Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit.
30 November – 2 December 2024
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit.
The LORD begins today, above in Micah 7:1, speaking of His people still bound in darkness (ignorance of Him), held by the thorns and briers (by the mouths of misleaders and deceivers) they followed there. In the Hebrew word bikkuwrah, rendered “first-ripe fruit,” speaking of the first-born from the dead, He is speaking of those who should be the fathers of many children, born in the same way they should have: by receiving the LORD by receiving His word as His.
The only other time the word (bikkuwrah) appears is in Hosea 9:10, where we’re told of when the LORD saw the fathers as “first-ripe” of the fig tree, at her first time.
These chapters speak of this time of the LORD’s visitation. Hosea 10 then begins, like in the title verse, saying, “Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the [empty] altars; according to the goodness of his land [‘erets – this corrupt earth age] they have made [what they call] goodly images.”
Hosea 10
2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
3 For now they shall say [refusing the LORD’s leading into life], We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant [with death and hell]: thus judgment springs up as hemlock [poison in their words and ways] in the furrows of the field [as two opposing armies].
5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven [the idols they put in My place in their worthless houses]: for the people thereof [when they realize they’ve worshipped idols men created, put in My place, and called them by My name] shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it [the idols they created], for the glory thereof, because it [their glory in their idols] is departed from it.
6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria [the communists in power] for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel [the same words that led them into death and hell].
7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water [blown away by My Almighty Spirit moving upon these waters, to bring light to the darkened deep].
8 The high places also of Aven [the worthless houses], the sin [the idols, abominations they put in My place and call by My name] of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn [misleaders] and the thistle [deceivers] shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains [the corrupt governments, institutions of church and state], Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us [quoted in Revelation 6:16].
9 O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah [this a reference to Pashar {Jeremiah 20 in the previous post}, with affinity to Judges 20:4 – 8, tearing the LORD’s dead body {church} in pieces]: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them [nasag – this refers to its only other use in Hosea, in Hosea 2:7].
10 It is in my desire that I should chastise [correct] them; and the people shall be gathered against them when they shall bind themselves in [battle like two armies arrayed] their two furrows [where they planted their iniquity, which springs up as judgment by their own poisonous words].
11 And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught [this correction – with reference to Jeremiah 31:17 thru 22], and loves to tread out the corn [trample under their feet this fruit from the LORD; speaking of His righteous judgment come, saying in Hebrews 10:29 “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”]; but I passed over [‘abar] upon her fair neck [showing them the way from death into life is in these words waiting in their throat to be spoken]: I will make Ephraim to ride [rakab – I will dispatch them for this purpose]; Judah shall plow [the earth], and Jacob shall break his clods [that have hardened without this word from heaven].
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground [niyr – only appearing three other times, all below]: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain [this] righteousness upon you [from heaven – this place of full understanding].
13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your [own] way, in the multitude of your mighty men [the consensus of the ignorant who falsely call themselves wise].
14 Therefore shall a tumult [sha’own – voices roaring; the two armies of God’s divided people, without this word warring one against the other] arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman [“fire worshippers” – the communists who’ve kindled hell’s fires] spoiled Betharbel [“the houses of God’s ambush” – His people ignorant and blinded to His presence] in the day of battle [both names only appearing here] the mother [the teachers who brought them up] was dashed in pieces upon her children.
15 So shall Bethel [the corrupt houses of God, where they worship idols they put in My place] do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning [when this understanding has come as the light of this new day] shall the king of Israel [the communists sitting in power] utterly be cut off.
Proverbs 13
13 Whoso despises the [this] word shall be destroyed: but he that fears the commandment shall be rewarded.
14 The law [this word from the mouth of God by which man lives] of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
15 Good understanding gives [the LORD’s] favor: but the way of transgressors is hard [hardening their minds to the LORD’s favor, like ground hardened without this word from heaven].
16 Every prudent man deals with knowledge [of God]: but a fool lays open his folly [foolishness that comes by ignorance].
17 A wicked messenger [mal’ak – angels with misleading messages] falls into mischief [ra’ – by their own evil words]: but a faithful ambassador is health [marpe’ – is the cure for evil messages].
