H9002–/וְ–v

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

וּמַ֣עֲלָלַ֔יִךְ (וּ) u. “and”

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְהֵיטִ֖יב (וּ) u. “and”

Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

וְהִנֵּה־ (וְ) ve. “and”וָבֹ֑הוּ (וָ) va. “and”וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֥ין (וְ) ve. “and”

Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.

וְהִנֵּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Looking, I saw that there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had gone in flight.

וְהִנֵּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.

וְהִנֵּ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.

וְכָלָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.

וְרֹ֣מֵה (וְ) ve. “and”וּבַכֵּפִ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”וְאֵין־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no mo

וְאַ֨תְּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.

וּרְאוּ־ (וּ) u. “and”וּדְעוּ֙ (וּ) u. “and”וּבַקְשׁ֣וּ (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶסְלַ֖ח (וְ) ve. “so”

And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.

וְאִ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

וְֽלֹא־ (וְֽ) ve. “and”

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

וַאֲנִ֣י (וַ) va. “and”

I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

וַאֲדַבְּרָ֣ה (וַ) va. “and”

How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of lo

וּבֵ֥ית (וּ) u. “and”

Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

וְאִם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

וְשַׁחֵ֔תוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָלָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

וּבֵ֥ית (וּ) u. “and”

They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְחֶ֥רֶב (וְ) ve. “and”וְרָעָ֖ב (וְ) ve. “and”

And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.

וְהַנְּבִיאִים֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַדִּבֵּ֖ר (וְ) ve. “and”

For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.

וְהָעָ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled t

וְלַחְמֶ֗ךָ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְנוֹתֶ֔יךָ (וּ) u. “and”וּבְקָרֶ֔ךָ (וּ) u. “and”וּתְאֵנָתֶ֑ךָ (וּ) u. “and”

But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.

וְגַ֛ם (וְ) ve. “and”