The LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
22 – 26 October 2026
The LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
The LORD begins today, above in Psalms 68:22, speaking of His people in the pattern of both Israel (crossing the Red Sea) and Jonah (from the whale’s belly, the belly of hell). He, in the verses before, tells why His people need His deliverance, which is the violence perpetrated against us by those who hate Him and us.
The name Bashan, as we know, according to the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, means “fruitful.” Unstated, its affinity is to the word basar, meaning “to be fresh, i.e. full (rosy, (figuratively) cheerful); to announce (glad news):– messenger, preach, publish, show forth, (bear, bring, carry, preach, good, tell good) tidings.”
It (basar) most often appears telling of “bringing good tidings,” like the annunciation (D’Annunzio), the messenger(s) announcing the coming birth (return to life) of the ONE BODY of Christ.
When the title verse says the LORD will bring again Bashan, it tells of when His people again declare these same good tidings, and thereby bring God’s people at large, with them, from death into life in His risen body. The word (basal), in this context, appears earlier, in Psalms 68:11, where it is, speaking of His people brought to their right minds (“again Bashan”), rendered “published,” meaning the message is again given as received from Him. The word in the title rendered “again,” is shuwb, meaning it is when we “again” turn (return) to the LORD’s voice and good leading.
Psalms 68
1 Let God arise, let his [evil] enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before [paniym – at the presence of] him [manifested with and in His people].
2 As smoke is driven away [is dispersed and disappears in His presence], so drive them away: as wax melts before [paniym – in the presence of] the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence [paniym] of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before [paniym – realizing the presence of] God [with us, in us]: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice [in the realization of Him].
4 Sing unto God [these words we have received from Him], sing praises to his name [His identity revealed]: extol him that [as an eagle, the fourth and final face of the unfolding presence of the LORD manifested in this conversation] rides upon the heavens [with this full understanding] by his name [identity] JAH [Yahh, from ya’ah, meaning He is the One to whom it appertains], and rejoice before [paniym – at the realization of] him [present with us, in us].
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his [children, who are His] holy habitation.
6 God sets the solitary [yachiyd – His One Body] in families [bayith – as His house, His family in which He dwells]: he brings out those [the who receive Him and this expected end] which are bound with chains [of the darkness they have been taught by evil misleading]: but the rebellious [who refuse Him and His correction] dwell in a dry land [without this word of the LORD, by which man abundantly lives].
7 O God, when you went forth before [paniym – manifesting Your presence to] your people, when you did march [with, in Your army] through the wilderness [the place into which You freed Your people, to bring them out of the desolation they learned in Egypt: the double strait: the oppression of the corrupted institutions of church and state]; Selah:
8 [At Your voice] the earth shook [ra’ash], the heavens also dropped [this understanding as the former and latter rain upon the earth] at the presence [paniym] of God: even Sinai [among the thorns; misleaders] itself was moved at the presence [paniym] of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, whereby you did confirm your inheritance [Your people], when it was weary.
10 Your congregation has dwelt therein: you, O God, have prepared of [kuwn – raised up] your goodness for the poor [those without worldly power or position].
11 The LORD gave the [life-giving] word: great was the company of those that published [basar – told of the good tidings of the ONE BODY coming to life from among the dead, by] it.
12 Kings of armies did flee apace [fleeing the awakening army]: and she [not fleeing His word] that tarried at home divided the spoil.
13 Though you have lien among the pots [without these waters], yet shall you be as the wings [the LORD’s word exalted] of a dove [those knowing this is the promised end reached, who have risen with the LORD into heaven: full understanding] covered with silver [His heavenly treasures], and her feathers [words] with yellow gold [this gift of great eternal value].
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow [purity] in Salmon [blocking the ignorance, the false light, of those in power].
15 The hill [new government rising] of God is as the hill of Bashan [fruitfulness of the these good tidings]; an high hill [increasing] as the hill [government] of Bashan [basar – publishing these good tidings].
16 Why leap you [with Joy, realizing the LORD’s presence], you high hills [rising from the ashes of the old earth’s ruin]? this is the hill [the government of His people] which God desires to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it [with them, in them] for-ever.
