For Ě
“Because I called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one inclined,
And יהוה spoke to Menashsheh and to his people, but they did not listen.
Elohim has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That strength belongs to Elohim.
And He said to them, “O thoughtless ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
See, Ě
“And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked.
“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,
And He said, “Go, and you shall say to this people, ‘Hearing, you hear, but do not understand; and seeing, you see, but do not know.’
“Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of יהוה,
Once I have spoken, but I have no answer – and twice, but I say no more.”
And Elohim spoke to Yisra’ĕ
In the first year of Bĕ
Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
And kindness is Yours, O יהוה ; For You reward each one according to his work.
