The Tetragrammaton  =  hwhy = YaHuWaH

YashaYahuw

YashaYahuw means "YaHuWaH is my Savior"--the same meaning as YaHuWSHuWaH, but with the phrasing in the reverse order … (My Savior is YaHuWaH). And YaHuWaH's deliverance through the Anointed YaHuWSHuWaH fills a major part of his prophecy. YashaYahuw was probably from the tribe of Yahuwdah. A contemporary of Micha and Huwshua, he prophesied more than 200 years after the division of Ysra'al, beginning in 740 B.C.E. (Just prior to King UzziYahuw's death in 739), or about 18 years before the fall of the Northern Kingdom. But he mainly addresses the southern kingdom of Yahuwdah, which was now in decline as well, following the same pattern of apostasy that Ysra'al had taken. Since he records the death of Sancheriyb, it is estimated that he continued to prophesy for some 60 years, until about 680 B.C.E., when by tradition he was executed by being sawn in two. As with all the prophets, his main theme is, "Come back to the Torah!"

1:1 The vision of YashaYahuw the son of Amowts, which he saw concerning Yahuwdah and Yahrushalom, in the days of  UzziyYahuw, Yahuwtham, Achaz, and ChizquiYahuw, kings of Yahuwdah.

1:2 Hear, O heavens, and cup your ear, O earth; for YaHuWaH has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me.

Listen...Cup your ear: This is an allusion back to the song Moshah taught the children of Ysra'al just prior to his death so that they would pass it down through all their generations. (Wordim 32) The things Moshah warned about were coming to pass, and this was to be a vivid reminder of where the nation was headed.

1:3 The ox knows his owner,

and the donkey his master’s crib;

but Ysra'al does not know Me,

My people do not consider.”

1:4 Ah, O sinful nation,

a people loaded with iniquity,

a seed of evildoers,

children who deal corruptly!

They have forsaken YaHuWaH.

They have despised the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al.

They have gone back to being estranged.

1:5 Why should you be beaten any more,

that you revolt more and more?

The whole head (leadership) is sick,

and the whole heart is faint [lacking ruwachual understanding].

1:6 From the sole of the foot [the least] even to the head [leadership] there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores.

They haven’t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.

1:7 Your Land is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire.

Strangers devour your Land in your presence,

and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers.

1:8 The daughter of Tsiyown is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.

1:9 Unless YaHuWaH Master of Armies had left to us a very small remnant,  we would have been as Sedom; we would have been like Amorah. (cf. Romans 9:29)

1:10 Hear the Word of YaHuWaH, you rulers of Sedom!

Listen to the Torah of our Aluahiym, you people of Amorah!

1:11 “What use to Me are the multitude of your offerings? ” says YaHuWaH.

“I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals.

I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

[He never did; His intent was always that we would know Him.]

1:12 When you come to appear before Me,

who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts [where the trumpets are sounded]?

1:13 To bring worthless speech tributes, it is the smell of an abomination to Me; new moons, shabbaths, and convocations:

I can’t bear with evil and exclusive assemblies -

1:14 My being hates your new moons and your appointed feasts.

They are a burden to Me.

I am weary of bearing them.

1:15 When you spread forth your hands, I shall hide My eyes from you.

Yes, when you make many prayers, I shall not hear.

Your hands are full of blood.

Spread out your hands: in prayer. They may be happy with this arrangement, but He is not. All they are doing is murdering animals. Until they confess their guilt and repent, He will hide His face. (cf. Hos. 5:15)

1:16 Wash yourselves [mikbah], make yourself clean [selflessness].

Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.

Cease to do evil.

1:17 Learn to do well!

Demand justice!

Rebuke the oppressor!

Defend the fatherless!

Plead for the widow!”

1:18 “Let's walk now [Amos 3: 3 Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?], and let us reason together,” says YaHuWaH:

“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow.

Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Scarlet...white as snow: a reference to an annual occurrence in which, on Yom Kippur one part of a scarlet cord was tied to the horn of the "scapegoat" for Azazel and the other part hung on the Hekal doors. After the goat was thrown off a cliff in the wilderness east of Yahrushalom, YaHuWaH showed His acceptance of their atoning slaughter by turning the cord bright white. (The Talmud tells us that this stopped happening 40 years before the destruction of the Hekal--which would have been the year YaHuWSHuWaH died.) In His mercy YaHuWaH put up with Hekal services that again were out of His prescribed order until YaHuWSHuWaH brought the fullest slaughter, providing a permanent way out of sinful patterns for those who would accept it.

1:19 If you consent and obey, you shall eat the good of the Land;

Consent: not just "are willing", but a very strong term: to pant after, to want very badly. (Compare Bereshiyth. 24:8) If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only do not take my son back there .”

1:20 but if you refuse and remain rebellious, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of YaHuWaH has spoken it.”

1:21 How is it that the faithful city has become a whore! (Yehezqel 16 and 23)

She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

1:22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

1:23 Your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves.

Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards.

They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

1:24 Therefore the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies *, the Mighty One of Ysra'al, declares: “Ah, I shall get relief from My adversaries, and avenge Myself of My enemies;

* YashaYahuw 44:6 This is what YaHuWaH, the Sovereign of Ysra'al, and His Kinsman Redeemer, YaHuWaH Master of Armies, says:  “I AM Aleph wTaw (the First, and the Last;) and apart from ME there is no Aluahiym."

1:25 and I shall turn My Hand back on you, thoroughly purge away your dross as with alkali, and shall take away all your tin.

1:26 I shall restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning.

Afterward you shall be called  “`Iyr ha-Tsédeq” ‘The City of Righteousness, a Reliable Town.’

[YirmeYahuw 33:16 In those days shall Yahuwdah be liberated, and Yahrushalom shall dwell safely; and this is haShem by which she shall be called: YaHuWaH is our Righteousness.] Yehezqel 48:35 It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, YaHuWaH - IS THERE!

1:27 Tsiyown shall be redeemed with justice, and her repenting ones with righteousness.

1:28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake YaHuWaH shall be consumed.

1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the posts [pagan worship places] which you have desired, and you shall be embarrassed because of the orchards [false "eden's"] that you have chosen.

1:30 For you shall be as an terebinth whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. (without His Word )

1:31 The mighty [in wealth] shall be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They shall both burn together, and no one shall quench them.”

 1 Cor. 3:14, 15.  If the work survives the fire, that builder will receive a reward.  But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builders themselves will be saved, but like someone escaping through a wall of flames. 

Ya'aqob 5:1 Come now, say to the rich ones: Weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 5:2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 5:3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 5:4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Master YaHuWaH of Armies. 

2:1 This is what YashaYahuw the son of Amowts saw concerning Yahuwdah and Yahrushalom.

2:2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the Mountain of YaHuWaH’s House shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up from among the hills; and all nations shall flow to Him.

[This speaks of a major topographical change in the area.]

[MikaYahuw 4:1 But in the latter days, it will happen that the Mountain of YaHuWaH’s House will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to Him. 4:2 Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the Mountain of YaHuWaH, and to the House of the Aluahiym of Ya'aqob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.” For out of Tsiyown will go forth the Torah, and the Word of YaHuWaH (YaHuWSHuWaH) from Yahrushalom; 4:3 and He will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. ... [Millennial times]

Rev. 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a huge throng, which no one was able to count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and tongues [Gen. 10:31], standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with long white robes, with palm branches in their hands. 7:10 They shout with a great sound, saying, “haYashuah leiAluheinu - the One, Who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” [the Deliverance belongs to Aluheinu and to the Lamb]

2:3 Multitudes of peoples shall walk and they will say, “Come, let’s walk and ascend to the Mountain of YaHuWaH, to the House of the Aluahiym of Ya'aqob; and He shall teach us of His Ways, and we shall walk in His Paths.” For out of Tsiyown the Torah shall go forth, and the Word of YaHuWaH [YaHuWSHuWaH] from Yahrushalom.

2:4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide [correct, rebuke, convince] concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [this is during Millennial reign of YaHuWSHuWaH]

2:5 House of Ya'aqob, come, and let us walk in the Light of YaHuWaH

2:6 For You have forsaken Your people, the House of Ya'aqob (apostate Ysra'al & Yahuwdah), because they are filled with the East, and practice magic like the Pelishtiym, and are pleased with the children of foreigners.

2:7 Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures.

Their land also is full of horses [vehicles], neither is there any end of their chariots [tanks].

2:8 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

2:9 Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled. Therefore do not pardon them.

 [Rev. 18: 4  I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, My people, that you do no co-participate in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues.]

2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the dread Face of YaHuWaH, and from the Splendor of His Majesty.  [Rev 6:12-17 sixth seal]

 "For Elohiym Who said, Let there be Light in the darkness, has made us believe that this Light is the Brightness of His Splendor as seen in the Face of YaHuWSHuWaH ha Mashiyach." 2 Cor. 4:6

[Contrast Huwshua 10: 8,[ The high places also of Awen, the sin of Ysra'al, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”   Rev. 6: 16-17, The sovereigns of the earth, the magnates, the generals, the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.  Calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the Great Day of His wrath comes; and who shall be able to stand?” 

2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and YaHuWaH alone shall be exalted in That Day.

2:12 For there shall be a Day of YaHuWaH Master of Armies against all that is proud and haughty, and against all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

2:13 against all the cedars of Lebanown, that are high and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan, [proud and arrogant leaders]

2:14 against all the high mountains [great nations], against all the hills that are lifted up [small nations],

2:15 against every lofty tower [great leaders], against every fortified wall [belief systems],

2:16 against all the sailors of Tarshiysh [merchants], and against every beloved flag [or great human achievements].

Beloved flag: or precious craft, palace, or desirable image--i.e., any outstanding superlative symbolizing human achievement. How can we help but recall the collapse of skyscrapers and the sinking of the Titanic that "even God could not sink", or the spacecraft that "challenged" YaHuWaH?

2:17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and YaHuWaH alone shall be exalted in That Day.

2:18 The idols shall utterly pass away.

2:19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of YaHuWaH, and from the Splendor of His Majesty, when He arises to shake the earth mightily.

2:20 In That Day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Ya'aqob also hid idols in the earth under an oak tree. (Gen. 35:4; cf. Yash. 1:29-30 above.)

2:21 to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, away from the dread Face of YaHuWaH, and from the Splendor of His Majesty, when He arrives on the scene to shake the earth mightily.  [Rev 6:12-17 sixth seal]

2:22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

[YirmeYahuw 17:5 Thus says YaHuWaH: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from YaHuWaH. ]

3:1 For, behold, the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies, takes away from Yahrushalom and from Yahuwdah support and staff on which you lean, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

3:2 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,

3:3 the captain of fifty, the highly respected man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever orator [enchanter/discreet whisperer].

3:4 I shall give youths to be their heads, and children (scoffers) shall rule over them.

3:5 The people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the lightweight against the important.

3:6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, “you have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand.”

3:7 In That Day he shall swear, saying, “I am not a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.”

3:8 For Yahrushalom is ruined, and Yahuwdah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against YaHuWaH, to provoke the fount of His Weightiness.

3:9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sedom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their being! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

3:10 Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

3:11 Woe to the wicked!  Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands shall be paid back to him.

3:12 As for My people, youths are their oppressors, and women rule over them.

O My people, those who lead you cause you to err,  and destroy the Way of your paths.

3:13 YaHuWaH stands up to sue, and stands to judge the peoples.

3:14 YaHuWaH shall enter into litigation with the elders of His people, and their rulers (women v. 12): “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

3:15 What is it to you? You are crushing My people, and grinding the face of the poor?” says the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies.

3:16 Moreover YaHuWaH said, “Because the daughters of Tsiyown are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking with quick little steps,  jingling ornaments on their ankles;

3:17 therefore the Master shall humiliate them: bringing sores on the crown of the head of the women of Tsiyown, and YaHuWaH shall uncover their secret openings.” (1st plague of Rev.)

3:18 In That Day the Master shall take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent-moon ornaments,

3:19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,

3:20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,

3:21 the signet rings, the nose rings, 

3:22 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses,

3:23  Even the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.

3:24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, an encircling rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

3:25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your strength in battle.

3:26 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

4:1 In That Day seven women [totality of "churchanity"] shall take hold of one man [or unified man - YaHuWSHuWaH] in That Day, saying, “We shall eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name [let your name be proclaimed over us]. Take away our disgrace.”

 (They are saying that they want to live by their own version of the "Good News" - their  "bread" and wear their own covering -"righteousness"  as did Adam and Hawah yet have His Name called upon them.")

4:2 In That Day [the Day of YaHuWaH], YaHuWaH’s BRANCH (Tsemech (צמח) - Al Zimach/Spica Teru) shall be beautiful and magnificent, and the fruit of the Land shall be majestic and splendid for the surviving remnant of Ysra'al.

Those who enter the Messianic Kingdom are the ultimate "surviving remnant of Ysra'al", including the righteous who died throughout all of history. 

4:3 It shall happen, that he who is left in Tsiyown, and he who remains in Yahrushalom, shall be called Set-apart (Qodesh), that is, all those written/enrolled among the living in Yahrushalom;

Enrolled: or inscribed, reminding us of the Messenger scribe who, in an event that will be repeated (Rev. 7:3ff), was commanded to mark out those who would be preserved because they wept over the abominations carried out in the midst of Yahrushalom. (Y'hezeq'el/Ezek. 9) In that context, there is a very clear demarcation between those celebrating Passover and those celebrating what would later come to be called "Easter". In Rev. 3:5; 13:8ff; 20:15; 21:27 we see how the names are written in the Book of Life relate to the New Yahrushalom. Our citizenship is in heaven, from which YaHuWSHuWaH will come and bring us the rights this entails. See also Mal'akiy 3:16-18. (Phil. 3:15ff; cf. v. 1 above.)

 4:4 when YaHuWaH shall have washed away the excrement of the daughters of Tsiyown, and shall have purged the blood of Yahrushalom from its midst, by the Ruwach of justice [right ruling], and by the Ruwach of burning.

 [ "Burning" here can mean "kindling a fire", which takes us to YaHuWSHuWaH's statement that he had a fire to kindle and wished he could do so right away, but had an "immersion" to undergo first. (Luk. 12:49, 50)] MattithYahuw 3: 11  I indeed immerse you in water for repentance, but He who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He shall immerse you in Ruwach haQadosh. 3:12 His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor. He shall gather His wheat into the barn, but the chaff He shall burn up with unquenchable fire.” , [Malakhiy 3: 2,  “But who can endure the Day of His coming? And who will stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap; 1 Cor. 3: 13-15 ... each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.  If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.]

4:5 Then YaHuWaH shall create above every dwelling place of Mount Tsiyown, and above her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and a shining of a flaming Fire by night; for the Splendor of YaHuWaH shall be a shelter over all.

4:6 There shall be a sukkah for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge, and for a shelter from inundation [by maelstrom] which fall from the sky. 

 Sukkah: a booth or covering that provides temporary shelter, the prominent feature of the feast of Sukkoth, which is a foreshadowing of the Kingdom, which will begin with a time of intense calamity (Yom Teruach to Yom Kippur the following year - 370 days.) from which YaHuWaH will shelter His people while the rest of the world feels His indignation. This will include "stars" falling from the sky (Rev. 9:1).

Song for Yahuwshua's vineyard - Ysra'al

5:1 Let Me sing for My well Beloved a song of My Beloved about His vineyard. [YaHuWaH speaking to His Son]

My Beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. [Luke 20:9+; Matt. 21:3+]

5:2 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a watch tower inside it, and also hewed out a wine vat, and waited eagerly for it to produce grapes. But it produced wild, rotten fruit.[cff. Yirme. 24:2-8]

5:3 “Now, inhabitants of Yahrushalom and men of Yahuwdah, please judge between Me and My vineyard.

5:4 What could have been done more to My vineyard, that I have not done in it?

Why, when I was expecting it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild, rotten fruit?

5:5 Now I shall tell you (plural) what I shall do to My vineyard.

I shall take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up. [Tehillum 80]

I shall break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

5:6 I shall lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it shall grow briers and thorns. I shall also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.” (withholding of His Ruwach)

5:7 For the vineyard of YaHuWaH Master of Armies is the House of Ysra'al, [Tehillum 80] and the men of Yahuwdah His pleasant plant: and He looked expectantly for justice [Mishpa't], but, what He found was bloodshed [Mispa'ch!  For righteousness [Tsdaqa'h], but what He found was a cry of distress [Ts'aqa'h]!

5:8 Woe to those who trespass the boundaries between houses, who remove the landmarks between fields, until they run out of space, and are forced to dwell in your loneliness in the middle of the countryside! 

 Until they run out of space: or "until the Place comes to an end". "The Place" is often a euphemism for the Hekal or the One who inhabits it. 

5:9 In my hearing,YaHuWaH Master of Armies says: “Truly, many houses shall be a waste - big and fine ones, without inhabitant.

5:10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, [about 9 gallons] 

and a homer [tenth of an efah] of seed shall yield an efah.[about a bushel]” [3rd seal]

5:11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them! [wine of Babel]

5:12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t notice the work of YaHuWaH, neither have they considered the operation of His hands.

5:13 Therefore My people go into exile for lack of knowledge. (recognition of YaHuWaH - Whose Name is the key of knowledge.)

Their important ones are persons of famine, and their boisterous crowds are parched with thirst.

5:14 Therefore she'owl has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their splendor and their crowd and their uproar, and he who is exulting within her, shall go down into it.

5:15 So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

5:16 but YaHuWaH Master of Armies is exalted in justice, and the Al Who is Set-apart will be shown to be separate through righteousness.

5:17 Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture, and strangers shall eat the ruins of the rich.

5:18 Woe to those who draw crookedness with cords of falsehood, and pull their sin as with cart rope;

5:19 Who say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al draw near and come, that we may know it!”

[Amos 5:18 “Woe to you who desire the Day of YaHuWaH! Why do you long for the Day of YaHuWaH? It is darkness, and not light. 5:19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. 5:20 Won’t the Day of YaHuWaH be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?]

5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;  who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put/define bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Put...define: the same term in Hebrew; i.e., "who change the definitions". Who has not likewise shuddered in our day to hear people raving about things they define as "wicked!" or "bad!"? But how much worse to call pagan holidays "blessed" or say that obeying the Torah is contrary to YaHuWaH's will.

5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight! Prov. 3:5-8

5:22 Woe to those who whose claim to fame is how much wine they can drink, and men who's only area of expertise is mixing strong drink;

5:23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

5:24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the Torah [instruction] of YaHuWaH Master of Armies, and despised the Word [YaHuWSHuWaH] of the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al.

5:25 Therefore YaHuWaH’s anger burns against His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, His anger is not receding, but His hand is still stretched out.

Fifth Trumpet - Rev. 9:1-3 +

5:26 He shall lift up a Banner to the nations (heathen masses) from far, and He shall whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they shall come speedily and swiftly.

5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the undergarment of its loins will be loosened, nor the latchet of their shoes be undone:[they will not stop to rest in any way!]

5:28 whose arrows (projectiles) are piercing, and all their weapons are cocked. Their horses’ hoofs shall be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. [helicopters?]

5:29 Their roaring shall be like a lioness. They shall roar like young lions.

Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there shall be no one to deliver.

5:30 They shall roar against them in That Day like the roaring of the sea.

If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened by its haze.

[Fifth Trumpet - Rev. 9:1 The fifth messenger sounded, and I saw a star from ha'shamayim fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.  9:2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the well, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. 9:3 From the smoke went out locusts on the earth, and authority was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have authority.]

6:1 In the year that sovereign UzziYahuw died (BCE 836/ 3136), I saw YaHuWaH sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and His train filled the Hekal. 

6:2 Burning six-winged Seraphim took their positions above it. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. 

6:3 One called to another, and said, “Qadosh, Qadosh, Qadosh, is YaHuWaH Master of Armies! The whole earth is full of His Splendor!”

Rev.  4:8 The four living ones, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes circled and within. They cease not day and night, saying, “Qadosh, Qadosh, Qadosh, YaHuWaH Al Shaddai, Who was and Who is and Who is coming!”

6:4 The posts of the door shook at the voice of the one who called, and the House was filled with smoke.

(Rev. 15:8 "The Dwelling Place was filled with smoke from the Qabod of YaHuWaH, and from His Power. No one was able to enter into the Dwelling Place, until the seven plagues of the seven Messengers would be completed."

