My brothers, do not hold the belief of our Master יהושע Messiah, the Master of esteem, with partiality. For if there should come into your meeting place a man with gold rings, in a splendid robe, and there should also come in a poor one dressed in rags, and you pay attention to the one wearing the splendid robe and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor one, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here by my feet,” have you not discriminated among yourselves, and become judges with wicked thoughts? 🤔
Therefore thus said יהוה, “If you turn back, then I shall bring you back. Before Me you shall stand. And if you take out the precious from the worthless, you shall become as My mouth. Let them return to you, but do not return to them. “And I shall make you to this people a strong bronze wall. And they shall fight against you, but not overcome you. For I am with you to save you and deliver you,” declares יהוה. “And I shall deliver you from the hand of evil-doers, and I shall ransom you from the grip of the ruthless.”
Therefore please hear this, you afflicted and drunk, but not with wine. Thus said your Master, יהוה and your Elohim, who pleads the cause of His people, “See, I shall take out of your hand the cup of reeling, the dregs of the cup of My wrath - never again shall you drink it. “And I shall put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your being, ’Bow down, and we pass over you.’ And you made your back like the ground, and as the street, to walk over.”
‘And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples - for all the earth is Mine - ‘and you shall be to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation.’
Thus said יהוה, “The labour of Mitsrayim and merchandise of Kush and of the Seḇaites, men of size, come over to you and they are yours. They walk behind you, they come over in chains, and they bow down to you. They make supplication to you, saying, ‘Indeed, Ěl is in you, and there is none else, no mighty one.’ ” Truly You are Ěl, who hide Yourself, O Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, Saviour! They shall be put to shame, and even be humiliated, all of them - the makers of idols shall go away together in humiliation.
“And the sons of foreigners shall build your walls, and their sovereigns serve you. For in My wrath I have stricken you, but in My delight I shall have compassion on you. “And your gates shall be open continually, they are not shut day or night, to bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their sovereigns in procession. “For the nation and the reign that do not serve you shall perish, and those nations shall be utterly laid waste. “The esteem of Leḇanon shall come to you, cypress, pine, and the box tree together, to embellish the place of My set-apart place. And I shall make the place of My feet esteemed. “And the sons of those who afflicted you come bowing to you, and all those who despised you shall bow themselves at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you: City of יהוה, Tsiyon of the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl. “Instead of you being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through you, I shall make you an everlasting excellence, a joy of many generations.
“And it shall be, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict, so I shall watch over them to build and to plant,” declares יהוה.
And I shall turn back the captivity of Yehuḏah and the captivity of Yisra’ĕl, and shall build them as at the first, and shall cleanse them from all their crookedness that they have sinned against Me. And I shall pardon all their crookednesses that they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. And it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and a pride before all nations of the earth, who hear all the good I am doing to them, and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the peace I am doing to it.’
See, I am gathering them out of all the lands where I have driven them in My displeasure, and in My wrath, and in great rage. And I shall bring them back to this place, and shall let them dwell in safety. And they shall be My people, and I shall be their Elohim. And I shall give them one heart and one way, to fear Me all the days, for the good of them and of their children after them. And I shall make an everlasting covenant with them, that I do not turn back from doing good to them. And I shall put My fear in their hearts so as not to turn aside from Me. And I shall rejoice over them to do good to them, and shall plant them in this land in truth, with all My heart and with all My being.’
And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of יהוה, to be adorned. And they shall rebuild the old ruins, raise up the former wastes. And they shall restore the ruined cities, the wastes of many generations. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner be your ploughmen and your vinedressers. But you shall be called, ‘Priests of יהוה,’ ‘Servants of our Elohim’ shall be said of you. You shall consume the strength of the nations, and boast in their esteem. Instead of your shame and reproach, they rejoice a second time in their portion. Therefore they take possession a second time in their land, everlasting joy is theirs. “For I, יהוה, love right-ruling; I hate robbery for ascending offering. And I shall give their reward in truth, and make an everlasting covenant with them. “And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed יהוה has blessed.” I greatly rejoice in יהוה, my being exults in my Elohim. For He has put garments of deliverance on me, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the seed to shoot up, so the Master יהוה causes righteousness and praise to shoot up before all the nations!
“And this shall be the sign for you: This year you eat such as grows of itself, and the second year what springs from that, and in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. “And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Yehuḏah shall again take root downward, and be fruitful upward. “For out of Yerushalayim comes forth a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Tsiyon - the ardour of יהוה of hosts does this.
