Yshá`Yâhuw
Chapter 1
1. ¶The vision of Yshá`Yâhuw, the son of ’Âmówts, that he viewed concerning Yâhuwthâ´h and Yruwshâláim during the days of `UzziyYâ´huw, Yowthâ´m, ’Âchâ´z, and YchizqiyYâ´huw, kings of Yâhuwthâ´h.
Yisrâ’Ë´l “Christianity” in the end times compared to the chosen remnant from it
2. ¶Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, because Yâ-hwéh is speaking:
“I grow sons and I raise them up, but they rebel against Me.
3. An ox recognizes his buyer, and the donkey of the manger his owner; Yisrâ’Ë´l[E1] , they do not acknowledge, My people, they do not consider[E2] .
4. Hówy, errant heathen mass, a people of massive perversity, the seed of evildoers, sons of corruption, they have forsaken Yâ-hwéh, they have spurned the Pure One of Yisrâ’Ë´l, they left Him behind.
5. Why should ye be smitten anymore? Ye increase the rebellion, to sicken the entire head and the whole heart is faint.
6. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is nothing intact in them – contusions and impacts and oozing wounds which have not been closed and have not been bound up and have not been soothed with ointment –
7. Your land is desolation, your cities are burned with fire; your countries, aliens in front of you are consuming them, and they are desolation, like ones overthrown by foreigners.
8. Yet the Daughter of Tsiyyówn[E3] is left remaining like a shelter (tabernacle) in a vineyard, like a lodge in a melon patch, like a protected city!”
9. Unless Yâ-hwéh of hosts had not preserved to us a small remnant, we would have become like Çthóm, we would have resembled `Amorâ´h! [Romans 9: 29]
Yâ-hwéh calls Christianity to repent and reason with Him or die
10. ¶Heed the Word of Yâ-hwéh, O dictators of Çthóm! Give ear to the Law of our Mighty Ones, O people of `Amorâ´h!
11. “What are the multitudes of your slaughter-offerings to Me for?”
Says Yâ-hwéh,
“I am sated! I take no pleasure in the burnt-offerings of rams, or the richness of fatlings, or the blood of bullocks, lambs, or goats,
12. because you come to be seen before Me. Who has sought this from your hand? You will not continue to trample My courts,
13. to bring worthless (speech) tributes, it is the smell of an abomination to Me. A new month and a Shabbâ´th is to call a convocation, I cannot bear the evil and exclusive assemblies –
14. your months and your appointed feasts, which My soul hates: They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
15. So while you extend your hands, I will conceal My eyes from you, even as you make many prayers, I am not heeding; your hands are full of bloodshed.
16. Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove the evil of your deeds from before My eyes, stop doing evil!
18. Let’s walk, now [`Âmówts 3: 3], and let us reason together,” says Yâ-hwéh, “Though your sins are like the scarlet insects, they shall be white as the snow; though they are red as the crimson worm, they shall become like the wool.
19. If you are consenting and you heed, you will eat the goodness of the Land;
20. But if you refuse and you rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword, because the mouth of Yâ-hwéh has spoken it.
Adulterous Tsiyyówn to be purged and purified
21. ¶How for a whore the faithful city has become! Full of justice, Righteousness did dwell in her, but now murderers!
22. Your silver has become dross, your liquor is being diluted with water;
23. Your leaders are stubbornly rebellious and the associates of thieves[E4] , all of them loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards; they do not vindicate the fatherless, and the cause of the forsaken does not come before them.
24. Therefore,”
Declares the Sovereign Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the Strong One of Yisrâ’Ë´l,
“Hówy! I will relieve Myself from My opponents, and I will avenge Myself from those hating Me,
25. and I will turn My hand against you both, and I will smelt away your drosses with the lye (alkali used in smelting metal) and I will remove all of your impurities (lit. tin)
26. and I will return your judges as at first, and your advisors as in the beginning; after this, you shall be called “`Iyr ha-Tsétheq” (The City of the Righteousness), the faithful town.
27. Tsiyyówn, it will be ransomed by means of judgment [Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 12: 31], and her repentant captivity by means of rectification;
28. But the rebels (apostates) and the errant shall be shattered together, so the forsakers of Yâ-hwéh, they will be terminated.
29. As they will be ashamed for the posts[E5] that they lusted for, and they will be embarrassed for the orchards that they had chosen,
30. Because they will be like a terebinth tree whose foliage is withered away and fallen, and like an orchard that has no water in it:
31. So a strong man will become like a beaten strand of flax, and his deeds shall be for a spark, and they will burn both of them together, and there shall be no one to extinguish it.”
Chapter 2
1. ¶The word that Yshá`Yâhuw, the son of ’Âmówts saw concerning Yâhuwthâ´h and Yruwshâláim:
Period between 6th seal coming and 7th trumpet resurrection foreseen
2. And it shall be during the last of the days, the mountain of the house of Yâ-hwéh shall be securely established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above every hill[E6] , and all of the heathen masses will stream to Him. [Disclosure 7: 9, Bar-Nâvíy 11: 9]
3. And multitudes of peoples shall walk and they will say,
“Let’s walk and ascend to the mountain of Yâ-hwéh, to the house of the Mighty Ones of Ya`aqóv, and He will instruct us of His Ways so we will walk in His caravans, because the Law shall come forth from Tsiyyówn [51: 4] and the Word of Yâ-hwéh [Yâhuwshúa`] from Yruwshâláim!
4. And He will arbitrate between the masses and He will settle disputes for multitudes of peoples, and they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning knives – a nation will not take up a sword against another nation and they will not train for war anymore.”
Call to Ya`aqóv (“Yehuwthím”) to enter the Rock
5. ¶Let’s walk, O house of Ya`aqóv, and let’s go by the Light of Yâ-hwéh,
6. because He has abandoned your people, the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l [~Christianity], because their land since the beginning was filled with soothsayers like the Phlishttíym, and many sons of foreigners (fig. heathens) were born to them.
7. And their land was full of silver and gold, and there was no limit to their treasures, and their land was full of horses, and there was no limit to their vehicles.
8. And their land was full of worthless nothingnesses – to the work of their hands they bowed down, to that which their fingers made.
9. Yet mankind shall be bowed down, and man shall become humble, but you should not bear it for them [Disclosure 18: 4]:
10. Go into the Rock (Tsuwr) and conceal yourself in the dust from the terrifying presence of Yâ-hwéh, and due to the splendor of His Excellence when He shall arise to strike terribly the earth [LXX]! [Contrast Howshë´`á 10: 8, Disclosure 6: 16-17, Mal’âkhíy 4: 6]
11. For the perspective of Yâ-hwéh is high, and mankind is base, so the elevation of mortal man will be bowed down, but Yâ-hwéh alone shall be inaccessibly high in that Day.
12. Because the Day is for Yâ-hwéh of hosts, over all of the proud and the haughty, and over all of the exalted and towering, and they shall be brought down.
13. And over all of the tall and towering cedars of the Whiteness (Lvânówn), and over all of the oaks of the Fruitful (Bâshâ´n),
14. And over all of the towering mountains and over all of the elevated hills,
15. And over every tall skyscraper, and over every fortified wall,
16. And over all of the ships of Tarshíysh, and over all of the precious aircraft,
18. And the handmade worthless nothingnesses shall totally disappear,
19. As they will be carried into the clefts of the rocks and into the holes in the ground from the terrifying presence of Yâ-hwéh, and due to the splendor of His Excellence, when He takes His position [Contrast Dan. 11: 4] to terrify the earth.
20. In that Day, mankind will hurl the worthless nothingnesses of his silver and the worthless nothingnesses of his gold that they made for him to worship, to the gophers and to the bats,
21. To enter into the crevices of the rocks and into the clefts of the crags due to the terrifying presence of Yâ-hwéh, and due to the splendor of His Excellence.
22. Leave from the man that has but a breath in his nostrils, because of what is he reckoned to be? [Dust]
Chapter 3
The Drying of the Tree (prior to the 6th seal)
1. Because look! The Sovereign Yâ-hwéh of hosts is the One removing the supply support and the sustenance support from Yruwshâláim and from Yâhuwthâ´h, all of the food supply and all of the water supply:
2. the hero and the warrior, and the judge, and the preacher, and the soothsayer, and the elder,
3. the captain of fifty, and the man who appears high, and the advisor and the skilled craftsman, and the clever orator.
4. “And I will make boys to be their leaders and scoffers will rule over them.
5. And the people will oppress themselves, a man against another man, and a man against his fellow man, and the youths will act insolently against the elders, and the lightly esteemed against the heavily honored.
6. As a man will grab onto his brother of the house of his father, saying,
“You have clothing, you be our dictator for us, so may this overthrown kingdom be under your hand.”
7. But in that Day, he will raise his voice saying,
“I have never been a bandager, and in my house there is no bread and there is no clothing; do not make me a dictator of this people,
8. Because Yruwshâláim, it totters and Yâhuwthâ´h, it falls, because their tongues and their deeds are against Yâ-hwéh, to spite the perspective of His Honor.
9. The expression of their faces bears witness against them, and they proclaim their sins like Çthóm, they do not conceal it. Hówy to their lives, because they have bountifully dealt out disaster upon themselves!”
The 6th Seal Judgment of Tsiyyówn and its aftermath
10. Say to the righteous,
“since the fruit of their deeds is good, they will enjoy them.”
11. Hówy, disaster is for the wicked, because the dealings of his hands will be used against him.
13. Yâ-hwéh is taking His position to sue and He makes a stand to judge the peoples;
14. Yâ-hwéh enters into judgment against the elders of His people, and their rulers [women (v.12)]:
“So you, you who burned the vineyard and the plunder of the poor is in your houses,
15. What are your reasons for wronging My people and crushing the faces of the poor ones?”
declares Yâ-hwéh of hosts.
“On account of the fact that the daughters of Tsiyyówn are arrogant, and walk stretching out their necks, and walk blinking coquettishly, even skipping as they walk, and jingling ornaments on their ankles,”
17. So my Sovereign shall humiliate them: He shall scrape the scalp[E7] of the daughters of Tsiyyówn, and Yâ-hwéh shall reveal their schemes, He will leave destitute[E8] their sockets[E9] .
18. On that Day, my Sovereign will take away their prestigious finery, the bangles, the braids, and the crescents,
19. The pendants and the bracelets and the veils,
20. The headdresses and the ankle-chains and the sashes and the perfume bottles and the amulets,
21. The signet rings and the nose rings,
22. The stately robes and the capes and the cloaks and the purses,
23. Even the mirrors and the linens and the tiaras and the shawls!
24. “So instead of a sweet fragrance there shall be a rotting stench, and instead of a sash you will have a tether, and instead of well-dressed hairdos, you will have baldness due to your works, and instead of a rich expensive robe, you will wrap yourself in sackcloth, branding instead of beauty.
25. Your males shall fall by the sword, and your valiant men shall fall in the battle.”
26. So her openings[E10] will lament and they will mourn, and being cleared of guilt, on the Land she will settle.
Chapter 4
1. And seven[E11] women will grab hold of one man in that Day, saying,
“We will eat our own food and we will wear our own clothing, just let your name be called upon us, remove our reproach!” [1 Qorinthíym 11: 6]
2. On that Day, the Branch of Yâ-hwéh shall be for the beauty, and for the honor, and the fruit of the Land for the excellence and the prestige, for the surviving remnant of Yisrâ’Ë´l.
