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‫י ְִרמ ְָ֖יהוּ‬ [Note: text translated exclusive to Septuagint (LXX) is found in italics. Non-italicized text within parentheses is exclusive to Masoretic.

Masoretic YirmYâ´huw has LXX and DSS proven areas of heavy scribal embellishment with redundant repetitions, some changing scripture to uninspired meanings. In obvious cases we have omitted the Masoretic addition leaving empty parentheses “()”. Italicized text in parentheses is found in scripture, bracketed text is not. The chapter and verse numbers are written as it appears in the Masoretic, for ease of comparison to other translations, however their sequence is written in the order as it appears in the earlier and more accurate Septuagint (LXX)]

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Chapter 1 YirmYâ´huw’s commission The words of YirmYâ´huw son of ChilqiyYâ´huw from the priests that are in `Anâthówth in the land of Binyâmíyn; That which the Word of Yâ-hwéh was [saying] to him during the days of Yo’shiyYâ´huw son of ’Âmówn the king of Yâhuwthâ´h during the thirteenth year to his reign; And it was during the days of Yâhuwyâqíym the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h until the completion of the eleventh year for TsithqiyYâ´huw the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h until the exile of Yruwshâláim during the fifth month; And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me, saying: 1.

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“From before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and from before you emerged from the womb, I had dedicated you; I have assigned you a predicator to the heathen masses.”

And I said, “You are my Sovereign, Yâ-hwéh, look!

I do not know a message because I am but a youth.”

And Yâ-hwéh said to me, “Do not say I am but a youth, because you will go concerning everything that I send you, and you will dictate everything that I entrust to you.

You shall not have fear due to their appearances because I am with you to rescue you,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

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And Yâ-hwéh extended His hand and He touched on my mouth, and Yâ-hwéh said to me, “Here, I have put My words in your mouth.

See, I have appointed you overseer this day over the heathen masses and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down and to cause to perish, and to tear down and to rebuild and to plant.”

And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me saying, “What are you seeing, YirmYâ´huw?”

And I said, “I am seeing a stick of an almond-tree (shâqë´th).”

And Yâ-hwéh said to me, “You have done well to see it, because I am keeping watch (shoqë´th) over My Word to accomplish it.”

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Yisrâ’Ë´l to be summoned back to the Land to be judged, therefore YirmYâ´huw should not fear And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me a second time, saying, “What are you seeing?”

And I said, “I am seeing a boiling cauldron, and its face is away from the northwards direction.

And Yâ-hwéh said to me: “From the north the disaster will be poured out upon all of the inhabitants of the Land, because here I am summoning all of the kinfolk of the kingdoms of the north to this land,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “And they will come and they will each set up his throne at the entrance of the 13.

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gates of Yruwshâláim and against all of her walls surrounding and against all of the towns of Yâhuwthâ´h. [YchezqË´’l 22: 19, Luwqá’ 21: 20-24] And I will dictate My judgments [`Âmówç 3] on them [NIV correctly interprets here “My people”] because of all of their wickedness when they forsook Me and they burned incense to other mighty ones and they worshipped the artifices of their hands.

So you, you shall gird up your loins and you shall take a stand and you shall dictate to them everything that I, I have charged you. Do not be intimidated due to their looks nor be terrified before them for I am with you to deliver you,” says Yâ-hwéh.1 16.

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The Masoretic Text has here “lest I terrify you before them.” This would be uncharacteristic of Yâ-hwéh, to get YirmYâ´huw to obey by extortion.

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“(So I,) look! I have set you today for a fortified city and for a pillar of iron and for walls of bronze against the entire Land, for the kings of Yâhuwthâ´h, for her officials, for her priests and for the people of the Land; And they will fight against you but they shall not prevail over you because I am with you,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “to rescue you.”

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Chapter 2 YirmYâ´huw sent to announce to Yisrâ’Ë´l its adultery 1. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me, saying: 2. “Go and call out in the ears of Yruwshâláim, saying, “Thus says Yâhwéh: I remember about you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your 7

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betrothals, 3. to walk following Me, the Pure One of Yisrâ’Ë´l” says Yâ-hwéh, “(in the uninhabited land, in the uncultivated land), 3. Yisrâ’Ë´l is dedicated for Yâ-hwéh, the firstfruits of His crop, everyone devouring him, they will be held guilty, misery shall come upon them!” declares Yâ-hwéh.

4. Hear the Word of Yâ-hwéh, O House of Ya`aqóv, and all of the kinfolk of the House of Yisrâ’Ë´l, 5. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: What fault have your fathers found in Me, that they have distanced themselves from Me and they have gone following the vanity so they have become vain?

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‘Where is Yâ-hwéh? The One bringing us out of the Land of Mitsráyim, the One Who led us in the uninhabited land, in the land of the desert-plain and pit and a land of drought and the shadow of death, in a land in which no one crosses through and where no human dwells?’

7. Yet I brought you in to a plantation land to eat her fruit and her goodness but you entered and you defiled My Land and you transformed My inherited-portion into an abomination.

8. The priests have not asked, ‘Where is Yâ-hwéh?’

And the ones handling the Law, they did not acknowledge Me, even the pastors, they have rebelled against Me, and the predicators, they have preached by the 9

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LORD (ha-Bá`al), so they walked after their unprofitable things, 9. Therefore I will bring charges against you again,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “and against the sons of your sons I shall bring charges, 10. Because travel to the coasts of the Bruisers (Kittiyím) [Roma (Yâshâ´r 10: 16)], and look! Or Dark (Qëthâ´r), dispatch, and very carefully consider and see if it has happened like this: 11. Has a heathen mass exchanged mighty ones? Though they are not mighty ones, yet My people, they have exchanged their Honor for worthlessness.

12. “The heavens are appalled at this, but (let the earth [Bar-Nâvíy 11: 2]) 10

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shudder the more with exceeding horror,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 13. “because My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to dig for themselves cisterns; broken cisterns which will not be able to hold waters.

14. Is Yisrâ’Ë´l a servant? If he was born in the house, why has he become plunder?

15. Lions will roar over him, they put forth their call, and they laid waste his land to a wasteland; his towns, they have been left desolate from having no inhabitants.

16. Also the sons of Presentability (Noph) and of ‘You shall fill hands with pity’ (Tchaphnchë´ç), they shaved the top of your head!

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17. Isn’t this something you procured for yourself? To forsake Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones during the time he was leading you in the Way? 18. And now, what could there be for you that belongs to the way of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim), to drink the water of the Dark-Seed (Shiychówr)?

And what could be for you that belongs to the way of the Successful One (’Ashshúwr), to drink the water of the River2?

19. Your evil shall discipline you, and your backslidings, they shall reprove you, so get to know and perceive that it is evil and bitter to forsake Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones, but I do not take pleasure to be against you,” declares my Sovereign, Yâ-hwéh of hosts, 2

Symbolic of death.

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20. “As from antiquity I broke off your yoke and I tore off your bonds when you said, “I will not serve,” nonetheless upon every high hill and under every lush green tree you bent over committing adultery.

21. Yet I am who had planted you a choice species of vine, completely a seed of reliability. So how is it you have been turned against Me to degenerated ones of the foreign vine? [Yshá`Yâhuw 17: 1011, Tâ’ówm 40, vine of the earth Disclosure 14: 19-20, MattithYâ´huw 15: 13] 22. Though if you wash with the bicarbonate of soda and you make a lot of soap for you, your depravity is deeply stained before Me,” declares my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh.

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“I am not defiled, I did not walk following the Lords (ha-B`âliym)!”

Look at your way in the valley and acknowledge what you have done, a fast young female camel 24. crisscrossing her ways, 24. separated3 to the waters4 of the desert, hastened by the lust of her appetites, the scent of her being in heat, who is one who would turn her away? All of the ones seeking to find her won’t grow weary during her month, they will acquire her!

25. “Keep your foot from becoming unshod, and your throat from becoming parched,” but you said, LXX shows that this was Strong’s #6504, not #6501, an error of mistaking d for h.

4 LXX shows this to be an error of mistaking yml for dml, confirmed by the context of verse 25.

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“No, it’s useless, because I love strangers and I must go after them!”

26. Like the shame of a thief as he is caught, thus the House of Yisrâ’Ë´l are to be shamed, they, their kings, their officials, and their priests and their predicators, 27. Ones saying to the wood, “You are my Father!” and to the stone, “You are Who procreated us!” because they turned their backs towards Me and not their faces, then in the time of their trouble, they say, “Come and deliver us!”

28. Then where are your mighty Ones that you made for yourself? Let them come if they can save you during the time of your trouble! According to the 15

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number of your cities are your mighty ones, O Yâhuwthâ´h, and according to the number of the streets of Yruwshâláim are your slaughter-offerings to the LORD (baal).

29. Why do you make complaints against Me? All of you are who have rebelled against Me,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

30. “In vain did I spank your sons, they did not accept correction: a sword has devoured your predicators like a destroying lion, yet ye did not fear.

31. You of this generation, look at the Word of Yâ-hwéh, have I been an uninhabited land to Yisrâ’Ë´l, or a land of deep darkness? What is known of why My people say, “We can roam freely; we will never come anymore to You!” 16

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32. Does a virgin forget her decorations or a bride her bindings? But My people have forgotten Me days without number!

33. How skillfully you make your way to seek love – thereby you can teach even the worst women your ways!

34. Also on your hands are found the blood of the lives of the poor, the innocent. I did not find them in excavations, instead on every oak5, 35. yet you say, “Nonetheless I am innocent; surely He has turned His anger away from me!”

Here am I to argue with you, concerning your saying “I have not sinned!”

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LXX reveals this to be Strong’s# 424 not #428 as the Masoretic points the vowels.

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disappointed with Mitsráyim, just as you were disappointed with ’Ashshúwr.

37. Also from that will you come out of, with your hands upon your head, because Yâ-hwéh has rejected those things you trust in, and you will not be prospered with them.

Chapter 3 1. A saying: if a man (’iysh) dismisses his wife and she goes away from him and she becomes another man’s (’iysh), should he return to her again? That land would surely be polluted!

[Deuteronomy 24: 2-4] Yet you, you have committed adultery with numerous partners, then to return to Me!” declares Yâ-hwéh.

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ravished? Along the ways you had your abode for them like a nomad in the wilderness, and you caused the land to be defiled by your harlotry and by your evil.

3. So the heavy showers have been withheld, and the spring rain did not happen, yet the brow of the adulterous woman has been yours, to have refused to be ashamed; 4. Haven’t you called for Me just now? “my Father, you are my childhood friend, 5. Will it reserve forever, or will it watch for life to endure?”

Here are your words, but you work at evil, yet you could help it.”

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6. And Yâ-hwéh said to me, in the days of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king, “Did you see what backsliding Yisrâ’Ë´l has done, she who went upon every high mountain and to beneath every lush green tree and committed adultery there?

7. And I had said, ‘after she has done all of these, she will return to Me,’ but she has not returned; and her treacherous sister Yâhuwthâ´h saw it, 8. And I reviewed how according to all of the reasons that backsliding Yisrâ’Ë´l had committed adultery, I had dismissed her and I gave a writ of divorce to her, yet treacherous Yâhuwthâ´h her sister did not fear, and she went out and she committed adultery, also she.

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she committed adultery with the stone and with the wood; 10. Yet also during all of this, Yâhuwthâ´h her treacherous sister did not return to Me with her whole heart, unless within a Lie;” declares Yâ-hwéh.

Yâ-hwéh calls Yisrâ’Ë´l back 11. And Yâ-hwéh said to me, “Backsliding Yisrâ’Ë´l, her soul is more righteous than treacherous Yâhuwthâ´h; 12. Go and call out these words towards the north, and you shall say: “Return, backslidden Yisrâ’Ë´l,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “I will not set My Face against you because I am merciful,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “I will not keep guard forever, 21

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13. Only acknowledge your guilt because you rebelled against Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones, and you scattered your ways to the ones alienating themselves under every lush green tree and you did not heed My voice,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

Yâ-hwéh calls the chosen few, arriving among the Many 14. “Return, sons of the backslidden ones,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “Because I am Who have married you, so I will choose you [plural], one from a town and two from a clan, and I will bring you to Tsiyyówn (Capital) 15. And I shall give to you pastors like My heart and they will pasture you in knowledge and understanding; 22

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16. And it shall be during those days as you become numerous and bear fruit in the Land,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “They will not say anymore ‘The box of the covenant of Yâ-hwéh’ and it shall not arise on a heart and they will not remember it, and they will not seek it and it shall not be made again.6 17. During that time-period [70th week of Dâ´niyyË´’l], they shall call “Kiççë´’ Yâhwéh” (The Throne of Yâ-hwéh) to Yruwshâláim, and they shall not walk anymore after the hardness of their evil heart.” [Disclosure 11: 19] 18. During those days, the House of Yâhuwthâ´h [“Yehuwthâ´h”] shall walk The box of the Testimony, also known as the box of the covenant of Yâ-hwéh, is not mentioned in the description of the next physical temple in YchezqË´’l. It however IS seen in the temple AFTER the 7th trumpet sounds, in Disclosure 11:19, which is AFTER the end of that time-period, the 70th week of Dâ´niyyE´’l.

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among the House of Yisrâ’Ë´l [“Christianity”] and they will enter together from the land of the north onto the land that I had given your fathers as an inherited-portion. [YchezqË´’l 8: 17, 22: 16, 47: 13-14, Luwqá’ 15: 11-32] 19. So I, I am Who said, “How will I station you among the sons when I have given to you the desirable Land, the inheritance-portion of the prominent ones of the hosts of the heathen masses, when My Father will say, “You shall invoke Me and you should not turn from following Me”?

20. Surely as a wife is treacherous against her husband, thus have you been treacherous against Me, O House of Yisrâ’Ë´l!”7 In other words, how will these adulterers who do not invoke Him and rebel keep their inheritance? It will become the portion of the heathen masses.

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declares Yâ-hwéh.

21. A cry is heard in languages8, the weeping and pleadings of the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l, because they perverted their Way, they FORGOT Yâ-hwéh, their mighty Ones!

First Resurrection (7th Trumpet) 22. “Return, sons of the backslidden ones, and I will mend your backslidings!”

“Here we are! We have arrived to You because You are Yâ-hwéh, our mighty Ones!

23. Certainly what is of the Lie is from the places of illicit worship of the confusion of the mountains [kingdoms].

Certainly in Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones is the salvation of Yisrâ’Ë´l!

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24. Yet the Shame, it consumed the labor of our fathers since our youths, their flocks, and their herds, their sons and their daughters!

25. Let us be laid to rest in our shame and let our reproach cover us, because we have sinned against Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones, we, and our fathers, since our youths, even until this Day, and we have not obeyed the voice of Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones!” [Luwqá’ 15: 18-21] Chapter 4 Alive or resurrected, all Yisrâ’Ë´l shall be saved 1. “Whether now you will return, Yisrâ’Ë´l,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “to Me you shall return; and whether now you will remove your detestable 26

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abominations from My face and you shall not waver; 2. When ye will swear Yâ-hwéh lives in Truth and correctly and in righteousness, then shall heathen masses be blessed by Him and shall make their boast in Him. 3. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh to the man of Yâhuwthâ´h and to Yruwshâláim, “Till your untilled ground and do not sow among thorns; 4. Become circumcised to Yâ-hwéh and remove the foreskins of your heart, O man of Yâhuwthâ´h, and inhabitants of Yruwshâláim, lest My wrath emerge like fire and burn and there be no one to extinguish it, from the presence of the evil of your deeds.

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Report it in Yâhuwthâ´h and in Yruwshâláim, make it heard and announce it and sound the horn (showphâ´r) throughout the land, yell it out loud, and say, be gathered and enter in to the fortified cities!

6. Lift up a signal to Tsiyyówn, seek refuge; do not take a stand because I am Who will cause disaster to come from the north and great destruction!

7. A lion has ascended from his thicket and the destroyer of the heathen masses has set out, he left from his place to transform your land to a wasteland, your towns, they will fall in ruins from there being no inhabitants, 8. Concerning this, gird on sackcloths, lament and howl, because the fury of the anger of Yâ-hwéh has not turned back from you!”

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9. And it shall happen during that day,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “the heart of the king and the heart of the officials shall vanish, and the priests shall be appalled, and the predicators shall be astounded,” 10. And I said, “’Ahâ´hh, my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh, indeed You have surely permitted the deception of this people and of Yruwshâláim, saying ‘there will be shâlówm for you’ when a sword is held against their life!”

The anointed falsifier spirit 11. “During that time-period, a glowing spirit of error9 in the wilderness [MattithYâ´huw 24: 26] shall say to this people and to Yruwshâláim, “The Way LXX reveals this word to not be Strong’s #8205, instead a form of Strong’s #7686 or 7691.

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of the daughter of my people is neither for cleansing10 nor for purification!”

12. The spirit of fulfillment from the curse11 (’âlâ´h) that shall come is Mine, now also I am Who shall dictate judgments against them. [Yshá`Yâhuw 24, Galátas 1: 8-9] 13. Look! Like the clouds, it arises and like the tempest are its vehicles, its horses are swifter than eagles, ’Ówy to us because we are devastated!

14. Wash your heart from evil, Yruwshâláim, in order that you may be saved! Until when will you harbor plans of your vanity within your mind? [11: 15, YchezqË´’l 11: 2] LXX reveals this to be Strong’s #2135 and not #2219; a difference of one letter, mistaking thinking a k was an r.

11 LXX shows this to be Strong’s #423 ’âlâ´h not the Masoretic #428 ’ë´lleh, an error in vowel pointing.

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15. Because a voice is announcing it from Dân, and causing the vanity to be heard of from the mountain of ’Ephráyim.

16. Remind it to the heathen masses, look, cause it to be heard to Yruwshâláim, branches12 are coming from the land from far away, and they have given their call against the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h; 17. Like guardians of a field, they are against her from all around because it is against Me you have rebelled,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

18. “your way and your abuses have produced these for you; this is your evil, so bitter as to have struck all the way to your heart!”

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4th Seal 19. My bowels, my bowels, I writhe in agony, the walls of my heart are pounding in me, my heart I cannot keep quiet because my soul has heard the call of the horn (showphâ´r), the warning-alarm of attack!

20. Destruction has called for destruction, because all of the land instantly has been devastated, my tents, my drapes, have been devastated in a moment!

21. Until when must I see a flag? [until when] must I hear the call of the horn (showphâ´r)?

22. “Because the leaders of my people do not acknowledge Me, they are senseless ones, and they are not ones with understanding, they are clever for doing evil but they do not know how to do goodness.”

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23. I saw the earth and look, unformed and empty, and at the heavens, and there was none of their light, 24. I saw the mountains, and look! They were shaking, and all of the hills, they were in commotion.

25. I saw and look! There was not a human and every bird of the heavens had fled.

26. I saw and look! The plantation-land is a desert, and all of its cities were burnt down from the Presence of Yâ-hwéh, and they were utterly destroyed from the face of the fury of His anger.

27. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh: “The entire land shall be devastation, though I will not execute a total annihilation. [YchezqË´’l 11: 15] 28. Concerning this, the earth will mourn, and the heavens shall be dark 33

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from above, for the reason that I have spoken it, I have decided it, and I will not relent, and I will not retreat from it.

29. From the sound of the horseman and the shooting of the bow, the whole city flees, they go into the thickets and ascend among the rocks, every city is being deserted, and there is not one staying in them.

30. And you, the one being violently destroyed, what shall you do? As you clothe yourself in crimson, as you put on gold ornaments, as you enlarge your eyes with the black paint, you will beautify yourself vainly, your paramours refuse you: they shall seek your life.

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gasp for breath, she will extend her palms, “’Ówy is now mine, as my life has become faint, it belongs to the murderers.”

Chapter 5 1. Go up and down in the streets of Yruwshâláim, and look now, and discern, and seek to find in her plazas whether you can encounter, if anyone exists there, one who is working rectitude, seeking to find truth, and I will pardon her. [Genesis 18: 22-33] 2. Yet if they still intend to say Yâ-hwéh lives, for it is true, they swear unto the Lie!” 3. “Yâ-hwéh, aren’t Your eyes for fidelity? You struck them yet they did not writhe, you put an end to them, they 35

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refused to accept correction, they made their faces more rigid than rock, they refused to repent.

4. So I am who said, ‘Only because they are low ones, they became foolish because they do not recognize the Way of Yâ-hwéh is an ordinance of their mighty Ones.

5. I will go for myself to the greater ones and I will speak with them, because they are who know the Way of Yâ-hwéh is an ordinance of their mighty Ones.’

They only unanimously broke off the yoke, they snapped off the bindings!

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will violently destroy them unto their houses, a leopard will keep watch over their cities, anyone coming out from there, he will be ambushed because they have multiplied their rebellions: their backslidings have been mighty!

7. “Why should I pardon this to you?

Your sons, they have forsaken Me, and they have sworn by those not being mighty Ones, yet I have provided for them; so they committed adultery and they gathered in crowds at the houses of prostitution; 8. they became lustful well-fed stallions, each neighing towards the wife of his friend.

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“And if that happens in a heathen mass like this, shouldn’t My soul avenge itself?

10. Go through her vineyards and destroy, but do not execute a total annihilation, leave her Root, for it is Yâhwéh’s. Strip off her branches because these are not Yâ-hwéh’s, [Yshá`Yâhuw 27: 10-11, Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 15: 1-8, Romans 11: 17-19] 11. because the House of Yisrâ’Ë´l and the House of Yâhuwthâ´h has surely been treacherous against Me!” declares Yâ-hwéh, 12. “They have denied Yâ-hwéh and they said: “It is not He and there will not come any harm to us, and we will never see sword or famine!

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13. And our predicators, they shall belong to the wind so there was no Word of Yâ-hwéh in them – thus shall it be done to them!”

14. Therefore thus says Yâ-hwéh, the Mighty Ones of hosts since ye have spoken this word: Look! I am making My words in your mouth be for a Fire, and this people be woods, so it shall consume them!

China will invade Anglo-America (2nd Seal) [Yshá`Yâhuw 5: 26] 15. “Here I am bringing against you a heathen mass from afar, O House of Yisrâ’Ë´l,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “An enduring heathen mass, it is a heathen mass from antiquity, it is a 39

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heathen mass whose language you do not know and you do not understand what they speak.

16. His quiver is like an opened grave, all of them are warriors [Genesis 6: 413], 17. and he shall devour your harvest and your bread, he shall consume your sons and your daughters, he will consume your flock and your herd, he shall devour your vineyards and your fig tree plantations and your olive yards, he shall flatten the posts of your military defenses, those that you had trusted in, by the sword!

18. But even during those days,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “The Bullies, they were on the earth during those days and also afterwards, thus that the sons of the mighty ones went towards the daughters of the humans and they bore young to them, they have been the warriors that are from antiquity, mortal men of renown.”

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“I will not execute a complete termination against you.

19. So it shall happen when they say, “For what reason did Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones work all of these things against us?”

Then you will say to them, “Just as you forsook Me and you served the mighty ones of aliens in your land, thus shall you serve aliens in a land which does not belong to you.”

Natural forces greater than man obey Yâ-hwéh, shouldn’t the “Yehuwthím”?

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have eyes yet who will not perceive, who have ears yet who will not hear: 22. Isn’t it Me Whom ye should be fearing?” declares Yâ-hwéh, “or shouldn’t ye tremble for fear of Me, that I have set a sand boundary for the sea, a perpetual ordinance and it will not cross it? Though they reel to and fro yet they are not able to endure, though its waves may roar, yet they will not cross it!”

23. But this people have a heart which has become stubborn and rebellious, so they turned aside and walked off, 24. yet they do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones, the One granting rain, even the autumn rainfall and the spring rains which mature the crops during its 42

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season; He guards for us the ordained weeks of the harvest-time.”

25. Your depravities, they have thrust these away; and your sins, they have held back the good things from you, [Yshá`Yâhuw 59] 26. because wicked men are to be found among My people who lie in wait like a trapper abates, they set up destruction of the mortal men they will capture.

27. Like a cage full of birds thus their houses are full of the deceived; consequently, they became great and they were made rich!

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nor have they defended the right of the needy.

29. Shouldn’t I supervise over these things?” declares Yâ-hwéh, “When in a heathen mass that is like this, shouldn’t My Self avenge Himself?”

The Lie and its consequences: the fall of the Virgin of Yisrâ’Ë´l 30. “An appalling thing and a horrible thing has been brought about in the Land: 31. The predicators, they preach by the Lie and the priests, they have dominion over their powers, and My people, they love it thus, but what are ye working for her [the Land’s14] future?

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Chapter 6 1. Sons of Vinyâmíyn15, seek refuge away from the midst of Yruwshâláim and blast (Tiq`úw) the horn (showphâ´r) in the Stockade (Tqúwá`), and raise the signal over the House of the Vineyard (Bë´yth ha-Kérem) because disaster, it is looming from the north and huge destruction, 2. and it shall take away the stature of the daughter of Tsiyyówn. I have caused the abiding and the delicate daughter of Tsiyyówn to cease: 3. pastors and their flocks shall invade against her, they shall pitch tents upon her all around; each shall pasture his share: This seems to be speaking to Páulus, who was told to avoid Yruwshâláim, yet raised the alarm about the Lie. 15

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“Dedicate a battle against her, arise and let us ascend at midday! ’Ówy to us because the day declines because the shadows of the evening are growing long!

5. Arise and let’s ascend at night so we shall destroy her citadels!”

6. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts: “Cut down trees and pour out forces against Yruwshâláim; she is the city of the Lie16, to terminate the oppression in her midst.” [Chanówkh 89, Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 16: 2-4] 7. As a cistern cools her waters, thus her evil cools her. Violence and ruin shall be heard in her, before My Face The LXX reveals this to be ha-Shéqer and not hâ-fqád, a two-letter error mistaking s for p, and r for d.

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continuously. By sickness and scourging 8. you shall be corrected, Yruwshâláim, lest My Self be alienated from you, lest I should make you devastation, an uninhabited land!

9. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh (of hosts): “Glean ye thoroughly like the vine, the remnant from Yisrâ’Ë´l; bring your hand back, as [to glean] the one being inaccessible over the branches.”

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reproach to them, they do not find pleasure in it, 11. so I became filled of the wrath of Yâhwéh, yet I held it in, and I did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the child outside and on the group of youths alike, as also a husband with a wife, they shall be captured, the old man with the one full of days; 12. And their houses shall be turned over to others, together with their fields and their wives, because I shall extend My hand against the inhabitants of this Land,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 13. “Because from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, everyone is dishonest profiteer of unjust gain [1 Timótheos 6: 5], and from the predicator even unto the priest, everyone is a 48

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worker of the Lie. [errant scribal repetition at 8: 10-12, MattithYâ´huw 7: 23] 14. And they treat the breach of My people as though it were insignificant, saying, “Shâlówm, shâlówm (peace, completeness, soundness)” when there is no shâlówm; 15. Are they ashamed because they worked a disgusting abomination?

