Listen to this
Kathan Kawraw being read
by the chaciyd with some Hebrew pronunciation
1 ¶ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Yerusalem, and see now, and know,
and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any]
that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, YAHUAH liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3 O YAHUAH, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but
they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to
receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have
refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not
the way of YAHUAH, [nor] the judgment of their YAHUAH.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have
known the way of YAHUAH, [and] the judgment of their YAUAH: but these have
altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the
evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one
that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are
many, [and] their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by
[them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed
adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
8 They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his
neighbour's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith YAHUAH: and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
10 ¶ Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away
her battlements; for they [are] not YAHUAH'S.
11 For the house of YisraYAH and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith YAHUAH.
12 They have belied YAHUAH, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come
upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall
it be done unto them.
14 Wherefore thus saith YAHUAH YAHUAH of hosts, Because ye speak this word,
behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it
shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of YisraYAH, saith
YAHUAH: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose
language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
16 Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.
17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy
daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall
eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities,
wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
18 Nevertheless in those days, saith YAHUAH, I will not make a full end with
you.
19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth YAHUAH our
YAHUAH all these [things] unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have
forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers
in a land [that is] not yours.
20 ¶ Declare this in the house of Yacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes,
and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear ye not me? saith YAHUAH: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have
placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot
pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail;
though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted
and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear YAHUAH our YAHUAH, that
giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us
the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 ¶ Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have
withholden good [things] from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth
snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore
they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked:
they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the
right of the needy do they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith YAHUAH: shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and
my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?