4Hear the Word of YAHUVEH, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house
of Israel. 5So says YAHUVEH, What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they went
far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain? 6Nor did they say, Where is YAHUVEH who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a dry land
and deep darkness, in a land that no man has passed through, and not a man has
lived there? 7And I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness. But
when you went in, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination. 8The priests did not say, Where is YAHUVEH? And they who handle the Torah did
not know Me. And the shepherds rebelled against Me; and the prophets prophesied
by Baal, and went after things not profitable. 9Therefore, I will contend with you, says YAHUVEH, and I will contend with your
sons’ sons. 10For go to the isles of Kittim and see, and send to Kedar, and carefully
consider and see if there is any like this. 11Has a nation changed its ELOHIM, and they were not ELOHIM? But My people have
changed their Glory without profiting. 12Be amazed at this, O heavens, and be horrified; be completely desolated,
declares YAHUVEH. 13For My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of
living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold
no water. 14Is Israel a servant? Or is he a servant of the house? Why has he become a
prey? 15The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his
land a waste; his cities are ruined, without inhabitant. 16Also the sons of Noph and Tahpanhes have fed on your crown. 17Have you not done this to yourself by your forsaking YAHUVEH your ELOHIM when
He led you by the way? 18And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor?
Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River Euphrates? 19Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your apostasies shall reprove you.
Know, then, and see that your forsaking YAHUVEH your ELOHIM is evil and bitter;
and My fear is not in you, declares Adonai YAHUVEH of Hosts. 20For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds. And you said, I will
not transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down
like a harlot. 21Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned
into the deteriorating shoots of a foreign vine to Me? 22Though you wash yourself with potash, and multiply soap for yourself, your
iniquity is stained before Me, declares Adonai YAHUVEH. 23How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after Baals? See your way
in the valley; know what you have done! You are a swift camel crisscrossing her
ways; 24a wild donkey used to the wilderness. In the passion of her desire she snuffs
up the wind in her time. Who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not
tire themselves; in her month they will find her. 25Withhold your foot from being bare and your throat from thirst. But you said,
It is hopeless! For I love strangers, and after them I will go. 26As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed.
They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets are 27saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave us birth. For
they turned their back to Me, and not the face. But in the time of their evil,
they will say, Arise, and save us! 28But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if
they can save you in the time of your evil; for according to the number of your
cities are your gods, O Judah. *~Jeremiah Chapter 4 ~* 1If you will return, O Israel, says YAHUVEH, return to Me. And if you will turn
away from your hateful idols out of My face and will not waver, 2and you will swear, As YAHUVEH lives, in truth, in justice, and in
righteousness; even the nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him they
will glory.
Matthew 23:1–25:46
1Then YAHUSHUA spoke to the crowd and to His disciples, 2saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down on Moses’ seat. 3Then all things, whatever he (Moses) tells you to keep, keep and do. But do not
do according to their works, for they talk, and do not do. 4For they bind heavy and hard to bear burdens, and lay them on the shoulders of
men, but they do not desire to move them with their finger. 5And they do all their works to be seen by men. And they widen their tefillin
and lengthen the tekhelet (blue string in the tassel) of their robes. 6And they love the chief places at festivals and the chief seats at the
synagogue. 7And the greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabboni, Rabboni. 8But do not you be called Rabboni (my great one) for One is your Great One, the
Messiah, and you are all brothers. 9And call no one your father on earth, for One is your Father, the One in
Heaven. 10Nor be called master, for One is your Master, the Messiah. 11But he who is greater of you, let him be your servant. 12And whoever will exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever will humble
himself shall be exalted. 13But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom
of Heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to
go in. 14Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour the houses of
widows, and pray at length as a pretext. Because of this you will receive more
abundant judgment. 15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you go about the sea and
the dry land to make one proselyte; and when he has become so, you make him
twofold more a son of Gehenna than yourselves. 16Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the Holy Place, it is
nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Holy Place is a debtor. 17Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold, or the Holy Place that
sanctifies the gold? 18And you say, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by
the gift on it, he is a debtor. 19Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies
the gift? 20Then the one swearing by the altar swears by it, and by all things on it. 21And the one swearing by the Holy Place swears by it, and by the One dwelling
in it. 22And the one swearing by Heaven swears by the throne of YAHUVEH, and by the One
sitting on it. 23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and
dill and cumin, and you have left aside the weightier matters of the Torah
judgment, and mercy, and faith. And these things were necessary for you to have
done, and these things you should not have forgotten. 24Blind guides, straining out the gnat, but swallowing the camel! 25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of
the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of extortion and iniquity. 26Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the
outside of them may become clean also. 27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened
graves which outwardly indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of bones of
the dead, and of all uncleanness. 28So you also indeed outwardly appear righteous to men, but within are full of
hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the
prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous. 30And you say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been
partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31So you witness to yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the
prophets. 32And you fill up the measure of your fathers. 33Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How shall you escape the judgment of Gehenna? 34Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets and wise ones and scribes. And
some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in
your synagogues and will persecute from city to city; 35so that should come on you all the righteous blood poured out on the earth,
from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah
whom you murdered between the Holy Place and the altar. 36Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation. 37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those sent to
her. How often I desired to gather your children in the way a bird gathers her
chicks under her wings! And you did not desire it. 38Behold, “your house is left to you desolate.” 39For I say to you, In no way shall you see Me from now on, until you say,
“Blessed is He who comes in the name of YAHUVEH.”