6:5 Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies!”

[Had to be YaHuWSHuWaH as no man can see the Father in person or in vision.]

(44:6 This is what YaHuWaH, the Sovereign of Ysra'al, and His Kinsman Redeemer, YaHuWaH Master of Armies, says: “I AM Aleph wTaw (the First, and I AM the Last;) and apart from ME there is no Aluahiym.)

6:6 Then one of the burning Seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. 

6:7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; so your guilt is averted, and a covering has been effected over your sin." 

Live coal: or a hot stone. In his hand: thus the tongs were not due to its heat, but because he must not touch the altar. The altar was always the first part of the Set-apart Place to be built.

6:8 I heard YaHuWaH's Voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who shall go for Us?” And I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

6:9 He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘you hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

Perceive: come to know or be intimately acquainted with.

6:10 For the heart of this people has grown thick, and they do hardly hear with their ears, and they have shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should return to Me and I should heal them.” 

 [this prophetic reproof is repeated 7 times in the Scriptures] YaHuWSHuWaH's parables had the same purpose (Mat. 13:13), since he had a work to do which he could not accomplish if Ysra'al repented too soon. Paul quotes this verse in Romans 11:8, and relates it to Ysra'al. In fact, this verse is quoted six more times in Scripture, meaning that it appears a total of seven times. But chapter 10 of Romans had asked how the scattered "lost sheep of Ysra'al" would be able to hear unless someone was sent to teach them. These "smeared eyes" parallel the man YaHuWSHuWaH healed of blindness, but he viewed men as if they were trees. There were two stages of healing. He could see enough to avoid --much as the House of Ysra'al has met YaHuWSHuWaH as Savior (by a different name)- (thus having the most essential factor) yet missed the context in which He is best understood. When he was sent to the Pool of Shiloach ("sent") his vision was completely restored. Those sent to regather the rest of the House will see more than those who merely bask in what we have received, since the focus is no longer on self. (The context here mainly addresses Yahuwdah, but still applies to both houses, since Uzziyahu died before the Northern Kingdom was fully scattered.) Lest it should: what follows is the order of the journey back after this curse is rescinded, and that is the stage where we are today; we must follow these steps very carefully.

6:11 And he said, “Master, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the Land becomes utterly waste,

6:12 And YaHuWaH has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the Land.

6:13 But still there is a tithe within it, and it will come back, though it is consumed, like a terebinth tree, and like an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down.   The Qodesh seed is its stump !”

[A Rod shall come out of the stump of Yishai, and a BRANCH out of his roots shall bear fruit.

11:2 The Ruwach of YaHuWaH shall rest on Him:  the Ruwach of wisdom and understanding,

the Ruwach of counsel and might, the Ruwach of knowledge and of the fear of YaHuWaH.

11:3 His delight shall be in the fear of YaHuWaH. Chp. 11:1-3]

Chp. 53:2 For He grew up before Him as a tender plant,  and as a root out of dry ground.

A tithe: a tenth, a remnant reserved for YaHuWaH's special use, untouched by this curse. Ya'aqob promised that he would give YaHuWaH a tenth of all that was his (Gen. 28:22), so a tenth of his descendants belong to YaHuWaH in a special way. Qodesh seed: in a broad sense, the descendants of Abraham. In a narrow sense, as a lead-up to the virgin birth spoken of in the next chapter, this is a "seed" in a class of its own (one way of describing what "Qodesh" means). It was promised in Gen. 3:15 as being the seed of a woman--an anomaly in itself, and thus a signal of the deep significance this phrase holds. Thus, though all humanity, and most specifically, Ysra'al and the line of Dawiyd in particular, were all gone astray and under a curse, still, true and complete life remained within this "stump", and could thus send forth a new shoot, and the pristine Adam could be revived. YaHuWSHuWaH is described as the Head of this "last Adam", and we who join ourselves to Him are the rest of the Body, which will all be rejuvenated once it is brought completely together.

7:1 It happened in the days of Achaz the son of Yotham, the son of UzziYahuw, sovereign of Yahuwdah, that Retsiyn (the beast) the sovereign of Aram (Babel), and Peqach (false prophet) the son of RemalYahuw, sovereign of Ysra'al (churchanity), went up to Yahrushalom [Yahuwah's people ?] to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 7:2 It was told to the House of Dawiyd, saying, “Aram [Babel] is allied with Ephrayim [churchanity/Ysra'al].” His heart wavered, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are shaken with the wind.  7:3 Then YaHuWaH said to YashaYahuw, “Go out now to meet Achaz, you, and She'ar-Yashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field. 

She'ar-Yashub means "a remnant will return". This is part of his message to the king. (See 8:18) Though he is about to prophesy the fall of the Northern Kingdom, he prefaces it, for those with ears to hear, with this promise that keeps the severity of the punishment in perspective. The upper pool: the same place the Assyrians would later meet King Hizqiyahuw (36:2; 2 Kings 18:17

7:4 Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two stumps of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Retsiyn (the beast) and Aram [Babel], and of the son of RemalYahuw [false prophet]. 7:5 Because Aram (babel) has given Ephrayim (churchanity), and the son of RemalYahuw (false prophet), evil advice , saying, 7:6 “Let’s go up against Yahuwdah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a sovereign in its midst, even the son of Tabe'al [the Good Lord/Mighty One].”

Terrorize: Heb., cause to feel a sickening dread. Tab'al: means "Al has been good", or "Aluahhim is pleasing"--a clue as to whose son the Counterfeit Mashiyach is seen as. ("The good Lord"?) 

 7:7 This is what the Master YaHuWaH says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.” 7:8 For the head of Aram is Dammeseq, and the head of Dammeseq is Retsiyn; and within sixty-five years Ephrayim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people [Lo Ami] [this happened about 10-15 years after this prophecy]; 7:9 and the head of Ephrayim is Shomerown, and the head of Shomerown is RemalYahuw’s son. If you not believe, surely you shall not understand.’ 

If you do not believe firmly (Lo-Tha'a-míynuw) [in the true Son of the Good Mighty One], it is because you will not be confirmed (Lo-Thë’âmë´nuw).””

7:10 YaHuWaH spoke again to Achaz, saying, 7:11 “Ask a sign of YaHuWaH your Aluahiym; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”

7:12 But Achaz said, “I shall not ask, neither shall I tempt YaHuWaH.”

7:13 He [YashaYahuw] said, “Listen now, House of Dawiyd. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you shall try the patience of my Aluahiym also?  7:14 Therefore YaHuWaH Himself shall give you a sign: 

 (YaHuWaH will give Himself to you (plural-both Houses) for a sign. [alternate]) Look! The virgin [of Ysra'al] is pregnant and is bearing a son, and she shall call His name Imma'nuw'Al (The Power with us) [Rev. 12:1-2]    [Luke 2:10 The Messenger said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which shall be to all the people.  2:11 For there is born to you, this day, in the city of Dawiyd the Savior, Who is Master YaHuWaH the Mashiyach.](YaHuWaH is the real Mashiyach, Who chose the vessel of YaHuWSHuWaH the Man - "a body you have prepared for Me."...  and Ruwach haKadosh Who IS YaHuWaH dwelt within Him, in His Fullness!)

 [Bereshith 22:8  Abraham said, “Aluahiym will provide Himself, a lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together. (this did not happen at that time - for Aluahiym provided a "ram" and not a "lamb" but later a Lamb - YaHuWSHuWaH) [Yahuwchanan 1:36 “Look! It's Aluahiym's own Lamb”]

7:15 He shall eat butter and honey {ruwachual food from ha'shamayim} when He to knows to reject the evil, and choose the good. 

7:16 For before the Child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. 

7:17 YaHuWaH shall bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephrayim departed from Yahuwdah; even the sovereign of Ashshuwr [Successful One]. 

7:18 It shall happen in That Day that YaHuWaH shall whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Mitsrayim [preacher of the Lie ?], and for the bee that is in the land of Ashshuwr [image of the Beast ?]. 

7:19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks [true believers?], on all thorn hedges [apostates?], and on all pastures/fields [the rest of the world?].

 7:20 In That Day the Master shall shave [her/the Land] with a razor that is hired from beyond the River, even with the sovereign of Ashshuwr, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. 

7:21 It shall happen on That Day ... [On That Day: a common idiom that shifts the frame of reference also to the Messianic Kingdom.] ...  that a Man ('Iysh) shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;[the Remnant?]

7:22 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone shall eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land [144,000 - those who are alive after the "opening scene" of the Day of YaHuWaH]. 

7:23 It shall happen in That Day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, let it be for briers and thorns. 

7:24 People shall go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land shall be briers and thorns. 

7:25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.”

An End-time Prophecy?

8:1 Then YaHuWaH said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz;

[‘For swift is the plunder, speedy is the spoil’’ or "To hasten the captivity, and record the spoil."] 

8:2 and I took to me faithful witnesses to record,'Uwriy'Yahuw [YaHuWaH is my Light] the priest, and ZekarYahuw [YaHuWaH has remembered] the son of YeberekYahuw.” [May YaHuWaH bless.]

8:3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said YaHuWaH to me, “Call his name ‘Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.[Hasten to take away captives; speed to take away spoil.’]’ 

8:4 For before the child knows how to say, ‘My abi,’ and, ‘My imi,’ the riches of Dammeseq and the spoil of Shomerown shall be carried away by the sovereign of Ashshuwr. (Successful One "and he shall do as he pleases " Dan. 11:36)”

8:5 Then YaHuWaH spoke to me yet again, saying, 

8:6 “Because this people [Ysra'al] have refused the waters of Shiloach [the Sent One] that go softly, and rejoice in Retsiyn (the beast) and RemalYahuw's son (false prophet); 

8:7 now therefore, behold, the Master brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River - the sovereign of Ashshuwr and all his esteem. [Rev. 12:15] It shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks [proper boundaries of an empire].

 8:8 It shall sweep onward into Yahuwdah. It shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of your Land, O 'Imma'nuw'Al.   [Dan. 11:40-45]

8:9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! [Dan. 2:34-35] 

8:10 Whatever plans you devise, YaHuWaH will foil it; speak the word, and it shall not stand: because the Power is with us!.('Imma'nuw'Al)” 

8:11 For YaHuWaH spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, 

8:12 “Do not say, ‘A conspiracy!’ for everything that this nation calls [apostate Ysra'al], ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear what they fear, nor be terrorized. 

[“You shall not call ‘a heretical sect’ to everything that this people calls ‘a heretical sect’ and their fear you shall not fear, and you shall not dread, But you shall consider YaHuWaH the Anointed Pure, and He is to be your fear and He is to be your dread:]

8:13 YaHuWaH Tsabauwth - (Master of Armies - Messengers set in array for battle) He is the One to treat as being in a separate category. He is the One you must respect, and let Him be the One Who makes you tremble with awe!

 I.e., concentrate on Him, not on what men are doing. These things have to take place, much like the New World Order we see usurping our nations today, since a unified world is prophesied for the last days. He is still in control. The scattering of the Northern Kingdom was from Him (1 Kings 12:24)--part of an "expansion" that started when YaHuWaH separated Hawah from Adam, and continued through Babel and Ysra'al's dispersion until the "fullness of time", when YaHuWSHuWaH appeared (Gal. 4:4), and began to "let the rubber band snap back". He initiated the "restoration of all things" (Acts 3:21) by sending his apostles out to start regathering the "lost sheep of the House of Ysra'al". 

After we have become a cohesive people, we will again be rejoined with Yahuwdah (Hos. 1:11), and keep continuing back through the repetition of what happened before (Eccles. 3:15; 6:10) in the "contraction" which will culminate in the "birthpangs" of one new Man (Eph. 4:13). History thus goes through a "mirror image" until Eden itself is restored. Sha'ul speaks of seeing YaHuWSHuWaH as in a mirror and becoming like Him. (2 Cor. 3:18; cf. 1 Yahuwchanan 3:2) Ya'aqob 1:23) says that mirror is the Torah, the perfect law of liberty, because YaHuWSHuWaH is the "Word/Torah made flesh" and thus by reading YaHuWaH's instruction, we see what He looked like and what we really are as well. Adam ("Man" in Ibriy) and Eden itself will be restored. When all is put under Mashiyach's (the "Last Adam") feet, we will continue back even to the day when YaHuWaH was "all in all" (1 Cor. 12:6; 15:28; Eph. 1:23). That is what He is doing in our day, and this is where we must put our energy, rather than focusing on the apparent physical threats.

8:14 He shall become as a Set-apart Place; a Stone to strike and a Rock that causes stumbling for both Houses of Ysra'al,  as a trap and a snare to the one who dwells in Yahrushalom.” 

  a Set-apart place. The teachings inherent in the Hekal are the "snare" that YaHuWaH promised to use to regather the Northern Kingdom and recapture our hearts (Y'hezq'el 43). It corresponds with YaHuWSHuWaH, our Set-apart Place, who is indeed described as "a stumbling-stone" (Luk. 2:34; Rom. 9:33; 1 Kefa 2:8)

8:15 And many among them will stumble and fall, and become crippled, entrapped, and captured.

8:16 Bind up the witness. Seal the Torah among my taught-ones. 

8:17 I shall wait for YaHuWaH, Who hides His Face from the House of Ya'aqob, and I shall look for Him. 

8:18 Behold, I and the children whom YaHuWaH has given me are for signs and for wonders in Ysra'al from YaHuWaH Master of Armies, Who dwells in Mount Tsiyown.

8:19 When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar ruwachs and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t a people consult with their Aluahiym? rather than the living praying to the dead? [saints? Mary, etc.] 

8:20 To the Torah and to the Witness of the Prophets! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no Light/Truth in them.[ there is not any diligent study to them.] 

 Instruction: Heb., Torah. This is the way we must weight and test the words of any prophecy, and any proper interpretation of the Renewed Covenant will only confirm what it already says. (Mat. 5:17-18; Rom. 3:31) Why look for new revelation, when He has already written His down? What He's told us before is the truth. The main point of any prophecy is to explain the Word that has already been given.

 8:21 They (apostate Ysra'al) shall pass through it (the Land), sore distressed and hungry; and it shall happen that when they are hungry, they shall worry, and curse their sovereign and their Aluahiym, looking upward. 

8:22 And they shall look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of hard times and shall be thrust into calamity. [3rd seal]

9:1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish [~the Virgin of Ysra'al]. In the former time, He brought into contempt the land of Zebuwluwn and the land of Naphtaliy; but in the latter time He has made it radiant, by the way of the sea, beyond the Yarden, Galiyl of the nations.

 [Note all the imagery of the feast of Sukkoth (Booths) in this chapter: great lights, joy, harvest, release from oppression, the birth of YaHuWSHuWaH, and His Kingdom.]

9:2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great Light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the Light has shined.

9:3 You have multiplied the nation, You have increased their joy. They rejoice before You according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 

9:4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, You have broken as in the day of Midyan. 

9:5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, fuel for the fire.

 9:6 For to us a Child is born. To us a Son is given; and the government shall be on His shoulders. His Shem shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty Aluahiym, Everlasting Father, Prince of Shalom. 

9:7 Of the increase of His government and of shalom there shall be no end, on the throne of Dawiyd, and on His kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even into the Age and beyond. The zeal of YaHuWaH Master of Armies shall perform this.

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"The Real Mashiyach"  is right here in one verse in YashaYahuw 9:6  For to us a Child is born. To us a Son is given; and the government shall be on His shoulders.  His Shem shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty Aluahiym (Al Gibbor), Everlasting Father, Prince of Shalom.

His Shem shall be called:

Wonderful -  Shophetim   13:17 Manoah said to the Malak YaHuWaH, “What is Your shem, that when Your words happen, we may esteem You?”  13:18 The Malak YaHuWaH said to him, “Why do you ask about My Shem, seeing it is Wonderful?”      ...... 13:19 So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to YaHuWaH : and the Messenger did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.  13:20 For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the Malak YaHuWaH ascended in the flame of the altar:  Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen Aluahiym.”  YashaYahuw  28:29 This also comes forth from YaHuWaH Master of Armies, Who is Wonderful in Counsel, and excellent in Wisdom.  Psalms 107:8 Let them praise YaHuWaH for His loving kindness, for His wonderful works to the children of men!

Wonderful: This identifies YaHuWSHuWaH as the Messenger who brought the news of Shimshon (Samson)'s birth (Judges 13:18), since he said his name was "wonderful" (a related form of the word, which means "incomprehensible and hard to understand)

Counselor -  YashaYahuw 11:2 The Ruwach of YaHuWaH shall rest on Him: the Ruwach of wisdom and understanding, the Ruwach of counsel and might .....  28:29 This also comes forth from YaHuWaH Master of Armies, Who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.  Yahuwchanan 14:16  I shall pray to the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, (Counselor) that It may be with you into the  Age and beyond,— 14:17 the Ruwach of Truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see Him, neither knows Him. You know Him, for He lives with you, and shall be in you.   14:26 But the Counselor, the Ruwach, Whom the Father shall send in My Shem, That-One shall teach you all things, and shall remind you of all that I said to you. .....  15:26 “When the Counselor has come, Whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Ruwach of Truth, Who proceeds from the Father , That-One shall testify about Me.

Mighty Aluahiym - [ A Warrior is Al - Mighty Al] Deut.  10:17 For YaHuWaH your Al, He is Al of mighty ones, and Master of masters, the great Al, the Mighty, and the Awesome, Who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.   Yahuwshua 22:22  “The Mighty One, Aluahiym, YaHuWaH, the Mighty One, Aluahiym, YaHuWaH ...    NechemYahuw  9:32 Now therefore, our Al, the Great, the Mighty, and the Awesome Al, Who keeps Covenant and loving kindness.

Everlasting [Eternal] Father -  YaHuWaH: His name appears to be the composite of HaYaH (He was), HoWeH (He is), and YiHYeH (He shall be). Thus the best translation would be "the Eternal One"  There is only One Eternal Being - YaHuWaH!   Bereshith  21:33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Be'er-Sheba, and called there on haShem of YaHuWaH, the Everlasting Aluahiym.    YashaYahuw   26:4 Trust in YaHuWaH  into the  Age and beyond;  for in Yahuw YaHuWaH, is an Everlasting Rock.

   YashaYahuw. 44:6 Thus says YaHuWaH, Master of Ysra'al,  AND His Redeemer, YaHuWaH Master of Armies: "I AM ALEPH TAW (the Beginning and Ending), besides ME there is no Aluahiym.   Rev. 1:8 “I am the Alef and the Taw,” Beginning and End, says  YaHuWaH , “Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty.”

Prince of Shalom -  Shophetim 6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there to YaHuWaH , and called it “YaHuWaH is Shalom.”  Yahuwchanan  14:27 Shalom I leave with you. My shalom I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.   YashaYahuw 26:3 You shall keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect shalom,  because he trusts in You.    Psalms 29:11 YaHuWaH shall give strength to His  people.  YaHuWaH shall bless His people with shalom.

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9:8 The Master sent a word into Ya'aqob, and it comes down to Ysra'al.

9:9 All the people shall know, including Ephrayim and the inhabitants of Shomerown, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

9:10 “The bricks have fallen, but we shall build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we shall replace them with cedars.”

In their arrogance, they did not recognize YaHuWaH's punishment, and simply began to rebuild things in their own way, saying they could do even better this time. Cut stones: symbolizing being shaped by men's doctrines--the antithesis of the altars that could not have any human tool applied (Ex. 20:25), but had to be built with stones shaped only by running water, a symbol of YaHuWaH's pure, unadulterated Word. Compare the Tower of Babel, which also substituted humanly-processed materials for those in their natural form.

9:11 Therefore YaHuWaH shall set up on high against him the adversaries of Retsiyn, and shall stir up his enemies,

9:12 The Aram in front, and the Pelishtiym behind; and they shall devour Ysra'al (Ephrayim/Christianity?) with open mouth. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

9:13 Yet the people have not turned to Him Who struck them, neither have they sought YaHuWaH Master of Armies.

9:14 Therefore YaHuWaH shall cut off from Ysra'al (churchanity?) head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

9:15 The elder and the esteemed able man is the head, and the predicator who is teaching The Lie is the tail.

