• Ex 13:17-17:16 
• Jud 4:4-5:31
• Rev 19:1-20:6

B’shalach means “when he let go.”

Shemoth (Exodus) 13:17-17:16

Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 13

The Pillars of Cloud and Fire

¹⁷ When Pharaoh let the people go, Alahym did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For Alahym said, “If the people face war, they might change their minds and return to Mitsrayim.” ¹⁸ So Alahym led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Sea of Reeds.  And the Yasharalites left the land of Mitsrayim arrayed for battle. 
¹⁹ Moshe took the bones of Yosěph with him because Yosěph had made the sons of Yasharal swear a solemn oath when he said, “Alahym will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”  
²⁰ They set out from Sukkoth and camped at Ětham on the edge of the wilderness. ²¹ And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night. ²² Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.

Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 14

Pharaoh Pursues the Yasharalites

¹Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, ² “Tell the Yasharalites to turn back and encamp before Pi Haḥiroth, between Miḡdol and the sea. You are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Ba‛al Tsephon.
³ For Pharaoh will say of the Yasharalites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’ ⁴ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Mitsrites will know that I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.”
So this is what the Yasharalites did.
⁵ When the sovereign of Mitsrayim was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Yasharal from serving us.”
⁶ So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him. ⁷ He took 600 of the best chariots, and all the other chariots of Mitsrayim, with officers over all of them.
⁸ And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hardened the heart of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim so that he pursued the Yasharalites, who were marching out defiantly.  ⁹The Mitsrites—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Yasharalites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Haḥiroth, opposite Ba‛al Tsephon.
¹⁰ As Pharaoh approached, the Yasharalites looked up and saw the Mitsrites marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH. ¹¹They said to Moshe, “Was it because there were no graves in Mitsrayim that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Mitsrayim? ¹² Did we not say to you in Mitsrayim, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Mitsrites’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Mitsrites than to die in the wilderness.”
¹³But Moshe told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Mitsrites you see today, you will never see again. ¹⁴ 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Parting the Red Sea

¹⁵ Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Yasharalites to go forward. ¹⁶ And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Yasharalites can go through the sea on dry ground. ¹⁷ And I will harden the hearts of the Mitsrites so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and horsemen. ¹⁸ The Mitsrites will know that I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 when I am honored through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
¹⁹ And the messenger of Alahym, who had gone before the camp of Yasharal, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them, ²⁰ so that it came between the camps of Mitsrayim and Yasharal. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night.  So all night long neither camp went near the other.
²¹ Then Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided, ²² and the Yasharalites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
²³ And the Mitsrites chased after them—all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen—and followed them into the sea. ²⁴ At morning watch, however, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 looked down on the army of the Mitsrites from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion. ²⁵ He caused their chariot wheels to wobble,  so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Yasharalites,” said the Mitsrites, “for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is fighting for them against Mitsrayim!”
²⁶Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Mitsrites and their chariots and horsemen.” ²⁷ So Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Mitsrites were retreating, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 swept them into the sea. ²⁸ The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Yasharalites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
²⁹But the Yasharalites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left. ³⁰ That day 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 saved Yasharal from the hand of the Mitsrites, and Yasharal saw the Mitsrites dead on the shore. ³¹ When Yasharal saw the great power that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had exercised over the Mitsrites, the people feared 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and believed in Him and in His servant Moshe.

Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 15

The Song at the Sea (Judges 5:1–31)

¹Then Moshe and the Yasharalites sang this song to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄:
“I will sing to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
for He is highly exalted.
The horse and rider
He has thrown into the sea.
² 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is my strength and my song,
and He has become my salvation.
He is my Alahym, and I will praise Him,
my father’s Alahym, and I will exalt Him.
³ 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is a warrior,
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is His name.
⁴ Pharaoh’s chariots and army
He has cast into the sea;
the finest of his officers
are drowned in the Sea of Reeds. 
⁵ The depths have covered them;
they sank there like a stone.
⁶ Your right hand, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
is majestic in power;
Your right hand, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
has shattered the enemy.
⁷ You overthrew Your adversaries
by Your great majesty.
You unleashed Your burning wrath;
it consumed them like stubble.
⁸ At the blast of Your nostrils
the waters piled up;
like a wall the currents stood firm;
the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
⁹ The enemy declared,
‘I will pursue, I will overtake.
I will divide the spoils;
I will gorge myself on them.
I will draw my sword;
my hand will destroy them.’
¹⁰ But You blew with Your breath,
and the sea covered them.
They sank like lead
in the mighty waters.
¹¹ Who among the mighty ones is like You, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄?
Who is like You—majestic in set-apartness,
revered with praises,
performing wonders?
¹² You stretched out Your right hand,
and the earth swallowed them up.
¹³ With loving devotion You will lead
the people You have redeemed;
with Your strength You will guide them
to Your set-apart dwelling.
¹⁴ The nations will hear and tremble;
anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
¹⁵ Then the chiefs of Eḏom will be dismayed;
trembling will seize the leaders of Mo’aḇ;
those who dwell in Kena‛an will melt away,
¹⁶ and terror and dread will fall on them.
By the power of Your arm
they will be as still as a stone
until Your people pass by, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
until the people You have bought pass by.
¹⁷ You will bring them in and plant them
on the mountain of Your inheritance—
the place, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, You have prepared for Your dwelling,
the sanctuary, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, Your hands have established.
¹⁸𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will reign forever and ever!”
¹⁹ For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Yasharalites walked through the sea on dry ground.
²⁰ Then Maryam the prophetess, Aharon’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing. ²¹ And Maryam sang back to them:
“Sing to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
for He is highly exalted;
the horse and rider
He has thrown into the sea.”

