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

Vanweë Julle Ongeregtighede | Because Of Your Iniquities

Isaiah 43:1-28

[1]  But now, thus said יהוה, your Creator, O Yaʽaqoḇ, and He who formed you, O Yisra’ĕl, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name, you are Mine.

[2]  “When you pass through the waters, I am with you; and through rivers, they do not overflow you. When you walk through fire, you are not scorched, and a flame does not burn you.

[3]  “For I am יהוה your Elohim, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, your Saviour; I gave Mitsrayim for your ransom, Kush and Seḇa in your place.

[4]  “Since you were precious in My eyes, you have been esteemed, and I have loved you. And I give men in your place, and peoples for your life.

[5]  “Do not fear, for I am with you. I shall bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.

[6]  “I shall say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth –

[7]  all those who are called by My Name, whom I have created, formed, even made for My esteem.”

[8]  He shall bring out a blind people who have eyes, and deaf ones who have ears.

[9]  All the nations shall be assembled, and the peoples be gathered. Who among them declares this, and show us former events? Let them give their witnesses, to be declared right; or let them hear and say, “It is truth.”

[10]  “You are My witnesses,” declares יהוה, “And My servant whom I have chosen, so that you know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no Ěl formed, nor after Me there is none.

[11]  “I, I am יהוה, and besides Me there is no saviour.

[12]  “I, I have declared and saved, and made known, and there was no foreign mighty one among you. And you are My witnesses,” declares יהוה, “that I am Ěl.

[13]  “Even from the day I am He, and no one delivers out of My hand. I work, and who turns it back?”

[14]  Thus said יהוה, your Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, “For your sake I shall send to Baḇel, and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships.

[15]  “I am יהוה, your Set-apart One, Creator of Yisra’ĕl, your Sovereign.”

[16]  Thus said יהוה, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters,

[17]  who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power (they lie down together, they do not rise, they have been extinguished, they have been quenched like a wick):

[18]  “Do not remember the former events, nor consider the events of old.

[19]  “See, I am doing what is new, let it now spring forth. Do you not know it? I am even making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

[20]  “The beast of the field esteems Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I have given waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen,

[21]  this people I have formed for Myself, let them relate My praise.

[22]  “But you have not called on Me, O Yaʽaqoḇ, for you have been weary of Me, O Yisra’ĕl.

[23]  “You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings, nor have you esteemed Me with your slaughterings. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, nor wearied you with incense.

[24]  “You have not bought Me sweet cane with silver, nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your slaughterings. You have only burdened Me with your sins, you have wearied Me with your crookednesses.

[25]  “I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and remember your sins no more.

[26]  “Remind Me, let us enter into judgment, together; relate, that you might be declared right.

[27]  “Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have transgressed against Me.

[28]  “So I have profaned the chief ones of the set-apart place, and I have delivered up Yaʽaqoḇ to the curse, and Yisra’ĕl to scorn.

Jeremiah 43:1-13

[1]  And it came to be, when Yirmeyahu had ended speaking all these words to all the people – all the words of יהוה their Elohim, for which יהוה their Elohim had sent him to them –

[2]  that Azaryah son of Hoshayah, and Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Yirmeyahu, “You are speaking a lie! יהוה our Elohim has not sent you to say, ‘Do not go to Mitsrayim to sojourn there.’

[3]  “For Baruḵ son of Nĕriyah is moving you against us, to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death or exile us to Baḇel.”

[4]  So Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ, and all the commanders of the army, and all the people disobeyed the voice of יהוה, to stay in the land of Yehuḏah.

[5]  And Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ and all the commanders of the army took all the remnant of Yehuḏah who had returned to dwell in the land of Yehuḏah, from all nations where they had been driven –

[6]  the men, and the women, and the children, and the sovereign’s daughters, and every being whom Neḇuzaraḏan, chief of the guard, had left with Geḏalyahu son of Aḥiqam, son of Shaphan, and Yirmeyahu the prophet, and Baruḵ son of Nĕriyahu.

[7]  So they went to the land of Mitsrayim, for they disobeyed the voice of יהוה. And they went as far as Taḥpanḥes.

