יהוה laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.
Those in the west are astonished at his day, as those in the east are frightened.
He who is sitting in the heavens laughs, יהוה mocks at them.
“Let me also laugh at your calamity, Mock when your dread comes,
For יהוה of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up, so that it is brought low;
Slay all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.
And to you, O profane, wrong one, leader of Yisra’ĕl, whose day has come, in the time of the crookedness of the end,
while they see false visions for you, while they divine a lie to you – to put you on the necks of the profaned ones, the wrong ones whose day has come, in the time of the crookedness of the end.
“This is the interpretation of each word: MENĚ – Elah has numbered your reign, and put an end to it.
Dawiḏ also said, “As יהוה lives, except יהוה does smite him, or his day come that he shall die, or he shall go out to battle and perish,
