousness.

28: And the destruction of the rebels and the convicted are one.

And they eat the forsakers of Yehoweh.

29: For they (rebels) are ashamed of the rams which you (convicted) by the gardens you chose.

30: For you happen to be a foolish great oak tree leaf and like a garden which has no water for it.

31: And it happened that the strong one is for textile waste (?material for wick), his work for an igniting spark. The two of them burnt as one and no one (is) a quencher.

Think!

Prayer: Lord may I always defend the orphan and widow in loyal obedience to You, the One whom I know from practice and from thinking about You as my Owner-Lord. May those convicted Sodom-and-Gomorrahans who deliberately rebel against You and attend ritualistic church services repent that they may be saved from their due punishment, burning, destruction. Amen.

1: The righteous died and no man set it to heart.

To cause to gather men away is in no way a cause to discern mercy.

For the righteous (one) is taken from the face of trouble.

2: He enters peace.

They rest in beds in integrity.

 

3: And you (masc) – come close.

Behold sons of covert-practicers and offspring of prostituters.  

And they prostitute.

4: Over whom do you (masc) make yourself indulge (in pleasure/luxury)?

Over whom do you (masc) make a mouth widen and carefully arrange for a tongue to stick out?

Are you not children of rebellion-sin (psha), offspring of lies?

5: The Inflamed-by-strength (idols/rams/oaks/lords – ayil shortens to el) under every verdant tree, aborting the children in the valley-streams, under the rocky fissures?

6: In your (masc) smooth/equitability streams, they are smooth/equitable (or are), they are rough stone/chance (?)

They were poured out as a drink offering.

Over and above these you (fem) caused a grain offering to be lifted up.

Should I be comforted?

7: On a mountain, high and lifted up, you (fem) established your bed. Even there we raised up to slaughter sacrifice a slaughter sacrifice.

8: And behind the door and the mezzuzah (doorpost on which the law is placed) you (fem) placed your remembrance.

For from (just after passing) My sign you stripped off and go up.

You (fem) caused expansion from your bed.

And you (fem) cut a covenant with them. You (fem) loved their bed / intimate hand*. You stared.

9: And you (fem) journeyed to the king with oil and caused anointing^ compounds to increase and  even sent envoys distantly, and you (fem) even caused descent to Sheol.

10: You (fem) were tired in your many ways. You (fem) said life despaired. You (fem) discovered your hand* and so You did not grieve.

11: And of whom were you anxious or afraid that you (fem) lied to Me? Did not remember, did not set your heart, did you (fem)?

I caused a hush forever and you do not fear Me?

12: I make announcement of your righteousness and of your work and it will not cause you (fem) benefit.

13: When crying out, your assemblies cause you (fem) to be snatched away, and a wind lifts them all and a breath takes them.

 

And the one who trusts in Me inherits the land and occupies the holy mountain

14: and said, “Exalt, Exalt, Face The Way. Cause the stumbling block in My peoples’ way to be exalted”.

Pause and think about that.

15: For thus said the High and Lifted One permanently residing in eternity, and whose Name is Holy,

“I permanently dwell in high and holy.  

And it’s with the crushed and the depressed spirit –

to cause the crushed spirits to live,

to cause the depressed spirits to live.

16: For I am not forever quarrelling and I am not continually enraged.

For a spirit faints before my face and the breaths I made.

17: I raged on punishable sin, on his plunder. I caused him to be struck and caused it to be hidden. I rage and he walks in his heart’s backslidden way.

18: I saw his ways.

I heal him. I transport him. I shalam him (make him whole). Comfort to him and to his mourners.

19: Created produce of the lips: “Peace, Peace to far and near”, said Yehoweh. And I heal his.

20: And the wicked are like separated waters for they are not caused to be tranquil. For their waters are not able to separate mud and clay.

21: My God said, “There is no wholeness (shalom) for the wicked”.

Full-Stop.

Prayer: Lord, in the depths of crushing depression, may we remain righteous. And we know in life and death, You are with us. Never let us be children of rebellion, publicly demonstrating religious fervour but prostituting in secret sin as soon as we cross the high church doorposts or our homes. Never seeking favour of world governments and philosophies and not fearing You. And in the end cause peace and integrity to mark our rest. Amen.

1: David’s intercession:

Yehoweh, cause your ear to incline. 

Answer! For its afflicted and needy me!

2: Watch! For pious soul am I.

I Cause to save (Hosha), Your Servant (v 16).

You are My God.

The Truster in You (?!?).

3: Show favour Lord,

for to You I call out all day.

4: Rejoice, soul of Your servant

For I bear my soul up to You.

5: For You are Lord, good and polished, great in covenantal-mercy, to all those who call out to You.

6: Yehoweh, Cause to listen to my intercession and cause to heed to my plea-for-mercy voice.

7: In a day of trouble, I call out to You

For You answer me.

8: No one is like You, Lord among gods and nothing is like Your Doing.

9: All unbelieving nations which you made traverse and make themselves prostrate themselves (?Hitpael wayyiqtol) to Your face Lord and glorify Your Name.

10: For You are great and do works (which are) marvelled – You are a God Apart!

11: Cause my arrow-learning (yarad = shoot = goal focussed instruction), Yehoweh.

I walk Your Way in Your Truth,

made one with my heart to fear Your Name.

12: I cause grateful thanks to You, Lord, My God with all my heart and I glorify You, Your Name, forever.

13:  For Your covenant-kindness is great over me and You have caused to snatch away my soul from the lowest (part of) Sheol (underworld).

14: Proud-Presumptioned gods arose over me and  terrifying assemblies/churches sought my soul and did not place You in front of them.

15: And You are

supportive-compassionate (Rakhoom* all 13 times used only for God) and

gracious (khanoon),

slow to lose temper (erek affeem) and

great in covenant-kindness (rab-kesedh)

(all 4 descriptions are together used for God in Ex 34:6, Neh 9:17, Ps 103:8, 145:8, Joel 2:13, Jonah 4:2) and

truth (emeth).

16: Face me and covenant-mercy me.

Give Your Servant strength.

Cause The Son of Your maidservant to save (Hoshea l’ben) (v2)   

17: Make a good sign for me – and haters see it and are ashamed.

For You, Yehoweh, helped me and covenantally-relented (nakham) me.

Prayer: You are covenantally compassionate and kind, gracious, slow to lose Your temper with us and yet You are Truth. You caused Your Servant, your maidservant’s son, to save us! He gave us a good sign (??the cross) to shame our hater! Amen.

* Rakhoom v’khanoon – Strong’s 7349 + 2587: 2 Chron 30:9, Neh 9:31, Ps 86:15, 103:8, 111:4, 112:4, 145:8.

+ erek affeem – Strong’s 750 + 639: Ex 34:6, Neh 9:17, Joel 2:13, Jonah 4:2

1: Ayyo to her, a Lifter-up-of-self and Polluted, a city, an oppressor

2: She had not listened to His Voice. She had not received discipline.

She had not trusted in Yehoweh.

She had not drawn near her God.

3: Her princesses – roaring lions in her midst,

Her female judges – no bones crushed in the evening (are left) by dawn.

Her prophetesses insolent men!

Her treacherous priestesses profane the holy – they did violence to The Instructions (Torah).

5: Righteous Yehoweh in their midst does not do injustice. He brings light. He’s never failed. He’s never known the shame of injustice.

6: I have caused unbelieving nations to be cut off. Their chief corners (cornerstones) are desolated. Their streets lacking cross-overers (Hebrews- Avar). Their cities devastated (Tsadda) – lacking a man, not one resident.

7: I said, “If you fear Me, you receive discipline and are not cut off from her habitation. All for which I appointed-to-account her. Truly, they caused to arise early (like set an alarm) and caused their work to be corrupted.

8: For truly tarry for Me, Word Yehoweh – until the day I rise up. For My Decree is to gather up-to-harvest unbelieving nations, to gather-together kingdoms, to pour out My fury on them, all the heat of My temper. For with the fire of my ardour, all the earth is eaten up.

9: For at the time I transform peoples’ purified lips to call – all of them – on the name of Yehoweh, to serve him with one interscapular shoulder (where the yoke fits).

10: From Cross-over Ethiopian (Cush) rivers, My entreater-daughters, cause My tributes to be brought.

11: In That Day, you are not shamed for all you had done when you rebel-sinned (psha) against Me for at that time. I cause your exultant pride to be turned aside (forgiven) from your midst. And you will not cause your arrogance to be increased any longer in My Holy Mountain.

12: And I caused to remain in your midst, a humble poor people. And they shelter in the Name of Yehoweh. (Shem and Yehoweh together show that they will actually start saying His Name again)

13: The remnant of Israel do not do injustice. They do not speak lies and in their mouths is not found a fraudulent tongue for they pasture and lie down to rest and no one caused them to tremble”.

Pause and think!

14: Sing, daughter of a dry hill (Zion).

Split your ears, Israel.

Rejoice and exult with all the heart, daughter of Shooting-Peace (Jerusalem).

15: Yehoweh has caused to turn off your judgements, to face your enemy.

Yehoweh is the king of Israel in your midst. You do not see trouble any more.

16: In That Day is said to Jerusalem, “Do not fear, Zion. Do not enfeeble your hands.

17: Yehoweh, your God, is in your midst. The Mighty One causes to save (Yoshea). He rejoices over you with joy. He causes you to be silent with His love. He exults over you with singing”.

18: “I gathered-to-harvest the wearied for an appointment from among you. The burden had happened to be above reproach!

19: Behold I dealt all the afflictors in That Time. And I caused to save The Limpers. And I gather-to-assemble the banished. And I set them up for a song of praise and for repute in every land (where they were) shamed.

20: And at that time when I cause you to traverse and at the time I gather you to assemble, I give to you for reputation and for a song of praise amongst all the people of the earth. In turning back your captives, in your eyes”, said Yehoweh.

Prayer: Jesus, The Word of God, Yshua, our Hoshea (causer-to-Save), thank You for forgiving our rebellion and making us not be unjust. For taking away our shame. Light-bringer – You never fail. Give us a God-magnifying reputation and make us a song of praise. Amen.

1: Gather-yourselves-to-make-yourselves-assemble (for harvesting vs Asaph in Chpt 1 which was gather-to-remove like weeds). And gather-to-assemble the unbelieving nations not yearned for.

2: Before a law was to birth, like threshed-chaff crosses over a day,

Before Yehoweh’s furious temper does not traverse over you,

Before a day of Yehoweh’s temper does not traverse over you,

3: Seek for Yehoweh, all humble of the earth who performed His justice.

Seek righteousness.

Seek humility.

Maybe you’re hidden from a day of  Yehoweh’s temper.

4: For forsaken Aza (Gaza-strength), she is happening.

And Ashkelon (yoke-balance, coastal Philistine city) to desolation

They will expel Ashdod (devastator from Shadad, Dagon worshipping, one of 5 Philistine city states W of Jerusalem) when (it is) doubly bright (noontime).

And Ekron (aker =uproot, the iron tech, Beelzebub worship SW Cnan centre – another of 5 Philistine city states – only Gath is not mentioned here), she is uprooted (they-akrai).

Pause and think!

5: Ayyo! Inhabitants of the sea territory of the Kerethites’ nation (foreign mercenary warriors of King David).

Yehoweh’s word (dabar) is over you, Cnan (humbled/subdued) of the Philistines.

And I cause you to be destroyed. Not a single inhabitant.

6: And it was that the sea territory, she was home to the water holes of the shepherd/pasturers and enclosures for the flock.

7: And the remnant territory, he was a home of Judah. There, in the houses of Ashkelon, he pastures, he lies down in the evening. For they are appointed-to-account by Yehoweh their God. 

And he returned their captives.

8: I herd the public humiliation of Moab (of-father ie Lot’s daughter’s son from her father – modern Jordanians, Chemosh worshippers).

And the blasphemies of Ammon’s (people, Milkom/Molek worshippers, Jordanian) sons with which they publicly humiliated my people (Ammi) and magnified their borders.

9: Therefore, I, Word Yehoweh of Parliaments, God of Israel am Life. And like Sodom (scorched), happens Moab.

And sons of Moab like Gomorrah (bound sheaves) – a thorny weed territory. A Salt dungeon and a desolation.

My remnant people seize them for ever. The remaining of my people inherit them.

10: This is a lowered pride for they publicly humiliated and magnified themselves over people of Yehoweh of Parliaments.

11: To them Yehoweh is feared for he minimized all The gods of the earth and they bend their knee to (worship) Him – each man from his place from all habitations of unbelieving nations.

12: Also you Ethiopians (Cush), they are my sword-pierced.

13: And He stretches His hand over the north (Tsafone – mysterious hidden place), destroys Ashur (Assyria) and sets Ninveh (this was written in 635-625 BC. Ashur’s capital subsequently fell in 612 BC bringing Ashur to an end)  to desolation and dry as a wilderness.

14: Herds of all living things lay down in her midst – also pelican (vomiting bird), also hedgehog (curled up) lodge in its column ornamentation.

A voice sings in a window. Thresholds are desolate for He laid bare the grounds.

15: This, the exultant city with secure dwellers whose said in her heart, “I”, and “no end ever again”.

How had she become a desolation? A resting place for living things?

All who cross over her whistle and wobble their hand.

Pause and think!

Prayer: El Shaddai, the Devastator of Kingdoms and people who are not righteous and humble and who worship other gods,  You give their inheritance to Your People and we commemorated this on this Sabbath, Purim, March and Adar the 15^th, 2025, when you billboarded one of the blood moon tetrads of this year over the Americas. We bow down in awe and worship and look to see the places of the Hamans being given to the Mordechais. Amen.

1: Yehoweh’s word (Dabar not Naeum) which came to Tsaphoni- yah (Hoard -Yah) son of Cushi (Ethiopian) son of Gadoli-yah (Great-one Yah) son of Amari-Yah (Speaker- Yah) son of Kizkhi-Yah (Strengthen-Yah) in days of Yashi-Yah (Saviour-Yah) son of Aman (Faithful), king of Judah (Praise).

2: Gathering-to-remove, I, Word-Yehoweh, cause to gather-to-remove from all the face of The soil (Adamah),

3: I cause to gather-to-remove Adam and beast

I cause to gather-to-remove birds of the heavens and fish of the waters and the stumbling blocks of the trouble-makers (Ra).

I, Word-Yehoweh,  caused to cut down The Adam from  the face of The soil (Adamah).

4: And I spread out My Hand above Judah and above Jerusalem’s inhabitants.

And I caused to cut down from this The place, remnants of The Baal (lord), of The non-jewish priests (?christian Kaamar) with The priests (jewish – Cohen).

5: And to The Worshippers on the terraces (flat roof tops) in the Parliament of the heavens (?christians)  and The Worshippers and Those-sworn-to-Yehoweh and those-sworn into Milkom (Malcolm – their king).

6: And to those-turning-aside from behind Yehoweh and who had not sought to Yehoweh and had not inquired of/researched Him.

7: Hush in Lord Yehoweh’s face for a day of Yehoweh is close for Yehoweh, He caused to establish a slaughter-sacrifice. He made holy His Called-out.

8: And it happened on a day of Yehoweh’s slaughter-sacrifice that I appointed-to-account (faqad) over the princes (Sar) and over the king’s sons and those clothed with foreign clothes.

9: And I appointed-to-account over all those who leapt over the (temple) threshold in a day which he, the fillers of the house of their lords, Violence (Kamas/Hamas) and Deceit. Pause and think!

10: And it happened on a day (of) Word Yehoweh that (there was) a voice, a shriek, from Fish Gate, a howl from the second, a great shattering from the hills

11: Make a howl, inhabitants of market district/mortar for all humbled / Cnan people are silenced. All burdens of silver /money are cut off.

12: And it happened that I searched out The Jerusalem with lamps. I appointed-to-account over men who dregged in stagnation, saying in their hearts, Yehoweh will not cause good and cause trouble.

13: Their wealth became plunder and their houses desolate. They built houses and do not inhabit them. And they establish vineyards but do not drink their wine.

14: The great day of Yehoweh is close. A voice close and quickly hurrying. ‘Bitter day of Yehoweh –  there’ the mighty cry out.

15: A day of fury,

the day that is a day of trouble and tribulation,

a day of desolation within desolation (combination used in Job 30:3, 38:27),  

a day of darkness and gloom (combination used in Exod 10:22 for what Moses did to Egypt for 3 days, Joel 2:2),

A day of a drooping thunder cloud (combination used in Deut 4:11,5:22, Ps 97:2, Ex 34:12, Joel 2:2)

16: A day of a trumpet blast (shofar truah on a Jubilee day of atonement – Lev 25:9) over the fortified cities and over arrogant kingpins.

17: And I caused men distress and they walked blindly for they had missed-the-mark-sinned (khatha) against Yehoweh. And He poured out their blood like dust, their edibles like dung.

18: Also their silver, also their gold will not be able to cause them to be snatched out in a day of Yehoweh’s fury.

All the land was eaten by the fire of His Jealousy.

For He makes an end – indeed terrifying – of all who dwell in the land. Pause and think!

Prayer: O Lord Jesus, I would not want to be missing the mark before You on a Day of the Lord when violence and deceit ended and the wicked were stopped. Amen.

Note: Naeum – ‘Word’ in Zephaniah 1,2 is not listed among the 367 instances of its use in Strongs lexicon no 5002.

Gal 6:2 says bear another’s Baros burdens whilst  Gal 6:5 bear your own Fortion burden. Strong’s comment about Fortion (no 5413) vs Baros (no 920)

In the New Testament, “phortion” refers to a load or burden that one must carry. It is often used metaphorically to describe responsibilities or obligations that individuals bear in their personal or spiritual lives. Unlike “baros” (another Greek word for burden), which can imply a heavy or oppressive load, “phortion” often denotes a load that is appropriate or expected for one to carry.

 (  https://biblehub.com/greek/5413.htm )

Baros Burdens are heavy and difficult and borne alone – our only reason to pick these up would be to help a fellow believer in trouble.

Fortion burdens are responsibilities – like a ship’s freight – Jesus’ covenantal obligations and Matthew 11:30 reminds us that  Jesus’ Fortion burden for us is light.

Jesus connects our Fortio burdens to our Zygos Yoke with an ‘and’ – My yoke is easy AND my burden is light. And He asks us to pick up the Zygos Yoke NOT  its attached Fortion Burden (Matt 11:29).

Jesus mentions this to the Thyatiran church’s messenger whose works are known. Despite others being misled by a self proclaimed prophetesss, some of Jesus’ servants  were not misled and did not delve into Satan. Jesus tells them, “I will NOT put  a Baros burden on you”. (Revelation 2:24)

A Fortion burden  probably becomes a Baros burden when you pick up the burden and not the Zygos yoke!! 

Prayer: Lord may I only pick up Your easy Yoke but Not even Your light burden and certainly not a difficult yoke or a heavy burden not from You (unless it is to help a fellow-in-Christ). Amen.

Disclaimer: I am not a Greek student and this post is based on Interlinear Bible information guided by His Holy Spirit.

79. Ezekiel 21:7,13:

7: And it happened when they say to you,

 ‘For what is your groaning?’,

and you said to them,

‘(It is) About the news (fs)’.

When she is coming and melting every heart.

And she loosened all hands.

All spirits weakened.

All knees walk water.

Behold, coming and brought it to pass:

Word Lord Yehoweh.

(Meaning that He is the news). Phew!

13: (whilst talking about Jesus as the sword against his people) Because he/it is investigated. And what if even a tribe is not rejected? He is Word Lord Yehoweh. Phew!

 

80. Ezekiel 22:12, 31:

12: They took bribes in you in order to spill blood. And you took an increase of interest. And you make unjust profit from your neighbour by extortion. And you misplaced Me – Word Lord Yehoweh.

31: And in the fire of My wrath, I spilled mouth-froth on them. I brought their ways to an end on their (own) heads. And I gave them Word Lord Yehoweh.

 

81. Ezekiel 24:14: I, Yehoweh, spake traversing. And I did it. I do not restrain. And I do not pity. And I, Word Lord Yehoweh, do not comfort you like your ways and like your deeds vindicate you. Phew!

 

82. Ezekiel 25:14b: (about Edom) .. and they understood My, Word Lord Yehoweh’s, vengeance.

 

83. Ezekiel 26:5,14,21:

5b: (about Tyre) .. for I, Word Lord Yehoweh, spoke – and she became plunder for the unbelieving nations.

14b: .. for I, Word Lord Yehoweh, spoke. Pause and think.

21: I, Word Lord Yehoweh, give you terror. And no one seeks you out and no one encounters you again – forever. Pause and think.

 

84. Ezekiel 28:10b: .. for I, Word Lord Yehoweh, spoke. Pause and think.

 

85. Ezekiel 29:20b: (about giving Nebuchadnezzar Egypt) which they worked for Me, Word Lord Yehoweh. Pause and think.

86. Ezekiel 30:6: Thus said the Lord ….. (Definitely proves this is sign – off) … Word Lord Yehoweh.

87. Ezekiel 31:16-18:

16:  I, *Word Lord Yehoweh (from v 18), cause unbelieving nations to quiver. In causing it to be cast down to Sheolah – to the pit-descenders. And they are being comforted in the under world. All Eden’s (pleasant) choice trees and the best of Lebanon’s (snow white wooded mountain), all drinking water – 17: they also descended to Sheolah to the sword-slain. And the strong-armed in the midst of unbelieving nations dwelt in its shadows. 18: To whom will the glory and greatness of Eden’s trees be likened? And Eden’s trees descended to earth’s depths in the midst of the uncircumcised. You lie down with the sword-slain, Pharoah and all the tumult. *. Pause and think.

88. Ezekiel: 32:8,14,16,31,32 (about Pharoah):

8: I, Word Lord Yehoweh, cause to darken all lights of light in heaven on you and brought darkness on your land.

14: Then I, Word Lord Yehoweh, cause their waters to lower and the rivers to a walking pace like oil.

31: Pharoah sees them and is comforted by the tumult of all these slain by the sword – Pharoah and all his army.

Word Lord Yehoweh*

32: For I, *, put my fear in the land of the living. He was caused to be laid down amidst the uncircumcised – Pharoah and all his army. Word Lord Yehoweh. Phew!

 

89. Ezekiel 33:11: Say to them, ‘I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am life if I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. But if the wicked turn from his wicked way and he lived. Turn, Turn from your wicked ways. And For what should you die, house of Israel? Phew!

90. Ezekiel 34:8,15,30,31:

8a: I,  Word Lord Yehoweh, am life. ..

15: I pasture my flock and I, Word Lord Yehoweh, cause them to lie down.

30: And they knew that I am Yehoweh, their God with them and they, house of Israel,  are My, Word Lord Yehoweh’s people.

31: And you are My flock, the flock of My pasture,  Adam (human) – You are! I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am your God. Phew!

 

91. Ezekiel 35:6,11:

6a: So then, I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am life. …

11a: So then, I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am life. …

 

92. Ezekiel 36:14,15,23,32:

14: So then, Adam, they no longer devour your nation, no longer totter you any more – Word Lord Yehoweh.

15a: And no more will I, Word Lord Yehoweh, cause you to hear nations’ insults….

23b: ….  And the unbelieving nations knew that I am Yehoweh – Word Lord Yehoweh – in being made holy through you in their eyes.

 

93. Ezekiel 37:14: And I put My Spirit in you and I cause you to settle in your own soil. And you know that I, Word Yehoweh, spoke it and did it. Phew!

94. Ezekiel 38:18,21:

18: And it happens that in a day – in a day Gog traverses on the soil of Israel, Word Lord Yehoweh increases My fury, My temper (nostrils).

21: And I, Word Lord Yehoweh,  called for a sword on all My mountains. She is (haya) a man’s sword against his brother.

95. Ezekiel 39: 5,8,10,13, 20,29:  see 14/5/24 post but also note:

5: You topple on the face of a field for I, Word Lord Yehoweh, spake.

8: Behold, traversing and happened, it is the day of which I, Word Lord Yehoweh, spoke.

 

96. Ezekiel 43:19,27:

19: And you are the priests and the Levites who are the seeds of Zadok (righteousness) approaching Me, Word Lord Yehoweh, to minister a bull of the herd to Me for missing-the-mark sin.

27b: (when peace offerings are made) .. and I, Word Lord Yehoweh, will delight in you. Pause and think!

 

97. Ezekiel 44:12b: (because of idol worship) … Thus on My hand, I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am sworn against them and they bore their rebellion-sin.

 

Prayer: We are forewarned by you Lord Jesus, not to rebel and the last anti-thetical mention of You is your anger against rebellion to the point where you are the sworn enemy of the rebellious and they have to bear their sin. Please save us O Lord from rebellion and your wrath.

69. Ezekiel 5:11: Therefore, I, Word Lord Yehoweh, live. Surely not because you defiled my sanctuary with all your disgusting things and all your abominations, and also diminishing me and not pitying my eye. And I too don’t pity.

70. Ezekiel 11: 8, 21:

8: A sword you feared. And a sword I, Word Lord Yehoweh, cause to bring upon you.

21: (this verse comes after ‘heart of flesh’ and ‘they will be My people and I will be their God’ vv 19,20)

And to a heart of their disgusting things and their abominations, their heart  walking in their ways, I, Word Lord Yehoweh, I give their heads.  

 

71. Ezekiel 12: 25,28:

25: For I am Yehoweh. I speak to which I speak. A word and it is done. It is not postponed anymore. For in your days, house of the rebellion (Mara), I, Word Lord Yehoweh, say a word and it is done to it.

28: Therefore say to them, This said The Lord Yehoweh, She is not postponed anymore. All My words which I, Word Lord Yehoweh, speak. A word. And it is being done. Pause and think.

 

72. Ezekiel 13: 6,7,8,16: About Ha nabbim Ha nbalin (The prophets-The foolish – from Nabal)

6: The speakers envisioned vainly desolate and false divination. Word Yehoweh and Yehoweh have not sent them and they expectantly hoped to establish a word.

7: Is it not vain desolation you envisioned and false divination you said? And you are saying ‘Word Yehoweh’ but I have not spoken. Pause and think!

8: Therefore this says Lord Yehoweh because you have spoken vain desolation and envisioned falseness, therefore, behold I, Word Yehoweh, am against you.

16: Israel’s prophets are being prophesied over Jerusalem and visionaries to her  (have) visions of wholesome peace (shalom)  when there is no Word Lord Yehoweh Peace. Pause and think!

 

73. Ezekiel 14: 11,15,16,18,20,23:

11: In order that no one strays from me any longer in the house of Israel and is not foul anymore with their rebellions.

And they have been to me for my people and I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am to them their God. Phew!

15: O that I cause living trouble (fem) to cross over into the land. And she miscarriage-bereaved it and she happened desolation to it without crossing over in front of the living.