3. And it shall be that whoever remains surviving in Tsiyyówn, and whoever is preserved alive in Yruwshâláim, he will be called “Qâthówsh” (Pure), all of the ones written among the living in Yruwshâláim,
4. when my Sovereign will wash off the excrement of the daughters of Tsiyyówn, and He will rinse the bloodshed of Yruwshâláim from her midst by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning. [MattithYâ´huw 3: 11, Mal’âkhíy 3: 2[E12] , Márquwç 9: 49, 1 Qorinthíym 3: 13, 1 Këph 4: 12]
5. And Yâ-hwéh will create over the whole place of Mount Tsiyyówn and over her convocation a cloud by day and smoke with the brightness of a flaming Fire by night, because over it all, the Honor shall be a canopy
6. and a shelter (tabernacle) for a shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and for a hiding place from storm and from rain.
Chapter 5
Song for Yâhuwshúa`’s vineyard, Yisrâ’Ë´l (Christianity)
1. ¶“I will sing now for My beloved One, the Song of My Beloved, for His vineyard:
‘There was a vineyard belonging to My beloved One on a richly fertile hillside.
2. And He tilled it and He cleared it of stones, and He planted it with a choice species of vine; and He built a watchtower in its midst, and also He hewed out a winepress in it, and He waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced worthless stinkberries.’
3. So now, O inhabitant of Yruwshâláim and man of Yâhuwthâ´h, Decide now between Me and between My vineyard:
4. What remained to be done for My vineyard but I did not do in it? How was it I awaited it to produce grapes but it produced stinkberries?
5. And now I will make known to you (plural) now what I am doing to My vineyard: its hedge is being taken away and it shall be burned; its wall is being broken down and it shall be trampled;
7. Because the Vineyard of Yâ-hwéh of hosts is the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l [currently Christianity], but the man of Yâhuwthâ´h[E13] is the plant of His delight, so I waited for justice (Mishpâ´ţ), but here is bloodshed (Mispâ´ch); for righteousness (Tsthâqâ´h), but here is a cry of distress (Ts`âqâ´h)!”
Woe to the exclusivist “ecumenical reunification” of Bâvél
8. ¶Hówy to the ones abutting houses to other houses, who adjoin fields to other fields until there is no room, to make yourselves dwell by yourselves in the midst of the Land!
9. In my ears Yâ-hwéh of hosts swore,
“For though many houses shall be built, large ones and good ones shall become deserted from there being no inhabitant,
10. Because ten yokes (acres) of vineyard will produce one bath (6 gallons), and the seed of one chómer (6 bushels) will produce one ’ëyphâ´h (3/5 bushel).”
Yisrâ’Ë´l (Christianity), spiritually drunk on the wine of Bâvél
11. ¶Hówy to ones who rise early in the morning to pursue intoxicating drink, ones who stay up late in the night so wine will inflame them!
12. And at their drinking parties there is a harp and a guitar, a timbrel and a flute, and wine, but they do not consider the actions of Yâ-hwéh, and they do not look at the work of His hands.
13. “Therefore My people are removed into exile, for lack of recognition of Yâ-hwéh, so their honor is dying of starvation and their multitude is parched with thirst.
14. Therefore Sh’ówl enlarges herself and gapes her mouth limitlessly, and into her shall descend their prominent ones, and their multitude and their tumult, and the revelers.” [Chanówkh 54: 12, 89: 26]
15. So mankind shall be bowed down, and man will become low, and the perspective of lofty ones shall be sunk down low.
16. But Yâ-hwéh of hosts shall be exalted high by the justice, and the Power of the Pure One, He will show Himself pure by righteousness.
17. And the sheep that were plundered will graze as the cowpasture is theirs, and the lambs will consume the deserted ruins of the exiled fatlings.
18. ¶Hówy to the ones continuing to drag on the perversion with the measuring-cord[E14] of the Lie, and [dragging] the Wickedness like the ropes of the wagon!
19. The ones saying,
“Let him hurry, let him do his deeds quickly, so that we may see, and let it approach and let the plan of the Pure One of Yisrâ’Ë´l come, so we may know it.”
20. Hówy to the ones saying to the evil “it is good”, and to the good “it is evil”, the ones construing darkness for Light and Light for darkness, the ones who set bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21. Hówy to the ones who in their own perspective are wise, and pretend to be discerning.
22. Hówy to the heroes at drinking wine, and to the men mighty at mixing intoxicating drinks,
23. who declare the wicked to be “righteous” as a consequence of a gift, yet who reject the justification of the righteous ones from Him.*[E15]
24. Therefore, like tongues of fire consume stubble, and flame the straw, it will sink down their root like the rot, and it shall be, even their flower will go up like the dust, because they refused the Law of Yâ-hwéh of hosts and they spurned the Word of the Pure One of Yisrâ’Ë´l [Yâhuwshúa`].
25. Concerning this, the anger of Yâ-hwéh burns against His people, and He is extending His hand against them, and He strikes them, and the mountains tremble and their corpses shall be like the refuse in the middle of the streets; During all of this, His anger is not receding, and His hand is still extended!
The Long March: Chinese invasion (YirmYâ´huw 5)
26. So He raises the signal for the heathen masses from afar, and He whistles to them from the ends of the earth, and look! They come swiftly, hastily!
27. There is not one exhausted and there is not one stumbling of them, they shall not be drowsy and they shall not sleep and their waist belt shall not be loosened, and the laces of their footgear shall not be broken.
28. Whose projectiles are piercing, and all of their weapons are cocked[E16] , the treads of their cavalry are reckoned like flint, and their wheels are like a whirlwind;
29. Their roaring is like the lion, and they roar like the young lions, and they growl and they grasp hold of the prey, and they secure them and there is no rescuer.
30. And they will roar over them in that day, like the roaring of the sea, and they look to the Land, but here is the darkness of the adversary; even the light of day, it will be darkened by their clouds.
Chapter 6
The Secret of Yâ-hwéh
1. ¶It was during the year of the death of the king, `UzziyYâ´huw [3136 (836 BC)], and I saw my Sovereign sitting upon an exalted throne, and the train of His robes filled the temple.
2. Srâphíym standing above Him each had six wings: with two they covered their faces and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.
3. And this one called to this other one, and he said,
“Qâthówsh, qâthówsh, qâthówsh, (Pure, pure, pure) is Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the contents of the entire earth is His Honor!”
4. And the doorframes of the entrances shook from the voice of the one calling, and the house, it was filled with smoke!
5. And I said,
“Hówy to me, because I am finished, as a man of impure language am I, and I am one who dwells among a people of impure language, because my eyes have seen the King, Yâ-hwéh of hosts!”
6. And there flew to me one of the Srâphíym, and with his hand he picked up with tongs a live coal from upon the altar.
7. And he touched it on my mouth, and he said,
“Look! He has touched this on your lips so your perversity and your sin have been removed, it is atoned for.”
8. And I heard the call of my Sovereign saying,
“Whom shall I send, and who is the one who will go for us?”
And one said,
“Here am I, send me!”
“Go! And you say to this people,
‘You shall surely hear but you shall not understand; and you shall surely see, but you shall not perceive!’
10. For the heart of this people has grown thick, and they do hardly hear with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes, and with their ears they should hear, and their heart should understand, and they should return to Me and I should heal them.” [LXX, MattithYâ´huw 13: 13-15]
“Until when, my Sovereign?”
And He said,
“Until that time when the cities lie ruined from there being no inhabitants, and houses from there being no man, and the countries are a desolated devastation.
12. And after this, Yâ-hwéh shall have sent mankind far away, but the ones left remaining shall become great in the midst of the Land.*[E17]
13. Though yet a tenth be in her, yet it shall be repeated [Bâtsrâ´h Ch. 63], and they shall be burnt up like the terebinth tree, but like the oak tree that leaves a stump when it is cut down, the Seed of the Pure One is her stump.”
Chapter 7
Foreshadow of the 8th “Holy Roman Empire” alliance, and the Remnant
The Sign being contradicted (Luwqá’ 2: 34)
1. ¶And it was during the days of ’Âchâ´z the son of Yowthâ´m, the son of `UzziyYâ´huw, king of Yâhuwthâ´h, Rtsíyn the king of ’Arâ´m and Péqach the son of RmalYâ´huw, king of Yisrâ’Ë´l came up to Yruwshâláim to do war against her, but they could not engage her in battle.
2. And it was reported to the house of Dâwíth, saying,
“Exalted One (’Arâ´m)[E18] has settled with ’Ephráyim!”*[E19]
And their hearts and the heart of their people were shaken like the trees of the forest shake in the face of a wind;
3. So Yâ-hwéh said to Yshá`Yâhuw,
“Go out now to meet ’Âchâ´z, you and Sh’â´r Yâshúwv[E20] your son, at the end of the water conduit of the Upper pool, on the road of the field of the washerman,
4. And you shall say to him,
“Beware but be calm! Do not fear but do not let your heart be soft [Phílippos 67], due to the fuming tail ends of these two pokers, by the fiery anger of Rtsíyn and ’Arâ´m, and the son of RmalYâ´huw,
5. Because as ’Arâ´m has advised evil against you to ’Ephráyim[E21] and the son of RmalYâ´huw, saying:
6. ‘Let us go up into Yâhuwthâ´h and let us split it up and divide it among us, and let us make the son of Ţâ´v’ál (the Good Mighty One)[E22] be the king in the midst of it.’
7. Thus says my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh:
“She will not raise Him, and she will not cause it to be,
8. Because the head of ’Arâ´m[E23] is Damméseq[E24] , and the head of Damméseq is [merely] Rtsíyn[E25] , and in sixty-five[E26] more years, ’Ephráyim will be broken off from the People.
9. And the head of ’Ephráyim is Shomrówn[E27] , and the head of Shomrówn is [merely] the son of RmalYâ´huw*[E28] . If you do not believe firmly (Lo-Tha’amíynuw) [in the true Son of the Good Mighty One], it is because you will not be confirmed (Lo-Thë’âmë´nuw).””
10. And Yâ-hwéh added, speaking to ’Âchâ´z, saying,
11. “Request for yourself a Sign[E29] from Yâ-hwéh your Mighty Ones, made deep to Sh’ówl, and made exalted to the heights!”
12. But ’Âchâ´z said,
“I will not request it so I will not test Yâ-hwéh.”
13. And he [Yshá`Yâhuw] said,
“Listen now, O house of Dâwíth, Is it insufficient for you to tire out men, as you wish to also tire out my Mighty Ones?
14. Therefore, my Sovereign will give Himself to you [plural: house of Dâwíth and Yâhuwthâ´h] for a sign [Luwqá 2: 34, Nikódemos 16: 2]: Look! The virgin[E30] [of Yisrâ’Ë´l[E31] ] is pregnant and is bearing a Son, and she will call His name[E32] `Immâ´nuw ’Ël (The Power with us);
15. He will eat butter and honey [~spiritual food from the heavens] for Him to know to reject the evil and to choose the good,
16. Because by the time the Youth recognizes to reject the evil and to choose the good [Judgment Day], the country [Yisrâ’Ë´l] that you are loathing will be forsaken because of her two kings [~“Holy Roman Empire[E33] ”].
