Turning Back [updated 6.5.2015]

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But how? Hkya/Lam. 5:21,22

Turn us back to You, hwhy, and let us turn back, Renew our days as of old. 22 You have been wroth with us, exceedingly!

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Introduction .................................................................................................................................................... 4 What Happened to the People? .................................................................................................................... 6 Now That You’re Scattered… ...................................................................................................................... 8 The Command to “Turn Back” .................................................................................................................... 9

Can We Obey Fully Today? ...................................................................................................................... 12 He has caused the Turah and the muadym to cease: ................................................................................. 13 We were warned this would occur. ........................................................................................................... 16 Right in His Eyes?: ................................................................................................................................... 18

“Turning Back is…” .................................................................................................................................... 21 Understanding “[mv” and what it means to do it: .................................................................................. 21

Behind The Derivatives: ....................................................................................................................... 22 So What About bvq? .............................................................................................................................. 23 What Relationship Does [mv Have With Following? ............................................................................ 26 How then Does One Listen to His Voice? ................................................................................................ 29 Comprehensive break down of listening: [wikipedia] .............................................................................. 30

COMPREHENSION ............................................................................................................................ 30 SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION ................................................................................................. 31 RETAINING THE INFORMATION .................................................................................................. 31 BARRIERS TO ACTIVE LISTENING .............................................................................................. 31 APPRECIATIVE LISTENING ............................................................................................................ 31 LISTENING TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ...................................................................................... 31

Who Should We Be Hearing or Listening To? ......................................................................................... 32 Did the People Want to [mv? ............................................................................................................ 34

Who Are Your Teachers? Who Are You Hearing? .................................................................................. 35 Is it hwhy?: .......................................................................................................................................... 36 Is it [vwhy, His Mashyach?: .............................................................................................................. 38 Is it the vdq xwr? .............................................................................................................................. 41 Are the Kahanym Teaching You? ........................................................................................................ 42

If Not, Then Who? .................................................................................................................................... 48 Are you Qahalath or Listening to Him? ............................................................................................... 48 Are Your Parents Fearing hwhy? ........................................................................................................ 49 Who Are You Truly Listening To? ...................................................................................................... 51

Proper Hearing or Listening is Understanding: ........................................................................................ 54 Are You Understanding What You’ve Heard? .................................................................................... 54

If Only They Would Just Hear/Listen, But They Would Not: .................................................................. 55 Do You Believe What You Have Heard? ................................................................................................... 58

What Belief Looks Like & Its Fruit: ......................................................................................................... 60 If You Truly Believe, You Would Fear!..................................................................................................... 61

Fear is where Your Wisdom Begins… ..................................................................................................... 62 Those Teaching & Judging Should Fear .............................................................................................. 63

Learn to Fear? ........................................................................................................................................... 64 We should tremble at His Word and at His presence: .............................................................................. 64

Your Fear Should Induce the Desire to Do the Word .............................................................................. 70 The Inward & the Outward – [With All Your Heart & All Your Being]: ................................................ 70 With All Your Being: ................................................................................................................................ 72 Judgement? ................................................................................................................................................ 74

“Turning Back”: What it Isn’t” ................................................................................................................. 74 Turning Away?: .................................................................................................................................... 74

Attributes of those who won’t be delivered: ............................................................................................. 76 Not Listening and in Disbelieve? .............................................................................................................. 77 Are You =>? .............................................................................................................................................. 78

Haughty? .............................................................................................................................................. 78

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Lofty? ................................................................................................................................................... 79 Proud? ................................................................................................................................................... 79 Filled with Pride? ................................................................................................................................. 81 Are You at Ease & Complacent? ......................................................................................................... 83 Are You Ruling and Commanding? ..................................................................................................... 84

What Does His Affliction Look Like? ...................................................................................................... 85 Turning Back: What It is… ........................................................................................................................ 86

With All Your Heart: ................................................................................................................................ 87 The Case for Heart/Mind/Intellect/Courage/Desire… .............................................................................. 89 Attributes of the Righteous Generation? ................................................................................................... 91

The Righteous Do Not… ...................................................................................................................... 91 So where are the righteous? ........................................................................................................................ 92

What would they look like? ................................................................................................................. 93 Humility: A “requisite” attribute of the ‘Delivered’ ................................................................................. 95

Humble: .............................................................................................................................................. 105 Meek: .................................................................................................................................................. 105

They shall mourn: ................................................................................................................................... 107 We Should Be Ashamed Because of Our Sins ....................................................................................... 111 Cry! ......................................................................................................................................................... 112 Your Deeds: ............................................................................................................................................ 113 He Will Then Turn Us Back… ............................................................................................................... 114

Remember to ‘[mv’; His Voice! ............................................................................................................ 116 And Know and Admit Your Wrong and the Wrongs of Your Predecessors ..................................... 116

Summary ..................................................................................................................................................... 122 Ultimately ................................................................................................................................................ 126

Glossary ...................................................................................................................................................... 128 Book Name Index ....................................................................................................................................... 131

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The information gathered herein has come as a result of a desperate desire to understand what one

should do in order to ‘turn back’, especially after many startling realizations regarding this topic in His Word and the state of His true people as it is today. Many discussions and apparent conclusions have been drawn regarding ‘turning back’.

Many believe we must do all of the commands, while others suggest that we must try to do the

commands we “can” do, minimizing the fact we are unable to do them all. But what does that suggest about the ones we cannot do? In doing some, have we depreciated the value and importance of the commands, which we cannot do? Have we depreciated the importance of doing them all? Why is it that we cannot do all of the commands today? Some suggest they have been done away with, but is that true. Other ideologies have created their own what seems like ‘spin-offs’ of the command, while others suggest His commands have been “nailed to a cross”. How can this be?

Disregarding ideology, we see that Hwhy gave them the command to protect the people. He declared, “it is your life”. Therefore, if the command was so that they live and prolong their days on the soil He gave them to possess, how then does it apply to a smitten, disinherited, scattered people, who are bearing the promise or covenant of the punishment because they broke the covenant?

Coincidently, because His people are bearing His curse, this then means that you are unable to

comply with His commands because the very language of the curse removes that possibility. For example, He has promised, Myrbd/Deut. 28:36 “hwhy brings on you and the sovereign whom you set over you to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known and there you shall serve other mighty ones, wood and stone.” We are commanded not to set a sovereign over us that is not from among our brothers but can we decide this today? Clearly this has been accomplished but how does this affect one’s ability to fulfill the command? Can you serve Him and the works of your hands? Can you serve Him banished from the land of your inheritance? Can we truly serve Him if He has declared that we will not be able to, instead we would be subject to serving mighty ones we have not known previously?

What then must we do? Clearly we must do something in order to turn back; but what? We must

explore in depth what He is saying when He commands us to ‘turn back’ in order to discern what it should look like in our day-to-day lives.

It is fortold in the Writings, today referred to as Deuteronomy & Leviticus (myrbd/arqyw), that the people of hwhy, the children of Larvy, would sin against hwhy their mhyla and that a number of evils would come upon them and overtake them. He warned that they would be banished from the land He had given them to possess and scattered to the four corners of the earth where He would cause them to serve their enemies. He also declared that all of the punishments written therein would be upon them forever unless they turned back to Him, and as it is written in most translations, “obeying” His voice according to “all” that He commanded, but is it just that simple? Is this something that can be accomplished today? Have we truly grasped and perceived what He is saying? He has said, that He would return those who are turning from transgression in Y’aqob to their own land and remove the punishments and stumbling blocks He placed before them (Why[vy/Isa. 59:20). At that time He shall reign forever from Tsyun (myrbd/Deut. 30:5-7;laqzxy/Ezek. 20:40-42; nwzx/Rev. 22:1-5). He has since confirmed His Word regarding the matter of punishments, demolishing His booth, the place where His people were to come before Him and serve Him continually. He has laid stumbling blocks (why[vy/Isa. 8:13,14;63:17; whymry/Jer. 6:21; laqzxy/Ezek. 3:20; [vwh/Hos. 2:6; Luke 17:1; nnxwhy/Jn. 6:61) in the pathways of His people thus hindering anyway for them to “obey” completely as they are commanded to (myrbd/Deut. 29:29; Bq[y/Ja. 2:10, etc.). By the naba’ay [aybn] Husha [[vwh/Hos.] (2:6), He said, “(6) “Therefore, see, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I shall wall her in, so that she does not find her paths.” He has done what has never been done before and what will never be done again (laynd/Dan. 9:12, etc.).

INTRODUCTION

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Therefore, if it for us to do all of the command to be declared right in His eyes (twmv/Ex. 15:26; myrbd/Deut. 6:17,18,25; 13:18; 29:29, etc.), but He has taken away that possibility, how then does one ‘turn back’? What does the turning back look like? When one considers that no matter how great any effort, we are wrong in His eyes, because we cannot fully obey; how should we be turning back? In addition to that, He has caused His people to serve their enemies and has taken away the ability to love/serve/obey Him in fullness and in truth (whyttm/Matt. 24:12). What then should the remnant of His people be doing this day? [vwhy said, “nnxwhy/Jn. 4:23-24 “(23) But the hour is coming, and now is [“at that time”], when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him. (24) “myhla is Ruach, and those who worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth.” NOTE: John 4:23 (Greek Interlinear TR +#) nnxwhy/Jn. 4:23 αλλ ερχεται ωρα και νυν εστιν , οτε οι αληθινοι προσκυνηται προσκυνησουσιν τω πατρι εν πνευµατι και αληθεια και γαρ ο πατηρ τοιουτους ζητει τους προσκυνουντας αυτον . G3568 νῦν – nun - Thayer Definition: 1) at this, that time, the present, now Part of Speech: adverb A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: a primary particle of present time Citing in TDNT: 4:1106, 658 Clearly this has not come to pass yet which is why it should be better translated as “at that time” indicating something that will happen in the future or near future possibly. The term which is translated as ‘worship’ here is from the Greek word ‘προσκυνέω’. G4352 προσκυνέω - proskuneo¯ - Thayer Definition: 1) to kiss the hand to (towards) one, in token of reverence 2) among the Orientals, especially the Persians, to fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the forehead as an expression of profound reverence 3) in the NT by kneeling or prostration to do homage (to one) or make obeisance, whether in order to express respect or to make supplication 3a) used of homage shown to men and beings of superior rank 3a1) to the Jewish high kahanym 3a2) to hwhy 3a3) to [vhwy 3a4) to heavenly beings 3a5) to demons Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G4314 and a probable derivative of G2965 (meaning to kiss, like a dog licking his master’s hand) Citing in TDNT: 6:758, 948 Here are some Abary (Heberw) terms that this Greek word is also translated as in the older writings. Septuigint References: pros kuneo H2111 zua – 1 - זוע) to tremble, quiver, quake, be in terror pros kuneo H3766 kara – כרע - to bend, kneel, bow, bow down, pros kuneo H5401 nashaq – 1 - נשק) to put together, kiss pros kuneo H5456 sagad – 1 - סגד) (Qal) to prostrate oneself (in worship) pros kuneo H5647 abad – 1 - עבד) to work, serve pros kuneo H7812 shachah hithpal. – שחה – to bow down, to prostrate oneself, before superior

in homage, before hwhy in worship

Is this possible today? There is mention of a righteous generation (mylht/Psa. 14:5; 22:27-31; 24:3-6; 78:1-8; 102:16-22; 112:2; Note to consider: mylht/Psa. 52:1-9). What does this generation look like? Should they be a proud people, who are at ease, leading others, and counseling or teaching people etc.? Or, should they be beginning to realize what has come to pass and what is truly at stake here? If there is none right, then that suggests all are partaking in the abominations, wittingly and/or unwittingly. Because none is right, all righteousness declared today would be self-righteousness which is a kin to pride which is a kin to haughtiness which leads to destruction because it is righteousness in our own eyes.

We will look at what has been warned, what has been done and what turning back is actually when we consider the cursed condition of His people today. We will analyze the etymology of several words as

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far back as we can go to truly understand what is being said in myrbd.

The people sinned repeatedly against hwhy and have forgotten or disregarded what true righteousness is.

swm[/Amo. 4:1-13 [mv this Word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomeron, who are oppressing the poor, who are crushing the needy, who are saying to their masters, “Bring wine, let us drink!” (2) ynda hwhy has sworn by His set-apartness, “See, days are coming upon you when He shall take you away with hooks, and your descendants with fish-hooks, (3) and let you go out at the breaches, each woman before her, and you shall be cast out toward Harmon,” declares hwhy. (4) “Come to Beyth la [The House of la] and transgress, to Gilgal, increase transgression. And bring your slaughterings every morning, your tithes every three days. (5) “And burn an offering of thanksgiving with leaven, proclaim voluntary offerings, loudly. For you have loved this, you children of Larvy!” declares ynda hwhy. (6) “So I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. (7) “And I also withheld rain from you, three months before the harvest. Then I would send rain on one city, and on another city I would not send rain. One part was rained upon, and where it did not rain the part would dry up. (8) “Then two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, but they were not satisfied. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. (9) “I have smitten you with blight and with mildew. The creeping locust devoured your many gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive trees. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. (10) “I have sent among you a plague in the way of Mitsrayim. I have slain your young men with a sword, along with your captured horses. And I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. (11) “I have overthrown some of you, as myhla overthrew Sedom and Amorah, and you were like a burning stick plucked from the burning. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. (12) “Therefore I am doing this to you, Larvy. And because I do this to you, prepare to meet your myhla, Larvy!” (13) For look, He who forms mountains, and creates the wind, and who declares to man what His thought is, and makes the morning darkness, and who treads the high places of the earth, hwhy myhla twabc is His Name. They refused to turn back! Even today, this is still true of His people. Therefore, the ultimate punishment has been imposed upon them. That what has not been done before, the fullness of all of the ‘curses’ has been imposed on His people. laqzxy/Ezek. 7:1-27 And the Word of hwhy came to me, saying, (2) “And you, son of man, this is what ynda hwhy said to the land of larvy, ‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. (3) ‘Now the end is upon you, and I shall send My displeasure against you, and judge you according to your ways, and repay you for all your abominations. (4) ‘And My eye shall not pardon you, nor would I spare, for I repay your ways while your abominations are in your midst. And you shall know that I am hwhy!’ (5) “Thus said ynda hwhy, ‘A calamity, an only calamity, look, it has come! (6) ‘An end has come, the end has come! It has awakened against you, look, it has come! (7) ‘The turn has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come, a day of uproar is near, and not of rejoicing in the mountains. (8) ‘Soon I shall pour out My wrath, and shall complete My displeasure upon you, and judge you according to your ways, and repay you for all your abominations. (9) ‘And My eye shall not pardon, nor would I spare. I give you according to your ways while your abominations are in your midst. And you shall know that I am hwhy who smites. (10) ‘See, the day! See, it has come! The turn has come, the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. (11) ‘The violence has grown into a rod of wrongdoing. There is none of them, and none of its crowd, and none of their riches, and none eminent among them. (12) ‘The time has come, and the day has arrived. ‘Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is on all its crowd. (13) ‘For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, though they are still alive. For the vision is for all of its crowd – it shall not turn back. And because of his crookedness no one holds fast to his life. 14 ‘They have blown the trumpet and all is prepared, but no one goes to battle, for My wrath is on all its

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE?

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crowd. (15) ‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the scarcity of food inside. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and he who is in a city, scarcity of food and pestilence devour him, (16) while they who escape of them shall escape and be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his crookedness. (17) ‘All hands go limp, and all knees become as water. (18) ‘And they shall gird on sackcloth, and be covered with trembling. And shame shall be on every face, and baldness on all their heads. (19) ‘They throw their silver into the streets, and their gold becomes as filth. Their silver and their gold is unable to deliver them in the day of the wrath of hwhy. They do not satisfy their appetite, nor fill their stomachs, because it has been their stumbling-block of crookedness. (20) ‘And the splendour of His ornaments, He set it in excellency. But they made from it the images of their abominations and their disgusting matters. Therefore I shall make it like filth to them. (21) ‘And I shall give it for a prey into the hands of strangers, and to the wrong of the earth for a spoil, and they shall profane it. (22) ‘And I shall turn My face from them. And they shall profane My secret place, for destroyers shall enter it and profane it. (23) ‘Make a chain, for the land has been filled with crimes of blood, and the city has been filled with violence. (24) ‘And I shall bring the evil ones of the nations , and they shall possess their houses. And I shall cause the pride of the strong to cease, and their set-apart places shall be profaned. (25) ‘Destruction shall come. And they shall seek peace, but there is none. (26) ‘Calamity upon calamity shall come, and report shall be upon report. And they shall seek a vision from a prophet. But the teaching has perished from the priest, and counsel from the elders! (27) ‘Let the sovereign mourn, and let the prince put on despair, and let the hands of the common people tremble. And I shall deal with them according to their way, and judge them with their own right-rulings. And they shall know that I am hwhy!’ ” [See also: hymxn 9:6-29] Ykalm/Mal. 2:1-4 “So now, kahanym, this command is for you. (2) “If you do not hear ([mv), and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said hwhy twabc, “I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your barak. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart. (3) “See, I shall rebuke your seed, and scatter dung before your faces, the dung of your festivals. And you shall be taken away with it. (4) “And you shall know that I have sent this command to you, as being My covenant with Lĕwi,” said hwhy twabc. swm[/Amo. 8:1-14 This is what ynda hwhy showed me, and see, a basket of summer fruit. (2) And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” And hwhy said to me, “The end has come upon my people larvy, no longer do I pardon them. (3) “And the songs of the Hykal shall be wailing in that day,” declares ynda hwhy, “many dead bodies everywhere, thrown into any place – hush!” (4) Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land, (5) saying, “When does the New Moon pass so that we sell grain, and the Sabbath so that we trade our wheat, to make the ephah small and the sheqel large, and to falsify the scales by deceit, (6) to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?” (7) hwhy has sworn by the Excellency of Yaʽaqob, “I shall never forget any of their works. (8) “Shall the land not tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? And all of it shall swell like the River, heave and subside like the River of Mitsrayim. (9) “And it shall be in that day,” declares ynda hwhy, “that I shall cause the sun to go down at noon, and shall darken the earth on a day of brightness, (10) and shall turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head, and shall make it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a day of bitterness. (11) “See, days are coming,” declares ynda hwhy, “that I shall send a hunger in the land, not a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing [[mv] the Words of hwhy. (12) “And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east – they shall diligently search, seeking the Word of hwhy, but they shall not find it1. Note: 1Jer. 5:13, Hos. 8:12, Ezek. 34:3-10. (13) “In that day the pretty maidens and strong young men shall faint from thirst, (14) those swearing by the guilt of Shomeron, who say, ‘As your mighty one lives, Dan!’ and, ‘As the way of Ba’arshaba lives!’ And they shall fall and never rise again.” See also: [All the myaybn] It is clear for anyone paying attention that He has confirmed His promises that He warned from the beginning, and although the people broke the covenant, the covenant or agreement has not been annulled or voided. It is infact still actively functioning and resting upon His people because the curse was also an element of the covenant or agreement.

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So now that the people are scattered to the four corners of the earth, what must they do? Myrbd/Deut. 4:25-40 “When you bring forth children and grandchildren, and shall grow old in the land, and shall do corruptly and make a carved image in the form of whatever, and shall do what is evil in the eyes of hwhy your myhla to provoke Him, (26) “I shall call the heavens and earth to witness against you on that day, that you soon completely perish from the land which you pass over the Yarden to possess – you do not prolong your days in it but are completely destroyed. (27) “And hwhy shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where hwhy drives you. (28) “And there you shall serve mighty ones, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. (29) “But from there you shall seek hwhy your myhla, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart1 and with all your being. [NOTE: Whymry/Jer. 29:13; Ylvm/Prov. 2:1-6] (30) “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to hwhy your myhla and shall obey [[mv] His voice. (31) “For hwhy your myhla is a compassionate la, He does not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them [arqyw/Lev. 26:40-42]. (32) “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that myhla created man on the earth, and ask from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, whether there has been a Word as great as this, or has been heard like it. (33) “Has a people heard the voice of myhla speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? (34) “Or has myhla tried to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of a nation by trials, and by signs, and by wonders, and by battle, and by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great fearsome deeds, according to all that hwhy your myhla did for you in Mitsrayim before your eyes? (35) “You have been shown it, to know that hwhy Himself is myhla; there is no one beside Him. (36) “From the heavens He let you hear His voice, to instruct you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. (37) “And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you out of Mitsrayim with His Presence, with His great power, (38) to drive out from before you nations greater and stronger than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today. (39) “And you shall know today, and shall recall to your heart that hwhy Himself is myhla in the heavens above and on the earth beneath; there is none else. (40) “And you shall guard His laws and His commands which I command you today, so that it is well with you and with your children after you, and so that you prolong your days on the soil which hwhy your myhla is giving you for all time.” hwhy declares, once you have been scattered and all of the calamities promised of the covenant have come upon you, you should then seek Him and you will find Him if you have sought with all of your heart from all of the places where He has driven you. Therefore, each individual must be seeking tirelessly in order to find Him and thus truth and understanding. Consider what [vwhy says,” Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:44-45 “No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. And I shall raise him up in the last day. (45) “It has been written in the myaybn, ‘And they shall all be taught by hwhy.’ Everyone, then, who has heard/[mv from the Father, and learned, comes to Me. {Why[vy/Isa. 2:3; hkym/Mic. 4:2} Therefore, one must be first drawn by the Father; that one must listen with all of their heart and mind, learning from Him before they are able to come to His Son, His offering for atonement, their Mashyach (usually incorrectly transliterated as Messiah).

NOW THAT YOU’RE SCATTERED…

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In the following area of His Word, most translations say that they shall turn back and “obey” His voice and commands but is this the proper translation considering what has come to pass?

Myrbd/Deut. 30:1-10 “And it shall be, when all these words come upon you, the barakah and the curse which I have set before you, and you shall bring them back to your heart among all the nations where hwhy your myhla drives you, (2) and shall turn back to hwhy your myhla and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your being, you and your children, (3) then hwhy your myhla shall turn back your captivity, and shall have compassion on you, and He shall turn back and gather you from all the peoples where hwhy your myhla has scattered you. (4) “If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under the heavens, from there hwhy your myhla does gather you, and from there He does take you. (5) “And hwhy your myhla shall bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. And He shall do good to you, and increase you more than your fathers. (6) “And hwhy your myhla shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live, (7) and hwhy your myhla shall put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you [Note: arqyw/Lev. 26:17], who persecuted you. (8) “And you shall turn back and obey the voice of hwhy and do all His commands which I command you today. (9) “And hwhy your myhla shall make you have excess in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground for good. For hwhy turns back to rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, (10) if you obey the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Turah, if you turn back to hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being.

Repentence, or the action of turning back, as we will read, is nothing new.

Laqzxy/Ezek. 14:4-8 “Therefore speak to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus said ynda hwhy, “Everyone of the house of Larvy who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his crookedness before his face, and shall come to the aybn – I hwhy shall answer him who comes, according to his many idols, (5) in order to lay hold of the house of Larvy by their heart, for they have become estranged from Me by their idols, all of them.” ’ (6) “Therefore say to the house of Larvy, ‘Thus said ynda hwhy, “Repent, and turn back from your idols, and turn back your faces from all your abominations. (7) “For anyone of the house of Larvy, or of the strangers who sojourn in Larvy, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling-block of his crookedness before his face, and shall come to a aybn to inquire of him concerning Me, I hwhy shall answer him Myself. (8) “And I shall set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I shall cut him off from the midst of My people. And you shall know that I am hwhy. Laqzxy/Ezek. 18:30-32 “Therefore I judge you, house of Larvy, every one according to his ways,” declares ynda hwhy, “Repent, and turn back from all your transgressions, and let not crookedness be a stumbling-block to you. (31) “Cast away from you all the transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, house of Larvy? (32) “For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” declares the ynda hwhy. “So turn back and live!” Laqzxy/Ezek. 33:10-11 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Larvy, ‘This is what you have said, “If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how then shall we live?” ’ (11) “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares ynda hwhy, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wrong, but that the wrong turn from his way and live. Turn back; turn back from your evil ways! For why should you die, house of Larvy?’ In order to turn away from evil, one must have a clear understanding of what evil is in His eyes and not the eyes of man. This expounds why we are to turn back and [mv His voice only. Today, most do not have a clear understanding of what evil truly is because the world is inundated with ideology which is

THE COMMAND TO “TURN BACK”

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clouded and strayed from the true understanding of His Word, His Message, as He declared it from the beginning. As we have seen so far, countless times He has said, “turn back”. Here are more examples of Him extending His hand for us to turn back to Him. [vwh/Hos. 14:1-9 Larvy, return to hwhy your myhla, for you have stumbled by your crookedness. 2 Take words with you, and return to hwhy. Say to Him, “Take away all crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bulls of our lips. 3 “Ashshur does not save us. We do not ride on horses, nor ever again do we say to the work of our hands, ‘Our mighty ones.’ For the fatherless finds compassion in You.” 4 “I shall heal their backsliding, I shall love them spontaneously, for My displeasure has turned away from him. 5 “I shall be like the dew to Larvy. He shall blossom like the lily, and cast out his roots like Leḇanon. 6 “His branches shall spread, and his splendour shall be like an olive tree, and his fragrance like Leḇanon. 7 “Those who dwell under His shadow shall return. They shall revive like grain, and blossom like the vine, and become as fragrant as the wine of Leḇanon. 8 “What more has Ephrayim to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after him. I am like a green cypress tree, your fruit comes from Me.” 9 Who is wise and understands these words, discerning and knows them? For the ways of hwhy are straight, and the righteous walk in them, but the transgressors stumble in them. Myklm-b/2Ki. 17:13 And hwhy warned Larvy and Hdwhy, through all of His myaybn, and every seer, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways, and guard My commands and My laws, according to all the Turah which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the myaybn.” Whymry/Jer. 15:19 Therefore thus said hwhy, “If you turn back, then I shall bring you back. Before Me you shall stand. And if you take out the precious from the worthless, you shall become as My mouth. Let them return to you, but do not return to them. Whymry/Jer. 25:4-6 “Moreover, hwhy has sent to you all His servants the myaybn, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear, (5) saying, ‘Turn back now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the soil which hwhy has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. (6) ‘And do not go after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow down to them. And do not provoke Me with the works of your hands, so that I do you no evil.’ Whymry/Jer. 31:21 “Set up signposts, make landmarks; set your heart toward the highway, the way in which you went. Turn back, maiden of Larvy, turn back to these cities of yours! Hyrkz/Zec. 1:3,4 “And you shall say to them, ‘Thus said hwhy twabc, “Turn back to Me,” declares hwhy twabc, “and I shall turn back to you,” declares hwhy twabc. 4 “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former myaybn proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus said hwhy twabc, “Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not obey [[mv] or give heed to Me,” declares hwhy.

Next is a clear example of turning aside being defined as not guarding His laws and doing them, further illustrating that turning back is turning back to His Word and His commands as He stated in myrbd.

Ykalm/Mal. 3:7 “From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My laws and did not guard them. Turn back to Me, and I shall turn back to you,” said hwhy twabc. “But you said, ‘In what shall we turn back?’ It has been about hearing/listening to i.e. [mv from the very beginning until this day as we see [vwhy reiterating this fact. Whyttm/Matt. 13:15 for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing ([mv), and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’ Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 30:1-9 And whyqzxy sent to all Larvy and Hdwhy, and he also wrote letters

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to Ephrayim and Menashsheh, to come to the House of hwhy at Yarushalam, to perform the Passover to hwhy mhyla of Larvy. (2) But the sovereign and his leaders and all the assembly in Yarushalam had taken counsel to perform the Passover in the second month. (3) For they were unable to perform it at its time, because not enough kahanym had set themselves apart, and the people had not gathered at Yarushalam. (4) And the matter was right in the eyes of the sovereign and in the eyes of all the assembly. (5) And they settled the matter, to send a call to all Larvy, from Be’ĕrsheḇa to Dan, to come to perform a Passover to hwhy mhyla of Larvy at Yarushalam, since they had not done it for a long time, as it is written. (6) And the runners went to all Larvy and Hdwhy with the letters from the sovereign and his leaders, and spoke according to the command of the sovereign, “Children of Larvy, turn back to hwhy mhyla of Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Larvy, so that He returns to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the sovereigns of Ashshur. (7) “And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against hwhy mhyla of their fathers, so that He gave them up to ruin, as you see. (8) “Now do not stiffen your neck, like your fathers, stretch forth the hand to hwhy, and come to His set-apart place, which He has set apart forever, and serve hwhy your mhyla, so that His burning wrath turns away from you. (9) “Because if you turn back to hwhy, your brothers and your children shall be shown compassion by their captors, even to return to this land. For hwhy your mhyla shows favour and compassion, and does not turn His face from you if you turn back to Him.” Next you will notice what our brother Hymxn did at his returning; he turned and prayed to Him and confessed his crookedness and the crookednesses of the people. Hymxn/Neh. 1:1-11 The words of Hymxn son of hylkx: And it came to be in the month of Kislĕw, in the twentieth year, as I was in the citadel of Shushan, (2) that Ḥanani, one of my brothers, came with men from Hdwhy. And I asked them concerning the mydwhy who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Yarushalam. (3) And they said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity in the province are there in great evil and reproach. And the wall of Yarushalam is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.” (4) And it came to be, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days. And I was fasting and praying before the mhyla of the heavens, (5) and I said, “I pray, hwhy mhyla of the heavens, great and awesome la, guarding the covenant and kindness with those who love You, and with those guarding Your commands, (6) please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, for the children of Larvy Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Larvy which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned. (7) “We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not guarded the commands, nor the laws, nor the right-rulings which You commanded Your servant M’shah. {arqyw/Lev. 26:39-42; laynd/Dan. 9:5-14} (8) “Please remember the word that You commanded Your servant M’shah, saying, ‘If you trespass, I shall scatter you among the peoples, (9) but if you shall turn back to Me, and guard My commands and do them, though you were cast out to the end of the heavens, I shall gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen, to make My Name dwell there.’ (10) “And they are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand. (11) “hwhy, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to fear Your Name. And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man.” For I was cupbearer to the sovereign. NOTE: Whymry/Jer. 23:20 The displeasure of hwhy shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.1 NOTE: 1See 30:24; Myrbd/Deut. 4:30. REMEMBER: Laqzxy/Ezek. 7:13 ‘For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, though they are still alive. For the vision is for all of its crowd – it shall not turn back. And because of his crookedness no one holds fast to his life. Whymry/Jer. 29:8-14 “For thus said hwhy twabc, mhyla of Larvy, ‘Let not your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, neither listen to [[mv] the dreams which you are dreaming. (9) ‘For they are prophesying falsely to you in My Name. I have not sent them,’ declares

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hwhy. (10) “For thus said hwhy, ‘When seventy years are completed, at Baḇel I shall visit you and establish My good word toward you, to bring you back to this place. (11) ‘For I know the plans I am planning for you,’ declares hwhy, ‘plans of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and an expectancy. (12) ‘Then you shall call on Me, and shall come and pray to Me, and I shall listen to you. (13) ‘And you shall seek Me, and shall find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart1. Note: Myrbd/Deut. 4:29, Lawhy/Joel 2:12. (14) ‘And I shall be found by you,’ declares hwhy, ‘and I shall turn back your captivity, and shall gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares hwhy. And I shall bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you. THEREFORE, Hkya/Lam. 3:37-45 Who was it that spoke, And it came to be! Has hwhy not commanded it? (38) Do not the evils and the good Come out of the mouth of the Most High? [NOTE: Why[vy/Isa. 45:5-7, Tlhq/Ecc. 7:14, etc.] (39) What? Should mankind complain, A living man, because of his sins? (40) Let us search and examine our ways, And turn back to hwhy. (41) Let us lift our hearts and hands To la in the heavens and say: (42) We, we have transgressed and rebelled. You, You have not forgiven. (43) You have wrapped Yourself With displeasure and pursued us. You have slain, You have not shown compassion. (44) You have wrapped Yourself With a cloud, so that prayer does not pass through. (45) You make us as scum and refuse In the midst of the peoples. Also consider what He has declare here. Whymry/Jer. 18:7-10 “The moment I speak concerning a nation and concerning a reign, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, (8) but that nation shall turn from its evil because I have spoken against it, then I shall repent of the evil that I thought to do to it. (9) “And the moment I speak concerning a nation and concerning a reign, to build and to plant it, (10) and it shall do evil in My eyes in not obeying My voice, then I shall repent concerning the good with which I spoke of doing to it. Mylht/Psa. 7:9-13 Please let the evil of the wrong be ended, And establish the righteous; For the righteous mhyla is a trier of hearts and kidneys. (10) My shield is upon mhyla, Who saves the upright in heart. (11) mhyla is a righteous judge. And la is enraged every day, (12) If one does not repent! He sharpens His sword, He bends His bow and makes it ready, (13) And He has prepared for Himself instruments of death, He makes His arrows hot for pursuers. Whyttm/Matt. 11:20 Then He began to reproach the cities in which most of His miracles had been done, because they did not repent: Whyttm/Matt. 21:32 for nnxwhy came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but tax collectors and whores believed him. And when you saw it, you did not repent afterwards, to believe him. Mark 6:12 And they went out and proclaimed that men should repent. Luke 13:3, 5 “I say to you, no! But unless you repent you shall all perish in the same way. 5 “I say to you, no! But unless you repent you shall all perish in the same way.” Luke 16:30 “And he said, ‘No, father Aḇraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they shall repent.’ So we see turning back or repentance is necessary for this generation. We see Hymxn confessed the sins of himself, his people and those who came before him as did laynd. Confessing the sins of our predecessors illustrates our understanding of their wrong doings and our view of those deeds should be that of utter disgust, something we would not repeat. This is something we must do when turning back as we will see, it is commanded of us. CAN WE OBEY FULLY TODAY? So, can we ‘fully obey’ today? What has He declared regarding this question? Why[vy/Isa. 63:15-19 Look down from the heavens, and see from Your set-apart and comely dwelling.

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Where are Your ardour and Your might, the stirring of Your inward parts and Your compassion toward me? Are they withheld? (16) For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Larvy does not recognise us. You, hwhy, are our Father, our Redeemer – Your Name is from of old. (17) hwhy, why do You make us stray from Your ways, and harden our heart from Your fear? {Note: [vwh/Hos. 2:6} Turn back, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your inheritance. (18) For a little while Your set-apart people possessed it – our adversaries have trodden down Your set-apart place1. Footnote: 1Ps. 74, Ps. 79, Jer 51:51, Lam. 1:10, Dan. 8:13, Dan. 11:31, Mt. 24:15. (19) We have become like those over whom You never ruled – Your Name is not called on them!’ We see that it is He Who has hardened our hearts/minds of His fear and caused us to stray from His ways. This was the punishment and the promise of the curse because we scorned the covenant and the instructions that we were to follow in order to inherit good forever. Remember, “Whymry/Jer. 17:4 “And you, even you, shall let go of your inheritance which I gave you. And I shall make you serve your enemies in a land which you have not known, because you have kindled a fire in My displeasure which burns forever.” As a result of the continual backsliding, it is quite apparent that it is very necessary to hedge up the way of the people. Those who are true and turning with all of their heart would go the length to return to their Maker. They would endure to the end and not fall by the way or be plucked up or blown away at the trials and temptations that life offers. The command was an element of the inheritance or the promise, and to [mv it would ensure life – “Myrbd/Deut. 4:1 “So now, Larvy, listen to the laws and the right-rulings which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and shall go in and possess the land which hwhy myhla of your fathers is giving you. Myrbd/Deut. 5:33 “Walk in all the way which hwhy your myhla has commanded you, so that you live and it be well with you. And you shall prolong your days in the land which you possess.”, etc, etc. But again, as we see, He has made our way back extremely difficult primarily to sift those who are true and those who are not. [vwh/Hos. 2:6 (6) “Therefore, see, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I shall wall her in, so that she does not find her paths. In their punishment, they are unable to do the command and receive good and do what is right in His sight because of the words pronounced against them. [vhwy even foretold of the day that was coming when no one would be able to do the works: nnxwhy/Jn. 9:4 “It is necessary for Me to work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day – night is coming, when no one is able to work. Therefore, one cannot suggest that doing some of the command is adequate when we see that one must do all of the commands [Myrbd/Deut. 29:29; Bq[y/Ja. 2:10, etc.]. In fact, as part of the punishment for transgressioning, complete obedience according to the command is not possible because of the curse and the curse promises death, infirmities and calamity. He has hedged up our way with thorns, making it difficult to find our way back to the path. [vhwy foretold of these days of no one being able to do the works; works being the fullness of the command. He has done all of this in order to sift those who love and those who do not; those who will seek with all of their strength and those who will not.

HE HAS CAUSED THE TURAH AND THE MUADYM TO CEASE:

HE HAS CONFIRMED HIS WORDS: Hkiya/Lam. 2:6-17 He has demolished His booth like a garden, He has destroyed His place of meeting.

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hwhy has made the appointed times/festivals and Sabbaths To be forgotten in Tsyun, And despises sovereign and kahan In His raging displeasure. (7) hwhy has cast off His slaughter-place, He has rejected His set-apart place, He has delivered the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the House of hwhy As on the day of an appointed time. (8) hwhy has planned to destroy The wall of the daughter of Tsyun. He has stretched out a line. He has not turned back His hand from destroying. And He has made the rampart and wall to lament; Together they have languished. (9) Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her sovereign and her rulers are among the nations . The Turah is no more, And her prophets have found no vision from hwhy. (10) The elders of the daughter of Tsyun Sit on the ground, are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads, They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Yarushalam Have let their heads hang to the ground. (11) My eyes are spent with tears, My inward parts ferment, My bile has been poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, As children and the infants languish In the streets of the city. (12) They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” As they languish like the wounded In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out in their mothers’ bosom. (13) How shall I admonish you, To what shall I compare you, daughter of Yarushalam? To what shall I liken you to comfort you, O maiden daughter of Tsyun? For your breach is as great as the sea. Who shall heal you? (14) Your prophets have seen Falsehood and folly for you, And have not shown you your crookedness, To turn back your captivity. But their visions for you Are false and misleading messages. (15) All who pass by have clapped their hands at you. They have whistled, And they shake their heads At the daughter of Yarushalam, “Is this the city that is called ‘The perfection of loveliness, The joy of all the earth’?” (16) All your enemies have opened Their mouth against you; They have whistled and they gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! This is certainly the day we waited for; We have found it, we have seen it.” (17) hwhy has done what He planned, He has filled His word Which He commanded in days of old. He has torn down, without compassion, And He has let your enemy rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries. [vwh/Hos. 2:1-17 “Say to your brothers, ‘my people,’ and to your sisters, ‘compassioned one.’ (2) “Strive with your mother, strive, for she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her whorings from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts, (3) lest I strip her naked, and shall set her up as on the day she was born, and shall make her like a wilderness, and shall set her like a dry land, and shall put her to death with thirst. (4) “And I shall not have compassion on her children, for they are the children of whorings. (5) “For their mother has whored, she who conceived them has acted shamelessly. For she said, ‘I go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.’ (6) “Therefore, see, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I shall wall her in, so that she does not find her paths.{Note: Why[vy/Isa. 63:17} (7) “And she shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and shall seek them but not find them. Then she shall say, ‘Let me go and return to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.’ (8) “And she did not acknowledge that I gave her grain, and new wine, and oil, and increased her silver and gold which they prepared for Baʽal. (9) “Therefore I shall turn back and shall take my grain in its time and My new wine in its season, and I shall take away My wool and My linen covering her nakedness. (10) “And now I shall uncover her shame before the eyes of her lovers, and no one shall deliver her from My hand. (11) “And I shall cause all her rejoicing, her festivals, her New Moons, and her Sabbaths, even all her appointed times, to cease, (12) and lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, ‘these are my rewards that my lovers have given me.’ And I shall make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. (13) “And I shall punish her for the days of the Baʽals to which she burned incense and adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me,” declares hwhy. (14) “Therefore, see, I am alluring her, and shall lead her into the wilderness, and shall speak to her heart, (15) and give to her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Akur as a door of expectation. And there she shall respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Mitsrayim. (16) “And it shall be, in that day,” declares hwhy, “that you call Me ‘My Ruler,’ and no longer call Me ‘My Baʽal.’ (17) “And I shall remove the names of the Baʽals from her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. [vwh/Hos. 3:4-5 For many days the children of larvy are to remain without sovereign and without prince, and without slaughtering, and without pillar, and without shoulder garment even house idols. (5)

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Afterward the children of larvy shall return, and seek hwhy their myhla, and Dud their sovereign, and fear hwhy and His goodness, in the latter days. swm[/Amo. 8:9,10 (9) “And it shall be in that day,” declares ynda hwhy, “that I shall cause the sun to go down at noon, and shall darken the earth on a day of brightness, (10) and shall turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head, and shall make it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a day of bitterness. Qwqbx/Hab. 1:1-4 The message which the aybn Khabaquq saw. (2) hwhy, till when shall I cry, and You not hear? I cry to You, “Violence!” and You do not save. (3) Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises. (4) Therefore the Turah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted. [Approx. 606-625 BCE] ykalm/Mal. 2:1-3 “So now, kahanym, this command is for you. (2) “If you do not hear ([mv), and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said hwhy twabc, “I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your barak. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart. (3) “See, I shall rebuke your seed, and scatter dung before your faces, the dung of your festivals. And you shall be taken away with it. whymry/Jer. 17:1-4 “The sin of hdwhy is written with a pen of iron, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars, (2) while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the spreading trees on the high hills. (3) “My mountain in the field, I give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures, your high places of sin, throughout all your borders. (4) “And you, even of yourself, shall let go of your inheritance which I gave you. And I shall make you serve your enemies in a land which you have not known, for you have kindled a fire in My displeasure which burns forever.” Therefore, He has caused our rejoicing to cease in every way possible. He has not accepted us; He is not accepting our slaughterings. CONSIDER: Laqzxy/Ezek. 20:40-41 “For on My set-apart mountain1, on the mountain height of Larvy,” declares ynda hwhy, “there all the house of Larvy, all of them in the land, shall serve Me. There I shall accept them, and there I shall require your offerings and the first-fruits of your offerings, together with all your set-apart gifts. (41) “As a sweet fragrance I shall accept you when I bring you out from the peoples. And I shall gather you out of the lands where you have been scattered. And I shall be set-apart in you before the nations. NOTE: 1 - Mylht/Psa. 2:6 “But I, I have set My Sovereign on Tsyun, My set-apart mountain.” Why[vy/Isa. 66:20 “And they shall bring all your brothers as an offering to hwhy out of all the nations , on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My set-apart mountain Yarushalam,” declares hwhy, “as the children of Larvy bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of hwhy. Lawhy/Joel 2:1 Blow a ram’s horn in Tsyun, and sound an alarm in My set-apart mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of hwhy is coming, because it is near: Mylht/Psa. 76:2 And His booth is in Shalam1, [NOTE: 1The old name of Yarushalam.] And His dwelling place in Tsyun.

Consider Laqzxy/Ezek. 20:40,41 then consider - Myklm-b/2Ki. 19:31 ‘For out of Yarushalam comes forth a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Tsyun– the ardour of hwhy does this.’; Mylht/Psa. 14:7 The deliverance of Larvy will be given out of Tsyun! When hwhy turns back the captivity of His people, Let Yaʽaqoḇ rejoice, let Larvy be glad. {See also 53:6}

Therefore, Tsyun is this set-apart mountain where He will again accept His people and their offerings.

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WE WERE WARNED THIS WOULD OCCUR. As part of the punishment of the curse, He warned the muadym (appointed times) and offerings would also cease: arqyw/Lev. 26:31 ‘And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances. The sweet fragrances are referring to the offerings to Him. They were to Him for a sweet fragrance.[See twmv/Exo. 29:18,25,41; arqyw/Lev. 1:9,13,17; 2:2,9,12; 3:16; 4:31; 6:15,21; 8:21,28; 17:6; 23:13,18; Rbdmb/Num. 15:3,7,10,13,14,24; 18:17; 28:2,6,8,13,24,27; 29:2,6,8,13,36, etc.]

Also consider what is foretold here: Laynd/Dan. 7:21-25 “I was looking, and this horn was fighting against the set-apart ones, and was prevailing against them, (22) until the Ancient of Days came, and right-ruling was given to the set-apart ones of the Most High, and the time came and the set-apart ones took possession of the reign. (23) “This is what he said, ‘The fourth beast is the fourth reign on earth, which is different from all other reigns, and it devours all the earth, tramples it down and crushes it. (24) ‘And the ten horns are ten sovereigns from this reign. They shall rise, and another shall rise after them, and it is different from the first ones, and it humbles three sovereigns, (25) and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times1 and law2, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time. NOTES: 1This is another word for festivals. 2Changing the law amounts to lawlessness. Judgment upon the lawless “prophets” in Mt. 7:23, and the lawless “believers” in Mt. 13:41! Whyttm/Matt. 24:2 And [vwhy said to them, “Do you not see all these? Truly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, at all, which shall not be thrown down.” Most people love the account of Laynd, expecially his time in the den of lions, but do they conveniently overlook the foretelling regarding the evil one that would “change the appointed times [e.g. now new holidays like Christmas or Easter are celebrated, etc.] and the law [e.g. now most ideologies suggest the law has been either canceled or a new instruction has been handed down, etc]. ALSO CONSIDER: Why[vy/Isa. 24:1-6 See, hwhy is making the earth empty and making it waste, and shall overturn its surface, and shall scatter abroad its inhabitants. (2) And it shall be – as with the people so with the priest, as with the servant so with his master, as with the female servant so with her mistress, as with the buyer so with the seller, as with the lender so with the borrower, as with the creditor so with the debtor; (3) the earth is completely emptied and utterly plundered, for hwhy has spoken this word. (4) The earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither, the haughty people of the earth shall languish. (5) For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot, changed1 the law, broken the everlasting covenant. Note: 1 Whymry/Jer. 23:36. (6) Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. [Note: Hyrkz/Zec. 5:1-4 And I lifted up my eyes again, and looked and saw a flying scroll. (2) And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.” (3) And he said to me, “This is the curse that goes forth over the face of all the earth: ‘everyone who is stealing shall go unpunished,’ on the one side, according to it, and, ‘everyone who has sworn falsely shall go unpunished,’ on the other side, according to it.” (4) “I shall send it out,” declares hwhy

twabc, “and it shall come into the house of the thief and the house of the one who shall swear falsely by My Name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it, both its timber and stones.” [Re-Considering: Whyttm/Matt. 24:2 And [vhwy said to them, “Do you not see all these? Truly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, at all, which shall not be thrown down.”; Tlhq/Ecc. 8:8-12 No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death. There is no discharge in battle, and wrongness does not release those who are given to it. 9; All this I have seen; I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which a man rules over a man for his evil. 10; And so I saw the wrong ones buried, and they came and went from the place of set-apartness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. That too is futile. 11;

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Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is filled in them to do evil. 12; Although a sinner is doing evil a hundred times, and his life is prolonged, yet I know that there is good to those who fear myhla, who fear before Him. Also Consider: nwzx/Rev. 22:11; “He who does wrong, let him do more wrong; he who is filthy, let him be more filthy; he who is righteous, let him be more righteous; he who is set-apart, let him be more set-apart. (Laqzxy/Ezek. 3:27; Hyrkz/Zec. 11:9; Why[vy/Isa. 26:10)] Remember: nnxwhy/Jn. 9:4 “It is necessary for Me to work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day – night is coming, when no one is able to work. If you consider what He is foretelling here, you will understand what it means in fullness. Night, referring to a dark age/era or generation is upon us and the work [that which hwhy has set-apart, His deeds and instructions/commands] will not be able to be done. There is no confusion as to whether is has come to pass or not. No one is able to do His command fully today because of the absence of His Hykal where the service of those who were designated to enforce and teach the instruction was to occur. Nnxwhy/Jn. 14:30 “I shall no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming,1 and he possesses none at all in Me, NOTE: 1 Luke 4:6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I shall give You, and their esteem, because it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.1 NOTE: Nnxwhy-a/Jn. 5:19 We know that we are of myhla, and all the world lies in the wicked one; nwzx/Rev. 13:7-9 So it was given to him to fight with the set-apart ones and to overcome them. And authority was given to him over every tribe and tongue and nation. (8) And all those dwelling on the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world shall worship him. (9) If anyone has an ear, let him hear. [REMEMBER: Laynd/Dan. 7:21-25] [vhwy bn Nun declared that the people would not be able to set their hearts to do and he made it clear to them in this proclamation because even before they were going to enter the land, they still had idolators among them. [vwhy /Josh. 24:1-25 And [vhwy gathered all the tribes of larvy to Shekem and called for the elders of larvy, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers. And they presented themselves before myhla. (2) And [vhwysaid to all the people, “Thus said hwhy myhla of larvy, ‘Long ago your fathers dwelt beyond the River – Teraḥ, the father of Abraham and the father of Naḥor. And they served other mighty ones.b (3) ‘So I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and caused him to go through all the land of Kenaʽan, and multiplied his offspring and gave him Yitsḥaq. (4) ‘And to Yitsḥaq I gave Yaʽaqob and Esaw. And to Esaw I gave the mountains of Seʽir to possess, but Yaʽaqob and his children went down to Mitsrayim. (5) ‘Then I sent M’shah and Aharon, and plagued Mitsrayim, as I did in their midst. And afterward I brought you out. (6) ‘And I brought your fathers out of Mitsrayim, and you came to the sea. And the Mitsrians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Sea of Reeds. (7) ‘And they cried out to hwhy, and He put thick darkness between you and the Mitsrians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them. And your eyes saw what I did in Mitsrayim. And you dwelt in the wilderness a long time. (8) ‘And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Yarden, and they fought with you. But I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you. (9) ‘And Balaq son of Tsippor, sovereign of Mo’ab, rose up and fought against larvy, and sent and called for Bilʽam son of Beʽor to curse you. (10) ‘But I refused to listen to Bilʽam, so he continued to barak you, and I delivered you out of his hand. (11) ‘And you passed over the Yarden and came to Yeriḥo. And the masters of Yeriḥo, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Kenaʽanite, and the Ḥittite, and the Girgashite, and the Ḥiwwite, and the Yebusite fought against you. But I gave them into your hand. (12) ‘And I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two sovereigns of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with your bow. (13) ‘And I gave you a land for which you did not labour, and cities which you did not build. And you dwell in them, you eat of the vineyards and olive-trees which you did not plant.’ (14) “And now, fear hwhy, serve Him in perfection and in truth, and put away the mighty ones which your fathers served beyond the River and in Mitsrayim, and serve hwhy! (15) “And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve hwhy, choose for

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yourselves this day whom you are going to serve, whether the mighty ones which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the mighty ones of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But I and my house, we serve hwhy.” (16) And the people answered and said, “Far be it from us to forsake hwhy, to serve other mighty ones, (17) for hwhy our myhla is He who has brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage, who did those great signs before our eyes, and has guarded us in all the way that we went and among all the people through whom we passed. (18) “And hwhy drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land. We too serve hwhy, for He is our myhla.” (19) Then [vhwy said to the people, “You are not able to serve hwhy, for He is a set-apart myhla, He is a very keen la in pursuit of His objective. He does not bear with your transgression and with your sins, (20) if you forsake hwhy and shall serve mighty ones of a stranger. Then He shall turn back and do you evil and consume you, after He has been good to you.” (21) And the people said to [vhwy, “No, but we do serve hwhy!” (22) Then [vhwy said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen hwhy for yourselves, to serve Him.” And they said, “Witnesses!” (23) “And now, put away the mighty ones of the stranger which are in your midst, and incline your heart to hwhy myhla of Larvy.” (24) And the people said to [vhwy, “hwhy our myhla we serve, and His voice we [mv.” (25) And [vhwy made a covenant with the people that day, and laid on them a law and a right-ruling in Shekem. As a result, hwhy has removed the ability for a His people to obey/[mv fully as their punishment, causing them to stray and hardended their hearts of His fear and thus they are unable to love. This punishment ensures hardship, pain and ultimately death but how does one turn back from this? KEEP IN MIND: Whymry/Jer. 23:20 The displeasure of hwhy shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it perfectly. Whymry/Jer. 30:24 The burning displeasure of hwhy shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it. RIGHT IN HIS EYES?: If He has removed the ability for us to comply completely, can we be right in His eyes today?

twmv/Exo. 15:26 And He said, “If you diligently [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla so you do what is right in His eyes, and shall [mv His commands and shall guard all His laws, I shall bring on you none of the diseases I brought on the Mitsrites, for I am hwhy who heals you.”

