30 November – 1 December 2025
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray you, unto your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
As we know, the deeper meaning of the above verse, Isaiah 36:11, lies in the meanings of the names.
The Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary gives the meaning of Eliakim as “God of raising,” while the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon gives it as “God raises” or “God sets up.” Respectively, they give the others’ as: Shebna, “to grow; growth,” and “vigor;” Joah, “Jehovah-brothered” and “Jehovah is brother;” and Rabshakeh, “chief butler” and “chief
cupbearer, chief of the officers.”
Additionally (in the same format), Rabshakeh is from the words (rab) meaning “abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)” and “much, many, great;” and (shaqah), “to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to” and “to give to drink, irrigate, drink, water, cause to drink water.”
In pattern, the first three men are those now raised by LORD, now with Him, as new growth brought to life, as His brethren, with His “understanding,” which, above, is the word shama’, meaning they hear and obey His voice. They are speaking to the door (gate) keepers (butlers, with deference to Joseph and the butler who forgot his vow to him), as those whose words (much drink they serve) are against the words heard from the LORD.
The words of the Jews, which the people on the wall know, are the corrupt language (destroyed truthful discourse) of this time, heard from Judah, the current crop of corrupt leaders, represented in Hezekiah’s (meaning Jehovah’s strength: which is understanding) sickness.
The following (12th) verse (dubiously translated), with reference to the cause and effect underlying the previously described conversation, then says: “But Rabshakeh said, Has my master [Satan who works through them] sent me to your master [Hezakiah – Jehovah’s strength] and to you [those with understanding] to speak these words? has he not sent me to [destroy] the [ignorant] men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung [their own polluted language], and drink [the drink Rabshakeh serves] their own piss [mayim – their own water, their defiled words, corrupted understanding] with [‘im – against, to resist {satan}] you [who have understanding]?”
The word rendered “dung” is the five times used word tsow’ah, meaning, “excrement; generally, dirt; figuratively, pollution.” It is rendered “dung” here and in the same story in 2 Kings 18:27. The other three times, descriptively, are in Proverbs 30:12 and Isaiah 4:4 & 28:8, rendered “filth” or “filthiness.”
Proverbs 30 [from the post of 4 October 2025, with today’s additions in double brackets.
1 The words of Agur [to those the LORD has gathered] the son of Jakeh [the obedient who He declares blameless], even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}], even unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}] and Ucal [and you shall eat {this feast of charity, milk and honey [[sweetness in the mouth, words heard as the strength of lions, with reference to Samson]] by which men learn to choose good and refuse evil}],
2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4 Who has ascended up into heaven [into full understanding], or descended [bringing it as light upon the earth]? who has gathered the wind [the spirit in man] in his fists? who has bound the waters in a [this word of God as a covering] garment? who has established all the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you can tell?
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
7 Two things have I required of you; deny me them not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
11 There is a generation that curses [the wisdom and knowledge] their father, and does not bless their mother [for her teaching, this nourishment, milk as the necessary foundation].
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness [[[tsow’ah]] what they know is corrupt, and they choose to remain ignorant, and ignorant of it].
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth [words] are as swords, and their jaw teeth [words] as knives, [who use their positions of power] to devour the poor [those without power] from off the earth, and the needy [needing understanding] from among men.
15 The horse-leach [that attaches to the mouths of those who drink from their waters, draining life from them] has two daughters, crying, Give, give [calling themselves teachers, evangelists, and experts, and always asking for money, taking pledges from those they give their evil advice]. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough [are never satisfied – ever learning and never able to reach understanding the truth]:
16 The grave [sheol – hell]; and the barren womb [those in hell who never obey and never bring any to life]; the earth that is not filled with water [this word of God, which the dead who call themselves His people refuse to give as He commands]; and the fire that says not [even while they are being consumed by it], It is enough [they are never satisfied, ever learning, in the experience, but never able to come to the understating of this truth].
17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey [yiqqahah] his mother, the ravens of the valley [those covered in darkness, the shadows of the mountains {those in high places misleading them} of the earth] shall pick it out [their eyes, blinding them, removing their sight by learned ignorance], and the young eagles [the fourth face of the unfolding presence of God] shall eat it [‘akal – as they fly in heaven, with the LORD and His full understanding, consuming the darkness with the fire from their mouths].
Before looking at Isaiah 4, we need to understand chapter 3, which says the LORD has taken away the good bread and clothing, along with taking away good leadership, for which the people are looking.