The Waters of Marah

²² Then Moshe led Yasharal from the Sea of Reeds, and they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. For three days they walked in the wilderness without finding water. ²³And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
²⁴ So the people grumbled against Moshe, saying, “What are we to drink?” ²⁵ And Moshe cried out to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 showed him a tree. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened.
There 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them, ²⁶ saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Mitsrites. For I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 who heals you.”
²⁷ Then they came to Ělim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.

Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 16

Manna and Quail from Heaven

¹On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Mitsrayim, the whole assembly of Yasharal set out from Ělim and came to the Wilderness of Sin,  which is between Ělim and Sinai. ² And there in the wilderness the whole assembly of Yasharal grumbled against Moshe and Aharon. ³ “If only we had died by 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s hand in the land of Mitsrayim!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
⁴ Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way, I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions. ⁵ Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”
⁶ So Moshe and Aaron said to all the Yasharalites, “This evening you will know that it was 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, ⁷ and in the morning you will see 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s esteem, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For who are we, that you should grumble against us?”
⁸And Moshe added, “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.”
⁹ Then Moshe said to Aaron, “Tell the whole assembly of Yasharal, ‘Come before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, for He has heard your grumbling.’ ”
¹⁰ And as Aaron was speaking to the whole assembly of Yasharal, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the esteem of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 appeared.
¹¹Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, ¹²“I have heard the grumbling of the Yasharalites. Tell them, ‘Between the evenings you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.’ ”
¹³ That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. ¹⁴ When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground. ¹⁵ When the Yasharalites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.
So Moshe told them, “It is the bread that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has given you to eat. ¹⁶This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’ ”
¹⁷ So the Yasharalites did this. Some gathered more, and some less. ¹⁸ When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall.  Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
¹⁹ Then Moshe said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.” ²⁰ But they did not listen to Moshe; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moshe was angry with them.
²¹ Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

The Sabbath Observed (Genesis 2:1-3; Hebrews 4:1-11)

22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person  —and all the leaders of the assembly came and reported this to Moshe. 23 He told them, “This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a set-apart Sabbath to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’ ”
24 So they set it aside until morning as Moshe had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots. 25 “Eat it today,” Moshe said, “because today is a Sabbath to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. Today you will not find anything in the field. 26 For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”
27 Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything. 28 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions? 29 Understand that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

The Jar of Manna

31 Now the house of Yasharal called the bread manna.  It was white like coriander seed and tasted like thin cakes made with honey. 32 Moshe said, “This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim.’ ”
33 So Moshe told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to be preserved for the generations to come.” 34 And Aaron placed it in front of the witness,  to be preserved just as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded Moshe.
35 The Yasharalites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Kena‛an. 36 (Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.) 

Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 17

Water from the Rock (Numbers 20:1–13)

¹Then the whole assembly of Yasharal left the Wilderness of Sin,  moving from place to place as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. ² So the people contended with Moshe, “Give us water to drink.”
“Why do you contend with me?” Moshe replied. “Why do you test 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄?”
³ But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moshe: “Why have you brought us out of Mitsrayim—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
⁴ Then Moshe cried out to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
⁵And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Yasharal with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. ⁶ Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb.  And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.”
So Moshe did this in the sight of the elders of Yasharal. ⁷He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Yasharalites quarreled, and because they tested 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, saying, “Is 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 among us or not?”

The Defeat of the Amalěqites

⁸ After this, the Amalěqites came and attacked the Yasharalites at Rephidim. ⁹ So Moshe said to Yahushua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalěqites. Tomorrow, I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of Alahym in my hand.”
¹⁰Yahushua did as Moshe had instructed him and fought against the Amalěqites, while Moshe, Aharon, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
¹¹As long as Moshe held up his hands, Yasharal prevailed; but when he lowered them, Amalěq prevailed. ¹²When Moshe’ hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Then Aharon and Hur held his hands up, one on each side, so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.
¹³ So Yahushua overwhelmed Amalěq and his army with the sword.
¹⁴ Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Yahushua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalěq from under heaven.”
¹⁵ And Moshe built an altar and named it 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Nissi¹.  ¹⁶ “Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will war against Amalěq from generation to generation.”

