1At that time, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], out of their graves: 2And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 3And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue (part that remains, the rest) of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places to which I have driven them, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].

4Moreover youⁱ shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

5Why [then] is this people of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

6I listened and heard, [but] they spoke not aright (in the right way): no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle.

7Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow (to approve, commend, accept) observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

8How do you^2f say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.

9The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and what wisdom [is] in them?

10Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and] their fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for everyone from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.

11For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.

12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

13I will surely consume them, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): [there shall be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.

14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has put us to silence, and given us water of gall (something bitter or poisonous) to (to do entirely, do wholly) drink, because we have sinned against the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

15We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!

16The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan [Judge]: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell in it.

17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

18[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Tziyon [parched place]? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?

20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment has taken hold on me.

22[Is there] no balm (a medicine; rosin from a bush) in Gil’ad [Rocky Region]; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?