Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

10 Why standest Thou afar off, Hashem? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of tzoros?

² The reshah in his ga’avah (haughtiness) doth persecute the ani (poor, see Zech 9:9 where ani is Moshiach); let them be caught in the devices that they have schemed.

³ For the reshah boasteth of his ta’avat nefesh (soul’s lust), and blesseth the covetous, whom Hashem abhorreth.

⁴ The reshah, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after Him; Elohim is not in all his thoughts.

⁵ His ways are always prosperous; Thy mishpatim are on high, out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

⁶ He hath said in his lev, I shall not be shaken; throughout all generations I shall never be in trouble.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his leshon (tongue) is trouble and iniquity.

⁸ He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages; in the places for ambush doth he murder the naki (innocent); his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

⁹ He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to catch the poor; he doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his reshet.

¹⁰ He crouches, and stoops, that the poor may fall by his atzum (might).

¹¹ He hath said in his lev, El hath forgotten; He hideth his face; He will never see it.

¹² Arise, Hashem; O El, lift up Thine yad; forget not the aniyim.

¹³ For why doth the reshah renounce Elohim? He hath said in his lev, Thou wilt not call me to account.

¹⁴ Thou hast seen it; for Thou beholdest trouble and ka’as (grief), to requite it with Thy yad; the helpless committeth himself unto Thee; Thou art the Ozer (helper) of the yatom (orphan).

¹⁵ Break Thou the zero’a of the reshah and the evil man; call to account his wickedness that would not be found out.

¹⁶ Hashem is Melech olam va’ed; the Goyim are perished out of His land.

¹⁷ Hashem, Thou hast heard the desire of the aniyim; Thou wilt strengthen their lev, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to hear;

¹⁸ To judge the yatom (orphan) and the oppressed, that enosh of the earth may no more strike terror.

²⁷ Therefore thou shalt speak all these devarim unto them; but they will not pay heed to thee; thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

²⁸ But thou shalt say unto them, This is a Goy (Nation) that obeyeth not the voice of Hashem Elohav, nor respondeth to musar; haemunah (the faith) is lost, and is cut off from their mouth.

²⁹ Cut off thine hair, O Yerushalayim, and throw it away, and take up a kinah (lamentation) on barren heights; for Hashem hath rejected and abandoned the dor evrato (the generation of His wrath).

³⁰ For the Bnei Yehudah have done rah in My sight, saith Hashem; they have set their shikkutzim (abominations) in the Beis which is called by Shmi, to make it tameh.

³¹ And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Gey Ben Hinnom, to burn their banim and their banot in the eish; which I commanded them not, neither entered it into My mind.

³² Therefore, hinei, the yamim are coming, saith Hashem, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the Gey Ben Hinnom, but the Gey Haharegah (Valley of Slaughter); for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no room.

³³ And the nivlat HaAm Hazeh (carcass of this people) shall be food for the oph HaShomayim, and for the behemat ha’aretz; and none shall frighten them away.

³⁴ Then will I cause to cease from the towns of Yehudah, and from the chutzot Yerushalayim, the sound of joy, and the sound of simchah, the sound of the Choson (Bridegroom) and the sound of the Kallah (Bride); for HaAretz shall be desolate.

⁶ And it came about on another Shabbos that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach entered into the shul and taught Torah. And there was a man there also whose right hand was withered.

⁷ Now the Sofrim and Perushim were watching Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to see if he brings refuah on Shabbos, in order that they might find something to accuse him.

⁸ But he knew their machshavot (thoughts), and said to the man having the withered hand, Rise and stand in the midst. And the man got up and stood.

⁹ And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, I ask you whether it is mutar on Shabbos to do hatov or to do harah, to save nefesh or destroy it?

¹⁰ And having looked around at all of them, he said to the man, Stretch out your hand. And he did. And his hand was restored.

¹¹ But they (the Sofrim and the Perushim) were filled with ka’as (anger), and they were discussing with one another what they might do to him.