*~Matthew Chapter 24 ~*
1And going out, YAHUSHUA left the sanctuary. And His disciples came to show Him
the construction of the sanctuary. 2But YAHUSHUA said to them, Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you,
There will not at all be left one stone on a stone which in no way will not be
thrown down. 3And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him
privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And, what is the sign of
Your coming and of the end of the age? 4And answering, YAHUSHUA said to them, See that no man deceives you. 5For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Messiah. And they will cause
many to be deceived. 6For you are bound to hear of revolutions and rumor of wars. Watch out and do
not be disturbed, for it is necessary that all these things happen, but it is
not yet the end. 7For nation will be raised against nation and kingdom against kingdom; and there
will be famines and plagues and earthquakes against many places. 8But all these are a beginning of sorrows. 9Then they will deliver you up to affliction, and will kill you, and you will be
hated by all nations because of My name. 10And then many will be offended, and they will deliver up one another and will
hate one another. 11And many false prophets will be raised and will deceive many. 12And because lawlessness shall have been multiplied, the love of the many will
grow cold. 13But the one who endures to the end, that one will have eternal life. 14And this good news of the Kingdom shall be published in all the earth for a
testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. 15And when you see the sign of uncleanness and desolation, that was spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, which will stand in the holy place. He that reads let him
understand. 16Then let those in Judea flee into the mountains; 17the one on the roof, let him not go down to take anything out of his house; 18and the one in the field, let him not turn back to take his garment. 19But woe to the ones having a child in womb, and to those nursing in those
days! 20And pray that your flight will not occur in winter nor on the Sabbath. 21For there will be great suffering, such as has not happened from the beginning
of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. 22And except those days were shortened, not any flesh would live. But on account
of the chosen, those days will be shortened. 23Then if anyone says to you, Behold, here is the Messiah! Or, Here! Do not
believe. 24For false Messiahs and false prophets will rise up. And they will give great
signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen. 25Behold, I tell you beforehand. 26Then if they say to you, Behold, He is in the wilderness; do not go out.
Behold, He is in the inner rooms; do not believe. 27For as the lightning comes forth from the east and shines as far as the west,
so also will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28For wherever the dead body may be, there the eagles will be gathered. 29And immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened and
the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from the heaven, and
the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30And then the sign of the SON OF YAHUVEH will appear in the heavens. And then
all the tribes of the land will wail. And they will see the SON OF YAHUVEH
coming on the clouds of heaven with power and much glory. 31And He will send His cherubs with a great sound of a large trumpet, and they
will gather His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the
other. 32But learn the parable of the fig tree when its branch becomes tender and it
puts out leaves, you know that the summer is near; 33so also you, when you see all these things, know that it is near at the doors. 34Truly I say to you, In no way will this generation pass away until all these
things have occurred. 35The heaven and the earth will pass away, but My Words will not pass away,
never! 36But as to that day and that hour, no one knows, neither the cherubs of Heaven,
except My Father only. 37But as the days of Noah, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38For as they were in the days before the flood eating, and drinking, marrying,
and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark. 39And they did not know until the flood came and took all away. So also will be
the coming of the Son of Man. 40At that time two will be out in the field; the one is taken away, and the one
is left; 41two grinding at the mill; one is taken away, and one is left. 42Be alert, then, for you do not know in what hour your Master comes. 43But know this, that if the house Master had known in what watch the thief
comes, he would have watched and not have allowed his house to be dug through. 44Because of this, you also be ready, for in that hour you think not, the SON OF
YAHUVEH comes. 45Who then is the faithful and wise servant whom his Master has set over His
household, to give to them the food in season? 46Blessed is that servant whom his Master shall find so doing when He comes. 47Truly I say to you, He will set him over all He owns. 48But if that wicked slave says in his heart, My Master delays to come, 49and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and to drink with the ones
drinking, 50The master of that slave will come in a day in which he does not expect and in
an hour which he does not know, 51and will cut him in two, and will appoint his portion with the hypocrites.
