Verdrukking | Affliction

Isaiah 3:1-26

[1]  For look, the Master, יהוה of hosts, is turning aside from Yerushalayim and from Yehuḏah the stock and the store, all the supply of bread and all the supply of water;

[2]  the mighty man and the man of battle, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder;

[3]  the commander of fifty and the highly respected man, and the counsellor and the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

[4]  “And I shall make youths their heads, and children shall rule over them.

[5]  And the people shall exert pressure, man on man, man on his neighbour; the young rise up against the older, and the lightly esteemed against the highly esteemed.”

[6]  When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, by the garment, and say, “Come, be a chief over us, and let this ruin be under your hand,”

[7]  he shall swear in that day, saying, “I am not a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor garment; do not make me a chief of the people.”

[8]  For Yerushalayim has stumbled, and Yehuḏah has fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against יהוה, to provoke the eyes of His esteem.

[9]  The look on their faces witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Seḏom; they do not hide it. Woe to their being! For they have brought evil upon themselves.

[10]  “Say to the righteous it is well, for they eat the fruit of their doings.

[11]  “Woe to the wrong – evil! For the reward of his hand is done to him.

[12]  “My people! Youths exert pressure on them, and women rule over them. O My people! Your leaders lead you astray¹, and swallow the way of your paths.” Footnote: ¹See also 9:16.

[13]  יהוה shall stand up to plead, and is standing to judge the peoples.

[14]  יהוה enters into judgment with the elders of His people and its heads, “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

[15]  “What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Master, יהוה of hosts.

[16]  And יהוה says, “Because the daughters of Tsiyon are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,

[17]  therefore יהוה shall smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Tsiyon, and יהוה expose their nakedness.”

[18]  In that day יהוה takes away the finery of the anklets, and the headbands, and the crescents,

[19]  the pendants, the bracelets and the veils,

[20]  the headdresses, and the leg ornaments, and the sashes, and the perfume bottles, and the amulets,

[21]  the rings, and the nose jewels,

[22]  the costly robes, and the cloaks, and the shawls, and the purses,

[23]  the mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the large veils.

[24]  And it shall be: Instead of a sweet fragrance, a smell of decay; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a festal robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of loveliness.

[25]  Your men shall fall by the sword, and your strength in battle.

[26]  And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, deserted, shall sit on the ground.

 Afrikaans:  Jesaja 3

Divine Decree concerning the South Land: Speech Seven of Seven [End-time Restoration and Revival]

under the BANNER of Yahweh, He speaks to this nation in the south land. A Divine Decree to follow after the slaying of the deceitful, the liars, the wrong doers and the wicked, who are even now among His people in the south and also scattered around the globe. SPEECH SEVEN of SEVEN: 

Psalms 134:1-3

[1]  Come, bless יהוה, All you servants of יהוה, Who are standing in the House of יהוה by night!

[2]  Lift up your hands in the set-apart place, And bless יהוה.

[3]  יהוה, Maker of the heavens and earth, Does bless you from Tsiyon!

Psalms 138:1-8

[1]  I give You thanks with all my heart; Before the mighty ones I sing praises to You.

[2]  I bow myself toward Your set-apart Hĕḵal, And give thanks to Your Name For Your kindness and for Your truth; For You have made great Your Word, Your Name, above all.

[3]  On the day I called You did answer me, You made me bold with strength in my being.

[4]  Let all the sovereigns of the earth Give thanks to You, O יהוה, When they shall hear the words of Your mouth.

[5]  And let them sing of the ways of יהוה, For great is the esteem of יהוה.

[6]  Though יהוה is exalted, He looks on the humble; But the proud He perceives from a distance.

[7]  Though I walk in the midst of distress, You revive me; You stretch out Your hand Against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand saves me.

