^1:5 "Before I formed you in the belly I knew you,
and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you;
I have appointed you a navi la-goyim."
⁶ Then I said, "Ah, Adonai YHWH! hinneh, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child."
⁷ Vayomer YHWH to me,
"Don't say, 'I am a child;'
for to whomever I shall send you, you shall go,
and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak."
⁸ "Don't be afraid because of them;
for I am with you to deliver you," says YHWH.

"Hinneh, I have put my d'varim in your mouth:
¹⁰ "hinneh, I have set you ha-yom hazeh al-ha-goyim v'al-ha-mamlakhot,
to pluck up and to break down
and to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant."

"I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings;
how you went after me ba-midbar, b'eretz that was not sown.
³ "Yisra'el [God strives] is holiness to YHWH, first of his increase:
all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them,"
says YHWH.'"

"What unrighteousness have your avot found in me, that they have gone far from me,
and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
⁶ "Nor did they say, 'Where is YHWH
who brought us up me-eretz Mitzrayim,
who led us ba-midbar, b'eretz aravah and of pits,
through a land of drought and of the shadow of death,
through eretz that no ish passed through, and where no adam lived?'
⁷ "I brought you el-eretz ha-karmel [fruitful land],
to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it;
but when you entered, you defiled my eretz,
and made my heritage an abomination.
⁸ "Ha-kohanim didn't say, 'Where is YHWH?'
and those who handle ha-Torah didn't know me:
the rulers also transgressed against me,
and ha-nevi'im prophesied by Ba'al,
and walked after things that do not profit.

^2:9 "Therefore I will yet plead with you,"
says YHWH,
"and with b'nei b'neikhem will I plead.
¹⁰ "For pass over to the isles of Kittiyim [Cyprus], and see;
and send to Kedar [Arabia], and consider diligently;
and see if there has been such a thing.
¹¹ "Has a goy changed elohim, which yet are no elohim?
but my people has changed its kavod
for that which does not profit.
¹² "Be astonished, shamayim, at this,
and be horribly afraid, be very desolate,"
says YHWH.
¹³ "For my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the spring of mayim chayyim,
and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns,
that can hold no mayim.

^2:14 "Is Yisra'el an eved if born in the house?
Why has he become a prey?
¹⁵ "The young lions have roared on him, and yelled;
and they have made his land waste:
his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
¹⁶ "Also b'nei Nof [Memphis] and Tachpanches
have broken the crown of your head.
¹⁷ "Haven't you procured this to yourself,
in that you have forsaken YHWH your Eloah,
when he led you ba-derekh?
¹⁸ "Now what have you to do l'derekh Mitzrayim,
to drink the waters of the Shichor [a branch of the Nile]?
or what have you to do in the way to Ashshur,
to drink the waters of the River?
¹⁹ "Your own wickedness shall correct you,
and your backsliding shall reprove you:
know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter,
that you have forsaken YHWH your Eloah,
and that my fear is not in you," says Adonai YHWH Tsva'ot.

^2:20 "For of old time I have broken your yoke,
and burst your bonds;
and you said, 'I will not serve;'
for on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
²¹ "Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a zera emet:
how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
²² "For though you wash yourself with lye,
and use much soap,
yet your iniquity is marked before me,"
says Adonai YHWH.
²³ "How can you say, 'I am not defiled,
I have not gone after ha-B'alim'?
See your way in the valley,
know what you have done:
you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
²⁴ a wild donkey used to midbar,
that snuffs up the ruach in her desire; in her heat, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;
in her month they shall find her.
²⁵ "Withhold your foot from being unshod,
and your throat from thirst:
but you said, 'It is in vain;
no, for I have loved strangers,
and after them I will go.'

²⁶ "As the thief is ashamed when he is found,
so is beit Yisra'el ashamed;
they, their m'lakhim, their sarim, and their kohanim, and their nevi'im;
²⁷ who say to a tree, 'You are avi;'
and to an even, 'You have brought me forth:'
for they have turned their back to me,
and not their face.
But in the time of their trouble they will say,
'Arise, and save us.'
²⁸ "But where are your elohim that you have made for yourself?
Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble:
for according to the number of your cities are your elohim, Y'hudah.

^2:29 "Why will you plead with me?
You all have transgressed against me,"
says YHWH.
³⁰ "In vain have I struck your banim;
they received no correction:
your own sword has devoured your nevi'im,
like a destroying lion.
³¹ "Ha-dor, see d'var YHWH.
Have I been a wilderness to Yisra'el, or a land of thick darkness?
Why do my people say, 'We are broken loose;
we will come to you no more'?
³² "Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?
Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

^2:33 "How do you trim your way to seek ahavah!
Therefore even the wicked women you have taught your ways.
³⁴ "Also in your k'nafot is found the dam nafshot of the innocent poor:
you did not find them breaking in;
but it is because of all these things.
³⁵ "Yet you said, 'I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me.'
Hinneh, I will enter into mishpat with you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'
³⁶ Why do you go about so much to change your way?
You shall be shamed by Mitzrayim also, as you were shamed by Ashshur.
³⁷ "From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head:
for YHWH has rejected those in whom you trust,
and you shall not prosper with them."

^3:1 "If an ish puts away his ishah, and she goes from him, and is to ish acher,
will he return to her again?
Won't ha-eretz ha-hi be greatly polluted?
But you have played the prostitute with many lovers;
yet return again to me," says YHWH.
² "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see;
where have you not been lain with?
By the waysides have you awaited (your lovers),
as an `Aravi ba-midbar;
and you have polluted eretz with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
³ "Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and there has been no latter rain;
yet you have a prostitute's forehead,
you refused to be ashamed.
⁴ "Won't you from this time cry to me²,
'Avi, you are the guide of my youth?
⁵ 'Will he retain his anger forever?
Will he keep it to the end?'
Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way."