Shophetim (Judges) 4:4-5:31

Shophetim (Judges) Chapter 4

Deḇorah and Baraq

¹After Ěhuḏ died, the Yasharalites again did evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH.  ²So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 sold them into the hand of Yaḇin sovereign of Kena‛an, who reigned in Ḥatsor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Ḥarosheth Haggoyim. ³ Then the Yasharalites cried out to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, because Yaḇin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Yasharalites for twenty years.
⁴ Now Deḇorah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappiḏoth, was judging Yasharal at that time. ⁵ And she would sit under the Palm of Deḇorah between Ramah and Běyth Ěl in the hill country of Ephrayim, where the Yasharalites would go up to her for judgment.
⁶ She summoned Baraq son of Aḇino‛am from Qeḏesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, the Alahym of Yasharal, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Taḇor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zeḇulun. ⁷ And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Yaḇin’s army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Qishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.’ ”
⁸ Baraq said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”
⁹ “I will certainly go with you,” Deḇorah replied, “but the road you are taking will bring you no honor, because 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will be selling Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deḇorah got up and went with Baraq to Qedesh, ¹⁰ where he summoned Zeḇulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deḇorah also went with him.
¹¹ Now Ḥeḇer the Qěynite had moved away from the Qěynites, the descendants of Ḥoḇaḇ the father-in-law of Moshe, and had pitched his tent by the terebinth tree of Tsa‛anayim, which was near Qeḏesh.
¹² When Sisera was told that Baraq son of Aḇino‛am had gone up Mount Taḇor, ¹³ he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Ḥarosheth Haggoyim to the River Qishon.
¹⁴ Then Deḇorah said to Baraq, “Arise, for this is the day that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 gone before you?”
So Baraq came down from Mount Taḇor with ten thousand men following him. ¹⁵ And in front of him 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.
¹⁶Then Baraq pursued the chariots and army as far as Ḥarosheth Haggoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.

Ya‛ěl Kills Sisera

¹⁷ Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Ya‛ěl, the wife of Ḥeḇer the Qěynite, because there was peace between Yaḇin sovereign of Ḥatsor and the house of Ḥeḇer the Qěynite. ¹⁸Ya‛ěl went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my master. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.
¹⁹ Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.
²⁰ “Stand at the entrance to the tent,” he said, “and if anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say, ‘No.’ ”
²¹ But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Ya‛ěl, Ḥeḇer’s wife, took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
²² When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Ya‛ěl went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.
²³On that day, Alahym subdued Yaḇin sovereign of Kena‛an before the Yasharalites. ²⁴ And the hand of the Yasharalites grew stronger and stronger against Yaḇin sovereign of Kena‛an until they destroyed him.

Shophetim (Judges) Chapter 5

The Song of Deḇorah and Barak (Exodus 15:1–21)

