Yashai-Ya’oh

[1] ho’ay banaym soraraym na’am YA’OH la-ghashoth ghatsah wa-la ma-nay wa-lanasch maschah wa-la rokhay lamain sapoth khat’ath ghal khat’athWoe to the children, the ones who go astray, says YA’OH; doing counsel but not from me, and pouring a molten cast and not my power, so as adding sin upon sin [2] ha-halachaym la-radath Matsraym wa-apay

[1] chay yarakham YA’OH ath Ya’oh-ghakab wA-bakhar ghod ba-Ya’oh-shar-al wA-hanaykh-am ghal adamath-am wA-naloh ha-gar ghalay-ham wA-nasapakho ghal bayth Ya’oh-ghakabFor YA’OH will have mercy to Ya’oh-ghakab; and He will choose again in Ya’oh-shar-al, and He will cause them to rest upon a land of their own, and the convert stranger will be joined upon them, and

[1] In that day will YA’OH visit by His sword, the hard and the great and the strong, upon lo’aythan, nakhash barakh, and upon lo’aythan, nakhash ghakalathon, and He will slay the sea monster that is in the sea. [2] In that day, oh desirable vineyard, answer to her. [3] I am YA’OH, the one

[1] Bent down is Bal, crouched down is Nabo. They were, their idol images, to the beasts and to the cattle. Your loading carriages are heavy laden, a burden to the weary. [2] They crouched down, they bent down together. Not could they deliver the burden, and they themselves into captivity have they gone. COMMENTARY

[1] Ho’ay to the land of whirring wings which is from beyond the rivers of Chosh. [2] The man who ships by sea ambassadors, even in vessels of papyrus upon the face of the waters. Go you swift messengers to a people drawn out and caused to be driven recklessly, to a nation terrorized since

[27] Behold, the name YA’OH comes from very far away. It is the one burning in it’s anger, and heavy is the burden. It’s lips are full of rage, and it’s tongue is like a consuming flame. [28] And it’s breath is like a river overflowing; unto the neck will it reach, to sift the

[1] Behold, YA’OH is the one making empty the earth, and the one devastating it! And He overturns the face of it, and He scatters the inhabitants of it! [2] And it will be that like the common people, so the priest; like the servant, so his master; like the servant woman, so her mistress;