There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.
*~Matthew Chapter 25 ~*
1Then the kingdom of Heaven shall be compared to ten virgins who taking their
lamps, went out to a meeting of the bridegroom and the bride. 2And five of them were wise, and five foolish. 3Those being foolish, taking their lamps, did not take oil with them. 4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5But the bridegroom delaying all nodded and slept. 6And at midnight, a cry occurred, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go out to meet
him. 7Then all those virgins were aroused and prepared their lamps. 8And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are
gone out. 9But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there not be enough for us and you. But
rather, go to those who sell and buy for yourselves. 10But they going away to buy, the bridegroom came. And those ready went in with
him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut. 11And afterwards, the rest of the virgins also came, saying, Master, Master,
open to us. 12But answering, he said, Truly I say to you, I do not know you. 13Therefore, be alert, for you do not know the day nor the hour in which the SON
OF YAHUVEH comes. 14For it is like a man who went on a journey. He called his servants and
delivered his possessions to them. 15And to one indeed he gave five talents, and to another, two, and to another,
one, to each according to his ability. And he went immediately on his journey. 16And going, the one who received the five talents worked with them and made
another five talents. 17In the same way, the one with the two also did; he also gained another two. 18But going away, the one who received the one dug in the earth and hid his
Master’s silver. 19And after much time, the master of those slaves came and took account with
them. 20And coming up, the one who received five talents brought another five talents
near, saying, Master, you delivered five talents to me. Behold, I gained another
five talents above them. 21And his Master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were
faithful over a few things; I will set you over many. Enter into the joy of your
Master. 22And the one who received two talents also coming up, he said, Master, you
delivered two talents to me. Behold, I have gained two other talents above them. 23His Master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful
over a few things, I will set you over many. Enter into the joy of your Master. 24And the one who received the one talent also coming up, he said, Master, I
knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering
where you did not scatter; 25and being afraid, going away, I hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have
yours. 26And answering, his Master said to him, Evil and lazy slave! You knew that I
reap where I did not sow, and I gather where I did not scatter. 27Then you ought to have put my silver to the bankers, and coming I would have
received my own with interest. 28Therefore, take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten
talents. 29For to each who has, more will be given, and he will abound. But from him who
does not have, even that which he has will be taken from him. 30And throw the worthless slave out into the outer darkness. There will be
weeping and gnashing of the teeth. 31But when the SON OF YAHUVEH comes in His glory, and all the holy cherubs with
Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32And before Him shall be gathered all the nations; and He will separate them
from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33And indeed He will set the sheep off His right, but the goats off the left
hand. 34Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, the blessed of My Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35For I hungered, and you gave Me food to eat; I thirsted, and you gave Me
drink; I was a stranger, and you took Me in; 36naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison,
and you came to Me. 37Then the righteous will answer, saying, Master, when did we see You hungry,
and fed You; or thirsting, and gave You drink? 38And when did we see You a stranger, and took You in; or naked, and clothed
You? 39And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and came to You? 40And answering, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, In so far as you
did it to one of these, the least of My brothers, you did it to Me. 41Then He will also say to those on His left, Go away from Me, cursed ones, into
the everlasting fire having been prepared for the Devil and his cherubs. 42For I hungered, and you did not give Me a thing to eat. I thirsted and you did
not give Me a thing to drink; 43I was a stranger, and you did not take Me in; naked, and you did not clothe
Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me. 44Then they also will answer Him, saying, Master, when did we see You hungering,
or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not
minister to You? 45Then He will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, in so far as you did not
do it to one of these, the least, neither did you do it to Me. 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into
everlasting life.