17 The chariots [the two wheeled vehicle carrying God’s people into the battel with His message; the wheel within a wheel manifesting the unfolding presence of the LORD with us, in us], of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the LORD is among them, as [with the same word] in Sinai [against the thorny places, from where the misleaders mislead], in the holy place.
18 You have ascended [as the waters] on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men [these treasures of heaven, given to be given as received]; yea, for the rebellious also [misleaders in the place of the holy], that the LORD God might dwell among them [as the Father correcting them until they are corrected or flee into damnation].
19 Blessed be the LORD, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
20 He that is our God is the God of salvation [shuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh He chooses]; and unto God the LORD belong the issues [towtsa’ah – deliverance and the escape] from death.
21 But God shall wound [machats – subdue, crush] the head [the corrupt minds] of his enemies, and the hairy scalp [the things that now appear as those grown from minds totally corrupted] of such an one as [after receiving the love of the LORD’s truth] goes on still in his trespasses.
The “wound” (machats) mentioned above, and the bruising of the heel of the LORD’s anointed, coincide with bruising (crushing) the head of the serpent (misleaders slithering among us opposing and resisting the LORD’s plan and purpose). This event is that foretold in Genesis 3:15, the LORD saying to the serpent, “And I will put enmity [‘eybah – hatred in the way Cain hated Abel] between you and the woman [the church], and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” This event speaks of the consummation, the final act of the reconciliation of God’s humbled people.
The word “bruise” is from the four times used word shuwph, said to mean “to gape [to stare in wonder with mouth wide open], i.e. snap at; figuratively, to overwhelm.” Its two other uses come in Job 9:17, rendered “He breaks,” and Psalms 139:11, rendered “cover me.”
It (unstated) is from the word cuwph (5486), meaning “to snatch away, i.e. terminate:–consume, have an end, perish, X be utterly.” The word speaks of what we have many times previously discussed about the Hebrew word natsal, which is used speaking of the cleansing of the priesthood, likened by the LORD as a brand “plucked” from the fire; and the Greek word harpazo. The latter word is that rendered “pulling” in Jude 1:23, speaking of “pulling” from the fire those about to be destroyed, a choice we are to warn them they should fear; and in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, rendered “caught up,” speaking of when the LORD, against our collective will, takes us out of the snare {fires} into heaven: full understanding in His known presence.
Psalms 73
A Psalm of Acaph [to the gatherers]
1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean [bar – pure] heart [by which we see the God; Matthew 5:8].
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked [in power over God’s people].
4 For there are no bands [chartsubbah – from the words charats and tsaba’, meaning the decreed appointed time {of the consummation, as in Daniel 9:26 & 27}; only used elsewhere in Isaiah 58:6] in their death: but their strength is firm. [Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose {pathach – to open wide this understanding} the bands of {chartsubbah – this decreed appointed time upon the} wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry {giving this word of the LORD as received}, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house {bayith – the LORD’s family}? when you see the naked {without any protection from the corrupt elements of the world}, that you cover {kacah – fill with these necessary things he lacks} him; and that you hide not yourself {‘alam – in silence veil not the LORD with us, in us} from your own flesh? 8 Then shall your light {this understanding and life} break forth as the morning {beginning the new day}, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD {revealed in you} shall be your reward.]
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens [where this truth and understanding are found], and their tongue [corrupt word as poison] walks through the earth.
10 Therefore his [the LORD’s] people return [shuwb] hither [to Him]: and waters of a full cup are wrung out [the corruption therein is removed] to them.
11 And they [the ungodly and unrepentant] say, How does God [alone] know [these things]? and is there knowledge [of God] in the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13 Truly I have cleansed my heart [of corruption] in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued [by the word of the wicked], and chastened every morning [to stay away from their words].
15 If I say, I will speak thus [the words the LORD has given me]; behold, I should offend against the generation of your children [who have been taught the creation of men who’ve put themselves in the LORD’s place].
