Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
The day of Jezreel is speaking of (above in Hosea 1:11) when the LORD sows His people, who were not His people, in the earth. The word rendered “come up” is the Hebrew word ‘alah, speaking of ascending, when they’ve appointed one head, growing from the land (‘erets – earth) into which the LORD has sown them as His good seed (the wheat He’s separated from the tares).
The name Jezreel, meaning God will sow, is from the Hebrew words zara’, meaning “to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify,” and ‘el, meaning strength, as God Almighty. The word zara’ appears three times in Hosea, all speaking of the LORD sowing the good seed and the wicked sowing tares among His wheat.
Hear this word from the mouth of God, you that are deaf and blind:
The word tares, from the Greek word zizanion, meaning “of uncertain origin; darnel or false grain,” appears only eight times, all in Matthew 13. The Thayer’s Greek Lexicon gives the additional information that the darnel, although resembling wheat, when grown, brings forth black fruit (worthless ignorance).
Hosea, in Hosea 2:6, speaking of when the tares are sown, says our way (derek – good way, of good leadership God sends) is hedge up with thorns, which we know speaks of misleaders that overgrow the unattended (without good leadership) garden. The following verse says, God’s people have (having left Him) followed after lovers, which they realize have taken them into decline. These lovers are then described as Baal, the gods of the world, before who His people set all He’s provided, provisions (His ways and ideas) that produced their prosperity, events causing them not to know Him and in ignorance become not His people.
As we saw in the previous post, this is what is described, in Jeremiah 31, as when Ephraim realizes it and is ashamed, repents, and enters into the New Covenant with God.
Jeremiah 31
20 Is Ephraim [God’s people in this generation – Rachel’s grandchildren] my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks [to show the way], make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way [derek] which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow [zara’] the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Matthew 13
15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For truly I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.
18 Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.
19 When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receives it;
21 Yet has he not root in himself, but endures for a while: for when tribulation or persecution arise because of the word [because the foundations of the world are out of order], by and by he is offended.
22 He also that received seed among the thorns [misleaders] is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world [aion – this age, which had a beginning and has an ending], and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23 But he that received seed [which reestablishes foundational order] into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understands it; which also [by giving understanding as received] bears fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field [establishing the foundation and order of the kosmos]:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit [darkness – ignorance and disorder destroying the foundations], then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, did not you sow good seed in your field? from whence then has it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy has done this. The servants said unto him, Will you then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while you gather up the tares, you root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest [when the fruit appears]: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather you together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them [by this word from the mouth of God]: but gather the wheat into my barn.
31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air [those who soar in the heavens, strengthened by full understanding] come and lodge in the branches thereof.
33 Another parable spoke he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven [corruption], which a woman [the unfaithful people] took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened [until all their understanding was corrupted].
34 All these things spoke Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not unto them:
35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world [kosmos – when order was properly arranged].
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
38 The field is the world [kosmos – the place in which God sets order]; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil [misleaders mixed among us]; the harvest is the end of the world [aion – the age, which logically begins the new, when the foundations are again set and order is restored]; and the reapers are the angels [those who fly in the heavens, bringing this message of understanding].
40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world [aion – the corrupt age].
41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun [give light, understanding, of a new day, shined on all who’ve come out of the corrupt houses] in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Hosea 1
10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, You are the sons of the living God.
11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel [when God sows His good seed into the earth, and it ascends, brings forth fruit, from it: the earth].
2:1 Say you unto your brethren, Ammi [the people]; and to your sisters, Ruhamah [who’ve received God’s mercy].
2 Plead with your mother [the institutions of learning], plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land [without understanding, without these waters from heaven], and slay her with thirst [if she refuses these living waters, which will heal her].
4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms [the tares].
5 For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns [misleaders, teaching them ignorance], and make a wall [of lies upon lies], that she shall not find her paths [nathiyb].
7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 And I will visit [paqad – this appointed time, when her king comes, as a man of war against the idols who’ve put themselves in God’s place] upon her the days of Baalim [the idols of this corrupt age], wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.
14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her [leading her into all truth].
15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor [when she is humbled in her tribulation] for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt [when she is freed from her oppressors].
16 And it shall be at that day, says the LORD, that you shall call me Ishi [a man of war]; and shall call me no more Baali [by the names of your idols].
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim [the men you’ve put in God’s place] out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
18 And in that day will I make a [New] covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground [when order is restored]: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
19 And I will betroth you unto me forever; yea, I will betroth you unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20 I will even betroth you unto me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, says the LORD, I will hear the heavens [when full understanding comes again from where it was held when removed from the earth], and they shall hear the earth [“In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you”];
22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel [when the good seed is again sowed into the earth, and it rises and bears fruit].
23 And I will sow [zara’] her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, You are my people; and they shall say, You are my God.
Friends, those who lead God’s people, all of them are corrupt, leading in their own ways, with their own words and ideas, refusing to subordinate (remaining without order). They are the calves put in God’s place, devils who keep you from His presence and word, which are the health, foundational order, of the world.