[8]  And the word of יהוה came to Yirmeyahu in Taḥpanḥes, saying,

[9]  “Take large stones in your hand, and you shall hide them before the eyes of the men of Yehuḏah, in the clay in the brick courtyard which is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s house in Taḥpanḥes.

[10]  “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “See, I am sending, and I shall bring Neḇuḵaḏretstsar the sovereign of Baḇel, My servant. And I shall set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he shall spread his canopy over them.

[11]  “And he shall come and smite the land of Mitsrayim, bringing death to those appointed for death, and captivity to those for captivity, and the sword to those for the sword.

[12]  “And he shall set fire to the houses of the mighty ones of Mitsrayim. And he shall burn them and take them captive. And he shall cover himself with the land of Mitsrayim, as a shepherd puts on his garment, and he shall go out from there in peace.

[13]  “And he shall break the stone pillars of the House of the Sun which are in the land of Mitsrayim, and he shall burn the houses of the mighty ones of the Mitsrites with fire.” ’ ”

 Vir die Afrikaanse mense:  Jesaja 43 en Jeremia 43.

'n Pleidooi | A Pleading Cause

Psalms 70:1-5

[1]  Vir die musiekleier. ‘n Psalm van Dawid, by die gedenkoffer. (70:2) o Elohim, maak tog gou om my te red, o Elohim, om my te help!

[2]  (70:3) Laat hulle wat my lewe soek, beskaamd staan en rooi van skaamte word; laat hulle wat behae het in my ongeluk, agteruitwyk en in die skande kom.

[3]  (70:4) Laat hulle wat sê: Ha, ha! teruggaan vanweë hul beskaming.

[4]  (70:5) Laat in U vrolik en bly wees almal wat U soek; en laat die liefhebbers van u heil altyddeur sê: Groot is Elohim!

[5]  (70:6) Maar ek is ellendig en behoeftig: o Elohim, kom tog gou na my! U is my hulp en my redder; Elohim, vertoef tog nie!

Psalms 74:1-23

[1]  ‘n Onderwysing van Asaf. o Elohim, waarom het U vir altyd verstoot? Waarom rook u toorn teen die skape van u weide?

[2]  Dink aan u vergadering wat U in die voortyd verwerf het, wat U verlos het om die stam van u erfdeel te wees, aan die berg Sion waar U op gewoon het.

[3]  Hef u voete op na die ewige puinhope: alles het die vyand in die heiligdom verniel.

[4]  U teëstanders het binne-in u vergaderplek gebrul; hulle het hul tekens as tekens gestel.

[5]  Dit lyk soos wanneer iemand byle omhoog hef in ‘n digte plek bome.

[6]  En nou—die houtsnywerk daarvan het hulle alles met byl en hamers stukkend geslaan.

[7]  Hulle het u heiligdom aan die brand gesteek; tot die grond toe het hulle die woonplek van u Naam ontheilig.

[8]  Hulle het in hul hart gesê: Laat ons hulle almal saam onderdruk! Hulle het al die vergaderplekke van Elohim  in die land verbrand.

[9]  Ons sien nie ons tekens nie; daar is geen profeet meer nie, en by ons is daar niemand wat weet hoe lank nie.

[10]  Hoe lank, o Elohim, sal die teëstander smaad aandoen, sal die vyand u Naam vir altyd verag?

[11]  Waarom trek U u hand, ja, u regterhand, terug? Trek dit uit u boesem! Vernietig!

[12]  Nogtans is Elohim  my Koning van die voortyd af, wat verlossinge werk op die aarde.

[13]  U het deur u sterkte die see geklief; U het die koppe van die seemonsters op die waters verbreek.

[14]  U het die koppe van die Leviátan verbrysel; U het hom gegee as voedsel vir ‘n volk—vir woestyndiere.

[15]  U het fontein en stroom oopgeslaan; U het standhoudende riviere laat opdroog.

[16]  Aan U behoort die dag, aan U behoort ook die nag; U het hemelligte en son vasgestel.

[17]  U het al die grense van die aarde bepaal; somer en winter, U het hulle geformeer.

