H9001–/וַ–v

And I will let Elam be broken before their haters, and before those who are making designs against their lives: I will send evil on them, even my burning wrath, says the Lord; and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them:

וְהַחְתַּתִּ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵבֵאתִ֨י (וְ) ve. “and”וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֤י (וְ) ve. “and”

I will put the seat of my power in Elam, and in Elam I will put an end to kings and rulers, says the Lord.

וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

But it will come about that, in the last days, I will let the fate of Elam be changed, says the Lord.

וְהָיָ֣ה׀ (וְ) ve. “and”

They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.

וְנִלְו֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one

וְעָ֣רְכוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.

וְהָיְתָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

וְהָיְתָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

וְשֹׁבַבְתִּ֤י (וְ) ve. “and”וְרָעָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!

וַיִּשָּׁבֵ֔ר (וַ) va “and”

From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.

וַיּוֹצֵ֖א (וַ) va “and”

And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.

וְכָשַׁ֤ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְנָפַ֔ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִצַּ֤תִּי (וְ) ve. “and”וְאָכְלָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.

וְהִרְגִּ֖יז (וְ) ve. “and”

A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken.

וְנֹאָ֑לוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וָחָֽתּוּ׃ (וָ) va. “and”

A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

וְהָי֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבֻזָּֽזוּ׃ (וּ) u. “and”

A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.

וְיָבֵ֑שׁוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.

וְיָ֥שְׁבוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

וְרָפ֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.

וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֨י (וְ) ve. “and”וְזֵר֔וּהָ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.

וְנָפְל֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.

וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֑ר (וַ) va. “and”

We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.

וְנִשָּׂ֖א (וְ) ve. “and”

The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.

וְעָנ֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

וַיַּ֥עַל (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֥צֵא (וַ) va “and”

You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;

וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִשְׁחַתִּ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;

וְנִפַּצְתִּ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וְנִפַּצְתִּ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”