Shemot Haftarah

Yeshayahu 27:6-28:13; 29:22-23


Yes 27:6 Those who come He causes to take root in Yaʽakov, Yisra’ĕl shall blossom and bud. And they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
Yes 27:7 Has He smitten him as He smote those who were smiting him? Or were they slain as those they had slaughtered?
Yes 27:8 In measure, by sending her away, You contended with her. He shall take away by His rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Yes 27:9 Therefore by this the crookedness of Yaʽakov is covered. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones that are beaten to dust – Ashĕrim and sun-pillars rise no more.
Yes 27:10 For the city of defence is lonely, a home forsaken and left like a wilderness – there the calf feeds, and there it lies down, and shall consume its branches.
Yes 27:11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off, women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding, therefore He who made them has no compassion on them, and He who formed them shows them no favour.
Yes 27:12 And in that day it shall be that יהוה threshes, from the channel of the River to the wadi of Mitsrayim. And you shall be gathered one by one1, O children of Yisra’ĕl.

Footnote: 1Yer. 3:14-15. Yer 3:14 “Return, O backsliding children,” declares יהוה, “for I shall rule over you, and shall take you, one from a city and two from a clan, and shall bring you to Tsiyon. Yer 3:15 “And I shall give you shepherds according to My heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding

Yes 27:13 And in that day it shall be that a great shofar is blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Ashshur and the outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim shall come, and shall worship יהוה on the kadosh mountain, in Yerushalayim.
Yes 28:1 Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, and to the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, to those who are overcome with wine!
Yes 28:2 See, יהוה has one who is mighty and strong, like a downpour of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who casts down to the earth with the hand.
Yes 28:3 The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, is trampled under foot;
Yes 28:4 and the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, like the first fruit before the summer, which, when one sees it, he eats it up while it is still in his hand.
Yes 28:5 In that day יהוה Tseva'ot is for a crown of splendour and a turban of comeliness to the remnant of His people,
Yes 28:6 and a spirit of mishpat to him who sits in mishpat, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Yes 28:7 And these too have gone astray through wine, and through strong drink wandered about. Priest and prophet have gone astray through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they wander about through strong drink, they go astray in vision, they stumble in mishpat.
Yes 28:8 For all tables shall be covered with vomit, no place without filth.
Yes 28:9 Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts!
Yes 28:10 For it is: Tzav la-tzav, tzav la-tzav, kav la-kav, kav la-kav z`eir sham, z`eir sham [Precept by precept, precept by precept, line by line, line by line, a little here, a little there].
Yes 28:11 For with a stammering lip and a foreign tongue He speaks to this people,
Yes 28:12 to whom He said, “This is the rest, give rest to the weary,” and, “This is the refreshing.” But they would not hear.
Yes 28:13 But the Word of יהוה was to them, “Command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,” so that they go and shall stumble backward, and be broken and snared and taken captive.
Yes 29:22 Therefore thus said יהוה, who ransomed Av̱raham, concerning the house of Yaʽakov, “Yaʽakov is no longer put to shame, no longer does his face grow pale.
Yes 29:23 “For when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, they shall kodesh My Name, and kodesh the Kadosh One of Yaʽakov, and fear the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.