18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses [this] instruction: but he that regards [shamar – guards from corrupt] reproof [this correction] shall be honored.
19 The desire [repentance unto salvation] accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.
20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools [who refuse to depart from evil] shall be destroyed.
21 Evil pursues sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid.
22 A good man leaves an inheritance [of good] to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner [who refuses this correction] is laid up for the just [who do receive it].
23 Much food is in the tillage [niyr] of the poor [who break up the hardened ground]: but there is that [which] is destroyed for want of judgment [that breaks up hardened ground].
24 He that spares his rod [of this correction] hates his son: but he that loves him chastens [corrects] him quickly.
25 The righteous eat [this word from the mouth of God] to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked [who choose to remain ignorant] shall want [understanding of this moment and the presence of the LORD].
Proverbs 21
1 The king’s [I Am] heart [mind] is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of [this life-giving] water: he [the LORD] turns it whithersoever he will.
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts [knows the motives, the foundations, upon which men act].
3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
4 A high look, and a proud heart [mind], and the plowing [niyr – the ground broken up] of the wicked, is sin.
5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty [acting without diligent examination] only to want.
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro [the worthlessness falsely called knowledge learned] of them that seek death.
7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
8 The way of man is forward [twisting and perverting truth] and strange [to the LORD and those who know Him]: but as for the pure [who see the LORD always present with us], his work is right.
9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman [an ever-agitated church] in a wide house.
10 The soul of the wicked desires evil: his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes [because they see as man sees, and refuse to see as God sees].
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
12 The righteous man wisely considers the house [church] of the wicked: but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness [as in Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer {conversation with the LORD}; but you have made it a den of thieves. 14 And the blind {unable to see the present LORD} and the lame {who went astray} came to him in the temple; and he healed them.].
13 Whoso stops his ears at the cry of the poor [who are without worldly power], he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard [by the LORD].
14 A gift in secret pacifies anger: and a reward [held back] in the bosom strong wrath.
15 It is joy [the realization of the LORD’s presence] to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
16 The man that [is lame and] wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Jeremiah 4
1 If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then shall you not remove [nuwd – shall not wander in the wilderness any longer].
2 And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations [those who haven’t known Him] shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah [the leaders of God’s people] and Jerusalem [His people at large], Break up your fallow ground [niyr – hardened without this word from heaven], and sow not among thorns [misleaders speaking their own words].
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart [the flesh covering your mind and keeping you from seeing the LORD present with us, in us], you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land [‘erets – the earth, declaring it is the time when the LORD’s presence is revealed in His word heard from us]: cry, gather together [with Him into His ONE BODY], and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities [in His presence].
6 Set up the standard [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness] toward Zion [where the LORD reigns over the earth through His people in whom He dwells]: retire, stay not [in the old and corrupt world]: for I will bring evil from the north [revealing the ignorance of the old], and a great destruction [that the wicked in power have wrought].
7 The lion [roaring as if they are gods] is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles [those who haven’t known the LORD] is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make your land [‘erets -the old earth] desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste [as they are], without an inhabitant [without any living man].
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that the heart [sound mind] of the king [the communists now in power in church and state] shall perish, and the heart [minds] of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished [without any understanding of this moment of the LORD’s manifested presence], and the prophets shall wonder [what they experiencing].
10 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, [by their false prophets] saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword [this word they refuse] reaches unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places [the words of men power] in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me [ending the old heaven and earth]: now also will I give sentence against them [that all but the very few elect remnant are dead and here in hell].
13 Behold, he [I Am] shall come up as clouds [the full understanding that left the earth], and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind [the LORD’s Almighty Spirit, from where His voice is heard]: his horses are swifter than eagles [the final face of the LORD’s unfolding presence manifested in the wheel within a wheel]. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled [without any understanding].
14 O Jerusalem, wash [with these waters from heaven] your heart [minds] from wickedness [that blinds you], that you mayest be saved. How long shall your vain [worthless] thoughts lodge within you?
15 For a voice [of the LORD from a man] declares from Dan [this judgment], and publishes [shama’ – is heard and obeyed] affliction from [in this time of tribulation] mount Ephraim [to the leader of God’s people in this last generation, which will become the first of the new].
