27 – 30 December 2025 (originally posted 30 December 2025)
Make your face to shine upon your servant; and teach me your statutes.
The LORD begins today, above in Psalms 119:135, with the writer (unidentified, while thought to be Hezakiah: meaning “his strength is Jehovah,” and contextually: who Jehovah strengthens again) speaking of the LORD bringing him out of darkness (ignorance that come by neglect and corruption of the LORD’s word and way) into His light (understanding that is undefiled, and thereby brings life again).
In this context, the Psalm begins with the first four verses saying:
1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law [the word] of the LORD.
2 Blessed are they that keep [natsar – guard from corruption] his testimonies, and that [diligently] seek him with the whole heart [mind, in His testimonies: word].
3 They also do no iniquity: they [faithfully with Him] walk in his ways.
4 You have commanded us to keep [shamar – also meaning to guard, with an unstated affinity to shama’, meaning the written words are heard as Jehovah’s voice and therefore fearfully, with reverence, kept] your precepts diligently.
The word above, rendered “diligently,” is m’od, from the same origin as the three times used word ‘uwd, meaning “from an unused root meaning to rake together; a poker (for turning or gathering embers):–(fire-)brand.” As we know, the addition of the “m” implies the word mah, meaning what (‘uwd), a question answered in the uses of the word (’uwd).
The diligent search is that referred to in Hebrews 11:5 & 6, as the writer (unidentified, but, logically, thought to be Paul) tells of the necessity of diligently seeking the LORD (line upon line, precept upon precept – as in Isaiah 28:10 & 13), as a prerequisite of, when finding Him in His word, believing it is Him. The passage says He is a rewarder of those who do so (diligently seek Him), the early verse referring to this (our faith that it is Him), as that which gives us the power to see Him (as the One revealing the things unseen in His word, which only He knows).
Hebrews 11
5 By faith Enoch was translated [metatithemi – changed back to purity, reversing the effect of the fall] that he should not see death; and was not found [among the dead], because God had translated [metatithemi – literally saying, “with his rising” from corruption] him: for before his translation [metathesis – with His exposition of the LORD’s coming] he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
The testimony that pleased the LORD is that quoted in Jude 1:14 & 15.
Jude 1
10 But these [men with defiled minds] speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts [without the LORD’s Spirit with them, in them], in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain [“who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.” From 1 John 3:12], and ran greedily after the error of Balaam [who agreed to curse God’s people] for reward, and perished in the gainsaying [antilogia – the antithesis, speaking against the word of God] of Core.
12 These are spots [stains] in your feasts of charity [this word freely and abunbantly given as received], when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water [without this word of the LORD], carried about of winds [of false doctrine]; trees whose [corrupt] fruit withers, without [this good] fruit, twice dead [past and present], plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging [proud] waves of the sea [rising up among God’s people], foaming out their own shame; wandering [planetes – meaning “a rover (“planet”), i.e. (figuratively) an erratic teacher] stars [posing as teachers, lights in the darkness, who are false lights and enemies of the LORD mixed among His people], to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness [ignorance] forever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage [benefiting from their positions of power].
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves [from the LORD with us, in us], sensual, having not the Spirit [who teaches us these things, leading us into all truth, with rightly ordered words].
Furthermore, we know from Matthew 5:8 that by purity (the undefiled word and mind), we see the LORD (again), and from Psalms 19:8, that it is by His commandments that purity and light come.
Matthew 8
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake [for delivering this undefiled word as received, as the LORD commanded]: for [following the commands of the king] theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my [righteousness’] sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets [speaking My word as received] which were before you.
13 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor [moraino – become moronic: mentally prepubescent: not able to, nor should they, reproduce], wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 You are the light [understanding and life] of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot [and should not] be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light [understanding] so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven [giving us His light from His throne].
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For truly I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law [this received word], till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
The Strong’s Greek Dictionary definition of the word moraino is, “to become insipid; figuratively, to make (passively, act) as a simpleton:–become fool, make foolish, lose savor.”
It (moraine) appears once in Luke 14:34 telling the same loss of savor; then, in contrast to Hebrews 11:6, Romans 1:22, after verse 21 speaks of those who, when they knew God,, “they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain [worthlessly lost] in their imaginations [the creations of their own minds separated from Him], and their foolish heart [mind] was darkened [became ignorant],” (verse 22 & 23) say, “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools [moraine], And changed [allasso – the change that must be reversed] the glory of the uncorruptible God into an [molten] image made [corrupt] like to corruptible man.”
