30 September – 2 October 2023
Then touched he their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it unto you.” And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
The Greek word above rendered “straightly charged” is said to be the five times used word embrimaomai, (dubiously) meaning “from 1722 and brimaomai (to snort with anger); to have indignation on, i.e. (transitively) to blame, (intransitively) to sigh with chagrin, (specially) to sternly enjoin:–straitly charge, groan, murmur against.”
When the LORD leads us into spiritually discerning its meaning, He begins with the word’s five uses in the original text. As we know from studying these texts, there is no set spelling used, meaning words appear in various forms, and scholars did their best to determine the actual words and their meanings. In the hands of these same “experts,” was clouded much of the original meaning.
In this case the words appear as follows: Matthew 9:30, enebrimesato; Mark 1:43 & 14:4, embrimesamenon & enebrimonto; and John 11:33 & 38, enebrimesato & embrimomenon.
The word (combining Greek and Hebrew) is speaking of the “passage” from death to life occurring (en ‘ebar mesos) as He comes alive in those whose eyes are opened by their faith in Him, and they see Him (again). This is what they are told to tell no man, and why they immediately declare Him, which manifests His presence to those who must have faith, and will thereby, as they have, see the One present unseen.
Matthew 9
27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, You son of David, have mercy on us [and speak with us above your mercy seat].
28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus says unto them, Believe you that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, LORD.
29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them [the LORD now alive in them bringing them to life by opening their eyes], saying, See that no man know it [the LORD now unknown in them as the Holy Ghost working and speaking unknown to reveal Himself].
31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil [unable to speak this word of God, because it is foreign to those possessed by the ignorance of those misleading them].
33 And when the devil [the misleaders they follow] was cast out, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes marveled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.
34 But the Pharisees said, He casts out devils through the prince of the devils.
35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
37 Then said he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few;
38 Pray you therefore the LORD of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.
Jeremiah 5
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence [paniym], which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea [the limit of humanity] by a perpetual [‘owlam] decree [choq], that it cannot pass it [‘abar – Passover from death to life]: and though the waves thereof toss themselves [the pride of men who have risen up to agitate all the world], yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it [‘abar – from death to life without fearing My presence and obeying My good leading]?
23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter [His word and understanding held in heaven], in his season: he reserves [shamar – guarded and protected it there] unto us the appointed [chuqqah] weeks [shabuwa’] of the harvest. [shabuwa’ is used nineteen time, the number of judgment; only once in the prophets, here in Jeremiah, and eight times in Daniel: six in Daniel 9:24 thru 27, and twice, in Daniel 10:2 & 3]
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait [with their deceptions], as he that set snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore, they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine [as if their deceptions are understanding]: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit [paqad – come as I have, as the Chief Overseer of the earth] for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful [shammah – consternation, and inability to understand the unexpected happening] and horrible thing is committed [hayah – has become] in the land [‘erets – the earth];
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means [of deception, the cause of the consternation]; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof [‘achariyth – in these last days that have thereby unexpectedly come]?
The word rendered “horrible,” in verse 30 above, is the four times used word sha’aruwrah, meaning “feminine from 8176 [sha’ar, “to split or open, i.e. (literally, but only as denominative from 8179 {sha’ar, “an opening; i.e. a door or gate}) to act as gate-keeper (see 7778): (figuratively) to estimate:–think”] in the sense of 8175 [sa’er, “to storm, by implication, to shiver; i.e. to fear”]; something fearful:–horrible thing.”
It (sha’aruwrah) appears elsewhere in Jeremiah 18:13 & 24:14, and in Hosea 6:10, all as above speaking of the gate between heaven and hell. It is the minds of men, which, into hell, is only entered by following the deception of misleaders, and can only be exited, entering heaven, by following the LORD’s good leading.
As above, the LORD very sternly warned many times to beware of these false prophets who’ve come and misled all except the very elect.
Matthew 24
21 For then shall be great tribulation [as it is this day], such [mass delusion and insanity] as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs [calling you to follow them and saying they will save you; when many have and they haven’t saved them], and false prophets [telling you they know the time isn’t now, and then deceive all into continuing in death and hell where they’ve held them], and shall show great signs and wonders [they say are reasons you should keep following them]; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning [understanding] comes out of the east [as the sunrise of this new day], and shineth even unto the west [from heaven upon all]; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcass [of the dead body of Christ] is, there will the eagles be gathered together [those who fly in this heaven with the LORD, lifted there by the strength of His understanding].