'Return, backsliding Yisra'el,'
says YHWH;
'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,'
says YHWH.
'I will not keep anger forever.
¹³ 'Only acknowledge your iniquity,
that you have transgressed against YHWH your Eloah,
and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree,
and you have not obeyed my voice,'
says YHWH.
¹⁴ 'Return, backsliding children,'
says YHWH;
'for I am your ba'al:
and I will take you echad me'ir ush'nayim mi-mishpacha,
and I will bring you to Tziyon':

^3:19 "But I said, 'How I will put you ba-banim,
and give you a pleasant land,
a goodly heritage of the hosts of goyim!'
And I said, 'You shall call me Avi,
and shall not turn away from following me.'
²⁰ "Surely as an ishah treacherously departs from her companion,
so have you dealt treacherously with me, beit Yisra'el,"
says YHWH.

²¹ A voice is heard on the bare heights,
the weeping and the petitions of beit Yisra'el;
because they have perverted their way,
they have forgotten YHWH their Eloah.
²² "Return, backsliding banim,
I will heal your backsliding."
"Hinneh, we are come to you;
for you are YHWH our Eloah.
²³ "Truly in vain is (help looked for) from the hills, the tumult on the mountains:
truly in YHWH Eloheinu t'shuat Yisra'el.

^4:1 "If you will return, Yisra'el," says YHWH,
"to me you will return,
and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight,
then you shall not wander,
² and you shall swear, 'As YHWH lives,'
be'emet, b'mishpat, u'vitzdakah;
and ha goyim shall bless themselves in him,
and in him shall they glory."

"Break up your fallow ground,
and don't sow el kotzim.
⁴ "Circumcise yourselves la'YHWH,
and take away the foreskins of your heart^A,
ish Y'hudah and inhabitants of Yerushalaim,
lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn so that none can quench it,
because of the evil of your doings."

^4:5 Declare bi'hudah, u'virushalam, and say,
"Blow shofar ba-aretz.
Cry aloud and say,
'Assemble yourselves, and let us go
into the fortified cities.'
⁶ "Set up a standard toward Tziyon.
Flee for safety, don't stay,
for I will bring evil from the north,
and a great destruction.
⁷ "A lion is gone up from his thicket,
and a destroyer of goyim;
he is on his way, he has gone forth from his place
to make your a-retz desolate,
that your cities be laid waste
without inhabitant.
⁸ "For this, gird yourself with sackcloth,
lament and wail,
for the fierce anger of YHWH
hasn't turned back from us."

^4:13 "Hinneh, he shall come up as clouds,
and his chariots as the whirlwind.
His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are ruined!"
¹⁴ Yerushalaim, wash your heart from wickedness,
that you may be saved.
How long shall your evil thoughts
lodge within you?
¹⁵ For a voice declares from Dan,
and publishes evil mi-har Efrayim:
¹⁶ "Make mention la-goyim; hinneh,
publish against Yerushalaim,
'Watchers come from a far country,
and give out their voice against the cities of Y'hudah.
¹⁷ 'They are as keepers of a field against her round about,
because she has been rebellious against me,' says YHWH.
¹⁸ "Your way and your doings
have procured these things to you.
This is your wickedness, for it is bitter,
for it reaches to your heart."

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart.
My heart is disquieted in me.
I cannot be silent, because you have heard qol shofar, my nefesh,
the alarm of war.
²⁰ Destruction upon destruction has been called,
for kol ha-aretz is laid waste.
Suddenly my ohalim are destroyed,
my curtains in a moment.
²¹ How long shall I see the banner
and hear qol shofar?
²² "For my people are foolish,
they don't know me.
They are foolish children,
and they have no understanding.
They are chakhamim l'ha-ra,
but to do good they have no knowledge."
²³ I saw ha-aretz, v'hinneh, tohu va'vohu^B;
v'el-ha-shamayim, and they had no light.
²⁴ and I looked on ha-harim, v'hinneh, they trembled,
and all the hills moved back and forth.
²⁵ and I looked, v'hinneh, there was no man,
and all the birds of ha-shamayim were fled.
²⁶ I saw, v'hinneh, ha-karmel [the fruitful field] ha-midbar,
and all the cities of it were broken down
at the presence of YHWH, before his fierce anger.

^4:28 "For this shall ha-aretz mourn,
and ha-shamayim above be black,
because I have spoken it, I have purposed it,
and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it."

²⁹ Kol ir shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and archers.
They go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks.
Kol ha`ir is forsaken,
and not a man dwells therein.
³⁰ You, when you are made desolate, what will you do?
Though you clothe yourself with scarlet,
though you deck yourself with ornaments of zahav,
though you enlarge your eyes with paint,
in vain you make yourself beautiful;
your lovers despise you,
they seek your nefesh.
³¹ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail,
the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child,
qol bat Tziyon, gasping
and spreading her hands, saying,
"Woe is me now, for my nefesh faints before the murderers!"

^5:1 "Run back and forth through the streets of Yerushalaim,
and see now, and know,
and seek in the broad places of it,
if you can find a man,
if there is one who does mishpat, who seeks emunah,
and I will pardon her.
² "Though they say, 'As YHWH lives;'
surely they swear falsely."
³ YHWH, don't your eyes look on emunah?
You have stricken them,
but they were not grieved.
You have consumed them,
but they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than a rock,
they have refused to return.
⁴ Then I said, "Surely these are poor;
they are foolish,
for they don't know derekh YHWH,
or mishpat of their Eloah:
⁵ "I will get me to ha-g'dolim,
and will speak to them,
for they know derekh YHWH,
mishpat of their Eloah."
But these with one accord have broken the yoke
and burst the bonds.

