29 October – 3 November 2026
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
The above, Psalms 139:6 from the previous post, speaks of the time when darkness and light are understood, because the LORD alone has revealed them. Referring to this point, the word above rendered “wonderful” is the twice-used word pil’iy, meaning “from 6381; remarkable,” from the word pala’ (6381), meaning “perhaps to separate, i.e. distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to be (causatively, make) great, difficult, wonderful.”
The passage speaks of separating corruption from truth, and that act uniquely distinguishes the LORD with us, whether we are (awakened) in heaven or (remain asleep in) hell.
The only other time the word pil’iy appears is in Judges 13:18, rendered “secret,” referring to the name of the angel of the LORD, who is a man.
Judges 13
1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines [the invading foreign army now mixed among us] forty years.
2 And there was a certain man of Zorah [Tsor’ah – another form of tsarah, meaning these are those now caught up here in Jocob’s “trouble,” which is the great tribulation], of the family of the Danites [this time of “judgment”], whose name was Manoah [manoach – meaning who is Noah; this is the “rest” we seek, which will only come with bringing forth the man child, who is also the lamb that was slain, held back by those who hear {Anathoth} this word and have conspired to keep it silent]; and his wife was barren [‘aqar], and bare not. [The word ‘aqar {a key word} is that used to tell of the condition of Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel, all three who were {“barren”} before the LORD caused them to conceive; all, including here {Samson}, bring forth the seed through which Jesus came.]
3 And the angel [mal’ka – messenger with the message in which is manifested the presence] of the LORD appeared unto [ra’ah – was seen by] the woman, and said unto her, Behold now [hear the annunciation], you are barren [‘aqar], and bear not: but you shall conceive, and bear a son.
4 Now therefore beware [be warned], I pray you, and drink not wine nor strong drink [men’s words meant to defile your mind and your child’s mind], and eat not any unclean thing:
5 For, lo, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor [mowrah – from muwr, meaning “to alter; by implication, to barter, to dispose of”] shall come on his head [nothing that the LORD causes to grow from his right mind shall be altered, bartered away, or disposed of]: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto [separated for the work of] God from the womb [coming out of the belly of hell]: and he shall [as I Am] begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines [the invading army mixed among us, at war with us, with the intention of destroying us and our better Christian culture].
6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance [mar’eh – mah ra’ah, what is seen] was like the countenance [mar’eh – what I {the dead body of Christ at large} perceived apparent] of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence [how] he was, neither told he me his name [identity]:
7 But he said unto me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
8 Then Manoah [seeking this rest] intreated the LORD, and said, O my LORD, let the man of God which you did send come again unto us, and teach [yarah] us what we shall do unto the child [Samson – who is the sun rising of this new day] that shall be born. [2 Timothy 3: 15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration {life breathed from the mouth} of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect {complete}, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.]
9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah [those seeking the promised rest]; and the angel of God came again unto the woman [the dead, barren, body of Christ] as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.
10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold [come see], the man has appeared unto [ra’ah – is again seen by] me, that came unto me the other day.
11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Are you the man that spoke unto the woman? And he said, I Am.
12 And Manoah said, Now let your words come to pass. How [by receiving this word as the word of the LORD] shall we order [hayah – become as] the child, and how shall we do unto him?
13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware [not to listen to those teaching and preaching the same old words and ways of the dead].
14 She may not eat of any thing that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe [shamar – protect and defend this word against the corrupt of men who’ve put themselves in the LORD’s place].
15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray you, let us detain [‘atsar – silence] you, until we shall have made ready a kid for you. [Revelation 22:9 Then says he {the messenger who is the Lamb of God} unto me {as I say to all}, See you do it not: for I Am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep {protect and defend against corruption} the sayings of this book: worship God {only}.]
16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though you detain me [‘atsar – shut up, silence this message], I will not eat of your bread: and if you will offer a burnt offering, you must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel [mal’ka – a messenger, sent to manifest the presence] of the LORD.
17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is your name, that when your sayings come to pass [are no longer silenced, are given their due value] we may do you honor [kabad]? [Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger {mal‘ka} falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. 18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses instruction: but he that regards reproof shall be honored {kabad}.]
18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why ask you thus after my name, seeing it is secret [pil’iy]?
19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock [from whom flowed this same word, repeated in this necessary sacrifice] unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously [pala’]; and Manoah and his wife looked on [ra’ah – saw it as the LORD sees].
