H9001–/וַ–v

For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

וַיִּמְרֹ֥ד (וַ) va “and”

It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

וַיְהִי֩ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיִּבְנ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

וַתָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va. “and”

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

וַיֶּחֱזַ֥ק (וַ) va “and”

Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.

וַתִּבָּקַ֣ע (וַ) va. “and”וַיֵּצְא֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

וַיִּרְדְּפ֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּשִּׂ֥יגוּ (וַ) va “and”

Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.

וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּעֲל֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר (וַ) va “and”

The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

וַיִּשְׁחַ֧ט (וַ) va “and”

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

וַיַּאַסְרֵ֣הוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיְבִאֵ֤הוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתְּנֵ֥הוּ (וַ) va “and”

and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף (וַ) va “and”

The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network round about.

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

וַיִּקַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

וַיִּקַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֧לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”

The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

וַיַּכֶּ֣ה (וַ) va “and”וַיְמִתֵ֛ם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֥גֶל (וַ) va “and”

It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [ergänzt: first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;

וַיְהִי֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּצֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”

and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתֵּן֙ (וַ) va “and”

and changed his prison garments. [ergänzt: Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:

וְשִׁנָּ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְאָכַ֨ל (וְ) ve. “and”

From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, They are gone without strength before the pursuer.

וַיֵּצֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּלְכ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

וַתָּ֥שָׁב (וַ) va. “and”

Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.

וַתֵּ֣רֶד (וַ) va. “and”

From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

וַיִּרְדֶּ֑נָּה (וַ) va “and”

He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours round about.

וַיִּבְעַ֤ר (וַ) va “and”

He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.

וַֽיַּהֲרֹ֔ג (וַֽ) va “and”

The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

וַיֶּ֙רֶב֙ (וַ) va “and”