16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me [knowing they have chosen to remain in death and hell];
17 Until I went into the sanctuary [presence] of God; then understood I their end.
18 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down [naphal – they have fallen] into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment [rega’ – as in Job 21:13] they are utterly consumed [cuwph] with terrors. [Job 21: 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment {rega’} go down to the grave {sh’owl – hell}. 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?]
20 As a dream when one awakens; so, O LORD, when you awaken, you shall despise their image.
21 Thus [because they have chosen death and hell] my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant [of Your way]: I was as a beast [without understanding] before you [when awakened here in hell].
23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have holden me by my right hand.
24 You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven [with this full understanding] but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside you.
26 My flesh and my heart [my worldly mind] fails: but God is the strength of my heart [giving me, us, Your mind], and my portion forever.
27 For, lo, they that are far [racheq – who choose to remain in this old world ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power, apart] from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the LORD God, that I may declare all your works.
Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem [all the dead who don’t know they are the dead], out of their graves [into judgment – see John 5:28 & 29 below]:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun [the corrupt and thereby ignorant churches], and the moon [civil governments equally as corrupt and ignorant], and all the host of heaven [all God’s people in whom light should be but isn’t], whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered [‘acaph – into My ONE BODY], nor be buried [because they are the wicked: the dead alive in the flesh on the earth]; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3 And death [to remain corrupt and ignorant] shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that [refusing to receive the light] remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them [into self-inflicted insanity, not able to distinguish between this reality and their created delusions], says the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return [from following the wicked into corruption].
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turned to his course [his own way], as the horse rushes into the battle [to hasten their own end].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times [of the birth of the children]; and the turtle [towr – dove] and the crane and the swallow observe the time [season] of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do you [who say you know times and seasons] say, “We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made He it [the word sent to give you understanding you say you have but don’t]; the pen of the scribes [writing words they say are the LORD’s] is in vain [worthless].”
9 The wise men are ashamed [when their words are found to be worthless], they are dismayed [chathath] and taken [lakad]: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives [those who follow them as leaders and protectors] unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them [to the heirs of salvation who’ve received this word as the word of God, which it is]: for everyone from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace [be at ease and rest securely in your lies]; when there is no peace [while they do nothing to combat the enemies mixed among us, who are at war with us, to destroy us, this nation, and the world, by destroying our better Christian culture].
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abominations [the creations these misleaders put in God’s place, destroying all truth]? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall [and will not rise again into life]: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now, when He is present as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall be cast down [into hell they’ve chosen], says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume [the Strong Hebrew Dictionary identifies the word used here as cuwph, while the original text shows it is from ‘acaph ‘acaph, meaning He will not terminate them, but gather] them [in His Gathering: ONE BODY], says the LORD: [in Bashan, with these good tidings, which shall produce fruit where there has been none] there shall be [and is now] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them [the branches from which corruption flowed, from which must and will flow this life-giving word].
14 Why do we sit still? assemble [‘acaph] yourselves [into MY ONE BODY], and let us enter into the defensed cities [the sanctuary found in His presence], and let us be silent there [no longer speaking our own vain words in the Father’s name]: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall [our own bitter words] to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked [to our own words and ways] for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses [running into the battle] was heard from Dan [this judgment day]: the whole land [‘erets – the whole earth] trembled at the sound [qowl – the voices] of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land [‘erets – the earth], and all that is in it; the [holy] city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you [whose poison is in their words], which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you [with their words, evil decrees, destroying you], says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort [mabliygiyth – only appearing here, asking what {mah} balag, a four times used word meaning “to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e. desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction):–comfort, (recover) strength(-en)”] myself against sorrow, my heart [My people’s collective mind] is faint [davvay – without strength, without understanding] in me.
19 Behold the voice [qowl] of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country [merchaq ‘erets – the earth in this appointed time the LORD decreed]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images [their creations], and with strange vanities [worthless ideas that are far from My truth]?
20 The harvest is past [‘abar – by which My people should have risen from death into life], the summer [the days of long-suffering] is ended [kalah – is complete, filled full], and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt [sheber] of the daughter of my people am I hurt [shabar – My one body is broken into pieces]; I am black [My dead body chooses to remain in ignorance]; astonishment has taken hold on me [I cannot fathom why humanity refuses to be saved].