9:16  And it shall be that those who call this people blessed are those who are misleading them; and those who are led by them are being devoured .  [v.12 – Ysra'al (Ch_tianity)],

9:17 Therefore the Master shall not rejoice over their young men, neither shall He have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane [a hypocrite] and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

9:18 For Wickedness (Rishah [ZekharYahuw 5: 8]) burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

9:19 Through the wrath of YaHuWaH Master of Armies, the Land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares even his brother.

9:20 He shall snatch food on the right hand, yet be hungry; and he shall eat with the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied. Everyone shall eat the flesh of his own arm. [eat their own "gospel" - speaking of carnal Ysra'al]

9:21 Menashsheh, Ephrayim; and Ephrayim, Menashsheh; and they together shall be against Yahuwdah.  For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.  [ZekarYahuw 11:14 Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Yahuwdah and Ysra'al.]

10:1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous laws, and put in writing wearisome things that have been proscribed [legalese]; 

10:2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among My people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! 10:3 What shall you do in the Day of Visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from afar? To whom shall you flee for help? Where shall you leave your wealth?

10:4 Without Me, they shall bow among the prisoner, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

10:5 Woe to Ashshuwr, the rod of My anger, the staff in whose hand is My indignation! 

10:6 I shall send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people who anger Me shall I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 

10:7 Yet this is not his intent; nor is this what his heart is counting on, because what is in his heart is to annihilate and eliminate not a few nations. 

10:8 For he says, “Aren’t all of my chieftains just like kings? 

10:9 Isn’t Kalneh like Karkemish? Isn’t Chamath like Arpad? Isn’t Shomerown like Dammeseq?” 

10:10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Yahrushalom and of Shomerown; 

10:11 shall I not, as I have done to Shomerown and her idols, so do to Yahrushalom and her idols? 

10:12 Therefore it shall happen that, when YaHuWaH has performed His whole work on Mount Tsiyown and on Yahrushalom, I shall punish the fruit of the stout heart of the sovereign of Ashshuwr (Successful One), and the insolence of his haughty looks.  [Dani'al 7: 20  - … "even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than that of its fellows …"]  

10:13 For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a Valiant One! I have brought down their rulers. 

10:14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. [Dan. 11:40-45/Rev. 13] There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

10:15 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? Or shall a rod exalt itself over him who lifts it up?

10:16 Therefore the Master, YaHuWaH of Armies, shall send among his [The sovereign of Ashshuwr (Successful One)] fat ones leanness; and under his esteem He will kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 

10:17 The Light of Ysra'al [YaHuWaH] shall be for a Fire, and His Qadosh-One [YaHuWSHuWaH] for a Flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in a single day [The sovereign of Ashshuwr (Successful One)], 

10:18 and it will finish off the abundance of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both being and body, and it will be like when a sick person wastes away.

 10:19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

10:20 It shall come to pass in That Day that the remnant of Ysra'al, and those who have escaped from the House of Ya'aqob shall no more again depend on the one smiting them, but shall rely on YaHuWaH, the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al, in Truth. 

10:21 A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Ya'aqob, to the Mighty Prevailing Judge!

 [ Al-Gibbor, one of the names of the "child who is born, the Son who is given" (9:5), i.e., YaHuWSHuWaH. He is the One to whom a remnant will return.  -- 144,000]

 10:22 For though Your people, Ysra'al, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall be saved [Romans 9:27-28] -  a decisive end, overflowing with righteousness. 10:23 For the Master, YaHuWaH of Armies, is making a complete end, as decided, in the midst of the land. 

[Daniyel 9:27;1 Kepha 1:5 .... who by the Power of YaHuWaH are guarded through belief for a rescue already prepared to be revealed in the final decisive epoch.   "...... for a rescue ready to be disclosed during a latter feast season!  [Yowm Kippuríym,  Deuteronomy 32: 42] ]

 TsephanYahuw 1:17 I will bring distress on men [great tribulation], that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against YaHuWaH, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the Day of YaHuWaH’s wrath, but the whole earth will be devoured by the fire of His jealousy; for He will accomplish a complete - not to mention speedy - destruction for all who inhabit the earth.

 10:24 Therefore the Master, YaHuWaH of Armies, says “O My people who dwell in Tsiyown, don’t be afraid of the Ashshuwrn, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Mitsrayim did. 

10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you shall be accomplished, and My anger shall be directed to his destruction.” 

10:26 YaHuWaH of Armies shall stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midyan at the rock of Oreb [where Gid'on slew two Midyanite kings and their armies - Judges 7&8]. His Rod shall be over the sea, and He shall lift it up like He did against Mitsrayim. 

10:27 It shall happen in That Day, that his burden shall depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be broken because of the anointing oil. 

10:28 He has come upon Ayath. He passes Migrown, he stored his baggage at Mikmas. 

10:29 They have crossed over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah is afraid. Gib'ah of Sha'uwl has fled. 

10:30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Galliym! Listen, O Layish! O poor Anathowth!  10:31 Madmenah is in flight. The inhabitants of Gebiym flee for refuge. 

10:32 This very day he shall halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Tsiyown, the hill of Yahrushalom. 

 [Dan. 11:45 And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the splendid Set-apart Mountain; and he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. ]

 10:33 Look! The Master, YaHuWaH of Armies, shall lop the boughs with terror. The tall shall be cut down, and the lofty shall be brought low. 

10:34 He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and the Lebanown shall fall as a  mighty one. [The Aramaic targum interprets all these trees to be Ashshuwr's armies.]

11:1 A Twig shall come out of the stump of Yishay, and a BRANCH (Ne'tser) out of his roots shall bear fruit. 

(chp. 6:13 But still there is a tithe within it, and it will come back, though it is consumed, like a terebinth tree, and like an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down.   The Qodesh seed is its stump !”)

11:2 The  1. Ruwach of YaHuWaH shall rest on Him: (Mat. 3:16; Mk. 1:10; Luk. 3:22)

the 2. Ruwach of wisdom (chokmah) and 3. understanding (biynah /tebunah), the 4. Ruwach of counsel ('etsah) and 5. might (geburah), the 6. Ruwach of knowledge (da'ath) and  7. of the fear (yir'ah) of YaHuWaH. (cf. Rev. 1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6 - seven Ruwachs of YaHuWaH ... Zek. 3:9)

 In Hebrew, wisdom means "shrewd" and "able to put the pieces in place"; discernment means understanding and the ability to judge between one thing and another. Counsel means being able to both plan and give advice. Bravery means "strength" and "force". Knowledge means "intimate acquaintance" which leads to "certainty"; Yash. 5:13 says the lack of this is why His people went into exile, so the way back out will be given through the recovery thereof.

11:3 He will make Him breathe (hu-wah) in the fear of YaHuWaH. (or and shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of YaHuWaH) He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, neither decide by the hearing of His ears;

11:4 but with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth; and with the Breath of His lips He shall kill the wicked. (2 Thess. 2:8)

11:5 Righteousness shall be His belt, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.

11:6  Then the wolf shall live with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little lad shall lead them along.

11:7 The cow and the bear shall graze. Their young ones shall lie down together. The lion shall eat straw like the ox.

11:8 The nursing child shall play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper’s den.

11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My Qodesh Mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of YaHuWaH, as the waters cover the sea.

11:10 It shall happen in That Day  [The Day of YaHuWaH] that the nations shall seek the Root of Yishay, Who stands as a Ensign (nec/pole) [the Anointed] of the peoples; to Him shall the heathen masses rally, and His rest-haven shall be Splendid. 

11:11 It shall happen in That Day that the Master shall set His Hand again the second time [Yom Kippur] to recover the remnant that is left of His people from Ashshuwr (Successful One), from Mitsrayim, from Pathrows, from Kuwsh, from Eylam, from Shin'ar, from Chamath, and from the islands of the sea (Kittim). 11:12 He shall set up a Banner [Anointed] for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Ysra'al, and gather together the dispersed of Yahuwdah from the four corners of the earth. (His chosen ones)

Matt. 24:31 He shall send out His messengers with the sound of the Great Shofar (Yom Kippur) and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

YashaYahuw 27: 12-13 It shall happen in that day, that YaHuWaH shall thresh from the flowing stream of the Parath to the brook of Mitsrayim; and you shall be gathered one by one , O children of Ysra'al. 27:13 It shall happen in that day that a Great Shofar shall be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Ashshuwr, and those who were outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim, shall come; and they shall worship YaHuWaH in the Qodesh Mountain at Yahrushalom. ] [Yez. 20:33 As I live, says the Master YaHuWaH, surely with a mighty Hand, and with an outstretched Arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be King over you: 20:34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty Hand, and with an outstretched Arm, and with wrath poured out; 20:35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.  [Joseph Good points out that the terminology here fits the season of Yom Kippur, at which time YaHuWaH judges us for the sake of removing our sins from us:]

Deut. 30:1-4 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where YaHuWaH your Al has driven you,  and shall return to YaHuWaH your Al, and shall obey His Voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your being;  that then YaHuWaH your Al will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where YaHuWaH your Al has scattered you. If any of your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will YaHuWaH your Al will gather you, and from there He will bring you back: 

 11:13 The envy also of Ephrayim shall depart, and those of  Yahuwdah who cause distress will be cut off. Ephrayim won’t envy Yahuwdah, and Yahuwdah will not cause Ephrayim distress. 

11:14 They shall fly down on the shoulders [mountain slopes] of the Pelishtiym on the west. Together they shall plunder the children of the east. They shall extend their power over Edom and Mow'ab, and the children of Ammown shall obey them. 

11:15 YaHuWaH shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Mitsrayim sea; and in the heat of His Ruach's wind He shall wave His hand over the River [Perath], and shall split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals. 

11:16 There shall be a highway for the remnant that is left of His people from Ashshuwr, like there was for Ysra'al in the day that he came up out of the land of Mitsrayim.

 16:12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the Great River, the Perath. Its water was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the sovereigns that come from the sunrise. [The Remnant ?].

12:1 In That Day you shall say, “I shall give thanks to You, O YaHuWaH; for though You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away and You comfort me. 

12:2 Behold,  in Al is my-deliverance (YaSHuWaTY - YaHuWSHuWaH)  I shall have confidence, and not be in dread; because Yah YaHuWaH is my strength and my song, and-He-has-become the-deliverance to-me (YaSHuWaTY - YaHuWSHuWaH).” [Ex. 15:2] 

12:3 Therefore with joy you shall draw water out of the wellspring of deliverance. 

(yashu'ah)  YaSHuWaTY (YaHuWShuWaH) .  [Aramaic, "He has spoken by His Memra, and become for me a Savior".]

 12:4 In That Day you shall say, “Give thanks to YaHuWaH! Call on His Shem. Declare His doings among the peoples. Proclaim that His Shem is exalted! 

12:5 Memorialize YaHuWaH with a musical instrument, for He has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth! 

12:6 Scream and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Tsiyown; for the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al is great in the midst of you!”

[This end-time prophecy is found in almost every one of the prophetic books]

[Aramaic, "the Great One has promised to rest His Sh'khinah in your midst, the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al".]

[Rev. 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a huge throng, which no one was able to count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and tongues [Gen. 10:31], standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with long white robes, with palm branches in their hands. 7:10 They shout with a great sound, saying, “haYashuah leiAluheinu - the One, Who sits on haKisei, and to haSeh!” [the Deliverance belongs to Aluheinu and to the Lamb]

13:1 The  prophecy concerning the fall of Babel [Confusion], which YashaYahuw the son of Amowts perceived: 

13:2 Lift up a Banner on a barren high mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 

Banner: in the rabbinical view, this is always a reference to the Mashiyach.  Barren: or "wind-swept", "cleared off"--i.e., one from which a clear signal can be sent with nothing obstructing the view. But "mountain" often signals a reference to the Hekal, and if its mountain is barren, it means the Muslim shrines that now occupy it are gone. Voice: or the sound of a shofar. Wave a hand: i.e., get their attention! But the Mashiyach is also often called YaHuWaH's "Right Hand". So all of this imagery points to Mashiyach's involvement in Babel's fall.

13:3 I have commanded My Qodesh ones; yes, I have called My mighty men for My anger -- those who rejoice in My triumph. 

13:4 The sound of a commotion in the mountains, as of a multitude of people! The noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the heathen gathered together! YaHuWaH Master of Armies is mustering an army for the battle. 

13:5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even YaHuWaH, and the weapons of His indignation, to destroy the whole Land. [see also chp. 24, 34, 63, 66 and Rev. 9:6-11]

13:6 Wail; for The Day of YaHuWaH is at hand![Amos 5:18-20] It shall come as devastation from Shaddai Al.

 Devastation: havoc or violent destruction. Shaddai is the name of YaHuWaH in His nurturing aspect, since the word is rooted in "breast". So here He is like a mother bear attacking those who threaten her cubs.

 13:7 Therefore all hands shall be feeble, and everyone’s heart shall melt. 

13:8 They shall be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows shall seize them. They shall be in pain like a woman in labor. They shall look in amazement one at another. Their faces shall be faces of flame.  

YirmeYahuw 30:5 For thus says YaHuWaH: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of shalom. 30:6 Ask now, and can a man bear a child? Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?  30:7 Alas! for That Day is great since there is none that compares with it: it is a time of dire straights for Ya'aqob; but he shall be delivered out of it. 

…. Sha'ul also uses this symbol in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3:“Now, brothers, as to the times and the seasons, you do not need to be written to. 2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of Yahuwah comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.” (see also YashaYahuw 66:6-24; YirmeYahuw 4:31; 13:20-27; Hoshea 13:12-16; Mikah 4:9-10.)

13:9 Behold, The Day of YaHuWaH comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the earth a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it. 

13:10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations shall not give their light. The sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.[6th Seal] 

13:11 I shall bring punishment on the evil order, [or "visit the civilized world with trouble".] and the wicked for their iniquity. I shall cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and shall humble the haughtiness of the terrible.  

13:12 I shall make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir. 

[Aramaic, "I will love those who fear Me more than the gold in which the sons of men esteem."]  

13:13 Therefore I shall make ha'shamayim tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its proper place in the wrath of YaHuWaH Master of Armies, and in The Day of His fierce anger. 

"be shaken from its foundation" On the literal level, it appears there will be a change in the orbit of the earth--perhaps back to the 360-day years that existed prior to 701 B.C. (only a few years after this prophecy was given)[chp. 24:19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently. 24:20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall and not rise again.]

[Babel judged - 6th plague - YirmeYahuw 51:6-9]

13:14 It shall happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they shall each turn to their own people, and each shall flee to their own land. 

13:15 Everyone who is found shall be thrust through. Everyone who is captured shall fall by the sword. 

13:16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be ransacked, and their wives raped. 

13:17 Behold, I shall stir up the Maday [middle land] against them, who shall not value silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 

(YirmeYahuw 51:11  Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: YaHuWaH has stirred up the ruwach of the sovereigns of the Maday (Iran); because His purpose is against Babel, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of YaHuWaH, the vengeance of His Hekal.)

13:18 Their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes shall not spare children.

 [This has never yet happened, because the city was taken without a battle; the king and a few key rulers were killed, but most inhabitants of Babel were unaware the next day that anything had taken place. It went as smoothly as any coup d'etat. So this prophecy remains to be fulfilled. Revelation 18 speaks of a larger "Babel"--the system that had its origin in Babel under Nimrod, but has spread into a whole "world order" (the "evil order" spoken of in v. 11, which now encompasses the entire civilized world through paganism, commerce, politics, and financial dependencies foisted upon the masses - headed by the USA]

 13:19 And Confusion (Babel), the prominent one among kingdoms, the beauty of the Kasdiy's (Increases) pride, shall be like when Aluahiym overthrew Sedom and Amorah.[ not fulfilled yet - Rev. 18 will be the fulfillment] 

13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabiy shall not pitch a tent there, neither shall shepherds make their flocks lie down there. 13:21 But wild animals of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of jackals. Ostriches shall dwell there, and hairy goats shall frolic there. 

13:22 Jackals shall cry in their castles, and dragons in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days shall not be postponed.

Hairy goats will skip about: Aramaic, "demons will play". Revelation 18 upholds this interpretation, saying that after Babel's fall it will become a "abode of demons and the prison of every unclean ruwach".  Jackals: or "wild island-beasts". All these terms and those in v. 21 can also refer to different types of demons in Hebrew. This is the most likely interpretation, in light of Zech. 5:5-11, where "Wickedness" personified is sent back to Shinar (where Babel is) and a house is built for her there.

14:1 For YaHuWaH shall have compassion on Ya'aqob, and shall yet choose Ysra'al, and set them in their own Land. The foreigner shall join himself with them, and they shall add to the House of Ya'aqob.

House of Ya'aqob: the physical, natural side of the patriarch, as opposed to the ruwachual, hence the more readily identifiable of the two kingdoms, Yahuwdah, in contrast to Ysra'al. Also refers to both houses of Ysra'al.

14:2 The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place. The House of Ysra'al shall possess them in YaHuWaH’s land for servants and for handmaids. They shall take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 

14:3 It shall happen in the day that YaHuWaH shall give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve.

 14:4 You shall take up this parable against the sovereign of Babel  (pointing to Satan), and say: “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!” (Rev. 18)

14:5 YaHuWaH has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, 

14:6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. 

14:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song. 

14:8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanown, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.” 

14:9 She'owl from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 

14:10 They all shall answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?” 

14:11 Your pomp is brought down to she'owl, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, O Helel ben Shahar (the shining one), Day Star,  Son of the Dawn [Venus]! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! 

The infamous pride of Nebuchadnezzar in Dan. 4 where - 7 times passed over him in his fallen condition is a microcosm of the pride--the downfall--of the former "anointed covering cherub" …. 7 thousand years.

14:13 You said in your heart, “I shall ascend into ha'shamayim! I shall exalt my throne above the stars of Al [the Power]! I shall sit on the Mount of  Appointment, in the far north [hidden place]! 

[In Scripture, a mountain is considered a controlling power or authoritarian presence.]   (Appointment: times appointed/set times or feasts.)

 14:14 I shall ascend above the heights of the clouds! I shall make myself resemble the Most High! [Alyon]” 

14:15 Oh, really? Actually, you shall be brought down to she'owl, to the depths of the pit. 14:16 Those who see you shall stare at you. They shall ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms; 

14:17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who would not open the house of his prisoners?”

 [What YaHuWaH allows -  4:23 I looked at the earth, and saw it was formless and empty. And ha'shamayim, they had no light.  4:24 I looked at the mountains, and saw they shook,  and all the hills were swaying. 4:25 I looked and saw there was no man, and all the birds of ha'shamayim had fled. 4:26 I looked and saw the garden land was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of YaHuWaH, by His burning displeasure.  YirmeYahuw 4:23-26]

14:18 All the kings of the nations, sleep in esteem, everyone in his own house. 14:19 But you are cast away from your grave like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot. 

14:20 You shall not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. Let the seed of evildoers never be mentioned. 

14:21 Prepare for the slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.  

14:22-23 “I shall rise up against them,” says YaHuWaH Master of Armies, “and cut off from Babel name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says YaHuWaH.  “I shall also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I shall sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says YaHuWaH Master of Armies. 

14:24 YaHuWaH Master of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 

14:25 that I shall break the Ashshuwr in My Land, and tread him under foot on My Mountains. Then his yoke shall leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders. 

14:26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the Hand that is stretched out over all the nations. 

14:27 For YaHuWaH Master of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His Hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

14:28 This message was in the year that sovereign Achaz died. 

14:29 Don’t rejoice, O  Pelesheth, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken [king ’Achaz]; for out of the serpent’s root an adder shall emerge [the Lie], and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent [the Lie incarnated]. 

14:30 The firstborn of the poor shall eat, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I shall kill your root with famine [lack of the Word], and your remnant shall be killed.

[cf. Yirmeyahu 8:15-17 - Antimessiah  "Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Ysra'al. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. (I have waited for your deliverance, YaHuWaH.)" Genesis 49:1,16-18 -And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan Deuteronomy 33:22] 

14:31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! you are melted away,  Pelesheth, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

14:32 What shall they answer the envoys of the heathen mass? That YaHuWaH has founded Tsiyown, and in her the afflicted of His people shall take refuge.

