Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Shoftim / Judges - this week’s Prophetic reading
Prophecy 44, 101, 131;
Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9;
Isaiah 51:12-52:12;
Mark 14:53-64;
Isaiah 51:12-52:12
12 I, I am He comforting you. Who are you, that you should fear from man? He
shall die! And from the son of man? He is given as grass. 13 And you forget your Maker YAHUVEH, who has stretched out the heavens and
founded the earth. And you dread continually, every day, from the fury of the
oppressor, since he was ready to destroy. And where is the fury of the
oppressor? 14 Bowed down, he hurries to be freed, that he not die in the pit, nor that he
lack his bread. 15 But I am YAHUVEH your ELOHIM, stirring up the sea and making its waves roar;
YAHUVEH of Hosts is His name. 16 And I have put My Words in your mouth, and covered you in the shade of My
hand, to plant the heavens and found the earth, and to say to Zion, You are My
people. 17 Awake! Awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, who drank the cup of His fury from the
hand of YAHUVEH; you drank the bowl of the cup of reeling; you fully drained it. 18 No guide is for her among all the sons she has borne; and of all the sons she
made to grow none makes strong her hand. 19 Those two things came to you; who shall grieve for you? Ruin and shattering
and famine and the sword, who but I shall comfort you? 20 Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of all the streets, like an
antelope in a net, filled with the fury of YAHUVEH, the rebuke of your ELOHIM. 21 So hear this now, afflicted one, and drunken, but not from wine: 22 So says your Master YAHUVEH and your ELOHIM, He strives for His people.
Behold, I have taken the cup of reeling out of your hand, the bowl of the cup of
My fury; you shall not yet again drink it. 23 But I will put it into the hand of those oppressing you, who have said to
your soul, Bow down that we may cross, and, Put your back to the ground, and as
the street to those who cross.
*~Isaiah Chapter 52 ~*
1 Awake! Awake! Put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O
Jerusalem, the holy city. For never again shall uncircumcised and unclean ones
come to you. 2 Shake yourself from the dust; rise up! Sit, Jerusalem; free yourself from your
neck bands, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For so says YAHUVEH: You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed
with silver. 4 For so says Adonai YAHUVEH: My people went down to Egypt at the first, to
reside there, and without cause Assyria oppressed him. 5 So then what is to Me here, declares YAHUVEH? For My people are taken for
nothing; those ruling howl, declares YAHUVEH. And My name is continually
despised, every day. 6 So My people shall know My name thus in that day; for I am He speaking. Behold
Me! 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him proclaiming good news,
making peace heard, bearing tidings of good, making heard salvation (Y’shua*),
saying to Zion, Your ELOHIM reigns. 8 The voice of your watchmen, they lift the voice together, they sing aloud. For
they shall see eye to eye when YAHUVEH brings back Zion. 9 Break out, sing together, waste places of Jerusalem; for YAHUVEH comforts His
people; He has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 YAHUVEH has bared His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the
ends of the earth shall see (Aleph /Tav) Y’shua* our ELOHIM. 11 Turn! Turn! Go out from there! Touch not the unclean! Go out of her midst,
purify yourselves, bearers of the vessels of YAHUVEH. 12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor will you go by flight; for YAHUVEH
is going before you, and the ELOHIM of Israel gathers you.
Mark 14:53-64
53 And they led YAHUSHUA away to Caiaphas, the high priest. And all the chief
priests and the elders and the scribes came together to him. 54 And Peter followed Him from a distance, to the inside of the courtyard of the
high priest. And he was sitting with the under-officers, also warming himself
toward the light. 55 And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin sought testimony against
YAHUSHUA, to put Him to death. And they found none. 56 For many falsely testified against Him, but the testimonies were not
identical. 57 And standing up, some falsely testified against Him, saying, 58 We heard Him saying, I will throw down this sanctuary made with hands, and in
three days I will build another not made with hands. 59 And neither in this was their testimony identical. 60 And standing in the middle, the high priest questioned YAHUSHUA, saying, Do
you not answer? Nothing? What do these testify against you? 61 But He was silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned Him,
and said to Him, Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed? 62 And YAHUSHUA said, I AM! And you will see the SON OF YAHUVEH sitting off the
right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of the heaven. 63 And tearing his garments, the high priest said, Why do we still have need of
witnesses? 64 You heard the blasphemy. What does it seem to you? And all of them judged
that He deserved death.