RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

37 Who is He that spoke, and it came to pass, has vuvh
not commanded it?
38 Out of the mouth of El-Elyon evil and tov do not
come.
39 Why does a living man complain, for the punishment
of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and make teshuvah to
vuvh.
41 Let us lift up our lev with our hands to El in the
shamayim.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: You have not
pardoned.
43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: You
have slain, You have not pitied.
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that our
tefillah should not pass through.
45 You have made us as filth and refuse in the midst of
the nations.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare has come upon us, desolation and
destruction.
48 My eye runs down with rivers of mayim for the
destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any
stop,
50 Until vuvh looks down, and beholds from the
shamayim.
51 My eye affects my lev because of all the daughters of
my city.
52 My enemies hunted me down, like a bird, without
cause.
53 They have cut off my chayim in the dungeon, and cast
a stone on top of me.
54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon Your Name, O vuvh, out of the lowest
dungeon.
56 You have heard my voice: hide not Your ear at my
breathing, at my cry.
57 You drew near in the day that I called upon You: You
said, Fear not.
58 O vuvh, You have pleaded the causes of my being;
You have redeemed my chayim.
59 O vuvh, You have seen my oppression: judge my
cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans
against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O vuvh, and all their
plans against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their
plans against me all the day.
63 See their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their
music.
64 Repay them, O vuvh, according to the works of their
hands.
65 Give them sorrow of lev, Your curse be upon them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the
shamayim of vuvh.
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How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine
gold changed! The stones of the Kadosh-Place are poured
out at the top of every street.
2 The precious sons of Tzion, who were comparable to
fine gold, how they are now reckoned as earthen pitchers,
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the work of the hands of the potter!
3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their
young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his
mouth for thirst: the young children ask lechem, and no
man breaks it for them.
5 Those that did eat delicacies are desolate in the streets:
they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of
my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of
Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no
hands wearied in destroying her.
7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter
than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, and
their polish was like sapphire:
8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not
known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is
withered, it is become dry like wood.
9 Those that are slain with the sword are better than those
that are slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken
for want of the fruits of the field.
10 The hands of the compassionate women have boiled
their own children: they were their food in the destruction
of the daughter of my people.
11 vuvh has accomplished His fury; He has poured out
His fierce anger, and has lit a fire in Tzion, and it has
devoured its foundations.
12 The melechim of the earth, and all the inhabitants of
the olam, would not have believed that the adversary and
the enemy would have entered into the gates of
Yahrushalayim.
13 For the sins of her neviim, and the iniquities of her
Kohanim, that have shed the dahm of the just in the midst
of her,
14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets; they
have polluted themselves with innocent dahm, so that
men could not touch their garments.
15 They cried to them, Depart it is unclean; depart,
depart, do not touch them: when they fled away and
wandered among the nations they said, They shall no
more go to sojourn there.
16 The anger of vuvh has exiled them; He will no more
regard them: they did not respect the Kohanim; they
showed no favor to the zechanim.
17 As for us, our eyes failed in our vain watch for help: in
our watchtower we have watched for a nation that could
not save us.
18 They hunt our steps that we cannot go in our streets:
our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the
shamayim: they pursued us upon the mountains, they lay
wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of vuvh, was
taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under His shadow
we shall live among the nations.
21 Gilah and be in simcha, O daughter of Edom, that
dwells in the land of Uz; this cup also shall pass through
to you: you shall be drunk, and shall make yourself
naked.
22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O
daughter of Tzion; He will no more carry you away into
exile: He will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He