⁶ Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them,
a wolf of the aravot shall destroy them,
a leopard shall watch against their cities.
Everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their backsliding is increased.
⁷ "How can I pardon you?
Your banim have forsaken me,
and sworn by them that are no elohim.
When I had fed them to the full,
they committed adultery
and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
⁸ "They were as fed horses roaming at large.
Everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
⁹ "Shall I not punish for these things?" says YHWH;
"and on such a goy that is like this
shall not my nefesh be avenged?
¹⁰ "Go up against her vine-rows and destroy;
but full destruction do not make.
Take away her branches, for they are not of YHWH.
¹¹ "for beit Yisra'el u'veit Y'hudah
have dealt very treacherously against me,"
says YHWH.
¹² They have denied YHWH,
and said, "It is not he;
neither shall evil come on us;
neither shall we see sword nor famine:
¹³ "v'ha-nevi'im shall become ruach,
and the word is not in them.
Thus shall it be done to them."

¹⁴ Therefore thus says YHWH, Elohei Tsva'ot,
"Because you speak ha-davar hazeh,
hinneh, I will make my words in your mouth fire,
and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
¹⁵ "Hinneh, I will bring a goy on you from afar, beit Yisra'el,"
says YHWH.
"It is a mighty goy,
goy me-olam hu,
a goy whose language you don't know
nor understand what they say.
¹⁶ "Their quiver is an open grave,
they are all mighty men.
¹⁷
"They will devour your harvest and your lechem;
they will devour your banim and your banot;
they will devour your flocks and your herds;
they will devour your vines and your fig trees.
They will beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

^5:20 "Declare this b'veit Ya'akov, and publish it in Y'hudah, saying,
²¹ 'Hear this now, foolish people, and without understanding;
who have eyes, and don't see;
who have ears, and don't hear:
²² 'Don't you fear me?' says YHWH:
'Won't you tremble at my presence,
who have placed the sand for the bound of ha-yam,
by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it?
Though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail;
though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.
²³ 'But ha`am hazeh has a revolting and a rebellious heart;
they are revolted and gone.
²⁴ 'Neither do they say in their heart,
"Let us now fear YHWH Eloheinu,
who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season;
who preserves to us the sh'vuot chukkot of the harvest."
²⁵ 'Your iniquities have turned away these things,
and your chattot have withheld ha-tov from you.
²⁶ 'For among ami are found wicked men:
they watch, as fowlers lie in wait;
they set a trap, they catch men.
²⁷ 'As a cage is full of birds,
so are their houses full of deceit:
therefore they are become great and grow rich.
²⁸ 'They have grown fat, they shine.
Yes, they pass over in deeds of wickedness.
They don't plead the cause,
the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper;
and mispat of the needy they don't judge [lo shafatu].
²⁹ 'Shall I not punish for these things?' says YHWH.
'On such a goy as this,
shall not my nefesh be avenged?'

³⁰ "An appalling and horrible thing
has happened ba-aretz.
³¹ Ha-nevi'im prophesy falsely,
and ha-kohanim bear rule by their means,
and ami love to have it so;
and what will you do in the end of it?

^6:1 "Flee for safety, b'nei Binyamin,
out of the midst of Yerushalaim,
and blow the shofar in Tekoa,
and raise up a signal on Beit-Ha-Kerem;
for evil looks forth from the north,
and a great destruction.
² "The comely and delicate one, bat Tziyon, will I cut off.
³ "Ro'im with their flocks shall come to her;
they shall pitch their tents against her round about;
every one shall feed in his place.
⁴ "Prepare war against her;
arise, and let us go up at noon.
Woe to us, for the day declines,
for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
⁵ "Arise, and let us go up by night,
and let us destroy her palaces."

⁶ For thus has YHWH Tsva'ot said,
"Hew down trees,
and cast up a mound against Yerushalaim:
hi ha`ir to be punished.
There is only oppression in the midst of her.
<sup>7</sup> "As a well casts forth its waters,
so she casts forth her wickedness.
Violence and destruction is heard in her;
before me continually is sickness and wounds.
<sup>8</sup> "Be instructed, Yerushalaim,
lest my nefesh be alienated from you,
lest I make you a desolation,
a land not inhabited."
<sup>9</sup> Thus says YHWH Tsva'ot,
"They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Yisra'el as a vine.
Turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer
over the branches."
<sup>10</sup> To whom shall I speak and testify,
that they may hear?
Behold, their ear is uncircumcised,
and they can't listen.
Behold, the word of YHWH has become a reproach to them;
they have no delight in it.
<sup>11</sup> Therefore I am full of the wrath of YHWH.
I am weary with holding in.
"Pour it out on the children in the street
and on the assembly of young men together,
for even the ish with the ishah shall be taken,
the aged with him who is full of days.
<sup>12</sup> "Bateihem shall be turned to others,
their sadot and nashim together;
for I will stretch out my hand
on the inhabitants of ha-aretz,"
says YHWH.
<sup>13</sup> "For from the least of them even to the greatest of them
everyone is given to covetousness,
and from the navi even to the kohen
every one deals falsely.
<sup>14</sup> "They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly,
saying, 'Shalom, shalom;' when there is no shalom.
<sup>15</sup> "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
No, they were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush:
therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
at the time that I punish them
they shall be cast down,"
says YHWH.
<sup>16</sup> Thus says YHWH,
"Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths,
where derekh ha-tov is; and walk therein,
and you shall find rest for your nafshot.
But they said, 'We will not walk therein.'
<sup>17</sup> "I set watchmen over you, saying,
'Listen to the sound of the shofar;'
but they said, 'We will not listen.'
<sup>18</sup> "Therefore hear, goyim,
and know, edah, what is among them.
<sup>19</sup> "Hear, ha-aretz.  Hinneh, I will bring evil el-ha`am hazeh,
even the fruit of their thoughts,
because they have not listened to my d'varim,
and as for my Torah, they have rejected it.
²⁰ "To what purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheva,
and the sweet cane from a far eretz?
Your olot are not acceptable,
nor your sacrifices pleasing to me."
²¹ Therefore thus says YHWH,
"Hinneh, I will lay stumbling-blocks before ha`am hazeh,
and they shall stumble against them,
avot and banim together;
the neighbor and his friend shall perish."
²² Thus says YHWH,
"Hinneh, a people comes me-eretez of the north,
and a goy gadol shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the aretz.
²³ "They lay hold on bow and spear.
They are cruel and have no mercy.
Their voice roars like ha-yam,
and they ride on horses,
everyone set in array as a man to the battle
against you, bat Tziyon."
²⁴ We have heard the report of it.
Our hands wax feeble.
Anguish has taken hold of us,
pangs as of a woman in travail.
²⁵ Don't go forth into the field,
nor walk ba-derekh,
for the sword of the enemy
and terror are on every side.
²⁶ Bat ami, gird yourself with sackcloth,
and wallow yourself in ashes.
Make mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
shall come on us.
²⁷ "I have made you a tester of metals, a fortress among ami;
that you may know and try their way."
²⁸ They are all grievous rebels,
going about with slanders;
they are brass and iron.
All of them deal corruptly.
²⁹ The bellows blow fiercely,
the lead is consumed by the fire.
In vain they go on refining,
for the wicked are not plucked away.
³⁰ Refuse silver shall men call them,
because YHWH has rejected them.

