H9002–/וְ–v

For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:

וִֽחְיֽוּ׃ (וִֽ) Vi “and”

Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.

וְאַֽל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַגִּלְגָּל֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְאֵ֥ר (וּ) u. “and”וּבֵֽית־ (וּ) u. “and”

Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.

וִֽחְי֑וּ (וִֽ) vi “and”וְאֵין־ (וְ) ve. “and”

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

וּצְדָקָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

וּכְסִ֗יל (וּ) u. “and”וְהֹפֵ֤ךְ (וְ) ve. “and”וְי֖וֹם (וְ) ve. “and”

Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

וְשֹׁ֖ד (וְ) ve. “and”

They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

וְדֹבֵ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

וּמַשְׂאַת־ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

וַעֲצֻמִ֖ים (וַ) va. “and”וְאֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”

Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.

וְאַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וִיהִי־ (וִ) vi. “and”

Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

וְאֶ֣הֱבוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַצִּ֥יגוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries

וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”וּמִסְפֵּ֖ד (וּ) u. “and”

In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.

וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”

Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

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

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

וּמִנְחֹתֵיכֶ֖ם (וּ) u. “and”וְשֶׁ֥לֶם (וְ) ve. “and”

Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

וְזִמְרַ֥ת (וְ) ve. “and”

But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

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

Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

וּמִנְחָ֜ה (וּ) u. “and”

Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

וְאֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!

וְהַבֹּטְחִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”

Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?

וּרְא֔וּ (וּ) u. “and”וּלְכ֥וּ (וּ) u. “and”וּרְד֣וּ (וּ) u. “and”

Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;

וּסְרֻחִ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”וְאֹכְלִ֤ים (וְ) ve. “and”וַעֲגָלִ֖ים (וַ) va. “and”

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

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