The one other time moraine appears is in 1 Corinthians 1:20, speaking of all the wisdom of this world becoming moronic.
This condition is that which Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 15:51 & 52, saying from it is the change that all must undergo, which again takes us to Psalms 19, telling us of the means by which it occurs and the life (understanding) it produces.
1 Corinthians 15
42 So also is the resurrection [anastasis] of the dead. It is sown in [man’s] corruption; it is raised in [God’s] incorruption:
43 It is sown in [man’s] dishonor; it is raised in [God’s] glory: it is sown in [man’s] weakness; it is raised in [God’s] power:
44 It is sown a [man’s] natural body; it is raised a spiritual [godly] body. There is a natural [flesh] body, and there is a spiritual [God in our flesh] body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [the first-fruit of the new creation] was made a quickening spirit [I Am, with His rising from the dead in me, He will bring many back to life].
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man [natural Adam] is of the earth, earthy; the second man [Spiritual Adam] is the LORD from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image [eikon] of the earthy, we shall also bear the image [eikon – likeness that marks us as possessed by Him] of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that [those bearing the mark of the beast, without the LORD’s Spirit, their identity revealed in their words and works, as a mark in their head and hand] flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption [that marks the flesh as without the LORD’s Spirit possessing it] inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [as dead flesh], but we shall all be changed [allasso – by His understanding as it unfolds, removing all corruption],
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye [enlightening the mind so we see Him as He is, with us, in us], at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound [the voice of His messenger, I Am, His archangel, shouting, calling, kaleo, all to join in His ONE LIVING BODY] and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed [into His ONE BODY, in the air cleared of corruption, cleared of the smoke that came from the bottomless pit, into heaven, full understanding with Him, purity by which we see God].
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [flesh] must put on [spiritual] immortality [which is the anastasis: the resurrection].
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
Psalms 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament [this exposition] shows his handiwork [the work of His hand, in which His glory is revealed].
2 Day unto day [understanding sent to give understanding, giving His light, He] utters speech [through His children], and night unto night [in this time when ignorance covers the earth in darkness, He speaks to the ignorant, to] show knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their [His children’s] voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their [His children’s] words to the end of the [old] world. In them [His words in His children] has he set a tabernacle for the sun [His dwelling place in His people, whose rising with Him is the new day come],
5 Which is as a bridegroom [chathan – the only time the word appears in the Psalms, speaking of the covered One revealed] coming out of his chamber [us; to join with all His people at large], and rejoices as a strong man [the Almighty] to run a race [this course set before us].
6 His going forth is from the end of the [old and corrupt] heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it [ending the old and beginning the new]: and there is nothing hid [cathar – meaning “to hide (by covering)”] from the heat thereof [all His treasure, hidden as if frozen in a Stone, are revealed by Him in this trial by fire].
7 The law of the LORD is perfect [tamiym – filling us to completion], converting [shuwb – returning to Him] the soul: the testimony [‘eduwth – kept, guarded and preserved in the ark] of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [that we speak this word as received] is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter [in our mouths] also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his [own] errors [shgiy’ah – straying away from the LORD]? Cleanse [by Your correction] me from secret faults [cathar – with affinity to catham, chatham, and chathan – hiding what should be made known, uncovering the One covered by straying away from Him].
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins [presuming things that aren’t true]; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression [of those who’ve trespassed into things forbidden].
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Understanding what Paul is saying, when, below in 1 Corinthians 1:19, speaking of the LORD destroying the wisdom of the wise of this world age, and then, in verse 20, saying all those who should have wisdom and understanding have become moronic (moraine), is referring us to it deeper and more expansive definition in Isaiah 29, from where verse 19 is quoted. There we are told of the sealed book (word of God) which neither the learned (KNOWING IT IS SEALED AND RESERVED FOR THE LORD ALONE TO REVEAL NOW IN THE END OF THIS EARTH AGE) nor the unlearned, are able to read it with understanding.
It’s important to remember that, in context, Isaiah 28 just spoke of those who’ve’ have made a covenant with death and are in agreement with hell, who refuse this rest and refreshing that comes when the LORD is here teaching sound doctrine (shmuw’ah – the “report” that is the voice of Jehovah heard).
These men are saying that when this promised scourge (of correction), meant to sweep away corruption, comes, it will not come upon them, because they have made lies and falsehood their hiding place. The conclusion, the true expected end, comes at the end of Isaiah 29, with verse 24 saying, “They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured [against the present LORD] shall learn doctrine.”
