H3069–יְהֹוִה–ye.ho.vih

For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

יְהֹוִ֗ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

They will give you comfort when you see their ways and their doings: and you will be certain that not for nothing have I done all the things I have done in it, says the Lord.

יְהֹוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.

יְהוִה֙ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.

יְהוִ֖ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

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.

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord,

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

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;

יְהֹוִ֗ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

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

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

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

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

יְהוִ֗ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?

יְהֹוִ֖ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

By my life, says the Lord, truly in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he put on one side and let his agreement with him be broken, even in Babylon he will come to his death.

יְהוִה֒ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And so the Lord has said, By my life, truly, for my oath which he put on one side, and my agreement which has been broken, I will send punishment on his head.

יְהוִה֮ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain;

יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

By my life, says the Lord, you will no longer have this saying in Israel.

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.

יְהוִֽה׃ Yah.weh “Yahweh”

Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”

For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.

יְהוִ֑ה Yah.weh “Yahweh”