Neither are they ashamed to be put to shame, nor being humiliated have they acknowledged it, therefore they will fall among the bullies (Nphilíym) during the season I punish them, they shall be toppled,” says Yâ-hwéh. [Chanówkh 16: 1] 16. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: 49

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“Take a stand at a crossroads and look and ask for the eternal paths, “Where is this Way of Yâ-hwéh17? So walk in her and find rest for your soul!”

But they said, “We will not walk it!”

17. So I stationed sentinels over you, “Pay attention to the call of the horn (showphâ´r)!”

But they said, “We will not listen!”

18. Therefore, the heathen masses shall hear it and know the testimony of what happens among them!

19. The earth shall hear, here, I am Who is bringing disaster to this people, the fruit of their devices, for they have not paid attention to My Word and My Masoretic substitutes “the Goodness” here. This name substitution is likely responsible for MattithYâ´huw 19: 16, though Yâhuwshúa` recognized it as referring to His Power, and it is used legitimately in `Ivríym 9: 11.

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Law [Romans 8: 2], and they have despised it!

The House of Yisrâ’Ë´l recalled to the Land, the Devastator’s Great Persecution 20. For what is this incense for Me which comes from Shvâ´ (an Oath), or the good calamus from a land from afar?

Your burnt offerings have not been acceptable, and your slaughter offerings, they have not been pleasing to Me. 21. Therefore,” thus says Yâ-hwéh: “Look! I am Who is setting obstacles for this people, and they shall stumble over them: fathers and sons alike, a neighbor and his friend, and they shall perish!”

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mass shall be roused from the flanks of the earth.

23. They will be brandishing a bow and a spear; the people are cruel and they show no compassion, their sound roars like the sea and they ride on horses in formation like men for war against you, daughter of Tsiyyówn!”

24. We heard the news about them, our hands drop down, distress has seized us like the pain of a woman in labor; 25. Do not go out into the field and do not walk by the way because the enemy’s sword and terror is on every side.

26. O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth and roll yourself in ashes, make mourning for an only son, a most bitter wailing because suddenly the devastator shall come upon us!

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27. “I have made you [the devastator] an assayer of metals among My people from gold ore, so you may find out and discern and you may test their way.

28. All of them are refractory deviants going around slandering, all of them are copper ore and iron ore, they are corruptors.

29. The bellows are burned, the lead has been consumed with fire in vain to refine to prove it, yet the evil has not been separated away; 30. They call them reprobate silver because Yâ-hwéh has rejected them.”

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1. (The word that was towards YirmYâ´huw from Yâ-hwéh, saying: 2. “Stand by the gate of the house of Yâhwéh, and call there this message, and you shall say,)18 Hear the Word of Yâhwéh, all the ones of Yâhuwthâ´h, (entering by these gates to worship Yâhwéh,) 3. Thus says Yâ-hwéh (of hosts,) the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: Correct your ways and your practices and I will establish you in this place; 4. Do not put your trust in the words of the Lie, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, “It is the Temple of Yâ-hwéh! It is the Temple of Yâ-hwéh!” [Letter of BarNâvíy 16: 1] 18

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They [Yisrâ’Ë´l] are the Temple of Yâhwéh, 5. Because when ye surely correct your ways and your practices, when ye work justice between each man and his neighbor, 6. and ye do not oppress the fatherless and the widow, and you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and ye do not walk following other mighty ones to your own harm, 7. then I will establish you in this place, in the Land that I gave to your fathers who were from antiquity even unto eternity.

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9. So, ¿will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear to the Lie and burn incense to the Lord (Bâ´`al), and walk following other mighty ones that you do not recognize, so that it is evil with you; 10. Yet ye come and ye stand before Me in this house at which My name has been called, and ye have said, “We have refrained from doing all these abominations!”?

11. Has this house at which My name has been called become the “cavern of robbers” (M`âráth Pâritsíym) in your eyes also? I am Who is here, I have seen it!” declares Yâ-hwéh. [MattithYâ´huw 21: 13] 12. “As ye go now to My place which is in Place of Rest (Shiylów), there where at first I had made My name dwell, and see 56

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what I did to it due to the presence of the evil of My people Yisrâ’Ë´l.

13. And now since ye are to do all of these works,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “and I spoke it early to you, even the Word, but ye did not listen, and I called you to witness but ye did not testify, [Yshá`Yâhuw 65: 12, 66: 4] 14. So I shall do to the house at which My name is called, which ye are ones who trust in it, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers just as I did to Place of Rest (Shiylów), 15. And I shall cast you away from being at My presence just as I cast away all of your brothers, all of the seed of ’Ephráyim.

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lift a ringing cry of supplication or a prayer, and do not plead with Me, because I am not listening to you!

17. Are you not seeing what they are doing in the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h and in the streets of Yruwshâláim?

18. The children are who are gathering wood and the fathers are who kindle the fire and the wives are who knead the dough to make cakes for the ‘Queen of the heavens’ and to pour out drink offering libations for other mighty ones in order to vex Me. 19. Are they provoking Me to anger?” declares Yâ-hwéh, “Isn’t it for them [to be vexed], for the purpose of the shame of their faces?

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“look! My anger and My rage are to be poured out towards this place on man and beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground and it shall consume and it shall not be extinguished!”

Yisrâ’Ë´l’s material offerings at rebuilt temple undesired 21. Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: “Sweep away your burnt offerings onto your slaughter-offerings so you may eat flesh, 22. because ¿did I dictate to your fathers, or did I command them on the day I brought them out from the land of Mitsráyim concerning matters of burntofferings and slaughter-offerings?

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23. For instead this is the matter I commanded them, saying: Let no one of you bear a grudge in his heart against his neighbor, and love not an oath of the Lie.19 [Bar-Nâvíy 2: 7-8] 24. But they did not heed and they did not listen their ears so they walked by the plan in the hardness of their evil heart, and it was backwards and not forwards.

25. Since the day that your fathers exited from the land of Mitsráyim until this day, I have been sending all of My servants the predicators to you daily; getting them up early I sent them.

The Masoretic text and LXX say here “Heed My voice, and I will be for you the mighty Ones, and ye, ye shall be for Me the people, and ye will walk in every way that I command you so that it may go well with you.” Note that this original rendering preserved in the Letter of Bar-Nâvíy repeats the concepts of the two greatest commandments: to love one another, and to love Yâ-hwéh above all things (especially the Lie), and reflects Yâ-hwéh’s nature more than the scribal alteration which sought to deny Bar-Nâvíy’s message.

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26. Yet they did not obey Me and they did not listen their ear and they stiffened their neck even worse than their fathers.”

Accusation against “Yehuwthâ´h” 27. [Though you dictate all of these words to them, yet they will not heed you; though you shall call to them, yet they will not respond to you,]20 28. (27.) Then you shall say these words to them, “This is the heathen mass [Yshá`Yâhuw 48: 1-2] that has not obeyed the voice of Yâ-hwéh its mighty Ones and they have not responded to correction! The faith [has been exterminated and It] has been omitted from their mouths!

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29. Cut off your hair and cast it away and lift up a lamentation on the barren heights because Yâ-hwéh has rejected and forsaken the stock of His wrath, 30. Because the sons of “Yehuwthâ´h” have worked the evil in My sight,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “They have stationed their detestable abominations in the house which is where My name is called, to defile it!

31. And they have built the high places of the Tambourine (Tópheth) [Yshá`Yâhuw 30: 33] which is in the Valley of the son of Hinnóm to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command nor had it sprung up at My heart.

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“and it shall not be said anymore ‘The Tambourine (Tópheth)’ or ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnóm’, instead, ‘The Valley of the Slaughter’, and they shall bury in Tambourine (Tópheth) until there is no room; 33. And the carcasses of this people shall become for food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one driving them off.

34. And I shall cause the sound of joy and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride to cease from the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h and from the streets of Yruwshâláim because the Land shall turn into a wasteland.

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declares Yâ-hwéh, “also they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Yâhuwthâ´h and the bones of his officials and the bones of the priests and the bones of the preachers and the bones of the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim from their graves, And they shall spread them out to the luminary orb and to the moon and to all of the hosts of the heavens which they had loved, and which they had served and which they had followed after and which they had consulted and that they had bowed down to them in homage.

They shall not be gathered up and they shall not be buried, they shall be for an example upon the face of the land; Because they chose death instead of life, even for all of the remainder remaining from 2.

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this evil tribe in all of the remaining places that I have driven them,” declares Yâ-hwéh of hosts.

Lesson from the future of “Yehuwthâ´h” to take today “So you shall say to them, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: would one fall and not get up?

Or would one turn away and not return?

For what reason has this My people been permanently led away? They hold fast to the Deception more than Me to turn away.

I paid attention and I listened, they did not speak correctly! There is not one who is sorry about his evil, saying, “What have I done?”

Each one has turned away in his lifestyle like a horse rushing into the battle!

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Even the stork in the skies recognizes her appointed seasons and the dove and the swift and the swallow, they have kept watch of the period of their migration, but My people, they do not acknowledge the decisions of Yâ-hwéh.

How can you say: “We are wise ones, for the Towrâ´h of Yâ-hwéh is with us!”

When look! The lying pen of the scribes made it for the Lie? The wise will be shamed, they will be dismayed, and they will be trapped, look!

Since they rejected the Word of Yâhwéh, what wisdom do they have?

Therefore I shall turn over their wives to other men, their fields to ones inheriting, [Masoretic text scribe here mistakenly repeats 6: 13] and they shall gather their fruits,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

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[Masoretic text scribe here mistakenly repeats 6: 14] [Masoretic text scribe here mistakenly repeats 6: 15] [“I shall surely cause them to come to an end,” declares Yâ-hwéh,] “there shall be no grapes on the vine and there shall be no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf, it shall wither and fall, and their things I had given them shall pass into other hands.

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14.

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waters of gall to drink, because we sinned against Yâ-hwéh!

We gathered together [eagerly seeking] for shâlówm (peace, completeness, soundness) yet there is nothing good for a mending period so terror is here!”

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The serpentine Impostor takes the Land, deceived people wonder “From Dân we shall hear the snort of his swift horses, the whole land quakes from the sound of the riding of his forces, and he shall come and he shall devour the land and the fullness of her, the city, and her inhabitants, because look! I am sending among you poisonous snakes which cannot be 16.

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charmed [Genesis 49: 16-1821], and they shall bite you mortally with anguish upon your perplexed heart.

From far-away places, there is the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of My people from the Land, “Isn’t Yâ-hwéh in Tsiyyówn? Isn’t her King in her?”

For what reason have they provoked Me to anger with their images, with foreign vanities?

“The time of harvest has past, the summer has ended, and we, we have not been saved!”

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Concerning the destruction [Yshá`Yâhuw 3: 15] of the daughter of my people I am in the dark, perplexity has overcome me like the travail of childbirth.

Is there no salve in Gil`â´th or a physician? There must be none there, because why hasn’t the mending of the daughter of my people arisen?

Who might give my head waters and my eye a spring of tears so I could bewail day and night the slain ones of the daughter of my people?22

Chapter 9 Yâ-hwéh’s response: His people love the Lie 1. “Who is one who would give Me a traveler’s lodge in the uninhabited land so I might abandon My people and I English numerations of Chapter 9 begin with verse 23 of Chapter 8 in the Hebrew. We follow the Hebrew enumeration because speakers change at this point.

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may walk away from them because all of them are adulterers, an exclusive assembly of traitors; 2. And they tread to bend their tongue, their bow of the Lie [25: 15], and it is not for the Truth they triumph in the Land because from wickedness to wickedness they proceed, but Me they do not acknowledge;” declares Yâ-hwéh.

3. “Let each one beware of his friend and do not trust on every brother because every brother surely is an impostor and every friend goes around informing slander; 4. And each one will imitate his friend, but they do not speak the Truth, they taught their tongues to speak the Lie, they weary themselves to do it distortedly.

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5. You are to be oppressed by the interest on a loan23 [Glad Tidings of Phílippos 63] in the midst of the deceit; by deception they refuse to acknowledge Me;” declares Yâ-hwéh.

Yâ-hwéh responds to the Wickedness 6. “Therefore,” thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts: “here am I, smelting them, and I will prove them because what would I do due to the presence of the wickedness of the daughter of My people?

7. Their tongue of deceit is a deadly arrow, it speaks peace in his mouth with his friend it speaks but within his insides he sets up his trap; LXX shows this to be Strong’s #5391 not #3427, by the scribe mistaking a ‫ כ‬for a ‫ב‬.

The term should be the Qal infinitive shekhethkhâ´.

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8. Shouldn’t I hold them accountable about these things?” declares Yâ-hwéh, “Or shouldn’t My soul be avenged on a heathen mass that is like this?

9. Raise a weeping concerning the mountains and a lamentation concerning the homes of the uninhabited land, because they were burnt up without one passer-through; so they do not hear the sound of livestock, from the birds of the heavens even unto the quadrupeds; they were startled, they have left; 10. And I shall turn Yruwshâláim into stone heaps, the lair of reptiles, and the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h I will turn into devastation without an inhabitant;” Why the slaughter?

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11. Who is the wise man and who can discern this, and that the mouth of Yâhwéh has spoken to him? Let him report about why the Land is to perish, she is to be left desolate like the desert without any passer-through; 12. Then Yâ-hwéh said to me, “About them forsaking My instructions which I provided before them and their not obeying My voice and their not having walked in it, 13. Yet they walked following the stubbornness of their heart and following the Lords (B`âlíym) that their fathers had taught them; 7 Trumpets final slaughter 14. Therefore,” thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: 74

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“Look, I am causing this people to eat wormwood and causing them to drink water of gall, 15. And I causing them to scatter among the heathen masses that they did not know nor their fathers, and I shall send the sword forth after them until I exterminate them.”

A lesson in proper attitude 16. Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts: “Pay attention! And call for the wailing women so they may come, and send out for the wise women so they may speak, 17. And let them (hurry and) lift up a lamentation concerning you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids stream waters, 18. Because of the sound of the lamentation, it is heard from Tsiyyówn, 75

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“How we have become insolent24! We are extremely ashamed, because we must abandon the Land because our dwellings have cast us out!”

19. Because heed, O women, the Word of Yâ-hwéh, and let your ear accept the word of His mouth and teach your daughters lamentation and each woman her neighbor a dirge, 20. Because death has ascended into our windows, it has come into our Land to cut down the street-children, the young men from the public squares.

21. Speak thus,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “The corpses of the men shall drop like dung on the face of the field and like the

The LXX reveals the meaning of this Strong’s #7703 to reflect more the meaning of #7736, giving a reason to be ashamed.

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swath of cut grain from behind the reaper, but there is no one to gather.”

22. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “Let the wise man not boast about his wisdom and let the warrior not boast about his heroism, let the rich man not boast about his riches: 23. Because let the one boasting rather boast about this – to being circumspect and to acknowledging Me, because I am Yâ-hwéh, the One exercising kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for I delight in these!” [1 Qorinthíym 1: 31] declares Yâ-hwéh.

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declares Yâ-hwéh, “when I shall hold accountable all of the circumcised in uncircumcision; [Galátas 5: 3] 25. Against Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) and against “Yehuwthâ´h” and against ’Ethówm, and against the tribal sons (`Ammówn) and against Mow’â´v and against all of the ones cutting off the corner rim [Leviticus 19: 2725, 49: 32, “Concision” - Philipposíym 3: 2], the ones dwelling in the desert, because all of the heathen masses are uncircumcised, but all of the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l are uncircumcised of heart.” [Romans 2: 2529] Chapter 10 “You shall not be rounding off the rims of your head (glans) and you shall not be depilating the borders of your beards [pubic hair];” 25

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cannot take a step, do not revere them because they cannot harm you, but neither is there anything in them to do good.”

YirmYâ´huw encourages convincing the heathen 6. (Since there is no One like You, Yâhwéh, great are You and great is Your name in power!

7. Who should not revere You, King of the heathen masses? Because it is befitting unto you because from among all of the wise men of the heathen masses and in all of their kingdoms, none is like You! [Disclosure 15: 3] 8. So altogether they are stupid and they are foolish, it is a discipline in the vanity of wood; 9. Hammered silver) from Tarshíysh is brought and gold from Uwphâ´z from the 80

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work of a craftsman and the hands of a goldsmith, blue and purple is their clothing, all of them the work of skilled ones.

10. (But Yâ-hwéh is the true mighty Ones, He is the living mighty Ones, and the eternal King, from His wrath the earth shall tremble, and heathen masses cannot endure His wrath.)

11. Therefore you shall say to them, “The mighty ones who did not make the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens; 12. It is Yâ-hwéh that made the earth by His strength, Who founded the world by His wisdom and by His understanding stretched out the heavens; 13. (For a call He) set an abundance of waters in the heavens, and brought up 81

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clouds from the ends of the earth; He produces lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of His storehouse!”

Yâ-hwéh builds His Convocation outside the Land and sends in the wreckers 14. “Every human is stupid due to his perception, every goldsmith is shamed due to his carved image, because his molten image is a Lie (shéqer) and no spirit is in them; 15. They are vanity, a work of mockeries, during the period of their visitation, they shall perish.

16. The Portion of Ya`aqóv is not like these, because He is the One Who formed everything, He is his inheritance, Yâ-hwéh (of hosts) is His name!

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17. He gathers together your infrastructure outside (the Land) housed in chosen ones, 18. because,” thus says Yâ-hwéh, “Look, I am hurling out the inhabitants of the Land during this moment and I shall cause distress to them in order that they may find what they lost.

19. Hówy unto you concerning your breach, your wound is debilitating, though I am the One Who said, “Surely this is an illness and he can endure it!”

20. My tabernacle, it is devastated, and all of My cords, they have snapped; My sons, and My flock26 even they are no more; there is no one to pitch My tent anymore nor one to place My curtains, 26

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21. because the pastors have become stupid and they have not sought Yâhwéh; for this reason they do not have comprehension in all of the pasture and all of their flock is to be scattered.

22. The sound of the news is here, it is coming and great rumbling from the land of the north to transform the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h into devastation, a refuge for sparrows!”

YirmYâ´huw’s plea 23. “O Yâ-hwéh, I’ve known that the a human’s way is not his own, walking does not belong to a man or to direct his steps; 24. Discipline us, O Yâ-hwéh, only with measure, not in Your anger, lest You make us few; 84

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25. Pour out Your wrath upon the heathen masses that they do not acknowledge You and upon the tribes that do not call on your name, because they have devoured Ya`aqóv, yes they devoured him and they exterminated him and they ravaged his homes!”

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“Cursed is the man that does not heed the words of this covenant 4. that I commanded your forefathers on the day I brought them out from the land of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) out from the furnace of iron, saying, “Heed My voice and you shall work everything that I command you, and you shall be for Me for a people and I, I shall be for you for a mighty Ones; 5. in order that the oath be established that I swore unto your fathers to give to them a Land flowing with milk and honey, like today.” [Letter of BarNâvíy 6: 17, 1 Këph 2: 2] and I responded and I said, “’Âmë´n, Yâ-hwéh.”

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“Recite all of these words in the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h and in the streets of Yruwshâláim, saying, “Hear the words of this covenant, so you shall accomplish them, 7. (because I did surely bear witness by your fathers during the day I raised them out from the land of Mitsráyim even unto this day starting early to warn them again, saying, “Heed My voice!”

8. Yet they did not heed and they did not listen their ear, so they each walked by the stubbornness of their evil heart; so, I shall cause to come upon them all of the words of this covenant that I commanded to be accomplished)27 but they did not do it.”

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Conspiracy against Yâ-hwéh 9. Then Yâ-hwéh said, “Against Me a conspiracy has been found among the men of Yâhuwthâ´h and among the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim.

10. They reverted to the perversities of their first fathers that had refused to heed My words, so they, they have followed after other mighty ones to serve them, the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l and the house of Yâhuwthâ´h have broken My covenant that I did make with their fathers.

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12. And the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h shall go with the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim and they shall cry out for help to the mighty ones, them to which they have been burning incense, but they shall surely not rescue them during the period of their disaster, 13. like the number of your cities are your mighty ones, Yâhuwthâ´h, and the number of streets of Yruwshâláim where you’ve set up altars to the shame, altars to burn incense to the Lord (Bâ´`al); Do not pray for the hardened 14. But you, do not intercede on behalf of this people and do not lift a ringing plea of supplication or prayer on behalf of them, because I am not listening during the period of their call to me on 89

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behalf of their disaster. [1 Yâhuwchânâ´n 5: 16] The ascension of the Wickedness [YchezqË’´l 8: 3-5, Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 31, Mal’âkhíy 2: 11-1228, MattithYâ´huw 24: 15, 2 Thessaloníkeans 2: 34] 15. What does My Beloved have within My house [temple] to work out her many plots? So will they transition to the flesh of pureness due to your ascension [verb = Âlâ´h]? Because it is your Wickedness, you shall rejoice then.29 “Yehuwthâ´h has acted treacherously and a detestable thing has been committed in Yisrâ’Ë´l and in Yruwshâláim because Yehuwthâ´h has profaned the Separate Place of Yâhwéh that He loves, and he took as lord a daughter of an alien mighty one. May Yâ-hwéh cut off from the tents of Ya`aqóv anyone who gives testimony in behalf of the man who does this, though he approaches to bring grain-offerings to Yâ-hwéh of hosts.”

29 This evil plan to have this Lie invade into the Separate Place of the pure ones, to give the anointed falsifier eternal life in his filthy state, will result in his becoming effectively a demon, and will provide the NWO with a king which could live beyond the human lifespan over their world empire which they wish to make under them. Thus this Lie will glow and will have a supernatural appearance, but will need to be thrown into the Lake of Fire 1,000 years early.

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Yâhuwshúa` lights a fire on the house of Yâhuwthâ´h and it turns evil 16. Yâ-hwéh has called your name a green olive tree with beautiful-appearing fruit; with the noise of a huge storm He shall kindle fire upon her [YchezqË´’l 20: 46-47, Tâ’ówm 10] and its branches will become evil; 17. But Yâ-hwéh of hosts Who planted you, He has dictated disaster upon you on account of the evil of the House of Yisrâ’Ë´l and the house of Yâhuwthâ´h that they have worked against themselves to vex Me burning incense to the Lord (Bâ´`al);” Conspiracy against YirmYâ´huw revealed by Yâ-hwéh 91

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18. So Yâ-hwéh, He made it known to me, and I came to know it at that time He showed me their deeds; 19. And I am like a gentle lamb who is led to the slaughter, so I had not perceived that they had plotted plans against me: “Let us cause the wood by his food to rot so we may cut him off from the land of the living, so His name, it shall not be remembered anymore!”

20. But Yâ-hwéh of hosts is Who judges correctness, the One testing the minds and the heart.

“I shall see Your vengeance on them because to You have I disclosed my case at law.”

21. Therefore, thus said Yâ-hwéh: “Concerning the mortal men of `Anâthówth who are seeking your life, saying, 92

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“You shall not predicate by the name of Yâ-hwéh so you may not die by our hand!”

22. 30“Look, I am holding it to account against them, their young men, they shall die by the sword; and their sons and their daughters, they shall die by the famine.

23. And there shall not exist any remnant of them, because I shall bring disaster against the mortal men of `Anâthówth (Responses) the year of their visitation.”

Chapter 12 YirmYâ´huw’s complaint and proposed solution 1. “Righteous are You, Yâ-hwéh!

Though I make a complaint before You, (Therefore thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts,) inserted here by Masoretic, not found in the LXX. We omit it because it does not flow.

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yet let me speak of decisions with you; Why is the way of the wicked profitable?

The treacherous traitors prosper at ease: 2. You planted them and they took root, they reproduce31 and they produce fruit near towards You in their mouths but distant from their minds (lit. kidneys); 3. But You, Yâ-hwéh, You know me, You see me, and You have proven my heart is with You; (Cause them to be dragged away like sheep for the slaughter and) set them apart for the day of their slaughter!

4. Until when shall the Land mourn and the vegetation of every field be dried up due to the evil of the inhabitants in her?

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fowls, because they say, “the mighty Ones, He will not regard our future!”

Yâ-hwéh also reveals a conspiracy against His own life among the same people 5. “As you’ve raced with men on foot and they exhausted you, then how will you psych yourself up to compete with the horses? And you are confident during the Land of peace, but how will you do it during the exaltation of the Descender (ha-Yardë´n)?

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them though they speak agreeable things to you!

7. I have abandoned My house [the House of Yâhuwthâ´h (v. 14)], I have forsaken My inheritance; I have given up My Beloved32 Soul [feminine noun] in the hands of her enemies [Yshá`Yâhuw 42: 1-4, MattithYâ´huw 3: 17, 12: 18, 17: 5, Márquwç 1: 11, Luwqá’ 3: 22, 9: 35, 2 Këph 1: 17], 8. My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the thicket: she sets herself against Me with her call; because of this I hate her.33 Natural consequences of this rebellion Per the LXX which shows “My beloved” to be an adjective to “My Soul”. It is notable that the Greek term here for Beloved also says “in Whom I am well pleased”, Strong’s #25, identified as the Son, Yâhuwshúa`, in the verse references given.

33 Scripturally, to hate means to prefer another, dislike it, think less of it.

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9. Isn’t My inheritance a den of thieves to Me? The vultures are circling over her! Go ye, gather all of the animals of the field, bring them to devour 10. the many pastors who have corrupted My vineyard. They have trampled My parcel of land, they have transformed the portion of My desire into a wasteland of the Desolation; 11. It has assigned her for destruction, a Desolation which has been destroyed concerning Me; the entire land has been made desolate because there is no one setting It on their heart.

[Dâ´niyyË´’l 8: 13, 9: 27, 12: 11] 12. Over every barren height into the uninhabited land34 the spoilers invade, because the sword belongs to Yâ-hwéh, which devours from the one extreme of 34

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the Land even unto the other extreme of the Land, there is no shâlówm for any flesh!

13. They were sown wheat but thorns have been reaped; they made themselves sick, they will not make gain for themselves; so be ashamed because of the product of your lips due to the fierce anger of Yâ-hwéh!”

Yâ-hwéh’s solution 14. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “Concerning all of My wicked neighbors, the ones clinging to the inheritance that I have granted as an inheritance to My people Yisrâ’Ë´l, here I am, tearing them off from upon their Land, also I will cast out the House of Yâhuwthâ´h [the “Yehuwthím”] from among them; 98

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15. Yet it shall occur after my casting them out, I shall return and I shall have compassion on them and I shall bring each one to his inheritance and each one to his land; 16. And it shall happen if they are sure to learn the Way of My people, to swear by My name, “Yâ-hwéh lives (Chay Yâ-hwéh)! just as they had taught My people to swear by the Lord, then they shall be established in the midst of My people; 17. But if they do not turn around, then I shall surely pluck out that heathen mass to destroy it!” (declares Yâ-hwéh.)

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“Go and buy for yourself a loincloth of woven linen, and put it on your hips, but you will not wear it into the waters.”

2. So I bought the loincloth according to the message of Yâ-hwéh, and I put it on my hips.

3. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me a second time, saying: 4. “Take the loincloth (that you bought) that is on your hips and get up and go to the Phrâ´th and hide it in there in a cleft of the rock.”

5. So I went and hid it in the Phrâ´th just as Yâ-hwéh had ordered me.

6. And it was after many days when Yâhwéh said to me, “Get up, go to the Phrâ´th and take from there the loincloth that I ordered you to hide there.”