1 Corinthians 1
18 For the preaching of the cross [this long-suffering of the LORD, not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance, and be changed] is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written [in Isaiah 29:14], I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish [moraine – He made moronic, by the entrance of His word and truth] the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by [corrupting] wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of [this] preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews [Judah – the leaders of God’s people, who say they are the “true believers”] require a sign, and the Greeks [the unbelieving world at large] seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ [in our flesh] crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God [in us], and the wisdom of God [in us speaking and working].
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence [with us, in us].
30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the LORD [that we know Him, and impart His understanding, His glory, as received from Him, quoted from Jeremiah 9:24].
Isaiah 29
1 Woe to Ariel [the Lion of God – the strength {understanding} of God, here taken and controlled by the wicked], to Ariel, the city where David [the lion of Judah] dwelt! add you year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel [it will again be My strength].
3 And I [as a man of war] will camp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with a mount, and I will raise forts against you.
4 And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust [as the voice of the serpent from the ruin of the earth], and your voice shall be, as of one that has a familiar spirit [of the known dead speaking words of death], out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of your strangers [teaching strange fire] shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 You shall be visited [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] of the LORD of hosts [tsaba’ – I Am, a man of war] with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire [all from My mouth].
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight [tsaba’] against Ariel, even all that fight [tsaba’] against her and her munition [matsowd – her munitions are the root, a foundation, of righteousness], and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams [chalam], and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams [chalam], and, behold, he drinks; but he awakens, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight [tsaba’] against mount Zion [when they awaken and realize their own mind’s delusions deceived them and they have been emptied of all understanding].
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder [not knowing what you are experiencing]; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep [with no signs of life], and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers [ra’ah – those who should see as the LORD sees] has he covered [kacah].
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book [cepher – this written word of God] that is sealed [chatham], which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed [chatham]:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart [the foundations of their mind – their stiocheion, the elements of their understanding, are corrupt and disordered] far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous [eye-opening] work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder [pele’ – at which all have wondered]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their [wicked] counsel [‘etsah] from the LORD, and their works are in the dark [their own ignorance of reality and truth they can’t understand because it is as a foreign language], and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down [the overthrow] shall be esteemed as the potter’s [yatsar] clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed [yatser] say of him that framed [yatsar] it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon [purity seen in high places] shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest [of upright men]?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words [this word] of the book [cepher], and the eyes of the blind shall see [again] out of obscurity, and out of darkness [by coming out of ignorance].
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the [realization of] LORD, and the poor [those without worldly powser] among men shall rejoice in the [realization of] Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught.
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed [padah] Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale [but they will reach the end promised].
23 But when he sees his children [who have been born again out of death and hell], the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name [declare My identity Holy], and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured [against me] shall learn doctrine.
Jeremiah 9
11 And I will make [My people] Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons [tanniyn – men as serpents and whales devouring with their wide open mouths]; and I will make the cities of Judah [the current leaders] desolate, without an inhabitant [living].
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it [as I have commanded], [declaring] for what the land [‘ erets – the earth] perishes and is burned up like a wilderness [without this understanding], that none passes through [‘abar – from death into life]?
13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed [shama’] my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart [minds], and after Baalim [the false gods, and their false teaching, of this world], which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people [with their words as poison], with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen [as they are scattered], whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword [this word they refuse] after them, till I have consumed [kalah – the decreed end, the mow’ed described in Daniel 12:7, when the scattering of God’s people leaves them with no power, and all these things are finished] them.
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and [for these things] call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [wise] women [who now understand this], that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters [giving this understanding from our minds, as in verse 1].
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded [without understanding, not knowing the LORD or His ways], because we have forsaken the land [‘erets – not been His presence to the earth], because our dwellings [in Him] have cast us out [we have cast Him aside].
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women [My ONE BODY], and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows [upon those who say they see], and is entered into our palaces [the current crop of corrupt leaders], to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field [as has come upon all humanity], and as the handful [only a few living] after the harvestman, and none [among men] shall gather them.