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [the cure is in this testimony]; is there no physician [I Am] there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered [the answer is – a cure rejected isn’t a cure]?
John 5
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loves [phileo – is a good friend to] the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel [thaumazo – wonder what you are experiencing].
21 For as the Father raises up the dead, and quicken them [from death and hell into life and heaven]; even so the Son quickens whom he will.
22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son:
23 That all men should honor [timao] the Son, even as they honor [timao] the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him.
24 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
25 Truly, truly, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear [this voice as Him and His] shall live.
26 For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27 And has given him authority to execute judgment [krisis – this decision point] also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel [thaumazo – wonder] not at this [you should now understand that you are experiencing the LORD’s judgment which quickens the dead], for the hour is coming [erchomai – of these necessary utterances heard], in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his [the Father’s from the son] voice [which is death’s cure],
29 And shall come forth; they that have done [poieo] good, unto the resurrection [anastasis] of life; and they that have done [prasso] evil, unto the resurrection [anastasis] of damnation [krisis]. [The meaning of the word anastasis doesn’t tell of it, but of its means: “a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication, (its author)), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth).”] [John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn {krino – to choose for} the world; but that the world through him might {choose to} be saved. 18 He that believes on him is {by this choice} not condemned {krino}: but he that believes not is {by this choice} condemned {krino} already, because he has not believed in the name {identity} of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the {choice of} condemnation {krisis – the decision by which men condemn themselves], that light {this understanding} is come {erchomai – through these necessary utterances} into the world, and men loved {agapao – continued to lead (ago) away (apo) into} darkness {ignorance, which is death and its resulting confusion, delusion, and insanity} rather than light {understanding and life}, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that does {prasso} evil hates the light {understanding and life}, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved {elegcho – confuted: proven wrong and corrected}.]
30 I can of my own self do [poieo] nothing [good]: as I hear [and obey the voice of the Father alive in me], I judge [krino – I have made the choice to believe and act upon the truth and reality it is Him giving us His good things]: and my judgment [krisis – decision] is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.
Psalms 39
A Psalms of David
1 I said, I will take heed to [shamar – guard and protect from men’s corruption] my ways, that I sin not with my tongue [the words I speak]: I will keep [shamar] my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from [speaking His] good [words]; and my sorrow was [as coals] stirred.
3 My heart [mind] was hot within me, while I was musing [hagiyg – considering what I was experiencing] the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue [as commanded, speaking His word as given],
4 LORD, make me to know my end [qets – the after {life}], and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail [chadel – how prone] I Am [to death by rejecting Your word].
5 Behold, you have made my days [time of light: understanding and life] as a handbreadth [of Your work]; and my age [cheled – my time in the flesh] is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state [natsab – in this appointed time, in Your presence] is [relying on his own understanding] altogether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walks [his own way] in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and know not who shall gather [‘acaph] them.
7 And now, LORD, what wait [qavah] I for [still expecting what I have received]? my hope is in you [Your presence now with me, in me].
8 Deliver me [natsal – pluck me from the fires] from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach [cherpah – shame] of the foolish [who will never see Your presence in this expected end].
9 I was dumb [‘alam – unable to speak Your words], I opened not my mouth [to speak as Your commanded]; because [I feared the mockers] you did it. [Isaiah 51:7 Hearken {shama’ – hear and obey} unto me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart {mind} is my law; fear you not the reproach {cherpah} of men, neither be you afraid of their reviling.]
10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed [kalah – completed: filled full] by the blow of your hand.
11 When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty [the things he delights in] to consume away [macah] like a moth [that disappears into the darkness after leaving, being separated from, the light]: surely every man [relying on his own way and refusing to do the Father’s will] is vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner [pilgrim], as all my fathers were.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength [balag – this is that comfort, receiving correction and finding life therein], before I go hence, and be no more.
Speaking of the fathers, those of which Hebrews 11 speaks, detailing what the Book describes, beginning chapter 1, of them (angels as ministering spirits sent) in many different ways receiving parts of the message, which were meant to eventually, in the last days of darkness, be delivered to the son, and, through him, be assembled into one comprehensible elucidation revealing it as the expected end.