Myrbd/Deut. 12:8-28 “Do not do as we are doing here today – each one doing whatever is right in his own eyes. (9) “Because you have not yet entered the rest and the inheritance which hwhy your myhla is giving you. (10) “But you shall pass over the Yardĕn, and shall dwell in the land which hwhy your myhla is giving you to inherit, and He shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you shall dwell in safety. (11) “And it shall be, that unto the place which hwhy your myhla chooses to make His Name dwell there, there you are to bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your offerings, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to hwhy. (12) “And you shall rejoice before hwhy your myhla, you and your sons and your daughters, and your male servants and your female servants, and the Lĕwite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you. (13) “Guard yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see, (14) except in the place which hwhy chooses, in one of your tribes, there you are to offer your burnt offerings, and there you are to do all that I command you. (15) “Only, whatever your being desires you shall slaughter and eat, according to the barak of hwhy your myhla which He has given you, within all your gates. The unclean and the clean do eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. (16) “Only, the blood you do not eat, pour it on the earth like water. (17) “You are not allowed to

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eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or of the firstlings of your herd or your flock, or of any of your offerings which you vow, or of your voluntary offerings, or of the contribution of your hand. (18) “But eat them before hwhy your myhla, in the place which hwhy your myhla chooses, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lĕwite who is within your gates. And you shall rejoice before hwhy your myhla in all that you put your hands to. (19) “Guard yourself that you do not forsake the Lĕwite as long as you live in your land. (20) “When hwhy your myhla enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat meat, you eat as much meat as your being desires. (21) “When the place where hwhy your myhla chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you shall slaughter from your herd and from your flock which hwhy has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates as much as your being desires. (22) “Only, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you are to eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike eat of it. (23) “Only, be firm not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, do not eat the life with the meat. (24) “Do not eat it, you pour it on the earth like water. (25) “Do not eat it, that it might be well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the eyes of hwhy. (26) “Only, the set-apart gifts which you have, and your vowed offerings, you are to take up and go to the place which hwhy chooses. (27) “And you shall make your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the slaughter-place of hwhy your myhla. And the blood of your offerings is poured out on the slaughter-place of hwhy your myhla, and you eat the meat. (28) “Guard, and [mv all these words which I command you, that it might be well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of hwhy your myhla. Myrbd/Deut. 13:18 when you [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard all His commands which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of hwhy your myhla.

Myrbd/Deut. 21:1-9 “When anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which hwhy your myhla is giving you to possess, and it is not known who smote him, (2) then your elders and your judges shall go out, and they shall measure the distance from the slain man to the cities round about. (3) “And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke, (4) and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi. (5) “And the kahanym, the sons of Lĕwi, shall come near, for hwhy your myhla has chosen them to serve Him and to barak in the Name of hwhy, and by their mouth every strife and every stroke is tried. (6) “And let all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi. (7) “And they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it. (8) ‘hwhy, forgive Your people Larvy, whom You have redeemed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people Larvy.’ And the blood-guilt shall be pardoned to them. (9) “Thus you purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst when you do what is right in the eyes of hwhy. If you read these accounts in the record of the Judges and other books, you will notice that the people still worshipped carved images and the sons of Aharan performed the duty of the kahan for hire. Whoring and forsaking the right-ruling of hwhy were among the abominations the people did in the eyes of hwhy. These things do not illustrate what is right in His eyes. As we see, even the account tells us they did what was right in their own eyes. Myjpv/Judg. 17:1-13; In those days there was no sovereign in Larvy – everyone did what was right in his own eyes1. NOTE: 1See also 21:25, and Deut. 12:8. Myjpv/Judg. 21:25 In those days there was no sovereign in Larvy – everyone did what was right in his own eyes1. Footnote: 1See 17:6, and Deut. 12:8. Myklm-a/1Ki. 11:33,38 ‘Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth the mighty one of the Tsidonians, to Kemosh the mighty one of the Mo’abites, and to Milkom the mighty one of the

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children of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways – to do what is right in My eyes, and My laws and My right-rulings, as did his father Dawid. 38 ‘And it shall be, if you [mv all that I command you, and shall walk in My ways, and do what is right in My eyes, to guard My laws and My commands, as My servant Dud did, then I shall be with you and build for you a steadfast house, as I built for Dud, and shall give Larvy to you. Myklm-a/1Ki. 14:8 and tore the reign away from the house of Dawid, and gave it to you – and you have not been as My servant Dawid, who guarded My commands and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes, Myklm-a/1Ki. 15:5,11 for Dud did what was right in the eyes of hwhy, and did not turn aside from all that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriyah the Ḥittite. 11 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of hwhy, as his father Dud had done, When studying the accounts recorded in the book of Myklm(Kings) or Mymyh yrbd (the Chronicles) and others, you will discover that there are many instances where it was written that certain sovereigns and individuals “did what was right in the eyes of hwhy” in certain acts or deeds, but not all acted with perfect hearts because you will notice that they did not guard completely. In many cases, they allowed the high places to remain in the land and people continued to burn incense on them; or they continued to walk in the sins of their fathers and committed other abominable deeds. It is written in arqyw/Lev. that those who are turning back must confess, acknowledge and admit their sins as well as the sins of their fathers. Also consider the foretelling declared here in Mylht/Psa. 78:5-8: “For He raised a witness in Yaʽaqoḇ, And set a Turah in Larvy, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their children; (6) That it might be known to a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and relate them to their children, (7) And place their trust in myhla, And not forget the works of la, But watch over His commands, (8) And not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to la.” Therefore, it is for the generation that is turning back to not be like their fathers, instead they should acknowledge (know and understand) their crookednesses as well as their own and not repeat them. They must prepare their hearts and minds and put their complete trust in hwhy only. Doctrine and ideology have confused and distorted what this looks like. Seemingly, doing what’s right in His eyes entails guarding and walking in all of His laws and commands. As a result of the persistent stubbornness and disobedience of His people, He has given them over to their desires and caused them to lose their inheritance [His laws, land, etc.], so now we are unable to do the fullness of His command so that we can be right in His eyes and live. Since He has removed our righteousness [Db.6:25], what does turning back to Him look like; mourning, weeping, affliction maybe? When we understand that, we should loathe ourselves because we are wrong and nothing we can do can make us right [Consider Mylht/Psa. 14 &53; Why[vy/Isa. 59:1-16, Laqzxy/Ezek. 36:31, etc.], we understand why we would be mourning, weeping and fasting…

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Therefore, taking all of this into consideration, what then does it mean to ‘turn back’? We know that it is for us to do all of His commands [Myrbd/Deut. 29:29; Bq[y/Ja. 2:10, etc.], and seeing now that that is not completely possible, what then should we do? COMPREHENSIVE BREAKDOWN OF WHAT IT MEANS TO “TURN BACK”: Myrbd/Deut. 30:1-3 1 So it shall be, when I bring upon you all of {myrbdh <H1696-97> words, commands, promises, warnings, calamities, misfortune, plagues, etc.} which are these, the barakah and the curse [Note: Myrbd/Deut. 4:30], which I have put before your face so that you turn back to your {kbbl <H3823-24> heart, understanding, intelligence, mind, etc.} in all the nations where you have been {kxydh<H5080-xdn> impelled, thrust to, driven away to, banished} to, hwhy your myhla is there; 2 So turn back to hwhy your myhla so you {t[mvw <H8085 - [mv> => hear, listen, obey, [to perceive by ear, to have power to hear, to hear with attention or interest, to understand, to give heed, etc.]} ACCORDING TO ‘HIS’ VOICE [Whymry/Jer. 3:13; 7:23; 11:1-7], according to all that I {kwcm=> command, charge, entrust, order, impose on, etc.} you this day, with all of your {kbbl <H3823-24> => inward parts, heart, understanding, intelligence}, even with all your {kvpn <H5314-

15> breath, being, mind, desire, emotion, passion, etc.}; 3 So hwhy your myhla ta, shall turn back your captivity, and your {kmxr<H7355/(7356 n.)-mxr> deep love, compassion, affection} [See: Myrbd/Deut. 30:6; Why[vy/Isa. 63:17; Bwya/Job 36:10; Whyttm/Matt. 24:12] and turn back and {kcbqw gather, assemble, collect, unite, cause to agree, etc.} you from all the nations that you are scattered; hwhy your myhla is there: [MV HIS VOICE: THIS IS THE FIRST COMMAND: “Mark 12:28-30 And one of the scribes coming near, hearing them reasoning together, knowing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “Which is the first command of all?” (29) And [vwhy answered him, “The first of all the commands is, ‘[mv, Larvy, hwhy our myhla, hwhy only! (30) ‘so that you shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first command.” Remember: Myrbd/Deut. 6:4-6 (4) “[mv, Larvy, hwhy our myhla, hwhy ONLY! (5) ‘so that you shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your might. (6) “And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart, Ylvm/Prov. 20:12,13 (12) The ear that hears ([mv) and the eye that sees, hwhy has made both of them; (13) Do not love sleep, lest you shall be seized/disposed. Open your eyes! Be satisfied with bread [i.e. the Word of hwhy – See Myrbd/Deut. 4:4.]

So what does it mean to [mv and how does one do it? We are going to exhaust all of the available resources to arrive at the answer to this previously depreciated word, and no longer allow it to be a punchline used by the nations and even His people.

UNDERSTANDING “[MV” AND WHAT IT MEANS TO DO IT: NOTES ON USAGE: ref. Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of Hebrew for Readers of English. Post Biblical Hebrew PBH; Medieval Hebrew- MH; New Hebrew - NH; Foreign Word- FW; CEDH: [pg. 682,683] [mv – to hear, [Phoen. [mv, Moab., in t[mvm, Aram., BAram., and Syr., ( [me =he heard), Ugar. Shm (=to hear), Arab. سسممعع [sami’a], Ethiop., sam’a (=he heard), Akka., shemu (=to

“TURNING BACK IS…”

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hear). Qal [mv tr. V. 1 he heard; 2 he heard with interest; 3 he hearkened, listened to; 4 he fulfilled one’s advice. – Niph., [mvn – 1 was heard; 2 was listened to; 3 was understood; 4 was obeyed – Pi., he assembled, summoned (lit. he caused to hear; 2 he made a proclamation, announced; 3 he – שמעassembled, summoned; - Hoph., [mvh MH was made to hear, was proclaimed. Derivatives: שמעת ,שמע, .שמעתא ,.cp ,משמעת ,משמעות ,משמע ,השמע ,השתמעות ,השמעות ,השמעה ,שמיעה ,שמיע ,שמען

BEHIND THE DERIVATIVES: CEDH: pg.186 h[mvh – f.n. MH causing to hear, announcing, declaring; Verbal n. of [ymvh – (he caused to hear, announced, declared; Hiph., of [mv CEDH: pg.186 tw[mvh – f.n. causing to hear (Occuring only in Laqzxy/Ezek. 24:26 in the phrase [ות ,.Formed from hymvh with suff] ’causing ears to hear‘ ”אזנים השמעות“CEDH: pg. 188 tw[mtvh – f.n. NH 1 heard, understanding 2 implication [Verbal n., of [mtvh (=was heard, was understood), Hith., of [mv. [For ending, see suff. ות] CEDH: pg. 408 [mvm – m.n. 1 hearing (a hapax legomenon in Scripture, occurring in Why[vy/Isa. 11:3), 2 PBH obedience [Formed from [mv (= to hear), with prefix מ,] CEDH: pg 408 [mvm – m.n. PBH (pl. משמעים, also משמעות) meaning, sense, significance [From [mv (= to hear, to understand), hence lit. meaning, ‘that which is heard, understood’. Influenced in form and meaning by Aram., משמע. See משמע.] Derivative: y[mvm CEDH: pg. 408 m[mv – PBH causes to hear; gives to understand, teaches, proves. [Aram., part., of [mva (=he caused to hear, he gave to understand), Aph’el of [mv (=he heard; he understood). See [mv. Derivative: tw[mvm CEDH: pg. 680 [wmv – m.n. PBH meaning, sense, significance. [From [mv (=he heard; he understood) See שמע] CEDH: pg. 680 [wmv – adj. MH heard [Pass. part. of [mv. See [mv] CEDH: pg. 680 [wmv – MH 1 pbh announcement. 2 delivery of judgment [Verbal n. of [mv. Pi of [mv] CEDH: pg. 680 t[wmv – f.n. 1 heard things, report, news, 2 rumor, 3 revelation, 4 pbh tradition, [From שמע. See שמע and first suff. ה] CEDH: pg 408 [mvmt – f.n. 1. Obedience 2. Obedient body of subjects 3. Bodyguard 4. NH discipline [formed from [mv (=to hear; to obey), with pref. מ and suff. ת. Derivatives: [mvm, yt[mvm NOTE: These definitions do not include the grammatical person in nominative case English pronouns [e.g. I, we, you, he, she, it & they] Now consider how context clearly defines this term as far back as tyvarb/Genesis: tyvarb/Gen. 16:6-11 [11] And the Messenger of hwhy said to her, “See, you are conceiving and bearing a son, and shall call his name la[mvy, because hwhy has heard your affliction. DEFINITION NOTE: la[mvy – H3458: “la, He will hear” ALSO CONSIDER: (OTHER NAMES) H476 – [mvyla – (Alyshama) = “my la has heard”; H8098 – why[mv – “heard by hwhy”; [SIDE NOTE: Actions of these and those in their company – Whymry/Jer. 36:1-16: they ‘heard/[mv’ the warnings of hwhy then they feared…] Based on what we understand of the word “obey” and what it means today, we would not dare define these terms as “my la has obeyed or la has obeyed. We will explore the etymology of obey which also has a unexpected twist but first consider the Greek Septuigint equivalent of the word [mv. SEPTUIGINT GREEK > ABARY: G191-ἀκούω -{akouo} 1) to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf 2) to hear 2b) to attend to, consider what is or has been said 2c) to understand, perceive the sense of what is said; 3a) to perceive by the ear what is announced in one’s presence 3b) to get by hearing learn 3c) a thing comes to one’s ears, to find out, learn 3d) to give ear to a teaching or a teacher 3e) to comprehend, to understand]

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ALSO CONSIDER THESE RELATIVE TERMS OF THE SEPTUIGINT: [alphabetized] H238 nza (hi.) - to hear, listen, to be obedient, harken, to hear or listen to prayers (of hwhy ) H3045 [dy - to know, learn to know, to perceive and see, find out and discern, to discriminate,

distinguish, to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess 1a1g) to consider H3176 lxy hi. - to wait, hope, expect H3948 xql - learning, teaching, insight H7181 bvq (hi.) - to pay attention, give attention H7200 har - to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider H8085 [mv qal.,ni.,hi. - 1 he heard; 2 he heard with interest; 3 he hearkened, listened to; 4 he fulfilled

one’s advice H8104 rmv - to keep, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life

SO WHAT ABOUT BVQ?

Hyrkz/Zec. 1:4 “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former myaybn proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus said hwhy twabc, “Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not [mv or bvq to Me,” declares hwhy. whymry/Jer. 6:10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, so that they [mv? See, their ear is uncircumcised, and they are unable to listen-(bvq [to hear, be attentive, heed, incline (of ears), attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen]). See, the Word of hwhy is a reproach to them, they do not delight in it. Lawmv-a/1Sam. 15:22 Then Lawmv said, “Does hwhy delight in burnt offerings and slaughterings, as in [mv the voice of hwhy? Look, to [mv is better than an offering, to bvq is better than the fat of rams. Why[vy/Isa. 32:3 And the eyes of those who see are not dim, and the ears of those who [mv bvq. Why[vy/Isa. 28:23 Give ear and [mv my voice, bvq and [mv my Word. The reiteration of these relative terms demonstrates the importance of listening with the intent to understand. Two different words, both carrying the same meaning indicates the true meaning behind the words as opposed to what it has evolved into over the milleniums. An example of such a use of words would be to say, “Listen to me! Pay attention!” Both are saying the same thing but the use of both phrases stress the need for one to actually do it. NOTE: H7181 - bvq BDB DEFINITION: 1) to hear, be attentive, heed, incline (of ears), attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen 1a) (Qal) incline, attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen 1b) (Hiphil) to pay attention, give attention Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 2084 MORE EXAMPLES OF bvq AND [mv TOGETHER: We will make the point by providing more examples below. Bwya/Job 13:6 Please [mv my reasoning, and bvq to the pleadings of my lips. Bwya/Job 33:31 bvq, Iyoḇ, [mv, keep silent, and let me speak. Mylht/Psa. 10:17 hwhy, You have [mv the desire of the lowly ones; You prepare their heart; You bvq Your ear, Mylht/Psa. 17:1 [mv righteousness, hwhy, bvq my cry; Give ear to my prayer, From lips without deceit. Mylht/Psa. 66:19 Truly, myhla has [mv me; He has bvq to the voice of my prayer. Ylvm/Prov. 4:1 Children, [mv the discipline of a father, and bvq to know understanding; Ylvm/Prov. 7:24 And now, [mv to me, you children; bvq to the words of my mouth: Why[vy/Isa. 34:1 Come near, nations, to [mv. And bvq, you people! Let the earth [mv, and all that is

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in it, the world and all its offspring. Why[vy/Isa. 42:23 who among you nza to this, bvq and [mv for the time to come? Why[vy/Isa. 49:1 [mv to Me, O coastlands, and bvq, you peoples from afar! hwhy has called Me from the womb, from My mother’s belly He has caused My Name to be remembered. Whymry/Jer. 6:19 “[mv, earth! See, I am bringing evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not bvq to My words, nor My Turah – and they rejected it. Whymry/Jer. 8:6 “I have bvq and [mv – they do not speak right. No man has repented of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ They all turned to their own course, like a horse rushing into battle. There are several more examples of the use of these terms together, which aid in illustrating the meaning of the terms themselves. Therefore, hwhy tells us to turn back and [mv i.e. ‘[hear with interest, hearken, listen to, understand’ ‘HIS’ voice. Most translations render [mv in this verse as ‘obey’ but we clearly see that He has removed that possibility a long time ago but we also see the etymology tells us to ‘hear’. So let’s get a better understanding of what it actually means to ‘hear’. The reason an etymological trace of the meaning of these words are so pertinent is because these English words are trying to describe the definitions of the Abary words in question. Many times we find that English is unable to properly elucidate the meanings of many Abary words, thus leaving understanding of the context in which it is used, to try to convey a definition that may be close to it’s intended meaning. In the linguistic field, there is a process called localization. Localization is the adaptation of the text for a target audience. This process would not be relevant regarding the Word but clearly it has been utilized during the translation process of His Word. Therefore, we must trace the etymology of the English terms used to try to define/expound the Abary words to assure the reader comprehends properly and has established ‘a successful listening experience’. ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY: HEAR (v.) Old English heran (Anglian), (ge)hieran, hyran (West Saxon) "to hear, listen (to), obey, follow; accede to, grant; judge," from Proto-Germanic *hausjan (cf. Old Norse heyra, Old Frisian hora, Dutch horen, German hören, Gothic hausjan), perhaps from PIE *kous- "to hear" (see acoustic). Etymology suggests listen so lets have a closer look at listen as well. listen (v.) Old English hlysnan "TO LISTEN," from Proto-Germanic *khlusinon (cf. Dutch luisteren, Old High German hlosen "TO LISTEN," German lauschen "TO LISTEN"), from PIE root *kleu- "HEARING, TO HEAR" (cf. Sanskrit srnoti "HEARS," srosati "HEARS, obeys;" Avestan sraothra "ear;" Middle Persian srod "hearing, sound;" So we see right away that hearing is listening and listening is hearing; but what about obedience? First consider some synonomous terms. SYNONYMOUS TERMINALOGY AND THEIR DEFINITIONS: HEAR PERCEIVE, make out, DISCERN, catch, get, apprehend; LISTEN TO; BE INFORMED, BE TOLD, find out, discover, LEARN, GATHER, GLEAN, ASCERTAIN, GET WORD, get wind. JUDGE; adjudicate (on), adjudge, pass judgment on; UNDERSTAND, sympathize with, RECOGNIZE, GET, LISTEN HEAR, PAY ATTENTION, BE ATTENTIVE, ATTEND, CONCENTRATE; keep one's ears open, prick up one's ears; literary hark; archaic HEARKEN; pay attention to, TAKE HEED OF, HEED, take notice of, take note of, MIND, MARK, BEAR IN MIND, TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, TAKE INTO ACCOUNT, tune in to; ETYMOLOGY OF SYNONYMOUS TERMS [alphabetically]:

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ascertain (v.) early 15c., "to inform, to give assurance," from Anglo-French acerteiner, Old French acertener "to assure, certify" (13c.), from a "to" (see ad-) + certain "certain" (see certain). Modern meaning of "find out for sure by experiment or investigation" is first attested 1794. Related: Ascertained; ascertaining.

attend (v.) c.1300, "to direct one's mind or energies," from Old French atendre (12c., Modern French attendre) "to expect, wait for, pay attention," and directly from Latin attendere "give heed to," literally "to stretch toward," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + tendere "stretch" (see tenet). The notion is of "stretching" one's mind toward something. Sense of "take care of, wait upon" is from early 14c. Meaning "to pay attention" is early 15c.; that of "to be in attendance" is mid-15c. Related: Attended; attending.

concentrate (v.) 1630s, "to bring or come to a common center," from concenter (1590s), from Italian concentrare, from Latin com- "together" (see com-) + centrum "center" (see center). Meaning "condense" is from 1680s. Sense of "mentally focus" is c.1860. Related: Concentrated; concentrating.

discern (v.) late 14c., from Old French discerner (13c.) "distinguish (between), separate" (by sifting), and directly from Latin discernere "to separate, set apart, divide, distribute; distinguish, perceive," from dis- "off, away" (see dis-) + cernere "distinguish, separate, sift" (see crisis). Related: Discerned; discerning.

glean (v.) early 14c., from Old French glener (Modern French glaner) "to glean," from Late Latin glennare "make a collection," perhaps from Gaulish (cf. Old Irish do-glinn "he collects, gathers," Celt. glan "clean, pure"). Figurative sense was earlier in English than the literal one of "gather grain left by the reapers" (late 14c.). Related: Gleaned; gleaning.

heed (v.) Old English hedan "to heed, observe; to take care, attend," from West Germanic *hodjan (cf. Old Saxon hodian, Old Frisian hoda, Middle Dutch and Dutch hoeden, Old High German huotan, German hüten "to guard, watch"), from PIE *kadh- "to shelter, cover" (see hat). Related: Heeded; heeding. heed (n.) "attention, notice, regard," early 14c., apparently from heed (v.). Survives only in literal use and as the object of verbs (take heed, etc.).

learn (v.) Old English leornian "to get knowledge, be cultivated, study, read, think about," from Proto-Germanic *liznojan (cf. Old Frisian lernia, Middle Dutch leeren, Dutch leren, Old High German lernen, German lernen "to learn," Gothic lais "I know"), with a base sense of "to follow or find the track," from PIE *leis- "track." Related to German Gleis "track," and to Old English læst "sole of the foot" (see last (n.)). The transitive sense (He learned me how to read), now vulgar, was acceptable from c.1200 until early 19c., from Old English læran "to teach" (cf. Dutch leren, German lehren "to teach," literally "to make known;" see lore), and is preserved in past participle adjective learned "having knowledge gained by study." Related: Learning.

perceive (v.) c.1300, via Anglo-French parceif, Old North French *perceivre (Old French perçoivre) "perceive, notice, see; recognize, understand," from Latin percipere "obtain, gather, seize entirely, take possession of," also, figuratively, "to grasp with the mind, learn, comprehend," literally "to take entirely," from per "thoroughly" (see per) + capere "to grasp, take" (see capable). Replaced Old English ongietan. Both the Latin senses were in Old French, though the primary sense of Modern French percevoir is literal, "to receive, collect" (rents, taxes, etc.), while English uses the word almost always in the metaphorical sense. Related: Perceived; perceiving.

understand (v.) Old English understandan "comprehend, grasp the idea of," probably literally "stand in the midst of," from under + standan "to stand" (see stand). If this is the meaning, the under is not the usual word meaning "beneath," but from Old English under, from PIE *nter- "between, among" (cf. Sanskrit antar "among, between," Latin inter "between, among," Greek entera "intestines;" see inter-). That is the suggestion in Barnhart, but other sources regard the "among, between, before, in the presence of" sense of Old English prefix and preposition under as other meanings of the same word. "Among" seems to be the sense in many Old English compounds that resemble understand, e.g. underniman "to receive," undersecan "to investigate," underginnan "to begin." It also seems to be the sense still in expressions such as under such circumstances. Perhaps the ultimate sense is "be close to," cf. Greek epistamai "I know how, I know," literally "I stand upon." Similar formations are found in Old Frisian (understonda), Middle Danish

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(understande), while other Germanic languages use compounds meaning "stand before" (cf. German verstehen, represented in Old English by forstanden). For this concept, most Indo-European languages use figurative extensions of compounds that literally mean "put together," or "separate," or "take, grasp" (see comprehend). Old English oferstandan, Middle English overstonden, literally "over-stand" seem to have been used only in literal senses.

Now that we have thoroughly examined these terms, we must return to the word obey and find the relevance.

obey (v.) late 13c., from Old French obeir "obey, be obedient, do one's duty" (12c.), from Latin obedire, oboedire "obey, be subject, serve; pay attention to, give ear," literally "listen to," from ob "to" (see ob-) + audire "listen, hear" (see audience). Same sense development is in cognate Old English hiersumnian. Related: Obeyed; obeying. [1. Note: arqyw/Lev. 25:38-42 – we are His servants and should not be a slave to anyone but as a result of continual disobedience, we have been sold into slavery and must desperately seek Him only in order to be redeemed by Him Myrbd/Deut. 4:29-31.] Consider what hwhy has declared here: arqyw/Lev. 26:14 Hlah twcmh lk ta wv[t alw yl w[mvt al maw: [The Scriptures Translation] ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not do all these commands, arqyw/Lev. 26:18 mkytajx l[ [bv mkta hrsyl ytpsyw yl w[mvt al hla d[ maw

[The Scriptures Translation] ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins. Consider the word following [mv which is yl: This term means ‘to me’. Therefore it would not be correct to translate [mv as obey here because it would be ‘obey to Me’ which is grammatically incorrect. It would be more appropriate to translate it as ‘listen to Me’ or ‘hearken to Me’. There are over one hundred instances in the Abary where you will find yl or yla translated as ‘to me’. These verses should have been as well. Therefore, considering the etymology of obey [pay attention to, give ear," literally "listen to," from ob "to" (see ob-) + audire "listen, hear"], and the comprehensive understanding of what it means to ‘[mv: hear/listen’, we can now understand better what He meant when He said “turn back and [mv His voice [turn back and hear His voice] and how this applies to this generation. REMEMBER: Dxa hwhy wnyhla hwhy larvy [mv: Myrbd/Deut. 6:4 “[mv, larvy: hwhy our myhla, hwhy only! Understanding [mv we have better understanding what was being said here now: Hear hwhy only! WHAT RELATIONSHIP DOES [MV HAVE WITH FOLLOWING?

[mv means to hear/listen and as we can see, the etymology of hear suggests that following is associated with the meaning. So what does it mean to follow?

HEAR (v.) Old English heran (Anglian), (ge)hieran, hyran (West Saxon) "to hear, listen (to), obey, follow; accede to, grant; judge," from Proto-Germanic *hausjan (cf. Old Norse heyra, Old Frisian hora, Dutch horen, German hören, Gothic hausjan), perhaps from PIE *kous- "to hear" (see acoustic).

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follow (v.) Old English folgian, fylgan "follow, accompany; follow after, pursue," also "obey, apply oneself to a practice or calling," from West Germanic *fulg- (cf. Old Saxon folgon, Old Frisian folgia, Middle Dutch volghen, Dutch volgen, Old High German folgen, German folgen, Old Norse fylgja "to follow"). Probably originally a compound, *full-gan with a sense of "full-going;" the sense then shifting to "serve, go with as an attendant" (cf. fulfill). Related: Followed; following. To follow one's nose "go straight on" first attested 1590s. "The full phrase is, 'Follow your nose, and you are sure to go straight.' " [Farmer].

DABARYM (WORDS) REGARDING ‘FOLLOWING’: Myrbd/Deut. 7:1-4 “When hwhy your myhla brings you into the land which you go to possess, He shall also clear away many nations before you: the Ḥittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Kenaʽanites and the Perizzites and the Ḥiwwites and the Yeḇusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you. (2) “And when hwhy your myhla gives them over to you, you shall smite them and put them under the ban, completely. Make no covenant with them, and show them no favour. (3) “And do not intermarry with them – you do not give your daughter to his son, and you do not take his daughter for your son, (4) because he turns your sons away from following Me, to serve other mighty ones. Then the displeasure of hwhy shall burn against you and promptly destroy you. Rbdmb/Num. 32:11 ‘Not one of the men who came up from Mitsrayim, from twenty years old and above, is to see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yaʽaqob, because they did not follow Me completely, Whyttm/Matt. 16:24 Then [vwhy said to His taught ones, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake, and follow Me. Whyttm/Matt. 19:21 [vwhy said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me.” [Mark 10:21, Luke 18:22] Whymry/Jer. 16:16 “See, I am sending for many fishermen,” declares hwhy, “and they shall fish them. And after that I shall send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. Mark 1:17 And [vwhy said to them, “Come, follow Me, and I shall make you become fishers of men.” - Mark 8:34 And calling near the crowd with His taught ones, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake, and follow Me. Luke 9:23 And He said to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake daily, and follow Me. Nnxwhy/Jn. 10:27 “My sheep hear [[mv] My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.1 Footnote: 1Rev. 14:4-5. Nnxwhy/Jn.12:26 “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me. And where I am, there My servant also shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father shall value him. Nnxwhy/Jn. 13:36 Shimʽon Kepha said to Him, “ynda, where are You going?” [vwhy answered him, “Where I am going you are unable to follow Me now, but afterwards you shall follow Me.” Nnxwhy/Jn. 21:22 [vwhy said to him, “If I wish him to remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.” Rbdmb/Num. 32:15 “For if you turn away from following Him, He shall once again leave them in the wilderness, and you shall destroy all these people.”

[vwhy/Jos. 22:16,18,23,29 16 “Thus says all the congregation of hwhy, ‘What is this trespass you have committed against the myhla of larvy, to turn away this day from following hwhy, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, to rebel against hwhy this day? 18 that you turn away today from following hwhy? And it shall be, if you rebel today against hwhy, that tomorrow He is wroth with all the congregation of larvy. 23 “If we have built ourselves an altar to turn from following hwhy, or if to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings on it, or if to make peace offerings on it, let hwhy Himself require it. 29 “Far be it from us to rebel against hwhy, and to turn from following hwhy this day, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for slaughterings, besides the slaughter-place of hwhy our larvy which is before His Dwelling Place.”

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Twr/Ruth 1:16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people are my people, and your myhla is my myhla. Lawmv-a/1Sam. 12:20 And Lawmv said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this evil. Only, do not turn aside from following hwhy. So you shall serve hwhy with all your heart, Lawmv-a/1Sam. 15:11 “I am grieved that I have set up Sha’ul as sovereign, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My words.” And it displeased Shemu’el, and he cried to hwhy all night. Myklm-a/1Ki. 9:6 “If you at all turn back, you or your sons, from following Me, and do not guard My commands, My laws, which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other mighty ones and bow yourselves to them, [e.g. - Myklm-a/1Ki. 21:26 And he acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom hwhy dispossessed from before the children of larvy.] Myklm-b/2Ki. 17:21 For He tore larvy from the house of Dawid, and they made Yarabʽam son of Nabat sovereign. And Yarabʽam drove larvy from following hwhy, and made them commit a great sin. Myklm-b/2Ki. 18:6 and he clung to hwhy. He did not turn away from following Him, but guarded His commands, which hwhy had commanded M’shah. Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 25:27 And from the time that whycma turned away from following hwhy, they made a conspiracy against him in Yarushalam, and he fled to Lakish. And they sent after him to Lakish and killed him there, Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 34:33 And whyvay removed all the abominations from all the lands that belonged to the children of larvy, and made all who were present in larvy diligently serve hwhy their myhla. All his days they did not turn away from following hwhy myhla of their fathers. Bwya/Job 34:27 because they turned from following Him, and they regarded not all His ways, Laqzxy/Ezek. 13:3 Thus said ynda hwhy, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who are following their own spirit, without having had a vision! Hynpc/Zeph. 1:6-7 The word of hwhy which came to Hynpc son of Kushi, son of Hyldg, son of hyrma, son of hyqzx, in the days of whyvay son of Amon, sovereign of Hdwhy. (2) “I shall snatch away all from the face of the earth,” declares hwhy – (3) “I snatch away man and beast, I snatch away the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks, with the wrong, when I shall cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares hwhy. (4) “And I shall stretch out My hand against Hdwhy, and against all the inhabitants of Yarushalam, and cut off every trace of Baʽal from this place, the names of the idolatrous kahanym, with the kahanym, (5) and those bowing down to the host of the heavens on the house-tops, and those bowing themselves, swearing by hwhy and swearing by Malkam; (6) and those who turn away from following hwhy, and who have not sought hwhy or inquired of Him.” (7) Hush! in the presence of ynda hwhy. For the day of hwhy is near, for hwhy has prepared a slaughter, when He has set apart His set-apart ones. Many were aware of and awaiting the coming Mashyach so when they recognized the signs performed by Mashyach, they then began to follow and [mv all that He declared because His expectation is of old, but most importantly, those who understood His Words, understood because He spoke nothing different from what hwhy has declared from the beginning. Mark 5:24 And He went with him. And a large crowd was following Him, and they were thronging Him. Mark 11:9 And those going before and those following cried out, saying, “Hoshia-na! ‘Baruk is He who is coming in the Name of hwhy!’ Mark 14:51 And a certain young man was following Him, having a linen cloth thrown around his naked body. And when they seized him, Luke 13:33 “But I have to journey today, and tomorrow, and the day following, because it is not fitting for a aybn to perish outside of Yarushalam.

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Luke 18:43 And immediately he received his sight, and was following Him, praising myhla. And all the people, seeing it, gave praise to myhla. Luke 23:27 And a great number of the people were following Him, and women who also were mourning and lamenting Him. Nnxwhy/Jn. 1:35, 38, 43 Again the following day, Nnxwhy was standing with two of his taught ones, 38 And [vwhy turning, and seeing them following, said to them, “What do you seek?” And they said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?” 43 On the following day [vwhy wished to go to Galil, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.” Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:2 And a large crowd was following Him, because they saw His signs which He did on those who were sick. Nnxwhy/Jn. 20:6 Then Shimʽon Kepha came, following him, and went into the tomb. And he saw the linen wrappings lying, Nnxwhy/Jn. 21:20 And Kepha, turning around, saw the taught one whom [vwhy loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, “ynda, who is the one who is delivering You up?” nwzx/Rev. 14:4 They are those who were not defiled with women, for they are maidens. They are those following the Lamb wherever He leads them on. They were redeemed from among men, being first-fruits to myhla and to the Lamb. HOW THEN DOES ONE LISTEN TO HIS VOICE?

So how then does one actually listen to the living myhla today without being regarded as foolish or crazy?

Myrbd/Deut. 4:29,30 (29) “But from there you shall seek hwhy your myhla, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart1 and with all your being. (30) “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to hwhy your myhla and shall [mv His voice. EXAMPLE: Whymry/Jer. 29:10-14 “For thus said hwhy, ‘When seventy years are completed, at Babal I shall visit you and establish My good word toward you, to bring you back to this place. (11) ‘For I know the plans I am planning for you,’ declares hwhy, ‘plans of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and an expectancy. (12) ‘Then you shall call on Me, and shall come and pray to Me, and I shall listen to you. (13) ‘And you shall seek Me, and shall find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart1. REMEMBER: 1Dt. 4:29, Joel 2:12. (14) ‘And I shall be found by you,’ declares hwhy, ‘and I shall turn back your captivity, and shall gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares hwhy. And I shall bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.’ So clearly we are to put everything we have in us into seeking Him. Seeking in such a manner does not leave one much time to do anything else. Therefore if you are seeking with all of your heart and being and strength, it would in turn comprise of using all of the aforementioned. If we consider all that has transpired over the mileniums, you would realize how daunting a task this will be. Searching His Word, then researching the archeology regarding His Word; countless hours spent unlearning all that you have been taught about His Word; a considerable amount of hours spent as a philologist and linguist, studying the language and relative languages, researching how it has evolved over thousands of years; innumerable hours in prayer, fasting and being bowed down and most importantly, walking in it, meaning you have stepped outside of your comfort zone in order to allow Him to show you His Word so that you understand it clearly. CONSIDER:

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Ylvm/Prov. 2:1-6 My son, if you (I.) accept My words, And (II.) treasure up My commands with you, (2) (III.) So that you make your ear attend to wisdom, (IV.) Incline your heart to understanding; (3) For if you (V.) cry for discernment, Lift up your voice for understanding, (4) If you (VI.) seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures, (5) Then you would understand the fear of hwhy, And find the knowledge of myhla. (6) Because hwhy gives wisdom; Out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Utilizing this wisdom and exhaustively dissecting each term we shall see how we can accomplish what needs to occur in the seeking portion of turning back.

I. “accept His words” We must accept [consent to agree, receive as adequate, valid, & suitable, take, get, gain, obtain, acquire, undertake, assume, take responsibility for] HIS Words.

II. “treasure up His commands” We must treasure up [value highly, as a quantity of precious metals, gems, or other very valuable objects] HIS commands [i.e. His Turah]

III. “make your ear attend to wisdom” We must attend to [hear, perceive, make out, discern, catch, get, apprehend; listen & hearken to] wisdom, [intelligence, sense, common sense, shrewdness, astuteness, smartness, judiciousness, judgment] {i.e. His commands, His Turah}

IV. “Incline your heart to understanding” We must incline, [feel willing or favorably disposed toward (an action, belief, or attitude {His Commands}), extend, cause to cover a larger area, bow, yield to, submit to, give in to, surrender to, succumb to, capitulate to, defer to, conform to; comply with], the heart [inner man, mind, will, understanding], to understanding, [intelligence, insight, mental capacity, intellect, mind, brain, judgment, reasoning, comprehension]

V. “cry for discernment, Lift up your voice for understanding” We must cry [shed tears, esp. as an expression of distress or pain; shout or scream, esp. to express one's fear, pain, or grief; demand as a self-evident requirement or solution, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim] for discernment [the ability to judge well, identify, determine, distinguish] Lift up [to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate] your voice for understanding [intelligence, insight – of His Word].

VI. “seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures,” We must seek, [require, desire, exact, request] her [understanding/wisdom of His Word] as silver, And search [to think out, devise, test] for her as hidden treasures [riches, valuables, jewels, gems, gold, silver, precious metals, money, cash; wealth, fortune]

Lawhy/Joel 2:12 “Yet even now,” declares hwhy, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” Based on the etymology, ‘obey’ literally is “listen to”. Therefore we must deconstruct what it means to listen, why it is crucial in order to establish successful communication and then reconstruct it so we can know how to do it and how to turn back to Him.

COMPREHENSIVE BREAK DOWN OF LISTENING: [WIKIPEDIA]

COMPREHENSION Comprehension is "shared meaning between parties in a communication transaction". This is the first step in the listening process. The second challenge is being able to discern breaks between discernible words, or speech segmentation. This becomes significantly more difficult with an unfamiliar language because the speech sounds blend together into a continuous jumble. Determining the context and meanings of each word is essential to comprehending a sentence.

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SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION Successful communication is the establishment of common ground between two people—understanding. Dialogue, understanding and progress can only arise from a common ground. And that common ground cannot be established without respect for the words as spoken by the speaker, for whatever reason. "The process is successful if the person receiving the information gives feedback which shows understanding for meaning. Suspending one's own frame of reference, suspending judgment and avoiding other internal mental activities are important to fully attend to the speaker.” Note: As we see, understanding is what makes listening/[mv successful. We also note that a common ground cannot be established if one does not have respect for the words of the speaker. In this case, a lack of respect for hwhy’s Word is a clear indication of disbelief. For example, if hwhy says, “if you do not listen, all of these calamaties will come upon you”, if the listener believes what He is saying, they would then be urged to listen to what He is commanding; if he/she does not believe what He has said, they would not be obliged to take heed.

RETAINING THE INFORMATION Retaining the information is the second step in the listening process. Memory is essential to the listening process because the information we retain when involved in the listening process is how we create meaning from words.

BARRIERS TO ACTIVE LISTENING Barriers to active listening: All elements of communication, including listening, may be affected by barriers that can impede the flow of conversation. Such barriers include distractions, trigger words, vocabulary, and limited attention span. Listening barriers may be psychological (e.g. emotions) or physical (e.g. noise and visual distraction). Cultural differences including speakers' accents, vocabulary, and misunderstandings due to cultural assumptions often obstruct the listening process. Frequently, the listener's personal interpretations, attitudes, biases, and prejudices lead to ineffective communication. We can recognize these obstacles not only in our everyday life but they are prevelant in the translations, wreckless interpretations and understanding (or lack there-of) of His Word. Vocabulary, cultural misunderstandings/assumptions, personal interpretations, etc. are all utilized when translating, discussing or attempting to teach according to His Word. These methods should not be applied with regards to hwhy’s Word because, as we will see later, only He can open the eyes and ears to understand.

APPRECIATIVE LISTENING Appreciative listening is a type of listening behavior where the listener seeks certain information, which will appreciate, for example that which helps meet his/her needs and goals. One uses appreciative listening when listening to good music, poetry or maybe even the stirring words of a great leader. Clearly this type of listening should not be applied with regard to understanding the Word but unfortunately this type of listening is most common today and the vast majority of those with some type of affiliation with His Word have applied this type of listening to it. Hence, we have ended up with many different demoninations and/or even religions and ideologies which all claim to be associated with His Word.

LISTENING TO OBTAIN INFORMATION Listening to obtain information focuses on the ability of an individual to understand a speaker’s message. It is a huge part of everyday life, and failing to understand the concept of informational listening can be very detrimental to one's contribution to society, and indeed, detrimental to quality of life in general. Much of the listening people engage in on a regular basis falls under the blanket of listening for information.

We must individually listen to His Word with the purposes of obtaining the information and understanding

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His message. We should all be actively seeking His Word with the desire to understand His message. His voice has been transcribed and now we have the Words we can search for discernment and truth to allow Him, the Speaker, to teach you what His message is actually saying. This process requires a true respect and trust, seeking diligently and praying for understanding and discernment. We must leave all preconceived notions and ideologies at the door and seek with an open mind if we truly want to gain understanding. We must also be able to filter what is ideological and what is the actual message. When actively listening, it is crucial to confirm the understanding of both parties. Remember, “When interacting, people often "wait to speak" rather than listening attentively. They might also be distracted.” We must not be distracted when trying to get discernment according to His Word. Returning requires our unadulterated attention; all of our mind and strength, because distractions come in many forms in this day in age; They have many voices and ideas, so we must carefully filter, scrutinize and examine all of the noise that enters into our ears and [mv according to His Word only. [Remember: Myrbd/Deut. 30:11-14] Whyttm/Matt. 13:10-16 And the taught ones came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” 11And He answering, said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, but to them it has not been given. 12 “For whoever possesses, to him more shall be given, and he shall have overflowingly; but whoever does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him. 13 “Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 “And in them the prophecy of Yeshayahu is completely filled, which says, ‘Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive, 15 for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’ 16 “And straight are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear, Let’s look at some examples in His Word of the importance of hearing when referring to ‘[mv‘ or as we know it now, listening with the intent and purpose of comprehending properly so that we understand.

WHO SHOULD WE BE HEARING OR LISTENING TO? So many today and in the past claim to have understanding of His Word, so much so, they claim to be able to teach and cause people to understand. Some even claim, because there have been thousands of years of research into the understanding that they have to have it right. Unfortunately, this is a common misconception and what has happened as a result is they are all teaching an ideology or as Wikipedia states it, “a set of conscious and/or unconscious ideas which constitute one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology is a comprehensive normative vision, a way of looking at things, as argued in several philosophical tendencies, and/or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society.” Is this what hwhy intended? As a result of these ideological agendas, many who are unbelieving have a component point they make and that is, “the ‘Bible’ contradicts itself.”

After researching their points in depth, I discovered that they may not be too far off. Although we will not discuss these contradictions, the “Bible” may infact introduce contradiction regarding some elements but hwhy does not contradict Himself. He has not changed [See Why[vy/Isa. 40:8, Ykalm/Mal. 3:6, Mylht/Psa. 102:25-27, etc.] but those ideologies infused into His Word has changed His message [See Why[vy/Isa. 24:5, laynd/Dan. 7:25, Whymry/Jer. 23:36, etc.]. As a result of centuries of developing these ideologies, they have added writings in which they have decided are the word of hwhy but many of these inclusions speak contrary to His Word as He declared it from the beginning. Remember, Myrbd/Deut. 4:2 “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it, so that you guard the commands of hwhy your myhla which I am commanding you.”

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Unfortuntately, this command has been violated over and over again over the centuries by people who are the ‘self-appointed’ authority of His Word, but is it possible for someone to have authority of His Word? Can someone who disregards His commands truly have understanding of His Word?

Therefore, who are you listening to to receive instruction? Is it hwhy?

Myrbd/Deut. 30:8,10 8 So you shall turn back and [mv > [hear, listen to, take notice of and act on what He says; [to perceive by ear, understand, discern, hear with attention & interest, give heed to and comprehend so that you know how to obey] according to the voice of hwhy and hv[ > [do, accomplish, attend to, put in order, observe, celebrate, etc.] ta, all of His {commands, orders, charge, etc.} which I {commands, orders, charge, etc.} you this day; 10 If you [mv > [hear, listen to, take notice of and act on what He says; [to perceive by ear, understand, discern, hear with attention & interest, give heed to and comprehend so that you know how to obey] according to the voice of hwhy your myhla to rmv - [guard, observe, give heed, watch over, wait for, retain, treasure up (in your memory), celebrate/keep (shabath-covenant-commands), perform (vow), protect, etc.] His commands and His {laws, prescribed, ordinances, etc.} that are written in the Book of this Turah/Instruction; if you shall turn back to hwhy your myhla will all your bl > [heart, inward parts, mind, will, understanding, determination, inclination, knowledge, thoughts, etc.] and with all your {being, mind, desire, emotion, passion, breath, etc.}.

Make no mistake about it; we are to [mv His voice only as this is declared over and over again throughout His Word. Consider some of the examples of this.

twmv/Exo. 15:26 And He said, “If you diligently [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla and do what is right in His eyes, and shall listen to ([mv) His commands and shall guard all His laws, I shall bring on you none of the diseases I brought on the Mitsrites, for I am hwhy who heals you.”

Rbdmb/Num. 7:89 And when M’shah went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him, he [mv the voice of One speaking to him from above the lid of atonement that was on the ark of the Witness, from between the two kerubim. Thus He spoke to him. Myrbd/Deut. 8:20 “Like the nations which hwhy is destroying before you, so you are to perish, because you did not [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla. Myrbd/Deut. 13:18 when you [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard all His commands which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of hwhy your myhla. Myrbd/Deut. 15:5 only if you diligently [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard to do all these commands which I am commanding you today. Myrbd/Deut. 26:14 ‘I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for any unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have [mv the voice of hwhy my myhla, I have done according to all that You have commanded me. Myrbd/Deut. 27:10 and you shall [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, and do His commands and His laws which I command you today.” Myrbd/Deut. 28:1,2 1 “And it shall be, if you diligently [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard to do all His commands which I command you today, hwhy your myhla shall set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 “And all these barak shall come upon you and overtake you, if you [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla: Myrbd/Deut. 28:15 “And it shall be, if you do not [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard to do all His commands and His laws which I command you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you: Myrbd/Deut. 30:8,10 8 “And you shall turn back and [mv the voice of hwhy and do all His commands which I command you today. 10 if you [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Turah, if you turn back to hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being.

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[vwhy/Jos. 5:6 For the children of Larvy walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation – the men of battle who came out of Mitsrayim – were consumed, because they did not [mv the voice of hwhy, to whom hwhy swore not to show them the land which hwhy had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, “a land rich in its resources.” So we see the importance of [mv. He states you [mv the voice of hwhy and turn back, indicating that one cannot happen without the other. Guard His commands always if you truly love. This is indicated from old and was reiterated by [vwhy [Nnxwhy/Jn. 14:15, twmv/Exo. 20:6, etc.]. Whymry/Jer. 3:1-17 myhla said, “If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, does he return to her again? Would not that land be made greatly unclean? But you have committed whoring with many lovers. And would you return to Me?” declares hwhy. (2) “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not lain with men? Besides the ways you have sat for them like an Arabian in the wilderness. And you made the land unclean with your whorings and your evil. (3) “Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. You have had a whore’s forehead, you refuse to be ashamed. (4) “Shall you not from now on cry to Me, ‘My father, You are the guide of my youth? (5) ‘Does one bear a grudge forever? Does one keep it to the end?’ See, you have spoken and done the evils that you could.” (6) And hwhy said to me in the days of Yoshiyahu the sovereign, “Have you seen what backsliding Larvy has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there committed whoring. (7) “And after she had done all these, I said ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Yehudah saw it. (8) “And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Larvy had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Hdwhy did not fear, but went and committed whoring too. (9) “And it came to be, through her frivolous whoring, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and wood. (10) “And yet for all this her treacherous sister Hdwhy has not turned to Me with all her heart, but falsely,” declares hwhy. (11) And hwhy said to me, “Backsliding Larvy has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Hdwhy. (12) “Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, backsliding Larvy,’ declares hwhy, ‘I shall not look on you in displeasure, for I am kind,’ declares hwhy, ‘and I do not bear a grudge forever. (13) ‘Only, acknowledge your crookedness, because you have transgressed against hwhy your myhla {arqyw/Lev. 26:40-42}, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not [mv My voice,’ declares hwhy

{Mylht/Psa. 51:13;119:26}. (14) “Return, backsliding children,” declares hwhy, “for I shall rule over you, and shall take you, one from a city and two from a clan1, and shall bring you to Tsyun. NOTE: 1See Why[vy/Isa. 27:12. (15) “And I shall give you shepherds according to My heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. (16) “And it shall be, when you have increased, and shall bear fruit in the land in those days,” declares hwhy, “that they no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of hwhy.’ Neither would it come to heart, nor would they remember it, nor would they visit it, nor would it be made again. (17) “At that time Yarushalam shall be called the throne of hwhy, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the Name of hwhy, to Yarushalam, and no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

DID THE PEOPLE WANT TO [MV? We see where we are today so it would be rhetorical to ask, “Did the people listen or want to listen truthfully?” Let’s look at some examples.