17. Yâ-hwéh will bring upon you [royals] and upon your people [Yâhuwthâ´h] and upon the house of your father [Dâwíth] such days as have not come since the days ’Ephráyim is to turn away from Yâhuwthâ´h*[E34] unto the King of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) [~ the impostor from Germany]. [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 21]
18. And it shall be at that day that Yâ-hwéh will whistle for the fly that dominates[E35] the allotment in the perimeter of the watercourses of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim)[E36] [~king #1 - pope/ preacher of the Lie] and for the bee that is in the land of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) [~king #2 - image of the Beast],
19. and they will come and all of them will settle into the steep ravines and in the crevices of the rocks [~true believers] and on all of the thornbushes [~apostate Christians] and at all of the water holes. [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 40]
20. On that Day, my Sovereign shall shave [her, the Land] with the razor of the hired laborer [16: 14, 21: 16, Disclosure 13: 5, Yâhuwchânâ´n 10: 12-13] from across the river, the King of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) [~4th seal Great persecution by the anointed falsifier from Germany], the head and the hair of the legs and it will also take off the beard!
21. And it shall be during that Day, a Man (’Iysh) will keep alive a heifer of a cow and two goats [~the Remnant].
22. And it shall be from the abundance of the milk produced, He will eat butter, because all the ones remaining [144,000] in the midst of the Land [of Yisrâ’Ë´l] will eat butter and honey.
24. By the arrows and by the bow He [Yâhuwshúa`] will invade there because all of the Land shall be of the Brier [~pope/ preacher of the Lie] and Thorn [~image of the Beast].
25. But all of the mountains [~kingdoms outside] that were cultivated by the hoe [~Christianity] you [singular: house of Dâwíth] shall not invade there, which is the fear of the brier and thorn, though it shall become for the ranging of cattle and for the sheep to run.” [~Final takeover]
Chapter 8
The Impostor swiftly bears away the Lie and speedily carries off the forces
1. ¶And Yâ-hwéh said to me,
“Take for yourself a large tablet, and write on it with a common man’s chisel,
‘For swift is the plunder, speedy is the spoil’ (l-Mahë´r Shâlâ´l Châsh Báz)
2. And I will cause to bear witness for Me reliable witnesses: ’UwriyYâ´hu the priest, and ZkharYâ´huw the son of YverekhYâ´huw”
3. So I became close to the female predicator and she conceived, and she bore a son, and Yâ-hwéh said to me,
“Call his name Mahë´r Shâlâ´l Châsh Báz (swift is the plunder, speedy is the spoil),
4. because by the time the boy knows how to say ‘Avíy’ (my father) or ‘’Imíy’ (my mother), the forces of Damméseq and the plunder of Shomrówn will be carried off before the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr).”*[E37]
More on the 8th“Holy Roman Empire”, and the Remnant
5. And Yâ-hwéh added, telling me more to say,
6. “On account of the fact that this people [apostate Yisrâ’Ë´l] rejects the waters of the Sent One, which flow gently, but joyously wish to have Rtsíyn[E38] and the son of RmalYâ´huw reign over you,
7. So therefore look! My Sovereign is who causes to ascend over you the waters of the River [Phrâth], the countless ones and the Many[E39] , the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) and all of his weight, and he will ascend over all of your channels, and proceed over all your riverbanks,
8. And he will pass through into Yâhuwthâ´h and he will rinse it and he will cross it until he will reach for the neck, and the borders of his camp spreading out shall fill the width of Your Land, O `Immâ´nuw ’Ël! [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 45]
9. Mingle with the heathen masses, and you shall be made inferior, Corrupt yourselves, O peoples[E40] , and you shall be shattered, so give ear, all of you ones distant to the Land, equip yourselves for war, and you shall be shattered! Equip yourselves for war again, and you shall be shattered! [Dâ´niyyË´’l 2: 34-35]
10. And whatever plans you shall devise, Yâ-hwéh will foil it; utter the Word [Yâhuwshúa`], but it will not establish itself among you, because the Power [Yâhuwshúa`’s name] is with us! (`Immâ´nuw ’Ël)”
12. “You shall not call ‘a heretical sect’ to everything that this people calls ‘a heretical sect’ and their fear you shall not fear, and you shall not dread,
13. But you shall consider Yâ-hwéh the Anointed pure, and He is to be your fear and He is to be your dread:
14. And He will be for a place for asylum, but for a striking Stone and for an obstacle Rock that makes them fall, for both of the houses of Yisrâ’Ë´l, for a trap and for a snare to Yruwshâláim’s inhabitants: [Romans 9: 33]
15. And of them, the Many will stumble and they will fall and they will be broken and they will be ensnared and they will be captured; [Luwqá’ 2: 34]
16. Then shall be apparent the ones the Law sealed to not learn of Me. [LXX – Alex.[E41] ] The Rock[E42] of the testimony shall affix the seal of the Law among those accustomed to Me! [Masoretic]”
18. “Here am I [in the Land], the One with the sons whom Yâ-hwéh gave to Me for signs and for symbols in Yisrâ’Ë´l*[E43] from Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the One dwelling on Mount Tsiyyówn!” [`Ivríym 2: 13]
The coming testimony of the dead (Nikódemos Chapters 17-27)
19. So when they [Apostate Yisrâ’Ë´l and Ya`aqóv] say to you (plural),
“Consult ye the mediums and the spiritists, the ones who whisper and the ones who mutter, shouldn’t a people inquire to the dead ones about their Mighty Ones on behalf of the living ones?”
20. For the Law and for the Testimony, if they do not speak according to this Word, there is not any diligent study to them.
The Rejection and the reconciliation
21. So the oppressed and the hungry will cross through her [the Land (vv. 7-8)], and it shall happen because they are hungry, and they will be infuriated and they will become despicable to their king and to their Mighty Ones and they will turn against the One Who ascended.
22. Then He will show regard towards the Land, but here is a rival wife[E44] and the darkness of confusion, the pressure of the undercover one, so to the utter darkness shall they be thrust,
Chapter 9
1. because no undercover one is for her [~the Virgin of Yisrâ’Ë´l] who had been distressed. It [the rejection then reconciliation] is like the first time, when He despised the land of Zvulúwn and the land of Naphttâlíy[E45] but afterwards He will honor the way of the sea beyond the Yardë´n, Gâlíyl of the heathen masses:
The reconciliation
2. the people walking in darkness, they have seen a great Light, the ones dwelling in the land of death’s shadow, upon them has a Light shined; [Nikódemos 18: 1, MattithYâ´huw 4: 13-16]
3. The Many of their heathen mass that You have brought out of deep water to land celebrate in joy before You, like the rejoicing during the harvest, just like they rejoice when they distribute the spoils,
4. Because the yoke of their burdens and the bar of their shoulders were to them the rod of the oppressor that You shattered like in the day of Mithyâ´n[E46] .
5. Because every robe they collected by deceit or garment by exchange shall be restituted even if they wished it to be burnt with fire. [LXX]
6. Because a Lad is born to us, a Son is granted to us, and the government shall be His responsibility, and His name shall be called the wonder, the counselor, the power of the Hero of my Father, and the testimony of the Prince of Shâlówm (peace, reconciliation, completeness).
7. There shall be no end for the greatness of His government or for the shâlówm (peace, reconciliation, completeness) on the throne of Dâwíth and over His kingdom to establish it and to sustain it with justice and with righteousness from now even until eternity: the zeal of Yâ-hwéh of hosts shall work this.
Yisrâ’Ë´l’s insurrection against His Kingdom
8. ¶My Sovereign has sent the Word among Ya`aqóv, but He will fall (of violent death) in Yisrâ’Ë´l[E47] .
9. Yet all of the people shall acknowledge Him: ’Ephráyim, and the inhabitant of Shomrówn, with pride, but who by the insolence of heart are saying,
10. “The bricks have fallen, but come, we shall rebuild cut stone, and cut down the fig trees and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower!” [~Replacing and rebuilding of the Temple (physical and spiritual) - Chanówkh 88: 113-114]
11. But Yâ-hwéh shall dash down the insurgents against Mount Tsiyyówn: He shall raise up the enemies of Rtsíyn against him, so shall He pit His enemies against each other!*[E48]
12. ’Arâ´m from the east, and Phlishttíym from the west, and they shall devour Yisrâ’Ë´l [~Christianity] with their whole mouth; during all of this, His anger is not receding, and His hand is still extended!
13. Yet the people have not turned back to the One striking them, and they have not sought Yâ-hwéh of hosts.
14. So Yâ-hwéh will cut off from Yisrâ’Ë´l [~Christianity] the head and the tail, palm-frond and lowly rush, in a single day.
15. The elder one and those exalting appearances are the head, and the predicator who is teaching the Lie, he is the tail.
16. And it shall be those who call this people blessed are those who are misleading them, so the ones being led by them are the ones being devoured [v.12 – Yisrâ’Ë´l (Christianity)],
17. Due to this, my Sovereign will not take pleasure in their young men, nor have compassion on their orphans, or their widows, because all of them are corrupt and wicked, and every mouth utters wicked foolishness! During all of this, His anger is not receding and His hand is still extended!
19. By the wrath of Yâ-hwéh of hosts will the whole land be burned up, and the people shall be as the fuel of the Fire, a Man (’Iysh) shall not spare His brother.
20. And it will cut off on the right, and it will be hungry, and it will consume on the left, but it will not be sated, the Man (’Iysh), He will eat the flesh of His seed [carnal Yisrâ’Ë´l].
21. Mnashshéh shall devour ’Ephráyim, and ’Ephráyim the flesh of Mnashshéh, they together shall besiege Yâhuwthâ´h; during all of this, His anger is not receding, and His hand is still extended!
Chapter 10
Woe to the Tyrants of His people (religious & political)
1. ¶Hówy to the inscribers of wicked statutes, and ones who record the trouble they prescribe,
2. To thrust away the poor from their rights[E49] , and to rob the afflicted ones of my people of justice, for bereaved women to become their prey, and to plunder the orphans.
3. And what shall you do for the Day of Accounting, and for the devastation that comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your riches,
4. so as not to cringe among the prisoners, or under the ones being slain who will fall? During all of this, His anger is not receding and His hand is still extended!
5. “Hówy to Successful One (’Ashshúwr)[E50] , the club of My anger and My indignation is the rod in their hand!
6. Against a corrupt heathen mass I send him, and against the people of My overflowing rage I command him, to plunder their plunder, and to loot their loot[E51] , and to have them trampled like the mire of the streets!
7. Yet he doesn’t imagine this, and this is not what his heart thinks, because to annihilate is in his heart and to cut down not a few heathen masses.
8. Because he says,
“Aren’t my generals altogether kings?
9. Isn’t Kalnów like Karkmíysh, or Chamâ´th like ’Arpath, or Shomrówn like Damméseq?
10. Just as my hand has hit the kingdoms of the worthless nothingnesses and their graven images rather than Yruwshâláim and rather than Shomrówn,
11. Isn’t it just as I did to Shomrówn and to her worthless nothingnesses? Thus shall I do to Yruwshâláim and her images!”