[18]  Dink hieraan: Die vyand het Elohim gesmaad, en ‘n dwase volk het u Naam verag.

[19]  Gee aan die wilde diere die siel van u tortelduif nie oor nie; vergeet nie vir altyd die lewe van u ellendiges nie.

[20]  Aanskou die verbond, want die donker plekke van die land is vol wonings van geweld.

[21]  Laat die verdrukte nie beskaamd terugkom nie; laat die ellendige en behoeftige u Naam prys.

[22]  Staan op, o Elohim, verdedig u saak; dink aan die smaad wat U die hele dag aangedoen word deur ‘n dwaas.

[23]  Vergeet nie die geroep van u teëstanders nie—die rumoer van u opstandige vyande, wat altyddeur opgaan!

Psalms 70:1-5

[1]  O Elohim, deliver me! Hasten to my help, O יהוה!

[2]  Let those who seek my life Be ashamed and abashed, Let those who are desiring my evil Be turned back and humiliated.

[3]  Let those who say, “Aha, aha!” Be turned back because of their shame.

[4]  Let all those who seek You Rejoice and be glad in You; And let those who love Your deliverance always say, “Let Elohim be made great!”

[5]  But I am poor and needy; Hasten to me, O Elohim! You are my help and my deliverer; O יהוה, do not delay.

Psalms 74:1-23

[1]  O Elohim, why do You forever reject us? Why does Your displeasure smoke Against the sheep of Your pasture?

[2]  Remember Your congregation. You did purchase of old, The tribe of Your inheritance. You did redeem, This Mount Tsiyon where You have dwelt.

[3]  Lift up Your steps to the endless ruins; The enemy has done all evil in the set-apart place¹. Footnote: ¹Ps. 79.

[4]  Your adversaries have roared In the midst of Your meeting places; They have set up their own signs as signs.

[5]  It seems as if one had lifted up Axes among the thick trees.

[6]  And now all its carved work, They have broken down with axe and hammer.

[7]  They have set fire to Your set-apart place, They have profaned the dwelling place of Your Name to the ground.

[8]  They said in their hearts, “Let us suppress them altogether.” They burned all the meeting places of Ěl in the land.

[9]  We do not see our signs, There is no longer a prophet, Nor any among us who knows how long.

[10]  O Elohim, how long would the adversary reproach? Would the enemy despise Your Name forever¹? Footnote: ¹v.18.

[11]  Why do You hold back Your hand, even Your right hand? From the midst of Your bosom – end it!

[12]  For Elohim is my Sovereign from of old, Working deliverance in the midst of the earth.

[13]  You divided the sea by Your might; You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.

[14]  You broke the heads of Liwiathan in pieces, You made him food for the people Living in the wilderness.

[15]  You did cleave open the fountain and the flood, You did dry up mighty rivers.

[16]  The day is Yours, the night is Yours too, You have established the light and the sun.

[17]  You have set all the borders of the earth, You have made summer and winter.

[18]  Remember this: the enemy has reproached יהוה, And a foolish people has despised Your Name¹. Footnote: ¹v. 10.

[19]  Do not give the being of Your turtledove to the wild beast! Do not forget the life of Your afflicted ones forever.

[20]  Look to the covenant, For the dark places of the earth are filled With haunts of violence.

[21]  Let not the crushed one return ashamed! Let the poor and needy praise Your Name.

[22]  Arise, O Elohim, plead Your own cause, Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.

[23]  Do not forget the voice of Your enemies, The uproar of those rising up against You increases continually.

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!

Message from the Almighty

for His messages shall go forth and not return to Him void, and they say: "where is our comfort? why are we in such agony?" for they do not know that His messages ARE their comfort and His mercy so that they can turn from their ways, and Yahweh answers them:

Micah 3:1-12
[1] Then I said, “Hear now, O heads of Yaʽaqoḇ, and you rulers of the house of Yisra’ĕl: Should you not know right-ruling,
[2] you who are hating good and loving evil, tearing away the skin from My people, and the flesh from their bones,
[3] and who have eaten the flesh of My people, and stripped off their skin, and have broken their bones, and have cut it up as into a pot, like flesh in the cooking pot?”
[4] Therefore, when they cry to יהוה He does not answer them, and hides His face from them at that time, as they have made their deeds evil.
[5] Thus said יהוה concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who are biting with their teeth and have called out, “Peace!” They even set apart a battle against him who does not give for their mouths.
[6] Therefore it shall be night to you without vision, and darkness to you without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be dark for them.
[7] And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners embarrassed. And they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer, O Elohim.
[8] But truly I am filled with power, with the Spirit of יהוה, and with right-ruling and with might, to declare to Yaʽaqoḇ his transgression and to Yisra’ĕl his sin1. Footnote: 12 Chr. 24:20, John. 16:8.
[9] Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Yaʽaqoḇ and you rulers of the house of Yisra’ĕl, who despise right-ruling and distort all that is straight,
[10] those building up Tsiyon with bloodshed and Yerushalayim with unrighteousness.
[11] Her heads judge for a bribe, her priests teach for pay1, and her prophets divine for a price. Yet they lean on יהוה, and say, “Is not יהוה in our midst? Evil does not come upon us.” Footnote: 1John 10:12.
[12] Therefore, because of you, Tsiyon is ploughed like a field, and Yerushalayim becomes heaps, and the mountain of the House like a wooded height.

Vir die Afrikaanse mense: Miga 3.

Message from the Almighty

just received this from Yahweh to put forth to you all:

Jeremiah 1:4-19
[4] Now the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
[5] “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.”
[6] And said I, “Ah, Master יהוה! See, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth.”
[7] And יהוה 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.
[8] “Do not fear their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares יהוה.
[9] Then יהוה put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and יהוה said to me, “See, I have put My words in your mouth.
[10] “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the reigns, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
[11] And the word of יהוה came to me, saying, “What do you see, Yirmeyahu?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”
[12] And יהוה said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to do it.”
[13] And the word of יהוה 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.”
[14] And יהוה said to me, “Out of the north evil is set loose on all the inhabitants of the land.
[15] “For look, I am calling all the clans of the reigns of the north,” declares יהוה. “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.
[16] “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.
[17] “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.
[18] “For look, I have made you this day a walled city and an iron column, and bronze walls against all the land, against the sovereigns of Yehuḏah, against her heads, against her priests, and against the people of the land.
[19] “And they shall fight against you, but not prevail against you. For I am with you,” declares יהוה, “to deliver you.”

Jeremiah 51:15-24
[15] He made the earth by His power, He established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
[16] When He gives forth His voice the waters in the heavens roar, and He makes vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain, and He brings the wind out of His treasuries.
[17] All mankind has become too brutish to know, every smith has been put to shame by the carved image, for his moulded image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
[18] They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they perish.
[19] The Portion of Yaʽaqoḇ is not like them, for He is the Maker of all, and Yisra’ĕl is the tribe of His inheritance. יהוה of hosts is His Name.
[20] “You are My battle-axe, weapons of battle, and with you I shall break nations in pieces, and with you I shall destroy reigns.
[21] “And with you I shall break in pieces the horse and its rider, and with you I shall break in pieces the chariot and its rider.
[22] “And with you I shall break in pieces man and woman, and with you I shall break in pieces old and young, and with you I shall break in pieces the young man and the maiden.
[23] “And with you I shall break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, and with you I shall break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen. And with you I shall break in pieces governors and rulers.
[24] “And I shall repay Baḇel and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Tsiyon before your eyes,” declares יהוה.

Vir die Afrikaanse mense: Jeremia 1:4-19 en Jeremia 51:15-24
Thank you Father, may theyknow Your Ways. Ahmein.  

Onaangename Jare | Unpleasant Years

[Boekmerk] dit is amptelik, sinds vandag, verwag 'n baie onaangename paar jare:

Openbaring 6:4
En ’n ander perd, ’n vuurrooie, het uitgekom, en aan hom wat daarop sit, is dit gegee om die vrede van die aarde af weg te neem en dat hulle mekaar sou doodmaak; en ’n groot swaard is aan hom gegee. 

Matthéüs 24:12
En omdat die ongeregtigheid vermeerder word, sal die liefde van die meeste verkoel. 


