RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

7 Surely the Master vuvh will do nothing, but He reveals
His secrets to His avadim the neviim. 3068
8 The lion has roared, 3069 who will not fear? The Master
vuvh has spoken, who would refrain from prophesying?
9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in
the land of Mitzrayim, and say, Assemble yourselves upon
the mountains of Shomron, and behold the great tumults
in its midst, and the oppressed in its midst.
10 For they know not to do right, says vuvh, they store up
violence and robbery in their palaces.
11 Therefore this says Master vuvh; An adversary 3070
there shall be around the land; and he shall bring down
your strength from you, and your palaces shall be
spoiled.
12 This says vuvh; As the shepherd takes out of the mouth
of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the
children of Yisrael be rescued that dwell in Shomron, as
in the corner of a bed, or the edge of a couch. 3071
13 Hear, and testify in Beit Yaakov, says the Master vuvh,
Elohim tzevaoth,
14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of
Yisrael upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-El:
and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the
ground.
15 And I will smite the winter bayit as well as the summer
bayit; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great
houses shall have an end, says vuvh.
Hear this word, you bulls of Bashan, 3072 4
that are in
the mountain of Shomron, who oppress the poor, who
crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let
us drink.
2 The Master vuvh has sworn by His set-apartness, that,
the days shall come upon you, that He will take you away
with hooks, and your offspring with fishhooks.
3 And you shall go out at the breaches, every woman to
the breach before her; and you shall be cast out toward
Harmon, says vuvh.
4 Come to Beth-El, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every shachrit,
and your ma’aser after three years:
5 And offer a sacrifice of hodu with chametz, and
proclaim and publish the terumah offerings: for you have
loved this, O children of Yisrael, says the Master vuvh.
6 And I also have given you a shortage of food in all your
cities, and want of lechem in all your places: yet have you
not made teshuvah to Me, says vuvh.
7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there
were still three months to the harvest: and I caused it to
rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another
city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece where it
did not rain withered.
8 So two, or three cities wandered to one city, to drink
mayim; but they were not satisfied: yet have you not made
teshuvah to Me, says vuvh.
9 I have smitten you with blight and mildew: when your
gardens and your vineyards and your fig eytzim and your
olive eytzim increased, the creeping locust devoured
them: yet have you not made teshuvah to Me, says vuvh.
10 I have sent among you the plague after the manner of
Mitzrayim: your young men have I slain with the sword,
and have taken away your horses; and I have made the
stink of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet have
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you not made teshuvah to Me, says vuvh.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as Elohim overthrew
Sedom and Amorah, and you were as a burning stick
plucked out of the burning: yet have you not made
teshuvah to Me, says vuvh.
12 Therefore this will I do to you, O Yisrael: and because
I will do this to you, prepare to meet your Elohim, O
Yisrael.
13 For, see, He that formed the mountains, and created
the wind, and declared to man His thoughts, that made
the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of
the earth, vuvh, Elohim tzevaoth, is His Name.
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Hear this word, which I take up against you, even a
lamentation, O Beit Yisrael. 3073
2 The virgin of Yisrael is fallen; she shall no more rise:
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she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise
her up.
3 For this says the Master vuvh; The city that went out by
a thousand shall leave but a hundred, and that which
went forth by a hundred shall leave but ten, 3075 to Beit
Yisrael. 3076
4 For this says vuvh to Beit Yisrael, 3077 Seek Me, and
you shall live:
5 But seek not Beth-El, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not
to Be-er-Sheva: for Gilgal shall surely also go into exile,
and Beth-El shall come to nothing also.
6 Seek vuvh, and you shall live; 3078 lest He break out like
fire upon Beit Yoseph, and devour it, and there be none to
quench it in Beth-El.
7 You who turn mishpat to wormwood, and cease doing
tzedakah in the earth,
8 Seek him that made Pleiades and Orion, and turns the
shadow of death into the morning, and made the day dark
with night: that called for the mayim of the sea, and
poured them out upon the face of the earth: vuvh is His
Name:
9 Who brings destruction against the strong, so that
destruction comes against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they hate
him that speaks the emet.
11 Therefore because you trample upon the poor, and
take grain taxes from him: you have built houses of hewn
stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted
pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from
them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your
mighty sins: they afflict the tzadik, they take a bribe, and
they turn aside the poor in the gate from their rights.
13 Therefore the wise man shall keep silent in that time;
for it is an evil time.
14 Seek tov, and not evil, that you may live: and so vuvh,
Elohim tzevaoth shall be with you, as you have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the tov, and establish mishpat
in the gate: it may be that vuvh Elohim tzevaoth will be
gracious to the remnant of Yoseph. 3079
16 Therefore vuvh, Elohim tzevaoth, says this; Wailing
shall be in all the streets; and they shall say in all the
highways, Oy! Oy! And they shall call the farmer to
mourning, and professional mourners to wailing.
17 And in all the vineyards there shall be wailing: for I
will pass through you, says vuvh.