²⁹ 'Cut off your hair and cast it away,
and take up a lamentation on the bare heights;
for YHWH has rejected and forsaken
the generation of his wrath.'

^8:4 "And you shall tell them, 'Thus says YHWH:'
"Do they fall and not arise?
Shall one turn away, and not return?
^8:5 "Why then is ha`am hazeh Yerushalaim
slidden back by a perpetual apostasy?
They hold fast to deceit,
they refuse to return.
^8:6 "I listened and heard,
but they didn't speak aright.
No man repents of his wickedness,
saying, 'What have I done?'
Every one turns to his course,
as a horse that rushes headlong into the battle.
^8:7  "Yes, the chasidah³ bashamayim
knows her moadim;
and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the thrush
observe the time of their coming,
but ami do not know mishpat YHWH.

^8:8 "How do you say, 'Chakhamim anachnu,
v'Torat YHWH is with us'?
Hinneh, the false pen of the sofrim
has worked falsely.
^8:9 "Chakhamim are dried up [ashamed],
they are dismayed and taken.
Hinneh, they have rejected d'var YHWH,
and what manner of chakham is in them?
^8:10 "Therefore will I give their nashim to others
and their sodot to those who shall possess them,
for everyone from the least even to the greatest
is given to covetousness;
m'navi v'ad kohen
every one deals falsely.
^8:11 "They have healed the hurt of bat ami slightly,
saying, 'Shalom, shalom;'
when there is no shalom*.
^8:12 "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
No, they were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush.
Therefore shall they fall among those who fall.
In the time of their punishment they shall be cast down,"
says YHWH.

^8:13 "I will utterly consume them," says YHWH.
"There shall be no grapes on the vine,
nor figs on the fig tree,
and the leaf shall fade,
and what I have given them shall pass over them."'"
^8:14 Why do we sit still?
Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities,
and let us be silent there,
for YHWH Eloheinu has put us to silence,
and given us water of gall to drink,
because we have sinned against YHWH.
^8:15 We looked for shalom, but there was no good;
for a time of healing, and hinneh, dismay!
^8:16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan:
at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones
kol ha-aretz trembles;
for they are come, and have devoured ha-aretz and all that is in it;
the city and those who dwell therein.
^8:17 "For hinneh, I will send nachshim,
adders, among you, which will not be charmed,
and they shall bite you," says YHWH.

^8:18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!
My heart is faint within me.
^8:19 Hinneh, the voice of the cry of bat ami from a land that is very far off.
"Isn't YHWH b'Tziyon? Isn't her Melech in her?"
"Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images and with foreign vanities?
^8:20 "The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved."
^8:21 For the hurt of bat ami I am hurt.
I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
^8:22 Is there no balm b'Gil`ad?
Is there no physician there?
Why then isn't the health of bat ami recovered?

^9:1 Oh that my head were mayim,
and my eyes a spring of tears,
that I might weep yomam valailah
for the slain of bat ami!
^9:2 Oh that I had ba-midbar
a lodging-place of wayfaring men,
that I might leave my people,
and go from them,
for they are all adulterers,
an assembly of treacherous men.
^9:3 "They bend their tongues; their bow is a lie,
and they are not mighty for the truth on ha-aretz,
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they don't know me," says YHWH.
^9:4 "Let every man be guarded against his neighbor,
and don't trust in any brother;
for every brother will utterly supplant,
and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
^9:5 "Everyone will deceive his neighbor
and will not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies.
They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
^9:6 "Your habitation is in the midst of deceit.
Through deceit they refuse to know me," says YHWH.

^9:7 Therefore thus says YHWH Tsva'ot,
"Hinneh, I will melt them and try them,
for what (else) should I do, because of bat ami?
^9:8 "Their tongue is a deadly arrow.
It speaks deceit.
One speaks shalom to his neighbor with his mouth,
but in his heart he lays wait for him.
^9:9 "Shall I not visit them for these things?" says YHWH.
"Shall not my nefesh be avenged
on such a goy as this?

^9:10 "For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation,
because they are burned up, so that none passes through;
neither can men hear the voice of the cattle.
Both the birds of ha-shamayim v`ad b'hemah are fled, they are gone.
^9:11 "I will make Yerushalaim heaps,
a dwelling-place of jackals,
and I will make arim Y'hudah a desolation without inhabitant."