[8]  יהוה does perfect for me. O יהוה, Your kindness is everlasting. Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

Divine Decree concerning the South Land: Speech Six of Seven

under the BANNER of Yahweh, He speaks to this nation in the south land. A Divine Decree to follow after the slaying of the deceitful, the liars, the wrong doers and the wicked, who are even now among His people in the south and also scattered around the globe. SPEECH SIX of SEVEN: 

Isaiah 42:1-25

[1]  “See, My Servant whom I uphold, My Chosen One My being has delighted in! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He brings forth right-ruling to the nations.

[2]  “He does not cry out, nor lifts up His voice, nor causes His voice to be heard in the street.

[3]  “A crushed reed He does not break, and smoking flax He does not quench. He brings forth right-ruling in accordance with truth.

[4]  “He does not become weak or crushed, until He has established right-ruling in the earth. And the coastlands wait for His Torah.”

[5]  Thus said the Ěl, יהוה, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk on it:

[6]  “I, יהוה, have called You in righteousness, and I take hold of Your hand and guard You, and give You for a covenant to a people, for a light to the gentiles,

[7]  to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

[8]  “I am יהוה, that is My Name, and My esteem I do not give to another, nor My praise to idols.

[9]  “See, the former predictions have come, and new ones I am declaring; before they spring forth I let you hear them.”

[10]  Sing to יהוה a new song; His praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you coastlands and you inhabitants of them!

[11]  Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages where Qĕḏar dwells. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

[12]  Let them give esteem to יהוה, and declare His praise in the coastlands.

[13]  יהוה goes forth like a mighty man. He stirs up ardour like a fighter. He cries out, yea, shout aloud. Over His enemies He shows Himself mighty.

[14]  “I have kept silent from of old, I have been still and held Myself back. Like a woman in labour I now cry out, I pant and gasp at once.

[15]  “I lay waste mountains and hills, and I dry up all their plants. And I shall make rivers become coastlands, and I dry up pools.

[16]  “And I shall lead the blind by a way they have not known – in paths they have not known I lead them. I make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These matters I shall do for them, and I shall not forsake them.

[17]  “Those who trust in idols, who say to the moulded images, ‘You are our mighty ones,’ shall be turned back, utterly ashamed.

[18]  “Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, and see.

[19]  “Who is blind but My servant, or deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as servant of יהוה?

[20]  “You see much, but do not observe; ears are open, but do not hear.”

[21]  It has delighted יהוה, for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and esteemed.

[22]  But this is a people robbed and plundered, all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver – for plunder, and no one to say, “Restore!”

[23]  Who among you gives ear to this, pays attention and hears for the time to come?

[24]  Who gave Yaʽaqoḇ for plunder, and Yisra’ĕl to the robbers? Was it not יהוה, He against whom we sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Torah!

[25]  So He has poured on him His burning displeasure and the strength of battle, and it set him on fire all around, yet he did not understand. And it burned against him, yet he did not take it to heart!

Jeremiah 42:1-22

[1]  Then all the commanders of the army, and Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ, and Yezanyah son of Hoshayah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, came near

[2]  and said to Yirmeyahu the prophet, “We beg you, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to יהוה your Elohim, for all this remnant, for we are few left of many, as your eyes see us.

[3]  “And let יהוה your Elohim show us the way in which we should walk and the word we should do.”

[4]  And Yirmeyahu the prophet said to them, “I have heard. See, I am praying to יהוה your Elohim according to your words, and it shall be that I declare to you all the word יהוה answers you. I withhold not a word from you.”

[5]  And they said to Yirmeyahu, “Let יהוה be a true and steadfast witness between us, if we do not do according to all the word which יהוה your Elohim sends us by you.

[6]  “Whether good or evil, let us obey the voice of יהוה our Elohim to whom we send you, in order that it might be well with us when we obey the voice of יהוה our Elohim.”

[7]  And after ten days it came to be that the word of יהוה came to Yirmeyahu.

[8]  So he called Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ, and all the commanders of the army which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

[9]  and said to them, “Thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him,

[10]  ‘If you would indeed stay in this land, then I shall build you and not pull you down, and I shall plant you and not pluck you up. For I have relented of the evil I have done to you.