Myrbd/Deut. 4:33 “Has a people [mv the voice of myhla speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have [mv, and live? Myrbd/Deut. 5:25-28 ‘And now why should we die? For this great fire is consuming us. If we [mv the voice of hwhy our myhla any more, then we shall die. (26) ‘For who is there of all flesh who has [mv the voice of the living myhla speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and does live? (27) ‘You go near and hear all that hwhy our myhla says, and speak to us all that hwhy our myhla says

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to you, and we shall hear and do it.’ (28) “And hwhy heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and hwhy said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. Have they done well in all that they have spoken? All other translations tell a different story but when considering all the places He directed them to [mv His voice and applying the rules of Abary {Hebrew} grammar, as well the keeping the context of what He has said from the beginning, we and see something different here. His question leaves one to wonder if they had done right by desiring to [mv M’shah as opposed to listening to His voice directly as He spoke to them. Suggesting this notion is extremely controversial in many ideologies but has ideology esteemed man over hwhy? We will see later how this is a great mistake. WHO ARE YOUR TEACHERS? WHO ARE YOU HEARING? As we see, what is written in Whymry/Jer. 3:14-18 “Return, backsliding children,” declares hwhy, “because I shall rule over you, and shall take you, one from a city and two from a clan, and shall bring you to Tsyun. (15) “And I shall give you shepherds according to My heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. (16) “So it shall be, when you have increased, and shall bear fruit in the land in those days,” declares hwhy, “that they no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of hwhy.’ Neither would it come to heart, nor would they remember it, nor would they visit it, nor would it be made again. (17) “At that time Yarushalam shall be called the throne of hwhy, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the Name of hwhy, to Yarushalam, and no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart. (18) “In those days the house of Hdwhy shall go to the house of Larvy, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers. This clearly has not come to pass yet which leaves us with the question, “Who is shepherding and feeding you with ‘knowledge and understanding’?” Who is “teaching” you? Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:44-45 “No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. And I shall raise him up in the last day. (45) “It has been written in the myaybn, ‘And they shall all be taught by hwhy .’ Everyone, then, who has heard/[mv from the Father, and learned, comes to Me. {Why[vy/Isa. 2:3; hkym/Mic. 4:2} Nnxwhy/Jn. 5:43 “I have come in My Father’s Name and you do not receive Me, if another comes in his own name, him you would receive. Since the days of [vwhy, before and after, there have been many who have come declaring they have heard from hwhy and speaking many words but from the mouth of hwhy. Because they speak to appease the flesh of men, men then accept the words of these who have come as the word of hwhy but they are infact the contrary. hwhy commanded us not to add or take away from His Word. hwhy also declared that His Word does not change. So then who are you truly listening to? Is it His Word or his word? CONSIDER WHAT HE WARNS HERE: Myrbd/Deut. 13:1-5 “When there arises among you a “prophet” or a dreamer of dreams, and he shall give you a sign or a wonder, (2) and the sign or the wonder shall come true, of which he has spoken to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other mighty ones – which you have not known – and serve them,’ (3) do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for hwhy your myhla is trying you to know whether you love hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being. (4) “Walk after hwhy your myhla and fear Him, and guard His commands and [mv His voice, and serve Him and cling to Him. (5) “And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is put to death, because he has spoken

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apostasy against hwhy your myhla – who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim and redeemed you from the house of bondage – to make you stray from the way in which hwhy your myhla commanded you to walk. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst. NOW CONSIDER WHAT HAS COME TO PASS: Whymry/Jer. 23:25-36 “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsehood in My Name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ (26) “Till when shall it be in the heart of the prophets? – the prophets of falsehood and prophets of the deceit of their own heart, (27) who try to make My people forget My Name by their dreams which everyone relates to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot My Name for Baʽal. (28) “The prophet who has a dream, let him relate the dream, and he who has My Word, let him speak My Word in truth. What is the chaff to the wheat?” declares hwhy. (29) “Is not My Word like a fire?” declares hwhy, “and like a hammer that shatters a rock? (30) “Therefore see, I am against the prophets,” declares hwhy, “who steal My Words every one from his neighbour. (31) “See, I am against the prophets,” declares hwhy, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He declares.’ (32) “See, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares hwhy, “and relate them, and lead My people astray by their falsehoods and by their reckless boasting. But I Myself did not send them nor have I commanded them. And they do not profit this people at all,” declares hwhy. (33) “And when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, ‘What is the message of hwhy?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What message?’ I shall forsake you,” declares hwhy. (34) “As for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The message of hwhy,’ I shall punish that man and his house. (35) “This is what each one says to his neighbour, and each one to his brother, ‘What has hwhy answered?’ and, ‘What has hwhy spoken?’ (36) “But the message of hwhy you no longer remember! For every man’s message is his own word, for you have changed1 the Words of the living myhla, hwhy twabc, our myhla! Footnote: 1Or overthrown. See Why[vy/Isa. 24:5. Why[vy/Isa. 29:13-21 And hwhy says, “Because this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught1! NOTE: 1Mt. 15:8-9, Mk. 7:6-7. (14) “Therefore, see, I am again doing a marvellous work among this people, a marvellous work and a wonder. And the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their clever men shall be hidden.” (15) Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from hwhy, and their works are in the dark; they say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?” (16) How perverse of you! Should the potter be reckoned as the clay? Should what is made say of its Maker, “He did not make me”? And what is formed say of Him who formed it, “He did not understand”? (17) Is it not yet a little while, and Leḇanon shall be turned into garden land, and garden land be reckoned as a forest? (18) And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom, and out of darkness. (19) And the meek ones shall increase their joy in hwhy, and the poor among men rejoice in the Set-apart One of Larvy. (20) For the ruthless one is brought to naught, the scorner is consumed, and all who watch for evil shall be cut off, (21) those who make a man to sin in word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with empty reasoning. So, who are you listening to?

IS IT HWHY?: Ylvm/Prov. 2:6 For hwhy gives wisdom; Out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Myrbd/Deut. 6:1-6 “And this is the command, the laws and right-rulings which hwhy your myhla has commanded, to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over to possess, (2) so that you fear hwhy your myhla, to guard all His laws and His commands which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days be prolonged. (3) “And you shall [mv, Larvy, and shall guard to do, that it might be well with you, and that you increase greatly as hwhy myhla of your fathers has spoken to you, in a land flowing with milk and dabash. (4) “[mv, Larvy:

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hwhy our myhla, hwhy only! (5) “So that you shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. (6) “And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart, Bwya/Job 22:22 Please accept the Turah from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

Mylht/Psa. 94:1-11 hwhy, la of vengeance; la of vengeance, shine forth! (2) Raise Yourself up, Judge of the earth; Render punishment to the proud. (3) hwhy, how long are the wrong, How long are the wrong going to exult? (4) They pour forth words, They speak arrogantly; All the workers of wickedness boast in themselves. (5) They crush Your people, hwhy, And they afflict Your inheritance. (6) They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless. (7) Yet they say, “hy does not see, And the myhla of Yaʽaqob pays no heed.” (8) Take heed, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when would you become wise? (9) He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see? (10) He who disciplines the nations, Does He not reprove – The One teaching man knowledge? (11) hwhy knows the thoughts of man, That they are but a breath. twmv/Exo. 4:12 “And now, go, and I shall be with your mouth and teach you what to say.” twmv/Exo. 4:15 “And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I am with your mouth and with his mouth, and I shall teach you what to do. twmv/Exo. 24:12 And hwhy said to M’shah, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there, while I give you tablets of stone, and the Turah and the command which I have written, to teach them.” Myrbd/Deut. 4:1 “So now, Larvy, [mv [listen] to the laws and the right-rulings which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and shall go in and possess the land which hwhy myhla of your fathers is giving you. Whymry/Jer. 32:33 “And they have turned their back to Me, and not their face – though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, they did not listen to receive instruction. [vwh/Hos. 11:3 “And I taught Ephrayim to walk, taking them by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them. Why[vy/Isa. 40:13,14 Who has meted out the Ruach of hwhy, or as His counsellor taught Him? 14 With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of right-ruling? Who taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding? Why[vy/Isa. 50:4 ynda hwhy 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. Why[vy/Isa. 54:13 and all your children taught by hwhy, and the peace of your children great. (Note: Mylht/Psa. 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your witnesses are my study. Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:45 “It has been written in the myaybn, ‘And they shall all be taught by hwhy.’ (Why[vy/Isa. 2:3, hkym/Mic. 4:2) Everyone, then, who has heard [[mv] from the Father, and learned, comes to Me. twmv/Exo. 4:12 “And now, go, and I shall be with your mouth and teach you what to say.” twmv/Exo. 4:15 “And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I am with your mouth and with his mouth, and I shall teach you what to do. twmv/Exo. 24:12 And hwhy said to M’shah, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there, while I give you tablets of stone, and the Turah and the command which I have written, to teach them.”

Also, Dud (“King David”) understood that we must listen and learn from the Voice/Word of hwhy: it seems as though the rest of mankind has missed this. Mylht/Psa. 25:4 Show me Your ways, hwhy; Teach me Your paths. Mylht/Psa. 25:5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the myhla of my deliverance; On You I wait all the day. Mylht/Psa. 27:11 Teach me Your way, hwhy, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. Mylht/Psa. 32:8 “Let Me instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; Let Me counsel, My eye be on you. Mylht/Psa. 34:11 Come, you children, listen to me; Let me teach you the fear of hwhy.

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Mylht/Psa. 51:13 Let me teach transgressors Your ways, So that sinners turn back to You. Mylht/Psa. 78:5 For He raised a witness in Yaʽaqob, And set a Turah in Larvy, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their children; Mylht/Psa. 86:11 Teach me Your way, hwhy; Let me walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your Name. Mylht/Psa. 90:12 Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom. Mylht/Psa. 119:12, 26, 33, 64, 66, 68, 108, 124, 135, 171 12 They worship You, hwhy! Teach me Your laws. 26 I have recounted my ways and You answered me; Teach me Your laws. 33 Teach me, hwhy, the way of Your laws, And I observe it to the end. 64 hwhy,Your kindness has filled the earth; Teach me Your laws. 66 Teach me good sense and knowledge, For I have trusted in Your commands. 68 You are good, and do good; Teach me Your laws. 108 Please accept the voluntary offerings of my mouth, hwhy, And teach me Your right-rulings. 124 Do with Your servant according to Your kindness, And teach me Your laws. 135 Make Your face shine upon Your servant, And teach me Your laws. 171 My lips pour forth praise, For You teach me Your laws. Mylht/Psa. 132:12 “If your sons guard My covenant And My witnesses that I teach them, Their sons shall sit upon your throne forever.” Mylht/Psa. 143:10 Teach me to do Your good pleasure, For You are my myhla. Let Your good Spirit lead me In the land of straightness. It is foretold that He will teach: Why[vy/Isa. 2:3 And many peoples shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of hwhy, to the House of the myhla of Yaʽaqob, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths, for out of Tsyun comes forth the Turah, and the Word1 of hwhy from Yarushalam.” hkym/Mic. 4:2 And many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of hwhy, to the House of the myhla of Yaʽaqob, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths. For out of Tsyuncomes forth the Turah, and the Word of hwhy from Yarushalam1.” NOTE: 1Isa. 2:3. Even the nations must go to Him to be taught. Why[vy/Isa. 28:9 Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts! Whymry /Yar. 32:33 “And they have turned their back to Me, and not their face – though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, they did not listen to receive instruction. Hymxn/Neh. 9:20 “You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them1, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. NOTE: 1Prov. 1:23, Ezek. 36:27, Zech. 7:12.

IS IT [VWHY , HIS MASHYACH?: Why[vy/Isa. 9:6 For a Child shall be born unto us, a Son shall be given unto us, and dominion is on His shoulder. And His esteem is therefore proclaimed Wonderful Counsellor, Strong Al, Teacher of Continuity, Prince of Peace. Why[vy/Isa. 50:10 Who among you is fearing hwhy, [mv the voice of His Servant, that has walked in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the Name of hwhy and lean upon his myhla! Whyttm/Matt. 23:1-28 “Then [vhwy spoke to the crowds and to His taught ones, (2) saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of M’shah. (3) “Therefore, whatever they say to you to guard, guard and do. But do not do according to their works, for they say, and do not do. (4) “For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders, but with their finger they do not wish to move them. (5) “And they do all their works to be seen by men, and they make their t’fillen wide and lengthen the tzitziyot of their garments, (6) and they love the best place at feasts, and the best seats in the congregations, (7) and the greetings in the market-places, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi G4461.’ (8) “But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi,’ because One is your Teacher G2519, the Mashyach, and you are all

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brothers. (9) “And do not call anyone on earth your father, for One is your Father, He who is in the heavens. (10) “Neither be called leaders, for One is your Leader, the Mashyach. Whyttm/Matt. 11:1 And it came to be, when [vhwy ended instructing His twelve taught ones, that He set out from there to teach and to proclaim in their cities. Whyttm/Matt. 22:16 And they sent to Him their taught ones with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of myhla in truth, and it does not concern You about anyone, for You are not partial to any man. [Why[vy/Isa. 9:6;11:1-5; Mark 12:14; Luke 20:21] Mark 4:1 And He began to teach again by the sea, and a large crowd was gathered to Him, so that He entered into a boat, to sit in the sea. And all the crowd was on the land facing the sea. Mark 6:2 And Sabbath having come, He began to teach in the congregation. And many who [mv were struck with amazement, saying, “Where did He get all this? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such miracles are done through His hands? Mark 6:34 And having gone out, [vhwy saw a large crowd and was moved with compassion for them because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. And He began to teach them many matters. Mark 8:31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Adam has to suffer much, and be rejected by the elders and chief kahanym and scribes, and be killed, and after three days to rise again. Mark 12:14 And when they came, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and it does not concern You about anyone, for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of myhla in truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Luke 11:1 And it came to be while He was praying in a certain place, as He ceased, one of His taught ones said to Him, “ynda, teach us to pray, as Yoḥanan also taught his taught ones.” Luke 12:8-12 “And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Aḏam shall also confess him before the messengers of myhla. (9) “But he that has denied Me before men shall be denied before the messengers of myhla. (10) “And everyone who shall speak a word against the Son of Aḏam, it shall be forgiven him, but to him who has blasphemed against the vdq xwr, it shall not be forgiven. (11) “And when they bring you to the congregations and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say, (12) for the vdq xwr shall teach you in that very hour what you should say.” Luke 20:21 So they asked Him, saying, “Teacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You are not partial to any, but teach the way of myhla truly, {See also Why[vy/Isa. 9:6} Nnxwhy/Jn. 3:1-10 And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nakdimon was his name, a ruler of the mydwhy. (2) This one came to [vhwy by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from myhla, for no one is able to do these signs You do if myhla is not with him.” (3) [vhwy answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born from above, he is unable to see1 the reign of myhla.” Footnote: 1Or perceive. (4) Nakdimon said to Him, “How is a man able to be born when he is old? Is he able to enter into his mother’s womb a second time and be born?” (5) [vhwy answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he is unable to enter into the reign of myhla. (6) “That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit. (7) “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You have to be born from above.’ (8) “The Spirit1 breathes where it wishes, and you [mv the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.” Footnote: 1Or wind. (9) Nakdimon answered and said to Him, “How is it possible for this to take place?” (10) [vhwy answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Larvy, and do not know this? Nnxwhy/Jn. 13:13 “You call me Teacher and ynda, and you say well, for I am. 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Whyttm/Matt. 13:9,13-18,43 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” 13 “Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 “And in them the foretelling of Why[vy is completely filled, which says, ‘Hearing you shall hear and by

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no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive, 15 for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’ 16 “And upright are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear, 17 for truly I say to you, that many myaybn and righteous ones longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. 18 “You, then, hear the parable of the sower: (See verses 19-42) 43 “Then the righteous1 shall shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! Footnote: 1Ps. 37:29, Ps. 72:7, Ps. 75:10, Ps. 118:19-20, Ps. 146:8, Mal. 3:18, Rev. 22:11. Whyttm/Matt. 15:10 And calling the crowd near, He said to them, “Hear and understand: Whyttm/Matt. 17:5 While he was still speaking, see, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And see, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I did delight. Hear Him!” Whyttm/Matt. 18:16,17 “But if he does not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might be established.’ 17 “And if he refuses to hear them, say it to the assembly. And if he refuses even to hear the assembly, let him be to you like a gentile and a tax collector. Mark 4:9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” Mark 7:14, 16, 37 And calling the crowd to Him, He said to them, “Hear Me, everyone, and understand: 16 “If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” 37 And they were immeasurably astonished, saying, “He has done all well. He makes even the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.” Mark 8:18 “Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? Mark 9:7 And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, the Beloved. Hear Him!” Mark 12:29 And [vhwy answered him, “The first of all the commands is, ‘[mv, Larvy, hwhy our myhla, hwhy only! Luke 5:1, 15 And it came to be, while the crowd was pressing upon Him to hear the word of myhla, that He stood by the Lake of Gennĕsar, 15 And the news about Him was spreading even more. And large crowds were coming together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their sicknesses. Luke 6:17 And coming down with them He stood on a level place with a crowd of His taught ones and a great number of people from all Yehuḏah and Yarushalam, and from the coast country of Tsor and Tsiḏon, who came to hear Him, and to be healed of their diseases, Luke 9:9, 35 And Herodes said, “Nnxwhy I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such reports?” And he was seeking to see Him. 35 And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, the Beloved. Hear Him!” Luke 10:24 for I say to you that many myaybn and sovereigns have wished to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.” Luke 11:31 “The sovereigness of the South shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and shall condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shelomoh, and look, a greater than Shalamah is here. Luke 14:35 “It is not fit for land, nor for manure, they throw it out. He who has ears to [mv, let him [mv!” Luke 15:1 Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming to Him to [mv Him. Nnxwhy/Jn. 5:25, 28, 30 “Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall [mv the voice of the Son of myhla. And those having [mv shall live. 28 “Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the tombs shall [mv His voice, 30 “Of Myself I am unable to do any matter. As I [mv, I judge, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own desire, but the desire of the Father who sent Me. Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:60 Therefore many of His taught ones having [mv, said, “This word is hard, who is able to [mv it?” Nnxwhy/Jn. 8:6, 43, 47 And this they said, trying Him, so that they might accuse Him. But [vwhy bending down, wrote on the ground with the finger, as though He did not hear. 43 “Why do you not know what I say? Because you are unable to [mv My Word. 47 “He who is of myhla [mv the Words of myhla, therefore you do not [mv because you are not of myhla.” Nnxwhy/Jn. 9:27, 31 He answered them, “I have told you already, and you did not [mv. Why do you wish to hear it again? Do you wish to become His taught ones too?” 31 “And we know that myhla does not [mv sinners. But if anyone fears myhla and does His desire, He [mv him. Nnxwhy/Jn. 10:3, 8, 16, 27 “The doorkeeper opens for him, and the sheep hear his voice. And he calls his

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own sheep by name and leads them out. 8 “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not [mv them. 16 “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold – I have to bring them as well, and they shall [mv My voice, and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.1 Note: 1Ezek. 34:23, Ezek. 37:24. 27 “My sheep [mv My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.1 Footnote: 1Rev. 14:4-5. Nnxwhy/Jn. 11:42 “And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing by I said this, in order that they believe that You sent Me.” Nnxwhy/Jn. 14:24 “He who does not love Me does not guard My Words. And the Word which you [mv is not Mine but of the Father Who sent Me. nwzx/Rev. 1:3 Straight is he who reads and those who [mv the words of this foretelling, and guard what is written in it, for the time is near. nwzx/Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 29 “He who has an ear, let him [mv what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes1 I shall give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of myhla.” 11 “He who has an ear, let him [mv what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes shall by no means be harmed by the second death.” 17 “He who has an ear, let him [mv what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I shall give him a white stone, and on the stone a renewed Name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” 29 “He who has an ear, let him [mv what the Spirit says to the assemblies.” ’ nwzx/Rev. 3:6, 13, 22 “He who has an ear, let him [mv what the Spirit says to the assemblies.” 13 “He who has an ear, let him [mv what the Spirit says to the assemblies.” 22 “He who has an ear, let him [mv what the Spirit says to the assemblies.” ’ ” nwzx/Rev. 9:20 And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship the demons, and idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk. nwzx/Rev. 13:9 If anyone has an ear, let him [mv. Therefore, remember: Nnxwhy/Jn. 5:43 “I have come in My Father’s Name and you do not receive Me, if another comes in his own name, him you would receive.

IS IT THE VDQ XWR? Many claim to be lead by the Set-apart ‘Spirit’ but is this possible if they do not guard His charge? Can someone claim to be the authority of His Word if they have added to and taken away from His Word? Is it possible for someone to whittingly disregard His command to be lead by Him? An example of this is the removal of His Name. Although He commanded us not to add or take away from His Word, not only has a grave abomination been done in removing His Name, but they have effectively brought His Name to nothing by removing it and replacing it with what some refer to as a title or attribute or even the name of another deity [i.e. god – See glossary].

[vwhy said, : Nnxwhy/Jn. 14:26 “But the Helper, the Set-apart Spirit, whom the Father shall send in My Name, He shall teach you all, and remind you of all that I said to you. => Nnxwhy-a/1 Jn. 2:27 But the anointing which you have received from Him stays in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as the same anointing does teach you concerning all, and is true, and is no falsehood, and even as it has taught you, you stay in Him. Luke 12:8-12 “And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Builder of mankind shall also confess him before the messengers of myhla. (9) “But he that has denied Me before men shall be denied before the messengers of myhla. (10) “And everyone who shall speak a word against the Builder of mankind, it shall be forgiven him, but to him who has blasphemed against the vdq xwr, it shall not be forgiven. (11) “And when they bring you to the congregations and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say, (12) for the vdq xwr shall teach you in that very hour what you should say.” CONSIDER: Lawhy/Joel 2:12-31 “Yet even now,” declares hwhy, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” (13) And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to

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hwhy your myhla, for He shows favour and is compassionate, patient, and of great kindness, and He shall relent concerning the evil. (14) Who knows – He might turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him, a grain offering and a drink offering for hwhy your myhla? (15) Blow a ram’s horn in Tsyun, set apart a fast, call an assembly. (16) Gather the people, set the assembly apart, assemble the elders, gather the children and nursing babes. Let a bridegroom come out from his room, and a bride from her dressing room. (17) Let the kahanym, servants of hwhy, weep between the porch and the altar. And let them say, “Spare Your people, hwhy, and do not give Your inheritance to reproach, for the nations to rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their myhla?’ ” (18) And let hwhy be jealous for His land, and spare His people. (19) And let hwhy answer and say to His people, “See, I am sending you the grain and the new wine and the oil, and you shall be satisfied by them. And no longer do I make you a reproach among the nations . (20) “And the Northerner I shall remove far from you, and drive him away into a dry and deserted land, with his face toward the eastern sea and his rear toward the western sea. And his stench shall come up and his smell rise, for he has done greatly.” (21) Do not fear, soil, be glad and rejoice, for hwhy has done greatly! (22) Do not fear, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness shall spring forth, and the tree shall bear its fruit, the fig tree and the vine shall yield their strength. (23) And you children of Tsyun, be glad and rejoice in hwhy your myhla, for He shall give you the Teacher of Righteousness {Laqzxy/Ezek. 34:13-23}, and cause the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before. (24) And the threshing-floors shall be filled with grain, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. (25) “Then I shall repay you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, and the consuming locust, and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you. (26) “Then you shall eat – eat and be satisfied – and shall praise the Name of hwhy your myhla, who has done with you so wondrously. And My people shall never be put to shame. (27) “And you shall know that I am in the midst of Larvy, and that I am hwhy your myhla and there is no one else. And My people shall never be put to shame. Footnote: 1See Isa. 24:23. (28) “And after this it shall be that I pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men dream dreams, your young men see visions. (29) “And also on the male servants and on the female servants I shall pour out My Spirit in those days. (30) “And I shall give signs in the heavens and upon the earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke, (31) the sun is turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of hwhy. This clearly has not come to pass yet. ALSO CONSIDER: Tlhq/Ecc. 8:8 No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death. There is no discharge in battle, and wrongness does not release those who are given to it. If we consider what Shalamah says here, we must begin to question the legitimacy of those claiming to be lead by the ‘spirit’. If they are speaking against or contrary to the Word, they cannot possibly be led by Him, because as we have already discovered, His Word does not change, nor does He change. Remember, “this world will pass away, but His Word is forever.”

ARE THE KAHANYM TEACHING YOU? The Kahan were the sons of Aharan. They were responsible for the service of hwhy, which consisted of many duties and responsibilities including teaching.

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according to the Turah in which they teach you, according to the right-ruling which they say to you. You do not turn to the right or to the left from the word which they declare to you. (12) “And the man who acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the priest who stands to serve there before hwhy your myhla, or to the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Larvy. (13) “And let all the people hear and fear, and no longer do arrogantly. 2Myklm-b/2Ki. 17:1-28 In the twelfth year of Aḥaz sovereign of Hdwhy, Hoshea son of Elah began to

reign over Larvy in Shomeron, for nine years. (2) And he did evil in the eyes of hwhy, but not as the sovereigns of Larvy who were before him. (3) Shalmaneser sovereign of Ashshur came up against him. And Hoshea became his servant, and rendered him a present. (4) But the sovereign of Ashshur found a conspiracy in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, sovereign of Mitsrayim, and had not brought a present to the sovereign of Ashshur, as year by year. And the sovereign of Ashshur shut him up, and bound him in prison. (5) And the sovereign of Ashshur went through all the land, and went up to Shomeron and besieged it for three years. (6) In the ninth year of Hoshea, the sovereign of Ashshur captured Shomeron and exiled Larvy to Ashshur, and settled them in Ḥalaḥ and Ḥabor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. (7) Now this came to be because the children of Larvy had sinned against hwhy their myhla – who had brought them up out of the land of Mitsrayim, from under the hand of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim – and feared other mighty ones, (8) and walked in the laws of the nations whom hwhy had dispossessed from before the children of Larvy, and of the sovereigns of Larvy that they had made. (9) And the children of Larvy secretly did against hwhy their myhla matters that were not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower unto the walled city, (10) and set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, (11) and burned incense there on all the high places, like the nations whom hwhy had removed from their presence. And they did evil matters to provoke hwhy, (12) and served the idols, of which hwhy had said to them, “Do not do this.” (13) And hwhy warned Larvy and Hdwhy, through all of His myaybn, and every seer, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways, and guard My commands and My laws, according to all the Turah which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the myaybn.” (14) But they did not [mv and hardened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not put their trust in hwhy their myhla, (15) and rejected His laws and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His witnesses which He had witnessed against them, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless, and after the nations who were all around them, of whom hwhy had commanded them not to do like them. (16) And they left all the commands of hwhy their myhla, and made for themselves a moulded image, two calves, and made an Asherah and bowed themselves to all the host of the heavens, and served Baʽal, (17) and caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, and practised divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of hwhy, to provoke Him. (18) So hwhy was very enraged with Larvy, and removed them from His presence – none was left but the tribe of Hdwhy alone. (19) Hdwhy, also, did not guard the commands of hwhy their myhla, but walked in the laws1 of Larvy which they made. Footnote: 1Man-made laws. (20) And hwhy rejected all the seed of Larvy, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out from His presence. (21) For He tore Larvy from the house of Dawid, and they made Yarobʽam son of Nebat sovereign. And Yarobʽam drove Larvy from following hwhy, and made them commit a great sin. (22) And the children of Larvy walked in all the sins of Yarobʽam which he did. They did not turn away from them, (23) until hwhy removed Larvy from His presence, as He spoke by all His servants the prophets. So Larvy was exiled from their land to Ashshur, as it is to this day. (24) And the sovereign of Ashshur brought people from Babel, and from Kuthah, and from Awwa, and from Ḥamath, and Sepharwayim, and placed them in the cities of Shomeron instead of the children of Larvy. And they took possession of Shomeron and dwelt in its cities. (25) And it came to be, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did not fear hwhy, and hwhy sent lions among them, which kept on slaying among them. (26) And they spoke to the sovereign of Ashshur, saying, “The nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Shomeron do not know the right-ruling of the myhla of the land. And He has sent lions among 2 ARE THE KAHANYM TEACHING YOU?

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them, and see, they are slaying among them because they do not know the right-ruling of the myhla of the land.” (27) And the sovereign of Ashshur commanded, saying, “Send one of the mynhk whom you exiled from there, to go there. Let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the right-ruling of the myhla of the land.” (28) And one of the mynhk whom they had exiled from Shomeron came and dwelt in Beyth El, and taught them how to fear hwhy

3Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 17:1-10 And jpvwhy his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself

against Larvy, (2) and placed an army in all the walled cities of Hdwhy, and set watch-posts in the land of Hdwhy and in the cities of Ephrayim which Asa his father had taken. (3) And hwhy was with jpvwhy, for he walked in the former ways of his father Dawid, and did not seek the Baʽals, (4) but sought the myhla of his father, and walked in His commands and not according to the deeds of Larvy. (5) So hwhy established the reign in his hand. And all Hdwhy gave presents to jpvwhy, and he had great riches and esteem. (6) And his heart was exalted in the ways of hwhy, and he again removed the high places and the Asherim from Hdwhy. (7) And in the third year of his reign he sent his leaders, Ben-Ḥayil, and Hydb[, and Hyrkz, and lantn, and whykm, to teach in the cities of Hdwhy. (8) And with them he sent Lewites: wHy[mv, and whyntn, and whydbz, and lahv[, and Shemiramoth, and ntnwhy, and whynda, and Whybwj, and Whynda bwj, the Lewites, and with them [mvyla and mrwhy, the mynhk. (9) And they taught in Hdwhy, and with them was the Book of the Turah of hwhy. And they went around into all the cities of Hdwhy and taught the people. (10) And the fear of hwhy fell on all the reigns of the lands that were around Hdwhy, and they did not fight against jpvwhy. Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 35:1-3 And whyvay performed a Passover to hwhy in Yarushalam, and they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. (2) And he set the mynhk in their duties and strengthened them for the service of the House of hwhy, (3) and said to the Lĕwites who were teaching all Larvy, who were set-apart to hwhy, “Put the set-apart ark in the house which Shalamah son of Dud , sovereign of Larvy, built. It is no longer to be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve hwhy your myhla and His people Larvy, Arz[/Ez. 7:1-11,21-25 (11) And after these events, in the reign of Artaḥshashta sovereign of Persia, Ezra son of whyrv, son of hyrz[, son of hyqlx, (2) son of Shallum, son of Tsadoq, son of Aḥitub, (3) son of hyrma, son of hyrz[, son of Merayoth, (4) son of hyxrz, son of Uzzi, son of Buqqi, (5) son of Abishua, son of Phineḥas, son of Rz[la, son of Aharon the chief kahan – (6) this Ezra came up from Babel. And he was a scribe; skilled in the Turah of M’shah, which hwhy myhla of Larvy had given. And the sovereign gave him all he asked, according to the hand of hwhy his myhla upon him. (7) And some of the children of Larvy, and the kahanym, and the Lewites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim came up to Yarushalam in the seventh year of Sovereign Artaḥshashta. (8) And he came to Yarushalam in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the sovereign. (9) For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babel, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Yarushalam, according to the good hand of his myhla upon him. (10) For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Turah of hwhy, and to do it, and to teach laws and right-rulings in Larvy. (11) And this is the copy of the letter that Sovereign Artaḥshashta gave Ezra the kahan, the scribe, a scribe in the words of the commands of hwhy, and of His laws to Larvy: Ezra 7:21-25 And I, I Artaḥshashta the sovereign, do make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the kahan, the scribe of the law of the Elah of heaven, does ask of you, let it be done promptly, (22) up to one hundred talents of silver, and up to one hundred kors of wheat, and up to one hundred baths of wine, and up to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without reckoning. (23) Whatever is commanded by the Elah of heaven, let it be diligently done for the House of the Elah of heaven. For why should there be wrath against the reign of the sovereign and his sons? (24) We further inform you that there is no authority to impose tax, excise, or toll on any of the kahanym and Lewites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, and servants of this House of Elah. (25) And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your Elah that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your Elah. And teach 3 ARE THE KAHANYM TEACHING YOU?

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those who do not know them. Myrbd/Deut. 4:14 “And hwhy commanded me at that time to teach you laws and right-rulings, for you to do them in the land which you pass over to possess. 4Myrbd/Deut. 5:28-31 ’(28) So hwhy heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and hwhy said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. Have they done well in all that they have spoken? (29) If only they had such a heart in them to fear Me and to guard all of My commands always, so that it might be well with them and withtheir children forever! (30) Go, say to them, “Return to your tents.” (31) But you, stand here with Me, and let Me speak to you all the commands, and the laws, and the right-rulings which you are to teach them so they shall do them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’ Myrbd/Deut. 6:1 “And this is the command, the laws and right-rulings which hwhy your myhla has commanded, to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over to possess, Myrbd/Deut. 11:19 ‘And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, [vwhy/Jos. 13:1-8 And again the children of Larvy did evil in the eyes of hwhy, so hwhy gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. (2) And there was a certain man from Tsorʽah, of the clan of the Danites, whose name was Manowah ̣. And his wife was barren and had not borne. (3) And a Messenger of hwhy appeared to the woman and said to her, “See now, you are barren and have not borne, but you shall conceive, and you shall bear a son. (4) “And now, please guard, and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat any unclean food. (5) “For look, you are conceiving and bearing a son. And let no razor come upon his head, for the youth is a Nazirite to myhla from the womb on. And he shall begin to save Larvy out of the hand of the Philistines.” (6) And the woman came and spoke to her husband, saying, “A Man of myhla came to me, and His appearance was like the appearance of a Messenger of myhla, very awesome. But I did not ask Him where He was from, and He did not declare to me His name. (7) “And He said to me, ‘See, you are conceiving and bearing a son. And now, drink no wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean food, for the youth is a Nazirite to myhla from the womb to the day of his death.’ ” (8) And Manowah ̣ prayed to hwhy, and said, “hwhy, please let the Man of myhla whom You sent come to us again and teach us what to do for the youth who is to be born.” Lawmv-a/1Sam. 12:17-25 “Is today not the wheat harvest? Let me call to hwhy, so that He sends thunder and rain – know then and see that your evil is great, which you have done in the eyes of hwhy, in asking for yourselves a sovereign.” (18) And Lawmv called to hwhy, and hwhy sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared hwhy and Lawmv. (19) And all the people said to Lawmv, “Pray for your servants to hwhy your myhla, that we do not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil of asking for ourselves a sovereign.” (20) And Lawmv said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this evil. Only, do not turn aside from following hwhy. And you shall serve hwhy with all your heart, (21) and do not turn aside after worthless matters which do not profit or deliver, for they are worthless. (22) “For hwhy would not cast away His people, for His great Name’s sake, seeing it has pleased hwhy to make you His people. (23) “Also, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against hwhy in ceasing to pray for you, but I shall teach you the good and straight way. (24) “Only fear hwhy, and you shall serve Him in truth with all your heart, for consider what marvels He has done for you. (25) “But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your sovereign are consumed.” Bwya/Job 27:11 Let me teach you by the hand of La, that which is with the Almighty I do not hide. Myklm-a/1Ki. 8:35-36 “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, (36) then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Larvy – for You teach them the good way in which they should walk and shall give rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance. 4 ARE THE KAHANYM TEACHING YOU?

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Whymry/Jer. 31:34 “And no longer shall they teach, each one his neighbour, and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know hwhy,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares hwhy. “For I shall forgive their crookedness, and remember their sin no more.” CONSIDER WHAT HAS COME UPON THEM: If only the people had a heart to fear, then the teaching would not have perished and they would have had the goodness of Him forever. Unfortunately, listening to the voice of man as opposed to the voice of hwhy proves to have grave consequences. Laqzxy/Ezek. 7:26; ‘Calamity upon calamity shall come, and report shall be upon report. And they shall seek a vision from a aybn. But the teaching has perished from the kahan, and counsel from the elders! Why[vy/Isa. 24:1-6 See, hwhy is making the earth empty and making it waste, and shall overturn its surface, and shall scatter abroad its inhabitants. (2) And it shall be – as with the people so with the priest, as with the servant so with his master, as with the female servant so with her mistress, as with the 5buyer so with the seller, as with the lender so with the borrower, as with the creditor so with the debtor; (3) the earth is completely emptied and utterly plundered, for hwhy has spoken this word. (4) The earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither, the haughty people of the earth shall languish. (5) For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot, changed1 the law, broken the everlasting covenant2. {1Jer. 23:36. See also 13:9, 13:11, 26:21, 66:24, Mic. 5:15, Zeph. 1:2-18.} (6) Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left. Why[vy/Isa. 28:7 And these too have gone astray through wine, and through strong drink wandered about. Priest and prophet have gone astray through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they wander about through strong drink, they go astray in vision, they stumble in right-ruling. Why[vy/Isa. 6:13 “For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, they are all greedy for gain. And from the prophet even to the priest, all act falsely. Whymry/Jer. 8:10 “Therefore I give their wives to others, and their fields to possessing ones. For from the least even to the greatest, they are all greedy for gain. From the prophet to the priest, all act falsely. Whymry/Jer. 14:18 ‘If I go out to the field, then see those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, then see those sick from scarcity of food! For both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ” Whymry/Jer. 18:18 Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Yirmeyahu, for the Turah shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.” Whymry/Jer. 23:11, 33, 34 “For both prophet and priest have become defiled. Even in My house I have found their evil,” declares hwhy. 33 “And when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, ‘What is the message of hwhy?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What message?’ I shall forsake you,” declares hwhy. 34 “As for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The message of hwhy,’ I shall punish that man and his house. Hkya/Lam. 2:6 He has demolished His booth like a garden, He has destroyed His place of meeting. hwhy has made the appointed times1 and Sabbaths To be forgotten in Tsyun, And despises sovereign and priest In His raging displeasure. Footnote: 1Or festivals.

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therefore I have lifted My hand in an oath against them,” declares ynda hwhy, “that they shall bear their crookedness, (13) and not come near Me to serve as My priest, nor come near any of that which is set-apart to Me, nor into the Most Set-apart Place. And they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have done. Hynpc/Zeph. 1:1-4 The word of hwhy which came to Hynpc son of Kushi, son of Hyldg, son of hyrma, son of hyqzx, in the days of whyvay son of Amon, sovereign of Hdwhy. (2) “I shall snatch away all from the face of the earth,” declares hwhy – (3) “I snatch away man and beast, I snatch away the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks, with the wrong, when I shall cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares hwhy. (4) “And I shall stretch out My hand against Hdwhy, and against all the inhabitants of Yarushalam, and cut off every trace of Baʽal from this place, the names of the idolatrous kahanym, with the kahanym, [vwh/Hos. 4:1-9 Hear the word of hwhy, you children of Larvy, for hwhy has a case against the inhabitants of the land: “For there is no truth or kindness or knowledge of myhla in the land. (2) “Swearing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery have increased. And 6bloodshed follows bloodshed. (3) “Therefore the land mourns, and everyone living there languishes, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. And the fish of the sea are taken away. (4) “However, let no one strive or reprove another, for your people are like those striving with a priest. (5) “And you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet shall also stumble with you in the night. And I shall make your mother perish. (6) “My people have perished for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being priest for Me. Since you have forgotten the Turah of your myhla , I also forget your children. (7) “As they were increased, so they sinned against Me. My esteem they have changed into shame. (8) “They eat the sin of My people, and lift up their desire to their crookedness. (9) “And it shall be: like people, like priest. And I shall punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds. Ykalm/Mal. 2:1-9 “And now, kahanym, this command is for you. (2) “If you do not [mv, and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said hwhy twabc, “I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your barak. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart. (3) “See, I shall rebuke your seed, and scatter dung before your faces, the dung of your festivals. And you shall be taken away with it. (4) “And you shall know that I have sent this command to you, as being My covenant with Lĕwi,” said hwhy twabc. (5) “My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him, to fear. And he feared Me, and stood in awe of My Name. (6) “The Turah of truth1 was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and straightness, and turned many away from crookedness. Footnote: 1Neh. 9:13. (7) “For the lips of a kahan should guard knowledge, and they seek the Turah from his mouth, for he is the messenger of hwhy twabc. (8) “But you, you have turned from the way, you have caused many to stumble in the Turah. You have corrupted the covenant of Lĕwi,” said hwhy twabc. (9) “And I also, I shall make you despised and low before all the people, because you are not guarding My ways, and are showing partiality in the Turah.”

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ARE YOU QAHALATH OR LISTENING TO HIM? Myklm-a/1Ki. 3:6-14 And Shalamah said, “You have shown great kindness to your servant Dud my father, as he walked before You in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You. And You have guarded for him this great kindness, and did give him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. (7) “And now, hwhy my myhla, You have set up Your servant to reign instead of my father Dud . But I am a little child, I do not know how to go out or to come in. (8) “And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. (9) “Shall You then give to Your servant an understanding heart to rule Your people, to discern between good and evil? For who is able to rule this great people of Yours?” (10) And the word was good in the eyes of 6 ARE THE KAHANYM TEACHING YOU?

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hwhy, that Shalamah had asked this. (11) So myhla said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand right-ruling, (12) see, I shall do according to your words. See, I shall give you a wise and understanding heart, so that there was none like you before you, and none like you shall arise after you. (13) “And I shall also give you what you have not asked: both riches and esteem, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the sovereigns all your days. (14) “And if you walk in My ways, to guard My laws and My commands, as your father Dud walked, then I shall prolong your days.” Ylvm/Prov. 4:4, 11 Then He taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast My words; Guard My commands, and live. 11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom, I have led you in straight paths. Tlhq/Ecc. 12:9 And besides being wise, Qahalath also taught the people knowledge, and he listened and sought out – set in order many proverbs. WHO/WHAT IS QAHALATH? H6953 –- Tlhq BDB Definition: 1) collector (of sentences), preacher, public speaker, speaker in an assembly, Qahalath Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: feminine of active participle from H6950 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1991c PREACHER (n.) c.1200, from Old French preecheor "preacher" (Modern French prêcheur), from Latin praedicatorem (nominative praedicator) "public praiser, eulogist," literally "proclaimer" (see preach). Slang short form preach (n.) is recorded by 1968, American English. SPEAKER (n.) c.1300, "one who speaks," agent noun from speak (v.). First applied to "person who presides over an assembly" c.1400, from Anglo-French (late 14c.). In reference to the English Parliament, Sir Thomas de Hungerford apparently was the first.

ARE YOUR PARENTS FEARING HWHY? It was also the responsibility of the parents to teach their children His ways, recount His many wonders and make sure they stayed on the path. These parents would have been fearing hwhy and thus, they would have been very wise.

So are your parents fearing Him?