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth [‘erets], for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
25 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all them which are circumcised [who think they are spiritual] with the uncircumcised [showing them to be without My Spirit];
26 Egypt [as oppressors and tyrants], and Judah [the corrupt leaders of My people], and Edom [the enemies among My people as if their brethren, who seek their destruction], and the children of Ammon [who’ve scattered My people and removed their power], and Moab [by their mouth that are the gates holding them in hell], and all that are in the utmost corners [who’ve turned all but the very elect remnant away from Me in these last days], that dwell in the wilderness [this end time desolation]: for all these nations [who haven’t known me] are uncircumcised [are without My Spirit], and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised [without My Spirit] in the heart [in their minds, even while I Am present with them].
Psalms 119
115 Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me according unto your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
117 Hold you me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto your statutes continually.
118 You have trodden down all them that err from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross [ciyg – like separating, by fire, the refuse from the precious]: therefore I love your testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments.
121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to my oppressors.
122 Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud [who can’t be reasoned with] oppress me.
123 My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
124 Deal with your servant according unto your mercy, and teach me your statutes.
125 I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
126 It is time for you, LORD, to work [do some of that God stuff, in ways only you are able]: for they have made void your law.
127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them.
130 The entrance of your words gives light [‘owr – one of only two places the word appears in this Psalm]; it gives understanding [and life] unto the simple [pthiy – meaning “silly (i.e. seducible)”].
131 I opened my mouth, and panted [sha’aph – swallowed Your word]: for I longed for your commandments.
132 Look you upon me, and be merciful unto me, as you use to do [mishpat – judgment, God stuff, that only You can do] unto those that love your name [Your identity manifested in those You’ve chosen and sent].
133 Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your precepts.
135 Make your face [paniym – Your present] to shine [‘owr – Your understanding, which is the light and life of all who receive it as Your person and presence] upon your servant; and teach me your statutes.
136 Rivers of [these life-giving] waters run down my eyes [that see as You see], [with great sorrow] because they keep [shamar – guard] not your law [Your word from men’s corrupting].
137 Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments [mishpat].
138 Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very [m’od – exceedingly diligently] faithful.
139 My zeal [for Your house’s, Your family’s, sake] has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words.
140 Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it [because by it we see, realize, You].
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget your precepts.
The word rendered “small” is the Hebrew word tsa’iyr, a word we’ve looked into in several previous posts, meaning “to be small, i.e. (figuratively) ignoble:–be brought low, little one, be small.” It speaks of the diminishing of God’s people, when understanding has, through neglect and degeneration, left the earth, and ignorance of God and His way prevails in all the high places.
The following, ending with Isaiah 28, is from the post of 30 December 2022, with today’s additions in double brackets.
Jeremiah 48
1 Against Moab [those whose mouths are the gates holding God’s people and the world in hell] thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo [the false prophets of Moab]! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim [the serpent’s two dens – the institutions of church and state] is confounded [yabesh] and taken [lakad]: Misgab [the high place of corruption] is confounded [yabesh] and dismayed [chathath].
2 There shall be no more praise of Moab [the mouths that hold God’s people in hell]: in Heshbon [the strongholds that remain] they have devised [chashab – to, as planned, uncover the corruption woven into all truth] evil against it; come, and let us cut it [Moab] off from being a nation. Also you shall be cut down, O Madmen [meaning dunghill – the willingly insane as the excrement of the earth]; the sword [[this word of the LORD they refuse]] shall pursue you.
3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim [the serpent’s two dens – the corrupt institutions of church and state], spoiling and great destruction.
4 Moab [the men and the words that have held the world in hell] is destroyed; her little ones [tsa’iyr – as in Isaiah 60:22 [[those they have diminished]]] have caused a cry to be heard.
5 For in the going up of Luhith [tablets – in the exaltation of the word of God sent from heaven] continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim [the destruction of these corrupt institutions] the enemies [mixed among us] have heard a cry of destruction.
6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath [naked – stripped of all corruption] in the wilderness [the [[time and]] place of desolation].
7 For because you have trusted in your [corrupting] works and in your treasures [ideas though valuable in this corrupt world], you shall also be taken [lakad – caught: snared]: and Chemosh [those who’ve subdued God’s people – an idol {oppression} of Moab] shall go forth into captivity with his priests [the teachers of corruption in the institution of church] and his princes [the corrupt misleaders in civil government] together.
8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape [because all the major cities are unrecoverable – as the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, and the others cities didn’t escape]: the valley [the corrupt low places] also shall perish, and the plain [what they say they understand] shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.
9 Give wings [strength by understanding these things] unto Moab [that her prisoners may escape from her fires into heaven: into full understanding], that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any [except those choosing death] to dwell therein.