Hebrews 1
1 God, who at sundry times [polumeros – only appearing here, meaning “in many portions, i.e. variously as to time and agency (piecemeal)”] and in divers manners [polutropos – also only here, meaning, “in many ways, i.e. variously as to method or form.”] spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Has in these last days spoken [the LORD speaking here and now] unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things [spoken by the many prophets, meant to be perfected as the better thing the Father has prepared for us], by whom also he made the worlds [the old, upon whose ruin He created the current age now ending in total corruption, and is in like manner making the New];
3 Who being the brightness [the understanding of His glory: His manifested presence], and the express image [charakter – the exact copy, “character”] of his person [hupostasis – under-standing, co-fidelity], and upholding all things by the word [carrying the full load of the light] of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high [until now when He again stands with us, in us]:
4 Being made so much better than the angels [messengers only having part of the message], as he has by inheritance [of all these parts] obtained a more excellent name [identity] than they.
Hebrews 3
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence [hupostasis – in the person and substance: the message] steadfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief [a lack of faith in what they heard, thereby not allowing the word to touch and change them, and they, therefore, without understanding, remaining corrupted, wouldn’t obey].
Hebrews 1
8 But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation [themelioo] of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed [allasso]: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister [this same word of the properly ordered parts] for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Hebrews 11
1 Now faith is the substance [hupostasis – literally, under-standing: confidence therein: co-fidelity, shared belief {faith}, between the speaker and the hearer] of [foretold] things hoped for, the evidence [elegchos – proof, confident] of things not seen [things spoken of that will appear: become apparent].
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds [aion – ages] were framed [katartizo – given full form: compete, containing the full message, which has been reserved therein until now, to be revealed in His time] by the word of God, so that things [held there unseen since the framing] which are [now] seen were not made [now] of things which do appear [phaino – the light that has shown them to have been there waiting for the LORD to reveal them].
6 But without faith [that the LORD is with us always] it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
13 These all [knowing the voice of the LORD] died in faith, not having received the promises [this end], but having seen them afar off [believing this day would come, this resurrection in the flesh], and were persuaded of them, and embraced [grasped] them, and [with confidence] confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth [whose destination is eternity].
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country [patris – meaning “a father-land, i.e. native town; (figuratively) heavenly home:–(own) country.” As in Hebrews 12:22, Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem; the word {patris} used in all four Gospels telling of where a Prophet has no honor; “if then I be a father, where is my honor {Malachi 1:6}.]. [Malachi 1:6 A son honor his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name {identity}. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name? 7 You offer polluted bread upon my altar; and you say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.]
15 And truly, if they had been mindful [if they had the understanding we now have] of that country from whence they came out, they might have had the opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly [this time and place of full understanding]: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared [hetoimazo – the same word, rendered the same, in John 14:2 & 3] for them a city [of many mansions prepared].
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [sent to minister this word], let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens [corrects out of corruption], and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
22 But you [who are the Father’s children by His correction] are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the [New] Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [messengers He sends to minister His message to the heirs of His promised Salvation],
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the throne of God with His full understanding]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made [by men], that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably [as His ministers] with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Friends, this understanding of the affinity of the word shuwph to cuwph (and cuwphah – the whirlwind) drastically changes our understanding of the bruising, of the serpent’s head and of the heel of the LORD’s anointed (the seed of the woman). This affinity tells us it is an act of (in the whirlwind, the wheel within a wheel, both speaking of from where comes the LORD’s voice) sending His good tidings of Salvation also coming thereby the same voice. The head of the serpent speaks of the collective misleading mind, the spirit at work in the children of disobedience.
