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13 Sh’moth – Haftarah
Yeshayahu 27:6-28:13, 29:22-23
Those who come He causes to take root in Ya‛aqoḇ, Yisra’ěl shall blossom and bud. And they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
Has He smitten him as he struck the ones who were striking him? Or as a killer – was he killed as he was killing?
In measure, by sending her away, You contended with her. He shall take away by His rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Therefore by this the crookedness of Ya‛aqoḇ is covered. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones that are beaten to dust – Ashěrim and sun-pillars rise no more.
For the city of defense is lonely, a home forsaken and left like a wilderness – there the calf feeds, and there it lies down, and shall consume its branches.
When its twigs are dry, they are broken off, women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding, therefore He who made them has no compassion on them, and He who formed them shows them no favor.
And in that day it shall be that YHWH threshes, from the channel of the River to the wadi of Mitsrayim. And you shall be gathered one by one, O children of Yisra’ěl.
And in that day it shall be that a great shophar is blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Ashshur and the outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim shall come, and shall worship YHWH on the set-apart mountain, in Yerushalayim.
Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, and to the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, to those who are overcome with wine!
See, YHWH has one who is strong and potent, like a downpour of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who casts down to the earth with the hand.
The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, is trampled under foot; and the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, like the first fruit before the summer, which, when one sees it, he eats it up while it is still in his hand.
In that day YHWH of hosts is for a crown of splendor and a head-dress of comeliness to the remnant of His people, and a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
And these too have gone astray through wine, and through strong drink wandered about. Kohen and prophet have gone astray through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they wander about through strong drink, they go astray in vision, they stumble in judgment.
For all tables shall be covered with vomit, no place without filth.
Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts!
For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.
For with a jabbering lip and a foreign tongue He speaks to this people, to whom He said, “This is the rest, give rest to the weary,” and, “This is the refreshing.” But they would not hear.
But the Word of YHWH was to them, “Command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,” so that they go and shall stumble backward, and be broken and snared and taken captive.
Therefore thus said YHWH, who ransomed Aḇraham, concerning the house of Ya‛aqoḇ, “Ya‛aqoḇ is no longer put to shame, no longer does his face grow pale.
“For when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, they shall set apart My Name, and set apart the Set-apart One of Ya‛aqoḇ, and fear the Elohim of Yisra’ěl.
Yermayahu 1:1-2:3
The words of Yirmeyahu the son of Ḥilqiyahu, of the kohenim who were in Anathoth in the land of Binyamin, to whom the word of YHWH came in the days of Yoshiyahu son of Amon, king of Yehuḏah, in the thirteenth year of his kingdom.
And it came in the days of Yehoyaqim, son of Yoshiyahu, king of Yehuḏah, until the end of the eleventh year of Tsiḏqiyahu, son of Yoshiyahu, king of Yehuḏah, until the exile of Yerushalayim in the fifth new moon.
Now the word of YHWH came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I did set you apart – I appointed you a prophet to nations.”
And said I, “Ah, Master YHWH! See, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth.”
And YHWH said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ but go to all to whom I send you, and speak whatever I command you.
“Do not fear their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares YHWH.
Then YHWH put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and YHWH said to me, “See, I have put My words in your mouth.
“See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the rules, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
And the word of YHWH came to me, saying, “What do you see, Yirmeyahu?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”
And YHWH said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to do it.”
And the word of YHWH came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.”
And YHWH said to me, “Out of the north evil is set loose on all the inhabitants of the land.
“For look, I am calling all the clans of the rules of the north,” declares YHWH. “And they shall come and each one set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Yerushalayim, against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Yehuḏah.
“And I shall pronounce My judgments against them concerning all their evil, because they have forsaken Me, burned incense to other mighty ones, and bowed themselves to the works of their own hands.
“Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not break down before their faces, lest I break you before them.
“For look, I have made you this day a walled city and an iron column, and bronze walls against all the land, against the kings of Yehuḏah, against her heads, against her kohenim, and against the people of the land.
“And they shall fight against you, but not prevail against you. For I am with you,” declares YHWH, “to deliver you.”
And the word of YHWH came to me, saying, “Go, and you shall cry in the hearing of Yerushalayim, saying, ‘Thus said YHWH, “I remember you, the mercy of your youth, the love of your bridehood, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
“Yisra’ěl was set-apart to YHWH, the first-fruits of His increase. All who ate of it became guilty – evil came upon them,” declares YHWH.’”