10 Cursed be he that does the work of the LORD [in His name] deceitfully, and cursed be he that keeps back his sword [this word from the mouth of God] from blood [from those draining life from humanity at large].
11 Moab [these men and the institutions they control have been unchallenged] has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees [thinking they are untouchable because of their positions of power], and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel [they haven’t emptied, purged, their corruption and returned to purity], neither has he gone into captivity [haven’t submitted to the LORD’s dominion]: therefore his taste [bitterness] remained in him [in the waters, words, of his vessel], and his scent [of death, unseen but sensed present] is not changed.
12 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers [tsa’ah – to tip over, so what is in them pours out], that shall cause him to wander [tsa’ah – that will tip them so all that is hidden in their bitterness is seen], and [all those they now attack and try to censor – from Elon to Alex Jones] shall empty his [the wicked’s] vessels, and break their bottles [the organizations from where comes their bitterness].
13 And Moab [the mouth of men, the gates of hell] shall be ashamed [disappointed, not reaching the end they sought] of Chemosh [those who’ve subdued God’s people – an idol {oppression} of Moab], as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel [as God’s family is of her idols, the calves, and devils, they put in His place [[see 2 Chronicles 11:15]]] their confidence [creations of men who led them, who told them these were their gods who would deliver them, before which they became desolated and went into captivity beyond Babylon: beyond confusion into delusion].
14 How say you, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
15 Moab [the mouths of men, the gates of hell] is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts [[Jehovah, who is a man of war – see Exodus 15:3]].
16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hastens [mahar – what mountain {flowed from this His high place}]] fast [[[m’od – by His exceeding diligence]] – as the LORD said it would, in His time – as in Isaiah 60:22].
The deep pattern embedded into the above, is Moab is the son of Lot by his older daughter, and the (child of the) “little one” (Jeremiah 48:4 above), from the word tsa’iyr (the “little one” of Isaiah 60:22), is Benammi (virtually the same as Benjamin), the son of Lot and his “younger” (tsa’iyr) daughter.
The place to which Lot and his two daughters “hasted” to “escaped” (Genesis 19:22 – mahar to malat) is named Zoar, meaning little ([[diminished]] into insignificance). It (Zoar) is twice (in Genesis 19:20) said to be a “little one,” from the five times used Hebrew word mits’ar (ma-tsa’iyr – what little one).
In the above (Jeremiah 48) the word malat (who is Lot – ma-lowt; what covering, or what veil) appears in verse 6 telling of those who “escape,” who “save” themselves by fleeing (as did Lot) from the dens of the serpent, verse 8 saying none of the cites “escape,” as didn’t Sodom, Gomorrah, and the five other cities [[seven cities, God’s people degenerated into total corruption]].
As many times previously discussed, lowt, the origin of the name Lot, only appears once, in Isaiah 25:7, the verse before the culminating event (advent), when the LORD removes the covering (lowt – veil of ignorance of Him present in the flesh) over all the earth, and in doing, He swallows up death in victory.
Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you [[Your voice above all others]], I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels [‘etsah [[Your voice advising to choose good and refuse evil]]] of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have [as Sodom and Gomorrah] made of a city a heap; of a defensed city a ruin: a palace of strangers [[the church and state institution estranged from You]] to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people [You’ve given understanding] glorify you, the city of the terrible [‘ariyts – tyrants in power] nations [who don’t know You] shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength to the poor [[those without worldly power]], a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast [of lies] of the terrible ones [‘ariyts – tyrants in power] is as a storm against the wall [Your truth in which we trust].
5 You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones [‘ariyts – tyrants in power] shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain [har – this is referring to the word mahar {to what mountain: ma-har}, where we hasten to be strengthened] shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain [har] the face [the presence] of the covering [lowt] cast [luwt] over all people, and the vail [maccekah – this is the molten calf Aaron made [[see Exodus 32:4 & 8]] to scratch the people’s itching ears – the same itch [[molten images]] that caused Lot’s daughters to go into their father’s bed – it {maccekah} is referring us to its later uses in Isaiah] that is spread over all nations [over all those who don’t know Me, even My people {as daughters of Lot} who say they know me while they worship idols created, put in My place, and called by My name].
8 He will swallow up [the words of] death in victory [[quoted in 1 Corinthians 15:54]]; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces [quoted in Revelation 7:17 & 21:4]; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. [[Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former [corrupt] things are passed away.]]