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened [the church now understood to have no light in it, but are ignorant of the LORD’s presence], and the moon [civil government] shall not give her light [because they rule the ignorant by continued ignorance], and the stars shall fall from heaven [God’s people fallen into hell, where they sleep in the darkness], and the [corrupt] powers of the heavens shall be shaken [so the wicked are from there shaken]:
30 And then shall appear the sign [this light] of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds [where understanding was reserved when it left the earth] of heaven with power and great glory [revealing the presence of God with us].
31 And he shall send his angels [messenger unto whom He first revealed Himself] with a great sound of a trumpet [calling all to come to the light: the message in their mouths], and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things [the new life springing from the earth], know that it is near, even at the doors [the exit out of hell into heaven, full understanding, with Him].
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 [The old and corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man [as it is this day, none know He is here now, and has been with us long-suffering until Christ is formed in us], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken [away by the flood of the wicked], and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken [by the flood from the mouths of the wicked, the gate holding them in death and hell], and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your LORD does come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house [those left in charge of protecting and guarding against corruption this understanding] had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you [because of the consternation] think not the Son of man comes.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his LORD has made ruler over his household, to give them [this] meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when he comes shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My LORD delays his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The LORD of that servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Jeremiah 18
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: 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 do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in mine hand, 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 [chashab] 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 do evil in my sight, that it obey 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 [the leaders of My people], and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem [My People at large], saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise [chashab] a device [machashabah – what chashab?] against you: return 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 – to the end of] our own devices [machashabah], and we will every one do the imagination [shriyruwth – the marred vessels in the hand of the potters of the earth] of his evil heart.
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].
14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon [the LORD’s purity now seen on high] which comes from the rock of the field [Christ manifested on the Earth, as the living waters, that were frozen, now freely flow from me]? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place [zuwr – as a strange language to those who only know corruption] be forsaken?
15 Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity [their worthless creations], and they have caused them to stumble [against the Rock that offends them] in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up [calah – not exalted by the LORD];
16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing [drawing attention to their own ignorance]; every one that passes [‘abar – thinks they will by this corruption rise from death] thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head [wondering why they remain ignorant, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth].
17 I will scatter them as with an east wind [My Spirit moving upon these water, of which they are ignorant] before the enemy; I will show them the back [not know I have come until I have passed by], and not the face [paniym – not knowing My presence], in the day of their calamity.
18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices [chashab machashabah] against Jeremiah [the LORD rising to raise His people]; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue [word of deception, to hold the people down in death and hell], and let us not give heed [qashab – to pierce the ear and enter the mind] to any of his words.
19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine [the result of not accepting this word as the word from the mouth of God], and pour out their blood by the force of the sword [the word they refuse]; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
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.
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 that feed my people; You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited [paqad – manifested My presence, been the Chief Overseer for the good of] them: behold, I will visit [paqad – manifest Myself as the Chief Overseer of the earth] upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, says the LORD.
5 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6 In his days Judah [the elect remnant first] shall be saved, and Israel [God’s people at large] 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 of Egypt;
8 But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country [the darkness that covers the earth], and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land [‘adamah – the land that I have given to the people I have created again].
9 Mine heart [the minds of My people] within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
10 For the land [‘erets – the earth] is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land 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 by which they suddenly fall]: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation [pquddah – now when I Am risen into sight as the Chief Overseer of the earth], says the LORD.
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria [who put idols in My place and call them by My name]; they prophesied in Baal [the idols of the confused world], 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, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land [‘erets – the earth].
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken [shama’ – obey] not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain [habal – to stray into worthlessness]: they speak a vision of their own heart, 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.
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked [qashab] his word, and heard [shama’ – obeyed] it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: 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: in the latter days [‘achariyth] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it perfectly.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear [shama’ – obey] my words, then they should have turned [shuwb – returned] them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off [rachowq – now when the world has ended by evil decrees]?
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed [created evil decrees while sleeping in darkness].
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;
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff [the lies of evil dreamers] to the wheat [the good seed speaking this word of God]? says the LORD.
29 Is not my word like as a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that break the rock [the false Christs] in pieces?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He says.
32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness [giving no value to this word]; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people 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 [massa’ – the song He says we should sing]? you shall then say unto them, What burden [mah massa’]? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.
34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden [massa’] of the LORD [speaking their own words that are the burden while saying My word is a burden], I will even punish [paqad – come as the Chief Overseer against] that man and his house.
35 Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?
36 And the burden [massa’] of the LORD shall you mention no more: for every man’s [own] word shall be his burden [massa’]; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
37 Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? and, What has the LORD spoken?