20 For it came to pass, when the flame [of this necessary sacrifice] went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on [ra’ah – saw] it [the sacrifice, the message, above all other voices], and fell [in worship] on their faces [paniym – realizing they were in the presence of the LORD] to the ground [‘erets – here on the earth].
21 But the angel of the LORD [having sown the word of the LORD into their minds] did no more appear [ra’ah] to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering [repeating these wondrous things] he at our hands [working the works He desires], neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson [who is the sun rising, giving this understanding {light and life} to the dead body of Christ]: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan [judgment] between Zorah [the tribulation] and Eshtaol [the way out of hell].
Jeremiah 11
9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders of God’s people], and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem [they mislead]. [We are told in earlier verses that these men are those whose fathers are “cursed” because they “obey not the words of this Covenant,” to whom the LORD now says, “obey My voice, and do them.”]
10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods [prominent men, with ever open mouths, who are the idols men now follow] to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers [saying to them, “’this is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest: and this is the refreshing;’ yet they would no hear {shama’ – and obey}” Isaiah 28:12, verses 13 telling us it comes as it now has, line upon line, precept upon precept].
11 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able [yakol] to escape [the snare in which they have caught themselves]; and though they shall cry unto me [calling their idols they put in My place by My name], I will not hearken unto them.
12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods [the men they followed here into hell, who they now delusionally believe will lead them out] unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble [the evil in which they are snared].
13 For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal [men as the idols of this world, who men blindly follow into their own destruction, none telling them the only cure is this word of the LORD, given and heard as His and Him – it’s a very simple plan, but only a very few are courageous enough to speak it in this war against the darkness of the world].
14 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
15 What has my beloved [the now dead body of Christ] to do in my house, seeing she has wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil [mislead people into following your corruption], then you rejoice [giving the LORD credit for the evil you’ve done].
16 The LORD [at first, at your creation] called your name, A green [ra’anan – new and prosperous] olive tree [zaiyth – a mountain, government, from whom flowed this illuminating oil: anointing], fair, and of goodly fruit: [but] with the noise [qowl – voices] of a great tumult [hamullah – speech as the sound of a great storm upon the sea of humanity] he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it [from where the oil once flowed] are broken.
17 For the LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of war], that planted you [in the earth], has pronounced evil against you, for the evil of the house [bayith – family] of Israel and of the house [bayith – the family] of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering [worshipping these men with] incense [repeating the things they have told you are true, which are worthless, temporal {progressive: communist}, opinions] unto Baal [men worshipped by the ignorant as the gods of this world].
18 And the LORD [alone] has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me [ra’ah – caused me to see it as He sees] their [evil] doings.
19 But I was like a lamb or an ox [prepared for this necessary sacrifice] that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised [chashab] devices [machashabah – the things men have created] against me [the LORD’s anointed], saying, Let us destroy the tree [of life, from where this anointing flows] with the fruit [produced] thereof, and let us cut him off from the land [‘erets – the new earth] of the living, that his name [identity] may be no more remembered.
20 But, O LORD of hosts [a man of war], that judges righteously, that tries the reins and the heart [the spirit and mind of man], let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed [galah] my cause [from below the surface of Your now opened Book]
21 Therefore thus says the LORD of the men of Anathoth [the men who have heard this rest and refreshing and refuse it], that seek [to take away] your life [this understanding and light received from the LORD], saying, Prophesy not [speak not the LORD’s word as received] in the name [identity] of the LORD, that you die not by our hand [knowing not that I Am the lamb who was already slain, and now here in hell with all the dead, who is risen, speaking in His name, and will never experience death, silence, again]:
22 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of war], Behold, I will punish [paqad – appear to] them [as the Chief Overseer of the earth]: the young men [remaining with childish thoughts] shall die by the sword [this word of the LORD they refuse]; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine [without this word withheld by the misleaders who’ve led them into death and hell]:
23 And there shall be no remnant of them [that shall escape this judgment]: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth [to whom this word of warning has come, who refuse it], even the year of their visitation [pquddah – now when I have come as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
The devised devices (chashab machashabah – meaning interwoven, speaking of mixing the water below with the waters above; and saying this is that which is devised against the LORD) are those that are, by the LORD, very easily reversed and returned upon the heads of the deceivers, by His, in this firmament (exposition) separating the waters above from the waters below (which is the new heaven, where understanding should be found and is once again).
These devices devised are the same spoken of in Esther 8:3 and 9:24 & 25, which is the conspiracy to destroy all God’s people.