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the mouths of men as the gates holding God’s people in death, in hell, Sheol, the habitation of the dead] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill [madmenah: Madmen – the unrepentant, who remain in death, the willingly insane as the excrement of the earth].
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims [[as His Spirit moves upon the face of the waters – see Genesis 1:2]] spreads forth [as in the firmament, this exposition by which the below (the words of men} are separated from the word of God above, which the LORD calls heaven – see Genesis 1:6 – 8]] his hands to swim [rightly dividing the waters to stay above them [[remaining in the waters above the firmament]]]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands [[by the fruit of their own works]].
12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls [[the lies upon lies, in which men put their trust and in them falsely claiming there is “peace and safety]] shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust [[[‘apher – which the serpent, the devils doing Satan’s work, have been forever condemned to eat – see Genesis 3:14; the same dust to which man has, by following the advice of the serpent, returned, as the LORD said – see Genesis 3:19]] the ruin of the earth they’ve destroyed by their lies].
These passages tell of the cover (lowt – the filthy conversation of the wicked [[see 2 Peter 2:7]]) cast (luwt – covering the sword of the wicked [[the same covering {wrapping} of Goliath’s sword, with which {sword} David cut off Goliath’s head, which He later retakes in hand, and “uncovers” again – see 1 Samuel 21:9]]) over all the world by men who make themselves (giants) gods among us. It is the veil (maccekah) removed (bala’) by the LORD (by His counsel of old – these ancient things understood).
Isaiah uses the word (maccekah, meaning “a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out),” four additional times, telling of this covering.
Isaiah 28
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation [for the new earth]: he that believes shall not make haste [chuwsh – when I hasten the end of the wicked]. [Isaiah 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one [tsa’iyr] a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten [chuwsh] it in his time {when the LORD is revealed by His everlasting light manifested in the flesh}.]
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail [this word frozen in heaven until now] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place [the lies of the wicked].
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [Sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge [of correction] shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down [as dung upon the dunghill] by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation [because of the filthy conversation of the wicked] only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – to hear this word as the voice of Jehovah].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a [sleeping] man can stretch himself on it: and the covering [maccekah [[their molten images are]]] narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [as when He broke forth as waters [[the LORD’s word]] breaking forth upon David’s enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [when He sent a great hail from heaven [[understanding reserved, frozen, in the cloud and sent against the current crop of corrupt leaders]]], that he may do his work, his strange work [[unknown to all]]; and bring to pass his act, his strange act [at which all wonder].
22 Now, therefore, be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD God of hosts a consumption [kalah – a completing end], even determined [charats – decreed] upon the whole earth.
The origin of the word tsa’iyr is the word tsa’ar, which is used three times and has the same meaning. In its three uses (tsa’ar) it gives us the LORD’s intended context (of tsa’iyr), and, thereby, gives us the understanding held in its darkened deep (again, see Genesis 1:2).
Job 14
1 Man [‘adam – a human] that is born of a woman [‘ishshah; ‘iysh seh – an individual among the flock] is of few days and full of trouble [rogez – agitation that rages in his time].
2 He comes forth like a flower, and is [as a tree] cut down: he flees also as a shadow [tsel – one that is a product of a time without light], and continues [‘amad] not [no longer stands upright].
3 And do you open your eyes upon such a one [caught in such a time], and bring me into judgment with you?
4 Who [except you LORD, by His judgment] can [by the washing of regeneration by His word] bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one [man].
5 Seeing his days are determined [charats – have a decreed end], the number of his months are with you, you [LORD] have appointed his bounds [choq – the appointed time decreed] that he cannot pass [‘abar – that without You he cannot Passover from death into life];
6 Turn from him, that he may rest [sleep in death, in the flesh], till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day [the end when the recompense comes].
7 For [as is ‘adam] there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in the [dry ground] earth [without the word of God, these life giving waters], and the stock thereof die in the ground [‘aphar – the ashes of the earth’s ruin, from where God created the first and creates the second ‘adam];
9 Yet through the scent of water [perceiving the word of God] it will bud [be quickened to life], and bring forth boughs like a plant [bearing good fruit]. [Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.]
10 But man [geber – the mighty] dies, and [his understanding] wastes away: yea, man [‘adam] gives up the ghost [gava’ – with his last breath his unknown essence, substance, leaves his body], and where is he [no man knows from where he has come]?