16: These three fellows have life in Word Lord Yehoweh. If/when sons and if/when daughters cause to snatch and they by themselves are snatched sway and the land is desolate

18: And these 3 fellows are in it, I Word Lord Yehoweh, am the life and do not cause to snatch away sons and daughters even if they by themselves are snatched away.  

20: And Noah (rest/settle), Daniel (God-Judge) and Job (persecuted/enemy) are in the middle of it. I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am the life. If/when a son, if/when a daughter cause to snatch them away, they cause to snatch away their souls.

23: And they comfort you all if/when you see their ways and their doings/performances and you understood if/when not without cost have I, Word Lord Yehoweh, done all which I did in her. Phew!

 

74. Ezekiel 15:8: I, Word Lord Yehoweh, gave the land to desolation because they were unfaithfullingly unfaithful.

 

75. Ezekiel 16: 8,14,19,23,30,43, 48,58,63:  

 8: And I cross over you and I see you. And indeed your time it was the time of affection. And I spread over-to-cover your exposed-modesty and I, Word Lord Yehoweh, swore/perfected to you and traversed into a covenant with you and you are mine.

14:And your name went forth among unbelieving nations for your becoming beauty (yapha – becoming beautiful vs paar- beauty v12). It (the name) was complete by my splendour which I, Word Lord Yehoweh, set on you.

19: And my bread which I gave you – I, Word Lord Yehoweh, caused you to be fed. Fine flour and oil and honey. And you gave it in front of them. A resting aroma (Ria + Nikoah – always together all 47 times – always refers to an acceptable offering to God except thrice in Ezekiel).

23: And it happens after all your trouble, Woe, Woe to you. Word Lord Yehoweh. (An unusual sign-off – like in Isaiah).

30: How troubled is your heart to Word Lord Yehoweh for doing all these doings of a dominating woman-harlot.

42: And I caused my fury to rest and caused  my jealousy  to turn aside from you. And I quietened and rage no more

 43: on account of what you had not remembered in the days of your youth and you trembled. For Me, for all these things – and Hey, I, Word Lord Yehoweh, also put your ways on (its) top/head. And you had not devised a plot over all your abomination.

48: Word Lord Yehoweh is life. (Interjected between the wrongs of Jerusalem – vv 44 – 47, her sisters and daughters including Sodom – v 49, their punishable sin being pride, prosperity, laziness and not strengthening the poor and needy. And it included the abomination of the wider neighbour nations vv 50 – 57)

58: You lifted up the schemes and the abominations to Word Yehoweh. Pause and think!

(v 59 this said Lord Yehoweh, vv 60 – 62 about them causing the annulment of the covenant and Yehoweh causing it to be restored and they being ashamed and quiet)

63:  In order that you remember and you were ashamed. And in your shame’s face, an open mouth never happens any more.

I, Word Lord Yehoweh, to cover you for all which you did. Pause and think!

 

76. Ezekiel 17:16: interspersed between a covenant breaking king seeking help from neighbouring nations instead of Yehoweh is the one liner:

I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am life.

 

77. Ezekiel 18: 3,9,23,30,32:

3: (Talking about the proverb – the fathers eat unripe fruit, the sons teeth are blunted)

I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am life. If you happen to paraphrase this proverb any more in Israel ..

4: Then, to Me, all souls-  they are the Father’s soul and like the son’s soul (they) are to Me – they are the soul (fem) who misses the mark. She dies. Pause and think.

9: He walks my statutes and watches my judgements to do truth. He happens – he is living –  (to) Word Lord Yehoweh.

23: (After vv 10 – 22 detailing sons who obey and disobey and emphasising that fathers and sons’ sins are independent)

Do I, Word Lord Yehoweh, pleasuring pleasure (in the) death of the wicked? Will he not, in turning back from his ways, live? Pause and think.

30: (After vv 24 – 29 emphasising that God’s measured ways are that a just man who sins dies or a sinful man who is just lives ..

So I, Word Lord Yehoweh, judge you, a man, according to his ways. Turn back house of Israel. Turn back from all your rebellions so that your punishable sin is not happening to be a stumbling block to you.

31: Cause to hurl away all rebellion with which you rebelled. And get for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, house of Israel?

32: For I, Word Lord Yehoweh, have no pleasure in death and the dying. And/so make a turn back and live. Phew!

 

78. Ezekiel 20: 3,31,33,36,40,44:

3: Son of man, speak to Israel’s elders. And you said, Thus said Lord Yehoweh, “ Will you come to seek Me? I, Word Lord Yehoweh am life and Oh that I am sought by you!”

31: And through lifting up your gifts to make your sons cross over through the fire, you are defiled by all your idols till this day. And am I sought by you, house of Israel? I, Word Lord Yehoweh am life and I am not sought by you!

33: I, Word Lord Yehoweh am life. Oh that I would not with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and outpoured fury, rule over you.

36: And as I was judged by your fathers in the wilderness land of Egypt, so I, Word Lord Yehoweh, am judged by you!

40: For on my holy mountain and a high mountain, Israel serves Me, Word Lord Yehoweh, there. All the house of Israel, all in the land, I accept them. And there I seek your offerings and your first-fruit sacrifices and all your holy things.

44: and then you knew that I am Yehoweh through your dealing for the sake of My Name, Word Lord Yehoweh, and not for (the sake of) your troublesome ways and your corrupted doings, house of Israel. Phew!

 

Prayer:

Lord Yshua, Word of Yehoweh God, Life. We repent and turn back to You for our sinful rebellion is exposed and You cover our nakedness and hope you restore our covenant is restored.

Lord have mercy.

Christ have mercy.

Lord have mercy.

31. Jeremiah 1:15,19: Dabar (word/s) is what is given to Jeremiah (1: 1, 2,4, 9,11,12,13) contrasting  Naeum (Word) Yehoweh who is calling families and kingdoms to Jerusalem and who is with Jeremiah (God arose = Ruum+Yahu):

15: … For behold I, The Word Yehoweh, am calling to all the families, kingdoms of the north. And they came and set up a man throne at the opening gates of Jerusalem.

19: And they (Judah’s kings and princes and people) were fought over you. And they do not endure against you for I, Word Yehoweh, am with you to cause you to be snatched away. Phew!

 

32. Jeremiah 2:3,9, 12,19,22,29:

3: Holiness to Yehoweh was Israel’s first/foremost harvest crop. All who eat him up,  they trespass. Trouble comes upon them. Word Yehoweh.

9: So then, I, Word Yehoweh, bring charges against you. I bring charges against your children and their children.

12: Astonish heavens (Shomu Shammim) at this and  tremble. The great destruction. Word Yehoweh.

19:  Your trouble instructs you. And your turning back corrects you.

Know and see to abandon bitter trouble for your God, Yehoweh. And do not dread Word Lord Yehoweh of Parliaments in you.

20: I shattered your yoke forever and tore off your bonds.

And you say, “I won’t serve”, when over every high/arrogant hill and every verdant/prosperous wood to you is to squat fornication.

21: And I, I planted for you the richest vine, completely reliable seed.

How were you diverted from Me to a degenerate, strange grapevine?

22: For if you wash with soda bicarb and make for yourself increasing detergent, your indelibly marked punishable sin is before my – Word Lord Yehoweh – face.

29: Why do you all quarrel with me? You rebelled against Me – Word Yehoweh.

 

33. Jeremiah 3:1,10,12, 13,14,16,20:

1: To say that if a man sends his woman away and she walked off from him and happened to another man, will he turn back to her again? Would not that pollutedly pollute the land? She (the land) and you fornicated with many neighbours.

And turn back to Me – Word Yehoweh.

10: And also for all this, her treacherous sister Judah, she did not turn back to Me – Word Yehoweh –  with all her heart – not even in pretence. Pause and think!

11: And Yehoweh says to me, Her soul was righteous. Turning back Israel is more treacherous than Judah.

12: Walk and call out these words in the north and you say, “Turn back turn-backing Israel. Word Yehoweh will not cause you to fall on your faces. For I, Word Yehoweh, am merciful. I will not grudge forever.

13: Only discern your punishable sin. For you have rebelled against Yehoweh your God. And you scatter your ways among strangers under every verdant wood and you do not listen to my, Word Yehoweh’s voice.

14: Turn back, turning-back children. For I, Word Yehoweh, am your lord. I will acquire you – one from a city, two from a family. And I caused you to be brought to Zion.

15: And I gave to you Pasturers according to My Heart and they shepherded you with knowledge and prudence.

16: And it happened: When you increase and bore your fruit in the land in those days, Word Yehoweh does not speak to them anymore (about) Yehoweh’s ark of the covenant. And He does not come up into the heart. And they do not remember Him.

And they do not do appointments. And they are not made anymore.

17: At that time they called Jerusalem the throne of Yehoweh and all the unbelieving nations were expectantly gathered to it in Yehoweh of Jerusalem’s name and they did not walk after the obstinacies of their troubled hearts anymore.

18: In those days the house of Judah walks with the house of Israel.

And they walk as one from the north land to the land which I had caused for your fathers’ inheritance.

19: And I said, “How can I make you sons and give you desirable land as a beautiful inheritance, parliamentary unbelieving nations?”

And I say, “My Father. You call out to me. And from me don’t turn away.”

20: Surely as a woman betrayed a friend /neighbour, so have you, house of Israel, betrayed Me, Word Yehoweh.

 

34. Jeremiah 4:1, 9,17

1: If you, Israel,  return to Me, Word Yehoweh, if you return and if you remove filthy stuff from my face and do not wander.

9: And it happens that Word Yehoweh dies. The king’s heart and the princes’ heart are devastated. The priests and the prophets are astounded.

10: And I say, Aha Lord Yehoweh, surely this was  deceiving deceive for the people to say you shall have peace ….

17: (about watchers who come)… they were like field watchers up and around her (Jerusalem), for she had deliberately rebelled (against) Word Yehoweh.

(PS  v 31: a voice of the daughter of Zion makes herself sigh and spreads out her palms – Woe now is me. My soul is darkened with murderers. Pause and think!)

 

35. Jeremiah 5: 9,11,15,18,22, 29:  

9: Over what shall I, Word Yehoweh, not appoint them? If they were an unbelieving nation, would not My Soul make itself avenged? Pause there.

11: For the house of Israel and the house of Judah we’re treacherously treacherous with me, Word Yehoweh.

15: Behold I, Word Yehoweh, bring a far-off unbelieving nation above you. It is a permanent nation, it is an ancient nation, it is a nation whose tongue you do not know and cannot hear what they say.

18: And also in those days, I, Word Yehoweh, will not make complete destruction of you.

22: Will you not fear Me, Word Yehoweh? …

29: Over what shall I, Word Yehoweh, not appoint them? If they were an unbelieving nation, would not My Soul make itself avenged? Pause there.

 

36. Jeremiah 6:12: And houses were turned over to others, fields and young women together. For I, Word Yehoweh, stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land.

37. Jeremiah 7:11,19,30,32

11: Has this house which was called by my name become a den of thieves upon your eyes / watch? Behold even I, Word Yehoweh, saw it. Pause there.

19: Did they not cause me, Word Yehoweh, provocation? …

30: For the sons of Judah did trouble in My, Word Yehoweh’s eyes…

32: So behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days: And no longer is it called ‘Spitting’ (Topheth where child sacrifice happened) and ‘Valley-of-Hinnom’s son’ (Gehenna is also known as Gey-Ben-Hinnom) for it is a valley of The Slaughter and there is no place to bury in Topheth.

 

38. Jeremiah 8:1,3, 13,17:  

1: In Word Yehoweh’s time, that Judah’s kings’ bones are made to be brought / were brought out, and the prince’s bones and the priests’ bones and the prophets’ bones and the Jerusalem inhabitants’ bones.

3: And death was chosen over lives for all the remnant who were left of the families. This is The Trouble in all the places which I, Word Yehoweh of Parliaments, caused those who remained to be banished there. Pause and think.

13: I, Word Yehoweh, gathering caused gathering. No grapes on the vine. And no figs on the fig tree. And the leaves faded. And (what) I gave them passed over them. (V 12 ends with Amar Yehoweh to contrast with Naeum in v 13, eleh for leaves shared with Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam)

17: For behold I, Word Yehoweh, am sending for you serpents, to you vipers which are not charming and they bit / lent with interest you. Pause and think.

 

39. Jeremiah 9:3,6,9, 22,24,25

3: And they make  their tongues bent – bows for lies and not for truth.  On the land they strengthened. For from trouble to trouble they went forth. And about Me, Word Yehoweh, they did not understand. Pause and think!

6: Dwelling amidst deceit to deceit, they refused to understand about Me, Word Yehoweh. Pause and think!

9: Over these things shall I, Word Yehoweh, not appoint them (to account)? If an unbelieving nation which is like this, (will) not My Soul make themselves avenge themselves? Pause and think!

22: Speak this, Word Yehoweh (lots of debars in v21 and an amar (says) in v 23 too to contrast with Naeum). And the carcasses of the mankind fell as dung on the face of an open field, as sheaves after harvest and no one to gather. Pause and think!

23: Thus said Yehoweh let not the wise make himself praise (hallel) himself in his wisdom. And let not the strong make himself praise (hallel) himself in his strength not the rich man make himself praise (hallel) himself in his riches.

24: For if he makes himself praise (hallel) himself in his self-praising, (it is) made circumspect and known to Me.

For I am Yehoweh who makes kesed lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth. For, I, Word Yehoweh, delighted in these. Pause and think!

25: Behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days! And I appointed all circumcised to account with uncircumcised.

 

40. Jeremiah 12:17: And if they do not listen, I, Word Yehoweh, uprooted that uproot unbelieving nation and destroyed it. Pause and think!

 41. Jeremiah 13:11,14,25:

11: For as a belt clinches a man’s waist, so I, Word Yehoweh, made a clinching to the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah for them to be for me for a people – And for a name, for a praise song and for beauty.

And they did not listen.

14: And I, Word Yehoweh, shattered-&-scattered them – a man against another, and the fathers and the sons as one. I do not spare and I do not pity and I do not rakam lovingkindness in their destroying. Pause and think!

25: This is  your portion, your accounted measure from Me, Word Yehoweh which (and Whom) you (fem) have forgotten and you (fem) trust falsehood.

 

42. Jeremiah 15:3,6,9,20:

 3: And I, Word Yehoweh, appoint over them (to account) 4 families – one, the sword to smite, and one the dogs to drag, and one the birds of the heavens and one the farm animals to eat.

6: You thrust Me, Word Yehoweh, away and walked (off). And I cause  my hand to stretch over you and cause destroying. I am tired of being sorry.

9: A child-bearer was troubled. Her soul breathed the 7 breaths. Her sun went while it was yet day. She was ashamed and disgraced. And I, Word Yehoweh, gave the remnant to the sword in front of their enemies. Pause and think!

20: And I gave you a copper-reinforced wall for this people. And they were fought over you. And they could not prevail over you. For I am with you. I, Word Yehoweh, cause to save you and I cause to snatch you away.

 

43. Jeremiah 16: 5,11,14,16:

5: For thus said Yehoweh, Don’t traverse a house of unrestrained  indulgence and don’t walk to mourn and to head-bang for them. For I, Word Yehoweh to Kesed lovingkindness and Rakam mercies, have gathered up My Peace from these the people.

11: And you said to them, “Over which have your fathers forsaken Me, Word Yehoweh? And they walk after (oker) gods. Others (akerim)! And serve them. And now to them. And they forsook me. And they did not keep watch for my instructions.

14: Therefore behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days. No more is it said, Yehoweh who caused  the sons of Israel to ascend from Egypt lives,

15: but  / for Yehoweh lives who who caused  the sons of Israel to ascend from the north land and from all the lands where He had caused them to be scattered there.

And I caused them to turn back to their earth which I gave to their fathers. Pause and think.

16: Behold I, Word Yehoweh, am sending many fishermen and they fished. And I am sending for many hunters and they hunted from every mountain and every hill and from every crevice of rocks.

 

44. Jeremiah 17:24: And it was that if you listening listen to Me, Word Yehoweh, to not bring a burden into the gates of the city on this the Sabbath day and not to do in it all occupation,

 

45. Jeremiah 18:6: Am I, Word Yehoweh, not capable of doing this like the (potter’s) moulding with you, house of Israel? Look! Like the clay in the moulder’s hand, so are you in My Hand, house of Israel. Pause!

 46. Jeremiah 19:6,12:

 6: like Jer 7:32 – So behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days: And no longer is the place named ‘Spitting’ (Topheth where child sacrifice happened) and ‘Valley-of-Hinnom’s son’ (Gehenna is also known as Gey-Ben-Hinnom) for it is but valley of The Slaughter.

12: Thus I, Word Yehoweh, do this to this place and to its inhabitants to give this on the city like Topheth.

 

47. Jeremiah 21: 7,10,13,14:

7: And so afterwards, I Word Yehoweh, give this to Zedekiah king of Judah, and to his servants and to his people and to the remnant in the city: in pestilence, in the sword and in the famine by hand of Nebukadretsar king of Babylon and by the hand of their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their souls. And he caused them to be struck by the face of the sword. He had no compassion on them and no pity and no rakam lovingkindness.

10: For I, Word Yehoweh, set my face against this city for trouble and not for good. It is given into the King of Babel’s hand and he burnt it with fire. Pause and think!

13: Behold, I, Word Yehoweh, am against you inhabitants of the Valley, rock and the plain – those who say Who descends against us and who traverses our dwellings?

14: And I, Word Yehoweh, will appoint you to hold to account according to the fruit of your doings. And I caused to kindle a fire in a forest and it ate up everything around it. Pause and think!

 

 48. Jeremiah 22:5,16,24:

5: And if you do not listen to these words of mine, I, Word Yehoweh, am sworn to desolation happening to this the house.

16: He judged judgements for the depressed and needy and then it was good, was it not, that he had knowledge of Me, Word Yehoweh,

24: As I, Word Yehoweh, live, even if Coniah Ben Jehoiakim, Judah’s king’s signet ring was there on my right hand, I pluck you off.

 

49. Jeremiah 23:1,2,4,5,7,11,12,23,24, 28,29,30,31,32,33

1: Oye Pasturers who destroy and dash to pieces the flock of My, Word Yehoweh’s, pasture.

2: Therefore thus said Yehoweh, God of Israel, against the Pasturers. You, the Pasturers of My people have caused to dash in pieces My flock and caused to scatter them and not appointed them to be held to account. Behold I, Word Yehoweh, appoint you to hold you to account for your troublesome doings.

4: And I , Word Yehoweh, caused to establish Pasturers who pastured them. And they fear no more and they are dismayed no more and they are they are not appointed to be held to account. Pause and think!

5: Behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days – a sprout of David, righteousness reigned, a king caused to be circumspect and made Justice and righteousness on earth.

7: like Jer 16:14,15. Therefore behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days. No more is it said, Yehoweh who caused  the sons of Israel to ascend from Egypt lives,…

11: for also prophet, also priest are soiled. Also in my house I, Word Yehoweh, found trouble.

12: So their road is slippery to them in the dark. They are driven on it and fell. For I, Word Yehoweh, cause trouble to traverse on them in the year of their appointment to be held to account.

23: Am I, Word Yehoweh,  a nearby God and not a remote god?

24: Can a man be hid in a secret place and I, Word Yehoweh, not see him? Did I, Word Yehoweh, not fill the heavens and the earth?

28: the prophet who has The dream tells The dream. And who has My, Word Yehoweh’s word, speaks my word truthfully. What is the chaff to the grain?

29: Is not My Word like a fire? And like Word Yehoweh’s hammer which shatters rock? Pause and think.

30: So behold, I, Word Yehoweh, am against the prophets (Hanabi) who steal (genabi) every one of my words from his neighbour.

31: Behold I, Word Yehoweh, am against the prophets who take to their tongues and declare ( naemu) Word (Naeum).

32;Behold I, Word Yehoweh, am against being prophesied by false dreams. And they recount them. And they cause my people to go astray by their lies and by their recklessness. And I did not send them. And I did not command them. And they shall not profiting profit from people like this. Word Yehoweh.

33: And so the people ask you this or prophet or priest to say what Yehoweh’s oracle/burden is and you said to them, this is what the oracle/burden is, I, Word Yehoweh, forsook you.

 

50. Jeremiah 25:7,9,12,29,31:

7: And you have not listened to me, Word Yehoweh,  in order to cause me to get angry with the works of your hands for your own trouble. Pause and think!

9: Behold I, Word Yehoweh,  will send and seize all the northern families. And I caused Nebukadretsar, King of Babel, My servant, to traverse over This land and over its inhabitants and over all these unbelieving nations surrounding them and caused them to be exterminated and set them up as a horror, and for a derision and a perpetual desolation.

12: And it happened that as 70 years are to be complete, I, Word Yehoweh, appoint to take account of the king of Babel and of that nation for their punishable sins and to the Kashdim land, I made it a perpetual desolation.

29: Behold in the city which is called by my name over it, I despoiled with trouble and you innocently declared innocent and not declared innocent? For I, Word Yehoweh of Parliaments, will call a sword over all the earth’s inhabitants.

31: A tumult came to the ends of the earth. A dispute of Yehoweh with the unbelieving nations. He is being judged with all flesh! He, Word Yehoweh, gave the wicked ones to the sword. Pause and think about that!

 

51. Jeremiah 27:8,11,15,22:

8: And it happened that unbelieving nations which do not serve Nebukadretsar, king of Babel, and will not put  its neck under the yoke of the king of Babel, by sword and by famine and by pestilence over that nation, I, Word Yehoweh, appoint to be held to account  till they are wholly in his hand.

 

11: And the nations which make their necks to be brought under the king of Babel and serve him, I, Word Yehoweh, let them rest in their own earth and they worked and inhabited it.

15: For I, Word Yehoweh, did  not sent them and they are prophesying in My Name for a lie in order that I banish you and you and the prophets prophesied to you perished.

22: They are traversing to Babel and there they be till the day I, Word Yehoweh, appoint for them to hold them to account. And I caused them to ascend and caused them to turn back to this The Place. Pause and think!

 

52. Jeremiah 28:4b: (Hananiah’s false prophecy) ….I, Word Yehoweh, am bringing you back to this The Place. For I will shatter the yoke of the king of Babel.

 

53. Jeremiah 29:9,11,14,19,23, 32:

 9: For in falsehood they are prophesying to you in My Name. I, Word Yehoweh, did not send them. Pause and think!

11: For I knew the thoughts that I, Word Yehoweh, think about you – peace thoughts – and not trouble – to give to you  afterwards and hope.

14: And I, Word Yehoweh, was found by you. And I turned you back from your captivity. And I gathered you from all the unbelieving nations and from all the places where I, Word Yehoweh, had caused to banish you. And I caused you to turn back to the place where you were caused to be stripped.

19: Instead of which they did not listen to my, Word Yehoweh’s words which I sent to them by my servants, the prophets, sending them starting early. But they did not heed Word Yehoweh.

23: And because of the foolish things they did in Israel, and committing adultery with neighbours’ women and knowingly speaking lying words in my name which I had not commanded. And I, Word Yehoweh am witness. Pause and think!

32: And so this said Yehoweh, Behold I appoint to hold to account, Shemaiah the Nehalamite, and against his seed. To a man, he is not to dwell among this people and not see the good which I, Word Yehoweh,  do for My people. For he spoke rebellion against Yehoweh. Pause and think!

 

54. Jeremiah 30:3,8,10,11, 17,21:

3: For behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days: I turned back my people Israel and Judah from their captivity said Yehoweh. And I caused them to turn back to the land which I gave their fathers and they possessed it. Pause and think!

8: And it happened in Word Yehoweh of Parliaments’ day, I shatter his yoke from your neck and his halter I tear off. He enslaves foreigners no more.

10: therefore do not fear my servant, Word Yehoweh’s Jacob. And do not be dismayed, Israel. For behold I am causing you and your seed from the land of captivity to be saved from afar. And Jacob turned back and rested and quietened. And no one caused him fright.

11: For I, Word Yehoweh, am with you to cause to save you. For I do destruction  of all unbelieving nations where I had caused you to be dashed in pieces . Yet I will not do destruction of you. And I chasten you in justice – not (just) innocencebeing declared innocent. Pause and think.

17: For I cause your health to rise and I, Word Yehoweh, heal your wounds. For the banished called you Zion. She seeks for no one. Pause and think.

21: And it happened that leaders from them and a ruler comes. And I cause him to draw near and is approached by Me.

For who is she? (About Zion) She is  pledged to His heart. To approach Me, Word Yehoweh.

 

57. Jeremiah 31: 1,14,16,17,20,27,28, 31,32,34,36,37,38 – see blog of July 2 2024

 

56. Jeremiah 32:5,30,44:

5: Zedekiah is caused to walk to Babel. There he is till I, Word Yehoweh, appoint him to hold him to account. If you fight with the Kashdim, you are caused not to succeed. Pause and think!

30: For sons of Israel and sons of Judah only are making trouble in front of me from their youth. For the sons of Israel only are causing anger to Me, Word Yehoweh, by the doing of their hands.

44b: … for I, Word Yehoweh, cause the captives to return. Pause and think!

 

57. Jeremiah 33:14: Behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days – and I caused the good words to stand which I had emphasised to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

 

58. Jeremiah 34:5,17,22:

 5: You die in peace. And as the cremations of your fathers, the first kings of Israel who were before you, so they burn you and they mourn ayyo lord for you. For I, Word Yehoweh, emphasise (speak)  the word. Pause and think!

17: Therefore thus said Yehoweh, You have not obeyed Me (in letting slaves be free) to proclaim liberty of a man to his brother and a man to his neighbour. Behold I, Word Yehoweh, proclaim liberty  to you – for the sword, for pestilence and for famine. And I give you as a sacrifice to all kingdoms of the earth.

22a: Behold I, Word Yehoweh, am commanding and caused them to turn back to this the city

 

59. Jeremiah 35:13:

12: And it is that Yehoweh’s word came to Jeremiah saying

13:  Thus says Yehoweh of Parliaments, God of Israel: Go and say to men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, “Will you not receive instruction, to listen to my – Word Yehoweh’s – words?” 

 

60. Jeremiah 39:17,18:

17: And I, Word Yehoweh, caused you to be snatched away in that day and not be given into the hands of the men in front of whom you  were afraid.

18: For I wholly deliveringly wholly delivered you and you do not fall by the sword. And your soul was the spoil because you trusted in Me, Word Yehoweh. Pause and think!

 

61. Jeremiah 42:11: Do not be afraid in front of the King of Babel.

 In front of whomever you are afraid of, do not be afraid in front of them.

For Word Yehoweh is with you. I cause to save you and cause to snatch you from his hand.