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7. So I went to the Phrâ´th and I searched it out and fetched the loincloth from the place that I had hidden it there, but look, the loincloth was shredded: it was not useful for anything.

8. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me, saying: 9. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: (9.) Like thus shall I ruin the abundant pride of Yâhuwthâ´h and the pride of Yruwshâláim, 10. this evil people who are refusing to heed My words who are walking by the hardness of their heart, so they follow after other mighty ones to serve them and to do homage to them. And it [this people] shall be like this loincloth that is not useful for anything; 101

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11. Because just as the loincloth clings to the hips of a man, thus I have caused the entire house of Yisrâ’Ë´l and the entire house of Yâhuwthâ´h to cling to Me,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “for being Mine for a people, and for the name, and for a praise, and for an honor; yet they did not heed; 12. So you shall say to them this message: “Thus says Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: Every drinking-vessel shall be filled with wine.”

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“Thus says Yâ-hwéh: Look, I am filling with drunkenness all of the inhabitants of this land, even the kings of Dâwíth which are sitting upon his throne and the priests and the predicators and Yâhuwthâ´h and all of the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim; 14. So shall I break apart each one of them against his brother and their fathers and the sons together!” declares Yâ-hwéh, “I shall not spare, and I shall not have pity, and I shall not have too much compassion from destroying them.”

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[kingdoms] of the twilight, and you wait eagerly for the Light [feminine noun], but He will set her for a shadow of death [`Âmówç 5: 18-2035], yet you36 shall change her into a thick gloomy darkness!

[MattithYâ´huw 6: 22-23, Romans 1: 21] 17. But if you will not listen to her [the Light (v.16)] in the hidden places, my soul will weep from behind my face, and it shall surely weep and my eye shall overflow with tears because the flock of Yâ-hwéh is to be taken captive!

[Yshá`Yâhuw 47: 6] 18. “Say to the King and to the queen mother, Woe to the ones longing for the Day of Yâ-hwéh! Why is this, for you to long for the Day of Yâ-hwéh? That day is darkness and not light; It is as though a man fled from before the lion and the bear met him, and he entered the house and he rested his hand on the wall, and the snake bit him! Won't the Day of Yâ-hwéh be darkness and not light, even pitch-dark and without any brightness?

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“Set yourselves down in a lower place and stay because the crown of your honorable rank has descended from your place at the head.” [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 21, the overthrowing of the British Royal headship of the NWO] 19. The cities of the south, they are to be shut up, and there shall exist no one to open them.

The disclosure of the destruction37 by “Yehuwthâ´h”, the disclosure of the Retribution ( Hâ-ghlâ´th shilluwmíym): 20. Lift up your eyes, Yruwshâláim, and look at the invaders from the north! [1: 14-16] Where is the flock which was ‫ׇה־ג ְׇלת שִׁלּוּמִים‬

Strong’s #3615 kâlâ´h, which can be transitive or intransitive, destruction can mean his destruction or the destruction he causes, by the context, Yehuwthâ´h is the name of the traitor whose soul is to be infused into the impostor, the leader of his spiritual people the Yehuwthím who follow him in his betrayal of Yâhuwshúa`. By the context, this speaks of the destruction he causes, and his Retribution (“Days of vengeance” per KJV) against the Christians who rebel against him, the flock which is entrusted to him.

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entrusted to you, the sheep of your boasting?

21. What will you say when he [the flock38] appoints over you even them who you cultivated as allies, over you, for your head? Will pains not grip you like a woman in labor? [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 30] 22. And as you ask in your heart, “Why did these things happen to me?”

By the abundance of your sins your skirts were torn off and your hindparts were thrashed!

23. Can a Kuwshíy change his skin, or can a leopard change his spots? Also you, can you do goodness, who are accustomed to do evil?

Note that though this describes the Christian armies appointing the “Yehuwthím” to take charge of the situation of the impostor anointed Yehuwthâ´h, the reverse will occur also per Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 39, as part of his retribution.

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24. So I will scatter them [the invading flock] like the chaff which is driven by the desert wind!

25. This is your lot (I have decreed for you), and the reward of your disobedience to Me,” declares Yâ-hwéh, (26.) “Because you have forgotten Me and you have trusted in the Lie. 26.I shall also expose your rear against your face, and your dishonor shall be seen, 27. Your adulteries and your neighing, the deliberateness of your whoredom; on the hills, in the field, I have seen your abominations; ’Ówy to you, Yruwshâláim, after how long are you still not cleansed?”

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1. That which is the message of Yâ-hwéh to YirmYâ´huw about the matters of the droughts: 2. “Yâhuwthâ´h laments, and her gate meeting-places languish, they mourn for the Land; the outcry of Yruwshâláim ascends!

3. So their great ones, they dispatch their younger ones for water, they go about cisterns, they do not find waters, they return, their vessels are empty; (they are ashamed and they are humiliated so they cover their head;) 4. And the tilling of39 the ground fails because there was no rain (in the Land), the farmers are ashamed, they cover their head, LXX reveals the Masoretic to have misread the original #5647 as Strong’s #5668, an error of mistaking one letter, ‫ד‬for ‫ר‬.

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5. As also the doe gives birth in the field and is to abandon it because there is no grass, 6. Even the wild donkeys which stayed on the bare places, they gasp for breath like the dinosaurs, their eyes spent because there is no herbage.”

YirmYâ´huw’s appeal for Yâ-hwéh’s name’s sake regarding the hardened 7. “Although our sins testify against us, Yâ-hwéh, work for the sake of Your name, because our backslidings are numerous, it is against you we have sinned.

8. Yâ-hwéh is the patient enduring Hope of Yisrâ’Ë´l and its Savior in the period of distress, why have You become like a visitor in the Land or like a traveler who turns aside to spend the night?

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9. (Why) have You become like one who is silent40, or like a warrior who does not have the ability to rescue? Yet You are among our midst, Yâ-hwéh, and Your name, among us it is called, do not forsake us!

10. Thus has said Yâ-hwéh for this people correctly: their feet love to wander and they do not refrain, so Yâhwéh, He is not accepting them now.

He shall remember their iniquity and He shall hold them to account for their sins.”

11. So Yâ-hwéh said to me, “Do not intercede on behalf of this people for goodness, 12. Though they fast, I am not listening to their ringing cry of Masoretic mistakenly reversed two letters in dâmâ´h, Strong’s #1820 to read dâhâ´m, Strong’s #1724.

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supplication, and though they raise a burnt offering or a grain offering, I am not accepting them, as I am terminating them by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence.”

13. So I said, “’Ahâ´hh my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh, look, their predicators are saying, ‘You shall not see a sword or famine, it shall not exist among you because I shall grant to you true peace in the place of this!’”

14. And Yâ-hwéh said to me, “It is a lie that the predicators are ones predicating by My name. I have not sent them and I have not given a command to them and I have not dictated to them, what they are predicating to you is a vision of the Lie 111

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and consulting of spirits and worthless things and a deception of their heart.

15. Therefore, thus says Yâ-hwéh concerning the predicators, the ones “predicating by My name”, though I am not Who sent them, yet they are the ones saying sword or famine shall not exist in this land: by the sword and by the famine shall those predicators be finished off!

16. And the people for whom they are the ones predicating, they shall be the ones thrown out into the streets of Yruwshâláim from the face of the pestilence and the sword, and they shall be no one to bury them, they, their wives or their sons or their daughters, and I shall pour out upon them their evil.

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17. But you shall speak to them this word: “The tears of my eyes shall descend night and day and they shall not cease because the huge breach has crippled the virgin of the daughter of my people, a very debilitating wound.

18. Whether I go out in the field then here are the ones slain by the sword, and if I go to the city and here are the diseased of famine, because both predicator and priest have done business with the land and they did not acknowledge.”

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eagerly for peace but there is no goodness, and for a period of mending but look, terror!

20. Yâ-hwéh we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers, because we have sinned against You. 21. Do not spurn for the sake of Your name, do not treat with contempt the throne of Your Honor, remember to not break Your covenant with us; 22. Is there one among the vanities of the heathen masses one that brings rain or which grants the skies showers? Isn’t He You, Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones? So we wait eagerly for You because You are Who works all of these.”

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“Though Moshéh or Shmuw’Ë´l were standing before Me, My heart would not be towards this people, dismiss them away from My Face and let them depart.

2. And it shall occur as they say to you, “To where shall we depart?”

Then you shall say to them, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: that which is for the death to the death and that which is for the sword to the sword, and that which is for the famine to the famine and that which is for the captivity to the captivity; 3. So shall I assign upon them four kinds [of departures (v. 1-2)],” declares Yâ-hwéh, “the sword to slay, and the dogs to drag off, and the bird of the skies and the beast of the land to devour and to destroy.

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4. So I shall turn them into an object of horror for all of the kingdoms of the earth on account of Mnashshéh the King of Yâhuwthâ´h concerning that which he worked in Yruwshâláim.

5. Because who is the one who will pity on you, Yruwshâláim? And who is the one who will show grief for you? And who is the one who will turn off the way to inquire about your shâlówm (peace, integrity, reconciliation)?

6. You are the one who has rejected Me!” declares Yâ-hwéh, Continued apostasy before the Judgment “You continue walking backwards, so I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you, I am tired of showing compassion.

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7. So I shall sift (winnow) them with a pitchfork, at the gates of the Land I shall miscarry them, I shall exterminate [those of] My people by means of their iniquities (who have not changed from their ways).

8. Their widows will be more numerous to Me than the sand of the seas – I will bring upon them, against the mother of the youths, one destroying at the midday [Psalms 91: 6], I will suddenly apportion by lot to them terror and sudden ruin!

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survivors to the sword before their enemies,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

YirmYâ´huw complains battling has not helped 10. “’Ówy is mine, my mother, because you bore me a man of controversy and a man of contention against the whole Land. I did not profit them nor did anyone assist me, my strength has failed among those cursing me.”

11. “It is so,” Yâ-hwéh (said,) “during their guidance; surely I shall present41 you for good, (surely I shall make it reach the mark in you) before the enemy during the season of their evil and during the season of their oppression!

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Will iron recognize (northern iron) and a mantle of bronze?

13. Your forces and your armory shall I give up for a spoil for no reward, even within all of your sins and in all of your territories.

14. So I shall cause your enemies to be enslaved in a land you do not know42, because a fire is what shall be kindled by My anger, against you [plural] it shall burn.”

YirmYâ´huw appeals separating himself 15. “You are Who knows, Yâ-hwéh, remember me and look after me and avenge me from my persecutors, do not bear Your anger long with them, The wilderness uninhabited lands called the “Americas” is where many enemies were enslaved, and a fire of anger was kindled.

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recognize I have endured reproach about You 16. by those who disparage Your words, so consume them; though Your words shall come to be a joy for me and a delight of my heart because Your name has been proclaimed because of me, Yâhwéh, the mighty Ones of hosts!

17. I did not stay in the company of the revelers and I acted cautiously due to the presence of Your hand; I stayed alone because of the indignation with which You filled me.

18. Why do they that cause my sorrow prevail? (and) my wound is severe, how will she be cured? Are You surely to become for me like a deception of water, unreliable?”

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19. “Therefore,” thus says Yâ-hwéh: “if you come back, then I shall restore you: before Me you shall stand; and if you lead out the valuable from the worthless, you shall become like My mouth. They shall return to you, but you, you shall not return to them.

20. And to this people I shall turn you into a fortified bronze wall, and they shall battle against you but they shall not prevail against you because I am with you to rescue you and to deliver you,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 21. “and I shall deliver you from the hand of the wicked and I shall ransom you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

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Conditions of separation and a fulfilled prediction 1. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me, saying: 2. “You will not take a wife for yourself and you will have no sons or daughters in this place, 3. because thus says Yâ-hwéh about the sons and about the daughters who are born in this place and about their mothers who are bearing them, and about their fathers who are procreating them in this land: 4. They shall die diseased deaths, they shall not be mourned, and they shall not be buried; they shall be for dung on the face of the earth, and they shall be finished off by the sword and by the famine, and their corpses shall be for 122

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food for the birds of the skies and for the beasts of the earth; 5. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh: You shall not enter a house of mourning and you shall not go to mourn and you shall not show grief for them because I have withdrawn My shâlówm (peace, reconciliation, completeness) from with this people,” declares Yâ-hwéh, (“the love, and the compassions, 6. and the great ones and the small ones shall die, in this land they shall not be buried,) and they shall not be mourned and no one will make cuttings nor will one shave oneself bald for them, 7. And there shall be no bread broken for them in mourning to comfort one over the dead, and they shall not give them a 123

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drink of a cup of consolations over one’s father or over one’s mother.

8. And you shall not enter a restaurant to sit with them for eating or for drinking, 9. because thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: look, I am causing to cease from this place for your eyes and during your days the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; 10. And it shall happen as you have declared to this people all of these words, when they shall say to you, “For what reason has Yâ-hwéh dictated against us all of this great disaster? And what is our iniquity?

And what is our sin that we have sinned against Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones?”

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11. Then you shall say to them, for the reason that your fathers forsook Me, declares Yâ-hwéh, and they walked following other mighty ones and they served them and they worshipped them, but Me they did forsake and My instructions they did not keep.

12. And you, you were more wicked in behavior than your fathers and look, ye are each walking following the stubbornness of his own wicked heart in order to not heed Me. 13. So I shall hurl you out from upon this land onto the land you do not know, neither you nor your fathers, and there you will serve other mighty ones daily and nightly because I shall not grant favor to you.

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14. Therefore look, days are coming,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “when it shall not be said anymore “Yâhwéh lives, that is Who brought up the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l out from the land of Mitsráyim” 15. Because instead [it shall be said (v.14)], “Yâ-hwéh lives, that is Who brought up the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l from the land of the north and from all of the lands to which He had banished them,” yet I shall restore them onto their land that I gave to their fathers.

16. See, I am sending many ones for fishermen,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “and they will catch them! [(Fifth Trumpet) Disclosure 9: 1-12, 14: 14-16] And after that, I will send for many ones hunters, and they will hunt them down 126

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from upon every mountain and from upon every hill, and from the crevices of the rocks! [(Sixth Trumpet) Disclosure 9: 13-21, 14: 17-20] 17. Because My eyes are on all of their ways, and their iniquities are not hidden from the view of My eyes; 18. And (the first thing for which) I will make retribution twice is their iniquity and their sin: concerning their defilement of My land by the carcasses of their detestable abominations, and for having filled My inheritance with their disgusting abominations.”

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distress, to You shall the heathen masses come from the ends of the earth and they shall say, “It is only the Lie which our fathers inherited, vanity and there is no profit in them!” [Yshá`Yâhuw 2: 2] Yâ-hwéh explains why the Bâvél captivity was to come (even today’s) 20. “Shall a human fashion for himself mighty ones when they are not mighty ones?

21. Therefore here am I, to make known at this instance My Arm and My mighty deeds, and they shall acknowledge that My name is Yâhwéh.” [Disclosure 7: 9-17, 15: 3-4] Chapter 17 1. [verses 1-4 not found in LXX] 128

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(The sin of “Yehuwthâ´h” is being engraved by an iron tool with a point of flint; it is being inscribed upon the tablet of their heart, even onto the horns of your altars;) 2. (as their sons record their altars and their ’Ashërâ´hs on the spreading trees on the high hills.)

3. (though My mountain is in the field of your forces, I shall give over all of your treasures for spoil because of sin in all of your territories,) 4. (and you shall drop even yourself from your inheritance that I granted to you; and I shall compel you to labor for your enemies in a land that you do not recognize because you kindled a fire by My anger, it shall burn unto the age;”) “Yehuwthím” contrasted with Yâhuwthím

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7. Blessed is the valiant man that trusts in Yâ-hwéh and Yâ-hwéh is his Object of confidence: 8. And he shall be like a tree which is planted over waters and by a stream he dispatches his roots, and he shall not fear when heat comes, and his foliage is lush even in the year of the drought he will

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not be afraid, and he shall not fail from bearing fruit; 9. The heart is slippery more than anything and it is frail; who is the One Who understands it?

10. I, Yâ-hwéh, am the One Who searches the heart, examining the minds [lit. kidneys] even to give to the man according to his ways according to the fruits of his deeds.

11. [As] a partridge summons others out to gather [eggs] (even hatching) what she did not lay; one obtaining riches but not by rectitude, during the midst of his days, it will forsake him and in his future he shall be [reckoned] a fool.

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13. The Hope of Yisrâ’Ë´l is Yâ-hwéh!

All the ones abandoning You, they shall be shamed!”

“The ones who left Me, it shall be recorded in the Land that they abandoned the Spring of living waters: Yâ-hwéh. [2: 13]” YirmYâ´huw’s appeal because he did not rebel 14. “Mend me, Yâ-hwéh, and I shall be cured: rescue me and I shall be saved because You are my Object of praise!

15. Look, they are the ones saying to me, “Where is the Word of Yâ-hwéh?

Let Him come now!”

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knows the utterances of my lips, it is in front of Your Face.

17. You will not be to me for an Object of terror; You are my Refuge during the Day of evil.

18. The ones persecuting me shall be shamed, but I will not be shamed; they shall be dismayed but I will not be dismayed when the Day of evil is to be brought in upon them, so break them with a second destruction.”

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in, and by which they exit, and in all of the gates of Yruwshâláim, 20. And you shall say to them, “Hear the Word of Yâ-hwéh, kings of Yâhuwthâ´h, and all of Yâhuwthâ´h, and all of the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim, who come through these gates, 21. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: Beware in yourselves so you do not carry a burden on the day of the shabbâ´th nor bring it into the gates of Yruwshâláim; 22. and do not carry out a burden from your houses on the day of the shabbâ´th and you shall not work any work, so you may dedicate the day of the shabbâ´th just as I commanded your fathers; 23. Yet they did not heed and they did not listen their ear, but they stiffened 134

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their neck to not listen and to not accept correction; 24. But it shall be when you surely shall heed Me,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “to not bring a burden into the gates of this city during the day of the shabbâ´th and to dedicate the day of the shabbâ´th to not work during it any work, 25. Then shall come into the gates of this city the kings and officers sitting on the throne of Dâwíth who ride on the chariot and on the horses, they and their officials, the man of Yâhuwthâ´h, and the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim, and this city shall be inhabited forever.

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the land of Binyâmín and from the lowland and from the mountain and from the south, ones bringing burnt offering and slaughter offering and grain offering and incense, even ones bringing thanks unto the house of Yâhwéh.

27. Yet if you do not heed Me to dedicate the day of the shabbâ´th and to not carry a burden and enter by the gates of Yruwshâláim during the day of the shabbâ´th, then I shall set on fire a fire in her gates and it shall consume the citadel of Yruwshâláim and it shall not be extinguished.”

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1. The Word that was to YirmYâ´huw from Yâ-hwéh, saying: 2. “Get up and you shall descend to the house of the potter, and there, I shall cause you to hear My Word.”

3. So I descended to the house of the potter, and look, he was working a work on the potter’s wheels; 4. But the vessel that he was working in the clay was ruined in the hand of the potter, so he went back and he worked another vessel just as it was right in the eyes of the potter to work; 5. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me, saying: 6. “House of Yisrâ’Ë´l, can’t I work you as this potter?” declares Yâ-hwéh, 137

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“Look, like the clay in the hand of the potter, thus are you in My hand, O House of Yisrâ’Ë´l.

7. Whenever I dictate concerning a heathen mass or concerning a kingdom to uproot (or to tear down) or to destroy, 8. And that heathen mass turns back from its evil that I dictated about it, then I shall relent about the disaster that I had planned to work upon it, 9. But the moment I dictate concerning a heathen mass or concerning a kingdom to build it or to plant it, 10. And it works the evil in My eyes in order to not heed My voice, then shall I relent about the goodness that I had said to do to benefit him.

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11. So now, say now to the man of Yâhuwthâ´h and about the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim, saying, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: Look! I am Who is forming for you a disaster and devising a device against you; turn now each one from his evil way and make your ways and your deeds become good!”

12. But they shall say, “We will be manly, because we shall walk following our devices and each one of us shall work the stubbornness of his evil heart.”

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14. Does the snow of the Whiteness (Lvânówn) forsake the cliff of its slope?

Or do they pick foreign cold water to trickle?

15. Because My people have forgotten Me, they burn incense to vanity and they have tripped them in their ways – the eternal paths – to walk trails, a way not mounted up, 16. to appoint their Land to waste, a perpetual object to whistle at; all traveling on her will be appalled and shake his head.

17. Like the wind of the east I shall scatter them before their enemy, I will let them see (the back and not the Face during) the day of their calamity.”

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18. So they said, “Come and let us devise plans against YirmYâ´huw, because the Instructions (Towrâ´h) will not go astray from the priest, nor the advice from the wise, nor the message from the predicator. Come and let us scourge him verbally and let us not pay attention to any of his words!”

YirmYâ´huw’s legal complaint 19. “Pay attention to me, Yâ-hwéh, and hear the voice of my legal complaint!

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power of the sword; let their women be childless and widows and let their men be slain by death and their young men be slain by the sword in war.

22. Let there be a cry in their houses as You bring troops against them suddenly, because they did dig a pit to capture me, and they laid hidden snares for my feet.

23. And You, Yâ-hwéh, are Who knows all of their death-plots against me, do not propitiate their iniquity and do not blot out their sin from before You, so they may be toppled before You during the season of Your wrath You work on them.”

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Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “Go and you shall get a clay jar of the potter and some from the elders of the people and some from the elders of the priests; 2. Then go out to the Valley of the son of Hinnóm, that is at the entry of the Potsherd gate, and you shall proclaim there the words that I will dictate to you; 3. And you shall say, “Heed the Word of Yâ-hwéh, kings of Yâhuwthâ´h, men of Yâhuwthâ´h, and inhabitants of Yruwshâláim, and they that enter in by these gates: Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: Look, I am bringing a disaster upon this place that will make 143

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tingle the ears of everyone hearing of it!

4. Due to the fact that they did forsake Me though they do regard44 this place, yet they burned incense in it to other mighty ones that they did not acknowledge, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Yâhuwthâ´h, plus they have filled this place with the blood of innocent ones; 5. And they built the high places for the Lord (ha-Bá`al) to burn their sons in the fire, burnt-offerings for the Lord (ha-Bá`al) which I did not command and I did not dictate nor had even arisen into My heart!

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“when this place shall no longer be called the Tópheth [Yshá`Yâhuw 30: 33] nor the Valley of the son of Hinnóm, rather instead the Valley of the Slaughter (Gëy’-ha-Harëǧâ´h); 7. And I shall annul the plan of Yâhuwthâ´h and Yruwshâláim in this place, and I shall make them fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their lives, and I shall give their corpses for food to the fowls of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.

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daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his friend during the siege even during the oppression that their enemies shall impose on them,” 10. Then you shall break the jar in the sight of the mortal men who are walking with you, 11. And you shall say to them, “This says Yâ-hwéh of hosts: like this shall I shatter this people and this city, just like he smashed the vessel of the potter that cannot be mended again45; 12. Thus shall I do to this place,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “and to its inhabitants, even to give up this city as fallen to ruins.

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shall become like a place fallen to ruins, for all of the profanities inside of the houses that had burned incense on their roofs for all of the hosts of the heavens, and to pour out drink offerings to other mighty ones.”

14. Then YirmYâ´huw came from the place of the fall, Tópheth, where Yâ-hwéh had sent him there to predicate, and he stood up in the enclosure of the house of Yâhwéh, and he said to all of the people: 15. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: “Look, I am bringing towards this city and upon all of her towns every disaster that I dictated against her because they have stiffened their neck in order to not heed My Word.”

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Chapter 20 The chief officer of the house of Yâ-hwéh rebels against Him also 1. And Pashchúwr [“Freedom”] the son of ’Immë´r the priest heard YirmYâ´huw predicating these words when he was the chief officer in the house of Yâ-hwéh, 2. So Pashchúwr had YirmYâ´huw the predicator beaten and he put him on the stocks which are by the upper Gate of Binyâmín which is by the house of Yâhwéh, 3. And it happened on the day after when Pashchúwr released YirmYâ´huw from the stock, then YirmYâ´huw said to him, “It is not ‘Pashchúwr’ Yâ-hwéh calls your name, but rather ‘Mâǧúwr Miççâvíyv’ [“Terror on every side”]” 4. “Because of this,” says Yâ-hwéh, 148

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“look! I am making you for a terror (Mâǧúwr) for you and for all of your friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and your eyes shall see it when I shall give all of Yâhuwthâ´h into the hand of the king of Bâvél, and he shall carry them away into exile into Bâvél or he shall slay them by the sword; 5. And I shall give over all of the wealth of this city and all of her production and all of her valuables and all of the treasures of the kings of Yâhuwthâ´h, I shall give into the hand of their enemies and they shall plunder them and they shall take them and they shall carry it into Bâvél; 6. And you, Pashchúwr and all of the inhabitants of your house, you will walk into captivity, and you shall come to 149

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Bâvél and there you shall die and there you shall be buried, you, and all of your friends that you predicated by the Lie to them.”

YirmYâ´huw’s legal case: all honor belongs to Yâ-hwéh 7. “Yâ-hwéh, You persuaded me though I was deceived; You pressed me and You prevailed; I became the one for a laughing stock all day long, everyone derisively mocks me; 8. Because whenever I dictated, I proclaimed violence, and ruin is what I cry out, thus the Word of Yâ-hwéh has been for me for an insult and a reproach all day long.

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Or “I will not speak by His name any more”, then it is within my heart like a fire, burning, being shut up in my bones.

And I am weary of holding it in, and indeed I cannot.

10. Because I hear the multitudes of slanders of ‘Mâǧúwr Miççâvíyv’ [“Terror on every side”], “Declare it, and we will announce it!”

Every mortal man at peace with me is watching for me to stumble, “Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can prevail over him, and we will take our revenge on him!”

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and they shall not prevail. They shall be put to exceeding shame because they did not have the insight; the ignominy of eternity shall not be forgotten.

12. But Yâ-hwéh of hosts is the One proving the righteous, the One perceiving the minds [lit. kidneys] and the heart: I shall see You take vengeance on them because I have disclosed my case at law to You. 13. Sing to Yâ-hwéh! Boast about Yâhwéh because He rescues the life of the needy from the hand of the evildoers!

14. Cursed is the day on which I was born, the day that my mother bore me, it is not blessed!

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16. though that man [the father] shall become like the towns that Yâ-hwéh overthrew in fury and did not regret, when he shall hear the outcry in the morning and alarm of war at noontime 17. because he [the father] did not slay me from the womb so my mother would have been my tomb for me and her womb pregnant forever; 18. Why is this? Did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and my days would come to an end in shame?”

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MalkkiyYâ´hu and TsphanYâ´hu the son of Ma`asëYâ´hu the priest, saying: 2. “Inquire now on behalf of us of Yâhwéh because Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél is waging war against us; perhaps Yâ-hwéh will work for us according to all of His marvels so he may withdraw from against us!”

