1 “Shawat (run) back and forth through the chawatzawath (streets) of Yarawashalam (Yarawashalam / Jerusalem), and raah (see / saw) now, and yadai (know), and baqash (seek) in the rachab (broad) places of it, if you can matzaa (find) a ayash (man / husband), if there are any who ishah (make) justly, who baqashaw (seeks) amawanah (truth); and I will salach (forgive/pardon/make clean) her.
2 Though they amar (spoke), ‘As Yahawah () chay (life);’ surely they shabai (swear / take oath) falsely.”
3 O Yahawah (), don't your iyan (eye) look on amawanah (truth)? You have nakah (stricken) them, but they were not chawal (grieved). You kalah (complete / finish) consumed them, but they have maan (refused) to laqach (take / seize) mawasar (correction). They have made their panayam (face) harder than a salai (rock). They have maan (refused) to shawab (turn back / repent).
4 Then I amar (spoke), “Surely these are dal (poor). They are yaal (foolish); for they don't yadai (know) the darak (way) of Yahawah (), nor the mashapat (law) of their Alahayam ().
5 I will yalak (go) to the gadawal (very great/important/mighty) men, and will dabar (word / matter) to them; for they yadai (know) the darak (way) of Yahawah (), and the mashapat (law) of their Alahayam ().” But these with yachad (one) accord have shabar (broken) the il (over), and nathaq (burst) the mawasarawath (bonds).
6 Therefore a aray (lion) out of the yair (forest) shall nakah (kill) them, a zaab (wolf) of the irabawath (evenings) shall shadad (destroy) them, a namar (leopard) shall shaqad (watch) against their iyar (cities); everyone who yatzaa (go out / come out) out there shall be tarap (torn) in pieces; because their pashai (transgressions) are many, and their mashawabah (backsliding) is itzam (increased).
7 “Ay (how) can I salach (forgive/pardon/make clean) you? Your ban (son) have forsaken me, and shabai (swear / take oath) by what are no Alahayam (). When I had shabai (swear / take oath) them to the full, they naap (committed) adultery, and gadad (assembled) themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ bayath (house).
8 They were as zawan (fed) sawasayam (horses) roaming at large: everyone tzahal (neighed) after his neighbor's ayashah (woman / wife).
9 Shouldn't I paqad (visit) them for these things?” Naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah (); “and shouldn't my napash (soul) be naqam (avenged) on such a gaway (heathen / nation) as this?
10 “Ilah (go up / offer) up on her sharah (walls), and shachath (destroy); but don't ishah (make) a kalah (complete / finish) end. Sawar (take) away her branches; for they are not Yahawah ().
11 For the bayath (house) of Yashar-Al (Israel) and the bayath (house) of Yahawadah (Judah) have dealt very bagad (treacherously) against me,” naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah ().
12 They have kachash (denied) Yahawah (), and amar (spoke), “It is not he; neither shall rai (evil) bawaa (come) on us; neither shall we raah (see) charab (sword) nor raib (famine).
13 The nabayaayam (prophets) shall become rawach (spirit / wind), and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be ishah (make) to them.”
14 Therefore thus amar (spoke) Yahawah (), the Alahayam () of tzabaawath (armies), “Because you dabar (word / matter) this dabar (word / matter), behold, I will nathan (give) my dabar (word / matter) in your pah (mouth) ash (fire), and this im (nation / people) itz (wood), and it shall akal (eat) them.
15 Behold, I will bawaa (come) a gaway (heathen / nation) on you from marachaq (far), bayath (house) of Yashar-Al (Israel),” naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah (). “It is a ayathan (mighty) gaway (heathen / nation). It is an iwalam (forever) gaway (heathen / nation), a gaway (heathen / nation) whose lashawan (tongue / language) you don't yadai (know), neither shamai (hearken / hear) what they dabar (word / matter).
16 Their ashapah (quiver) is an pathach (open) tomb, they are all gabawar (mighty) men.
17 They shall akal (eat) up your qatzayar (harvest), and your lacham (bread), which your ban (son) and your banath (daughter) should akal (eat). They shall akal (eat) up your tzaan (flocks) and your baqar (morning). They shall akal (eat) up your gapan (vines) and your thaan (fig) trees. They shall beat down your fortified iray (cities), in which you batach (trust), with the charab (sword).
18 “But even in those yamayam (days),” naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah (), “I will not ishah (make) a kalah (complete / finish) end with you.
19 It will happen, when you amar (spoke), ‘Why has Yahawah () our Alahayam () ishah (make) all these things to us?’ Then you shall amar (spoke) to them, ‘Just like you have forsaken me, and ibad (servant) foreign Alahayam () in your aratz (Earth/land), so you shall ibad (servant) strangers in a aratz (Earth/land) that is not yours.’
20 “Nagad (declare) this in the bayath (house) of Yaiqab (Jacob - Patriarch), and shamai (hearken / hear) it in Yahawadah (Yahawadah / Judah), amar (said),
21 ‘Shamai (hearken / hear) now this, sakal (foolish) im (nation / people), and without lab (heart); who have iyanayam (eyes), and don't raah (see / saw); who have azanayam (ears), and don't shamai (hearken / hear):
22 Don't you yaraa (fear / be afraid) me?’ Naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah () ‘Won't you chawal (tremble) at my panayam (face), who have shawam (place / establish / appoint) the chawal (sand) for the gabawal (border/boundary) of the yam (sea/waters), by a iwalam (forever) chaq (statute), that it can't ibar (pass over/through) it? And though its gal (waves) gaish (toss) themselves, yet they can't yakal (prevail); though they hamah (great uproar), yet they can't ibar (pass over/through) over it.’
23 “But this im (nation / people) has a sarar (revolting) and a rebellious lab (heart); they have sawar (revolted) and yalak (gone).
24 Neither do they amar (spoke) in their labab (heart), ‘Let us now yaraa (fear / be afraid) Yahawah () our Alahayam (), who nathan (give) gasham (rain), both the yawarah (former) and the malaqawash (latter), in its ith (season); who shamar (keep/guard) to us the chaqah (appointed) shabaiwath (weeks) of the qatzayar (harvest).’
25 “Your iwan (guilt/iniquity) have natah (turned) away these things, and your chataah (sin) have withheld tawab (good / proper function) from you.
26 For among my im (nation / people) are matzaa (found) rashai (wicked) men. They watch, as yaqawashayam (fowlers) lie in shawar (wait). They natzab (set) a mashachayath (trap). They lakad (catch) im (nation / people).
27 As a kalawab (cage) is malaa (full) of iwap (flying), so are their bayath (house) malaa (full) of maramah (deceit). Therefore they have become gadal (great), and grew ishar (rich).
28 They have grown shaman (fat). They ishath (shine); yes, they excell in dabaray (deeds) of rai (wickedness). They don't plead the dayan (judge), the cause of the yathawam (fatherless), that they may tzalach (prosper); and they don't shapat (judge / judgement) the mashapat (right) of the abayawan (needy).
29 “Shall I not paqad (visit) for these things?” Naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah (). “Shall not my napash (soul) be naqam (avenged) on such a gaway (heathen / nation) as this?
30 “An astonishing and shairawarah (horrible) thing hayah (came to pass) happened in the aratz (Earth/land).
31 The nabayaayam (prophets) nabaa (prophesy) falsely, and the kahanayam (priests) radah (rule over / have dominion of / subdue) by their yad (hand) authority; and my im (nation / people) ahab (love) to ishah (make) it so. What will you do in the acharayath (end) of it?