 

62. Jeremiah 44:29 : And this is Word Yehoweh’s sign to you that I will appoint you to hold you to account in this place in order that you know that My words standing stand up against you for trouble. Pause. And think!

 

63. Jeremiah 45:5: And you seek for yourself great things? Do not seek. For I, Word Yehoweh, traverse trouble on all flesh. But I give to you your life as a spoil over all the places in which you walk. Pause and think!

 

64. Jeremiah 46: 5,18,23,26,28

 5: For what did I, Word Yehoweh, see them  crushed and retreating back? And their mighty ones are caused to be bruised and in retreat, retreated – and made not to turn to face in all encompassing fright.

18a: I Live! My Name is Word – The King – Yehoweh of Parliaments.

23: They cut down her forest. For Word Yehoweh cannot be examined. For they are more numerous than a locust and nothing like the number.

26: And I, Word Yehoweh, gave them into the hands of those who sought their lives and into the hand of Nebukadretsar, king of Babel and his servants. And then afterwards she was permanently inhabited as in the first days. Pause and think!

28a: Don’t you fear, Jacob, my servant. For Word Yehoweh,  I, am with you….

 

65. Jeremiah 48: 12,15,25,30,35,38, 43,44,47:

12: Therefore behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days: I sent garbage tip workers to tip over equipment and  empty containers and break jars.

15b: His Name is Word – The King – Yehoweh of Parliaments

25: Moab’s horn is felled and his arm shattered, Word Yehoweh .. v26 .. makes him drunk ..

30a: I, Word Yehoweh, knew his temper …

35: For I, Word Yehoweh, cause ascending to Moab to burn sacrifices to his gods in high places to cease / rest.

38b: .. for I, Word Yehoweh, broke Moab like a vessel – no pleasure in it.

43: Fear, a pit and Word Yehoweh’s net upon you, Moab inhabitant.

44: The flee-er from the fear falls into the pit.

The ascender from the pit is snatched by the snare.

For I, Word Yehoweh, cause to bring upon Moab a year of their appointment to hold to account.

47: I, Word Yehoweh, caused to turn back Moab’s captives in the later days till Moab’s judgment. Pause and think!

 

66. Jeremiah 49: 2,5,6,13,16,26, 30,31,32,37,38,39:

2a: Therefore behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days: I caused  Rabat son of Ammon to listen to ….

5: Behold I, Word Lord Yehoweh of Parliaments cause fear to be brought upon you from all those around you. And you are driven out from in front of a man. And no one gathers the wanderers.

6: And then later, I, Word Yehoweh, cause the captives of the sons of Ammon to turn back. Pause and think!

13: For I, Word Yehoweh, myself am sworn to horror, to shame, to waste and to cursing. It happens in Batsrah and it happens all its cities (go) to waste forever.

16b: … If, like an eagle, you cause a nest to be high up, I, Word Yehoweh, cause to bring you down.

26: Therefore select young men fall in their streets and all men of war are silenced in that – Word Yehoweh of Parliaments’ day.

30: Flee, Wander, dwell very deep, inhabitants of Katsore (fortress). For Word Yehoweh’s Nebukadretsar, king of Babel, devised a plan against you and plotted.

31: Stand up, go up to Word Yehoweh’s tranquil unbelieving nation who is trustworthy with no doors or bolts – to permanently reside separately.

32: And their camels were for plunder, and their multitude of acquisitions were spoil.

 I scattered them to all the winds to the farthest corners. And from all regions, I, Word Yehoweh, caused tribulation to be brought.

37: And I caused Elam (strong, Persia) to break in their enemies’ face. And I caused troublesome fierceness and impetuousness  to be brought upon them in the face of those who seek their souls.

I, Word Yehoweh, sent a sword after them till I finished them.

38: And I set my throne in Elam.

And I, Word Yehoweh, caused kings and princes from there to be destroyed.

39: And it happened in the latter days, I, Word Yehoweh, caused to bring Elam’s captives back. Pause and think!

 

67. Jeremiah 50:4,10,20,21,30,31,35,40:

4: In those days and in the time that Word Yehoweh comes, here the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah as one and continually and weep and walk and seek Yehoweh their God.

10: And it happened that to plunder Kashdim, all Word Yehoweh’s  plunderers (see Jer 51:48,53 from Shaddad)  were filled

20: In those days and in the time that Word Yehoweh is sought, Israel’s punishable sin is not there and the consequences of Judah’s missing the mark is not found  for I forgive those who I cause to remain.

21: Go up against the land of bitter rebellion. Against it and against inhabitants of appointed to be held to account. Desolate and ban (haram) them after them. And do all that I, Word Yehoweh, commanded you. Pause and think!

30: like Jer 49:26 Therefore select young men fall in their streets and all men of war are silenced in that – Word Yehoweh of Parliaments’ day.

31: Behold I, Word Lord Yehoweh of Parliaments, am against you, insolence for your day came – the time when I appoint you to be held to account.

35: Word Yehoweh’s sword against the Kashdim, and against the inhabitants of Babel and against her princes and against her wise men.

40: As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbours, Word Yehoweh won’t reside there, son of man wont sojourn in it.

 

68. Jeremiah 51:24,25,26,39,48,52,53,57:

24: I, Word Yehoweh, will complete to Babel and to all inhabitants of Kasdim for all the trouble they have done in Zion in your eyes.

25: Behold I, Causing-to-destroy-Word Yehoweh who causes to destroy all the eart, I am against you, mountain. And I stretched out my hand against you. And rolled you down from the rocks and made you a cremation mountain.

26: And they do not take from you Word Yehoweh’s corner stone and foundation stone but you are desolated forever.

39: In their warmth I, Word Yehoweh, set up their drinking and caused them to get drunk in order that they exult and they slept a perpetual sleep and are not made to wake up.

48: And they sang joyously over Babel, heavens and earth and all that in them is for from the north Word Yehoweh’s plunderers (see Jer 50:10, 51:53 from Shaddad) traverse.

52: Therefore behold Word Yehoweh’s coming days: I appointed to hold to account her carvings. And in all her land the fatally wounded shriek.

53: If Babel rose up to heaven and if she fortifies her strength in the heights, from me comes Word Yehoweh’s plunderers (see Jer 50:10, 51:48 from Shaddad). Pause and think!

57: And I made her princes, her wise men, her governors and her subordinates and her mighty men drunk and they slept a perpetual sleep and are  not made to wake up. His Name is Word-The King- Yehoweh of Parliaments.

 

Prayer: Word Yehoweh, Lord and King, CEO who makes appointments with the ungodly to hold them to account, You are integrally involved with the affairs of kings and armies and you set up and bring down nations. You are near and with those who listen to you. But this work of yours on Your Day is so different to what we know of you at other times. El Shaddai!

 

22. Isaiah 41:14 Whilst making familiar promises to Israel and Jacob, Yehoweh holds his right hand saying (v13):

14: Don’t you fear, worm, Jacob, Israeli men. I helped you – Word Yehoweh and your Kinsman Redeemer, Holy of Israel.

 

23. Isaiah 43:10,12 : When asked by unbelieving Jews in the the temple to tell them plainly if He was the Christ, this is the section Jesus chose. And they picked up stones. Whilst declaring His commitment to Israel and asking nations for their witnesses and they obey and say the truth ….

10: You are My witnesses, Word Yehoweh and My Servant whom I have chosen in order that you all know and make Amen (confirm/believe) Me.

And you all discern that I (am) He.

In front of Me no god is fashioned (by a potter).

After Me, nothing Is  (yehiyeh from haya – I AM).

Pause and think!

11: I, I, Yehoweh.

And no one beside Me (is) Moshea (to Yshua).

12: I have caused to declare.

I have caused to save (Hoshea).

And I have caused to listen/obey.

And no one amongst you (is) a stranger (unrelated to Me).

And you all are my witnesses:

Word Yehoweh and I, god.

13: Also, from the day I (am) He. And (There is) no one to make to snatch out of my hand. (John 10:28)

I make / perform.

And who (are they who) will make her turn back?

Pause and think!

 

24. Isaiah 49:18: In return for being told that He had forgotten them,  Yehoweh asks if a woman can forget her child. He says their enemies will go away and …

18: Lift up your eyes and look around and see all these!

They gathered and came to you.

I, Word Yehoweh, (am) Life – (indeed) for all of them.   

You dress up with me as an ornament.

And you adorn them as a bride (would).

 

25. Isaiah 52:5 : This is sandwiched between describing the oppression of Egypt and Assyria, Yehoweh saying you sold yourself for nothing and are being kinsman-redeemed for nothing (v 3) and Yehoweh says they will know His Name, that He speaks and how beautiful are the feet of him who bring good news (v 6,7) ….

5 So who is like me here, The Word Yehoweh? I acquired them for nothing. Those who rule them make them yell , “Word Yehoweh” and constantly, all the day, my name is despised.

 

26. Isaiah 54:17: Occurring just after the ‘Suffering Servant’ chapter 53, this is the end of a chapter promising forever- loving-kindness:

17: All vessels caused to be fashioned against you do not prosper.

And all tongues that rise up against you in judgement, you cause to be wrong / accounted wicked.

This is the inheritance of Yehoweh’s servants.

And their righteousness is from Me,  Word Yehoweh.

 

27. Isaiah 55:8: For  not My purposes, (are) your purposes.

And not My Roads, (are) your roads.

Word Yehoweh.

 

And He goes on to say in v 11, So shall My word (dabari not Naeum) which goes out from My mouth not return to me void. … as if to differentiate between The Person (Naeum v 8) vs His word (Dabar v11).

 

28. Isaiah 56:8 After mentioning His Welcome and protection of the castrated and the foreigner, He says:

8: I, Lord, Word Yehoweh of Israeli outcast-gathering, again gather to Him those (already) gathered.

 

29. Isaiah 59:20 Kinsman-Redeemer comes to Dry-Hill (Zion) and those in Jacob (supplanter/heel) who turn back from rebellion.

Word Yehoweh

21: and I – This is My covenant with them says Spirit Yehoweh who is upon you.

And My words which I put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, and from the mouth of your seed, and from the mouth of the seed of your seed  says Yehoweh from now and for evermore. Pause and think about that.

 

30. Isaiah 66:2,17,22:

2: And for all these my hand made and all these exist. But on Word Yehoweh? This one I make to consider a poor, innocent spirit trembling at my word.

17: The ones who make themselves holy and make themselves pure after one in their midst eats pig flesh and an abomination and a mouse together come to an end. Word Yehoweh.

22: For as the new heavens and the new earth which I make stands before my face, so Word Yehoweh stands your descendants and your name.

 

Prayer:

Our Word Yehoweh, our Kinsman Redeemer who bought us.

Our Word Yehoweh, our Life who stands before us,

Our Word Yehoweh, whose Spirit fills us.

Our Word Yehoweh, who gathers us outcasts to You.

Our Word Yehoweh, Yehoweh’s Witness to us.

Note: Italics – my additions

13. Isaiah 1:24: After decrying Israel and Judah (like Sodom and Gomorrah), God signs off with His Name –

24: Therefore The Word of The Lord, Yehoweh of Parliaments, Mighty one of Israel, Ayyo, I am comforted from my restrainers, I am avenged of my enemies!

 

14. Isaiah 3:15:

14: Yehoweh enters into judgement with elders of His people and princes: You, from your houses you eat from and plunder the poor people’s vineyard.

15: Why do you break and grind my poor people to their faces?

(And like a citation, it is signed off)

The Word Lord, Yehoweh of the Parliaments.

Pause and think about that.

 

15. Isaiah 14:22,23: Another sign off but this time a double sign off after outlining Israel victory and enemy (Hilel son of the morning) defeat in an amazingly contemporary way,

22: I, The Word Yehoweh of Parliaments, stood up against them and caused them to be cut (karat as in cut covenantally) from a Babylonian name and remnant offspring and speckled (identifying characteristics). The Word Yehoweh.

23: And I had established a hedgehog reserve and marsh water and I sweppity-swept with a sweeppity-Sweep of destruction. The Word Yehoweh.

Phew!

 

16. Isaiah 17:3,6: And fortifications were sabbathed from Ephraim, from a kingdom of Damascus, and a remnant of Aram. They are like the glory of the sons of Israel. The Word of Yehoweh of Parliaments.

Pause and think about that!

 

17. Isaiah 19:4: And I hand over Egypt into the hands of a cruel lords (Adonim) and a harsh king rules. The Word of The Lord (Ha-Adon) Yehoweh of Parliaments.

 18. Isaiah 22:25: Before v 25, The Servant God-Resurrects (Eliakem) son of A-portion-of-God (Chilkiyahu – v 20) replaces Shebna (corrupt governor) and is pegged (staked – referring to a cross?) to a throne, to glory, to being a father in the house of His Father and offspring and vessels are hung on Him and then ….

25: In that day The Word Yehoweh of Parliaments covenantally withdraws and the peg (fem sing – cross?) in the driven into and Amened (confirmed) place – and she was cut down and she was fallen and the burden (prophecy, ms) on it was cut (karat = covenant cutting, ms). 

For Yehoweh has spoken.

So be it.

( ie the day Jesus was taken away, the cross was cut down and falls and on its burden (Jesus), a new covenant is “cut”).

 

19. Isaiah 30:1: Woe to The rebellious sons of The Word Yehoweh

for taking counsel

– and not from Me,

And for anointing an image

– and not  My Spirit,

In order to add the missing-the-mark-punishable-sin to the missing-the-mark-punishable-sin

(khatha – see Amos 5:12).

 

20. Isaiah 31:9: Coming to the end of His actions against enemies including Asher, He signs off:

9: In fear he crosses over to his craggy cliff (secure place).

And they are afraid of His princes’ banner – The Word of Yehoweh whose fire-light is in to parched-hill (Zion) and (whose) oven is in to Shooting- Peace (Jerusalem).

 

21. Isaiah 37:34: Another sign off at the end of Sennacherib’s fiasco:

34: By the same way he came, came return – and in to the city like this he did not come. The Word Yehoweh.

 

Prayer: Jesus, The Word Yehoweh, first author of Isaiah, Avenger and Smiter of evil powers, and yet our Comforter. When You were withdrawn for our sake, Your fallen cross heralds the end of the Old Covenant and You, God-Resurrects, are our newly covenanted  prophecy! Hallelujah!

 

PS

(In the next “Servant” book of Isaiah chapter 40-66, Naeum Yehoweh – The Word of Yehoweh does not just sign off as author.

(section nos 22-30 which will be uploaded are like sections 18, 19 in Isaiah 22 and 30 above).

Please note italics in the verses are my clarifying additions)

1: And the sons of Israel make trouble in the eyes of Yehoweh.

So Yehoweh gave them into ‘By-Judgement’s’ (M+deen – Midian) hand for 7 years:

 2: And ‘ByJudgement’s’ hand prevailed against Israel. In Midian’s face, sons of Israel made canals (from nakar=stream) for themselves in mountains and the silos (from ur=dark) in the fortresses.

3: And it happened that when Israel sowed and Midian and Labourers (Amalek) and sons of east (rising, early) ascended (aliyah) upon them.

4: And they migrated over them and spoilt their land’s produce coming till Gaza ( Az=strength) and make no left over for Israel’s living – (not) a sheep, an ox, an ass.

5: For they and their possessions ascend. And their tents come sufficient for the great increase. And no count for both they and their camels. And they enter the land and destroy it.

6: And Israel is weakened greatly in from of Midian and sons of Israel cry out to Yehoweh.

Phew!

 

7: And it happens when sons of Israel cry out to Yehoweh on account of Midian,

8: And Yehoweh sends a man of inspired speech (nabi=prophecy) to sons of Israel and he says to them, “Thus Yehoweh, God of Israel, “I made you ascend from Egypt and make you to be brought out of the house of servitude.

9: And I cause you to be snatched out of the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all oppressors.

And I drive them out from you in front of your face.

 

And I give her (Egypt = Mitsarim is fem) to you, For you their lands.

10: And I say to her, “To you, I am Yehoweh, your God. Don’t you fear the Amorite (from amar=saying) gods in whose lands you dwell. And you had not heard (shema = hear+obey) my voice”.

Phew!

 

11: And Messenger Yehoweh comes and sits under the oak where in Ofra (dust) where (are) Joash (Yehoweh + ya’ash (gives) or + esh (fire)), my father, the Azeri (help).  

And Gideon (cutter) his son – a wheat(s)  thresher in a wine press to save it (hide) from the face of  Midyan.

12: And Messenger Yehoweh inspects him and says to him, “Yehoweh is with you, mighty man of wealth/strength”.

13: And Gideon says to Him, “Please my Lord!!

And (if) Yehoweh exists with us, then for what did we find us in all this?

And where are all the wonders which were told to us by our fathers to say ‘Did Yehoweh not make us aliyah (ascend) us from Egypt?’

And now Yehoweh abandoned us and causes us to be given in to Midyan’s palms.

14: And Yehoweh faces up to him and says, “Walk (lek) in this enduring strength of yours. And you shall cause to save (Hoshea) The Israel from Midyan’s palms. Did I not send you?”.

14: And he says to Him, “Please my Lord!! With what can I cause to save (oshea) The Israel? Behold my thousand – the poor Manasseh (make forgotten)! And I, the young-one in my father’s house.”

15: And Yehoweh says to him, “For I Am (Ehiyeh) with you. You have made Midyan defeated as a single man.”

 

Prayer: Lord, speak to our Gideon’s today. May we be saved because You are ‘Ehiyeh Imak’ – I AM with you.

Amen.  

6. 2 Kings 9:26: After Jehu (Yehoweh is He) is anointed by Elisha’s man and deemed king by his captains and kills King Jehoram of Simeon, Ahab and Jezebel’s son, and has him thrown into Nabaoth’s (fruitful) field in fulfillment of Elijah’s prophecy to Ahab (1 Kings 21) for letting Jezebel take Nabaoth’s family vineyard by false witness and murder, Jehu prayerfully addresses God and says:

26: “ Surely have not I seen Nabaoth’s blood and the blood of his sons last night, Word of Yehoweh? And I repaid the plot to you in this, Word of Yehoweh. And now take him and fling him in the plot according to Yehoweh’s speech”.

 

7. 2 Kings 19:33,34: After Isaiah says that Yehoweh says he will stop Sennacherib’s Jerusalem siege, Yehoweh says:

33: “In the way he (Sennacherib) comes, he goes, in it he turns around. And into the city this (time), he does not come. The Word of God

34: and I defended this city to cause it safety (hoshea) for my sake and for my servant David’s sake”.

 

8. 2 Kings 22:19: Young King Josiah and all the priests ask prophetess Khuldah and she ends a dreadful message of what God says with this:

18:”… but as for the king of Judah who sent you to seek of Yehoweh,  say this to him: Thus said Yehoweh, God of Israel, about the words you heard.

19: On account of your heart  softened and you humbled (Kna) before Yehoweh, hearing what I said about this place and about its inhabitants becoming for desolation and for cursing. And you tear your clothes and weep and I, The Word of God, also heard you.

 

9. 2 Chron 34:27: As above – a parallel section

 

10. Ps 36:1: Are the three addresses of Psalm 36 the same person? In which case, all the Choir Master addressee Psalms are Jesus songs!

To the Choir Master,

To Yehoweh Servant,

To the Darling (David) Word.

 

11. Psalm 110:1: Jesus puts up an unanswered puzzle in Matthew 22:45, Luke 22:42,43,  Mark 12:36,37.  He asks why David is saying “my Lord” to his son. They (actually called grammateons in Luke & Mark!) think He is questioning ‘My Lord’ and can’t answer back. But He is questioning ‘saying’!

 

Q: How is David’s Lord his son?

A: He isn’t!  Its wrongly understood.  Psalm 110:1 actually about David’s Lord addressing The Word of God:

 

 A David song:

Word of God (ms), Sit (ms) to my My Lord’s (cs) right (cs) till I make (cs) your enemies your footstool.

 

The ms and cs match in the first clause of v1 with this solution making a definitive identification of The Word of God here as Yshua.

 

Moreover there are other references to enemies under feet which are about Yshua ( https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/All-Enemies-Under-God~s-Feet ) :

 

Isaiah 60:14 (those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet),

Heb 10:12,13 (but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet).

1 Cor 15:25 (For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet)

Eph 1:22 (And He put all things in subjection under His feet)

 

12. Prov 30:1: The Words of the collector son of obedience and weight: The Word (is) The Man for/to/of God. For God, for (being) eaten.

 

Prayer: Kings, Prophets, prophetesses all knew You, Yshua, as we do, as the Word of God – active to save, to be obeyed, a Choir Master, a Man! And Your Father puts Your enemies as Your Footrest! Why didn’t you unveil this WORD riddle to the disciples? We feast upon You, our Bread of Life. Thank you!

 

There are 376 Naeums – a noun meaning ‘Word’ in 90 sections in the Old Testament (Strong’s 5002, deriving from Naam (name as in Hindi) and logos in Greek Strong’s 3056) which gets English-translated as a verb ‘says’ which is actually Dabar Strong’s 1697 or Imrah Strong’s 565 and often the latter is in the sentence anyway ie the subject is The Word of God (a person – Jesus) and the verb is says. So see what happens if you translate it as a noun and take it to refer to Jesus as it was meant to be coded according to John 1:1 and Revelation 19:13 – God, The Word.

1. Genesis 22:15,16: Yehoweh’s Messenger Angel to Abraham is definitively identifying Himself as Jesus, saying: I, Yehoweh’s Word, swore to myself on account of what you have done …
2. Num 14:28: Yehoweh identifies Himself to Moses and Rebellious Israel as Yehoweh’s Word telling Moses to say, I am the Life, The Word of Yehoweh….
3. Numbers 24: Being stopped, like Paul, by Jesus with a sword (23:, Balaam’s  third and fourth Spirit filled prophecies (of 7):

1: And Bilam (Devours People) sees that it is good in Yehoweh’s eyes to bless Israel and he did not walk to and fro (like step, in step) to declare enchantments. And he sets his face to the wilderness

2: And Bilam raises his eyes and sees Israel residing in their tribes. And the Spirit of Elohim comes upon him.

And he offers up his sound-byte-weighty-message-parable.

And he says

“Word,

(It is) Balaam (People devoured) son of Beor(Burn-er),

And Word,

(It is) the eyes-unveiling man

4: Word,

(It is) the hearer of God’s words, (who) falls down (on seeing) a vision of the Devastator, (whose) eyes are unveiled.

5: How good are your tabernacles, Jacob (Heel supplanter),

Your sanctuaries, Israel.

6: Stretched out like streams, like gardens by a river, like aloe (perfumed wood – Ahal – from Sanskrit Agar) planted by Yehoweh, like cedars by waters.

7: ..”

 

15: And he offers up his sound-byte-weighty-message-parable.

And he says

“Word,

(It is) Balaam (People devoured) son of Beor(Burn-er),

And Word,

(It is) the eyes-unveiling man

16: Word,

(It is) the hearer of God’s words, who knows Most-High (Elyon’s) knowledge, (who) falls down (on seeing) a vision of the Devastator, (whose) eyes are unveiled.

17: I see Him. And Not now.

I spy Him. And not near.

A Star bent on a bow (Ready not released yet) from Jacob.

A tribe rose from Israel and crushed Moab’s side (from Father – Lot’s son from his daughter).

And destroyed all Seth’s sons (Tumult – born after Abel was killed).

18: ..”

4. 1 Sam 2:30: a man of God giving God’s message to Eli identifies Jesus and the God of Israel together and says, Therefore The Word of Yehoweh, God of Israel, saying says, “ Your house and your fathers house make themselves walk before my face for ever – and now, The Word of Yehoweh?? Get out from me!!  For who honours me, I honour and despisers of me, I curse…”

5. 2 Sam 23:1: These are the last words of David and The Word, The Man made to be raised up, Messiah, God of Jacob. And  delightful songs of Israel….

Prayer: Yshua, The Word who was with God and who was God! You tell Abraham that You were sworn to his example of sacrificing Isaac. You tell Moses You are The Life. You stop Balaam and he recognizes You! Eli is told of You as God of Israel! And David before he dies, knows you as Messiah!

Praise You Jesus!

Even before You became man, You were sworn to be Our Kinsman Redeemer (a blood relative), Our Life, The Devastator of evil, The God of Israel and our Messiah!

Hallelujah!

1: He who dwells in the hiding place of the High One

Makes himself lodge the nights in the Devastator’s shadow.

2: I say to YHWH, “My refuge, my (safety) net (Fisher of men!)”.

I am boldly/ carelessly/ complacent in Him

3: for He causes you to be snatched away from the bird trapper’s net, from perilous pestilence (words)

4: He causes you to be overshadowed with His feathers

And you seek refuge under his wings – Hook and Harness Faithfulness!

5: You are not  afraid

 of terror in the night,

of a missile that flies by day

6: Of a pestilence in the gloom

Of destruction that walks and devastates at noon.

7: A thousand may fall beside you and ten thousand on your right hand – nothing approaches near you!

8: However with your eyes you are made to look and see the retribution of the wicked ones.

9: For You, YHWH, my refuge, the Most High, have made your dwelling place.

10: No opportunity for evil and neither shall any plague approach your tent/tabernacle.

11: For He commands His messengers for you, to keep watch of all your ways.

12: They lift you up with their hands lest your foot strikes a stone.

13: you can march upon a fierce lion, a venomous snake.

14: Because he lovingly clung to me, I deliver him. I make him inaccessibly high because he knew My Name.

15: He cries out to me and I answer him, I (am) with him, I draw him out of trouble and glorify him.

16: I  make him content with the length of his life.

And I make him see in my Jesus.

 

Prayer:

Lord Your Promise of Hook and Harness Faithfulness rings true in all those who dwell with You.

Not that they are are not caught in a bind, locked down in a pestilence, terrified and in the dark and by daily explosions, tripping over obstacles and walking towards wild danger.

But that – IN all that – You make them boldly complacent, You snatch them out of it, wall them in, show them that You are causing retribution on the wicked, sending them Your Messenger who catches them as they trip and revealing Himself to them!

Time and again, I have seen and continue to be shown this in family, generations, friends.

Thank you, thank You. 

1: For Darling (David):

Yehoweh My Light and my Saviour/Jesus (Y’shi)!

From whom fear I?

Yehoweh my life’s strength!

From whom dread I?

2: When trouble makers approach over me to eat my flesh,

my afflictors and my haters,

they had staggered and

they had fallen.

3: If she, a company, encamps over me,

My heart, he does not fear.

If she, a conflict, rises up over me,

Through it I, I am trusting.

4: One thing I had asked Yehoweh, for it I search:

To settle in Yehoweh’s house for all days of my life,

To contemplate Yehoweh’s delightfulness

And to research in His temple.

5: For He hides me away in His gazebo (Sukkoth).

