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who [wrought venge]ance on them 'that sought smooth things', in that he proceeded to hang them up
alive. (18) [Such a thing had never] before [been done] in Israel, for the Scripture designates a man
hung up alive as ['a reproach unto God']. (19)
(13) Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of Hosts, and I will burn thy multitude (20) in smoke,
and the sword shall devour thy young lions, and I will cut off thy prey from the earth. [This refers to ].
Thy multitude' means the great men of his army [and] his [confederates]. His young lions' are [ ], and
his 'prey' is the property which [the priests of] Jerusalem amas[sed] (21) (and) which [ ]. [E]phraim
[shall become] ; Israel shall be rendered [ ]. (22) [And the voice of thy messengers shall no more be
heard.] ... his 'messengers' are his ambassadors, whose voice shall no more be heard among the
nations.
~~ Chapter Three ~~
(1) Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of fraud and rapine. This alludes to the city of Ephraim
(23)—to those (future) 'seekers after smooth things (24) who, in the Latter Days, will walk in fraud
and lies.
The prey departeth not, nor do (2) the crack of the whip, the whir of wheels, the prancing horses, the
bounding chariots (3) the charging horsemen, the flashing [sword], the glittering spear, the multitude
of slain, the great heap of carcasses. No end is there to the bodies; men stumble over those bodies.
This alludes to the period when the 'seekers after smooth things' hold sway. Never will the sword of
the gentiles depart from the midst of their community, nor yet captivity, spoliation and internecine
strife, nor exile through fear of an enemy. Many a guilty corpse shall fall in their days, and there shall
indeed be no end to the slain. Moreover, through the guilty counsel (policy) of these men, men will
indeed stumble in the body of their own flesh.
(4) Because of the manifold whoredoms of the well-favored whore, that mistress of witchery, who
sells whole nations through her whoredom, and whole families through her wit[cher]y. This alludes to
those who will go leading Ephraim astray, those by whose false teaching, (25) lying tongue, and
guileful lips many shall indeed be led astray —kings, princes, priests, laymen, and affiliated
strangers— and through whose counsel (policy) their cities and families shall go to ruin, and through
whose tongues nobles and rulers will fall.
(5) Behold, I am against thee, quoth the LORD of H[ost]s, and thou shalt (yet) uncover [thy] skirts
over thy face, and show the nations [thy] nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. This alludes to ...
the cities of the east, for the 'skirts' are ... the gentiles their ... their filthy abominations.
(6) And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile and render thee loathsome. (26) (7)
And it shall come to pass that all who see thee shall flee from thee. This alludes to the 'seekers after
smooth things' whose evil works will, at the end of the present epoch, become manifest to all Israel.
Many will then discern these people's iniquity and come to hate them and to hold them loathsome on
account of their guilty arrogance. Moreover, when (eventually) the glory of Judah suffers dishonor,
those in Ephraim who have hitherto been duped will flee from the midst of those men's congregation
and, renouncing them that led them astray, attach themselves (once more) to (the true) Israel. (27)
And they will say, Nineveh is ravaged, (but) who bemoans her? Whence can I seek any who will
condole with thee? This alludes to the 'seekers after smooth things' whose counsel (policy) will come
to naught and whose synagogue (28) will be dispersed. No longer will they lead the congregation
astray, and those who were previously duped will no longer hold to their counsel.
(8) Art thou better than No Amon, that was situate by the rivers? (29) The allusion in the term
'Amon' is to Manasseh. The 'rivers' are the grandees of Manasseh, the nobles of ... who ... the ...
Water was all around her; her rampart (hayil) was the sea; water also formed her walls. The allusion is
to the men of her army (hayil), her warriors. ... (30)
(9) Ethiopia is her strength; Egypt too, and it is endless. This alludes to the ... who ...
Put and Lubim (31) are among her supporters. This alludes to the wicked men of ... , (32) that divisive
group (33) who ally themselves with Manasseh.
(10) She too is gone into exile, into captivity; her babes are dashed in pieces at the top of every street;
over her nobles men cast lots, and her grandees are bound in chains.
This alludes to Manasseh in the final era, when its kingdom will be brought low at [the hand of] ... Its
womenfolk, babes, and infants will go into captivity; while its warriors and its honored men [will fall]
by the sword.
(11) Thou too shalt become drunken, become all be-louded. This alludes to the wicked men of
Ephraim whose cup (of doom) (34) will follow that of Manasseh, and who will become ...
Thou too shalt go seeking in the city a refuge from the foe. This alludes to the ... [who will go seeking
escape] from their enemies within (their own) cities. All thy strongholds shall be like fig trees. ...
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Habakkuk
~~ Chapter One ~~
(4) Therefore the law is numbed. This refers to the fact that they have rejected the Torah-that is, the
Law-of God.
For the wicked besets the righteous ... The reference (in the word 'righteous') is to the teacher who
expounds the Law aright [ ].
Therefore justice goes forth perverted.
(5) Look, ye traitors, (1) and see: marvel and be aston-ished. For it is in your own days that the deed is
being done. Ye do not believe when it is told. This refers to the traitors who have aligned themselves
with the man of lies. For they did not believe what he who expounded the Law aright told them on the
authority (*) of God. It refers also to those who betrayed the new covenant, (2) for (the word rendered
'believe' also means 'keep faith' and therefore alludes to the fact that) (3) they have not kept faith with
the Covenant of God, but have profaned His holy name. Again, it refers to future traitors-that is, to the
lawless men who will betray the Covenant and not believe when they hear all the things that are to
come upon the final age duly related by the priest whom God appoints to interpret in those days all the
words of His servants the prophets by whom He has told of that impending disaster.
(6) For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that wild and impetuous nation. This refers to the Kittaeans, (4)
who are indeed swift and mighty in war, bent on destroying peoples far and wide and subduing them
to their own domination. They dispossess [ ] but do not believe in the ordinances of God [ ]. Over
lowland and plain they come to smite and pillage the cities of the land. This is what the Scripture
means when it speaks of them as coming to possess dwellings that are not their own.
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(*) Literally, from the mouth of.
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(7) Dreadful and awful it is: out of itself proceed both its standard of justice and its (lust for)
deception. (6) This refers to the Kittaeans, the terror and dread of whom are upon all the nations.
Moreover, when they meet in their council, (8) all their plans are directed to doing evil; and they
behave towards all peoples with knavery and deceit
(8, 9) Swifter than leopards are its steeds, and keener than evening wolves. Their horsemen spread out
and ride abroad: they come flying from afar like a vulture that hastes to devour. They all of them come
for violence: the serried mass of their faces is a veritable eastwind (7).
This refers to the Kittaeans who thresh the earth with their horses and their beasts. Like a vulture they
come from afar, from the isles of the sea, to devour all the nations; and they are insatiable. In the heat
of fury, in searing rage, in scorching anger and with tempestuous mien (8) they speak with all the
peoples; and this is what the Scripture means when it says, the serried mass of their faces is a veritable [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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