Isaiah 3
1 For, behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give [those whose minds are quickly shaken – na’ar] children to be their princes, and babes [ta’aluwl – only used here and in Isaiah 66:4, where it is the “delusions” the LORD choose and sends upon the desolate, whose worship is defiled: filthy by the abominations {shiqquwt – meaning “disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol”} men created and put in the LORD’s place] shall [as Babylon: confusion that does now] rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient [things, of days], and the base against the honorable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I [their chosen leaders] will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing [this is why, in Isaiah 4:1, the church has their own, because the men they chose don’t have any understanding, and are without protection from the corrupt elements, rudiments, of the world, and therefore can’t give either]: make me not a ruler [none following their chosen leaders] of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the LORD God of hosts.
16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty [arrogant – thinking God owes them something], and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes [their conversation and vision are with covetousness], walking and mincing [taphaph – tripping] as they go, and making a tinkling [‘akac – as fetters] with their feet [both these words only appear here – speaking of covetousness, not content with what He has given, never saying it is enough, as the fetters that trip them up in the walk in the wrong “way of your paths”]:
17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab [caphach – will gather together] the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts [reveal these ancient things, uncovering their ignorance are errors].
18 In that day the LORD will take away the bravery of [tiph’arah – the glorying in] their tinkling ornaments [‘ekec – the same as ‘akac, only appearing here and Proverbs 7:22 “as a fool to the correction of the stocks”] about their feet, [the following describes the coverings in which God’s people glory, which is their vain bravery and arrogance against Him] and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Your men shall fall by the sword [this word they refuse], and your mighty in the war [here and now].
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 4
1 And in that day seven women [the church] shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel [their own words and ways, who should see these things haven’t given them any strength or protection, but don’t]: only let us [remain with our abominations] be called by your name, to take away our reproach [this rebuke of the LORD].
2 In that day shall the branch [from whom life, understanding, flows] of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped [the old words and ways of the world now on fire] of Israel [who receive this promise, with the LORD].
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left [sha’ar] in Zion, and he that remains [yathar] in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: [Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left {sha’ar}].
4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth [tsow’ah] of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood [what has drained the life] of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke [from the fire from His mouth] by day [giving understanding], and the shining of a flaming fire by night [from His mouth against ignorance]: for upon all the glory shall be a defense.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Philippians 3
1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the LORD. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs [those ignorantly and endlessly barking in the darkness], beware of evil workers, beware of the concision [those who claim they are the true believers].
3 For we are the circumcision [are the true believers], which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus [the realization of Jehovah’s Salvation with us, in us], and have no confidence in the [works of the] flesh [men who refuse {deny} Him, His word, and His work].
John 14
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but [by the work of the Comforter, the Paraclete, My presence unknown, with you veiled in flesh] you see me: because I live, you shall live also.
20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
1 Peter 1
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved [tereo] in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time [the ‘achariyth – these last days of darkness, this after {life} come].
2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [introduced surreptitiously, by devils crept in unaware] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying [as they now do] the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”].
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved [tereo] unto judgment [krisis – this decision point, when they by their own evil conversation choose to remain in darkness];
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation [aselgeia] of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations [the doubts sown by corrupt trees, their filthy conversation that leads men to deny the LORD is present], and to reserve [tereo] the unjust unto the day of judgment [krisis] to be punished [kolazo]:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise [the LORD’s] government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil [blasphemeo] of dignities [doxa – the LORD’s manifested glory].
Not everyone that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
This warning is to the unrepentant, to whom He says, “Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.”
He has fulfilled His word here and now! Amen.
These men are the false prophets and misleaders who aren’t doing the will of Father, but instead their own works, which they think earned them entry into His kingdom.
1 John 4
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them [the many antichrists resisting the word and work of God in our flesh]: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them.
6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love [agapao] one another: for love [agape] is of God; and every one that loves [agapao] is born of God, and knows God.
8 He that loves [agapao] not knows not God; for God is love [agape].
9 In this [giving this word as received, the LORD’s charity] was manifested the love [agape] of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might [by this word from His mouth] live through him.
Friends, these men, the incorrigibles, are manifested by not hearing and doing the will of God, which is to “love” as He loves. As we understand, His “love” is charity, freely giving His word, which is the light and life of the world.
The fact that they do not hear this word as the word of God, which it is, or hearing it, refuse to do His will on earth as it is in heaven, proves they are not His children. Hebrews 12:8 says these men are “bastards” and not sons, because, without faith (not believing His testimony), the correction of God does not affect them, and they remain strangers in corruption and death.