Esther 8
1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus [Jehovah among us unknown – the name meaning “I will be silent and poor {not displaying My power and glory openly}”] give the house of Haman [with affinity to hamullah – the cause of the “great tumult” among God’s people and against the LORD] the Jews’ [the elect remnant] enemy unto Esther [as a star, God’s people] the queen. And Mordecai [meaning he is an insignificant man, deserving no honor according to the corrupt of the world] came before [paniym] the king [into the known presence of the LORD]; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
3 And Esther spoke yet again before [paniym] the king [in whom the presence of the LORD resides], and fell down [paniym] at his feet [in His presence], and besought him with tears to put away [‘abar – that God’s people would Passover into life away from the death in] the mischief of Haman the Agagite [this is Gog, the enemies of God’s people throughout history], and his device [machashabah – devised against LORD, our King and His people at large] that he had devised [chashab – contrived and conspired] against the Jews [the elect remnant].
4 Then the king held out the golden scepter toward Esther. So [opening her mouth] Esther arose [quwm – was resurrected into life], and stood [‘amad – in this resurrection] before [paniym – in the LORD’s presence manifested in] the king,
5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have [in speaking words pleasing to you] found favor in his sight, and the thing [dabar – the words rightly ordering this matter] seem right before [paniym] the king [in whom the LORD’s presence is manifested], and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse [shuwb – to return upon the head of these evil men] the letters devised [machashabah – against the LORD and His anointed people] by Haman [hamah – the cause of the great tumult among us] the son of Hammedatha [Mdatha – meaning what dath: what royal edict: evil decree of] the Agagite [Gog, those whose evil decrees now rule over all the world], which he wrote to destroy the Jews [the elect {faithful} remnant] which are in all the king’s provinces:
6 For [keeping silent] how can I endure [yakol- how am I able] to see the evil that shall come unto my people [and escape the same destruction]; or how can I endure [yakol] to see the destruction of my kindred [and myself escape it]?
7 Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
8 Write you also for the Jews [God’s faithful, the first awakened], as it like you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.
Esther 9
22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy [realizing the LORD’s presence in this rescue], and from mourning into a good day [when all were by these letters made aware of the existential threat devised against them by evil men]: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts [this grace of the LORD] to the poor [those without worldly power].
23 And the Jews undertook [obey the charge] to do as they had begun [sending the same warning to all God’s people], and as Mordecai had written unto them;
24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha [the maker of these evil decrees, by which they rule], the Agagite [Gog – the enemies of God and His people throughout history], the enemy of all the Jews, had devised [chashab] against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
25 But when Esther came before [paniym – into the LORD’s presence manifested in] the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device [machashabah – against God and His people], which he devised [chashab] against the Jews [all God’s people at large], should return [shuwb] upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail [the daughter in her Father’s army], and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all [the LORD’s] authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim [describing the current existential threat to all God’s people, from the communists and their useful {red-green} idiots mixed among us at war with us].
30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews [all God’s people who are hated in the world and under attack], to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed [today is the day], according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fasting [abstain from the word of evil] and their cry.
32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
Friends, we are told to remember the pattern of Purim and thereby see it when it comes, as the LORD sees it, and respond by giving warning as received. The threat is existential, and we know it is because the enemy, Satan, has made it clear through his possessed disciples (Obama and his fellow devils: red-green allies: disguised as communists, Islamists, anarchists, globalists, etc.) preaching his message of our pending demise (by the devices they have devised). And just to be clear, our (God’s people’s) end is their agenda; politics and religion are the spurious mask behind which hides their evil, and once in power, all hell will break loose against us. The response, if their devices are not avoided, rendering them powerless by this warning, will be the bloodiest war in human history, eventually ending human existence.
Jeremiah 18
1 The word which came to Jeremiah [Jehovah in him rising, and with His rising raising His people with Him] from the LORD, saying,
2 Arise [quwm – in this resurrection], and go down [yarad – and descend into the lower parts of the earth, into hell where My people are held] to the potter’s [yathar – the former’s] house [and see the pattern of humanity I show you], and there I will cause you to hear [shama’ – and obey] my words [dabar].
3 Then [as commanded] I went down to the potter’s [yatsar] house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels [‘oben – a twice used word meaning two wheels joined together, as a midwife’s stool; depicting the wheel within a wheel, from where the LORD’s word {dabar} is heard {shama’}, which brings the child into life from the womb: the belly of hell out of which we are saved].