3. But YirmYâ´huw said to them, “Thus shall you say to TsithqiyYâ´huw: 4. Thus says Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: “Look, I am turning around the weapons of war that are in your power with which you wage war against the king of Bâvél and the Increases (Kasdíym) who are sieging against you from outside the walls, and I will gather them into the midst of this city; 154

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5. Even I Myself shall fight against you with an extended hand and with a strong arm, (even) with anger and (in fury and in) great wrath; 6. And I shall strike the inhabitants of this city both human and beast, by a huge pestilence they shall die; 7. And following that,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “I shall give over to TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h and his officials and the people and the survivors in this city from the pestilence, from the sword and from the famine into the hand of Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of the ones seeking their lives, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not have 155

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pity on them and he shall not spare and he shall not have compassion.

Yâ-hwéh offers a way to survive 8. So to this people, you shall say, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: look! I am putting before you a Way of Life and a Way of Death, 9. The one staying in this city, he shall die by the sword or by the famine or by the pestilence, but the one who departs and who prostrates himself to the Kasdíym besieging against you, he shall live though his life shall be for them as plunder.

10. As I have set My Face against this city for evil and not for goodness,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 156

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“into the hand of the king of Bâvél she shall be given and he shall burn her with fire; Royals, free YirmYâ´huw 11. And for the House of the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, heed the Word of Yâhwéh: 12. House of Dâwíth, thus says Yâhwéh: Execute justice in the morning and rescue the seized one from the hand of the oppressor lest My wrath break out like fire and it will burn, and there shall be no one to extinguish it.

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“the ones saying, “Who is it who can come down upon us? And who is it who can invade our refuges?”

14. (But I shall visit upon you according to the fruit of your deeds,” declares Yâhwéh,) “and I shall kindle a fire in its forest [military] and it shall consume everything around it.”

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of Dâwíth, you and your officials and your people who are coming into these gates: 3. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: Work justice and correctness and rescue the seized one from the hand of the oppressor, and you shall not vex or violently mistreat an alien, a fatherless one, or a widow, and you shall not shed innocent blood in this place; 4. Because if you surely will work this word, then into the gates of this house shall come kings who sit for Dâwíth upon his throne, ones riding in the chariot and on the horses, he and his officers and his people.

5. But if you shall not heed these words, by Myself I swear,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 159

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“that this [royal] house shall become a ruin, 6. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh about the house of the king of Yâhuwthâ´h: though a Witness heap (Gal`ë´th) are you to Me, the head of the Whiteness (Lvânówn), surely I shall turn you to uninhabited land, cities not inhabited; 7. So I shall dedicate against you destroyers, each one with his equipment, and they shall cut down your best cedar beams and throw them out onto the fire; 8. And many heathen masses shall pass through this city and they will say each one to their fellow, “For what reason did Yâ-hwéh work such as this to this great city?”

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“due to the fact that they abandoned the covenant of Yâ-hwéh their mighty Ones and they prostrated themselves in homage to other mighty ones and they served them.”

10. Do not weep for the dead and don’t you grieve for him, surely weep for the ones walking away because he shall not return anymore nor will he see his native land; 11. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh towards Shallúwm the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, the king in the stead of Yo’shiyYâ´huw his father who had departed from this place who did not return there anymore.

12. Because in the place that they took him into exile, there shall he die and he shall not see this land anymore.

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13. Hówy to one building his house without correctness and his loft-rooms without rectitude, his friend does labor for no wages, and he doesn’t pay him for his work; 14. The one saying, “I shall build for myself a customdesigned house with spacious loftrooms and cutting out for it windows, with paneling in cedar and varnished in red.”

15. Are you king because you psych yourself up with your father’s cedar?

Didn’t he eat and drink and work justice and correctness so goodness would be his?

16. He pleaded the cause of the poor and the needy, isn’t it the acknowledgment of Me?” declares Yâ-hwéh, 162

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17. “Because there is nothing in your eyes or your heart except concerning your gain acquired by violence and concerning the working of the spilling of the blood of the innocent and the extortion and the oppression; 18. Therefore thus says Yâ-hwéh towards Yâhuwyâqíym the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h: they shall not lament for him, “Hówy, my brother!” or “Hówy, my sister!” They shall not lament to him, “Hówy O sovereign!” or “Hówy his majesty!”

19. A burial of a donkey is how he shall be buried, to be dragged and to be thrown out beyond the gates of Yruwshâláim!

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make your call to cry for help from the land beyond the sea because all of your allies have been crushed.

21. I did dictate it concerning your fall to you during your period of ease, you said, “I will not heed.”

This is your way from your youth, as you did not heed My voice.

22. All of your pastors shall associate with a spirit and your allies shall walk into captivity, because then you shall be shamed and you shall be humiliated due to all of your wickedness.

23. O one who dwells in the Whiteness (Lvânówn), nested among the cedars, what pity shall you get when the pangs of pain come upon you like a woman in labor?

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declares Yâ-hwéh, “though YkânYâ´huw [MattithYâ´huw 1: 11] the son of Yâhuwyâqíym [36: 30] the king of Yâhuwthâ´h were the signet ring on My right hand, likewise from there I would pull you off!

25. And I shall give you over into the hand of the ones seeking your life and into the hand of that which you are afraid of facing, even into the hand of Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél and into the hand of the Kasdíym, 26. And I shall throw you and your mother who bore you out onto a different land where you were not born and there you shall die; 27. But onto the land that they are the ones longing with their souls to return there, there you shall not return.

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28. Is this one, YkânYâ´huw, a despised creation to be beaten into pieces? Or a vessel without any pleasantness in it?

For what reason will they be thrown out, he and his seed, and why shall they be cast out onto the land that they do not recognize?

29. Land, land, land, heed the Word of Yâ-hwéh!

30. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: record this one stripped [of rank], a mighty man who shall not prosper during his days as not one from his seed shall prosper to sit upon the throne of Dâwíth or to rule anymore in Yâhuwthâ´h!”

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1. “Hówy to the pastors who are exterminating and scattering the sheep of My pasture,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 2. “Therefore, thus says Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l concerning the pastors tending My people: Ye are who scattered My flock and you banished them and ye did not attend to them; here I am, reckoning against you the evil of your deeds,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 3. “So I am Who will gather the remnant of My flock from all of the lands to where I had banished them, and I shall bring them back onto their pasture and they shall bear fruit and they shall multiply, 4. And I shall set up pastors over them and they shall tend them and they shall 167

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not be afraid anymore and they shall not be broken up and they shall not be sought for in vain,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 5. “Look! Days are coming,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “when I shall raise up to Dâwíth a righteous Shoot, and He shall reign a King and He shall be wise and He shall work justice and rectitude in the Land; 6. During His days, Yâhuwthâ´h shall be rescued and Yisrâ’Ë´l, it shall dwell securely and this, His name, that Yâhwéh shall call Him is our Justification.

7. Therefore look! Days are coming,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “when they shall not say anymore “Yâ-hwéh lives, Who brought up the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l from the land of Mitsráyim,” 168

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8. but rather, “Yâ-hwéh lives, Who brought up and Who brought in the whole seed of the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l from the northern land and from all of the lands to where He banished them so they shall dwell on their land.”” [Yshá`Yâhuw 45: 25, Romans 9: 6, 11: 26] Corruption in His spiritual house 9. By the predictions, my heart has been broken inside me, all of my bones soften, I have been like a drunken man and like a valiant man whom wine has overtaken, due to facing Yâ-hwéh and due to facing the messages of His pureness 10. (because the Land is full of [spiritual] adultery!)

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“Likewise due to facing the Curse (’âlâ´h) [Deuteronomy 28: 15-68] the Land dwindles, the pastures of the uninhabited land are dried up, and their lifestyle has become evil and their bravery is not upright; 11. Because both preacher and priest are corrupted, also in My house [i.e. convocation] do I find their iniquities,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

12. “Therefore their way shall become for them as treacherous smooth-talk in the darkness, they will be thrust down and they shall fall by it, because I shall bring the Evil upon them the year of their reckoning,” declares Yâ-hwéh, [Psalms 35: 646, Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 21, 34, 2 Këph 2: 3, 11: 34] Let their way become darkness and treacherous smooth-talk, with the Envoy of Yâhwéh pursuing them.

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13. “Though among the preachers of Shomrówn I have seen foolishness, they were predicating by the Lord (Bá`al) and they misled My people Yisrâ’Ë´l; 14. But among the preachers of Yruwshâláim I have seen a horrifying thing: to commit adultery and to walk in the Lie, and they encourage the hands of evildoers for not one of them to turn back from his evil; All of them are to Me like Çthóm, and her inhabitants like `Amorâ´h!

15. Therefore thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts concerning the preachers: Look! I am making them eat wormwood (La`anâ´h) [Deuteronomy 29: 18, Disclosure 8: 11] and I shall make them drink the waters of gall, because it is from the preachers of Yruwshâláim the 171

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profaneness has proceeded forth to all of the Land; 16. Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts: Do not heed the messages of the preachers who are predicating to you, they are ones who fill you with vain hopes, they dictate a vision of their heart, it is not from the mouth of Yâ-hwéh; 17. Ones saying to say to ones who despise Me, the Word of Yâ-hwéh, “Peace shall be yours!” and everyone walking in the stubbornness of his heart, they say, “No harm shall come upon you!”

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Judgment comes during the latter days 19. Look! The cyclone of Yâ-hwéh is fury, it shall proceed forth, and the cyclone is whirling around, over the head of the wicked ones it shall whirl; 20. The anger of Yâ-hwéh shall not turn back until it is accomplished and until it has established the purposes of His heart, during the latter days ye will study its understanding. [Disclosure 15: 1] Spirits of the Lie dispatch the preachers of the Lie 21. I did not dispatch the preachers yet they, they ran! I did not dictate to them, yet they, they preached!

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heard to My people, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their practices.

23. I am the mighty Ones from nearby,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “and not the mighty Ones from a distance; 24. Can anyone hide in a hiding place so I would not see him?” declares Yâ-hwéh, “Isn’t it I Who fill the heavens and the earth?” declares Yâ-hwéh; 25. “I have heard what the preachers say, the ones predicating a Lie by My name, saying, “I dreamed, I dreamed!”

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and preachers of the deception of their heart? [1 Yâhuwchânâ´n 4: 1-3] 27. The ones meaning to make My people forget My name by their dreams that they each tell to their friend, just as their fathers forgot My name by the Lord (Bá`al); 28. The preacher has a dream, let him recount the dream, but that one who has My Word, let him dictate My Word accurately. What does a straw have against the grain?” declares Yâ-hwéh; 29. “Isn’t My Word thus, like fire,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “or like a hammer which shatters rock to pieces?”

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“the ones stealing away each one of My Words from his friend.

31. Look! I am against the preachers,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “who take it out of their language, and declare, “He declares…”

32. Look! I am against the ones preaching their dreams of the Lie,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “and they recount them and they mislead My people by their Lies and by their frivolity, yet it is not I who sent them and I did not give a charge to them, so it shall surely not benefit this people,” declares Yâ-hwéh; The reward of a preacher of the Lie 33. “So whenever this people ask of you or a preacher or a priest, saying, “What is the burden of Yâ-hwéh?”

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and you say to them whatever burden, then I shall forsake you,” declares Yâ-hwéh; 34. “or the preacher or the priest or the people which says a ‘burden of Yâhwéh’, then shall I reckon it onto that man and upon his house!

35. Thus does each of you say unto his friend and each one to his brother, “What has Yâ-hwéh responded and what is the message of Yâ-hwéh?”

36. Then the [original] burden of Yâhwéh ye do not remember anymore because the [new] burden would become His message for everyone, so ye have changed the words of the living mighty Ones, Yâ-hwéh of hosts, our mighty Ones!

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“What is it Yâ-hwéh has answered you and what is the message of Yâ-hwéh?”

38. But whenever ye say, “the burden is of Yâ-hwéh”, therefore thus says Yâ-hwéh: Since ye have said this message is a burden of Yâ-hwéh, though I have dispatched to you saying, “Do not speak a burden of Yâ-hwéh”, 39. therefore, here I am, and I shall feign to have forgotten you, and I shall forsake you and the city that I had given to you and to your fathers from in My presence. [Disclosure 22: 19] 40. And I shall put upon you the reproach of eternity and the perpetual dishonor that shall not be forgotten.”

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Good figs – Yâhuwthím in captivity. Bad figs – royals and those left behind in the land 1. Yâ-hwéh caused me to gaze, and here were two baskets of figs which were set in front of the temple of Yâ-hwéh, after Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél took into exile YkânYâ´huw the son of Yâhuwyâqíym the king of Yâhuwthâ´h and the officials of Yâhuwthâ´h and the skilled craftsmen and the smiths from Yruwshâláim and brought them to Bâvél.

2. One basket was of very good figs, like the figs of firstfruits, and the other basket was of very bad figs, which were inedible from badness.

3. And Yâ-hwéh said to me, “What are you seeing, YirmYâ´huw?”

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“Figs. The good figs are very good ones but the bad ones are very bad ones, that are inedible from badness.”

4. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me, saying: 5. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: like these good figs, thus I consider the exile of Yâhuwthâ´h that I dispatched from this place to the land of the Kasdíym, for goodness; 6. So I will set My eyes on them for goodness and I shall bring them back onto this land and I shall build them and I will not overthrow them and I will plant them and I will not pluck them out; 7. So I will give to them a heart to acknowledge Me that I am Yâ-hwéh and they shall be for Me for a people and I am Who shall be for them for a mighty 180

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Ones, because they shall return to Me with all of their heart; 8. But like the bad figs that are inedible from badness, like thus,” says Yâ-hwéh, “rightly shall I designate TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h and his officials and the survivors of Yruwshâláim who are left remaining in this Land and the ones inhabiting in the land of Mitsráyim.

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land that I gave to them and to their fathers.”

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of Yâ-hwéh has come to me and I have dictated to you rising early, even to speak, but ye did not heed; 4. So Yâ-hwéh has sent to you all of His servants the preachers, rising early even to be sent but ye did not heed, nor did you incline your ear to hear, 5. Saying, “turn back now, each one, from his evil way and from the evil of your practices, and dwell on the land that Yâ-hwéh has given to you and to your fathers from age to age, 6. And do not walk after other mighty ones to serve them and to render homage to them, and do not provoke Me to anger by the works of your hands, so I will do no harm to you; 7. But you have not listened to Me,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 183

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“in order that you would provoke Me to anger by the works of your hands, to your own harm; 8. Therefore,” thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts; “Due to the fact that you did not listen to My words, 9. Look! I am sending out and I shall take all of the clans of the north,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “even to Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél, My servant, and I shall bring them against this Land and against her inhabitants, and against all of these heathen masses surrounding it, and I shall completely destroy them, and I shall make them into a horror and an object to be whistled at and for a perpetual ruin; 184

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10. And I shall put to death from them the sound of rejoicing and the sound of gladness, the sound of the bridegroom and the sound of the bride, the sound of millstones and the light of a lamp; 11. And this whole land shall be for a desolation for a horror, and these heathen masses shall serve the king of Bâvél seventy years.

12. And it shall happen when the seventy years are completed, I shall reckon upon the king of Bâvél and upon that heathen mass” declares Yâ-hwéh, “their iniquity, even upon the land of the Increases (Kasdíym), and I shall appoint it for a perpetual devastation; Future judgment on Bâvél the Great and the heathen masses 185

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13. Yet I shall bring upon that land all of My words that I dictated against her, all of the ones written in this scroll ():” The scroll of the heathen masses (arranged per LXX): 1) `Ëylâ´m (Eternity) (spiritually, symbolic of the falling Virgin of Yisrâ’Ë´l) 14. [Masoretic 49: 34-39] The Word of Yâhwéh which was towards YirmYâ´huw the predicator to `Ëylâ´m during the beginning of the reign of TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, saying: 15. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts: Look, I am shattering the bending-bow47 of `Ëylâ´m, the principal part of their strength, [9: 2] The name of Yâhuwshúa` is the principal part of the strength of the eternal ones. What is described here fits what happened to the early Convocation for bending His name.

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And I shall cause to come in against `Ëylâ´m the four winds from the four ends of the heavens, and I will disperse them for all of these winds and there won’t be a heathen mass where the outcasts of `Ëylâ´m will not enter; 17. And I shall terrify (`Ëylâ´m) before their enemies and before the ones seeking their lives, and I shall bring upon them disaster according to the fierceness of My anger,() and I shall send My sword after them until I put an end to them, 18. And I will set My throne in `Ëylâ´m, and I will send forth from there a king and officials; () 19. yet it shall come to pass in the latter days, I will return the captivity of `Ëylâ´m,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

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Chapter 46/ 26 2) Mitsráyim (Entrenchments) (spiritually, Entrenched Protestant Christianity) 1. () 2. For Mitsráyim, concerning the forces of Phar`óh Nkhów the king of Mitsráyim which were to the river Phrâ´th in Karkmísh that Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél defeated during the fourth year of Yâhuwyâqíym the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h; 3. “Set in array the shields and the spears and draw near for the battle!

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they shall be beaten and they flee to a place of refuge, and they do not turn around, fear is from every direction!” declares Yâ-hwéh, 6. “Let not the swift flee and let not the valiant escape northwards! On the side of the river Phrâ´th they shall stagger and they shall fall.

Latter-day Mitsráyim will fail to take down the impostor 7. Who is this? Like the River (Y’ór [the Nile]) he rises, like the rivers his waters surge!

8. The waters of Mitsráyim shall rise like the River (Y’ór [the Nile]) and () he said, “I shall ascend (’a`aléh) and I shall overwhelm the Land, I shall put () the inhabitants in her to death!”

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9. Charge the horses and drive the charioteers like madmen and advance the warriors: Kuwsh and Phuwţ which wield the shield, and the Luwthíym who wield and tread to bend the bow, 10. But that Day belongs to () Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones, a day of vengeance for wreaking vengeance on His enemies, and the sword of Yâ-hwéh shall devour and it shall glutted and it shall be drunken from their blood because the slaughter-offering is for () Yâ-hwéh () in the land to the north of the river Phrâ´th.

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12. Heathen masses have heeded your dishonor and your outcry shall fill the earth, because a warrior has stumbled into another warrior, both of them shall fall together.”

13. The message which Yâ-hwéh dictated to YirmYâ´huw the predicator concerning the coming of Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél to attack the land of Mitsráyim: 14. “() proclaim it in Tower (Miǧdówl) and proclaim it in Presentability (Noph) ()! Say, “Take a stand and brace yourself because the sword shall devour the ones around you!”

15. Why have your mighty ones been prostrated? One cannot stand their ground when Yâ-hwéh drives him out.

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16. He makes many stagger and fall, each one over his other one and they shall say, “Get up! Let’s return to our people and to our native land away from the sword of the oppressor!”

17. There they will call Phar`óh Nkhów the king of Mitsráyim “a big noise who has let the opportunity pass by”.

18. As I am alive,” declares () Yâ-hwéh () the mighty Ones, “as Tâvówr is among the mountains and as Karmél is by the sea, he shall invade.

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20.

A very cute heifer is Mitsráyim, a horsefly from the north is coming against her, 21. And her mercenaries in her midst are like the stall-fatted calves, because also they, they shall be caused to turn and they shall flee together! They shall not make a stand because the day of their branding48 has come upon them, the time of their reckoning; 22. Her sound is like of a serpent going because they walk upon the sand49, and with axes they will come against Mitsráyim like lumberjacks, 23. They shall cut down her forest [military],” declares Yâ-hwéh, 48 49

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“because it cannot be determined as they are more numerous than a locust swarm and there is no counting them!

24. The daughter of Mitsráyim shall be dried up and she shall be given over into the hand of the people of the north.”

25. () Look! I will make a reckoning upon the artificer from Disrupting (Nó’) [the ancient capital of Egypt, later called Thebes] and upon Phar`óh () and upon the ones trusting in him. [YchezqË´’l 30: 15] 26. () Latter-day reassurance to Ya`aqóv and Yisrâ’Ë´l 27. But you, do not fear, O My servant Ya`aqóv, and do not be dismayed O Yisrâ’Ë´l because look, I am your Deliverer from afar and your Seed from the land of their exile, and Ya`aqóv shall 194

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return and he shall be undisturbed and he will rest at ease and there shall be no one to cause him to tremble.

28. You: do not fear, O My servant Ya`aqóv,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “because I am with you as I make a termination of all of the heathen masses where I did scatter you, yet of you I will not work a termination though I will discipline you with judgment, but in no wise will I acquit you.” [Exodus 34: 7] Chapter 50/ 27 3) Bâvél (Confusion) Yâ-hwéh calls Yisrâ’Ë´l to exit the Confusion (Bâvél) prior to His return 1. The message of Yâ-hwéh which He dictated against Bâvél (), 195

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2. “Announce it among the heathen masses () and cause the news to be heard and do not conceal it, say it: Bâvél shall be captured, Lord (Bël) shall be ashamed, Your Rebellion (Mrothâ´kh) shall be shattered, () 3. Because from the north a heathen mass shall ascend against her, he is who shall make her land a waste, so there will not be an inhabitant in her from mankind even unto beast (); 4. During those days and during that time period,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l shall enter, they and the sons of Yâhuwthâ´h walking together, and weeping they will go and they will seek Yâ-hwéh their mighty Ones; 196

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5. They will request the way unto Tsiyyówn, they shall set their face towards there, and they shall come out and they shall be loaned50 to Yâ-hwéh their mighty Ones; the covenant of the age will not be forgotten; [Dâ´niyyË´’l 9: 27] 6. My people have been sheep gone astray, their pastors are who misled them, they enticed them away to the mountains, from the mountain to the hill they walked; they had forgotten their resting place; 7. All of the ones finding them ate them yet their enemies said, “We have done no wrong; instead they are the ones which sinned against Yâhwéh!”” The pasture is the Truth and the hope of their fathers (is Yâ-hwéh).51 LXX has here “flee for refuge” but this alternate translation of Strong’s #3867 is more consistent with the events of Dâ´niyyË´’l 9:27.

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8. “Wander out from the inside of Confusion (Bâvél) and out from the land of the Increases (Kasdíym)! Depart though you become like dragons before the flock!

9. Because look! I am Who is inciting and causing to ascend against Bâvél an alliance of great heathen masses from the land of the north, and they will arrange themselves in order against her, from there shall she be captured, like the arrow of an expert warrior none shall not return empty. [Disclosure 17: 16] 10. And Increases (Kasdíym) shall become for plunder, all of the ones plundering her shall be sated,() 11. Because ye arrogantly rejoiced because ye triumphed, plundering My inheritance, because you sprung around 198

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like heifers on new grass, and you bellowed like mighty men; 12. Your mother shall be exceedingly disappointed, the one who gave you birth for goodness shall be ashamed, look, she is the last of the heathen masses, a deserted wilderness ()!

13. Due to the wrath of Yâ-hwéh, she shall not be inhabited and all of it shall be devastation; everyone crossing on Bâvél shall be appalled and whistle concerning all her wounds.

14. Arrange yourselves against Bâvél, around her, all who tread to bend the bow and shoot at her! Do not spare an arrow ()!

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vengeance upon her, just as she has done, do to her!

16. Cut off the seed from Bâvél and the reaper with the sickle during the harvest season, for fear of the sword of the oppressor, let each one turn towards his people and let each one flee to his own land; 17. Yisrâ’Ë´l is a flock being dispersed by lions, the first ones chased him away, the king of ’Ashshúwr devoured him, then this one, the subsequent one, Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél devoured his bones.

18. Therefore,” thus says Yâ-hwéh (): “Look, I am reckoning to the king of Bâvél and to his land just as I made a reckoning to the king of ’Ashshúwr; 200

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19. But I shall restore Yisrâ’Ë´l to his pasture and he shall graze the Karmél and the Bâshâ´n and on the mountain of ’Ephráyim and Gil`â´th his soul shall be sated.

20. During those days and during that time-period,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “The iniquity of Yisrâ’Ë´l shall be sought but there shall be none, and the sins of Yâhuwthâ´h but they shall not be found, because I shall be propitious to the surviving remnant 21. on the land,” says Yâ-hwéh.

(21.) “Bitterly ascend against her and towards the inhabitants of Pqówth, lay it waste and dedicate it for destruction after them,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 201

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“and accomplish it, like all which I commanded you.

22. The noise of battle and great destruction is in the land of the Kasdíym!

23. How has the hammer of all of earth been hewn off and broken in pieces?

How is it Bâvél has become for a waste among the heathen masses?

24. I have laid a snare for you and also Bâvél, you were caught, even without your knowledge you were found and also you were captured, because you waged war against Yâ-hwéh!

25. Yâ-hwéh opened His arsenal and He brought out the weapons of His indignation, because it is work to do for () Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones in the land of the Kasdíym.

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exterminate her, let there not exist a remnant to her!

27. Kill off all of her steers, let them descend to the slaughter, hówy upon them because their day, the time-period of their reckoning has come!

28. The noise of the fugitives and escapees from the land of Bâvél is to announce in Tsiyyówn the vengeance of Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones! () Prediction of the 6th Bowl of Wrath defeat of Bâvél 29. Summon against Bâvél all archers who draw the bow! Encamp against her surrounding her, let there not be any of her to escape! Repay to her like all that she has done because of her deeds, render it to her because she it is against 203

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Yâ-hwéh that she has defied proudly, against the Pure One of Yisrâ’Ë´l!

30. Therefore her young men will fall within her streets and all of the mortal men of her army, they will be silenced during that Day,” declares () Yâ-hwéh ().

Yâ-hwéh is against Hitler since He has already punished him in 1945 RD 31. “Look, I am against you, arrogant one,” declares () Yâ-hwéh (), “since your day has come, the time I punished you!

32. For the arrogant one will stumble, and he will fall, and there will not be one for him to help him up, and I will kindle 204

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a fire in his forests52[military] and it will consume all of the ones around him.

Bâvél continues holding Christians and “Yehuwthím” spiritually captive 33. This says Yâ-hwéh (): “the Sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l and the sons of Yâhuwthâ´h as well are oppressed, and all of the ones capturing them hold them fast, they refuse to let them go.

34. But their Redeemer is strong; Yâ-hwéh of Hosts is His name: He will surely determine a separation against His adversaries in order that He may evacuate the earth, so He will bring unrest to the inhabitants of Bâvél!

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The labor pains which come against the false religion to loose us from its fetters 35. “And He shall sharpen a sword against the Increases (Kasdíym), () and against the inhabitants of Bâvél, and against her officials, and against her wise men!

36. (A sword is against the liars [1 Yâhuwchânâ´n 2: 22] so they will be fooled,) (36.) a sword is against her warriors and they will be dismayed.

37. A sword is against his horses and against his chariot and a sword is against the warriors and against the mixed ones who are in her midst, so they will become like women! A sword is against her treasures so they will be taken as spoil!

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the carved images, so they will go mad by the terrors!

39. Therefore the yelpers will dwell with the howlers and the owls will live in her, but it shall not be inhabited again until the end, and it shall not be lived in from generation to generation.

40. Like the mighty Ones’ overthrow of Çthóm and `Amorâ´h and their neighbors,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “not one man shall live there nor shall a son of 'Âthâ´m stay in her.

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many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth!

