H9002–/וְ–v

Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?

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

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

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

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

"Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

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

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

וְהַנִּמְהָ֑ר (וְ) ve. “and”

They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

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

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

וּפָֽרָשָׁיו֙ (וּ) u. “and”

Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

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

Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

וְצ֖וּר (וְ) ve. “and”

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

וְהַבִּ֥יט (וְ) ve. “and”

He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

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

Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

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

Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

וְתָמִ֛יד (וְ) ve. “and”

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

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

Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.

וּבָאֵ֖ר (וּ) u. “and”

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.

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

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

וְצַדִּ֖יק (וְ) ve. “and”

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

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

Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

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

Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

וְיִקְצ֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

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

You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

וְחוֹטֵ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

וְכָפִ֖יס (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

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

"Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

וְאַ֣ף (וְ) ve. “and”