He conceals me on a day of trouble in secret in His Tent (Ohel – Tabernacle).

In a rock He lifts me up /away

6: and my head is above my encircling haters.

And I slaughter a sacrifice of Teruah (joyous trumpet blast) in His Tent (Ohel – Tabernacle).

And I sing and I make music to Yehoweh.

7: Hear my voice, Yehoweh! I cry out!

And have mercy on me! (Vey Kaneni)

And reply me! (Vey Aneyni).

8: For you my heart had said, “Seek!”

I seek – my face (is) in Your Face!

9: Don’t cause your face to be hidden from me.

Don’t turn it away in a temper from your servant.

You were my help.

Don’t abandon me.

Don’t break up (covenantly) with me.

My God, my Jesus (Yesh yi).

10: When my father and my mother broke up (covenantly) with me and Yehoweh gathers (collects) me.

11: Cause me to be taught Your Ways, Yehoweh.

Guide me in your level (mishore – making rough places plain Is 40:4) paths in order that an obstinate

12 does not give me to a soul (of a) afflictor.

For false witnesses rose against me with exhaling violence (Hamas)

13: if I had not caused confirmation (amen) to look into Yehoweh’s goodness in a land of life.

14: Wait for Yehoweh.

En-Courage and make strong your heart.

And wait for Yehoweh.

 

Prayer:

Lord I wait for You in the courage and strength that You have guided me and taught me to have. I am lifted away to Your Sukkoth-tent. And with a Teruah trumpet blast, You made my rough places plain, my afflictors staggered and fell, I was lifted up above them and to Your Ohel-Tabernacle – so close to You that my face is next to Yours! My saying Amen leads me to Your Land of Life.

1: For a chief musician on a Gitthi harp (from Gath where Akish protected David 1 Sam 21, from where Goliath 1 Sam 17 and other giants 2 Sam 21 came). For the children of bald men, a melody ( on a foreign instrument) of praise:

2: What darling and longed for dwelling places are yours, Yehoweh of Parliaments!

My soul also fainted for Yehoweh’s courtyards! My heart and my flesh ring out singing to the Living God –

3: Also/even a sparrow found a house,

And a swallow found herself a nest where she set up her sprouts –

(So to me) Your altars, Yehoweh of Parliaments, my king, my God.

4: Blessed those who dwell in Your house continuously hallelujah-ing you:

Pause and think about that!

5: Blessed a man whose strength is You

Their heart is on your highways,

6: Crossing over (Avar) the valley of sobbing (Baka), they make a spring (M’ayin also eye),

Also they cause blessings (Braka in plural – brakoth) to envelope early rain (Moray – first sign of a fruitful harvest or teacher-archer guide).

7: They walk from efficiency to efficiency.

 It is seen by God in a dry mountain (Zion).

8: Hear my prayer Lord Yehoweh of Parliaments! Cause my prayer to be heard, God of the heel-catcher (Jacob).

Pause and think about that!

9: See our shield (is) God!

And cause (yourself) to intently look at the Messiah’s face.

10: For good is a day in your courtyards, than a thousand.

I chose to be a doorkeeper in my God’s house, than to dwell in wicked tents.

11: For (like) sun and shield God Yehoweh gives glory and grace.

He does not withhold  good from those walking blamelessly.

12: Yehoweh of Parliaments, blessed the man who trusts in you.

 

Prayer: O Lord, I long for my dear place of waiting and sacrifice to You which I share with all creation. As we drive down the highway, keeping our eyes on Jesus, to reach this dwelling place, strengthen us to make the sobbing of our hearts into blessing, into efficiency and strength. Let our tears water the harvest crop. And when we reach, O Lord, we need You as our shield to be Your doorkeepers even if it’s only for a day. O Lord thank you for your glory and grace and all the good things you bestow on us. Hallelujah! 

1: Ayyo!

Those who are secure in Zion

Those who are confident in Mount Shomron

Chief blasphemers of unbelieving nations to whom came the house of Israel.

 

2: Cross over (Avar) to Calneh (founded by Nimrod (marad-rebellion) Gen 10:8-12, 1 Chron 1:10, Micah 5:5-6, founder of Babel and Assyrians)

And walk from there to great Kamath (fortified/hot – its entrance was one of the markers of Israel’s northern border Josh13:5  and where Philistine lords were left to test Israel’s obedience Judg 3:3, seized by Solomon 2 Chron 8:3, Calneh & Kamath in Is10:9 as idol worshippers, where Nebuchadnezzar rules Jer 39:5).

Descend to Gath of the Philistines

(Where Akish protected David 1 Sam 21, from where Goliath 1 Sam 17 and other giants 2 Sam 21 came).

 

Were/Are you better than the kingdoms?

Were/Are your territories better than these territories?

 

3: The ones who push away a bad day

Those who cause a settling of violence  (Hamas)

4: Those who sleep on ivory couches

and on stretched out beds

Eaters of flocks of lambs and calves from a stall

5: Those who croon to the mouth of the guitar like David

And compose for their musical instruments

6: Those who drink from alcohol dispensers and anoint with first class oils (shamenim)

And are not grieved by (naklu) the collapse of Joseph.

7: So now you are laid bare (yiglu)

In the first revealing (golim) and turned away from stretched-out banquets.

Pause!

 

8: Lord Yehoweh was sworn by his soul, Word of Yehoweh, Lord of Parliaments,

“I abhor the arrogance of Jacob (heel catcher) and his palaces.

I hated and I caused the surrender of a city and its fullness”.

9: And it happened that if 10 men remain in a house and 1 died

10: And their cremating loved-one picked up the bones to cause to take them from the house and said to the one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”

And he said “Nothing”.

And he said, “Hush! For we do not  cause to remember the name of Yehoweh”.

11: For behold – Commanding Yehoweh!

He causes to smite

the great, the house into drops,

And the little, the house, into pieces.

12: Did the horses run on crags?

Or the cattle plough?

For you have transformed the chief (/venom – rosh)  justice and righteous fruit into poison (Wormwood – Deut 29:18 has same  – venom, fruit, wormwood – as the character of neighbouring unbelieving nations)

13: Those who Rejoice in no-speak (Lo-debar – no freedom of God’s Word)

Those who say –  Have we not in our own strength taken horns (of a ram/Altar/Revelation horns?) for ourselves?

14: For behold, The Word of Yehoweh, Lord of Parliaments is to let an unbelieving nation to establish for/against you, house of Israel.

And they oppressed you from the entrance of Kamath to the stream of the desert plains (Araba).

 

Prayer: Lord, let us not walk in the ways of the unbelieving nations around us or be drawn to their sensualities. Let us not poison Justice or pollute Righteousness or restrict your Word. Please do not set us up to be oppressed on the boundaries of the very land You promised. Amen. 

1: Hear to The Word – this which I am bearing up against you – a house of Israel dirge.

2: She fell

She is not being caused to increase, to resurrect,

The bride, Israel, was abandoned on her soil,

No one to make her resurrect.

3: For thus said Lord Yehoweh of the city: She has a thousand going out. She has a hundred remaining. And of the hundred going out of her , ten are made to remain in the house of Israel.

Pause!

 

4: For this said Yehoweh to the house of Israel

Seek Me and Live.

5: And they do not seek me in god-house (Beth El)

and they don’t come to the stone-circle (Gilgal)

And they don’t cross over to seven-well (Beer Sheeba).

For the stone-circle is uncoveringly uncovered.

And it happens that god-house is panting uselessly (Aven -to pant – iniquity).

 

6: Seek for Yehoweh and live, lest He advances like fire, house of Joseph (added-on).

 

And she, god-house, had no one to consume and quench it.

7: They who overturn justice to bitterness (wormwood)

And caused righteousness to be laid down.

 

8: The Maker of ornaments and fools (constellations: Keema uksil – Pleiades (marker for harvest) and Orion (moros))

Overturner of morning to death-shadow,

He caused the day to darken as night.

The caller of waters of the sea,

He pours them out on the face of the land.

His Name is Yehoweh.

 

Pause!

 

9: He who causes good cheer (by) destruction of mighty and

destruction of strongholds –

He comes!

10: They hated arguing at the entrance (gate) and

they detest speaking wholeness.

11: So then because you trample on the weak and you seize grain tax from him,

you built stone-walled houses and you don’t dwell in them,

you planted delightful vineyards but you don’t drink of the wine from them.

12: For I knew you great rebellions (Pesha) and your numerous inadvertent missing the marks (Khatha – lowered standards)

Afflicting the just by seizing ransom (bribe – cover – from kippur), then turning away the poor folk from the entrance!

13: And so, at that time, it makes sense that he is silent for it is a bad time. (Ra = troublesome difficulty but not contrary to God).

14: Seek good and not bad (Ra) so that you live.

And so He is (Yhiyeh) Yehoweh, God of Parliaments with you as you spoke.

15: Hate bad and love good.

Make justice permanent at the entrance.

Perhaps Yehoweh, God of Parliaments might be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

 

Pause!

 

16: And so then says Yehoweh Lord god of Parliaments:

In all plazas, Lamentation.

In all open country, they say, “hoye, hoye” (Oh or Hai or Ayyo).

The farmer called for bewailing and lamentation referring to known laments.

17: And in all the vineyards, Lamentation.

For I cross over (from Avar as in Hebrew, as in Abraham or the Jordan crossing) the middle of you says Yehoweh.

 

Pause!

 

18: Ayyo! There are ones who are making themselves crave a day of Yehoweh!

For what?

A day of Yehoweh for you is this:

It is darkness – not light!

It is like a man who flees from the  lion’s face and encounters the bear!

And he went into the house and sags against the wall and the snake bit him!

20: Is not a day of Yehoweh darkness? And Not light?

And not gloom? And not brightness in it?

21: I hated, I despised the feasts (khag  not moed) of yours.

I do not let My Spirit on your (church services) assemblies.

22: For even if you arrange to lift up (aelo from aliyah) burnt offerings (olot from aliyah) and donations (offerings from your produce – minkha),

I am not pleased.

And I will not look at your rebelliously (from mara) fattened (bolstered) peace offer.

23: Turn down the volume of your songs for me.

I will not listen to your string concertos.

24: And justice rolls down like water.

And perpetually mighty and enduring righteousness like a stream.

25: You arranged sacrifices and donations to be offered to me in the desert for 40 years, house of Israel.

26: And you lifted up to your Sikkut (tent) kings and your Kiyun (establishment) idols and your Star gods which you made for yourselves.

27: I caused you to be uncovered to the other side of Damasek (Damascus) says Yehoweh.

God of Parliaments is His Name.

 

Stop and think!

 

Prayer: Lord, you are judging Israel and the church for replacing righteousness and justice with futile godless panting, rebellious ritual and low standards. Your day of judgement is gloom and darkness, a day of lamentation and bad trouble for us. Dreadful!

 

1: Hear the word of the Lord – this which Yehoweh spake concerning/against sons of Israel,

concerning/against all the family which I had made to aliyah/ ascend from the land of Egypt, saying

2: Of all the families upon the land, I only knew you all.  

So I hold you to account concerning/ against all your sins.

3: Can two walk as one unless they meet?

4: Can a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey?

Can a young lion call out of its den if it had not caught anything?

5: Can a bird fall into a net on the land without a snare for it?

And without  a bait can a snare ascend from the earth to catch – and not catch?

6: If a trumpet is blown in a city and people are not afraid

If evil happens in a city and Yehoweh did not do it

7: Then Lord Yehoweh Word  does nothing.

Then if he uncovers a secret to his servants the prophets,

8: A lion roared and who is not frightened?

Lord Yehoweh spake, who is not prophesied about ?

9: Make to be heard in the palaces in Ashdod (From Shadad, where the captured Ark was taken), in the places of the land of Egypt, and say

10: Be gathered on the Watchers (Shomron) mountain, and see the great tumult in her midst and the oppressed within her.

and those who preserved violence (Hamas), devastation (Shadad) in their palaces, they knew not to do right.

 

 The Word of God (Yshua).

 

Pause there!

 

11:  So thus says Lord Yehoweh.

And the land surrounding enemy, He caused to be brought down from you and your strength was plundered from your palaces.

12: This says Yehoweh, As The Pasturer causes to snatch 2 legs and a part of a ear from The lion’s mouth,

So sons of Israel and the Shomron (Watchers) inhabitants are being snatched from a bed corner and from a Damascus sofa.

13: Hear and make a witness against house of heel snatcher (Jacob),

 

Word of Lord Yehoweh (Yshua), God of the Parliaments.

 

14: For in a day, I hold Israel to account for their  rebellions.

And I held them to account for altars in the house of God (Bethel).

And the horns of the altar were felled and cast to the ground (land).

15: And I caused the smiting of

a house of the Autumn harvest (Karof ~Kharif)

and a house of the Summer harvest.

And they destroyed  houses of the ivory.

They terminated great houses.

 

The Word of Yehoweh.

 

Think about that!

 

Prayer:

 

Lord, when we hear your roar, see the bird caught in the net, may we hear and see and understand and turn away from rebelliously ignoring your prophetic warnings. Amen. 

1: Hear this, The word: Cows of the Bashan (Golan heights) who are on the mountain of Shomron (Watchers) who are oppressors (Amos 3:10) of poor, breakers of needy, sayers to their husbands, get yourselves to come and let us drink.

2: Lord Yehoweh swore by His Holiness that behold coming are days upon you (when) He lifts you on a shield and latterly on fish hooks

3: and through breaches, they, (female) go, a (each) woman in front (?lined up in queue) , made to be hurled out (to)  Ha Harmonah (?the Mount Mona – The mountain of weighing or counting, ? The Armenia)

 

The Word of Yehoweh (Yshua) .

 

4: Come, house of God (Bethel), rebel at stone circles (Gilgal), cause an increase of rebellion ..

and cause to come on your morning sacrifices for 3 days and your tenths / tithes!

5:  Burn Leaven as incense offering of thanks!

Make announcements of your free will offerings!

For you loved this, sons of Israel!

 

The Word Lord Yehoweh (Yshua is Lord).

 

6: And then I gave clean teeth to you in all your cities – a lack of food/bread in all your places.  

 

And you did not return to Me, Word Yehoweh (Yshua).

 

7: And then I, I withheld the rain showers from you when there was still 3 months to harvest.

And I made it rain on one city.

I made it not rain on one city.

It rained on one plot.

And in the plot where I did not make it rain, it withers.

8: Two to three cities tottered to one city to drink water but they are not satisfied.

 

And you did not return to Me,

Word Yehoweh (Yshua).

 

9: I caused you to be smitten with scorching to cause an increase in the plant disease (pale green) in your gardens and your vineyards and your  fig trees (Matt 21:18, Mark 11:14) and your olive trees.

The locust eats.

 

And you did not return to Me,

Word Yehoweh (Yshua).

Pause!

10: I spread a plague among you in an Egyptian way.

I killed your young service men with a sword along with hostages and your horses.

A stench ascended to your nostrils from your encampments.

And you did not return to Me,

Word Yehoweh  (Yshua).

 

11: I overturned in you, like God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

You are like a poker made to be snatched out of a conflagration.

And you did not return to Me,

Word Yehoweh (Yshua).

Pause!

 

12: And then this is what I do, Israel – heel supplanter (Yakev – Jaceb):

So this is what I do to you:

Be prepared to be called up to an appointment your God, Israel.

13: For behold

He moulds mountains (Matt 21:18,21, Mark 1:14,22 or referencing The mountain in v2?),

He creates wind,

He causes announcements to man about what contemplation makes a unit (Ephah) of dawn

And marching on high land.

Yehoweh, God of Parliaments is His Name.

Pause.

Prayer:

Lord May we turn to You, turn back to You. May we not rebel, exploit or hide behind religious ritual. May we be spared drought, disease and  death. You, who made the units which measure light, shaped mountains and created the wind. We see you striding across Highland and worship! We remember your cursing the fig tree and then telling us You would move mountains for us if we asked. May we join William Carey (Deathless sermon on Is 54:2-3, Friar Lane Baptist Chapel, Nottingham 30 May 1792) to practice  “Expect great things for God, Attempt great things for God”  – Yehoweh, God of Parliaments, our God!

A lesson in song for a musician – 

to the Susans (Lillies), from the sons of a baldy (Korah):

My heart was stirred to say a good word for a song for my Darling.

My tongue, like a ready pen, 

a work for a King.

2 You are beautiful, beautiful more than sons of men

From your lips Grace is made to overflow 

And so God blessed you forever.

3 Gird your sword on your mighty thigh,

Yours is The Glory, 

Yours is The Majesty, 

4 And Yours is The Majesty.

To ride Swiftly, 

For truth, gentleness and righteousness

Caused to go forth  from Your fearful right hand.

5 Your sharpened arrows to the heart of the King’s enemies make Peoples fall under You.

6 Your throne,  O God, is forever and ever.

Upright sceptre, Your Kingdom’s sceptre.

7 You loved righteousness,

And you hate wickedness.

And so God, Your God, messiahed (anointed) You with Gladness Oil more than Your fellows.

8 Your clothes scented with Myrrh, Aloe and Cassia (bitter, sharp, healing aromatic roots, Indian cactus sera and powders), ivory, minnu made you glad!

9 Precious, ravishing daughters of kings are stood, a consort-Queen at your right hand wearing gold from India (Ophir).

 

10 Daughter, Hear, See, Incline your ear

Forget your people and your father’s house

11 And the King has turned His Desire to your beauty

Make yourself bow down to Him because He is your Lord.

12 Daughter of a rocky place (Tyre), rich People will seek your face, offering tributes.

14 Escorted to the King by virgins, followed by companions who beckon her to You,l

13 All glorious royal daughter with variegated clothes woven inwardly with gold.

15 beckoning her with gladness and rejoicing, they are entering the temple of the King.

16 Instead of your fathers, your sons will be made princes in all the earth.

 

17 I will cause Your Name to be remembered from all of a generation to a generation

And thus peoples will be made to praise You forever and in perpetuity.

Prayer: O Lord, what a privilege to see, Father God, the centre of the relationship of the Messiah Son and the bride He loved and desired! Amen

¹  Shout ye out with joy, people (Halloo) to YAH

Let your souls shout with joy, ladies (Hallee) to Yehoweh

²  I will shout out (A-Hallah) to Yehoweh.

I will make music in my life to my god in my ‘agains’ / encores.

 

³  You should not trust in generous or noble ones, in a son of a man, no man of whom is your (T’)-Yshua.

⁴ In a day his spirit, comes, goes and return to dust,

 There goes! – his thoughts were destroyed.

 

⁵  Blessed is the one

whose help is a god of Heel-Catcher (Jacob).

whose expectation (from shavare) is his god,

Yehoweh.

⁶  Maker of heavens and earth, the sea and all that is in them,

Preserver of truth forever,

⁷ Maker of justice for the oppressed,

Giver of bread to the hungry

Arranger of the release of the bound,

⁸  Yehoweh

Opener of the blind,

Raiser of the stooped

Yehoweh.

Lover of the righteous

Yehoweh

⁹  Preserver of the foreigners, orphan and disempowered women,

Repeatedly returning to upend the ways of the wicked.

¹⁰  Yehoweh

Your God – ladies.

He reigns forever in land of drought (Zion),

From generation to generation

Shout ye out with joy, people

(Halloo) to YAH.

Prayer:

Halloo, Hallee, A-Hallah.

YAH!

You said Yes-shua .

We say AMEN!

 (2 Cor 1:20)

(‘God’ here is written ‘God’s because it is written in singular)

1: Behold! A coming day of Yehoweh and your plunder plundered from within your midst.

2: And I gathered against all unbelieving nations against Jerusalem to battle.

And the city was taken and spoiled, the houses and the women were ravished.

And a remnant of the people were not cut off from the city.

3: And Yehoweh went forth and was fought by those unbelieving nations He was fought as in a day of battle.

4: And on that day His feet stood on Mount of the Olives which is on the the front/east Jerusalem face.

And Mount of the Olives is divided in the middle from place of sunrise (east) to/from sea direction (west) – a large valley: Half the mountain moves greatly to the north and half to the south.

5: And you fled my valley-in-mountain.

For He is made to reach/touch a reserve/kept aside (Atsal) valley-in-the-mountains for you.

And you fled as you fled from the face of the quake in Judah’s king Uzziah’s (God-strength) day.

And, Yehoweh my God, all the separated ones (Kadoshim) came with you.

6: It happened in a day where there is no light – it was rare and diminishing.

7: And it happened that it – the One day – is known to Yehoweh as not day and not night.

And it happened at evening time,

He/it is (Yehiyhae –  vs His first Name Ahiyhae) light.

8: It happened in a day that living waters flow in Jerusalem –

half of them towards the waters of the past (alternatively east is the Dead Sea but Kadmon here is not Mizra as in v4 )

Half of them towards the waters of the future (Akron not Yammah as in v4) –

 

It happens in summer harvest and in autumn harvest.

 

9: It happened that Yehoweh is King to all the earth in a day that

He is Yehoweh One and His Name is One.

 

10: He surrounds all the land like a desert plain from Hillock (Geba) to south (parched land) Pomegranate (Rimmon – Syrian god).

Shooting-Peace (Jerusalem) – she rose and dwelt.

Under her from My-right-hand (Binyamin’s) gate to the corner place of the first Gate and Gracious-God’s  (Khanan-el) tower to the King’s wine vat,

11: they dwelt in it.

It happens that (He /it is) not devoted to destruction any more.

And Jerusalem, she dwelt in safety.

 

12: She, the smiting with which Yehoweh smites, is happening against all the people who fought

against Jerusalem.

And His flesh will be made to waste away standing on his feet

And his eyes waste away in their sockets

And his tongue wastes away in his mouth.

13: It happened in a day that she, a roar of defeat from Yehoweh is great among them.

And a man causes to seize a friend’s hand and raised his hand against his friend’s hand.

14: And also God-Praise (Judah) is fought in Jerusalem and the strength of all the surrounding nations was confiscated – gold and silver, treacherous / raiments in great abundance.

15: And this, she, the smiting, happens on all the cattle – the horse, the mule, the camel and the male ass – those in the camps. This is like a smiting /plague.

 

16: And it happened that all who are remnant of the unbelieving nations who came against Jerusalem, ascend (aliyah!) often – year in, year (out) – to make themselves bow down to The King, Yehoweh of Parliaments, and to celebrate the celebration of Sukkoth (Tabernacles).

17: It happened that families of the earth of which did not ascend (aliyah) to Jerusalem to make themselves bow down to The King, Yehoweh of Parliaments,  and for them, the rain showers are not there.

18: And if besieged (Mitsarim – Egypt – from siege) families do not ascend and do not go and it happens that they do not have the smiting with which Yehoweh smites the unbelieving nations who do not ascend to celebrate the celebration of Sukkoth,

19: this is the (punishable) sin of the besieged (Mitsarim-Egypt) and the  (punishable)   sin of all the unbelieving nations who do not ascend to celebrate the celebration of Sukkoth.

 

20: In a day it happens on the horse bell, holy to Yehoweh.

It happens that Yehoweh’s household pots are like sprinkling bowls in front of the altar. 

21: And it happened that every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah is holy to

Yehoweh of Parliaments.

And all who came and slaughter-sacrificed and took from them and cooked (boiled) in them, they are no longer humiliated (Cna-yi – Cannanite) in the house of Yehoweh of Parliaments in that day.

 

Prayer:

We come to You, the Living Water, the Light of the World.

We who are for Jerusalem, we Gentile and Jew together celebrate Tabernacling year in year out (not just on the appointed week!) and all meals are holy communion!

All times are appointments with You, our Immanu-El.

Hallelujah! 

1: Yehoweh’s word (Yshua’s) burden over Israel :

The Word of Yehoweh (Yshua)  is stretching out heavens and founding earth and designing man’s spirit within him.

 

Pause and think about that!

 

2: Behold, I am setting  in Jerusalem a reeling cup for all the surrounding people (who) also are in siege over Judah, over Jerusalem.

3: And it happened in a day that I set a loaded rock in Jerusalem for all peoples.

All who carry the load are cutting cut –  All nations of earth gathered against it.

4: In that day, I, the Word of Yehoweh, cause a horse to be struck with bewilderment .

and his rider with madness.

I open my eyes on the house of Judah

and cause the people’s horse to be smitten with blindness.

5: And the governors of Judah said in their hearts, the strength to Jerusalem’s inhabitants is in Yehoweh of Parliaments, their God.

6: In that day I make the governors of Judah like a pan of fire

 in which sticks of wood are on fire like a torch in which sheaves of grain are consumed – to right and to left – all surrounding people.

And in their stead, inhabited Jerusalem again.

 

Pause and think about that!

 

7: Yehoweh caused to save the tents of Judah first in order that not greater is the beauty in House David and the beauty in Jerusalem’s inhabitants than Judah’s.

 

8: On that day, Yehoweh causes Jerusalem’s inhabitants to be covered from behind as it happened to those who tottered among them as it did to David and David’s house –  

Like God, like God’s Messenger before their faces.

9: It happened in that day that I seek to exterminate all nations which come against Jerusalem.

10: And I poured on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a spirit of grace and supplications.

And they caused to look on me whom they pierced.

 And they wailed for Him as a lament for The One.

And they caused bitter weeping Him as one causes to weep bitterly for a firstborn.

11: In that day lament  grows in Jerusalem like lament at Khadad (Syrian rain god)  Rimmon (Syrian thunder god where Namaan used to go, where Benjaminites refuges after being attacked by fellow Israelites for a violent rape Judges 20-21, where ) in Megiddo (Tower or Cut down & destroyed) plain (traditional mourning for the good king Josiah killed whilst unnecessarily fighting in disguise 2 Chron 35:25).

12: And the land mourned by families. By families separately.

The house of David’s (beloved) family separate, and their women separate.

The house of Nathan’s (Given)  family separate, and their women separate.

13: The house of Levi’s (Joined) family separate, and their women separate.

The house of Hashmei’s family separate, and their women separate.

(Names from 1 Kings 2 relating to those involved with David choosing his successor Solomon)

14: All families who are the remnant separate, families by families separate and their women separate.

 

Pause and think about that!

 

Prayer: O Lord, it’s all Your plan happening! We know that it is no good for a nation to be against Israel (just happened). O Lord, you draw our eyes to a non-tribal family grouping of Jews (happened), where Governors are in place of King David in Jerusalem and Judah (happened). We know that there are messianic Jews now and this is increasing.  How wonderful for the remnant of Your first people to turn their hearts to you! Amen. 

1: In that day, there is a spring opened

for house of beloved (David)

and for dwellers in Jerusalem,

for sin and for uncleanness.

2: In that day there was The Word Yehoweh of Parliaments (Yshua).