"Consider, and call for the mourners, that they may come;
and send for ha-chakhamot, that they may come,
^9:18   "and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids gush out with waters.
^9:19 "For a voice of wailing is heard mi-Tziyon,
'How are we ruined!
We are greatly confounded,
because we have forsaken ha-aretz,
because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
^9:20 Yet hear d'var YHWH, you women,
and let your ear receive davar of his mouth,
and teach your banot wailing,
and ishah her neighbor lamentation.
^9:21 For death is come up into our windows,
it is entered into our palaces,
to cut off the children from outside,
the young men from the streets.
^9:22 Speak, "Thus says YHWH,
'The dead bodies of ha-adam shall fall as dung on the open field,
and as the sheaf after the reaper; and none shall gather (them).'"

"El-derekh ha-goyim you shall not be goaded,
and don't be dismayed at otot ha-shamayim;
for ha-goyim are dismayed at them.
^10:3 For chukkot ha`amim are vanity;
for one cuts a tree out of the forest,
ma'aseh of the hands of the workman with the axe.
^10:4 "They deck it with kesef and with zahav;
they fasten it with nails and with hammers,
that it not move.
^10:5 "They are like a palm tree of hammered work,
and don't speak.
They must be carried,
because they can't go.
Don't be afraid of them,
for they can't do evil,
neither is it in them to do good."

^10:6 Me-ein kamokha, YHWH.
Gadol attah, v'gadol shimkha in might.
^10:7 Who should not fear you, Melekh ha-goyim?
for it appertains to you,
because among kol chakhmei ha-goyim,
and in all their malkhut, me-ein kamokha.
^10:8 But they are together brutish and foolish,
an instruction of vanities, etz hu.
^10:9 Kesef beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish,
and zahav me-Ufaz,
the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith;
t'khelet and purple for their clothing;
they are all ma'aseh chakhamim.
^10:10 But YHWH Elohim; hu Elohim chayyim, u'Melekh olam:
at his wrath ha-aretz trembles,
and goyim are not able to abide his indignation.

^10:12 He has made eretz by his power,
he has established the world by his chokhma,
and by his understanding has he stretched out shamayim.
^10:13 On the giving of his voice, there is a tumult of mayim ba-shamayim,
and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of ha-aretz.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings forth the wind out of his storehouses.
^10:14 Kol adam is stupid from (lack of) knowledge;
every refiner is put to shame by his engraved image,
for his molten image is falsehood,
and there is no breath in them.
^10:15 They are vanity, a work of delusion.
In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
^10:16 "The Portion of Ya'akov" is not like these;
for he (is) the One who forms all things;
and Yisra'el is the tribe of his inheritance:
YHWH Tsva'ot is his name.

^10:17 Gather me-eretz your bundle,
you who abide in the siege.
^10:18 For thus says YHWH,
"Hinneh, I will sling out the inhabitants of ha-aretz
at this time,
and will distress them,
that they may find (me)."

^10:19 Oy is me because of my hurt!
My wound is grievous,
but I said, "Truly this is a sickness,
and I must bear it."
^10:20 My ohel is destroyed
and all my cords are broken.
My banim have gone forth from me, and they are no more.
There is none to spread my ohel any more,
and to set up my curtains.
^10:21 For the shepherds are become stupid,
and have not inquired of YHWH.
Therefore they have not prospered,
and all their flocks are scattered.
^10:22 The voice of news, behold, it comes,
and a great commotion out of the north country,
to make arei Y'hudah
a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

^10:23 YHWH, I know that the way of man is not in himself.
It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
^10:24 YHWH, correct me b'mishpat,
not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
^10:25 Pour out your wrath on ha-goyim that don't know you,
and on mishpachot that don't call on your name,
for they have devoured Ya'akov,
yes, they have devoured him and consumed him,
and have laid waste his habitation.

^11:15 What has my beloved to do in my house,
seeing she has worked many evils,
and basar kodesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice."
^11:16 YHWH called your name, "A green yayit, yafeh, with goodly fruit." With the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.

^11:18 YHWH gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it;
then you showed me their doings.
^11:19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, (saying),
"Let us destroy the tree with its lechem,
and let us cut him off me-eretz chayyim,
that his name may be no more remembered."
^11:20 But, YHWH Tsva'ot, who judges with tzedek,
who tries the heart and the mind,
I shall see your vengeance on them,
for to you I have revealed my cause.

^12:1 Tzaddik attah, YHWH, when I bring a case before you;
yet I would speak about your mishpatim with you.
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
^12:2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root;
they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit.
You are near in their mouth
and far from their inmost being.
^12:3 But you, YHWH, know me;
you have seen me,
and tested my heart toward you.
Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
^12:4 How long shall ha-aretz mourn
and the herbs of kol ha-sadeh wither?
for the wickedness of those who dwell therein,
b'hemot are consumed, and the birds,
because they said, "He shall not see our latter end."

^12:5 "If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,
then how can you contend with horses?
And though in aretz shalom* you are secure,
yet how will you do in the pride of ha-Yarden [descender]?
^12:6 "For even your brothers, and beit avikha,
even they have dealt treacherously with you;
even they have cried aloud after you.
Don't believe them, though they speak tovot to you."

^12:7 "I have forsaken my bayit,
I have cast off my heritage;
I have given the dearly beloved of my nefesh
into the hand of her enemies.
^12:8 "My heritage is become to me
as a lion in the forest.
She has uttered her voice against me;
therefore I have hated her.
^12:9 "Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey?
Are the birds of prey against her round about?
Go, assemble kol ha-chayyot ha-sadeh,
bring them to devour.
^12:10 "Roim rabim have destroyed my vineyard,
they have trodden my portion under foot,
they have made my pleasant portion a desolate midbar.
^12:11 "They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate.
Kol ha-aretz is made desolate,
because no man lays it to heart.
^12:12 "Destroyers are come
on all the bare heights ba-midbar;
for the sword of YHWH devours
from the one end of ha-aretz to the other end of ha-aretz;
ein shalom l'chol basar.
^12:13 "They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;
they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing,
and you shall be ashamed of your fruits,
because of the fierce anger of YHWH."

