H9001–/וַ–v

As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

וְהִנַּחְתִּ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִתַּכְתִּ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.

וְכִנַּסְתִּ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וְנָפַחְתִּ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”וְנִתַּכְתֶּ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.

וִֽידַעְתֶּם֙ (וִֽ) vi. “and”

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

וַיְהִ֥י (וַ) va “and”

Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes

וַיְחַלְּל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וָאֵחַ֖ל (וָ) va. “and”

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

וְגָזְל֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.

וָאֲבַקֵּ֣שׁ (וָ) va. “and”

And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

וָאֶשְׁפֹּ֤ךְ (וָ) va. “and”

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

וַיְהִ֥י (וַ) va “and”

They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.

וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָה (וַ) va. “and”

Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.

וַתִּֽהְיֶ֣ינָה (וַ) va. “and”וַתֵּלַ֖דְנָה (וַ) va. “and”

And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

וַתִּ֥זֶן (וַ) va. “and”וַתַּעְגַּב֙ (וַ) va. “and”

And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.

וַתִּתֵּ֤ן (וַ) va. “and”

And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

וַיִּשְׁפְּכ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

וַתְּהִי־ (וַ) va. “and”

And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.

וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙ (וַ) va. “and”וַתַּשְׁחֵ֥ת (וַ) va. “and”

And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.

וָאֵ֖רֶא (וָ) va. “and”

And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,

וַתּ֖וֹסֶף (וַ) va. “and”וַתֵּ֗רֶא (וַ) va. “and”

And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.

וַתַּעְגְּבָ֥ה (וַ) va. “and”וַתִּשְׁלַ֧ח (וַ) va. “and”

And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיְטַמְּא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”וַתִּ֨טְמָא־ (וַ) va. “and”וַתֵּ֥קַע (וַ) va. “and”

So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.

וַתְּגַל֙ (וַ) va. “and”וַתְּגַ֖ל (וַ) va. “and”וַתֵּ֤קַע (וַ) va. “and”

But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

וַתַּרְבֶּ֖ה (וַ) va. “and”

And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔ה (וַֽ) va. “and”

And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.

וַֽתִּפְקְדִ֔י (וַֽ) va. “and”

For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;

וַהֲבֵאתִ֥ים (וַ) va. “and”