 

(John 15:3 already you are clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word

Rev 22:14 Blessed are they who wash their robes)

 

I cause to cut (same as cutting covenant) the names of idols out from the land and they are remembered no more.

 

And also I cause to cross over (ivri) the prophets and an unclean spirit from the land.

 

3: It happened that if it is to be prophesied any more (by) a man, (that) and his father and his mother who begat him, said to him, “You won’t live because you spoke lies in Yehoweh’s Name”. And his father and his mother who begat him, they pierced him when it is to be prophesied.

4: In that day every man of the prophets are ashamed of his vision, of when it is to be prophesied.

And they do not wear a hair cloak so as to deceive.

5: And he said I am no prophet, I am a man who works the land.

For I am a man who made savings from a young age.

6: And he said to him, What wounds are these between your arms?

And he said, Those with which I was smitten in a house of my lovers.

 

7: Awake sword over my Shepherd/ Pasturer and over My Mighty Friend, Word Yehoweh of Parliaments (Yshua).

 

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.”

Matthew 10:34-38 ESV

https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.10.36-38.ESV

 

Make a strike towards the Pasturer and make the sheep scatter,

And I made a return back –  my hand over the little ones.

 

8: And It happened in all the land, Word Yehoweh’s 2 mouths in it are cut /covenanted and they breathe their last. And a third remains in it.

9: And I make the third come in /through a fire

and refining refined The silver,

testing tested like He tested The gold.

10: He calls on my name and I answer him and say

“He/This is my people”.

And he says

“Yehoweh is my God”.

 

Pause.

 

Prayer: O Lord, You were there to wash away our sin. Idols, prophets and unclean spirits – no more! You bring a sword to family relationships so that we place You in the Highest Place above father and mother. And you cover us and refine the remnant third covenant. We are Your people. You are our God. Amen. 

1: Open swing-doors, Lebanon and your cedars eat fire.

2: Cause to wail, you firs, for the cedars fell, which were majestic were despoiled.

Cause to wail, all you oaks of Bashan, for protected forests went down.

3: The sound of the pasturers’ Yells for their despoiled majesty.

A sound of young lions’ Roars for the pride of Jordan  was despoiled.

 

Think about that!

 

4: Thus says Yehoweh, my God, Pasture (Ra’ah) the flock for slaughter

5: whose acquirers slaughter and are not guilty and who sell  them and say, Blessed be Yehoweh and cause increase.

And pasturers do not spare them.

6: For  I will not spare the inhabiters of the land any longer.  

And behold, The Word of Yehoweh,

I, cause it to be handed  

to a man of The Adam (Adam’s race),  to (the) hand of his neighbour (Re’u), to (the)  hand of his king.

And they hammer The Land and I will not cause (it) to be snatched from their hands.

 

7: So I pasture the flock for the slaughter for so I take the poor flock for myself.

 

Two staffs – one I called Noam (Beauty), one I called Kobelim (ropes),

And I feed the flock.

8: And I cause to hide the three pasturers in one month

And my soul reaps them

And their souls loathe to me.

9: and I say I will not pasture you

Let what is dying die

Let what is being concealed, remain concealed

And what women are remaining eat her mate’s (also Ra’ah!) flesh.

 

10: And I take my staff – Beauty – and break it.

This makes it void the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

11: And is voided on that day

And so the poor flock who are keeping watch on Me know that this is the word of Yehoweh.

12: And I say to them, “If it is good to you, give me my wage. If not, cease.”

And they weigh out my wage – 30 silver.

13: And Yehoweh says to me, cause to fling it at the one who designs a costed magnificence/robe – on them who set the cost on me.

And I take the 30 silver and cause it to fling at them – the one who makes designs on a house of Yehoweh.

 

14: And I break my second staff – the

Kobelim (ropes) to void the brotherhood between Judah and between Israel. (Matt 23:8 You are all brothers)

 

Pause and think about that!

 

15: And Yehoweh says to me again, “Take for yourself tools of a foolish pasturer. For behold I make a pasturer arise in the land, one who is hidden, who cares not for the young, who does not seek out the shattered, who does not heal the one who is stood up and feed (them).

But he eats the flesh of the fat (sheep) and tears their hooves.

 

Pause and think about that!

 

17: Woe, the worthless pasturer who abandons the flock.

A sword to his arm (strength) and to his right eye!

His arm withering withers.

His right eye dimmingly dims.

 

Pause and think about that!

 

Prayer: O Lord, may we call no man Father but God. May we call no man Teacher or Pastor but Christ who was our beauty broken and after whom no covenant sacrifice was needed. And the boundary ropes were broken too that we – Jew and Gentile – may all be brothers (Adelphi – from the same womb) and our leaders be Servants (Deacons Matt 23:8-12) so that they (and we) are not despoiled by the sword which withers arms and dims right eyes. Amen. 

1: And I turn back and raise my eyes and see. And Behold 4 emerging chariots between 2 mountains – and the mountains – bronze mountains.

2: With the first chariot, red (from blood)  horses

And with the second chariot, dark (from shakar- early dawn) horses

3: And with the third chariot, white (from purifying, making bricks) horses

And with the fourth chariot, strongly spotted (from varad – hail + strong and courageous) horses.

4: And I answer and say to The Messenger who talks with me, “ What are these, Adoni (my Lord)?”

5: And answers The Messenger and says to me, “These are The Heavens 4 emerging spirits making themselves take their positions before The Lord of all the earth

6: with whom the black horses are emerging towards north (hidden treasure – Tsafon) earth

and the white emerged towards after them.

 And the spotted horses emerged towards the south (right hand – Yamin) earth.

 

7: And the strong/courageous emerged and seek to walk – to make themselves to walk in the earth.

And they make themselves walk in the earth.”

8: And He makes a call to me and exclaims to me saying, “Look! The ones emerging to the north earth are making My Spirit rest (After activity – Noak – like the ark came to rest) in north earth.

 

Pause and think.

 

9: And it is that Yehoweh’s Word to me is saying

10: to take from the exiles, from Worldly Weasel (Kheldai) and from God-is-good (Toviah) and God-knows (Yediyah).

And on that day you went. And you went to God-is-a-Buttress (Josiah’s) house, God-treasures (Tsaphon (North)-Yah – Zephaniah’s) son* who came from Babel (mixed-up place).

11: And you took silver and gold and made a crown and established it on God-caused-to-save (Joshua’s) head, son of Righteous-God (Yehoweh-Tsedeq – Jehozadak), the  Priest, the Great.

12: And you told Him to say, “Thus said Yehoweh of Parliaments”.

To say, “Behold a man whose name is ‘Sprout’ (Tsemah). And from below (where Abraham put the ram – thakhat – under Isaac Gen 22:13), He sprouts (Yitsmah) and built The Temple of Yehoweh.

13: And He builds the Temple of Yehoweh. And He lifts up Glory.

And He sat and reigned on His throne.

And He was a Priest on His throne!

And it happens that an Advice (of) Peace, is between the two of them.

14: And The Crown is

for Strength (Khelem)

and for God’s-Good (Toviah)

and for God’s-Knowledge (YadaiYah)

and for Favour (Khen), God-treasures (Tsaphon (North)-Yah – Zephaniah’s) son*

For a memorial in Yehoweh’s temple.

15: And those from afar come and built in Yehoweh’s temple.

And you knew that Yehoweh of Parliaments sent me to you”.

And if on hearing (Shema) this, you hear (Shema), it was that it was in your God, Yehoweh’s Voice.

The end.

 

Prayer: O Lord, may the spirits of trade and economy be brought to Your throne of Grace from the northern and southern hemispheres and the riderless spirits be reined in from all their diverse origins and all their silver and gold used to make a crown for Your Kingly High Priest.

Your Temple is built around our Kingly High Priest on His throne, Son of our God of Parliaments sent to us. He sprouts from earth, His crown is made of our gold. We hear Him speaking in Your Voice.

Amen.

 

PS

A review of the 4 Rukoth spirit winds:

The 4 wind / spirits (Rukoth – pl of Ruach)  from the ends of the earth continue to intrigue me as I first heard of them in Zechariah 6 as riderless chariots with red (blood), white (pure and systematic), black (dawn-risers) and dappled (strong and courageous) horses. The white and black go north, dappled go south and no mention of what happens to the red. But their presence is mentioned with the Hayah verb – I am – and oseh (who)  in some references and sometimes Rukoth appears so disjointedly that translations call it ‘sides’!!

• In 1 Chron 9:24 they are assigned gates in the 4 directions and their brothers come – the Levites – were gates in the tabernacle (hayah)
• In Psalm 104:4, they are His messengers who serve to flame a fire (oseh).
• In Proverbs 16:2, they are a measure of man (YHWH).
• In Jeremiah 49:36, they come from the 4 ends of the skies to disperse men (Yehiyeh).
• In Ezekiel 37:9, they come to breathe spirit into the army of bones (YHWH).
• In Ezekiel 42:20, they are measured as 4 walls separating the inner holy from the common just after and before Ezekiel comes out (42:15) and goes back to (43:1) the east gate of the temple from where the Voice of God came and the  Glory of God shines (43:2).
• In Daniel 8:8, the goat’s horn which broke after butting the ram, grows back as 4 notable horns towards the 4 spirit winds of heaven.
• In Daniel 11:4, the post Persian mighty king’s broken up kingdom goes to the 4 spirit winds of heaven.

.. And the last 2 mentions are in Zech 6 where they are 4 riderless chariots and horses.  This is just after the money and metal gold standard section in the previous chapter. So if these winds were trade winds, it might have been ships, not chariots.  Economic language is replete with spirits and winds and so these are probably the spirits of land trade routes going north and south.

 

 Thus dawn and pure spirits go north and the northern spirits cause God’s Spirit to rest. This could refer to economic standards bringing up the living standards of those communities accepting Jesus (dawn and purifying spirits).

 

 The spirit going south is brave and courageous but is not mentioned as bringing rest to God’s spirit. Its absence of mentioned effect is represented in a relative  lack of economic activity in the southern hemisphere.

 

And the puzzle of the blood spirit which is not described as going anywhere – maybe the spirit of all that is evil in trade is pervasive like slave trade, market economy greed, socialist economy disempowerment?

Interestingly if the purpose of the spirits is to delineate the boundary and be gateways between the holy and common, it introduces a very different view to economy and trade. And their power is used for deeply spiritual purposes – to bring the Ezekiel bones back together into an army.

1: And it happens that in the 4^th year of Darius the King (2 years after Zech 1-6).

 It happened that word Yehoweh to God-remembers (Zechariah) on the 4^th day ( Wednesday) of month 9 in Kislev (3^rd civil month Nov- December).

 2: And he sends house of God (Beth El), Sir Etsar and King Regem and his men to become weak before the face of Yehoweh

3: And to say to the priests who were in the house of Yehoweh of Parliaments (Tsabaoth) and to the prophets to say, “Should I blubber in month 5 (Av is in July-Sep, 11^th civil month or is it 5^th civil month Shevat in Jan-Feb)  and consecrate like  as I did these many years?”

 

Pause.

 

4: And it is Word Yehoweh-of-Parliaments says to me

5: Say to all people of the land and to the priests saying, “ If you fasted and lamented in the 5^th and in the 7^th (Nisan March to May) and in these 70 years, were you fast fasting (for) Me?

6: And if you eat and if you drink, is not the eating for you and the drinking for you?

7: Is not The Wording which cried out “Yehoweh” in hand of the first prophets? Is it not when Shooting-Peace (Jerusalem) is inhabited and quiet? And surrounding cities, the south (Negev) and lowlands were inhabited?

 

Pause

 

8: And it was that Word Yehoweh to God-remembers (Zechariah) is to say,

9: “Thus says Yehoweh-of-Parliaments to say, “Judge (with)  true Justice and do kindness and compassion man to his brother,

10: and widow and orphan, sojourner and poor. Do not oppress and (be)bad man to his man to brother, do not impute (what) is in his heart (Micah 6:8, Isaiah 58:3-8).

11: And they refuse to make themselves incline and gave shoulder stubbornly  and made their ears heavy from hearing.

12: And they set their hearts (like) flint from hearing The Instructions ( Torah) and The Words which Yehoweh-of-Parliaments sent by His Spirit in hand of the  first prophets. And it is great wrath from The Yehoweh-of-Parliaments.

13: And it is just as He called and they did not hear, so they call out and I do not hear says Yehoweh-of-Parliaments.

14: And I stormed them among all unbelieving nations which did not know and the land was desolated after them from ascending and returning.

A pleasant land they placed (left) desolate!

 

Pause.

 

Prayer: Lord May we be Just, kind and compassionate to each other, to widow and orphan, sojourner and poor. May we not oppress and do evil to each other and not impute intentions. We know the land was actually left desolate and your people scattered for 2000 years because they fasted but did not do this. We want your green and pleasant land and we want to listen to your voice. (And we want your people to listen to your voice again too). Amen.

 

1: (Sung) To a melody of David – ‘Deer of Dawn’

“My God, My God for why did you forsake me?” (where, Matt 27:45, Mk 15:34, ) – roaring words from far away (long ago) from our Yshua.

2: “My God”, I cry in the day and You do not respond.

And in the night I am not silent with You.

3: And You! Separate (Holy)!

Dwelling in God-Strife’s (Israel’s) (songs of) praise (shining).

4: Our fathers- They trusted in You.

They trusted and You rescued them (made them escape).

5: They cried out to You and You snuck them away.

They trusted You and they were not shamed.

6: But I am a worm (scarlet) and no man, the reproach of men and despising of people.

7: All seeing me mock me. They are setting their lips free and making their heads shake.

8: (He is) Wallowed (rolled up) in Yehoweh. He carries him away safely. He causes him to be delivered for he delights in Him. (Matt 27:43,49, Lk 23:35, Mk 15:36).

9: But you burst me forth from a womb, make me secure on my mother’s breast,

10: I was made to be cast down upon a womb, my mother’s womb (by) – You, My God.

11: Do not be far from me for trouble is near – for there is no one (else) to help.

12: Great and lofty bulls surrounded me, Bulls of Bashan (high yield Golan heights cattle) encircled me

13: their mouths opened at me.

A lion to tear me (apart) and to roar.

14: I was poured out like water and all my bones were made to dislocate themselves.

It was that my heart was melted like wax within me.

15: My enduring strength dried up like shards of baked clay.

My tongue is made to stick in to my palate.

(M-l’kok is not Strongs 4455 prey. Its not from l’kak- to take. Its from kak – חכ – Strongs 2441 palate – which appears with tongue and stuck in Job 29:10, Ps 137:6 and Lam 4:4)

And you have brought me to death dust (Gen 3:19 – from dust you came and to dust you return).

 

16: For a congregation / church (1)  of wicked dogs surrounded me, had me beaten, gouged (2) my hands and feet.

 

(1) Adah – Strongs 5712 used as “church” of Israel or believers 143/149 times. Adah is either from ‘ya’ad’ appointed group or ‘ed’ witness. Adah is equivalent to Greek ekklesia – called from. Other 4 exceptions  to Adah used for congregation of Israel are Judges 14:8 bees, Job 15:34 godless, Ps 68:30 bulls, Ps 86:14 violent men.

(2) Dead Sea Scroll 4qpsf, LXX, Syriac, Vulgate favour  כָּ֝אֲרִ֗י  as a verb כארוּ – not the noun like a lion as in the Masorete. Refs:

a. Stephen Hackett: Dead Sea Scrolls : the shocking evidence for the Septuagint https://youtu.be/GPNLJdgfrfE?si=NaFvwH4Z6YcyHOza

b. One for Israel: Psalm 22. https://www.oneforisrael.org/bible-based-teaching-from-israel/psalm-22-prophecy-crucified-messiah/ )

 

17: I count my bones – they are made to look and see me (sticking out).

18: They divided my garment for them.

And for my clothes, they cast lots.

19: But You, Yehoweh, are not far from me.

My Help!

My helper – hasten!

20: Cause me to be delivered from the sword!

My soul from a dog’s hand.

My one and only darling.

21: Cause me to be saved (Hoshea) from a lion’s mouth and from wild oxens’ horns.

 

You answered me:

22: I will count your Name  as my brothers’.

In the midst of an assembly, I praise You.

 

23: Fearers of Yehoweh, Praise Him!

All the seed of Bottom-End (Jacob), give Him Glory!

and sojourn with Him, all seed of God-Strife (Israel)!

24: For He did not despise and He did not detest affliction of the afflicted.

He did not cause His Face to be hidden from Him when He cried out for help to Him. He heard.

25: My praise of You is in a great assembly.

I complete my vows before those who fear Him.

26: The poor eat and are being sated and praise Yehoweh.

Those who seek Him – May your hearts live forever.

27: Remember and return to Yehoweh till all the world ends.

All families of unbelieving nations make themselves bow down before You.

28: For to Yehoweh, the kingdom is to rule in the unbelieving nations.

29: All the prosperous earth eat and make themselves bow down before Him.

All who descend to dust bow and their souls did not live.

30: The seed of those who serve Him are counted to the Lord ( Adonai) for a generation.

31: They come and emphasise His righteousness to those born to people that He DID this.

 

Prayer: O Lord Jesus, the gospels told us what You said. I am comforted that, even in that forsaking, You knew Your Father’s Love in this tragedy. What a relief that we know that the Father did not despise You in that moment but answered You, counted on You, praised You and had His Kingdom to rule in the nations through what You did. You Did it!! You are praised in the great assemblies. But thank You for taking on that awful  abandonment for our sake. Amen.

1: To the first melody of David.

 

In Your strength

rejoicing is a king

And In Your Jesus,

how much more gladly.

2: You gave His heart’s desires

to him

You never withheld

A wish on his lips (unspoken).

 

Ponder that!

 

3: For approaching him

are Your blessings of goodness

Setting on his head

is a crown of refined gold. (Not regular gold)

4: he asked for life from You

You gave him days of forever-and-ever length!

5: His great glory is in Your Jesus.

On him – Resembling (Jesus’) honour and glory!

6: Setting on him blessings forever

Making him overjoyed with your Face

 

7: Because of mercy of the Most High

A trusting-YHWH king is not shaken.

8: Your hand will find all your obstructers

Your right hand will find your haters.

9: You are facing them,

like (them facing) a fiery oven.

In a temper (nostril), YHWH gulps them down,

eats them up.

10: You will make their fruit (current profit) rot away from the land

And their seed (future plans) from the sons of men.

11: for they spread out evil over you, planned a purpose (for you)

They are being disabled.

12: Tightening a (bow)string against shoulder,

you are setting (aiming it) to their faces.

YHWH is exalted in your strength

We sing, we make music about your might.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, may our leaders rejoice and trust in You. And may You be exalted in their strength. Amen.

1: And I turn back and I lift up my eyes and I see. And behold – a flying scroll. (? Online Bible – Greek Biblios ? the Revelation  5 scroll which is opened but not read).

2: And He says to me, “what do you see?” And I say, “ A flying scroll  20 in a cubit long and 10 in a cubit wide.” (1 Kings 6:3 – size of the temple porch is Amma (cubit) – not b’Amma as here. Other measurements in 1 Kings are in b’Amma and 39 occurrences of Strong’s no. 520 mixes both)

3: And He says to me,

“This is The Oath/Curse that goes forth over the face of all the earth

 

For every thieving from this

is as if it was emptied clean,

For every swearing of this

is as if it was emptied clean.

 

4: The Word of Yehoweh of Parliaments made it to go forth and it came into the house of the thief and into the house of the false swearer in My Name and dwelt overnight amongst his house and gobbled up its wood and its stones (Deut 4:2, Prov 30:5,6, Rev 22:18 – don’t add or subtract from the Word)

 

5: And The Messenger who talks to me comes out and says to me, “Lift your eyes up to me, na (please) and see what is this that goes forth.”

6: So I say, “What is it?” 

And He says, “This is a measuring unit (Ephah ?reserve currency) gone forth.”

And He says, “This is your eye(s?) in all the earth.

7: This money valuing metal is lifted up and

– there – is one woman sitting in the midst of the measuring unit.”

8:  And He says, “ This is The Evil”.

And He flings her down into the middle of the measuring unit and flings down The Stone over the mouth of the money valuing metal.  

Think about that!

 

9: And I lift up my eyes and I see – Behold! Two women/wives coming with a spirit in their wings for their wings were like a stork’s (khasidha – fem of Hassid – righteous).

And they lifted up the unit between the earth and the heavens.

10: So I said to the angel who talked to me, “Where are they taking the measuring unit?”

11: And He said to me, “To build a house in the land of Shinar (where Noah’s sons had one world govt and a tower attempted to connect earth and skies Gen 10:10,11:1 ) where it is made to be fixed and to be laid down there on its base.

Think about that!

 

Prayer:

O Lord, Our Rock, never let us never add or subtract from Your Bible. May we never partake of the evil love of money or its one-world exchange. We have seen these 2 attempts – the second doubled up – come to nought – it’s wood and stones gobbled up – like the Tower of Babel attempt in Shinar. Amen.

 

Unanswered questions:

1. What is the significance of 20 x 10 B’Amma (not Amma – cubits? Is this a Godly unit contrasted later against the worldly Ephah unit? Is B’Amma (in an Amma) a smaller measurement of a cubit (Amma)  like mm and cm? Is B’Amma a spiritual unit vs Amma a physical unit?
2. Who are the 1 and 2 women?

 

1: Following these words, this is happening: And God tested The-Father-of-many-people (Abraham) and said,”Abraham”.  And he said, “Here I am” (Hineni)

2: And he said, “Take na (please) your one only son whom you love – He-laughs (y’Itzkak) and walk to From-Seeing-Yah (M’Ree-Yah) land and cause him to ascend (Ala) there to a whole burnt offering (Ola) on one of the mountains which I tell you.

3: And So Abraham makes himself rise early in the morning and binds/saddles his male ass and takes 2 young men with him and his son Isaac and he splits the wood for the whole burnt offering and stands up and walks to the place which God told him.

4: On the third day Abraham lifts his eyes and sees the place from afar.

5: And Abraham says to the young men, “Stay here with the donkey and I and the young man walk up there and make ourselves bow down and return back to you.

6: And Abraham takes the wood for the whole burnt offering and sets it on his son Isaac. And he takes the fire in his hands and a knife and the two walk as one.

7: And Isaac says to his father Abraham. And says, Abi (my father). And he says, “Here I am (Hineni) my son”. And he says, “ Here is the fire and the wood and where is one of the flock for the whole burnt offering?”

8: And Abraham says, God sees (Elohim Yireh) to the one of the flock for the whole burnt offering,  my son” and the two walk as one.

9: And they go in to the place where God had told him and there Abraham builds the altar there and arranges the wood and binds his son Isaac and sets him on the altar on top of (Alah) the wood.

10: And Abraham stretches his hand out for the knife to slaughter his son.

11: And Yehoweh’s  Messenger calls out to him from the heavens and says, “Abraham, Abraham”. And he says “Hineni”.

12: And He says, “Don’t stretch your hand out to the young man and don’t do anything to him. For now I knew that you e fear God, you. And you did not withhold your one only son from Me.”

13: And Abraham lifts his eyes and sees (Yireh) a ram following – its horns caught in a thicket. And Abraham walks and takes the ram and makes it ascend for the whole burnt offering under his son.

14: And Abraham calls the name of that place, ‘Yehoweh, He sees’ (Hahu Yehoweh Yireh) – which is said ‘the day Yehoweh is seen (Yay’rahey) in the mountain’.

15: And Yehoweh’s  Messenger calls out to Abraham for the second time from the heavens.

16: “Myself, The Word of God, was sworn (sheva – was sevened ?perfected) in response to what you did – to this very word – that you did not withhold your one only son.

17: For I blessing bless you and greating great your seed like the stars of the heavens, like the sand on the seashore and your seed inherit the gates of their enemies.

18: And your seed made themselves bless all the unbelieving nations of the earth because you obeyed my voice.

19: And Abraham returns to the young men and they stand up and walk as one to the Well-of-Sheva(7 – Beer sheva) and Abraham dwells in Beer Sheva.

Pause and think about that!

 

Prayer:

“Hineni” we say to You, Lord.

“Hineni” we say to our children.

Father and Son, fathers and sons, walk as one.

Then Father and One Only Son are sworn to do what a father and son did as an example!!

And more young people walk as one with a ‘Hineni’ father.

Nations of the earth are blessed as we say to You and our children, “Hineni”.

Yehoweh, You are seen on the mountain on the day we say, “Hineni”.

Hineni, Lord.

1: And The Messenger (the Holy Spirit from chapter 2) who had talks to me turns back and makes me wake up as a man who is woken up from his sleep.

2: And he says to me, “What do you see?”  And I say, “I am seeing and behold, a fully gold menorah and a bowl on top of it and 7 lamps in it. 7 and 7 pipes to the lamps which go up to the top.

3: And 2 olive trees go up, one to the right of the bowl and one too the left.

4: And I respond to the angel who talks to me saying, “What are these, my Lord?”

5: The Messenger who talks to me responds and says to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I say, “No my Lord”.

6: And he responds and says to me saying, “This is the Word of God to ‘Born-in-a-mixed-up-place’ (Zerubabbel) saying, Not by efficiency, not by stickability strength but by My Spirit says Yehoweh of Parliaments.  

7: Who are you, great mountain?

In front of Zerubabbel’s face, you are made a level / upright /straight place!

(Isaiah 40:4 quoted in Luke 3:5 – every crooked place (Yakav/Jacob) made straight, and of John the Baptist saying make paths straight Matt 3:3, Mark 1:3)

And he made you come to The Stone, The Head Shout-Outs.

Grace, Grace to it (the stone).

Pause and think.

 

8: It comes to pass that the Word of Yehoweh says to me,

9: “Zerubabbel’s hands founded this, The House, and his hands will cut it down”.

(Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” John 2:19)

And you will know that Yehoweh of Parliaments sent Me to you.

10: For who despised a day of the young/insignificant? And rejoiced and saw The Stone, The separation (alloy separated by refining) in Zerubabbel’s hand – 7 of these are Yehoweh’s eyes which dart through all the earth.

11: And I answered and said to him, “what are these 2 olive trees at the right and left of the menorah?

12: And for the second time, I answered and said to him, “what are these 2 train (offshoot) olive trees which drip into the hands of 2 gold spouts which make it pour gold upwards?

13: And he said to me saying, “Do you not know what these are?”

And I said” No my Lord”.

