6 – 7 August 2023
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
The above, Isaiah 58:1, speaks of the last trump, the mouths of God’s people opened and speaking as He prescribes. He, in verse 7, calls it a fast He has chosen, which He later, in verse 13, describes saying it’s “not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words.”
Suffer my foolishness for a moment while I mention several (not) coincidences: the chapter number is my birth year, and it begins (Mene) and ends (Mene) with my birth month and day, which (month and day) are the same as the Passover (Tekel – considered and understood, they are His might at which the world wonders). In verse 7, the fourteen times used word parac appears (the first time after appearing in Leviticus 11 seven times, in Deuteronomy 14 four times, and once in Psalms 69:13, all telling of the “divided hooves” of the animals that are clean, whose flesh can be eaten). It (parac) is the equivalent and origin of the three times used Chaldee word rendered “divided,” “Perez,” and “Upharsin,” in Daniel when it comes by the hand writing on the wall telling of the end of the kingdom of Babylon.
This chapter (Isaiah 58) is the origin of the LORD’s words in John 6, when He tells His students they must eat His flesh, and thereby reveals the parables of His feeding many with few loaves.
John 6
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea [here and now], they said unto him, Rabbi [Teacher], when came you hither [now you know the day, month, and year]?
26 Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves [this word rightly divided], and were filled [with understanding].
27 Labor not for the meat [the flesh of animals] which perishes, but for that meat [this deep understanding that strengthens you] which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed [sphragizo – only appearing one other time in John, in John 3:33, the passage saying, “30 He {His identity in me} must increase, but I {my identity} must decrease. 31 He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven {with full understanding} is above all. 32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony {that this is His word manifesting His presence for the salvation of the world}. 33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal {sphragizo} that God is true. 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.”].
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work [I do the work He just spoke of: I believe on the One alive in me, whom the Father sent]?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat [and as we know, they were ignorant then, as now, as it is written in Deuteronomy 8, as He speaks it now, saying “1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers. 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.”].
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven [the word from His mouth – I Am].
33 For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, LORD, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That you also have seen me, and believe not.
37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father’s will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day [now].
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son [now again], and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is not this [Timothy] Jesus, the son of [John] Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets [Isaiah 54:13 & Jeremiah 31:34], “And they shall be all taught of God.” Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.
46 Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father [alive in me].
47 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me has everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread [the word from the mouth of the LORD] which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh [I Am], which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father has sent me [in the flesh], and I live by the Father [his light, understanding, in me]: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me. [The word eat in these passages is the word trogo, which was disused in the post of 20 July 2023, saying “The words the LORD uses in Matthew 13:18, quoting Psalms 4:8, describing the betrayers among the leaders of God’s people (Judah), are as follows “He [my friend with whom I was at peace] that eats [trogo] bread [artos – this teaching] with me has lifted [epairo] up his heel [pterna – “paternal,” the things received from the fathers] against [epi] me.” The word trogo (used only six times) spiritually means to be led (ago – as in tragos: he-goat {as the flock following him to pasture}) in worn tracks (tribos). The idea in bread is it’s water mixed with wheat (the word mixed with God’s people), and when leaven (explanation – exposition) is added, it rises. The word epairo, means to raise up, as (in pride) to exalt (self and words, here against the LORD, by the dirt, earthly corruption, added, keeping His people from rising).”]
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live forever.
59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum [the place of the Comforter, as the LORD here unknown is leading us into all truth]. [John 16: 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.]
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you?
62 What and if you shall see the Son of man [come lacking understanding, made a little lower than the Father, until I have] ascend up [resurrected from death into life again] where he was before [the Father crowning with His full understanding again]?
63 It is the spirit that quickens [bring us from death into life] the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life [and these are the things I give you to eat, leading you in this good way].
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who [here learning with us] should betray him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will you also go away?
68 Then Simon Peter answered him, LORD, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life.
69 And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Friends, God’s people are waiting (looking) for things they’ve learned from false teachers and false prophets: of boogeymen (used to frighten children) they’ve foretold, catastrophes (sudden disasters that never come) they’ve foreseen, by which they hide themselves, the real demons who are the existential threats (watchmen who see nothing). These same men sit still and silent while their fellow demoniacs infesting church and state, like locusts, mislead, devour, and destroy us, our nation, and the world itself. They are all, with one mind unified by corruption, confusion, and maniacal insanity, the wicked and unreasonable men Paul speaks of in 2 Thessalonians 3, who refuse to give this word of God free course, so it will be received as the word of God, as it is. He says we should pray that they be taken out of the way, that we may open our mouths boldly, preaching this word from the mouth of the LORD.