If you would prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him; if wickedness were in your hand, put it far away and do not let perverseness dwell in your tents; then indeed you shall lift up your face without spot; and you shall stand firm, and not be afraid, because you would forget sorrow, and remember it as waters that have passed away, and your life would be brighter than noon. You would soar upward, you would be like the morning. And you shall trust, because there is expectancy. And when you have searched you shall lie down in safety. And you shall rest, and no one would make you afraid, and many shall seek your favour.
If, then, anyone cleanses himself from these matters, he shall be a vessel unto value, having been set apart, of good use to the Master, having been prepared for every good work. And flee from the lusts of youth, but pursue righteousness, belief, love, peace with those calling on the Master out of a clean heart.
“And they shall bring all your brothers as an offering to יהוה out of all the nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My set-apart mountain Yerushalayim,” declares יהוה, “as the children of Yisra’ĕl bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of יהוה. “And from them too I shall take for priests - for Lĕwites,” declares יהוה. “For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make stand before Me,” declares יהוה, “so your seed and your name shall stand. “And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” declares יהוה. “And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For their worm shall not die, and their fire not be quenched. And they shall be repulsive to all flesh!”
“And your people, all of them righteous, shall inherit the earth forever - a branch of My planting, a work of My hands, to be adorned. “The little shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, יהוה, shall hasten it in its time.”
Then יהוה put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and יהוה said to me, “See, I have put My words in your mouth. “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the reigns, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
“And I have put My Words in your mouth, and with the shadow of My hand I have covered you, to plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and to say to Tsiyon, ‘You are My people.’ ”
And now said יהוה - who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Yaʽaqoḇ back to Him, though Yisra’ĕl is not gathered to Him, yet I am esteemed in the eyes of יהוה, and My Elohim has been My strength - and He says, “Shall it be a small matter for You to be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Yaʽaqoḇ, and to bring back the preserved ones of Yisra’ĕl? And I shall give You as a light to the nations, to be My deliverance to the ends of the earth!” Thus said יהוה, the Redeemer of Yisra’ĕl, their Set-apart One, to the despised , to the loathed One of the nation, to the Servant of rulers, “Sovereigns shall see and arise, rulers also shall bow themselves, because of יהוה who is steadfast, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl. And He has chosen You!” Thus said יהוה, “In a favourable time I shall answer You, and in the day of deliverance I shall help You - and I guard You and give You for a covenant of the people, to restore the earth, to cause them to inherit the ruined inheritances, to say to the prisoners, ‘Go out,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ Let them feed on the ways, and let their pasture be on all bare hills.
The Master יהוה has sworn by Himself, יהוה Elohim of hosts declares, “I am loathing the pride of Yaʽaqoḇ, and I have hated his palaces. Therefore I shall deliver up the city and all that is in it.”
“And now, O inhabitant of Yerushalayim and man of Yehuḏah, please judge between Me and My vineyard. “What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones? 🤔 “And now, please let Me inform you what I am doing to My vineyard: To take away its hedge and it shall be burned; to break down its wall and it shall be trampled down; and I lay it waste; it is not pruned or dug and thornbushes and weeds shall come up; and I command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Thus said יהוה, “As for all My evil neighbours who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Yisra’ĕl to inherit; see, I am plucking them out of their land, and I shall pluck out the house of Yehuḏah from their midst. “And it shall be, after My plucking them out, I shall return, and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his inheritance and everyone to his land. “And it shall be, if they learn well the ways of My people, to swear by My Name, ’As יהוה lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baʽal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people. “But if they do not obey, I shall pluck up, pluck up and destroy that nation,” declares יהוה.
🧨 “Woe to those making unrighteous inscriptions, and writers who have prescribed toil, to keep the needy back from right-ruling, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that widows become their prey, and orphans their plunder. “What shall you do in the day of visitation, and in the ruin which comes from afar? 🤔 To whom would you run for help? 🤔 And where would you leave your wealth? 🤔
A man of Beliyaʽal, a wicked man, Walks with a perverse mouth, Winks with his eyes, shuffles his feet, Points with his fingers; Perverseness is in his heart, Plotting evil at all times, He sends out strife. Therefore his calamity comes suddenly; Instantly he is broken, And there is no healing.
“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled. He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue. Yet on such a one You open Your eyes, and bring me to right-ruling with Yourself! Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one!
Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men, and I would leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. “And they bend their tongue like a bow. Falsehood, and not truth, prevails on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they have not known Me,” declares יהוה.
“Brood of adders! How are you able to speak what is good - being wicked? 🤔
My brothers, do not hold the belief of our Master יהושע Messiah, the Master of esteem, with partiality. For if there should come into your meeting place a man with gold rings, in a splendid robe, and there should also come in a poor one dressed in rags, and you pay attention to the one wearing the splendid robe and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor one, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here by my feet,” have you not discriminated among yourselves, and become judges with wicked thoughts? 🤔
I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain.