14: And he said, “These are 2 sons of fresh oil standing by the Lord of all the earth. (Rev 11:4 – the 2 witnesses are the 2 olive trees and candlesticks)

 

Prayer: O Holy Spirit, Our Messenger and Yshua, born in a mixed up place, who is temple which was cut down and raised – Yous olive trees are the givers of new anointing making us pour the gold of worship upwards to Yehoweh. No earthly mountain of efficiency and strength will stand against Yehoweh of Parliaments. Your 7 eyes watch. We are sorry that, like Zechariah, we don’t recognize who is anointing us even though we speak to You and hear You. Grace, Grace to You, our Cornerstone. Amen

PS

1. The distractor in this passage is that both the Olive Tree and Zerubabbel’s symbolism is not the usual.

https://openingtheseals.com/symbolism/trees/

2. Each of the 7 lamps are anointed and are able to burn because of the supply of oil from BOTH trees. The Father is worshipped constantly through the worshipper’s anointing from Son and Spirit.

3. Who are the 7 eyes? Those who are refined alloy (not pure gold!) in Yshua’s hand. The eyes’ purpose is seeing. Eyes cannot talk with words about what they see – they are only helpful if they are connected but they do “talk” by the way they appear. The way they appear are often an indication of the state of the soul and a powerful non verbal signal to the beholder.

4. The Stone/the Shepherd of Israel will come from Joseph according to Jacob (Gen 49:26).

In context of Israel rejecting Him, Jesus mentions both faith to remove mountains and the Psalm 118:22 reference to The Stone which the builders rejected in Matt 21, Mark 12 and Luke 20 (just after the withered fig tree and despite the preceding triumphal Jerusalem entry). He was probably living Zechariah 4 that day. We might be stones in the building but even Peter (the stone) says Jesus is the cornerstone (Acts 4:11, 1 Peter 2:5-7) and Paul concurs (Rom 9:33).

The Cornerstone grinds to dust (Matt 21:44, strikes and makes Israel stumble and the Stone is God (Isaiah 8:14). This the Stone Yshua is a divider of Israel into those who reject and those who are refined. Hence maybe why it inexplicably appears in the middle of a chapter about 2 olive trees.

PPS

The vine harvest is in spring, the fig both in spring and autumn and the olive harvest in autumn Ref: https://youtu.be/lejVfl-4Svw?si=BdCEfVnU1g3nDh9B

 

 

 

 

1: A melody for the song of Gatherer (Asaph).

 

Go, Not-Silent (singular) – God (plural)

You do not silence us

And God, You do not quieten down.

 

2: Because, behold, Your enemies roar.

And your haters raised up their heads.

3: They cause crafty counsel against your people and make advice (guidelines) for your hidden ones (secret believers like Gideon – the Feller, the Warrior – who was scared to “come out”?).

4: They said, Come and make them hide (disappear?) from an unbelieving nation.

5: They were one-heart (wholeheartedly) advised to cut a covenant against you.

6: The tents of the Reds (Edom) and Those-whom-God-hears (Ishmaelites) and From-Father (Moab) and From-Hagar (Hagarim), territories (Gebal is south of Dead Sea), Those-With (Ammon is east Jordan) and Of-Labourer (Amalek), Rollers-In (Phlesheth – Palestininans) with inhabiters of Tsor (Tyre).

8: Also Steppers (Ashur) were joined with the people – they had been strength to the sons of embracers (Lot).

Pause and think about that!

 

9: Make them like Midyan, like Sisera, like Yabeen (Jabin – the discerner – a king whose wife Yael (Canaanite, mountain goat) killed Sisera) in the brook of baiting (Kishon) –

10: the dung of the land at spring of dwelling (En-Dor) were exterminated (Judges 4:16,21).

11: Set up their nobles like the Eveningers (Orev) and like Wolf (Zeev) and like Slaughter-Sacrifice (Zabak) and like Photo (Zalmunna – image) (men from Ephraim mountain come down and capture and kill 2 Midyan princes – Orev and Zeev – after the Midyan army suffers collateral damage(!) and defeat. Judges 7:25.

Gideon defeats another secure Midyan army camp with a pre-emptive attack and captures and then kills 2 leaders – Zabach and Zalmunna Judges 8:21).

All their molten images

12: who said, “We are inheriting The Pleasant Land of God”,

13: set them up, my God, like a whirlwind of chaff in the face of a wind.

14: Like wood burns in a fire, the mountains blaze with flames.

15: So pursue them in your tempest and terrify them with your storm. 

16: Fill their faces with shame. And they will seek your name, Yehoweh.

17: They are being shamed and dismayed forever and ever.

They are being ashamed and are dying.

18: And they are finding out that your name is Yehoweh, Separated and High over all the earth.

 

Prayer:

Shame, dismay and extermination come upon those who hate you and rise up against You and the secret believers in their nations. Gideon kept faith with You in secret, and You used them to launch preemptive attacks to terrify the haters and rebellious. You used Gideon to simulate an attack which caused panic and the enemy killed themselves in confusion and collateral damage. You used supportive foreign king’s wives (Yabin’s wife Yael) and whisked away enemies of secret believers in the whirlwind of Your Spirit. And the enemy, the nay-sayers amongst the believers (Succoth and Penuel were skeptical of supporting Gideon) and secret believers discover Your Name is High and Separated.

Hallelujah. 

1 Who is giving my head water, my eyes a fountain of tears? I wept day and night for the injured daughter of my people.

2 Who will give travellers a hotel in the wilderness? I forsook my people and walked off from them – all that (were) adultering, a treacherously dealing, a restraining commune.

3 They made their bow- tongues march to deceit and not the truth – going  from evil to Mighty evil on earth lands – and they did not know Me, says Yehoweh.

Pause and think about that!

4 Man watchful of friend and not trusting of brother. For every brother walking is a Jacob (waiting to supplant at the heel) and a slanderer.

5 And man causing friend to be deceived, not speaking the truth, they taught their tongues to speak deceit, tired out by causing trouble.

6 Your seating is in the middle of deceit. And through deceit you turned me down says Yehoweh.

Pause and think about that!

7 And then thus says Yehoweh of the Councils/Parliaments, “ Behold: For how did I refine and check them? (How) shall I show face with the daughter of my people?

8 Their tongues spoke deceit, they are deadly arrows. With his mouth, he says Shalom to his friend. With his heart he sets up an ambush.

9 “Shall I not reckon this against them?” declares Yehoweh. On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge my soul?

Pause and think about that!

10 On the mountains, I am lifting up  crying, a song of mourning. And a  dirge in the pastures in the wilderness because they are burnt up. No one heard the voice of a worne-out, alienated man. For Domestic animals, for birds in the sky and even wild beasts have fled and walked away.

11 And I will have permitted rock piles and dragons’ (Thanin) dens in Jerusalem. I will be permitting (clearances ) desolation and worne out inhabitants in the cities of Judah.

Pause and think about that!

12 Which wise man discerns This? And to whom has Yehoweh’s mouth spoken that he may emphasize this? For why did  this worne out, alienated land get burnt and perish (becoming) like a wilderness?

Pause and think about that!

13 Because, says Yehoweh, forsaking My Law (which) I put in their faces and not hearing my voice and not walking according to it,

14  they stubbornly walked after their own understanding and after the lord-masters (Baals) as they learnt from their fathers.

Pause and think about that!

15 So thus says Yehoweh of Councils/ Parliaments, God of God-Strife (Israel), Behold, I will cause this people to be fed bitter food and cause them to drink poisoned water.

16 And I will cause them to be scattered among nations who never knew them or their fathers. I sent a sword after them till they were finished off.

What about that?!

17 Thus says Yehoweh of Councils/ Parliaments make yourself discern, call out and they will come -lamenting women. Send for professional mourning women and they will come.

18 They will come up quickly and lift up lamentations for us. Tears will flow down from our eyes, waters flowing from our eyelids.

19 For the voice of lament was heard from Zion, “ How are we despoiled and greatly shamed because we have left a land, because have been cast out of our homes”.

Pause and think about that!

20 And listen women, you will cling to the Word of Yehoweh, your ears (will be) for a word of His Mouth. Teach your daughters your (professional) wailing, and  a woman her neightbours (will teach) lamentation.

21 For death, he rose up through our windows, he entered our fortresses, killing children on the streets, young people in the plazas.

22 Speak thus, Word of Yehoweh, ‘ Thus fell corpses of men like manure in the field like fallen grain (chaff) left behind after shortening (threshing) and no one to gather it’.

Pause and think about that.

23 Thus says Yehoweh, a wise one must not self-praise his wisdom and a mighty one must not self-praise his might and a rich one must not self-praise his riches.

24 But in this, he who self-praises, let him self praise in that he is pondering and knowing Me for I am Yehoweh making kindness, judgement and righteousness in earth.

For in these I, the Word of Yehoweh, delighted.

Pause and think about that!

25 Behold the days are coming , the Word of Yehoweh: Upon each circumcised I examined, (and they are) with foreskin. (I examined) upon Egypt and upon Judah, and upon Edom, and upon Ammon’s sons, and upon Moab, and upon all dwellers in the farthest corners of the wilderness. For all the nations have foreskins and all house of Israel have foreskins (on their) heart. Pause and think about that!

 

 Prayer:

O Lord, what sorrow You and the Father have borne on our behalf for at least 2600 years. We know it’s depth when you burst out into lament echoing Jeremiah 600 years later in Luke 19:42-44:

“… Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 

For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 

and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

May we circumcise our hearts to be faithful to You. May we no longer be the cause for Your sorrow.

Amen.  

1: To the chief, a melody of David

 

Yehoweh answers you in a day of trouble.

He makes you inaccessible.

(His) Name is God of the Heel/Deceiver (sinner, down-&-outer).

2: He sends you help from a ‘Holy’ (kodesh)

and sustains you from Droughty-Hill (Zion).

3: He remembers all your gifts and your whole burnt offerings.

He prospers.

Think about that!

 

4: He gives you according to your heart.

He fills you with all advice.

 

5: We rejoice in Your Yshua

and we behold the name of our God.

6: Now I know that Yehoweh’s Anointed One (Messiah – Moshiho) causes to save (Ho-Yshua – Hoshea)

He answers Him from Holy heavens with His strong right hand – Ysha  (Saviour – noun of Yshua).

7: These – in chariots

And these – in horses

But we – in the name of Yehoweh our God

Are made to remember.

8: They bowed low and fell.

We were raised up (resurrected) and we ourselves were made to return.

9: Yehoweh – Cause to Save (Ho-Yshua – Hoshea)

The King answers us in a day of our calling Him.

 

(My comments in italics)

 

Prayer:

 

Father God who caused us to be saved through Your Messiah Saviour Yshua telling David His Name Yshua more than a thousand years before He came! He remembers us. And makes sure that we are reminded of all manner of saving – save Yshua, cause to save Hoshea, Saviour Ysha. And we are saved in a day – Today is the day of salvation! We are saved by Your Messiah!

 

 

1: And at the time The Great, The Prince Who-Is-Like-God (Mi-ka-El) stands up, standing over the sons of your people. And it was a time of trouble which had never been and is to be in an unbelieving nation till that time. All your people are slipped away in that time – the ones who are found written in a book.

2: And many asleep in dust of field are made to wake up – these to life forever and these to  reproach, to aversion everlasting.

Pause and think about that!

3: And the prudent ones are made to shine like the shining firmament.

And in the many righteous ones like stars forever and ever.

How about that!

4: And you, My-Judge-is-God (Daniel), shut up the words and seal up the book till the time of the end (kets).

Many rove and knowledge increases.

5: And I, Daniel, saw – behold two others stood – one on this lip of the river and one on this lip of the river.

6: And I say to the man clothed in white linen who is on the waters of the river, “Till when is the end of the wonders?” 

7: And I hear The Man clothed in the white linen who is on the waters of the river. And he makes his right hand and his left hand exalted to the heavens. And he is sworn in by a living one forever divided to an appointed time (festival, Moed), appointed times (moedim) – to finish, to shatter a holy people’s hand – they are finishing all these things.

8: And I heard but do not understand. And I say, “My Lord what are the latter things?”

Pause and think!

9: And he says, “ Go (Lek) Daniel. The shut up and sealed up Words are till the end (kets) of (a) time. (The revelation will be retrospective)

10: They make themselves purified and make themselves white and are refined.

The ungodly were greatly ungodly. All ungodly do (shall) not understand.

But the prudent understand.

11: From the time continuity was made to be turned aside to set up the abomination to appall (Daniel 11:31), 1290 days. *

12: Blessed is the one who waits. And he causes to reach 1335 days.

13: But you go (Lek) to the end (kets). And you rest and you stand for your lot at the end of The days.

*{Antiochus Epiphanes stops temple routines on 15 Kislev 167BC and sets up the appalling abomination. Daniel 7-12 is written just before he dies in December 164BC.    The Maccabees purify the temple on 25 Kislev (Jan14) 163 BC (Hanukkah).

Prayer

Lord, as we look back at what You did, like prudent Daniel, You call us to Go away and rest till the end. You will stand us up, resurrected for our inheritance (lot) in the end.

Thank You, Lord.

1: And I, in the first year of Daria-vesh (a title) the Madi (Japheth’s descendants), I stood up to cause to strengthen a refuge (from) him.

2: And now I will cause to emphasize the truth to you: Behold three more rising kings of Persia – and the fourth made rich with wealth greater than all. And by his strength and through his wealth he makes all the kingdom of Yavan (Ionian =Greece) wake up.

3: And a great king stood up and dominated with great dominion and caused favour.

4: And while standing he is shattering, his kingdom is divided into four winds of heaven. (He has) nothing to end with, none of his domination which he dominated. For his kingdom is being uprooted. And others besides these.

5: And a king of the Negev (south) strengthens – and strengthens from his prince and dominates with great dominion – his dominion – over him.

6: And at the end (Ketz – not Akri – latter) of years, a southern king’s daughter joins a king of the north, going to make it equitable. And she does not retain sustaining strength. And he does not stand. His strength is given (up). She and all those with her and those who birthed her and strengthened her in that time.

7: And a branch stands up from her roots, comes with an army and comes to a fortress of a king of the north and made them and caused them to be strengthened.

8: He (makes) their gods captive with their drink offerings, with their delightful silver and gold utensils and caused them to go to Egypt. And he stands up for more years than king of the north.

9: And a king of the south came to his kingdom and returned to his own territories.

10: And his sons cause themselves a stir and gathered (amplified) raucous (noise/crowd). Great armies coming came and overwhelmed and crossed over to return and cause a stir in his fortress.

11: A King of the south caused himself to be bitter and went. He was fought.  With him, with a king of the north. And a great raucous (noise/crowd) was given to the raucous.

12: And when the raucous noise is lifted, his heart was exalted, myriads were cast down, and he is not strengthened.

13: and a king of the north returned and a greater raucous was caused to stand than the first. And at the end (ketz) of a time of years, coming comes a great army with great possessions.

14: And in those times they stand up to a King of the south and sons of violent ones of your people make themselves lifted up to a vision which they caused to make stand and they were felled.

15: And a king of the north comes and pours out a mound and takes a city, a fort. And arms of the South do not stand up. And chosen people have no stickability to stand.

16: The one who comes does against his will and no one stands up to his face. And he stands up in the pleasant land, annihilation in his hand.

17: And he sets his face to overpower the whole of his kingdom, he does the straight ones with him. He gives the daughter of the women to causing destruction and it is that she does not stand up for him.

18: And he turns his face back to the coasts and seizes many. And he causes a chief to come to an end – his reproach against them, not his reproach made to turn back to him.

19: And he turns his face back to the safe havens of his land and is tripped up. He fell and is not found.

20: And for that post stands one who makes oppression rise in the adorning kingdom and on days, one by one, it is shattered – but not in anger nor in battle.

21: And for that post stands one who is despised and to whom is not given royal honour. And he came and strengthened the kingdom with slippery ease.

22: And arms are swept away by the flood and in front of his face.

And a covenant leader also is shattered.

23: And after they make themselves unite with him, he makes deceit and ascends. He became strong with a few backers.

24: In peace and in prosperity, in Medina (provinces), he comes. He did what his fathers and their fathers’ fathers had not done: Plunder and spoil (Baz, Shala – cross ref Ezek 38:12,13 re Sheba, Dedan, Tarshish and the resultant backlash 39:10) and riches – he scattered (bazaar) them in his safe havens. He thinks his thoughts (or plans his plans) upto a point.

25: And he makes his stickability and his heart wake up to a king of the south with a great efficiency/wealth/army. And a king of the South makes himself stirred up to battle with an even greater and bigger efficiency/wealth/army. But he does not stand up because of plans planned against him.

26: And he destroys him to eat his choice food (pathbaag from Sanskrit prathibaga) and his efficiency/wealth/army is swept off and many wounded fell.

27: And the double hearts of the kings are for evil. They speak lies at one table but this will not progress because the end (ketz) is yet for an appointed time**(moed- an appointed feast v35).

28: And he returns to his land with great riches, his heart made up against the holy covenant, but he returned to his land.

29: At an appointed feast, he returns and went south – but it is not like the former or the latter.

30: And against him came ships from Kittim (Cypress) and he was disheartened and returned. And was he enraged over the Holy Covenant – he acted. He returned. He is understanding of those who forsake the holy covenant.

31: And armed forces from him stand up. And they pierced the sacred place and the safe haven. And they made regularity / routine to be turned aside. And they put the abomination to appall.

32: And to those who make evil against the covenant, he makes (them) profane by flattery (Kholkot).

But people who know their God are made strong and made out.

33: And people who made understanding (creative teaching) make many discern and were tottered by sword, and by flame, by captivity and by plundering for days.

34: But when there were tottered, there are helping helped for a time but many of them were joined up by flattery (Khola_kholkoth – double flattery ??) .

35: And those who made understanding among them (educators) were tottered to refine them and to choose them to be white till the end of a time because the end (ketz) is yet for an appointed time**(moed- an appointed feast v27).

36: And the king does his goodwill, makes himself exalted, makes himself great above every god. And he speaks extraordinarily against the God of gods and makes himself rush till indignation which is sharpened and which is done is spent.

37: And till he does not discern the God of his fathers, till he does not discern the love of women and for god – for he makes himself great above (them) all.

38: But in place, he honours a god of strongholds. He honours a god who did not know his fathers with gold and silver and a precious stone and desirables.

39: And he acts on stronghold fortresses

with his foreign god whose glory he made regarded and makes greater and makes dominated in many. And the inhabited land (Adamah) are divided for a price.  

40: And at the end time, a king of the south makes himself gore himself. A King of the north makes a sweep with mounted rides, and with horses. And with many ships he comes to many nations (eretz-oth) and washes and crosses over.

41: And he comes to pleasant land /gazelle land and many are tottered and these slip away from his hand: Edom (red), Fatherland (Mo-ab), and heads (of) sons of Partners (Ammon – those with).

42: And he sends out his hand against countries and it is not for the country of Mitsarim (seiges -Egypt) to escape.

43: And he dominated over cumin (treasures) of gold and silver and all the desires of Mitsarim and Lubiyim (dry country – Libya) and Cushim (Ethiopians) in step.

44: And reports from the rising (east) and the north terrify him and he goes out in a great rage to exterminate and destroy many.

45: And he plants the tents of his palace between the seas and the mountain, holy and pleasant. And he came to his end with no one to help him.

 

Prayer:

 

As waves of time from heaven lap our shores, we await the end of (a) time. Help us to keep all our appointments with you (set-apart times of the festivals) so that we know when (a) time is ended.

 

The detailed stream of these events pass me by – unrecognized – as I know not enough of history to see who these kings are and the future is hidden to me. But these distinctions will end when time ends and some things which are completed already may recycle again.

 

We know the Main Past – and IT IS FINISHED. And That has made our future ongoing for us – onwards and upwards.   

 

Thank You, Lord.  

 

1: To the head of the choir master family, to the sons of bald men (Korah). A melody for young women.

Our God for us is a retreat and strength, a very much found help (Ezra) in distress.

2: And so we fear not even if earth is made to change  and the mountains totter (Moth – infinitive) into the heart of the seas,

3: its waters roar (Hama – imperfect) and boil (khamar) and quake, mountains swelling up.

Pause and Think about that!

 

4: River’s tributaries gladden God’s city – The Holy dwelling of God Most High.

5: God is amongst her. She is not tottered (Moth – Passive Nifal imperfect). God helps (Ezra) at turn of dawn.

6: Unbelieving nations roared (Hama – perfect),

 tottered (moth perfect) in Kingdoms.

He gave His voice.

Earth melted.

 

7: Yehoweh of Parliaments With Us (Immanu) is to us our refuge.

Pause and Think about that!

8: Come! See Yehoweh’s performance which had established (Saam) horrors (Shamoth) on earth.

9: He makes sabbath(rest) of wars to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow. He cut off the spear. He burns the chariots in a fire.

10: Make yourself go limp! (Rafa – how is it different to heal?)

Know that I am God!

I rise in unbelieving nations.

I rise on earth.

11: Yehoweh of Parliaments With Us (Immanu) is to us our refuge.

Pause and Think about that!

 

Prayer: Lord we do not fear elections, rebellious parliamentary laws, courts or armies. Our resurrected Immanuel is Risen. Our Yehoweh is the God of Parliaments! Amen.

 

 

1: In the time when The Word of Yehoweh is (Ehiyeh) God of all the families of God-Strife (Israel), and they are my people.

Pause and think about that!

2: Thus says Yehoweh, Grace was found in the wilderness. Sword-Survivor people going to be given a sudden break. God-Strife:

3: From far away, Yehoweh was seen for me. I loved you with everlasting love. And so I pulled you to loving kindness.

4: I build you again. Rebuilt (as) Maiden God-Strife.  Deck up your tambourines again. You went out with joyous dance.

5: Again you plant vines on the mountains of the Watcher (Shomron) – planted, planting, pierced.

6: For there’s a day when the watchers cried on mountains of God-covered (Ephraim/believers), “Rise up and ascend to Drought-mountain (Zion), to Yehoweh our God.

Pause and think about that!

 

7: For thus says Yehoweh, Sing Joy to Hind-part (Jacob) and screech to the head of unbelieving nations, cause to hear Hallelu (noisy praise), and say,”Hoshea (Cause-to-Save) Yehoweh your people, the remnant of God-Strife (Israel)”.

8: Behold I cause them to be brought from the north and gather them from the recesses of the earth, them blind and lame, the pregnant and ones with child as one – a great congregation return there.

9: They come with weeping and supplications for Grace. I cause them to be borne and cause them to walk by waters of a river, in a way that isn’t straight and  (so) there they are tripped-up. For I am a father to God-Strife (Israel), God-covered (Ephraim/believers) is my first-born.

Pause and think about that!

 

10: Hear God’s word, unbelieving nations,

Cause it to be emphasized on far off coasts, “He gathers scattered God-strife (Israel) and watched him like a shepherd his flock.

11: For Yehoweh ransomed the Hind-Part (Jacob) and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than him.

12: And they came and sang on the heights of Drought-mountain (Zion). And Yehoweh’s goodness flowed – on grain and on fresh wine and on fresh oil and on the young (sons) of sheep and cattle. And it was that their souls were like a well watered garden. And fatigue was no longer caused to be added on anymore.

13: Then maidens rejoice in dance and the young men and old as one.  For I overturned their mourning to joy and I comforted them, I gladdened their grief.

14: I satisfied the priests’ souls with fatness and filled my people full with goodness, with The Word of Yehoweh (Yshua).

Pause and think about that!

 

15: Thus says Yehoweh, a voice in High-Place (Ramah) is heard. –  Lamentation and weeping and bitterness: Weeping Ewe (Rachel) for her Sons refused to be comforted for her sons because they are nothing.

Pause and think about that!

 

16: Thus says Yehoweh, “Stop your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears for there will be wages for your paid work. The Word of Yehoweh returned from enemy land.

17: And there is hope for your latter time. The Word of Yehoweh returned your sons to their territories.

Pause and think about that!

 

18: I hearing heard Covered-One (Ephraim/believers) pacing around (in grief).  You chastised me and I am chastised – not like an untrained bull. Make me return. For, Yehoweh,  you are my God.

19: For after my turning, I was consoled. After being made aware, I was ashamed and slapped my thigh. I was also humiliated because I carried the reproach of my early years.

20: Covered-one (Ephraim/believers), who is my dear Son**? If it is this Child, even though a delight, I spoke against Him!  

(‘Bo’ is a preposition meaning ‘against’ following a noun. Ref: Gesenius 98:point 6 https://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Gesenius/index.htm).

But I am remembering remember upon this still!

My insides churn for Him!

I have loving loving kindness (wombing womb) for Him – the Word of Yehoweh (Yshua).

Pause and think about that!

 

21: Cause signposts to stand.

Set posts in place.

Put your heart in the way – the highway (where) you walked.

Turn back maiden God-strife (Israel) to these your cities.

22: How long will you make yourself turn away, The apostate / backsliding daughter*.

For Yehoweh created The New thing on earth:

 a woman* surrounds a man**!

 

23: Thus said Yehoweh of Parliaments, God of God-Strife, Say this word again in the land of God-Praise and to captivity in the turning-back cities, ‘Yehoweh bless you with a sheep abode of righteousness and a mountain of holiness’.

24: And there itself dwelt God-Praise (Judah) and all the cities as one. Plowmen setting out with flocks!

25: For I caused a weary soul to be saturated and I filled every languished soul.

26: After this I made myself awake and looked around. My sleep was sweet to me.

Pause and think about that!

 

27: Behold, in coming  days, I, the Word of Yehoweh, sowed The house of God-Strife and The house of God-Praise with man’s seed and animal’s seed.

28: And it happened that as I had kept awake/watch over them to pluck and to pull down and to tear down and to cause to die and to cause evil, so I, the Word of Yehoweh, now am awake/watch over them to build and to plant.

29: In those days, say no more that fathers ate a sour grape and the children’s teeth are dull.

30: Because if a man dies for his sin,  all mankind’s teeth who ate the sour grape are dull.

31: Behold in coming days, I, the Word of Yehoweh, cut a new with Covenant with The house of God-Strife and The house of God-Praise

32: – not like the covenant I cut with their fathers in a day when I caused their hand to be strengthened and caused them to come out of the lands of besiege / fortification (plural of Mathsor – Egypt) – The Covenant which they broke – and (when) I, the Word of Yehoweh, husbanded them!

33: So this, The covenant I cut with The house of God-Strife (Israel) after Those Days, is (when) I, the Word of Yehoweh, put The Instructions (Torah) inside them and I write it on their hearts. It came to pass that I was their God and they are my people.

34: And a man no longer teaches his friend and a man his brother to say, ‘Know The Yehoweh’. For all know of Me, The Word of Yehoweh (Yshua), from the youngest of them to the greatest. For I forgive their sin and their wrongdoing I remember no more.

Pause and think about that!

 

35: Thus says Yehoweh who gives sun for day light and a prescription of Moon and stars for night light, stirs the sea and moves its waves, Yehoweh of Parliaments is His Name.

36: “If these prescriptions depart from before my (The Word of Yehoweh’s) face, then the seed of God-Strife will rest (Sabbath) from being a nation (Goy) before my face for forever.