Myrbd/Deut. 4:10 “The day when you stood before hwhy your myhla in Ḥoreb, hwhy said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me and I make them [mv My Words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and teach their children.’ Myrbd/Deut. 6:4-7 “[mv, Larvy: hwhy our myhla, hwhy only! (5) “so that you love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. (6) “And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart, (7) and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, Myrbd/Deut. 11:18-19 ‘And you shall lay up these Words1 of Mine in your heart and in your being, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. Footnote: 1See footnote at 5:22. (19) ‘And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, Myrbd/Deut. 32:44-47 Then M’shah came, with Yahusha {[vwhy} son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. (45) And when M’shah ended speaking all these words to all Larvy, (46) he said to them, “Set your heart on all the words with which I warn you today, so that you command your children to guard to do all the Words of this Turah. (47) “For it is not a worthless Word for you, because it is your life, and by this Word you prolong your days on the soil which you pass over the Yardĕn to possess.” Mylht/Psa. 34:11 Come, you children, listen to me; Let me teach you the fear of hwhy. Mylht/Psa. 78:1-8 My people, give ear to my Turah1, Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Footnote: 1In vv. 1-11 the words “teaching, words, witness, commands, covenant,” are used

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interchangeably, as parallels, almost synonymously. We find the same in Ps. 119. (2) I open my mouth in a parable; I utter riddles of old, (3) Which we have heard and known, For our fathers have related them to us. (4) We do not hide them from their children, Relating to the generation to come the praises of hwhy, And His strength and His wonders which He has done. (5) For He raised a witness in Yaʽaqoḇ, And set a Turah in Larvy, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their children; (6) That it might be known to a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and relate them to their children, (7) And place their trust in myhla, And not forget the works of la, But watch over His commands, (8) And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to la. Ylvm/Prov. 31:1 The words of Sovereign lawml, a message which his mother taught him: Yes, women who feared were also endowed with wisdom and they taught their children, made decisions, and even led His people in several instances. (See Ylvm/Prov. 14:1; Lawmv-a/1Sam. 1:20-28; Lawmv-b/2Sam. 20:4-22; Myjpv/Judg. 4:1-5; 5:1-7;Then Consider: nwzx/Rev. 14:1-5 – They are like maidens!) CONSIDER: Whyttm/Matt. 23:1-8 “Then [vhwy spoke to the crowds and to His taught ones, (2) saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of M’shah. (3) “Therefore, whatever they say to you to guard, guard and do. But do not do according to their works, for they say, and do not do. (4) “For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders, but with their finger they do not wish to move them. (5) “And they do all their works to be seen by men, and they make their t’fillen wide and lengthen the tzitziyot of their garments, (6) and they love the best place at feasts, and the best seats in the congregations, (7) and the greetings in the market-places, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi G4461.’ (8) “But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi,’ for One is your Teacher G2519, the Mashyach, and you are all brothers. Whymry/Jer. 3:14-19 “Return, backsliding children,” declares hwhy, “for I shall rule over you, and shall take you, one from a city and two from a clan1, and shall bring you to Tsyun. Footnote: 1See Isa. 27:12. (15) “And I shall give you shepherds according to My heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. (16) “And it shall be, when you have increased, and shall bear fruit in the land in those days,” declares hwhy, “that they no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of hwhy.’ Neither would it come to heart, nor would they remember it, nor would they visit it, nor would it be made again. (17) “At that time Yarushalam shall be called the throne of hwhy, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the Name of hwhy, to Yarushalam, and no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart. (18) “In those days the house of Hdwhy shall go to the house of Larvy, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers. (19) “But I said, ‘How would I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a splendid inheritance of the hosts of nations?’ “And I said, ‘Call Me, “My Father1,” and do not turn away from Me.’ (NOTE: See Whyttm/Matt. 23:9) Many refer to this section of His Word to suggest that He has called them and set them up according to His heart to shepherd His people and feed them with knowledge but this clearly has not come to passs yet. CONSIDER: Laqzxy/Ezek. 34:1-31 And the word of hwhy came to me, saying, (2) “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Larvy, warn and say to them, ‘Thus said ynda hwhy to the shepherds, “Woe to the shepherds1 of Larvy who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock? Footnote: 1See Jer. 10:21. (3) “You eat the fat and you put on the wool. You slaughter the fatlings – you do not feed the flock. (4) “You have not strengthened the weak, nor have you healed the sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back the straying, nor sought what was lost; but you have ruled them with might and harshness. (5) “And they were scattered because there was no shepherd. And they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered. (6) “My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. And My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them.” (7) ‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of hwhy: (8) “As I live,” declares ynda hwhy, “because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, from not having a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My

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flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,” (9) therefore, shepherds, hear the word of hwhy! (10) ‘Thus said ynda hwhy, “See, I am against the shepherds, and shall require My flock at their hand, and shall make them cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more. And I shall deliver My flock from their mouths, and they shall no longer be food for them.” (11) ‘For thus said ynda hwhy, “See, I Myself shall search for My sheep and seek them out. (12) “As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so I shall seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered in a day of cloud and thick darkness. (13) “And I shall bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the lands, and shall bring them to their own land. And I shall feed them on the mountains of Larvy, in the valleys, and in all the dwellings of the land. (14) “In good pasture I shall feed them, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Larvy. They shall lie there in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Larvy. (15) “I shall feed My flock and make them lie down,” declares ynda hwhy. (16) “I shall seek out the lost and bring back the strayed. And I shall bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick, but the fat and the strong I shall destroy. I shall feed them with right-ruling.” {Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:44-46} (17) ‘And as for you, My flock, thus said ynda hwhy, “See, I am judging between sheep and sheep, between rams and goats. (18) “Is it not enough for you to have eaten up the good pasture, and the rest of your pasture you trample with your feet. Or that you should drink of the clear waters, and the rest you muddy with your feet? (19) “And as for My flock, they eat what you have trampled with your feet, and they drink what you have muddied with your feet.” (20) ‘Therefore thus said ynda hwhy to them, “See, I Myself shall judge between fat and lean sheep. (21) “Because you have pushed with flank and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak ones with your horns, and scattered them abroad, (22) therefore I shall save My flock, and let them no longer be a prey. And I shall judge between sheep and sheep. (23) “And I shall raise up over them One Shepherd, My servant Dud , and he shall feed them. He shall feed them and be their shepherd. {Lawhy/Joel 2:23; Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:44-46} (24) “And I, hwhy, shall be their myhla, and My servant Dud a prince in their midst. I, hwhy, have spoken. (25) “And I shall make a covenant of peace with them, and make evil beasts cease from the land. And they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest. (26) “And I shall make them and the places all around My hill a blessing, and shall cause showers to come down in their season – showers of barakah they are. (27) “And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit and the earth yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land. And they shall know that I am hwhy, when I have broken the bars of their yoke. And I shall deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them, (28) and they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, and the beast of the earth shall not devour them. And they shall dwell safely, with no one to make them afraid. (29) “And I shall raise up for them a planting place of name, and they shall no longer be consumed by hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the nations any more. (30) “And they shall know that I, hwhy their myhla, am with them, and that they, the house of Larvy, are My people,” declares ynda hwhy.’ ” (31) “And you, My flock, the flock of My pasture, are men, and I am your myhla,” declares ynda hwhy.’ ”

WHO ARE YOU TRULY LISTENING TO? Could it be that you are listening to those who teach falsehood? Could it be that the dominant party of your society has imposed an ideological precept on you and this precept has veered from the true message? Nnxwhy/Jn. 7:18,19 “He who speaks from himself is seeking his own esteem, but He who seeks the esteem of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him. 19 “Did not M’shah give you the Turah? Yet not one of you does the Turah!1 Why do you seek to kill Me?” Note: 1See Mt. 5:20.] Whymry/Jer. 2:30-33 “In vain have I smitten your children – they received no instruction. Your sword has devoured your myaybn like a destroying lion. (31) “Generation, see the word of hwhy! Have I been a wilderness to Larvy, Or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We have broken loose; we

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come to You no more’? (32) “Would a maiden forget her ornaments, or a bride her headband? Yet My people have forgotten Me, days without number. (33) “Why do you embellish your way to seek love? Therefore you have even taught the evil women your ways. NOTE: Ylvm/Prov. 28:5 Evil men do not understand right-ruling, But those who seek hwhy understand all. Whymry/Jer. 9:1-14 Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! (2) Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men, and I would leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. (3) “And they bend their tongue like a bow. Falsehood, and not truth, prevails on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they have not known Me,” declares hwhy. (4) “Let everyone beware of his neighbour and not trust any brother; for every brother catches by the heel, and every neighbour walks with slanderers. (5) “And everyone deceives his neighbour, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, and have wearied themselves to crook. (6) “You live in the midst of deceit; through deceit they have refused to know Me,” declares hwhy. (7) Therefore thus said hwhy twabc, “See, I shall refine them, and shall try them, for what shall I do because of the daughter of My people? (8) “Their tongue is an arrow shot out. It speaks deceit – speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he sets his ambush. (9) “Would I not punish them for this?” declares hwhy. “Would I not revenge Myself on such a nation as this?” (10) “I shall take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they have been burned up, without any passing over, nor has the voice of cattle been heard. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled, they have gone. (11) “And I shall make Yarushalam a heap of ruins, a habitation for jackals; and the cities of Hdwhy I shall make a waste, without an inhabitant.” (12) Who is the wise man, that he understands this? And to whom has the mouth of hwhy spoken, that he declares it? Why has the land perished, has it been burned up like a wilderness, with none passing through? (13) And hwhy says, “Because they have forsaken My Turah which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice,1 nor walked according to it, Footnote: 1See at 7:23. (14) but they have walked according to the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baʽals, which their fathers had taught them.” Whymry/Jer. 12:14-17 Thus said hwhy, “As for all My evil neighbours who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Larvy to inherit; see, I am plucking them out of their land, and I shall pluck out the house of Hdwhy from their midst. (15) “And it shall be, after My plucking them out, I shall return, and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his inheritance and everyone to his land. (16) “And it shall be, if they learn well the ways of My people, to swear by My Name, ‘As hwhy lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baʽal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people. (17) “But if they do not [mv, I shall pluck up, pluck up and destroy that nation,” declares hwhy. Whymry/Jer. 13:1-25 Thus hwhy said to me, “Go and get yourself a linen girdle, and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.” (2) So I bought a girdle according to the word of hwhy, and put it on my loins. (3) And the word of hwhy came to me the second time, saying, (4) “Take the girdle that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock.” (5) And I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as hwhy commanded me. (6) And it came to be after many days that hwhy said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the girdle which I commanded you to hide there.” (7) So I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the girdle from the place where I had hidden it. And there was the girdle, ruined. It was completely useless. (8) “And the word of hwhy came to me, saying, (9) “Thus said hwhy, ‘Thus I ruin the pride of Hdwhy and the great pride of Yarushalam. (10) ‘This evil people, who refuse to hear My Words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and walk after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow themselves to them, is like this girdle which is completely useless. (11) ‘For as the girdle clings to the loins of a man, so I have caused all the house of Larvy and all the house of Hdwhy to cling to Me,’ declares hwhy, ‘to become Mine – for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for an adorning. But they did not listen.’ (12) “And you shall speak to them this word, ‘Thus said hwhy myhla of Larvy, “Every bottle is to be filled with wine.” ’ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not know that every bottle should be filled with wine?’ (13)

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“Then say to them, ‘Thus said hwhy, “See, I am filling all the inhabitants of this land, and the sovereigns who sit on the throne of Dud , and the kahanym, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Yarushalam with drunkenness! (14) “And I shall dash them one against another, both the fathers and the sons together,” declares hwhy. “I do not spare nor pardon nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.” (15) Listen and give ear, do not be proud, for hwhy has spoken. (16) Give esteem to hwhy your myhla before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light. He turns it into the shadow of death, makes it gross darkness. (17) And if you do not listen, my being shall weep in secret for your pride, and my eyes bitterly weep and run down with tears, because the flock of hwhy shall be taken captive. (18) Say to the sovereign and to the sovereigness mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your rule, the crown of your comeliness, has come down.” (19) The cities of the South shall be shut up, with no one to open them. Hdwhy shall be taken into exile, all of it. She shall be taken into exile, completely. (20) Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your fair sheep? (21) What would you say when He visits you? For you have taught them to be chiefs, to be head over you. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in labour? (22) And when you say in your heart, “Why has this come upon me?” It is because of your great crookedness that your skirts have been uncovered, your heels made bare. (23) Does a Kushite change his skin and a leopard its spots? You who are taught to do evil are also unable to do good! (24) “So I shall scatter them like stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness. (25) “This is your lot, your measured portion from Me,” declares hwhy, “because you have forgotten Me, and trust in falsehood. Whymry/Jer. 44:16-17 “We are not going to [mv to you in the matter about which you spoke to us in the Name of hwhy! (17) “But we shall do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our sovereigns and our heads, in the cities of Hdwhy and in the streets of Yarushalam . And we had plenty of food, and were well-off, and saw no evil.

nwzx/Rev. 2:12-17 “And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write, ‘He who has the sharp two-edged sword, says this: (13) “I know your works, and where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is. And you hold fast to My Name, and did not deny the belief in Me, even in the days in which Antipas was My trustworthy witness, who was killed near you, where Satan dwells. (14) “But I hold a few matters against you, because you have there those who adhere to the teaching of Bilʽam, who taught Balaq to put a stumbling-block before the children of Larvy, to eat food offered to idols, and to commit whoring. (15) “So you also have those who adhere to the teaching of the Nikolaites, which teaching I hate. (16) “Repent, or else I shall come to you speedily and fight against them with the sword of My mouth. (17) “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I shall give him a white stone, and on the stone a renewed Name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” ’ Luke 16:19-31 “But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day. (20) “And there was a certain beggar named laʽazar, being covered with sores, who was placed at his gate, (21) and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Indeed, even the dogs came and licked his sores. (22) “And it came to be that the beggar died, and was carried by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried. (23) “And while suffering tortures in the grave, having lifted up his eyes, he saw Abraham far away, and la ʽazar in his bosom. (24) “And crying out he said, ‘Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send la ʽazar to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.’ (25) “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your life you received your good, and likewise la ʽazar the evil, but now he is comforted and you are suffering. (26) ‘And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set, so that those who wish to pass from here to you are unable, nor do those from there pass to us.’ (27) “And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, (28) for I have five brothers, let him warn them, lest they also come to this place of torture.’ (29) “Abraham said to him, ‘They have M’shah and the myaybn, let them hear them.’ (30) “And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they shall repent.’ (31) “But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear M’shah and the myaybn, neither would they be persuaded even if one should rise from the dead.’ ” REMEMBER: Myrbd/Deut. 5:27 (27) ‘You go near and hear all that hwhy our myhla says, and speak to us all that hwhy our myhla says to you, and we shall hear and do it.’

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Whyttm/Matt. 24:37 “And as the days of Noaḥ, so also shall the coming of the ‘Builder of Mankind’ be. [vwh/Hos. 4:4 “However, let no one strive or reprove another, for your people are like those striving with a priest. hkym/Mic. 6:2 “[mv you mountains, the controversy of hwhy, and you everlasting foundations of the earth! For hwhy has a controversy with His people and He shall reprove larvy. So therefore, “Ylvm/Prov. 3:5-7 Trust in hwhy with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; (6) Know Him in all your ways, And He makes all your paths straight. (7) Do not be wise in your own eyes1; Fear hwhy and turn away from evil2. NOTES: 1Mash. 12:15; 14:12; 16:2; 21:2; 26:12; Dab. 12:8; Isa. 5:21; 56:11;Yar. 2:19; Yach. 11:21; 24:16; Math. 13:13-16; 2Job 28:28.”

PROPER HEARING OR LISTENING IS UNDERSTANDING:

ARE YOU UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU’VE HEARD? Are you one who claims to study the Word routinely and you feel you have quite a bit of understanding of it; Does you understanding always lead you back to an ideology you have been taught? We must approach turning back with these types of questions if we are going to truthfully listen to and understand His voice and not the imaginations and so-called wisdom of men.

Whymry/Jer. 9:23-24 Thus said hwhy, “Let not the wise boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty boast in his might, nor let the rich boast in his riches, (24) but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am hwhy, doing kindness, right-ruling, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” declares hwhy. Bwya/Job 28:28 And He said to man, ‘See, the fear of hwhy, that is wisdom, and to turn from evil is understanding.’ ” Bwya/Job 32:8 But truly it is the spirit in man and the breath of the Almighty that gives him understanding. Bwya/Job 34:16 If you have understanding, [mv this! Give ear to the sound of my words: (17) should the one who hates right-ruling govern? Or would you declare a most righteous one wrong? Bwya/Job 38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the heart? Mylht/Psa. 47:7 For myhla is Sovereign of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding. Mylht/Psa. 111:10 The fear of hwhy is the beginning of wisdom, All those doing them have a good understanding. His praise is standing forever. Ylvm/Prov. 1:1-7 The proverbs of Shalamah son of Dawid, sovereign of Larvy: (2) For knowing wisdom and discipline, For understanding the words of understanding, (3) For receiving the discipline of wisdom, Righteousness, right-ruling, and straightness; (4) For giving insight to the simple, Knowledge and discretion to the young. (5) He [mv wisdom and increases learning and understanding; wise counsel he obtains. (6) For understanding a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles. (7) The fear of hwhy is the beginning of knowledge1; Fools despise wisdom and discipline. Footnote: 1See 9:10, Ps. 111:10.

Ylvm/Prov. 2:1-6 My son, if you accept my words, And treasure up my commands with you, (2) So that you make your ear attend to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; (3) For if you cry for discernment, Lift up your voice for understanding, (4) If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures, (5) Then you would understand the fear of hwhy, And find the knowledge of myhla. (6) For hwhy gives wisdom; Out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

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Mylht/Psa. 119:99,104,130 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, because Your witnesses are my study. 104 From Your orders I get understanding; therefore I have hated every false way. 130 The opening up of Your words gives light, Giving understanding to the simple. Mylht/Psa. 147:5 Great is our nwda and mighty in power, There is no limit to His understanding. Ylvm/Prov. 1:2,5,6 For knowing wisdom and discipline, because understanding the words of understanding, 5 The wise one hears and increases learning, And the understanding one gets wise counsel, 6 because understanding a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles.

CONSIDER WHAT [vwhy DECLARES: Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:43-45 Then [vwhy answered and said to them, “Do not grumble with one another. (44) “No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. And I shall raise him up in the last day. (45) “It has been written in the myaybn, ‘And they shall all be taught by hwhy.’ Everyone, then, who has [mv from the Father, and learned, comes to Me. It is no surprise many are falling away from the witness of Mashyach. Most are seeking and hearing the words that men have declared and have stumbled at the stumbling block of falsehood [Why[vy/Isa. 30:28] and thus they are not hearing ([mv) and learning from hwhy as they should if they truly desire to understand and turn back.

IF ONLY THEY WOULD JUST HEAR/LISTEN, BUT THEY WOULD NOT: Consequently, the people had and sadly enough, still has a hard time in the listening department. This handicap has grave consequences not only in the understanding and application of His Word, but in our every day lives. Why do you think your teacher is always telling you to listen or pay attention; so that you will understand maybe?

Myrbd/Deut. 28:45,62 “And all these curses shall come upon you, and they shall pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard His commands and His laws which He commanded you. 62 “And you shall be left with few men, although you had become as numerous as the stars of the heavens, because you did not [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla. arqyw/Lev. 26:13-27 ‘I am hwhy your myhla, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright. (14) ‘But if you do not [mv Me, and do not do all these commands, (15) and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant, (16) I also do this to you: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the eyes, and consuming the life. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. (17) ‘And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. (18) ‘And after all this, if you do not [mv Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins. (19) ‘And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. (20) ‘And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit. (21) ‘And if you walk contrary to Me, and refuse to [mv Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins, (22) and send wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be deserted. (23) ‘And if you are not disciplined/corrected/instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me, (24) then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall smite you seven times for your sins. (27) ‘And if in spite of this, you do not [mv Me, but walk contrary to Me, (28) then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins. Ykalm/Mal. 2:2 “If you do not [mv, and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said hwhy twabc, “I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your barak. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart. Hyrkz/Zec. 1:4 “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former Myaybn proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus

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said hwhy twabc, “Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not [mv or bvq to Me,” declares hwhy. whymry/Jer. 6:10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, so that they [mv? See, their ear is uncircumcised, and they are unable to listen-(bvq [to hear, be attentive, heed, incline (of ears), attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen]). See, the Word of hwhy is a reproach to them, they do not delight in it. Whymry/Jer. 11:10 “They have turned back to the crookednesses of their forefathers who refused to [mv My words, and they have gone after other mighty ones to serve them. The house of larvy and the house of hdwhy have broken My covenant I made with their fathers.” Whymry/Jer. 13:10 ‘This evil people, who refuse to [mv My Words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and walk after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow themselves to them, is like this girdle which is completely useless. Whymry/Jer. 19:15 “Thus said hwhy tuwabc, the myhla of larvy, ‘See, I am bringing on this city and on all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to [mv ta My words.’ ”[REMEMBER: Myrbd/Deut. 28:45,62] whymry/Jer. 22:21 “I have spoken to you in your ease, but you said, ‘al [mva [I do not listen].’ This has been your way from your youth, for you did not [mv My voice. Whymry/Jer. 25:1-7 The word that came to Whymry concerning all the people of hdwhy, in the fourth year of myqywhy son of whyvay, the sovereign of hdwhy, which was the first year of Nebukadretstsar sovereign of Babal, (2) which Whymry the aybn spoke to all the people of hdwhy and to all the inhabitants of Yarushalam, saying, (3) “From the thirteenth year of whyvay son of Amon, sovereign of hdwhy, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of hwhy has come to me. And I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not [mv. (4) “Moreover, hwhy has sent to you all His servants the myaybn, rising early and sending them, but you have not [mv nor inclined your ear to [mv, (5) saying, ‘Turn back now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the soil which hwhy has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. [REMEMBER: Myrbd/Deut. 4:40; 32:47 etc.] (6) ‘And do not go after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow down to them. And do not provoke Me with the works of your hands, so that I do you no evil.’ (7) “But you did not [mv to Me,” declares hwhy, “so as to provoke Me with the works of your hands, for your own evil. Hyrkz/Zec. 7:9-14 “Thus said hwhy tuwabc, ‘Execute true right-ruling, show kindness and compassion everyone to his brother. (10) “Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’ (11) “But they refused to bvq, and they shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears from [mv. (12) “And they made their hearts like flint against [mv ta the Turah, and the words, which hwhy tuwabc had sent by His Spirit through the former myaybn. Therefore great wrath came from ta hwhy tuwabc. (13) “And it came to be that He called but they did not [mv, so let them call, but I shall not [mv,” said hwhy tuwabc. (14) “And I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations which they had not known. And the land was laid waste behind them, no one passing through or returning, for they made the pleasant land a waste.” nnxwhy/Jn. 18:37 Then Pilate said to Him, “You are a sovereign, then?” [vhwy answered, “You say it, because I am a sovereign. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth ἀκούωa - My voice.”

a) G191-hears 1) to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf 2) to hear 2b) to attend to, consider what is or has been said 2c) to understand, perceive the sense of what is said; 3a) to perceive by the ear what is announced in one’s presence 3b) to get by hearing learn 3c) a thing comes to one’s ears, to find out, learn 3d) to give ear to a teaching or a teacher 3e) to comprehend, to understand

nwzx/Rev. 3:20 “See, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone ἀκούω [hears, attends to, consider what is or has been said, understands, etc.] My voice and opens the door, I shall come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. Ylvm/Prov. 1:22-33 “How long, you simple ones, Would you love simplicity, And shall scoffers delight in their scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? (23) “Turn at my reproof. See, I pour out my spirit on you, I make my words known to you1. Footnote: 1See Ps. 33:6. (24) “Because I called and you refused, I have

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stretched out my hand and no one inclined, (25) “And you spurned all my counsel, And would not yield to my reproof, (26) “Let me also laugh at your calamity, Mock when your dread comes, (27) “When your dread comes like a storm, And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. (28) “Let them then call on me, but I answer not; Let them seek me, but not find me. (29) “Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of hwhy, (30) “They did not accept my counsel, They despised all my reproof, (31) “Therefore let them eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own counsels. (32) “For the turning away of the simple slays them, And the complacency of fools destroys them. (33) “But whoever listens to me dwells safely, And is at ease from the dread of evil.” It has been, that the people would not incline their ears to understand and heed, to [mv the voice of hwhy since the beginning:

twmv/Exo. 32:9 And hwhy said to M’shah, “I have seen this people, and see, it is a stiff-necked people! twmv/Exo. 33:1-5 And hwhy said to M’shah, “Come, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqob, saying, ‘To your seed I give it.’ (2) “And I shall send My Messenger before you, and I shall drive out the Kenaʽanite and the Amorite and the Ḥittite and the Perizzite and the Ḥiwwite and the Yebusite, (3) to a land flowing with milk and vbd. For I do not go up in your midst because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.” (4) And when the people [mv this evil word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. (5) And hwhy said to M’shah, “Say to the children of Larvy, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. Should I go up in your midst for one moment I shall consume you. And now, take off your ornaments, and I shall know what to do to you.’ ”

twmv/Exo. 34:9 and said, “If, now, I have found favour in Your eyes, hwhy, I pray, let hwhy go on in our midst, even though we are a stiff-necked people. And forgive our crookedness and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

Myrbd/Deut. 9:6, 13 “And you shall know that hwhy your myhla is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. 13 “And hwhy spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and look, they are a stiff-necked people. Myrbd/Deut. 31:27 for I myself know your rebellion and your stiff neck. See, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against hwhy, then how much more after my death? Whymry/Jer. 17:23 “But they did not [mv, or incline their ear, and they made their neck stiff not to hear and not to receive instruction. Laqzxy/Ezek. 2:4 “And the children are stiff of face and hard of heart to whom I am sending you, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus said the ynda hwhy.’ As a result of the evils done to His Word and the reluctance of the people to actually guard and do the Words, hwhy has taken away the ability to understand it from those not seeking Him with all of the heart, mind and strength. swm[/Amo. 8:11,12 “11 See, days are coming, declares ynda hwhy, “that I shall send a hunger in the land, not a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for [mv the Words of hwhy. 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and fromnorth to east – they shall diligently search, seeking the Word of hwhy, but they shall not find it.” It is confirmed. He has caused the understanding of His Word to cease from among men. He has bound up the instruction [Why[vy/Isa. 8:16] and only those desiring to listen to His voice only and fearing Him only will be privileged to understand. {Mylht/Psa. 25:14 The secret of hwhy is with those who fear Him, And He makes His covenant known to them.} REFLECTING AND REMEMBERING: Luke 16:19-31 “But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day. (20) “And there was a certain beggar named Elʽazar, being covered with sores,

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who was placed at his gate, (21) and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Indeed, even the dogs came and licked his sores. (22) “And it came to be that the beggar died, and was carried by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried. (23) “And while suffering tortures in the grave, having lifted up his eyes, he saw Abraham far away, and Elʽazar in his bosom. (24) “And crying out he said, ‘Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Elʽazar to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.’ (25) “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your life you received your good, and likewise Elʽazar the evil, but now he is comforted and you are suffering. (26) ‘And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set, so that those who wish to pass from here to you are unable, nor do those from there pass to us.’ (27) “And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, (28) for I have five brothers, let him warn them, lest they also come to this place of torture.’ (29) “Abraham said to him, ‘They have M’shah and the myaybn, let them hear them.’ (30) “And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they shall repent.’ (31) “But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear M’shah and the myaybn, neither would they be persuaded even if one should rise from the dead.’ ” REMEMBER: Myrbd/Deut. 5:27 (27) ‘You go near and [mv, all that hwhy our myhla says, and speak to us all that hwhy our myhla says to you, and we shall [mv, and do it.’

Once you have [mv/heard and comprehended what you have heard, because you revere and bear witness to what the Speaker has declared, you would then believe what you have [mv/heard. If you do not believe what you have heard then the Word you heard will not be fruitful. Why[vy/Isa. 53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom was the arm of hwhy revealed?

Myrbd/Deut. 32:45-47 And when M’shah ended speaking all these words to all Larvy, (46) he said to them, “Set your heart on all the words with which I warn you today, so that you command your children to guard to do all the Words of this Turah. (47) “For it is not a worthless Word for you, because it is your life, and by this Word you prolong your days on the soil which you pass over the Yarden to possess.” twmv/Exo. 4:1-12,31 And M’shah answered and said, “And if they do not believe me, nor listen to my voice, and say, ‘hwhy has not appeared to you?’ ” (2) And hwhy said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A rod.” (3) And He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent. And M’shah fled from it. (4) And hwhy said to M’shah, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail” – so he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand – (5) so that they believe that hwhy myhla of their fathers, the myhla of Abraham, the myhla of Yitsḥaq, and the myhla of Yaʽaqob_, has appeared to you.” (6) And hwhy said to him again, “Now put your hand in your bosom.” And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, and see, his hand was leprous, like snow. (7) And He said, “Put your hand in your bosom again.” So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and see, it was restored like his other flesh. (8) “And it shall be, if they do not wnymay you, nor [mv to the voice of the first sign, they shall believe the voice of the latter sign. (9) “And it shall be, if they do not wnymay even these two signs, or [mv to your voice, that you shall take water from the river and pour it on the dry land. And the water which you take from the river shall become blood on the dry land.” (10) And M’shah said to hwhy, “hwhy, I am not a man of words, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” (11) And hwhy said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, hwhy? (12) “And now, go, and I shall be with your mouth and teach you what to say.” 31 And the people nmay. And they [mv that hwhy had visited the children of Larvy and that He had looked on their affliction, and they bowed their heads and did obeisance.

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twmv/Exo. 14:31 And Larvy saw the great work which hwhy had done in Mitsrayim, and the people feared hwhy ta, and wnymay hwhy and His servant M’shah. twmv/Exo. 19:9 And hwhy said to M’shah, “See, I am coming to you in the thick cloud, so that the people [mv when I speak with you, and wnymay you forever.” And M’shah reported the words of the people to hwhy. The Abary word which they translate as ‘believe’ is actually a term many people use but really do not understand. The word nma or phonetically is ‘aman’. Most people recite this word after their prayers but really have no understanding how to use it or what it truly means. H539 – nma - BDB DEFINITION: 1) to support, confirm, be faithful 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to support, confirm, be faithful, uphold, nourish, reliable, faithful, trusty, established, sure, 1c) (HIPHIL) 1c1) to stand firm, to trust, to be certain, to believe in 1c1a) stand firm 1c1b) trust, believe Rbdmb/Num. 20:12 But hwhy spoke to M’shah and to Aharon, “Because you did not nma with Me, to set Me apart in the eyes of the children of Larvy, therefore you do not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” Mylht/Psa. 78:21-37 Therefore hwhy heard, and He was wroth; So a fire was kindled against Yaʽaqob_, And displeasure also came up against Larvy, (22) Because they did not nma in myhla, Neither did they xj ib in His deliverance. (23) Yet He had commanded the clouds above, And opened the doors of the heavens, (24) And He rained down manna on them to eat, And He gave them the grain of the heavens. (25) Men ate bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to satisfaction. (26) He made an east wind blow in the heavens; And by His power He brought in the south wind. (27) And He rained meat on them like the dust, And winged birds like the sand of the seas, (28) And let them fall in the midst of His camp, All around His Dwelling Place. (29) So they ate and were completely satisfied, For He brought them what they desired. (30) They had not turned away from their desire [REMEMBER: Whyttm/Matt. 6:10], Their food was still in their mouths, (31) When the wrath of myhla came against them, And He slew among their fat ones, And He struck down the choice ones of Larvy. (32) In spite of all this they still sinned, And did not nma in His wonders. (33) So He ended their days in a breath, And their years in trouble. (34) When He slew them, then they sought Him, And they returned and did earnestly seek la. [REMEMBER: Myrbd/Deut. 4:25-30: 30:1-3] (35) And they remembered that myhla was their rock, And Nwyl[ la their Redeemer. (36) But they flattered Him with their mouth, And they lied to Him with their tongue [NOTE: Why[vy/Isa. 29:13], (37) Because their heart was not steadfast with Him, And they were not true to His covenant [Note: Mylht/Psa. 78:8]. Mylht/Psa. 106:1-13, 22-27 Praise hy! Give thanks to hwhy, because He is good! For His kindness is everlasting. (2) Who does relate the mighty acts of hwhy? Or declare all His praise? (3) Straight/right are those who guard right-ruling, Who do righteousness at all times! (4) Remember me, hwhy, in the acceptance of Your people; Visit me with Your deliverance, (5) To see the good of Your chosen ones, To rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, To make my boast with Your inheritance. (6) We have sinned with our fathers, We have acted perversely, We have done wrong. (7) Our fathers in Mitsrayim did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your many kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, the Sea of Reeds. (8) But He saved them for His Name’s sake {NOTE: twmv/Exo. 9:16; Laqzxy/Ezek. 36:21-32}, To make known His might. (9) And He rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up; And He led them through the depths, Through a wilderness. (10) And He saved them from the hand of the hater, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. (11) And waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left. (12) Then they nma His words; They sang His praise. (13) They soon forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel; 22-27 Of wonders in the land of Ḥam, Of awesome deeds by the Sea of Reeds. (23) Then He said that He would destroy them, Had not M’shah His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, To turn away His wrath from destroying them. (24) They then despised the pleasant land; They did not nma His word, (25) And they grumbled in their tents, They did not [mv to the voice of hwhy. (26) So He lifted up His hand in an oath against them, To make them fall in the wilderness, (27) And to make their seed fall among the nations, And to scatter them in the lands. Why[vy/Isa. 7:1-9 1 So it came to be in the days of Achaz son of mtwhy son of Whyz[ sovereign of hdwhy: Ratsyn, sovereign of Aram and Paqach son of whylmr sovereign of Larvy went up to Yarushalam to war

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against her but not prevail in fighting against her: 2 So it was made known to the house of Dud in saying, “Aram will go against Apharym and he shall shake his heart and the heart of his people like the tossing of trees of a forest because of the presence of the wind: 3 So hwhy said to Why[vy, “go out now to meet Achaz, you and Sha’ar-Y’shub, your son at the end of the channels of the upper pool toward the highway of the field of the launderer; 4 And you shall say to him, “will you observe and are you unconcerned? You shall not fear and your heart, it shall not be weak because of these two stumps, that are pieces of burning wood that are smoking; Are these with burning anger, Ratsyn and Aram and the son of whylmr? 5 Because indeed, Aram, Apharym and the son of whylmr have plotted evil against you, saying, 6 We are going up against ydwhy seeing that we loath her and we will divide it for ourselves and we will set a sovereign to be king in her midst, the {ta} son of Labj: 7 Thus declares ynda hwhy, its not going to stand, its not going to happen. 8 Because the head of Aram is Damashaq and the head of Damashaq is Ratsyn and within sixty-five years, Apharym, he is shattered from the people: 9 But the head of Apharym is Shamrun and the head of Shamarun is the son of whylmr; if none of you shall nma me, it is because none of you are trusting: s Why[vy/Isa. 43:10 “You are My witnesses,” declares hwhy, “And My servant whom I have chosen, so that you know and nma Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no la formed, nor after Me there is none. Mark 11:22-26 And [vwhy answering, said to them, “Have nma in myhla. (23) “For truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says, shall be done, he shall have whatever he says. (24) “Because of this I say to you, whatever you ask when you pray, nma that you receive them, and you shall have them. (25) “And whenever you stand praying, if you hold whatever against anyone, forgive, so that your Father in the heavens shall also forgive you your trespasses. (26) “But if you do not forgive, neither shall your Father in the heavens forgive your trespasses.”

WHAT BELIEF LOOKS LIKE & ITS FRUIT: We can find several examples in the accounts of the people where certain individuals did actually belief and the barakah obtained as a result of their belief. The most noteable and probably the most known are Abraham and Nach (Noah). But there are other examples that we will also look at the actions of these people and the fruit of their actions as a result. tyvarb/Gen. 15:1-6 After these events the word of hwhy came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your reward is exceedingly great.” (2) And Abram said, “ynda hwhy, what would You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Rz[la of Damascus?” (3) And Abram said, “See, You have given me no seed, and see, one born in my house is my heir!” (4) And see, the word of hwhy came to him, saying, “This one is not your heir, but he who comes from your own body is your heir.” (5) And He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.” (6) And he nma in hwhy, and He reckoned it to him for righteousness. tyvarb/Gen. 6:1-22 And it came to be, when men began to increase on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, (2) that the sons of myhla saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. (3) And hwhy said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever in his going astray. He is flesh, and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” (4) The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of myhla came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, the men of name. (5) And hwhy saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (6) And hwhy was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. (7) And hwhy said, “I am going to wipe off man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping creature and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” (8) But Noah ̣ found favour in the eyes of hwhy. (9) This is the genealogy of Noah ̣. Noah ̣ was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah ̣ walked with myhla. (10) And Noah ̣ brought forth three sons: Sham, H ̣am, and Yaphath. (11) And the earth was

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corrupt before myhla, and the earth was filled with violence. (12) And myhla looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt – for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth – (13) and myhla said to Noah ̣, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And see, I am going to destroy them from the earth. (14) “Make yourself an ark of gopherwood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with tar. (15) “And this is how you are to make it: The length of the ark is three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. (16) “Make a window for the ark, and complete it to a cubit from above. And set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks. (17) “And see, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens – all that is on the earth is to die. (18) “And I shall establish My covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. (19) “And of all the living creatures of all flesh, two of each, you are to bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you – a male and a female. (20) “Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, and of all creeping creatures of the earth after their kind, two of each are to come to you, to keep them alive. (21) “As for you, take of all food that is eaten and gather it to yourself. And it shall be food for you and for them.” (22) And Noah ̣ did according to all that myhla commanded him, so he did. Hnwy/Jonah 3:1-10 And the word of hwhy came to Yonah the second time, saying, (2) “Arise, go to Nineweh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I am speaking to you.” (3) And Yonah arose and went to Nineweh, according to the word of hwhy. Now Nineweh was a great city before myhla, of three day’s journey. (4) And Yonah began to go in to the city on the first day’s walk. And he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineweh shall be overthrown!” (5) But the men of Nineweh nma in myhla, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. (6) And the word reached the sovereign of Nineweh, so he arose from his throne and took off his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. (7) And he proclaimed and said throughout Nineweh, “By decree of the sovereign and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, shall taste whatever – let them not eat, let them not even drink water. (8) “But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and call mightily to myhla. And let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. (9) “Who knows whether myhla does turn and relent, and shall turn away from the heat of His displeasure, so that we do not perish?” (10) And myhla saw their works that they turned from their evil way. And myhla relented from the evil, which He had said He would do to them, and He did not do it.

Those hearing and fully comprehending, truly understanding what they’ve heard, who truly believes what they have heard would then fear because of what they have heard. hwhy did many great wonders in order to cause the people to believe and fear His Name. Those who have eyes to see the wonders He is doing today, the confirmation of His Word He declared long ago, would believe and thus they would and should be in great fear and trembling. THE ABARY WORD FOR FEAR: H3372 ary BDB Definition: 1) to fear, revere, be afraid 1a2) to stand in awe of, be awed 1a3) to fear, reverence, honour, respect 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be fearful, be dreadful, be feared 1b2) to cause astonishment and awe, be held in awe 1c) (Piel) to make afraid, terrify 2) (TWOT) to shoot, pour Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 907, 908 FEAR: COLLIN’S ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY: {PG. 140}: FEAR (fer) ft. apprehension of evil; —v.t. or i.to apprehend evil; be afraid. [O.E. feer. fear, danger.] Webster’s Etymological Dictionary: Fear, (S. fcrr,) n. apprehension of evil,-t>. t. or <. to apprehend evil; to be afraid

IF YOU TRULY BELIEVE, YOU WOULD FEAR!

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CHAMBER’S ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY: FEAR, fer, n. a painful emotion excited by danger: apprehension of danger or pain: alarm: the object of fear: (.5.) deep reverence: piety towards hwhy. —jv./. to regai-d with fear : to expect with alarm: (B.) to stand in awe of: to venerate : {ofis.) to terrify : to make afraid. [A.S. yter, fear ; Ger. ge/ahr, Ice. far, harm, mischief.] REVERE (v.) 1660s, from French révérer, from Latin revereri "revere, fear" (see reverence (n.), which also was the earlier form of the verb). Related: Revered; revering. reverence (n.) late 13c., from Old French reverence "respect, awe," from Latin reverentia "awe, respect," from revereri "to stand in awe of, respect, honor, fear, be afraid of; revere," from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + vereri "stand in awe of, fear," from PIE *wer- "to be or become aware of, perceive, watch out for" (cf. Old English wær "aware, cautious;" see wary). reverence (v.) late 14c., "treat with respect, honor; venerate, pay pious homage to; esteem, value; bow to (someone); do honor to," from reverence (n.). Related: Reverenced; reverencing. afraid (adj.) early 14c., originally past participle of afray "frighten," from Anglo-French afrayer, from Old French esfreer (see affray (n.)). A rare case of an English adjective that never stands before a noun. Because it was used in A.V. Bible, it acquired independent standing and thrived while affray faded, chasing out the once more common afeared. Sense in I'm afraid "I regret to say, I suspect" (without implication of fear) is first recorded 1590s. Her blue affrayed eyes wide open shone [Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes," 1820] CONSIDER: twmv/Exo. 14:31 And Larvy saw the great work which hwhy had done in Mitsrayim, and the people feared hwhy, and believed hwhy and His servant M’shah. FEAR IS WHERE YOUR WISDOM BEGINS…

Bwya/Job 28:28 And He said to man, ‘See, the fear of hwhy, that is wisdom, and to turn from evil is understanding.’ ” Mylht/Psa. 19:9 The fear of hwhy is clean, standing forever; The right-rulings of hwhy are true, They are righteous altogether, Mylht/Psa. 119:38 Establish Your word to Your servant, Which leads to the fear of You. Ylvm/Prov. 1:7, 29 The fear of hwhy is the beginning of knowledge1; Fools despise wisdom and discipline. Footnote: 1See 9:10, Ps. 111:10. 29 “Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of hwhy, Ylvm/Prov. 2:1-6 My son, if you accept My words, And treasure up My commands with you, (2) So that you make your ear attend to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; (3) For if you cry for discernment, Lift up your voice for understanding, (4) If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures, (5) Then you would understand the fear of hwhy, And find the knowledge of myhla. (6) Because hwhy gives wisdom; Out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Ylvm/Prov. 8:13 “The fear of hwhy is to hate evil. I have hated pride and arrogance, And the evil way, And the perverse mouth. Ylvm/Prov. 9:10 The fear of hwhy is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Set-apart One is understanding1. Footnote: See 1:7. Ylvm/Prov. 10:27 The fear of hwhy prolongs days, But the years of the wrong ones are shortened. Ylvm/Prov. 14:26, 27 In the fear of hwhy is strong trust, And His children have a place of refuge. 27 The fear of hwhy is a fountain of life, To turn away from the snares of death. Ylvm/Prov. 15:16, 33 Better is a little with the fear of hwhy, Than great treasure with trouble. 33 The fear of hwhy is the discipline of wisdom, And before esteem is humility. Ylvm/Prov. 16:6 By kindness and truth crookedness is pardoned. And in the fear of hwhy one turns away from evil. Ylvm/Prov. 19:23 The fear of hwhy is for life, And he remains satisfied, He is not visited by evil.

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Ylvm/Prov. 22:4 The reward of humility is the fear of hwhy, Riches, and esteem and life. Ylvm/Prov. 23:17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be in the fear of hwhy all day long; Ylvm/Prov. 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in hwhy is set on high. CONSIDER MASHYACH: Why[vy/Isa. 11:1-3 And a Rod shall come forth from the stump of Yishai, and a Sprout from his roots shall bear fruit. (2) The Spirit of hwhy shall rest upon Him – the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of hwhy, (3) and shall make Him breathe in the fear of hwhy. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears. Mylht/Psa. 111:10 The fear of hwhy is the beginning of wisdom, All those doing them (His commands) have a good understanding. His praise is standing forever.

THOSE TEACHING & JUDGING SHOULD FEAR Those sitting in positions of decision and instruction are only as good as the place from where they receive the instruction. If one is writing their own laws and instructions, as we can see in todays even most emphimous ‘democracies’, they are destined to fail. There is not a single government on earth that possesses infalable laws. hwhy gave us instructions by which we were to follow. His instructions are flawless because He is the Author of creation. He knows the beginning, middle and end so how could there possibly be any other instruction greater or more relevant. CONCERNING THE SOVEREIGN Myrbd/Deut. 17:18-20 “And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his reign, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Turah in a book, from the one before the kahanym, the Lewites. (19) “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he learns to fear hwhy his myhla and guard all the Words of this Turah and these laws, to do them, (20) so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongs his days in his reign, he and his children, in the midst of Larvy. Although He sets up sovereigns, one must also acknowledge that He sometimes sets them up to punish a people or His people. There are countless examples through the Word that attest to this fact, primarily because the people were continually (as it is today even) requiring discipline. Therefore, if He sets up a sovereign with the intent to punish a people, turning back to Him Who smites them would be the only thing for the people to do. CONCERNING THE JUDGES Before the people set a sovereign over them, the kahanym as well as judges governed them. Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 19:1-11 And ijpvwhy the sovereign of Hdwhy returned to his house in peace in Yarushalam. (2) And Yĕhu son of Ḥanani the seer went out to face him, and said to Sovereign ijpvwhy, “Do you help the wrong and love those who hate hwhy? Therefore the wrath of hwhy is upon you. (3) “But good matters are found in you, in that you have removed the Ashĕroth from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek myhla.” (4) So ijpvwhy dwelt in Yarushalam, and he went out again among the people from Be’ĕrsheḇa to the hill country of Ephrayim, and brought them back to hwhy myhla of their fathers. (5) And he appointed judges in the land in all the walled cities of Hdwhy, city by city, (6) and said to the judges, “Watch what you are doing, for you do not judge for man, but for hwhy who is with you in the matter of right-ruling. (7) “And now, let the fear of hwhy be upon you. Guard and do it, for there is no unrighteousness with hwhy our myhla, nor partiality, nor taking of bribes.” (8) And in Yarushalam ijpvwhy also appointed some of the Lĕwites and kahanym, and some of the chief

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fathers of Larvy, for the right-ruling of hwhy and for dispute. Then they returned to Yarushalam. (9) And he commanded them, saying, “Do this in the fear of hwhy, trustworthily and with a perfect heart: (10) “When any dispute comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between Turah and command, laws and right-rulings, then you shall warn them, lest they trespass against hwhy and wrath come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you shall not be guilty. (11) “And look, Amaryahu the chief kahanis over you in all matters of hwhy. And whydbz son of La[mvy, the ruler of the house of Hdwhy, for all the matters of the sovereign, and the Lĕwites are officials before you. Be strong and do, and hwhy is with the good.”

LEARN TO FEAR? We are required to fear Him. If one does not fear, there is no way possible for them to have wisdom nor is it possible for them to have authority of His Word. Therefore, one must consider authenticity of the many so-called scholars of His Word that have arisen over the milleniums. Did these people fear? If so, did they hold fast to His commands or did the desires of their flesh aid in the changing and doing away with the command? Did these people hold fast and fear His Name? If so, did they fight with the compilers of the their standard canonical “Bible” to not exclude and change His Name the many thousands of times they did in their final canon? If these so-called scholars feared, it would be evident in their fruit. Could it even be possible that the many abominations done to His Word would have been reconciled over the centuries if these who arose over the centuries truly feared Him, possessing wisdom that can only be attained from Him.

Myrbd/Deut. 4:10 “The day when you stood before hwhy your myhla in Ḥoreb, hwhy said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me and I make them hear My Words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and teach them to their children.’ Myrbd/Deut. 14:23 “And you shall eat before hwhy your myhla, in the place where He chooses to make His Name dwell, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and of the firstlings of your herds and your sheep, so that you learn to fear hwhy your myhla always. Myrbd/Deut. 31:12, 13 “Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that they [mv, and so that they learn to fear hwhy your myhla and guard to do all the Words of this Turah. 13 “And their children, who have not known it, should [mv and learn to fear hwhy your myhla as long as you live in the land you are passing over the Yarden to possess.”

WE SHOULD TREMBLE AT HIS WORD AND AT HIS PRESENCE:

Mymyh yrbd-a/1Chro. 16:30 Tremble before Him, all the earth. The world also is firmly established, immovable. Why[vy/Isa. 66:5 Hear the Word of hwhy, you who tremble at His Word, “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for My Name’s sake, said, ‘Let hwhy be esteemed, so that we see your joy.’ But they are put to shame.” Whymry/Jer. 5:22 ‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares hwhy. ‘Do you not tremble at My presence, who have placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, by an everlasting law, and it does not pass over it? Though its waves toss to and fro, they are not able; though they roar, they do not pass over it. Arz[/Ez. 10:3 “Now then, let us make a covenant with our myhla to put away all these wives and those who have been born to them, according to the counsel of hwhy and of those who tremble at the command of our myhla. And let it be done according to the Turah. From the very first command it was important for mankind to understand and comprehend the voice of myhla. As a result of not understanding, misunderstanding or disbelief of what was commanded

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and the extent of the consequences, the covering or protection of myhla was removed from mankind and he knew it the moment he sinned. tyvarb/Gen. 2:15-17 And hwhy myhla took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to guard it. (16) And hwhy myhla commanded the man, saying, “Eat of every tree of the garden, (17) but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it you shall certainly die.” tyvarb/Gen. 3:7-11 (7) Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made loin coverings for themselves. (8) And they heard the sound of hwhy myhla walking about in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his ashah hid themselves from the presence of hwhy myhla among the trees of the garden. (9) And hwhy myhla called unto Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” (10) And he said, “I [mv Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.” (11) And He said, “Who made you know that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” twmv/Exo. 19:9 And hwhy said to M’shah, “See, I am coming to you in the thick cloud, so that the people [mv when I speak with you, and believe you forever.” And M’shah reported the words of the people to hwhy. Myrbd/Deut. 4:10 “The day when you stood before hwhy your myhla in Charab, hwhy said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me and I make them [mv My Words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and teach them to their children.’ Myrbd/Deut. 5:1 And M’shah called all larvy, and said to them, “[mv, larvy, the laws and right-rulings which I speak in your [mv today. And you shall learn them [Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:44-46], and guard to do them. Myrbd/Deut. 6:1-5 “And this is the command, the laws and right-rulings which hwhy your myhla has commanded, to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over to possess, (2) so that you fear hwhy your myhla, to guard all His laws and His commands which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days be prolonged. (3) “And you shall [mv, larvy, and shall guard to do, that it might be well with you, and that you increase greatly as hwhy myhla of your fathers has spoken to you, in a land flowing with milk and vbd (usually translated as ‘honey’; see Glossary). (4) “[mv, larvy: hwhy our myhla, hwhy only! (5) “And you shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. Myrbd/Deut. 7:12 “And it shall be, because you [mv these right-rulings, and shall guard and do them, that hwhy your myhla shall guard with you the covenant and the kindness which He swore to your fathers, Myrbd/Deut. 31:10-13 And M’shah commanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time, the year of release, at the Festival of Booths, (11) when all larvy comes to appear before hwhy your myhla in the place which He chooses, read this Turah before all larvy in their [mv. (12) “Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that they [mv, and so that they learn to fear hwhy your myhla and guard to do all the Words of this Turah. (13) “And their children, who have not known it, should hear and learn to fear hwhy your myhla as long as you live in the land you are passing over the Yardan to possess.” NOTE: Myrbd/Deut. 17:14-20 “When you come to the land which hwhy your myhla is giving you, and shall possess it and shall dwell in it, and you shall say, ‘Let me set a sovereign over me like all the nations that are around me,’ (15) you shall certainly set a sovereign over you whom hwhy your myhla shall choose. Set a sovereign over you from among your brothers, you are not allowed to set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. (16) “Only, he is not to increase horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Mitsrayim to increase horses, for hwhy has said to you, ‘Do not return that way again.’ (17) “And he is not to increase wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor is he to greatly increase silver and gold for himself. (18) “And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his reign, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Turah in a book, from the one before the kahanym, the Lewites. (19) “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he learns to fear hwhy his

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myhla and guard all the Words of this Turah and these laws, to do them, (20) so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongs his days in his reign, he and his children, in the midst of larvy. Myrbd/Deut. 13:1-10 “When there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he shall give you a sign or a wonder, (2) and the sign or the wonder shall come true, of which he has spoken to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other mighty ones – which you have not known – and serve them,’ (3) do not [mv the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for hwhy your myhla is trying you to know whether you love hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being. (4) “Walk after hwhy your myhla and fear Him, and guard His commands and [mv His voice, and serve Him and cling to Him. (5) “And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is put to death, because he has spoken apostasy against hwhy your myhla – who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim and redeemed you from the house of bondage – to make you stray from the way in which hwhy your myhla commanded you to walk. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst. (6) “When your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own being, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other mighty ones’– which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, (7) of the mighty ones of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth – (8) do not agree with him or [mv him, nor shall your eye pardon him, nor spare him or conceal him, (9) but you shall certainly kill him. Your hand is first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people, (10) and you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from hwhy your myhla, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage. (11) “And let all larvy [mv and fear, and not again do any such evil matter as this in your midst. Myrbd/Deut. 17:8-13 “When any matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, or between stroke and stroke – matters of strife within your gates – then you shall rise and go up to the place which hwhy your myhla chooses, (9) and shall come to the kahanym, the Lewites, and to the judge who is in those days, and shall inquire. And they shall declare to you the word of right-ruling, (10) and you shall do according to the word which they declare to you from that place which hwhy chooses. And you shall guard to do according to all that they instruct you. (11) “Do according to the Turah in which they teach you, according to the right-ruling which they say to you. You do not turn to the right or to the left from the word that they declare to you. (12) “And the man who acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the kahan who stands to serve there before hwhy your myhla, or to the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from larvy. (13) “And let all the people [mv and fear, and no longer do arrogantly. Myrbd/Deut. 19:16-20 “When a malicious witness rises up against any man to accuse him of turning aside, (17) then both men who have the dispute shall stand before hwhy, before the kahanym and the judges who serve in those days. (18) “And the judges shall diligently search and see if the witness is a false witness, who has falsely accused his brother, (19) then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst. (20) “And let the rest [mv and fear, and never again do this evil matter in your midst. Myrbd/Deut. 21:18-21 “When a man has a wayward and rebellious son who is not listening to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have disciplined him, does not listen to them, (19) then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city, (20) and shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is wayward and rebellious. He is not listening to our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ (21) “Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst. And let all larvy [mv, and fear. Lawmv-a/1Sam. 2:22-25 And yla was very old, and had heard all that his sons were doing to all larvy, and how they lay with the women who were assembling at the door of the Tent of Meeting. (23) And he said to them, “Why do you do deeds like these? 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death. [Myrbd/Deut. 21:18-21; Ylvm/Prov. 19:27; 23:19,26; 24:21 10:1; 13:1,24; 17:2,25; 19:13,18,26; 29:17, etc.] Myrbd/Deut. 31:12-13 “Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that they [mv, and so that they learn to fear hwhy your myhla and guard to do all the Words of this Turah. (13) “And their children, who have not known it, should [mv and learn to fear hwhy your myhla as long as you live in the land you are passing over the Yarden to possess.” Lawmv-a/1Sam. 15:1-3 And Lawmv said to Sha’ul, hwhy sent me to anoint you sovereign over His people, over Larvy. And now, [mv the voice of the words of hwhy. (2) “Thus said hwhy

twabc, ‘I shall punish Amaleq for what he did to Larvy, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up from Mitsrayim. (3) ‘Now go, and you shall smite Amaleq and put under the ban all that he has, and you shall not spare them, and put to death from man to woman, from infant to nursing child, from ox to sheep, from camel to donkey.’ ” Note: hwhy gave specific instructions for Sha’ul to follow or [mv so let’s see how Sha’ul does in the listening department and then consider your own lives. Are you doing the desires of men or the desires of Him? Lawmv-a/1Sam. 15:7-11 And Sha’ul smote the Amaleqites, from Ḥawilah all the way to Shur, which is before Mitsrayim. (8) And he caught Agag sovereign of the Amaleqites alive, and put under the ban all the people with the edge of the sword. (9) But Sha’ul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, and the cattle, and the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not put them under the ban. But all goods despised and worthless, that they put under the ban. (10) And the word of hwhy came to Lawmv, saying, (11) “I am grieved that I have set up Sha’ul as sovereign, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My words.” And it displeased Lawmv, and he cried to hwhy all night. Note: Notice how Sha’ul didn’t follow the instructions completely and then consider what hwhy said regarding this disobedience, “he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My words”. hwhy was grieved about this and referred Sha’ul’s inability to [mv as “turning back from following Him”.

Lawmv-a/1Sam. 15:17-26 And Lawmv said, “Though you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Larvy? And did not hwhy anoint you sovereign over Larvy? (18) “And hwhy sent you on the way, and said, ‘Go, and you shall put under the ban the sinners, the Amaleqites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ (19) “And why did you not obey the voice of hwhy, but swooped down on the spoil, and did evil in the eyes of hwhy?” (20) And Sha’ul said to Lawmv, “I did obey the voice of hwhy, and I went on the way on which hwhy sent me, and brought back Agag sovereign of Amaleq, and I put Amaleq under the ban. (21) “But the people took of the spoil, of the sheep and cattle, the best of that which should have been put under the ban, to slaughter to hwhy your myhla in Gilgal.” (22) Then Lawmv said, “Does hwhy delight in burnt offerings and slaughterings, as in [mv the voice of hwhy? Look, to [mv is better than an offering, to bvqH7181 is better than the fat of rams. (23) “For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of hwhy, He also does reject you as sovereign. [Note: [vwh/Hos. 4:6]” (24) And Sha’ul said to Lawmv, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the command of hwhy and your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice. (25) “And now, please pardon my sin, and return with me, and let me bow myself to hwhy.” (26) But Lawmv said to Sha’ul, “I do not return with you, for you have rejected the word of hwhy, and hwhy does reject you from being sovereign over Larvy.” Note: Here is an example of hwhy making it clear what He means by [mv. He says it is better to [mv (they translate it as obey) but directly after that statement He reiterates, “to bvqH7181 is better than the fat of rams”. Again, we see the word bvq which they translate as “heed or hearken” means: H7181 bvq - BDB Definition: 1) to hear, be attentive, heed, incline (of ears), attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen 1a)

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(Qal) incline, attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen 1b) (Hiphil) to pay attention, give attention Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 2084 So again, He is comparing [mv [hearing, listening, understanding, paying attention, etc.] to being better than a slaughtering or offering which was also commanded but He repeats it using a different word to make clear that He is saying hear or listen! Bvq is hearing attentively and giving heed, inclining your ears and paying attention!

