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The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.

תַּֽעֲנֻגֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “her”עֹֽלָלֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “her”

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

רָאשֶׁ֣יהָ׀ (הָ) ha “its”וְכֹהֲנֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”וּנְבִיאֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.

בִּפְתָחֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

עֲשִׁירֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

וְיֹשְׁבֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”

For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.

בְאִמָּ֔הּ (הּ) h “her”בַּחֲמֹתָ֑הּ (הּ) h “her”

But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

יֹֽשְׁבֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

מְקוֹמָ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”

He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.

חֽוֹמָתָ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.

וְאַמְהֹתֶ֗יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopp

רִכְבָּ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

כֻּלָּ֗הּ (הּ) h “it”

Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “her”בִּכְשָׁפֶֽיהָ׃ (הָ) ha “her”

Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

חוֹמָתָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “its”

Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.

עָצְמָ֛ה (ה) h “its”

But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

עֹלָלֶ֛יהָ (הָ) ha “its”גְּדוֹלֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep.

בְתוֹכָ֤הּ (הּ) h “it”בְּכַפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

בִּלְבָבָ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

אֱלֹהֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

שָׂרֶ֣יהָ (הָ) ha “its”בְקִרְבָּ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

נְבִיאֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”כֹּהֲנֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”

The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.

בְּקִרְבָּ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.

מְעוֹנָ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

יְבוּלָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “its”

Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his

וְרֹ֣כְבֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “its”