16 Make you mention to [zakar – remember the LORD] the nations [all who haven’t known Him]; behold, publish [shama’ – hear and obey His voice] against Jerusalem, that watchers [natsar – who as watchmen guard and protect God’s people] come from a far country [merchaq – as the LORD decreed], and give out their voice against the [ruined] cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.
18 Your way and your doings have procured these things [the end, desolation, of the old heaven and earth] unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart [your corrupted and ignorant minds].
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart [mind]; my heart [mind] make a noise [of war] in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard [shama’ – and obeyed], O my soul, the sound of the trumpet [calling all to gather to the present LORD], the alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land [‘erets – earth] is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains [that keep the winds of false doctrine out of the dwelling place] in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard [nec – the son of man lifted, that the LORD’s voice heard from him is exalted above all other voices], and hear [shama’ – and I Am obedient to] the sound of the trumpet [that called me to gather to Him in ONE BODY]?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish [foolishly rebellious] children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld [seeing as the LORD sees] the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void [tohuw bohuw; one of three times these words appears together; the same as Genesis 1:2, the condition the earth had become before the new creation and the return of light; and Isaiah 34:11 rendered “confusion” and “emptiness,” speaking of the earth’s foundation and what is built upon it]; and the heavens [where understanding should be found], and they had no light [no understanding].
24 I beheld the mountains [the governments of church and state], and, lo, they trembled [ra’ash – this voice shaking them and bringing the dead bones of the body of Christ together and from death into life], and all the hills moved lightly [were realized to be of little value].
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no [living] man, and all the birds of the heavens [that were lifted there by the LORD’s understanding] were fled.
26 I beheld [I saw by the LORD’s eyes that which all men are blind to], and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus has the LORD said, The whole land [‘erets – the whole earth] shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end [kalah].
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black [without understanding]; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent [not change My mind about it], neither will I turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of [qowl – this voice of the LORD from] the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a [living] man dwells therein [Babylon – the confusion that now rules over the darkened world].
30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you rent your face with painting, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child [the ONE BODY of Christ into this new creation], the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers [who have made all the world dead, needing to be born again into life].
Jeremiah 31
17 And there is hope in your end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [the beginning of this new earth].
18 I have surely heard Ephraim [God’s people in this generation, meaning both heap of double ruin and heap of double blessing, “double” referring to the dead here raised to life, as the children of Joseph: the one separated from his brethren until he is revealed as the king of their salvation] bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore, my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart 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 [cabab – be led by and gather around; referring us to its use in Deuteronomy 32:10] a man.
Deuteronomy 32
10 He [the LORD] found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about [cabab], he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye [His pupil He taught to see as He sees].
11 As an eagle [the final face of the unfolding presence of the LORD] stirs up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, takes them, beareth them on her wings [the words that are the strength by which we rise into the heavens: full understanding of His presence to which we are joined]:
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Hosea 9
7 The days of visitation [pquddah – when the LORD is seen as the Chief Overseer of the earth] are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad [raving with insanity], for the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred [the refusal of your false prophets to receive and give this true word of God].
8 The watchman [tsaphah – with whom are the LORD’s secrets] of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and [the false prophets are] hatred in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah [killing and scattering God’s people into pieces]: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit [paqad – the same as pquddah] their sins.
10 [As the Chief Overseer of the earth] I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe [bikkuwrak] in the fig tree at her first time [re’shiyth – the first word of Genesis 1:1, meaning the first of the first-fruits]: but they went to Baalpeor [the gods of this world, idols men put in God’s place, whose mouths are forever wide open devouring man and swallowing him into the belly of hell]; and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory [as fading flower] shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a [living] man left [and they all died at the end of the old and corrupt heaven and earth]: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them [from their sight]!
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus [the false rock], is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer [who have made all the world dead, needing to be born again into life].
14 Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken [shama’ – and obey] unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations [the dead, without My Spirit, who haven’t known Me].
Micah 7
1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit [bikkuwrah].
2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
4 The best of them is as a brier [a deceiver]: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge [misleader]: the day of your watchmen [tsaphah – seeing the LORD’s secrets] and your visitation [pquddah – the LORD appearing, seen again, as the Chief Overseer of the earth] comes; now shall be their perplexity.