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report {the Father testifying of them in His testimony, the shmuw’ah, that they believed Him, and did His will on earth} through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.], let us lay aside every weight [the burdens of men’s words], and the sin [missing the mark {of righteousness through faith}] which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy [the crowning that comes when God is seen in him] that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves [agapao – shows charity] he chastens [corrects through the testimony He gives, through those He first gave His treasures], and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
The word rendered “bastards” is the once used word “nothos” meaning “of uncertain affinity; a spurious or illegitimate son:–bastard.”
Above, we’re told of the scourge that comes upon all, and those who reject correction (chastising) will not enter the kingdom, of which the chapter later speaks. The writer (the LORD) likens this refusal to Esau (a symbol of enemies mixed among us, as illegitimate brothers), selling his birthright; the cause is also spoken of as not seeking peace with all men, without which no man will see God (enter His kingdom).
Hebrews 12
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded [to do God’s will, seek peace with all men], And if so much as a beast touch the mountain [those without His correction, who attempt to come into His presence], it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the kingdom of God, full understanding in His presence]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. [Job 38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth {ending the old and beginning the new}, that the wicked might be shaken out of it {making it new again}?]
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made [the leaven, which by the unfaithful has been fully worked into the lump, corrupting it all], that these things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
When the above speaks of things made, removed by the LORD’s voice shaking them, it is speaking of what is written in Isaiah 28:8, saying, “For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness [tsow’ah], so that there is no place clean.” These are the tables (shulchan) in the temple, upon which was the showbread (which, here in this verse, is made with the leaven of the unfaithful, whose words are as vomit and excrement, incontinently coming from them).
Psalms 69
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table [shulchan] become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Isaiah 28
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat [shemem – which is the LORD’s anointing when they are brought down] valleys of them that are overcome with wine [and are thereby unaware of its coming]!
2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing [see verse 21 below], shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat [shemem – when their mocking proclaims the King, when they are brought down by their own ignorance] valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – a crown, as the morning of a new day] of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate [driving out the enemies that were mixed among us].
7 But they [the enemies mixed among us] also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness [tsow’ah – spewed from their mouths], so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – the report, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below, the LORD’s voice heard as the morning]? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts [attiyq – who now draw from the Ancient of days].
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [this word of God His people no longer understand, truth which is to them a foreign language] will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear [because it contradicts the lie their false teachers and false preachers have fed them].
13 But the [true] word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge [this word all have refused] shall pass through [correcting all and bringing those who receive it from death into life], it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
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: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down 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 only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked: false teachers and false preachers], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act [of which they have no knowledge].
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 full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Ezekiel 7
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Also, you son of man, thus says the LORD GOD unto the land of Israel [‘adamah – this generation that becomes the first of His new creation]; An end [qets – of the old], the end [qets] is come upon the four corners of the land [‘erets – the earth].
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 [men’s creations put in the place of the holy].
4 And my eye [seeing all this evil] shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations [men’s creations] shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
5 Thus says the LORD GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end [qets] is come, the end [qets] is come: it watches [quwts – awakens] for you; behold, it is come.
7 The morning [tsphiyrah – the crown, the crowning of the LORD’s chosen, the man of God, as was David] is come unto you, O you that dwells in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly [in this word] pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations.
9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations 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 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 [naga’ – when the LORD joins with His people, in ONE BODY] 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 [to the old and corrupt churches that led them here, not to the same old preaching and teaching of men’s creation]; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet [now calling all to gather to their dead churches], even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle [to which the LORD is calling us]: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword is without [this word they reject, outside the dead churches], and the pestilence and the famine within [the dis-ease in these churches, that results without this word of God]: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
25 Destruction [qphadah – only used here, meaning the “shrinking,” from many into ONE, by cutting off the many evil opinions] comes; and they shall seek peace [in their same old corrupt words and ways], and there shall be none.
26 Mischief [hovah – only used three times, as in Jehovah, it speaks of His {Yahh – to whom it appertains} bringing these men’s words upon them, judging them by them] shall come upon mischief [hovah], and rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching sound doctrine, and reporting truth] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching and reporting that isn’t believed, and the man of God reporting it is still unknown – because of the lies and misleading of those who’ve blinded the world by drunkenness]; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. [Isaiah 47:11 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 {pith’own}, which you shall not know.]
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The word used four times in Hebrews 12, telling of the Father’s chastising, is the six times used Greek word paideia, meaning “to train up a child, i.e. educate, or (by implication), discipline (by punishment):–chasten(-ise), instruct, learn, teach.”
It is the word used in 2 Timothy 3:16 to tell us it is “instruction” in righteousness that comes through scripture. It says it (this instruction) is what makes the man of God perfect and furnished unto every good work. This perfection is that spoken of in Hebrews 11:39 & 40, that comes to all God’s people, when the promise is received, and we enter the kingdom of heaven in God’s presence.