15:1 The  message concerning Mow'ab: for in a night, Ar of Mow'ab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Qir of Mow'ab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. 15:2 They have gone up to Bayith Diybown, to the high places, to weep. Mow'ab wails over Nebow and over Meydeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off. 15:3 In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. 15:4 Cheshbown cries out with El'aleh. Their voice is heard even to Yahats. Therefore the armed men of Mow'ab cry aloud. Their beings tremble within them. 15:5 My heart cries out for Mow'ab! Her fugitives flee to Tso'ar, like a three year old heifer; for they go up by the ascent of Luwchiyth with weeping; for in the way of Choronayim, they raise up a cry of destruction. 15:6 For the waters of Nimriym shall be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. 15:7 Therefore they shall carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows. 15:8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Mow'ab; its wailing to Eglayim, and its wailing to Be'er Eylim.  15:9 For the waters of Diybown are full of blood; for I shall bring yet more on Diybown, a lion on those of Mow'ab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.

16:1 The prophecy concerning the rest of the land. Send the lamb to the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Tsiyown. 16:2 For it shall be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Mow'ab be at the fords of the Arnown [rushing stream]. 16:3 Gather for deliberation; Make your decision! Make your shadow like night in the middle of the noonday! Carefully conceal those who have been banished! Do not reveal the hiding place of the fugitive! 16:4 Let My outcasts dwell temporarily among you, Mow'ab; become a secret shelter for them from the face of the despoiler, because the one who is pressing them has reached his limit; the wreaker of havoc is finished; the trampler has already come out from the land. 

[Dani'el 11:41  He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many  shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Mow'ab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.] YashaYahuw 10:32 This very day he shall halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Tsiyown, the hill of Yahrushalom.

 16:5 A throne shall be established in loving kindness. One shall sit on it in Truth, in the tent of Dawiyd, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

16:6 We have heard of the pride of Mow'ab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing. 16:7 Therefore Mow'ab shall wail; every one shall wail for Mow'ab, for the foundations of the walls are destroyed; surely they groan like the sick. 16:8 For the fields of Cheshbown languish with the vine of Sebam. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Ya'azeyr, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.  16:9 Therefore I shall weep with the weeping of Ya'azeyr for the vine of Sebam. I shall water you with my tears, Cheshbown, and El'aleh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen. 16:10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody shall tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop. 16:11 Therefore My heart sounds like a harp for Mow'ab, and My inward parts for Qir Heres. 16:12 It shall happen that when Mow'ab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his set-apart place to pray, that he shall not prevail. 16:13 This is the Word that YaHuWaH spoke concerning Mow'ab in time past. 16:14 But now YaHuWaH has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the esteem of Mow'ab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.”

17:1 The  message concerning the fall of Dammeseq: “Behold, Dammeseq is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 

Amos 1:3 Thus says  YaHuWaH : “For three transgressions of Dammeseq, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gil'ad with threshing instruments of iron; 1:4 but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. 1:5 I will break the bar of Dammeseq, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Awen, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Aram shall go into captivity to Qir,” says YaHuWaH. 

17:2 The cities of Arow'er are forsaken. They shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 17:3 The fortress shall cease from Ephrayim, and the kingdom from Dammeseq, and the remnant of Aram. They shall be as the esteem of the children of Ysra'al,” says YaHuWaH Master of Armies.  17:4 “It shall happen in That Day that the importance of Ya'aqob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean. 17:5 It shall be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it shall be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaiym. 17:6 Yet gleanings shall be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al. 17:7 In That Day, mankind shall look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect for the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al.  17:8 They shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the ashërâh [happy images], nor the sun pillars [obleisks, steeples].  17:9 In That Day, their strong cities shall be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Ysra'al; and it shall be a desolation. 17:10 For you have forgotten the Aluahiym of your deliverance, and have not remembered the Rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings. 17:11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 

 17:12 Woe to the armies of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. 17:14 Then indeed, toward evening time, calamity comes! Before morning arrives, there is nothing left of them! This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who pillage us.

[At the time of sunset, then here is the dreadful event… by daybreak, they do not exist!  This is the portion of the ones who plunder you, and the inheritance of the ones who robbed you of your inheritance. "Scriptures for the Remnant"]

18:1 Woe to the land shadowed with whirring wings[circulating with boats], which is beyond the rivers of Kuwsh; 18:2 that sends ambassadors [slaves?] by the sea, even in vessels of reeds on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!” 18:3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a Banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the shofar is blown, listen! 

18:4 For YaHuWaH said to me, “I shall be still, and I shall watch in My dwelling Place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” 18:5 For before the harvest, (vs. 17:10] when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, then He shall cut off the excess sprigs with pruning hooks, and He shall cut down and take away the unfruitful tendrils. 18:6 They shall be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds shall summer on them, and all the animals of the earth shall winter on them. 18:7 At That Time, a present shall be brought to YaHuWaH Master of Armies, a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of haShem of YaHuWaH Master of Armies, Mount Tsiyown.

Though other nations will be required to do homage to YaHuWSHuWaH in the Kingdom (Zech. 14:16ff; Rev. 21:24), here the people brought back from this land are themselves the homage-gift to YaHuWaH.

19:1 The  message concerning Mitsrayim [Entrenchments - (Protestant Christianity?)]: “Behold, YaHuWaH rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Mitsrayim. The idols of Mitsrayim shall tremble at His presence; and the heart of Mitsrayim shall melt in its midst. 19:2 I shall stir up the Mitsrites against the Mitsrites, and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

 This is another evidence that there is a deeper meaning than literal Mitsrayim, for while Mitsrayim was divided into several kingdoms long before YashaYahuw's day, it has been a unified land ever since. But Christianity has been divided over and over again.

19:3 The ruwach of Mitsrayim shall fail in its midst. I shall destroy its counsel. They shall seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar ruwachs, and the wizards. 19:4 I shall give over the Mitsrites into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce sovereign shall rule over them,” says the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies. [Dan. 11:39] 19:5 The waters shall fail from the sea, and the River shall be pushed aside and become dry. 19:6 The rivers shall become foul. The streams of Mitsrayim shall be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags shall wither away. 19:7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more. 19:8 The fishermen shall lament, and all those who fish in the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters shall languish. 19:9 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, shall be confounded. 19:10 Her supports will be crushed; all those who work for hire shall be grieved in being. 19:11 The heads of Tsowan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Par'oh has become stupid. How do you say to Par'oh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?” 19:12 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what YaHuWaH Master of Armies has purposed concerning Mitsrayim. 19:13 The heads of Tsowan have become fools. The heads of Nof are deceived. They have caused Mitsrayim to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.  19:14 YaHuWaH has mixed a ruwach of perverseness in the midst of her [a "strong delusion" 2 Thess. 2:10-11; 1 Cor. 11:19]; and they have caused Mitsrayim to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. [wine of Babel]  19:15 Neither shall there be for Mitsrayim any work, which head [honored one] or tail [false prophet], palm branch[highest] or rush [lowest], may do.

[Aramaic vs. 15: Neither shall there be any leader for the Mitsrayim who can make head or tail of it, or tail or head.]

 19:16 In That Day the Mitsrites shall be like women. They shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of YaHuWaH Master of Armies, which He shakes over them. 19:17 The soil of Yahuwdah shall become a cause of reeling to Mitsrayim. Everyone to whom mention is made of it shall be afraid, because of the plans of YaHuWaH Master of Armies, which He determines against it [the soil of Yahuwdah]. 

 19:18 In That Day, there shall be five cities in the land of Mitsrayim that speak the language of Kean'an, and swear to YaHuWaH Master of Armies. One shall be called Haris, “The City of Destruction. [the city of the sun [Greek: Heliopolis] they shall say of one.].” 19:19 In That Day, there shall be an altar to YaHuWaH in the midst of the land of Mitsrayim, and a monument to YaHuWaH at its border. 19:20 It shall be for a sign and for a witness to YaHuWaH Master of Armies in the land of Mitsrayim; for they shall cry to YaHuWaH because of oppressors, and he shall send them a Savior [Mashiyach] and an Aluahiym, and he shall rescue them. [snatch them out]

Savior: the word has the same root as "YaHuWSHuWaH". Rescue: literally, "snatch them out". This seems to be a repetition of the history of the Exodus.

19:21 Then YaHuWaH shall be known to Mitsrayim, and the Mitsrites shall know YaHuWaH in That Day. Yes, they shall worship with slaughter and offering, and shall vow a vow to YaHuWaH, and shall perform it. 19:22 YaHuWaH shall strike Mitsrayim, striking and healing. They shall return to YaHuWaH, and He shall be entreated by them, and shall heal them. 19:23 In That Day there shall be a highway out of Mitsrayim to Ashshuwr, and the Ashshuwrn shall come into Mitsrayim, and the Mitsrites into Ashshuwr; and the Mitsrites shall serve with the Ashshuwr. 19:24 In That Day, Ysra'al shall be the third with Mitsrayim and with Ashshuwr, a blessing in the midst of the earth; 19:25 because YaHuWaH Master of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Mitsrayim My people, Ashshuwr the work of My hands, and Ysra'al My inheritance.”

 [The third: i.e., in triangulation of power. If Egypt represents the Church, could Ashshuwr represent the Islamic nations, who are also misled but full of zeal for what they think is right, and unwilling to be persuaded otherwise by Babel? The predominant enemies of Ysra'al may thus become her allies, being together the three strands of a cord, after they are purged of their impurities. ]

20:1 In the year that Tartawn came to Ashdod, when Sargon the sovereign of Ashshuwr sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; 20:2 at that time YaHuWaH spoke by YashaYahuw the son of Amowts, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot. 20:3 Then YaHuWaH said, “As My servant YashaYahuw has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Mitsrayim and concerning Kuwsh,  20:4 so the sovereign of Ashshuwr shall lead away the captives of Mitsrayim and the exiles of Kuwsh, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Mitsrayim. 20:5 They shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Kuwsh their expectation, and of Mitsrayim their esteem. 20:6 The inhabitants of this coast land shall say in That Day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the sovereign of Ashshuwr. And we, how shall we escape?’”

21:1 The  message concerning the uninhabited lands in the West. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.  21:2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Eylam; attack! I have stopped all of Maday’s sighing. 21:3 Therefore my abdomen is filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see. 21:4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. 21:5 Set the table in order; keep watch in the watchtower. Eat, drink. Rise up, princes, and anoint a shield! 

Anoint: the word from which "Anointed" is derived. 

Shield: what YaHuWaH said He would be to Abraham. (Gen. 15:1) It is often a symbol of YaHuWaH's trustworthy protection of those He loves. Psalm 84:9 links the two again: "Behold our shield, O Aluahiym, and pay attention to Your anointed."

  21:6 For the Master said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. 21:7 When he sees a chariot with a pair of horsemen [the Way of YaHuWaH ?], a chariot of donkeys [apostate Christianity?], a chariot of camels [Islam ?], he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

2 Kings 2:11 It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and AliYahuw went up by a whirlwind into the sky.  2:12 Alishua saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Ysra'al and its horsemen!” 

 21:8 He cried "A lion O YaHuWaH, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. 21:9 Behold, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babel; and all the engraved images of her mighty ones are broken to the ground. [Rev. 18:4] 21:10 O, my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from YaHuWaH Master of Armies, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, I have declared to you.

Threshing-floor: where Boaz, a prototype of the Anointed, was winnowing barley the night Ruth, a picture of the returning tribes of Ysra'al, presented herself to him. (Ruth 3:2) The site of the Hekal Mount was also a threshing-floor before Dawiyd bought it. (2 Shmuel 24:16ff; 1 Chron. 21) So these "sons of My threshing-floor" are "children of the Hekal" and of the Anointed.... Then, after being chastised for their sins and bound together, when the nations come against him, Ephrayim will have become one that loves to tread out grain. (Hos. 10:11) At the time of the Daughter of Tsiyown's birthpangs, she will be snatched back from Babel, and the nations that are gathered against her to look upon her to defile her will themselves be threshed by the Daughter of Tsiyown. (Micha 4:9-13)

21:11 The  message concerning Dumah [4th son of Ishmael]. One calls to me out of Se'iyr, [Se'iyr - שֵׂעִיר   Edom/Esaw] “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” 21:12 The watchman said, “The morning is arriving, and also the night! If you will inquire,  then inquire. Turn back! Come!”  

  [ZecharYahuw 14:7, YaHuWaH my Al will come, and all the Set-apart ones with You. 14:6 It will happen in That Day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost. 14:7 It will be a unique Day which is known to YaHuWaH; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.]

Romans 13:12 The night is far gone, and the Day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of Light. 13:13 Let us walk properly, as in the Day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. 13:14 But put on [labash] the Master YaHuWSHuWaH the Anointed, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

21:13 The message to Arab (Arabs). In the forest in Arab you shall lodge, you caravans of Dedanites [son of Yokshan - Abraham's son by Keturah]. 21:14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Teyma met the fugitives with their bread. 21:15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow [the cocked weapon], and from the heat of battle. 21:16 For YaHuWaH said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the esteem of Qedar [Persia/Iran] shall fail, 21:17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Qedar, shall be few; for YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, has spoken it.”

22:1 The  message concerning the Valley of Prophetic Vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops? 22:2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. 22:3 All your rulers fled away together. They were taken prisoners by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away. 22:4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I shall weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 22:5 For it is a Day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies, in the Valley of Prophetic Vision; a breaking down of the Wall [Qir], crying to the mountains for deliverance [Shuwa].” 22:6 Eylam [Persia/Iran] carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Qir uncovered the shield. 22:7 It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

 22:8 He took away the defenses of Yahuwdah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the House of the Forest. 

Yahrushalom realizes she needs to prepare for war. Their last resort is the House of the Forest of Lebanon, where King Shelomo stored 300 shields, but still they feel confident that this will be enough. They are looking to their own resources for protection. (It is said that modern day Zionist Israel has some 300 nuclear weapons!)

 22:9 You saw the breaches of the city of Dawiyd, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 22:10 You numbered the houses of Yahrushalom, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. 22:11 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to Him Who had done this, neither did you have respect for Him Who purposed it long ago. 22:12 In That Day, the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth: [He has set aside a time for these things: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.]

22:13 yet what I find here is, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.” 22:14 YaHuWaH Master of Armies revealed Himself in my hearing, “Surely this iniquity shall not be covered over you until you die!” says the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies.

22:15 Thus says the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies, “Go, get yourself to this steward, even to Shebna, who is over the House, and say, 22:16 ‘What are you doing here? And whom do you have here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ (Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”) 22:17 Behold, YaHuWaH shall overcome you and hurl you away violently, O man! Yes, He shall grasp you firmly. 22:18 He shall surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you shall die, and there the chariots of your reputation shall be, you shame of your master’s house! 22:19 I shall drive you from your office; you shall be ousted from your position. 

22:20 And it shall happen in that Day that I shall call My servant 

Alyaqiym [Aluahiym raises -foreshadowing of Yahuwshua whose portion is YaHuWaH and is raised up] the son of ChilqiyYahuw [my portion is YaHuWaH], 22:21 and I shall clothe him with your tunic, and strengthen him with your waistband. I shall commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Yahrushalom, and to the house of Yahuwdah.

 22:22 I shall place the key of the House of Dawiyd on his shoulder, and he shall open, and no one shuts; and shall shut, and no one opens.  22:23 I shall fasten him like a peg in a sure place, and he shall become a throne of esteem to his father's house.  22:24 They shall hang on him all the weight of his father’s house, the offspring and the offshoots, all the vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the jars. 22:25 “YaHuWaH Master of Armies has declared: “This man will be removed (Shebna) and another entrenched, in a trustworthy place. He'll be removed and he'll fall, and his esteem will just waste away, for YaHuWaH has spoken it.” [This verse does not to refer to Alyaqim, but to Shebna, the one already in place and appearing firmly, yet, in reality he is not.]

23:1 The  prophecy concerning the fall of Tsowr [the Rock]. Howl, you ships of Tarshiysh! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittiym  (Rome?) it is revealed to them. 

Tsowr: Tyre, whose king is likened to haSatan in Y'chezq'el 28, a passage that parallels chapter 14 above in regard to Babel. But Babel eventually destroyed Tsowr, just as we see the Beast's system in Revelation turning on and destroying the harlot--which is exactly how Tsowr is described below. 

23:2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Tsiydown, that pass over the sea, they have filled you. 23:3 On great waters, the seed of the Shichowr, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market-place for nations.

This is nearly identical to what is said of Babel in Rev. 17, 18. Merchant: could also read "bazaar" or "mall". Shikhor means "darkness", and was the name of one of the branches or canals of the Nile. On one level, in our day, the United States of America are in the same position, seemingly undefeatable like a rock (Tsowr) and both master of the seas and of trade.

23:4 Be ashamed, Tsiydown; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”

The sea is often a picture of the Gentile nations, where Efrayim and Menashe, whom Ya'aqob said would "multiply like fishes" (Gen. 48:16), have been hidden. Christianity's symbol has been a fish since YaHuWSHuWaH told His disciples to go like fishermen to find them (echoing YirmeYahuw 16:16). But it was in the midst of the Land (after they return) that they would become great, not in the sea; they are meant to be brought back to their land, because this "sea" does not bring Yisrael's children to maturity. She only derives revenue from them; they are not hers, and what she provides is empty.

 23:5 When the report comes to Mitsrayim [churchanity], they shall be in anguish at the report of Tsowr [Babel].  23:6 Pass over to Tarshiysh! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! 23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel? [Her own legs have treacherously delivered her up from afar off to turn aside from the Way!]  23:8 Who has planned this against Tsowr, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are heads, whose traffickers are the esteem-able of the earth? 23:9 YaHuWaH Master of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all esteem, to bring into contempt all the esteem-able of the earth. 23:10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshiysh. There is no restraint any more. 23:11 He has stretched out His hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. YaHuWaH has ordered the destruction of Kean'an strongholds. 23:12 He said, “you shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Tsiydown. Arise, cross over to Kittyim  [Rome]! Even there you shall have no rest.”

Cross over to Kittim: Rome calls her "separated brethren" back to her, and some will indeed heed that call back to the "original church", and form one church again, but those who are true Ysra'alites will find no satisfaction there. This is how YaHuWaH will expose its emptiness, and many may realize that they truly belong to Ysra'al instead, though at that time they will need to suffer much for having realized it so late.

23:13 Gaze at the land of the Kasdiym (Increases). This is the people who never existed! The Ashshuwrns founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin,  for her wall had fallen.

Kasdiym: Kasdiy, an area that includes Babel, the city that builds its system on a lie, and so is an "unreal" place. The American colonies, likewise, were originally founded for trade purposes, and were built out of fragments of many nations which were not a particular ethnic grouping prior to this. "Out of many, one" is her motto, but this means she is in a sense an "artificial nation". Its money now is not solid wealth, but nearly all computer software, thus with no real backing--based on the Law of Admiralty, which is the law of the sea, where much is based on credit rather than real wealth.

 23:14 Howl, you seamen of Tarshiysh, for your stronghold is laid waste! [Rev. 18:17-19] 23:15 It shall come to pass in that day that Tsowr shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one sovereign. After the end of seventy years it shall be to Tsowr like in the song of the prostitute. 23:16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered. 23:17 It shall happen after the end of seventy years that YaHuWaH shall visit Tsowr, and she shall return to her wages, and shall play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth. 23:18 Her merchandise and her wages shall be set-apart to YaHuWaH. It shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before YaHuWaH, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

[Rev. 18 - vs. 1-14]

24:1 Behold, YaHuWaH is making the earth empty, and making it waste, and shall buckle its surface, and shall scatter abroad its inhabitants. 24:2 It shall be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. 24:3 The earth shall be utterly emptied and plundered; for YaHuWaH has spoken this Word. 

The same is said of Babel. (Rev. 18:19)

24:4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. 24:5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot, changed the Law, and broken the Eternal Covenant. 24:6 Therefore the curse ( Âlâh) [Deut. 28:15-68] has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left alive. 

Eternal covenant: what YaHuWaH said all His covenants with Ysra'al were, which were sealed by YaHuWSHuWaH's blood. (Gen. 17:17; Psalm 105:10; Heb. 13:20)

24:7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 24:8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. 24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song. Strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. 24:10 The city of unreality is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. (Rev. 18)

 Unreality: emptiness, shame, formlessness, or confusion--which is what results from assimilating many peoples. On the largest scale, this is "Babylon", the counterfeit of Yarushalom, which gains all its "reality" from being a mimicry of it. Wrecked: maimed or broken down

24:11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is removed. 

