H9002–/וְ–v

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the land; neither are the inhabitants of the world come to life.

וּבַֽל־ (וּ) u. “and”

Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise--awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust--for Thy dew is as the dew of light, and the earth shall bring to life the shades.

וְרַנְּנ֜וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וָאָ֖רֶץ (וָ) va. “and”

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

וּֽסְגֹ֥ר (וּֽ) u. “and”

For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of His place to visit upon the inhabitants of the earth their iniquity; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

וְהַגְּדוֹלָ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַֽחֲזָקָ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

I the LORD do guard it, I water it every moment; lest Mine anger visit it, I guard it night and day.

וָי֖וֹם (וָ) va. “and”

Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be expiated, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

וְזֶ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְחַמָּנִֽים׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof

וְנֶעֱזָ֖ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore He that made them will not have compassion upon them, and He that formed them will not be gracio

וְיֹצְר֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD will beat off His fruit from the flood of the River unto the Brook of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

וְאַתֶּ֧ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great horn shall be blown; and they shall come that were lost in the land of Assyria, and they that were dispersed in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

וְהַנִּדָּחִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are smitten down with wine!

וְצִ֥יץ (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, as a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, as a storm of mighty waters overflowing, that casteth down to the earth with violence.

וְאַמִּץ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of His people;

וְלִצְפִירַ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.

וּלְר֖וּחַ (וּ) u. “and”וְלִ֨גְבוּרָ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”

But these also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, they are confused because of wine, they stagger because of strong drink; they reel in vision, they totter in judgment.

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבַשֵּׁכָ֖ר (וּ) u. “and”וְנָבִיא֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

Whom shall one teach knowledge? And whom shall one make to understand the message? Them that are weaned from the milk, them that are drawn from the breasts?

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue shall it be spoken to this people;

וּבְלָשׁ֖וֹן (וּ) u. “and”

To whom it was said: 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary; and this is the refreshing'; yet they would not hear.

וְזֹ֖את (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, and with the nether-world are we at agreement; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves';

וְעִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבַשֶּׁ֥קֶר (וּ) u. “and”

And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

וּצְדָקָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”וְסֵ֥תֶר (וְ) ve. “and”

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with the nether-world shall not stand; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it,

וְחָזוּתְכֶ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

As often as it passeth through, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be sheer terror to understand the message.

וּבַלָּ֑יְלָה (וּ) u. “and”

For the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself; and the covering too narrow when he gathereth himself up.

וְהַמַּסֵּכָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

For the LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim, He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that He may do His work, strange is His work, and bring to pass His act, strange is His act.

וְלַֽעֲבֹד֙ (וְ) ve. “and”