Isiah 54
1 Sing [open your mouths like a trumpet], O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not [forever] be wroth with you, nor [always] rebuke you.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed [the governments of the world shall end]; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they [the wicked] shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn [when your mouths are opened]. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 31
1 At the same time [in these last days], says the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
2 Thus says the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace [these treasure of the LORD’s understanding revealed] in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
3 The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD.
15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel [the woman who brings the child to a man] weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not [because they refuse to be corrected: put away childish things and be born again].
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim [God’s people in the generation: the child who must become a man] 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.
20 Is Ephraim 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, make you high heaps: set your heart [minds] toward the highway, even the way 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 [full circle, from a child to] a man.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every [child, when he has learned and become a] man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge [they, as adults, shall be accountable for their own words and actions].
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.
Jeremiah 30
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also [reveal My] glorify [in] them, and they shall not be small.
20 Their children also shall be as aforetime [learning My mind, My better way and good ideas], and their congregation [ONE BODY] shall be established [kuwn – prepared and rise] before me [paniym – in My presence], and I will punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them.
21 And their nobles shall be of themselves [those who’ve learned from Me], and their governor shall proceed from the midst of [with the same mind] them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart [mind] to approach unto me? says the LORD.
22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23 Behold, the whirlwind [the Almighty Spirit] of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind [from where the LORD speaks]: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days [‘achariyth yowm – these last days] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.
Isaiah 58
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted [tsuwm], say they, and you see not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast [tsowm, from tsuwm, meaning to cover the mouth: refusing to eat or speak My words] you find pleasure, and exact [nagas – and suppress My words by] all your labors [and thereby oppress My people].
4 Behold, you fast [tsuwm] for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast [tsuwm – covering your mouth] that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast [tsowm], and an acceptable day to the LORD? [These are the “transgressions and sins of the house of Jacob” revealed.]
6 Is not this the fast [tsown] that I have chosen [that you stop your own words, and uncover your mouths, eating and speaking My words]? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal [parac – break, ending the rule of confusion: Babylon; as the LORD has miraculously given it, feeding so many] your bread [this word from the mouth of God, by which man lives] to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out [maruwd – what rule? Only appearing two other times, both in Jeremiah’s Lamentations – The mistreatment of your words, as wormwood and gall] to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him [with My word, which protects from the corrupt elements of the world]; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then shall your light [your understanding given as received] break forth as the morning [this new day], and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD [revealed in you] shall be your reward.
9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I Am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger [teaching], and speaking vanity [worthlessness];
10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry [feed them with your flesh, speaking My words in which is My presence revealed], and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light [understand of this new day] rise in obscurity [choshek – darkness: rise to replace ignorance], and your darkness [‘aphelah – dusk, what was covered by ignorance] be as the noon day [shall become fully understood]:
11 And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach [perets – this is the breach spoken of in Amos 9:11, saying “In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old”], The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If you turn away your foot [from going your own ways] from the sabbath [when I interrupt, visit, making My presence known, for correction], from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
14 Then shall you delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with [My flesh I have chosen and prepared to reveal My presence, which is] the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins [the errors that blind you] have hid his face [presence] from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
4 None [open their mouth and] call for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity [their own worthless ways and ideas], and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’s eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths [quoted in Romans 3:15 & 16].
8 The way of peace they know not [quoted in Romans 3:17]; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity [choshek – darkness: ignorance]; for brightness, but we walk in darkness [‘aphelah – the ignorance that remains covering the earth].
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears [with our own words], and mourn sore like doves [those knowing it’s the last days]: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off [rachaq – it is an evil decree] from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt [refusing His leadership, thinking you are achieving something, while with every movement the serpent tightens his hold], conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he [the LORD in His man of war] put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
19 So shall they fear [Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.] the name [identity] of the LORD [who is a man of war] from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun [this understanding of the new day]. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD [quoted in Romans 11:26 & 27].
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed, says the LORD, from henceforth and forever.
Lamentations 1
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts [here and now]: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture [because they refuse to come to this feast], and they are gone without strength [without understanding] before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered, in the days of her affliction and of her miseries [maruwd – the mistreatment of their own words], all her pleasant things [when they had the LORD’s good words and ways] that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths [the visitations of the LORD].
8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sighs, and turns backward.
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her last end [‘achariyth – these last days]; therefore she came down wonderfully [wondering what and how it happened]: she had no comforter [to give her understanding]. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself [raised their words above Yours].
10 The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you did command that they should not enter into your congregation.
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread [this word from the mouth of the LORD]; they have given their pleasant things [the understanding they had] for meat [the temporal morsels for which they lusted] to relieve the soul [for which they should now understand they sold their souls to devils among them]: see, O LORD, and consider; for I Am [My now dead body is] become vile.
12 Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by [‘abar – is my calling you from this death into life nothing to you]? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow [that you refuse so great a salvation], which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. [Isaiah 53: 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.]