 Wine: a symbol of joy. Mixed: or darkened as at evening. Removed: or uncovered, rendered naked, shown to be without substance.

 24:12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

24:13 For it shall be so in the midst of the Land among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. 24:14 These shall lift up their voice. [the chosen few] They shall shout for the Majesty of YaHuWaH. They shall give a shrill cry aloud from the sea [the West].

Shrill cry: with the connotation of brightness, like the Song of Moshah and Miryam after coming from the Reed Sea. But "from the sea" here may also refer to the time after the Land is made desolate again when the Counterfeit Mashiyach takes it over and is conquered, many Ysra'alites will come from outside the Land, praising YaHuWaH for defeating the Babel system and re-peopling the Land with the truly obedient. (v. 16)

  24:15 Therefore esteem YaHuWaH in the east [the Orient], even haShem of YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, in the islands of the sea!

 24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Splendor to the Righteous One! But I (Ysra'al) said, “I waste away! I waste away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. [the Counterfeit Mashiyach and his system.] 

24:17 Terror, the pit, and a snare-trap are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth! [ Yom haGadol of YaHuWaH] 

 There is a word play here. In Hebrew, "Terror" is pachad, "pit" is pachath, and "snare-trap" is pach. They turn out to have the same effect. Inhabitant of the earth: perhaps those who call themselves "citizens of the world".

24:18 It shall happen that he who flees from the noise of the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare-trap; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. 24:19 The earth is utterly broken [has become utterly evil]. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently. 24:20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall and not rise again. 24:21 It shall happen in That Day that YaHuWaH shall punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. 24:22 They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited. 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for YaHuWaH Master of Armies shall reign on Mount Tsiyown, and in Yahrushalom; and before His elders shall be Esteemed. (Rev. 4, 5,11,19 and 20:1-3 -- Ephesians 6:12; & 3:10)

25:1 O YaHuWaH, You are my Aluahiym (Mighty One). I shall exalt You! I shall praise Your Shem, for You have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete trustworthiness and truth. 25:2 For You shall make a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It shall never be rebuilt. [Babel]  25:3 Therefore a strong people shall esteem You. A city of ruthless nations shall fear You. 25:4 For You have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall. 25:5 As the heat in a parched land, You bring down the roar of those alienated ... and bring relief in dry heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the ruthless will be answered. [Rev. 15:2-5] 

Like the heat in a parched land: actually two words that double as proper names, so this could read, "[It is] like Choreb [Mt. Sinai] in Tsiyon". Both are called "the mountain of Aluahim/YaHuWaH". (e.g., Ex. 3:1; Micha 4:2; Yahuw'el 2:1) Mystically this is also borne out by the fact that the numeric value of "Sinai" in Hebrew is the same as "stairway"--what Ya'aqob saw in his dream/vision on Mt. Moryah, which is physically connected to Mt. Tsiyon.

25:6 In this mountain, YaHuWaH Master of Armies shall make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines. 25:7 And on this mountain He has engulfed the face of the covering that envelopes all peoples, and the web that is woven over all nations.

Aramaic, "The face of the great one who is master over all peoples, the face of the king who rules all nations will be annihilated on this mountain." I.e., the Counterfeit Messiah will be destroyed on Mt. Tsiyon (v. 5). He said He would destroy the "Assyrian" on His mountain. Web: or veil. Nations: or "Gentiles". On Mt. Moryah, which is connected to Tsiyon and thus considered one with it, YaHuWSHuWaH was crucified, and the veil of His flesh (Heb. 10:20) was torn, at which time Gentile soldiers became aware that He was Aluahiym's Son. (Matt. 27:51ff) Nearby, after His resurrection, it was a "face covering" that convinced His disciples that He had indeed risen from the dead. (Yahuwchanan 20:7) Moshah had to put a veil over his face to hide the fact that the evidence of having been in YaHuWaH's presence was fading away. (2 Cor. 3:11-14) Paul, who was blinded by a view of the unfading face of YaHuWSHuWaH, says the same type of veil remains over anyone who reads the Hebrew Scriptures until people turn to the Mashiyach. Another kind of eye-covering is to be removed when the Northern Kingdom returns to the covenant. (Rom. 11:25) He longs to reveal YaHuWaH's presence to us, but this will not happen magically, just as when the veil in the Hekal was torn, a way was opened into the Qadosh Place where we can serve YaHuWaH, but we still have to enter in. Through YaHuWSHuWaH, we are free to look behind the veil at the treasures YaHuWaH hid for kings to search out. We have been made kings and priests (Rev. 1:6), but most choose not to do so, because they do not wish to look into the depths of the Hebrew Scriptures or the Hekal, which both give us multitudes of details about who He is (Luk. 24:44) and who we can now be through Him--one new man. We are called to be that man, and no longer walk like Gentiles who have a darkened understanding. (Eph. 4:17ff). Priests and kings in Ysra'al are servants, not overlords.

 25:8 Yes, He shall engulf the Death for the everlasting victory [1 Cor. 15:54]! The Master YaHuWaH shall wipe away tears from off all faces. [Rev. 7:17] He shall take the reproach of His people away from off all the earth, for YaHuWaH has spoken it. 

 Everlasting victory: endurance, perpetuity, or simply "everlastingness". Aramaic, "They will forget death into the  Age and beyond." Paul describes this as being "further clothed" like having a tent enclosed by a building (2 Cor. 5:4)--the "sukkah" that is in the Qadosh of Set-apartness. (Psalm 18:11) Scientists might describe it as taking on added dimensions of existence which are no longer mortal. Wipe away: or "obliterate".

25:9 It shall be said in That Day, “Behold, this is our Aluahiym! We have waited for Him, waited eagerly for Him, and He shall save us! This is YaHuWaH! We have lingered, waiting eagerly for Him. We shall be glad and rejoice in His deliverance [Yahuw-shuah]!”

For Him: Aramaic, "for His Memra [living Word]".

 25:10 For in this mountain the Hand of YaHuWaH shall rest. 

But Mow'ab shall be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. 25:11 He shall spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride shall be humbled together with the craft of his hands. 25:12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

26:1 In That Day, this song shall be sung in the land of Yahuwdah:

“We have a strong city! Aluahiym appoints deliverance (yahshuah) for walls and ramparts!

26:2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation that guards the Truth may enter!

A righteous nation: Rabbinical teaching identifies this as the "lost tribes" of the Northern Kingdom--once they again constitute a nation.

 26:3 You shall keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect shalom,  because he has bold confidence in You.

26:4 Trust in YaHuWaH  into the  Age and beyond; for in Yahuw YaHuWaH, is the Rock of the Ages.  (YaHuWSHuWaH)

26:5 For He has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

26:6 The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.”(Babel ? Rev. 18 --- the Babel in the sky's?)

26:7 The path for the righteous is uprightness; O Upright One, (Yâshâr), You make level the track of the righteous ones.

26:8  Yes, in the way of  Your judgments, O YaHuWaH, have we waited for You. The longing of our being is for Your Shem (YaHuWSHuWaH), even to your memorial Shem (YaHuWaH). 26:9 With my passion I crave You in the night; Yes,  even more, with my ruwach within me shall I seek You earnestly; for when Your judgments come to the earth, those who remain of the civilized world will learn righteousness.

 Earnestly: or early. Learn righteousness: it is not just something we inherit by virtue of being in Mashiyach, but something that one must learn (which in Hebrew means be prodded or goaded to do).

 26:10 The wrong find favor, yet he still will not learn righteousness. Even in the land where everything is the way is should be, he will still deviate, and will not perceive the excellency of YaHuWaH.

 26:11 O YaHuWaH, Your Hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see. They see the ardor of the people, and are ashamed. Yes, let the fire reserved for Your enemies consume them!

 26:12 O YaHuWaH, You have set total well-being in place for us, You have worked into us all our achievements as well. [You have even done all of our works in us! ],

"By [YaHuWaH's] added provision we are rescued, through belief/trust, and [even] that is not from ourselves; it is YaHuWaH's gift, so that no one may boast", (Many people are familiar with this verse and think that this excludes "works-deliverance"?. But the following verse brings the balance:) "... because we are His workmanship, created in Anointed unto [particular] good works, which YaHuWaH has ordained in advance for us to walk in." (Eph. 2:10)]  

"It is YaHuWaH who is operative in you, both [making you] want to and [also] proves it by carrying out the good things that please Him." (Phil. 2:13) (SFHHof Ysra'al)] ----- "For YaHuWaH is working in you, giving you the desire to obey Him and the power to do what pleases Him.

Yahuwchanan 3:21 But he who does the Truth comes to the Light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been produced by YaHuWaH."

  26:13  O YaHuWaH our Aluahiym, other masters besides You have had dominion over us, but only in You shall we make mention of Your Shem. 26:14 Being dead, they will never live;[other masters] having sunk down, they will never rise. Therefore have You visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish. [the other masters]

[ When the books are opened, by tradition, those who are in the "Book of the Wicked" will be blotted out of YaHuWaH's memory--and if He has no memory of them, how can they exist at all?]

 26:15 You shall increase the nation, O YaHuWaH. You shall increase the nation! You are lifted up! You have enlarged all the borders of the land. 26:16  O YaHuWaH, during the distress [great persecution/tribulation], they sought You in vain, they poured out a whispered prayer when Your disciplining was upon them. 

 26:17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have become from before Your face, O YaHuWaH. 

 The setting is clearly "the Birthpangs of the Mashiyach". We have become: Aramaic, "because we are sinners before You."

26:18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not accomplished deliverance in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen, either! 

 [Aram., "whose time to deliver speeds as the wind".][yet all the inhabitants of the Land shall fall. [LXX]]

 26:19 Let Your dead live, together with my dead body, let them arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew [resurrection] is like the dew [resurrection] of light, and let the earth give birth to the departed ruwachs. [Reph'im - Yirm. 3:14-15]

6th seal events

26:20 Come, My people, enter into your [innermost] chambers, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the Indignation is past - 

 Innermost chambers: Like the Qadosh of Holies, but this term has a special meaning in regard to the nuptial chamber of a bride and groom, for while YaHuWaH's wrath overthrows the wicked, the Anointed, our bridegroom, will bring us into the wedding chamber He has built in His Father's house. (Yahuwchanan 14:6) [Indignation: a special term for YaHuWaH's final overthrow of Babel when the tables are turned to prepare for YaHuWSHuWaH's Kingdom.] -  [trumpets & plagues] -

["Come, My people, enter your chambers and shut the door around you; withdraw yourself for a short moment until the indignation has passed by." This is a reference to the "secret place of the Most High" (Psalm 91) that will be provided during "Ya'aqob's trouble" (YirmeYahuw 30:7), a.k.a. the "Great Tribulation".... similar to Noah being shut-up in the ark during the flood. ... Bereshiyth 8:14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. (The "flood" of destruction was on the earth for 370 days while YaHuWaH's people (Noah and family) were safe in His ark.) [This was 370 days after the flood began up to the time they emerged from the ark ...  or one year and ten days, at that time—the same length as the interval between one Feast of Trumpets until Yom Kippur the following year.] - a 360 day year.

26:21 because here comes YaHuWaH out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no longer cover her slain.

 The bloodguilt of millennia will all come to light, and those guilty will be summoned [another translation of "punish"] before the Kinsman Redeemer as He fulfills His other role--that of the avenger of blood for His murdered relatives. The scenario appears to be that the enemies have hemmed Ysra'al in while we are again encamped in the wilderness with all tribes together, so all stand to be slaughtered at once. (v. 18) Then, having led them into a trap, YaHuWaH's fire suddenly bursts forth from His tabernacle, a surprise attack that destroys them all. YaHuWSHuWaH's blood needs to be on our "lintel" to escape His judgment this time.

YashaYahuw 27:12 It shall happen in that Day, that YaHuWaH shall thresh from the flowing stream of the Perath to the brook of Mitsrayim; and you shall be gathered one by one, children of Ysra'al. 27:13 It shall happen in that Day that a Great Shofar shall be blown (Day of Atonement); and those who were ready to perish in the land of Ashshuwr, and those who were outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim, shall come; and they shall worship YaHuWaH in the qodesh Mountain at Yahrushalom. 

Matt. 24:31 He shall send out His Messengers with the sound of the Great Shofar [Day of Atonement], and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

[YashaYahuw 11:12 He shall set up a Banner [Anointed] for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Ysra'al, and gather together the dispersed of Yahuwdah from the four corners of the earth] 

[outcasts: a person that has been rejected by a society or social group .... made to feel inadequate]

27:1 In That Day, YaHuWaH with His fierce great sharp sword, shall punish the dragon, the fleeing serpent, and the dragon the twisted serpent; and He shall kill the dragon that is in the sea [the Slanderer or Opposer].

Fleeing serpent: like Hydra, the constellation that tells its story. (See also Revelation 12) Aramaic: "the king who exalts himself like Par'oh the first king (cf. Y'hezq'el. 29:3), and the king who prides himself like Sennacheriv, the second", i.e., the Counterfeit Anointed. But the root word for Liwyathan is "to join" or "unite", so we could call it "the Great Uniting", reminiscent of the early U.S. flag that said "Join or Die" and depicted fragments of a snake. Today the dragon aims to join all nations together into one, hinted at by the description in Revelation 12, 13, and 17 where it has seven heads, not just one. Distorted serpent: the one who was once magnificent but became crooked, twisted, "bent out of shape". In contrast, His sword (His Word, Eph. 6:17) does not bend; it is straight and stiff, and severe to the one who does not measure up. (66:16)

 27:2 In That Day, sing to her, “A vineyard of red wine! 27:3 I, YaHuWaH, guard it. I shall water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I shall keep it night and day. 27:4 Wrath is not in Me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

He would like to just burn the whole field off since there are so many tares, but He has discovered a healthy vine in its midst, and will therefore pause to transplant it before carrying out His justice.

27:5 Or else let Ysra'al take hold of My strength, and I will make shalom for him,  shalom will I give him.” (" ... and they shall say in That Day, "their is righteousness and strength only in YaHuWaH!)

27:6 Those who come in, He causes to take root in Ya'aqob.  Ysra'al shall blossom and bud. They shall fill the surface of the world with fruit. "… and the stone became a great mountain and filled the whole earth …" Dan. 2

 Come in: i.e., surrender to His terms (v. 5). Those who were not Abraham's physical descendants can still be grafted into him, and become as much Ysra'alites as any others. (See YaHuWSHuWaH's parable of the laborers in MatithYahuw 20.) But this does not happen to Gentiles automatically, but by their own choice. Blossom: the word means to get others' attention, as a flower gets a bee's attention.

 27:7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? 

 I.e., did YaHuWaH strike Ysra'al as hard as He struck those who came against Ysra'al? No, He showed Ysra'al more pity.

27:8 In measure by which he has measure, will You judge him; in that which he has devised, in fierce anger on a day of blasting heat. 27:9 Therefore, this is how the crookedness of Ya'aqob shall be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten to dust -- the ashërâh and the sun-pillars shall rise no more. 

27:10 For the fortified city (old Yahrushalom) is  a solitary habitation, divorced MattithYâhuw 23: 37-39]  and abandoned like the uninhabited land. The calf [image of the beast/Ex. 32:8?] shall feed there, and there he squats and terminates her branches. 27:11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore He Who made them shall not have compassion   ["Lo Am-Binoth"] on them, and He Who formed them shall show them no favor ["Lo-y'Rahamenu"].

Yahuchanan 15:5 I AM the Vine. You are the branches. He who remains in Me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from Me you are not able to do even do one thing. 15:6 If a man doesn’t remain in Me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

 27:12 It shall happen in That Day, that YaHuWaH shall thresh from the flowing stream of the Perath to the brook of Mitsrayim; and you shall be gathered one by one [Yirm. 3:14], O children of Ysra'al. 

27:13 It shall happen in That Day that a Great Shofar shall be blown; and those who were perishing in the land of Ashshuwr, and those who were outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim, shall come; and they shall worship YaHuWaH in the Qodesh Mountain at Yahrushalom. [cf. Yirmeyahu 23:7-8]

Matt. 24:31 He shall send out His Messengers with the sound of the Great Shofar [Day of Atonement], and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

[YashaYahuw 11:12 He shall set up a Banner [Anointed] for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Ysra'al, and gather together the dispersed of Yahuwdah from the four corners of the earth]     Deut. 30:4 If any of your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will YaHuWaH your Al gather you, and from there He will bring you back:[this is the gathering of His living ones - the dead were raised 10 days earlier at Yom Teruach] (Note * 24:31: The Great Shofar is blown on Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement), and also in the introduction of, the Jubilee Year. - the dead are raised 10 days earlier at the" " last shofar" - Day of Trumpets . (Torah and Testimony clarified translation)]

Tehillim 50:3 Our Aluahiym comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before Him. It is very stormy around Him. 50:4 He calls to the shemaya above, to the earth, that He may judge His people: 50:5 “Gather My Set-apart ones together to Me, those who have made a covenant with Me by slaughter.”

Zech 9:14-17 "  YaHuWaH shall be seen over them [Yahuwdah & Ephriam]; and His arrow shall go flash like lightning; and the Master YaHuWaH  shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. 9:15  YaHuWaH Master of Armies shall defend them;  and they shall destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they shall drink, and roar as through wine;  and they shall be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.   9:16  YaHuWaH their Al shall save them in that Day as the flock of His people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over His Land. 9:17 For how great is His Goodness, and how great is His Beauty!" [Yom Kippur deliverance!]

Great shofar: an element of Yom Kippur ceremonies. Perishing: or being exterminated. Outcasts: those thrust out, or those banished. From what follows, it is clear this is speaking about the Northern Kingdom.

28:1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards (hirelings) of Ephrayim (churchanity/USA), and to the fading flower of his splendid comeliness, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine![wine of Babel - Rev. 18] 28:2 See, YaHuWaH has one who is mighty and strong,  like a downpour of hail or a terror of destruction, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing [gentile army],who casts down to the earth with the hand. 28:3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephrayim shall be trodden under foot. 28:4 The fading flower of his splendid comeliness, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-fruit before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it. 28:5 In That Day, YaHuWaH Master of Armies shall become a crown of splendour, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of His people; 28:6 and a Ruwach of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.  

[At the gate: metaphorically, this also refers to the strength He gives us to battle temptation at our own "eye gate", "ears gate", etc. (Gen. 4:7)]

 28:7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the predicator reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. 28:8 For all tables are completely full of vomit, no place without filth. (all of churchanity's teachings)

This may be an allusion to the "wine mixed for Meni [fate]", and the next verse to the "table set for Gad [fortune]". (65:11) I.e., those who should have grown to maturity by being taught the Torah (v. 9) are being tossed about by every wind of pagan doctrine. Intoxicating beverage is not forbidden (Ps. 104:5; Prov. 31:6), but we need to weigh the profit of using it, for it can deceive us. When we need to be clear-headed, not just for our own sakes, but for the sake of the people of Ysra'al, it may not be wise. (Prov. 20:1; 23:31; 31:4) Interestingly, wine was not drunk in the wilderness, and YaHuWaH tied that to knowing Him. (Deut. 29:5-6) Even the prophets are caught up in the paganism of this Bacchanalia and such paganism.

[YirmeYahuw 25:15 For thus says YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at My Hand [YaHuWSHuWaH - the one who will bring YaHuWaH’s wrath upon men. Rev. 19:11-16], and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. 25:16 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and act like madmen, because of the sword [symbol of Islam] that I shall send among them. ]

28:9 Whom shall He teach knowledge? To whom shall He explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and taken from the breasts? 28:10 For it is command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, here a  little.

 [Aramaic: For filth is upon filth, filth upon filth; vomit upon vomit, vomit upon vomit; a little here, a little there; or  "because ‘you must do this commandment, you must do that commandment, a little from this verse, a little from that verse (lit. line), a little while longer, a little while longer’," (fits the context better)

 Possibly, "order for order, order for order, line for line, line for line". The LXX has, "expect affliction upon affliction, hope upon hope". The targum goes into more detail about the concepts of "commands" and "hope". On the surface this may be so. But more likely, because none of them are mature enough to explain the Torah to the people, and are too drunk to listen, it sounds like babbling or baby-talk to them, when in fact it is "baby food"! (Heb. 5:12) It is the most basic knowledge one must have before he can move on to anything deeper. Paul's writings are meat, and cannot be properly understood without a strong foundation in the Torah. (2 Kefa 3:16). Meat needs to be left until we can digest it, and the "milk" of Torah makes that possible. The Qodesh Ruwach can only bring to our remembrance (Yahuwchanan 14:26) what we have already learned. Feeding a child too much meat too early will make him fat--which is what made Ysra'al turn from YaHuWaH (Deut. 32:15).