2 Timothy 3
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. [1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh [{a man}, justified in the Spirit {while speaking unknown, roaring as a lion}, seen of angels {those who receive Him and become His messengers delivering His message as received}, preached unto the Gentiles {as an ox working in the earth, tilling the ground, carrying this word to all who haven’t know the LORD}, believed on in the world, received up into glory {rising as an eagle into heaven, His place of full understanding}.]
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them;
15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God [with us, in us], and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction [paideia] in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect [completed], thoroughly furnished [girded, prepared] unto all good works.
The name Jasher, from yashar, meaning “entire (literally, figuratively or morally),” most often appearing as some form of the word “right,” is only elsewhere once so rendered. In 2 Samuel 1:18, it is while David speaks of teaching, from the book of Jasher, “the use of the bow.” The word qesheth, rendered “bow,” meaning “of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris,” is the same word first used in Genesis 9:13, 14, & 16, speaking of the “bow” in the cloud. The bow in the rightly divided (chetsiy) word of God, the light divided into the many colors of the rainbow, in the cloud, from where the former and latter rain come.
2 Samuel 1
18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon your high places: how are the mighty fallen!
The bow spoken of above is Jonathan’s (meaning Jehovah given), David’s best friend, an expert bowman, who was slain by an Amalekite, the enemies who’ve warred against God and His people throughout history.
Genesis 9
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual [‘owlam – into eternity] generations:
13 I do set my bow [qesheth] in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth [when understanding is removed from the earth], that the bow [qesheth] shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters [the words of men mixed with and corrupting God’s truth] shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow [qesheth] shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This [rightly divided word of God] is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Joel 3
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down [from the mountains into the valley], O LORD.
12 Let the heathen [those who haven’t known Me] be wakened, and come up [from their graves where they sleep in death] to the valley of Jehoshaphat [this judgment of Jehovah present]: for there will I sit to judge [shaphat] all the heathen [who haven’t known My presence] round about.
13 Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe [in the New Testament we’re told the Mount of Olives is in Bethphage, meaning the house of unripe figs, it is also the place the LORD resides at night {waiting for the fruit to ripen}, after light left, light which was when He was in the temple]: come, get you down [from the mountain]; for the press is full, the fats [this oil] overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision [charuwts]: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision [charuwts].
15 The sun [church government] and the moon [civil governments] shall be darkened [ignorant without this light], and the stars [God’s people, the multitude in the valley] shall withdraw their shining [also not having or not giving this understanding as received].
16 The LORD also shall roar [as a lion, the second face of His unfolding presence manifested] out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem [this place from where His teaching flows the highway to sustainable peace and security]; and the [totally corrupt] heavens and the earth shall shake [ra’ash – to shake the wicked from them]: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel [who receive this expected end].
17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with [these living] waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim [where all are scourged by the thorns – corrected away from those misleading them].
19 Egypt [those oppressing the world] shall be a desolation, and Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us while they call it peace] shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah [My elect remnant, the new crop of leaders I Am raising from the dead], because they [the enemies among us] have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah [the elect remnant] shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem [My people at large] from [the old and corrupt] generation to [become the new] generation [in this new creation].
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.
Proverbs 12
22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
23 A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
24 The hand of the diligent [charuwts] shall bear rule: but the slothful [rmiyah – deceitful, sluggard] shall be under tribute.
25 Heaviness [d’agah – from the same as dag {da’g} the fish that swallowed Jonah, the underlying cause of the agitation of humanity] in the heart [mind] of man makes it stoop [makes it bow to the wicked]: but a good word makes it glad.
26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduces them.
27 The slothful [rmiyah – sluggard, deceitful] man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent [charuwts] man is precious.
28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
2 Samuel 22
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 [tamiym] 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 [tamiym] man you will show yourself upright [tamam].
27 With the pure you will show yourself pure [barar]; and with the froward [those twisting and perverting truth] you will show yourself unsavory.
28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty, that you may bring them down.
29 For you are my lamp [showing me the way in the darkness], O LORD: and the LORD will lighten [give understanding to] my darkness [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 [tamiym]; 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 [tamiym].
2 Samuel 23
1 Now these be 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, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after [the latter] rain.
5 Although my house be not 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.
6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns 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 45
1 My heart is inditing [overflowing with] a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.
3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.
5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under you.
6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.
7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.
9 Kings’ daughters were among your honorable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your LORD; and worship you him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat your favor.
13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.