13 From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he has made my strength [understanding] to fall, the LORD has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
15 The LORD has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD has trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter [those who should be giving this word of the LORD’s correction] that should relieve my soul is far from [rachaq – are speaking their own word that are evil decreed to] me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous [unclean] woman among them.
18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear [shama’ – obey], I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat [their own words] to relieve their souls.
20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress [tsar – from the evil of the enemies]: my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have called, and they shall be like unto me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Lamentations 3
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood [your own words].
16 He has [with your words you thought were sweetness] also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
17 And you have removed my soul far off [zanach] from peace: I forgot prosperity.
18 And I said, My [false] strength and my [false] hope is perished from the LORD:
19 Remembering my affliction and my misery [maruwd], the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind [leb], therefore have I hope.
22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that [diligently] seeks him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27 It is good for a [grown] man that he bears the yoke [of corrupt teaching] in his youth [that he realizes his childish understanding].
28 He sits alone and keeps silence [and hears the LORD teaching], because he [the LORD] has borne it [put His yoke] upon him.
29 He put his mouth in the dust [so he understands these childish things are the ruin of the earth]; if so be there may be hope [in the LORD’s correction].
30 He gives his cheek to him [those who at first refuse His word and words] that smites him: he is filled full with [their] reproach.
31 For the LORD will not cast off [zanach] forever [keeping us far from peace]:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he does not afflict willingly [leb – He does not afflict the mind] nor grieve the children of men.[,]
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.[,]
35 To turn aside the right [mishpat -judgment] of a man before the face [paniym – by the presence] of the Most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD [‘Adonay] approves not.
Romans 3
3 For what if some did not believe [the words we hear are God’s]? shall their unbelief make the faith of God [with us] without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar [see Psalms 116:11]; as it is written, That you might be justified [dikaioo] in your sayings [logos – the words you speak], and might overcome when you are judged [by the same words].
5 But if our unrighteousness [errors through corruption] commend [suniemi – to set together, introduces, exhibits] the righteousness [the correct uncorrupted interpretation] of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance [if our corruption is necessary to introduce His pure word]? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For [speaking hypothetically, as a man] if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory [His presence manifested]; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles [believers and unbeliever], that they are all under sin [in error];
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat [speaking their own corrupt understanding] is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under the law [as all now are, refusing to receive this word as the word of God, and obey it as such, not one speaking it as commanded, none confessing the LORD is seen here alive]: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law [the written word that is now corrupted into worthlessness by men changing {metatethemi} it by their errors] there shall no flesh be justified [dikaioo] in his sight: for by the law [now corrupted] is [corrupted] the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested [in His presence correcting us by His spoken understanding removing corruption], being witnessed by the law and the prophets [in their purified form];
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory [understanding the manifested presence] of God;
24 Being justified [dikaioo] freely by his grace [this gift of understanding] through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation [hilasterion – the mercy seat, over which His presence is manifested in the conversation] through faith in his blood [the price of redemption paid], to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins [corrupt thinking] that are past, through the forbearance [anocha – self-restraint] of God;
26 To [open your mouths to] declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier [dikaioo] of him which believes in Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh].
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified [dikaioo] by faith [that obeys and speaks] without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify [dikaioo] the circumcision by faith [seen and heard in their words], and uncircumcision through [our] faith [speaking His word as received].
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law [uncorrupted by men in church and state].
Romans 11
1 I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin [as Saul {a king} over God’s people, until Timothy comes in the end times].
2 God has not cast away his people which he foreknew [we are God’s people from throughout history]. Know you not what the scripture says of Elijah? how he makes intercession to God against Israel saying,
3 LORD, they have killed your prophets, and digged down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal [the idols of the old and corrupt world].
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap [which it is, and because of which they are found guilty], and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened [ignorant of their own guilt], that they may not see, and bow down their back always [to their enemies who among them made them ignorant].
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles [those who don’t know God and aren’t called His people], for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life [the resurrection] from the dead?
16 For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.
19 You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness [darkened eyes unable to see the Father in the son] in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written [Isaiah 27:9 and 59:20 & 21], There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer [rhomai], and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins [the errors that blind them].
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as you [the elect remnant – the first fruit] in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon ALL.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the LORD? or who has been his counselor?
35 Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Psalms 31
1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Bow down your ear to me; deliver [natsal] me speedily: be you my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.
3 For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.
5 Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities [who forsake their own mercy]: but I trust in the LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.
9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11 I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.
15 My times are in your hand: deliver [natsal – “caught up”] me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16 Make your face [paniym – presence] to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies’ sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!
20 You shall hide them in the secret of your presence [paniym] from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD: for he has shown me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.
22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.
23 O love the LORD, all you [ten thousands of] his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.