[Bookmark] right, it is official since today, expect the coming years to become very unpleasant:

Rev 6:4
And there went out another horse [that was] red: and [power] was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

Mat 24:12
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold

'n Hindernis

En die Woord van Eloah kom na my en sê: en so versnel die doodsteller van 235 000 na meer dan 500 000 mense in SA...

Daarom maak ’n leeu uit die bos hulle dood, ’n wolf van die wildernisse verniel hulle; ’n luiperd loer by hulle stede; almal wat daaruit gaan, word verskeur; want hulle oortredinge is baie, hulle afkerighede geweldig. Waarom sou Ek jou vergewe? Jou kinders het My verlaat en gesweer by die wat geen god is nie. En toe Ek hulle versadig het, het hulle owerspel bedrywe en by hope versamel in die hoerhuis. Soos vet gevoerde hingste swerf hulle rond; hulle runnik elkeen na die vrou van sy naaste. Sou Ek hieroor geen besoeking doen nie? spreek Eloah. Of sou my siel hom nie wreek op ’n nasie soos hierdie een nie?

Klim op sy mure en rig verwoesting aan, maar maak daar geen einde aan nie; neem weg sy ranke, want hulle behoort nie aan Eloah nie. Want die huis van Israel en die huis van Juda het baie troueloos teen My gehandel, spreek Eloah. Hulle het Eloah verloën en gesê: Dit is nie Hy nie; en geen onheil sal oor ons kom nie; ons sal geen swaard of hongersnood sien nie; en die profete sal wind word; ja, die Woord is nie by hulle nie; mag dit so met húlle gaan! Daarom, so sê Eloah, die God van die leërskare: Omdat julle hierdie woord spreek, kyk, Ek maak my woorde in jou mond ’n vuur en hierdie volk hout, en dit sal hulle verteer.

'n Sug en 'n kreet | A sigh and a cry

Daar word geskree vanuit Suid-Afrika!  Hoor die gegil en die gehuil en die gesoebat!

Openbaring 6:10 
En hulle het met ’n groot stem uitgeroep en gesê: Hoe lank, o heilige en waaragtige Heerser, oordeel en wreek U nie ons bloed op die bewoners van die aarde nie?

Klaagliedere 5:1-22
DINK, Elohym, aan wat oor ons gekom het, sien en aanskou ons smaad.
Ons erfdeel het na vreemdes oorgegaan, ons huise na uitlanders.
Ons het wese geword, sonder ’n vader, ons moeders is soos weduwees.
Ons water drink ons vir geld, ons hout kom teen betaling in.   
Ons vervolgers is op ons nek; ons is afgemat sonder dat daar rus aan ons gegun word.
Na Egipte het ons die hand uitgestrek, na Assur om met brood versadig te word.
Ons vaders het gesondig; hulle is daar nie meer nie, en óns dra hulle ongeregtighede.
Knegte heers oor ons, niemand ruk ons uit hulle hand weg nie.
Met lewensgevaar bring ons ons brood in vanweë die swaard van die woestyn.
Ons vel gloei soos ’n oond vanweë die gloed van die honger.
Hulle het vroue in Sion onteer, jonkvroue in die stede van Juda.
Vorste is deur hulle hand opgehang, die persoon van die grysaards nie geëer nie.
Jongmanne dra die handmeul, en seuns struikel onder die drag hout.
Die oudstes is nie meer in die poort nie, die jongmanne sonder hulle snarespel.
Die vreugde van ons hart het opgehou, ons koordans het in treurigheid verander.
Die kroon van ons hoof het geval; wee ons, dat ons gesondig het.
Hierom het ons hart krank geword, hierom is ons oë verduister:
ter wille van die berg Sion wat woes lê, waar die jakkalse op rondloop.   
Ú, Elohym, sit vir ewig, u troon is van geslag tot geslag.
Waarom sou U ons vir altyd vergeet, ons verlaat tot in lengte van dae?
Bekeer ons tot U, Elohym, dan sal ons ons bekeer; vernuwe ons dae soos in die voortyd.
Of het U ons heeltemal verwerp, is u toorn teen ons alte groot?


