YHWH Test by Fire
Therefore YHWH Almighty says,
“See, I will refine them with fire and test them, for how should I deal with the daughter of my people? Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. They speak peaceably to their neighbor with their mouth, but in their heart, they waits to ambush them. Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says YHWH. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this? I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has the mouth of YHWH has spoken can declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
YHWH says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways, but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their ancestors taught them.” Therefore YHWH Almighty, the God of Israel, says, “See, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink. I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their ancestors have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
YHWH Almighty says,
“Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come. Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly ashamed because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”Now y’all women, listen the word of YHWH. Let y’all’s ear receive the words from ʜɪꜱ mouth. Y’all are to teach your* daughters to wail. Every woman is to teach her neighbor a lamentation. For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
Speak, “YHWH says,
“‘Human corpses will fall like dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’”YHWH says,
“Don’t let the wise glory in their wisdom. Don’t let the strong glory in their might. Don’t let the rich glory in their riches. But let the one who glories glory in this, that they have understanding, and know me, that I am YHWH who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says YHWH.“Look, the days come,” says YHWH, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh: Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”