12. But it shall be, because my Sovereign will have completed all of His work in Mount Tsiyyówn and in Yruwshâláim,
“I shall call to account for the fruit of the insolence of the heart of the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr), and concerning the boasting of Rome [Rowm[E52] ], his eyes, [Dâ´niyyË´’l 7: 8, 20]
13. because he says,
“By the human strength of my hand, I have done it, and by my shrewdness, because I have discernment, so I have removed the [international] boundaries of the peoples, and I have plundered their treasures, and I have brought down their settlements like the Valiant One!
14. And my hand has found, like the nest for the wealth of the peoples, and like collecting abandoned eggs, I have collected all of the Land, and there wasn’t a wing that fluttered or a beak that opened to chirp!”
15. Does the axe exalt itself over the One chopping with it? Or does the saw magnify itself over the One sawing with it? As if a club brandishes One Who lifts it up! As if a staff being raised were not wood!
16. Therefore the Sovereign Yâ-hwéh of hosts shall send on his fat ones a wasting (of disease), and under his honor a burning shall be kindled like the burning of a fire;
18. And the weight of his forest and his plantation, from a soul even to the flesh, He will exterminate, and it shall be like a sick one dropping away.
The Remnant
19. And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be numbered, and a servant will write it down. [In Disclosure 7: 4 (144,000)]
20. And it shall be in that Day, the Remnant of Yisrâ’Ë´l and the escaped remnant of Ya`aqóv will no longer continue to depend on the one smiting them, and will rely on Yâ-hwéh the Pure One of Yisrâ’Ë´l in Truth!”
21. A remnant shall return, the remnant of Ya`aqóv, to the heroic Mighty One.
23. because my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh of hosts is the One doing the termination and determination in the midst of the whole Land. [Romans 9: 27-28, 28: 22]
24. Therefore thus says my Sovereign, Yâ-hwéh of hosts,
“Do not fear, O My people who inhabit Tsiyyówn, from Successful One (’Ashshúwr), who strikes you with a club, and who raises his rod against you on the way out of the Entrenchments (Mitsráyim).
25. Because it is just for a little while, and the indignation and My anger will end, upon their destruction.”
26. And Yâ-hwéh of hosts will incite a falling away[E53] against him like the beating of Mithyâ´n at the Rock of `Owrë´v[E54] , and His scepter is over the waters and He will raise it on the way out of the Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) [11: 15].
27. And it shall be in that Day, the burden of him shall be lifted from being your responsibility, and his yoke from being on your neck, and the yoke will be broken from the presence of the anointing oil.
The path of the Invader stopped short
28. ¶He invades into the Heaps of ruins (`Ayyáth)[E55] , he crosses the Precipice (Miğrówn)[E56] , he deposits his equipment at someplace hidden (Mukhmâ´s)[E57] ;
29. He crosses the ford[E58] at the Hill (Géva`)[E59] , our lodging - the high place quakes, the Hill (Giv`ah) of Shâ’úwl[E60] has flown to the attack!
30. Scream out, daughter of the Springs (Gallíym)[E61] , pay attention to the Lion (Lâysh)[E62] , Responses to prayer (`Anâthówth)[E63] are poor!
31. The Dunghill (Mathmënâ´h)[E64] has fled, the inhabitants of the Cisterns (Gëvíym[E65] ) have evacuated,
32. Still, halting for the day at the High Place (Nov), he shakes his fist at the Mount of the Daughter of Tsiyyówn, the hill of Yruwshâláim. [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 45]
33. Look! The Sovereign Yâ-hwéh of hosts is lopping off boughs with awful crashing and the elevated ones of the height are being chopped down and the exalted ones are being laid low.
34. And He will clip the thickets of the forest with iron, and the Whiteness (Lvânówn)[E66] in majesty shall fall.
Chapter 11
Yâhuwshúa`’s rule
1. ¶But there will come forth a Shoot from the stump of Yishâ´y, and a Branch (Në´tser) from his roots, It will bear fruit. [MattithYâ´huw 2: 23]
2. And upon Him shall repose the Spirit of Yâ-hwéh, the Spirit of Wisdom and Discernment, the Spirit of Advice and Valor, the Spirit of Knowledge and the Fear of Yâ-hwéh;
3. And He will detect the smell of the fear of Yâ-hwéh – He will judge, but not by the sight of the eyes, He shall reprove but not by the hearing of the ears.
4. And He will judge the low ones in justice, and He will reprove for the poor of the Land with equity, and He will smite the Land with the rod of His mouth, and by the breath of His lips, He will slay the wicked.
5. And righteousness shall be the belt of His waist, and fidelity the belt of His loins;
6. And a wolf shall sojourn with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie stretched out together with a young male goat, and a bullock, and a young lion, and a fatling, and a small boy[E67] guiding them.
7. And a cow and a bear, they shall graze together, their young will lie down, even a lion will eat straw like cattle.
8. And a nursing baby will play upon the hole of a venomous serpent, and the weaned child will extend his hand onto the den of the poisonous serpent.
9. They shall not be harmed nor destroy in all the Mountain of My pureness, because the Land shall be full of the recognition of Yâ-hwéh, like the waters are a covering for the sea.
10. And it shall be in that Day, the Root of Yisháy [Disclosure 22: 16] that stands for the Signal of the peoples, to Him shall the heathen masses rally [Disclosure 7: 9], and His rest-haven shall be Honor; [Romans 15: 12]
11. And it shall be during that Day, my Sovereign shall add His hand a second time [7th trumpet[E68] ], to obtain a remnant of His people that survive from Successful One (’Ashshúwr) and from Entrenchments (Mitsráyim), and from Pathrówç, and from Kuwsh, and from `Ëylâ´m, and from Shin`â´r, and from Chamâ´th, and from the countries of the sea.
The Epiphany and the gathering of the Remnant
12. And He shall raise a signal[E69] for the heathen masses, and He will gather the outcasts of Yisrâ’Ë´l and He shall assemble the dispersion of Yâhuwthâ´h from the four extremities of the earth; [144,000]
13. And the jealousy of ’Ephráyim shall depart, and the enemies of Yâhuwthâ´h shall be cut off: ’Ephráyim will not be jealous of Yâhuwthâ´h and Yâhuwthâ´h will not tie up ’Ephráyim,
14. And together they will hover on the shoulders of the Sojourners (Phlishttíym) who are towards the sea, they will plunder the sons of the east, they will impose their hand on ’Ethówm[E70] and Mow’â´v [~Apostate Christians], and the Tribal sons (Bnëy-`Ammówn) shall be obedient ones.
15. And Yâ-hwéh shall completely destroy the language of the sea of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim), and in the heat of His Spirit, He will swing His hand over the River and He will strike it into seven streambeds, so they will tread it in sandals;*[E71]
16. Also there shall be an public way for the remnant of His people that is left alive from Successful One (’Ashshúwr), just as there was, to Yisrâ’Ë´l, on the day they came up from the land of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim);
Chapter 12
1. And you will say, in that Day,
“I will praise You Yâ-hwéh; though You were angry with me, You turned back Your anger and You consoled me.
2. Here is the Mighty One of my deliverance I will trust in, and I will not be in dread, because Yâ´hu Yâ-hwéh is my Strength and my Song, and He has become mine for deliverance!”
3. And ye shall draw the waters with rejoicing from the springs of the deliverance,
4. And ye shall say in that Day,
“Profess to Yâ-hwéh! Call on His name! Make His deeds known among the peoples! Remember that His name is exalted!
5. Sing ‘Yâ-hwéh’ because He has worked majestically; let it be made known in the whole earth!
6. Scream and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Tsiyyówn, because magnificent is the Pure One of Yisrâ’Ë´l in your midst!”
Chapter 13
The burden of Bâvél (Confusion)
Paganism takes the sterile Mount Tsiyyówn
1. ¶The burden of Confusion (Bâvél) that Yshá`Yâhuw the son of ’Âmówts viewed:
2. “‘Upon the windswept barren mountain lift up a signal, raise a call to them; wave your arms so they might come to the nobles’ doorway!’
4. The sound of a multitude is among the mountains resembling a great people; the sound of an uproar of heathen kingdoms amassing together, Yâ-hwéh of hosts is mustering a war army.
5. Invaders from a faraway land, from the extremities of the heavens, Yâ-hwéh and the vessels of His wrath, to corrupt the whole Land. [Romans 9: 22]
6. Wail ye, because the Day of Yâ-hwéh is near, it shall come like violent havoc from the Most Muscular One.
7. Over this, everyone’s hands will droop and every mortal man’s heart will melt away,
8. And they will be dismayed, distressing pangs and labor pains will seize them, they will writhe like a woman in childbirth, each man will be speechless to his companion at their facing the presence of the Flames. [Chanówkh 61: 7, To the `Ivríym 10: 26-27]
9. Look! The Day of Yâ-hwéh, it comes, cruel and bursting out with furious anger, to make the earth [believers] a horror and He will exterminate her sinners from her,
10. while the stars of the heavens and their constellations, they will not boast their light, the sun will be dark when it emerges; and the moon, it will not shine its light. [Sixth seal]
11. “And I will deposit on the world their evil, and on the wicked ones their iniquity, and I will cause the arrogance of the insolent [13: 3] to cease, and I will sink low the pride of the ruthless.
12. I will make a mortal man more scarce than pure gold, and a man more than the pure gold of ’Owphíyr.
13. For this, I will agitate the heavens and it will shake the earth out of her place”,
by the outburst of Yâ-hwéh of hosts even on the Day of the burning of His anger; [2 Këph 3: 10-12, Disclosure 20: 9]
Sixth Bowl of Wrath: Bâvél judged (YirmYâ´huw 51: 6-9[E72] )
14. And it shall be like a gazelle being hunted or like a sheep when there is no gathering, each man will return to his people and each man will flee to his land,
15. Everyone who is found will be shot through and everyone caught shall fall by the sword.
16. And their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be plundered, and their wives shall be raped.
17. “Look! I am inciting against them the Mâthâ´y [“middle land[E73] ”] who do not value silver, and who do not delight in gold.
18. And artillery (lit. “archers”) will dash the youths to pieces, which will not have compassion on the fruit of the womb; their eye will not spare the sons.”
19. And Confusion (Bâvél), the beauty of the kingdoms, the prestige of the pride of the Increases (Kasdíym)[E74] , shall be like the Mighty Ones’ overthrow of Çthóm and `Amorâ´h.
21. But wild coyotes will stop to rest there, and howling jackals will fill their houses, and there shall dwell the daughters of the pterodactyl, and hairy male goats will frolic there.
22. And the woes will respond in their desolations and dinosaurs in the exquisite temples, and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged,
Chapter 14
1. when Yâ-hwéh shall have compassion on Ya`aqóv, and He shall again make a selection in Yisrâ’Ë´l, and He will give them rest on their country, and the sojourner will be joined to them, and they will attach themselves to the house of Ya`aqóv [Disclosure 7: 9];
2. And the peoples will take possession of them, and they will bring them into their places, and the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l will take possession of them on the terrain of Yâ-hwéh for menservants and as maidservants, so they will be the capturers of their captors, and they will have dominion over their oppressors.
Freedom from the solar king of Confusion
3. And it shall be on the Day Yâ-hwéh gives rest to you from your sorrow and from your turmoil and from the intense servitude that you were compelled to work,
4. Then you will lift up this poem against the king of Confusion (Bâvél), and in that Day you will say:
“O how the exactor of tributes has ceased, and the slavedriver has desisted!