Why[vy/Isa. 28:9-23 Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts! (10) For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. (11) For with a jabbering lip and a foreign tongue He speaks to this people, (12) to whom He said, “This is the rest, give rest to the weary,” and, “This is the refreshing.” But they would not [mv. (13) But the Word of hwhy was to them, “Command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,” so that they go and shall stumble backward, and be broken and snared and taken captive. (14) Therefore [mv the Word of hwhy, you men of scorn, who rule this people who are in Yarushalam, (15) because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we have effected a vision. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it does not come to us, for we have made lying our refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.” (16) Therefore thus said ynda

hwhy, “See, I am laying in Tsyun a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a settled foundation. He who trusts shall not hasten away. (17) And I shall make right-ruling the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lying, and the waters overflow the hiding place. (18) And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your vision with the grave not stand. When an overflowing scourge passes through, then you shall be trampled down by it. (19) As often as it passes through it shall take you, for it shall pass through every morning, and by day and by night. And it shall be only trembling to understand the message.” (20) For the bed shall be too short for a man to stretch out on, and the covering shall be too narrow to wrap himself in it. (21) For hwhy rises up as at Mount Peratsim, and He is wroth as at the Valley of Gibʽon, to do His work, His strange work, and to do His deed, His strange deed. (22) And now, do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from ynda hwhy twabc, a destruction decreed upon all the earth. (23) Give ear and hear my voice, listen and hear my Word.

Why[vy/Isa. 48:1-12,18 “Hear this, house of Yaʽaqob, who are called by the name of larvy, and have come from the waters of hdwhy, who swear by the Name of hwhy, and profess the myhla of larvy – though not in truth or in righteousness – (2) for they call themselves after the set-apart city, and lean on the myhla of larvy – hwhy twabc is His Name: (3) “I have declared the former events from the beginning, and they went forth from My mouth, and I made you hear them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to be. (4) “Because I knew that you were hard, and your neck was an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze, (5) therefore I declared it to you long ago. Before it came I made you hear, lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my carved image and my moulded image commanded them.’ (6) “You have heard, look at them all. And do you not declare it? From now on I shall make you hear new ones, even hidden ones, which you have not known. (7) “Now they shall be created and not long ago. And before this day you have not heard them, lest you should say, ‘Look, I knew them.’ (8) “No, you have not heard; no, you have not known; no, from of old your ear has not been open. Because I knew that you are indeed treacherous, and are called ‘a transgressor from the womb.’ (9) “For My Name’s sake I postponed My displeasure, and for My praise I held it back from you, so as not to cut you off. (10) “See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. (11) “For My own sake, for My own sake, I do it. For how is it profaned? And My esteem I do not give to another. (12) “Listen to Me, Yaʽaqob, and larvy , My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last. (18) “If only you had listened to My commands! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Whymry/Jer. 23:22 “But if they had stood in My counsel, then they would have let My people hear My Words, and they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.

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Laqzxy/Ezek. 1:28; 2:1-8 As the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the esteem of hwhy. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking. Laqzxy/Ezek. 2:1-8 And He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, so that I speak to you.” (2) And the Spirit entered into me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet. And I heard Him who was speaking to me. (3) And He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of larvy, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against Me. They and their fathers have transgressed against Me, until this day. (4) “And the children are stiff of face and hard of heart to whom I am sending you, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus said ynda hwhy.’ (5) “And they – whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are a rebellious house – shall know that a aybn has been in their midst. (6) “And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or discouraged by their looks, for they are a rebellious house; (7) “but you shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious. (8) “And you, son of man, hear what I am speaking to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house, open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.” Nnxwhy/Jn. 8:28-47 So [vwhy said to them, “When you lift up the Builder of mankind, then you shall know that I am He, and that I do none at all of Myself, but as My Father taught Me, these words I speak. (29) “And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him.” (30) As He was speaking these words, many believed in Him. (31) So [vwhy said to those mydwhy who believed Him, “If you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones, (32) and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (33) They answered Him, “We are the seed of Ab_raham, and have been servants to no one at any time. How do you say, ‘You shall become free’?” (34) [vwhy answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone doing sin is a servant of sin. (35) “And the servant does not stay in the house forever – a son stays forever. (36) “If, then, the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. (37) “I know that you are the seed of Abraham, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. (38) “I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.” (39) They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.”1 [vwhy said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. Footnote: 1See Mt. 3:9, Rom. 9:8. (40) “But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has spoken to you the truth which I heard from myhla. Abraham did not do this. (41) “You do the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of whoring, we have one Father: myhla.” (42) [vwhy said to them, “If myhla were your Father, you would love Me, for I came forth from myhla, and am here. For I have not come of Myself, but He sent Me. (43) “Why do you not know what I say? Because you are unable to hear My Word. (44) “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it. (45) “And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. (46) “Who of you proves Me wrong concerning sin? And if I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me? (47) “He who is of myhla hears ([mv – i.e. understands) the Words of myhla, therefore you do not hear ([mv) because you are not of myhla.” Nnxwhy/Jn. 10:1-16,27 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber. (2) “But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. (3) “The doorkeeper opens for him, and the sheep hear his voice. And he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. (4) “And when he has brought out his own sheep, he goes before them. And the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. (5) “And they shall by no means follow a stranger, but shall flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” (6) [vwhy used this figure of speech, but they did not know what He had been saying to them. (7) [vwhy therefore said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. (8) “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. (9) “I am the door. Whoever enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and find pasture. (10) “The thief does not come except to steal, and to slaughter, and to destroy. I have come that they might possess life, and that they might possess it beyond measure. (11) “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. (12) “But the hireling, and not being a shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. (13) “Now the hireling flees because he is a hireling and is not concerned about the sheep. (14) “I am the good shepherd.1 And I know Mine, and Mine know Me, NOTE: 1Ezek. 34:11-12, (15) even as the Father knows

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Me, and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. (16) “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold – I have to bring them as well, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.1 Footnote: 1Ezek. 34:23, Ezek. 37:24. (27) “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.1 Footnote: Rev. 14:4-5. nwzx/Rev. 13:8-9 And all those dwelling on the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world shall worship him. (9) If anyone has an ear, let him hear. Nnxwhy/Jn. 6:41-45 Therefore the mydwhy were grumbling against Him, because He said, “I am the bread which came down out of the heaven.” (42) And they said, “Is not this [vhwy, the son of pswhy, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down out of the heaven’?” (43) Then [vhwy answered and said to them, “Do not grumble with one another. (44) “No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. And I shall raise him up in the last day. (45) “It has been written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by hwhy.’ Everyone, then, who has heard from the Father, and learned, comes to Me.

CEDH: [pg. 682,683] [mv – to hear, [Phoen. [mv, Moab., in t[mvm, Aram., BAram., and Syr., ( [me =he heard), Ugar. Shm (=to hear), Arab. سسممعع [sami’a], Ethiop., sam’a (=he heard), Akka., shemu (=to hear). Qal שמע tr. V. 1 he heard; 2 he heard with interest; 3 he hearkened, listened to; 4 he fulfilled one’s advice. – Niph., 1 – נשמע was heard; 2 was listened to; 3 was understood; 4 was obeyed – Pi., שמע – he assembled, summoned (lit. he caused to hear; 2 he made a proclamation, announced; 3 he assembled, summoned; - Hoph., השמע MH was made to hear, was proclaimed. Derivatives: שמיע ,שמען ,שמעת ,שמע, .שמעתא ,.cp ,משמעת ,משמעות ,משמע ,השמע ,השתמעות ,השמעות ,השמעה ,שמיעהCEDH: pg 408 [mvmt – f.n. 1. Obedience 2. Obedient body of subjects 3. Bodyguard 4. NH discipline [formed from שמע (=to hear; to obey), with pref. מ and suff. ת. Derivatives: משמעתי ,משמע [e.g. Why[vy/Isa. 1:19] If you have heard, learned and thus understood what you’ve heard, and you then believe the words, it would cause you to fear because of your understanding of what you’ve heard. You fear would then be the catalyst for your desire to do what was commanded and your life will be your prize.

THE INWARD & THE OUTWARD – [WITH ALL YOUR HEART & ALL YOUR BEING]: The Inward: Whyttm/Matt. 15:1-20 Then there came to [vhwy scribes and Pharisees from Yarushalam, saying, (2) “Why do Your taught ones transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” (3) But He answering, said to them, “Why do you also transgress the command of myhla because of your tradition? (4) “For myhla has commanded, saying, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ (5) “But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me has been dedicated,” (6) is certainly released from respecting his father or mother.’ So you have nullified the command of myhla by your tradition. (7) “Hypocrites! Why[vy rightly prophesied about you, saying, (8) ‘This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. (9) ‘But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as teachings the commands of men.’ ”1 Footnote: 1Isa. 29:13, Mk. 7:7, 2 Ki. 17:19. (10) And calling the crowd near, He said to them, “Hear and understand: (11) “Not that which goes into the mouth defiles the man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.” (12) Then His taught ones came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees stumbled when they heard this word?” (13) But He answering, said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted. (14) “Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into a ditch.” (15) And Kepha answering, said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.” (16)

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And [vhwy said, “Are you also still without understanding? (17) “Do you not understand that whatever enters into the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out in the sewer? (18) “But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and these defile the man. (19) “For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders. (20) “These defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”

Whyttm/Matt. 23:1-28 “Then [vhwy spoke to the crowds and to His taught ones, (2) saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of M’shah. (3) “Therefore, whatever they say to you to guard, guard and do. But do not do according to their works, for they say, and do not do. (4) “For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders, but with their finger they do not wish to move them. (5) “And they do all their works to be seen by men, and they make their t’fillen wide and lengthen the tzitziyot of their garments, (6) and they love the best place at feasts, and the best seats in the congregations, (7) and the greetings in the market-places, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi G4461.’ (8) “But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi,’ for One is your Teacher G2519, the Mashyach, and you are all brothers. (9) “And do not call anyone on earth your father, for One is your Father, He who is in the heavens. (10) “Neither be called leaders, for One is your Leader, the Mashyach. (11) “But the greatest among you shall be your servant. (12) “And whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. (13) “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. (14) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you eat up widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. Because of this you shall receive greater judgment. (15) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you go about the land and the sea to win one convert, and when he is won, you make him a son of Gehenna twofold more than yourselves. (16) “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the Dwelling Place, it does not matter, but whoever swears by the gold of the Dwelling Place, is bound by oath.’ (17) “Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the Dwelling Place that sets the gold apart? (18) “And, ‘Whoever swears by the slaughter-place, it does not matter, but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, is bound by oath.’ (19) “Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the slaughter-place that sets the gift apart? (20) “He, then, who swears by the slaughter-place, swears by it and by all that is upon it. (21) “And he who swears by the Dwelling Place, swears by it and by Him who is dwelling in it. (22) “And he who swears by the heaven, swears by the throne of myhla and by Him who is sitting upon it. (23) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe the mint and the anise and the cumin,1 and have neglected the weightier matters of the Turah: the right-ruling and the compassion and the belief. These need to have been done, without neglecting the others. [The wording in Lk. 11:42 is somewhat different.] (24) “Blind guides – straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! (25) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are filled with plunder and unrighteousness. (26) “Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside of them becomes clean too. (27) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly indeed look well, but inside are filled with dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. (28) “So you too outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness. G4461 ́ rhabbi - Thayer Definition:1) my great one, my honourable sir 2) Rabbi, a title used by the Jews to address their teachers (and also honour them when not addressing them) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: of Hebrew origin H7227 with pronominal suffix Citing in TDNT: 6:961, 982

Whyttm/Matt. 5:19-20 “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens. (20) “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees,1 you shall by no means enter into the reign of the heavens. Footnote: 1Mt. 15:3-9, Mk. 7:7-13, John 7:19, Acts 7:53 Whymry/Jer. 31:33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of larvy after those days, declares hwhy: I shall put My Turah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their

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myhla, and they shall be My people. Lawhy/Joel 2:13 And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to hwhy your myhla, for He shows favour and is compassionate, patient, and of great kindness, and He shall relent concerning the evil.

Why[vy/Isa. 29:13 And hwhy says, “Because this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught1! NOTE: 1Mt. 15:8-9, Mk. 7:6-7. Bwya/Job 38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the heart? Mylht/Psa. 51:6 See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom. Mylht/Psa. 64:6 They search out unrighteousnesses, “We have perfected a well searched out plan.” For the inward part of man, and heart, are deep. Nnxwhy/Jn. 7:16-19 [vwhy answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.1 NOTE: 1Deut. 18:15-20. (17) “If anyone desires to do His desire, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is from myhla, or whether I speak from Myself. (18) “He who speaks from himself is seeking his own esteem, but He who seeks the esteem of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him. (19) “Did not M’shah give you the Turah? Yet not one of you does the Turah!1 Why do you seek to kill Me?” Footnote: 1See Mt. 5:20. Whyttm/Matt. 7:15 “But beware of the false prophets,1 who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves. Footnote: 1See v. 23

WITH ALL YOUR BEING: We are commanded to turn back with all of our ‘heart and being’ so what does that mean? The Abary word translated as ‘being’ is vpn.

H5315 – vpn naphash BDB Definition:1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion 1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man 1b) living being 1c) living being (with life in the blood) 1d) the man himself, self, person or individual 1e) seat of the appetites 1f) seat of emotions and passions 1g) activity of mind 1g1) dubious 1h) activity of the will 1h1) dubious 1i) activity of the character 1i1) dubious Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5314 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1395a - H5314 vpn na^phash BDB Definition:1) (Niphal) to take breath, refresh oneself Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 1395 Etmology: [pg. 437]

Myrbd/Deut. 30:2 2 And you shall turn back to hwhy your myhla so that you {t[mvw - <H8085-[mv> hear, listen, [to perceive by ear, to have power to hear, to hear with attention or interest, to understand, to give heed, etc.]} according to ‘His’ voice [Yaram. 3:13; 7:23; 11:1-7], according to all that I {command, charge, entrust, order, impose on, etc.} you this day, with all your {kbbl - <H3823-24>- inward parts, heart, understanding, intelligence}, even with all your {kvpn - <H5314-15> breath, being, mind, desire, emotion, passion, etc.}; Myrbd/Deut. 4:23-29 “Guard yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of hwhy your myhla which He made with you, and shall make for yourselves a carved image in the form of whatever hwhy your myhla has forbidden you. (24) “For hwhy your myhla is a consuming fire, a jealous la. (25) “When you bring forth children and grandchildren, and shall grow old in the land, and shall do corruptly and make a carved image in the form of whatever, and shall do what is evil in the eyes of hwhy your myhla to provoke Him, (26) “I shall call the heavens and earth to witness against you on that day, that you soon completely perish from the land which you pass over the Yarden to possess – you do not prolong your days in it but are completely destroyed. (27) “And hwhy shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where hwhy drives you. (28) “And there you shall

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serve mighty ones, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. (29) “But from there you shall seek hwhy your myhla, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart1 and with all your being. Footnote: 1Jer. 29:13.

Myrbd/Deut. 6:5 “And you shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.

Myrbd/Deut. 10:12 “And now, Larvy, what is hwhy your myhla asking of you, but to fear hwhy your myhla, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being, Myrbd/Deut. 11:13 ‘And it shall be that if you diligently [mv My commands which I command you today, to love hwhy your myhla and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being,

Myrbd/Deut. 13:3 do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for hwhy your myhla is trying you to know whether you love hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being.

Myrbd/Deut. 26:16 “Today hwhy your Larvy is commanding you to do these laws and right-rulings. And you shall guard and do them with all your heart and with all your being.

Myrbd/Deut. 30:2 and shall turn back to hwhy your myhla and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your being, you and your children,

Myrbd/Deut. 30:6 “And hwhy your myhla shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live,

Myrbd/Deut. 30:10 if you [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Turah, if you turn back to hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being. [vwhy/Jos. 22:5 “Only, diligently guard to do the command and the Turah which M’shah the servant of hwhy commanded you, to love hwhy your myhla, and to walk in all His ways, and to guard His commands, and to cling to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being.” The Outward: Looking ahead, we see that when people were very upset and distraught regarding something [e.g. a death], they would often tear their garments as an expression of their emotions. There are many theories as to why they did this, but we were not to stop there. Tearing the Garment? [Lawmv-b/2Sam. 1:2-16] tyvarb/Gen. 37:29 And Re’uben returned to the pit, and see, pswhy was not in the pit. And he tore his garments. tyvarb/Gen. 37:34 And Yaʽaqob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. [vwhy/Jos. 7:6 And [vwhy tore his garments, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of hwhy until evening, both he and the elders of Larvy, and they put dust on their heads. Myjpv/Judg. 11:35 And it came to be, when he saw her, that he tore his garments, and said, “Oh my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me! And I, I have given my word to hwhy, and I am unable to turn back.” Lawmv-b/2Sam. 13:31 And the sovereign rose up and tore his garments and lay on the ground, and all his servants stood by with their garments torn. Myklm-b/2Ki. 5:7 And it came to be, when the sovereign of Larvy read the letter, that he tore his garments and said, “Am I myhla, to kill and keep alive, that this man sends a man to me to recover him of his leprosy? For consider now, and see how he is seeking an occasion with me!”

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Myklm-b/2Ki. 6:30 And it came to be, when the sovereign heard the words of the woman, that he tore his garments. And as he passed by on the wall, the people looked and saw the sackcloth on his body, underneath. Bwya/Job 1:20 Then Bwya rose up and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and did obeisance. Bwya/Job 2:12 And they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognise him, and they lifted their voices and wept. And each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on his head toward the heavens. Why[vy/Isa. 37:1 And it came to be, when Sovereign whyqzx heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the House of hwhy,

JUDGEMENT?

Nnxwhy/Jn. 7:51 “Does our Turah judge the man unless it hears first from him and knows what he is doing?” Nnxwhy/Jn. 8:15, 16, 26 “You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. 16 “But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me. 26 “I have much to say and to judge concerning you. But He who sent Me is true, and what I heard from Him, these Words I speak to the world.” Nnxwhy/Jn. 12:47, 48 “And if anyone hears My Words but does not watch over them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My Words, has one who judges him: the Word that I have spoken shall judge him in the last day.1 Footnote: 1See 3:18-19, 7:16. Nnxwhy/Jn. 18:31 Then Pilate said to them, “You take Him and judge Him according to your law.” The ydwhy said to him, “It is not right for us to put anyone to death,”

TURNING AWAY?: Laqzxy/Ezek. 3:17-21 Son of man, keep watch. I have entrusted you to establish Larvy so they obey out of my mouth, the command; and you send out the light of their twa on My account. 18 After I promise death to the wicked, certain death, but without you teaching and without you declaring to warn the wicked from his way of wickedness to save his life, that one who is guilty, according to his wrong he shall die, and his blood, against your hand, I require. [Wicked/wrong – [vr: wicked, criminal, guilty one, one guilty of crime or sin] Laqzxy/Ezek. 3:19 But you, because you warned the wicked but he did not turn from his wickedness and from his way of wickedness, he, in his wrong shall die but you, ta refreshes you; you are delivered! [turn – bv: to return, turn back, come or go back, return unto (of dying, human relations, spiritual relations; turn back from, to turn away of, to turn back to hwhy or turn back from evil] Laqzxy/Ezek. 3:20 But to turn the righteous from their righteousness and make them do unrighteousness, so I set them to stumble upon their face that he shall be put to death; since they were not warned against their sin, he shall die and nothing is remembered of his righteousness that was done, and their blood, against your hand, I require. [Law against leading away from Him Myrbd/Deut. 13] 21 But you, if you warn the righteous to not sin, he is righteous seeing that he is without sin; he shall live! He

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shall live because he has been warned, and you, ta refreshes you. You are delivered! Myrbd/Deut. 28:14 But do not turn aside from {leave undone/depart from the way/put aside or depose} any of the Words that I am commanding according to your ta this day, right or left H5493 rwv/rws [v-pr]: BDB: 1) to turn aside, depart, depart from way, avoid, to be removed, to come to an end, take away, put away, depose, to put aside, leave undone, retract, reject, abolish This definition implies that to ‘turn aside’, is “also leaving undone or not doing all” of the Words or commands that He commanded. (Deut 28:15 [TS98]) “And it shall be, if you do not [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard to do all His commands and His laws which I command you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you: Examples of Turning away or ‘straying from Him’: Laqzxy/Ezek. 14:1-11 And some of the elders of Larvy came to me and sat before me. (2) And the word of hwhy came to me, saying, (3) “Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and have put the stumbling-block of their crookedness before their face. Should I let them inquire of Me at all? (4) “Therefore speak to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus said ynda hwhy, “Everyone of the house of Larvy who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his crookedness before his face, and shall come to the prophet – I hwhy shall answer him who comes, according to his many idols, (5) in order to lay hold of the house of Larvy by their heart, for they have become estranged from Me by their idols, all of them.” ’ (6) “Therefore say to the house of Larvy, ‘Thus said ynda hwhy, “Repent, and turn back from your idols, and turn back your faces from all your abominations. (7) “For anyone of the house of Larvy, or of the strangers who sojourn in Larvy, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling-block of his crookedness before his face, and shall come to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I hwhy shall answer him Myself. (8) “And I shall set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I shall cut him off from the midst of My people. And you shall know that I am hwhy’. (9) “And if the prophet is deceived, and shall speak a word, I hwhy have deceived that prophet, and shall stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from the midst of My people Larvy. (10) “And they shall bear their crookedness, the crookedness of the prophet is the same as the crookedness of the inquirer, (11) so that the house of Larvy no longer strays from Me, nor be made unclean any more with all their transgressions. And they shall be My people and I be their Elohim,” declares ynda hwhy’ ”

[vwh/Hos. 11:1-7 “When Larvy was a child, I loved him, and out of Mitsrayim I called My son. (2) “They called to them, so they went from their face. They slaughtered to the Baʽals, and burned incense to carved images. (3) “And I taught Ephrayim to walk, taking them by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them. (4) “I drew them with ropes of man, with cords of love, and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. And I bent down, fed them. (5) “No, let him return to the land of Mitsrayim, and let Ashshur be his sovereign, because they refused to repent! (6) “And the sword shall whirl in his cities, and it shall demolish his gate bars, and consume, because of their own counsels. (7) “My people are bent towards backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He lifts none of them up. Whymry/Jer. 5:3,23,24 hwhy, are Your eyes not on truth? You have smitten them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces harder than rock, they refused to turn back. 22 ‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares hwhy. ‘Do you not tremble at My presence, who have placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, by an everlasting law, and it does not pass over it? Though its waves toss to and fro, they are not able; though they roar, they do not pass over it. 23‘But this people has a backsliding and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and gone away. 24 ‘And they do not say in their heart,

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“Let us now fear hwhy our myhla, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He guards for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Whymry/Jer. 11:9,10 9 And hwhy said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Hdwhy and among the inhabitants of Yarushalam. 10 “They have turned back to the crookednesses of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other mighty ones to serve them. The house of Larvy and the house of Hdwhy have broken My covenant I made with their fathers.” swm[/Amo. 4:6, 8-11 “And I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. 8 “Then two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, but they were not satisfied. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. 9 “I have smitten you with blight and with mildew. The creeping locust devoured your many gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive trees. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. 10 “I have sent among you a plague in the way of Mitsrayim. I have slain your young men with a sword, along with your captured horses. And I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. 11 “I have overthrown some of you, as myhla overthrew Seḏom and Amorah, and you were like a burning stick plucked from the burning. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares hwhy. ATTRIBUTES OF THOSE WHO WON’T BE DELIVERED: Note: What it means to 'Turn away', what it entails Myrbd/Deut. 30:17 17“But if your heart turns away, and you do not [mv, and shall be drawn away, and shall bow down to other mighty ones and serve them, Worshiping other ‘mighty ones’ i.e. making anything more important that Him is an example of turning away. Why[vy/Isa. 29:17-21 Is it not yet a little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into garden land, and garden land be reckoned as a forest? (18) And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom, and out of darkness. (19) And the meek ones shall increase their joy in hwhy, and the poor among men rejoice in the Set-apart One of Larvy. (20) For the ruthless H6184 are brought to naught, the scorner H3887 is consumed, and all who watch for evil shall be cut off, (21) those who make a man to sin with a word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with emptiness.

RUTHLESS: H6184 – cyr[- BDB Definition: 1) awe-inspiring, terror-striking, awesome, terrifying, ruthless, mighty Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6206 – ערץ BDB Definition: 1) to tremble, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, break, be terrified, cause to tremble 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cause to tremble, terrify 1b2) to tremble, feel dread 1b) (Niphal) to be awesome, be terrible 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to regard or treat with awe, regard or treat as awful 1c2) to inspire with awe, terrify Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root SCORNER: H3887 – cwl - BDB Definition: 1) to scorn, make mouths at, talk arrogantly 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to boast 1a2) to scorn Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 1113 Here we see ruthless and scorners are those who turn away the righteous for worthlessness [e.g. a price, esteem from men, etc.]. These are examples of those who have turned away.

[vwhy/Jos. 23:11-13 11 “And you shall diligently guard yourselves, to love hwhy your myhla. 12 “But if you do turn back at all, and cling to the remnant of these nations, these that remain among you, and intermarry with them, and go in to them and they to you, 13 know for

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certain that hwhy your myhla shall no longer drive these nations out from before you. And they shall be snares and traps to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which hwhy your myhla has given you. NOT LISTENING AND IN DISBELIEVE?

arqyw/Lev. 26:13-21,24,27,28 ‘I am hwhy your myhla, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright. (14) ‘But if you do not [mv Me, and do not do all these commands, (15) and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant, (16) I also do this to you: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the eyes, and consuming the life. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. (17) ‘And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. (18) ‘And after all this, if you do not [mv Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins. (19) ‘And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. (20) ‘And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit. (21) ‘And if you walk contrary to Me, and refuse to [mv Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins, ‘And if you are not disciplined/corrected/instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me, (24) then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall smite you seven times for your sins. (27) ‘And if in spite of this, you do not [mv Me, but walk contrary to Me, (28) then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins. laynd/Dan. 9:9-14 “To hwhy our myhla are the compassions and forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him. (10) “And we have not obeyed the voice of hwhy our myhla, to walk in His Torot, which He set before us through His servants the myaybn. (11) “And all Larvy have transgressed Your Turah, and turned aside, so as not to obey Your voice. So the curse and the oath written in the Turah of M’shah the servant of myhla have been poured out on us, for we have sinned against Him. (12) “And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our rulers who judged us, by bringing upon us great evil. For under all the heavens there has not been done like what was done to Yarushalam. (13) “As it is written in the Turah of M’shah, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of hwhy our myhla, to turn back from our crookednesses, and to study Your truth. (14) “Hence hwhy has watched over the evil and has brought it upon us. For hwhy our myhla is righteous in all the works which He has done, but we have not [mv His voice. [vwh/Hos. 5:1-4 “[mv this, kahanym! And listen, house of larvy! Give ear, house of the sovereign! For the judgment is for you, for you have been a snare to Mitspah and a net spread on Taḇor. (2) “And they have made deep the pit of Shittim, so I reprove them all. (3) “I have known Ephrayim, and larvy has not been hidden from Me. For now, Ephrayim, you have whored, larvy is defiled. (4) “Their deeds do not allow them to turn back to their myhla, for the spirit of whorings is among them, and they do not know hwhy. Twumv/Exo. 6:9 And M’shah spoke thus to the children of larvy, but they did not listen to M’shah, because of shortness of spirit, and from hard slavery.

Lawmv-a/1Sam. 15:24 And Sha’ul said to Lawmv, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the command of hwhy and your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice. [Remember: Myrbd/Deut. 30:2 2 And you shall turn back to hwhy your myhla so that you hear, listen, obey, [to perceive by ear, to have power to hear, to hear with attention or interest, to understand, to give heed according to ‘His’ voice [Whymry/Jer. 3:13; 7:23; 11:1-7], according to all that I command, charge, entrust, order, impose on you this day, with all your inward parts, heart, understanding, intelligence, even with all your breath, being, mind, desire, emotion, passion;]

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Consider: Why[vy/Isa. 29:13-16 And hwhy says, “Because this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught1! Footnote: 1Mt. 15:8-9, Mk. 7:6-7. (14) “Therefore, see, I am again doing a marvellous work among this people, a marvellous work and a wonder. And the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their clever men shall be hidden.” (15) Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from hwhy, and their works are in the dark; they say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?” (16) How perverse of you! Should the potter be reckoned as the clay? Should what is made say of its Maker, “He did not make me”? And what is formed say of Him who formed it, “He did not understand”?

Whymry/Jer. 23:14 “And among the prophets of Yarushalam I have seen a horrible matter: committing adultery and walking in falsehood. And they strengthen the hands of evil ones, so that no one turns back from his evil. All of them are like Seḏom to Me, and her inhabitants like Amorah.

Whymry/Jer. 25:4-6 “Moreover, hwhy has sent to you all His servants the myaybn, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear, (5) saying, ‘Turn back now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the soil which hwhy has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. (6) ‘And do not go after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow down to them. And do not provoke Me with the works of your hands, so that I do you no evil.’ Remember: Why[vy/Isa. 28:9 Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts! ARE YOU =>? Let’s examine some other undesirable attributes. Note: Nnxwhy/Jn. 5:44 “How are you able to believe, when you are receiving esteem from one another, and the esteem that is from the only myhla you do not seek?

HAUGHTY?

Lawmv-b/2Sam. 22:28 “For You save the humble people, But Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low. Bwya/Job 41:34 He sees all that is haughty. He is sovereign over all the sons of pride.” Mylht/Psa. 18:27 For You save the afflicted people, But bring down those whose eyes are haughty. Mylht/Psa. 101:5 Him who secretly slanders his neighbour I cut off; I do not tolerate one Who has a haughty look and a proud heart. Mylht/Psa. 131:1 hwhy, my heart has not been proud, nor have my eyes been haughty. Neither have I concerned myself with great matters, Nor with those too wondrous for me. Ylvm/Prov. 16:18 Before destruction comes pride, And before a fall a haughty spirit! Ylvm/Prov. 18:12 Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before esteem is humility. Ylvm/Prov. 21:4 A haughty look, a proud heart, the lamp of the wrong, are sin. Ylvm/Prov. 21:24 Proud, haughty, “Scoffer” is his name; He acts with arrogant pride. Ylvm/Prov. 30:13 There is a generation; Oh, how haughty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up. Why[vy/Isa. 3:16 And hwhy says, “Because the daughters of Tsyunare haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet, Why[vy/Isa. 10:12 “And it shall be, when hwhy has performed all His work on Mount Tsyunand on Yarushalam, that I shall punish the fruit of the greatness of the heart of the sovereign of Ashshur, and the boasting of his haughty looks.

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Why[vy/Isa. 24:4 The earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither, the haughty people of the earth shall languish. Laqzxy/Ezek. 16:50 “And they were haughty and did abomination before Me, and I took them away when I saw it. Hynpc/Zeph. 3:11 “In that day you shall not be put to shame for any of your deeds in which you have transgressed against Me, for then I shall remove from your midst your proud exulting ones, and you shall no more be haughty in My set-apart mountain.

LOFTY? Bwya/Job 22:12 Is not hwla in the height of heaven? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are! Why[vy/Isa. 2:11, 12, 15 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the pride of men shall be bowed down, and hwhy alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For hwhy twabc has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up, so that it is brought low; 15 and against every lofty tower, and against every strong wall; Why[vy/Isa. 10:33 Look, ynda, hwhy twabc, is lopping off a branch with an awesome crash, and the tall ones are cut down, and the lofty ones are laid low. Why[vy/Isa. 57:7 “On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. There, too, you went up to make an offering. Laqzxy/Ezek. 17:22 Thus said ynda hwhy, “And I shall take of the top of the highest cedar and set it out. And I Myself shall pluck off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain. Laqzxy/Ezek. 34:16 “I shall seek out the lost and bring back the strayed. And I shall bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick, but the fat and the strong I shall destroy. I shall feed them with right-ruling.”

PROUD?

proud (adj.)

late Old English prud, prute "excellent, splendid; arrogant, haughty," probably from Old French prud, oblique case of adjective prouz "brave, valiant" (11c., Modern French preux; compare prud'homme "brave man"), from Late Latin prode "advantageous, profitable" (source also of Italian prode "valiant"), a back-formation from Latin prodesse "be useful," from pro- "before, for, instead of" (see pro-) + esse "to be" (see essence). Also see pride (n.), prowess. Meaning "elated by some act, fact, or thing" is from mid-13c. To do (someone) proud attested by 1819. Related: Proudness. "The -d- in prodesse is probably due to the influence of forms like red-eo-, 'I go back,' red-imo- 'I buy back,' etc." [OED]. The Old English form with -te probably is from or influenced by pride. The sense of "have a high opinion of oneself," not found in Old French, might reflect the Anglo-Saxons' opinion of the Norman knights who called themselves "proud." Old Norse pruðr, probably from the same French source, had only the sense "brave, gallant, magnificent, stately" (compare Icelandic pruður, Middle Swedish prudh, Middle Danish prud). Likewise a group of "pride" words in the Romance languages -- such as French orgueil, Italian orgoglio, Spanish orgullo -- are borrowings from Germanic, where they had positive senses (Old High German urgol "distinguished"). Most Indo-European languages use the same word for "proud" in its good and bad senses, but in many the bad sense seems to be the earlier one. The usual way to form the word is by some compound of terms for "over" or "high" and words for "heart," "mood," "thought," or "appearance;" such as Greek hyperephanos, literally "over-appearing;" Gothic hauhþuhts, literally "high-conscience." Old English had ofermodig "over-moody" ("mood" in Anglo-Saxon was a much more potent word than presently) and heahheort "high-heart." Words for "proud" in other Indo-European languages sometimes reflect a physical sense of being swollen or puffed up; such

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as Welsh balch, probably from a root meaning "to swell," and Modern Greek kamari, from ancient Greek kamarou "furnish with a vault or arched cover," with a sense evolution via "make an arch," to "puff out the chest," to "be puffed up" (compare English slang chesty).

Bwya/Job 28:8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed over it. Bwya/Job 38:11 and said, ‘This far you have come, but no farther, and here your proud waves stop?’ Bwya/Job 40:11, 12 Scatter abroad the rage of your wrath, and look on everyone who is proud and bring him low. 12 Look on everyone who is proud, humble him. And tread down the wrong-doers in their place. Mylht/Psa. 40:4 Strengthened is that man who has made hwhy his trust, And has not turned to the proud, And those turning aside to falsehood. Mylht/Psa. 86:14 myhla, the proud have risen against me, And a band of dreaded men have sought my life, And have not set You before them. Mylht/Psa. 94:2 Raise Yourself up, Judge of the earth; Render punishment to the proud. Mylht/Psa. 101:5 Him who secretly slanders his neighbour I cut off; I do not tolerate one Who has a haughty look and a proud heart. Mylht/Psa. 119:21, 51, 69, 78, 85, 122 You rebuked the proud, cursed ones, Who are straying from Your commands. 51 The proud have utterly scorned me, I did not turn aside from Your Turah . 69 The proud have forged a lie against me, With all my heart I observe Your orders. 78 Let the proud be put to shame, For with lies they perverted me; But I study Your orders. 85 The proud have dug pits for me, Which is not according to Your Turah . 122 Guarantee Your servant’s well-being; Let not the proud oppress me. Mylht/Psa. 123:4 Our being is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those who are at ease, With the mockery of the proud. Mylht/Psa. 124:5 “Then the proud waters Would have gone over our being.” Mylht/Psa. 131:1 hwhy, my heart has not been proud, Nor have my eyes been haughty. Neither have I concerned myself with great matters, Nor with those too wondrous for me. Mylht/Psa. 138:6 Though hwhy is exalted, He looks on the humble; But the proud He perceives from a distance. Mylht/Psa. 140:5 The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah. Ylvm/Prov. 6:17 A proud look, A lying tongue, And hands shedding innocent blood, Ylvm/Prov. 15:25 hwhy tears down the house of the proud, And He sets up the boundary of the widow. Ylvm/Prov. 16:5, 19 Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to hwhy; Hand to hand: he goes not unpunished. 19 Better to be lowly in spirit with the poor, Than to divide the spoil with the proud. Ylvm/Prov. 21:4, 24 A haughty look, a proud heart, The lamp of the wrong, are sin. 24 Proud, haughty, “Scoffer” is his name; He acts with arrogant pride. Tlhq/Ecc. 7:8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. [Note: Mylht/Psa. 37:7;40:1; Why[vy/Isa. 33:2, etc. see notes on wait] Why[vy/Isa. 2:12 For hwhy twabc has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up, so that it is brought low; Why[vy/Isa. 5:15 And man is bowed down, and mortal man humbled, and the eyes of the proud are humbled. Why[vy/Isa. 13:11 “And I shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for their crookedness, and shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and lay low the pride of the ruthless. Why[vy/Isa. 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Mo’ab_ – very proud – of his pride, his arrogance and his rage. His boastings are not true. Why[vy/Isa. 28:1, 3 Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, and to the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, to those who are overcome with wine! 3 The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, is trampled under foot; Whymry/Jer. 13:15 Listen and give ear, do not be proud, for hwhy has spoken.

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Whymry/Jer. 43:2 that hyrz[ son of hy[vwh, and Nnxwhy son of Qareaḥ, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Whymry, “You are speaking a lie! hwhy our myhla has not sent you to say, ‘Do not go to Mitsrayim to sojourn there.’ Whymry/Jer. 48:29 “We have heard of the pride of Mo’ab (he is very proud!), of his loftiness and arrogance and pride, and of the haughtiness of his heart.” Whymry/Jer. 50:29, 31, 32 “Summon archers against Babel. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around, let no one escape. Repay her according to her work, do to her according to all she has done. For she has been proud against hwhy, against the Set-apart One of Larvy. 31 “See, I am against you proud one!” declares ynda hwhy twabc, “for your day has come, the time for your punishment. 32 “And the proud one shall stumble, and he shall fall, with no one to raise him up. And I shall kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all around him.” Qwqbx/Hab. 2:5 “And also, because wine betrays him, a man is proud, and he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his appetite as the grave, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, and gathers to himself all nations and heaps up for himself all peoples. Hynpc/Zeph. 3:11, 15 “In that day you shall not be put to shame for any of your deeds in which you have transgressed against Me, for then I shall remove from your midst your proud exulting ones, and you shall no more be haughty in My set-apart mountain. Ykalm/Mal. 3:15 ‘And now we are calling the proud upright – not only are the doers of wrongness built up, but they also try myhla and escape.’ ” Ykalm/Mal. 4:1 “For look, the day shall come, burning like a furnace, and all the proud, and every wrongdoer shall be stubble. And the day that shall come shall burn them up,” said hwhy twabc, “which leaves to them neither root nor branch. Luke 1:51 “He did mightily with His arm, He scattered the proud in the thought of their hearts. Bq[y/Ja. 4:6,16 But He gives greater favour. Because of this He says, “myhla resists the proud, but gives favour to the humble.” 16 But now you boast in your proud speeches. All such boasting is wicked.

FILLED WITH PRIDE?

pride (n.)

late Old English pryto, Kentish prede, Mercian pride "pride, haughtiness, pomp," from prud (see proud). There is debate whether Scandinavian cognates (Old Norse pryði, Old Swedish prydhe , Danish pryd, etc.) are borrowed from Old French (from Germanic) or from Old English. Meaning "that which makes a person or people most proud" is from c.1300. First applied to groups of lions late 15c., but not commonly so used until c.1930. Paired with prejudice from 1610s.

So what is the fate of the pride?

arqyw/Lev. 26:19 ‘And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. Myklm-b/2Ki. 19:28 ‘Because your rage against Me and your pride have come up to My ears, I shall put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I shall turn you back by the way which you came. Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 32:26 Then whyqzx humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Yarushalam, so that the wrath of hwhy did not come upon them in the days of whyqzx. Bwya/Job 35:12 There they cry, but He answers not, because of the pride of evil ones. Bwya/Job 41:15 Rows of scales are his pride – closed up, a binding seal. Mylht/Psa. 10:4 In the pride of his face The wrongdoer does not seek Him, In all his thoughts there is no myhla! Mylht/Psa. 31:18, 23 Let lips of falsehood be stilled, Which speak recklessly against the righteous, With pride and scorn. 23 Love hwhy, all you His kind ones! For hwhy guards the trustworthy ones, And exceedingly repays the doer of pride. Mylht/Psa. 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, And the hand of the wrong drive me away. Mylht/Psa. 59:12 The sin of their mouth is the words of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And for the cursing and lying they utter. Mylht/Psa. 73:6 So pride is their necklace, The garment of violence covers them.

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Ylvm/Prov. 8:13 “The fear of hwhy is to hate evil. I have hated pride and arrogance, And the evil way, And the perverse mouth. Ylvm/Prov. 11:2 Pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom. Ylvm/Prov. 13:10 By pride comes only strife, But wisdom is with those who take advice. Ylvm/Prov. 14:3 In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, But the lips of the wise guard them. Ylvm/Prov. 16:18 Before destruction comes pride, And before a fall a haughty spirit! Ylvm/Prov. 21:24 Proud, haughty, “Scoffer” is his name; He acts with arrogant pride. Ylvm/Prov. 29:23 The pride of man brings him low, But the humble in spirit obtains esteem. Why[vy/Isa. 2:11, 17 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the pride of men shall be bowed down, and hwhy alone shall be exalted in that day. 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the pride of men shall be brought low. And hwhy alone shall be exalted in that day, Why[vy/Isa. 9:9 And the people shall know, all of them, Ephrayim and the inhabitant of Shomeron, who say in pride and greatness of heart: Why[vy/Isa. 13:11, 19 “And I shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for their crookedness, and shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and lay low the pride of the ruthless. 19 “And Babel, the splendour of reigns, the comeliness of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when myhla overthrew Sedom and Amorah. Why[vy/Isa. 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Mo’ab – very proud – of his pride, his arrogance and his rage. His boastings are not true. Why[vy/Isa. 23:9 hwhy twabc has counselled it, to defile the pride of all splendour, and to shame all the esteemed of the earth. Why[vy/Isa. 25:11 And He shall spread out His hands in their midst as he who swims spreads out his hands to swim, and He shall bring down their pride together, with the skill of His hands. Why[vy/Isa. 37:23 “Whom have you reproached and reviled? And against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes in pride? Against the Set-apart One of Larvy! Why[vy/Isa. 37:29 “Because your rage against Me and your pride have come up to My ears, I shall put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I shall turn you back by the way which you came. Whymry/Jer. 13:9, 17 “Thus said hwhy, ‘Thus I ruin the pride of Hdwhy and the great pride of Yarushalam. 17 And if you do not listen, my being shall weep in secret for your pride, and my eyes bitterly weep and run down with tears, because the flock of hwhy shall be taken captive. Whymry/Jer. 33:9 ‘And it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and a pride before all nations of the earth, who hear all the good I am doing to them, and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the peace I am doing to it.’ Whymry/Jer. 48:29 “We have heard of the pride of Mo’ab (he is very proud!), of his loftiness and arrogance and pride, and of the haughtiness of his heart.” Whymry/Jer. 49:16 “The dread for you, the pride of your heart, has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, holding the height of the hill! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, from there I bring you down,” declares ynda. Laqzxy/Ezek. 7:10, 24 ‘See, the day! See, it has come! The turn has come, the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. 24 ‘And I shall bring the evil ones of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. And I shall cause the pride of the strong to cease, and their set-apart places shall be profaned. Laqzxy/Ezek. 16:49, 56 “See, this was the crookedness of your sister Sedom: She and her daughter had pride, sufficiency of bread, and unconcerned ease. And she did not help the poor and needy. 56 “Was not your sister Sedom a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride, Laqzxy/Ezek. 24:21 ‘Speak to the house of Larvy, “Thus said ynda hwhy, ‘See, I am profaning My set-apart place – the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your being. And your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword. Laqzxy/Ezek. 30:6, 18 ‘Thus said hwhy, “Those who lean on Mitsrayim shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down. From Mig¯dol to Seweneh those within her shall fall by the sword,” declares ynda hwhy. 18 “And in Teḥaphneḥes the day shall be darkened, when I shatter the yokes of Mitsrayim there. And the pride of her strength shall cease in her, a cloud shall cover her. And her daughters shall go into captivity. laynd/Dan. 4:37 Now I, Nebukadnetstsar, am praising and exalting and esteeming the Sovereign of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His ways right. And those who walk in pride He is able to humble.

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swm[/Amo. 6:8 ynda hwhy has sworn by Himself, hwhy myhla twabc declares, “I am loathing the pride of Yaʽaqob, and I have hated his palaces. Therefore I shall deliver up the city and all that is in it.” Hydb[/Ob. 1:3 “The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, ‘Who shall bring me down to the ground?’ Hynpc/Zeph. 2:10 This is what they get for their pride, because they have reproached and exalted themselves against the people of hwhy twabc. Hyrkz/Zec. 9:6 “And a half-breed shall settle in Ashdod. So I shall cut off the pride of the Philistines, Hyrkz/Zec. 10:11 “And He shall pass through the sea of distress, and strike the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the River shall dry up. And the pride of Ashshur shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Mitsrayim be taken away. Hyrkz/Zec. 11:3 Listen! The howling of shepherds, for their splendour is ravaged. Listen! The roaring of lions, for the pride of the Yarden is ravaged. Mark 7:20-23 And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. (21) “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, whorings, murders, (22) thefts, greedy desires, wickednesses, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. (23) “All these wicked matters come from within and defile a man.” Nnxwhy-a/1 Jn. 2:16 Because all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world.

ARE YOU AT EASE & COMPLACENT? Myjpv/Judg. 8:11 And Gidʽon went up by the way of those who dwell in tents on the east of Nobaḥ and Yog¯behah. And he smote the camp while the camp was at ease. Bwya/Job 3:26 I have not been at ease, nor have I been undisturbed, nor been at rest, yet trouble comes!” Bwya/Job 12:5 A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease – prepared for those whose feet slip. Bwya/Job 16:12 I was at ease, but He broke me. And He took me by my neck and shattered me, and He has set me up for His target. Mylht/Psa. 69:22 Let their table before them become a snare, And a trap to those at ease. Mylht/Psa. 73:12 See, these are the wrong, And always at ease, They have amassed wealth! Mylht/Psa. 123:4 Our being is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those who are at ease, With the mockery of the proud. Ylvm/Prov. 1:33 “But whoever listens to me dwells safely, And is at ease from the dread of evil.” Why[vy/Isa. 32:9, 11 Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; rise up you complacent daughters, listen to my speech. 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones; strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your waists. Whymry/Jer. 12:1 Righteous are You, when I plead with You. Indeed, let me speak with You about right-rulings. Why has the way of the wrong prospered? All the workers of treachery are at ease?1 Footnote: 1See Ps. 73:3. Whymry/Jer. 30:10 ‘And you, do not fear, Yaʽaqob My servant,’ declares hwhy, ‘nor be discouraged, Larvy. For look, I am saving you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. And Yaʽaqob_ shall return, and have rest and be at ease, with no one to trouble him. NOTE: Whymry/Jer. 46:27 “But as for you, do not fear, My servant Yaʽaqob, and do not be discouraged, Larvy! For look, I am saving you from afar, and your descendants from the land of their captivity. And Yaʽaqob shall return, and shall have rest and be at ease, with no one disturbing. Whymry/Jer. 48:11 “Mo’ab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his dregs, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile. Therefore his flavour has stayed in him, and his fragrance is unchanged. Whymry/Jer. 49:31 “Arise, go up to the nation at ease that dwells safely,” declares hwhy. “It has no gates or bars, they dwell alone. NOTE THOSE WHO ARE AT EASE:

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Hkya/Lam. 1:5 Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have become at ease. For hwhy has afflicted her Because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy. Laqzxy/Ezek. 23:42 “And the sound of a crowd at ease was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the commonest sort. And they put bracelets on their wrists and pretty crowns on their heads. laynd/Dan. 8:25 “And through his skill he shall make deceit prosper in his hand, and hold himself to be great in his heart, and destroy many who are at ease, and even stand against the Prince of princes – yet without hand he shall be broken. swm[/Amo. 6:1 Woe to those at ease in Tsyun, and those trusting in Mount Shomeron, the distinguished ones among the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Larvy comes! Hyrkz/Zec. 1:15 “And I am very wroth with the nations who are at ease, for when I was a little wroth, they furthered the evil!” Bwya/Job 12:6 The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke Laare complacent, to him who brings hwla into his hand! Why[vy/Isa. 32:9-11 Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; rise up you complacent daughters, listen to my speech. 10 In little more than a year you shall be troubled, you complacent women; for the grape harvest shall fail, the ingathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones; strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your waists. Laqzxy/Ezek. 30:9 “On that day messengers shall go forth before Me in ships to make the complacent Kushites afraid, and great anguish shall come upon them, as on the day of Mitsrayim – for look, it is coming!”

ARE YOU RULING AND COMMANDING? Are you strengthened during this age of lawlessness, ruling, teaching or leading people or are you pointing the people back to their Maker?