42. They are armed with a bow and a spear, cruel they are and they do not have mercy! The sound of them is like the sea when it roars, and they ride on horses, in formation like men of war against you, daughter of Bâvél!

43. The King of Bâvél heard their sound and his hands hang limp; anguish gripped him, pain like the woman in labor! [Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 30] The Impostor (King of Bâvél)53 invades the Pure Place, launches the Great Tribulation against Christianity 44. Look! Like a lion he shall ascend due to the pride of the Descender (haThe reason which the Impostor has the throne of Bâvél, which belongs to Sâţâ´n presently, is because he transfers his authority to the Impostor (Disclosure 13:2) 53

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Yardë´n)54 to the habitation of the Eternal [YchezqË´’l 8: 3-5], because I would instantly chase them from upon her! Yet Who is the One chosen for her whom I would appoint, because who is like Me? And who would cause Me to meet him? And who is this one, a pastor who presents himself before Me? [49: 19] Reaction: Yâ-hwéh’s perfect plan against the Confusion (Bâvél) 45. Therefore hear the plan of Yâ-hwéh that He planned against Bâvél, and His purposes that He purposed against the land of the Increases (Kasdíym): they surely shall not drag away the least of This could be translated, “from the swelling of the Yardë´n (River)” and have a geographical meaning.

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the flock, they surely shall not destroy the pasture because of them, 46. At the sound of the capture of Bâvél, the earth will be made to quake and the cry of distress is to be heard among the heathen masses!”

Chapter 51/ 28 1. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “Look, I am causing the spirit of a destroyer to arouse against Bâvél and to inhabit the heart of the ones insurrecting.

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her young men, exterminate all of her host!

4. And let the fatally wounded ones fall in the land of the Kasdíym and the ones riddled with holes in her streets, 5. because Yisrâ’Ë´l and Yâhuwthâ´h are not widowed from their mighty Ones, from Yâ-hwéh of hosts, though their land is full of trespasses against the Pure One of Yisrâ’Ë´l.”

6. Flee from the midst of Bâvél! And each one run for his life! Don’t be destroyed because of her sin, because it is the time of Yâ-hwéh’s vengeance, He is paying to her what she deserves!

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went mad! [25: 15-31, Disclosure 14: 8, 17: 2, 18: 3] 8. Bâvél shall suddenly fall, and she will be broken. Wail over her! Get balm for her pain! Perhaps she can be cured?

9. We would have cured Bâvél, but she cannot be cured! Leave her, and let us each go to his land, because her judgment reaches unto the heavens and it rises unto the stars!

10. Yâ-hwéh has brought out our justification, come and let us recount in Tsiyyówn the Work of Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones! [Romans 11: 6] 11. Sharpen the arrows, take up the shields, Yâ-hwéh has caused to arouse the spirit of the kings of the Mâtháy because His plot is against Bâvél for destroying it, 212

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because it is the vengeance of Yâ-hwéh, it is the avenging of His people55.

12. Take up a standard upon the walls of Bâvél, strengthen the guard post, awaken the watchmen, furnish the weapons because what Yâ-hwéh has purposed, He shall also execute, that which He dictated against the inhabitants of Bâvél.

13. O one who settled upon abundant waters abounding in treasures [Disclosure 17: 1], your end has come, the limit of your unjust gain; 14. For Yâ-hwéh () has sworn by His soul that “Surely I shall fill you with humans like locusts and they which were put down56 shall shout against you: This is per the LXX reflecting an earlier purer copy of scripture. The Masoretic alters “people” to “temple” apparently in an evil-spirit mediated effort to herd the “Yehuwthím” people to treasure and worship the physical material building. This is the second instance of this blatant Masoretic alteration, the other being at 50 (27): 28.

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15. “The Maker of the earth by His strength Who founded the world by His wisdom and Who stretched outwards the heavens by His understanding, 16. For the voice He produces is the roar of the waters in the heavens [YchezqË´’l 43: 2, Disclosure 1: 15] and He makes the clouds ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings with the rain and He brings out wind from His repositories; 17. Every human is stupefied from science, every goldsmith is shamed from the carved image because His molten image is a Lie, and no breath is in them; 18. They are useless works of mockery, during the time period of their reckoning, they shall perish.

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19. The share of Ya`aqóv is not like these, because He is the Fashioner of everything, even the tribe of His inheritance, Yâ-hwéh () is His name.”

Yâ-hwéh is our Weapon (2 Qorinthíym 10: 3-6) 20. You are for me a war-hammer, my weapon of battle, and I shall dash heathen masses to pieces with You and with You I shall destroy kingdoms, 21. And with You I shall dash horses and their riders to pieces and with You I shall dash chariots and their riders to pieces, 22. And with You I shall dash husbands and wives to pieces and with You I shall dash elders and youths to pieces, and with You I shall dash young men and maidens to pieces, 23. And with You I shall dash pastors and their flocks to pieces, and with you I shall 215

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dash plowmen and their teams to pieces, and with you I shall dash governors and rulers to pieces!

Yâ-hwéh destroys Beast-built Temple 24. “Then I shall recompense to Bâvél and to all of the inhabitants of the Kasdíym all of their evil which they worked against Tsiyyówn before your eyes,” declares Yâ-hwéh; 25. “Look, I am against you, O mountain of the ruin, () the ruiner of all the Land, and I shall extend My hand against you and I will roll you off from the cliffs and I will make you into a burning mountain, 26. And they will not take from you a rock for a corner nor a stone for 216

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foundations because you shall be a perpetual waste,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

Ancient Bâvél’s destruction foretold 27. “Raise up a standard in the Land, sound the horn (showphâ´r) among the heathen masses, separate the heathen masses against her, summon against her the kingdoms of ’Arâráţ beside Me, and ’Ashkknâ´z, set against her engines of war, send up horsemen like bristling locusts; 28. Separate against her heathen masses, the kings of the Mâtháy, her governors, and all of her rulers and all of the land of his dominion; 29. And the earth shall quake and she shall tremble because the purposes of Yâ-hwéh have taken a stand against 217

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Bâvél to lay to waste the land of Bâvél from having no inhabitant.

30. The warriors [Genesis 6: 457] of Bâvél have ceased to fight, they are staying in the fort, their strength is dried up, they have become like women, they set her dwelling-places on fire, her crossbars are broken.

31. One runner runs to encounter another runner, and one reporter to encounter another reporter to report it to the king of Bâvél that his city is captured from the outskirts, 32. And the river-crossings have been captured, and his reservoirs have been set on fire and his mortal men of battle, they are routed; “The Bullies, they were on the earth during those days and also afterwards, thus that the sons of the mighty ones went towards the daughters of the humans and they bore young to them, they have been the warriors that are from antiquity, mortal men of renown.”

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Because thus says Yâ-hwéh (): “The houses of the king of Bâvél shall He trample like a threshing floor during the season in a little while, yet the time period of the harvest is yet to come to her!”

Tsiyyówn’s legal complaint to Yâ-hwéh, His response 34. “Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél has consumed me, he has confused me, he has caused me to be an empty vessel, he has swallowed me whole like a dinosaur, he has filled his belly with my fineries, he has purged me out.

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“and my blood is on the inhabitants of the Kasdíym,” says Yruwshâláim; 36. “Therefore,” thus says Yâ-hwéh, “Look, I am contending your dispute and I shall avenge your vengeance and I shall cause her sea to dry up, and I shall dry up her springs; 37. And Bâvél shall become () an appalling waste () with no inhabitant; 38. For like young lions they aroused up together, even () like lion whelps; 39. While they are hot, I will set out their drink and I shall cause them to get drunk in order that they will stupefied, and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awaken,” declares Yâ-hwéh; 220

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40. “I shall cause them to descend like lambs to the slaughter, and rams with goats!”

41. How has () the boast of all the earth has been captured and caught in a snare?

How has Bâvél become a wasteland among the heathen masses?

42. The sea did ascend over Bâvél by the multitude of its waves it was covered; 43. Her cities have become for waste, like a parched and a desert-plain land, not one dwells in them and no human being crosses in them; 44. So shall I make reckoning upon (the Lord (Bël) in) Bâvél and I shall cause what has been swallowed of him to be vomited from his mouth [Disclosure 12: 221

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15], and heathen masses shall not stream to him anymore ().

45. [Masoretic vv. 45-48 not found in LXX] () 46. () 47. () 48. () 49. and for Bâvél fall the slain ones of all the earth. [Disclosure 18: 24] 50. Escapees from the sword, leave! Do not delay! Remember Yâ-hwéh from long ago and Yruwshâláim will spring up in your heart!”

51. “We are put to shame because we have heard our reproach; embarrassment has covered our faces because foreigners58 have entered the pure areas The King of Bâvél (transferred authority from Sâţâ´n) did invade the Pure Place noted in 50:43-44. But note also as described in 49:19 that he is also reckoned as ’Ethówm.

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of the house of Yâ-hwéh!” [50: 43-44, 49: 19, misinterpreted: Deeds 21: 28-29] 52. “Therefore look, days are coming,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “when I shall make a reckoning upon her carved images, and the slain shall fall in all of her land; 53. Though Bâvél may ascend the skies and though she may fortify the height of her strength, from Me shall come devastators against her,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 54. A sound of a cry of distress is from Bâvél and huge destruction from the land of the Kasdíym!

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56. Because a destroyer shall come against her, against Bâvél, and her warriors shall be captured and their bows shall be broken, because Yâ-hwéh is the Mighty One (’Ël) of Retribution, surely He shall repay!

57. “And I shall make her officials drunk and her wise men and her governors and her officers and her warriors, and they shall sleep the perpetual sleep and they shall not awaken,” declares the King, Yâ-hwéh of hosts is His name.

58. Thus says Yâ-hwéh (), “The wide walls of Bâvél shall be completely broken and her tall gates shall be set on fire, so the peoples do not labor in vain though the heathen masses quit in the beginning.”

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The decrees against Bâvél are served 59. The message which Yâ-hwéh commanded YirmYâ´huw the predicator to say to SrâYâ´huw the son of NëriyYâ´huw the son of MachçëYâ´hu when he went from TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h to Bâvél in the fourth year of his reign, and SrâYâ´huw was the officer of the bedchamber.

60. So YirmYâ´huw wrote all of the disasters which shall come on Bâvél on one scroll, all of these words which are written about Bâvél, 61. And YirmYâ´huw said to SrâYâ´huw, “as you come to Bâvél, then you shall see it and you shall recite all of these words, 62. And you shall say, “Yâ-hwéh, you are Who dictated towards this place for cutting it off for 225

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there not to exist in it an inhabitant from a human or to a beast, as it shall be perpetual wasteland!”

63. And it shall come to pass as you finish reading this scroll, you shall bind a stone upon it and you shall throw it into the middle of the Phrâ´th [River].

64. And you shall say, “Like thus shall Bâvél sink and it shall not rise due to the disaster which I am Who is bringing upon it ().”

Chapter 47/ 29 4) Phlishttíym (Sojourners) (spiritually, the Palestinians) 1. (The Word of Yâ-hwéh which was towards YirmYâ´huw the predicator) to Phlishttíym (before Phar`óh attacked `Azzâ´h), 2. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: 226

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“Look, waters are ascending from the north and they shall become for a sweeping river, and it shall sweep the land and its fullness, the city and its inhabitants, and the men shall cry for help and all of the inhabitants of the land shall wail 3. from the sound of the galloping of the hooves of his mighty horses, from the quaking from his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels. The fathers will not face their sons from the limpness of their hands 4. on the day of the One coming to destroy all of the Phlishttíym; and I shall cut off Tsuwr and Tsiythówn and all of their remaining allies, because Yâ-hwéh is destroying the Phlishttíym, the remnant of the coast of Kaphttówr; 227

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5. Baldness shall come to `Azzâ´h, ’Ashqlówn shall be cast off and the remnant of their plain;” 6. “Until when will you cut? (6.) Hówy, o sword of Yâ-hwéh, unto where won’t you lie still? Be brought into your sheath, rest and be still.”

7. “How can she rest when Yâ-hwéh is Who commanded it to her against ’Ashqlówn and against the seacoast?

There He assigned her.”

Chapter 49: 7-22/ 30:1-16 5) ’Ethówm59(spiritually, Roman Christianity) 7. (1.) “For ’Ethówm, thus says Yâ-hwéh (): Doesn’t there exist wisdom anymore in Tëymâ´n? Counsel has vanished from Who is ’Ethówm? Spiritually, the people who despised their Inheritance and traded it for a last meal. This may be the Romans, which Yâshâ´r documents these intermingled with. Both of these have oppressed and fought against Yisrâ’Ë´l and looted us.

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the discerning, their wisdom has been dismissed, 8. (2.) the place has been beguiled; Go deep to dwell, inhabitant of Dthâ´n because I shall bring the calamity of `Ësâ´w upon him, the time-period I make a reckoning on him.

9. (3.) If grape-gatherers were coming to you, wouldn’t they leave behind gleanings? Were it thieves during the night, wouldn’t they lay hands on (what they need)?

10. (4.) Because I am Who have stripped bare `Ësâ´w, I have revealed his hiding places so he shall not be able to hide himself; his seed shall be devastated, and his brothers, and his neighbors, and he will exist no more.

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11. (5.) Abandon your fatherless, I am Who shall preserve them alive, and let your widows trust in Me, 12. (6.) because thus says Yâ-hwéh: Look, they who had no right to drink the cup have surely have drunk it, so () you shall surely not be cleared from all guilt because you shall surely drink it, 13. (7.) because by Myself I have sworn,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “that you shall become for an astonishment, for a reproach, for a desolation, and for a curse in her midst (), and all of her cities, they shall become for a perpetual waste.”

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14. (8.) I have heard a report from Yâhwéh, and a messenger is being dispatched among the heathen masses: “Gather yourselves together and invade against her, and stand up for battle!

15. (9.) Because look, I have made you small among the heathen masses, despised among men!

16. (10.) Your game has cheated you, the insolence of your heart, it demolished refuge-holes in the rock, it seized the height of the high hill! When it elevates its nest like the eagle, from there I shall take you down!” declares Yâ-hwéh, 17. (11.) “And ’Ethówm shall become for a wasteland, everyone crossing over her (shall be stunned and they) shall whistle at (all of her plagues), 231

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18.

(12.) like the destruction of Çthóm and `Amorâ´h and her inhabitants,” says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, “Not one shall dwell there, and no human being shall sojourn in her.

19. (13.) Look! Like a lion he shall ascend due to the pride of the Descender (ha-Yardë´n)60 to the habitation of the Eternal [YchezqË´’l 8: 3-5], because I would instantly chase them from upon her! Yet Who is the One chosen for her whom I would appoint, because who is like Me? And who would cause Me to meet him? And who is this one, a pastor who presents himself before Me? [50: 44] The Last Tenth (Yshá`Yâhuw 34: 5-17, 63) This could be translated, “from the swelling of the Yardë´n (River)” and have a geographical meaning.

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(14.) Therefore hear the plan of Yâhwéh that He has planned against ’Ethówm, and His device that He has devised against the inhabitants of Tëymâ´n: they surely shall not drag away the least of the flock, they surely shall not destroy the pasture because of them, 21. (15.) At the sound of their fall, the earth shall tremble, the sound of her cry of distress shall be heard by the Sea of Reeds; 22. (16.) Look, like an eagle, He shall ascend, then He shall dive and He shall spread His wings over Bâtsrâ´h, and the heart of the warriors of ’Ethówm during that day shall be like the heart of a woman in distress.”

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6) Tribal sons (`Ammówn)61 (spiritually, the “Yehuwthím”) 1. (17.) For the Tribal sons (`Ammówn), thus says Yâ-hwéh: Doesn’t Yisrâ’Ë´l have any sons whatsoever? Or doesn’t he have any heir? For what reason has their king taken possession of the Witness heap (Gal`ë´th) and [why do] his people dwell in his cities?

2. (18.) Therefore look, days are coming,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “when I shall cause the trumpet-blast of war to be heard against the Rabbâ´h of the Tribal sons and it shall become for a heap of ruined devastation, and her daughters shall be burning with fire, and Yisrâ’Ë´l shall dispossess the ones which had inherited him,” Spiritually interpreted, the “Tribal sons” refers to the “Yehuwthím” who base their sonship on mere biological tribal lineage.

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says Yâ-hwéh; 3. (19.) “Make a howling, Cheshbówn because `Ay is devastated; cry for help, daughters of Rabbâ´h, gird on sackcloths, and wail (), because their king shall go into captivity, together with his priests and his officials; 4. (20.) Of what do you boast in the floodplains of your valley, O haughty daughter who trusts in her stockpiles?

“Who will invade against me?”

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7) Qëthâ´r62(spiritually, Islam, the dark son of Yishmâ`Ë´’l) 28. (23.) For Qëthâ´r and for the kingdoms of Châtsówr which Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél attacked, thus says Yâ-hwéh: Get up, ascend against Qëthâ´r and destroy the sons of the east!

29. (24.) Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, they shall carry off their curtains and all of their equipment and their camels for themselves, and they will summon out against them terror from every side, 30. (25.) Flee! () Dig exceedingly deep to dwell, inhabitant of Châtsówr! () because () the king of Bâvél has A son of Yishmâ`Ë´’l. Meaning: “dark”, “mourn”. Consider reading this as “the Dark son of Yishmâ`Ë´’l”, Islam.

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consulted advice against you, and he has devised a plan.

31. (26.) Get up! Ascend against the heathen-mass dwelling at ease securely () who has no doors and no crossbars, who live in isolation.

32. (27.) And their camels will become for spoil and the multitude of their livestock for booty, and I shall disperse them to every wind, who cut off the rim [Leviticus 19: 2763, 9: 25, “Concision” Philipposíym 3: 2], so from all sides of him I shall bring their calamity!” declares Yâ-hwéh, 33. (28.) And Châtsówr shall become for a lair for owls and a desolation for the age. No one will dwell there and no human being will sojourn in her.

“You shall not be rounding off the rims of your head (glans) and you shall not be depilating the borders of your beards [pubic hair];” 63

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8) Damméseq64(spiritually, the Vatican) 23. (29.) For Damméseq: Chamâ´th is disconcerted and ’Arpâ´th because the news they have heard is bad. They are melted into a sea of anxiety; they are unable to show calmness.

24. (30.) Damméseq withdrew, she turned back to flee but panic took hold of her. () 25. (31.) Why hasn’t she abandoned My city? Did they love the village?

26. (32.) Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all of the mortal men of battle shall be silenced in that day,” declares Yâ-hwéh (), Meaning: “Silenced is the sackcloth wearer”. Spiritually symbolizing the Vatican, because they head ’Arâ´m, which as explained, represents Roman Catholicism. Sackcloth is black, much like the colors of their clergy.

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27. (33.) “And I shall set a fire in the wall of Dammâ´seq and it shall consume the crossroads of the son of Hathâ´th.

Chapter 48/ 31 9) Mow’â´v65 (spiritually, apostate Christianity) 1. For Mow’â´v, thus says Yâ-hwéh (): Hówy to Predicator (Nvów), because she shall be destroyed (); Two Cities (Qiryâthâ´yim) shall be captured, the high place shall be shattered!

2. There is no more mending for Mow’â´v nor boasting in Cheshbówn, He has planned disaster against her. We have cut her off from being a heathen mass, and she will surely be silenced, a sword will pursue after you! “of his father”, this term foreshadowed the spiritual nation of those who reject Yâ-hwéh and make their own “Father”, by other names. Judging from scriptures, although present Christianity is adulterous Yisrâ’Ë´l, they become Mow’â´v when they reject Yâ-hwéh Yâhuwshúa` and make up their own father. This prediction deals with Christianity during the “apostasy” (rebellion), not during its ignorance.

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3. Because the sound of a distress-call is from Two Caves (Horownâ´yim), violence and great destruction!

4. Mow’â´v shall be broken, () they will cause their cry of distress to be heard.

5. Because the ascent is filled with weeping, one shall ascend weeping by the way of Two Caves (Horownâ´yim); ye have heard the cry of destruction.

6. Flee! And save your lives, or you will become like a stripped bush in the desert, 7. () Since your trust is in your works () also you, you shall be captured [Romans 3: 20]; and [your false mighty ones] Subduer (Kmówsh) shall depart into captivity: his priests and his officials together; 8. And a destroyer will come against every city and no city shall escape, and 240

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the valley66 shall also perish and the plain shall be annihilated, which Yâhwéh has said. [Chanówkh 52 (53), Yâshâ´r 81: 56-60, Exodus 17: 1467, YchezqË´’l 7: 16, Bar-Nâvíy 12: 8-9] 9. Set a gravestone68 for Mow’â´v, because she shall surely be expelled69! Her cities shall be for a desolation and become it from there being no one dwelling in them.

10. Cursed is one working the Work of Yâ-hwéh deceitfully [Galátas 1: 8-9,

“Dweller in a valley”, the son of ’Eliypház and grandson of `Ësâ´w. Note the spiritual definition of `Amâlë´q is name-denying Christianity. Since they are related to `Ësâ´w, who despised the inheritance of our fathers, Yâ-hwéh, these are described well in Chanówkh chapter 52 (53) as living in a deep valley with wide entrances. Note that Yâhwéh Yâhuwshúa` shall remove from the roots all of the house of the Valley Dwellers (`Amâlë´q), means He will uproot the Lie, the Wickedness, and reveal His Truth at His coming, as described in the Glad Tidings of Phílippos.

67 “Take a scroll into your hands, and write what Yâ-hwéh declares: ‘that Yâhuwshúa` the Son of the Power shall in the last days cut off from the roots all the house of `Amâlë´q’” (valley dwellers).

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Philipposíym 1: 16], so cursed is the one withholding the sword from his blood!70 11. [like wine,] Mow’â´v has rested securely since his early life and continues undisturbed on his dregs, and he has not been poured from one jar to another jar, so he hasn’t gone into exile; This is why his taste remains the same in him and his scent is unchanged.

12. Therefore look, days are coming,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “when I shall dispatch to him decanters, and they shall tip him over and they shall empty out his jars and they shall burst their wine-skins!

13. And Mow’â´v shall be ashamed of [their false mighty ones] Subduer (Kmówsh), just like the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l Understood spiritually, as the sword is His Word, cursed is the one who, having His Word Yâhuwshúa`, refrains and withholds it from Christians rejecting it (Mow’â´v).

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were ashamed of Bë’yth-’Ë´l their hope [the golden calf (1 Kings 12: 28-32)] due to trusting them; 14. How can you say we are warriors and mortal men of force for the battle?

15. Mow’â´v is to be devastated and her cities () and her choicest young men are to descend to the slaughter! () 16. The calamity of Mow’â´v is near to come and his disaster shall be done very quickly.

17. Mourn for him, all those around him and all who recognize his name, say, “How the vine-branch of strength has been broken, rod of the beauty!”

18. Descend from honor and sit in thirst [Chanówkh 26 (27)], inhabitant of the daughter of Wasting (Diyvówn), because the destroyer of Mow’â´v is to ascend against you, he is to ruin your fortress.

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19. Stand towards a way, and watch closely, inhabitant of Ruins (`Arow`ë´r), ask the fleeing man and the rescued woman, saying: “What has happened?”

20. “Mow’â´v is put to shame because she is shattered! Sound an alarm and call for help, report it by the Rushing Stream (’Arnówn) [river] that Mow’â´v is destroyed!

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(Bë´yth Gâmúwl) and upon the House of the Dwelling of the Lord (Bë´yth [Bá`al] M`ówn), 24. And upon Cities (Qriyyówth) and upon Sheepfold (Bâtsrâ´h) and upon all of the cities of the Land of Mow’â´v, the far ones and the near ones!”

25. So the horn [kingdom] of Mow’â´v is to be chopped off, and his sowing arm is to be broken! () 26. Because he has caused ones to grow against Yâ-hwéh, make him drunk and let Mow’â´v splash in his vomit, so he may also be for an object of derision; 27. And wasn’t Yisrâ’Ë´l an object of derision for you? Like thieves who were caught, you would shake your head as often as your words were about him!

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28. Abandon the cities and settle down on the Rock, inhabitants of Mow’â´v, and you would be like a dove who makes her nest by the region beyond the mouth of the pit.

29. We have heard of the arrogance of Mow’â´v, how exceedingly arrogant is his loftiness and his pompousness and his pride and the haughtiness of his heart; 30. I am Who knows of his excesses, but his empty talk is not correct, they work nothing correct. [Yshá`Yâhuw 64: 6] 31. Because of this () wail ye concerning Mow’â´v from all sides, and call ye for help for () the mortal men of the Wall of Potshards (Qiyr-Chéres); [Yshá`Yâhuw 30: 8-14] 246

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32. More than the weeping of Helped (Ya`zë´r) is the weeping for (you, the vine of) Fragrance (Sivmâ´h)! the tendrils of your vine have crossed over the sea, as far as the city of Helped (Ya`zë´r); they have reached a destroyer who has fallen upon your summer fruits and upon your vintage; 33. Happiness and rejoicing have been removed from the plantations and the land of Mow’â´v and the wine from the presses have stopped, in the morning they did not tread it, neither did they dare raise a shout; 34. From the cry for help of Stronghold (Cheshbówn) and Mighty One Ascending (’El`âlë´h) () their cities make their call from Insignificance (Tsó`ar) unto Two Caves (Chowronáyim) towards Three247

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year-old Heifer (`Eǧláth Shlishíy), because even the waters of Nimríym (Filtered) are for waste!

35. But I shall cause a cessation to Mow’â´v,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “who ascends high places and who burns incense for his mighty ones, 36. Concerning this, My heart is like pipes for Mow’â´v, it makes a racket, and My heart is towards the shorn mortal men of Wall of Potshards (Qiyr-Chéres) like pipes, it makes a racket concerning this, the abundance he has worked has vanished! [Yshá`Yâhuw 30: 8-14, The Glad Tidings of Phílippos 56] 37. As every head is bald and every beard is cut off upon all the hands are clippings and on the waists sackcloth, 248

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38. On all of the roofs of Mow’â´v and in her squares () is mourning, because I have shattered (Mow’â´v) like a jar nobody desires,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

39. “They should wail, “How broken she is, how He has turned His back to Mow’â´v! He has been disappointed so Mow’â´v has become for an object of derision and for an object of horror to all those surrounding them!”

40. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh: () 41. Qriyyówth is to be taken and the strongholds are to be captured, () 42. And Mow’â´v is to be exterminated from being a people because they have caused ones to grow against Yâ-hwéh.

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43. Terror and a pit and a snare are against you, inhabitants of Mow’â´v, () 44. The one fleeing for fear of the terror, he shall fall into the pit, and the one climbing out from the pit, he shall be captured in the snare, because I shall bring it upon her, towards Mow’â´v the year of her reckoning. () [Yshá`Yâhuw 24: 17]71 45. () 46. () 47. () Chapter 25:14/ 32:14 Yâ-hwéh’s cup of wrath (Confusion 51: 7, Bâvél) 14. () 15. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l to me: Directed towards the “inhabitant of the Land”, this passage confirms the spiritual identity of Mow’â´v as being apostate Christianity which has rejected Him knowingly.

