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And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction.

אָזְנָ֑ם (ם) m “their”עָרְפָּ֔ם (ם) m “their”

Then entered by the gates of this city have kings and princes, Sitting on the throne of David, Riding in a chariot, and on horses, They, and their princes, the man of Judah, And inhabitants of Jerusalem, And this city hath remained to the age.

וְשָׂ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם (הֶ֔ם) Hem “their”

But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,

בְּדַרְכֵיהֶם֙ (הֶם֙) Hem “their”

To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

אַרְצָ֛ם (ם) m “their”

As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'

אֵידָֽם׃ (ם) m “their”

Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

בְּנֵיהֶ֜ם (הֶ֜ם) Hem “their”נְשֵׁיהֶ֤ם (הֶ֤ם) Hem “their”וְאַ֨נְשֵׁיהֶ֔ם (הֶ֔ם) Hem “their”בַּח֣וּרֵיהֶ֔ם (הֶ֔ם) Hem “their”

A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

מִבָּ֣תֵּיהֶ֔ם (הֶ֔ם) Hem “their”

And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me `is' for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!

עֲצָתָ֤ם (ם) m “their”עֲוֹנָ֔ם (ם) m “their”וְחַטָּאתָ֖ם (ם) m “their”

because that they have forsaken Me, and make known this place, and make perfume in it to other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place `with' innocent blood,

וַאֲבֽוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם (הֶ֖ם) Hem “their”

and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offerings to Baal, that I commanded not, nor spake of, nor did it come up on My heart.

בְּנֵיהֶ֛ם (הֶ֛ם) Hem “their”

And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,

אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֔ם (הֶ֔ם) Hem “their”נַפְשָׁ֑ם (ם) m “their”נִבְלָתָם֙ (ם֙) m “their”

And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.

בְּנֵיהֶ֗ם (הֶ֗ם) Hem “their”בְּנֹתֵיהֶ֔ם (הֶ֔ם) Hem “their”אֹיְבֵיהֶ֖ם (הֶ֖ם) Hem “their”נַפְשָֽׁם׃ (ם) m “their”

and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, have been -- as the place of Tophet -- defiled, even all the houses on whose roofs they have made perfume to all the host of the heavens, so as to pour out oblations to other gods.'

גַּגֹּֽתֵיהֶם֙ (הֶם֙) Hem “their”

`Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in unto this city, and on all its cities, all the evil that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck -- not to hear My words!'

עָרְפָּ֔ם (ם) m “their”

For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am making thee for a fear to thyself, And to all loving thee, And they have fallen by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes are beholding, And all Judah I give into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath removed them to Babylon, And he hath smitten them with the sword.

אֹיְבֵיהֶ֖ם (הֶ֖ם) Hem “their”

And I have given all the strength of this city, And all its labour, and all its precious things, Yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah I do give into the hand of their enemies, And they have spoiled them, and taken them, And have brought them into Babylon.

אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֔ם (הֶ֔ם) Hem “their”

And after this -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I give Zedekiah king of Judah, And his servants, and the people, And those left in this city, From the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of their enemies, And into the hand of those seeking their life, And he hath smitten them by the mouth of the sword, He hath no pity on them, Nor doth he spare, nor hath he mercy.

אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֔ם (הֶ֔ם) Hem “their”נַפְשָׁ֑ם (ם) m “their”

And they have said, `Because that they have forsaken The covenant of Jehovah their God, And bow themselves to other gods, and serve them.'

אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֑ם (הֶ֑ם) Hem “their”

And I have given thee into the hand of those seeking thy life, And into hands of which thou art afraid, Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans.

מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם (הֶ֑ם) Hem “them”

And to the land whither they are lifting up their soul to return, Thither they do not return.

נַפְשָׁ֖ם (ם) m “their”

But -- Jehovah liveth, who brought up, And who brought in, the seed of the house of Israel, From the land of the north, And from all the lands whither I drove them, And they have dwelt on their own ground!

אַדְמָתָֽם׃ (ם) m “their”

For of adulterers hath the land been full, For because of these hath the land mourned, Dried up hath been the pleasant places of the wilderness, And their course is evil, and their might -- not right.

מְרֽוּצָתָם֙ (ם֙) m “their”וּגְבוּרָתָ֖ם (ם) m “their”

For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

רָעָתָ֖ם (ם) m “their”

Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.

דַרְכָּ֜ם (ם) m “their”פְּקֻדָּתָ֖ם (ם) m “their”

And in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing, Committing adultery, and walking falsely, Yea, they strengthened the hands of evil doers, So that they have not turned back Each from his wickedness, They have been to me -- all of them -- as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

כֻלָּם֙ (ם֙) m “them”