There is shouting coming from South Africa! Hear the screaming and crying and begging!

Revelation 6:10
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Elohim, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?  

Lamentations 5:1-22
Remember, O Elohim, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Thou, O Elohim, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
Turn thou us unto thee, O Elohim, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly? 

Jy sal maai wat jy gesaai het - 'n Boodskap van Elohym

Na aanleiding van onderstaande nuus artikel, het ek die volgende boodskap van Elohym ontvang om vir die mense van Suid-Afrika te gee en dit baie duidelik aan almal te maak wie hulleself met hierdie saak bemoei:

Mantashe betreur 'Mangaung-manipulering'
2012-12-11 17:50

Johannesburg – Sektore van die samelewing probeer die uitkoms van die ANC se nasionale konferensie manipuleer, het Gwede Mantashe, sekretaris-generaal van die ANC, gesê.

"Ons sien dit as 'n waarskuwing wat aan die ANC gerig is," het Mantashe aan joernaliste by Luthuli-huis in Johannesburg gesê.

"Sektore van die samelewing soek 'n spesifieke uitkoms."

Mantashe het kommentaar gelewer op berigte dat geloofsleiers 'n brief aan pres. Jacob Zuma geskryf het, waarin hulle waarsku dat die publiek bekommerd is dat Suid-Afrika sy morele kompas verloor het.

In die brief sê kerkleiers "ons demokrasie kan aansienlik verbeter word".

Die brief is onderteken deur aartsbiskop Thabo Makgoba van die Anglikaanse kerk, biskop Joe Seoka van die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad van Kerke, eerw. Moss Ntlha van Teasa, ’n evangeliese kerkorganisasie met drie miljoen lidmate, en eerw. Edwin Arrison van Kairos.

"Hulle [Suid-Afrikaners] hunker na verandering na – nie oppervlakkige verandering van een selfverrykende ­leier na ’n ander nie, of een politieke party na ’n ander nie, maar verandering na ’n kultuur waarin leiers verantwoordbaar teenoor die mense is."

Afskrifte van die brief is aan politieke en ekonomiese leiers, insluitend, Helen Zille, DA-leier, gestuur.

Die presidensie het bevestig dat Zuma die brief gesien het.

Mantashe het verder gesê die regerende party gaan nie toelaat dat enige sektor die ANC se beleid skryf nie.

"Dit is 'n kwessie van beginsel."

Hy het gesê die deursettingsvermoë van die party se leierskap moet deur alle sektore respekteer word.

"Die ANC moet toegelaat word om sy besigheid te bestuur."

Bron:  http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Mantashe-betreur-Mangaung-manipulering-20121211



Die boodskap vir die toekoms van Suid-Afrika:
En so praat ELOHYM van die LEERSKARE met die sogenaamde "leiers" van 'n land en ander lande, maar die mensheid bly maar hakkel op hulle eie "krag".  Want jy sê: Ek is ryk en het verryk geword en het aan niks gebrek nie; en jy weet nie dat dit jy is wat ellendig en beklaenswaardig en arm en blind en naak is nie.  daarom profeteer en sê: So spreek  Elohym, die God van Abraham, die God van Isak en die God van Jakob:  omdat hulle julle van alle kante verwoes en vertrap het, sodat julle vir die oorblyfsel van die nasies ’n besitting kan wees, en julle in opspraak gekom het en deur die mense beskinder is.

daarom, o berge van Israel, hoor die woord van Elohym. So spreek Elohym tot die berge en die heuwels, tot die klowe en die dale, tot die verwoeste puinhope en die verlate stede wat ’n buit en ’n spot geword het vir die oorblyfsel van die nasies wat rondom is, daarom, so sê Elohym: Waarlik, in die vuur van My ywer spreek Ek teen die oorblyfsel van die nasies en teen die hele Edom wat my land vir hulleself as besitting bestem het — in volle vreugde van die hart, met diepste veragting — sodat die weiveld daarvan ’n buit sou wees.

