Haftarah Shemot
Yeshayahu 27:6 - 27:13; 28:1 - 28:13; 29:22 - 29:23
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27:6 Haba'im yashresh Yaakov yatzitz ufarach Yisrael umal'u fnei-tevel tenuvah.
[Days] are coming when Yaakov will take root; Yisrael will bud and blossom and fill the face of the earth like fruit.
7 Hakemakat makehu hikahu im-kehereg harugav horag.
Did He strike him as He struck those who struck him? Was he slain like the slaying of his [enemies]?
8 Besase'ah beshalechah terivenah hagah berucho hakashah beyom kadim.
According to its measure [of sin] He contended against her farmland, stripping it with His harsh wind on the day of the east wind.
9 Lachen bezot yechupar avon-Yaakov vezeh kol-peri hasir chatato besumo kol-avnei mizbe'ach ke'avnei-gir menupatzot lo-yakumu asherim vechamanim.
Therefore, through this shall Ya'akov's iniquity be atoned for, and this shall be the fruit of his sins's removal: When he makes all the altar stones like ground chalk stones, and Asherah-trees and sun-idols arise no more.
10 Ki ir betzurah badad naveh meshulach vene'ezav kamidbar sham yir'eh egel vesham yirbatz vechilah se'ifeiha.
For the fortified city will be lonely, habitations depopulated and forlorn like the wilderness; there a calf will graze, there it will lie and consume its branches.
11 Bivosh ketzirah tishavarnah nashim ba'ot me'irot otah ki lo am-binot hu al-ken lo-yerachamenu osehu veyotzro lo yechunenu.
When its boughs wither they will break; women will come and set it aflame, for it is not a nation of understanding; therefore, its Maker will not show it mercy, and its Creator will not be gracious unto it.
12 Vehayah bayom hahu yachebot HASHEM mishibolet hanahar ad-nachal Mitzrayim ve'atem teluktu le'achad echad benei Yisrael.
It shall be on that day that HASHEM will thresh, from the surging [Euphrates] River to the Brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O Children of Yisrael.
13 Vehayah bayom hahu yitaka beshofar gadol uva'u ha'ovdim be'eretz Ashur vehanidachim be'eretz Mitzrayim vehishtachavu l'HASHEM behar hakodesh biYerushalayim.
It shall be on that day that a great shofar will be blown, and those who are lost in the land of Assyria and those cast away in the land of Egypt will come [together], and they will prostrate themselves to HASHEM on the holy mountain in Yerushalayim.
28:1 Hoy ateret ge'ut shikorei Efrayim vetzitz novel tzevi tif'arto asher al-rosh gey-shmanim halumei yayin.
Woe to the crown of pride of Efrayim's drunkards; the delight of his glory is a fading blossom; it is [like] a valley of oil upon the head of those battered by wine.
2 Hineh chazak ve'amitz l'adonai kezerem barad sa'ar katev kezerem mayim kabirim shotfim hiniach la'aretz beyad.
Behold, my Master has a strong and powerful [wind], like a downpour of hail, a destructive tempest; like a downpour of mighty, surging waters He will lay [that crown] to the ground with [His] hand.
3 Beraglayim teramasnah ateret ge'ut shikorei Efrayim.
Trodden underfoot will be the crown of pride of Efrayim's drunkards;
4 Vehayetah tzitzat novel tzevi tif'arto asher al-rosh gey shmanim kevikurah beterem kayitz asher yir'eh haro'eh otah be'odah bechapo yivla'enah.
and the withering blossom, the delight of his glory that is like a valley of oil upon [his] head, will be like a fig that ripens before summer: as soon as an observer sees it, while it is yet in his hand, he swallows it.
5 Bayom hahu yihyeh HASHEM Tzva'ot la'ateret tzvi velitzfirat tif'arah lishe'ar amo.
On that day, HASHEM, Master of Legions, will be the crown of delight and a diadem of glory for the remnant of His people,
6 Uleruach mishpat layoshev al-hamishpat veligvurah meshivei milchamah sharah.
and a spirit of judgment for he who sits in judgment, and a source of strength for those who return from war to the gate.
7 Vegam-eleh bayayin shagu uvashechar ta'u kohen venavi shagu vashechar nivle'u min-hayayin ta'u min-hashechar shagu baro'eh paku peliliyah.
For they, too, have erred because of wine and strayed because of liquor; the Kohen and the [false] prophet have erred because of liquor and were corrupted by wine; they have strayed because of liquor, erred in vision, perverted justice.
8 Ki kol-shulchanot male'u ki tzo'ah beli makom.
For all tables are full of vomit, filth, with no [clean] place.
9 Et-mi yoreh de'ah ve'et-mi yavin shemu'ah gemulei mechalav atikei mishadayim.
To whom shall one teach konwledge? To whom shall one explain a message? [To] those weaned from [mother's] milk, removed from the breasts?
10 Ki tzav latzav tzav latzav kav lakav kav lakav ze'eir sham ze'eir sham.
For it is commandment by commandment, commandment by commandment; line by line, line by line; a bit here and a bit there; so that they will go and stumble backward and be broken, and be tripped up and caught.
11 Ki bela'agei safah uvelashon acheret yedaber el-ha'am hazeh.
For as if with unintelligible speech and in another tongue does one speak to this nation.
12 Asher amar aleihem zot hamenuchah hanichu le'ayef vezot hamarge'ah velo avu shmoa.
Though he tells them, 'This is the [true] rest, "Give rest to the weary"; and this is the [true] satisfaction!' yet they would not consent to listen.
13 Vehayah lahem devar-HASHEM tzav latzav tzav latzav kav lakav kav lakav ze'eir sham ze'eir sham lema'an yelchu vechashlu achor venishbaru venokshu venilkadu.
The word of HASHEM shall befall them commandment by commandment, commandment by commandment; line by line, line by line; a bit here and a bit there; so that they will go and stumble backward and be broken, and be tripped up and caught.
Lachen koh-amar Hashem el-beit Yaakov asher padah et-Avraham lo-atah yevosh Yaakov velo atah panav yechevaru.
Therefore, thus said Hashem, Who redeemed Avraham, to the House of Yaakov: Yaakov will not be ashamed now, and his face will not pale now,
23 Ki vir'oto yeladav ma'aseh yadai bekirbo yakdishu shemi vehikdishu et-kedosh Yaakov ve'et-Elohei Yisrael ya'aritzu.
when he sees his children, My handiwork in their midst, who will sanctify My Name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Yaakov and revere the G-d of Yisrael!
29:22 Lachen koh-amar HASHEM el-beit Yaakov asher padah et-Avraham lo-atah yevosh Yaakov velo atah panav yechevaru.
Therefore, thus said HASHEM, Who redeemed Avraham, to the House of Yaakov: Yaakov will not be ashamed now, and his face will not pale now,
23 Ki vir'oto yeladav ma'aseh yadai bekirbo yakdishu shemi vehikdishu et-kedosh Yaakov ve'et-Elokei Yisrael ya'aritzu.
when he sees his children, My handiwork in their midst, who will sanctify My Name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Yaakov and revere the G-d of Yisrael!