H9001–/וַ–v

Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.

וְהֵֽבֵאתִי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָרְשׁ֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִשְׁבַּתִּי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנִחֲל֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

וּבִקְשׁ֥וּ (וּ) u. “and”

Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

וּבִקְשׁ֤וּ (וּ) u. “and”

The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

וְיָדְע֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [ergänzt: month], in the fifth [ergänzt: day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (וַ) va “and”וַתִּפֹּ֤ל (וַ) va. “and”

Then I saw, and, behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.

וָאֶרְאֶ֗ה (וָ) va. “and”

He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [ergänzt: court] that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקָּחֵ֖נִי (וַ) va “and”וַתִּשָּׂ֣א (וַ) va. “and”וַתָּבֵא֩ (וַ) va. “and”

Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וָאֶשָּׂ֤א (וָ) va. “and”

He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great abominations.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

וַיָּבֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”וָאֶרְאֶ֕ה (וָ) va. “and”

Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וָאֶחְתֹּ֣ר (וָ) va. “and”

He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on the wall round about.

וָאָבוֹא֮ (וָ) va. “and”וָֽאֶרְאֶה֒ (וָֽ) va. “and”

Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.

וַיָּבֵ֣א (וַ) va “and”

Then said he to me, Have you seen [ergänzt: this], son of man? you shall again see yet greater abominations than these.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.

וַיָּבֵ֣א (וַ) va “and”

Then he said to me, Have you seen [ergänzt: this], son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, behold, they put the branch to their nose.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

וְקָרְא֤וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

וַיִּקְרָ֣א (וַ) va “and”

Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.

וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֣עַמְד֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.

וַיִּקְרָ֗א (וַ) va “and”

Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְהִתְוִ֨יתָ (וְ) ve. “and”

kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

וַיָּחֵ֙לּוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”