Daarom, profeteer oor die land van Israel, en spreek tot die berge en die heuwels, tot die klowe en die dale: So spreek Elohym: Kyk, Ek spreek in My ywer en in My grimmigheid, omdat julle die smaad van die nasies gedra het.

Daarom, so sê die Elohym, hef Ek My hand op: Waarlik, die nasies wat rondom julle is, hulle sal hul smaad dra.  Maar julle, o berge van Israel, sal jul takke gee en jul vrugte dra vir My volk Israel; want hulle koms is naby.  Want kyk, Ek kom na julle en wend My na julle toe, en julle sal bewerk en besaai word.  En Ek sal mense op julle vermenigvuldig, die hele huis van Israel, almal saam; en die stede sal bewoon en die puinhope opgebou word.

Ja, Ek sal mense en diere op julle vermenigvuldig, en hulle sal vermenigvuldig en vrugbaar wees; en Ek sal julle laat bewoon soos in jul voortyd en aan julle weldoen meer as in julle vroeër dae, en julle sal weet dat Ek Elohym is.  En Ek sal mense op julle laat loop, my volk Israel; en hulle sal jou in besit neem, en jy sal vir hulle ’n erfenis wees en hulle verder nie meer kinderloos maak nie.

So spreek Elohym: Omdat hulle vir julle sê: ’n Menseter is jy en een wat sy eie nasie kinderloos maak  daarom sal jy nie meer mense opeet en jou nasie nie meer laat struikel nie, spreek die Elohym.  En Ek sal nie meer teen jou laat hoor die skimp van die nasies nie, en die smaad van die volke sal jy nie meer dra nie; en jy sal jou nasie nie meer laat struikel nie, spreek Elohym.

Verder het die woord van Elohym tot my gekom en gesê:

Mensekind, toe die huis van Israel in hulle land gewoon het, het hulle dit verontreinig met hul wandel en met hul handelinge; hulle wandel was voor My aangesig soos die besoedeling van die maandelikse onreinheid.  Daarom het Ek My grimmigheid oor hulle uitgegiet, vanweë die bloed wat hulle in die land vergiet het, terwyl hulle dit met hul drekgode verontreinig het.  En Ek het hulle verstrooi onder die nasies en hulle is versprei in die lande; Ek het hulle geoordeel volgens hul wandel en hul handelinge.

En toe hulle by die nasies kom waarheen hulle getrek het, het hulle My heilige Naam ontheilig deurdat van hulle gesê is: Hierdie mense is die volk van Elohym, en hulle moes uit Sy land uittrek.   Toe het dit My ter harte gegaan om My heilige Naam ontwil wat die huis van Israel ontheilig het onder die nasies waar hulle gekom het.  Daarom, sê vir die huis van Israel: So spreek Elohym: Ek doen dit nie om julle ontwil nie, o huis van Israel, maar ter wille van My heilige Naam wat julle ontheilig het onder die nasies waar julle gekom het.

En Ek sal my grote Naam heilig wat onder die nasies ontheilig is, wat julle onder hulle ontheilig het; en die nasies sal weet dat Ek Elohym is, spreek Elohym, as Ek My in julle voor hul oë as die Heilige laat ken.  En Ek sal julle uit die nasies gaan haal en julle uit al die lande bymekaar laat kom, en Ek sal julle in jul land bring.  Dan sal Ek skoon water op julle giet, sodat julle rein kan word; van al jul onreinhede en van al jul drekgode sal Ek julle reinig.

En Ek sal julle ’n nuwe hart gee en ’n nuwe gees in jul binneste gee; en Ek sal die hart van klip uit julle vlees wegneem en julle ’n hart van vlees gee.  En Ek sal My Gees in jul binneste gee en sal maak dat julle in My insettinge wandel en My verordeninge onderhou en doen.  En julle sal woon in die land wat Ek aan jul vaders gegee het; en julle sal vir My ’n volk en Ek sal vir julle ’n God wees.