Myrbd/Deut. 32:36-39 “For hwhy rightly rules His people And has compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, Shut up or at large. (37) “And He shall say, ‘Where are their mighty ones, The rock in whom they sought refuge? (38) ‘Who ate the fat of their slaughterings, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them arise and help you, Let it be a hiding-place for you! (39) ‘See now that I, I am He, And there is no myhla besides Me. I put to death and I make alive. I have wounded, and I heal. And from My hand no one delivers! Laqzxy/Ezek. 34:15-16 “I shall feed My flock and make them lie down,” declares ynda hwhy (16) “I shall seek out the lost and bring back the strayed. And I shall bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick, but the fat and the strong I shall destroy. I shall feed them with right-ruling.” Myklm-b/2Ki. 14:1-27 In the second year of Vawhy son of Zxawhy, sovereign of Larvy, hycma son of Vawhy, sovereign of Hdwhy, began to reign. (2) He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yarushalam. And his mother’s name was Nyd[why of Yarushalam. (3) And he did what was right in the eyes of hwhy, but not like his father Dud. He did according to all his father Vawhy did. (4) However, the high places were not taken away. The people still slaughtered and burned incense on the high places. (5) And it came to be, as soon as the reign was strong in his hand, that he smote his servants who had smitten his father the sovereign. (6) But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Turah of M’shah, in which hwhy commanded, saying, “Fathers are not put to death for the children, and children are not put to death for the fathers, but each one is put to death for his own sin.” (7) He smote Eḏom in the Valley of Salt, ten thousand, and took Sela in battle, and called its name Latqy to this day. (8) hycma then sent messengers to Vawhy son of Zxawhy, son of awhy, sovereign of Larvy, saying, “Come, let us look each other in the face!” (9) And Vawhy sovereign of Larvy sent to whycma sovereign of Hdwhy, saying, “The thistle that was in Leḇanon sent to the cedar that was in Leḇanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ And a wild beast that was in Leḇanon passed by and trampled the thistle. (10) “You have certainly smitten Eḏom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be esteemed and stay in your house. But why do you stir up yourself to evil, that you should fall – you and Hdwhy with you?” (11) But whycma

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did not listen, so Vawhy sovereign of Larvy went up, and he and whycma sovereign of Hdwhy faced one another at Bĕyth Shamash, which belongs to Hdwhy. (12) And Hdwhy was smitten before Larvy, and they each fled to his tent. (13) And Vawhy sovereign of Larvy caught whycma sovereign of Hdwhy, son of Vawhy, son of whyxa, at Bĕyth Shamash. And they came to Yarushalam and he broke through the wall of Yarushalam from the Gate of Ephrayim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits, (14) and took all the gold and silver, and all the objects that were found in the House of hwhy and in the treasuries of the sovereign’s house, and hostages, and returned to Shomeron. (15) And the rest of the acts of Vawhy which he did, and his might, and how he fought with whycma sovereign of Hdwhy, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Larvy? (16) So Vawhy slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomeron with the sovereigns of Larvy. And Yaroḇʽam his son reigned in his place. (17) And whycma son of Vawhy, sovereign of Hdwhy, lived fifteen years after the death of Vawhy son of Zxawhy, sovereign of Larvy. (18) And the rest of the acts of whycma, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Hdwhy? (19) And they made a conspiracy against him in Yarushalam, and he fled to Laḵish. And they sent after him to Laḵish and killed him there, (20) and brought him on horses, and he was buried at Yarushalam with his fathers in the City of Dud. (21) And all the people of Hdwhy took hyrz[, who was sixteen years old, and set him up to reign instead of his father whycma. (22) He built Ěylath and restored it to Hdwhy, after the sovereign slept with his fathers. (23) In the fifteenth year of whycma son of Vawhy, the sovereign of Hdwhy, Yaroḇʽam son of Vawhy, the sovereign of Larvy, began to reign in Shomeron, and reigned forty-one years. (24) And he did evil in the eyes of hwhy. He did not turn away from all the sins of Yaroḇʽam son of Neḇat, who had made Larvy sin. (25) He restored the border of Larvy from the entrance of Ḥamath to the Sea of the Araḇah, according to the word of hwhy myhla of Larvy, which He had spoken through His servant Yunah son of Amittai, the aybn who was from Gath Ḥĕpher. (26) For hwhy saw that the affliction of Larvy was very bitter. And there was no one, neither shut up nor left at large, to help Larvy. (27) And hwhy had not said that He would blot out the name of Larvy from under the heavens, but saved them by the hand of Yaroḇʽam son of Vawhy. Why[vy/Isa. 17:1-14 The message concerning Damascus. “See, Damascus ceases to be a city, and shall become a heap of ruins. (2) “The cities of Aroʽĕr are forsaken, they are for flocks which shall lie down, with no one to frighten. (3) “And the stronghold shall cease from Ephrayim, and the reign from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram be as the esteem of the sons of Larvy,” declares hwhy twabc. (4) “And in that day it shall be that the esteem of Yaʽaqoḇ wanes, and the fatness of his flesh grows lean. (5) “And it shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain, and reaps the heads with his arm. And it shall be as he who gathers heads of grain in the Valley of Repha’im. (6) “And gleaning grapes shall be left in it, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives at the top of the uppermost branch, four or five in its most fruit-bearing branches,” declares hwhy myhla of Larvy. (7) In that day man shall look to his Maker, and his eyes turn to the Set-apart One of Larvy. (8) And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands; and he shall not see that which his own fingers made, nor the Ashĕrim nor the sun-pillars. (9) In that day his strong cities become like a forsaken forest and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Larvy. And it shall become a ruin. (10) Because you have forgotten the myhla of your deliverance, and have not remembered the Rock of your stronghold, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and set out foreign seedlings, (11) by day make your plant to grow, and in the morning make your seed to flourish – but the harvest is a heap in the day of grief and incurable pain. (12) Woe to the uproar of many people who make a noise like the roar of the seas, and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters – (13) nations rushing like the rushing of many waters. But He shall rebuke them and they shall flee far away, and be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, like whirling dust before the whirlwind. (14) At eventide, look! Alarm! Before morning, it is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us. WHAT DOES HIS AFFLICTION LOOK LIKE? Many suggest fasting as the most common way to afflict your being but affliction is much more. Affliction begins with understanding what has come to pass and loathing yourself as a result [See

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Laqzxy/Ezek. 36:31, etc.]. Affliction begins inwardly, in your heart and mind. The very purpose of discipline or punishment is affliction, which induces humility. Therefore, the afflicted are humbled and bowed down.

Mylht/Psa. 88:1-18 hwhy, myhla of my deliverance, By day I have cried out, In the night also before You, (2) Let my prayer come before You, Incline Your ear to my cry. (3) For my being is filled with evils, And my life draws near to the grave. (4) I have been reckoned among those Who go down to the pit; I have become like a man Who has no strength, (5) Released among the dead, Like slain ones lying in the grave, Whom You have remembered no more, And who have been cut off from Your hand. (6) You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths. (7) Your wrath has rested heavily upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your breakers. Selah. (8) You have put away my friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in and do not go out; (9) My eye grows dim because of affliction. hwhy, I have called upon You, all day long; I have stretched out my hands to You. (10) Would You work wonders for the dead? Would the dead rise to praise You? Selah. (11) Is Your kindness declared in the grave? Your trustworthiness in the place of destruction? (12) Are Your wonders known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of no remembrance? (13) But I, unto You I have cried, O hwhy, And in the morning my prayer comes before You. (14) hwhy, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me? (15) I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I have borne frightening matters from You; I am in despair. (16) Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your onslaughts have cut me off. (17) They surrounded me like water all day long; They close in upon me altogether. (18) You have put loved one and companion far from me, Darkness is my close friend! Whymry/Jer. 15:6-21 “You who have forsaken Me,” declares hwhy, “you have gone backward. Therefore I shall stretch out My hand against you and destroy you. I have been weary of relenting! (7) “And I shall winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land. I shall bereave, I shall destroy My people. They would not turn back from their ways. (8) “Their widows shall be more numerous than the sand of the seas. I shall bring against them, against the mother of the young men, a ravager at noon. I shall cause agitation and sudden alarm to fall on her, suddenly. (9) “She who has borne seven shall pine away. She shall breathe her last. Her sun shall go down while it is yet day. She shall be put to shame and be humiliated. And their remnant I give up to the sword before their enemies,” declares hwhy. (10) Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth! I have neither lent for interest, nor have men lent to me for interest. All of them are reviling me. (11) hwhy said, “Did I not direct you for your good? Did I not intercede for you in a time of evil and in a time of distress against the enemy? (12) “Does one break iron, iron or bronze from the north? (13) “Your wealth and your treasures I give as plunder, not for price, because of all your sins, even in all your borders. (14) “And I shall cause them to pass over with your enemies into a land which you did not know, for a fire is kindled in My displeasure, which burns upon you.” (15) You Yourself know, hwhy. Remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on these who persecute me. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that for You I have suffered reproach. (16) Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. For Your Name is called on me, hwhy myhla twabc. (17) I have not sat in the company of the mockers, nor do I exult. I have sat alone because of Your hand, for You have filled me with displeasure. (18) Why is my pain without end and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Are You to me like a failing stream, as waters not steadfast? (19) Therefore thus said hwhy, “If you turn back, then I shall bring you back. Before Me you shall stand. And if you take out the precious from the worthless, you shall become as My mouth. Let them return to you, but do not return to them. (20) “And I shall make you to this people a strong bronze wall. And they shall fight against you, but not overcome you. For I am with you to save you and deliver you,” declares hwhy. (21) “And I shall deliver you from the hand of evil-doers, and I shall ransom you from the grip of the ruthless.”

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WITH ALL YOUR HEART:

Myrbd/Deut. 30:2 2 And you shall turn back to hwhy your myhla so that you {t[mvw - <H8085-[mv> hear, listen, obey, [to perceive by ear, to have power to hear, to hear with attention or interest, to understand, to give heed, etc.]} according to ‘His’ voice [Yaram. 3:13; 7:23; 11:1-7], according to all that I {command, charge, entrust, order, impose on, etc.} you this day, with all your {kbbl - <H3823-24>- inward parts, heart, understanding, intelligence}, even with all your {kvpn - <H5314-15> breath, being, mind, desire, emotion, passion, etc.}; H3824 – bbl BDB Definition: 1) inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding 1a) inner part, midst 1a1) midst (of things) 1a2) heart (of man) 1a3) soul, heart (of man) 1a4) mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory 1a5) inclination, resolution, determination (of will) 1a6) conscience 1a7) heart (of moral character) 1a8) as seat of appetites 1a9) as seat of emotions and passions 1a10) as seat of courage Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3823 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1071a - H3823 bbl la^bab BDB Definition:1) to ravish, become intelligent, get a mind 1a) (Niphal) to take heart, become enheartened, become intelligent 1b) (Piel) to ravish the heart, encourage, make heart beat faster 2) (Piel) to make cakes, bake cakes, cook bread Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 1071, 1071d Etymology: [pg. 306] bl m n. (pl. twbbl, also twbl) 1 heart, mind, will 2 the inner part, the middle [Related to Aram. לבא. Syr. Abl (= heart). BAram. לבי (= my heart), Ugr. lb, Ethiop. Lebb, Arab. ققللبب SArab. للبب. Akka. Libbu (= heart): bbl 1. To be understanding, likable; 1 he ravished the heart, fascinated, 2 he encouraged, strengthened HEART (n.) Old English heorte "heart; breast, soul, spirit, will, desire; courage; mind, intellect," from Proto-Germanic *khertan- (cf. Old Saxon herta, Old Frisian herte, Old Norse hjarta, Dutch hart, Old High German herza, German Herz, Gothic hairto), from PIE *kerd- "heart" (cf. Greek kardia, Latin cor, Old Irish cride, Welsh craidd, Hittite kir, Lithuanian širdis, Russian serdce "heart," Breton kreiz "middle," Old Church Slavonic sreda "middle"). Spelling with -ea- is c.1500, reflecting what then was a long vowel, and remained when pronunciation shifted. Most of the figurative senses were present in Old English, including "intellect, memory," now only in by heart.

MIND (n.) late 12c., from Old English gemynd "memory, remembrance, state of being remembered; thought, purpose; conscious mind, intellect, intention," Proto-Germanic *ga-mundiz (cf. Gothic muns "thought," munan "to think;" Old Norse minni "mind;" German Minne (archaic) "love," originally "memory, loving memory"), from PIE root *men- "think, remember, have one's mind aroused," with derivatives referring to qualities of mind or states of thought (cf. Sanskrit matih "thought," munih "sage, seer;" Greek memona "I yearn," mania "madness," mantis "one who divines, prophet, seer;" Latin mens "mind, understanding, reason," memini "I remember," mentio "remembrance;" Lithuanian mintis "thought, idea," Old Church Slavonic mineti "to believe, think," Russian pamjat "memory"). Meaning "mental faculty" is mid-14c. "Memory," one of the oldest senses, now is almost obsolete except in old expressions such as bear in mind, call to mind. Mind's eye "remembrance" is early 15c. Phrase time out of mind is attested from early 15c. To pay no mind "disregard" is recorded from 1916, American English dialect. To have half a mind to "to have one's mind half made up to (do something)" is recorded from 1726. Mind-reading is from 1882. mind (v.) mid-14c., "to remember, take care to remember," also "to remind," from mind (n.). Meaning "perceive, notice" is from late 15c.; that of "to give heed to" is from 1550s; that of "be careful about" is from 1737. Sense of "object to, dislike" is from c.1600; negative use (with not) "to care for, to trouble oneself with" is attested from c.1600. Meaning "to take care of, look after" is from 1690s. Related: Minded; minding. Meiotic expression don't mind if I do attested from 1847. UNDERSTANDING (n.) Old English understandincge "comprehension," from understand (q.v.). Meaning

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"mutual agreement" is attested from 1803. understand (v.) Old English understandan "comprehend, grasp the idea of," probably literally "stand in the midst of," from under + standan "to stand" (see stand). If this is the meaning, the under is not the usual word meaning "beneath," but from Old English under, from PIE *nter- "between, among" (cf. Sanskrit antar "among, between," Latin inter "between, among," Greek entera "intestines;" see inter-). That is the suggestion in Barnhart, but other sources regard the "among, between, before, in the presence of" sense of Old English prefix and preposition under as other meanings of the same word. "Among" seems to be the sense in many Old English compounds that resemble understand, e.g. underniman "to receive," undersecan "to investigate," underginnan "to begin." It also seems to be the sense still in expressions such as under such circumstances. Perhaps the ultimate sense is "be close to," cf. Greek epistamai "I know how, I know," literally "I stand upon." Similar formations are found in Old Frisian (understonda), Middle Danish (understande), while other Germanic languages use compounds meaning "stand before" (cf. German verstehen, represented in Old English by forstanden). For this concept, most Indo-European languages use figurative extensions of compounds that literally mean "put together," or "separate," or "take, grasp" (see comprehend). Old English oferstandan, Middle English overstonden, literally "over-stand" seem to have been used only in literal senses. COMPREHEND (v.) mid-14c., "to understand," from Latin comprehendere "to take together, to unite; include; seize" (of catching fire or the arrest of criminals); also "to comprehend, perceive" (to seize or take in the mind), from com- "completely" (see com-) + prehendere "to catch hold of, seize" (see prehensile). Related: Comprehended; comprehending.

Myrbd/Deut. 6:5 “Seeing that you shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.

Myrbd/Deut. 10:12 “And now, Larvy, what is hwhy your myhla asking of you, but to fear hwhy your myhla, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being, Myrbd/Deut. 11:13 ‘And it shall be that if you diligently [mv My commands which I command you today, to love hwhy your myhla and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being,

Myrbd/Deut. 13:3 do not listen to/[mv the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for hwhy your myhla is trying you to know whether you love hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being.

Myrbd/Deut. 26:16 “Today hwhy your myhla is commanding you to do these laws and right-rulings. And you shall guard and do them with all your heart and with all your being.

Myrbd/Deut. 30:2,6,10 and shall turn back to hwhy your myhla and [mv His voice, according to all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your being, you and your children, 6 “And hwhy your myhla shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live, 10 if you [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Turah, if you turn back to hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being. [[vwh/Hos. 12:6 Therefore, return to your myhla. Guard kindness and right-ruling, and wait on your myhla continually.] [vwhy/Jos. 22:5 “Only, diligently guard to do the command and the Turah which M’shah the servant of hwhy commanded you, to love hwhy your myhla, and to walk in all His ways, and to guard His commands, and to cling to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being.” Lawmv-a/1Sam. 12:20 And Lawmv said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this evil. Only, do not turn aside from following hwhy. And you shall serve hwhy with all your heart,

Lawmv-a/1Sam. 12:24 “Only fear hwhy, and you shall serve Him in truth with all your heart, for consider what marvels He has done for you.

Ylvm/Prov. 3:5 Trust in hwhy with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;

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Whymry/Jer. 29:13 ‘And you shall seek Me, and shall find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart1. Footnote: 1Dt. 4:29, Joel 2:12.

Lawhy/Joel 2:12 “Yet even now,” declares hwhy, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” Therefore: Mylht/Psa. 78:5-8 Because He raised a witness in Yaʽaqob, And set a Turah in Larvy, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their children; (6) That it might be known to a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and relate them to their children, (7) And place their trust in myhla, And not forget the works of la, But watch over His commands, (8) And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to la.

THE CASE FOR HEART/MIND/INTELLECT/COURAGE/DESIRE… Taking a look at the ‘heart’ and its mention in ylvm/Proverbs.

Ylvm/Prov. 2:2, 10 So that you make your ear attend to wisdom, Incline your heart (i.e. your mind) to understanding; Hnwbtl kbl hj it knza hmkxl byvqhl

Ylvm/Prov. 2:10 For wisdom would enter your heart, And knowledge be pleasant to your being, Ylvm/Prov. 3:1, 3, 5 My son, do not forget my Turah, And let your heart watch over my commands; 3 Let not kindness and truth forsake you – Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, 5 Trust in hwhy with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; Ylvm/Prov. 4:4, 21, 23 Then he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; Guard my commands, and live. Ylvm/Prov. 4:21, 23 Let them not depart from your eyes; Guard them in the midst of your heart; 23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For out of it are the sources of life. Ylvm/Prov. 5:12 And shall say, “How I have hated discipline, And my heart has despised reproof! Ylvm/Prov. 6:14, 18, 21, 25, 32 Perverseness is in his heart, Plotting evil at all times, He sends out strife. 18 A heart devising wicked schemes, Feet quick to run to evil, 21 Bind them on your heart always; Tie them around your neck. 25 Do not desire her prettiness in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. 32 He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; He who does it destroys his own life. Ylvm/Prov. 7:3, 7, 10, 25 Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart. 7 And I saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man lacking heart, 10 And look, a woman met him, Dressed like a whore, With a hidden heart. 25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not go astray in her paths. Ylvm/Prov. 8:5 “You simple ones, understand insight, And you fools, be of an understanding heart. Ylvm/Prov. 9:4, 16 “Who is simple? Let him turn in here!” As for him who lacks heart, she says to him, 16 “Who is simple? Let him turn in here.” And as for him who lacks heart, she says to him, Ylvm/Prov. 10:8, 13, 20, 21 The wise in heart accepts commands1, But one with foolish lips falls. Footnote: 1Hos. 14:9. 13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has understanding, But a rod is for the back of him who lacks heart. 20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; The heart of the wrong is of little value. 21 The lips of the righteous shepherd many, But fools die for lack of heart. Ylvm/Prov. 11:12, 20, 29 He who lacks heart despises his neighbour, But a man of understanding keeps silence. 20 The perverse of heart are an abomination to hwhy, But the perfect in the Way are His delight. 29 He who troubles his own house inherits wind, And the fool is servant to the wise of heart. Ylvm/Prov. 12:8, 11,20,23,25 A man is praised according to his wisdom, But the perverted of heart becomes despised. Ylvm/Prov. 12:11,20,23,25 He who tills his land is satisfied with bread, But he who pursues vanities is lacking heart. 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, But counsellors of peace have joy. 23 A clever man is concealing knowledge, But the heart of fools proclaims folly. 25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes him glad. Ylvm/Prov. 13:12 Expectancy drawn out makes the heart sick, But a longing come true is a tree of life. Ylvm/Prov. 14:10,13,14,30,33 The heart knows its own bitterness, And no stranger shares its joy. 13 Even in laughter the heart is in pain, And the end of that joy is heaviness. 14 The backslider in heart is

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satisfied with his own ways, But a good man is satisfied from his. 30 A healthy heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones. 33 Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, And even among fools it becomes known. Ylvm/Prov. 15:7,13-15,21,28,30 The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, But the heart of fools is not so. 13 A glad heart makes good a face, But by sorrow of heart the spirit is stricken. 14 The heart of the understanding one seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on folly. 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil, But gladness of heart is a continual feast. 21 Folly is joy to one lacking heart, But a man of understanding walks straight. 28 The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, But the mouth of the wrong pours out evil. 30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, A good report gives marrow to the bones. Ylvm/Prov. 16:1,5,9,23 To man belongs the preparations of the heart, But from hwhy is the answer of the tongue. 5 Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to hwhy; Hand to hand: he goes not unpunished. 9 A man’s heart plans his way, But hwhy establishes his steps. 23 The heart of the wise gives discretion to his mouth, And he increases learning to his lips. Ylvm/Prov. 17:16,18,20,22 Why is this – a price in the hand Of a fool to buy wisdom, When there is no heart? 18 A man lacking heart shakes hands in a pledge, He becomes a guarantor for his friend. 20 He who has a crooked heart finds no good, And he who has a perverse tongue falls into evil. 22 A rejoicing heart causes good healing, But a stricken spirit dries the bones. Ylvm/Prov. 18:2,8,12,15 A fool does not delight in understanding, But in uncovering his own heart. 8 The words of a slanderer are like delicacies, And they go down into the inner parts of the heart. 12 Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before esteem is humility. 15 The heart of the understanding one gets knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. Ylvm/Prov. 19:3,8,21 The foolishness of a man perverts his way, And his heart is wroth against hwhy. 8 He who gets heart loves his own life; He who guards understanding finds good. 21 Many are the plans in a man’s heart, But it is the counsel of hwhy that stands. Ylvm/Prov. 20:5,9,30 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it up. 9 Who says, “I have cleansed my heart, I am purged of my sin”? 30 The blows that wound cleanse away evil, And strokes the inner parts of the heart. Ylvm/Prov. 21:1,4 The sovereign’s heart is as channels of water In the hand of hwhy; He turns it wherever He wishes. 4 A haughty look, a proud heart, The lamp of the wrong, are sin. Ylvm/Prov. 22:11,15,17 He who loves cleanness of heart, Whose speech is pleasant, A sovereign is his friend. 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline drives it far from him. 17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, And apply your heart to my knowledge; Ylvm/Prov. 23:7,12,15,17,19,26,33 For as he reckons in his life, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you. 12 Bring your heart to discipline, And your ears to words of knowledge. 15 My son, if your heart shall be wise, My heart rejoices, even I, 17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be in the fear of hwhy all day long; 19 Hear, my son, and be wise, And guide your heart in the way. 26 My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes watch my ways. 33 Your eyes look on strange women, And your heart speaks perversities. Ylvm/Prov. 24:2,17,30,32 For their heart plots to ravage, And their lips talk of trouble. 17 Do not exult when your enemy falls, And let not your heart rejoice when he stumbles; 30 I passed by the field of the lazy, And by the vineyard of the man lacking heart; 32 When I saw it, I set my heart on it; I looked and received discipline: Ylvm/Prov. 25:3,20 The heavens for height and the earth for depth, But the heart of sovereigns is unsearchable. 20 One who takes away a garment in cold weather, Is like vinegar on soda, And a singer of songs on an evil heart. Ylvm/Prov. 26:22,23,25 The words of a slanderer are as dainty morsels, Which go down into the inner parts of the heart. 23 Burning lips with an evil heart Are like earthenware covered with silver dross. 25 Though he speaks kindly, do not believe him, For there are seven abominations in his heart. Ylvm/Prov. 27:9,11,19,23 Ointment and perfume gladden the heart, So one’s counsel is sweet to his friend. 11 My son, be wise, and gladden my heart, That I might have a word for him who reproaches me. 19 As in water face reflects face, So a man’s heart reflects a man. 23 Know well the state of your flocks; Set your heart to your herds; Ylvm/Prov. 28:14,26 Upright is the individual who always fears, But he who hardens his heart falls into evil. 26 He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But he who walks wisely is delivered.

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Ylvm/Prov. 30:19 The way of an eagle in the heavens, The way of a snake on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man with a girl. Ylvm/Prov. 31:11 The heart of her husband shall trust her, And he has no lack of gain.

ATTRIBUTES OF THE RIGHTEOUS GENERATION?

There is mention of a righteous generation (mylht/Psa. 14:1-5; 22:27-31; 24:3-6; 78:1-8; 102:16-22; 112:2; Note to consider: mylht/Psa. 52:1-9). What does this generation look like?

Mylht/Psa. 14:1-5 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no hwhy.” They have done corruptly, They have done an abominable deed, There is no one who does good. (2) hwhy looked down from the heavens on the sons of mankind, To see if there is a wise one, seeking hwhy. (3) They have all turned aside, They have together become filthy; No one is doing good, not even one. (4) Have all the workers of wickedness no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on hwhy? (5) There they are in great fear, For hwhy is with the generation of the righteous. Mylht/Psa. 22:27-31 Let all the ends of the earth Remember and turn to hwhy, And all clans of the nations Bow themselves before You. (28) For the reign belongs to hwhy, And He is ruling over the nations. (29) All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and bow themselves; All who go down to the dust bow before Him, Even he who did not keep alive his own life. (30) A seed shall serve Him. It is declared of hwhy to the coming generation. (31) They shall come and declare His righteousness To a people yet to be born, For He shall do it! Mylht/Psa. 78:1-8 My people, give ear to My Turah1, Incline your ears to the words of My mouth (2) I open my mouth in a parable; I utter riddles of old, (3) Which we have heard and known, For our fathers have related them to us. (4) We do not hide them from their children, Relating to the generation to come the praises of hwhy, And His strength and His wonders which He has done. (5) Because He raised a witness in Yaʽaqob, And set a Turah in Larvy, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their children; (6) That it might be known to a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and relate them to their children, (7) And place their trust in myhla, And not forget the works of la, But watch over His commands, (8) And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to la. Mylht/Psa. 24:3-6 Who does go up into the mountain of hwhy? And who does stand in His set-apart place? (4) He who has innocent hands and a clean heart, Who did not bring his life to naught, And did not swear deceivingly. (5) He receives a hkrb from hwhy, And righteousness from the myhla of his deliverance. (6) This is the generation of those who seek Him; Yaʽaqob, who seek Your face. Selah. Mylht/Psa. 102:16-22 Because hwhy shall build up Tsyun, He shall appear in His esteem. (17) He shall turn unto the prayer of the destitute, And He shall not despise their prayer. (18) This is written for a generation to come, So that a people to be created praise hy. (19) For He looked down From the height of His set-apart place; From heaven hwhy viewed the earth, (20) To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death, (21) To declare the Name of hwhy in Tsyun, And His praise in Yarushalam, (22) When peoples gather together, And reigns, to serve hwhy.

THE RIGHTEOUS DO NOT… Myklm-a/1Ki. 9:6-7 “If you at all turn back, you or your sons, from following Me, and do not guard My commands, My laws, which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other mighty ones and bow yourselves to them, (7) then I shall cut off Larvy from the face of the soil which I have given them, and send away from My presence this house which I have set apart for My Name. And Larvy shall be a proverb and a mockery among all the peoples. Lawmv-b/2Sam. 2:26 And Aḇnĕr called to Yo’aḇ and said, “Should the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it is bitter in the latter end? And when are you going to say to the people to turn back from pursuing their brothers?”

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Larvy and the kahanym and the Lĕwites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, those of the Kenaʽanites, the Ḥittites, the Perizzites, the Yeḇusites, the Ammonites, the Mo’aḇites, the Mitsrites, and the Amorites, (2) for they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the set-apart seed is intermingled with the peoples of those lands. And the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass.” (3) And when I heard this word, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down astonished. (4) Then all those who trembled at the words of the myhla of Larvy gathered to me, because of the trespass of the exiles, and I sat astonished until the evening offering. (5) And at the evening offering I rose from my affliction. And having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to hwhy my myhla, (6) and said, “my myhla, I am too ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, my myhla, for our crookednesses have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens. (7) “Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been very guilty, and for our crookednesses we, our sovereigns, and our kahanym have been given into the hand of the sovereigns of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to shame of faces, as it is this day. (8) “But now, for a short while, favour has been shown from hwhy our myhla, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His set-apart place, that our myhla might enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage. (9) “For we were slaves, but in our bondage our myhla did not forsake us, and extended kindness to us in the presence of the sovereigns of Persia, to revive us, to raise up the House of our myhla, to restore its ruins, and to give us a wall in Hdwhy and Yarushalam. (10) “And now, our myhla, what do we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commands, (11) which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are going in to possess is a land unclean through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it, from one end to another, by their uncleanness. (12) ‘And now, do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons. And do not seek their peace or wealth ever, so that you are strong, and shall eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.’ (13) “And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our myhla have held back the rod upon our crookednesses, and have given us such deliverance as this, (14) should we turn back, to break Your commands, and join in marriage with the people of these abominations? Would You not be enraged with us until You had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant or survivor?

Whymry/Jer. 5:3 hwhy, are Your eyes not on truth? You have smitten them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces harder than rock, they refused to turn back. Whymry/Jer. 8:5 “Why then has this people, Yarushalam, turned away in a continual backsliding? They cling to deceit, they refuse to turn back.

Whymry/Jer. 15:7 “And I shall winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land. I shall bereave, I shall destroy My people. They would not turn back from their ways.

Why[vy/Isa. 57:1-2 The righteous one is lost/vanished/gone, and no one takes it to heart. And kind men are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous one is taken away from the presence of evil, (2) he enters into peace. They who walk in integrity rest on their beds. Those who are seeking righteousness, desiring righteousness and long to be declared right in His eyes, are not in association with evil. CONSIDER:

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Mylht/Psa. 1:1,2 1 “Straight is the one who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong, and shall not stand in the path of sinners, and shall not sit in the seat of scoffers, 2 But delights in the Turah of hwhy, and meditates in His Turah day and night.” Whymry/Jer. 15:17 (17) I have not sat in the company of the mockers, nor do I exult. I have sat alone because of Your hand, for You have filled me with displeasure. Tlhq/Ecc. 7:20 For there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and does not sin. Have we all fallen to sin? Considering, sin is lawlessness [Nnxwhy-a/1 Jn. 3:4] (i.e. the absence of the law or Turah) and the fact He has removed the ability to follow it completely, the words of Shalamah are confirmed.

WHAT WOULD THEY LOOK LIKE? Whymry/Jer. 15:15-17 You Yourself know, hwhy. Remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on these who persecute me. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that for You I have suffered reproach. (16) Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. For Your Name is called on me, hwhy myhla twabc. (17) I have not sat in the company of the mockers, nor do I exult. I have sat alone because of Your hand, for You have filled me with displeasure. Mylht/Psa. 146:8 hwhy opens the eyes of the blind, hwhy raises those who are bowed down, hwhy loves the righteous. Bwya/Job And the righteous holds to His way, and he who has clean hands becomes stronger and stronger. Mylht/Psa. 37:21 The wrongdoer is borrowing and does not repay, But the righteous one shows favour and gives. Mylht/Psa. 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of right-ruling. Mylht/Psa. 52:1-7 Why do you boast in evil, mighty man? The kindness of la is all day long! (2) Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. (3) You loved evil more than good, Lying more than speaking righteousness. Selah. (4) You loved all devouring words, O tongue of deceit. (5) Let la also break you down forever, Take you and pluck you out of your tent. And He shall uproot you from the land of the living. Selah. (6) And let the righteous see and fear, And laugh at him, saying, (7) “See the man who did not make myhla his strength, But trusted in his many riches, Being strong in his destruction.” Mylht/Psa. 55:22 Cast your burden on hwhy, And let Him sustain you; He never allows the righteous to be shaken. Mylht/Psa. 64:10 The righteous rejoice in hwhy, And shall take refuge in Him, And all the upright in heart praise Him. Mylht/Psa. 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, And not be written with the righteous. The righteous are written in His book, the book of the living. Mylht/Psa. 72:7 Let the righteous flourish in His days, With plenty of peace, Till the moon is no more. Mylht/Psa. 92:12 The righteous one flourishes like a palm tree, He grows like a cedar in Lebanon. Mylht/Psa. 112:1-7 Praise hy! Upright is the man, Who fears hwhy, Who has greatly delighted in His commands. (2) Mighty in the earth shall be his seed, The generation of the straight shall be blessed. (3) Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness is standing forever. (4) Light has risen in the darkness to the straight ones, Those showing favour, The compassionate, And the righteous. (5) Good is a man showing favour and lending, He sustains his matters in right-ruling. (6) For he is never shaken; The righteous is remembered forever. (7) He is not afraid of an evil report. His heart is steadfast, trusting in hwhy. Ylvm/Prov. 10:11, 20, 21, 28, 30, 31, 32 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, But violence covers the mouth of the wrong. 20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; The heart of the wrong is of little value. 21 The lips of the righteous shepherd many, But fools die for lack of heart. 28 The righteous look forward to joy, But the expectancy of the wrong ones perish. 30 The righteous is never shaken, While the wrong shall not dwell in the earth. 31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, But the tongue

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of perverseness is cut out. 32 The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, But the mouth of the wrong speaks perverseness. Ylvm/Prov. 20:7 The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him. Ylvm/Prov. 24:16 For seven times a righteous man falls and rises, But the wrong one stumbles into evil. Ylvm/Prov. 25:26 A righteous man who gives way before the wrong, Is like a muddied spring and a ruined fountain. Whyttm/Matt. 27:19 And as he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have none at all to do with that righteous Man, for I have suffered much today in a dream because of Him.” Nnxwhy/Jn. 4:7-26 A woman of Shomeron came to draw water. [vwhy said to her, “Give Me to drink.” (8) For His taught ones had gone off into the city to buy food. (9) The woman of Shomeron therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a ydwhy, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?” For ydwhy do not associate with Shomeronites. (10) [vwhy answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of myhla, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”1 Footnote: 1Jer. 2:13, Jer. 17:13, Zech. 14:8, John 7:37-39. (11) The woman said to Him, “ynda, You have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where, then, do You have living water? (12) “Are You greater than our father Yaʽaqob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?” (13) [vwhy answered and said to her, “Everyone drinking of this water shall thirst again, (14) but whoever drinks of the water I give him shall certainly never thirst. And the water that I give him shall become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (15) The woman said to Him, “ynda, give me this water, so that I do not thirst, nor come here to draw.” (16) [vwhy said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” (17) The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” [vwhy said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ (18) for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” (19) The woman said to Him, “ynda, I see that You are a aybn. (20) “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you people say that in Yarushalam is the place where one needs to worship.” (21) [vwhy said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Yarushalam, worship the Father. (22) “You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because the deliverance is of the ydwhy.1 Footnote: 1Ps. 147:19, Isa. 2:3, Isa. 14:1, Isa. 56:6-8, Ezek. 47:22-23, Zech. 2:10-11, Zech. 8:23, Rom. 2:20, Rom. 3:2, Rom. 9:4, Rev. 21:12 & 24. (23) “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him. (24) “myhla is Spirit, and those who worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth.” (25) The woman said to Him, “I know that Mashyach is coming, the One who is called Anointed. When that One comes, He shall announce to us all.” (26) [vwhy said to her, “I who am speaking to you am He.” Why[vy/Isa. 58:1-11 “Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression, and the house of Yaʽaqob their sins. (2) “Yet they seek Me day by day, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the right-ruling of their myhla. They ask of Me rulings of righteousness, they delight in drawing near to myhla. (3) They say, ‘Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, and You took no note?’ “Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your labourers. (4) “Look, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wrongness. You do not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high. (5) “Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his being? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to hwhy? (6) “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke? (7) “Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, and cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh? (8) “Then your light would break forth like the morning, your healing spring forth speedily. And your righteousness shall go before you, the esteem of hwhy would be your rear guard. (9) “Then, when you call, hwhy would answer; when you cry, He would say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and the speaking of unrighteousness, (10) if you extend your being to the hungry and satisfy the

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afflicted being, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness be as noon. (11) “Then hwhy would guide you continually, and satisfy your being in drought, and strengthen your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. NOTE: Bwya/Job 36:7 He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, and sovereigns on the throne, and seats them forever, and they are exalted. Mylht/Psa. 34:15 The eyes of hwhy are on the righteous, And His ears unto their cry. Mylht/Psa. 7:9 Please let the evil of the wrong be ended, And establish the righteous; For the righteous myhla is a trier of hearts and kidneys. Mylht/Psa. 11:5 hwhy tries the righteous, But His being shall hate the wrong And the one who loves violence. Mylht/Psa. 37:39 But the deliverance of the righteous is from hwhy, Their strength in time of distress. Laqzxy/Ezek. 33:12 “And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. And as for the wrongness of the wrong, he shall not stumble because of it in the day that he turns from his wrong. And the righteous shall not be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.’ Laqzxy/Ezek. 34:16 “I shall seek out the lost and bring back the strayed. And I shall bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick, but the fat and the strong I shall destroy. I shall feed them with right-ruling.” Mylht/Psa. 1:5 Therefore the wrong shall not rise in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. HUMILITY: A “REQUISITE” ATTRIBUTE OF THE ‘DELIVERED’

arqyw/Lev. 26:40-42 ‘But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers {Whymry/Jer. 3:13}, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, (41) and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies – if their uncircumcised heart is then humbled ([nky-H3665) {Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 7:14; Mylht/Psa. 106:43; Whymry/Jer. 6:12-15; 13:18; Laqzxy/Ezek. 36:31}, and they accept {/are pleased withH7521-hcr} the punishment [arqyw/Lev. 26:14-39; Myrbd/Deut. 28:14-68; Ylvm/Prov.3:12; Bwya/Job 5:17] of their crookedness{/sin/guilt/iniquity/perversion} pg481CEDH, (42) then I shall remember My covenant with Yaʽaqob, and also My covenant with Yitsḥaq, and also remember My covenant with Abraham, and remember the land. Ylvm/Prov. 28:13 He who hides his transgressions does not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them finds compassion. Whymry/Jer. 44:9,10 ‘Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the evils of the sovereigns of Hdwhy, and the evils of their wives, and your own evils, and the evils of your wives, which they have done in the land of Hdwhy and in the streets of Yarushalam? [arqyw/Lev. 26:40] (10) ‘To this day they have not been humbled, nor have they feared, nor have they walked in My Turah and in My laws that I set before you and your fathers [arqyw/Lev. 26:40,41].’ YOU MUST HUMBLE YOURSELF: Whyttm/Matt. 18:4 “Whoever then humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the reign of the heavens. Ylvm/Prov. 29:23 The pride of man brings him low, But the humble in spirit obtains esteem. Examples: Myklm-A/1Ki. 21:25-29 Indeed, there never was anyone like Aḥab who sold himself to do evil in the eyes

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of hwhy, because Izebel his wife stirred him up. (26) And he acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom hwhy dispossessed from before the children of Larvy. (27) And it came to be, when Aḥab_heard those words, that he tore his garments and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. (28) And the word of hwhy came to whyla the Tishbite, saying, (29) “See how Aḥab_ has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I do not bring the evil in his days, but in the days of his son I bring the evil on his house.” If you are familiar with this area of history, you will recount the evils Aḥab committed but because he humbled himself before hwhy, hwhy delayed the evils He planned to bring upon Aḥab. Consider this contrasting example: Whymry/Jer. 36:1-25 And it came to be in the fourth year of myqywhy son of whyvay, sovereign of Hdwhy, that this word came to Whymry from hwhy, saying, (2) “Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Larvy, and against Hdwhy, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of whyvay even to this day. (3) “It could be that the house of Hdwhy hears of all the evil which I plan to bring upon them, so that each one turns back from his evil way, and I shall pardon their crookedness and their sin.” (4) And Whymry called Baruk son of hyrn. And Baruk wrote on a scroll from the mouth of Whymry, all the words of hwhy which He had spoken to him. (5) And Whymry commanded Baruk, saying, “I am shut up, I am unable to enter the House of hwhy. (6) “But you shall enter, and shall read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the words of hwhy, in the hearing of the people in the House of hwhy on the day of fasting. And also read them in the hearing of all Hdwhy who come from their cities. (7) “It could be that they present their supplication before hwhy, and they turn back, each one from his evil way. For great is the displeasure and the wrath that hwhy has spoken against this people.” (8) And Baruk son of hyrn did according to all that Whymry the aybn commanded him, reading from the book the words of hwhy in the House of hwhy. (9) And it came to be in the fifth year of myqywhy son of whyvay, sovereign of Hdwhy, in the ninth month, that they called a fast before hwhy to all the people in Yarushalam, and to all the people who came from the cities of Hdwhy to Yarushalam. (10) And Baruk read from the book the words of Whymry in the House of hwhy, in the room of whyrmg son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard at the entry of the New Gate of the House of hwhy, in the hearing of all the people. (11) And whykm son of whyrmg, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of hwhy from the book, (12) And then he went down to the sovereign’s house, into the scribe’s room. And there all the heads were sitting: [mvyla the scribe, and whyld son of wHy[mv, and ntnla son of Akbur, and whyrmg son of Shaphan, and whyqdc son of whynnx, and all the heads. (13) And whykm told them all the words which he heard when Baruk read the book in the hearing of the people. (14) Then all the heads sent ydwhy son of whyntn, son of whymlv, son of Kushi, to Baruk_, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruk_ son of whyrn took the scroll in his hand and came to them. (15) And they said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it in our hearing.” Then Baruk read it in their hearing. (16) And it came to be, when they had heard all the words, that they looked at each other in fear, and said to Baruk, “We are certainly going to report all these words to the sovereign.” (17) And they asked Baruk, saying, “Please explain to us, how did you write all these words? From his mouth?” (18) And Baruk answered them, “From his mouth he spoke all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink in the book.” (19) Then the heads said to Baruk, “Go, hide, you and Whymry, and let no one know where you are.” (20) And they went to the sovereign, into the court. But they put the scroll in the room of [mvyla the scribe, and told all the words in the hearing of the sovereign. (21) The sovereign therefore sent ydwhy to bring the scroll, and he took it from the room of [mvyla the scribe. And ydwhy read it in the hearing of the sovereign and in the hearing of all the heads standing beside the sovereign. (22) And the sovereign was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning on the hearth before him. (23) Then it came to be, when ydwhy had read three or four columns that the sovereign cut it with the scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was on the hearth, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire that was on the hearth. (24) Yet the sovereign and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did

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they tear their garments. (25) Moreover, ntnla, and whyld, and whyrmg pleaded with the sovereign not to burn the scroll, but he did not listen to them. [mhyla [mv alw] Lawmv-b/2Sam. 16:5-12 “So when the sovereign Dud came to Bakhurym, he saw a man from the clan of the house of Sha’ul, whose name was Shamy so of Gara, coming from there. He came out cursing as he came. 6 So he threw stones at Dud, and all the servants of the sovereign Dud. And all of the mighty men were on his right and on his left. 7 And this is what Shamy said as he cursed, “Get out! Get out! Man of blood and man of Balaya’al! 8 hwhy has brought upon you all the blood of the house of Sha’ul, in whose place you have reigned. And hwhy has given the reign into the hand of Abshalam your son. So see, you are in your own evil, because you are a man of blood!” 9 So Abyshy so of Hywrc said to the sovereign, “Why should this dead dog curse my master the sovereign? Please, let me pass over and take off his head!” 10 And the sovereign said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Hywrc? Indeed he curses because hwhy has said to him, ‘Curse Dud.’ So who should say, “Why did you do that?’” 11 So Dud said to Abyshy and all of his servants, “See how my son who came from my own body seeks my life, and how much more now this son of the Right Hand? Leave him alone, and let him curse, for hwhy has spoken to him. 12 if so be, hwhy does look on my affliction, and hwhy shall return good to me for his cursing today.” Rbdmb/Num. 5:5-7 And hwhy spoke to M’shah, saying, (6) “Speak to the children of Larvy, ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in trespass against hwhy, and that being is guilty, (7) then they shall confess their sin which they have done. And he shall restore his guilt in its principal, plus one-fifth of it, and give it to whom he has been guilty. Mylht/Psa. 51:5 See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me. [vwh/Hos. 5:15 “I shall go, I shall return to My place, until they confess their guilt and seek My face, in their distress diligently search for Me, and say, Hos 6:1-3 ‘Come, and let us turn back to hwhy. For He has torn but He does heal us, He has stricken but He binds us up. (2) ‘After two days He shall revive us, on the third day He shall raise us up, so that we live before Him. (3) ‘So let us know, let us pursue to know hwhy. His going forth is as certain as the morning. And He comes to us like the rain, like the latter rain watering the earth.’ Whymry/Jer. 3:13 ‘Only, acknowledge your crookedness, because you have transgressed against hwhy your myhla, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares hwhy. Whymry/Jer. 14:20 hwhy, we know our wrong and the crookedness of our fathers, for we have sinned against You. Mymyh yrbd-a/1Chro. 21:8 Then Dud said to myhla, “I have sinned greatly, because I have done this matter. But now, I pray, take away the crookedness of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.” HE PARDONS THE CROOKEDNESS OF THOSE WHO HAVE CONFESSED: Why[vy/Isa. 6:5-7 And I said, “Woe to me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips – for my eyes have seen the Sovereign, hwhy twabc.” (6) And one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. (7) And he touched my mouth with it, and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your crookedness is taken away, and your sin is covered.” Mylht/Psa. 85:2 You shall take away the crookedness of Your people; You shall cover all their sin. Selah. [vwh/Hos. 14:1-7 Larvy, return to hwhy your myhla, for you have stumbled by your crookedness. (2) Take words with you, and return to hwhy. Say to Him, “Take away all crookedness, and accept what

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is good, and we render the bulls of our lips1. Footnote: 1Heb. 13:15 - bulls, referring to offerings. (3) “Ashshur does not save us. We do not ride on horses, nor ever again do we say to the work of our hands, ‘Our mighty ones.’ For the fatherless finds compassion in You.” (4) “I shall heal their backsliding, I shall love them spontaneously, for My displeasure has turned away from him. (5) “I shall be like the dew to Larvy. He shall blossom like the lily, and cast out his roots like Leḇanon. (6) “His branches shall spread, and his splendour shall be like an olive tree, and his fragrance like Leḇanon. (7) “Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive like grain, and blossom like the vine, and become as fragrant as the wine of Leḇanon. Nnxwhy-a/1 Jn. 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. THOSE WHO DO NOT WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED: Why[vy/Isa. 13:11 “And I shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for their crookedness, and shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and lay low the pride of the ruthless. Laqzxy/Ezek. 3:18, 19 “When I say to the wrong1, ‘You shall certainly die,’ and you have not warned him, nor spoken to warn the wrong from his wrong way, to save his life, that same wrong man shall die in his crookedness, and his blood I require at your hand. Footnote: 1This passage is almost the same as in 18:20-32 and 33:8-20. 19 “But if you have warned the wrong and he does not turn from his wrong, nor from his wrong way, he shall die in his crookedness, and you have delivered your being. The very purpose for the ‘curses/punishment’ pronounced against His people was to act as the catalyst that induces humility, confession, affliction and turning back. It is His desires to bring His people back down low to the place they were when He saved them. NOTE THE PRAYERS OF CONFESSION: Mylht/Psa. 32:5 I acknowledged my sin to You, And my crookedness I did not hide. I have said, “I confess my transgressions to hwhy,” And You forgave the crookedness of my sin. Selah. Mylht/Psa. 38:17-18 For I am ready to fall, And my pain is always with me. (18) For I confess my crookedness; I am sorry over my sin. laynd /Dan. 9:4-15 (4) And I prayed to hwhy my myhla, and made confession, and said, hwhy, great and awe filled la, guarding the covenant and the kindness to those who love Him, and to those who guard His commands. (5) We have sinned and did crookedness, and did wrong and rebelled, to turn aside from Your commands and from Your right-rulings. (6) And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your Name to our sovereigns, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. (7) hwhy, to You is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as it is this day to the men of Hdwhy, to the inhabitants of Yarushalam and all Larvy, those near and those far off in all the lands to which You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You. (8) ynda, to us is the shame of face, to our sovereigns, to our heads, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You. (9) To hwhy our myhla are the compassions and forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him. (10) And we have not [mv the voice of hwhy our myhla, to walk in His Torot, which He set before us through His servants the prophets. (11) And all Larvy have transgressed Your Turah, and turned aside, so as not to [mv Your voice. So the curse and the oath written in the Turah of M’shah the servant of myhla have been poured out on us, for we have sinned against Him. (12) And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our rulers who judged us, by bringing upon us great evil. For under all the heavens there has not been done like what was done to Yahrushalam. (13) As it is written in the Turah of M'shah, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of hwhy our myhla, to turn back from our crookednesses, and to study Your truth. (14) Hence hwhy has watched over the evil and has brought it upon us. For hwhy our myhla is righteous in all the works which He has done, but we have not [mv His voice. (15) And now, hwhy our myhla, who brought Your people out of the land of Matsraym with a strong hand, and made Yourself a Name, as it is this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong!

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(25) “And now, hwhy myhla of Larvy, guard what You promised Your servant Dud my father, saying, ‘There is not to cease a man of yours before Me, sitting on the throne of Larvy – only, if your sons guard their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.’ (26) “And now, myhla of Larvy, please let Your word come true which You have spoken to Your servant Dud my father. (27) “For is it true: myhla dwells on the earth? See, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens are unable to contain You, how much less this House which I have built! (28) “Yet, shall You turn to the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, hwhy my myhla, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today? (29) “For Your eyes to be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name is there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place. (30) “Then, shall You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Larvy when they pray toward this place, when You hear in Your dwelling place, in the heavens? And shall You hear, and forgive? (31) “If anyone sins against his neighbour, and he has lifted up an oath on him, to cause him to swear, and comes and swears before Your slaughter-place in this House, (32) then hear in the heavens, and act and rightly rule Your servants, declaring the wrongdoer wrong, bringing his way on his head, and declaring the righteous right by giving him according to his righteousness. (33) “When Your people Larvy are smitten before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, and they shall turn back to You and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication to You in this House, (34) then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your people Larvy, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers. (35) “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, (36) then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Larvy – for You teach them the good way in which they should walk – and shall give rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance. [Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 6:27] (37) “When there is scarcity of food in the land; when there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locusts, grasshoppers; when their enemy distresses them in the land of their cities; any plague, any sickness, (38) whatever prayer, whatever supplication made by anyone of all Your people Larvy, each knowing the plague of his own heart, and shall spread out his hands toward this House, (39) then hear in the heavens, Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and render unto everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know. 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all their being in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and shall pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the House which I have built for Your Name, (49) then shall You hear in the heavens Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause, (50) and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You? And give them compassion before those who took them captive, and they shall have compassion on them. (51) ‘For they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Mitsrayim, out of the iron furnace. (52) “Let Your eyes be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Larvy, to listen to them whenever they call to You. (53) “For You have separated them unto Yourself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke by the hand of Your servant M’shah, when You brought our fathers out of Mitsrayim, ynda hwhy.” (54) And it came to be, when Shalamah had ended praying all this prayer and supplication to hwhy that he rose up from before the slaughter-place of hwhy, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to the heavens. (55) And he stood and strengthened all the assembly of Larvy with a loud voice, saying, (56) “Worship hwhy, who has given rest to His people Larvy, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good word, which He promised through His servant M’shah. Bwya/Job 2:1-8 Again the day came to be that the sons of myhla came to present themselves before hwhy, and Satan also came among them to present himself before hwhy. (2) And hwhy said to Satan, “From where do you come?” And Satan answered hwhy and said, “From diligently searching in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” (3) And hwhy said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Iyuḇ, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and straight man, one who fears myhla and turns aside from evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.” (4) And Satan answered hwhy and said, “Skin for skin, and all that a man has he would give for his life! (5) “But stretch out Your hand, please, and strike his bone and his flesh – if he would not curse You to Your face!” (6) And hwhy said to Satan, “See, he is in your hand, only spare his life.” (7) And Satan went out from the presence of hwhy, and smote Iyoḇ with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. (8) And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes. laynd/Dan. 10:1-14 In the third year of Koresh sovereign of Persia a word was revealed to laynd, whose name was called Bĕlteshatstsar. And the word was true, and the conflict great. And he understood the word, and had understanding of the vision. (2) In those days I, laynd, was mourning three weeks of days. (3) I did not eat desirable food, and meat and wine did not come into my mouth, and I did not anoint myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days. (4) And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was by the side of the great river, that is Ḥiddeqel, (5) then I lifted my eyes and looked and saw a certain man dressed in linen, whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz! (6) And his body was like beryl, and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and feet like polished bronze in appearance, and the sound of his words like the sound of a crowd. (7) And I, laynd, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they ran away to hide themselves. (8) So I was left alone when I saw this great vision, and no strength remained in me, for my comeliness was destroyed in me, and I retained no strength. (9) But I heard the sound of his words. And while I heard the sound of his words I was stunned lying with my face to the ground. (10) And see, a hand touched me, and set me trembling on my knees and on the palms of my hands. (11) And he said to me, “laynd, man greatly appreciated, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you.” And while he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling. (12) And he said to me, “Do not fear, laynd, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your myhla, your words were heard, and I have come because of your words. (13) “But the head of the rule of Persia withstood me twenty-one days. And see, lakym, one of the chief heads, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the sovereigns of Persia. (14) “And I have come to make you understand what is to befall your people in the latter days. For the vision is yet for days to come.”