^13:15 Hear and give ear; don't be proud;
for YHWH has spoken.
^13:16 Give glory to YHWH your Elohim,
before he causes darkness,
and before your feet stumble
on the dark mountains,
and while you look for light,
he turns it into the shadow of death
and makes it gross darkness.
^13:17 But if you will not hear it,
my nefesh shall weep in secret places for pride,
and my eye shall weep sore
and run down with tears,
because the flock of YHWH was seized.
^13:18 Say la-melekh and to the queen mother:
"Humble yourselves, sit down,
for the place of your head will come down,
even the crown of your glory."
^13:19 Arei ha-negev are shut up,
and there is none to open them.
Y'hudah is carried away captive; all of it exiled completely.

^13:20 "Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north.
Where is the flock that was given to you,
your beautiful flock?
^13:21 "What will you say, when he shall set over you as head
those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you?
Shall not sorrows take hold of you,
as of a woman in travail?
^13:22 "If you say in your heart,
'Why are these things come on me?'
For the greatness of your iniquity
are your skirts uncovered,
and your heels suffer violence.
^13:23 "Can Kushi change his skin,
or the leopard his spots?
Then may you also do good,
who are accustomed to doing evil.
^13:24 "Therefore will I scatter them,
as the stubble that passes away,
l'ruach midbar.
^13:25 "This is your lot, the portion measured to you
from me," says YHWH,
"because you have forgotten me
and trusted in falsehood.
^13:26 "So also I have stripped off your skirts over your face,
and your shame shall appear.
^13:27 "I have seen your abominations,
even your adulteries and your neighing,
the lewdness of your prostitution,
on the hills ba-sadeh.
Oy to you, Yerushalaim!
Will you not be made clean? How long shall it yet be?"

^14:2 "Y'hudah mourns,
and the gates of it languish.
They sit in mourning,
and the cry of Yerushalaim has gone up.
^14:3 "Their nobles send their little ones la-mayim.
They come to the cisterns and find no mayim;
they return with their vessels empty;
they are ashamed and humiliated,
and cover their heads.
^14:4 "Because ha-adamah, which is cracked
because no rain has been ba-aretz,
the plowmen are disappointed,
they cover their heads.
^14:5 "Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes (her young),
because there is no grass.
^14:6 "The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights,
they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
because there is no herbage.
^14:7 "Though our iniquities testify against us,
work for your name's sake, YHWH;
for our backslidings are many;
we have sinned against you.
^14:8 "You hope of Yisra'el,
its Moshia in the time of trouble,
why should you be as a foreigner ba-aretz,
and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
^14:9 Why should you be like a scared man,
as a gibor who can't save?
Yet you, YHWH, are in the midst of us,
and we are called by your name;
don't leave us.

'Let my eyes run down with tears lailah va-yomam,
and let them not cease;
for the virgin bat ami is broken with a great breach,
with a very grievous wound.
^14:18 'If I go forth into ha-sadeh,
hinneh, the slain with the sword!
And if I enter into ha`ir,
v'hinneh, those who are sick with famine!
For both ha-navi and ha-kohen
go about el-eretz that they do not know.'"

^14:19 Have you utterly rejected Y'hudah?
Has your nefesh loathed Tziyon?
Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us?
We looked for shalom, but no good (came);
and for a time of healing, v'hinneh, terror!
^14:20 We acknowledge, YHWH, our wickedness,
and the iniquity of avoteinu; for we have sinned against you.
^14:21 Do not abhor (us), for your name's sake;
do not disgrace the kiseh of your kavod.
Remember, don't break, your b'rit with us.
^14:22 Are there any among the vanities of ha-goyim who give rain?
Or can ha-shamayim give showers?
Aren't you he, YHWH Eloheinu?
Therefore we will wait for you, for you do kol eleh.

"Such as are for death, to death,
and such as are for the sword, to the sword,
and such as are for the famine, to the famine,
and such as are for captivity, to captivity."'

^15:5 "For who will have pity on you, Yerushalaim?
or who will bemoan you?
or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?
^15:6 "You have rejected me," says YHWH,
"you are gone backward:
therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you;
I am weary with repenting.
^15:7 "I have winnowed them with a fan
in the gates of ha-aretz;
I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people;
they didn't return from their derekh.
^15:8 "Their widows are increased to me
above the sand of yamim;
I have brought on them against the mother of the young men
a destroyer at noonday:
I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
^15:9 "She who has borne seven languishes;
she has breathed out her nefesh;
her sun is gone down while it was yet day;
she has been ashamed and humiliated,
and the remnant of them will I deliver to the sword
before their enemies," says YHWH.

^15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me
a man of strife and a man of contention l'khol ha-aretz!
I have not lent, neither have men lent to me;
(yet) every one of them curses me.
^15:11 YHWH said, "Most assuredly I will set you free for good.
Surely I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you
in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

^15:12 "Can one break iron, iron from the north,
and n'choshet?
^15:13 "Your substance and your treasures
I will give for a spoil without price,
and that for all your chattot,
even in all your borders.
^15:14 "I will make (you) pass with your enemies
b'eretz which you don't know;
for a fire is kindled in my anger,
which shall burn on you."

^15:15 YHWH, you know;
remember me, and visit me,
and avenge me of my persecutors;
don't take me away in your longsuffering:
know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
^15:16 Your d'varim were found, and I ate them;
and your d'varim were to me a joy and the simchah of my heart:
for I am called by your name,
YHWH, Elohei Tsva'ot.
^15:17 I didn't sit b'sod of those who make merry,
nor rejoiced;
I sat alone because of your hand;
for you have filled me with indignation.
^15:18 Why is my pain perpetual,
and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed?
Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook,
as waters that fail?