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“Take this cup of the wine of the wrath from My hand and you shall make it be drunk by all of the heathen masses to them which I am the One sending you; 16. And they shall drink it and they shall reel to and fro and they shall act like a madman for fear of the sword that I am the One sending among them;” 17. So I took the cup from the hand of Yâhwéh and I caused all of the heathen masses to which Yâ-hwéh sent me to drink it: 18. “Yruwshâláim and the towns of Yâhuwthâ´h and her kings and officers to make them for a desolation for a horror, for an object to be whistled at and an execration like this day; 251

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19. Phar`óh the king of Mitsráyim and his servants and his officers and all of his people, 20. And all of the mixed ones and all of the kings of the (land of the `Uwts and all of the kings of the land of the) Phlishttíym even ’Ashqlówn and `Azzâ´h and `Eqrówn and the remnant of ’Ashdówth, 21. And ’Ethówm and the land of Mow’â´v and the sons of `Ammówn, 22. And all of the kings of Tsuwr and all of the kings of Tsiythówn and the kings of the islands on the other side of the sea, 23. And Dthâ´n, and Tëymâ´’ and (Búwz)/Rosh and all of the cut off quarters, 252

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24. And all of the (kings of Arâ´v and all of the kings of the) mixed ones dwelling in the uninhabited land, 25. And all of the kings (of Zimríy and all of the kings of) `Ëylâ´m and all of the kings of Mâthâ´y; 26. And all of the kings of the north, the near ones and the far ones, each one to his brother and all of the kingdoms (of the earth) that are upon the face of the earth, (even the king of Shëshák, he shall drink after them;) 27. And you shall say to them: “thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts (): Drink and get drunk and vomit and fall and do not get up due to the face of the sword that I am the One sending it among you;”

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28. And it shall be if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink it, then you shall say to them, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts: “You shall surely drink it; 29. Because look! Within the city at which My name has been called I am Who am letting it be profaned to bring harm, and (you shall surely be free from guilt?) You shall not be free from guilt because I am calling a sword upon all of the inhabitants of the earth,” () 30. “So you, you shall preach to them (all of) these words, and you shall say (to them), “Yâ-hwéh, from the height He shall surely respond to inquiry72, and LXX clarifies that this term is not Strong’s #07580 as per the Masoretic but rather #07592, miswriting a ‫ ג‬for an ‫ל‬.

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from the habitation of His pureness He shall make His call, He shall surely dictate an inquiry concerning His fold, a shout like ones marching shall it respond against all of the inhabitants of the earth; 31. An uproar shall come unto the ends of the earth because Yâ-hwéh has a case at law against the heathen masses, He is entering into controversy against all of flesh, the wicked ones, He shall give them to the sword,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

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33. And the ones slain by Yâ-hwéh during that day shall be from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried, they shall be like dung upon the face of the ground; 34. Howl, O pastors and cry for help and roll in the dust O rams of the flock, because your days of ruthless slaughter and your dispersions have been accomplished and ye shall fall like a choice ram; 35. And places for escape shall vanish from the pastors and safety from the rams of the flock, 36. The sound of the distress calls of the pastors and the howls of distress of the rams of the flock, because Yâ-hwéh is devastating their pasture, 256

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37. But the remnant of peace shall be silent for fear of the fiery anger (of Yâhwéh); 38. He shall forsake whoever the young lion lodged because their land shall become for a desolation for fear of the great sword! ()” Chapter 26 /33 Evil new king Yâhuwyâqíym condemns YirmYâ´huw to death 1. During the beginning of the reign of Yâhuwyâqíym the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, this message came to be from Yâ-hwéh saying: 2. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: Stand in the courtyard of the house of Yâ-hwéh and you shall dictate unto all of the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h who are coming to render 257

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reverence [at] the house of Yâ-hwéh all of the words that I am commanding you to dictate to them, you shall not withhold a word: 3. Perhaps they shall listen and they shall each turn from his evil way so I may ease Myself against the disaster that I am the One planning to work upon them from the face of the evil of their deeds; 4. So you shall say to them, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: If ye do not heed Me to walk by My law that I have set before you, 5. To heed concerning the messages of My servants the predicators that I am the One sending to you, even getting up early and sending though you did not heed it, 6. Then I shall make this house like Shilóh and this city I shall make into 258

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an execration for all of the heathen masses of the earth;” 7. And the priests and the preachers and all of the people heard YirmYâ´huw speak these messages in the house of Yâ-hwéh; 8. And as YirmYâ´huw was finishing dictating all that Yâ-hwéh had commanded him to say towards all of the people, then the priests and the preachers and all of the people seized him, saying, (33: 9) “You shall surely die!”

9. “For what reason do you preach by the name of Yâ-hwéh, saying, ‘Like Shilów shall this house be and this city shall be desolate with no inhabitants?’”

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house of the king to the house of Yâ-hwéh and they stationed in the entrance of the new gate of Yâ-hwéh; 11. And the priests and the preachers spoke to the officials and to all of the people, saying, “A sentence of death belongs to this man because he preached against this city just as you have heard with your own ears!”

12. And YirmYâ´huw spoke to all of the officials and to all of the people, saying, “Yâ-hwéh is Who sent me to preach all of the words that you have heard against this house and against this city.

13. So now, correct your ways and your practices and heed the voice of Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones, then Yâ-hwéh will ease Himself against the disaster that He has dictated against you!

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14. But I, here I am in your hand, do to me as what is good and as is upright in your eyes; 15. However know ye for certain that if ye are putting me to death, that ye are putting innocent blood upon yourselves and against this city and against her inhabitants, because truly Yâ-hwéh has sent me concerning you to dictate in your ears all of these words!”

16. Then the officials and all of the people said to the priests and to the preachers, “Do not have against this man the sentence of death because He has dictated to us by the name of Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones.”

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18. “Miykhâ´h the Mowrashtíy, he was preaching during the days of ChizqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, and he spoke to all of the people of Yâhuwthâ´h, saying, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts: Tsiyyówn is a field which shall be plowed, and Yruwshâláim, it shall become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the house for the high places of a thicket.”

19. Did they surely put him to death, ChizqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h or anyone o Yâhuwthâ´h? Didn’t he fear Yâ-hwéh and become sorrowful to seek the Face of Yâ-hwéh, so Yâ-hwéh eased Himself against the disaster that He had dictated against them? Now we are who are working a huge disaster against ourselves!

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20. And also there was a man who was predicating by the name of Yâ-hwéh, ’UwriyYâ´huw the son of Shma`Yâ´huw from the City of the Forests (Qiryáth haY`âríym), and he predicated against this city and against this land like all the words of YirmYâ´huw.”

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by the sword and he threw his corpse into a mass grave.

24. Only the hand of ’Achiyqâ´m the son of Shâphâ´n is who was with YirmYâ´huw to not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

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envoys coming to Yruwshâláim to TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h; 4. And you shall give charge to them to say to their sovereigns, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: Thus shall you say to your sovereigns: 5. I am the One Who made the earth, mankind, and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth by My great strength, and by My extended sowing Arm, and I shall give her to whoever is upright in My eyes; 6. So now I am the One Who shall give all of these territories into the hand of Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél My servant, and even the animals of the field have I given to him to work for him.

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(And all of the heathen masses shall serve him and his sons and the son of his son until the time comes both of his land and He, then many heathen masses and great kings shall serve with him.)

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sorcerers, they which are the ones speaking to you, saying, “Ye shall not serve the king of Bâvél”, 10. Because it is a Lie they are preaching to you in order that ye be removed far away from on your land, (so I should thrust you out and you should perish.)

11. But the heathen mass which will bring his neck into the yoke of the king of Bâvél and will serve him, then I shall let it remain upon its land,(” declares Yâ-hwéh, “) and it shall serve him, and it shall dwell in her.”

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12. So I dictated to TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h likewise all of these words, saying, “Bring your necks into the yoke of the king of Bâvél, and serve him (and his people and live!)

13. (Why would you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, or by the pestilence, just as Yâ-hwéh dictated to the heathen mass that would not serve the king of Bâvél?)

14. (So do not listen to the words of the preachers who are speaking to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Bâvél”,) because it is a Lie they are predicating to you, 15. because I have not sent them;” declares Yâ-hwéh, 268

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“And they are predicating by My name about the Lie, in order that I should thrust you out so you should perish, you and the predicators preaching to you.”

16. And to the priests and to all this people, I dictated, saying: “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: Do not listen to the words of the preachers who are preaching to you, saying, “Look! The equipment of the house of Yâ-hwéh are to be brought back from Bâvél!”, because it is a Lie they are preaching to you; 17. I did not send them.

18. So if they are predicators, and if the Word of Yâ-hwéh is with them, let them entreat Me, for thus has Yâ-hwéh (of hosts) said.

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20. Which the king of Bâvél did not take when he carried YkânYâ´huw captive out of Yruwshâláim, 21. () 22. they shall be taken into Bâvél,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

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Chapter 28/ 35 The ChananYâ´huw contradiction 1. And it was the same year in the beginning of the reign of TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, in the fourth year in the fifth month, ChananYâ´huw the son of `Azzúwr the predicator that is from Ğiv`ówn spoke to me in the house of Yâ-hwéh in the sight of the priests and all of the people, saying: 2. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l, saying: “I have broken in pieces the yoke of the king of Bâvél!

3. In another two years are days I am bringing back to this place (all of) the equipment of the house of Yâ-hwéh (that Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of

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Bâvél took from this place and he brought them to Bâvél.)

4. and YkânYâ´huw () and (all of) the captivity of Yâhuwthâ´h () because I shall break the yoke of the king of Bâvél!”

5. And YirmYâ´huw () spoke to ChananYâ´huw () in the sight of the priests and in the sight of all of the people who were standing in the house of Yâhwéh, 6. And YirmYâ´huw () said, “Certainly thus may Yâ-hwéh do, may He make stand your words that you predicted to bring back the equipment of the house of Yâ-hwéh and all of the captivity from Bâvél to this place; 7. Only hear now this message of Yâhwéh that I am the one dictating in your ears and in the ears of all of the people: 272

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8. The predicators that have been preceding me and preceding you from antiquity, (and) they also predicated against many lands and against great kingdoms about war ().

9. A predicator that preaches about peace, by the message () coming true shall the predicator be known whether Yâ-hwéh sent him truly.”

10. Then ChananYâ´huw () took the yoke from off of the neck of YirmYâ´huw () in the sight of all the people and he broke it.

11. And ChananYâ´huw spoke in the sight of all of the people, saying, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “Like thus shall I break the yoke of (Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár) the king of Bâvél, () from upon the neck of all of the heathen masses!”

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12. But the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards YirmYâ´huw after ChananYâ´huw had broken off the yoke from upon his neck (), saying: 13. “Go and you shall speak to ChananYâ´huw, saying: “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: You broke yokes of wood, but I shall make you in place of them yokes of iron; 14. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: A yoke of iron I have put upon the neck of all of these heathen masses to serve Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél. ()” 15. And YirmYâ´huw the predicator said to ChananYâ´huw the predicator, “Hear now, ChananYâ´huw, Yâ-hwéh has not sent you yet you have caused this people to trust in a Lie! 274

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16.

Therefore thus says Yâ-hwéh: “Look! I am sending you off from upon the face of the earth this year. You are to die ().”

17. And (ChananYâ´huw the predicator) he died (during that year) during the seventh month.

Chapter 29/ 36 YirmYâ´huw writes a letter to the captivity 1. And these are the words of the writing that YirmYâ´huw () sent from Yruwshâláim to the elders of the captivity and to the priests and to the preachers and a letter to all of the people that (Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár) took captive (from Yruwshâláim) into Bâvél 2. after the departure of YkhânYâ´hu the king and the queen-mother and the ministers of state, the officers (of 275

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Yâhuwthâ´h and Yruwshâláim), and the skilled craftsmen and the smiths from Yruwshâláim, 3. By the hand of ’El`âsâ´h the son of Shâphâ´n, and GmarYâ´hu the son of ChilqiyYâ´huw, whom TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h sent to (Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár) the king of Bâvél in Bâvél, saying: 4. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l to (all of) the exiles that I caused to be exiled from Yruwshâláim (into Bâvél): 5. Build houses and dwell, and plant gardens and eat their fruits, 6. And take ye wives and procreate sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands (so they may have sons and 276

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daughters) and increase there and do not decrease; 7. And seek the peace of the land to which I have exiled you and pray for them to Yâ-hwéh because in her peace there shall be peace for you, 8. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: Do not let your predicators that are among you and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to your dreams which ye cause yourselves to dream, 9. Because it is by a Lie they are preaching to you in My name, I did not send them,() 10. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh, “When seventy years of Bâvél are on the verge of being completed, I shall pay attention to you and I shall confirm for you My 277

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good words to bring your people back to this place; 11. And I am the One Who () am planning about you () plans of peace and not for evil, to grant these to you (), 12. And (ye will call upon Me when you will come and) you will pray to Me and I shall listen to you; 13. And when you seek to find Me, then you shall find, (13.) when you carefully seek Me with all of your heart; [MattithYâ´huw 7: 7, Luwqá’ 11: 9] 14. Then I shall appear73 for you,” [Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 14: 21-23] () The meaning of this term Strong’s #4672 includes the following: 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be found 1b1a) to be encountered, be lighted upon, be discovered 1b1b) to appear, be recognized 1b1c) to be discovered, be detected 1b1d) to be gained, be secured 73

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15. As ye might say “Yâ-hwéh raised up for us predicators in Bâvél,” 16. () 17. () 18. () 19. () 20. () 21. Thus says Yâ-hwéh () to ’Achâ´’v (the son of QowlâYâ´hu) and to TsithqiyYâ´huw () “Look! I am giving them into the hand of (Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár) the king of Bâvél, and he shall slay them before your eyes; 22. And a curse shall be taken from them for all of the captivity of Yâhuwthâ´h that is in Bâvél, saying: “May Yâ-hwéh do to you as TsithqiyYâ´huw and like ’Âchâ´v who the king of Bâvél roasted in the fire,” 279

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23. because of the folly which they worked in Yisrâ’Ë´l, and they committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors and they dictated a message in My name, (a Lie) which I did not command them, and I am () Witness,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 24. “And to Shma`Yâ´huw the Nechelâmíy you shall speak, saying: 25. “(Thus says Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l, saying,) “I did not send you in My name, (due to the fact that you are who sent by your name letters to all of the people that are in Yruwshâláim,) even to TsphanYâ´hu the son of Ma`asëYâ´hu the priest (and to all of the priests,) saying: 26. “Yâ-hwéh, He has appointed you priest in the place of Yâhuwyâthâ´` the priest, to become overseers in the 280

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house of Yâ-hwéh against any man who is mad and predicating under the influence of an evil spirit, then you shall put him to the stocks and to the dungeon.

27. And now, for what reason haven’t you reprimanded YirmYâ´huw the `Annthothíy the one making himself a predicator to you?

28. Because he has sent to us concerning this in Bâvél, saying: “It is a long time. Build houses and dwell and plant gardens and eat their fruits.”

29. And TsphanYâ´hu did read this letter in the ears of YirmYâ´huw ().

30. Then the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards YirmYâ´huw, saying: 31. “Send to all of the exile, saying, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh to Shma`Yâ´huw the Nechelâmíy: Due to the fact that 281

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Shma`Yâ´huw predicated to you though I am not Who sent him and he made you trust on a Lie, 32. therefore thus says Yâ-hwéh: Look!

I am reckoning upon Shma`Yâ´huw (the Nechelâmíy) and upon his seed, there shall not exist one of his dwelling among this people to see the goodness that I am working for My people, () they shall not see it.”

Chapter 30/ 37 Both houses of Yisrâ’Ë´l to be brought back to the Land prior to the Day of Yâ-hwéh 1. The message that was towards YirmYâ´huw from Yâ-hwéh, saying: 2. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l, saying: “Write for yourself all of the words that I dictate to you on a scripture.

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3. Because days are coming,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “when I shall return the captivity of My people Yisrâ’Ë´l and Yâhuwthâ´h,” says Yâ-hwéh, “And I shall bring them back to the Land that I had given to their fathers and they shall take possession of it.”

4. And these are the words that Yâ-hwéh dictated towards Yisrâ’Ë´l and towards Yâhuwthâ´h, The Day of Yâ-hwéh approaches (6th seal) 5. As thus says Yâ-hwéh, “The sound of trembling we hear, dread, and there is no peace.

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loins like a woman in labor? And every face has turned pale!

7. Hówy! How huge is that day due to there being none like it, and it is the season of anguish for Ya`aqóv [Yshá`Yâhuw 29: 22], but he shall be rescued from out of her; 8. And it shall happen during that Day,” declares Yâ-hwéh of hosts, “I shall break off the yoke from upon their neck and I shall burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve foreigners, 9. Then they will serve Yâ-hwéh their mighty Ones, and I will raise up for them Dâwíth their king;” 10. () 11. () The Great Persecution (4th seal) 12. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh, 284

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“Your fracture is incurable; your wound is diseased; 13. There is no one to plead your case for surgical repair; there are no mending remedies for you.

14. All of your allies, they have forgotten you, they do not ask about you, because I have struck you with the blow of an enemy, the cruel correctional discipline according to the abundance of your iniquity, your sins are numerous!

15. (Why do you cry for help about your fracture? Your pain is incurable) according to the abundance of your iniquity, your sins are numerous: they have done these things to you!

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you shall be for plunder and all of the ones spoiling you I shall give for spoil; 17. Because I shall cause your soundness to rise up and from your wounds I will mend you,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “because they are calling you “Gidâchâ´h” (Banished one), () for whom there is not one who inquires!”

Yâ-hwéh Yâhuwshúa` returns 18. Thus says Yâ-hwéh, “Here am I, returning the captives of the tents of Ya`aqóv and I will have compassion on his dwellings, so the city shall be rebuilt upon her ruin and the citadel shall be set according to its ordinance.

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celebration, and I will cause them to multiply and I will cause them to be honored and they shall not grow insignificant.

20. And his sons shall be like antiquity and his Testimonies shall be firmly established before Me, and I shall make a reckoning upon all of the ones oppressing him.

21. And his Leader shall be One from him and the One governing him from his midst, He shall emerge and I shall cause Him to draw near and He shall draw near to Me, because Who is He? This One, Who shall pledge His heart to draw near to Me?” declares Yâ-hwéh, 22. (“So you shall be for me for a people and I, I shall be for you for a mighty Ones.)

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Day of Wrath approaches 23. Look! The tempest of Yâ-hwéh is wrath; it shall go forth a roaring tempest, over the head of the wicked ones it shall whirl around.

24. The fury of the anger of Yâ-hwéh shall not return until it has been accomplished and until it has established the purposes of His heart. During the latter days you shall study it diligently.

Chapter 31/ 38 Virgin of Yisrâ’Ë´l to be rebuilt 1. During that period,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “I shall be for a mighty Ones for all of the tribes of Yisrâ’Ë´l and they, they shall be for me for a people.”

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“I found him still warm in the uninhabited land with a people slain by the sword, go ye and do not destroy Yisrâ’Ë´l.

3. From afar off Yâ-hwéh is Who appeared to me, I have loved you with everlasting love, for this reason have I drawn you with kindness, 4. Again I shall build you and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Yisrâ’Ë´l. Again you shall take your tambourines and you shall go forth in the dances of the celebrators; 5. Again you shall plant vineyards among the hills of Shomrówn, planters will plant and they shall praise74,

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6. Because there shall be a day the watchmen on the mountain of ’Ephráyim will call out, “Get up and let’s ascend Tsiyyówn towards Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones!”

7. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh to Ya`aqóv, “Give a ringing cry of joy, yet make a shrill cry of distress in the chief of the heathen masses, cause it to be heard, praise ye, and say, “Yâ-hwéh, deliver Your people the remnant of Yisrâ’Ë´l!”

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among them () to the Exemption75, () and those shall procreate a huge throng [Disclosure 7: 9], then they shall return here.

9. They went forth with weeping76, but I will bear them along with consolation, I will lead them along streams of waters on an upright Way, they shall not stumble on it, because I am for Yisrâ’Ë´l for a Father, and ’Ephráyim, he is My firstborn.

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“He Who dispersed Yisrâ’Ë´l, He will gather him together and He shall guard him like a Pastor His flock; 11. Because Yâ-hwéh has ransomed Ya`aqóv, and He shall act as a kinsmanredeemer redeeming him from the hand of one stronger than him!”

12. And they shall come and they shall make a ringing cry on the height of Tsiyyówn and they shall stream towards the Goodness of Yâ-hwéh concerning grain and concerning new wine and concerning oil and concerning the offspring of the flock and the herd, and their soul shall be like a saturated garden, and they shall never again languish anymore.

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their mourning into rejoicing and I shall make them happy ().

14. And I shall soak the soul of the priests with richness and My people shall be satiated with My Goodness,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

15. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “A voice in Râmâ´h is heard, of great mourning, weeping – Râchë´l weeping for her children – she refuses to be comforted about her children because they are no more; [MattithYâ´huw 2: 18] 16. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “Withhold your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, because there are wages for your labor” declares Yâ-hwéh, “when they shall return from the land of the enemy: 293

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’Ephráyim first to return to the recalled Virgin of Yisrâ’Ë´l and warned about the making of the Anointed Falsifier 18. I have surely heard ’Ephráyim bemoaning himself, “You have disciplined me, so I let myself be corrected; like an untrained calf, allow me to return and I will come back, because You are Yâ-hwéh my mighty Ones.

19. Because after my return I was sorry, and after I was instructed, I slapped my thigh for shame, I was humiliated because I have borne the scorn of my youth.”

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still, concerning this My bowels are in commotion for him, I shall surely have compassion for him,” declares Yâ-hwéh; 21. “Stand up for yourself Tsiyyówn, set up for yourself guidelines, fixate your heart to the highway, return the way you have walked, O virgin of Yisrâ’Ë´l, return towards these your cities mourning; 22. Until when will you vacillate, O apostate daughter? Indeed Yâ-hwéh will create a new thing on the earth: a nonvirginal woman will bring back a warrior77 [Genesis 6: 478]!”

The warrior evil spirits infesting men of war since antiquity emanated from the dying corpses of the Bullies (Nphilíym). Note that this is an end-time prediction regarding the Anointed Falsifier’s spirit and the infusion of a grown adult’s soul into a cloned embryo implanted into a nonvirginal woman as a surrogate mother.

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23. Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: “Again they shall say this word in the land of Yâhuwthâ´h and in his cities during My returning their captivity: “May Yâ-hwéh be blessed, Who abides in righteousness on the mountain of His Pureness!”

24. And in her shall dwell Yâhuwthâ´h and all of his cities farmworkers and cattle-drivers together, 25. Because I shall cause the thirsty soul to drink and every soul which is faint I shall satisfy.”

26. Concerning this, I awakened and I considered it and my sleep, it had been pleasant for me.

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declares Yâ-hwéh, “when I shall sow the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l and the house of Yâhuwthâ´h the seed of ’Âthâ´m and the seed of beast;79 28. Then it shall be just as I had kept watch over them to uproot and to cast down and to overthrow and to exterminate and to bring disaster, thus, I shall keep watch over them to build and to plant,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

29. “In those days, they shall no longer say, “Fathers are who ate a sour grape but the teeth of the sons are made dull,” 30. Because rather each one is who will die by his own sin: every human who is During the millennial Kingdom, the souls of men and animals will recycle into these groups of believers and cease to be nonbelievers or animals.

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eating the sour grape, his teeth are the ones being dulled.

31. Look! Days are coming,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “when I will cut a new covenant with the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l and with the house of Yâhuwthâ´h: 32. It is not like the covenant that I made with their forefathers on a day I took them by their hand to lead them out from the Land of Mitsráyim because they are who broke My covenant, so I, I loathed80 them,” declares Yâ-hwéh: 33. “For this is the covenant that I will cut with the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l after those days –” declares Yâ-hwéh, This scripture and the LXX and the Peshitta Aramaic Tenákh demonstrate that the Masoretic text has a one-letter mistake here. The `Ivríyth (Hebrew) here was originally Bâchaltíy and not Bâ`áltiy.

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“I shall put My Law in their center, and on their hearts I shall write it, and I shall be to them for a mighty Ones, and they, they shall be to Me as a people: 34. And each one will no longer teach his neighbor or his brother, saying: ‘Acknowledge Yâ-hwéh!’

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35. Thus says Yâ-hwéh, Who grants a luminary orb for a light by day, Who decrees a moon and stars for a light for the night, Who stirs up the sea so its waves roar, Yâ-hwéh of hosts is His name: 36. “If these decrees are removed from before Me,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “then also the seed of Yisrâ’Ë´l, they shall cease from being a heathen mass before Me for all time.”

37. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “If the heavens can be stretched upwards and the foundations of the earth can be explored thoroughly downwards, then shall I reject against all of the Seed of Yisrâ’Ë´l concerning all that they worked,” declares Yâ-hwéh.

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declares Yâ-hwéh, “when the city shall be rebuilt for Yâhwéh from the Tower of Chanan’Ë´l [to] the Gate of the Corner 39. And the measuring line will proceed out even more opposite to the Hill of Gârë´v (Scabby [southwest]), though it will turn into a burnt valley (Gâ`thâ´m)81; 40. And the entire valley of the dead bodies and the greasy ash and all of the fields unto the brook of Qithrówn as far as the corner of the Gate of the horses towards the east is dedicated to Yâhwéh. It shall not be uprooted nor torn down anymore forever.”

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TsithqiyYâ´huw asks motive for the prediction of his defeat and capture 1. The message which was towards YirmYâ´huw from Yâ-hwéh in the tenth year of TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, this is the eighteenth year of Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár.

2. And then forces of the king of Bâvél were besieging against Yruwshâláim and YirmYâ´huw the predicator, he was confined in the courtyard of the prison that is in the house of the king of Yâhuwthâ´h; 3. that TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h had restricted him to, saying, “For what reason are you predicating, saying, ‘thus says Yâ-hwéh, 302

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“Look, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Bâvél and he shall capture her, 4. but TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, he shall not escape from the hand of the Kasdíym because he shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Bâvél, and he shall speak face to face and they shall see eye to eye, 5. And TsithqiyYâ´huw shall be led away into Bâvél, and there he shall be set down ()”’?”

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7. “Look, Chanam’Ë´l the son of Shallúm your uncle, he is coming to you to say, “Buy yourself my field that is in `Anâthówth, because yours is the right of the redemption to purchase.”

8. Then Chanam’Ë´l the son of my uncle came to me, according to the dictate of Yâ-hwéh to the courtyard of the prison, and he said to me, “Buy now my field that is in `Anâthówth that is in the land of Binyâmíyn because yours is the right of inheritance and yours is the right of redemption, purchase it for yourself!”

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in `Anâthówth, and I weighed out the silver, seventeen shqâlíym [2,244 grains].