“All these wicked matters come from within and defile a man.”
“So you too outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Because you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly indeed look well, but inside are filled with dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 🧨
Therefore thus said יהוה, “If you turn back, then I shall bring you back. Before Me you shall stand. And if you take out the precious from the worthless, you shall become as My mouth. Let them return to you, but do not return to them. “And I shall make you to this people a strong bronze wall. And they shall fight against you, but not overcome you. For I am with you to save you and deliver you,” declares יהוה. “And I shall deliver you from the hand of evil-doers, and I shall ransom you from the grip of the ruthless.”
Therefore please hear this, you afflicted and drunk, but not with wine. Thus said your Master, יהוה and your Elohim, who pleads the cause of His people, “See, I shall take out of your hand the cup of reeling, the dregs of the cup of My wrath - never again shall you drink it. “And I shall put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your being, ’Bow down, and we pass over you.’ And you made your back like the ground, and as the street, to walk over.”
‘And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples - for all the earth is Mine - ‘and you shall be to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation.’
Thus said יהוה, “The labour of Mitsrayim and merchandise of Kush and of the Seḇaites, men of size, come over to you and they are yours. They walk behind you, they come over in chains, and they bow down to you. They make supplication to you, saying, ‘Indeed, Ěl is in you, and there is none else, no mighty one.’ ” Truly You are Ěl, who hide Yourself, O Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, Saviour! They shall be put to shame, and even be humiliated, all of them - the makers of idols shall go away together in humiliation.
“And the sons of foreigners shall build your walls, and their sovereigns serve you. For in My wrath I have stricken you, but in My delight I shall have compassion on you. “And your gates shall be open continually, they are not shut day or night, to bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their sovereigns in procession. “For the nation and the reign that do not serve you shall perish, and those nations shall be utterly laid waste. “The esteem of Leḇanon shall come to you, cypress, pine, and the box tree together, to embellish the place of My set-apart place. And I shall make the place of My feet esteemed. “And the sons of those who afflicted you come bowing to you, and all those who despised you shall bow themselves at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you: City of יהוה, Tsiyon of the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl. “Instead of you being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through you, I shall make you an everlasting excellence, a joy of many generations.
“And it shall be, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict, so I shall watch over them to build and to plant,” declares יהוה.
And I shall turn back the captivity of Yehuḏah and the captivity of Yisra’ĕl, and shall build them as at the first, and shall cleanse them from all their crookedness that they have sinned against Me. And I shall pardon all their crookednesses that they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. And it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and a pride before all nations of the earth, who hear all the good I am doing to them, and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the peace I am doing to it.’
See, I am gathering them out of all the lands where I have driven them in My displeasure, and in My wrath, and in great rage. And I shall bring them back to this place, and shall let them dwell in safety. And they shall be My people, and I shall be their Elohim. And I shall give them one heart and one way, to fear Me all the days, for the good of them and of their children after them. And I shall make an everlasting covenant with them, that I do not turn back from doing good to them. And I shall put My fear in their hearts so as not to turn aside from Me. And I shall rejoice over them to do good to them, and shall plant them in this land in truth, with all My heart and with all My being.’
“And they are to teach My people the difference between the set-apart and the profane, and make them know what is unclean and clean.
And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of יהוה, to be adorned. And they shall rebuild the old ruins, raise up the former wastes. And they shall restore the ruined cities, the wastes of many generations. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner be your ploughmen and your vinedressers. But you shall be called, ‘Priests of יהוה,’ ‘Servants of our Elohim’ shall be said of you. You shall consume the strength of the nations, and boast in their esteem. Instead of your shame and reproach, they rejoice a second time in their portion. Therefore they take possession a second time in their land, everlasting joy is theirs. “For I, יהוה, love right-ruling; I hate robbery for ascending offering. And I shall give their reward in truth, and make an everlasting covenant with them. “And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed יהוה has blessed.” I greatly rejoice in יהוה, my being exults in my Elohim. For He has put garments of deliverance on me, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the seed to shoot up, so the Master יהוה causes righteousness and praise to shoot up before all the nations!
“And this shall be the sign for you: This year you eat such as grows of itself, and the second year what springs from that, and in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. “And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Yehuḏah shall again take root downward, and be fruitful upward. “For out of Yerushalayim comes forth a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Tsiyon - the ardour of יהוה of hosts does this.