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Whyttm/Matt. 18:2-4 And [vhwy called a little child to Him, set him in their midst, (3) and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become as little children, you shall by no means enter into the reign of the heavens. (4) “Whoever then humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the reign of the heavens. So what does it mean to humble/afflict your “heart/mind/inward/intellect”, accepting and/or being satisfied with your punishment? [afflict: arqyw/Lev. 16:29; Arz[/Ez. 8:21; Mylht/Psa. 35:13, 126:5-6; Why[vy/Isa. 22:12 [Whymry/Jer. 50:4;], Why[vy/Isa. 58:3-5; Hyrkz/Zec. 7:3; 12:10; Whyttm/Matt. 5:4; Luke 13:3, 5; Bq[y/Ja. 4:8-10] Here are some terms regarding afflictions. H6031 – hn[ - BDB Definition: 1) (Qal) to be occupied, be busied with 2) to afflict, oppress, humble, be afflicted, be bowed down 2a) (Qal) 2a1) to be put down, become low 2a2) to be depressed, be downcast 2a3) to be afflicted 2a4) to stoop Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root [possibly rather identical with H6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating] Same Word by TWOT Number: 1651, 1652 H6035 – wyn[/ wn[ - BDB Definition: 1) poor, humble, afflicted, meek 1a) poor, needy 1b) poor and weak 1c) poor, weak and afflicted 1d) humble, lowly, meek Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6031 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1652a H3665 – [nk BDB Definition: 1) to be humble, be humbled, be subdued, be brought down, be low, be under, be brought into subjection 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to humble oneself 1a2) to be humbled, be subdued 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to humble 1b2) to subdue Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 1001 H8217 – lpv - BDB Definition: 1) low, humble 1a) low (in height) 1b) low (in station), humble (of condition or spirit) 1c) humiliated 1d) lowly (as subst) Part of Speech: adjective - A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H8213 H6800 – [nc - BDB Definition: 1) to be humble, be modest, be lowly 1a) (Qal) to show humility 2) (Hiphil) modest Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 1939 H8213 - lpv - BDB Definition: 1) to be or become low, sink, be humbled, be abased 1a) (Qal) to be or become low 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lay or bring low, humiliate 1b2) to set in a lower place, show abasement 1b3) to make low, sit down - Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 2445 An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language [pub. 1888] HUMBLE, lowly, meek, modest. (F..-L.) M.E. humble, Chaucer, C. T. 87OO.-O. F. (and F.) humble, 'humble;' Cot. (With excrescent 6.) Lat. humilis, humble; lit near the ground. Lat. humus, the ground ; humi, on the ground ; whence also E. human and homage. See Human, Homage. Der. humbl-y; humble-ness (formerly humblesse, Chaucer, C. T. 1783). Also, from Lat. humilis, humili-ty, q. v., humili-ate, q. v. Also, from Lat. humus, ex-hume, q. v. And see Chameleon. LOW (i), inferior, deep, mean, humble. (Scand.) M.E. low, pi. louie ; Chaucer, C. T. 17310 ; older spellings louh, Ancren Riwle, p. 140, 1. 2, lah, Ormulum, 15246, loogh (in the comp. biloogh = below), Allit. Poems, B. 116. [Not found in A. S.] Icel. Idgr, low ; Swed. lag ; Dan. lav.+ Du. laag. p. The Teut. form is LAGA, low (Fick, iii. 262) ; the orig. sense is ' lying flat,' used of the aspect of a country, as when we distinguish lowlands from highlands. Teut. base LAG, to lie ; see Lie (i). Der. low-ness, P. Plowman's Crede, ed. Skeat, 1. 513; low-ly, Chaucer, C. T. 99, low-li-ness ; low-er, verb = to make or become more low, formed from the comparative of the adj. (cf. better), Shak. Ant. i. 2. 129 ; law-church, low-land, lowlander, low-spirited. MEEK, mild, gentle. (Scand.) M. E. melte, Chaucer, C. T. 69 ; Havelok, 945 ; spelt meoc, Ormulum, 667. Icel. mjukr, soft, agile, meek, mild, -f- Swed. mjult, soft, pliable, supple. 4- Dan. myg, pliant, soft. + Du. mutt, soft. + Goth, muJts *, only in comp. mulia-modei, gentleness. Perhaps allied to Lith. minksztas, soft, minliyti, to knead ; from ^/MAK, to knead; see Mass(i). Der. meek-ly, meet-ness. MODEST moderate, decent, chaste, pure. (F., - L.) Modestly is in Gascoigne, Fruites of Warre, st. 208 (and last). Modestie is in Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, b.i.c. 25 (R.) – F. modeste, ‘modest;’ Cot. – Lat. Modesius, modest, lit. keeping within bounds or measure.

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Online Etymology AFFLICT (v.) late 14c., "to cast down," from Old French AFLICTER, from Latin AFFLICTARE "to damage, harass, torment," frequentative of AFFLIGERE (past participle AFFLICTUS) "to dash down, overthrow," from AD- "to" (see AD-) + FLIGERE (past participle FLICTUS) "to strike," from PIE root *BHLIG- "to strike" (cf. Greek PHLIBEIN "to press, crush," Czech BLIZNA "scar," Welsh BLIF "catapult"). Transferred meaning of "trouble, distress," is first recorded 1530s. Related: AFFLICTED; AFFLICTING. Afflicted (n.) "person or persons in constant suffering of body or mind," 1650s, noun use of past participle adjective from AFFLICT. Bow (v.) Old English BUGAN "to bend, to bow down, to bend the body in condescension," also "to turn back" (class II strong verb; past tense BEAG, past participle BOGEN), from Proto-Germanic *BUGON (cf. Dutch BUIGEN, Middle Low German BUGEN, Old High German BIOGAN, German BIEGEN, Gothic BIUGAN "to bend," Old Norse BOGINN "bent"), from *BEUGEN, from PIE root *BHEUG- (3) "to bend," with derivatives referring to bent, pliable, or curved objects (cf. Sanskrit BHUJATI "bends, thrusts aside;" Old High German BOUG, Old English BEAG "a ring"). The noun in this sense is first recorded 1650s. Related: BOWED; BOWING. BOW OUT "withdraw" is from 1942. Bruise (v.) Old English BRYSAN "to crush, bruise, pound," from Proto-Germanic *BRUSJANAN, from PIE root *BHREUS- "to smash, crush" (cf. Old Irish BRONNAIM "I wrong, I hurt;" Breton BREZEL "war," Vulgar Latin BRISARE "to break"). Merged by 17c. with Anglo-French BRUISER "to break, smash," from Old French BRUISIER "to break, shatter," perhaps from Gaulish *BRUS-, from the same PIE root. Related: BRUISED; BRUISING. DEPRESS (v.) early 14c., "put down by force," from Old French DEPRESSER, from Late Latin DEPRESSARE, frequentative of Latin DEPRIMERE "press down," from DE- "down" (see DE-) + PREMERE "to press" (see PRESS (v.1)). {Therefore, the depressed of hwhy are put down by force} HUMBLE (adj.) mid-13c., from Old French humble, earlier humele, from Latin humilis "lowly, humble," literally "on the ground," from humus "earth." Senses of "not self-asserting" and "of low birth or rank" were both in Middle English Related: Humbly; humbleness. Don't be so humble; you're not that great. [Golda Meir] To eat humble pie (1830) is from umble pie (1640s), pie made from umbles "edible inner parts of an animal" (especially deer), considered a low-class food. The similar sense of similar-sounding words (the "h" of humble was not pronounced then) converged in the pun. Umbles, meanwhile, is Middle English numbles "offal" (with loss of n- through assimilation into preceding article). Humble (v.) late 14c. in the intransitive sense of "to render oneself humble;" late 15c. in the transitive sense of "to lower (someone) in dignity;" see humble (adj.). Related: Humbled; humbling. Inferior (adj.) early 15c., of land, "low, lower," from Latin INFERIOR "lower, further down" (also used figuratively), comparative of INFERUS (adj.) "that is below or beneath," from INFRA "below" (see INFRA-). Meaning "lower in degree, rank, or importance" is from 1530s; also in an absolute sense, "of low quality or rank." NEEDY (adj.) late 12c., NEODI "poor, indigent," from NEED (n.) + adjectival suffix -Y (2). Cf. Dutch NOODIG, German NOTHIG, Old Norse NAUÐIGR. As a noun from mid-14c. Related: NEEDILY; NEEDINESS. Need (n.) Old English NIED (West Saxon), NED (Mercian) "necessity, compulsion, duty; hardship, distress; errand, business," originally "violence, force," from Proto-Germanic *NAUTHIS (cf. Old Saxon NOD, Old Norse NAUÐR, Old Frisian NED, Middle Dutch, Dutch NOOD, Old High German NOT, German NOT, Gothic NAUÞS "need"), probably cognate with Old Prussian NAUTIN "need," and perhaps with Old Church Slavonic NAZDA, Russian NUZDA, Polish NĘDZA "misery, distress," from PIE *NAU- "death, to be exhausted" (see NARWHAL). OPPRESS (v.) mid-14c., from Old French OPRESSER "oppress, afflict; torment, smother" (13c.), from Medieval Latin OPPRESSARE, frequentative of Latin OPPRIMERE "press against, press together, press down;" figuratively "crush, put down, subdue, prosecute relentlessly" (in Late Latin "to rape"), from OB "against" (see OB-) + PREMERE "to press, push" (see PRESS (v.1)). Poor (adj.) c.1200, "lacking money or resources, destitute; needy, indigent; small, scanty," from Old French POVRE "poor, wretched, dispossessed; inadequate; weak, thin" (Modern French PAUVRE), from Latin PAUPER "poor, not wealthy," from pre-Latin *PAU-PAROS "producing little; getting little," a compound from the roots of PAUCUS "little" (see PAUCITY) and PARARE "to produce, bring forth" (see PARE).

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Weak (adj.) c.1300, from Old Norse VEIKR "weak," cognate with Old English WAC "weak, pliant, soft," from Proto-Germanic *WAIKWAZ "yield," *WIKANAN "bend" (cf. Old Saxon WEK, Swedish VEK, Middle Dutch WEEC, Dutch WEEK "weak, soft, tender," Old High German WEIH "yielding, soft," German WEICH "soft," from PIE root *WEIK- "to bend, wind" (see VICARIOUS). Sense of "lacking authority" is first recorded early 15c.; that of "lacking moral strength" late 14c. WEAK-KNEED "wanting in resolve" is from 1870. SUBDUE, to reduce, conquer, tame, soften. (F..-L.) In Palsgrave; and in Sir T. More, Works, p. 962, 1. 4. The M.E. form was soduen, and this was afterwards altered to subdnen for the greater clearness, by analogy with the numerous words beginning with sub-. Online Etymology: subdued (adj.) c.1600, "subjugated," past participle adjective from SUBDUE. Meaning "calmed down, reduced in intensity" is recorded from 1822.

Therefore, the “humbled” of hwhy, are lowly, meek, and modest, on the ground, inferior, mild,

gentle, moderate, decent, chaste, pure, subdued, reduced, conquered, tamed, afflicted, calmed, bowed down, poor, needy, oppressed and softened, by Him and thus they are delivered. This is an attribute the implementation of the curses should have induced upon His people. {Consider: Mylht/Psa. 119:38 Establish Your word to Your servant, Which leads to the fear of You.; Myrbd/Deut. 28:16-68 - We should be weeping and mourning as a result of the understanding, the punishment i.e. the curse.} Why[vy/Isa. 29:17-21 Is it not yet a little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into garden land, and garden land be reckoned as a forest? (18) And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom, and out of darkness. (19) And the meek ones shall increase their joy in hwhy, and the poor among men rejoice in the Set-apart One of Larvy. (20) For the ruthless one is brought to naught, the scorner is consumed, and all who watch for evil shall be cut off, (21) those who make a man to sin with a word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with emptiness.

MEEK: H6035 - wyn[/ wn[ - [See above definition] Poor: H34 – nwyba - BDB Definition: 1) in want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person 2) subject to oppression and abuse 3) needing help, deliverance from trouble, especially as delivered by hwhy 4) general reference to lowest class Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H14, in the sense of want (especially in feeling) Same Word by TWOT Number: 3a Let’s look at some more of His Word where He favors and prefers such a demeanor. Mylht/Psa. 51:17 The slaughterings of myhla are a broken spirit, A heart broken and crushed, myhla, These You do not despise. Why[vy/Isa. 57:1-15 The righteous one is lost, and no one takes it to heart. And kind men are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous one is taken away from the presence of evil, (2) he enters into peace. They who walk in integrity rest on their beds. (3) “But come here, you sons of the sorceress, you offspring of the adulterer and the whore! (4) Against whom are you sporting? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood, (5) being inflamed with mighty ones under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? (6) “Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they, are your lot! Also to them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a grain offering. Am I comforted in these? (7) “On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. There, too, you went up to make an offering. (8) “Also behind the doors and their posts you have set up your remembrance. For you have departed from Me, and have gone up to them. You have made your bed wide and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their hand. (9) “And you went to the sovereign with ointment, and increased your perfumes. And you sent your messengers far off, and lowered yourself even to the grave. (10) “You have wearied yourselves with your many wanderings, yet you did not say, ‘I give up!’ You have found the life of your hand, therefore you were not grieved. (11) “And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, that you have lied and not remembered Me, nor taken it to your heart? Have I not

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been silent, even from of old, and you have not feared Me? (12) “Let Me declare your righteousness and your works, for they do not profit you. (13) “When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind shall bear them all away, a breath take them. But he who takes refuge in Me shall inherit the land, and possess My set-apart mountain.” (14) And one shall say, “Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, take the stumbling-block out of the way of My people.” (15) For thus declares the high and exalted One who dwells forever, whose Name is set-apart, “I dwell in the high and set-apart place, with him who has a bruised and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of bruised ones. Why[vy/Isa. 66:1,2 “Thus said hwhy, “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is this house that you build for Me? And where is this place of My rest? (2) “And all these My hand have made, and all these that exist,” declares hwhy. “Yet to such a one I look: on him who is poor and bruised of spirit, and who trembles at My Word.

HUMBLE: Myrbd/Deut. 8:1-6 “Guard to do every command which I command you today, that you might live, and shall increase, and go in, and shall possess the land of which hwhy swore to your fathers. (2) “And you shall remember that hwhy your myhla led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you guard His commands or not. (3) “And He humbled you, and let you suffer hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, to make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the mouth of hwhy

1. Footnote: 1Mashyach quotes this in Mt. 4:4 and in Lk. 4:4. (4) “Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. (5) “Thus you shall know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so hwhy your myhla disciplines you, (6) therefore you shall guard the commands of hwhy your myhla, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

Myrbd/Deut. 8:11-18 “Be on guard, lest you forget hwhy your myhla by not guarding His commands, and His right-rulings, and His laws which I command you today, (12) lest you eat and shall be satisfied, and build lovely houses and shall dwell in them, (13) and your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and your gold are increased, and all that you have is increased, (14) that your heart then becomes lifted up, and you forget hwhy your myhla who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage, (15) who led you through that great and awesome wilderness – fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst – where there was no water, who brought water for you out of the flinty rock, (16) who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and to try you, to do you good in the end, (17) you then shall say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand have made for me this wealth!’ (18) “But you shall remember hwhy your myhla, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today.

MEEK: Wiyn[ / wn[ H6035 BDB/CEDH Definition: 1) poor, humble, afflicted, meek, modest 1a) poor, needy 1b) poor and weak 1c) poor, weak and afflicted 1d) humble, lowly, meek Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6031 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1652a ETYMOLOGY

poor (adj.)

c.1200, "lacking money or resources, destitute; needy, indigent; small, scanty," from Old French povre "poor, wretched, dispossessed; inadequate; weak, thin" (Modern French pauvre), from Latin pauper "poor, not wealthy," from pre-Latin *pau-paros "producing little; getting little," a

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compound from the roots of paucus "little" (see paucity) and parare "to produce, bring forth" (see pare). Replaced Old English earm. Figuratively from early 14c. Meaning "of inferior quality" is from c.1300. Of inhabited places from c.1300; of soil, etc., from late 14c. The poor boy sandwich, made of simple but filling ingredients, was invented and named in New Orleans in 1921. To poor mouth "deny one's advantages" is from 1965 (to make a poor mouth "whine" is Scottish dialect from 1822). Slang poor man's ________ "the cheaper alternative to _______," is from 1854.

humble (adj.)

mid-13c., from Old French humble, earlier humele, from Latin humilis "lowly, humble," literally "on the ground," from humus "earth." Senses of "not self-asserting" and "of low birth or rank" were both in Middle English Related: Humbly; humbleness.

afflict (v.)

late 14c., "to cast down," from Old French aflicter, from Latin afflictare "to damage, harass, torment," frequentative of affligere (past participle afflictus) "to dash down, overthrow," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + fligere (past participle flictus) "to strike," from PIE root *bhlig- "to strike" (cognates: Greek phlibein "to press, crush," Czech blizna "scar," Welsh blif "catapult"). Transferred meaning of "trouble, distress," is first recorded 1530s. Related: Afflicted; afflicting.

meek (adj.)

c.1200, "gentle, quiet, unaggressive; benevolent, kind; courteous, humble, unassuming;" of a woman, "modest," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse mjukr "soft, pliant, gentle," from Proto-Germanic *meukaz (cognates: Gothic muka-modei "humility," Dutch muik "soft"), of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE *meug- "slippery, slimy." In the Bible, it translates Latin mansuetus from Vulgate (see mansuetude). Sense of "submissive" is from mid-14c.

modest (adj.)

1560s, "having moderate self-regard," from Middle French modeste (14c.), from Latin modestus "keeping due measure" (see modesty). Of women, "not improper or lewd," 1590s; of female attire, 1610s. Of demands, etc., c.1600. Related: Modestly.

Mylht/Psa. 22:26 The meek ones do eat and are satisfied; Let those who seek Him praise hwhy. Let your heart live forever! Mylht/Psa. 25:9 He guides the meek ones in right-ruling, And He teaches the meek ones His way. Mylht/Psa. 37:11 But the meek ones shall inherit the earth, And delight themselves in plenty of peace. Mylht/Psa. 76:9 When myhla arises to right-ruling, To save all the meek of the earth. Selah. Mylht/Psa. 147:6 hwhy lifts up the meek ones, He throws the wrong ones down to the ground. Mylht/Psa. 149:4 For hwhy takes pleasure in His people; He embellishes the meek ones with deliverance. Why[vy/Isa. 11:4 But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with straightness for the meek ones of the earth, and shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and slay the wrong with the breath of His lips. Why[vy/Isa. 29:19 And the meek ones shall increase their joy in hwhy, and the poor among men rejoice in the Set-apart One of Larvy. Why[vy/Isa. 61:1 The Spirit of ynda hwhy is upon Me, because hwhy has anointed Me to bring good news to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,

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swm[/Amo. 2:7 who crush the head of the poor ones in the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, to defile My set-apart Name. Hynpc/Zeph. 2:3 Seek hwhy all you meek ones of the earth, who have done His right-ruling. Seek righteousness, seek meekness, if so be that you are hidden in the day of wrath of hwhy. Whyttm/Matt. 5:5 “Upright are the meek, because they shall inherit the earth.1 Footnote: 1Ps. 37:9, 11, 22, 29, 34. Whyttm/Matt. 11:29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble in heart, and you shall find rest for your beings.1 Footnote: 1Jer. 6:16. Whyttm/Matt. 21:5 “Say to the daughter of Tsyun, ‘See, your Sovereign is coming to you, meek, and sitting on a donkey, even a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ” {See also: Hyrkz/Zec. 9:9} LOWLY: H8217 - lpv BDB Definition: 1) low, humble 1a) low (in height) 1b) low (in station), humble (of condition or spirit) 1c) humiliated 1d) lowly (as subst) Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H8213 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2445c Bwya/Job 5:6-11 For evil does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground; (7) for man is born for trouble, and the sparks fly upward. (8) But as for me, I would seek La, and I would submit my case to myhla, (9) who is doing great and unsearchable deeds, innumerable wonders, (10) who is giving rain on the earth’s face, and is sending waters on the field’s face; (11) to set the lowly on high, and those who mourn shall be lifted to safety, Bwya/Job 22:29 For they have made low, and you say, ‘Up!’ but He saves the lowly of eyes. Mylht/Psa. 10:12,17 Arise, hwhy! La, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the lowly ones. 17 hwhy, You have heard the desire of the lowly ones; You prepare their heart; You incline Your ear, Ylvm/Prov.16:19 Better to be lowly in spirit with the poor, Than to divide the spoil with the proud. Why[vy/Isa. 2:9 And the lowly bows down, and the high is humbled; therefore You do not forgive them. Luke 1:52 “He brought down rulers from their thrones, and exalted the lowly. Bq[y/Ja. 1:9 So let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, LOW: Bwya/Job 14:21 His sons come to esteem, and he does not know it. And they are brought low, and he does not perceive it. Bwya/Job 24:24 They are lifted up for a little while, then they are gone, then they shall be brought low. Like all else they are gathered up, and they are cut off like the heads of grain. Mylht/Psa. 106:43 Many times He delivered them; But they rebelled in their plans, So they were brought low for their crookedness. Mylht/Psa. 107:39 But when they are diminished and brought low Through oppression, evil and sorrow, Mylht/Psa. 116:6 hwhy guards the simple; I was brought low, but He saved me. Why[vy/Isa. 2:12, 17 For hwhy twabc has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up, so that it is brought low; 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the pride of men shall be brought low. And hwhy alone shall be exalted in that day, Why[vy/Isa. 29:4 “And you shall be brought low and speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low, out of the dust. And your voice shall be like a medium’s, out of the ground, and your speech whisper out of the dust. Why[vy/Isa. 32:19 even when hail shall fall, felling the forest, and the city be brought low in humiliation. Laqzxy/Ezek. 17:14 so that the reign would be brought low and not lift itself up, but guard his covenant, that it might stand. THEY SHALL MOURN:

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TO BALDNESS: Why[vy/Isa. 15:2; Arz[/Ez. 9:3; Bwya/Job 1:20; swm[/Amo. 8:10; Hnwy/Jonah 3:6; hkym/Mic. 1:16; WEEPING: Mylht/Psa. 119:136; whymry/Jer. 9:1, 13:17; Mylht/Psa. 6:6-9, 56:8-11, 126:5-6; Why[vy/Isa. 38:3-5; Whyttm/Matt. 5:4; Nnxwhy/Jn. 16:20-22; Why[vy/Isa. 33:7; ; whymry/Jer. 6:26; Mic_1:8; Arz[/Ez. 10:1; Hymxn/Neh. 1:4; Mylht/Psa. 102:9; Other Examples: {of ‘humbling onesself’} Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 12:1-13 And it came to be, when Reh ̣abʽam had established the reign and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the Turah of hwhy, and all Larvy with him. (2) And it came to be, in the fifth year of Sovereign Reh ̣abʽam, that Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim came up against Yarushalam – because they had trespassed against hwhy – (3) with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen, and innumerable people who came with him out of Mitsrayim: the Lubim, the Sukkites and the Kushites. (4) And he took the cities of defence of Hdwhy and came to Yarushalam. (5) And Hy[mv the aybn came to Reh ̣abʽam and the rulers of Hdwhy, who had been gathered in Yarushalam because of Shishaq, and said to them, “Thus said hwhy, ‘You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishaq.’ ” (6) Then the rulers of Larvy and the sovereign humbled themselves, and they said, “hwhy is righteous.” (7) And when hwhy saw that they humbled themselves, the word of hwhy came to Hy[mv, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I do not destroy them, but I shall give to them some deliverance, and not pour out My wrath on Yarushalam by the hand of Shishaq, (8) but they are to become his servants, so that they know My service and the service of the reigns of the lands.” (9) And Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim came up against Yarushalam, and took away the treasures of the House of hwhy and the treasures of the sovereign’s house. He took all, he also took the gold shields which Shalamah had made. (10) And Sovereign Reh ̣abʽam made bronze shields to replace them and committed them into the hands of the chiefs of the guard, who guarded the entrance of the sovereign’s house. (11) And it came to be, whenever the sovereign went into the House of hwhy, the guard would go and bring them out, then they would take them back into the guardroom. (12) And when he humbled himself, the wrath of hwhy turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely. And matters also went well in Hdwhy. (13) So Sovereign Reh ̣abʽam strengthened himself in Yarushalam and reigned. For Reh ̣abʽam was forty-one years old when he became sovereign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yarushalam, the city which hwhy had chosen out of all the tribes of Larvy, to put His Name there. And his mother’s name was Naʽamah, the Ammonitess.

Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 32:1-31 After these matters and this trustworthiness, Sanḥerib_ sovereign of Ashshur came. And he entered Hdwhy and encamped against the cities of defence, and said to break them open to himself. (2) And whyqzxy saw that Sanḥerib_ had come, and his face set to fight against Yarushalam, (3) and he took counsel with his rulers and mighty men to stop the water from the springs which were outside the city. And they helped him. (4) And many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the stream that ran through the land, saying, “Why should the sovereigns of Ashshur come and find much water?” (5) And he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and outside of it another wall, and strengthened Millo, the City of Dud , and made large numbers of weapons and shields. (6) And he appointed battle officers over the people, and gathered them to him in the open space at the city gate, and spoke to their heart, saying, (7) “Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid nor be cast down before the sovereign of Ashshur, nor before all the army that is with him. For with us there are more than with him. (8) “With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is hwhy our myhla, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people leaned on the words of whyqzxy sovereign of Hdwhy. (9) After this Sanḥerib the sovereign of Ashshur sent his servants to Yarushalam – but he himself, and all his power with him against Lakish – to whyqzxy sovereign of myhla, and to all Hdwhy who were in Yarushalam, saying, (10) “Thus said Sanḥerib_ the sovereign of Ashshur, ‘On what are you trusting, that you remain in Yarushalam under siege? (11) ‘Is whyqzxy not persuading you to give yourselves over to die by scarcity of food and by thirst, saying, “hwhy our myhla shall deliver us from the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur”? (12) ‘Has not whyqzxy himself taken away His high places and His altars, and ordered Hdwhy and Yarushalam, saying, “Bow yourselves before one altar and burn incense on it”? (13) ‘Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the mighty ones of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver

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their lands out of my hand? (14) ‘Who was there among all the mighty ones of those nations that my fathers put under the ban that could deliver his people from my hand, that your myhla should be able to deliver you from my hand? (15) ‘And now, do not let Ḥizqiyahu deceive you or persuade you like this, and do not believe him; for no mighty one of any nation or reign was able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers – much less your myhla, to deliver you from my hand!’ ” (16) And his servants spoke even more against hwhy myhla and against His servant whyqzxy. (17) And he wrote letters to reproach hwhy myhla of Larvy, and to speak against Him, saying, “As the mighty ones of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people from my hand, so the myhla of whyqzxy shall not deliver His people from my hand.” (18) Then they called out with a loud voice in the language of Hdwhy to the people of Yarushalam who were on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, in order to capture the city. (19) And they spoke against the myhla of Yarushalam, as against the mighty ones of the people of the earth, the work of men’s hands. (20) And Sovereign whyqzxy and the prophet Why[vy, son of Amots, prayed about this, and cried out to the heavens. (21) And hwhy sent a messenger who cut down every mighty brave one, both the leader and the commander in the camp of the sovereign of Ashshur, and he returned shamefaced to his own land, and went into the house of his mighty one, and there some of his own offspring caused him to fall by the sword. (22) Thus hwhy saved whyqzxy and the inhabitants of Yarushalam from the hand of Sanḥerib the sovereign of Ashshur, and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side. (23) And many brought gifts to hwhy at Yarushalam, and presents to whyqzxy sovereign of Hdwhy, and he was exalted in the eyes of all nations thereafter. (24) In those days whyqzxy was sick and near death, and he prayed to hwhy. And He spoke to him and appointed a sign for him. (25) However, whyqzxy did not repay according to the good done to him, for his heart was lifted up, therefore wrath came upon him and upon Hdwhy and Yarushalam. (26) Then whyqzxy humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Yarushalam, so that the wrath of hwhy did not come upon them in the days of whyqzxy. (27) And whyqzxy had much riches and esteem. And he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all desirable utensils; (28) and storehouses for the harvest of grain, and wine, and oil, and stalls for all kinds of livestock, and folds for flocks. (29) And he made cities for himself, and possessions of great numbers of flocks and herds, for myhla gave him much property. (30) And whyqzxy himself had stopped the upper outlet of the waters of Giḥon, and directed them to the west side of the City of Dawid. And whyqzxy prospered in all his work. (31) However with the envoys of the princes of Babel, whom they sent to ask him about the wonder that was done in the land, myhla left him, in order to try him, to know all that was in his heart.

Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 34:15-33 Then whyqlx responded and said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Turah in the House of hwhy.” And whyqlx gave the book to Shaphan. (16) And Shaphan brought the book to the sovereign, and brought the sovereign word, saying, “All that has been given into the hand of your servants, they are doing. (17) “And they have poured out the silver that was found in the House of hwhy, and have given it into the hand of those appointed and the workmen.” (18) And Shaphan the scribe informed the sovereign, saying, “whyqlx the kahan has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it before the sovereign. (19) And it came to be, when the sovereign heard the words of the Turah, that he tore his garments. (20) And the sovereign commanded whyqlx, Aḥiqam son of Shaphan, and Abdon son of hkym, and Shaphan the scribe, and Hyv[ a servant of the sovereign, saying, (21) “Go, inquire of hwhy for me, and for him who is left in Larvy and in Hdwhy, concerning the words of the book that is found. For great is the wrath of hwhy that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not guarded the Word of hwhy, to do according to all that is written in this book.” (22) Then whyqlx and those of the sovereign went to Ḥuldah the haybn, the ashah of Shalam son of Toqhath, son of Ḥasrah, keeper of the wardrobe, who was dwelling in Yarushalam in the Second Quarter. And they spoke to her about this. (23) And she said to them, “Thus said hwhy myhla of Larvy, ‘Say to the man who sent you to Me, (24) “Thus said hwhy, ‘See, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the sovereign of Hdwhy, (25) because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other mighty ones, to provoke Me with all the works of their hands. Therefore My wrath is poured out on this place, and is not quenched.’ ” ’ (26) “And to the

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sovereign of Hdwhy, who sent you to inquire of hwhy, say this to him, ‘Thus said hwhy myhla of Larvy, whose words you have heard, (27) “Because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before myhla when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your garments and wept before Me, I also have heard,” declares hwhy.[Remember: arqyw/Lev. 26:40-42] (28)“See, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, so that your eyes would not see all the evil that I am bringing on this place and its inhabitants.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the sovereign. (29) And the sovereign sent and gathered all the elders of Hdwhy and Yarushalam. (30) And the sovereign went up to the House of hwhy with all the men of Hdwhy and the inhabitants of Yarushalam, and the kahanym and the Lewites, and all the people, both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the House of hwhy. (31) And the sovereign stood in his place and made a covenant before hwhy, to follow hwhy and to guard His commands and His witnesses and His laws, with all his heart and all his being, to do the words of the covenant that were written in this book. (32) And he made stand all who were present in Yarushalam and Binyamin. And the inhabitants of Yarushalam did according to the covenant of myhla, the myhla of their fathers. (33) And whyvay removed all the abominations from all the lands that belonged to the children of Larvy, and made all who were present in Larvy diligently serve hwhy their myhla. All his days they did not turn away from following hwhy myhla of their fathers. [See also: Myklm-b/2Ki. 22]

Myklm-a/1Ki. 21:17-29 And the word of hwhy came to whyla the Tishbite, saying, (18) “Rise up, go down to meet Aḥab sovereign of Larvy, who lives in Shamarun. See, he is in the vineyard of Nabuth, where he has gone down to take possession of it. (19) “And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus said hwhy, “Have you murdered and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus said hwhy, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Nabuth, the dogs are going to lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ” (20) And Aḥab said to whyla, “Have you found me, my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of hwhy: (21) ‘See, I am bringing evil on you, and shall consume your descendants, and cut off from Aḥab every male in Larvy, both those shut up and those left at large, (22) and make your house like the house of Yarabʽam son of Nabat, and like the house of Baʽasha son of whyxa, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me, and made Larvy sin.’ (23) “And also of Izebel hwhy has spoken, saying, ‘The dogs are going to eat Izebel by the wall of La[rzy.’ (24) “The dogs are going to eat whoever belongs to Aḥab and dies in the city, and the birds of the heavens are going to eat whoever dies in the field.” (25) Indeed, there never was anyone like Aḥab who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of hwhy, because Izebel his wife stirred him up. (26) And he acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom hwhy dispossessed from before the children of Larvy. (27) And it came to be, when Aḥab heard those words, that he tore his garments and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. (28) And the word of hwhy came to whyla the Tishbite, saying, (29) “See how Aḥab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I do not bring the evil in his days, but in the days of his son I bring the evil on his house.” Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 12:1-16 And it came to be, when Reḥabʽam had established the reign and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the Turah of hwhy, and all Larvy with him. (2) And it came to be, in the fifth year of Sovereign Reḥabʽam, that Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim came up against Yarushalam – because they had trespassed against hwhy – (3) with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen, and innumerable people who came with him out of Mitsrayim: the Lubim, the Sukkites and the Kushites. (4) And he took the cities of defence of Hdwhy and came to Yarushalam. (5) And Hy[mv the prophet came to Reḥabʽam and the rulers of Hdwhy, who had been gathered in Yarushalam because of Shishaq, and said to them, “Thus said hwhy, ‘You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishaq.’ ” (6) Then the rulers of Larvy and the sovereign humbled themselves, and they said, “hwhy is righteous.” (7) And when hwhy saw that they humbled themselves, the word of hwhy came to Hy[mv, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I do not destroy them, but I shall give to them some deliverance, and not pour out My wrath on Yarushalam by the

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hand of Shishaq, (8) but they are to become his servants, so that they know My service and the service of the reigns of the lands.” (9) And Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim came up against Yarushalam, and took away the treasures of the House of hwhy and the treasures of the sovereign’s house. He took all, he also took the gold shields which Shalamah had made. (10) And Sovereign Reḥabʽam made bronze shields to replace them and committed them into the hands of the chiefs of the guard, who guarded the entrance of the sovereign’s house. (11) And it came to be, whenever the sovereign went into the House of hwhy, the guard would go and bring them out, then they would take them back into the guardroom. (12) And when he humbled himself, the wrath of hwhy turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely. And matters also went well in Hdwhy. (13) So Sovereign Reḥabʽam strengthened himself in Yarushalam and reigned. For Reḥabʽam was forty-one years old when he became sovereign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yarushalam, the city which hwhy had chosen out of all the tribes of Larvy, to put His Name there. And his mother’s name was Naʽamah, the Ammonitess. (14) And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek hwhy. (15) And the acts of Reḥabʽam, the first and the last, are they not written in the book of Hy[mv the aybn, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there was fighting between Reḥabʽam and Yarobʽam all the days. (16) So Reḥabʽam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of Dud. And Hyba his son reigned in his place.

WE SHOULD BE ASHAMED BECAUSE OF OUR SINS Whymry/Jer. 6:12-15;13:18; Laqzxy/Ezek. 16:60-63;36:31

Bwya/Job 42:6 Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” Mylht/Psa. 7:12 If one does not repent! He sharpens His sword, He bends His bow and makes it ready, tyvarb/Gen. 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, yet they were not ashamed.

Rbdmb/Num. 12:14 And hwhy said to M’shah, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days, and after that let her be readmitted.” Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. 30:15 Then they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the kahanym and the Lĕwites were ashamed, and set themselves apart, and brought the burnt offerings to the House of hwhy. Arz[/Ez. 9:6 and said, “my myhla, I am too ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, my myhla, for our crookednesses have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens. Why[vy/Isa. 1:29 For they shall be ashamed because of the trees, which they have coveted, and they shall be ashamed because of the gardens, which they have chosen; Why[vy/Isa. 42:17 “Those who trust in idols, who say to the moulded images, ‘You are our mighty ones,’ shall be turned back, utterly ashamed. Why[vy/Isa. 44:11 See, all his companions are ashamed, and the workmen, they are but men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up, let them fear, let them be put to shame, altogether. Whymry/Jer. 2:26 “As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, so is the house of Larvy ashamed – they and their sovereigns and their heads, and their kahanym and their prophets, Whymry/Jer. 3:3 “Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. You have had a whore’s forehead, you refuse to be ashamed. Whymry/Jer. 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble at the time I visit them,” said hwhy. Whymry/Jer. 8:12 “Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble in the time of their visitation,” said hwhy. Whymry/Jer. 9:19 “For a voice of wailing is heard from Tsyun, ‘How we are ravaged! We are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because we have been thrown out of our dwellings.’ ”

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Whymry/Jer. 12:13 “They have sown wheat but reaped thorns, they have exhausted themselves – they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the burning displeasure of hwhy.”

Whymry/Jer. 20:11 But hwhy is with me like a mighty, awesome one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and not prevail. They shall be greatly ashamed, for they have not acted wisely – an everlasting reproach never to be forgotten. Whymry/Jer. 22:22 “Let all your shepherds be devoured by the wind, and your lovers go into captivity. Then you shall be ashamed and humiliated for all your evil. Whymry/Jer. 31:19 ‘For after my turning back, I repented. And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh. I was ashamed, even humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.’ Whymry/Jer. 50:12 your mother shall be greatly ashamed. She who bore you shall be humiliated. Look, the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land and a desert. Whymry/Jer. 51:51 We are ashamed because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the set-apart places of the House of hwhy 1. Footnote: 1Ps. 79:1-7, Lam 1:10, Dan. 8:13, Dan. 11:31, Mt. 24:15. Laqzxy/Ezek. 16:52,61,63 “You also, who pleaded for your sisters, bear your own shame, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs. They are more righteous than you. So be ashamed too, and bear your own shame, because you have made your sisters seem righteous. 61 “And you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters. And I shall give them to you for daughters, though not by your own covenant; 63 so that you remember. And you shall be ashamed, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I pardon you for all you have done,” declares the ynda hwhy.’ ” Laqzxy/Ezek. 36:31,32 “And you shall remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good. And you shall loathe yourselves in your own eyes, for your crookednesses and your abominations. 32 “Not for your sake am I acting,” declares ynda hwhy, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and blush for your ways, house of Larvy!” Laqzxy/Ezek. 43:10,11 “Son of man, explain the House to the house of Larvy, and when they are ashamed of their crookednesses, they shall measure the measurements. 11 “And since they shall be ashamed of all that they did, make known to them the design of the House and its structure, and its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its laws, and all its forms and all its Torot. And write it down before their eyes, so that they observe its entire design and all its laws, and shall do them. Hyrkz/Zec. 13:4 “And it shall be in that day that the prophets shall be ashamed, everyone of his vision when he prophesies, and not put a hairy robe on in order to deceive, CRY! Turning back also consists of crying out to the One Who has striken you. Why[vy/Isa. 9:13 And the people have not turned back to Him who smites them, nor have they sought hwhy twabc.

twmv/Exo. 2:23-24 And it came to be after these many days that the sovereign of Mitsrayim died. And the children of Larvy groaned because of the slavery, and they cried out. And their cry came up to myhla because of the slavery. (24) And myhla heard their groaning, and myhla remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Yitsh ̣aq, and with Yaʽaqob (arqyw/Lev. 26:40-42). Why[vy/Isa. 30:19 For the people shall dwell in Tsyun at Yarushalam, you shall weep no more. He shall show much favour to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He shall answer you.

Why[vy/Isa. 66:2 “And all these My hand have made, and all these that exist,” declares hwhy. “Yet to such a one I look: on him who is poor and bruised of spirit, and who trembles at My Word. Whymry/Jer. 31:21-25 “Set up signposts, make landmarks; set your heart toward the highway, the way in which you went. Turn back, maiden of Larvy, turn back to these cities of yours! (22) “Till when would you turn here and there, backsliding daughter? For hwhy has created what is new on earth: hbqn-

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(her weary, who has bore, who is pierced & who is pricked off (H5344)) bbwst- (shall turn (H5437)) rbg- (mighty (H1396))!” (23) Thus said hwhy twabc, the myhla of Larvy, “Let them once again say this word in the land of Hdwhy and in its cities, when I turn back their captivity, ‘kkrby hwhy, home of righteousness, mountain of set-apartness!’ (24) “And in Hdwhy and all its cities farmers and those who journey with flocks, shall dwell together. (25) “For I shall fill the weary being, and I shall replenish every grieved being.” Why[vy/Isa. 58:1-14 “Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression, and the house of Yaʽaqob their sins. (2) “Yet they seek Me day by day, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the right-ruling of their myhla. They ask of Me rulings of righteousness, they delight in drawing near to myhla. (3) They say, ‘Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, and You took no note?’ “Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your labourers. (4) “Look, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wrongness. You do not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high. (5) “Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his being? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to hwhy? (6) “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke? (7) “Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, and cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh? (8) “Then your light would break forth like the morning, your healing spring forth speedily. And your righteousness shall go before you, the esteem of hwhy would be your rear guard. (9) “Then, when you call, hwhy would answer; when you cry, He would say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and the speaking of unrighteousness, (10) if you extend your being to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted being, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness be as noon. (11) “Then hwhy would guide you continually, and satisfy your being in drought, and strengthen your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. (12) “And those from among you shall build the old waste places. You shall raise up the foundations of many generations. And you would be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. (13) “If you do turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My set-apart day, and shall call the Sabbath ‘a delight,’ the set-apart day of hwhy ‘esteemed,’ and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, (14) then you shall delight yourself in hwhy. And I shall cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and feed you with the inheritance of Yaʽaqob your father. For the mouth of hwhy has spoken!” YOUR DEEDS: Turning back also consists of changing your ways. You cannot suggest you have turned back, if you are still eating abominations or if you still continue to bring His Name to nothing by referring to Him as anything but His Name.

Whymry/Jer. 4:4,18 “Circumcise yourselves unto hwhy, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Hdwhy and inhabitants of Yarushalam, lest My wrath come forth like fire and burn, with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.” 18 “Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your evil, because it is bitter, because it has reached into your heart.” Whymry/Jer. 7:3,5 Thus said hwhy twabc, the myhla of Larvy, “Make your ways and your deeds good, then I let you dwell in this place. 5 “For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do right-ruling between a man and his neighbour, Whymry/Jer. 18:11 “And now, speak to the men of Hdwhy and to the inhabitants of Yarushalam, saying, ‘Thus said hwhy, “See, I am forming evil and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your deeds good.” ’ ” Whymry/Jer. 21:12,14 ‘House of Dud! Thus said hwhy, “Render right-ruling in the morning, and deliver him who has been robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go out like fire and burn,

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with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds. 14 “And I shall punish you according to the fruit of your deeds,” declares hwhy. “And I shall kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall consume all that is around her.” Whymry/Jer. 23:2 Therefore thus said hwhy myhla of Larvy against the shepherds who feed My people, “You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and have not tended them. See, I am punishing you for the evil of your deeds,” declares hwhy. Whymry/Jer. 25:5 saying, ‘Turn back now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the soil which hwhy has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. Whymry/Jer. 26:13 “And now, make good your ways and your deeds, and [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, then hwhy shall relent concerning the evil He has pronounced against you. Whymry/Jer. 35:15 “And I sent to you all My servants the myaybn, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Turn, each one from his evil way, and make good your deeds, and do not go after other mighty ones to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me. Whymry/Jer. 44:22 “And hwhy could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your deeds and because of the abominations which you did. Therefore your land is a ruin, an object of astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, as it is this day. Laqzxy/Ezek. 20:43 “And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you were defiled. And you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you did. Laqzxy/Ezek. 21:24 “Therefore thus said ynda hwhy, ‘Because you have made your crookedness to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that your sins are seen in all your deeds. Because you have been remembered, you are taken by hand. Laqzxy/Ezek. 24:14 “I, hwhy, have spoken. It shall come, and I shall do it. I do not hold back, nor do I pardon, nor do I relent. According to your ways and according to your deeds they shall judge you,” declares ynda hwhy.’ ” Laqzxy/Ezek. 36:31 “And you shall remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good. And you shall loathe yourselves in your own eyes, for your crookednesses and your abominations. Hynpc/Zeph. 3:11 “In that day you shall not be put to shame for any of your deeds in which you have transgressed against Me, for then I shall remove from your midst your proud exulting ones, and you shall no more be haughty in My set-apart mountain. HE WILL THEN TURN US BACK… Once He sees that His people have humbled themselves and are officially listening according to His voice only, removing the desires of their own hearts and purging the falsehood they have learned from their minds, He then will begin to turn them back.

Myrbd/Deut. 30:6 (6) “And hwhy your myhla shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live, Whymry/Jer. 24:7 ‘And I shall give them a heart to know Me, that I am hwhy. And they shall be My people and I shall be their myhla, for they shall turn back to Me with all their heart. Mylht/Psa. 80:1-19 Give ear, Shepherd of Larvy, Who lead pswhy like a flock; Who dwell between the keruḇim, shine forth! (2) Before Ephrayim, Binyamin, and Menashsheh, Stir up Your might, And come and save us! (3) Cause us to turn back, myhla, And cause Your face to shine, That we might be saved! (4) hwhy myhla twabc How long shall You be wroth Against the prayer of Your people? (5) You have caused them to eat the bread of tears, And have caused them to drink With tears, a third time. (6) You have made us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies laugh among themselves. (7) Turn us back, myhla twabc, And cause Your face to shine, That we might be saved! (8) You brought a vine out of Mitsrayim; You drove out the nations, and planted it. (9) You cleared a place for it, And caused it to take deep root, And it filled the land. (10) Hills were covered with its shadow, And the mighty cedars with its twigs. (11) She spread her branches to the Sea, And her shoots to the River. (12) Why have You broken

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down her hedges, So that every passer-by plucked her fruit? (13) The boar out of the forest ravages it, And the wild beast of the field devours it. (14) Return, we beg You, myhla twabc; Look down from heaven, and see, And visit this vine, (15) And the stock which Your right hand has planted, And the Son whom You made strong for Yourself. (16) It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your face. (17) Let Your hand be upon the One at Your right hand, Upon the Builder of Mankind whom You made strong for Yourself, (18) And we shall not backslide from You. Revive us, and let us call upon Your Name. (19) Turn us back, hwhy myhla twabc, And cause Your face to shine, That we might be saved! Why[vy/Isa. 63:15-17 Look down from the heavens, and see from Your set-apart and comely dwelling. Where are Your ardour and Your might, the stirring of Your inward parts and Your compassion toward me? Are they withheld? (16) For You are our Father, though Aḇraham does not know us, and Larvy does not recognise us. You, hwhy, are our Father, our Redeemer – Your Name is from of old. (17) hwhy, why do You make us stray from Your ways, and harden our heart from Your fear? Turn back, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your inheritance. Why[vy/Isa. 31:1-7 Woe to those who go down to Mitsrayim for help, and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but who do not look to the Set-apart One of Larvy, nor seek hwhy! (2) And He also is wise, and has brought evil, and has not turned aside His words. And He shall rise up against the house of evil-doers, and against the help of workers of wickedness. (3) And the Mitsrites are men, and not la. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And when hwhy stretches out His hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall. And they shall all fall, together. (4) For this is what hwhy has said to me, “As a lion roars, and a young lion over his prey, though a band of shepherds is called out against him, he is not afraid of their voice nor disturbed by their noise, so hwhy twabc shall come down to fight upon Mount Tsyun and upon its hill. (5) “Like hovering birds, so does hwhy twabc protect Yarushalam – protecting and delivering, passing over and rescuing.” (6) Turn back to Him from whom the children of Larvy have deeply fallen away. (7) For in that day, let each man reject his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made for yourselves, as a sin. Whymry/Jer. 30:3,18 ‘For look, the days are coming,’ declares hwhy, ‘when I shall turn back the captivity of My people Larvy and Hdwhy,’ declares hwhy, ‘and I shall bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and let them possess it.’ ” 18 “Thus said hwhy, ‘See, I turn back the captivity of Yaʽaqoḇ’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. And the city shall be built upon its own mound, and the palace stand on its right place. Whymry/Jer. 31:18,23 “I have clearly heard Ephrayim lamenting, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf. Turn me back, and I shall turn back, for You are hwhy yhla. 23 Thus said hwhy twabc, the myhla of Larvy, “Let them once again say this word in the land of Hdwhy and in its cities, when I turn back their captivity, I worship You hwhy, Home of Righteousness, mountain of set-apartness!’ Whymry/Jer. 32:44 ‘Fields shall be bought for silver, and deeds signed and sealed, and witnesses be called, in the land of Binyamin, and in the places around Yarushalam, and in the cities of Hdwhy, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the low country, and in the cities of the South. For I shall turn back their captivity,’ declares hwhy.” Whymry/Jer. 33:7,11,26 ‘And I shall turn back the captivity of Hdwhy and the captivity of Larvy, and shall build them as at the first, 11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who are saying, “Praise hwhy twabc, for hwhy is good, for His kindness is forever,” of those who are bringing the offering of praise into the House of hwhy. For I shall turn back the captivity of the land, as at the first,’ declares hwhy. 26 then I would also reject the descendants of Yaʽaqoḇ and Dud My servant, so that I should not take of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yaʽaqoḇ. For I shall turn back their captivity, and have compassion on them.’ ” Whymry/Jer. 49:39 ‘And it shall be in the latter days that I turn back the captivity of Ěylam,’ declares hwhy.” Hkya/Lam. 5:21 Turn us back to You, hwhy, And let us turn back, Renew our days as of old.