The “heel,” from the fourteen times used Hebrew word ‘aqeb, is said to mean “or ‘iqqbah; from 6117: a heel (as protuberant); hence, a track [an obvious path taken]; figuratively, the rear (of an army).” It’s from the word ‘aqab (6117), meaning “to swell out or up; used only as denominative from 6119 [‘aqeb], to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)
It is speaking of the parts, the pathway, that is caught in the snare: listening to and being corrupted by the spirit at work in the children of disobedience. This is what Jacob (Ya’aqob) is prone to: leadership becoming snared and overturned (supplanted: displaced), until He comes whose right it is (the throne, which is the right of the seed of Joseph – 1 Chronicles 5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but [in the pattern of the son of perdition, who will not remain: excel: yathar] forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)).
The birthright of the king of Israel, the seed of Joseph, is why Jesus’ flesh father is named Joseph, the seed, whom we are told of in Genesis 49 as Jacob tells His children of what shall befall them in these last days (‘achariyth: the after-life).
Genesis 49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather [‘acaph] yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days [‘achariyth – this end of darkness: ignorance, death, and hell].
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear [shama’ – and obey the voice of the LORD], you sons of Jacob; and hearken [shama’ – and obey] unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
4 Unstable [pachaz – ebullition, effervescence, “recklessness, wantonness, unbridled license, frothiness”] as water [this tells of the advice of the serpent, as one of God’s children, with unbridled license, recklessly reinterpreting His word], you shall not excel [yathar – not remain among God’s risen people]; because you went up to your father’s bed [went into the women – God’s people into whom His word flows]; then defiled [corrupted] you it: he went up to my couch [took God’s place among His sleeping people].
10 The scepter [to rule] shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [speaking of the Davidic king line], until Shiloh come [meaning peace and tranquility – the one {Joseph’s seed – the one separated} from whom it will again flow – see Ezekiel 21:27 and the overturning]; and unto him shall the gathering [obedience] of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine [this speaking of the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed for the Master’s use]; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine [a changed mind], and his teeth white with milk [these foundational principles; stoichion: uncorrupted elements].
22 Joseph [David’s ‘adown, LORD] is a fruitful bough [the Branch, from whom comes the fruit and seed], even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow [qasheth] abode in strength [understanding in the cloud], and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands [this work] of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is [come] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they [these blessings] shall be on the head [in the minds] of Joseph [his seed], and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
The following (with some additions and changes), ending with Isaiah 19, is from the post of 10 September 2022.
Ezekiel 21
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face toward [corrupt] Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places [where men have put themselves in My place], and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword [this word they refuse to hear and obey as My voice, as it is] out of his sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return anymore.
6 Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7 And it shall be, when they say unto you, Wherefore sigh you? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and shall be brought to pass, says the LORD God.
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered [galah – revealed], so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
26 Thus says the LORD God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown [from all who rule]: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him [the seed of Joseph].
Ezekiel 22
6 Behold, the princes [like Reuben, waiting to be crowned] of Israel, every one were in you to their power to shed blood.
7 In you have they set light [their own understanding] by father and mother [revealing their nakedness: lack of protection from the corrupt elements of the world, and therefore prone to be snared by them]: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger [the communists]: in you have they vexed the fatherless and the widow [without a man to protect them from such].
8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths [when I interrupt to correct into holiness].
9 In you are men [false accusers] that carry tales [lies] to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains [swallowing the institutions of church and stated into hell]: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.
10 In you have they discovered [galah – revealed what was not true] their fathers’ nakedness [straying from God’s covering, going up into His bed chamber]: in you have they humbled [cause the humiliation of] her that was set apart [removed from God] for [because of] pollution.
The word three times rendered “overturn,” above in Ezekiel 21:27, only appearing here, is the Hebrew word ‘avvah, which is a form of the word ‘avah, meaning “to crook, literally or figuratively (as follows):– do amiss, bow down, make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, (do) perverse(-ly), trouble, X turn, do wickedly, do wrong.”
These words are telling of the descent into wickedness, evil misleading, of the leaders of God’s people, even into self-destructive delusion. This understanding is seen in the once-used (Isaiah 19:14), like-rooted word, ‘av’eh, which is said to mean, “perversity.”