5 Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lieth in your bosom.
6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house [the family of God at war with itself].
7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness [ignorance], the LORD shall be a light [understanding] unto me.
9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light [understanding], and I shall behold [see as He sees] his righteousness.
10 Then she that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD your God? my eyes [seeing as the LORD sees] shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
11 In the day that your walls [of the LORD’s protection, line upon line, precept upon precept] are to be built, in that day shall the decree [choq – at this time when light has come] be far removed [rachoq – against and ending the evil decrees of wicked men in power, by which they rule].
12 In that day also he shall come even to you [away] from Assyria [the communists in power], and [away] from the [evil] fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river [away from their misleading and manipulative words], and from sea to sea [from the last generation of the old world into the first of the new], and from mountain to mountain [from their old corrupt governments of church and state, into the new wherein dwells the LORD’s righteousness].
13 Notwithstanding the land [‘erets – the earth] shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
14 Feed your people with your rod [of Your righteous correction], the [ONE] flock of your heritage [who inherit this earth], which dwell solitarily [separated from the old and corrupt heaven and earth] in the wood, in the midst of Carmel [this land that is as the garden of Eden]: let them feed in Bashan [in fruitfulness, as the first of My first-fruits] and Gilead [by this Testimony of the LORD], as in the days of old [as in all eternity].
15 According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt will I show unto him marvelous [eye opening] things [and you will see Me, by seeing as I see].
16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might [in the LORD]: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth [and stop their evil words against Him], their ears shall be deaf [none shall listen to their evil words].
17 They shall lick the dust [the ruin of the earth they destroyed] like a serpent [as deceiver], they shall move out of their holes like worms of [their animated dead flesh on] the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of you.
18 Who is a God like unto you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Psalms 27
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When you said, Seek you my face [paniym – Your presence in Your word]; my heart said unto you, Your face [paniym – Your presence in Your word], LORD, will I seek.
9 Hide not your face [paniym – Your presence in Your word] far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother [my leaders and teachers] forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty [chamac – wrong: violence against truth].
13 I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land [‘erets – the earth] of the living.
14 Wait on [qavah – expect] the LORD [now in the earth of the living]: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen [give understanding to] your heart [mind]: wait, I say, on [qavah – expect] the LORD.
The word David uses in verse 12 above, rendered “such as breath out,” speaking of God’s people, his (David’s) people, who are false witnesses against him, is the once-used word yapheach, meaning they are focused on proving themselves right, to (pridefully and ignorantly) prove wrong the present LORD who is speaking by David. They are fighting an unwinnable battle. They have no idea I Am the one, His man of war, He’s made invincible.
It (yapheach) is from the once-used word yaphach, which is rendered “bewail” in Jeremiah 4:31 above.
Jeremiah 4
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child [the ONE BODY of Christ into this new creation], the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails [[yaphach]] herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers [who have made all the world dead, needing to be born again into life].
The word chamac, describing the “cruelty” of God’s people now speaking against David (the LORD’s beloved, I Am), is the LORD referring us to David using the word in 2 Samuel 22:3 & 49. As we know, this chapter (2 Samuel 22) is repeated as Psalms 18, with a few variations, one of which is verse 3, adding chamac, telling us it is what the LORD saves me from.
The word (chamac) also appears in Ezekiel 7:11 & 23, where we’re told it’s the time when the LORD’s anointed is crowned (tsphiyrah – which is the morning come): when this “violence” has risen into wickedness.
Ezekiel 7
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Also, you son of man, thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih – the King of king and LORD of lords] unto the land [‘adamah – this generation I Am creating] of Israel; An end [qets], the end [qets] is come upon the four corners of the land [‘erets – the earth where My people are scattered].
3 Now is the end [qets] come upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense upon you all your abominations [tow’edah].
4 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations [tow’ebah] shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I Am the LORD.
5 Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih]; An evil [ra’], an only evil [ra’], behold, is come.
6 An end [qets] is come, the end [qets] is come: it watches [quwts – it awakens, in the morning] for you; behold, it is come.
