H9001–/וַ–v

I was wroth with my people, I polluted mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged didst thou very heavily lay thy yoke;

וָאֶתְּנֵ֖ם (וָ) va. “and”

and thou saidst, I shall be a mistress for ever; so that thou didst not take these things to heart, thou didst not remember the end thereof.

וַתֹּ֣אמְרִ֔י (וַ) va. “and”

For thou hast confided in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath seduced thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, It is I, and there is none but me.

וַתִּבְטְחִ֣י (וַ) va. “and”וַתֹּאמְרִ֣י (וַ) va. “and”

But evil shall come upon thee -- thou shalt not know from whence it riseth; and mischief shall fall upon thee, which thou shalt not be able to ward off; and desolation that thou suspectest not shall come upon thee suddenly.

וּבָ֧א (וּ) u. “and”

I have declared the former things long ago; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I caused them to be heard: I wrought suddenly, and they came to pass.

וַתָּבֹֽאנָה׃ (וַ) va. “and”

so I have long ago declared [ergänzt: them] to thee; before they came to pass I caused thee to hear [ergänzt: them]; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, or my molten image hath commanded them.

וָאַגִּ֤יד (וָ) va. “and”

I, [ergänzt: even] I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, and his way shall be prosperous.

וְהִצְלִ֥יחַ (וְ) ve. “and”

Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then would thy peace have been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea;

וַיְהִ֤י (וַ) va “and”

and thy seed would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: their name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

וַיְהִ֤י (וַ) va “and”

And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; yea, he clave the rock, and the waters gushed out.

וַיִּ֨בְקַע־ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּזֻ֖בוּ (וַ) va “and”

And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hath concealed me under the shadow of his hand, and he hath made me a polished shaft: in his quiver hath he hidden me.

וַיָּ֤שֶׂם (וַ) va “and”וַיְשִׂימֵ֙נִי֙ (וַ) va “and”

And he said unto me, Thou art my servant, Israel, in whom I will glorify myself.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

-- and he saith, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; I have even given thee for a light of the nations, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וּנְתַתִּ֙יךָ֙ (וּ) u. “and”

Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and they shall worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

וָקָ֔מוּ (וָ) va. “and”וַיִּבְחָרֶֽךָּ׃ (וַ) va “and”

And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised up.

וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

וַתֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

For [ergänzt: in] thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy destroyed land, thou shalt even now be too straitened by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

וְרָחֲק֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath borne me these, seeing I had lost my children and was desolate, an exile, and driven about? and who hath brought up these? behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

וְאָמַ֣רְתְּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in [ergänzt: their] bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon the shoulder.

וְהֵבִ֤יאוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nursing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee with the face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I [ergänzt: am] Jehovah; for they shall not be ashamed who wait on me.

וְהָי֨וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָדַ֙עַתְּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with new wine. And all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, [ergänzt: am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

וְהַאֲכַלְתִּ֤י (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָדְע֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

But the Lord Jehovah will help me: therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

וָאֵדַ֖ע (וָ) va. “and”

For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.

וַיָּ֤שֶׂם (וַ) va “and”

So the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

וּבָ֤אוּ (וּ) u. “and”

I, [ergänzt: even] I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou fearest a man that shall die, and the son of man that shall become as grass;

וַתִּֽירְאִי֙ (וַ) va. “and”