H3069–יְהֹוִה–ye.ho.vih

`For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Although My four sore judgments -- sword, and famine, and wild beast, and pestilence -- I have sent unto Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and beast,

יְהֹוִ֗ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And they have comforted you, for ye see their way and their doings, and ye have known that not for nought have I done all that which I have done in her -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

יְהֹוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: As the vine-tree among trees of the forest, That I have given to the fire for fuel, So I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And I have made the land a desolation, Because they have committed a trespass, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity `Are' of the land of the Canaanite, Thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

יְהוִה֙ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time `is' a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.

יְהוִ֖ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And go forth doth thy name among nations, Because of thy beauty -- for it `is' complete, In My honour that I have set upon thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And My bread, that I gave to thee, Fine flour, and oil, and honey, that I caused thee to eat. Thou hast even set it before them, For a sweet fragrance -- thus it is, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And it cometh to pass, after all thy wickedness, (Wo, wo, to thee -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah),

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

How weak `is' thy heart, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In thy doing all these, The work of a domineering whorish woman.

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them;

יְהֹוִ֗ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, And dost give trouble to Me in all these, Lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I did not this thought for all thine abominations.

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done -- she and her daughters -- As thou hast done -- thou and thy daughters.

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath -- to break covenant.

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The great eagle, great-winged, long-pinioned, Full of feathers, that hath diverse colours, Hath come in unto Lebanon, And it taketh the foliage of the cedar,

יְהוִ֗ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It prospereth -- its roots doth he not draw out, And its fruit cut off, and it is withered? `In' all the leaves of its springing it withereth, And not by great strength, and by a numerous people, To lift it up by its roots.

יְהֹוִ֖ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Doth he not -- in the place of the king who is causing him to reign, Whose oath he hath despised, And whose covenant he hath broken, With him -- in the midst of Babylon -- die?

יְהוִה֒ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I live -- Mine oath that he hath despised, And My covenant that he hath broken, Have I not put it on his head?

יְהוִה֮ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have taken of the foliage of the high cedar, And I have set `it', From the top of its tender shoots a tender one I crop, And I -- I have planted `it' on a mountain high and lofty.

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Ye have no more the use of this simile in Israel.

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

In My statutes he doth walk, And My judgments he hath kept -- to deal truly, Righteous `is' he, he surely liveth, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Is it not in his turning back from his way -- And he hath lived?

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Therefore, each according to his ways I judge you, O house of Israel? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Turn ye back, yea, turn yourselves back, From all your transgressions, And iniquity is not to you for a stumbling-block,

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”