7 The morning [tsphiyrah – the diadem of Isaiah 28:5, the crown upon the head of the LORD of the army of heaven] is come unto you, O you that dwell in the land [‘erets – the old and corrupt earth]: the time is come, the day of trouble is near [qarowb], and not the sounding again [hed – only used here, meaning the evil decrees] of the mountains [from the corrupt governments of church and state].
8 Now will I shortly [qarowb] pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish [kalah – as used twice in Daniel 12:7; to finish] my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations [tow’ebah].
9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations [tow’ebah] that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I Am the LORD that smites.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning [tsphiyrah – the crowning] is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
11 Violence [chamac] is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They [the faithful of the LORD] have blown the trumpet [giving ample warning], even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword [this word they refuse] is without [the camp], and the pestilence [the disease that comes upon the wicked at My presence manifested] and the famine [God’s people refusing His word] within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 But they that escape [palat] of them shall escape [paliyt], and shall be on the mountains [going into God’s new government] like doves of the valleys [as signs to the lowly of the end reached], all of them mourning [the end of the old and corrupt heaven and earth], every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold [all the things the old and corrupt world thought were of value] shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it [the things in which they trust] is the stumbling-block [mikshowl – the likeness of hell, following things desired] of their iniquity.
20 As for the beauty of his ornament [the words with which the LORD has clothed, adorned, us], he set it in majesty [ga’own – He exalted it above all worldly value]: but they made the images of their abominations [tow’ebah] and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it [My majesty] far from them.
21 And I will give it [images you’ve created] into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
22 My face [paniym – My presence] will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret [tsaphan] place [so none see any value in the treasure]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
23 Make a chain [rattowq – only used elsewhere in 1 Kings 6:21, where it a “chain” overlayed {tsaphah} with gold, desired worldly value, that hides the true treasure within {the ‘abar – the way to pass over from death into life} in the oracle {the holy of holies, in the LORD’s presence manifested in the conversation}]: for the land is full of bloody crimes [mishpat – a judgment against truth tellers], and the city is full of violence [chamac – against this word of God].
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses [as I have]: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled [as they are: Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.].
25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
26 Mischief [hovah, from havah] shall come upon mischief [hovah], and rumor [shmuw’ah – this voice of Jehovah heard] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – His voice teaching, precept upon precept, line upon line] then shall they seek a vision of the [false] prophet[s]; but the law shall perish from the priest[s], and counsel from the ancients [all the robbers who’ve put themselves in My place]. [The word hovah, referring to the effects of the strong delusion the LORD has sent upon the insane, only appears one other time, in Isaiah 47:11, saying “Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief {hovah} shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know {because you’ve been chained in your own ignorance}.”]
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land [‘erets – the earth] shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts [mishpat – according to their corrupt judgment, by the precedent of their evil shall the evil judge them, and thereby] will I judge [shaphat] them; and they shall know that I Am the LORD
Ezekiel 33
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman [tsaphah – to, from Me, show what is coming]:
3 If when he sees the sword come upon the land [‘erets – the earth], he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;
4 Then whosoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword comes, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet [this voice of His archangel], and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that takes warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman [tsaphah] sees the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword comes, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s [tsaphah] hand.
7 So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman [tsaphah] unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
10 Therefore, O you son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away [maqaq – a key-word we have often here discussed] in them, how should we then live?
11 Say unto them, As I live, says the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
12 Therefore, you son of man, say unto the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.
13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trusts to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.
14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be mentioned unto him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. [Remember Leviticus 24:16, saying “And he that blasphemes {naqab – pierces; vilifies} the name {defining character: work and word: manner} of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death {muwth}, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him {with coals of fire upon his head}: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemes {naqab} the name {identity} of the LORD, shall be put to death {muwth}.” And Numbers 15:29, saying “You shall have one law for him that sins through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them.”]
18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
20 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O you house of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways.
21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year [representing governmental perfection] of our captivity, in the tenth month [ordinal perfection], in the fifth day [God’s grace] of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening [when ignorance was still the cover of the earth], afore [paniym – before the presence of the LORD was realized as the One speaking and working to save those who heard and heeded His warning] he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth [warning the wicked and the self-righteous], until he came to me in the morning [when this light, this understanding, was come]; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
26 You stand upon your sword, you work abomination, and you defile every one his neighbor’s wife: and shall you possess the land?