[11]  ‘Do not be afraid of the sovereign of Baḇel, of whom you are afraid. Do not be afraid of him,’ declares יהוה, ‘for I am with you, to save you and deliver you from his hand.

[12]  ‘And I shall show you compassion, so that he has compassion on you and let you return to your own land.’

[13]  “But if you say, ‘We are not staying in this land,’ and so disobey the voice of יהוה your Elohim,

[14]  saying, ‘No, but we are going to the land of Mitsrayim so that we see no fighting, nor hear the sound of the ram’s horn, nor hunger for bread, and there we shall stay,’

[15]  then hear the word of יהוה, O remnant of Yehuḏah! Thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter Mitsrayim, and shall go to sojourn there,

[16]  then it shall be that the sword which you feared overtakes you there in the land of Mitsrayim, and the scarcity of food of which you were afraid clings to you there in Mitsrayim, and you die there.

[17]  ‘And so it shall be with all the men who set their faces to go to Mitsrayim to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence, and not one of them shall survive or escape from the evil I am bringing upon them.’

[18]  “For thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘As My displeasure and My wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so shall My wrath be poured out on you when you enter Mitsrayim. And you shall be an oath, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, and you shall see this place no more.’

[19]  “יהוה has spoken about you, O remnant of Yehuḏah, ‘Do not go to Mitsrayim!’ Know for certain that I have warned you this day.

[20]  “For you deceived yourselves when you sent me to יהוה your Elohim, saying, ‘Pray for us to יהוה our Elohim, and according to all that יהוה your Elohim says, so declare to us and we shall do it.’

[21]  “So I have declared it to you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of יהוה your Elohim in all which He has sent me to you.

[22]  “And now, know for certain that you shall die by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence in the place where you have desired to go to sojourn.”

Vir die Afrikaanse mense:  Jesaja 42 / Jeremia 42

Divine Decree concerning the South Land: Speech Five of Seven

under the BANNER of Yahweh, He speaks to this nation in the south land. A Divine Decree to follow after the slaying of the deceitful, the liars, the wrong doers and the wicked, who are even now among His people in the south and also scattered around the globe. SPEECH FIVE of SEVEN: 

Ephesians 4:13-24

[13]  until we all come to the unity of the belief and of the knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the completeness of Messiah,

[14]  so that we should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of leading astray,¹ Footnote: ¹5:6, also 2 Cor. 10:5, 2 Cor. 11:3-14, Gal. 1:6-9, 2 Tim. 3:1-8, 2 Tim. 4:2-4, 2 Peter 2:2-22, Jud. vv. 10-19.

[15]  but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him who is the head, Messiah,

[16]  from whom the entire body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the working by which each part does its share, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

[17]  So this I say, and witness in the Master, that you should no longer walk as the gentiles walk,¹ in the futility of their mind, Footnote: ¹1 Cor. 12:2, and Jer. 10:2.

[18]  having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

[19]  who, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecency, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

[20]  But you have not so learned Messiah,

[21]  if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as truth is in יהושע:

[22]  that you put off – with regard to your former way of life – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit,

[23]  and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

[24]  and that you put on the renewed man¹ which was created according to Elohim, in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth. Footnote: ¹Rom. 8:1.

Efésiërs 4:13-24

[13]  totdat ons almal kom tot die eenheid van die geloof en van die kennis van die Seun van Elohym, tot ‘n volwasse man, tot die mate van die volle grootte van Messías;

[14]  sodat ons nie meer kinders sou wees nie wat soos golwe geslinger en heen en weer gedryf word deur elke wind van lering, deur die bedrieëry van die mense, deur sluheid om listiglik tot dwaling te bring;

[15]  maar, terwyl ons in liefde die waarheid betrag, in alles sou opgroei in Hom wat die Hoof is, naamlik Messías,

[16]  uit wie die hele liggaam—goed saamgevoeg en saamverbind deur die ondersteuning wat elke lid gee volgens die werking van elke afsonderlike deel in sy mate—die groei van die liggaam bevorder vir sy eie opbouing in liefde.

