en_cjb - Mar 4 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ But in the acharit-hayamim it will come about that the mountain of ADONAI’s house will be established as the most important mountain. It will be regarded more highly than the other hills, and peoples will stream there.

² Many Gentiles will go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of ADONAI, to the house of the God of Ya‘akov! He will teach us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Tziyon will go forth Torah, the word of ADONAI from Yerushalayim.

³ He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for many nations far away. Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades and their spears into pruning-knives; nations will not raise swords at each other, and they will no longer learn war.

⁴ Instead, each person will sit under his vine and fig tree, with no one to upset him, for the mouth of ADONAI-Tzva’ot has spoken.

⁵ For all the peoples will walk, each in the name of its god; but we will walk in the name of ADONAI our God forever and ever.

⁶ “When that day comes,” says ADONAI, “I will assemble the lame and gather those who were dispersed, along with those I afflicted.

⁷ I will make the lame a remnant and those who were driven off a strong nation.” ADONAI will rule them on Mount Tziyon from that time forth and forever.

⁸ You, tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Tziyon, to you your former sovereignty will return, the royal power of the daughter of Yerushalayim.

⁹ Why are you now crying out? Don’t you have a king? Has your counselor been destroyed, that you are seized with pain like a woman in labor?

¹⁰ Be in pain! Work to give birth like a woman in labor, daughter of Tziyon! For now you will go out of the city and live in the wilds till you reach Bavel. There you will be rescued; there ADONAI will redeem you from the power of your enemies.

¹¹ Now many nations have gathered against you; they say, “Let her be defiled, let’s gloat over Tziyon.”

¹² But they don’t know the thoughts of ADONAI, they don’t understand his plan; for he has gathered them like sheaves on the threshing-floor.

¹³ Get up! Start threshing, daughter of Tziyon! “For I will make your horns like iron and your hoofs like bronze.” You will crush many peoples and devote their plunder to ADONAI, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

¹⁴ [(5:1)] Now gather yourself in troops, you who are accustomed to being in troops; they have laid siege to us. They are striking the judge of Isra’el on the cheek with a stick.

¹ Again Yeshua began to teach by the lake, but the crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the crowd remained on shore at the water’s edge.

² He taught them many things in parables. In the course of his teaching, he said to them:

³ “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.

⁴ As he sowed, some seed fell alongside the path; and the birds came and ate it up.

⁵ Other seed fell on rocky patches where there was not much soil. It sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow;

⁶ but when the sun rose, the young plants were scorched; and since their roots were not deep, they dried up.

⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked it; so that it yielded no grain.

⁸ But other seed fell into rich soil and produced grain; it sprouted, and grew, and yielded a crop — thirty, sixty, even a hundred times what was sown.”

⁹ And he concluded, “Whoever has ears to hear with, let him hear!”

¹⁰ When Yeshua was alone, the people around him with the Twelve asked him about the parables.

¹¹ He answered them, “To you the secret of the Kingdom of God has been given; but to those outside, everything is in parables,

¹² so that they may be always looking but never seeing; always listening but never understanding. Otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven!” [1]

¹³ Then Yeshua said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you be able to understand any parable?

¹⁴ The sower sows the message.

¹⁵ Those alongside the path where the message is sown are people who no sooner hear it than the Adversary comes and takes away the message sown in them.

¹⁶ Likewise, those receiving seed on rocky patches are people who hear the message and joyfully accept it at once;

¹⁷ but they have no root in themselves. So they hold out for a while, but as soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, they immediately fall away.

¹⁸ Others are those sown among thorns — they hear the message;

¹⁹ but the worries of the world, the deceitful glamor of wealth and all the other kinds of desires push in and choke the message; so that it produces nothing.

²⁰ But those sown on rich soil hear the message, accept it and bear fruit — thirty, sixty or a hundredfold.”

²¹ He said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought in to be put under a bowl or under the bed, is it? Wouldn’t you put it on a lampstand?

²² Indeed, nothing is hidden, except to be disclosed; and nothing is covered up, except to come out into the open.

²³ Those who have ears to hear with, let them hear!”

²⁴ He also said to them, “Pay attention to what you are hearing! The measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you — and more besides!

²⁵ For anyone who has something will be given more; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.”

²⁶ And he said, “The Kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.

²⁷ Nights he sleeps, days he’s awake; and meanwhile the seeds sprout and grow — how, he doesn’t know.

²⁸ By itself the soil produces a crop — first the stalk, then the head, and finally the full grain in the head.

²⁹ But as soon as the crop is ready, the man comes with his sickle, because it’s harvest-time.”

³⁰ Yeshua also said, “With what can we compare the Kingdom of God? What illustration should we use to describe it?

³¹ It is like a mustard seed, which, when planted, is the smallest of all the seeds in the field;

³² but after it has been planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all the plants, with such big branches that the birds flying about can build nests in its shade.”

³³ With many parables like these he spoke the message to them, to the extent that they were capable of hearing it.

³⁴ He did not say a thing to them without using a parable; when he was alone with his own talmidim he explained everything to them.

³⁵ That day, when evening had come, Yeshua said to them, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.”

³⁶ So, leaving the crowd behind, they took him just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him.

³⁷ A furious windstorm arose, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was close to being swamped.

³⁸ But he was in the stern on a cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him, “Rabbi, doesn’t it matter to you that we’re about to be killed?”

³⁹ He awoke, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind subsided, and there was a dead calm.

⁴⁰ He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you no trust even now?”

⁴¹ But they were terrified and asked each other, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the waves obey him?”