Hosea 8
1 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know you.
3 Israel has cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
5 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocence?
6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7 For they have sown [zara’] the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9 For they are gone up to Assyria [to the communists who now rule them], a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim [God’s people in the generation] has hired lovers.
10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit [paqad – at this appointed time] their sins: they shall return to Egypt [they shall choose their oppressors over the king sent to rescue them, and they shall follow them into perdition].
14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Romans 9
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs but of God that shows mercy.
17 For the scripture says unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Isaiah also cried concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth.
29 And as Isaiah said before, Except the LORD of Hosts [who is a man of war] had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith [refusing to believe this word is the word of God, as it is], but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone [I Am];
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling-stone and rock of offense: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
Hosea 10
1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven [the worthless houses where idols sit in God’s place]: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria [to the communists] for a present to king Jareb [who are at war with God]: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water [is carried away with the winds of their own false doctrines].
8 The high places also of Aven [the worthless idols], the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle [devils as misleaders] shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
9 O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah [from the first day I sent me word to you]: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah [when I sent my word] against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
10 It is in my desire that I should chastise [correct] them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
11 And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
12 Sow [zara’] to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way [derek], in the multitude of your mighty men.
14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman [worshiping fire] spoiled Betharbel [in the houses of God’s ambush] in the day of battle: the mother [the institutions of teaching] was dashed in pieces upon her children.
15 So shall Bethel [the house of God] do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
The “path” spoken of in Hoses 2:6 above, which God people left to follow the way of misleaders, is the Hebrew word nathiyb, meaning “from an unused root meaning to tramp; a (beaten) track.” It is speaking of a well-known way, to either good or evil, destinations whose paths are well-worn and those following them known to always end in these places. They are the paths to the houses of light (understanding and life) and darkness (ignorance and death).
Job 38
12 Have you commanded the morning since your days [when light comes, and God’s understanding lays the foundation of the earth]; and caused the dayspring [the new creation] to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends [end of the old and beginning the new] of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal [chowtham – as God’s signature pressed into the earth]; and they stand as a garment [that clothes the world – the kosmos].
15 And from the wicked their light [understanding] is withheld, and the high arm [man’s pride and hubris] shall be broken.
16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea [the water of God, this life-giving word, that He sends to all]? or have you walked in the search of the depth [the deep understanding beneath its surface]?
17 Have the gates of death [the word of men, the ignorance that holds men therein] been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death [that now covers this corrupt age]?
18 Have you perceived the breadth [the ends] of the earth [ages]? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light [understanding] dwelleth? and as for darkness [ignorance], where is the place thereof,
20 That you shouldest take it to the bound [the beginning and ends of them] thereof, and that you shouldest know the paths [nathiyb] to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born [when I laid the foundation of the earth, when all the children of God sang for joy]? or because the number of your days is great [as the Ancient of days who did/does this]?
Proverbs 1
10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave [sheol, alive in hell – see Hosea 8:7 & 8 above]; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not you in the way [derek] with them; refrain your foot from their path [nathiyb]:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird [they are ignorant of the snare they have set for themselves].
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates [calling you out of hell and into full understanding: heaven]: in the city she utters her words, saying,
22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But you have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity [‘eyd]; I will mock when your fear comes;
27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way [derek], and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Nahum 1 [the comforter, who leads in the path to understanding]
7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble [tsarah – tribulation]; and he knows them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness [their own ignorance] shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end [of this corrupt age]: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while they be folded together as thorns [misleaders all with one evil intention against the LORD and His anointed], and while they are drunken [their minds are stupefied] as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.
12 Thus says the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many [folded together with one intention], yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds in sunder.
14 And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown [zara’]: out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image [their ever-changing and worthless creations]: I will make your grave; for you are vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off.
Isaiah 42
16 And I will bring the blind by a way [derek] that they knew not; I will lead them in paths [nathiyb] that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, You are our gods.
18 Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant?
20 Seeing many things, but you observe not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.
23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways [derek], neither were they obedient unto his law.
25 Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew not [because he is blind and doesn’t yet know he is My servant spoken of above]; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Jeremiah 6
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
4 Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goes away [the light, understanding and life], for the shadows of the evening are stretched out [the darkness, ignorance and death].
5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6 For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited [paqad – in this appointed time, when He sends their king, who is a man of war, against the oppressors in our midst]; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7 As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness [in her words]: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
8 Be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.
10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised [is closed, only hearing these word as from flesh], and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace [those in your midst are at war with you, seeking to destroy nation and culture].
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit [paqad – in this appointed time] them they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
16 Thus says the LORD, Stand you in the ways [derek – in My way to understanding and life], and see, and ask for the old paths [nathiyb], where is the good way [derek], and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
Psalms 142
1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
2 I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble [tsarah – tribulation].
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path [nathiyb – leading to the house of darkness]. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul [to lead me out of darkness and death].
5 I cried unto you, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name: the righteous shall compass me about; for you shall deal bountifully with me.