28:11 For by a jabbering lip and another language; does He speak to this people. 28:12 To whom He said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear. 28:13 So for them the Word of YaHuWaH shall become ' command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little there a little'; in order that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

[So for them, the Word of YaHuWaH will become ‘you must do this commandment, you must do that commandment, a little from this verse (lit. line), a little from that verse, a little while longer, a little while longer’, in order that they will go and they will fall backwards and they will be crippled, and they will be ensnared, and they will be captured.]

28:14 Therefore hear the Word of YaHuWaH, you scornful men, who rule this people in Yahrushalom: 28:15 “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and cut a deal with she'owl. When the overflowing scourge [indignation/trumpets and plagues] passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made The Lie our refuge [the rapture?), and we have hidden ourselves within falsehood .’” 28:16 Therefore thus says the Master YaHuWaH, “Behold, I lay in Tsiyown for a foundation a Stone, a tried Stone, a precious Cornerstone of a sure Foundation. He who believes shall not be ashamed. [be shaken when distress comes]. 28:17 I shall make justice the measuring line [standard], and righteousness the plumb line, and hail shall sweep away the refuge of The Lie, and the waters shall wash away your hiding place. [vs. 2 & 15 above] 28:18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with she'owl shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you shall be trampled down by it. 28:19 As often as it passes through [trumpets, plagues], it shall take you away; for morning by morning it shall pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be nothing but terror to understand the message.” (Trumpets & Plagues ?) 28:20 For the bed of compromise is too short to stretch out on, and the covering of lies is too narrow to wrap oneself in.  28:21 For YaHuWaH shall rise up as on Mount Peratsiym [breaches]. He shall be angry as in the valley of Gib'own; that He may do His work, His unusual work, and bring to pass His act, His extraordinary act.

Mt. Pratzim ["breaches"]: Possibly Baal-Pratzim, the scene of Dawiyd's victory over the Filistines in the Valley of Refayim between Yahrushalom and Beyth Lechem. However, the targum identifies this as "the day the mountains shook when YaHuWaH's esteem was revealed in the days of UzziYahuw the king", which would be in the memory of those listening to YashaYahuw's prophecy. Valley of Gib'on: Gib'on is in the mountains, but was the place Yahuwshua told the sun to stand still while he was fighting in the Valley--of the Ayalon. The targum identifies this reference with that time "when YaHuWaH listened to a man" (Yahuwshua 10:14).

 28:22 Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction and one that is decisive, from the Master, YaHuWaH Master of Armies in regard to the whole Land.

TsephanYahuw  1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the Day of YaHuWaH’s wrath, but the whole earth will be devoured by the fire of His jealousy; for He will accomplish a complete - not to mention speedy - destruction for all who inhabit the earth.

28:23 Give ear, and hear My Voice! Listen, and hear My Word! 28:24 Does he who plows to sow, plow the whole day? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

 LXX: "Or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the soil?" The Aramaic targum identifies the plowman with the prophet and asked what could be done for sinners (the "clods") if they would only listen.

 28:25 When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

 [Aramaic vs.25: "If the House of Ysra'al set their face to perform the Torah, would He not turn back and gather them from among the Gentiles, among whom they are scattered, as dill and cumin which are strewn?"]

 28:26 For his Aluahiym instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.

 LXX: "So you will be chastened by your Aluahim's judgment, and will rejoice." The Aramaic interpretation is similar: YaHuWaH teaches them the correct way through judgment. or "so if you are chastened by the decision of the Mighty Ones, be happy." [Proverbs 3: 11-12]

28:27 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. 28:28 Bread flour must be ground; so he shall not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it. [ But the cumin shall be eaten with the bread afterwards, for it is not into the  Age and beyond that I will be angry with you, or that my bitter voice will spurn you.] 28:29 This also comes forth from YaHuWaH Master of Armies, Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

29:1 Woe to Ari'el! Ariel, [Ariel: "Lion of Aluahiym" another name for Yahrushalom] the city where Dawiyd encamped! Add year to year; let the festivals come around; 29:2 then I shall distress Ari'el, and there shall be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as Ari'el.

 Compare how YaHuWaH says He will be like a lion to both Efrayim and Yahuwdah until they repent. (Hos. 5:14; 13:8-9)

 29:3 I shall encamp against you all around, and shall lay siege against you with posted troops. I shall raise siege works against you. 29:4 You shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground. Your speech shall mumble out of the dust. Your voice shall be as of one who has a familiar ruwach, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust. 29:5 But the multitude of your foes shall be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it shall be in an instant, suddenly. 29:6 She shall be visited by YaHuWaH Master of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire. [end of seals, trumpets, and plagues] 29:7 The multitude of all the gentiles that fight against Ari'el - even all who fight against her and her stronghold and who distress her - will become like a prophetic dream and an oracular vision of the night. [Zech. 12:9-10]29:8 It shall be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the gentiles that fight against Mount Tsiyown shall be like that.

 29:9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 29:10 For YaHuWaH has poured out on them a ruwach of deep sleep, and has closed their eyes, namely the prophets; and He has covered their heads, namely the seers.

[Ruwach of deep sleep: insensibility, intense shock, dulled senses; Aramaic, "deception". The original Hebrew uses the same word as for the "deep slumber" that YaHuWaH brought over Adam when He wished to create Hawah (Gen. 2:21); In Romans 11: 11:25 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Ysra'al, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,  11:26 and so all Ysra'al will be saved. 

 Paul quotes this verse and explains how He again uses this method to produce a bride by "putting Ysra'al to sleep"! Compare1 Sh'muel 26:12; and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from YaHuWaH was fallen on them. Yahuwchanan 11:11ff; 1 Thess. 4:14.]

 29:11 The whole vision has become to them like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed:”  29:12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.” 29:13 Therefore YaHuWaH said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to esteem Me, but they have removed their heart far from Me, and their Fear of Me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

 YaHuWSHuWaH quoted this in MatithYahuw 15 in regard to the P'rushim (Pharisees). He quotes it as "teaching as doctrines the commandments of men" (quoting from the LXX, but in a slightly altered order). We have seen many other examples of that since, such as the Roman Catholic Church as well as the Jewish rabbis, who both say they can overrule the Scriptures for the sake of human traditions. (Mark 7:13) Hushuwa was told that the remedy for this is to bring words back to YaHuWaH as the slaughter of our lips. (14:2)

 29:14 therefore, behold, I shall proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; because the wisdom of their learned me has been lost, and the discernment of those who have insight shall be hidden.”

[“For because this people approaches Me with their mouth, and with their lips they honor Me, but their heart is far removed from Me, even their reverence of Me is in vain , being taught rules of mortal men, MattithYâ´huw 15: 6-9, Márquwç 7: 6]  this is why, look!  I AM HE  Who will do it again to do an extraordinary thing to this people: doing wonder upon wonder, yet the wisdom of their learned ones will wander off and get lost, and the understanding of their discerning ones will be carefully hidden!”] 1 Cor. 1:19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

29:15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from YaHuWaH, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us what we do corruptly?"  [Compare Psalm 94:7-15 and Y'hezq'el 8:12ff.]

29:16 How perverse you are! Should the potter be reckoned as the clay? Should what is made say of its Maker, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of Him Who formed it, “He has no understanding of me?”

29:17 Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanown shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?

29:18 In That Day, the deaf shall hear the Wordim of the Book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness. 

This is one of the verses YaHuWSHuWaH alluded to when Yahuwchanan the Immerser asked Him (Luk. 7:19) whether He or another like Him was the one who is to come--i.e., if He was both the first and the second Mashiyach (i.e., "Son of Yoseyf", the suffering Servant, and the "Son of Dawiyd", the conquering King). He answered by telling him of the miracles He was performing as signs, because they all foreshadowed the Kingdom when such healing would be the norm. Romans 11 tells us that the full understanding will not be restored to Ysra'al until the "fullness of the Gentiles" (which is Efrayim's seed, Gen. 48:19) begins to return.

29:19 The humble also shall increase their joy in YaHuWaH, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al. 

29:20 For the oppressor is brought to nothing, and the boastful one [the Counterfeit Anointed] has proven to be a failure, and all those who look for opportunities to make trouble have been cut off— 29:21 who make man to sin in word, and lay a snare for the reprover in the gate, or cause the righteous to be turned aside by a fabrication.  

29:22 Therefore thus says YaHuWaH, Who ransomed Abraham, concerning the House of Ya'aqob: “Ya'aqob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale. 

29:23 But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in the midst of him, they shall Set-apart My Shem. Yes, they shall Set-apart the Qadosh-One of Ya'aqob, as in a class of His own, and will regard Aluahiym of Ysra'al with awe. 

29:24 All those who went astray in ruwach shall come to understanding, and those who grumbled will accept instruction.” 

 ["And those who go astray [in] ruwach [shall] have learned discernment by experience, and those who talk back shall learn to take [control of their] words."] [And the ones who erred in ruwach will recognize discernment, and the complainers shall learn instruction, and the stammering tongues shall learn to speak shalowm (shalom, reconciliation, completeness)]

30:1 “Woe to the rebellious children,” says YaHuWaH, “who take counsel, but not from Me; and who make an alliance, but not with My Ruwach, that they may add sin to sin, 30:2 who set out to go down into Mitsrayim, and have not asked My advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Par'oh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Mitsrayim! 30:3 Therefore the strength of Par'oh shall be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Mitsrayim your confusion. 30:4 For their heads are at Tso'an, and their ambassadors have come to Chanes.  30:5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

30:6 The  message concerning the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent [the Lie incarnated], they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people. 30:7 For Mitsrayim helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still. 

 In vain: "like a vapor" or "breath"--the same as the name of Hebel, Adam and Hawah's son. I have summoned this proud bustling crowd to cease: or, "I have cried out concerning this: their strength is to sit still!" I.e., as at the Red Sea, if they would only quiet down and watch, they would see YaHuWaH's deliverance. (Compare v. 15) The word for "proud" or "strength" is Rahab, which is a legendary sea-monster associated with Mitsrayim as well. In this context, it could read, "I have summoned this noisy Rahab to cessation." Or, "I called them Rahab". Stop: that is, abandon your trek to Mitsrayim.

30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the lattermost day, for the time to come into the  Age and beyond 30:9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who shall not hear the Torah of YaHuWaH ; 30:10 who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 30:11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al to cease from before us.”

 [2 Tim. 4:3-5 3For a time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine. [The time will come when they will not bear up under uncorrupt teaching. Greek] Instead to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the Truth and turn aside to myths.  5 But you should keep a clear mind in every situation. Don't be afraid of suffering for YaHuWaH. Work at bringing others to the Anointed. Complete the ministry YaHuWaH has given you.] 

30:12 Therefore thus says the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al, “Because you despise this Word, and relied on the Fraud and the distortion and you support yourself on it; 30:13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a secure high wall, whose crack comes suddenly in an instant. 30:14 And its rupture will be like a jar that the potters have broken in pieces. He will not have pity, so there won’t be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.” 30:15 For thus said the Sovereign YaHuWaH, the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.” but you would not, 30:16 but you said, “No, for we shall flee on horses;” therefore you shall indeed need to flee; and, And you said “We shall ride on the fleet-footed;” therefore those who pursue you shall also be swift. 30:17 One thousand shall flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you shall flee until you are left like a flagpole on the top of a mountain, and like a signpost on top of the hill.

[So you said, “No, because we shall fly to the attack, by Zeus (Çuwç)!”  For this, you shall flee.  “So we will be aided by swift [pilots]!”  For this reason your pursuers shall be swift. One thousand from before the rebuke of one, from before the rebuke of five, you shall all flee until you are left behind like a flagpole at the top of the mountain, and like a signal marker on the hill.] Pure Scriptures

  30:18 Therefore YaHuWaH shall wait, longing to show favor to you; and therefore He shall be exalted, that He may have mercy on you, for YaHuWaH is an Aluahiym of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for Him. 

 Gen. 49:17-18 contrasts the "snake" of Dan (a picture of the Counterfeit Messiah, whose ruse many will fall for) with waiting just a little longer for YaHuWaH's true deliverance (Heb., yeshuah).

30:19 For the people shall dwell in Tsiyown at Yahrushalom. You shall weep no more. He shall surely show favor to you at the voice of your cry. As soon as He hears you, He will answer you.  30:20 And YaHuWaH will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teacher won’t be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teacher; 30:21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word  behind you, saying, “This is the Way. Walk in it.” 

From behind: the direction from which a teacher goads one on. The Way: the earliest disciples' name for the manner of "walking out the Torah" as taught by YaHuWSHuWaH.

30:22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away like a menstruous cloth, and you shall tell them, “Be gone!” 30:23 He shall give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground shall be rich and plentiful. In That Day, your livestock shall feed in large pastures. 30:24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. 30:25 There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the Day of the slaughter of the many, when the towers fall. 

30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in The Day that YaHuWaH binds up the fracture of His people, and heals the wound they were struck with. [New Earth]

30:27 Behold, haShem of YaHuWaH comes from far away, burning with His anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and His tongue is as a devouring fire. 

30:28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin shall be in the jaws of the peoples.

 30:29 You shall have a song, as in the night when a Qodesh feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to YaHuWaH’s Mountain, to Ysra'al’s Rock. [These are customs from the feast of Sukkoth] 

30:30 YaHuWaH shall cause His majestic Voice to be heard, and shall show the descent of His Arm, with the indignation of His anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones [ meteorite--seals and plagues]. 

30:31 For through the Voice of YaHuWaH the Ashshuwrn  [Successful One]  shall be dismayed. He shall strike him with His rod. 

 30:32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which YaHuWaH shall lay on him, shall be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He shall fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

 [Tambourines: or any percussion instruments. Harps: any stringed instruments that "twang". Brandishing: the same word for "wave offerings". So a ruwachual battle is carried out through music and worship. (Note the example of this in 2 Chron. 20:21-22.) 

30:33 For Tofeth is being prepared in advance; indeed it is being made ready for the sovereign! He has made it deep and broad;  its burning-pyre is piled high with wood.  YaHuWaH’s breath, like a stream of burning sulfur kindles it.

  [Tofeth: the site of this future judgment at the confluence of the Hinnom Valley [Ge-henna] and the Qidron (known as the "Valley of the Shadow of Death").]

2 Thess. 8 Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed, whom the Master YaHuWSHuWaH will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy by the splendor of His coming. 9 Whose arrival is according to the energy of haSatan [the Adversary], with all power and signs and deceiving miracles. 

31:1 

Woe to those who go down to Mitsrayim for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al, and they don’t seek YaHuWaH! 

 Go down: Relying on anything less than YaHuWaH is a descent. Hagar, Sarai's servant, went down to Mistrayim for help, but YaHuWaH turned her back to the household where she now belonged. (Gen. 16) In the same way, YaHuWaH's congregations have turned back to the Babylonian-Mistrites-Roman system, because there is power in numbers. When confronted with what Scripture really says, many say, "Let me ask my pastor about this." But pastors are often swayed by what will keep more sheep in the fold; it is YaHuWaH whom we must seek instead. We must not even trust in any Israelite organizations, but only YaHuWaH Himself.

 [Hówy(woe) to the ones descending to the Entrenchments (Mitsrayim) for help!  On horses (swift ones)[~ Missiles? Planes?] they depend and they trust on chariots [~ tanks] because they are Many, and on riders [~ pilots] because they are exceedingly numerous, but they did not look to the Pure One of Ysra'al, and YaHuWaH they did not seek.]  

31:2 And He also is wise, and shall bring disaster, and shall not call back His Wordim, and He shall arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who are workers of wickedness.

31:3 Now the Mitsrites are men, and not Aluahiym; and their horses flesh, and not ruwach. When YaHuWaH stretches out His hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

31:4 For thus says YaHuWaH to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey - though a band of shepherds is called together against him - he is not afraid of their voice, nor disturbed by the noise of them, so YaHuWaH Master of Armies shall come down to fight on Mount Tsiyown and on its heights.

31:5 As birds hovering, so YaHuWaH Master of Armies shall protect Yahrushalom. He shall protect and deliver it. He shall pass over and preserve it.” 

[6th seal ?] ZacharYahuw 14:3 Then YaHuWaH will go out and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle.  14:4 His feet will stand in That Day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Yahrushalom on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south. [   (See Y'chezq'el/Ezek. 34)  34:11 For thus says the Master YaHuWaH: Behold, I Myself (Memra - Living Word), even I, will search for My sheep, and will seek them out. 34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out My sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 34:13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own Land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Ysra'al, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. ]

Matt. 24:31 He shall send out His Messengers with the sound of the Great Shofar [Day of Atonement], and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

[YashaYahuw 11:12 He shall set up a Banner [Anointed] for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Ysra'al, and gather together the dispersed of Yahuwdah from the four corners of the earth]

31:6 Return to Him from whom you have deeply defected, children of Ysra'al. 

Defection: or "apostasy", "withdrawal", "revolt"--a deliberate rebellion, not just veering off course.

 31:7 For in That Day everyone shall cast away his worthless images of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.

Worthless images: or "good-for-nothings", with the sense of not really existing. Modern examples might be things like artificial intelligence, credit cards, or virtual reality. Even our money is no longer really worth anything concrete. Mammon is always deceitful.

31:8 “The Ashshuwrn shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to forced labor.

 [Daniy'al 8: 25 ;11:45 And through his cunning he shall cause deceit to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in time of security shall he destroy many; he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.]

[YashaYahuw 31:8 (alternate reading) From the time You had announced to us the time appointed for the mighty deed of Your Hand against the Kittim, saying: 'then shall Ashshuwr fall with the sword not of man, and the sword, not of man, shall devour him".]

31:9 His strength shall pass away by reason of terror, and his heads shall be afraid of the Banner,” says YaHuWaH, Whose fire is in Tsiyown, and His furnace in Yahrushalom.

[ This recalls the torch and smoking furnace in Abram's covenant-vision, which was fulfilled in Yahrushalom.]

32:1 

Behold, a Sovereign [YaHuWSHuWaH] shall reign in righteousness, and heads shall rule in justice. Prov. 8:16

32:2 A Man [YaHuWSHuWaH] shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large Rock in a weary land.

32:3 The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

32:4 The heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

32:5 The fool shall no longer be called noble, [told to rule] nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

 Be called noble: LXX, "be told to rule". Scoundrel: literally, "one who withholds"; there are numerous proverbs that parallel this. YaHuWSHuWaH also reminded the leaders in His Kingdom not to be like the rulers of the Gentiles who "lord it over" those who call them "benefactors" or "philanthropists". (Luke 22:25-26)

32:6 For the fool shall speak folly, and his heart shall work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against YaHuWaH, To make empty the being of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

 Foolishness: senselessness, disgrace, profane things. Soul: or appetite. If we twist YaHuWaH's words, though we appear to be feeding someone, it is just "empty calories".

32:7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words [the sayings of the Lie], even when the needy speaks right.

32:8 The generous person, on the other hand, invents noble things; and by his generosity he will be established.

Invents noble things: or "counsels giving". A Hebrew idiom for a generous person is that "He has a good eye." YaHuWSHuWaH said this was the key to one's whole life being full of light. (Luke 11:34) It goes far beyond money; sons of the Kingdom are not taxed. It applies with time, patience, edification, teaching, and giving of ourselves in general. It is a kingdom law to keep giving out what we receive, both so it can flow on to others and so we have room to receive the "more" that He wants to give us. Otherwise, we become like the Dead Sea, having no outlet and no life.

32:9 Rise up, you women who rest securely in your arrogance! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

 Daughters: Aramaic, "fortresses". But Yahuwdah and Efrayim are also called YaHuWaH's daughters by the prophets. Complacent: confident enough to be careless. What I utter: or "My speech"--an idiom also for the Torah.

32:10 For days beyond a year you shall be troubled, you complacent women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won’t come.

Days on a year: LXX, "a full year", or possibly "[just a few] days over a year".