4 And the vessel [human kind] that he made of clay was marred [shachath – became the ruin of the earth, from where man is created] in the hand of the potter [yatsar – those on the earth charged with properly forming the minds of men]: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6 O house of Israel, cannot I [as the Chief Overseer, the creator of the earth and mankind] do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s [yatsar] hand, so are you in my hand [to create you again from the ruin of the earth you destroyed], O house of Israel.
7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10 If it does evil in my sight, that it obey [shama’] not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame [yatsar – return upon your own heads your] evil against you, and devise [chashab] a device [machashabah] against [Me, which evil I turn against] you: return [shuwb] you now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after [‘achar – in these last days, following] our own devices [machashabah], and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart [mind].
13 Therefore thus says the LORD; Ask you now among the heathen, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing [sha’aruwrah – these are the lies of the false prophets, misleading God’s people into denying Him at His appearing and kingdom come].
14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon [the purity, the uncorrupted word from the cloud of heaven, now seen on high: exalted] which comes from the rock [who is Christ, the flesh in which the LORD chooses to manifest His presence] of the field [sadeh – speaking of this firmament, in which the waters above are separated from the waters below]? or shall [shouldn’t] the cold flowing waters [that should be coming from the melt of the snow] that come from another place [zuwr – be turned to strange fire by those who’ve left the LORD and go their own way] be forsaken?
15 Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity [whose words are worthless], and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up [not restrained];
16 To make their land [‘erets – the earth] desolate, and a perpetual hissing [drawing attention to their condition]; every one that passes [‘abar – that has come from death into life] thereby [seeing it] shall be astonished, and wag his head [in disapproval].
17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before [paniym – My Spirit speaking and working unknown against] the enemy; I will show them the back [only realizing what has been experienced after it has passed], and not the face [paniym – My Spirit remaining unknown while I speak and work], in the day of [when this light: life and understanding, has come] of their calamity [‘eyd – as in Deuteronomy 32:35 below, saying “To me belongs vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity [‘eyd] is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.].
18 Then said they, “Come and let us devise [chashab] devices [machashabah – lies and false accusations] against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the [false] priest[s], nor counsel from the [falsely so-called] wise, nor the word from the [false] prophet[s]. Come, and let us smite him [Jeremiah] with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words [dabar – the rightly ordered words of the waters above].”
19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me [against Your words with their devised devices].
20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you [paniym – as Your presence manifested] to speak [dabar – giving this word as received] good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them [which, refusing Your good leading, results in their calamity].
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine [the slow death that comes without Your word], and pour out their blood by the force of the sword [the same word they reject, by which their life is drained away]; and let their wives be bereaved of their children [not producing any after their evil kind], and be widows; and let their men [the idols they follow] be put to death [be realized to be the dead speaking the words and ways of death]; let their young men [refusing to leave behind the childish things they know] be slain by the sword [the LORD’s word they reject] in battle [by the LORD’s men of war].
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop [your army] suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me [into which they shall fall], and hid snares for my feet [in which they have caught themselves].
23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.
Deuteronomy 32
16 They [in prosperity] provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations [they created and put in the LORD’s place] provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils [misleaders who misled them into death and hell], not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock [from whom the LORD’s word flows] that begat you [out of the belly of hell] you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that [like a potter] formed you.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face [paniym – My presence] from them, I will see what their end [‘achariyth – on their own in these last days] shall be: for they are a very froward generation [twisting and perverting truth], children in whom is no faith [that the LORD is with us, in us].
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people [but an eclectic remnant outside all the existing orders: institutions]; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation [gowy – a people who haven’t known Me or My presence, who now have faith in Me revealed: uncovered in My word].
22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and [in the existing corrupt institutions] shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the [corrupt] foundations of the mountains [all governments, church and state].
23 I will heap [their own] mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them [to with this necessary sacrifice purchase them out of hell in which they are held].
24 They shall be burnt with hunger [for this word, these necessary utterances], and [their corruption] devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust [slithering among us in the ruin of the earth they’ve destroyed].
25 The sword [this word they refuse] without, and terror [of their own devices, the lies they follow as truth] within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27 Were it not that I feared [for them] the wrath of the enemy [which destroys the flesh after it has destroyed the mind], lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely [continuing to offer strange fire in My name], and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this [for the good of His people].
28 For they are a nation void of [good] counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness now come]!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them [makar – caused them to surrender], and the LORD had shut them up [delivered them into the hands of their enemies]?