17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you forever and ever.30 November – 1 December 2025
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray you, unto your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
As we know, the deeper meaning of the above verse, Isaiah 36:11, lies in the meanings of the names.
The Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary gives the meaning of Eliakim as “God of raising,” while the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon gives it as “God raises” or “God sets up.” Respectively, they give the others’ as: Shebna, “to grow; growth,” and “vigor;” Joah, “Jehovah-brothered” and “Jehovah is brother;” and Rabshakeh, “chief butler” and “chief
cupbearer, chief of the officers.”
Additionally (in the same format), Rabshakeh is from the words (rab) meaning “abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)” and “much, many, great;” and (shaqah), “to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to” and “to give to drink, irrigate, drink, water, cause to drink water.”
In pattern, the first three men are those now raised by LORD, now with Him, as new growth brought to life, as His brethren, with His “understanding,” which, above, is the word shama’, meaning they hear and obey His voice. They are speaking to the door (gate) keepers (butlers, with deference to Joseph and the butler who forgot his vow to him), as those whose words (much drink they serve) are against the words heard from the LORD.
The words of the Jews, which the people on the wall know, are the corrupt language (destroyed truthful discourse) of this time, heard from Judah, the current crop of corrupt leaders, represented in Hezekiah’s (meaning Jehovah’s strength: which is understanding) sickness.
The following (12th) verse (dubiously translated), with reference to the cause and effect underlying the previously described conversation, then says: “But Rabshakeh said, Has my master [Satan who works through them] sent me to your master [Hezakiah – Jehovah’s strength] and to you [those with understanding] to speak these words? has he not sent me to [destroy] the [ignorant] men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung [their own polluted language], and drink [the drink Rabshakeh serves] their own piss [mayim – their own water, their defiled words, corrupted understanding] with [‘im – against, to resist {satan}] you [who have understanding]?”
The word rendered “dung” is the five times used word tsow’ah, meaning, “excrement; generally, dirt; figuratively, pollution.” It is rendered “dung” here and in the same story in 2 Kings 18:27. The other three times, descriptively, are in Proverbs 30:12 and Isaiah 4:4 & 28:8, rendered “filth” or “filthiness.”
Proverbs 30 [from the post of 4 October 2025, with today’s additions in double brackets.
1 The words of Agur [to those the LORD has gathered] the son of Jakeh [the obedient who He declares blameless], even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}], even unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}] and Ucal [and you shall eat {this feast of charity, milk and honey [[sweetness in the mouth, words heard as the strength of lions, with reference to Samson]] by which men learn to choose good and refuse evil}],
2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4 Who has ascended up into heaven [into full understanding], or descended [bringing it as light upon the earth]? who has gathered the wind [the spirit in man] in his fists? who has bound the waters in a [this word of God as a covering] garment? who has established all the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you can tell?
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
7 Two things have I required of you; deny me them not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
11 There is a generation that curses [the wisdom and knowledge] their father, and does not bless their mother [for her teaching, this nourishment, milk as the necessary foundation].
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness [[[tsow’ah]] what they know is corrupt, and they choose to remain ignorant, and ignorant of it].
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth [words] are as swords, and their jaw teeth [words] as knives, [who use their positions of power] to devour the poor [those without power] from off the earth, and the needy [needing understanding] from among men.
15 The horse-leach [that attaches to the mouths of those who drink from their waters, draining life from them] has two daughters, crying, Give, give [calling themselves teachers, evangelists, and experts, and always asking for money, taking pledges from those they give their evil advice]. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough [are never satisfied – ever learning and never able to reach understanding the truth]:
16 The grave [sheol – hell]; and the barren womb [those in hell who never obey and never bring any to life]; the earth that is not filled with water [this word of God, which the dead who call themselves His people refuse to give as He commands]; and the fire that says not [even while they are being consumed by it], It is enough [they are never satisfied, ever learning, in the experience, but never able to come to the understating of this truth].
17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey [yiqqahah] his mother, the ravens of the valley [those covered in darkness, the shadows of the mountains {those in high places misleading them} of the earth] shall pick it out [their eyes, blinding them, removing their sight by learned ignorance], and the young eagles [the fourth face of the unfolding presence of God] shall eat it [‘akal – as they fly in heaven, with the LORD and His full understanding, consuming the darkness with the fire from their mouths].
Before looking at Isaiah 4, we need to understand chapter 3, which says the LORD has taken away the good bread and clothing, along with taking away good leadership, for which the people are looking.
