1 Haway (Alas/Woe!) To Arayaal (Lion of Alahayam)! Arayaal (Lion of Alahayam), the qarayah (city / town) where Dawad (David) chanah (encamped)! Sapah (add) shanah (year) to shanah (year); let the chagayam (feasts) come around;
2 Then I will tzawaq (distress) Arayaal (Lion of Al), and there will be thaanayah (mourning) and anayah (lamentation). She shall be Arayaal (Lion of Al) to me.
3 I will chanah (encamp) against you all around you, and will tzawar (lay) siege against you with posted troops. I will qawam (rise up) siege works qawam (rise up) you.
4 You will be shapal (brought) down, and will dabar (word / matter) out of the aratz (Earth/land). Your amarah (sayings) will mumble out of the ipar (dust). Your qawal (sound / voice) will be as of one who has a familiar awab (spirit), out of the aratz (Earth/land), and your amarah (sayings) will tzapap (whisper) out of the ipar (dust).
5 But the hamawan (multitude) of your foes will be like fine abaq (dust), and the hamawan (multitude) of the ruthless irayatzayam (ones) like matz (chaff) that blows ibar (pass over/through). Yes, it will be in an pathai (instant), pathaawam (suddenly).
6 She will be paqad (visit) by Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies) with raim (thunder), with raish (earthquake), with gadawal (very great/important/mighty) qawal (sound / voice), with sawapah (whirlwind) and sair (storm), and with the lahab (flame) of a akal (eat) ash (fire).
7 The hamawan (multitude) of all the gawayam (heathen) that tzabaa (troop) against Arayaal (Lion of Alahayam), even all who tzabaa (troop) against her and her stronghold, and who tzawaq (distress) her, will be like a chalawam (dream), a chazawan (vision) of the layal (night).
8 It will be like when a raib (hungry) chalam (dream) dreams, and behold, he akal (eat); but he qawatz (awakes), and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty tzamaa (man) dreams, and behold, he shathah (drinks); but he qawatz (awakes), and behold, he is iyap (faint), and he is still thirsty. The hamawan (multitude) of all the gawayam (heathen) that tzabaa (troop) against har (mountain) Tzayawan (Zion) will be like that.
9 Pause and thamah (wonder)! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are shakar (drunken), but not with yayan (wine); they nawai (stagger), but not with shakar (strong) drink.
10 For Yahawah () has nasak (poured) out on you a rawach (spirit / wind) of tharadamah (deep) sleep, and has itzam (closed) your iyan (eye), the nabayaayam (prophets); and he has kasah (covered) your raash (head), the chazayam (seers).
11 All chazawath (vision) has become to you like the dabaray (words) of a sapar (book / scribed document) that is chatham (sealed), which men nathan (give) to yadai (one) who is educated, amar (said), “qaraa (called) this, please;” and he amar (said), “I can't, for it is chatham (sealed):”
12 And the sapar (book / scribed document) is nathan (give) to yadai (one) who is not educated, amar (said), “qaraa (called) this, please;” and he amar (said), “I can't read.”
13 The Adanay () amar (spoke), “yain (because) this im (nation / people) nagash (draws) near with their pah (mouth) and with their shapah (lips) to honor me, but they have rachaq (removed) their lab (heart) rachaq (far) from me, and their yaraa (fear) of me is a commandment of im (nation / people) which has been lamad (teach / instruct);
14 Therefore, behold, I will yasap (proceed) to do a marvelous palaa (be wonderful / extraordinary / marvelous) among this im (nation / people), even a marvelous palaa (be wonderful / extraordinary / marvelous) and a palaa (wonder); and the chakamah (wisdom) of their chakam (wise) men will abad (destroy / perish), and the bayanah (understanding) of their bayan (between) men will be sathar (hidden).”
15 Haway (Alas/Woe!) To those who imaq (deeply) sathar (hide) their itzah (counsel) from Yahawah (), and whose maishah (works) are in the machashak (dark), and who amar (spoke), “Who raah (see) us?” And “Who yadai (knows) us?”
16 You turn things hapak (upside) down! Should the yatzar (potter) be chashab (thought) to be like chamar (clay); that the thing ishah (make) should amar (said) ishah (make) him who made it, “He didn't ishah (make) me;” or the thing formed amar (said) of him who yatzar (formed) it, “He has no bayan (between)?”
17 Isn't it yet a very mait (little) while, and Labanawan (Lebanon) will be shawab (turn) into a karamal (fruitful) field, and the karamal (fruitful) field will be chashab (regarded) as a yair (forest)?
18 In that yawam (day), the charash (deaf) will shamai (hearken / hear) the dabaray (words) of the sapar (book / scribed document), and the iyanay (eyes) of the iwar (blind) will raah (see / saw) out of apal (obscurity) and out of chashak (darkness).
19 The inaw (humble) also will yasap (increase) their shamachah (joy) in Yahawah (), and the abayawan (poor) among adam (men) will gayal (rejoice) in the qadawash (holy) One of Yashar-Al (Israel).
20 For the ruthless is apas (brought) to nothing, and the lawatz (scoffer) kalah (complete / finish), and all those who are alert to do awan (evil) are karath (cut) off—
21 Who cause a adam (person) to be indicted by a dabar (word / matter), and qawash (lay) a snare for the arbiter in the shair (gate), and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
22 Therefore thus amar (spoke) Yahawah (), who padah (redeemed) Abaraham (Abraham), concerning the bayath (house) of Yaiqab (Jacob): “Yaiqab (Jacob) shall no longer be bawash (ashamed), neither shall his panayam (face) grow chawar (pale).
23 But when he raah (see) his yalad (birth / begot), the maishah (work) of my yad (hand), in the qarab (among / near) of him, they will qadash (set apart / make holy) my sham (name). Yes, they will qadash (set apart / make holy) the qadawash (holy) One of Yaiqab (Jacob), and will stand in awe of the Alahayam () of Yashar-Al (Israel).
24 They also who thaih (err) in rawach (spirit / wind) yadai (will) come to bayanah (understanding), and those who grumble will receive instruction.”