Does the fountain send forth the sweet and the bitter from the same opening? 🤔
If you would prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him; if wickedness were in your hand, put it far away and do not let perverseness dwell in your tents; then indeed you shall lift up your face without spot; and you shall stand firm, and not be afraid, because you would forget sorrow, and remember it as waters that have passed away, and your life would be brighter than noon. You would soar upward, you would be like the morning. And you shall trust, because there is expectancy. And when you have searched you shall lie down in safety. And you shall rest, and no one would make you afraid, and many shall seek your favour.
If, then, anyone cleanses himself from these matters, he shall be a vessel unto value, having been set apart, of good use to the Master, having been prepared for every good work. And flee from the lusts of youth, but pursue righteousness, belief, love, peace with those calling on the Master out of a clean heart.
“For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his mouth, for he is the messenger of יהוה of hosts.
“And they shall bring all your brothers as an offering to יהוה out of all the nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My set-apart mountain Yerushalayim,” declares יהוה, “as the children of Yisra’ĕl bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of יהוה. “And from them too I shall take for priests - for Lĕwites,” declares יהוה. “For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make stand before Me,” declares יהוה, “so your seed and your name shall stand. “And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” declares יהוה. “And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For their worm shall not die, and their fire not be quenched. And they shall be repulsive to all flesh!”
“And your people, all of them righteous, shall inherit the earth forever - a branch of My planting, a work of My hands, to be adorned. “The little shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, יהוה, shall hasten it in its time.”
Then יהוה put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and יהוה said to me, “See, I have put My words in your mouth. “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the reigns, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
“And I have put My Words in your mouth, and with the shadow of My hand I have covered you, to plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and to say to Tsiyon, ‘You are My people.’ ”
And now said יהוה - who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Yaʽaqoḇ back to Him, though Yisra’ĕl is not gathered to Him, yet I am esteemed in the eyes of יהוה, and My Elohim has been My strength - and He says, “Shall it be a small matter for You to be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Yaʽaqoḇ, and to bring back the preserved ones of Yisra’ĕl? And I shall give You as a light to the nations, to be My deliverance to the ends of the earth!” Thus said יהוה, the Redeemer of Yisra’ĕl, their Set-apart One, to the despised , to the loathed One of the nation, to the Servant of rulers, “Sovereigns shall see and arise, rulers also shall bow themselves, because of יהוה who is steadfast, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl. And He has chosen You!” Thus said יהוה, “In a favourable time I shall answer You, and in the day of deliverance I shall help You - and I guard You and give You for a covenant of the people, to restore the earth, to cause them to inherit the ruined inheritances, to say to the prisoners, ‘Go out,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ Let them feed on the ways, and let their pasture be on all bare hills.
The Master יהוה has sworn by Himself, יהוה Elohim of hosts declares, “I am loathing the pride of Yaʽaqoḇ, and I have hated his palaces. Therefore I shall deliver up the city and all that is in it.”
“And now, O inhabitant of Yerushalayim and man of Yehuḏah, please judge between Me and My vineyard. “What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones? 🤔
“And now, please let Me inform you what I am doing to My vineyard: To take away its hedge and it shall be burned; to break down its wall and it shall be trampled down; and I lay it waste; it is not pruned or dug and thornbushes and weeds shall come up; and I command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Thus said יהוה, “As for all My evil neighbours who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Yisra’ĕl to inherit; see, I am plucking them out of their land, and I shall pluck out the house of Yehuḏah from their midst. “And it shall be, after My plucking them out, I shall return, and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his inheritance and everyone to his land. “And it shall be, if they learn well the ways of My people, to swear by My Name, ’As יהוה lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baʽal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people. “But if they do not obey, I shall pluck up, pluck up and destroy that nation,” declares יהוה.
“Her priests have done violence to My teaching and they profane My set-apart matters.
🧨 “Woe to those making unrighteous inscriptions, and writers who have prescribed toil, to keep the needy back from right-ruling, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that widows become their prey, and orphans their plunder.
“What shall you do in the day of visitation, and in the ruin which comes from afar? 🤔
To whom would you run for help? 🤔
And where would you leave your wealth? 🤔
A man of Beliyaʽal, a wicked man, Walks with a perverse mouth, Winks with his eyes, shuffles his feet, Points with his fingers; Perverseness is in his heart, Plotting evil at all times, He sends out strife. Therefore his calamity comes suddenly; Instantly he is broken, And there is no healing.
“But you, you have turned from the way, you have caused many to stumble in the Torah. You have corrupted the covenant of Lĕwi,” said יהוה of hosts.
“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled. He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue. Yet on such a one You open Your eyes, and bring me to right-ruling with Yourself! Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one!
Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men, and I would leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. “And they bend their tongue like a bow. Falsehood, and not truth, prevails on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they have not known Me,” declares יהוה.