10. And I signed on the scroll and I sealed it and I had witnesses bear witness and I weighed out the silver on scales; 11. And I took the scroll of the purchase which was sealed, (containing the ordinance and the prescribed portion, and the unsealed one) 12. And I gave the scroll of the purchase to Bârúwkh the son of NëriyYâ´huw the son of MachçëYâ´hu in the sight of Chanam’Ë´l my uncle’s son and in the sight of the witnesses which signed on the scroll of the purchase in the sight of all of the Yâhuwthíym who were staying in the courtyard of the prison; 305

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13. And I charged Bârúwkh in their sight to say, 14. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l, “take (these scrolls) the scroll of this purchase (and the sealed one) and this unsealed scroll and you shall put them in an earthen vessel in order that they shall endure many days;” 15. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: “Again shall houses be bought and fields and vineyards in this land.”” [v. 44] 16. So I prayed to Yâ-hwéh after being given the book of the purchase to Bârúwkh the son of NëriyYâ´huw, saying, 17. “’Achâ´hh, my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh, look, You are Who has made the 306

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heavens and the earth by Your huge Strength and by Your extended sowing Arm; any matter is not difficult to understand for You. 18. Working kindness for thousands yet making good the iniquity of the fathers in the bosom of their sons after them, the huge mighty Power, (Yâ-hwéh of hosts is His name.)

19. Great of purpose and abundant of deeds Whose eyes are open over all of the ways of the sons of ’Âthâ´m to render to each one according to his way and according to the fruits of his practices; 20. You who appointed signs and wonders in the land of Mitsráyim until this day, even within Yisrâ’Ë´l and among humankind, and You worked for Yourself a name as it is this day; 307

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21. And You brought out Your people Yisrâ’Ë´l from the land of Mitsráyim with signs and with wonders and by a strong hand and by an extended sowing Arm, and with a great terrifying deed [Yâshâ´r 81]; 22. And You gave to them this Land that You swore to their fathers to give to them, a Land flowing of milk and honey [Bar-Nâvíy 6: 17]; 23. So they entered and they took possession of her, but they did not heed Your voice and they did not walk by Your instruction; all that You had commanded for them to do they did not do, so they caused themselves to encounter all of this evil; 24. Look, a multitude has come to the city to capture it, and the city, it shall be given over into the hand of the 308

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Kasdíym, the ones waging war against her, by the power of the sword and the famine and the pestilence even which You dictated, it has happened, (and look, You are Who saw it).

25. Yet You are Who has said to me, () “Purchase for yourself the field with the silver and have witnesses bear witness,” though the city, she shall be given over into the hand of the Kasdíym!?”

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thus says Yâ-hwéh, “Look, I am giving over this city into the hand of the Kasdíym and into the hand of Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél and he shall capture her; 29. And the Kasdíym who are waging war against this city, even they shall burn this city with fire and they shall burn her down and the houses where they had burned incense upon their roofs for the Lord (Bá`al) and they poured out drink offerings to other mighty ones in order to provoke Me to anger; 30. Because the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l and the sons of Yâhuwthâ´h have been ones working nothing but evil in My sight from their youths,() 31. Because to Me, this city has been cause for My anger and for My wrath 310

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since the day that they built her even until this day to remove her from in front of Me, 32. concerning all of the evil of the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l and the sons of Yâhuwthâ´h that they worked to provoke Me to anger, they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their predicators, and each one of Yâhuwthâ´h and the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim; 33. And they directed the back towards Me and not the face when teaching them starting early, even teaching when none of them were listening to accept correction; 34. And they set up their abominations within that house at which My name is called, to defile it; 311

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35. And they built the high places of the Lord (Bá`al) that are in the Valley of the son of Hinnóm to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to the Mólekh which I had not commanded them and had never come up in My heart to do this abomination in order to make Yâhuwthâ´h sin, 36. So now therefore, thus says Yâhwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l to this city, which you are the ones saying, “it shall be given into the hand of the king of Bâvél by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence,” 37. Look, I am to gather them together out from all of the lands where I had driven them in My anger and in My fury and in My great wrath, and I shall 312

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bring them back to this place and I shall cause them to dwell securely; 38. And they shall be for Me for a people and I am Who shall be for them for a mighty Ones; 39. And I shall give to them One heart and one Way for revering Me all of the days for the Goodness for them and for their sons after them, 40. And I shall cut for them an eternal covenant that I shall not turn away from after them (), and I shall grant the reference of Me in their heart for them to not depart from being with Me; 41. And I will inspect them for doing goodness to them, and I shall plant them, in this Land, in the Truth, in all of My heart, and in all of My soul;” 42. Because,” thus says Yâ-hwéh, 313

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“Just as I have caused all of these great evils to come to this people, thus I am the One from Whom comes upon them all of the goodness that I am Who dictated concerning them; 43. So the field shall be purchased in this land that you are the ones saying, “she is a desolation from there being no human or beast, she was given into the hand of the Kasdíym;” 44. Fields they shall purchase by silver and signing on the scroll and to seal it and to have witnesses bear witness in the land of Binyâmín and in the surroundings of Yruwshâláim and in the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h and in the cities of the mountain and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south, because I shall return their captivity.” () 314

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Chapter 33/ 40 1. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards YirmYâ´huw a second time when he continued being confined in the courtyard of the prison, saying: 2. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh, the One Who makes the Land and forms it to establish it, Yâ-hwéh is His name: 3. “Call to Me and I shall answer you and I shall declare to you great things and inaccessible secrets, you do not know them; 4. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the royals of Yâhuwthâ´h, the ones being demolished for ramparts and for fortifications, 315

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5. to fight the invaders, the Kasdíym, and for filling them with the corpses of the men that I strike in My anger and in My fury, and that concerning all of their wickedness, I conceal My Face from this city!

6. Look, I am to cause to ascend upon her restoration to soundness and mending, and I will manifest Myself to them and I shall cure them, and make (the abundance of) both peace and truth; 7. And I shall bring back the captivity of Yâhuwthâ´h and the captivity of Yisrâ’Ë´l82 and I shall build them like in the beginning, 8. And I shall cleanse them from all of their iniquity by which they had committed sin against Me, so I shall Note that the inclusion of the release of the captivity of Yisrâ’Ë´l makes this be an endtime prediction.

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(forgive for all of their iniquities)83 by which they had committed sin against Me, and by which they revolted against Me; 9. And it shall be for Me for a name, a joy, a praise, a decoration of honor to all of the heathen masses of the earth by which they hear of all of the goodness that I am the One working for them, and they shall be in dread and they will tremble concerning all of the goodness and concerning all of the peace that I am the One bringing about for her.”

10. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “Again there shall be heard in this place, that you are the ones saying, “It is a waste desolate from there being no man or from there being no beast,” in the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h and in the streets of Yruwshâláim which are being deserted from there being no man 83

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and from there being no inhabitant and from there being no beast, 11. The sound of rejoicing and the sound of gladness and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of ones saying, “Profess Yâ-hwéh of hosts because Yâ-hwéh is good, because His kindness is forever!”, and they shall bring an offerings of thanks to the house of Yâ-hwéh, because I shall return the captivity of the Land as during the beginning,” says Yâ-hwéh.

12. Thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts, “Again, in this place desolate from there being no man or even animal in all of its towns, there shall be a pasture of pastors causing their flocks to lie down, 13. In the cities of the mountain and in the cities of the valley and in the cities of the south and in the land of Binyâmín and in 318

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the surroundings of Yruwshâláim and in the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h, again shall the flocks pass under the hands of the one counting,” says Yâ-hwéh.

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2. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh (): Go and you shall speak to TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, and you shall say to him: “Thus says Yâ-hwéh, “Look, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Bâvél, and he shall take it and he shall have her burned with fire; 3. And you, you shall not escape from his hand, as you shall surely be captured and into his hand shall you be given; and your eyes, they shall see his eyes () and his mouth shall speak to your mouth and you shall go to Bâvél.

4. Yet hear the Word of Yâ-hwéh, TsithqiyYâ´huw king of Yâhuwthâ´h, thus says Yâ-hwéh concerning you: You shall not die by the sword.

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kings that were before you, thus they shall make a burning for you, and, “Hówy O sovereign!” they shall lament for you, because it is a message which I have dictated,””” declares Yâ-hwéh; 6. And YirmYâ´huw () dictated to TsithqiyYâ´huw the king () all of these words in Yruwshâláim, 7. While the forces of the king of Bâvél were engaged in battle against Yruwshâláim and against all of the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h which remained, against Lâkhísh and against `Azëqâ´h and these were the fortified cities which remained of the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h.

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TsithqiyYâ´huw had cut a covenant with all of the people which were in Yruwshâláim to proclaim liberty for them, 9. To each to release his male servant and each his female servant, the `Ivríy and the `Ivriyyâ´h are free ones; no one was to have a fellow Yâhuwthíy serve them.

10. And all of the officials and all of the people, which had entered into the covenant, heeded each to free his male servant and each his female servant free ones, not to have serve them anymore, and they heeded and they set them free; 11. But they repented after this and they brought back the male servants and the female servants that they had set free, free ones, and they brought them into bondage for male servants and for female servants.

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13. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh (): I am the One Who cut a covenant with your fathers during the day of My bringing them out from the land of Mitsráyim from the house of servitude, saying: 14. At the end of seven years, you must free each one his brother, the `Ivríy which has been sold to you: when he has served you six years, then you must release him free from with you, but your fathers did not heed Me nor did they listen their ear; 15. Yet ye repented today and you did what is upright in My sight to proclaim freedom each one for your neighbor, and you cut a covenant before Me in the house at which My name is called; 16. But you repented and you defiled My name when you took back each one his male servant and each one his female 323

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servant which you had set free, free ones per their own desire, then you subjected them to become for you for male servant and female servants.

17. Therefore thus says Yâ-hwéh: Ye have not heeded Me to proclaim freedom each one for his brother and each one for his neighbor. Look, I am proclaiming for you freedom,” declares Yâ-hwéh, “to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine, and I shall make you for (an object of horror)/dispersion to all of the kingdoms of the earth; 18. And I shall give up the mortal men who transgressed My covenant, that had not upheld (the words of) the covenant that they had cut before Me, the calf that they had cut in two and they passed through between its pieces: 324

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19. the officials of Yâhuwthâ´h and (the officials of Yruwshâláim,) the ministers of state and the priests and all of the people (of the land who had walked between the pieces of the calf;) 20. And I shall give them up into the hand of their enemies (and into the hand of the ones who seek their lives,) and their corpses shall become for food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth; 21. And I shall give over TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h and his officials into the hand of their enemies (and into the hand of the ones who seek their lives,) and the ones that flee from them into the hand of the forces of the king of Bâvél (); 22. Look, I am commanding,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 325

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“and I shall bring them back to this city, and they will engage in battle against her and they shall capture her and they shall burn her with fire and the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h, I will turn into desolation from there being no inhabitant.”

Chapter 35/ 42 The Lesson of the Rëkhâvíym 1. The Word that was towards YirmYâ´huw from Yâ-hwéh during the days of Yâhuwyâqíym the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, saying: 2. “Go to the house of the Rëkhâvíym and you speak with them and you shall bring them to the house of Yâ-hwéh to one of the chambers and you will give them wine to drink.”

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3. So I took Ya’azanYâ´hu the son of YirmYâ´huw the son of HavatstsinYâ´hu and his brothers and (all of) his sons and the whole house of the Rëkhâvíym; 4. And I brought them to the house of Yâ-hwéh to the chamber of the sons of Yâhuwchânâ´n, the son of ChananYâ´huw, the son of YiǧdalYâ´huw the man of the mighty Ones that is beside the chamber of the officials that are above to the chamber of Ma`asëYâ’hu the son of Shallúm, the doorkeeper.

5. And I put before the sons of the house of the Rëkhâvíym bowls full of wine and cups, and I said to them, “Drink wine!”

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“We do not drink wine because Yâhuwnâthâ´v the son of Rëkhâ´v our father, he gave us a command saying, “Ye shall not drink wine, you or your sons, until the age, 7. And ye shall not build a house, nor shall ye sow seed, nor shall ye plant a vineyard, nor shall ye own one, because ye shall dwell in tents all of your days in order that ye shall live many days upon the face of the land on which ye are sojourners.”

8. So we have heeded the voice of Yâhuwnâthâ´v the son of Rëkhâ´v, our father, concerning all that he commanded us: to not drink wine all of our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters; 328

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9. And to not build houses for us to dwell, and a vineyard, or a field, or seed, we will have none; 10. And we have dwelled in tents and we heeded and we did according to all that Yâhuwnâthâ´v our father commanded us; 11. But it happened when Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél ascended against the Land, then we said, ‘Come, and we will enter Yruwshâláim for fear of the forces of the Kasdíym and for fear of the forces of ’Arâ´m,’ so we stayed there.”

12. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards me, saying: 13. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh (), go and say to each man of Yâhuwthâ´h and to the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim, “Won’t you accept a lesson to heed My words?”

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declares Yâ-hwéh, 14. “The words of Yâhuwnâthâ´v the son of Rëkhâ´v were brought up, that he commanded his sons to not drink wine and they do not drink unto this day because they heed the command of their father, but I am the One Who dictated to you rising early and speaking yet you did not heed Me, 15. So I dispatched to you all of My servants the predicators, to rise early and sending to say, “Turn back now, each one from his wicked way, and make your practices good and do not walk after other mighty ones to serve them and stay on the ground that I have given to you and to your fathers,” but you did not listen your ear so you would not hear Me; 330

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Though the sons of Yâhuwnâthâ´v the son of Rëkhâ´v carried out the command of their father (), yet this people have not heeded Me; 17. Therefore,” thus says Yâ-hwéh (), “Look, I will bring to pass against Yâhuwthâ´h and against (every) inhabitant of Yruwshâláim all of the evil that I dictated against them; () 18. () Therefore,” thus says Yâ-hwéh (), “Since the sons of Yâhuwnâthâ´v the son of Rëkhâ´v have heeded the command of () their father to do as their father commanded them, 19. () there shall not lack a man of Yâhuwnâthâ´v the son of Rëkhâ´v to 331

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stand before My Face all of the days of the earth.”

Chapter 36/ 43 King Yâhuwyâqíym burns first copy of YirmYâ´huw’s scroll 1. And it happened in the fourth year of Yâhuwyâqíym the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h the Word of Yâhwéh came to me, saying: 2. “Take for yourself a roll of a scroll and you shall write on her all of the words that I have dictated to you concerning Yisrâ’Ë´l and concerning Yâhuwthâ´h and concerning all of the heathen masses from the day I dictated to you from the days of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h even until this day.

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planning to work on them in order that they may each turn from their evil way so I may be forgiving to their iniquities and to their sins.”

4. And YirmYâ´huw called Bârúwkh the son of NëriyYâ´huw, and Bârúwkh wrote from the mouth of YirmYâ´huw all of the words of Yâ-hwéh that he dictated to him upon a roll of a scroll.

5. Then YirmYâ´huw commissioned Bârúwkh, saying: “I am restricted; I am not able to come to the house of Yâ-hwéh.

6. So you will go and you will proclaim in this scroll () in the ears of the people in the house of Yâ-hwéh on the day of the fast and also in the ears of all of Yâhuwthâ´h who are coming from their cities, you shall read it to them; 333

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7. Perhaps their supplication for favor might fall before Yâ-hwéh and they may each turn from his evil way, because huge is the anger and the fury that Yâhwéh has dictated against this people!”

8. So Bârúwkh (the son of NëriyYâ´huw) did according to everything that YirmYâ´huw (the predicator) commanded him to read from the scroll the words of Yâ-hwéh in the house of Yâ-hwéh.

9. And it was in the eighth/fifth84 year of Yâhuwyâqíym the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, during the ninth month, all of the people in Yruwshâláim and all of the people coming from the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h into Yruwshâláim proclaimed a fast before Yâ-hwéh.

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hwéh in the chamber of GmarYâ´huw the son of Shâphâ´n the scribe in the upper courtyard, at the entrance of the new gate of the house of Yâ-hwéh in the ears of all of the people; 11. And MikhâYâ´huw the son of GmarYâ´huw the son of Shâphâ´n heard all of the words of Yâ-hwéh from on the scroll, 12. Then he descended to the house of the royals unto the chamber of the scribe and look, there were sitting all of the officials: ’Eliyshâmâ´` the scribe and DlâYâ´huw the son of Shma`Yâ´huw and Yâhuwnâthâ´n the son of `Akhbówr and GmarYâ´huw the son of Shâphâ´n and TsithqiyYâ´huw the son of ChananYâ´huw, and all of the officials.

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Bârúwkh read in the scroll in the ears of the people.

14. So all of the officials sent out Yâhuwthíy the son of NthanYâ´huw the son of ShelemYâ´huw the son of Kuwshíy for Bârúwkh, saying: “The scroll from which you read in the ears of the people, take it in your hand and come,” so Bârúwkh () took the roll (in his hand) and he came to them; 15. And they said to him, “(Sit down now and) read it again in our ears,” so Bârúwkh read it (in their ears); 16. And it happened as they heard all of the words, they each consulted together with each other and they said to Bârúwkh, “We must surely report all of these words to the king!”

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17. So they asked Bârúwkh, saying: “Tell us now, where did you write all of these words ()?”

18. And Bârúwkh said (to them,) “YirmYâ´huw told me from his mouth he spoke to me all of these words and I am who wrote it on the scroll with the ink.”

19. So the officials said to Bârúwkh, “Go, hide yourself and YirmYâ´huw, and do not let anyone know where ye are.”

20. And they came to the king in the courtyard, and they deposited the scroll in the chamber of ’Eliyshâmâ´` the scribe and they reported all of these things in the ears of the king.

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and in the ears of all of the officials who were standing beside the king.

22. And the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and a fire was burning on the hearth before him; 23. And it happened as Yâhuwthíy read three columns or four, he tore it off with the penknife and threw it to the fire that was in the hearth until all of the roll was consumed on the fire that was on the hearth; 24. And the king and all of his servants who heard all of these words, they did not fear nor did they rend their garments; 25. Though both ’Elnâthâ´n and DlâYâ´huw and GmarYâ´huw, they made an entreaty to the king to (not) burn the scroll, (but he would not heed them,) 26. Then the king commanded Yrachm’Ë´l the son of the king and SrâYâ´huw the 338

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son of `Azriy’Ë´l (and ShelemYâ´huw the son of `Avd’Ë´l) to seize Bârúwkh () and YirmYâ´huw () but (Yâ-hwéh) had concealed them; 27. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards YirmYâ´huw after the king burned the roll with the words that Bârúwkh had written from the mouth of YirmYâ´huw, saying: 28. “Go back, take for yourself another scroll and write on it all of the words that were (at first) upon the (first) scroll which Yâhuwyâqíym the king of Yâhuwthâ´h has burnt; 29. And to Yâhuwyâqíym the king of Yâhuwthâ´h say, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh. You are who burned this scroll, saying, “For what reason did you write on her saying, ‘Surely the king of Bâvél 339

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shall come and he shall destroy this land and he shall cause man and beast to cease from her’?”

30. Therefore, thus says Yâ-hwéh concerning Yâhuwyâqíym the king of Yâhuwthâ´h: he shall not have one to sit upon the throne of Dâwíth; [22: 24-30] and it shall be his corpse, which shall be thrown out daily to the parching heat and nightly to the frost; 31. And I shall reckon upon him and upon his seed and upon his servants their iniquities, and I shall bring to pass upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim and upon the land of Yâhuwthâ´h, all of the evil that I did dictate against them though they did not heed it.”

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YirmYâ´huw all of the words of the scroll that Yâhuwyâqíym the king of Yâhuwthâ´h had burnt (in the fire), and more words, many ones like them were added to them.

Chapter 37/ 44 Nonbeliever prayer request 1. And king TsithqiyYâ´huw the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw reigned instead of ()85 Yâhuwyâqíym that Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél made king in the land of Yâhuwthâ´h; 2. Though neither he nor his servants or the people of the land heeded the words of Yâ-hwéh which He dictated by the hand of YirmYâ´huw (), The Masoretic and Alexandrian LXX insert here “YkânYâ´huw the son of” which is confusing because YkânYâ´huw never reigned.

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3. Yet TsithqiyYâ´huw the king dispatched Yâhuwkhál the son of ShelemYâ’huw and TsphanYâ´huw the son of Ma`asëYâ´hu the priest to YirmYâ´huw () saying, “Pray now on our behalf to Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones!”

4. Then YirmYâ´huw was entering and departing among the people and they had not put him in the house of the imprisonment; 5. And forces of the Phar`óh, it had departed from Mitsráyim, and the Kasdíym who were laying siege on Yruwshâláim heard the report of them, and they withdrew from against Yruwshâláim.

6. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards YirmYâ´huw () saying, 342

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7. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh (): Thus shall you say to the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: Look! The force of Phar`óh which departed to you for assistance, it will return to his land, Mitsráyim; 8. Then the Kasdíym shall return again and they shall wage war against this city and they shall capture her and they shall burn her with fire.

9. Thus says Yâ-hwéh: don’t deceive yourselves saying, “The Kasdíym shall surely go away from against us!” because they shall not go.

10. Consequently, if you would strike all of the forces of the Kasdíym who are engaging in battle against you, and of them survived mortal men riddled with piercing wounds, each one in his tent 343

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would stand up and they would burn this city with fire.”

YirmYâ´huw imprisoned 11. And it happened while the forces of the Kasdíym withdrew from against Yruwshâláim for fear of the forces of Phar`óh; 12. And YirmYâ´huw departed from Yruwshâláim to go to the land of Binyâmín to receive a portion from there from among the people; 13. And he was in the Gate of Binyâmín, but a lord (bá`al) of the guard was there, and his name was Yir’iyYâ´hu the son of ShelemYâ´hu the son of ChananYâ´hu, and he arrested YirmYâ´huw (), saying: “You are defecting to the Kasdíym!”

14. But YirmYâ´huw said, 344

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“It is a lie (Shéqer), I am not defecting to the Kasdíym.”

Yet he would not listen to him, so Yir’iyYâ´hu arrested YirmYâ´huw and he brought him to the officials; 15. And the officials were furious against YirmYâ´huw and they had him beaten and they put him in the prison house, the house of Yâhuwnâthâ´n the scribe because they had made it into a prison house; 16. Consequently YirmYâ´huw came to the house of the pit, even to the recesses, and YirmYâ´huw stayed there many days; 17. Then TsithqiyYâ´huw the king dispatched and fetched him and the king asked him in his house secretly, and he said, “Has there been a message from Yâhwéh?” and YirmYâ´huw said, 345

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“There is: you shall be given into the hand of the king of Bâvél.”

18. Then YirmYâ´huw said to TsithqiyYâ´huw the king, “What sin have I committed against you or against your servants or against this people to cause you to put me in the prison house?

19. And where are your predicators that were preaching to you saying, “The king of Bâvél will not come against you or against this land”?

20. So at this time, hear now, my sovereign the king, let my petition come before you now, and do not send me to the house of Yâhuwnâthâ´n the scribe so I may not die there.”

21. So the king TsithqiyYâ´huw gave the command, and they should commit YirmYâ´huw in (the courtyard of the) 346

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prison and to give to him a loaf of bread for the day from the bakers of the street until all of the bread from the city be exhausted, so YirmYâ´huw stayed in the courtyard of the prison.

Chapter 38/ 45 YirmYâ´huw lowered into the cistern, rescued 1. And ShphaţYâ´hu the son of Mattâ´n and GthalYâ´huw the son of Pashchúwr and Yuwkhál the son of ShelemYâ´huw (and Pashchúwr the son of MalkkiyYâ´hu) heard the words that YirmYâ´huw was speaking to all of the people, saying: 2. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: “The one staying in this city, he shall die by the sword, by the famine, or by the pestilence, but the one going out to the Kasdíym, he shall live, and his life 347

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shall become his for a spoil and he shall live!

3. Thus says Yâ-hwéh, surely this city shall be given into the hands of the forces of the king of Bâvél, and he shall capture her.”

4. Then the officials said to the king, “This man must be killed now because concerning this, he is weakening the resolve of the men of battle remaining in this city and the hands of all of the people, saying to them such words as these, because this man, he isn’t seeking the peace for this people, as instead he seeks their harm!”

5. And the king TsithqiyYâ´huw said, “Look, he is in your power,” because there was nothing the king could do against them in the matter.

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6. So they took YirmYâ´huw and they had him thrown into the cistern of MalkkiyYâ´huw the son of the king, that is in the courtyard of the prison, and they let down YirmYâ´huw by ropes, but in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and YirmYâ´huw sank down into the mud.

7. And `Éveth-Mélekh the Kuwshíy, a minister of state, heard it when he was in the house of the king, that they had put YirmYâ´huw into the cistern, but the king stayed in the gate of Binyâmín; 8. So he departed (from the house of the king) and he spoke to the king, saying: 9. “My sovereign the king, you have worked evil in what you have done to slay this man with hunger because there is no more bread in the city.”

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10. So the king commanded `ÉvethMélekh (), saying: “Take by your authority from these thirty men and ye must raise him up from the cistern before he dies!”

11. So `Éveth-Mélekh took the men by his authority and he came to the house of the king to underneath the storehouse and he took from there old rags and old ropes, and threw them to YirmYâ´huw into the cistern.

12. And he said (), “Put these (rags) upon the ropes,” and YirmYâ´huw did so.

13. Then they drew him up by the ropes, and they lifted him out of the cistern; but YirmYâ´huw stayed in the courtyard of the prison; TsithqiyYâ´huw inquires yet again 350

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14. Then the King () dispatched and he took him to himself to the third entrance which is in the house of Yâ-hwéh, and the king said to YirmYâ´huw, “I will ask you a question; do not conceal a word from me.”

15. And YirmYâ´huw said to the king, “When I tell it to you, won’t you surely kill me? And though I give you advice, you have never heeded me.”

16. So the king () swore an oath to him, saying, “As Yâ-hwéh lives, which worked this life for us, I will not kill you nor will I give you into the hand of those mortal men that are seeking your life.”

17. And YirmYâ´huw said to him, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: 351

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“If you surely go out to the officials of the king of Bâvél, then your life shall live, and this city will not be burned with fire, and you will live: (you) and your house.

18. But if you do not go out (), then this city shall be given into the hand of the Kasdíym and they will burn her with fire, and you, you shall not escape from their hand.”

19. And the king () said to YirmYâ´huw, “I am fearing the Yâhuwthím which defected to the Kasdíym, lest they give me into their hand and they abuse me.”

20. And YirmYâ´huw said, “They will not give you over. Heed now the voice of Yâ-hwéh to what I am telling you and it shall go well for you and your life will live.

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21. But if you are refusing to go out, this is the word that Yâ-hwéh has caused me to see: 22. And look, all of the wives that are left in the house of the king of Yâhuwthâ´h are being brought out to the officials of the king of Bâvél and they are the ones saying, “The mortal men you were at peace with allured you and they prevailed over you, your feet were stuck in the mud, and they have been driven off backwards!”

23. Though all of your wives and children, are being brought out to the Kasdíym, yet you, you shall not escape from their hand because by the hand of the king of Bâvél you will be captured and this city will be burnt with fire.”

24. Then the king said to him, 353

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“Do not let anyone know about these words and you will not die.

25. And if the officials hear that I had spoken with you and they come to you and they say to you, “Tell us now what you said to the king, do not conceal it from us and we will not kill you, and what did the king say to you?”

26. Then you will say to them: “I was pleading before the king to not send me back to the house of Yâhuwnâthâ´n to die there.”

27. And all of the officials came to YirmYâ´huw and they questioned him and he reported to them as all of these things that the king had commanded, then they became deaf to him because the matter was not regarded.

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28. So YirmYâ´huw stayed in the courtyard of the prison until the day that Yruwshâláim was captured, and he was like that when Yruwshâláim was captured.

Chapter 39/ 46 Bâvél liberates YirmYâ´huw 1. In the ninth year of TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, during the tenth month, Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél invaded with all of his forces against Yruwshâláim and they laid siege against her; 2. And in the eleventh year of TsithqiyYâ´huw in the fourth month on the ninth of the month [70th Week of Dâ´niyyË´’l calendar], the city was broken into, 355

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3. And all of the officials of the king of Bâvél entered and they sat down in the middle gate: Nërǧál, Fire-Officer, Çámgar-Nvúw (Sword of Nvúw), Officer Çkhíym (Officer of the Eunuchs), the Chief officer Nërǧál, Fire-Officer, the Chief Sorcerer-Priest, and all of the remaining officials of the king of Bâvél; 4. [Masoretic’s vv. 4-13 not found in LXX, repeated material from Ch. 52] (14.) And they dispatched and they took YirmYâ´huw from the courtyard of the prison and they gave him over to GthalYâ´huw the son of ’Achiyqâ´m the son of Shâphâ´n, to deliver him (to the house,) so he stayed in the midst of the people; Yâ-hwéh rewards `Éveth-Mélekh the Kuwshíy 356

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15. Then the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards YirmYâ´huw while he was detained in the courtyard of the prison, saying: 16. “Go and you will speak to `ÉvethMélekh the Kuwshíy, saying, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: Look, I am bringing to pass My words against this city for harm and not for goodness, and they shall be in front of you on that day, 17. But I shall rescue you on that day,()and I shall not give you into the hand of the mortal men that you from whom you are afraid; 18. Because I shall surely deliver you and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be yours for spoil because you have trusted in Me,” declares Yâ-hwéh.”

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Chapter 40/ 47 Yâ-hwéh speaks through Nvuwzar’athâ´n 1. The message that was from Yâ-hwéh towards YirmYâ´huw after Nvuwzar’athâ´n the chief of the guardsmen had released him from the Râmâ´h (Hill) when he had procured him when he was bound in chains in the midst of all of the captives of Yruwshâláim and Yâhuwthâ´h who were being taken into exile into Bâvél; 2. And the chief of the guardsmen procured for YirmYâ´huw then he said to him, “Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones, He dictated this disaster to this place, 3. and He brought it to pass; So Yâ-hwéh did work just as He dictated because ye sinned against Yâ-hwéh and ye did not 358

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heed His voice, so this matter has come to pass for you [plural].

4. So at this time, look, I am setting you free today from the manacles that are upon your hands. If it is good in your eyes to come with me to Bâvél, come, and I will watch over you; (5.) but if it is bad in your eyes to come with me to Bâvél, don’t. Look, the entire Land is before you for goodness, so it is up to you to go towards where it is upright in your eyes to go, go!

5. Or furthermore, if you do not return, then go back to GthalYâ´huw the son of ’Achiyqâ´m the son of Shâphâ´n whom the king of Bâvél has appointed over the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h, and stay with him in the midst of the people in the Land of Yâhuwthâ´h, or to anywhere it seems upright in your eyes to go, go!”

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And the chief of the guardsmen gave to him (food supplies and) a gift of funds raised and let him go.

6. So he came to GthalYâ´huw (the son of ’Achiyqâ´m) of the Mitspâ´h (Watchtower) and he stayed with him in the midst of the people who remained in the Land; 7. And all of the officials of the forces that were in the field, they and their mortal men, heard that the king of Bâvél appointed GthalYâ´huw () over the Land and put him in charge of mortal men and women (and toddlers and from the helpless of the land) which had not been exiled into Bâvél; 8. So they came to GthalYâ´huw of the Mitspâ´h (Watchtower): even Yishmâ`Ë´’l the son of NthanYâ´huw and Yâhuwchânâ´n (and Yâhuwnâthâ´n) the son(s) of Qârë´ach and SrâYâ´huw the son 360

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of Tanchúmeth and the sons of `Ëwpháy the Nţophâthíy and YzanYâ´huw the son of the Ma`akhâthiy, they and their mortal men; 9. And GthalYâ´huw () swore to them and to their mortal men, saying: “Do not fear to serve the Kasdíym, stay in the Land and serve the king of Bâvél and it will be well for you; 10. Even I, here am I, staying in the Mitspâ´h (Watchtower), to represent us before the Kasdíym which will come to us, so ye gather wine and summer fruit and oil and put it in your vessels and stay in your cities that you have taken over!”

11. Then also all of the Yâhuwthím which were in Mow’â´v and among the Tribal sons (`Ammówn) and among ’Ethówm and 361

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which were among all of the lands did hear that the king of Bâvél had permitted a remnant for Yâhuwthâ´h and that he had appointed over them GthalYâ´huw the son of ’Achiyqâ´m the son of Shâphâ´n, 12. So all of the Yâhuwthím returned from all of the places to where they were driven away and they came to the land of Yâhuwthâ´h, to GthalYâ´huw of the Mitspâ´h (Watchtower), and they gathered wine and summer-fruit in full abundance; Assassination plot against GthalYâ´huw, he does not seek Yâ-hwéh’s help 13. And Yâhuwnâthâ´n the son of Qârë´ach and all of the officials of the forces that were in the field, they came to GthalYâ´huw of the Mitspâ´h (Watchtower), 362

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14. And they said to him, “Do you surely know that Ba`alíyç the king of the Tribal sons (`Ammówn) has dispatched Yishmâ`Ë´’l (the son of NthanYâ´huw) to you to slay your life?”

But GthalYâ´huw (the son of ’Achiyqâ´m) did not believe them.

15. Then Yâhuwchânâ´n (the son of Qârë´ach) spoke to GthalYâ´huw in private in the Mitspâ´h (Watchtower), saying, “I will go now and I will slay Yishmâ`Ë´’l (), and do not let anyone know. Why should he slay your life so all of Yâhuwthâ´h should be scattered, which are being gathered to you, and the remnant of Yâhuwthâ´h perish?”

16. But GthalYâ´huw () said to Yâhuwchânâ´n (), 363

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“Do not do this thing, because what you are saying about Yishmâ`Ë´’l is a lie.”

Chapter 41/ 48 GthalYâ´huw assassinated 1. And it came to pass during the seventh month, Yishmâ`Ë´’l the son of NthanYâ´huw the son of ’Eliyshâmâ´` from the seed of the royalty (), and ten mortal men with him came to GthalYâ´huw () and they ate there bread together in the Mitspâ´h (Watchtower).

2. And Yishmâ`Ë´’l the son of NthanYâ´huw and ten of the men which were with him got up and they slew GthalYâ´huw () whom the king of Bâvél had appointed over the Land, 3. and (Yishmâ`Ë´’l killed) all of the Yâhuwthím that had been with him, (with GthalYâ´huw) in the Mitspâ´h 364

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(Watchtower) and all of the Kasdíym that were found there, (the mortal men of battle).

4. And it happened on the second day after the killing of GthalYâ´huw when no one knew of it, 5. Then mortal men came from Shkhém, from Shilów and from Shomrówn, eighty men with shaved beards and torn garments and beating their breasts, with grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring them to the house of Yâ-hwéh.

6. And Yishmâ`Ë´’l () went out to meet them (from the Mitspâ´h (Watchtower),) as they walked and wept () then he said to them, “Come to GthalYâ´huw ()!”

7. And it happened when they went to the inside of the city, then he (and the men 365

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that were with him) slaughtered them and threw them into the cistern.

8. But ten men appeared among them, and they said to Yishmâ`Ë´’l, “Do not kill us because we have hidden some wheat and barley and oil and honey in the field,” so he held off and he did not kill them from among the others.

9. And the cistern where Yishmâ`Ë´’l threw all of the corpses of the men that he slew () it is the great one which the king ’Âçâ made for fear of Ba`shâ´’ the king of Yisrâ’Ë´l. It is the one Yishmâ`Ë´’l the son of NthanYâ´huw filled with the slain.

10. Then Yishmâ`Ë´’l took captive all of the remainder of the people which were in the Mitspâ´h (Watchtower): the daughters of the king, () which (Nvuwzar’athâ´n) the chief of the guardsmen had committed to 366

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GthalYâ´huw the son of ’Achiyqâ´m, and () he went to cross over to the Tribal sons (`Ammówn); 11. But Yâhuwchânâ´n the son of Qârë´ach and all of the officials of the forces that were with him heard of all of the evil that Yishmâ`Ë´’l the son of NthanYâ´huw had done, 12. And they took all of their soldiers and they went to battle against him () and they found him against the abundant waters which are in Ğiv`ówn; 13. And it happened when all of the people which were with Yishmâ`Ë´’l saw Yâhuwchânâ´n (), and all of the officials of the forces that were with him, (), 14. And (all of the people which Yishmâ`Ë´’l had taken captive from

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Mitspâ´h turned around and) they returned () to Yâhuwchânâ´n (); 15. But Yishmâ`Ë´’l () escaped with eight mortal men () and he went to the Tribal sons (`Ammówn); 16. And Yâhuwchânâ´n () and all of the officials of the forces that were with him took back all of the remnant of the people which he brought back from Yishmâ`Ë´’l (), valiant mortal men of battle and women and toddlers and ministers of state which he brought back from Ğiv`ówn; 17. And they went but they stayed in the lodging place of Kimhâ´m, which is near Bëyth-Léchem to go to enter Mitsráyim 18. for fear of the Kasdíym, (18.) because they were afraid due to them because Yishmâ`Ë´’l () had slain GthalYâ´huw (), whom the king of Bâvél had appointed over the Land.

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Chapter 42/ 49 Survivors inquire of Yâ-hwéh, but disbelieve messenger 1. And all of the officials of the forces and Yâhuwchânâ´n () and YzanYâ´huw the son of Howsha`Yâ´hu and all of the people from the small even to the great drew near, 2. And they said to YirmYâ´huw the predicator, “Allow now our supplication to fall before you so you might intercede on our behalf to Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones, on behalf of all of this remnant, because few of us are left from having been many, just as your eyes can see us; 3. And may Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones declare to us the way in which we should 369

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walk and what matter that we should do.”

4. And YirmYâ´huw () said to them, “I have heard it, look, I am praying to Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones as you dictated, and it shall come to pass, every word that Yâ-hwéh answers to you I will tell it to you, I will not withhold a word from you.”

5. Then they were who said to YirmYâ´huw, “May Yâ-hwéh be against us for a true and faithful Witness if we do not do thus according to every word that Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones sends you to us, 6. Whether it be good or whether it be bad, we shall obey the voice of Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones to Whom we are sending you, in order that it may be well 370

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for us because we will obey the voice of Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones.”

7. And it came to pass, at the end of ten days, then the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards YirmYâ´huw, 8. So he called to Yâhuwchânâ´n () and () the officials of the forces which were with him and to all of the people from the least even to the great; 9. And he said to them, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh (): 10. If you shall surely stay in this Land, then I shall build you up and I will not tear you down, and I will plant you and I will not pluck you out because I am suffering grief about the disaster which I have worked against you.

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because I am with you to rescue you and to deliver you from his hand; 12. And I will grant compassions to you so he will have compassion for you so he will bring you back to your territory; 13. Yet, if you are saying, “We will not stay in this land in order to not hear the voice of Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones,” 14. Saying “no, because we are going to the land of Mitsráyim where we will not see war nor the sound of the horn (showphâ´r), and we will not be hungry for the bread, so there we shall stay!”

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surely set your face to enter Mitsráyim and you go to sojourn there, 16. Then it shall come to pass that the sword from which you have been afraid shall find you there in the land of Mitsráyim, and the famine which ye have looked for shall overtake you, following you into Mitsráyim, and there you will die; 17. And () all of the men that set their faces to go to Mitsráyim to sojourn there, they shall die by the sword, and by the famine, () and there shall not be any survivor from them to escape from the disaster that I bring upon them; 18. Because thus says Yâ-hwéh (): Just as My anger () has been poured out upon the inhabitants of Yruwshâláim, thus shall My fury be poured out upon 373

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you by your entering Mitsráyim, and ye will become a desolation, and be under the power of others, and for a curse (’âlâ´h), () and for a reproach, and ye shall not see this place anymore.

19. Yâ-hwéh has dictated it concerning you, the remnant of Yâhuwthâ´h: Do not enter Mitsráyim, know for certain (that I have warned you today), 20. Because ye have only been misleading yourselves as you are who sent for Me, for Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones, saying, “Pray on our behalf to Yâ-hwéh (our mighty Ones), and all that Yâ-hwéh (our mighty Ones) says to you we will do it.”

21. () but you have not heeded the voice of Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones in all that He sent me to you.

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22. So at this time you can know for certain that you shall die by the sword and by the famine () in the place where you desire to enter to sojourn.”

Chapter 43/ 50 Yâhuwthím disbelieve and take everyone to Mitsráyim 1. And it happened as YirmYâ´huw finished dictating to (all of) the people all of the words of Yâ-hwéh (their mighty Ones) that Yâ-hwéh their mighty Ones sent him to them all of these words; 2. Then `AzarYâ´hu the son of Howsha`Yâ´hu and Yâhuwchânâ´n the son of Qârë´ach and all of the () mortal men spoke, saying to YirmYâ´huw, “It is a lie you are speaking, Yâ-hwéh our mighty Ones has not sent you to say, 375

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“Ye must not enter Mitsráyim to sojourn there”, 3. because Bârúwkh the son of NëriyYâ´huw is instigating you against us in order to give us into the hand of the Kasdíym to kill us or to take us into exile to Bâvél!”

4. So Yâhuwchânâ´n () and all of the officials of the forces and all of the people did not heed the voice of Yâ-hwéh to stay in the land of Yâhuwthâ´h.

5. And Yâhuwchânâ´n () and all of the officials of the forces took all of the remnant of Yâhuwthâ´h which had returned () to live in the land of Yâhuwthâ´h, 6. the valiant men and the women and the toddlers and the daughters of the king and all of the souls that Nvuwzar’athâ´n the chief of the guardsmen had deposited 376

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to GthalYâ´huw the son of ’Achiyqâ´m (), even YirmYâ´huw the predicator and Bârúwkh the son of NëriyYâ´huw, 7. and they entered (the land of) Mitsráyim, because they did not heed the voice of Yâ-hwéh, and they entered as far as ‘You shall fill hands with pity’ (Tchaphnchë´ç).

8. And the Word of Yâ-hwéh was towards YirmYâ´huw in ‘You shall fill hands with pity’ (Tchaphnchë´ç), saying: 9. “Take huge stones () and have them laid hidden () at the entrance of the house of Par`óh in ‘You shall fill hands with pity’ (Tchaphnchë´ç) in the sight of the mortal men of Yâhuwthâ´h, 10. and you shall say to them, “Thus has Yâ-hwéh () said: Look! I am sending and I will take Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél, 377

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My servant, and I will put his throne on top of these stones that I had laid hidden and he will stretch out his royal canopy above them; 11. And he will enter and he will strike the land of Mitsráyim, that which is for death with death and that which is for captivity with captivity and that which is for the sword with the sword.

12. And he will kindle a fire in the houses of the mighty ones of Mitsráyim and he shall burn them and he will take them captive and he will wrap himself with the land of Mitsráyim just like a shepherd wraps himself with his garment and he will depart from there intact; 13. And he will shatter the obelisks of the house of the luminary orb which 378

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are in the land of Mitsráyim and their houses () shall he burn with fire.”

Chapter 44/ 51 Yâ-hwéh’s plea and threat 1. The message that was towards YirmYâ´huw to all of the Yâhuwthím dwelling in the land of Mitsráyim, who were living in Tower (Miğdól), in ‘You shall fill hands with pity’ (Tchaphnchë´ç), (and in Presentability (Noph),) and in the land of South Region (Pathrówç), saying: 2. “Thus says Yâ-hwéh () the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: You have seen all of the disaster that I have caused to come upon Yruwshâláim and on all of the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h, and look, this day they 379

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are a ruin and there is no one dwelling in them, 3. Originating from their evil that they worked to provoke Me to anger, going to burn incense to serve other mighty ones which they have not known them, neither you nor your fathers, 4. So I sent to you () My servants the predicators making an early start, and dispatching to say, ‘Please do not do this disgusting thing which I hate.’

5. But they did not heed and they did not listen their ear to turn back from their evil to not burn incense to other mighty ones; 6. So My fury and My anger were poured out and it burned in the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h and in the streets of 380

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Yruwshâláim and it became for a ruin, for a devastation, as this day; 7. So at this time, thus says Yâ-hwéh of hosts (): “For what reason are you working a huge evil towards your lives, to cut off from your men and women and children and infants from the midst of Yâhuwthâ´h in order to not preserve alive a remnant for you?

8. To provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other mighty ones in the land of Mitsráyim where you have entered to sojourn in order that amputation be yours and in order that ye might become for a curse and for a reproach among all of the heathen masses of the earth?

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9.

Have ye forgotten the evils of your fathers and the evils of the kings of Yâhuwthâ´h and the evils of his exalted ones () and the evils of your wives which they worked in the land of Yâhuwthâ´h and in the streets of Yruwshâláim?

10. They have not ceased unto this day () and they have not kept () My decrees that I gave before you and before your fathers; 11. Therefore, thus says Yâ-hwéh (): Look! I have set My face against you () 12. to destroy all the remnant (of Yâhuwthâ´h) which () are in (the land of) Mitsráyim. And they shall fall by the sword, and by the famine, and they shall be finished off from the least even unto the greatest () and they shall 382

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become for a curse for a horror () and for a reproach; 13. And I will reckon it upon the ones dwelling in the land of Mitsráyim just as I reckoned it upon Yruwshâláim by the sword, by the famine (); 14. And there shall not be no one preserved to the remnant of Yâhuwthâ´h who () sojourn () in the land of Mitsráyim () to return to the land of Yâhuwthâ´h where their soul desires to return (), because the ones [not] turning back I will not return unless they escape.”

Rebels respond 15. And all of the mortal men answered YirmYâ´huw, who knew that their wives were burning incense to other mighty 383

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ones, and all of the women took a stand, a large assembly, and all of the people who were dwelling in the land of Mitsráyim in South Region (Pathrówç), saying: 16. “The message that you dictated to us in the name of Yâ-hwéh, none of us are heeding you, 17. Because we will surely do everything that came out of our mouth, to burn incense to the Queen of the heavens, and to pour out for her drink offerings just as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our officials in the cities of Yâhuwthâ´h and in the streets of Yruwshâláim, when we were sated with food and we were prosperous, and we saw no harm; 18. But from when we ceased burning incense for the Queen of the heavens and pouring out for her drink offerings, we 384

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have lacked everything and we are being finished off by the sword and by the famine!

19. So consequently we are the ones burning incense to the Queen of the heavens and pouring out for her drink offerings. Was it without our husbands that we made for her offering cakes for her image and poured out for her drink offerings?”

YirmYâ´huw responds 20. And YirmYâ´huw said to all of the people concerning the valiant men and concerning the wives and all of the people who had answered him a word, saying: 21. “Didn’t Yâ-hwéh remember the incense which you and your fathers, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land burned in the cities of 385

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Yâhuwthâ´h and in the streets of Yruwshâláim and didn’t it arise on His heart?

22. When Yâ-hwéh could no longer bear it because of the evil of your actions and because of the abominations that you committed, then your land became for a ruin and a waste and for a curse () as this day, 23. because ye burned incense and that which you sinned against Yâ-hwéh, and you have not heeded the voice of Yâhwéh nor did you walk in His instructions nor His statutes nor His testimonies; this is why this disaster has befallen you ()!”

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24. And YirmYâ´huw said to all of the people and all of the wives, “Heed the Word of Yâ-hwéh, () 25. Thus says Yâ-hwéh () the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l: You (and your) wives have spoken () by your mouth and by your hands you fulfilled it, saying, “We shall surely accomplish our vows which we vowed, to burn incense to the Queen of the heavens and to pour out for her drink offerings” Ye surely establish your vows and you surely accomplish your vows.

26. Therefore hear the Word of Yâhwéh, all of Yâhuwthâ´h who are dwelling in the land of Mitsráyim: Look, I am swearing by My great name,” 387

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says Yâ-hwéh, “that My name will not again be called by the mouth of anyone of Yâhuwthâ´h, saying “my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh lives” in all the land of Mitsráyim!

27. Look, I am keeping watch over them for harm and not for goodness, and each one of Yâhuwthâ´h which is in the land of Mitsráyim shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine until they are terminated.

28. But a few men escaped from the sword will return () to the land of Yâhuwthâ´h, and () the remnant of Yâhuwthâ´h who came to the land of Mitsráyim to sojourn there will know Whose word it is that will stand, () 29. And this is for you the sign,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 388

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“that I am reckoning it upon you (in this place, in order that you will know that My words will surely stand against you) for harm.”

30. Thus says Yâ-hwéh, “Look, I am giving over Phar`óh Châfrá` the king of Mitsráyim into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of the ones seeking his life, just as I gave over TsithqiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h into the hand of Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél his enemy () who sought his life.”

Chapter 45/ 51: 31-35 Reassurance to Bârúwkh 1. (31.) The message that YirmYâ´huw the predicator dictated to Bârúwkh the son of NëriyYâ´huw when he wrote these words on a scroll from the mouth of 389

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YirmYâ´huw in the fourth year of Yâhuwyâqíym the son of Yo’shiyYâ´huw the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, saying: 2. (32.) “Thus says Yâ-hwéh concerning you, Bârúwkh: 3. (33.) You have said “Hówy is now mine because Yâ-hwéh has added grief onto my pain, I grow weary by my groaning and I do not find rest.”

4. (34.) Say thus to him, “Thus says Yâ-hwéh: Look, what I had built, I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am plucking up, even all of this land; 5. (35.) So you, you seek to find for yourself great things? Do not seek to find it, because look, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh,” declares Yâ-hwéh, 390

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“yet I will grant to you your life for spoil at all of the places where you go.”

Chapter 52/ 52 Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár’s capture of Yruwshâláim 1. TsithqiyYâ´huw was a son of twenty one years when he became king and he reigned eleven years in Yruwshâláim, and the name of his mother was Chamyyţál, daughter of YirmYâ´huw from Livnâ´h; 2. () 3. () 4. And it happened in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month during the tenth of the month, Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél, he and all of his forces invaded against Yruwshâláim, and they (encamped against it), and they made a 391

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rampart around it, and they built siegewalls surrounding against her with large stones; 5. So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of king TsithqiyYâ´huw.

6. During the fourth month on the ninth of the month, then the famine was grievous in the city and there did not exist food for the people of the Land, 7. And the city was broken into, and all of the mortal men of battle, () they departed () at night the way of the gate between the walls and the outworks which are over the garden of the king, though the Kasdíym were against the city surrounding it, and they went the way to the desert plain; 8. And the forces of the Kasdíym pursued after the king and they were able to secure TsithqiyYâ´huw in the plains of 392

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Yriychów and all of his forces were dispersed from with him, 9. So they arrested the king and they brought him up to the king of Bâvél at Rivlâ´h (Fruitful) in the land of Chamâ´th (Fortress), and he dictated judgments on him.

10. Then the king of Bâvél slaughtered the sons of TsithqiyYâ´huw before his eyes and he also slaughtered all of the officials of Yâhuwthâ´h in Rivlâ´h, 11. Then he put out the eyes of TsithqiyYâ´huw and he bound him in bronze fetters and the king of Bâvél brought him into Bâvél, and he put him in the penal house until the day of his death.

12. During the fifth month on the tenth of the month, it was the nineteenth year of the king, Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár the king of Bâvél, Nvuwzar’athâ´n the chief of the 393

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guardsmen who served before the king of Bâvél came into Yruwshâláim, 13. And he burned the house of Yâ-hwéh, and the house of the king, and all of the houses of Yruwshâláim, and every large house he burned with fire; 14. And all of the forces of the Kasdíym which were with the chief of the guardsmen tore down all of the walls surrounding Yruwshâláim, 15. () 16. But () the chief of the guardsmen left a remnant () of the people for vinedressers and tillers.

17. And the Kasdíym broke in pieces the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of Yâ-hwéh and the pedestals and the bronze basin “Sea” which was in the house of Yâ-hwéh, and they carried all their bronze into Bâvél; 394

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18. And they took away the pots and the shovels and the trimming-shears and the basins and the vessels and all of the bronze utensils with which they served, 19. But the chief of the guardsmen took away the bowls and the censers and the sprinkling bowls and the pots and the lampstands and the vessels and the bowls for drink offerings which were pure gold, or which were pure silver.

20. The two pillars, the one basin “Sea”, and the twelve bronze bulls under the pedestal, each of these articles which the king Shlómoh had made for the house of Yâ-hwéh, were not [able to be] weighed for their bronze.

21. But the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits [(1 cubit = ~1½ feet, ~0.5m) ~27 feet or 9 m], and the measuring-line going around it was 395

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twelve cubits [~18 feet or 6 m] and its thickness four fingers [3 inches or 7.62 cm], being hollow.

22. And the capital above each [pillar] was bronze and the height of the capital was five cubits [~7 ½ feet or 2.5 m]; and upon the capital surrounding it was a latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, and the second pillar had it like these and pomegranates; 23. And there were ninety six pomegranates on the sides; but all of the pomegranates were a hundred on the surrounding latticework.

24. And the chief of the guardsmen took away (SrâYâ´huw,) the head priest, and (TsphanYâ´hu,) the second priest in order, and the (three) guards of the doorsill; 396

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25. And () one official who was the overseer over the mortal men of battle and seven mortal men who [had served] in the presence of the king which were found in the city, and the chief scribe of the conscription of the people of the Land, and sixty men from the people of the Land who were found inside the city, 26. And Nvuwzar’athâ´n the chief of the guardsmen took them and he brought them to the king of Bâvél at Rivlâ´h (Fruitful).

27. And the king of Bâvél had them slain () in Rivlâ´h (Fruitful) in the land of Chamâ´th ().

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Nvúwkhathne’tsTsár’s successor was kinder to Yâhuwyâkhíyn 31. And it happened during the thirtyseventh year of the captivity of Yâhuwyâkhíyn the king of Yâhuwthâ´h during the twelfth month on the twenty fifth of the month, Amel-Marthúk86 the king of Bâvél, during the year of his becoming king, raised the head of Yâhuwyâkhíyn the king of Yâhuwthâ´h and he caused him to depart from the house of imprisonment, 32. And he spoke pleasant things to him and he put his throne higher than the thrones of the other kings which were with him in Bâvél,

Masoretic has his name as ’Ewíyl Mrothâ´kh, which seems to be a scribal slander, since ’Ewíyl means fool (Strong’s #191) 86

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33. And he changed his prison clothes and he ate bread before him continually all of the days of his life; 34. And his appointed portion () was given to him continually by the king of Bâvél, day by day () until the day of his death ().

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