5. Yâ-hwéh has broken the staff of the wicked ones - the scepter of the authorities!
6. Which beat the peoples in excessive rage, beating relentlessly; which dominated the heathen masses by ruthless persecution.
7. The whole earth is at rest, it is quiet, they burst out in song,
8. Even the evergreens rejoice over you, the cedars of Lvânówn,
“Ever since you were laid down, our hewers haven’t come up!”
9. Sh’ówl from beneath is excited for you, to meet you at your coming, the deceased are rousing for you, all of the chiefs of the earth, it makes all of the kings of the heathen masses rise from their thrones!
10. All of them, they will respond, and they will say to you,
“Have you also become weak like us? You have become similar to us!”
11. Sh’ówl has brought down your exaltation, the sound of your stringed instruments: the maggots make a bed beneath you, and your covering is the scarlet worm.
13. And you, who said in your heart,
“The heavens I shall ascend, from over the stars of the Power shall I raise my throne, and I shall sit on the mount of meeting on the recesses of the north!
14. I shall ascend over the heights of the thundercloud; I shall make myself resemble the Most High.”
15. But you shall be brought down to Sh’ówl, to the recesses of the pit!
16. Your onlookers stare at you, they attentively study you,
“Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble? Who caused the kingdoms to quake?
17. Who transformed the world into an uninhabited land, who tore down his cities and whose captives he would not let go home?”
18. All of the kings of the heathen masses, all of them lie in honor, each one in his tomb;
19. But you, you are thrown out from your tomb like a detested branch, for the shame[E75] of the slain, from those pierced of the sword that descended the stones of the pit, like a trampled corpse.
20. You shall not be joined with them in burial because you corrupted your land, you murdered your people! The seed of the wicked shall not be called forever:
21. Make ready for his sons a place of slaughter by the perversity of their fathers; they shall not rise to inherit land, or to fill the face of the world with cities!”
22. “So I shall rise up against them”,
declares Yâ-hwéh of hosts,
“and I shall cut off Bâvél’s name, and remnant, and offspring and progeny”,
declares Yâ-hwéh.
23. “And I will transform it into a possession of the hedgehog, and marshes of waters, and I shall sweep it with the broom of annihilation!” [Disclosure 17: 16, YirmYâ´huw Chapters 50-51]
declares Yâ-hwéh of hosts.
24. Yâ-hwéh of hosts has sworn it, saying,
“Surely just as I thought, thus shall it be; so just as I have advised, it shall be established:
25. To crush Successful One (’Ashshúwr)[E76] in My Land, and for the sake of My Mountain I will reject him, and his yoke will be removed from upon them, and his load shall be removed from upon their back.”
26. This is the advice which is being counseled for the whole Land, and this is the hand being extended against all of the heathen masses,
27. Because Yâ-hwéh of hosts has counseled; and who can frustrate it? And His hand is the one being extended, so who can repel it?
The burden of the land of the sojourners
28. ¶In the year of the death of the king ’Âchâ´z, this burden happened:
29. “Do not rejoice, Phlésheth[E77] , all of you, that the branch that was beating you is broken [king ’Âchâ´z], because from his root, a Snake [Yâhuwshúa` – Numbers 21: 8-9], will emerge a poisonous snake [the Lie], and its offspring is a fiery poisonous flying serpent! [the Lie incarnated]
30. Though the firstlings of the thin weak ones shall graze, and the oppressed needy ones will lie down in safety, yet the root of your people shall I put to death by starvation [from the Bread], so it [the flying serpent] shall slay your remnant.
31. Wail O gate, cry out, O city, Phlésheth is to dissolve away, all of you, because smoke is coming from the north[E78] and there is not one straggling in its ranks!
32. And what shall the envoys of the heathen mass answer? It is because Yâ-hwéh is Who founds Tsiyyówn, and within her shall the afflicted ones of His people seek refuge!”
Chapter 15
Apostatized Christians (Mow’â´v) cut off, more of the Remnant squeezed out of them
1. ¶The burden of Mow’â´v[E79] :
“As by night the city of Mow’â´v is to be devastated, it is cut off, because by night the Wall of Mow’â´v is to be devastated. It is cut off!
2. Ascend to the temple, even the heights of the Waste (Diyvón), to grieve for yourselves, concerning the Predicator (Nvów) and concerning the Waters of rest[E80] (Mëythvâ´’) of Mow’â´v. Wail! Baldness is on every head; every beard has been shaved!
3. Wear sackcloth in her streets, all of you, wail upon her housetops and in her public squares, lie prostrate by the weeping;
4. And the Stronghold (Cheshbówn) shall summon, and their voice is heard from the mighty one who ascends (’El`âlë´h) as far as the Downtrodden (Yáhats), Concerning this, the armed men of Mow’â´v shout a war cry, but his heart is trembling within him.
5. My heart cries out to Mow’â´v, her bolted ones are witnesses[E81] to the Insignificance (Tsó`ar), the heifer of three years, as they ascend off the Ascent of the tablets (Luwchíyth[E82] ) with weeping, because the way of the Two Whores (chowronáyim[E83] ) incites a clamor for destruction,
6. Because the waters of the Nimríym[E84] (clear waters) have become a horror, for the green grass has withered, the tender green grass has vanished: it doesn’t exist!
7. Due to this, the abundance they worked and their office, shall this save them? For I shall bring the `Arâvíym (Arabs) over the streambed and they shall carry it off, [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 39, YirmYâ´huw 13: 21]
8. because the outcry has circulated beyond the boundaries of Mow’â´v, her wailing is a witness to a Double Reservoir[E85] (’Eğláyim), and the Well of the Political Chiefs (B’ë´r ’Ëylíym) is her wailing;
9. And it is because the waters of the Wasting (Diyvón)[E86] , they are full of blood, that I shall station `Arâvíym (Arabs)[E87] over the Wasting (Diyvón), to add more to the escaped portion of Mow’â´v, even to the remnant of the country. [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 39]
Chapter 16
Yâhuwshúa` sent to Gulgólth’a (deserted part of Mt. Tsiyyówn)
1. ¶I shall order the Snake[E88] to go to the appointed place on My land, isn’t My pure Mount Tsiyyówn a desolate rock (çéla`)? Send the Lamb, the Ruler of the Land, from the rock (çéla`) to the uninhabited land, the Power (’Ël) of the Mountain of the Daughter of Tsiyyówn;*[E89]
2. For like fluttering fledgling birds being pushed out of the nest, shall the daughters of Mow’â´v be at the ford of the rushing stream (’Arnówn[E90] ). [Bar-Nâvíy 11: 3]
3. Bring advice, make a decision - make your shade of protection be like the night at midday: conceal the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive!
4. Mow’â´v, let My fugitives sojourn among you, become a hiding place for them from the face of the destroyer! Because the oppressor is to cease, the destruction shall come to an end, the trampler shall be terminated from the Land.
5. And the throne shall be established by the Love, and on it shall sit in Truth, in the tent of Dâwíth, a Judge and a Seeker of justice, and One skilled in righteousness.
6. We have heard of the arrogance of Mow’â´v, the exceeding pride of his swelling and his haughtiness and his overflowing rage. His idle contrivances [MattithYâ´huw 12: 36] are not thus,
7. therefore Mow’â´v shall wail for Mow’â´v, all of them shall wail! For the ruined foundation of the Wall of the Potshards (Qiyr-Charéseth) [Yshá`Yâhuw 30: 8-14] shall ye will growl. Surely it is stricken
8. because the fields of the Stronghold (Cheshbówn) languished, the Vine of the Fragrance (Shivmâ´h) the lords of the heathen masses have struck down, her vine had reached Me, the Helpful testimony (`Ëth-Ya`zë´r)! They wander about the uninhabited land; her shoots grow wild, for they have crossed over to the sea!
9. Concerning this, I weep bitterly, in the lamentation of the Helpful One (Ya`zë´r), O Vine of the Fragrance (Shivmâ´h), I will drench you with my tears, the Stronghold (Cheshbówn) and the mighty one who ascends (’El`âlë´h) have cast down your trees, because I shall trample on your summer fruits and on your acclaimed crop which has failed.
10. So the happy result and the joy is carried off from the fruitful plantation, but in the vineyards no one sings, no one shouts for joy, no treader treads out wine in the wine-press; I am causing their cheering to cease.
11. Concerning this, my bowels are in a commotion like a harp for Mow’â´v, and my emotions for the Wall of the Potshards (Qiyr-Charéseth); [Yshá`Yâhuw 30: 8-14]
12. And it shall happen when they shall present themselves, because Mow’â´v wearies itself on the high place, so they shall come to their dedicated place to pray but it shall not be able to save them.”
13. This is the message that Yâ-hwéh has spoken to Mow’â´v from then.
14. But now Yâ-hwéh has spoken, saying,
“In three years[E91] , because of the years of a hired laborer [7: 20, 21: 16, Disclosure 13: 5, Yâhuwchânâ´n 10: 12-13], even the honor of Mow’â´v shall be despised by all of the Huge Throng [Disclosure 7: 9], and by their very small remnant, not many [144,000].”
Chapter 17
The Vatican’s burden
1. ¶The burden of Dammâ´seq[E92] :
“Look! Damméseq [~Vatican] is to quit being a city, and she will become a heap of ruins.
2. The cities of the Ruins (`Aro`ë´r) are being abandoned, they shall be for the flocks, and they will lie down outstretched and there will be no one to make them anxious.
3. And the fortifications will cease from ’Ephráyim [~Anglican & Protestant Christianity] and the kingship from Damméseq [~Vatican], and the remnant of ’Arâ´m, [~Roman Catholicism], they shall be like the honor of the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l,”
declares Yâ-hwéh of hosts.
4. “And it shall be in that day, the weightiness of Ya`aqóv shall be brought low and the fatness of his flesh, it will be made lean;
5. And it shall be like a harvester gathering standing grain, and his sowing arm reaps the heads of grain, and it shall be like one gleaning the heads of grain in the valley of the giants (Rphâ’íym)!
6. Yet gleanings shall be left alive in it, like a beating of an olive tree – two, three olive berries at the top of the uppermost bough, four, five on her most fruitful branches,”
declares Yâ-hwéh, the Mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l.
7. “In that Day, mankind shall look upon his Maker, and his eyes, they shall regard the Pure One of Yisrâ’Ë´l.
8. And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, or what his fingers have made [’Epheçíym 2: 9], he will not regard either the happy (’ashërâ´h) images [Luwqá’ 1: 45, 48] nor the sun-pillars [obelisks, steeples]
9. In that Day, the cities of his strength shall be like the forsakenness of the forest, even the top one, that they left behind from in front of the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l! And it shall be desolation
10. because you forgot the Mighty Ones of your salvation, and you did not remember the Rock of your fortress! According to this manner, you shall plant plantations of Pleasant ones (Na`amâníym[E93] [2 Kings 5]), but you shall sow the foreign vine: you shall plant an unbelieving plantation, and an unbelieving seed. [Tâ’ówm 40, vine of the earth Disclosure 14: 19-20, MattithYâ´huw 15: 13]
11. On the day of your planting, you shall fence around it carefully, and at the morning you shall make your posterity break out [in leprosy[E94] ]… The harvest is a pile on the day of the disease and incurable pain. Though in the day that ye plant ye shall be deceived, nonetheless if you sow the Seed at daybreak, it shall spring up for a crop in the Day in which you shall obtain an inheritance, and as a father of man, you shall obtain an inheritance for your sons [LXX].*[E95]
12. Hówy to the throngs of huge peoples! Like the raging of the seas they rage, and the tumult of the congregations is like the tumult of mighty seas! The congregations
13. make a tumult like the tumult of great waters; They make a tumult, but He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee afar off, and they shall be driven like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the rolling dust before a gale wind!