[17]  Dit sê en betuig ek dan in Jahweh, dat julle nie meer moet wandel soos die ander heidene ook wandel in die verdwaasdheid van hulle gemoed nie—

[18]  mense wat verduisterd is in die verstand en vervreemd van die lewe van Elohym deur die onkunde wat in hulle is vanweë die verharding van hulle hart;

[19]  wat ongevoelig geword het en hulle oorgegee het aan die ongebondenheid om in hebsug allerhande onreinheid te bedrywe.

[20]  Maar julle het Messías nie so leer ken nie,

[21]  as julle ten minste van Hom gehoor het en in Hom onderrig is soos die waarheid is in Jahwehshua:

[22]  dat julle, wat die vorige lewenswandel betref die oue mens moet aflê wat deur die begeerlikhede van die verleiding te gronde gaan,

[23]  en dat julle vernuwe moet word in die gees van julle gemoed

[24]  en julle met die nuwe mens moet beklee wat na Elohym geskape is in ware geregtigheid en heiligheid.

Die Skeibrief | The Divorce Letter

Jesaja 50:1-11

[1]  So sê Jahweh: Waar is tog die skeibrief van julle moeder waarmee Ek haar verstoot het? Of wie is daar van my skuldeisers aan wie Ek julle verkoop het? Kyk, weens jul ongeregtighede is julle verkoop, en weens jul oortredinge is julle moeder verstoot.

[2]  Waarom het Ek gekom en daar was niemand nie, het Ek geroep en niemand geantwoord nie? Is my hand werklik te kort om te verlos, of is daar in my geen krag om uit te red nie? Kyk, deur my dreiging maak Ek die see droog; Ek maak die riviere tot ‘n woestyn, sodat hulle visse stink, omdat daar geen water is nie, en hulle sterwe van dors.

[3]  Ek beklee die hemel met swartheid en bedek dit met ‘n roukleed.

[4]  Jahweh het My ‘n geoefende tong gegee, dat Ek kan weet om die vermoeide te verkwik met woorde; Hy wek elke môre, Hy wek my oor om te hoor soos die leerlinge.

[5]  Jahweh het my oor geopen, en Ek was nie wederstrewig nie; Ek het nie agteruitgewyk nie.

[6]  Ek het my rug gegee vir die wat slaan, en my wange vir die wat die hare uitpluk; my aangesig het Ek nie verberg vir smaadhede en bespuwing nie.

[7]  Maar Jahweh help My; daarom kom Ek nie in die skande nie; daarom het Ek my aangesig gemaak soos ‘n keisteen, en Ek weet dat Ek nie beskaamd sal staan nie.

[8]  Hy is naby wat My reg verskaf. Wie wil met My ‘n regsaak begin? —laat ons saam optree! Wie is my teëparty? —laat hom nader kom na My toe!

[9]  Kyk, Jahweh help My: wie is dit wat My kan veroordeel? Kyk, hulle sal almal verslyt soos ‘n kleed; die mot sal hulle eet.

[10]  Wie is daar onder julle wat Jahweh vrees, wat na die stem van sy Kneg luister, wat in duisternisse wandel en geen ligstraal sien nie? —laat hy vertrou op die Naam van Jahweh en steun op sy God!

[11]  Kyk, julle almal wat ‘n vuur aansteek, wat julle met vuurpyle omgord—wandel in die vlam van julle vuur en onder die vuurpyle wat julle aangesteek het! Van my hand het dit julle oorgekom; in smart sal julle neerlê.

Isaiah 50:1-11

[1]  Thus says יהוה, “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

[2]  “When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was My hand too short to redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? See, by My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for there is not water, and die of thirst.

[3]  “I clothe the heavens with darkness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”

[4]  The Master יהוה has given Me the tongue of taught ones, that I should know to help the weary with a word. He wakes Me morning by morning, he wakes My ear to hear as taught ones.

