H9002–/וְ–v

In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.

וּבִרְחֹבֹתֶ֛יהָ (וּ) u. “and”

Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.

וְאֶלְעָלֵ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”

For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.

וּפְקֻדָּתָ֔ם (וּ) u. “and”

For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim.

וּבְאֵ֥ר (וּ) u. “and”

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: and I'm sending even more on Moab, a lion on those of Moab who go in flight, and on the rest of the land.

וְלִשְׁאֵרִ֖ית (וְ) ve. “and”

Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.

וְדֹרֵ֥שׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמְהִ֥ר (וּ) u. “and”

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.

וּגְאוֹנ֛וֹ (וּ) u. “and”וְעֶבְרָת֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;

וְאֶלְעָלֵ֑ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

וָגִיל֙ (וָ) va. “and”וּבַכְּרָמִ֥ים (וּ) u. “and”

For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.

וְקִרְבִּ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

וְעַתָּ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁאָ֥ר (וּ) u. “and”

Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.

וְאֵ֥ין (וְ) ve. “and”

The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.

וּמַמְלָכָ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”וּשְׁאָ֣ר (וּ) u. “and”

And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.

וּמִשְׁמַ֥ן (וּ) u. “and”

And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

וּזְרֹע֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

וְעֵינָ֕יו (וְ) ve. “and”

He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר (וַ) va. “and”וְהָאֲשֵׁרִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְהָחַמָּנִֽים׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

וְהָ֣אָמִ֔יר (וְ) ve. “and”

For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

וְצ֥וּר (וְ) ve. “and”וּזְמֹ֥רַת (וּ) u. “and”

In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

וּבַבֹּ֖קֶר (וּ) u. “and”וּכְאֵ֥ב (וּ) u. “and”

Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!

וּשְׁא֣וֹן (וּ) u. “and”

But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

וּכְגַלְגַּ֖ל (וּ) u. “and”

In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

וְהִנֵּ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְגוֹרָ֖ל (וְ) ve. “and”

Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land

וּבִכְלֵי־ (וּ) u. “and”וּמוֹרָ֔ט (וּ) u. “and”וָהָ֑לְאָה (וָ) va. “and”וּמְבוּסָ֔ה (וּ) u. “and”