31 For their [false] rock [their false prophets and false teachers in whom they trust, from whom flows words as poison and death] is not as our Rock [from whom the word of the LORD flows, who can be trusted], even our enemies [at war with us] themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons [men as whales and serpents, devouring with their wide open mouths, and swallowing into hell], and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures [which I now reveal, giving them freely to all who receive it as My presence uncovering My plan]?
35 To me belongs vengeance and recompense [destroying falsehood]; their foot [standing on an unstable foundation] shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity [‘eyd] is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste [chuwsh – their devices bringing this quickening].
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself [revealing His presence] for his servants, when he see that their power [to save themselves] is gone, and there is none shut up [retaining the knowledge of God], or left [with life: understanding].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods [the priests of Baal], their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings [saying their false gods were eating and drinking them, proving they are real]? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver [natsal – pull them as brand from the fire] out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand [this work] to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword [lightning, this word men refuse], and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O you nations [all who haven’t known the LORD], with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land [‘adamah – the first generation of His new creation], and to his people [who receive Him].
The four times used word sha’aruwrah is in Jeremiah 18:13 the “horrible thing” of the “foolish nation” mentioned in Deuteronomy 32:21 speak of those who haven’t known (have forgotten) the LORD, who before prospered under His ways, are the same described in Jeremiah 5.
Jeremiah 5
1 Run you to and fro [searching] through the streets of Jerusalem [among God’s people who say they know Him, while worshipping idols men created, put in His place, and call by His name], and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places [that lead to the destruction] thereof, if you can find a man, if there be any that executes [My good] judgment, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.
3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke [the co-perspective {like mind} with the LORD, seeing as He sees], and burst the bonds [no longer protecting and defending His word from corruption].
6 Wherefore a lion [the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD] out of the forest [among the so-called upright] shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings [the enemies among the ignorant] shall spoil them, a leopard [those refusing to change: be corrected] shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them [men] that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses [and are there seduced into death].
8 They were as fed horses in the morning [taught corruption]: every one neighed after [to deceive] his neighbor’s wife.
9 Shall I not visit [paqad – as Chief Overseer of the earth] for these things? says the LORD: and shall not my soul [nephesh – in the flesh I choose] be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Go you up upon her walls [of lies, deception, and false accusation upon lies, deception, and false accusation; the evil decrees of the wicked in power], and destroy; but make not a full end [kalah]: take away her battlements [ntiyshah – these are warriors, as branches, through whom flows the evil decrees of the wicked]; for they are not the LORD’s.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.
12 They have belied [kachash – with affinity to chashab, speaking of the things these wicked men have devised against] the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine [this word they refuse and life exhausted without it]:
13 And the [false] prophets shall become wind [of false doctrines misleading the world], and the word [of the LORD] is not in them: thus shall it be done [returned] unto them.
14 Wherefore thus says the LORD God of hosts [a man of war], Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth [My all-consuming] fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring a nation [qowy – a people who haven’t known Me] upon you from far [merchaq – in this appointed time the LORD decreed: determined], O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty nation [Gog here as the foreign communists, who are now mixed among us, all together, foreign and domestic enemies at war with us], it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you knowest not, neither understand what they say.
16 Their quiver [from where their children come] is as an open sepulcher [as warned, from whose mouths My fire has come], they are all mighty men.
17 And they shall eat up your harvest [prosperity], and your bread [destroying all truthful public discourse through which comes all information: teaching and leading], which [from Me] your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fenced cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword [because all but a very elect remnant refuse this word].
18 Nevertheless in those days, says the LORD, I will not make a full end [kalah] with you.
19 And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Wherefore does the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shall you answer them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land [‘erets – all the earth under their rule], so shall you serve strangers in a land [‘erets – the new earth] that is not yours.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob [still unknowingly wrestling with Me and My word], and publish [shama’ – this word sent to be heard and obeyed] it in Judah [among these misleaders], saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not [Me, or the time and season in which we find ourselves]; which have ears, and hear not [My voice as thunder from the cloud]:
22 Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence [paniym], which [by manifesting My presence, of which you are unaware] have placed the sand [the multitude of My people I Am awakening outside all the existing orders] for the bound [gbuwl – this limit] of the sea [humanity] by a perpetual decree [‘owlam choq – this appoint time of completion], that it [humanity] cannot pass it [‘abar – without going My way, none will pass from here in death into life]: and though the waves [the pride of men, in their evil ways that have lifted them over all humanity] thereof toss themselves [and mire the deep], yet can they not prevail; though they roar [like lions, claiming they are speaking the LORD’s word], yet can they not pass over it [this limit, where only those receiving this word, the LORD’s presence manifested therein, will pass from death into life]?