En Ek sal julle verlos van al jul onreinhede; en Ek sal roep na die koring en dit vermenigvuldig, en Ek sal geen hongersnood op julle lê nie.  En Ek sal die vrugte van die bome en die opbrings van die veld vermenigvuldig, sodat julle die smaad van hongersnood nie meer hoef te verdra onder die nasies nie.
Dan sal julle dink aan jul verkeerde weë en aan jul handelinge wat nie goed was nie; en julle sal vir julleself walglik wees oor jul ongeregtighede en oor jul gruwels.  Ek doen dit nie om julle ontwil nie, spreek Elohym; laat dit julle bekend wees!  Skaam julle en bloos oor jul weë, o huis van Israel.  So sê die Elohym: In die dag as Ek julle reinig van al jul ongeregtighede, sal Ek die stede laat bewoon, en die puinhope sal opgebou word.

En die verwoeste land sal bewerk word, in plaas dat dit ’n wildernis is voor die oë van almal wat verbygaan.  En hulle sal sê: Hierdie land wat verwoes was, het geword soos die tuin van Eden; en die stede wat in puin gelê het en verwoes en afgebreek was, is versterk en bewoon.  Dan sal die nasies weet wat rondom julle oorgebly het, dat Ek, ELOHYM van die LEERSKARE, opgebou het wat afgebreek was, beplant het wat verwoes was; Ek, Elohym, het dit gespreek en sal dit doen.

Maar die huis van Israel sal na jou nie wil luister nie, omdat hulle na My nie wil luister nie; want die hele huis van Israel het ’n harde voorhoof en ’n ongevoelige hart.

Maar spreek so en sê vir die spotters en die ongelowiges en die mense wat verraad en bloed beraam: 

Want ek het die skindertaal van baie gehoor — skrik rondom! — Klaag aan, en ons sal hom aanklaag! Al die mense wat met my in vrede lewe, loer op my val; hulle sê: Miskien laat hy hom verlei, dan kan ons hom oorweldig en ons wraak op hom neem.  Maar Elohym is met my soos ’n geweldige held; daarom sal my vervolgers struikel en nie oorwin nie; hulle staan diep beskaamd, omdat hulle nie geslaag het nie, ’n ewige smaad wat nie vergeet sal word nie.

Moenie verbaas wees oor die tyd van die aankondiging nie | Don't be amazed at the time of the announcement

[...] en dit sal ’n tyd van benoudheid wees soos daar nie gewees het vandat ’n volk bestaan het tot op dié tyd nie [...] Daniël 12:1

Genesis 24:11
En hy het die kamele laat neerkniel buitekant die stad by ’n put, teen die aand, teen die tyd dat die vroue uitgaan om water te skep,

1 Konings 18:36
En op die tyd dat hulle die spysoffer bring, het die profeet Elía nader gekom en gesê: Elohym, God van Abraham, Isak en Israel, laat dit vandag bekend word dat U God in Israel is, en ek u kneg, en dat ek al hierdie dinge op u woord gedoen het.

Daniël 8:17
Toe kom hy by my staanplek; en toe hy kom, het ek geskrik en op my aangesig geval. En hy het vir my gesê: Let op, mensekind, want die gesig sien op die tyd van die einde.

Daniël 11:40
Maar in die tyd van die einde sal die koning van die Suide met hom in botsing kom, en die koning van die Noorde sal op hom afstorm met strydwaens en perderuiters en baie skepe, en hy sal daarmee in die lande inkom en instroom en dit oorvloei.

Lukas 1:10
En die hele menigte van die volk was buite, besig om te bid op die uur van die reukoffer.

Exodus 15:15
Toe is die stamhoofde van Edom verskrik, bewing het die magtiges van Moab aangegryp. Al die inwoners van Kanaän het gebewe.

Jesaja 13:8
en hulle is verskrik, kry krampe en weë; hulle krimp inmekaar soos een wat baar; die een kyk die ander verbaas aan; hulle gesigte is vlammende gesigte.


[...] and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time [...] Daniel 12:1

Genesis 24:11
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, [even] the time that women go out to draw [water].

1 Kings 18:36
And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Elohim God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou [art] God in Israel, and [that] I [am] thy servant, and [that] I have done all these things at thy word.

Daniel 8:17
So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end [shall be] the vision.

Daniel 11:40
And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Luke 1:10
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.

Exodus 15:15
Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

Isaiah 13:8
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames.