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For thus said Jehovah unto me: `As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.

גִּבְעָתָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “its”

Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and all its productions.

וּמְלֹאָ֔הּ (הּ) h “it”צֶאֱצָאֶֽיהָ׃ (הָ) ha “its”

And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

נְחָלֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”וַעֲפָרָ֖הּ (הּ) h “its”אַרְצָ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.

עֲשָׁנָ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”

`To' the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.

חֹרֶ֥יהָ (הָ) ha “its”שָׂרֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble `are' in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.

אַרְמְנֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”בְּמִבְצָרֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.

בְצִלָּ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”רְעוּתָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “its”

Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth -- it hath commanded, And His spirit -- He hath gathered them.

רְעוּתָ֖הּ (הּ) h “its”

And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.

רִבְצָ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her punishment, That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.

צְבָאָ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”עֲוֹנָ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”חַטֹּאתֶֽיהָ׃ (הָ) ha “its”

He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants `are' as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou `art', I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.

וּמֵאֲצִילֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.

וְצֶאֱצָאֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His messengers it perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is inhabited, And of cities of Judah, They shall be built, and her wastes I raise up,

וְחָרְבוֹתֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

So that they know from the rising of the sun, And from the west, that there is none besides Me, I `am' Jehovah, and there is none else,

וּמִמַּ֣עֲרָבָ֔ה (ה) h “its”

And thou sayest, `To the age I am mistress,' While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.

אַחֲרִיתָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “its”

And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently -- Who is saying in her heart, `I `am', and none else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.'

בִּלְבָ֔בָהּ (הּ) h “her”

And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou knowest not.

שַׁחְרָ֔הּ (הּ) h “it”

Thou hast heard, see the whole of it, And ye, do ye not declare? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, And things reserved that ye knew not.

כֻּלָּ֔הּ (הּ) h “it”

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.

עוּלָ֔הּ (הּ) h “her”בִּטְנָ֑הּ (הּ) h “her”

For Jehovah hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her wastes, And He setteth her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of Jehovah, Joy, yea, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.

חָרְבֹתֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “its”מִדְבָּרָהּ֙ (הּ֙) h “its”וְעַרְבָתָ֖הּ (הּ) h “its”

Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.

וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.

בְּיָדָ֔הּ (הּ) h “her”

Turn aside, turn aside, go out thence, The unclean touch not, go out from her midst, Be ye pure, who are bearing the weapons of Jehovah.

מִתּוֹכָ֔הּ (הּ) h “it”

The little one doth become a chief, And the small one a mighty nation, I, Jehovah, in its own time do hasten it!

בְּעִתָּ֥הּ (הּ) h “its”