23 But this people [the misleaders and the misled] have a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone [into death and hell].
24 Neither say they in their heart [their mind ignorant of the moment and experience], Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain [this needed word, necessary utterances, sent from the cloud where they’ve been held since they were removed from the earth], both the former [written and sent as a wheel within a wheel] and the latter [this understand the deep below the surface, which only comes from the LORD Himself], in his [the LORD’s] season [only He now knows is upon us]: he reserves unto us [this better thing, when all His chosen people are perfected] the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things [our prosperity held back by revolting, by observing lying vanities and forsaking our own mercy], and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait [to deceive], as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As [men caught in] a cage is full of birds, so are their [misleaders and the misled] houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich [in the things of the old world that are now burning and melting away].
28 They are waxen fat [which easily melts away in the fires they’ve caused], they shine [continue to teach and preach their evil words and ways, offering more of the cause as the cure]: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right [these necessary utterances] of the needy do they not judge.
29 [Because all these men refuse to judge] Shall I not visit [paqad – come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, sending my judgment upon the new earth in need] for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul [nephesh – the flesh in which I have chosen] be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful [the old earth’s ruin, of which they are unaware: ignorant of what they are experiencing] and horrible thing [sha’aruwrah] is committed in the land [‘erets – the earth];
31 [All] The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means [their own ways]; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness: the ignorance of the present LORD] thereof?
The two other times the word sha’aruwrah is used come in Jeremiah 23:14 and Hosea 6:10. The first tells us that the “horrible thing” is the lies of the false prophets among God’s people, who’ve misled them into death and hell, speaking of them and the place as Sodom (flame) and Gomorrah (ruin).
Jeremiah 23
1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.
2 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the pastors [ra’ah – shepherds and seers] that feed my people; You have scattered [puwts – dashed into pieces] my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited [paqad – manifesting My presence to them as the Chief Overseer of the earth, for their good, to unite into My ONE BODY] them: behold [see], [therefore] I will visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth, bring] upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
3 And I will gather [qabats – will collect] the remnant of my flock out of all countries [‘erets – the earth] whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds [My ONE BODY]; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds [ra’ah – pastors and seers seeing as I see] over them which shall feed them [with My words]: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed [chatham – not again be broken apart by men’s confusion and fear], neither shall they be lacking [paqad – will not be without an overseer seeing as I see], says the LORD.
5 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch [I Am], and a King [I Am] shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth [‘erets].
6 In his days Judah [my new crop of Godly leaders I raise from among the ruin of the old] shall be saved, and Israel [My people at large who inherit the promise of a new heaven and earth wherein dwells My righteousness] shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The LORD Our Righteousness.
7 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land [‘erets – the earth] of Egypt [under those tyrants];
8 But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country [‘erets – the earth covered in darkness: men’s ignorance], and from all countries [‘erets – the earth] whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land [‘adamah – this new generation I Am creating].
9 My heart [My mind in My people] within me is broken because of the [false] prophets [infesting church and state]; all my bones shake [rachaph]; I am [the dead body of Christ is] like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness [has come to remove the cause, the corruption of false prophets and false teachers, that pervades the bead body].
10 For the land is full of adulterers [who have left the LORD to follow these false gods of the world]; for because of swearing [‘alah – these men, false gods, loathing this word, and exalting theirs above it] the land [‘erets – the earth] mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.
12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness [their ignorance of My presence and manner]: they shall be driven on, and fall therein [their pit]: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation [pquddah – this time when the LORD appears as the Chief Overseer of the earth], says the LORD.
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria [who worship idols men created]; they prophesied in Baal [the creations of men who put themselves in God’s place], and caused my people Israel to err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing [sha’aruwrah]: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom [a place of endless flames], and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah [total ruin].
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts [tsaba’ – I Am, a man of war] concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood [their own poison they teach and preach], and make them drink the water of gall [the same poison by which they judge]: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness [the same poisonous teaching, preaching, and judgment] gone forth into all the land [‘erets – the old and corrupt earth].