Isaiah 3
1 For, behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give [those whose minds are quickly shaken – na’ar] children to be their princes, and babes [ta’aluwl – only used here and in Isaiah 66:4, where it is the “delusions” the LORD choose and sends upon the desolate, whose worship is defiled: filthy by the abominations {shiqquwt – meaning “disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol”} men created and put in the LORD’s place] shall [as Babylon: confusion that does now] rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient [things, of days], and the base against the honorable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I [their chosen leaders] will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing [this is why, in Isaiah 4:1, the church has their own, because the men they chose don’t have any understanding, and are without protection from the corrupt elements, rudiments, of the world, and therefore can’t give either]: make me not a ruler [none following their chosen leaders] of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the LORD God of hosts.
16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty [arrogant – thinking God owes them something], and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes [their conversation and vision are with covetousness], walking and mincing [taphaph – tripping] as they go, and making a tinkling [‘akac – as fetters] with their feet [both these words only appear here – speaking of covetousness, not content with what He has given, never saying it is enough, as the fetters that trip them up in the walk in the wrong “way of your paths”]:
17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab [caphach – will gather together] the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts [reveal these ancient things, uncovering their ignorance are errors].
18 In that day the LORD will take away the bravery of [tiph’arah – the glorying in] their tinkling ornaments [‘ekec – the same as ‘akac, only appearing here and Proverbs 7:22 “as a fool to the correction of the stocks”] about their feet, [the following describes the coverings in which God’s people glory, which is their vain bravery and arrogance against Him] and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Your men shall fall by the sword [this word they refuse], and your mighty in the war [here and now].
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 4
1 And in that day seven women [the church] shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel [their own words and ways, who should see these things haven’t given them any strength or protection, but don’t]: only let us [remain with our abominations] be called by your name, to take away our reproach [this rebuke of the LORD].
2 In that day shall the branch [from whom life, understanding, flows] of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped [the old words and ways of the world now on fire] of Israel [who receive this promise, with the LORD].
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left [sha’ar] in Zion, and he that remains [yathar] in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: [Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left {sha’ar}].
4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth [tsow’ah] of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood [what has drained the life] of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke [from the fire from His mouth] by day [giving understanding], and the shining of a flaming fire by night [from His mouth against ignorance]: for upon all the glory shall be a defense.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Philippians 3
1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the LORD. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs [those ignorantly and endlessly barking in the darkness], beware of evil workers, beware of the concision [those who claim they are the true believers].
3 For we are the circumcision [are the true believers], which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus [the realization of Jehovah’s Salvation with us, in us], and have no confidence in the [works of the] flesh [men who refuse {deny} Him, His word, and His work].
John 14
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but [by the work of the Comforter, the Paraclete, My presence unknown, with you veiled in flesh] you see me: because I live, you shall live also.
20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
1 Peter 1
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved [tereo] in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time [the ‘achariyth – these last days of darkness, this after {life} come].
2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [introduced surreptitiously, by devils crept in unaware] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying [as they now do] the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”].
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved [tereo] unto judgment [krisis – this decision point, when they by their own evil conversation choose to remain in darkness];
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation [aselgeia] of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations [the doubts sown by corrupt trees, their filthy conversation that leads men to deny the LORD is present], and to reserve [tereo] the unjust unto the day of judgment [krisis] to be punished [kolazo]:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise [the LORD’s] government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil [blasphemeo] of dignities [doxa – the LORD’s manifested glory].
Not everyone that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
This warning is to the unrepentant, to whom He says, “Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.”
He has fulfilled His word here and now! Amen.
These men are the false prophets and misleaders who aren’t doing the will of Father, but instead their own works, which they think earned them entry into His kingdom.
1 John 4
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them [the many antichrists resisting the word and work of God in our flesh]: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them.
6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love [agapao] one another: for love [agape] is of God; and every one that loves [agapao] is born of God, and knows God.
8 He that loves [agapao] not knows not God; for God is love [agape].
9 In this [giving this word as received, the LORD’s charity] was manifested the love [agape] of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might [by this word from His mouth] live through him.
Friends, these men, the incorrigibles, are manifested by not hearing and doing the will of God, which is to “love” as He loves. As we understand, His “love” is charity, freely giving His word, which is the light and life of the world.
The fact that they do not hear this word as the word of God, which it is, or hearing it, refuse to do His will on earth as it is in heaven, proves they are not His children. Hebrews 12:8 says these men are “bastards” and not sons, because, without faith (not believing His testimony), the correction of God does not affect them, and they remain strangers in corruption and death.
