H9002–/וְ–v

You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.

וְאַתָּ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

וּבְגִלּוּלַ֤יִךְ (וּ) u. “and”וְקַלָּסָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [ergänzt: and] full of tumult.

וְהָרְחֹק֥וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”

In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

וָאֵם֙ (וָ) va. “and”וְאַלְמָנָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

וְאִ֣ישׁ׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִ֥ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִ֛ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

וְתַרְבִּ֣ית (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֹתִ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

וְהִנֵּה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַ֨ל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

וּבְדִ֨יל (וּ) u. “and”וּבַרְזֶ֤ל (וּ) u. “and”וְעוֹפֶ֙רֶת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.

וּ֠נְחֹשֶׁת (וּ֠) U. “and”וּבַרְזֶ֨ל (וּ) u. “and”וְעוֹפֶ֤רֶת (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְדִיל֙ (וּ) u. “and”וּבַחֲמָתִ֔י (וּ) u. “and”

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of it.

וִיקָר֙ (וִ) vi. “and”

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

וּבֵין־ (וּ) u. “and”וּמִשַׁבְּתוֹתַי֙ (וּ) u. “and”

Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.

וּנְבִיאֶ֗יהָ (וּ) u. “and”וְקֹסְמִ֥ים (וְ) ve. “and”וַֽיהוָ֖ה (וַֽ) va. “and”

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

וְעָנִ֤י (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶבְיוֹן֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

וְעֹמֵ֨ד (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֖א (וְ) ve. “and”

and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

וְשָׁ֣ם (וְ) ve. “and”

The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

וּשְׁמוֹתָ֗ן (וּ) u. “and”וְאָהֳלִיבָ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּבָנ֑וֹת (וּ) u. “and”וּשְׁמוֹתָ֕ן (וּ) u. “and”וִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם (וִ) vi. “and”

who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

וּסְגָנִ֔ים (וּ) u. “and”

She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

וּבְכֹ֧ל (וּ) u. “and”

Neither has she left her prostitution since [ergänzt: the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵ֥מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

וּבְנוֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְאוֹתָ֖הּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁפוּטִ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than the prostitution of her sister.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [ergänzt: her] neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

וּסְגָנִ֤ים (וּ) u. “and”

She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

וְזִרְמַ֥ת (וְ) ve. “and”