14. At the time of sunset, then here is the dreadful event… by daybreak, they do not exist! This is the portion of the ones who plunder you, and the inheritance of the ones who robbed you of your inheritance. [MattithYâ´huw 11: 12, Dâ´niyyË´’l 9: 26, 11: 4, Phílippos 13-17]
Chapter 18
History of blacks (Kuwsh)
1. ¶Hówy to the land circulating with boats that course along the rivers of Kuwsh (“black”),
2. which dispatches ambassadors [slaves] by sea and in vessels of reeds over the face of the waters. Go, swift envoys, to a heathen mass of ones dragged out and polished, to a people feared from then onwards, an unhopeful and downtrodden[E96] heathen mass, which the rivers separated off his land[E97] .
3. All of the inhabitants of the world, and the settlers of the Land, when the signal of the mountains is raised you shall see it, and when the horn (showphâ´r) sounds a blast you shall hear it, [Epiphany after 6th Seal]
4. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh to me:
“I shall lie still and I will watch from My established place like a glowing heat[E98] above the light, like a cloud of night-mist during the heat of the harvest.
5. Because before the harvest [17: 10-11] (when the bud is finished and the grape is ripening) its blossom shall come to exist, but he will cut off the shoots with the pruning knives, and he will cut down and he will remove the spreading vine. [Islam takes over Kuwsh after early Christianity]
6. They shall be forsaken to both the predatory birds of the mountains and to the beasts of the land, and the predatory birds will spend the summer on him [Kuwsh enslaved for agriculture], and all the beasts of the land will spend winter on him [Kuwsh lives off of host countries’ stores].”
7. At that time [Epiphany (verse 3)] a gift shall be led to Yâ-hwéh of hosts, a people who were dragged out and polished, even from a people who are held in awe from then onwards, a hopeful and downtrodden heathen mass that the rivers separated off his land, to the place of the name of Yâ-hwéh of hosts: Mount Tsiyyówn! [Kuwsh converts after 6th seal]
Chapter 19
Entrenched Protestant Christianity’s burden
1. ¶The burden of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim)[E99] : Look! Yâ-hwéh is riding on a swift cloud, and invading Entrenchments (Mitsráyim), and the worthless nothingnesses of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) totter from His presence, and the heart of the Entrenched (Mitsríym) melts among their innards.
2. “And I shall engage[E100] Entrenched (Mitsríym) against Entrenched (Mitsríym) and each man shall wage war against their brother, and each man against his fellowman, city against city, kingdom against kingdom,
3. and the spirit of the Entrenched (Mitsríym) shall be exhausted within them, and I will swallow up their plan, though they will resort to the worthless nothingnesses and to the enchanters and to the necromancers and to the soothsayers,
4. So I shall give Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) over into the hand of rigorous sovereigns, and a strong king will rule over them,” [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 39]
declares the Sovereign Yâ-hwéh of hosts;
5. And they will drink[E101] the waters from the sea, because the river, it shall have dried up empty and it shall be without moisture.
6. And the streams will emit a stench, the moats of the entrenchment will dwindle and be dried up, the rush and the reed shall wither;
7. The plots along the canals at the mouth of the canal and every sown land of the canal will be dried up, be blown away and exist no more.
8. And the fishermen shall mourn and all of the ones who cast a hook into the canal shall lament, even the ones who throw fishing nets on the face of the waters, they shall dwindle.
9. And the workers of fine flax, and the weavers of white linen shall be ashamed;
10. So shall her foundations be crushed, everyone who works them for wages are stagnant of soul,
11. Indeed the leaders of the Point of Departure (Tsó`an) are fools[E102] , the advice of the wiser advisors of Par`óh has become stupid, how can you say to Par`óh,
“I am a son of the wise ones, the son of the kings of antiquity”?
12. Where then are they, your wise men? And let them declare to you now, and let them acknowledge what Yâ-hwéh of hosts has advised against Entrenchments (Mitsráyim)!
13. The leaders at the Point of Departure (Tsó`an) have become fools[E103] , the leaders of Presentability (Noph) are deceived; Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) has been misled by the cornerstone of her branching off!
14. Yâ-hwéh has permitted to be mixed into her mind a spirit of distortions, and they make Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) wander intoxicated in all of their deeds, like a drunkard staggers into his vomit;
15. And there shall be no deed for Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) that the head or tail or palm frond or reed may act with effect.
16. In that Day, Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) shall be like the women, and they shall tremble and they shall be in awe from before the brandishing of the hand of Yâ-hwéh of hosts that He wields against them.
17. And the country of Yâhuwthâ´h[E104] shall be revolting for the Entrenched (Mitsríym) [foreshadowed Genesis 46: 34], all that remind them of it will be in dread due to the aspect of the plan of Yâ-hwéh of hosts that He has advised about them [Mitsráyim].
18. In that Day, there shall be five cities in the land of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) that speak the language of Kná`an [`Ivríyth], and who make oaths to Yâ-hwéh of hosts; the city of the sun [Greek: Heliopolis] they shall say of one.*[E105]
19. In that Day, there will be an altar to Yâ-hwéh in the midst of the land of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim), and a monument near the border to Yâ-hwéh;
20. And it shall exist for a sign and for a witness to Yâ-hwéh of hosts in the land of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim), because they cried out to Yâ-hwéh from the face of the oppressors, and He sent to them a deliverer (Mowshíya`) and a great one (Rav), and he rescued them. [Moshéh foreshadow of Yâhuwshúa`[E106] ]
21. So Yâ-hwéh made Himself known to Entrenchments (Mitsráyim), and Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) shall acknowledge Yâ-hwéh in that Day, and they shall serve an offering and a tribute, and they shall surely make a vow to Yâ-hwéh, and make shâlówm (peace, reconciliation, completeness).*[E107]
22. Though Yâ-hwéh struck Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) with plague, to strike it with plague and to heal it so they shall return to the testimony of Yâ-hwéh, so shall He be supplicated by them and He shall heal them.*[E108]
23. In that Day there shall be a public way from Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) [~Protestant Christianity] to Successful One (’Ashshúwr) [Impostor-led Roman Catholicism], and Successful One (’Ashshúwr) shall invade into Entrenchments (Mitsráyim), and Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) shall be with Successful One (’Ashshúwr), and Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) will serve Successful One (’Ashshúwr).
24. In that Day, Yisrâ’Ë´l shall be third to Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) and to Successful One (’Ashshúwr), a blessing in the midst of the Land,
25. that Yâ-hwéh of hosts shall bless, saying,
“Blessed are My people Entrenchments (Mitsráyim), and Successful One (’Ashshúwr) the work of My hands, though My inheritance is Yisrâ’Ë´l.”
Chapter 20
Foreshadow of the Impostor taking naked Protestant Christianity captive
1. ¶In the year the Thartâ´n [title used by ’Ashshúwr military] invaded Ravager (’Ashdówth), when he was dispatched by Prince of the Sun (Çarğówn), king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr), and he fought against Ravager (’Ashdówth) and he captured it,
2. At that time, Yâ-hwéh dictated by the hand of Yshá`Yâhuw son of ’Âmówts, saying:
“Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off of your loins, and pull off your sandals from off of your feet.”
So he did thus, and he walked naked and barefoot.
3. And Yâ-hwéh said,
“Just as My servant Yshá`Yâhuw has walked naked and barefoot three years, it is a symbol and an sign against Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) [~Protestant Christianity] and against Black (Kuwsh);
4. Thus shall the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr)[~Impostor-led Roman Catholicism] lead away the captives of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) and the exiles of Black (Kuwsh)[~Black Christianity], young ones and old ones, naked and barefoot, even bared of buttocks, the shameful undefended nakedness of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim).
5. And ones who trusted in Kuwsh and whose prestige was of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) shall be dismayed and they shall be ashamed;
6. And the inhabitants of this region will say in that day,
“Look! Thus happened to our object of hope and confidence, that we fled to for help to be delivered from before the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr), so how can we escape?”
Chapter 21
The Southern Kingdom [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 4-7] usurped by Bâvél religions then recovered
1. ¶The burden of the uninhabited land of the sea: Like storm-winds in the parched south country sweep through swiftly, from the uninhabited land he invades, from a dreadful land.
2. A severe vision was made known to me:
“The treacherous deal deceitfully, and the despoilers destroy violently. The Eternal (`Ëylâ´m) ascend against Me, the Middle Land (Mâdáy) treats Me as a foe*[E109] : I will put an end to all of their misery!”
3. Concerning this, my loins are filled with writhing, pangs seize me like the pangs of a woman in childbirth, I am contorted from hearing it, I am dismayed from seeing it;
4. My heart staggers, shuddering immerses[E110] me suddenly, it transformed into quaking for me, the evening I desired
5. to arrange a meal, to lay out the mat, to eat, to drink… Get up, ye leaders, anoint the Shield[E111] !
6. Because this says my Sovereign to me:
“Go! Station a lookout; let him report what he sees!”
7. And he saw riders of a pair of warhorses [the Way of Yâ-hwéh], a donkey rider [polluted Christianity], a camel rider [Islam]*[E112] and he paid attention alertly, with great attentiveness,
8. And the lookout[E113] called out,
“Upon the watchtower, my sovereign, I am the one standing myself continuously, for days, and I am the one standing firm at my post every night,
9. And here is this one coming, a man on a chariot of a pair of warhorses [the Way of Yâ-hwéh], and he responded*[E114] and said, ‘Bâvél has fallen, she has fallen, and He has shattered all of the carved images of her mighty ones to the ground!’” [Disclosure 14: 8]
10. O my threshed ones that shall be left behind and son of my threshing that is in misery*[E115] , I have told you what I heard from Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the Mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l!
`Ethówm Christianity (the donkey rider) continues in darkness unless they seek and repent
11. ¶The burden of Duwmâ´h[E116] : From Së`íyr one is calling to me,
“Lookout, what is left from the night to watch? What is left from the night?”
12. The guard says,
“The coming of the morning, or also the night, unless you should investigate. Investigate, repent, come dwell with me!”
Appeal to clandestine true believers in the Southern Kingdom
13. ¶The burden about the `Aráv (Arabs): among the forest[E117] of `Aráv you caravans of Low-lying lands (Dthâníym)[E118] are lodging for the night [Romans 13: 12],
14. To receive the thirsty, bring water, o inhabitant of the land of the Desert (Tëymâ´’); with His Bread receive the fugitive!
15. Because from before swords they have fled, from before the Many[E119] being forsaken, and from before the cocked weapon (lit. bent bow) and from before the massive battle;
16. Because this says my Sovereign to me,
“In a year more, because of the years of the hired laborer [7: 20, 16: 14, Disclosure 13: 5, Yâhuwchânâ´n 10: 12-13], even all of the honor of Qëthâ´r[E120] shall come to an end.