^15:19 Therefore thus says YHWH,
"If you return, then will I bring you again,
that you may stand before me;
and if you take forth the precious from the vile,
you shall be as my mouth:
they shall return to you,
but you shall not return to them.
^15:20 "I will make you to this people
a fortified brazen wall,
and they shall fight against you,
but they shall not prevail against you,
for I am with you to save you
and to deliver you," says YHWH.
^15:21 "I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,
and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible."

^16:19 YHWH, my strength, and my stronghold,
and my refuge in the day of affliction,
to you shall goyim come
from the ends of the earth, and shall say,
"Avoteinu have inherited nothing but lies,
vanity and things in which there is no profit."
^16:20 Shall a man make to himself elohim,
which yet are no elohim?

^16:21 "Therefore behold, I will cause them to know,
this once will I cause them to know
my hand and my might;
and they shall know that my name is YHWH."

^17:1 Chattat Y'hudah is written with a pen of iron,
with the point of a diamond, (it is) engraved
on the tablet of their heart,
and on the horns of your altars,
^17:2 while their children remember their mizb'chot and their Asherim
by the green trees on the high hills.
^17:3 My mountain ba-sadeh,
I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil,
your high places, because of chattat, throughout all your borders.
^17:4 You, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage
that I gave you;
and I will cause you to serve your enemies
ba-aretz which you don't know:
for you have kindled a fire in my anger
which shall burn ad-olam.

^17:5 Thus says YHWH:
"Cursed is the man who trusts ba-adam,
and makes basar his strength,
and whose heart departs from YHWH.
^17:6 "For he shall be like the heath[? - 6199] ba-aravah,
and shall not see when good comes,
but shall inhabit the parched places ba-midbar,
a salt land and not inhabited.
^17:7 "Blessed is the man who trusts in YHWH,
and whose trust YHWH is.
^17:8 "For he shall be as a tree planted al-mayim,
who spreads out its roots by the river,
and shall not fear when heat comes,
but its leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

^17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things,
and it is exceedingly corrupt:
who can know it?
^17:10 "I, YHWH, search the mind,
I try the inward parts,
even to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his doings.
^17:11 "As the partridge that broods but does not hatch,
so is he who gets riches, and not by right;
in the midst of his days they shall leave him,
and at his end he shall be a naval."

^17:12 Kiseh kavod On high from the beginning
is the place of our mikdash.
^17:13 Mikvah Yisra'el YHWH,
all who forsake you shall be disappointed.
Those who depart from me shall be written ba-aretz,
because they have forsaken YHWH, the spring of mayim chayyim.
^17:14 Heal me, YHWH, and I shall be healed;
save me, and I shall be saved:
for you are my praise.
^17:15 Hinneh, they tell me,
"Where is d'var YHWH?
Let it come now."
^17:16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a ro'eh after you;
neither have I desired the woeful day;
you know: that which came out of my lips
was before your face.
^17:17 Don't be a terror to me:
you are my refuge ba-yom ra'ah.
^17:18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me,
but let me not be disappointed;
let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed;
bring on them yom ra'ah,
and with double breaking, break them.

¹³ "Therefore koh amar YHWH:
'Ask now ba-goyim,
who has heard such things;
the virgin of Yisra'el
has done a very horrible thing.
¹⁴ 'Shall the snow of Levanon fail mi-tzur sadeh?
or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
¹⁵ 'For my people have forgotten me,
they have burned incense to vanity,
and they have been made to stumble in their d'rakhot,
in the ancient paths,
to walk in byways,
in a derekh not built up,
¹⁶ 'to make their land an astonishment,
and a perpetual hissing.
Everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished,
and shake his head.
¹⁷ 'I will scatter them as with a ruach kedem
before the enemy.
I will show them the back, and not the face,
in the day of their calamity.'"

¹⁹ Give heed to me, YHWH,
and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good?
for they have dug a pit for my nefesh.
Remember how I stood before you
to speak good for them,
to turn away your wrath from them.
²¹ Therefore deliver up their banim to the famine,
and give them over to the power of the sword;
and let their nashim become childless, and widows;
and let their anashim be slain of mavet,
their young men struck of the sword in battle.
²² Let a cry be heard from their batim,
when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them;
for they have dug a pit to take me,
and hid snares for my feet.
²³ And you, YHWH, know
all their counsel against me to kill me;
don't forgive their iniquity,
neither blot out their chattat from your sight;
but let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.

⁷ YHWH, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded;
you are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
I am become a laughingstock all the day,
everyone mocks me.
⁸ For as often as I speak, I cry out.
I cry, "Violence and destruction!"
because d'var YHWH is made a reproach to me,
and a derision, all the day.
⁹ If I say, "I will not make mention of him,
nor speak any more in his name,"
then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and I am weary with forbearing,
and I can't contain.
¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many:
"Terror on every side [magor missaviv].
Denounce, and we will denounce him,"
say all my familiar friends,
those who watch for my fall.
"Peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him."
¹¹ But YHWH is with me as an awesome mighty one:
therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail;
they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely,
even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
¹² But, YHWH Tsva'ot, who tests tzaddik,
who sees the heart and the mind,
let me see your vengeance on them;
for to you I have revealed my cause.

¹³ Shiru la-YHWH, hallelu et-YHWH;
for he has delivered the nefesh of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born.
Don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
¹⁵ Cursed ha-ish asher bisar et-avi, lemor,
"A man-child is born to you,"
making him very glad.
¹⁶ Let ha-ish ha-hu be as the cities
which YHWH overthrew, without regretting,
and let him hear a cry ba-boqer,
and a shout of alarm at noontime,
¹⁷ because he didn't kill me from the womb;
and so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb always great.
¹⁸ Why did I come forth out of the womb
to see labor and sorrow,
that my days should be consumed with shame?

"Execute la-boqer mishpat,
and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,
lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn so that none can quench it,
because of the evil of your doings.

