1Hear you^2f the word which the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) speaks unto you, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]:

2Thus says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

5They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.

6Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto youⁱ, O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); youⁱ [are] great, and youⁱ name [is] great in might.

7Who would not fear youⁱ, O King of nations? for to youⁱ does it appertain (to belong to; to pertain to): forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto youⁱ.

8But they are altogether cruel and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

9Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish [yellow jasper], and gold from Ufaz [desire of fine gold], the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].

10But the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] the true God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], he [is] the living God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

11Thus shall you^2f say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

12He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

13When he utters his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

14Every man is cruel in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

15They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

16The portion of Ya’akov [Heal of God] [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] [is] his name.

17Gather up yourⁱ wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

18For thus says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so].

19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.

20My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

21For the pastors are become cruel, and have not sought the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

22Behold, the noise of the report is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] desolate, [and] a den of dragons.

23O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walks to direct his steps.

24O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), correct me, but with judgment; not in yourⁱ anger, lest youⁱ bring me to nothing.

25Pour out yourⁱ fury upon the heathen that know youⁱ not, and upon the families that call not on yourⁱ name: for they have eaten up Ya’akov [Heal of God], and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.