38 But since you say, The burden [massa’] of the LORD [saying this word is a burden]; therefore thus says the LORD; Because you say this word, The burden [massa’] of the LORD [and speak your own word], and I have sent unto you, saying, You shall not say, The burden [massa’] of the LORD [never again speaking in My name];
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, which shall not be forgotten.
The only other place the word massa’ appears in Jeremiah is four times in Jeremiah 17. The word’s meaning is “from 5375 [nasa’ – to lift]; a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire:–burden, carry away, prophecy, X they set, song, tribute.”
Matthew 11
23 And you, Capernaum [the place where these words of the Comforter have come], which are exalted unto heaven [lifting your words above the LORD’s, saying you have understanding and He doesn’t], shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden [with the evil words of men in positions of power], and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I Am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light [double meaning intended].
Jeremiah 17
1 The sin of Judah [the leaders of My people] is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
2 While their children remember their [creations] altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills [places of power].
3 O my mountain in the field [My high places in the earth], I will give your substance and all your treasures [your creations you think have value] to the spoil, and your high places [from where you mislead] for sin, throughout all your borders.
4 And you, even yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you know not [because you’re blinded by your own ignorance]: for you have kindled a fire in mine anger, which [as hell] shall burn forever.
5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath [a tree stripped of protection against the elements] in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land [where nothing grows from the earth] and not inhabited.
7 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked [‘anash – the “woeful” day spoken of in verse 16 below]: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor [impatiently, presumptuously, going before you led me] to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful [‘anash – desperately wicked] day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you [nokach – only here in Jeremiah, meaning not against].
17 Be not a terror unto me: you are my hope in the day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate [into and out of hell and heaven] of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear [shama’] you the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah [who rule My people], and all Judah [those following these men], and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem [all God’s people at large], that enter in [to hell and heaven] by these gates:
21 Thus says the LORD; Take heed [shamar – guard and protect] to yourselves, and bear no burden [massa’ – you own words] on the sabbath day [when I interrupt you with My presence, stopping your words, for correction back onto the good course], nor bring it in [into heaven] by the gates of Jerusalem;
22 Neither carry forth a burden [masasa] out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do you any work, but hallow you the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
23 But they obeyed [shama’] not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction [correction].
24 And it shall come to pass, if you diligently hearken [shama’ – obey] unto me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden [massa’] through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain forever.
26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin [as My right hand], and from the plain [seeing all these things], and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
27 But if you will not hearken [shama’] unto me to hallow the sabbath day [when I interrupt you for correction], and not to bear a burden [massa’ – your words], even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
The word ‘anash, above, in verses 9 & 16, rendered “desperately wicked” and “woeful,” only appears seven other times, and means “to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy:–desperate(-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.” In its other seven uses, it is five times rendered “incurable,” once as “very sick,” and once as “desperate.”
Isaiah 17
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips [engraft strangers with foreign ways]:
11 In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate [‘anash] sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise [voices] of the seas; and to the rushing of nations [of those who don’t know the LORD is present], that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters [against the LORD]!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off [merchaq – from this decreed appointed time of the LORD], and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains [the worthlessness in high places] before [paniym] the wind [the presence of the LORD’s Spirit working and speaking unknown], and like a rolling thing before [paniym – in the presence of] the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening-tide [when the flood of darkness comes] trouble; and before the morning [when the light comes] he [the darkness] is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Proverbs 23
6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
7 For as he thinks [sha’ar {8176}, only used here] in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to you; but his heart is not with you.
8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose you your sweet words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Hosea 6
1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal [rapha’] us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up [in this resurrection], and we shall live in [by] his sight.
3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning [this coming of His light upon the earth]; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain [His word and understanding from heaven where He reserved it] unto the earth.
4 O Ephraim [My people in this generation], what shall I do unto you? O Judah [you leaders of My people], what shall I do unto you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud [that disappears when the light comes], and as the early dew it goes away [when the light comes].
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light [My understanding] that go forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gilead [the high places where this testimony is sent] is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10 I have seen a horrible thing [sha’aruwrah] in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim [all God’s people in this generation], Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah [the now awakened elect remnant], he has set a harvest for you, when I returned the captivity [captivating the minds] of my people.
Jeremiah 31
17 And there is hope in your end [‘achariyth – these last days], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised [corrected] 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 [acting as a child, until childish things were put away].
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 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 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.
Psalms 63
1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
3 Because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:
6 When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.
7 Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.
8 My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me.
9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