¹³ "Hinneh, I am against you, inhabitant of the valley,
of the rock of the plain," says YHWH;
"you that say, 'Who shall come down against us,
or who shall enter into our habitations?
¹⁴ "I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings," says YHWH;
"and I will kindle a fire in her forest,
and it shall devour all that is round about her."'"

" Gil`ad attah to me,
rosh ha-L'vanon.
Surely I will make you midbar,
arim which are not inhabited.
⁷  "I will prepare destroyers against you,
everyone with his weapons,
and they shall cut down your choice cedars,
and cast them al-ha-esh.

¹⁰ Don't weep for the dead, nor bemoan him;
but weep sore for him who goes away;
for he shall return no more,
nor see the land of his birth.

¹³ "Hoy to him who builds his bayit without tzedek,
and his chambers without mishpat;
who uses his neighbor's service without wages,
and doesn't give him his hire;
¹⁴ who says, 'I will build me a wide bayit
and spacious chambers,
and cuts out windows;
and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with bright red.'
¹⁵ "Shall you reign because you strive to excel in cedar?
Didn't your father eat and drink,
and do mitzpat utz'dakah?
Then it was well with him.
¹⁶  "He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
then it was well.
Wasn't this to know me?"
says YHWH.
¹⁷  "But your eyes and your heart
are not but for your covetousness,
and for shedding innocent blood,
and for oppression, and for violence, to do it."

"They shall not lament for him:
'Hoy achi!' o 'Hoy achot!'
They shall not lament for him:
'Hoy adon! o 'Hoy his glory!'
¹⁹ "He shall be buried with the burial of a chamor,
drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Yerushalaim.

²⁰ "Go up to ha-L'vanon, and cry;
and lift up your voice in Bashan,
and cry from `Avarimen;
for all your lovers are destroyed.
²¹ "I spoke to you in your prosperity;
but you said, 'I will not hear.'
This has been your manner from your youth,
that you didn't obey my voice.
²² "The ruach shall rule all your ro'im,
and your lovers shall go into captivity:
surely then you shall be ashamed and confounded
for all your wickedness.
²³ "Inhabitant of L'vanon,
who makes your nest in the cedars,
how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you,
the pain as of a woman in travail!

²⁸ "Is ha-ish hazeh Konyahu a despised broken vessel,
or a vessel in which none delights?
Why are they cast out, he and his zera,
and are cast al-ha-aretz which they don't know?
²⁹  "Eretz, eretz, aretz,
hear d'var YHWH.
³⁰ "Koh amar YHWH,
'Write ha-ish hazeh (as) childless,
a man who shall not prosper in his days;
for no more shall a man of his zera prosper,
sitting on kiseh David,
and ruling in Y'hudah.'"

My heart within me is broken,
all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
and like a man whom yayin has overcome,
because of YHWH,
and because of his d'varei qadosh.
¹⁰ For ha-aretz is full of adulterers;
for because of swearing (or a curse) ha-aretz mourns;
the pastures of the midbar are dried up.
Their course is evil,
and their might is not right;
¹¹ "For both navi and kohen are profane;
yes, in my house I have found their wickedness," says YHWH.
¹² "Therefore their derekh shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness:
they shall be driven on, and fall therein;
for I will bring evil on them,
the year of their punishment," says YHWH.
¹³ "I have seen folly in the n'vi'ei Shomron;
they prophesied by Ba'al, and caused ami Yisra'el to err.
¹⁴ "In the n'vi'ei Yerushalaim also I have seen a horrible thing.
They commit adultery and walk in lies,
and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers,
so that none returns from his wickedness.
All of them have become to me as S'dom [burning],
and the inhabitants of it as `Amorah [submersion].
¹⁵ "Therefore koh amar YHWH Tsva'ot al-n'vi'im:
'Hinneh, I will feed them with wormwood,
and make them drink the water of gall;
for from n'vi'ei Yerushalaim
has pollution gone forth into kol ha-aretz.'"

¹⁸ "For who has stood b'sod YHWH,
that he should perceive and hear his davar?
Who has marked my davar, and heard it?
¹⁹ "Behold, the tempest of YHWH, his wrath, has gone forth,
yes, a whirling tempest:
it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
²⁰ "The anger of YHWH shall not return
until he has executed and until he has performed the intents of his heart.
B'acharit ha-yamim you shall understand it perfectly.

^23:21 "I did not send ha-nevi'im,
yet they ran:
I didn't speak to them,
yet they prophesied.
²² "But if they had stood in my sod,
then would they have caused my people to hear my d'varim,
and to turn them from their evil way,
and from the evil of their doings.

'YHWH will roar mi-marom,
and utter his voice from his holy habitation;
he will mightily roar against his fold;
he will give a shout, as those who tread (the grapes),
against all the inhabitants of ha-aretz.
³¹  'A noise shall come even to the end of ha-aretz;
for YHWH has a controversy with ha-goyim.
He will enter into judgment l'khol basar.
As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,' says YHWH."

³²  Koh amar YHWH Tsva'ot,
"Hinneh, evil shall go forth
mi-goy el-goy,
and a great tempest shall be raised up
from the uttermost parts of ha-aretz.

³⁴ "Wail, ha-ro'im, and cry,
and wallow (in the dust), you principal of the flock;
for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come,
and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.
³⁵ "Refuge has perished from ha-ro'im,
and escape from the leaders of the flock.
³⁶ "A voice of the cry of ha-ro'im,
and the wailing of the leaders of the flock!
for YHWH lays waste their pasture.
³⁷ "The peaceable folds are brought to silence
because of the fierce anger of YHWH.
³⁸ "He has left his den like the young lion;
for their land has become a waste
because of the fierceness of the oppressing (sword),
and because of his fierce anger."

'"Tziyon (as a) sadeh shall be plowed,
and Yerushalaim shall become heaps,
v'har ha-Bayit ⁶ as the high places of a forest."