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report {the Father testifying of them in His testimony, the shmuw’ah, that they believed Him, and did His will on earth} through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.], let us lay aside every weight [the burdens of men’s words], and the sin [missing the mark {of righteousness through faith}] which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy [the crowning that comes when God is seen in him] that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves [agapao – shows charity] he chastens [corrects through the testimony He gives, through those He first gave His treasures], and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
The word rendered “bastards” is the once used word “nothos” meaning “of uncertain affinity; a spurious or illegitimate son:–bastard.”
Above, we’re told of the scourge that comes upon all, and those who reject correction (chastising) will not enter the kingdom, of which the chapter later speaks. The writer (the LORD) likens this refusal to Esau (a symbol of enemies mixed among us, as illegitimate brothers), selling his birthright; the cause is also spoken of as not seeking peace with all men, without which no man will see God (enter His kingdom).
Hebrews 12
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded [to do God’s will, seek peace with all men], And if so much as a beast touch the mountain [those without His correction, who attempt to come into His presence], it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the kingdom of God, full understanding in His presence]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. [Job 38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth {ending the old and beginning the new}, that the wicked might be shaken out of it {making it new again}?]
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made [the leaven, which by the unfaithful has been fully worked into the lump, corrupting it all], that these things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
When the above speaks of things made, removed by the LORD’s voice shaking them, it is speaking of what is written in Isaiah 28:8, saying, “For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness [tsow’ah], so that there is no place clean.” These are the tables (shulchan) in the temple, upon which was the showbread (which, here in this verse, is made with the leaven of the unfaithful, whose words are as vomit and excrement, incontinently coming from them).
Psalms 69
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table [shulchan] become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Isaiah 28
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat [shemem – which is the LORD’s anointing when they are brought down] valleys of them that are overcome with wine [and are thereby unaware of its coming]!
2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing [see verse 21 below], shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat [shemem – when their mocking proclaims the King, when they are brought down by their own ignorance] valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – a crown, as the morning of a new day] of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate [driving out the enemies that were mixed among us].
7 But they [the enemies mixed among us] also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness [tsow’ah – spewed from their mouths], so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – the report, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below, the LORD’s voice heard as the morning]? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts [attiyq – who now draw from the Ancient of days].
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [this word of God His people no longer understand, truth which is to them a foreign language] will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear [because it contradicts the lie their false teachers and false preachers have fed them].
13 But the [true] word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge [this word all have refused] shall pass through [correcting all and bringing those who receive it from death into life], it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
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: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down 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 only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked: false teachers and false preachers], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act [of which they have no knowledge].
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 full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Ezekiel 7
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Also, you son of man, thus says the LORD GOD unto the land of Israel [‘adamah – this generation that becomes the first of His new creation]; An end [qets – of the old], the end [qets] is come upon the four corners of the land [‘erets – the earth].
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 [men’s creations put in the place of the holy].
4 And my eye [seeing all this evil] shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations [men’s creations] shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
5 Thus says the LORD GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end [qets] is come, the end [qets] is come: it watches [quwts – awakens] for you; behold, it is come.
7 The morning [tsphiyrah – the crown, the crowning of the LORD’s chosen, the man of God, as was David] is come unto you, O you that dwells in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly [in this word] pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations.
9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations 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 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 [naga’ – when the LORD joins with His people, in ONE BODY] 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 [to the old and corrupt churches that led them here, not to the same old preaching and teaching of men’s creation]; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet [now calling all to gather to their dead churches], even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle [to which the LORD is calling us]: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword is without [this word they reject, outside the dead churches], and the pestilence and the famine within [the dis-ease in these churches, that results without this word of God]: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
25 Destruction [qphadah – only used here, meaning the “shrinking,” from many into ONE, by cutting off the many evil opinions] comes; and they shall seek peace [in their same old corrupt words and ways], and there shall be none.
26 Mischief [hovah – only used three times, as in Jehovah, it speaks of His {Yahh – to whom it appertains} bringing these men’s words upon them, judging them by them] shall come upon mischief [hovah], and rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching sound doctrine, and reporting truth] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching and reporting that isn’t believed, and the man of God reporting it is still unknown – because of the lies and misleading of those who’ve blinded the world by drunkenness]; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. [Isaiah 47:11 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 {pith’own}, which you shall not know.]
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The word used four times in Hebrews 12, telling of the Father’s chastising, is the six times used Greek word paideia, meaning “to train up a child, i.e. educate, or (by implication), discipline (by punishment):–chasten(-ise), instruct, learn, teach.”
It is the word used in 2 Timothy 3:16 to tell us it is “instruction” in righteousness that comes through scripture. It says it (this instruction) is what makes the man of God perfect and furnished unto every good work. This perfection is that spoken of in Hebrews 11:39 & 40, that comes to all God’s people, when the promise is received, and we enter the kingdom of heaven in God’s presence.
