H9002–/וְ–v

So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.

וָכֶ֗סֶף (וָ) va. “and”וּמַלְבּוּשֵׁךְ֙ (וּ) u. “and”וָמֶ֙שִׁי֙ (וָ) va. “and”וְרִקְמָ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּדְבַ֛שׁ (וּ) u. “and”וָשֶׁ֖מֶן (וָ) va. “and”

And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

וּמִכַּסְפִּי֙ (וּ) u. “and”

And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.

וְשַׁמְנִי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וּקְטָרְתִּ֔י (וּ) u. “and”

And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.

וְלַחְמִי֩ (וְ) ve. “and”וָשֶׁ֤מֶן (וָ) va. “and”וּדְבַשׁ֙ (וּ) u. “and”

And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.

וְאֵ֤ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְתַזְנֻתַ֔יִךְ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעֶרְיָ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.

וְהִנֵּ֨ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.

וְגַ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enough.

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

וְרָמָתֵ֥ךְ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.

וְאַ֨תְּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.

וְאַחֲרַ֖יִךְ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְתִתֵּ֣ךְ (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶתְנַ֛ן (וְ) ve. “and”

This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;

וְעַל֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכִדְמֵ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”

For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all those to whom you have given your love, with all those who were hated by you; I will even make them come together against you on every side, and I will hav

וְאֵת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

וְשֹׁפְכֹ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְקִנְאָֽה׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.

וְעֶרְיָֽה׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an

וּבָנֶ֑יהָ (וּ) u. “and”וַאֲח֨וֹת (וַ) va. “and”וּבְנֵיהֶ֔ן (וּ) u. “and”וַאֲבִיכֶ֖ן (וַ) va. “and”

Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left hand, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, living at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

וַאֲחוֹתֵ֨ךְ (וַ) va. “and”וּבְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ (וּ) u. “and”וַאֲחוֹתֵ֞ךְ (וַ) va. “and”וּבְנוֹתֶֽיהָ׃ (וּ) u. “and”

Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.

וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְתוֹעֲבֽוֹתֵיהֶ֖ן (וּ) u. “and”

By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.

וּבְנוֹתֶ֑יהָ (וּ) u. “and”וּבְנוֹתָֽיִךְ׃ (וּ) u. “and”

Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

וְשַׁלְוַ֣ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִבְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶבְי֖וֹן (וְ) ve. “and”