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts [tsaba’ – I Am, a man of war], Hearken [shama’ – obey] not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain [worthless by following their ways]: they speak a vision of their own heart [creations of their own corrupted minds: evil imaginations], and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you [the great paradox of our time: looking for salvation to those who’ve brought the violence of their evil upon heaven and earth, calling it peace, warning God’s people against the evil they themselves brought upon them, as they war against God and His people].
18 For who [none of these misleaders] has stood [‘amad] in the counsel [cowd] of the LORD [by which the living live – 1 Thessalonians 3:8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the LORD.], and has perceived [ra’ah – seen as He sees] and heard [shama’ – and obeyed] his word? who has marked [qashab – let pierce the ear and enter the mind] his word, and heard [shama’ – and obeyed] it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind [ca’ar – from where the voice of the Almighty is heard] of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind [ca’ar]: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has executed, and till he has performed the thoughts of his heart [His mind]: in the latter days [‘achariyth – these last days] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it perfectly [biynah – by the understanding given by Jehovah, from the whirlwind].
21 I have not sent these [false] prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood [‘amad] in my counsel [cowd], and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should [would] have turned them [to life by standing fast in the LORD] from their evil way [taught by these false prophets and false teacher], and from the evil of their doings [their corrupt judgment by which they judged the old heaven and earth into insanity and ruin].
23 Am I a God [I Am, My presence in the conversation manifested] at hand [qarowb – “near (in place, kindred {Redeemer} or time),” from qarab, meaning approaching, as in bringing these things to pass – Isaiah 56:1 Thus says the LORD, Keep you judgment, and do justice: for my salvation {yshuw’ah – Jesus} is near {qarowb} to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.], says the LORD, and not [also] a God afar off [rachowq – present in this time when the old earth and heaven are ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power]? [Hebrews 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.]
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do not I fill [male’ – replenishes] heaven and earth? says the LORD. [Isaiah 26:19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing {this word}, you that dwell in dust {the ruin of the earth}: for your dew is as the dew of herbs {on this third day of My new creation}, and the earth shall cast out the dead. And Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust {ruin; from where they are created} of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.}, and beheld {ra’ah – saw as the LORD sees}; and my sleep was sweet unto me.]
25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed [chalam – they are bound firmly to the thoughts of their own minds], I have dreamed [chalam].
26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart [minds];
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name [My identity manifested the same yesterday, today, and forever] by their dreams [chalowm] which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal [the idol men created, put in My place, and call by My name].
28 The prophet that has a dream [chalowm], let him tell a dream [chalowm]; and he that has my word, let him speak my word [this word] faithfully. What is the chaff [the worthless words of these false prophets] to the wheat [this good word]? says the LORD.
29 Is not my word like as a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the [false] rock [in which men, like Trump, have put their trust and been misled] in pieces?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal [from My people] my words everyone from his neighbor.
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He says [when I have never spoken to these false prophets who refuse to know Me and instead choose to remain in their delusions].
32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams [chalowm], says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness [putting no value on My words from My chosen messenger I sent]; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people [they mislead] at all, says the LORD.
33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, “What is the burden of the LORD?” you shall then say unto them, “What burden?” I will even forsake you, says the LORD. [Because they call My words a burden without value, “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”]
34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man [that calls this word a burden without value] and his house.
35 Thus shall you [My wakened people] say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken? [And you shall give them this word that is light and life freely given to those held in these men’s darkness here in the old heaven and earth they’ve corrupted and turned into hell.]
36 And the burden of the LORD shall you mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts [tsaba’ – I Am, a man of war] our God.
37 Thus shall you say to the prophet, “What has the LORD answered you?” and, “What has the LORD spoken?” [And if they know Me, they shall speak according to this word, without their corruption]
38 But since you [still] say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus says the LORD; Because you say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence [paniym]:
40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame [everlasting contempt to which the wicked awaken, as in Daniel 12:2], which shall not be forgotten.
Hosea 3
1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman [the dead body of Christ] beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods [men who put themselves in My place, who are the sons choosing perdition], and love flagons of wine [words that estrange My people from Me].
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
3 And I said unto her, You shall abide [yashab – sit at My right hand, as My ONE BODY] for me many days; you shall not play the harlot, and you shall not be for another man: so will I also be for you.
4 For the children of Israel [as the seed of Joseph] shall abide [yashab – sit at My right hand, until I make our enemies our footstool] many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image [without a pillar {stone} of witness], and without an ephod [this preparation into purity], and without teraphim [a healer]:
5 Afterward [‘achar] shall the children of Israel return [shuwb], and [diligently] seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days [‘achariyth – this after life now come, when ignorance of the LORD’s presence ends].