The Merriam-Webster definition of pervert:
1a: to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right: corrupt
b: to cause to turn aside or away from what is generally done or accepted: misdirect
2a: to divert to a wrong end or purpose: misuse
b: to twist the meaning or sense of: misinterpret
Isaiah 19
12 Where are they? where are your wise men? and let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived [these are the places of wise men leading Egypt – the oppressors, our own people turned communist]; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD has mingled a perverse [‘av’eh] spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt [the enemies oppressing us] to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit [the things in his mind he spews].
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. [Isaiah 9: … and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 13 For the people turn not unto him {the oppressors among us} that smites them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts {who is a man of war}. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient {kings} and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet {prophets} that teaches lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.]
Those perpetrating the deception that ensnares the leaders of God people, and thereby His people at large, who’ve led them into death and hell, are the Chaldeans described in Jeremiah 33:5. There we’re told that the corrupt kings come to fight again them, but, because they are fighting corruption with corruption, the houses (family) of the city (corrupt Jerusalem), they are there overturned into this state of death and hell, as the LORD forewarned in Genesis 3:3. Of this warning, the serpent (the first misleader, who, like Rueben, contradicted the LORD and put himself in His place) says in the following verse isn’t true (as the misleaders do daily about His word here spoken).
Jeremiahs 33
3 Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, [has He not done so?] which you know not.
4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses [bayith – family] of this city, and concerning the houses [bayith – family] of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts [their own corrupt institutions of church and state], and by the sword [this word they reject];
5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face [paniym – presence] from this [evil] city.
6 Behold, I will [in revealing Myself] bring it health and [this] cure, and I will cure them [of their blindness and dis-ease], and will reveal [galah – uncover, by the wheel within a wheel, these great and mighty things] unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
7 And I will cause the captivity [of the minds] of Judah and the captivity [minds held in My truth] of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first [ri’shown – at the beginning of the previous age].
8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
9 And it shall be to me a name of joy [the realization of My identity], a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do [‘asah] unto them [in this firmament giving, any who receive it, full understanding, making them children of God with Me in heaven]: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure [‘asah – in this field I have redeemed] unto it.
10 Thus says the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate [become without form and void, without the knowledge or understanding of God], without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war and has won this new heaven and earth for us]: for the LORD is good [towb]; for his mercy endures forever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise [towbah – this good given in this necessary sacrifice] into the house [bayith – family] of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity [of the mind] of the land [‘erets – earth], as at the first [ri’shown – as at the beginning of the former creation], says the LORD.
12 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Again in this place [the earth, ‘erets, become without form and void: confusion and emptiness], which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habitation of shepherds [with My good advice] causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass [‘abar – cross over {death into life, from hell into heaven}] again under the hands of him that tells [manah – enumerates, portions out, PREPARES, constitutes, by telling of the great and mighty things of the LORD] them, says the LORD.
14 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good [towb] thing [dabar – this word] which I have promised [dabar – rightly arranged] unto the house [bayith – families, as a family] of Israel and to the house [families, as a family] of Judah.
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch [through whom flows this teaching into the minds of My people] of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute [‘asah – make, by telling you these things you haven’t known; answering as asked – as in verses 13 & 3 of this chapter: the sealed things opened, which is My signature, name, identity pressed, as good seed planted, into the earth] judgment and righteousness in the land [‘erets – the earth].
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness [our king of righteousness, king of peace, and high priest in the order of Melchisedec].
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house [bayith – family] of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings [teaching this deep understanding], and to do [‘asah – to make by this necessary] sacrifice continually.
19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day [light – understanding] and night [darkness – ignorance] in their season;
21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son [I Am] to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers [as a flame of fire sent to those who become heirs of Salvation].
22 As the host [army] of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant [as I promised Abraham], and the Levites that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Consider you not what this [ignorant] people have spoken, saying, The two [Judah and Israel] families [mishpachah – those brought forth after their own kind, in the species God] which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25 Thus says the LORD; If my covenant be not with day [light] and night [darkness], and if I have not appointed the ordinances [beginning and ending the ages] of heaven [of full understanding] and earth [‘erets – controlled by them];
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob [Ya’aqob – who Jehovah has snared]: for I will cause their captivity [I will make and hold their mind, and they will possess the gate of their enemies] to return, and have mercy on them.