17. And the remnant of the number of the bowmen[E121] , the heroes of the sons of Qëthâ´r, shall be few, because Yâ-hwéh the Mighty One of Yisrâ’Ë´l has spoken.”
Chapter 22
Burden of the Valley of the Vision (Chizzâyówn[E122] ):
Christianity reacts to the revelations of The sons of Yâ-hwéh
1. ¶The burden of the valley of the vision: What is happening to you now, because all of you have gone up to the housetops?
2. O city full of clamoring, the triumphant town is in an uproar, your slain ones were not slain by the sword, nor did they die in battle;
3. All of your dictators, they have fled together, without a bow they were taken prisoner; all of you who were found were taken prisoner together, from afar whence they had fled.
4. Concerning this, I said,
“Look away from me, let me be bitter in my weeping, do not insist on consoling me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people!”
5. Because the day of tumult and stampeding and confusion is for my Sovereign, Yâ-hwéh of hosts, in the valley of the Vision, to break down the Wall (Qiyr[E123] ), but to cry deliverance (Shúwa`) to the Mountain[E124] .
6. So `Ëylâ´m (“Eternal” or “Hidden”)[E125] picks up the quiver in mounted men on warhorses [see note 21: 7], but the Wall (Qiyr) bares a shield[E126]
7. (Though it shall come to pass, the best of your valleys shall be filled with chariots, and the warhorses shall be securely stationed at the gate); [7th Trumpet[E127] ]
8. And He shall reveal the gate[E128] of Yâhuwthâ´h, so in that day they [Yâ-hwéh and Yâhuwthâ´h] shall look into the houses of the elect of the city[E129] [LXX]. In that day ye shall examine the armament of the house of the forest,
9. And they [Yâ-hwéh and Yâhuwthâ´h] discovered the secrets and the breaches[E130] of the City of Dâwíth ye saw because they were many, and because they [Yâ-hwéh and Yâhuwthâ´h] brought back the waters of the Old Pool into the city [~restoration of scripture], ye gathered the waters of the Inferior Pool; [~ Christianity standardizes their Flying Scroll]
10. Then ye took account of the houses of Yruwshâláim, so then ye demolished some of the houses of Yruwshâláim to fortify the Wall*[E131] ,
11. And ye made a reservoir for yourselves between the walls for the waters of the Old Pool, but ye did not consider the One who made it, and the One who fashioned it from long ago ye did not regard!*[E132]
12. So on that day, my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh of hosts called for weeping, and for wailing, and for shaving one’s head and for girding on sackcloth,
“Let us eat and let us drink because tomorrow we die!” [1 Qorinthíym 15: 32]
14. And Yâ-hwéh of hosts disclosed in my ears,
“Surely this perversity shall not be atoned for until ye die,”*[E133]
says my Sovereign, Yâ-hwéh of hosts;
The Key to enter alive vs. its Nub
15. Thus says my Sovereign, Yâ-hwéh of hosts,
“Go! Come to this steward, onto Vigorous Growth (Shevnâ´h)[E134] , who is over the house, and say to him,
16. What here belongs to you? And who is for you here that you should cut out a grave for yourself here?”
(He is hewing his grave in a high place and chiseling a resting place in the Rock for himself)
17. Look! Yâ-hwéh is the One casting you out – a rejection, O mighty man, and Who shall surely grasp you and defrock you of your rank
18. and your illustrious crown! He shall surely roll you up into a ball, rolling to a cultivated land of great size. There you shall die, but there He shall bring the vehicle of your honor to infamy, and the house of your sovereigns to be trampled.
19. “So I shall depose you from your position, and they shall overthrow you from your service.
20. And it shall be in that day, that I shall call My servant, to ’Elyâqíym[E135] , the son of ChilqiyYâ´huw[E136] ;
21. And I shall array him in your tunic and I shall fasten your sash around him, and I will set your stewardship in his hand, and he shall be for a father to the inhabitant of Yruwshâláim, and for the house of Yâhuwthâ´h.
23. And I will drive its nub[E137] into a firm place, and it will be for a throne of honor for the house of its father,
24. And everyone esteemed of the house of its father will hang on it, the offspring and the offshoots, all of the lesser vessels, from the vessels of the bowls even to all of the vessels of the jars.
25. In that Day,”
declares Yâ-hwéh of hosts,
“the nub driven into the firm place will give way, and it will be sheared off, and it will fall, and the load that is on it will be cut down, because Yâ-hwéh has spoken!”
Chapter 23
The virgin Seed gets profaned for greater profiteering, then Rome ruins her more (the Key turns into the Nub)
1. ¶The burden of the Rock (Tsowr)[E138] : Wail! O seamen of Tarshíysh[E139] , because He is devastated, without a house[E140] , from an invasion from the land of the Bruisers (Kittíym [Rome])[E141] – He was revealed to them,
2. the inhabitants of the region resembled[E142] Him! The traders of Fishhunting (Tsiythówn) who cross over the sea have enriched you,
3. Yet among the great waters, her product is the seed of Shiychówr[E143] , the crop of the Nile-canals! So she has become a profit of the heathen masses!
4. Be ashamed, O Fishhunting (Tsiythówn), because the sea, the fortress of the sea[E144] , has spoken, saying,
“I have not writhed in travail, nor have I procreated, nor have I brought up young men nor raised virgin maidens!”
5. Whenever it belongs to Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) to listen, he will travail as he hears of the Rock (Tsowr)!
6. Cross over to Tarshíysh! Wail, O inhabitants of the region!
7. Wasn’t this for ye your celebrated thing from the days of antiquity, her original [virginal] state? Her own legs have treacherously delivered her up from afar off to turn aside from the Way! [Disclosure 12: 6]
8. Who planned this against the Rock (Tsowr), the Bestower of crowns[E145] , Whose merchants are princes and Whose merchants are honored by the Land? Is He inferior? Is He incapable?
9. Yâ-hwéh of hosts is Who planned it, to defile the pride for all the beauty, to bring contempt on all that the earth honors.
10. Make your land produce[E146] like the Nile-canal, O daughter of Tarshíysh, there is no longer an exhaustion.*[E147]
11. He had extended His hand over the sea, Yâ-hwéh caused the kingdoms to quake: He has given command concerning Kná`an[E148] , for her fortresses to be annihilated!
12. So He said,
“You shall not continue to celebrate the exploited virgin daughter of Fishhunting (Tsiythówn) anymore. Get up, cross over to the Bruisers (Kittíym [Rome])! Also there you shall not have rest.
13. Gaze at[E149] the land of the Increases (Kasdíym)[E150] [Phílippos 48] (this is the people that are not a people): Successful One (’Ashshúwr) [~the Impostor leading Rome[E151] ] is who appointed her for the wild desert-dwelling beasts, he erected his siege-towers, he stripped bare her palaces, he transformed her into a ruin, for her wall had fallen.
14. Wail, O seamen of Tarshíysh, because your stronghold is devastated!” [Disclosure 18: 17-19]
The fired whore rehired, but she loses her benefits
15. And it shall be during that day, even the Rock (Tsowr) shall be forgotten, seventy years, like the days of one king; after the end of the seventy years, it will happen to the Rock (Tsowr) like the song of the prostitute:
16. Get a lyre, walk around the city, O forgotten prostitute, play it well, do many songs so that you might be remembered!
17. And it shall be at the end of the seventy years, Yâ-hwéh will pay attention to the Rock (Tsowr), and she will return to her hire, and she will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the Land on the face of the earth. [YirmYâ´huw 51: 7]
18. But her profit and her hire shall be devoted to Yâ-hwéh, it won’t be stored up, nor will it be hoarded, because it is for the ones dwelling before Yâ-hwéh, for eating unto satiety and for splendid clothing.*[E152]
Chapter 24
The consequences of whoredom: she loses her Land
1. Look! Yâ-hwéh is Who is emptying the Land and devastating her, and He shall let her persona become perverted, and He shall scatter her inhabitants!
2. And it shall be the same for the people as for the priest, the same for the servant as for his master[E153], the same for the maid as for her mistress, the same for the buyer as for the seller, the same for the lender as for the borrower, the same for the creditor as for the debtor:
3. The Land shall surely be emptied, and she shall surely be plundered, because Yâ-hwéh is Who dictated this message!
4. The Land mourns, she has become foolish! The world has become feeble, she has become foolish! The proud people of the Land have become feeble!
5. And the Land, she has been defiled under her inhabitants, because they transgressed the laws, they changed the ordinance; they have broken the eternal covenant!
7. The freshly pressed wine mourns, the vine has languished, all the merry-hearted ones gasp!
8. The celebration of tambourines has ceased, the din of the partiers has come to an end, the rejoicing of the lyre has ceased.
9. For the shame[E154] , they are not drinking wine; the bourbon is bitter for its drinkers.
10. The city of the unformed emptiness[E155] has been wrecked! One has obstructed everyone from entering the house -
11. In the street outside is an outcry for the wine. All of the happiness has dimmed to night; the celebration of the Land has been exiled!
The chosen give the call from above
12. Within the city there is left behind a Desolation, and the ruin of a battered gate,
13. since He shall exist thus in the mind of the Land, among the peoples, like the thrashing of an olive tree, thus shall they thrash This One. But like the grape gleanings when the vintage is used up,
14. these ones [the chosen few], they shall raise their voice, giving a ringing shout for joy about the excellence of Yâ-hwéh; from the west[E156] they had yelled it.
15. According to this, in the orient,
“Give ye Honor to Yâ-hwéh!”
In the regions westward,
“The name of Yâ-hwéh the Mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l shall be honored!”
16. From the ends of the earth, we hear songs,
“Honor the Righteous One!”
But he [Yisrâ’Ë´l] said,
“Leanness is mine, leanness is mine! Hówy to me! The treacherous ones have dealt deceitfully; yea, the treacherous ones have dealt deceitfully!”
17. Terror, and a pit, and a snare, is for you, O inhabitant of the Land!
18. So it shall be that the one flying to escape from the sound of the terror, he shall fall into the pit, and the one climbing out from inside the pit, shall be caught in the snare, [YirmYâ´huw 6: 1] because the sluices from the height, they are thrown open, and the foundations of the Land shake!*[E157]
19. Surely the Land is utterly wicked, surely the Land is completely divided, surely the Land is greatly shaken!
20. Surely the Land staggers like the drunkard, and she sways like a hut, and heavy over her is her rebellion[E158] , so she shall fall and she shall not continue to stand.*[E159]
Yâhuwshúa`’s reign begins
21. ¶And it shall be in that Day, Yâ-hwéh shall call to account over the host of the heights concerning the heights, and over the kings of the earth concerning the earth,
22. And the collection of prisoners shall be gathered to a pit, and they shall be shut up in the dungeon, and after many days they shall be sought for.
23. And the bricks[E160] shall melt abashed and the city wall[E161] shall fall for shame [25: 12, YchezqË´’l 38: 11, ZkharYâ´hu 2: 4], because Yâ-hwéh of hosts shall reign on Mount Tsiyyówn, even in Yruwshâláim, and honored in front of His elders.
Chapter 25
Yshá`Yâhuw’s praise for the destruction of Confusion (Bâvél), what the Rock (Tsowr) became
1. Yâ-hwéh, You are my Mighty Ones: I shall exalt You, I will profess Your name, because You have worked wonders, purposes from remote times - steadfastly, truly.