Hosea 6
1 Come, and let us return [shuwb] unto the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day [of His new creation] he will raise us up [quwm – in this resurrection of the dead; created by Him again from the ruin of the old earth], and we shall live in his sight [paniym – His presence realized in the experience].
3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning [the beginning of a new day of enlightenment]; and he [Jehovah’s presence] shall come unto us as the rain [His word from the cloud of heaven], as the latter [giving us understanding of the deep below its surface] and former rain [the written word left with us, sent forward in the wheel within a wheel, to give this understanding of the moment] unto the [new] earth [‘erets].
4 O Ephraim [God’s people who are the last generation of the old earth, who, by this preparation, become the first of the new], what shall I do unto you? O Judah, what shall I do unto you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud [corrupt understanding that departs with the rising sun], and as the early dew it goes away [evaporates and leaves the earth].
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the [deep meaning below the surface of My faithful] prophets; I have slain them [shown them to be the dead lacking My Spirit] by the words of my mouth: and your judgments [from Me] are as the light [understanding and life] that goes forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. [Jonah 2: 8 They that observe lying vanities [worthless deceptions] forsake their own mercy.]
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant [trespassed into my bed chamber where My ONE BODY sleeps in death, and put themselves in My place]: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gilead [this heap, mountain, of the LORD’s testimony, from where His voice should be heard but isn’t] is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted [corrupted into worthlessness] with blood [draining away life].
9 And as troops [army] of [communist] robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murders in the way by consent [agreeing with the communists]: for they commit lewdness [zimmah – a plan against the LORD and His people, the device they have devised].
10 I have seen a horrible thing [sha’aruwrah – listening to an evil spirit, those possessed by Satan] in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of [old and unfaithful] Ephraim, Israel is defiled [by putting corruption in the place of the holy].
11 Also, O Judah [the new crop of faithful leaders], he has set a harvest for you, when I returned the captivity [when I again possess the minds] of my [good and faithful] people.
Revelation 14
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God [this word of God’s which men refuse to hear and obey].
20 And the winepress was trodden without the [evil] city [where we have gone to meet with the LORD, long-suffering with Him to bear His reproach], and blood [this word of the LORD’s sacrifice, that is the life of those who receive it, and leaves in death those who refuse it] came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles [sent to those controlling the mouths of those going into this battle], by the space of a thousand [chilioi – to the lukewarm] and six hundred furlongs [spuris – this course set before man].
Hebrews 13
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go therefore unto him without the camp [into hell], bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come [in the new heaven and earth].
Jeremiah 31
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Psalms 25
A Psalm of David
1 Unto you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me.
3 Yea, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
4 Show me your ways [derek], O LORD; teach [lamad] me your paths.
5 Lead [darak] me in your truth, and teach [lamad] me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait [qavah] all the day.
6 Remember [zakar], O LORD, your tender mercies and your lovingkindness; for they have been ever of old.
7 Remember [zakar] not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember [zakar] you me for your goodness’ [ma’an] sake, O LORD.
8 Good [towb] and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach [yarah] sinners in the way [derek].
9 The meek will he guide [darak] in judgment: and the meek will he teach [lamad] his way [derek].
10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For your name’s [ma’an – identity’s, which is goodness’] sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.
12 What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach [yarah] in the way [derek] that he shall choose.
13 His soul [nephesh] shall dwell at ease [towb – by Your good]; and his seed shall inherit the earth [‘erets].
14 The secret [cowd – counsel] of the LORD [by which he assembles us] is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.
15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net [resheth].
16 Turn [panah – with great affinity to paniym] you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17 The troubles [tsarah – tribulation] of my heart [mind] are enlarged [as the net I was caught in]: O [by Your presence] bring you me out of my distresses.
18 Look upon my affliction and my pain; and forgive [nasa’ – lift me out of] all my sins.
19 Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 O keep my soul [nephesh], and deliver [natsal – pluck] me [out of the fires]: let me not be ashamed [but reach the promised and expected end]; for I put my trust in you.
21 Let [Your] integrity and uprightness [You have taught me] preserve me; for I wait [qavah] on you [alone for understanding only You have].
22 Redeem [padah] Israel [with the price only You can pay], O God, out of all his troubles [tsarah – this great tribulation that is the net in which we have all been caught].