Bereshiyth 8:14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. (The "flood" of destruction was on the earth for 370 days while YaHuWaH's people (Noah and family) were safe in His ark.) [This was 370 days after the flood began, or one year and ten days, at that time—the same length as the interval between one Feast of Trumpets until Yom Kippur the following year.] also -  chp. 34:8 For YaHuWaH has a Day of Vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Tsiyown.

32:11 Tremble, you women who rest securely! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Breasts: i.e., that are now unused (v. 11); LXX, "beat on your breasts". Fields: from a word meaning "spread out", possibly alluding to the childbirth process. Vine: perhaps an idiom for the umbilical cord.

32:13 Thorns and briars shall come up on My people’s Land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

 Thorns and briers: The same curse that followed Adam's sin in Eden.

32:14 For the palace shall be forsaken. The populous city shall be deserted. The hill and the watchtower shall be for dens into the  Age and beyond, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks --for an age;

32:15 Until the Ruwach is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

32:16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall remain in the fruitful field.

32:17 The work of righteousness shall be shalom; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence into the  Age and beyond.

32:18 My people shall abide in a habitation of shalom, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,

32:19 Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely. [trumpets and plagues]

LXX: "If the hail should come down, it will not come upon you, and they that dwell in the forests will be in confidence, like those in the open country." Aramaic, "Hail will come down and kill the armies of the Gentiles", reminiscent of Yahushuah chapter 10.

32:20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey. 

Sow beside waters: compare Psalm 1. YashaYahuw spent much time in the palace, which was quite close to the Temple, so he was very familiar with many psalms and proverbs, to which he often alludes. Send forth: the Aramaic adds "to gather". When crops are plentiful and abundant, the animals can be allowed to roam the fields and eat, with no substantial loss being felt by their owners.[Ox and donkey are also sometimes metaphors for two Houses of Ysra'al]

[O the joys of you sowers over all the waters, the ones setting free the legs of the cattle and the donkey! (v. 14)]

33:1 Woe to you who despoiled, but you weren’t despoiled; and who deals treacherously, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished despoiling, you shall be despoiled; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you shall be betrayed.

33:2  O YaHuWaH, look upon us with favor! We have waited expectantly for You.

Be our strength every morning, our deliverance also in the time of trouble. 

[Great tribulation - verse 10 above]

Yo'el 2:32 It will happen that whoever shall call on haShem of YaHuWaH shall be delivered (saved);  for in Mount Tsiyown and in  Yahrushalom there shall be those who escape [are delivered], as YaHuWaH  has said, and in the remnant, those whom YaHuWaH shall call.

We have waited: compare Ya'aqob's prophecy in regard to Dan in Gen. 49:16-18. [Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward. I have waited for your deliverance, YaHuWaH.]

33:3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.

When You raise Yourself up, the heathen are scattered.

 Raised Yourself up: when He bursts forth from the Tabernacle upon the nations who are besieging Ysra'al in the latter days, shocking them with the fact that He is indeed real--and on Ysra'al's side--after all. (26:21)

33:4 Your plunder shall be gathered like the caterpillar gathers, running to and fro on it just as the locusts run to and fro.

33:5 YaHuWaH is exalted, for He resides on high. He has filled Tsiyown with right ruling and righteousness. [YaHuWSHuWaH]

He resides: Aramaic, "He causes His Sh'khinah to dwell..."

33:6 He shall be trustworthiness (hasa) of your times, a wealth of deliverance (yashua), wisdom (chokmah), and knowledge(da'ath). The fear of (yerah) YaHuWaH - that is His treasure.

 [Prov. 9:10] Col. 2:2 .... that they may know the secret of YaHuWaH - even of the Father and of the Anointed, 2:3 in Whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of shalom weep bitterly.

33:8 The highways have become deserted; The people have stopped traveling the roads. He has violated the covenant. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.

Traveling the roads": or "transgressing the way". Violated: Aramaic, "changed" (truly a characteristic of the counterfeit Anointed, Dan. 7:25); LXX: "The covenant with these is taken away, and you shall by no means deem them men." So while the "he" here is probably primarily speaking of the Counterfeit Anointed, the final instance may refer to YaHuWaH. 

33:9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanown is confounded and withers away.

Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Karmel are stripped bare.

33:10 “Now I shall arise,” says YaHuWaH; “Now I shall lift Myself up. Now I shall be exalted.

33:11 You shall conceive chaff [wicked conceptions]. You shall give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

33:12 The peoples shall be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

33:13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

33:14 The sinners in Tsiyown are afraid. Trembling has seized the wicked ones.

Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

33:15 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

33:16  he shall dwell on the heights. His place of defense shall be the fortress of rocks. His bread shall be supplied. His waters shall be sure.

 Heights: LXX, "high cave". Rocks: the plural form of the Hebrew name of the Nabatean fortress, Petra. Thus this appears to be the time when Ysra'al is reunited and renews the covenant of "marriage" to YaHuWaH (through His visible Mashiyach) in the wilderness (v. 17). Bread: Perhaps it will be manna again! Guaranteed: faithful, lasting, confirmed, reliable.

33:17 Your eyes shall see the Master in His beauty. They shall see a distant land.

33:18 Your heart will imagine terror. Now where is the one who does the counting? Where is the one who does the weighing out? Where is the one who takes account of the towers?[great leaders]

 Aramaic: "Your mind will reckon up great things... Let them come if they can reckon the number of the slain heads of the armies of the mighty ones." I.e., "towers" is an idiom for great leaders.

33:19 You shall no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.

33:20 Look at Tsiyown, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes shall see Yahrushalom, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes shall never be plucked up, nor shall any of its cords be broken.

33:21 But there YaHuWaH shall be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars shall go, neither shall any gallant ship pass by there.

33:22 For YaHuWaH is our Judge. YaHuWaH is our Lawgiver. YaHuWaH is our Sovereign. He shall saves [yashuah] us.

33:23 Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast.

They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey.

33:24 The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will have the guilt of their perversity covered. 

 [ Aramaic:The people, the House of Ysra'al, will be gathered and return to their place, released of their sins."]

6th seal ?

34:1 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples.

Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.

34:2 For YaHuWaH is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their army.

 [Army (singular): All the nations have become one army by this time, united against YaHuWaH's last vestige of rule on earth.]

 He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.

34:3 Their slain shall also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall melt in their blood.

34:4 All of the host (powers/forces] of heaven have been consumed away [Prince of the power of the air and his minions], and ha'shamayim shall be rolled up like a scroll, [Rev. 6:12-17/6th Seal] and all its armies shall fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

34:5 For My sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment.

[Where the world army is gathered to destroy Ysra'al]

34:6 YaHuWaH’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for YaHuWaH has a slaughtering in Botsrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Botsrah: its name means “sheepfold”, which fits with all of these clean animals mentioned here. But is also the name of a town north of Petra and south of the Dead Sea, where the world army (v. 1-2) will be assembled for the purpose of capturing Ysra'al for its cause or else destroying it (ch. 16), but YaHuWaH sees them as assembled for more efficient slaughter. The Aramaic targum indeed interprets these (clean) animals as representing kings and rulers (in v. 7 as well).

34:7 The wild oxen shall come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat. [the animals of vs. 6 & 7 represent kings and rulers]

34:8 For YaHuWaH has a Day of Vengeance, a Year of Recompense for the cause of Tsiyown. (Chp. 61:2; 63:4; 32:10)

34:9 Its [Edom's] streams shall be turned into tar, its dust into brimstone,  And its land shall become burning asphalt.

34:10 It won’t be quenched night nor day. Its smoke shall ascend a long time. From generation to generation, it shall lie waste. No one shall pass through it into the  Age and beyond.

34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it. The owl and the raven shall dwell in it. Then He shall stretch the measuring line of chaos over it, and the plumb line of emptiness [waste].

[Chaos: Heb., tohu. Emptiness: or “waste”; Heb., bohu. These two terms were used for what the earth became (Gen. 1:2) after a cataclysmic judgment and just before being reconstituted for the use of humanity - Here, the scenario is again one of a complete purging by fire after a great battle so that something new may arise—the Kingdom (v. 12) of Mashiyach, which is also called “the time of the restoration of all things”—even, dare we say, Eden itself. ]

34:12 Its [Edom's] nobles? There are none there! They will summon them to a royal office, but all her princes shall be nothing.

34:13 Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

34:14 The yelping beasts of the desert shall meet with the howling beasts of the islands, and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. Yes, the screech owl shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.

Howling beasts of the islands: Aramaic, “cats”; LXX, “devils”. Shaggy goats: LXX, “satyrs”, another reference to demons (which is exactly how the Aramaic targum translated it.) Screech owl: Heb., Lilith, a term often used for a female goddess known to be a nocturnal demon, to which the owl is analogous; Aramaic, “night hags”. Compare Rev. 16:13-14; 18:2.

34:15 The arrow snake shall make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the vultures shall be gathered there, every one with her mate.

Birds of prey…assembled: Compare Mat. 24:28; Luk. 17:37, especially in the context of v. 3 above. " Their slain shall also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall melt in their blood. "

34:16 Search in the Book of YaHuWaH, and read: not one of these shall be missing. None shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded, and His Ruwach has gathered them.

34:17 He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it into the  Age and beyond. From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

35:1 For them, the wilderness and the dry land shall be glad. The desert shall rejoice and blossom like a rose.

35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. The esteem of Lebanown shall be given to it, the excellence of Karmel and Sharon. They shall see YaHuWaH’s Qabod, the excellence of our Aluahiym.  

35:3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

This is quoted in Hebrews 12:12 in relation to YaHuWaH’s discipline. One can respond with gloom and depression,yet never change, or with a resolve to correct the problem He was addressing so we will be what we were meant to be. Here, it is also a message to those in need of encouragement while being besieged, for soon they will have a massive cleanup and revitalization project to carry out, and will need all the energy they can get!

35:4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong. Don’t be afraid. Behold, your Aluahiym shall come with vengeance, Aluahiym’s retribution. He, He shall come and He shall save you.

35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

35:6 Then the lame man shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute shall sing; for waters shall break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Leap like a deer: at first a deer’s legs are wobbly, but within minutes of birth, it can walk with sure-footedness. A lame man who leaped was a sign to those in the Hekal that Kefa (Peter) and Yahuwchanan were carrying on YaHuWSHuWaH’s work of proclaiming the Kingdom that many opted to defer (Acts 3:7-8), delaying it until there was another opening in our own day. Interestingly, Acts 3 specifically mentions that the man’s feet and ankle bones were made firm. (Compare v. 3 above.)

35:7 The mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water.

Grass with reeds and rushes shall be in the habitation of great reptiles, where they lay.

35:8 A highway shall be there, a road, and it shall be called The Qodesh Way.

The unclean shall not pass over it, nor shall it be for them. Those who walk on the Path, even if they are fools, will not go astray.

35:9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous animal go up on it. They shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there.

35:10 YaHuWaH’s ransomed ones shall return, and come with singing to Tsiyown; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

36:1 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of sovereign ChizqiyYahuw, that Sancheriyb sovereign of Ashshuwr attacked all of the fortified (walled off) cities of  Yahuwdah, and captured them. [ChizqiyYahuw was the 12th king of Yahuwdah. Sennacherib reigned from 705-681 B.C.E.] 

36:2 The King of Ashshuwr sent Rabshakeh from Lachiysh to Yahrushalom to sovereign ChizqiyYahuw with a massive force while he stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway. 

 36:3 Then Elyaqiym the son of ChilqiyYahuw, who was over the House (High Priest), and Shebna the scribe, and Yow'ach, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.

Elyaqim means "Aluahiym raises [him] up." Chilqiyahuw means "YaHuWaH is my portion". Over the House: that is, the Hekal. He was a high priest. (22:20; 2 Kings 22:8-10; 2 Chron. 34) Shebna means “growing vigorously”, and Yoach, “YaHuWaH is a brother”. Asaph means “gatherer”.

36:4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell ChizqiyYahuw, ‘Thus says the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashshuwr, “What confidence is this in which you trust? 

36:5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 

36:6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Mitsrayim, which if a man leans on it, it shall go into his hand and pierce it. So is Par'oh sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him.

36:7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in YaHuWaH our Aluahiym,’ isn’t that He whose high places and whose altars ChizqiyYahuw has taken away, and has said to Yahuwdah and to Yahrushalom, ‘you shall worship before this altar?’”

 36:8 Now therefore, please make a tradeoff with my Master the sovereign of Ashshuwr, and I shall give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 

36:9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Mitsrayim for chariots and for horsemen? 

36:10 Have I come up now without YaHuWaH against this land to destroy it? YaHuWaH said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”

36:11 Then Elyaqiym, Shebna and Yow'ach said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don’t speak to us in the Yahuwdite’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

36:12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my Master sent me only to your Master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who shall eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

 36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Yahuwdite’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashshuwr!

 36:14 Thus says the sovereign, ‘Don’t let ChizqiyYahuw deceive you; for he shall not be able to deliver you.

 36:15 Don’t let ChizqiyYahuw make you trust in YaHuWaH, saying, “YaHuWaH shall surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashshuwr.”’

 36:16 Don’t listen to ChizqiyYahuw, for thus says the sovereign of Ashshuwr, ‘Make your shalom with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 

36:17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.  

36:18 Beware lest ChizqiyYahuw persuade you, saying, “YaHuWaH shall deliver us.” Have any of the mighty ones of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the sovereign of Ashshuwr?  

36:19 Where are the mighty ones of Chamath and Arpad? Where are the mighty ones of Sepharwayim? Have they delivered Shomerown from my hand?

 36:20 Who are they among all the mighty ones of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that YaHuWaH should deliver Yahrushalom out of my hand?’”

36:21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

36:22 Then Elyaqiym the son of ChilqiyYahuw, who was over the House, and Shebna the scribe, and Yow'ach, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to ChizqiyYahuw with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

37:1 It happened, when sovereign ChizqiyYahuw heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into YaHuWaH’s House. 

37:2 He sent Elyaqiym, who was over the House, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to YashaYahuw the prophet, the son of Amowts.

 37:3 They said to him, “Thus says ChizqiyYahuw, ‘This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contempt; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth. 

An occasion for contempt: Aramaic, “disgrace”. If we rely on our own strength, there is insufficient power. A baby would die quickly if stuck in the birth canal, so this is a matter of desperate urgency. But this is a foreshadowing of the “Birthpangs of the Mashiyach”, when many antagonistic factors will cast doubt on the viable “birth” of the One New Man, the reunited Ysra'al, the Kingdom of Mashiyach. YaHuWaH will bring us to the point where only He can deliver us, but the darkest backdrop is the place where His ability shines most brightly, just as the new moon comes right after the darkest time. When the baby is born, the pains are forgotten. (Yahuwchanan 16:21)

37:4 It may be YaHuWaH your Aluahiym shall hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the sovereign of Ashshuwr his sovereign has sent to defy the living Aluahiym, and shall rebuke the words which YaHuWaH your Aluahiym has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’” 

37:5 So the servants of sovereign ChizqiyYahuw came to YashaYahuw.

37:6 YashaYahuw said to them, “Tell your sovereign, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the sovereign of Ashshuwr have blasphemed Me.

 37:7 Behold, I shall put a ruwach in him. Moreover, he has heard a report and begun to return to his own land, and there I shall cause him to fall by the sword.”’”

The death of Sennacherib did not take place for another ten years after this, but he did not harass Yahuwdah anymore. (See also notes on v. 36 and 38:8.)

37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the sovereign of Ashshuwr warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachiysh.

 37:9 He heard news concerning Tirhaqah sovereign of Kuwsh, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to ChizqiyYahuw, saying,

 37:10 “Thus you shall speak to ChizqiyYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah, saying, ‘Don’t let your Aluahiym in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Yahrushalom won’t be given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashshuwr.”

Yahuwdah: the Aramaic clarifies, “the tribe of the House of Yahuwdah”, to remind readers that this is not all of Ysra'al.

37:11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Ashshuwr have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? 

37:12 Have the mighty ones of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gowzan, Charan, Retseph, and the children of Eden who were in Tela'ssar? 

 37:13 Where is the sovereign of Chamath, and the sovereign of Arpad, and the sovereign of the city of Sepharwayim, of Hena, and Iwah?’”

37:14 ChizqiyYahuw received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then ChizqiyYahuw went up to YaHuWaH’s House, and spread it before YaHuWaH.

37:15 ChizqiyYahuw prayed to YaHuWaH, saying, 

37:16 “O YaHuWaH Master of Armies, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, Who is enthroned among the Keruwbiym, You are the Aluahiym, even You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 

37:17 Turn Your ear, O YaHuWaH, and hear. Open Your eyes, O YaHuWaH, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sancheriyb, who has sent to defy the living Aluahiym. 

37:18 Truly, YaHuWaH, the kings of Ashshuwr have destroyed all the countries and their land, 37:19 and have cast their mighty ones into the fire; for they were no mighty ones, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. 

37:20 Now therefore, YaHuWaH our Aluahiym, deliver us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are YaHuWaH, even You only.”

37:21 Then YashaYahuw the son of Amowts sent to ChizqiyYahuw, saying, “Thus says YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, ‘Because you have prayed to Me against Sancheriyb sovereign of Ashshuwr, 

37:22 this is the Word which YaHuWaH has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Tsiyown has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Yahrushalom has shaken her head at you. 

37:23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against Whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al!

 37:24 By your servants, have you defied the Master, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanown. I shall cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I shall enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field. 

37:25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I shall dry up all the rivers of Mitsrayim.”

 37:26 [YaHuWaH speaking] 'Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

 37:27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown. 

37:28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against Me. 

37:29 Because of your raging against Me, and because your arrogance has come up into My ears, therefore shall I put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I shall turn you back by the way by which you came.' 

Ring in your nose: or hook, to connect a chain or bridle to. The same is said of Mitsrayim and the Counterfeit Mashiyach in Y’chezq’el 29:4.

37:30 This shall be the sign to you [ChizqiyYahuw]. You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. (Yubilee terminology)

 37:31 The remnant that is escaped of the House of Yahuwdah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 

Escaped from Yahrushalom: probably referring to the events of Zech. 13:9. (Compare Rev. 8:12; 9:15, 18.)

 37:32 For out of Yahrushalom a remnant shall go forth, and survivors shall escape from Mount Tsiyown. The zeal of YaHuWaH Master of Armies shall perform this.’ 

37:33 Therefore thus says YaHuWaH concerning the sovereign of Ashshuwr, ‘He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

 37:34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says YaHuWaH. 

37:35 ‘For I shall place a covering over this city to save it, for My Own sake, and for My servant Dawiyd’s sake.’”

37:36 The Malak YaHuWaH went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Ashshuwrns. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 

37:37 So Sancheriyb sovereign of Ashshuwr departed, went away, returned to Niyneweh, and stayed there. 

37:38 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrok his mighty one, that Adrammelech and Shar'etser his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Chaddon his son reigned in his place.

38:1 In those days was ChizqiyYahuw sick and near death. YashaYahuw the prophet, the son of Amowts, came to him, and said to him, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.’”

38:2 Then ChizqiyYahuw turned his face to the wall and prayed to YaHuWaH,

 38:3 and said, “Remember now, YaHuWaH, I beg You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your sight.” ChizqiyYahuw wept bitterly.

38:4 Then the word of YaHuWaH came to YashaYahuw, saying, 

38:5 “Go, and tell ChizqiyYahuw, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Dawiyd your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I am adding fifteen years to your life. 

I am adding: Heb., Yoseyph. ChizqiyYahuw was 39 years old at this time (2 Chron. 29:1), and this was the 14th year of his reign (2 Kings 18:13).

 38:6 I shall deliver you and this city out of the hand of the sovereign of Ashshuwr, and I shall defend this city. (38:22  [ Now YashaYahuw had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.” ChizqiyYahuw also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the House of YaHuWaH?”)

 38:7 This shall be the sign to you from YaHuWaH, that YaHuWaH shall do this thing that He has spoken. 

38:8 Behold, I shall cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Achaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.”’”

This, too, was symbolic of resurrection and YaHuWaH’s restoration—time turned backward. Ten degrees: or ten hand-breadths, or about 7 feet, on the 90-foot-tall obelisk sundial patterned after that of the Mistrites (Patten); literally “ten steps”. For this to happen, the earth either had to reverse its direction, or, far more likely, its polar spin axis had to precess (wobble) at one spot on the globe—specifically this one. (See 24:20.) 