Pause and think about that!

 

37: Thus says Yehoweh, If heavens above are measured and earth’s foundations below are searched, then I, the Word of Yehoweh, reject the seed of God-Strife and all that they have done.

Pause and think about that!

 

38: Behold, in coming days, The city built by the Word of Yehoweh for Yehoweh from God-is-gracious (Chanan-el) Tower to The Corner (Ha-Pinna) Gate is

39: extended forward by a line of measurement in front of Scrabby (Gareb) hill and surrounded by Lowing (Goatha).

40: And all the valley of carcasses till the fields of the Dark (Kidron) brook, till the corner of Horses’ Gate from the place of sunrise is holy to Yehoweh, not to be plucked, not to be torn down any more and forever.

Pause and think about that!

 

(Italics are my comments)

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, on one hand you plucked and tore out your people but now they are no longer and forever not to be plucked or torn down. But Grace was found in the wilderness. We see the Father and You working together, speaking to us as one, indistinguishable, and at the same time Father, we cry as we remember You had Your insides churned as You spoke against Your Dear Son. And You created this new thing so that the Bride could surround Him. O, what Love has the Father for the Son and for us.

 

And Lord Jesus, husbanding Israel in the Old covenant, we hear Your pain when it was broken by Loved people who ended up destroyed.  On what Love does Jesus have for His people of old and then His first born, us Ephraim-believers. And to Israel Your new covenant is written on their hearts with the sun, moon and stars as witness. All men sinned but You forgave. And You built an extension to Your Father’s city! (I go to prepare a place for you Jn 14:2). We surround You!

Thank You Yehoweh. Thank You Word of Yehoweh.

Amen.

 

 

 

 1: And I raise my eyes and see – and behold, a man with a measuring tape (Rev 11:1 – it was John – and a measuring tape was given to me)

2: And I said, “Where are you going?” 

And he said to me, “To Shooting-Peace to measure what is its width and what is its length.”

3: And behold, The Messenger who was talking to me is going (Jesus) and another Messenger is coming to meet him (Holy Spirit – John 14:17).

4: And he said, “Run, speak this to the young man, You dwell in a rural place. (But) Shooting-peace has a great number of men and animals in it.

5: And I am to her the Word (Nae’um – The Word was God John 1:1) of Yehoweh (The Father) , a surrounding wall of fire. I am glory for her in her midst.

Think about that!

 

6: Oye, Oye (Ayyo, Ayyo) run away!

From north land, the Word (Nae’um – noun not verb –  Jesus) of Yehoweh, like 4 heavenly spirits, spreads out to you the Word (Nae’um) of God.

7: Oye, Drought-mountain (Tseeyon /Zion), is slipped away (?to/from/by), daughter of mingled-place (Babel).

Pause there!

 

8: For thus says Yehoweh of Parliaments, He sent the rear glory to the unbelieving nations who plundered to/for you.

For your smiters, are the smiters of His eyes’ pupils.

9: For behold, for I make The hand-shake on them and they became their servants’ plunder.

And you knew that Yehoweh of Parliaments sent Me.

Pause there!

 

10: Rejoice and be joyful, daughter of Drought-mountain!

For behold, coming, I, the Word of God, dwelt in your midst.

11: and many unbelieving nations were joined to Yehoweh in a day.

He and they were for my people.

And I dwelt in your midst and you knew that Yehoweh of Parliaments sent me for you.

12: And Yehoweh took possession of God-Praise (Judah) as His share in the Holy Ground and chose them in Shooting-Peace ((Jerusalem) again.

13: Hush! All flesh before Yehoweh.

Lest He awoke in His Holy abode.

Stop!

 

Prayer: Yehoweh of Parliaments, thank you for Your Word who is Jesus and for Jesus to send our Messenger who is the Holy Spirit who runs to us to tell us You are in our midst.

You lived amidst us in rural areas (1).

You take possession of Judah (2).

You choose them in Jerusalem(3).

And unbelieving nations (4) were joined to You IN A DAY.

All past tense.

We hush, because You are resting.

IT IS FINISHED.

 

We knew  that Yehoweh sent us His Word, Jesus and His updating Messenger, like as if each of the Four of us had a Heavenly Spirit.

 

We stop in our tracks and are amazed!

Amen.

 

(Italics in brackets are my comments) 

1: In the 8^th month of the 2^nd year of Darius, The Word (Dabar) of Yehoweh, He came to Remember-God (Skariah), son of Bless-God (Berekiah), son of Time-of-month (Iddo), the prophet, (Haggai is the other twin prophet also in the 2^nd year of Darius (1^st day of 6^th month) Haggai 1:1) saying

2: Yehoweh was displeased-angry (katsef- not affi temper angry) with your fathers – angry!

3: And you say to them, Thus said Yehoweh of parliaments/councils, Turn back to Me, The Word (Nahum) of Yehoweh of parliaments and I return to you says Yehoweh of parliaments.

4: Do not be like your fathers. The first prophets called to them saying , Thus says Yehoweh of parliaments, Turn back, Na, from your bad ways and your bad deeds. But they did not hear (Shema) and did not incline their ears to me, the Word Yehoweh.

5: Your fathers – where are they? The prophets – do they live forever?

6: However My words and My inscriptions which I charged to My servants, the prophets, did not reach your fathers. And so they turned back and said to them, Just as Yehoweh of Parliaments determined to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He did to us. Ponder that!

 

7: On the 24^th day of the 10^th month – it was the month of Shevat in the 2^nd year of Darius, Word (Dabar) of Yehoweh, He came to Remember-God (Skariah), son of Bless-God (Berekiah), son of Time-of-month (Iddo), the prophet, saying

8: In the night I saw, behold, a man riding on a red horse. He stood between myrtle trees which were in a hollow (myrtle symbolises marriage, love and faithfulness. It’s leaves were used by Nehemiah’s exiles to make tents for Sukkoth along with olive, oil, and palm leaves Neh 8:15) .

Bringing up the rear were horses – red, speckled and white.

9: And I said, “What are these my Lord?” And he said to me, “The Messenger, The Speaker- with/to me. I cause to show you who are these and those. And the man who stood between myrtle trees replied, “Those are whom Yehoweh sent to make themselves walk on earth.

11: and they answer to The Messenger of Yehoweh who stands between myrtle trees and they say, “we made ourselves walk on earth – behold all the inhabited and undisturbed earth.

12: And they answer to The Messenger of Yehoweh and say, Yehoweh of Parliaments, how long will you not have tender mercy to Shooting-Peace (Jerusalem) and on the cities of God-Praise (Judah) which you denounced? It is 70 years!

13: and Yehoweh answers The Messenger, The Speaker with good words and comforting words for me.

14: And The Messenger, The Speaker, said to me, “Call out and say Thus says Yehoweh of Parliaments, I am zealous for Shooting-Peace (Jerusalem) and greatly zealous for drought-mountain (Zion).

15: And I am enraged with a great rage against secure unbelieving nations (Goyim). When I was a little enraged, they succoured evil.

16: And then, This says Yehoweh, I am returning to Shooting-Peace with tender mercies. My house is being built for/in the Word of Yehoweh of Parliaments. A measuring tape stretches out on Shooting-Peace.

17: Once again call out and say, Thus says the Lord of Parliaments,

Once again goodness and Yehoweh’s consolation disperse/scatter on my cities.

Once again I chose drought-mountain (Zion)

Once again for/in shooting-peace (Jerusalem)

Ponder that!

 

18: And I lift up my eyes and I look – and behold 4 horns! (? Loud strong mouthpieces ready but not implementing strength – like a parliamentary act or ordinance)

19: And I say to The Messenger who talks to me, “What are these?”   And he answers me, These are the horns which are scattered in God-praise (Judah), in God-strife (Israel) and Shooting- peace (Jerusalem).

Ponder that!

 

20: And Yehoweh causes me to see 4 engravers (? Law makers).

21: And I say, “What are these coming to do?” And He says, “ These are saying that the horns which are scattered in God-praise (Judah) are like no man’s mouth, no head lifted (them) up. They are coming to cause terror, to throw out the horns of unbelieving nations who lift up a horn against the land of God-praise and to scatter them.

Ponder that!

 

Prayer:

Holy Spirit Messenger, Speaker of good and comforting words to our souls, may these Your words reach us and not have to turn back. Lord of Parliaments, may we turn back to you so we hear the 4 ordinances of goodness, proclamations of consolation made by 4 of your law-makers. They need no human advertisement to be carried swiftly across secure but unbelieving nations to scatter their ordinances which were raised against God-Praise. Amen.

1: And he caused me to see Yehoweh-caused-to-Save (Joshua ~ Yshua), The Priest, The Greatest standing before the face of Yehoweh’s Messenger and the Adversary (Ha-Satan) standing on his right to ‘Satan’ him (l’sithno – infinitive of Satan – to oppose).

2: And Yehoweh says to the Adversary, “Yehoweh, He rebukes you, the Adversary.  He rebukes those whom you are choosing in Shooting-Peace (Jerusalem, ?Pharisees, Sadducees of Jesus’ time). Is this not a poker snatched from the fire?”

3: Yehoweh-caused-to-Save (Joshua) was clothed in filthy garments (treachery) and standing before the face of The Messenger (see chapter 2 – the Holy Spirit).

And He (Messenger, Holy Spirit) says to Him (Yshua), “See, I have made your punishment for sin (Aven) to be crossed over (Avar as in Ivri) and gone up from you (Aaliyah). I will make you clothed in ‘changeable outerwear’ (robes of state).

4: And He (Messenger, Holy Spirit) answers and says to those who stood before His face saying, “Make His (Yshua’s) filthy garments to be set aside from Him.”

5: And He says that they put a clean turban on His head. And they put a clean turban on His head. And the made him clothed in garments (as) The  Messenger of Yehoweh stood (there).

6: And Yehoweh’s Messenger is caused to affirm to Joshua saying,

7: “Thus says Yehoweh-of-Parliaments, When you are walking in my paths and when you are watching my watches and also judge my house and also watch my courts, I gave You walking places among those standing here.

 

8: Hear, na, Joshua, The Priest, The Highest, You and all your fellows who sit before Your Face –

For they are miracle men.

For behold they are coming forth to My Servant, a sprout.

9: For behold the Stone which I placed before Joshua’s face: upon one stone are seven eyes.

Behold I uncover its inscription:

‘Word (Nae’um) YHWH Parliaments (Tsaba’oth)’. (ie Jesus is God)

I remove the punishment for sin from the land. That’s in One Day.

10: In that day, Word Yehoweh of Parliaments (God Yshua of Parliaments), You invite man and his fellow to be under the vine (religious Israel) and to be under the fig tree (political Israel).

 

Prayer:

 

On the day after Yshua removed punishment for sin, He went to His Father’s throne. The Holy Spirit got His clothes of treacherous filth removed, the Satan was rebuked by Yehoweh but He was affirmed by the Holy Spirit, in royal robes and clean turban, he walks His Father’s ways, watches out at lookouts, judges, keeps tabs on courts walking amongst His People who sprout from Him to do miracles under both vine and fig tree. A stone with 7 eyes is set and the Holy Spirit affirms that Jesus is Lord. In One Day! Hallelujah!

1: Return Israel to Yehoweh your God. You tottered because of your punishment.

2: Take up words with you and return to Yehoweh and say to Him, “Lift away all our punishment and take our good and complete bulls (sacrifice) of our lips (speech).

3: Ashur on horses will not cause us to be saved. We are not mounting and riding, we are not saying “You are our god” to the works of our hands when in You the fatherless are loved.

 

4: I heal their apostasy. I am impelled to love them. For I turned back from my tempestuous anger.  

5: I am (Eh-Hayah is Yehoweh in reverse) like night dew to God-strife (Israel). Lilies bud.

Like Lebanon, roots are caused to be smitten.

6: His shoots go out. It is like an olive tree. His splendour and fragrance are like Lebanon.

7: Dwellers return (Yashuvu yoshvi) to his shade. There will be grain. The vines will grow reminiscent of the wine of Lebanon. Ponder that!

 

8: Covered-one (Christian, Ephraim) for what are these idols for anyway? I heard and observed him. I am like a luxuriant fir tree. In me your fruit was found.

 

9: Who is wise and understands these things? Discerning and knows? For straight are Yehoweh’s ways and the righteous walk in them. But the rebellious totter in them.

 

Lord, May Ephraim acknowledge Your Love for Israel and know that as Israel strayed and punished for seemingly unforgivable rebellion and yet as Israel is healed, so also Ephraim. Amen.

 

 

1: When panicky Covered-one (Ephraim, christian) speaks, he lifts himself up in Israel and in offending a lord, he died.

2: And now, they  caused sin to increase (Joseph).

They made molten images with silver for themselves as they discerned (best). All of it idols of engravers’  work. They are saying, may humans kiss the sacrificed calves.

3: Therefore they will be like the morning cloud and the night dew which rises up early and walks away, like the chaff blown tempestuouly away from the threshing floor and like smoke from a grate window.

4: And I, I am Your God Yehoweh from the land of Egypt. You may know None save Me. There is no one causing you to be saved (Moshiah – sending Yshua) but me.

5: I knew you from the wilderness in the land of fiery-drought.

6: When their satiating pasturage was satiated and exalted, and upon which their hearts forgot me.

7: So it will be to them like a fierce lion, a leopard stealthily tracking on a road

8: I will meet them like a bear deprived of its cubs, I will tear their heart covering (pericardium/chest) and eat them like a lioness and diced by living beings of the field (piecemeal).

 

9: You were destroyed God-Strife (Israel) but your help is from Me.

10: Will I then be your king? And cause (send) Ysha (saving) in all your cities when your judging said ‘Give me a king and princes’?

11: In a flash of anger, I give you a king.

And in my fury, I take him away.

Ponder that!

 

12: Indictment-entangled Covered-one(Ephraim, christian) hoards up his sin.

13:The travails of labour (child bearing) come upon him. His son is wisely is not taking a stand for long in the labour room.

14: From the underworld’s hand of death, I ransom them. Will I redeem them from your deathly plagues? Will pity for your underworld destruction be hidden from my eyes?

15: if he is fruitful apart from his brothers, from the east, Yehoweh’s spirit comes.  From the wilderness He ascends. His spring was shamed as his fountain dried up. He plunders the storehouses of every delightful vessel.

 

16: The Watcher (Samaria) is guilty. She rebelled against her God. They fell by the sword. Their children are being dashed to pieces. Their pregnant ones bing ripped open. That’s it!

Prayer: Lord, whatever happens, may I never bow down to any image. May I always and only worship and bow down to You alone. Amen.

 

1: Spirit pastured Covered-one

and the persecuting East

– he increases the lies and devastation all the day (long).

• And they cut a covenant with Ashur and make oil to be piped to Egypt

 

2: a charge of Yehoweh against God-Praise.

To attend to Heel (Jacob) and make returns to him according to his ways and works.

 

3: In the womb he heel-grabbed his brother.

In his virility, he strove with Elohim.

4: he reigns-in a Messenger and overpowers him.

 

He wept and caused Himself to be gracious to him in the house of El (Bethel).

He finds him and  there He speaks emphatically with us –

5: And Yehoweh, God of Parliaments, Memorable Yehoweh:

6: And you return to your God.

Preserve mercy and justice.

And wait continually on your God.

 

7: With deceitful scales in his hand, humbled-one (Cnan) loves to extort.

8: and he said, Covered-one, I have become rich,

For myself, I have found virility (‘own’) in all my toil.

They will not find guilt (‘Avown’) in me which is sinful.

9: But I, your God, Yehoweh will again make you dwell  in tents in Egypt as in the days of the appointed feast (?Sukkoth).

10: and I spoke to the prophets and I, I caused an increase in vision and I symbolize with the hands of the prophets.

 

11: Surely though bare-land (Gilead)’s wickedness (‘Aven’)  is empty.

 

There are bulls sacrificed on their altars In Stone-circle (Gilgal), like heaped up, in  furrows in a field.

 

12: and Heel (Jacob) goes through fields of Aram.

And God-Strife (Israel) serves by a woman.  

And a woman watched over.

13: and by a prophet, Yehoweh made Israel to ascend (aliyah) from Egypt.

And by a prophet, he was watched over.

 

14: Bitter Covered-One made Him angry.

He leaves his blood on him and his reproach is made to return to his Lord.

 

1: And prophesied (Nifal Imp) Son of Man (Yshua) to Gog, said, “Thus said the Lord Yehoweh, Behold, I am to you, God, Prince of Rosh, Meshech and Thubel.

2:  I spun you around (shoov) and I gave you a sixth part (annihilated?) and I caused you to ascend (aliyah) from the remote north and caused you to come to the mountains of Israel.

3: And I caused your bow to be beaten out of your left hand and caused your arrows to fall out of your right hand.

4: On the mountains of Israel you fall – You and all your gangs and all the people who are with you – to predator birds, all with extreme wings. I gave you for food to the living beasts of the field.

5: On the face of the field you fall. For I, I spoke – Word Lord Yehoweh (Yshua, The Word was God John 1:1)

6: and I sent fire on Magog and secure coastal inhabitants and they knew that I am Yehoweh.

7: And so I cause my Holy Name to be known in the midst of my people, Israel.

And  I cause them not to defile my Holy Name anymore.

And the unbelieving nations knew that I am Holy Yehoweh in Israel.

8: Behold it comes and is done. It is The day of which Lord Yehoweh Word (Yshua) spoke.

 

9: And Israeli city dwellers came out and burnt and caused to kindle equipment, defences, shields, bows and arrows and hand- sticks (lathis) and spears. The fires burnt with them for 7 years

10: and no (need) to pick up sticks (firewood) from the field nor cut down from the forests because the equipment flames the fires and plundered their plunderers and spoiled their spoilers (bazaz and shalal from Ezek 38:1) – Word Lord Yehoweh (Yshua says), “Ponder that”.  

 

11: And it happened in a day. I give to Gog a place there – in a valley in Israel – a grave for Crossers-over (from avar) the east, the sea – keep it quiet (?a silent memorial?)  for crossers-over. They buried them. For Gog and all the boisterous, they called it the valley of roaring Gog (Hamon Gog).

12: And the house of Israel buried them for 7 months in order to cleanse the land.

13: And all the people of the land buried them.

And it was that the name of the day was ‘I, Word Lord Yehoveh (Yshua) am glorified  (Hikavdi)’

14: And men were continually caused to segregate (classify) as crossers-over buried in the (under) ground, crossers-over above ground.  They seek to cleanse the land at the end of 7 months (7 Oct 2023 to 7 May 2024 – the last bit of cleansing in Rafah started on 7 May 2024 ??).

15: The crossers-over cross over the land and saw a human bone and set up a marker by it there for the buriers in the valley of roaring Gog (Hamon Gog).

16: And also name a city ‘The Roaring’ (Hamonah). And they cleansed the land! Ponder that!

 

17: And as for you, Son of Man (Yshua), thus said Lord Yehoweh to speak to the birds (media) of all wings (right, centre and left wing), living beings of the field:

Be gathered and come,

be added on from all sides,

to the sacrifice I am to sacrifice for you.

A great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. 

And you ate flesh and you drank blood.

18: You eat the flesh of the mighty.

You drink the blood of earthly princes – fattened rams, male goats, young bulls, smoothly rounded (Bashan)  fatted cattle all of them.

19: And you drank blood to drunkenness.

My sacrifice which I am sacrificing for you.

20: And you were satiated at my table: Horses and mighty riders and all men of war.

 

(signed off) Word Lord Yehoweh (Yshua).

 

21: And I set my Glory in the unbelieving nations. And all the unbelieving nations saw the Judgement which I made and my Hand which I laid on them.

22: And the house of Israel knew that I am Yehoweh, their God from that day onwards.

23: The unbelieving nations knew that their iniquity on the house of Israel was revealed and how they were treacherous to me.

And I caused my face to be hidden from them.

And I gave them into the hands of their strait-jacketers. And they fell by the sword – all of them.

24: According to their uncleanness and according to their wrongdoing I did to them and cause my face to be hid from them. Ponder that!

 

25: Therefore thus says the Lord Yehoweh, I cause captive Heel (Jacob) to repent. And I was compassionate on all the house of Israel. And I was zealous for my Holy Name.

26: And I pick up all their insults and all their treachery with which they were treacherous to me, in which they safely dwelt in their own fields and no one makes them  afraid. 

27: When I turned them back from the peoples, when I assembled them in their enemies lands and they were set apart (made holy) in the eyes of the many unbelieving nations (Goyim)

28: And they knew that I, their God, Yehoweh, am exposing them to the unbelieving nations (Goyim) and collecting them back to their own fields and none of them are left captive there any more.

29: And I will not cause my face to be hid from them any more – from which I poured out The Spirit on the house of Israel.

 

(Signed off) Word Lord Yehoweh (Yshua) – That’s it.

(Italics = my comments)

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, Son of man, Word of Lord God, through your great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, we are turned around from eating the flesh of the mighty and getting drunk drinking the blood of animal princes. We turn around and come up to and are satiated by The Flesh and The Blood. We are, thus, added on from all sides. Along with returned Israel, we know that Yehoweh is God.

Whilst You hide your face from your enemies and those treacherous to Israel, You also graciously give them a burial place for the fallen and a named city and Israel will cleanse those from the east and from the coast those in tunnels and those above ground.

And You are pouring out your Spirit on Israel. We are seeing this with our eyes!

Yehoweh, how amazed I am that this is all planned and written so that it was true at that time, 500 years later and indeed 2500 years later too – down to a day.

Lord, The Forever God of our Time! Amen.

1: And it happens that the Word of Yehoweh came to me, saying,

2: Set your face to Gog (northern tribe) in the land in  Gog (Ha m’Gog), Prince of Red/Head (Ros), Dragger (meshak) and Answered (Thubel) and let prophesy be made over him.

3: And you say, “Thus says Lord Yehoweh: Behold I am to you Gog, Prince of Ros, Meshak and Thubel.

4: I spun you around (shoov) and given you hooks in your cheeks and I caused you to go out, and all your army, horses, steeds, all clothed in perfection, a great assembly (? United Nations) with barbs, shields, sword handlers all.

5: Parash, Cush and Footh they are. All of them with shield and helmet,

6: Completer (Gomer) and all his gangs, Sorrow (Togarmah)-House – all gangs (?Hezbollah etc ) from the remote  North and all the great many people with you.

7: You Firmed up and made firmed up (H’kon v’haken) and all your assemblies were assembled  about you and were watched by them.

 

8: After a great many days you are appointed.

In the latter years you come to the land –

 to those brought back (shoov),

to the sword,

to those gathered back

to the great many peoples in the mountains of Israel which were continually ruined and

to where they were caused to be brought out from the peoples and all dwelt secure.

 

9: You ascended (aliyah) like a ravaging storm, coming like a cloud covering the land.

It is you and all your gang, and the great many peoples with you.

Ponder that!

 

10: Thus says Lord Yehoweh, “It was on that day that words arise in your heart, you think evil thoughts.

11: And you said, ‘I ascended (aliyah) on a land of hamlets (rural), went to quiet dwellers.  

All of them are securely dwelling with not a wall and bars and no doors for them.

 

12: to Plunder plunder, to Spoil spoil (Lishlol shala, v’laboz  baz).

To cause your hand to return (shoov)

against ruined inhabitations,

against people from gathered unbelieving nations

who do cattle and acquisitions who dwell in the land’s centre (?capital).

13: Sheva and Dedan (eastern tribes) and travellers from Tarshish (Mediterranean sea peoples??) and all their young lions say to you,

Are you to plunder plunder? Have you come to spoil spoil?

Cause the Assembling of your assemblies to carry away silver and gold,

to take cattle and acquisitions

to plunder great plunder.

Ponder that!

 

14: So then prophesied (?hinnaveya conjugation nifal imp) Son of Man said to Gog, “Thus says Lord Yehoweh:

Will you not know on a day when my people Israel dwell safely?

15: And you came from your remote northern places, you and great many peoples with you, riding on horses.

All of them are a great assembly.

A great and mighty army.

16: And you come up against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land.

It is in the latter days that I will cause you to come against my land so that the unbelieving nations may know Me. Before their eyes, I am being made holy in you, Gog.

Ponder that!

 

17: Thus says Lord Yehoweh, Are you he of whom I spoke in the former days, prophesied by my servant prophets of Israel in those days (for) the years that I caused you to be brought against them.

Ponder that! (Spiritual significance as explained by the Son of Man .. )

 

18: It happened in a day –  in a day that Gog comes on the inhabited territory of Israel.

This is Lord Yehoweh’s Word:

My fury and temper (nostril) will ascend (aliyah).

19: In my zeal, in the fire of my wrath, I spoke.

If not, on that day there will be a great shaking in the inhabited territory of Israel.

20: Fish of the sea will shake in front of my face,

and the birds of the heavens,

the living beasts of the field

and all the creepy crawlers of the inhabited territories

and all the mankind who are on the face of the inhabited territory.

And the mountains were thrown down,

and the steep cliffs fell

and every wall fell to the earth.

21: And I called all the mountains against Gog.

 

The Lord Yehoweh’s Word is a sword.

A sword (which) is of a man against his brother.

22: He is judged with pestilence and blood and overflowing rain and hailstones.

Fire and brimstone I will rain down on him and on his gangs, and on the great many people who are with him. (Btw Armies and assemblies aren’t mentioned here)

 23: Then I will cause myself to be made great and cause myself to be made holy.

I will be known in the eyes of the great many unbelieving nations.

And they shall know that I am Yehoweh.

Ponder that!

 

Prayer: O Lord I see the UN assembly, armies, Hezbollah and Hamas gangs and masses of people up in arms against each other, in hatred and violence. And I find a political expectation of action from the church. But to both unbelieving sides, Yshua says that You are showing that You are Yehoweh God. We bow down in worship and awe.

1: When Israel was a lad and I loved him, and from Egypt, I called My Son.

 

2: They called to them and then they walked from their faces to lords (Ba’als).

They slaughter-sacrifice and smoke-sacrifice to carved images.

 

3: And I, I footed Covered-one, took them by their shoulders, and they did not know that I had healed them.

 

4: I drew human territories for them with with cords of love. I was to them as those who cause lifting away a yoke from their cheek, gently making up to them and causing them to be fed.

 

5: He won’t turn back to Egyptian land and his king Ashur because they refused to turn back.

 

6: A sword will whirl through his cities, finished in separate parts, eaten up because of their plans.

 

7: My hung-up people, turning away from Me, calling to the on-high but not one exalting Him.

 

8: How can I give to you, Covered-one?

Deliver you up, God-Strife?

(Can I) Give to you (something) like Admah?

 (Can I) Set up for you (something) like Tsabolim?

