H9002–/וְ–v

Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.

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

Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

וְעָמָ֣ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְשֹׁ֥ד (וְ) ve. “and”וְחָמָ֖ס (וְ) ve. “and”וּמָד֖וֹן (וּ) u. “and”

Therefore the law is powerless, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked encompasseth the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

See ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for [supplied: I] work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be declared [supplied: to you].

וְֽהַבִּ֔יטוּ (וְֽ) ve. “and”וְהִֽתַּמְּה֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

For behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation, which marcheth through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.

וְהַנִּמְהָ֑ר (וְ) ve. “and”

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

וְנוֹרָ֖א (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׂאֵת֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

And their horses are swifter than the leopards, and are more agile than the evening wolves; and their horsemen prance proudly, and their horsemen come from afar: they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.

וּפָֽרָשָׁיו֙ (וּ) u. “and”

Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a scorn unto him; he derideth every stronghold: for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.

וְהוּא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְרֹזְנִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”

-- Art thou not from everlasting, Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast appointed him for correction.

וְצ֖וּר (וְ) ve. “and”

[supplied: Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [supplied: and] keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a [supplied: man] more righteous than he?

וְהַבִּ֥יט (וְ) ve. “and”

He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:

וְיַאַסְפֵ֖הוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָגִֽיל׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; for by them his portion is become fat, and his meat dainty.

וִֽיקַטֵּ֖ר (וִֽ) vi. “so”וּמַאֲכָל֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?

וְתָמִ֛יד (וְ) ve. “and”

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer as to my reproof.

וְאֶֽתְיַצְּבָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲצַפֶּ֗ה (וַ) va. “so”וּמָ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

And Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision, and engrave it upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

וּבָאֵ֖ר (וּ) u. “and”

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but it hasteth to the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; for it will surely come, it will not delay.

וְיָפֵ֥חַ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright within him: but the just shall live by his faith.

וְצַדִּ֖יק (וְ) ve. “and”

And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.

וְאַף֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְה֤וּא (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? -- and to him that loadeth himself with pledges!

וּמְלִיצָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”וְיֹאמַ֗ר (וְ) ve. “so”וּמַכְבִּ֥יד (וּ) u. “and”

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and they awake up that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

וְיִקְצ֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall plunder thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence [supplied: done] to the land, to the city, and all that dwell therein.

וַחֲמַס־ (וַ) va. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.

וְחוֹטֵ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

וְכָפִ֖יס (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

וְיִֽיגְע֤וּ (וְ) ve. “so”וּלְאֻמִּ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, -- that pourest out thy flask, and makest [supplied: him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

וְאַ֣ף (וְ) ve. “and”