2. Because You have transformed a city into a heap, a fortified town into a ruin – a fortress of foreigners from the city that shall not be rebuilt forever [Bâvél[E162] (13: 20)].
3. Due to this, a mighty people shall honor You, the town of ruthless heathen masses, they shall revere You.
4. Because You are an Asylum for the weak, an Asylum for the needy during his straits, a Shelter from the storm, a Shade from the parching heat, because the spirit of the ruthless ones is like a storm, a wall.
5. Like the parching heat in a parched land is the uproar of foreigners You subdue, a parching heat in the shadow of a raincloud; a song is a testifying response of the ruthless. [Disclosure 15: 2-5]
7. And He shall engulf on this mountain the appearance of the shroud that wraps over all of the cadavers (heathen, cadaver[E163] ):
8. He shall engulf the Death for the victory! [1 Qorinthíym 15: 54] And my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh shall wipe away the tears from on all of the faces, [Disclosure 7: 17] and He will remove the rebuke of His people from upon all of the Land, because Yâ-hwéh has spoken it!
9. And he [Yisrâ’Ë´l] shall say in that Day,
“Look! Our Mighty Ones is this One, we have waited for Him, and He has delivered us. This is Yâ-hwéh, we waited for Him. Let us rejoice and celebrate in His deliverance of us!”
10. Because the hand of Yâ-hwéh shall rest on this mountain, but Mow’â´v shall be trampled down under Him, like straw is threshed during the threshing[E164] . [6th Trumpet (Disclosure 14: 19-20)]
11. And He shall spread out His hands in their midst, as when the swimmer spreads his out to swim, and He shall lay low their uprising with the sleights of His hands.
12. And He shall cause the height of the fortification of your walls to bow down, He shall humiliate it, He shall level it to the ground, down to the dust. [24: 23, YchezqË´’l 38: 11, ZkharYâ´hu 2: 4]
Chapter 26
7th Trumpet Resurrection
1. In that Day, this song shall be sung in the Land of Yâhuwthâ´h*[E165] :
“The strong city is ours; salvation constitutes the walls and the rampart!
2. Open the gates, so the righteous heathen mass that retains the Truths may enter! [Chanówkh 66: 3, Disclosure 15: 4]
3. One who has faithfully guarded[E166] these, You preserve in shâlówm (peace, reconciliation, wholeness) – shâlówm exists because one who trusts is within You.
4. Trust in Yâ-hwéh, O witnesses of the testimony, for in Yâ´hu Yâ-hwéh [the Son] is the Rock of the Ages,
5. because He has prostrated the inhabitants of the exalted haughty city, and He is bringing it down to the ground, leveling it to the dust!
6. By foot it shall be trampled: by the feet of the afflicted, the footsteps of the needy.
7. The path for the righteous ones is straight; Upright One (Yâshâ´r), You make level the track of the righteous ones.
8. Indeed the Path of Your rectitude is Yâ-hwéh: we have waited for You. The desire of the soul is for Your name [Yâhuwshúa`] and for Your memorial [Yâ-hwéh (Exodus 3: 15)].
9. Myself, I have yearned for You during the night, indeed my spirit seeks for You early in the morning, since when Your rectitude is on the Land, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.”
10. “Though favor is shown to the wicked, he hardly learns any righteousness within the Land of rectitudes, he does injustice and he hardly regards the Majesty of Yâ-hwéh at all.”
11. Yâ-hwéh! Your hand is lifted high, yet they hardly regard it at all, let them gaze and let them be ashamed of the ignorant zeal of the people, then indeed let the Fire reserved for Your enemies consume them!
12. Yâ-hwéh! You are Who establishes shâlówm (peace, reconciliation, wholeness) for us, as You have even done all of our works for us! [Yâhuwchânâ´n 3: 21]
13. O Yâ-hwéh our Mighty Ones, sovereigns besides You have lorded over us; only by You do we make mention of Your name! [Romans 10: 14-15]
14. They are dead, they hardly live; the deceased can hardly rise, for thus You have punished and You annihilated them and You do away with every male of them.
15. You have added them to the cadaver (gówy[E167] ), O Yâ-hwéh, You added the heathen mass to make Yourself abundant, You have expanded far away the boundaries of the Land.
16. Yâ-hwéh, during the distress [~Great Persecution] they sought You in vain, they poured out a whispered prayer, Your chastening was for them!
17. Like a pregnant woman who is about to give birth writhes in travail, she cries for help in her pain, thus became we in the presence of Your Beloved[E168] . Through the fear of You, [LXX] O Yâ-hwéh,
18. we have conceived, we writhed in pain when we gave birth to the breath of Your salvations[E169] , we have hardly worked it on the Land: although the inhabitants of the world have hardly fallen, yet all the inhabitants of the Land shall fall. [LXX[E170] ]
19. “Your dead ones shall live, and My dead body[E171] , they shall rise.”
– Awake and shout for joy, O settlers of the dust, because the night mist[E172] of the mornings is Your night mist, and it is healings for the Land! [Nikódemos 21: 2] But from the Land the irreverent shall fall.
6th seal events
20. ¶Go, my people, enter into your innermost rooms and shut your doors behind you, hide for a little while, until the anger has passed over.
21. Because here is Yâ-hwéh, He comes from His place to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants of the Land upon them! And the Land shall disclose her bloodshed, and she shall no longer cover over her slain ones.
Chapter 27
1. In that Day, Yâ-hwéh shall call to account with His fierce great sharp sword over LiwYâthâ´n[E173] , the fleeing serpent, even against LiwYâthâ´n, the contorting serpent, and He shall slay the dinosaur that is in the sea.
2. In that Day, O exquisite vineyard, be afflicted about her[E174] ! [Leviticus 23: 27]*[E175]
3. “I am a strong city, a city under siege: I water it fruitlessly, for it shall be seized by night, but by day the city wall shall fall. [15: 1] I am Yâ-hwéh, Who guards her; moment by moment I water her, lest one punishes her, night and day I do guard it:
4. There is no one, no one who has taken hold on her. Who would put Me to guard stubble in a field, because of the enemy that planted it? Anger? There is none Mine, who would set against Me briers and thorns in the battle? I shall march against her and I would set her on fire together with them!”
Then because of this Yâ-hwéh the Mighty One makes everything, as much as is appointed, to be consumed by fire.
5. “Or let him make shâlówm (peace, reconciliation, completeness) with Me obtaining strength in My Refuge; let him make shâlówm with Me.”
The inhabitants in It [the strong City (verse 3)] shall raise a cry, “Let us make shâlówm with Him; let us make shâlówm with Him!”
6. The invaders[E176] , they shall take root, Ya`aqóv shall blossom, and Yisrâ’Ë´l shall send out shoots, and fruit shall fill the face of the world!
7. Did He strike him [Yisrâ’Ë´l] like the striking of the one [the impostor] striking him? Or was he [Yisrâ’Ë´l] killed like the killing of the ones he [the impostor] was killing?
8. By driving her away, by her exile You did contend with her [the Land] – He removed her with His fierce wind [6th seal] on the day of the east wind [~Great Persecution 4th seal].
10. Because the fortified city [old Yruwshâláim] is a solitary habitation, divorced [MattithYâ´huw 23: 37-39] and abandoned like the uninhabited land. There a calf [the image of the beast (compare Exodus 32: 8)] grazes and there he squats and he terminates her branches: The flock that dwelt there shall be given up, to be a forsaken flock, and much time[E177] shall pass for them without pasture or rest.
11. And after a time, there shall be nothing green at all within it. Due to the withering, when her twigs are dry, they are broken off, women [the deceived who take orders] come from a goddess[E178] and make fires with them [burn them at the stake[E179] ], because this is not a people of understanding; for this, their Maker does not have compassion on them and their Creator does not show favor to them.
13. Also it shall be on that Day, a great horn (showphâ´r) shall sound [7th Trumpet], and the ones being exterminated in the land of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) and the banished ones in the land of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) shall come and they shall worship Yâ-hwéh on the Mountain of the Pureness in Yruwshâláim.
Chapter 28
Drunken Anglo-American Christians and legalists
1. ¶Hówy to the crown of the insolence[E180] of the drunkards of ’Ephráyim[E181] , and the drooping flower of the beauty of his prestigious rank, that is on the head of the very fertile valley of the ones struck down by wine.
2. Look! My Sovereign has a powerful and a strong one, like a hailstorm, a horror of destruction like the downpour of overwhelming mighty waters! He shall cause it [the crown (v.1)] to fall down to the ground by hand[E182] . [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 21]
3. The crown of the insolence of the drunkards of ’Ephráyim shall be trampled underfoot,
4. And it shall happen that the drooping flower of the beauty of his prestigious rank that is on the head of the very fertile valley shall be like her first ripe fig right before the summer harvest, which the one looking sees it, while it is still in his palm, he swallows it up. [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 22-23]
5. In that Day, Yâ-hwéh of hosts shall be for the crown of beauty and for the revolution (turn of events) of prestigious rank for the remnant of His people,
6. and for a spirit of justice for the One presiding over the judgment, and for the heroism of the ones refusing to battle for reasoning[E183] .
7. Yet also these meander by the wine, and they wander intoxicated by the bourbon[E184] , the priest and the predicator mislead by the bourbon, they are engulfed from the wine, they wander intoxicated from the bourbon, they mislead by the vision, they stumble in their reasoning.
8. Because every meal[E185] [65: 11] is full of regurgitated excrement, there is no place [for Him]! A curse consumes this meal, because the purpose of it is greediness for gain. [65: 4]
10. Because ‘you must do this commandment, you must do that commandment, a little from this verse, a little from that verse (lit. line), a little while longer, a little while longer’,
12. of which He has said to them, ‘This is the rest-haven, rest! It is for the weary’ and ‘This is the place of repose’, but they are not willing to listen. [1 Qorinthíym 14: 21]
13. So for them, the Word of Yâ-hwéh will become ‘you must do this commandment, you must do that commandment, a little from this verse (lit. line), a little from that verse, a little while longer, a little while longer’, in order that they will go and they will fall backwards and they will be crippled, and they will be ensnared, and they will be captured.
14. Therefore, understand what the Word of Yâ-hwéh is, scornful men who are rulers of this people that are in Yruwshâláim!
15. Since you say,
“We have made a pact, a covenant with death and with Sh’ówl we have made an agreement, that the scouring scourge [~the Abomination of the Desolation], when it passes over, shall not enter to us, because we have made falsehood our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves within the Lie.”
16. Because of this, my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh says,
“Here I am, to lay in Tsiyyówn a Stone, a proven Stone, a valued Cornerstone for a sure Foundation; the one trusting in It shall not be disappointed[E186] .” [Romans 9: 33, 1 Këph 2: 6]
17. So I shall set justice for the measuring-line [~standard], and rectification for the leveling instrument, and ye who trust vainly in falsehood, hail shall sweep away the refuge of the falsehood, and waters shall overflow the hideout;
18. So your covenant with death shall be atoned for, and your agreement with Sh’ówl, it shall not stand. The scourge is scouring as it passes over, and ye shall be a stomping ground for it
19. as often as it passes over; it will take you away as morning by morning it passes over, by day and by night!”
And it shall be sheer horror to understand the report.
20. Because the bed is too short to stretch oneself, and the covering is too tied down to wrap oneself up;*