 

(Admah and Tsabolim were beyond Gaza and belonged to the Cannanites Gen 10:19, raided by Abraham to rescue Lot Gen 14:8 and which, along with Sodom and Gomorrah, were destroyed by Yehoveh with brimstone and fire because they rebelled against Him Deut 29:23)?

 

My Heart is overturned over me,

one with My Compassion warmed up.

9: I am not making my temper burn fiercely.

I am not returning and letting Ephraim go to ruin.

For I am God and not a holy man amidst you and not coming excitably.

10: They will walk after Yehoweh. He will roar like a lion. When he roars, his sons will come trembling from the sea.

11: Trembling like a bird from Egypt, like a dove from the land of Ashur.

I caused them to settle in their houses.

(Signed off -)

The word of Yehoweh (Yshua).

Ponder that!

 

12: Covered-One has encircled us with deceit and treachery.

The house of God-strife and God-praise are still restless with God even (when) affirmed by the holy ones.  

Prayer: Lord may we never reject Your Love for us. May we all – believing and unbelieving nations – exalt You.

1:  GodStrife (Israel) is a vine emptying  (glug-glugging – Bokak  sound) fruit – making for himself an abundance (Krov) of fruit.

GodStrife made altars increase (hirba) in his land merrily (ktov), improved (hitvu) it with monuments.

2: Their heart was divided. Now they are offending.

He breaks the neck (yay-rof) of their altars.

He devastates (yeshded is like saying Shaddai-ing) their monuments.

 

3:  As now they say, “we do not have any king”

As we have no fear of Yehoweh

And The King – what is He doing for us?

(We have no king but Caesar John 19:15)

4: They made wordy speeches, vain swearing and cut (Karoth) a covenant. They shot out venom – judgement on the furrows of a field.

 

5: The calf of the house of vanity (Beth Aven) sojourns in neighbouring Samaria. For their people and their gurus (idolatrous priests)  were rejoicing for it.

 

They mourned because its glory upon it has been removed from it.

6: Also (there it goes) – to Ashur it has been made to be carried off as a tribute for ‘the Contender’ (Yareb) king

 

Shame on Covered-one!

God-strife shall be ashamed of his advice.

 

7: Destroyed Watcher (Shomron) – her king like foam (katsef) on the surface of water.

 

8: And destroyed sin’s platform.

Thorn and thistle aliyah (goes up on to) GodStrife’s altar of sin offering

(destruction of the temple Mark 13:1-2) .

 

And they say to the mountains , “Cover us” and to the hills, “Fall on us”’. (Luke 23:30)

 

9: From Gibean (9:9) days you sinned, GodStrife. They stood there. In the Gibean battle against the sons of injustice, they made them not overcome.

(Joshua tricked by Gibean men into making peace and 5 kings are hanged in an ensuing war Josh 10:1-8.

When a Levite’s concubine is killed in Gibeah, the tribe of Benjamin is decimated Judges 19-21.

Saul’s home from where he declares war to protect Jabesh-Gilead 1 Sam 10-11: essentially war declarations and war after an unexpected attack. Ref: https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/68526/the-meaning-of-hosea-10-9-the-days-of-gibeah )

 

10:  For My desire is for disciplining and gathering peoples against them.

I imprison them for their two transgressions

(?glows is a misspelling – עינתם vs עונתם transgression).

 

( I couldn’t understand this section till I read v8 and remembered Luke 8:30, read v3 and remembered Jn 19:15. These cross references help to uncode the context – the first bit of this chapter is about the time at or after Pilate and Herod’s interrogation or the contemporary rejection of either the PM or the Supreme Court in Israel and the second bit is about end time events with some direct references also to contemporary events including 7 Oct 2023 which happened on the last day of Sukkot (Tabernacling v8), a Sabbath dawn and the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war)

 

11: And Covered-one is a trained heifer who loves to thresh grain.

But I crossed over (Ivri) her goodly neck and am making CoveredOne ride a plough,

GodPraise (Judah) breaks clods of Heel’s (Jacob) earth.

 

12: Sow Righteousness for yourselves

Harvest Mercy in your mouth.

 

Plough (Neeru) your  ploughing (field – neer).

For it is the time to search for THE Yehoweh till He comes and throws righteousness on you.

13: You all ploughed wickedness and evil.

You all harvested the fruit of lies.

For you trusted in your own path, in your mighty men.

 

14: And an uproar arose amongst your people

and your enclaves were despoiled (Shaddai-ed)

(kibbutz attacks on Oct 7 2023?)

As Salman despoiled  in the house of ambushing God (Beth Arab-el – house of the Arab god?? ??MBS in Saudi)

On a day of battle, a mother mowed down over (her) children (Oct 7 murder of children in front of their mothers).

 

15: This was done to you, house of God (Beth El to contrast with Beth Arab-El above), in the face of wickedness – your wickedness.

At dawn (? Uncharacteristic unpreparedness for Oct 7 dawn attack has not been explained by PM or IDF) the king of GodStrife (Israel) was silenced, silenced (nidmo, nidmah).

 

Prayer:

Lord unite our hearts and may we enthrone You, our King and banish the golden calf from our midst so that we may not be tricked into a false peace of human making which will lead to our demise from the very hands with whom we make this false peace.

 In these last days. May we sow righteousness (instead of wickedness) and harvest your Mercy (instead of lies) . May our nations, Israel and the Church repent and turn back to you that we will not have internal dissent and despoiled communities and that our leaders will not be silenced at dawn. May the church and Israel learn the lessons of the last day of Sukkot and turn back to You. Amen. 

“Who will deliver you from my hands?” asks Nebuchadnezzar of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-ngo and they answer and say:

Daniel 3:

16: “No need for us to answer you for this situation.

17: If, in that case, our God whom we cleave to is able to loose us from burning in the fiery furnace, He will cause us to be loosed.

18: And if not, know and let it be to you, King, that we are not cleaving to your gods and not prostrating to the gold image which you set up. Ponder that!”

 

And he and all of us, like the three braves who are then bound and thrown into the fire by men who will die because they themselves were burnt by it, will be known by the very king who ordered it:

 

25: “Behold, I see 4 men Loose, walking in the midst of the fire and with no hurt.

And behold! The fourth appears like the Son of God!”

 

Yes, whatever the passed hate crime bill, the future conversion act and assisted dying acts have raised as gold images, He will be our Fourth!

 

Whether is said of us being only Mammals version 6.6^x evolved from previous versions,

we, Created version 7.7^Y will not bow down to deceit and He will be our Fourth!

 

They may try to hide the Messiah by changing the appointed time of meeting but even when we call the made-up day our Shabbat Delight, we will continue to delight (Isaiah 58: 13,14) in Our Fourth!

 

Kings and Parliaments will call our Fourth ‘Like the Son of God’ when they see us walking freely and unhurt midst the fire.

 

Isaiah 43:2

 

As you cross over (Ivri) waters I am with you.

And in rivers, they will not flow over you.

As you walk through the fire, you will not be burnt.

And the flame will not be scorching to you.

 

 

1: Wail out from your throat (guttural)

Not holding back the shofar

Raise your voice, Emphasise to my people their transgressions and to the house of Jacob their sins.

2: Day after day it is for Me they seek. It is the knowledge of My Way in which they delight. As a nation, it is the Righteousness which He did and the Judgement of their God that it does not forsake. It is judgement and imminent Justice they ask me about. They delight in God.

3: For why did we fast? Did You not see? We prostrated our souls and you don’t know.

Behold! on a fasting day you discover delight. And you exploit all the labourers.

4: Behold! You fast for strife and contention. But you will not fast to cause a fist of wickedness to be struck as you would do on a day when you make your voice heard from a height.

5: Is this the sort of fast which I choose for you? A day for man to prostrate his soul? To bow his head like a bulrush? To make sackcloth and ashes to be spread out? Is this what you would call a fast? A day of goodwill for Yehoweh?

 

6: Is this not the fast I choose?

To open wicked bonds?

(Fthay Karsuvoth resha) — a-u rhyme

To undo the pole bar of the yokes?

 (hather Eggudhoth motha)

To set free the oppressed?

(V’shala ratsutsim kafshim)

And rip off every pole bar?

(V’kal motha thnatheku)

 

7: Is it not to divide your bread in two with the hungry?

And to make the poor strays come to your house?

And when you see the naked, cover him?

And not make yourself hide from your own flesh?

 

8: At that time your light, like quick but unending dawn, springs out and walks before you. Your righteousness, God’s Glory, collects behind you.

 

9: At that time call out and Yehoweh answers. Call out for help and He will say, “Here I am”.

If you put aside the pole bar (of the yoke) from your midst, sending off (that) trouble speaking pointing finger.

10: Cause your soul to come out to the hungry.

Cause the bowed-down soul* to be satiated.

(I am the bread of life John 6:35)

And your light came forth in the darkness.

And gloom like noondays.

(I am the light of the world Jn 8:12)

11: Yehoweh always guided you and caused him* to be satiated.

 

Your soul and your bones were drawn out of a drought for a water saturated garden. Its water is that which does not lie.

(Drink living water John 7:38).

 

12: From waste places (kharab)  around you they built lasting foundations – you stand for generation upon generation.

And He called you

Wall Builder of the Breach

Turn-backer (shoov) to the PathWay

Remainer-Dweller (Shavet).

(I am the way the truth and the life John 14:6)

 

13: If you cause turning back (Hifil shoov)

To Shabbat,

your foot doing your pleasure

on my holy day you called Shabbat Delight (Anag)  to Gloriously Holy Yehoweh

(referring to Sunday? Man was made for Sabbath?)

and Honour Him in

making your ways,

finding your pleasures

and speaking words

 

14: Then you will make yourself delight (Anag, Hitpael) in Yehoweh,

I (who)caused you to climb in and ride to high places on earth (?Transfiguration – omission in Interlinear for bamot – should be Strongs 1116,7,1181),

caused you to eat the heritage of your father Jacob.

 

For the mouth of Yehoweh spoke. Ponder that!

 

Prayer:

Lord, forgive us. In our religious fervour and loud prayers for justice, fasting, keeping sabbath, we forgot that the “social gospel” – providing food, water, justice to the poor – was important.

 

Lord forgive us. In our desire to feed and water the poor, we forgot that what they need is not physical but the Food and Water of Life, for spiritual freedom, for release from sin’s bondage and finding You, The Way, The Truth and The Life.

 

Now may we delight in being thus Transfigured like You were.

 

Amen.

Judges 7

2: And Yehoweh said to Gideon, “A great number of people are with you to give the Midianites into your hands. Then Israel will beautify itself against me saying, “My own hand has caused me to save (Hoshea-d, Hifil) me.”

3: Now please, in the ears of the people, call out saying, Who is afraid? Turn back (Shoov) and quickly depart from the bare mountain (Gilead) …

And so 22000 are sent off, and 10000 remain but still too much so after the “lapping test” finally, 300 remain!

7: And Yehoweh said to Gideon, “By 300 men who lapped, I will make you lot saved (oshea – Hifil (causative)). I gave you the Midianites”.

 

Lord, our churches, national services and hospitals, social programmes, staffing and economies are being depleted, stepped down, people are retiring or going away not because you want these to close down but so that they go below the safe threshold of existence so we cannot claim our hand caused us to be saved. But then we will have ONLY YOU who caused us to be saved using a remnant. Amen.

 

1: To David.

Yehoweh my light and my salvation (va- Ishi). Whom am I fearing?

Yehoweh my life’s stronghold.

Whom am I dreading?

2: Flesh- eating Wickedness-makers coming against me? Opposing narrow-minded? Them? They tottered and fell.

3: if an encampment (Makneh) encamps (thikneh) against me, my heart does not fear.

If a battle arises against me, through this I am trusting.

 

4: To sojourn in the house of Yehoweh is the one thing I begged of Yehoweh, the very thing I am demanding, To behold the beauty of YHWH all of the days of my life, To inquire in His palace.

 

5: For He makes me to hide in His Sukkoth (hut, covering, pavilion, tabernacle).

On an evil or disagreeable day, He is hiding me in a secret tent (ahello – tabernacle) on Rock, lifting me up.

6: And thus my head, it is lifted up above my surrounding enemies. And in His tent I will sacrifice –  slaughter sacrifices of Joy (THRUAH).

 I will sing and I will make (instrumental) music to Yehoweh.

 

7: Hear Yehoweh – my voice is calling out.

And have mercy on me (Vey chanaeni)

And answer me (Vey anaeyni)

8: my heart is speaking to you

My face is demanding Your face

 

9: Don’t make your face to hide from me.

Don’t turn away in a temper (nostril flare) from your servant.

You have been my help.

Dont you leave me

Dont you forsake me

My God, My Jesus (salvation).

 

10: When my father and my mother departed from me (azbooni)

And Yehoweh (is and will) gather me up (yasfeni)

 

11: Yehoweh, cause me to aim towards Your Way –

because there are my treacherous onlookers – guide me to an upright (level) path.

12: don’t give me to narrow minded souls if(when) they stand up as false witnesses against me and breathe violence (Hamas).

 

13: If I had not got confirmed (got Amen-ed) to see the goodness of God in the land of the living

 

14: Wait (Kahvey) on Yehoweh

Be courageous – He strengthens your heart.

And wait (Vey-Kahveh) on Yehoweh.

 

(PS Jer 29:11 Tikvah (hope) is based on Kaveh (wait))

1: Do not rejoice with joy like Israel and other peoples do. For you prostituted against God. You loved on hire on all  threshing floors.

 

2: Threshing floor and wine vat will not tend you.

New wine in it will disappoint you.

3: You will not remain in the land.

Yehowah will return Covered-One to Egypt

And eat foul things in Ashur.

4: You will not offer wine to Yehowh.

And you will not pledge to Him.

To all those who eat Slaughter sacrifices it will be like the bread of the wicked. For it makes them defiled.

For their bread and their souls do not come to the house of Yehoweh.

 

5: What will you do on the appointed day of the Lord?

And of the feast day (khag = pilgrim feast not the moed (appointed) feast) of Yehoweh)

6: For behold they have gone because of the havoc.

Mitsarim (Egypt) snaps them up.

Mof (Memphis) buries them.

The value of their silver they possess – nettles. Brambles in their tents.

7: Days of visitation came.

Days of recompense came.

They know God-strife (Israel) is a fool.

 

The prophet is mad. Men of the spirit above which is great evil and greater animosity.

8: Prophet is spying on Covered-one with Our God, a snare and a bait, animosity with the house of his God in all his ways.

 

9: They ruined – made entrenched (ruin) – like in Gibean days (Joshua tricked by Gibean men into making peace and 5 kings are hanged in an ensuing war Josh 10:1-8. When a Levite’s concubine is killed in Gibeah, the tribe of Benjamin is decimated Judges 19-21. Saul’s home from where he declares war to protect Jabesh-Gilead 1 Sam 10-11: essentially war declarations and war after an unexpected attack. Ref: https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/68526/the-meaning-of-hosea-10-9-the-days-of-gibeah )

 

He remembers their evil, He punishes their sins.

Ponder that!

 

10: (Just) like I found God-strife as grapes in the wilderness, I saw your fathers like early season early figs on a fig tree. They went to the lord of open-mouthed mountain (baal of Mount Peor in Moab). They separate (make themselves Nazarenes) to shameful things, they become detestable like the thing they love.

 

11: Covered-One is like a bird making itself fly from their glory – From being born, and (indeed) from conception in the womb,

12: even if (Ki Im)they raise up their children and they are bereaved of mankind (may Adam),

Even then (Ki gam), woe to them.

For I am turning aside from them (may hem).

13: Covered-one whom I saw planted like Tsore (Tyre is a friendly supportive foreign neighbour but also a rock) in a shepherd’s habitation

And Covered-one who came out to slay his children.

14: Give them, Yehoweh, you are giving:

Give them bereaved womb and dried-up breasts.

 

15: All their evil was at the stone circles (Gilgal – sacrifice spot). For there I multiply hated over their evil works. From My House, I cast them off. I will not let loving all their rebellious princes be increased.

 

16: Covered-one was caused to be struck. Their root withered, fruit dried up. Even if they are making ( yasun?? From aser) and birthing, I caused their wombs’ treasures (Mukhammad) to be killed. Ponder that!

 

17: They will reject my God for they do not hear Him. And they are refugees among the nations. Ponder that! 

Prayer: O Lord, we are guilty as charged. We can see why we are in this awful state as a church – we who were covered by your blood started calling shameful things holy and making meaningless ritual of communion and “christmas”. And we have no next generation – lost to contraception and abortion, no citizenship in your kingdom, and instead of being your bride, became a prostitute. We have gone the way Israel did. Now, even when we go back to the kingdom of evil from whence we first came to your kingdom, we are refugees. Woe, Woe.

 

1: Shofar to mouth!

Yehowah comes like an eagle against a house because they have crossed over my covenant and rebelled against my Torah.

2: crying to me “Our God”.

God-strife, We know you:

3: God-strife rejected good.

Foes persecute him.

4: They set up kings – but not from me.

They set up princes – But I knew them not.

They made idols from their gold and their silver so that they are cut off.

 

5: The Watcher’s (Shomron) calf is rejected,

My nostril (temper) angered against them.

How long, when will they not be able to be clean?

6: because in Israel an artisan made it – not God – he! (Sounds like spluttering anger)  So, in splinters is the Watcher’s calf!

 

7: For they sow wind and storm.

Standing grain is cut short.

Never to sprout (Tsemah).

Never to make a meal (Kheema).

Maybe make strangers gobble it up?!

 

8: God-strife  – there they are now!

Gobbled up in the nations.

Like a vessel in which there isn’t anything.

9: For they make aliyah (go up) to Ashur!

 

Covered one – a lone donkey.

Making lovers on hire.

10: Also for hire among the nations

And now, I gather, a little traumatised by the weight of king and princes. (Poignant sarcasm).

 

11: Covered one has made altars great again for sin. Altars for him are for sin!

 

12: 10000 things I write to him from my Torah are considered strange!

 

13: They are sacrificing and eating the flesh of my sacrifices and my gifts.

No! Yehowah was not pleased.

He remembers their guilt and punishes their sin.

They return to Egypt.

 

14: God-strife forgets his Maker and builds temples.

God-Praise makes protected cities increase.

And I sent fire on his cities and it devoured his citadels.

 

Ponder that!

 

Prayer:

Lord, May I never back-slide, cross back over your covenant and rebel against you, taking all that is holy and hiring it out for profit or using it for myself.

I do not want to make a golden calf nor consider your instructions strange and cross back and land up back in Egypt – shattered, empty and burnt-out.

I crossed over to the promised land – no forgetting that.

I want to honour The Covenant.

Amen.

1: A melody for David’s chief musician when Prophet Nathan is to go to him after he had gone (Ba)

to Bath-Sheba.

Be compassionate to me, Lord.

Like/for the sake of your loving kindness (khesedhekha), 

Like /for the sake of your great encompassing motherly sustenance (womb-ness – rakhamekha),

Wipe out my transgressions (Peshayi).

2: Cause me  to be washed many times from my guilt (Meavoni)

and from my sin, purify me (Thakrini) .

3: For I know my transgressions (Peshayi) and my sin (khathathi)  

is before me (negdi) continually.

4: To You, separately (only) to You (Lekha Lebedekha),

I sinned. And the evil I did in your eyes (beyenekha)

 You intend to make righteous by purifying (it) in your speaking (badebrekha)

and in your judging (beshfthekha).

5: Lo and behold,  in guilt I danced (kholalthi)

It was a sin that bred me (in) my mother (Immi)!

6: Lo and behold you delight in internal truth (being true even if unseen) and you cause me to know (Thodhiyayni)

The (this) hidden wisdom.

7: You sin-sprinkle (Thakhathayni)

me (with hyssop (ezob) – the minty brush which sprinkled blood on to the doorposts in Egypt Ex 12:22 and ceremonially sprinkled bird blood to clean in Lev 14:4-6, 49-52, Num19: 6,18)

And I am cleaned (ThHaiR is always with hyssop).

Wash me (Theykavseni)

and I am made whiter than snow.

8: Cause me to hear (Thashmiyayni)

rejoicing and happiness (vey-Simchah).

Please, please let rejoice the bones you crushed (Dikitha).

9: Hide your face from my sins (Mikhthai).

And all my punishments wipe out (Mikhay).

10: A clean heart create in me (Li),

God. Make a new stable spirit within me (b’kirbi).

11: Don’t hurl me away from your face (milpanekha).

Your Holy Spirit Don’t fetch (Thikkha)

from me (Mimeni).

12: Cause me to return to Your Jesus’ joy. Let your noble spirit rest in me (thismkeyni).

13: I will teach rebellers your ways (darkheykha)

and sinners to You (aleykha).

will return.

14: Cause bloodguilt (Hathsilaeyni)

to be stripped away from me, God, the (my) God of my salvation / Jesus (Th’shuathi).

Ring out My tongue (l’shoni)

 (of) Your Righteousness.

15: (My) Lord, my lips open (thiftha),

 and my mouth will make conspicuous a song of praise (Tehilatheykha).

16: For you don’t delight in slaughter sacrifice. And I would give you whole burnt offering (but) you do not favour it. (Thiritze)

17: God’s slaughter sacrifice is a shattered spirit, a shattered crushed heart you do not despise (Thivze).

18: Do a favour and cause good to THE  dry mountain, build the walls of Jerusalem (place from where peace shoots out)

19: then you delight in righteous slaughter sacrifices, perfect whole burnt offerings, then will be made to ascend to your altar, bulls (Fareem).

1: Come!

And Let us return to Yehowah.

For He tore (Him)

And He heals us.

He got (Him) struck

And He binds us up.

 

2:  In days on a third day

He made us alive

He got us standing (raised up),

He got us alive – in front of His face.

 

3: and let us get to know, chase down the knowledge of Yehowah.

He goes forth like the dawn getting established (becoming proper day)

He comes like a downpour to us, like the spring and autumn rain on the land.

 

4: What am I doing with you, Covered-one?

What am I doing with you you, God-praise?

(3: Yada to know vs 4: Judah from Yadah to throw or praise)

(for) your goodness is like a morning cloud – walking away like dew at dawn.

5:  So then engraven by the prophets, the words of my mouth slayed them.

 

Your Judgements are like light (shining) forth.

 

6: For I delight in kindness, not slaughter sacrifice, and knowledge of  / knowing God more than whole burnt offerings.

 

7: but they cross over (Avru) like men in covenant there – dealing treacherously with (bagdu)  me (into)

 

8: a bare (Gilead) town made of evil, polluted with blood.

 

9: a band of soldiers lying in wait for a man, an association of priests on the way to murder, (going) to a ridge (Shekem – in northern Israel near Mt Gerisim, Abraham’s first altar as he came to the promised land, their family tomb, where Joshua got the people to covenant) to make a wicked plot.

 

10: I saw a horrible thing in the house of Israel – Covered-one’s prostitution defiled Israel.

 

11: Also, God-praise, a harvest was appointed for you during my returning to my captive people. Full Stop.

 

Prayer: Lord, we return to you to praise you because we want to know you intimately (3-6).  In the past we obeyed and crossed over to the promised land like Abraham and the Israelites returning from Egypt, but now you remind us not to crossover to a bare and bloodied city with Roman soldiers and a hypocritical priesthood to participate horribly in your crucifixion (1,7-11). We would have been fleeting like morning cloud and dew,  killed by your word and judgements sent to us by your prophets – if it weren’t for your ever increasing dawn light, for you harvesting us when you returned (3-5, 11). Thank you for healing and binding us up but thank you most of all for resurrecting us on a third day with Yshua (1,2).  

COLOUR CODE:

Return vs Cross-over theme

Know and Praise theme

Dew vs Dawn theme

From Leah (From La’ah – weary/impatient) with delicate (rakkoth) eyes (Gen 29:31-35)

1. Reuben –  Rabah saw + b’Ani to my troubles
2. Simeon – Shma heard + Shnuah hated
3. Levi – Lvah- attached to / joined
4. Judah (Odeh from Yada – to cast on / praise)

 

From Bilhah (Rachel’s maidservant) (Gen 30:5-8)

1. Dan (Dani – God has judged my case – from Dheen – justice)
2. Naphtali – Nifal (passive) of Fathal (twisting) – with godly wrestling I am twisted/wrestled with my sister and have won (Gen 30:8)

 

From Zilpah (Laban and then Leah’s maid servant Gen 30:9-12)

1. Gad – Good luck
2. Asher – I am happy (from Ashar – to go ahead / advance)

 

From Leah again (Gen 30:17-21)

1. Issachar – from Yiktol (incomplete active) of Sakar – this is God’s hire / wages (Gen 30:18)
2. Zebulun – from Zabal – dwell – with my 6^th son, Jacob will now dwell with me
3. Dinah – from Dheen – to judge

 

From Rachel (ewe)

1. Joseph- from Yasaph – to add but also Asaph – to take away ‘kharaf’ (reproach) Gen 30:23,24
2. Benjamin –   Son of right hand Ben + Yamin (even though Rachel, dying in childbirth, called him son of trouble –  Benoni = Ben + Aven Gen 35:18).

 

These became 12 tribes in Numbers 1:4-16 (Not Levi, Dinah and Joseph).

But Revelation 7:4-8 instead lists the tribes as:

Judah

Reuben

Gad

Asher

Naphtali

Manasseh

Simeon

Levi

Issachar

Zebulun

Joseph

Benjamin

Why does the list in the Revelation differ from the one in Numbers? The above are not the tribes of natural Israel, because there was never a tribe of Joseph, the tribes of Dan and Ephraim are not included in the list, and the Levites were set aside for service in the temple and where never considered as one of the twelve tribes.

(Additional reference for the list is https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/29138/what-is-the-significance-that-the-twelve-tribes-of-the-sons-of-israel-rev-74-8 )

 

What does all this mean for us today?

The reference for us, non Jews, is the (previously non-existent) tribe of Joseph – “added on” to the tribes of Israel.

But even elder Manasseh and younger Ephraim might tell us more about the typology:

1. Manasseh (from Nashah – Piel perfect – Forgot) – because he forgot all his labour (Amali) and all his father’s house Gen 41:51.
2. Ephraim could be from Apher – Covered one or what Joseph says is his reason for the name in Gen 41:52 from Hiphrani – Hifil (causative) of Phara – to cause to be fruitful).

And so the tribe which was covered and made fruitful disappears and the tribe which is added on replaces it.

The tribe which did not “remember” its works or generational blessings stayed.

Prayer:

Lord – when we are hated, even by family, You see, You hear. We praise you.

Lord – May we never depend on our works or lineage for our salvation. May we never consider our fruitfulness and your blessings in our lives as a surrogate of salvation. Our reproach can only be taken away if You add us to your ‘Joseph’ tribe through our saviour, our Yshua.