H9002–/וְ–v

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

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

They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

וְאִ֤ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וֶאֱמֶ֖ת (וֶ) ve. “and”

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

וּבְקִרְבּ֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

וָנֶ֗הִי (וָ) va. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”

I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [ergänzt: who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?

וְיָבֵ֣ן (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר (וַ) va. “and”וְיַגִּדָ֑הּ (וְ) ve. “so”

Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

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

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;

וְאַחֲרֵי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

וַֽאֲבוֹתָ֑ם (וַֽ) va. “and”

Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:

וְקִרְא֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּתְבוֹאֶ֑ינָה (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְתָבֽוֹאנָה׃ (וְ) ve. “so”

and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

וּתְמַהֵ֕רְנָה (וּ) u. “and”וְתִשֶּׂ֥נָה (וְ) ve. “and”וְתֵרַ֤דְנָה (וְ) ve. “so”וְעַפְעַפֵּ֖ינוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

וְתִקַּ֥ח (וְ) ve. “so”וְלַמֵּ֤דְנָה (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִשָּׁ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [ergänzt: them].

וּכְעָמִ֛יר (וּ) u. “and”וְאֵ֥ין (וְ) ve. “and”

Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;

וְאַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.

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

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [ergänzt: of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

וּמֵאֹת֥וֹת (וּ) u. “and”

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

וּבְזָהָ֖ב (וּ) u. “and”וּבְמַקָּב֛וֹת (וּ) u. “and”וְל֥וֹא (וְ) ve. “and”

They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.

וְגָד֥וֹל (וְ) ve. “and”

Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.

וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

וּבְאַחַ֖ת (וּ) u. “and”וְיִכְסָ֑לוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

וְזָהָב֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וִידֵ֣י (וִ) vi. “and”וְאַרְגָּמָן֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

וַֽיהוָ֤ה (וַֽ) va. “and”וּמֶ֣לֶךְ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

וְאַרְקָ֖א (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִן־ (וּ) u. “and”