27 Say you thus unto them, Thus says the LORD God; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword [this warning they refuse], and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts [those without My good counsel, without My Spirit in them] to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence [the disease in what they prescribe].
28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains [their corrupt leaders in church and state] of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed [and still they refuse].
30 Also, you son of man, the children of your people still are talking against you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD.
31 And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness [betsa’ – the “gain” that should be devoted to the LORD – see Micah 4:13].
32 And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not.
33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will [has] come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
1 Timothy 4
1 Now the Spirit speaks expressly [specifically], that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry [to join with the LORD in His ONE BODY], and commanding to abstain from meats [these deep things that strengthen], which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe [this word is His word] and know the truth.
4 For every creature [creation] of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving [recognizing God has given it for our good]:
5 For it is sanctified [declared good – pure and holy] by the word of God and prayer [conversing with Him to receive understanding].
6 If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto you have attained.
7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself [work them out of yourself] rather unto godliness [defined in the mystery, how we should conduct ourselves in the house of God, revealed in 1 Timothy 3:16, saying “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was {is} manifest in the flesh {of those who’ve received His word as the word of God}, justified in the Spirit {while unknown working and speaking}, seen of angels {those who become His messengers delivering His message as received}, preached unto the Gentiles {those who haven’t known the LORD among us}, believed on in the world, received up into glory {which is His presence realized in this way}.”].
8 For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable [the profiting spoken of in verse 15 below] unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach [from those who don’t believe He is speaking], because we trust in the living God [now alive in us: risen in our flesh which was dead without Him], who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe [the LORD is with us and in us].
11 These things command and teach.
12 Let no man despise your youth [when I was also ignorant of His presence – although I unknowingly felt it often]; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery [the elders, who as Paul, prepared and delivered the inspired written word to us].
15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you [as a faithful watchman warning all] shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.
2 Samuel 22
1 And David spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence [chamac].
4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.
5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
12 And he made darkness [ignorance of Him] pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning [His understanding], and discomfited them.
16 And the channels of the sea [His word flowing to His people] appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters [the confused language of this time when insanity rules];
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity.
25 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright.
27 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the froward you will show yourself unsavory.
28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty, that you mayest bring them down.
29 For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten [give understanding] my darkness [of the things of which I am ignorant].
30 For by you I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall [of lies upon lies].
31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to [magen – the shield covering] all them that trust in him.
32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
33 God is my strength and power [chayil]: and he makes my way perfect.
34 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet: and sets me upon my high places [bamah].
35 He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your gentleness [‘anavah – humility] has made me great.
37 You have enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
40 For you have girded me with strength [chayil] to battle: them that rose up against me have you subdued under me.
41 You have also given me the necks of my enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit [kachash – shall be found liars] themselves unto me [warned, realizing they’ve been deceived and are spreading deception that destroys others and will destroy them]: [they will believe] as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away [for all shall know the LORD], and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
47 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock [from whom this living water flows]; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation [His voice above all others].
48 It is God that avenges me, and that brings down the people under me.
49 And that brings me forth from my enemies: you also have lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man [chamac].
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto your name.
51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and shows mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed forevermore.
2 Samuel 23
1 Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall be as the light of the morning [the understanding that brings this new day], when the sun rises [the LORD’s ONE BODY, The Church], even a morning [a new day] without clouds [when understanding is on the earth, as it is in heaven]; as the tender grass springing [new life from earth, as on the third day of creation] out of the earth by clear shining [air cleared of the smoke that came from the bottomless pit, by the understanding sent forth from the LORD] after rain [His living water sent from heaven].
5 Although my house be not [yet] so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow [until now at this promised end, tribulation from which we are delivered].
6 But the sons of Belial [who worship the idols that have corrupted heaven and earth] shall be all of them as thorns [misleaders] thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
Psalms 118
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures forever.
2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever.
4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures forever.
5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
13 You have thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly [chayil].
16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly [chayil].
17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
18 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over unto death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
21 I will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders refused is become the headstone of the corner.
23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in [opening] our eyes.
24 This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now [Hosanna], I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
27 God is the LORD, which has shown us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
28 You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you.
29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.