Reproach (disgrace; shame) has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Who [is there] even among you that would shut the doors [for nothing]? neither do you2f kindle [fire] on my altar for nothing. I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Hear you2f this, O priests; and hearken, you2f house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and give you2f ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] toward you, because you2f have been a snare on Mitzpah [watchtower], and a net spread upon Tavor [Mound].
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will you2f do in the end thereof?
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to light on a part of the field [belonging] unto Bo’az [a high rate of movement], who [was] of the family of Eli-Melekh [my God is king].
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa [swollen heap], behold, Sha’ul [desired] leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
[Is it] not to deal youri bread to the hungry, and that youi bring the poor that are cast out to youri house? when youi see the naked, that youi cover him; and that youi hide not yourself from youri own flesh?
And Yeshua [God is Salvation] answering said, A certain [man] went down from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to Yericho [Its Moon], and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his clothing, and wounded [him], and departed, leaving [him] half dead.