God’s terrible judgments
2:1 Y‘all blow the shofarשׁוֹפָר
Transliteration šôp̄ār Pronunciation sho-far’horn, ram’s horn For more info click here in Zionבֵּית לֶחֶם
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here, and sound an alarm on My Holyקָדוֹשׁ
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here Mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble. Because the day of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here approaches, [it is] near;
2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the dawn spreads on the mountains: a great and a mighty people* The swarms of locusts are depicted as an invading army. – From the Artscroll English Tanach; there hasn’t been ever the like, or will be anymore after it, even to the years of many generations.
2:3 A fire devours before it; and a flame burns behind it : In front them the land is like garden of Eden, but behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and there is no remnant from it.
2:4 They have the appearance of horses (the swarms); and like cavalry, so do they run.
2:5 With a sound like the of chariots they leap on the mountains tops, like the sound of a flame of fire that consuming straw, like a mighty people dressed for battle.
2:6 People tremble before it: all faces will become blackened.
2:7 They will run like mighty men; they will climb the wall like men of war; and everyone goes on his roadsבִּדְרָכָיו
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, in/on his roads, in/on his paths, in/on his distances, in/on his journeys, in/on his manners For more info click here, and they will not break their ranks:
2:8 They don’t push one another; each one walks in his paths: and when they fall on the sword, they aren’t wounded.
2:9 They run on the city; they run on the wall, they will climb into the houses; they enter through the windows like a thief.
2:10 The earth will quake before it; the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם
Pronunciation: hah’-shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here will tremble: the sun and the moon become blackened, and the stars will stop their shining:
2:11 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here will utter His voice before His army: for His camp is enormous: because those who execute His word are strong: because the day of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is great and very awesome; and who can endure it?
Exhortation to repentance
2:12Even now, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
2:13 And tear your heart, and not your clothes, and return to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here: because He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He relents of evil.
2:14 Whoever knows, let him repent and regret, and it will leave a blessing behind it; for meal offering and a drink offering to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here?
A fast prescribed
2:15 Blow the shofarשׁוֹפָר
Transliteration šôp̄ār Pronunciation sho-far’horn, ram’s horn For more info click here in Zion בֵּית לֶחֶם
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here, announce a fast, call an assembly:
2:16 gather the people, summon the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the young children, even infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out from her canopy.
2:17 Between the porch and the Altar let the priestsכֹּהֲנִים
kôhêneem, ko-hane’ Kohenim = priests, Plural principal officers or chief rulers For more info click here, the ministers of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, weep and let them say, Have pity, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, on Your people and don’t expose your heritage to mockery, for nations גּוֹיִם
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here to rule over them: Why should they say among the people, Where is their Elohim אֱלֹהֵיהֶם
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here?
2:18 Then YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here will be zealous for His land, and have pity on His people.
2:19 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here will answer and say to His people, Look, I’m sending you grain, and wine, and oil, and y’all will be gorged from it: and I will no longer make you a disgrace among the nationsבַּגּוֹיִם
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here:
2:20 But I will distance you from the northern one* The northern one is the locust swarm; The Eastern Sea is either the Kinnereth or the Dead Sea; and the Western Sea is the Mediterranean (Radak). – From the Artscroll English Tanach, and will banish it to a dry and desolate land, with its face toward the Eastern Sea, and its rear toward the Western Sea, and its foul odor will rise up, and its stench will go out, because he [was] doing great evil.
Zion comforted
2:21 Don’t fear, O land; be glad and delight: for YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has done great things.
2:22 Don’t be afraid, animals of the field: because the pastures of the wildernessמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: miḏbār Pronunciation; mid-bawr’ desert, south, speech, wilderness For more info click here are green, the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their full yield.
2:23 Children of Zionבֵּית לֶחֶם
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here, and delight in YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here: because He has given you a teacher for righteousness, and He has brought down the rain for you , the early rain, and the late rain for you.
2:24 And the threshing-floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with wine and oil.
2:25 And I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, My great army which I sent among you consumed.
2:26 And y’all eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, that has acted wondrously with you: And my people shall never be put to shame again.
2:27 And y’all will know that I [am] amongst Israel, and that I am YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, there is no other: and My people will never be ashamed again.
Verse 1. of chapter 3 in the Tanach
2:28 And it will happen after this, that I will pour out My Spiritאֶת־רוּחִי
Transliteration: rûaḥ Pronunciation: roo’-akh feminine noun Meaning: wind, breath, mind, spirit For more info click here
on all humanity; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions:
2:29 Even on the slaves and on the slave girls too, in those days will I pour out My Spiritאֶת־רוּחִי
Transliteration: rûaḥ Pronunciation: roo’-akh feminine noun Meaning: wind, breath, mind, spirit For more info click here.
2:30 And I will put wonders in the heavensבַּשָּׁמַיִם
Pronunciation: hah’-shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here and on earth, blood, and fire, and columns of smoke.
2:31 The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here comes.
2:32 And it so happen, that whoever calls on the Name of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here will escape: because in mount Zionבֵּית לֶחֶם
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here and in Jerusalem וּבִירוּשָׁלִַם
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here there will be those who escape, like YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has said, and among the survivors will be those whom YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here calls.
End of chapter 3 in the Tanach
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