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Lawhy/Joel 3:1 “For look, in those days and at that time, when I turn back the captivity of Hdwhy and Yarushalam,

Myrbd/Deut. 30:4-10 4 If it has come to be that you are driven to the {ends, farthest, cut off parts} of the heavens, from there you are gathered of hwhy your myhla and from there He brings you. 5 hwhy your myhla even brings you to the land which they possessed, your fathers; so you shall possess it and He shall {be pleased with, make you right, good and/or beautiful [see Laqzxy/Ezek.16:4-14]} even increasing you more than your fathers; 6 So hwhy your myhla ta shall circumcise your {heart, inward parts, mind, will, understanding, determination, inclination, knowledge, thoughts, etc.} taw the {heart, inward parts, mind, will, understanding, determination, inclination, knowledge, thoughts, etc.} of your seed to love ta, hwhy your myhla with all your {heart, inward parts, mind, will, understanding, determination, inclination, knowledge, thoughts, etc.} and with all your {being, mind, desire, emotion, passion, breath, etc.} for the sake of your life. 7 And hwhy your myhla ta gives all these curses to your enemies and to those that hate you, that persecuted you; 8 So you shall turn back and {[mv -hear, listen, obey, [to perceive by ear, to have power to hear, to hear with attention or interest, to understand, to give heed, etc.]} according to the voice of hwhy and {do, accomplish, attend to, put in order, observe, celebrate, etc.} ta, all of His {commands, orders, charge, etc.} which I {commands, orders, charge, etc.} you this day; 10 If you [mv{hear, listen, [to perceive by ear, to have power to hear, to hear with attention or interest, to understand, to give heed, etc.]} according to the voice of hwhy your myhla to {[rmv] - guard, observe, give heed, watch over, wait for, retain, treasure up (in memory), observe, celebrate/keep (shabath-covenant-commands), perform (vow), protect, etc.} His commands and His {laws, prescribed, ordinances, etc.} that are written in the Book of this Turah; if you shall turn back to hwhy your myhla will all your {heart, inward parts, mind, will, understanding, determination, inclination, knowledge, thoughts, etc.} and with all your {being, mind, desire, emotion, passion, breath, etc.}.

AND KNOW AND ADMIT YOUR WRONG AND THE WRONGS OF YOUR PREDECESSORS arqyw/Lev. 26:40-42 ‘But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, (41) and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies – if their uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness [Mylht/Psa. 119:71; Whymry/Jer. 3:13], (42) then I shall remember My covenant with Yaʽaqob, and also My covenant with Yitsḥaq, and also remember My covenant with Abraham, and remember the land. Those turning back then have humbled themselves and accepted the discipline imposed upon them. Hymxn/Neh. 1:9 but if you shall turn back to Me, and guard My commands and do them, though you were cast out to the end of the heavens, I shall gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen, to make My Name dwell there.’ Mylht/Psa. 19:1-9 The heavens are proclaiming the esteem of la; And the expanse is declaring the work of His hand. (2) Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. (3) There is no speech, and there are no words, their voice is not heard. (4) Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world [Yash. 5:26; 48:20; 62:11]. In them He set up a tent for the sun, (5) And it is like a bridegroom coming out of his room, It rejoices like a strong man to run the path. (6) Its rising is from one end of the heavens, And its circuit to the other end; And naught is hidden from its heat.

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(7) The Turah of hwhy is perfect, bringing back the being; The witness of hwhy is trustworthy, making wise the simple; (8) The orders of hwhy are straight, rejoicing the heart; The command of hwhy is clear, enlightening the eyes; (9) The fear of hwhy is clean, standing forever; The right-rulings of hwhy are true, They are righteous altogether, WE ARE TO SET OUR HEART, INWARD PARTS, MINDS AND INTELLECT TO LA: Mylht/Psa. 78:1-8 My people, give ear to my Turah, Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. (2) I open my mouth in a parable; I utter riddles of old, (3) Which we have heard and known, For our fathers have related them to us. (4) We do not hide them from their children, Relating to the generation to come the praises of hwhy, And His strength and His wonders which He has done. (5) For He raised a witness in Yaʽaqob, And set a Turah in larvy, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their children; (6) That it might be known to a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and relate them to their children, (7) And place their trust in myhla, And not forget the works of la, But watch over His commands, (8) And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to la. Why[vy/Isa. 59:14-21 And right-ruling is driven back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter. {Note: Amos 5:7}. (15) And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil makes himself a prey. And hwhy saw, and it displeased Him that there was no right-ruling. (16) And He saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no intercessor. So His own arm saved for Him, and His righteousness upheld him. (17) And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of deliverance on His head. And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped Himself with ardour as a mantle. (18) According to their deeds, so He repays, wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies. He repays recompense to the coastlands. (19) And they shall fear the Name of hwhy from the west, and His esteem from the rising of the sun, when He comes like a distressing stream, which the Ruach of hwhy drives on. (20) “And the Redeemer shall come to Tsyun, and to those turning from transgression in Yaʽaqob_,” declares hwhy. (21) “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” said hwhy: “My Ruach that is upon you, and My Words that I have put in your mouth, shall not be withdrawn from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” said hwhy, “from this time and forever.” Laqzxy/Ezek. 36:1-31 (32) “And you shall remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good. And you shall loathe yourselves in your own eyes, for your crookednesses and your abominations. (32) “Not for your sake am I acting,” declares ynda hwhy, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and blush for your ways, house of Larvy!” I.D. PLUS LATTER END: Why[vy/Isa. 54:1-17 “Sing, barren one, you who did not bear! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not been in labour! For the children of the deserted one are more than the children of the married woman,” said hwhy. (2) “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not. Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. (3) “For you shall break forth to the right and to the left, and your seed inherit the nations, and make the deserted cities inhabited. (4) “Do not fear, for you shall not be put to shame, nor hurt, you shall not be humiliated. For the shame of your youth you shall forget, and not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more. (5) “For your Maker is your husband, hwhy twabc is His Name, and the Set-apart One of Larvy is your Redeemer. He is called the myhla of all the earth. (6) “For hwhy has called you like a woman forsaken and grieved in ruach, like a wife of youth when you were refused,” declares your myhla. (7) “For a little while I have forsaken you, but with great compassion I shall gather you. (8) “In an overflow of wrath I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I shall have compassion on you,” said hwhy, your Redeemer. (9) “For this is the waters of Noaḥ to Me, in that I have sworn that the waters of Noaḥ would never again cover the earth, so have I sworn not to be wroth with you, nor to rebuke you. (10) “For though the mountains be removed and the hills be shaken, My kindness is not removed from you, nor is My

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covenant of peace shaken,” said hwhy, who has compassion on you. (11) “You afflicted one, tossed with storm, and not comforted, see, I am setting your stones in antimony, and shall lay your foundations with sapphires, (12) and shall make your battlements of rubies, your gates of crystal, and all your walls of precious stones, (13) and all your children taught by hwhy, and the peace of your children great. (14) “In righteousness you shall be established – far from oppression, for you shall not fear, and far from ruin, for it does not come near you. (15) “See, they shall indeed assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever shall assemble against you falls for your sake! (16) “See, I Myself have created the blacksmith who blows the coals in the fire, who brings forth an instrument for his work. And I have created the waster to destroy. (17) “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall prove wrong. This is the inheritance of the servants of hwhy, and their righteousness from Me,” declares hwhy. [Note: Myrbd 30:1-10] Lawhy/Joel 2:12-17 “Yet even now,” declares hwhy, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” (13) And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to hwhy your myhla, for He shows favour and is compassionate, patient, and of great kindness, and He shall relent concerning the evil. Laqzxy/Ezek. 36:16-32 And the word of hwhy came to me, saying, (17) “Son of man, when the house of larvy dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. To Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her monthly period. (18) “So I poured out My wrath on them for the blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols they defiled it. (19) “And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. I have judged them according to their ways and their deeds. (20) “And when they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My set-apart Name for it was said of them, ‘These are the people of hwhy, and yet they have gone out of His land.’ (21) “But I had compassion on My set-apart Name, which the house of Larvy had profaned among the nations wherever they went. (22) “Therefore say to the house of Larvy, ‘Thus said ynda hwhy, “I do not do this for your sake, house of Larvy, but for My set-apart Name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. (23) “And I shall set apart My great Name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. And the nations shall know that I am hwhy,” declares ynda hwhy, “when I am set-apart in you before their eyes. (24) “And I shall take you from among the nations, and I shall gather you out of all lands, and I shall bring you into your own land. (25) “And I shall sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean – from all your filthiness and from all your idols I cleanse you. (26) “And I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I shall give you a heart of flesh, (27) and put My Spirit within you1. And I shall cause you to walk in My laws and guard My right-rulings and shall do them. Footnote: 1See 11:19-20, 37:6-14, 39:29. (28) “And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be My people, and I shall be your myhla. (29) “And I shall save you from all your uncleannesses. And I shall call for the grain and increase it, and I shall bring no scarcity of food upon you. (30) “And I shall increase the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of scarcity of food among the nations. (31) “And you shall remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good. And you shall loathe yourselves in your own eyes, for your crookednesses and your abominations. (32) “Not for your sake am I acting,” declares ynda hwhy, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and blush for your ways, house of Larvy!” Why[vy/Isa. 57:1-21 The righteous one has perished, and no one takes it to heart. And kind men are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous one is taken away from the presence of evil, (2) he enters into peace. They who walk in integrity rest on their beds. (3) “But come here, you sons of the sorceress, you offspring of the adulterer and the whore! (4) Against whom are you sporting? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood, (5) being inflamed with mighty ones under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? (6) “Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they, are your lot! 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have departed from Me, and have gone up to them. You have made your bed wide and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their hand. (9) “And you went to the sovereign with ointment, and increased your perfumes. And you sent your messengers far off, and lowered yourself even to the grave. (10) “You have wearied yourselves with your many wanderings, yet you did not say, ‘I give up!’ You have found the life of your hand, therefore you were not grieved. (11) “And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, that you have lied and not remembered Me, nor taken it to your heart? Have I not been silent, even from of old, and you have not feared Me? (12) “Let Me declare your righteousness and your works, for they do not profit you. (13) “When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind shall bear them all away, a breath take them. But he who takes refuge in Me shall inherit the land, and possess My set-apart mountain.” (14) And one shall say, “Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, take the stumbling-block out of the way of My people.” (15) For thus declares the high and exalted One who dwells forever, whose Name is set-apart, “I dwell in the high and set-apart place, with him who has a bruised and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of bruised ones. (16) “For I would not strive forever, nor am I wroth forever, for the spirit would grow faint before Me, even the beings I have made. (17) “For the crookedness of his unfair gain I was wroth and I smote him. I hid Myself and was wroth, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. (18) “I have seen his ways, but now I heal him, and I lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners, (19) creating the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,” said hwhy, “and I shall heal him.” (20) But the wrong are like the troubled sea, for it is unable to rest, and its waters cast up mud and dirt. (21) “There is no peace,” said my myhla, “for the wrong.” WITH ALL YOUR HEART? Whymry/Jer. 24:1-7 hwhy showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs set before the Hykal of hwhy, after Nebukadrets-tsar sovereign of Babel had exiled Whynky son of myqywhy, sovereign of Hdwhy, and the heads of Hdwhy with the craftsmen and smiths, from Yarushalam, and had brought them to Bab_el. (2) One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe. And the other basket had very spoilt figs which could not be eaten, they were so spoilt.” (3) And hwhy said to me, “What do you see, Whymry?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good. And the spoilt, very spoilt, which could not be eaten, they are so spoilt.” (4) Again the word of hwhy came to me, saying, (5) “Thus said hwhy, the myhla of larvy, ‘Like these good figs, so do I acknowledge the exiles of hdwhy, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. (6) ‘And I shall set My eyes on them for good, and shall bring them back to this land. And I shall build them and not pull them down, and shall plant them and not pluck them up. (7) ‘And I shall give them a heart to know Me, that I am hwhy. And they shall be My people and I shall be their myhla, for they shall turn back to Me with all their heart. Whymry/Jer. 25:4-9 “Moreover, hwhy has sent to you all His servants the myaybn, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to [mv, (5) saying, ‘Turn back now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the soil which hwhy has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. (6) ‘And do not go after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow down to them. And do not provoke Me with the works of your hands, so that I do you no evil.’ (7) “But you did not listen to Me,” declares hwhy, “so as to provoke Me with the works of your hands, for your own evil. (8) “Therefore thus said hwhy twabc, ‘Because you did not [mv My words, (9) see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,’ declares hwhy, ‘and Nebukadretstsar the sovereign of Babel, My servant, and shall bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and shall put them under the ban, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins. Whymry/Jer. 26:1-6 In the beginning of the reign of myqywhy the son of whyvay, the sovereign of Hdwhy, this word came from hwhy, saying, (2) “Thus said hwhy, ‘Stand in the courtyard of the House of hwhy, and speak to all the cities of Hdwhy, which come to bow themselves in the House of hwhy, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Do not diminish a word. 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this house like Shiloh, and make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ” 13 “And now, make good your ways and your deeds, and [mv the voice of hwhy your myhla, then hwhy shall relent concerning the evil He has pronounced against you. Whymry/Jer. 31:1-9, 17-19 “At that time,” declares hwhy, “I shall be the myhla of all the clans of Larvy, and they shall be My people.” (2) Thus said hwhy, “A people escaped from the sword found favour in the wilderness, Larvy, when it went to find rest.” (3) hwhy appeared to me from afar, saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore I shall draw you with kindness. (4) “I am going to build you again. And you shall be rebuilt, maiden of Larvy! Again you shall take up your tambourines, and go forth in the dances of those who rejoice. (5) “Again you shall plant vines on the mountains of Shomeron. The planters shall plant and treat them as common. (6) “For there shall be a day when the watchmen cry on Mount Ephrayim, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Tsyun, to hwhy our myhla.’ ” (7) For thus said hwhy, “Sing with gladness for Yaʽaqob, and shout among the chief of the nations. Cry out, give praise, and say, ‘hwhy, save Your people, the remnant of Larvy!’ (8) “See, I am bringing them from the land of the north, and shall gather them from the ends of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labour, together – a great assembly returning here. (9) “With weeping they shall come, and with their prayers I bring them. I shall make them walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they do not stumble. For I shall be a Father to Larvy, and Ephrayim – he is My first-born. 17 “And there is expectancy for your latter end,” declares hwhy, “and your children shall return to their own country. (18) “I have clearly heard Ephrayim lamenting, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf. Turn me back, and I shall turn back, for You are hwhy yhla. (19) ‘For after my turning back, I repented. And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh. I was ashamed, even humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.’ (21) “Set up signposts, make landmarks; set your heart toward the highway, the way in which you went. Turn back, maiden of Larvy, turn back to these cities of yours! Whymry/Jer. 36:1-7 And it came to be in the fourth year of myqywhy son of whyvay, sovereign of Hdwhy, that this word came to Whymry from hwhy, saying, (2) “Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Larvy, and against Hdwhy, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of whyvay even to this day. (3) “It could be that the house of Hdwhy [mv all the evil which I plan to bring upon them, so that each one turns back from his evil way, and I shall pardon their crookedness and their sin.” (4) And Whymry called Baruk son of hyrn. And Baruk_ wrote on a scroll from the mouth of Whymry, all the words of hwhy which He had spoken to him. (5) And Whymry commanded Baruk, saying, “I am shut up, I am unable to enter the House of hwhy. (6) “But you shall enter, and shall read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the words of hwhy, in the hearing of the people in the House of hwhy on the day of fasting. And also read them in the hearing of all Hdwhy who come from their cities. (7) “It could be that they present their supplication before hwhy, and they turn back, each one from his evil way. For great is the displeasure and the wrath that hwhy has spoken against this people.” Whymry/Jer. 15:19-21 Therefore thus said hwhy, “If you turn back, then I shall bring you back. Before Me you shall stand. And if you take out the precious from the worthless, you shall become as My mouth. Let them return to you, but do not return to them. (20) “And I shall make you to this people a strong bronze wall. And they shall fight against you, but not overcome you. For I am with you to save you and deliver you,” declares hwhy. (21) “And I shall deliver you from the hand of evil-doers, and I shall ransom you from the grip of the ruthless.” Why[vy/Isa. 8:16-22 Bind up the witness, seal the Turah among my taught ones. (17) And I shall wait on hwhy, who hides His face from the house of Yaʽaqob. And I shall look for Him. (18) Look, I and the children whom hwhy has given me – for signs and wonders in Larvy from hwhy twabc, who dwells in Mount Tsyun. (19) And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their myhla? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? (20) To the Turah and to the witness! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no daybreak1. Footnote: 1Or light (21) And they shall pass through it hard pressed and hungry. 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[vwh/Hos. 5:4-7 “Their deeds do not allow them to turn back to their myhla, for the spirit of whorings is among them, and they do not know hwhy. (5) “And the Excellency of Larvy shall witness to his face, and Larvy and Ephrayim stumble in their crookedness. Hdwhy shall also stumble with them. (6) “With their flocks and herds they go to seek hwhy, but do not find Him – He has withdrawn from them. (7) “They have acted treacherously against hwhy, for they have brought forth strange children. Now a new moon shall devour them with their portions. [vwh/Hos. 7:1-16 “Whenever I would heal Larvy, then the crookedness of Ephrayim is uncovered, and the evil deeds of Shomeron. For they have wrought falsehood, and a thief comes in, a band of robbers raids outside. (2) “And they do not say to their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own deeds have surrounded them, they have been before Me. (3) “With their evil they make a sovereign glad, and rulers with their lies. (4) “All of them are adulterers, as an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, until it is leavened. (5) “In the day of our sovereign rulers became sick, inflamed with wine. He extended his hand with scoffers. (6) “For they have drawn near, their heart is like an oven. While they lie in wait all the night their baker sleeps. In the morning it burns like a flaming fire. (7) “All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consumed their rulers. All their sovereigns have fallen – not one among them calls on Me. (8) “Ephrayim mixes himself among the peoples, Ephrayim has become a cake unturned. (9) “Strangers have devoured his strength, but he does not know it. Grey hairs are also sprinkled on him, and he does not know it. (10) “And the Excellency of Larvy did witness to his face, but they did not return to hwhy their myhla, nor did they seek Him for all this. (11) “And Ephrayim has become a simple dove without heart, they have called on Mitsrayim, they have gone to Ashshur. (12) “When they go I spread My net over them, I bring them down like the birds of the heavens, I chastise them as their congregation has heard. (13) “Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, because they have transgressed against Me! And I Myself have ransomed them, yet they have spoken falsehoods against Me, (14) and did not cry out to Me with their heart when they wailed upon their beds. For grain and new wine they assemble themselves; they turn away from Me. (15) “And I instructed, I strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against Me. (16) “They return, but not to Nwyl[. They have been like a slack bow. Their rulers fall by the sword for the cursings of their tongue. This is their scorn in the land of Mitsrayim. Myrbd/Deut. 6:5 “So that you shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. Myrbd/Deut. 10:12 “And now, Larvy, what is hwhy your myhla asking of you, but to fear hwhy your myhla, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being, Myrbd/Deut. 11:13 ‘And it shall be that if you diligently [mv My commands which I command you today, to love hwhy your myhla and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being, Myrbd/Deut. 13:1-4 “When there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he shall give you a sign or a wonder, (2) and the sign or the wonder shall come true, of which he has spoken to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other mighty ones – which you have not known – and serve them,’ (3) do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for hwhy your myhla is trying you to know whether you love hwhy your myhla with all your heart and with all your being. (4) “Walk after hwhy your myhla and fear Him, and guard His commands and [mv His voice, and serve Him and cling to Him. [See also Why[vy/Isa. 30:27,28] Myrbd/Deut. 26:16 “Today hwhy your myhla is commanding you to do these laws and right-rulings. And you shall guard and do them with all your heart and with all your being. [vwhy/Jos. 22:5 “Altogether, diligently guard to do the command and the Turah which M’shah the servant of hwhy commanded you, to love hwhy your myhla, and to walk in all His ways, and to guard His commands, and to cling to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being.”

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Lawmv-a/1Sam. 12:20,24 20 And Lawmv said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this evil. However, do not turn aside from following hwhy. And you shall serve hwhy with all your heart, 24 “Only fear hwhy, and you shall serve Him in truth with all your heart, for consider what marvels He has done for you. Ylvm/Prov. 3:5 Trust in hwhy with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; Whymry/Jer. 29:13 ‘And you shall seek Me, and shall find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart1. Footnote: 1Dt. 4:29, Joel 2:12. Lawhy/Joel 2:12 “Yet even now,” declares hwhy, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” Whyttm/Matt. 22:37 And [vwhy said to him, “ ‘You shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’ Mark 12:30 ‘And you shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first command. Luke 10:27 And he answering, said, “ ‘You shall love hwhy your myhla with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbour as yourself.’ ”

Turning back starts deep in the inward parts and the way it pours out in the outward parts is in our actions that display humility, trust, fear and desire for obedience, discipline, knowledge and wisdom. hwhy has declared, Why[vy/Isa. 59:20-21 “And the Redeemer shall come to Tsyun, and to those turning from transgression in Yaʽaqoḇ,” declares hwhy. (21) “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” said hwhy: “My Spirit that is upon you, and My Words that I have put in your mouth, shall not be withdrawn from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” said hwhy, “from this time and forever.” In order to turn from transgression, one must know what transgressing is. Therefore, one would be diligently seeking the Word, praying for understanding of the instructions so they can acknowledge and turn from their transgressions. He has already declared, “Myrbd/Deut. 30:1-3 (1) “So it shall be, when all these words come upon you, the barak and the curse which I have set before you, and you shall bring them back to your heart among all the nations where hwhy your myhla drives you, (2) and shall turn back to hwhy your myhla and [mv HIS VOICE, according to all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your being, you and your children, (3) then hwhy your myhla shall turn back your captivity, and shall have compassion on you, and He shall turn back and gather you from all the peoples where hwhy your myhla has scattered you. Ultimately, ‘turning back’ is seeking, discerning, comprehending and desiring His Word ONLY. [mv! One must be able to remove all the influences of ideologies and thoughts that come from the mouth of men and only listen to their Maker. This means, purging all ideological ideas about what they thought He was saying; it also means only allowing Him to teach you thus you would not adhere to words that come from the mouth of men. A great deal of time has already passed enabling the rulers of this age to reconstruct history and cause many to believe lies. If you are seeking desperately with all of your strength, common sence and mind, He will enable you to discern and weed out what is falsehood, only hearing what He has said from the beginning. He does not change, nor has His Word changed.

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His Name. (17) “And they shall be Mine,” said hwhy twabc, “on the day that I prepare a treasured possession. And I shall spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. (18) “Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wrong, between one who serves myhla and one who does not serve Him. Myrbd/Deut. 30:11-14 (11) “Because this command which I am commanding you today, it is not too hard for you, nor is it far off. (12) “It is not in the heavens, to say, ‘Who shall ascend into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to [mv it, so that we do it?’ (13) “Nor is it beyond the sea, to say, ‘Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to [mv it, so that we do it?’ (14) “For the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart – to do it. See also Nnxwhy-a/1 Jn. 5:3 and Nnxwhy-b/2 Jn. v. 6, Nnxwhy/Jn. 14:15. Therefore, because He has taken away the ability for His people to do the fullness of the command, which are supposed to be done in their entirety [Myrbd/Deut. 29:29, etc], today, many believe they are turning back because they feel they are “keeping the commands and the appointed times”, even though He has removed that possibility. Some may feel a bit of self-righteousness by these works that can be seen, but what has He declared many times to those who should turn back?

• Lawhy/Joel 2:12-14 “Yet even now,” declares hwhy, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” (13) And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to hwhy your myhla, for He shows favour and is compassionate, patient, and of great kindness, and He shall relent concerning the evil. (14) Who knows – He might turn and relent, and leave a barak behind Him, a grain offering and a drink offering for hwhy your myhla?

• [vwh/Hos. 12:6 Therefore, return to your myhla. Guard kindness and right-ruling, and wait on your myhla continually.

• Why[vy/Isa. 1:17 “Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

• Why[vy/Isa. 58:1-2 “Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression, and the house of Yaʽaqoḇ their sins. (2) “Yet they seek Me day by day, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the right-ruling of their myhla. They ask of Me rulings of righteousness, they delight in drawing near to myhla.

• Whymry/Jer. 7:3-7 Thus said hwhy twabc, the myhla of Larvy, “Make your ways and your deeds good, then I let you dwell in this place. (4) “Do not trust in these false words, saying, ‘This is the Hĕḵal of hwhy, the Hĕḵal of hwhy, the Hĕḵal of hwhy!’ (5) “For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do right-ruling between a man and his neighbour, (6) if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil, (7) then I shall let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

• Whymry/Jer. 21:12 ‘House of Dud ! Thus said hwhy, “Render right-ruling in the morning, and deliver him who has been robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go out like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

• Whymry/Jer. 22:3 ‘Thus said hwhy, “Do right-ruling and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not maltreat nor do violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

• Whymry/Jer. 22:15-16 “Do you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do right-ruling and righteousness? Then it was well with him. (16) “He defended the cause of the poor and needy – then it was well. Was this not to know Me?” declares hwhy.

• Laqzxy/Ezek. 18:4-9 “See, all beings are Mine, the being of the father as well as the being of the son is Mine. The being that is sinning shall die. (5) “But if a man is righteous and shall do right-ruling and righteousness, (6) if he has not eaten on the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Larvy, nor defiled his neighbour’s wife, nor comes near a woman

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during her uncleanness, (7) if he does not oppress anyone, does return to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, does give his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment, (8) if he does not lend on interest or take increase, turns back his hand from unrighteousness, executes right-ruling in truth between man and man, (9) if he walks in My laws, and he has guarded My right-rulings in truth – he is righteous, he shall certainly live!” declares the ynda hwhy.

• Laqzxy/Ezek. 18:14-17, 19, 27 “But see, if he has brought forth a son who sees all the sins which his father has done, but he fears and does not do likewise, (15) has not eaten on the mountains, and has not lifted his eyes to the idols of the house of Larvy, has not defiled his neighbour’s wife, (16) has not oppressed anyone, nor withheld a pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry and covered the naked with a garment, (17) turns back his hand from wronging the poor, and he has not taken interest or increase, has executed My right-rulings and walked in My laws – he shall not die for the crookedness of his father, he shall certainly live! (19) “And you said, ‘Why should the son not bear the crookedness of the father?’ But the son has done right ruling and righteousness, he has guarded all My laws and he does them, he shall certainly live. (27) “And when the wrong turns away from the wrong which he has done, and he does right-ruling and righteousness, he keeps himself alive.

• Laqzxy/Ezek. 45:9 ‘Thus said ynda hwhy “Enough, you princes of Larvy! Put away violence and plundering, and do right-ruling and righteousness, and stop your evictions of My people,” declares ynda hwhy.

• swm[/Amo. 5:15 Hate evil and love good, and set up right-ruling in the gate. It might be that hwhy mhyla twabc shows favour to the remnant of pswhy.

• swm[/Amo. 5:24 “And let right-ruling roll on like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream. • hkym/Mic. 6:8 He has declared to you, man, what is good. And what does hwhy require of

you but to do right, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your myhla? • Hynpc/Zeph. 2:3 Seek hwhy all you meek ones of the earth, who have done His right-ruling.

Seek righteousness, seek meekness, if so be that you are hidden in the day of wrath of hwhy. • Hynpc/Zeph. 3:7 “I have said, ‘Only fear Me, accept instruction.’ And her dwelling would not

be cut off, all that I have appointed for her. But they rose up early, they corrupted all their deeds. • Hyrkz/Zec. 7:9 “Thus said hwhy twabc, ‘Execute true right-ruling, show kindness and

compassion everyone to his brother. • Hyrkz/Zec. 8:16,17 16 ‘These are the words you should do: speak the truth to one another,

judge with truth and right-ruling for peace in your gates. 17 ‘And do not plot evil in your heart against another, and do not love a false oath. For all these I hate,’ declares hwhy.”

• Whyttm/Matt. 19:16-21 16 “So see, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good shall I do to have everlasting life?” 17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One – myhla. But if you wish to enter into life, guard the commands.” 18 He said to Him, “Which?” And [vwhy said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, 19 Respect your father and your mother and you shall love your neighbor as yourself. 20 The young man said to Him, “All these I have watched over from my youth, what do I still lack?” 21 [vwhy said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me.

• Whyttm/Matt. 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe the mint and the anise and the cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the Turah: the right-ruling and the compassion and the belief. These need to have been done, without neglecting the others.

• Luke 10:30-37 And replying, [vwhy said, “A certain man was going down from Yarushalam to Yeriḥo, and fell among robbers, who, both stripping and beating him, went away, leaving him half dead. (31) “And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down that way. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. (32) “And likewise a Lĕwite also, when he came to the place, and seeing, passed by on the other side. (33) “But a certain Shomeronite, journeying, came upon him. And when he saw him, he had compassion on him, (34) and he went to him and

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bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. And having placed him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and looked after him. (35) “And going out on the next day, he took out two pieces of silver, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Look after him, and whatever more you spend I shall repay you when I return.’ (36) “Who, then, of these three, do you think, was neighbour to him who fell among the robbers?” (37) And he said, “He who showed compassion on him.” Then [vwhy said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

• Luke 11:42 “But woe to you Pharisees, because you tithe the mint and the rue and every plant, and pass by the right-ruling and the love of myhla. These you should have done, without leaving the others undone.

THIS HAS BEEN THE WISDOM FROM OF OLD: Ylvm/Prov. 3:3 Let not kindness and truth forsake you – Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, Ylvm/Prov. 14:22 Do not those who plan evil go astray? But kindness and truth are to those who plan good.

Ylvm/Prov. 16:6 By kindness and truth crookedness is pardoned. And in the fear of hwhy one turns away from evil. Ylvm/Prov. 19:22 What is desirable in a man is his kindness, And a poor man is better than a liar. Ylvm/Prov. 20:6 Most men proclaim each his own kindness, But who finds a trustworthy man? Ylvm/Prov. 20:28 Kindness and truth watch over the sovereign, And he shall support his throne by kindness. Ylvm/Prov. 21:21 He who pursues righteousness and kindness Finds life, righteousness and esteem. [vwh/Hos. 6:6 “For I delight in kindness and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of myhla more than burnt offerings. [vwh/Hos. 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap according to kindness, break up your tillable ground, it is time to seek hwhy, till He comes and rains righteousness on you. [vwh/Hos. 12:6 Therefore, return to your myhla. Guard kindness and right-ruling, and wait on your myhla continually.

Lawhy/Joel 2:12-13 “Yet even now,” declares hwhy, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” (13) And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to hwhy your myhla, for He shows favour and is compassionate, patient, and of great kindness, and He shall relent concerning the evil.

hkym/Mic. 6:8 He has declared to you, man, what is good. And what does hwhy require of you but to do right, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your myhla? hkym/Mic. 7:18 Who is an la like You – taking away crookedness and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He shall not retain His wrath forever, for He Himself delights in kindness. Ylvm/Prov. 10:9 He who walks in integrity walks safely, But he who perverts his ways becomes known. Ylvm/Prov. 11:3 The integrity of the straight ones guides them, But the slipperiness of the treacherous destroys them. Ylvm/Prov. 19:1 Better is the poor walking in his integrity Than one of perverse lips, who is a fool. Ylvm/Prov. 20:7 The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him. Ylvm/Prov. 28:6 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity Than one perverse in his ways, who is rich. Why[vy/Isa. 57:1-2 The righteous one has perished, and no one takes it to heart. Even the kind are taken away, yet no one understands that the righteous one is taken away from the presence of evil, (2) he enters into peace. They who walk in integrity rest on their beds. With doing these, we are to guard, watch over and protect His commands so that no more damage can be done to them i.e. to us. Knowing the command is the only way you can protect it lest you are found

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protecting commands that have come from the mouths of men and not hwhy. This will require great diligence, trust and endurance and only listening to Him Who has given the command from the beginning, because ONLY He can give you understanding. Luke 21:19 “Possess your lives by your endurance! nwzx/Rev. 2:7 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes1 I shall give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of myhla. Myrb[/Heb. 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the desire of myhla, you receive the promise: Myrb[/Heb. 12:1 We too, then, having so great a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us, nwzx/Rev. 2:2-5 “I know your works, and your labour, and your endurance, and that you are not able to bear evil ones, and have tried those who say they are emissaries and are not, and have found them false; (3) and you have been bearing up and have endurance, and have laboured for My Name’s sake and have not become weary. (4) “But I hold this against you, that you have left your first love. (5) “So remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works, or else I shall come to you speedily and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. nwzx/Rev. 3:10 “Because you have guarded My Word of endurance, I also shall guard you from the hour of trial which shall come upon all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth. nwzx/Rev. 14:12 Here is the endurance of the set-apart ones,1 here are those guarding the commands of myhla and the belief of [vwhy. As you see, from the very beginning, it was for us to guard the Word, the command. The command only changed for those believing the lie and following the ruler of this age. Remember, “laynd/Dan. 7:23-25 “This is what he said, ‘The fourth beast is the fourth reign on earth, which is different from all other reigns, and it devours all the earth, tramples it down and crushes it. (24) ‘And the ten horns are ten sovereigns from this reign. They shall rise, and another shall rise after them, and it is different from the first ones, and it humbles three sovereigns, (25) and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times1 and law2, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time. NOTE: Appointed times is another word for festivals. 2Changing the law amounts to lawlessness. Whyttm/Matt. 24:12 “And because of the increase in lawlessness, the love of many shall become cold. All of these things have already happened yet no one takes it to heart. The law has been changed and the appointed times are no more. Many believe a great lie, being sifted with a sieve of falsehood. Therefore, seek and wait intently for Him keeping your eyes and minds open at all times.

Why[vy/Isa. 30:18 So therefore hwhy shall wait to show you favour. And therefore He shall be exalted, to have compassion on you. For hwhy is an myhla of right-ruling. Straight are all those who wait for Him. ULTIMATELY

Turning back is finally understanding what true love is, listening to His voice only and guarding the command {twmv/Exo. 20:6}. It is understanding that there is no voice among men that should be heard above His and knowing that only He can make you understand. There is no new command, only that which was given from the beginning {Myrbd/Deut. 32:46,47, Nnxwhy-b/2 Jn. 1:6, etc.}. Therefore, if one is ‘turning back’, they are guarding that command and living in a constant state of repentance, seeking righteousness all of their days {Nnxwhy/Jn. 14:15}. They do not feel more righteous than another because they are well aware of their inability to accomplish all that must be accomplished in order to be righteous {Mylht/Psa. Chapters 14 & 53; Whyttm/Matt. 19:16,17}. Their righteousness lies in their knowledge and understanding of His Word {Myrbd/Deut. 6:25, etc.} and thus acknowledging the state of this world as a result of the absence of truth. Therefore, they mourn as a result of the evils due to the absence of His Word {Laqzxy/Ezek. 9:4}. He will judge each according to their deeds and only He knows the hearts of mankind {Whymry/Jer.17: 9,10}.

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They walk with hwhy and lean on Him in truth, trusting only in Him and listening only to His Word {Mylht/Psa.9:10, Ylvm/Prov. 3:5,6, etc.}. Those turning understand what has come upon them and the inhabitants of the earth; therefore, they walk in a continual state of fear and sadness because of the Word that has gone forth and what it is accomplishing {Rbdmb/Num. 24:14, Myrbd/Deut. 4:30, Why[vy/Isa. 24:1-6, Whymry/Jer. 23:20, 30:24, Laqzxy/Ezek. 9:4, 38:16, laynd/Dan. 10:14, 12:9,10, etc.}. Their fear causes them to be wise because they are fearing hwhy and what He is doing; because of this fear, they are then seeking desperately, and in their findings, He is revealing to them all of the evils that are plundering the sons of mankind from the beginning until this day {Mylht/Psa. 111:10, Ylvm/Prov. 1:7, 9:10, etc.}. Therefore, their decisions reflect their fear.

They are not following the commands, dreams and imaginations of men {Myrbd/Deut. 13:1-3,

Whymry/Jer. 23:16, etc}, nor do they desire the objects, flattering words and esteem this world has to offer {Nnxwhy/Jn. 5:41-44, Nnxwhy-a/1 Jn. 2:15-17, Bq[y/Ja. 4:4,etc.). They realize that no denomination of currency will bring them happiness or deliverance, so they are content with what they have and do not have an appetite for more {Why[vy/Isa. 56:11}. They understand the evils that have been done to the understanding of His Word and therefore they seek deeper and deeper, unveiling the deception and deceit that has covered the world. They are not fooled. They recognize evil because they know His Word and despite how many abominations that have added to it, it has not changed, only the lack of understanding of it. They are not led astray by religion because they know He only said, fear Me and guard My commands. Therefore, they know that anything else or any changes to His command is not be of Him {Laqzxy/Ezek. 22:26, Hynpc/Zeph. 3:4, Luke 21:8, etc.}.

They mourn inwardly and outwardly as a result of the state of the world and the people whom they

love in it who have no idea of what true love is {Whyttm/Matt. 24:12, etc.}. They can see life passing away because they are familiar with His Word. They recognize the signs because they know and they have been warned from of old {See all of the Myaybn}. They believe His Word and therefore, they see His Word in action in every moment {Why[vy/Isa. 53:1, etc.}. They cry and sigh because of the evils happening on the earth. {Laqzxy/Ezek. 9:4, etc.}. They long for right-ruling, because finally, they see how His command protects, preserves and gives life {Myrbd/Deut. 32:47, etc., etc.}. They realize the need for an everlasting cleansing of themselves and the lands. They are broken at the absence of His Name in its Esteem {Mylht/Psa. 52:9, Hkya/Lam. 3:55, etc.}. They have acknowledged their crookedness and the crookednesses of those who came before them so they turn from evil and from repeating those works that have caused life to subsist the way it is today {arqyw/Lev. 26:50-42, Mylht/Psa. 38:18, etc.}.

They are alone. They are anomalous. They have no desire to follow in the ways of this world

{Whymry/Jer. 15:17, etc.}. They see the path it is on so they stray from that path and seek hwhy with open minds and eyes {Why[vy/Isa. 24:6, Myrbd/Deut. 4:29, etc.}. Their belief is not influenced by ideologies, only the truth {Why[vy/Isa. 29:13, etc.}. They only long for their myhla. Their children long for Him as well. They are steadfast and not easily shaken {Mylht/Psa. 27:14, 37:9, 78:1-8, Why[vy/Isa. 8:17, 40:31, [vwh/Hos. 12:6}. The wind does not cause them to stumble nor does the trials of this world {Whyttm/Matt. 6:34, Mark 4:19, Luke 8:14, 21:34}. They are focused and seeking with all of their mind, heart and strength {Myrbd/Deut. 4:29, etc.}.

They are turning back. Are you?

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Ykalm/Mal.3:18 “Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wrong, between one who

serves myhla and one who does not serve Him.

GLOSSARY

NAMES/TERMINOLOGY DEFINITIONS/CONTEXT

hwhy This is the Name of the Author and Creator of the universe, of life, as it is found in the ancient manuscripts. It has been decided to render His Name this way to avoid more abominations being done to it and to leave it in the form as it is found of old. His Name can be found written over 6,000 times in the Abary text. It is believed His Name derives from the root hwh, which means ‘to be’. Etymology suggest His Name means ‘the One Who is, the existing’ or ‘the One Who calls into existence’.

myhla According to etymology, this title is plural and it means ‘The Most Supreme Rulers/Mightiest Ones; It can be found nearly 3,700 times in the Scripture. There are many controversies associated with this conclusion so to preserve its meaning, it has been left in the ancient Abary script.

la This title is “singular”. Its meaning cannot be faithfully conveyed in other languages but closest description of this term suggests ‘The Most Supreme Mighty One’.

[vwhy This is the Name of the Mashyach as it is found in the foretellings. His Name is said to defrive from the root ‘[vy’ [ya-shah] which means ‘to save, be saved or delivered’; ‘[vwh’ means ‘salvation/deliverance’; The yad [y] as a prefix means ‘he/they shall, will or has’; Therefore, discerning from the proper perspective, His Name means ‘He will save’.

ynda Perspicacious etymology indicates that the the closest English term available to describe the essence of its definition is ‘Master’ which in the case of its use here is, ‘the Dominant One Who controls everything. This term is found referencing either hwhy or [vwhy more than 850 times. The English language (or any other language) cannot properly convey the essence of the esteem of hwhy or [vwhy, therefore this term is left in its original script.

Mda nb Usually translated as “Son of Adam”; This translation should raise questions as to its accuracy. Referring to Mashyach, could it be accurately translated as “Son of Adam”? When exhaustively analyzing the origins of the terms involved, we see that the term nb (bn) (translated as son) in its root it is hnb (bnh) which means ‘build, rebuild, establish or cause to continue; the term mda (translated as Adam) means simply, ‘man or mankind’. Therefore, conclusively a better translation of this word combination when referring to Mashyach should be ‘Builder/Rebuilder of Mankind’ when we consider the nature of the job of the Mashyach.

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Larvy As you will notice, all of the names that contain the Name or have reference leading back to hwhy have also been preserved in the ancient script. Definition: “la, He will or has fought or contended (and prevailed)” The common rendering today is Israel but this is as a result of vowel points. The name is formulated from the root ‘hrv’ [sha-rah] which means ‘to fight, strive, contend’; Again, here the [y] is prefixed to the name causing it to suggest ‘he will or he has’. 1) the second name for Ya’aqob given to him by hwhy after his wrestling with the messenger 2) the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Ya’aqob 2a) the name of the nation until the death of Shalamah and the split 2b) the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Yarab’am; the southern kingdom was known as Hdwhy 2c) the name of the nation after the return from exile

twabc This term and hwhy can be found together 285 times. It is usually translated as ‘hosts’ because the etymology indicates it is the plural form which comes from the root ‘abc’ [tsa-ba] which means ‘to wage war, serve’; it is said in the masculine noun form it means ‘army, host, military, service, war or warfare’ thus resulting in the translation of it as ‘hosts’. In its Qal form, ‘abc’ means ‘he assembled, he gathered together, he served, he waged war, he fought’. Applied to the Name, in context of the more than 280 references, it is more probable that it would carry the verb definition thus it being rendered as ‘hwhy Who assembles, gathers together or fights’.

Aybn / myaybn This term is usually translated as ‘prophet’ but etymology suggests “one who speaks for ‘god’, especially of the ‘gods’. Here you will find the singular and the plural: Aybn / myaybn; This term cannot possibly be rendered as prophet therefore it has been left it in the original script when it is regarding someone who has truthfully spoken according to the mouth hwhy only. Regarding those who have not, it is left as ‘prophet’ due to the false nature of the term in its origin.

yrva This term is usually translated as ‘blessed’ but this is an inaccurate rendering of this term. rva, in its etymology carries the meaning “to walk straight, to set right, to be happy, to strengthen or to confirm. Therefore this word would normally be translated as either happy or straight [i.e. walking straight/right] as in the example here: Mylht/Psa. 1:1 “Straight is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the wrong…”

hkrb This word in its etymology means ‘to kneel’; it is also found to mean, “to bless” but when considering the origins of the word ‘bless’ [in its origin: to spinkle blood on pagan altars], it is inappropriate to translate this word as ‘bless’. Etymology indicates that the original meaning of this term is ‘to strengthen’, which is more likely the best translation of this word when it is referring to hwhy imparting it upon someone. When referring to someone imparting it upon hwhy, it is better translated as ‘worship’ [i.e. ‘to kneel’]; (e.g. Myklm-a/1Ki. 8:56 “Worship hwhy, Who has given rest to His people larvy, according to all that He promised…”)

Nhk - kahan This term is usually translated as priest but to avoid confusion, this word will not to be associated with the job or representatives of the ‘church’ or any other religious order that utilizes this term in association with the service(s) of their ‘god(s)’. The kahan were the sons of Aharan. This responsibility was for those who came from his seed only. There is no one on earth today who can verify this lineage today. Therefore a kahan is not the same as what most know today as a priest.

[mv This term is often translated as obey but etymology indicates this word is ‘hear’. Even carefully considering the etymology of the word ‘obey’, it also means to ‘hear’.

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Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of Hebrew [CEDH]: [pg. 682,683] [mv – to hear, [Phoen. [mv, Moab., in t[mvm, Aram., BAram., and Syr., ( [me =he heard), Ugar. Shm (=to hear), Arab. سسممعع [sami’a], Ethiop., sam’a (=he heard), Akka., shemu (=to hear). Qal [mv tr. V. 1 he heard; 2 he heard with interest; 3 he hearkened, listened to; 4 he fulfilled one’s advice. – Niph., [mvn – 1 was heard; 2 was listened to; 3 was understood; 4 was obeyed – Pi., [mv – he assembled, summoned (lit. he caused to hear; 2 he made a proclamation, announced; 3 he assembled, summoned; - Hoph., [mvh MH was made to hear, was proclaimed. Derivatives: שמען ,שמעת ,שמע, שמעתא ,.cp ,משמעת ,משמעות ,משמע ,השמע ,השתמעות ,השמעות ,השמעה ,עהשמי ,שמיע

Lkyh – Hykal This term is usually translated as ‘temple’ but due to the vague origins of the temple and its pagan affiliations, this term is left in an Abary phonetic transliteration. ETYMOLOGY: Lkyh - m.n. palace, Temple. [probably a loan word from Akka. Ekallu (=palace), whence also Phoen. Lkh, B.Aram. and Aram, alkyh, Syr. Alkyh, Mand. Alkyh, Ugar hkl (=palace, temple). Arab. Haykal (=church), is probably and Aram. Loan word. Akka ekallu itself is probably a loan word from Sumerian e-gal (= great house).] Derivative: mynlkyh. TEMPLE: temple (n.1) "building for worship, edifice dedicated to the service of a deity or deities," Old English tempel, from Latin templum "piece of ground consecrated for the taking of auspices, building for worship of a god," of uncertain signification. Commonly referred to PIE root *tem- "to cut" (see tome), on notion of "place reserved or cut out" [Watkins], or to root *temp- "to stretch" [Klein's sources], on notion of "cleared space in front of an altar" (see tenet). Compare Greek temenos "sacred area around a temple," literally "place cut off," from stem of temnein "to cut." Figurative sense of "any place regarded as occupied by divine presence" was in Old English. Applied to Jewish synagogues from 1590s. REMEMBER: Ygx/Hag. 2:9 ‘Let the esteem of this latter House be greater than the former,’ said hwhy twabc. ‘And in this place I give peace,’ declares hwhy twabc.” Why[vy/Isa. 66:1 Thus said hwhy, “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is this House that you build for Me? And where is this place of My rest? Here it is referred to as ‘House’ as it is in many other places and although it was a place where the service of hwhy was carried out, there should be no correlation between the House of hwhy and a temple for pagan dieties. Noting, the term literally means ‘a place cut off’, the use of this term would be sarcastic and condescending at the least considering the turn of events. Also, we see the application of this word to “Jewish synagogues” in the 1590’s which by no means can be compared to the House where He dwelt also illustrating this term would not have been used during the generation of whyqdc, Shalamah, Dud or prior. Therefore, based on the Akkadian relative word as well as the Sumerian, it seems more probable that this is better described as a ‘palace or great house but due to the little understanding concerning the importance and esteem of it, it will remain Hykal.

Who is dg? [god] Etymology:{pg.106 pdf. CEDH} dg: m.n. good fortune, luck 2 name of the deity of fortune (occurring often in Phoen. and Aram. inscriptions and as an element in many Phoen. and Aram. private names). In modern 'Hebrew' - an attribute of Jupiter H1409 - Original: ּגד - Transliteration: Gad/god - Phonetic: gawd - Definition: 1. fortune1, good fortune - Origin: from H1464 (in the sense of distributing); Therefore, ask yourself, why would one put “In God We Trust” on a currency unless they are trusting in the deity of ‘fortune’?This is much more on this. Do your homework!

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BOOK NAME INDEX

NAMES PHONETIC TRANSLITERATION

COMMON RENDERING

tyvarb/Gen. B’RASHYTH GENESIS

twmv/Exo. SHAMUTH EXODUS

arqyw/Lev. U’YQRA LEVITICUS

Rbdmb/Num. B’MADBAR NUMBERS

Myrbd/Deut. DABARYM DEUTERONOMY

[vwhy/Jos. YAHUSHA JOSHUA

Myjpv/Judg. SHAPHATYM JUDGES

Twr/Ruth RUTH RUTH

Lawmv-a/1Sam. SHAMU’AL ALAPH 1 SAMUEL

Lawmv-b/2Sam. SHAMU’AL BYTH 2 SAMUEL

Myklm-a/1Ki. MALAKYM ALAPH 1 KINGS

Myklm-b/2Ki. MALAKYM BYTH 2 KINGS

Mymyh yrbd-a/1Chro. DABARY H’YAMYM ALAPH 1 CHRONICLES

Mymyh yrbd-b/2Chro. DABARY H’YAMYM BYTH 2 CHRONICLES

Arz[/Ez. AZARA EZRA

Hymxn/Neh. NAKHAMYAH NEHEMIAH

Bwya/Job IYUB JOB

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Mylht/Psa. TAHALYM PSALMS

Ylvm/Prov. MASHALY PROVERBS

Tlhq/Ecc. QAHALATH ECCLESIASTES

Why[vy/Isa. YASHAYAHU ISAIAH

Whymry/Jer. YARAMYAHU JEREMIAH

Hkya/Lam. IKAH LAMENTATIONS

Laqzxy/Ezek. YAKHAZAQ’AL EZEKIAL

laynd/Dan. DANY’AL DANIEL

[vwh/Hos. HUSHA HOSEA

Lawhy/Joel YAHU’AL JOEL

swm[/Amo. AMUS AMOS

Hydb[/Ob. ABADYAH OBADIAH

Hnwy/Jonah YUNAH JONAH

hkym/Mic. MYKAH MICAH

Mwxn/Nah. NAKHUM NAHUM

Qwqbx/Hab. KHABAQUQ HABAKUK

Hynpc/Zeph. TSAPHANYAH ZEPHANIAH

Ygx/Hag. KHAGY HAGGAI

Hyrkz/Zec. ZAKARYAH ZECARIAH

Ykalm/Mal. MAL’AKY MALACHI

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Whyttm/Matt. MATHATHYAHU MATTHEW

Nnxwhy/Jn. YAHUKHANAN JOHN

Myrb[/Heb. ABARYM HEBREWS

Bq[y/Ja. Y’AQUB JAMES

Nnxwhy-a/1 Jn. Nnxwhy-b/2 Jn. Nnxwhy-g/3 Jn.

YAHUKHANAN 1 YAHUKHANAN 2 YAHUKHANAN 3

1 JOHN 2 JOHN 3 JOHN

nwzx/Rev. KHAZUN REVELATIONS

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