2 Timothy 3
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. [1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh [{a man}, justified in the Spirit {while speaking unknown, roaring as a lion}, seen of angels {those who receive Him and become His messengers delivering His message as received}, preached unto the Gentiles {as an ox working in the earth, tilling the ground, carrying this word to all who haven’t know the LORD}, believed on in the world, received up into glory {rising as an eagle into heaven, His place of full understanding}.]
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them;
15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God [with us, in us], and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction [paideia] in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect [completed], thoroughly furnished [girded, prepared] unto all good works.
The name Jasher, from yashar, meaning “entire (literally, figuratively or morally),” most often appearing as some form of the word “right,” is only elsewhere once so rendered. In 2 Samuel 1:18, it is while David speaks of teaching, from the book of Jasher, “the use of the bow.” The word qesheth, rendered “bow,” meaning “of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris,” is the same word first used in Genesis 9:13, 14, & 16, speaking of the “bow” in the cloud. The bow in the rightly divided (chetsiy) word of God, the light divided into the many colors of the rainbow, in the cloud, from where the former and latter rain come.
2 Samuel 1
18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon your high places: how are the mighty fallen!
The bow spoken of above is Jonathan’s (meaning Jehovah given), David’s best friend, an expert bowman, who was slain by an Amalekite, the enemies who’ve warred against God and His people throughout history.
Genesis 9
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual [‘owlam – into eternity] generations:
13 I do set my bow [qesheth] in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth [when understanding is removed from the earth], that the bow [qesheth] shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters [the words of men mixed with and corrupting God’s truth] shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow [qesheth] shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This [rightly divided word of God] is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Joel 3
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down [from the mountains into the valley], O LORD.
12 Let the heathen [those who haven’t known Me] be wakened, and come up [from their graves where they sleep in death] to the valley of Jehoshaphat [this judgment of Jehovah present]: for there will I sit to judge [shaphat] all the heathen [who haven’t known My presence] round about.
13 Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe [in the New Testament we’re told the Mount of Olives is in Bethphage, meaning the house of unripe figs, it is also the place the LORD resides at night {waiting for the fruit to ripen}, after light left, light which was when He was in the temple]: come, get you down [from the mountain]; for the press is full, the fats [this oil] overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision [charuwts]: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision [charuwts].
15 The sun [church government] and the moon [civil governments] shall be darkened [ignorant without this light], and the stars [God’s people, the multitude in the valley] shall withdraw their shining [also not having or not giving this understanding as received].
16 The LORD also shall roar [as a lion, the second face of His unfolding presence manifested] out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem [this place from where His teaching flows the highway to sustainable peace and security]; and the [totally corrupt] heavens and the earth shall shake [ra’ash – to shake the wicked from them]: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel [who receive this expected end].
17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with [these living] waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim [where all are scourged by the thorns – corrected away from those misleading them].
19 Egypt [those oppressing the world] shall be a desolation, and Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us while they call it peace] shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah [My elect remnant, the new crop of leaders I Am raising from the dead], because they [the enemies among us] have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah [the elect remnant] shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem [My people at large] from [the old and corrupt] generation to [become the new] generation [in this new creation].
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.
Proverbs 12
22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
23 A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
24 The hand of the diligent [charuwts] shall bear rule: but the slothful [rmiyah – deceitful, sluggard] shall be under tribute.
25 Heaviness [d’agah – from the same as dag {da’g} the fish that swallowed Jonah, the underlying cause of the agitation of humanity] in the heart [mind] of man makes it stoop [makes it bow to the wicked]: but a good word makes it glad.
26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduces them.
27 The slothful [rmiyah – sluggard, deceitful] man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent [charuwts] man is precious.
28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
2 Samuel 22
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 [tamiym] 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 [tamiym] man you will show yourself upright [tamam].
27 With the pure you will show yourself pure [barar]; and with the froward [those twisting and perverting truth] you will show yourself unsavory.
28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty, that you may bring them down.
29 For you are my lamp [showing me the way in the darkness], O LORD: and the LORD will lighten [give understanding to] my darkness [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 [tamiym]; 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 [tamiym].
2 Samuel 23
1 Now these be 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, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after [the latter] rain.
5 Although my house be not 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.
6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns 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 45
1 My heart is inditing [overflowing with] a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.
3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.
5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under you.
6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.
7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.
9 Kings’ daughters were among your honorable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your LORD; and worship you him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat your favor.
13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.
17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you forever and ever.