11 As the [life-giving] waters fail from the sea [as the word of God loses its original meaning, and its value is lost in the degeneration through successive generations], and the flood [of men’s corruption] decays and dries [its understanding] up:
12 So man lies down [sleeps in death unaware], and rises not: till the heavens [all understanding] be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep [until these waters are sent from the cloud in heaven where they are reserved for this moment].
13 O that you would hide me [as You have hidden me] in the grave [sheol – in hell among the sleeping dead], that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past [and my enemies have become my footstool], that you would appoint [as you have appointed] me a set time [choq – this decreed end], and remember me [zakar, the same {identical} word rendered male in the creation of ‘adam, and the “man child” spoken of in Isaiah 66:7, the passage saying “5 Hear the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that renders recompense to his enemies. 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child [zakar]. 8 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.”]!
14 If a man [geber] die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time [choq – decreed end] will I wait, till my change [chaliyphah – speaking of changing our outer cover of flesh] come.
15 You shall call [to awaken me], and I [when I am awakened] will answer you [as You’ve commanded]: you will have a desire to the work of your hands [making me in Your image and likeness].
16 For now you number my steps [understanding the corruption picked up along the way]: do you not watch over [shamar – you don’t guard, protect, or defend] my sin [the corrupt offering of the wicked]?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity [you remove {by uncovering} the things we, in our sleep, have put together: forged in Your name].
18 And surely the mountains [the high place of the earth] falling [away from good into evil] comes to naught, and the rock [the worthless governments in which the ignorant trust] is removed out of his place.
19 The waters wear the stones [that seem immovable]: [as] you [LORD] wash away the [corrupt] things which grow out of the dust [ruin] of the earth; and you [LORD] destroy the [worthless] hope of man [‘enowsh – those who remain dead flesh, waiting for their promised utopia which is now realized to be hell].
20 You prevail [taqaph] forever against him, and he passes: you change [shanah – duplicate] his countenance [paniym], and send him away [into ignorance of his own presence in hell].
21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low [tsa’ar – diminished], but he perceives it not of them [knowing not that he is them in hell].
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his [unknown] soul within him shall mourn.
The following, Jeremiah 30 and Zechariah 13, are from the post of 11 April 2024, with today’s additions in double brackets.
Jeremiah 30
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Thus [in this manner] speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken unto you in a book.
3 For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring again [[shuwb – retrun]] the captivity [[shbuwth – “or shbiyth;” its meaning given as “from 7617; exile, concretely, prisoners; figuratively, a former state of prosperity.” The word’s intended affinity is to the shuwb, and the suffixes {from the post of 10 July 2025} “iyth, which is a derivative of the words ‘uwth, a four times used word meaning, “properly, to come, i.e. (implied) to assent:–consent,” and ‘owth, meaning “probably from 225 [‘uwth] (in the sense of appearing); a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:–mark, miracle, (en)sign, token.” This return come is what Paul refers to in 2 Corinthians 3:15 -17, saying “But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail {covering, lowt, all the earth, hiding the LORD’s presence in the flesh from where He is speaking} is upon their heart {minds}. 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn {return} to the LORD, the vail {covering} shall be taken away. Now the LORD is that Spirit {in our flesh}: and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty {freedom from those who have possessed us}.]] of my people Israel and Judah, says the LORD: and I will cause them to return [[shuwb]] to the land [[‘erets – the earth]] that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
4 And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel [[God’s people at large]] and concerning Judah [[the elect remnant, the new crop of godly leaders I Am raising up]].
5 For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness [[because there is man child readied to be born]]?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble [tsarah – the tribulation], but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar [rachowq – from this time when the world is rule by the evil decrees of the wicked in power], and your seed from the land [‘erets – the earth] of their captivity; and Jacob shall return [shuwb – turn to the LORD], and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end [kalah – the “consummation” of Daniel 9:27] of all nations whither I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished [naqah – not leave you uncleaned].
12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is [by the men you follow] incurable, and your wound is grievous.
13 There is none [among men] to plead your cause, that you mayest be bound up: you have [from men you put in My place] no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one [‘akzaiy – a deadly enemy], for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased [‘atsam].
15 Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins [like Sodom and Gomorrah] were increased [‘atsam – are become mightier than you], I have done these things unto you.
16 Therefore, [to bring you out of these troubles, tribulation] all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
17 For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after [to rescue].
18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap [ruin], and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
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 glorify them, and they shall not be small [tsa’ar – no longer be diminished].
20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me [paniym – by My presence manifested], and I will punish [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them.