¹On that day Deḇorah and Baraq son of Aḇino‛am sang this song:
² “When the princes take the lead in Yasharal,
when the people volunteer,
bless 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
³ Listen, O sovereigns! Give ear, O princes!
I will sing to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄;
I will sing praise to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
the Alahym of Yasharal.
⁴ O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, when You went out from Seir,
when You marched from the land of Edom,
the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain,
and the clouds poured down water.
⁵ The mountains quaked before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
the One of Sinai,
before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
the Alahym of Yasharal.
⁶ In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
in the days of Ya‛ěl,
the highways were deserted
and the travelers took the byways.
⁷ Life in the villages ceased;
it ended in Yasharal,
until I, Deḇorah, arose,
a mother in Yasharal.
⁸ When they chose new mighty ones,
then war came to their gates.
Not a shield or spear was found
among forty thousand in Yasharal.
⁹ My heart is with the princes of Yasharal,
with the volunteers among the people.
Bless 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄!
¹⁰ You who ride white donkeys,
who sit on saddle blankets,
and you who travel the road,
ponder ¹¹ the voices of the singers  
at the watering places.
There they shall recount the righteous acts of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
the righteous deeds of His villagers in Yasharal.
Then the people of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
went down to the gates:
¹² ‘Awake, awake, O Deḇorah!
Awake, awake, sing a song!
Arise, O Baraq,
and take hold of your captives, O son of Aḇino‛am!’
¹³ Then the survivors came down to the nobles;
the people of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came down to me against the mighty ones.
¹⁴ Some came from Ephrayim, with their roots against Amalěq;
Binyamin came with your people after you.
The commanders came down from Maḵir,
the bearers of the marshal’s staff from Zeḇulun.
¹⁵ The princes of Yissasḵar were with Deḇorah,
and Yissasḵar was with Baraq,
rushing into the valley at his heels.
In the clans of Re’uḇěn,
there was great indecision. 
¹⁶ Why did you sit among the sheepfolds
to hear the whistling for the flocks?
In the clans of Re’uḇěn
there was great indecision.
¹⁷ Gil‛aḏ remained beyond the Yarděn.
Dan, why did you linger by the ships?
Ashěr stayed at the coast
and remained in his harbors.
¹⁸ Zeḇulun was a people who risked their lives;
Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.
¹⁹ sovereigns came and fought;
then the sovereigns of Kena‛an fought at Ta‛anaḵ
by the waters of Meḡiddo,
but they took no plunder of silver.
²⁰ From the heavens the stars fought;
from their courses they fought against Sisera.
²¹ The wadi of Qishon swept them away,
the age-old wadi, the wadi of Qishon.
March on, O my soul, in strength!
²² Then the hooves of horses thundered—
the mad galloping of his stallions.
²³‘Curse Měroz,’ says the messenger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants;
for they did not come to help 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
to help 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 against the mighty.’
²⁴Most blessed among women is Ya‛ěl,
the wife of Ḥeḇer the Qěynite,
most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
²⁵ He asked for water, and she gave him milk.
In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.
²⁶She reached for the tent peg,
her right hand for the workman’s hammer.
She struck Sisera and crushed his skull;
she shattered and pierced his temple.
²⁷ At her feet he collapsed, he fell,
there he lay still;
at her feet he collapsed, he fell;
where he collapsed, there he fell dead.
²⁸ Sisera’s mother looked through the window;
she peered through the lattice and lamented:
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
²⁹Her wisest ladies answer;
indeed she keeps telling herself,
³⁰‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—
a girl or two for each warrior,
a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera,
the spoil of embroidered garments
for the neck of the looter?’
³¹ So may all Your enemies perish,
O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄!
But may those who love You
shine like the sun at its brightest.”
And the land had rest for forty years.

Ḥazon (Revelation) 19:1-20:6

Ḥazon (Revelation) Chapter 19

Rejoicing in Heaven

¹After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting:
“Halleluyah!
Deliverance and esteem and respect and power belong to our Alahym!
²For His judgments are true and just.
He has judged the great harlot
who corrupted the earth with her immorality.
He has avenged the blood of His servants
that was poured out by her hand.”
³ And a second time they called out:
“Halleluyah!
Her smoke rises forever and ever.”
⁴ And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped Alahym who sits on the throne, saying:
“Amen, Halleluyah!”
⁵ Then a voice came from the throne, saying:
“Praise our Alahym,
all you who serve Him,
and those who fear Him,
small and great alike!”

The Marriage of the Lamb

⁶ And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out:
“Halleluyah!
For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Alahym the Almighty reigns.
⁷Let us rejoice and be glad
and give Him the esteem.
For the marriage of the Lamb has come,
and His bride has made herself ready.
⁸ She was given clothing of fine linen,
bright and pure.”
For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the set apart ones.
⁹ Then the messenger told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of Alahym.”
¹⁰ So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the witness of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤅𐤏. Worship Alahym! For the witness of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤅𐤏 is the spirit of prophecy.”

The Rider on the White Horse

¹¹ Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. ¹² He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. ¹³He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood,  and His name is The Word of Alahym.
¹⁴ The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses. ¹⁵ And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter.  He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of Alahym the Almighty. ¹⁶ And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: SOVEREIGN OF SOVEREIGNS AND MASTER OF MASTERS.

Defeat of the Beast and False Prophet

¹⁷Then I saw a messenger standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of Alahym, ¹⁸ so that you may eat the flesh of sovereigns and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”
¹⁹Then I saw the beast and the sovereigns of the earth with their armies assembled to wage war against the One seated on the horse, and against His army. ²⁰ But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. ²¹ And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse.
And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

Ḥazon (Revelation) Chapter 20

Satan Bound

¹Then I saw a messenger coming down from heaven with the key to the pit of the deep, holding in his hand a great chain. ² He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. ³ And he threw him into the pit of the deep, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.
⁴ Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤅𐤏 and for the word of Alahym, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with the Messiah for a thousand years.
⁵ The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection. ⁶ Blessed and set apart are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of Alahym and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

1. H3071 | יְהֹוָה נִסִּי | YAHUAH Nissy | From H3068 and H5251 | YHUH (is) my banner; a symbolical name of an altar in the wilderness ↩︎