On Mars’ previous flyby, Nin’weh had experienced YaHuWaH’s reprieve as described in the record of the prophet Yonah, but caused the great earthquake in UzziYahuw’s day, which damaged the Hekal. (Amos 1:1; Zech. 14:5) Josephus describes it in more detail (Antiquities, book VIII, chapter 10). This time Mars came so close to earth that it was even closer than the moon (a scant 30,000 miles away), and the magnetic repulsion of the two planets pushed them both into new orbits. All around the world over the course of the next 22 years as Mars settled into its present orbit, there are records of nations struggling to adjust their calendars from 360 days to 365.25 days. As the polar axes shifted, Ysra'al was moved 6 degrees further south of where it had been. This has been confirmed by the fact that Solomon’s Hekal faced 6 degrees off the present-day due east, toward which the Second Hekal faced. (See notes on 37:7, 36)

38:9 The writing of ChizqiyYahuw sovereign of  Yahuwdah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

38:10 I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of she'owl. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

38:11 I said, “I won’t see YaHuWaH, The Aluahiym in the land of the living. I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

38:12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He shall cut me off from the loom. From day even to night You shall make an end of me.

38:13 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night You shall make an end of me.

38:14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Master, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

38:15 What shall I say?

He has both spoken to me, and Himself has done it. I shall walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my being.

38:16 Master, men live by these things; and my ruwach finds life in all of them: You restore me, and cause me to live.

38:17 Behold, for shalom I had great anguish, but You have in love for my being delivered it from the pit of corruption; for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

38:18 For she'owl can’t praise You. Death can’t celebrate You. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for Your truth.

For You to make them sturdy: or simply, “for Your truth” or “Your faithfulness”. Psalms that parallel this thought are 6:5; 30:9; 88:11; 115:17. That latter would have been being sung in the Hekal while the Passover lambs were being slain at the very time YaHuWSHuWaH hung on the cross. He expressed a similar thought in Luke 20:38. There were signs in the sun and an earthquake on that occasion as well.

38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I do this day. The father shall make known Your truth to the children.

38:20 YaHuWaH shall save me. Therefore we shall sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the House of  YaHuWaH.

38:21 Now YashaYahuw had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.” 

38:22 ChizqiyYahuw also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the House of YaHuWaH?”

39:1 At that time, Mero'dak Bal'adan the son of Bal'adan, sovereign of Babel, sent letters and a present to ChizqiyYahuw; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. 

Babel: the quintessence of the Counterfeit Kingdom. It was a land of great liberty (including complete religious freedom) and a prosperous, up-and-coming power. Like the United States and Europe, it had a middle class as well—a rare thing in those days.

39:2 ChizqiyYahuw was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that ChizqiyYahuw didn’t show them.

 39:3 Then YashaYahuw the prophet came to sovereign ChizqiyYahuw, and asked him, “What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?” ChizqiyYahuw said, “They have come from a country far from me, even from Babel.”

39:4 Then he asked, “What have they seen in your house?” ChizqiyYahuw answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

39:5 Then said YashaYahuw to ChizqiyYahuw, “Hear the word of YaHuWaH Master of Armies: 

39:6 ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until this day, shall be carried to Babel. Nothing shall be left,’ says YaHuWaH. 39:7 ‘They shall take away some of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, and they shall be eunuchs in the sovereign of Babel’s palace.’”

Some of your children: Not all, in YaHuWaH’s mercy. Babel usually spared royalty of the lands they captured, but they had to show them who was now in charge, and did not want them to have progeny who might rally loyalty in their former subjects. Eunuchs: often placed over the harem, for while they retained their manly strength, there was no danger of them raping the queen and the king’s concubines.

39:8 Then ChizqiyYahuw said to YashaYahuw, “YaHuWaH’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there shall be shalom and stability in my days.”

40:1 “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your Aluahiym. 

40:2 “Speak [you priests] comfortably to Yahrushalom; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of YaHuWaH’s hand double for all her sins.”

40:3 The voice of one who calls out in the uninhabited land: “Prepare the way of YaHuWaH! Make a level highway in the desert for our Aluahiym.

40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

40:5 The Qabod of YaHuWaH shall be revealed (YaHuWSHuWaH), and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of YaHuWaH has spoken it.”

 40:6 The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because YaHuWaH’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the Word of our Aluahiym stands into the ages and beyond.”

Kepha quotes this in reference to the Good News that has enabled us to be reborn of incorruptible seed which enables us to have a pure love for one another. (1 Kepha 1:22-25)

40:9 You who tell good news to Tsiyown, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Yahrushalom, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid. Say to the cities of Yahuwdah, “Behold, your Aluahiym!”

40:10 Behold, the Master YaHuWaH shall come as a Mighty One, and His Arm shall rule for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.

40:11 He shall feed His flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs in His Arm, and carry them in His bosom. He shall gently lead little by little those who have their young. 

 Like a shepherd: compare Y’hezq’el 34. Gather: compare 11:12; Micha 2:12; YirmeYahuw 23:3; 31:10; Huwshua 8:10. Little by little: Ya'aqob also said he would let his family travel at the pace of the smallest ones. (Gen. 33:13-14)

40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and Who marked off the sky with His span, and Who calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and Who weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

40:13 Who has directed the Ruwach of YaHuWaH, or has taught Him as His counselor?

40:14 Who did He take counsel with, and Who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of justice, and taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding?

[The only answer to this is “wisdom” (Prov. 8:22-31), which 1 Cor. 1:30 tells us is personified in YaHuWSHuWaH, through whom all was created. (Yahuwch. 1:3)]

40:15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, He lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

40:16 Lebanown is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

  Lebanon: its trees, at that time, like a Redwood forest.

40:17 All the heathen masses are as if nonexistent before Him. They are regarded by Him as less than nothing, as if they had already been brought to and end and laid waste.

40:18 To whom then shall you compare the Power (Al)? Or what likeness shall you compare to Him?

40:19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it. 

Silver chains: to hang the image around one’s neck? If so, what could it be but a crucifix? How dare we call that YaHuWaH? In typical pagan fashion, to reduce a deity to an image is to diminish it and put it in a box so that human beings can control it.

40:20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that shall not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that shall not be moved.

40:21 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard, yet? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you discerned the Foundations of the earth?

40:22 It is He Who sits above the circle of the earth (in orbit of the earth), and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; Who stretches out ha'shamayim like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

40:23 Who brings heads to nothing; shall make the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

40:24 They are scarcely planted. They are scarcely sown. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

40:25 “To whom then shall you liken Me? Who is My equal?” says the Qadosh-One.

40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see Who has created these, --

 Who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might, and because He is strong in Power,  not one is missing.

[These: i.e., the heavenly bodies, the constellations. He can even muster them to battle on His side, as it was specifically said that He did once before: “They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.” (Judges 5:20)]

40:27 Why do you say, Ya'aqob, and speak, Ysra'al, “My way is hidden from YaHuWaH, and the justice due me is disregarded by my Aluahiym?”

40:28 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The Aluahiym of eternity is YaHuWaH,  Creator of the earth - all the way to its farthest edges? He doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His intelligence can never be thoroughly searched out! 

40:29 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

40:30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

40:31 But those who wait for YaHuWaH shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles [Rev. 12]. They shall run, and not be weary. 1 Kings 18: 46 They shall walk, and not faint.

Aramaic, “Those who wait for the deliverance of YaHuWaH will be gathered from among their exiles.”

41:1 “Keep silent before Me, coastlands, and let the gathered peoples renew their power. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.

Silent: or speechless. Gathered peoples: these “united nations” of the last days who are bringing forward the Counterfeit Mashiyach as a serious contender against YaHuWaH. Renew: the same word as “trade in for a fresh supply”(40:31)

41:2 Who stirred  up the Righteous one from the sunrise and summoned Him to his feet? Who grants that nations be delivered up before His face and will cause Him to take dominion over kings? He will yield them over to His sword like dust, and like driven stubble to his bow.

41:3 He pursues them, and passes by safely; He will not go by the way his feet are familiar with.

41:4 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?

 (Bareshiyth 2:4 "These are the generation of the heavens and of he earth when they were created, in the day that YaHuWaH Aluahiym made earth and heaven." From the very beginning, everything was done; all that would ever come to pass was set in place, including the Most Hight's personal knowledge of all those yet to be born - yet to be called! Acts 15:18 " Known to Aluahiym are all His works from the beginning of the world."

I, YaHuWaH, am the First, and with the Last, I AM HE.”  [Rev. 1:11; 22:13]

Inviting : Aramaic, “ordering”. In other words, He has been responsible for it all; do not give credit to anyone else. YaHuWSHuWaH, as the only complete image of the Father seen since Adam fell, calls Himself the “first and the last”. (Rev. 1:11; 22:13)

41:5 The islands have seen, and have become afraid. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.

Have become afraid: They realize they aren’t in charge after all, but their response (like that of Pharaoh and as repeated in the book of Revelation) is not to repent, but to strengthen their resolve:

41:6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”

They have the right idea, but the wrong context. They ignore the facts and think all they need to do is improve their technology in order to finish building the False Mashiyach. He has to have a platform of disruption upon which to rise up. He will have (temporary) answers and will seem to have a band-aid that will stop the mortal bleeding. People will feel that they have to believe in him because they cannot trust this Aluahiym Who is bringing destruction. 

41:7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

YaHuWaH’s enemies are upholding each other; we certainly do not need to do so by offering them any more compassion once they show their true colors by turning away from the obvious truth.

41:8 “But you, Ysra'al, My servant, Ya'aqob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham My friend,

41:9  you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘you are My servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;’ [the gathering of Ysra'al - Ysra'al's ingathering is simultaneous with the Counterfeit’s unification]

41:10 Don’t you be afraid, for I AM with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I AM your Aluahiym. I shall strengthen you. Yes, I shall help you. Yes, I shall uphold you with the Right Hand of My Righteousness.

41:11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you shall be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you shall be like nothing, and shall perish.   “the memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will perish.” (Prov. 10:7)

41:12 You shall seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you shall be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.

41:13 For I, YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, shall hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I shall help you.’

I, YaHuWaH: Aramaic, “My Memra” (Living Word).

41:14 Don’t be afraid, you worm Ya'aqob [scarlet worm], you men of Ysra'al.  

I shall help you,” says YaHuWaH , “even your Kinsman Redeemer: the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al.

41:15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.

You shall thresh the mountains [large nations], and beat them small, and shall make the hills  [small nations] like chaff.

41:16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them. You shall rejoice in YaHuWaH. You shall make your boast in the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al.

41:17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, YaHuWaH, shall answer them. I, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, shall not forsake them.

41:18 I shall open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I shall make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry places into a water-source.

Aramaic, “I will bring their exiles near from among the Gentiles and lead them in a correct way…” Water-source: literally, “a place from which water issues forth”.

41:19 I shall put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness, together with, pine, and elm and cypress in the Arabah; 

[7 trees with oil tree in the middle - like the Menorah]

Oil trees: perhaps olive, from which the oil comes for Hekal service. The first four in the list, then, are used for Qodesh purposes in Scripture. The wilderness is both by definition away from the civilized order (are called out) and by Hebrew etymology “a place of words”. The commandments in Hebrew are simply called “words” or “declarations”, and the wilderness is where they were given. Thus, in a sense, it is a Qodesh place for Ysra'al. YaHuWaH will also meet with a reunited Ysra'al in the wilderness in the very last years of this age. Arabah, on the other hand, means “mixing” or “transitional zone” between desert and arable land, thus possibly symbolizing the church, which has “decent wood” (the last three “ordinary” trees in the list), but has much paganism mixed in, and can only be counted as good when its people rejoin the Ysra'al that their ancestors left behind. Trees often symbolize men in Scripture. There are all kinds of trees here, for which different types of soil are needed. But though there is one root and one sap, many types have been grafted back in. Note also that there are seven trees mentioned, and oil is the middle one in the list—arranged exactly like a menorah with its central, oil-filled “servant” trunk and six branches.

41:20 so that they may all see together, and know, consider, and understand, that the Hand of YaHuWaH has done this, and the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al has created it.

Together: no “tree” by itself can have all of this. I cannot, but together we can. YaHuWaH’s hand: an idiom for the Mashiyach.

41:21 Produce your cause,” says YaHuWaH. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the Master of Ya'aqob.

41:22 “Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. Declare the earliest things [primeval/before Adam], what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

41:23 Declare the things that are to come in the hereafter, that we may know that you are mighty ones. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.

41:24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. Whoever decides on you is disgusting.

Decides on you: YaHuWaH has been running a contest, a court case (v. 21), between Himself and the pagan gods, as worshipped by the end-time coalition of all nations.

41:25 “I have inspired someone from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on My Shem; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

41:26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And before, that we may say, ‘He is righteous?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who knows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.

41:27 He Who is First says to Tsiyown, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I shall give one who brings good news to Yahrushalom.

41:28 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

41:29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

42:1 “Behold, My Servant (Zech. 3:8), Whom I uphold;

My Chosen, in Whom My being delights—Luke 9: 35

I have put My Ruwach on Him.

He shall bring justice to the nations.

42:2 He shall not shout, nor raise His voice,

nor cause it to be heard in the street.

42:3 He won’t break a bruised reed.

He won’t quench a dimly burning wick.

He shall faithfully bring justice.

42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged,

until He brings forth right-ruling in accordance to truth,

and the coastlands shall wait for His Torah.”

42:5 Thus says the Power, YaHuWaH, Creator of ha'shamayim, Who stretches out ha'shamayim and spreads out the earth and that which comes out of it, Who gives inspiration to the people upon it and breath to those who walk on it.

42:6 “I, YaHuWaH, have called You in righteousness, and shall hold Your hand, and shall keep You, and make You a Covenant for the people, as a Light for the nations;

42:7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Aramaic, “to open the eyes of the House of Ysra'al, who are blind to the law, to bring out their exiles, who resemble prisoners, from among the nations, to deliver them from the slavery of the kingdoms…”

42:8  “I AM YaHuWaH, that is My Shem; and My Splendor/Qabod I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images!

 [8. “I am YaHuWaH; that is My Name. I will not yield My Authority to another, or My Renown to carved images.]Scriptures for Ysra'al

Authority to another: Some rabbinic Jews say that this means YaHuWaH will not give authority to YaHuWSHuWaH, but “another” here means “one of a different kind”, whereas YaHuWSHuWaH is as like the Father as anyone can be; they are “unified”. (Yahuwchanan 10:30; 17:11) This very context is saying He is giving YaHuWSHuWaH authority, and it is only to the Father’s esteem that anyone bows in homage to this King or declares Him to be Master.

42:9 Behold, the former predictions have happened, and I am announcing new things;  I tell you about them before they come up.”

 Yahuwchanan 13:19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I AM HE.  

42:10 Sing to YaHuWaH a new song!

 [Sing a new song: an idiom for “The Messianic Kingdom is here!” (Psalms 96, 98)] 

 Celebrate His renown from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the coastlands and their inhabitants. [Bereshiyth 10:1-5]

42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Qedar inhabits. [Dark son of Yishma'el] Let the inhabitants of Sela [Petra] sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

42:12 Let them give esteem to YaHuWaH, and declare His praise in the coastlands.

42:13 YaHuWaH the Mighty Ones of Armies, shall go out like a mighty man. He shall stir up zeal like a man of battles. He shall raise a war cry, better, He shall roar! Roar: literally, “utter a shrill, clear sound”.  Over His enemies He shows Himself mighty!

[Shemoth 15:3 YaHuWaH is a Man of war. YaHuWaH His Shem IS

(YaHuWaH 'iYSH MiLCHaMaH, YaHuWaH SHeMuW)

[YaHuWaH is a Man of battle, YaHuWaH His Shem Alone "IS"!] literal Hebrew translation.  YaHuWaH  SH  M  W [The Complete Term expresses the number 7 in its body  (Y-1H-2W-3H-4  SH-5  M-6  W-7 )  .... Plumpness, Surplus, Overflowing, PERFECT]

[ IS - Deut. 4:39  Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that YaHuWaH He IS Al in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there IS none else. ; Tehillim 83:18 that they may know that YOU ALONE, whose NAME IS YaHuWaH,  are the Most High over all the earth.;   YashaYahuw 37:16 “YaHuWaH Master of Armies, IS the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, Who IS enthroned among the cherubim, You are the Aluahiym, even You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ;YashaYahuw 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I AM Aluahiym, and there IS none else; I AM Aluahiym, and there IS none like Me;]

42:14 “I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained Myself.

Now I shall scream out like a woman in labour. I shall both gasp and pant.

42:15 I shall destroy mountains and hills,  and dry up all their vegetation.

I shall make the rivers into terrain, and shall dry up the marshes. [I.e., there will be cataclysmic shifts in the topography of the earth.]

42:16 I shall bring the blind by a Way that they don’t know. I shall lead them in Paths that they don’t know. I shall make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These are the things I have prepared for them, I have not neglected to maintain them. I shall do these things, and I shall not forsake them.

42:17 “Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘you are our mighty ones’ shall be turned back. They shall be utterly disappointed.

42:18 “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

42:19 Who is blind, but My servant? Or who is as deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at shalom, and as blind as YaHuWaH’s servant?

My servant: Here, not YaHuWSHuWaH, but Ysra'al in general. He is addressing those in his own day, though of course it has applications for every age. If this does point to YaHuWSHuWaH then it would be a fulfillment of  YashaYahuw 11:3 "and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears …. "

42:20 You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.

42:21 It pleased YaHuWaH, for His righteousness’ sake, to magnify the Torah, and make it honorable.

42:22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’

42:23 Who is there among you who shall give ear to this? Who shall listen and hear for the time to come?

42:24 Who gave Ya'aqob as plunder, and Ysra'al to the robbers? Didn’t YaHuWaH, He against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His Ways, and they disobeyed His Torah.

42:25 Therefore He poured the fierceness of His anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know; and it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

This is the fire that YaHuWSHuWaH’s had to wait ever so long to kindle. (Luk. 12:49)

43:1 But now thus says YaHuWaH Who created you, Ya'aqob, and He Who formed you, Ysra'al: “Don’t be afraid, for I have acted as your Kinsman Redeemer. I have called you by your name. You are Mine.

Kinsman Redeemer: both to restore a relative to his or her lost inheritance and to be the avenger of blood.

43:2 When you pass through the waters, I shall be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, and flame shall not scorch you. [Dan. 3:25-27]

43:3 For I am YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al, your Savior. [Anointed/Mashiyach] I have given Mitsrayim as your ransom, Kuwsh and Seba in your place.

43:4 Since you have been precious and esteemed in My sight, and I have loved you; therefore I shall give humanity in your place, and nations instead of your life. 

[Humanity: Hebrew, Adam. Nations: in this context, it appears to mean all of humanity except Ysra'al, aside from those remnants that will be left of the nations that band together against her.]

43:5 Don’t be afraid; for I AM with you.

I shall bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.

43:6 I shall tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring My sons from far, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

43:7 everyone who is called by My Shem, and whom I have created for My splendor, whom I have formed, indeed, I have even made him!’”

Matt. 24:31 He shall send out His Messengers with the sound of the Great Shofar [Day of Atonement], and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.  [this is the gathering of His living ones - the dead were raised 10 days earlier at Yom Teruach] (Note * 24:31: The Great Shofar is blown on Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement), and is representative of, and blown in introduction of, the Jubilee Year. - the dead are raised 10 days earlier at the" " last shofar" - Day of Trumpets .) [YashaYahuw 11:12 He shall set up a Banner [Anointed] for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Ysra'al, and gather together the dispersed of Yahuwdah from the four corners of the earth]    YashaYahuw 27: 12-13 It shall happen in That Day, that YaHuWaH shall thresh from the flowing stream of the Perath to the brook of Mitsrayim; and you shall be gathered one by one, O children of Ysra'al. 27:13 It shall happen in That Day that a great shofar shall be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Ashshuwr, and those who were outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim, shall come; and they shall worship YaHuWaH in the Qodesh Mountain at Yahrushalom. [cf. Yirmeyahu 23:7-8 & Matt. 24:31]

43:8 Bring out the blind people though they have eyes, and the deaf one, though he has ears.

43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can expound on this, or let us hear about the earliest matters?  Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be declared right; or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”