יַ֫חַד

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

both low and high, rich and poor together.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people.