[5]  The Master יהוה has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.

[6]  I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard, I did not hide My face from humiliation and spitting.

[7]  And the Master יהוה helps Me, therefore I shall not be humiliated. So I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I am not put to shame.

[8]  Near is He who declares Me right. Who would contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me.

[9]  See, the Master יהוה helps Me. Who would declare Me wrong? See, all of them wear out like a garment, a moth eats them.

[10]  Who among you is fearing יהוה, obeying the voice of His Servant, that has walked in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the Name of יהוה and lean upon his Elohim!

[11]  See, all you who light a fire, girding on burning arrows: walk in the light of your fire and in the burning arrows you have lit. From My hand you shall have this: you shall lie down in grief!

Divine Decree concerning the South Land: Speech Four of Seven

under the BANNER of Yahweh, He speaks to this nation in the south land. A Divine Decree to follow after the slaying of the deceitful, the liars, the wrong doers and the wicked, who are even now among His people in the south and also scattered around the globe. SPEECH FOUR of SEVEN:

Deuteronomy 16:13-22

[13]  “Perform the Festival of Booths for seven days after the ingathering from your threshing-floor and from your winepress,

[14]  and you shall rejoice in your festival, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lĕwite, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.

[15]  “For seven days you shall observe a festival to יהוה your Elohim in the place which יהוה chooses, because יהוה your Elohim does bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be only rejoicing!

[16]  “Three times a year all your males appear before יהוה your Elohim in the place which He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Booths. And none should appear before יהוה empty-handed,

[17]  but each one with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of יהוה your Elohim which He has given you.

[18]  “Appoint judges and officers within all your gates, which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous right-ruling.

[19]  “Do not distort right-ruling. Do not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

[20]  “Follow righteousness, righteousness alone, so that you live and inherit the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you.

[21]  “Do not plant for yourself any tree as an Ashĕrah near the altar of יהוה your Elohim that you make for yourself.

[22]  “And do not set up a pillar, which יהוה your Elohim hates.

Deuteronómium 16:13-22

[13]  Die huttefees moet jy sewe dae lank hou as jy van jou dorsvloer en jou wynpers insameling hou.

[14]  En jy moet vrolik wees op jou fees, jy en jou seun en jou dogter en jou slaaf en jou slavin en die Leviet en die vreemdeling en die wees en die weduwee wat in jou poorte is.

[15]  Sewe dae lank moet jy vir Jahweh jou Eloah fees hou op die plek wat Jahweh sal uitkies; want Jahweh jou Eloah sal jou seën in al jou inkomste en in al die werk van jou hande; en jy moet net maar vrolik wees.

[16]  Drie maal in die jaar moet al jou manne voor die aangesig van Jahweh jou Eloah verskyn op die plek wat Hy sal uitkies; op die fees van die ongesuurde brode en op die fees van die weke en op die huttefees; en hulle mag nie met leë hande voor die aangesig van Jahweh verskyn nie;

[17]  elkeen volgens die gawe van sy hand ooreenkomstig die seën van Jahweh jou Eloah wat Hy jou gegee het.

[18]  Regters en opsigters moet jy vir jou aanstel in al jou poorte wat Jahweh jou Eloah jou sal gee volgens jou stamme; en hulle moet die volk oordeel volgens ‘n regverdige regspraak.

[19]  Jy mag die reg nie verdraai nie; jy mag nie partydig wees nie; ook  mag jy geen omkoopgeskenk aanneem nie, want die geskenk verblind die oë van die wyse en verdraai die sake van die wat reg het.

[20]  Geregtigheid, geregtigheid moet jy najaag, dat jy kan lewe en die land in besit kan neem wat Jahweh jou Eloah jou sal gee.

[21]  Jy mag vir jou nie ‘n heilige boomstam—enige boom—plant langs die altaar van Jahweh jou Eloah wat jy vir jou sal maak nie.

[22]  Ook mag jy vir jou geen klippilaar, wat Jahweh jou Eloah haat, oprig nie.