Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Ha'azinu / Listen - this week's Prophetic reading
Prophecy 75,102,148; Deuteronomy 32:1-52; Hosea 14:1-9; Joel 2:15-27;
Hosea 14:1-9
1 O Israel, return to YAHUVEH your Elohim, for you have fallen by your sin.
2 Take words with you and return to YAHUVEH. Say to Him, Lift up all iniquity
and receive us well, that we may repay with the calves of our lips.
3 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any
more to the work of our hands, Our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy.
(Hos 1:6, 10)
4 I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for MY anger has
turned away from him. (Jer 31:31-34)
5 I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily and cast out his
roots like Lebanon.
6 His branches shall go out, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and
his scent as Lebanon to him.
7 They who live under his shadow shall return; they shall live like the grain,
and blossom like the vine; their memorial shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim shall say, What is it to me any more with idols? I answered him, and I
surveyed him. I am as a green cypress tree; your fruit is found from Me. (Jer
16:19, Eze 17:23)
9 Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For
the ways of YAHUVEH are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but
transgressors shall stumble in them.
Joel 2:15-27
15 Blow a shofar in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, gather the elders, gather the
children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room,
and the bride out of her bridal chamber.
17 Let the priests, ministers of YAHUVEH, weep between the porch and the altar;
and let them say, Have pity on Your people, O YAHUVEH, and do not give Your
inheritance to shame, for a proverb among those of the nations. Why should they
say among the peoples, Where is their Elohim?
18 Then YAHUVEH will be jealous for His land and have pity on His people.
19 Yea, YAHUVEH will answer and say to His people, Behold, I will send you
grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no more
make you a disgrace among the nations.
20 But I will remove the northern army far from you, and I will drive him into a
dry and desolated land with his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward
the western sea. And his stench shall come up, and his ill odor shall come up,
because he was doing great things.
21 Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice, for YAHUVEH is doing great things.
22 Fear not, beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness grow green,
for the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their strength.
23 Then be glad, sons of Zion, and rejoice in YAHUVEH your Elohim. For He has
given to you the early rain according to righteousness, and He will cause the
rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain in the first
month.
24 And the floors shall be full with grain, and the wine vats shall overflow
with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the
locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, MY great army
which I sent among you.
26 And you shall eat fully and be satisfied; and you shall praise the name of
YAHUVEH your Elohim, who has dealt wondrously with you. And MY people shall not
be ashamed forever.
27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am YAHUVEH
your Elohim, and there is no other. And MY people shall not be ashamed forever.