21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of 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 of the LORD [the great cloud, from where His voice is heard] goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head [the powers] 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 [mind]: in the latter days [‘achariyth] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.
Zechariah 13
1 In that day [when you are scattered – as is spoken of ending the previous chapter [[describing it as every house apart]]] there shall be a fountain [of living water] opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for [to purify you of your] sin and for uncleanness.
2 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts [[a man of war]], that I will cut off [karath] the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the [false] prophets and the [their] unclean spirit to pass [‘abar – pass into death, be understood to be the voices of the dead] out of the land [‘erets – from the earth].
3 And it shall come to pass, that [it, the passing from the earth, shall be] when any shall yet prophesy [in the name of the LORD, words other than from the fountain [[ of the LORD]]], then his father and his mother that begat him [teaching and leading to bring him from death into life] shall say unto him, You shall not live; for you speaks lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him [to bring them from death into life] shall thrust him through [daqar – this refers us to Isaiah 13:15, see below [[15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through [daqar]; and every one that is joined unto them [those speaking lies in the LORD’s name] shall fall by the sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD, which they refuse].]], the only time Isaiah uses the word] when he prophesies.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day [when they are trust through with this sword, the word of God from the fountain they refuse], that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision [[when they realize they are vanity: worthless]], when he has prophesied [realizing they are their own words against the LORD]; neither shall they wear a rough garment [se’ar, the description of Esau, the same as sa’iyr, meaning devils [[see 2 Chronicles 11:15]] and he-goats, misleaders, enemies mixed among us] to deceive:
5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman [‘iysh – a man – refusing to repent, now claiming to be a shepherd]; for man [‘adam] taught me [corruption] to keep cattle [qanah – the word rendered “possessors” in Zechariah 11:5, saying to “the flock of slaughter,” “Whose possessors {qanah} slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.”] from my youth.
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds [makkah] in your hands [against their dead works]? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded [nakah] in the house of my friends [these are wounds of a friend, as in the LORD’s own dead body [[people]] wounded by Him, stopping their works].
7 Awake, O sword [this word of God], against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, says the LORD of hosts [[a man of war]]: smite [nakah] the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn [shuwb – return] my hand [good works] upon the little ones [tsa’ar [[the few who remain faithful to Me]]].
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land [‘erets – the earth], says the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off [karath – as in verse 2 above] and die [gava’ – give up the ghost, the unclean spirit, their idols, the sons of perdition that possess them]; but the third shall be left [yathar – excel, remain when the sons of perdition do not, as in Genesis 49:4 [[speaking of Reuben, unstable as water, who will not excel {yathar}, who is the archetype of the son of perdition, who lost his birth right by putting himself in his father’s place – see 1 Chronicles 5:1 & 2]]] therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine [tsaraph] them as silver is refined [tsaraph [[removing the dross]]], and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name [[making them my children diligently seeking, from Me, correction, by which they become My identity, having My mind]], and I will hear them [[when they speak these same words as received]]: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
The following is from the post of 4 August 2022. (Writing these same things, repeatedly, precept upon precept, line upon line, is “as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing [see Isaiah 28:21, which brings the rest and refreshing], shall cast down [nuwach – bring rest] to the earth with the hand [of the LORD’s work].)
Psalms 17
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned [deceitful] lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence [[paniym]]; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.
3 You have proved my heart; you have visited [[paqad – as the Chief Shepherd and Overseer of the earth]] me in the night [[in this time when ignorance covers the earth]]; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept [[shamar – guarded]] me from the paths [[misleading]] of the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.
6 I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Show your marvelous [eye-opening] lovingkindness, O you that saves by your right hand [the power in your work] them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye [‘iyshown – by strengthening my eye [[as Your corrected pupil]]], hide me under the shadow of your wings [as you fly in the heavens, by the strength of Your full understanding],
9 From [paniym – by manifesting Your presence with us, in us, against]] the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10 They are enclosed in their own fat [[prospering by their misleading]]: with their mouths they speak proudly [[trusting in things that aren’t true, the molten images they’ve created and put in the LORD’s place]].
11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion [[speaking in the LORD’s name]] lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint [[paniym – by manifesting Your presence against]] him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure [saba’]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold your face [paniym – presence] in righteousness: I shall be satisfied [saba’], when I awake [quwts – the word rendered “watches” in Ezekiel 7:6, telling of the end [qets] come, awakening to the morning {tsphiyrah – of the crowning}], with Your likeness.