The word mishpachah, has intentional affinity to the word mishpat (judgment, the sentence decreed) and pachath, meaning “to dig; a pit, especially for catching animals [“caught up,” against our collective will]:–hole, pit, snare.”
It, mishpachah, speaks of God’s people, who are prone to fall into the pit they’ve dug, the snare of judgment that has come upon them, and thereby all the world.
Isaiah 24
1 Behold, the LORD makes the [the old and wholly corrupt] earth empty [baqaq], and makes it waste [balaq], and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And 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 lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.
4 The [old and wholly corrupt] earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 [Because the warned curse has come] The new wine mourns the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14 They shall lift up their voice [qowl – speaking this word as received], they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea [from God’s people at large].
15 Wherefore glorify you the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs [given from the LORD], even glory to the righteous [in whom the LORD manifests His presence]. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit [patchath – the snare of Jehovah], and the snare [pach], are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the [qowl – the voice which they] fear shall fall into the pit [pachath]; and he that comes up out of the midst of the pit [pathath] shall be taken in the snare [pach]: for the windows from on high are open, and the [corrupted] foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The [old and wholly corrupt] earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The [old and totally corrupt] earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day [today is this day], that the LORD shall punish the host [the enemies among us and in power over the earth] of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together [into the light], as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited [paqad – by the Chief Overseer of the earth who is with us and in us].
23 Then the moon [the now wholly corrupt civil government] shall be confounded, and the sun [the wholly corrupt church] ashamed [when the end isn’t the end they foretold], when the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients [who haven’t yet awakened to their true identities] gloriously.
Nahum 1
2 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind [cuwphah – from where His good tidings are heard] and in the storm [s’arah], and the clouds [where understanding is reserved, when it left the earth] are the dust [the evidence of the earth’s ruin] of his feet [wherein He works this new creation] .
4 He rebukes the sea [humanity at large], and maketh it dry [ending the words of ignorance], and dries up all the rivers [carrying their words to humanity at large]: Bashan [the fruitfulness of His good tidings] languishes, and Carmel [our protection in His garden], and the flower of Lebanon [purity seen on high] languishes.
Job 9
17 For he breaks me [shuwph – with His good tidings] with a tempest [s’arah – from where His voice is heard], and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18 He will not suffer [nathan – give] me to take [shuwb – to return to] my breath [life], but fills me with bitterness [words opposing Him and His].
19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment [mishpat], who shall set me a time to plead?
20 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect [without Him], it shall also prove me perverse.
21 Though I were [thought myself] perfect, yet would I not [without the understanding He alone gives] know my soul: I [refusing His word] would despise my life.
22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys [kalah – ends the proud who are] the perfect and the wicked.
23 If the scourge [this correction sent upon all the world] slay suddenly [pith’own], he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where [is he], and who is he?
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
27 If I say, I will forget my complaint [siyach – my own babbling], I will leave off my heaviness [paniym – leave Your presence], and comfort [balag] myself [without You try to recover my strength]:
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that [if I refuse You and in pride go my own way] you will not [in this judgment] hold me innocent.
Psalms 139
A Psalm of David
1 O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.
2 You know my down-sitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off [rachowq – this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men in power].
3 You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue [that is good, except for Your words], but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.
5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence [paniym]?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning [rising by this light you have given me], and dwell in the uttermost parts [‘achariyth – in these last days] of the sea [of humanity in this now ending age];
10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover [shuwph – shall be revealed to be good tidings to] me [knowing, uncovering, it is its end]; even the night [revealing this is the time when ignorance covers the earth] shall be light [shall be understood] about me.
12 Yea, the darkness [men’s ignorance] hides not from you; but the night shineth [is by You given understanding] as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
13 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully [palah] made [brought from death to life by separating us from corruption]: marvelous are your works; and that my [immortal] soul knows right well.
15 My substance [the life in me] was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth [now become hell].
16 Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in your book [now unsealed by Your presence with us] all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them [uncovered].
17 How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how significant is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake [from death’s sleep], I am still with you.
19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.
20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
