H9002–/וְ–v

How long, O LORD, shall I cry, and Thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto Thee of violence, and Thou wilt not save.

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

Why dost Thou show me iniquity, and beholdest mischief? And why are spoiling and violence before me? so that there is strife, and contention ariseth.

וְעָמָ֣ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְשֹׁ֥ד (וְ) ve. “and”וְחָמָ֖ס (וְ) ve. “and”וּמָד֖וֹן (וּ) u. “and”

Therefore the law is slacked, and right doth never go forth; for the wicked doth beset the righteous; therefore right goeth forth perverted.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Look ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for, behold, a work shall be wrought in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

וְֽהַבִּ֔יטוּ (וְֽ) ve. “and”וְהִֽתַּמְּה֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.

וְהַנִּמְהָ֑ר (וְ) ve. “and”

They are terrible and dreadful; their law and their majesty proceed from themselves.

וְנוֹרָ֖א (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׂאֵת֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the wolves of the desert; and their horsemen spread themselves; yea, their horsemen come from far, they fly as a vulture that hasteth to devour.

וּפָֽרָשָׁיו֙ (וּ) u. “and”

And they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision unto them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up earth, and take it.

וְהוּא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְרֹזְנִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”

Art not Thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, Thou hast ordained them for judgment, and Thou, O Rock, hast established them for correction.

וְצ֖וּר (וְ) ve. “and”

Thou that art of eyes too pure to behold evil, and that canst not look on mischief, wherefore lookest Thou, when they deal treacherously, and holdest Thy peace, when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

וְהַבִּ֥יט (וְ) ve. “and”

They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag; therefore they rejoice and exult.

וְיַאַסְפֵ֖הוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָגִֽיל׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and offer unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their food plenteous.

וִֽיקַטֵּ֖ר (וִֽ) vi. “so”וּמַאֲכָל֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?

וְתָמִ֛יד (וְ) ve. “and”

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look out to see what He will speak by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

וְאֶֽתְיַצְּבָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲצַפֶּ֗ה (וַ) va. “so”וּמָ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

And the LORD answered me, and said: 'Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that a man may read it swiftly.

וּבָאֵ֖ר (וּ) u. “and”

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it declareth of the end, and doth not lie; though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.'

וְיָפֵ֥חַ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by his faith.

וְצַדִּ֖יק (וְ) ve. “and”

Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer; the haughty man abideth not; he who enlargeth his desire as the nether-world, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

וְאַף֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְה֤וּא (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say: 'Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with many pledges!'

וּמְלִיצָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”וְיֹאמַ֗ר (וְ) ve. “so”וּמַכְבִּ֥יד (וּ) u. “and”

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall exact interest of thee, and awake that shall violently shake thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

וְיִקְצ֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

וַחֲמַס־ (וַ) va. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast forfeited thy life.

וְחוֹטֵ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

וְכָפִ֖יס (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

וְיִֽיגְע֤וּ (וְ) ve. “so”וּלְאֻמִּ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

וְאַ֣ף (וְ) ve. “and”