Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

94 Hashem G-d, to whom vengeance belongeth; O G-d, to whom vengeance belongeth, show Thyself.

² Rise up, Thou Shofet HaAretz; render gemul (recompense, desert) to the ge’im (proud ones).

³ Ad mosai, Hashem, shall the resha’im, how long shall the resha’im triumph?

⁴ How long shall they utter and speak malicious lies? And all the po’alei aven (workers of iniquity) glorify themselves?

⁵ They crush Thy people, Hashem, and afflict Thine nachalah.

⁶ They slay the almanah and the ger, and murder the yetomim (fatherless, orphans).

⁷ Yet they say, Hashem shall not see, neither shall the Elohei Ya’akov regard it.

⁸ Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye kesilim (fools), when will ye get seichel?

⁹ He that planted the ozen (ear), shall He not hear? He that formed the ayin (eye), shall He not see?

¹⁰ He that chastiseth the Goyim, shall not He reprove? He that is the melamed (teacher) of da’as to adam?

¹¹ Hashem knoweth the machshevot (thoughts) of adam, that they are hevel (vanity, futile).

¹² Ashrei (blessed) is the gever whom Thou chastenest, Hashem, and teachest him out of Thy torah;

¹³ That Thou mayest grant him relief from the days of rah, until a shachat (pit) is dug for the rasha.

¹⁴ For Hashem will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His nachalah.

¹⁵ But mishpat shall revert unto tzedek; and all the yishrei lev (upright in heart) shall follow after it.

¹⁶ Who will rise up for Me against the evildoers? Or who will take a stand for Me against the po’alei aven (workers of iniquity)?

¹⁷ Unless Hashem had been my help, my nefesh had almost dwelt in dumah (silence).

¹⁸ When I said, My regel (foot) slippeth, Thy chesed, Hashem, held me up.

¹⁹ In the multitude of my anxieties within me Thy comforts delight my nefesh.

²⁰ Shall the kisse of corruption have chavurah (fellowship) with Thee, those, which deviseth evil by a chok (statute)?

²¹ They band together against the nefesh of the tzaddik, and condemn dahm naki (innocent blood).

²² But Hashem is my stronghold; and Elohai is the Tzur of my refuge.

²³ And He shall turn back upon them their own iniquity, and shall destroy them for their own wickedness; Hashem Eloheinu shall destroy them.

5 Run ye to and fro through the chutzot Yerushalayim (streets of Jerusalem), and see now, and know, and seek in the rechovot thereof, if ye can find an ish, if there be any that dispenseth mishpat (justice), that seeketh the emunah (faith); and I will forgive her [Jerusalem].

² And though they say, Chai Hashem; surely they swear lasheker (falsely).

³ Hashem, are not Thine eyes upon emunah? Thou hast struck them, but they felt no anguish; Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to accept musar [cf Isa 53:5]; they have made their faces harder than stone; they have refused to make teshuvah.

⁴ Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the Derech Hashem, nor the Mishpat Eloheihem.

⁵ I will get me unto the Gedolim, and will speak unto them; for they have known the Derech Hashem, and the Mishpat Eloheihem; but these have altogether broken off the ol (yoke), and burst the bonds.

⁶ Therefore an aryeh (lion) out of the forest shall slay them, and a ze’ev (wolf) of the deserts shall destroy them, a namer (leopard) shall prowl near their towns; every one that ventureth out from there shall be torn to pieces; because their peysha’im (rebellions) are many, and their meshuvot (backslidings) are increased.

⁷ How shall I forgive thee for this? Thy banim have forsaken Me, and sworn by them that are no elohim; when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and trooped to the bais zonah.

⁸ They were like well-fed, lusty susim: every one neighed after the isha of his neighbor.

⁹ Shall I not visit [to punish] for these things? saith Hashem; and shall not My Nefesh be avenged on such a Goy as this?

¹⁰ Go ye up through her rows of vines, and cut down; but make not a full end; take away her branches; for they are not Hashem’s.

¹¹ For Bais Yisroel and Bais Yehudah have dealt very treacherously against Me, saith Hashem.

¹² They have spoken lies about Hashem, and said, Lo hu (not He); neither shall ra’ah come upon us; neither shall we see cherev nor ra’av (famine);

¹³ And the nevi’im shall become ru’ach, and the Devar is not in them; thus shall it be done unto them.

¹⁴ Therefore thus saith Hashem Elohei Tzva’os, Because ye speak this devar, hinei, I will make My Devarim in thy mouth an eish, and HaAm HaZeh etzim (wood), and it shall consume them.

¹⁵ Hineni, I will bring a Goy (Nation) upon you from afar, O Bais Yisroel, saith Hashem; it is a powerful nation, a goy me’olam (an ancient nation), a nation whose leshon thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

¹⁶ Their quiver is as an open kever (grave), they are all gibborim.

¹⁷ And they shall devour thine katzir (harvest), and thy lechem, which thy banim and thy banot should eat; they shall devour thy tzon and thine bakar; they shall eat up thy gefen and thy te’enah (fig tree); they shall impoverish thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the cherev.

¹⁸ This gzeira (1:3) I commit to you, beni Timotiyos, according to hanevu’ot (the prophecies 4:14) made previously about you, that by them you might war the good warfare,

¹⁹ Holding emunah and a clear matzpun (conscience), which some persons [1:3], because they pushed aside a clear matzpun [1:5], have suffered shipwreck in the [Orthodox Jewish] emunah.

²⁰ Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Hasatan, that they might be taught not to commit Chillul Hashem gidduf.