H9024–הּ–h

Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

בַדֶּ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”פִּרְיָ֣הּ (הּ) h “its”

Then I said to them, What means the high place whereunto you go? So the name of it is called Bamah to this day.

שְׁמָהּ֙ (הּ֙) h “its”

and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

מִתַּעְרָ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”

Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

מִתַּעְרָ֛הּ (הּ) h “its”

and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

מִתַּעְרָ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”

Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.

תַּעְרָ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”

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

תּוֹעֲבוֹתֶֽיהָ׃ (הָ) ha “its”

You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

בְּתוֹכָ֖הּ (הּ) h “it”עִתָּ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”

Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.

בְּתוֹכָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “it”

As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.

בְתוֹכָ֑הּ (הּ) h “it”

Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.

גֻשְׁמָ֖הּ (הּ) h “its”

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.

נְבִיאֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”בְּתוֹכָ֔הּ (הּ) h “it”אַלְמְנוֹתֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”בְתוֹכָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “it”

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.

כֹּהֲנֶ֜יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [ergänzt: and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

שָׂרֶ֣יהָ (הָ) ha “its”בְקִרְבָּ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

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 (הָ) ha “its”

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.

אֲחוֹתָ֔הּ (הּ) h “her”

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.

תַּזְנוּתֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “her”

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.

תַּזְנוּתֶ֤יהָ (הָ) ha “her”בִנְעוּרֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “her”בְתוּלֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “her”

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.

עֶרְוָתָהּ֒ (הּ֒) h “her”בָּנֶ֤יהָ (הָ) ha “her”וּבְנוֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “her”

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.

אֲחוֹתָ֣הּ (הּ) h “her”עַגְבָתָ֖הּ (הּ) h “her”תַּ֨זְנוּתֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “her”אֲחוֹתָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “her”

She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “her”

As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

עֵינֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “her”

The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

נַפְשָׁ֖הּ (הּ) h “her”

So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

תַּזְנוּתֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “her”עֶרְוָתָ֑הּ (הּ) h “her”אֲחוֹתָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “her”

Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “her”נְעוּרֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “her”