H9002–/וְ–v

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

וּבַֽל־ (וּ) u. “and”

Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [ergänzt: as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

וְרַנְּנ֜וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וָאָ֖רֶץ (וָ) va. “and”

Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation be past.

וּֽסְגֹ֥ר (וּֽ) u. “and”

For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.

וְהַגְּדוֹלָ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַֽחֲזָקָ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

וָי֖וֹם (וָ) va. “and”

Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [ergänzt: so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

וְזֶ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְחַמָּנִֽים׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches of it.

וְנֶעֱזָ֖ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

וְיֹצְר֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off [ergänzt: his fruit] from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel.

וְאַתֶּ֧ם (וְ) ve. “and”

It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

וְהַנִּדָּחִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!

וְצִ֥יץ (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.

וְאַמִּץ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

In that day will Yahweh of Hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;

וְלִצְפִירַ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

וּלְר֖וּחַ (וּ) u. “and”וְלִ֨גְבוּרָ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבַשֵּׁכָ֖ר (וּ) u. “and”וְנָבִיא֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

No, but by [ergänzt: men of] strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;

וּבְלָשׁ֖וֹן (וּ) u. “and”

to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him who is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

וְזֹ֖את (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

וְעִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבַשֶּׁ֥קֶר (וּ) u. “and”

I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

וּצְדָקָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”וְסֵ֥תֶר (וְ) ve. “and”

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.

וְחָזוּתְכֶ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

As often as it passes though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nothing but terror to understand the message.

וּבַלָּ֑יְלָה (וּ) u. “and”

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

וְהַמַּסֵּכָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

וְלַֽעֲבֹד֙ (וְ) ve. “and”