H9002–/וְ–v

Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

וּבְכ֔וּ (וּ) u. “and”וְהֵילִ֖לוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

וְאֵ֣ין (וְ) ve. “and”וּֽמְתַלְּע֥וֹת (וּֽ) u. “and”

By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

וּתְאֵנָתִ֖י (וּ) u. “and”וְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְ (וְ) ve. “and”

The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

וָנֶ֖סֶךְ (וָ) va. “and”

The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

וְהַתְּאֵנָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְתַפּ֗וּחַ (וְ) ve. “and”

Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been

וְסִפְד֜וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וָנָֽסֶךְ׃ (וָ) va. “and”

Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

וְזַעֲק֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

וּכְשֹׁ֖ד (וּ) u. “and”

Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

וָגִֽיל׃ (וָ) va. “and”

O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.

וְלֶ֣הָבָ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”

The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

וְאֵ֕שׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

וְהָרִ֙יעוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

וַאֲפֵלָ֗ה (וַ) va. “and”וַעֲרָפֶ֔ל (וַ) va. “and”וְעָצ֔וּם (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַֽחֲרָיו֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וָדֽוֹר׃ (וָ) va. “and”

Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

וְאַחֲרָ֖יו (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַֽחֲרָיו֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.

וּכְפָרָשִׁ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

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

No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.

וְאִ֤ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְעַ֥ד (וּ) u. “and”

The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

וְיָרֵ֙חַ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכוֹכָבִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”

And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?

וַֽיהוָ֗ה (וַֽ) va. “and”וְנוֹרָ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְצ֥וֹם (וּ) u. “and”וּבְבְכִ֖י (וּ) u. “and”וּבְמִסְפֵּֽד׃ (וּ) u. “and”

Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.

וְקִרְע֤וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשׁ֖וּבוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְרַחוּם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְרַב־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנִחָ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

וָנֶ֔סֶךְ (וָ) va. “and”

Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

וְיֹנְקֵ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”וְכַלָּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the p

וְלַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ (וְ) ve. “and”וְֽיֹאמְר֞וּ (וְֽ) ve. “and”וְאַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”