Re: Isaiah 11's "there shall come forth a shoot out of the stem of Jesse," who was that shoot?
Re: "to him shall the Gentiles seek," who was that?
Isaiah 11 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/ISA/isa11.htm
1 *AND there shall come forth a shoot out of the stem of Jesse,*
and a branch shall grow out of his roots;
2 And he shall be at peace,
and *the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him,*
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the reverence of the LORD;
3 And shall shine forth in the reverence of the LORD;
and he shall not judge after that which his eyes see,
neither reprove after that which his ears hear;
4 But with justice shall he judge the poor,
and reprove with uprightness for the meek of the earth;
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his waist.
6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young lion and the ox shall feed together;
and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed together;
and their young ones shall grow up together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the suckling child shall play with the serpent,
and the weaned child shall put his hand into the hole of the asp.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
10 *And on that day there shall be a root of Jesse,*
which shall stand as an ensign to the peoples;
*to him shall the Gentiles seek;*
and his rest shall be glorious.
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Re: Micah 5's "Bethlehem Ephratah, though you are little among the thousands of towns of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth a ruler to govern Israel; whose goings forth have been predicted from of old, from eternity.... his dominion shall extend to the ends of the earth," who was that ruler?
Micah 5 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/MIC/mic5.htm
1 NOW you shall go forth in a raid,
O daughter of mighty raiders,
for they have risen against us and have smitten the shepherd of Israel with a rod upon his cheek.
2 *And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you are little among the thousands of towns of Judah,*
*yet out of you shall come forth a ruler to govern Israel;*
*whose goings forth have been predicted from of old, from eternity.*
3 Henceforth he will deliver them, until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth;
then the remnant of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.
4 *And he shall arise and rule in the strength of the LORD,*
in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God;
and the people shall return;
for now *his dominion shall extend to the ends of the earth.*
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Hosea 2 discusses one party of a marriage covenant with God committing rampant adultery, to the point that God remarks about Israel, "she is not my wife, neither am I her husband." God will enter a new marriage covenant with the unfaithful party: "you shall call me, my husband.... I will betroth you to me for ever; yea, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice and in lovingkindness and in mercy. So I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.... and I will call La-ammi, not my people, Ammi, my people." Has that new covenant occurred?
Hosea 2 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/HOS/hos2.htm
1 SAY to your brethren, Ammi, my people;
and to your sisters, Rekhimtha, beloved.
2 Plead with your mother, plead;
for *she is not my wife, neither am I her husband;*
let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight
and her adulteries from between her breasts,
3 Lest I strip her naked and leave her bare as in the day that she was born,
and make her as a wilderness and as a dry land,
and cause her to die with thirst.
4 And I will not have mercy upon her children;
for they are the children of whoredoms.
5 For their mother has played the harlot;
she that conceived them has done shamefully;
for she said, I will go after my lovers who give me my bread and my water,
my clothes and my linen, my oil and everything that I need.
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
and fence her paths so that she shall not find her paths.
7 And she shall follow after her lovers and shall not overtake them,
and she shall seek them, but shall not find them;
then shall she say, I will return and go to my first husband;
for it was better with me then than now.
8 For she did not know that
it was I who gave her wheat and wine and oil,
and multiplied her silver and gold,
some of which they made for the images of Baal.
9 Therefore I will return and take away my wheat in its time and my wine in its season,
and will take away my wool and my linen which I gave her to cover her nakedness.
10 And now I will uncover her nakedness in the presence of her lovers,
and none shall deliver her out of my hands.
11 *And I will cause all her mirth to cease,*
*her feast days, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.*
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said,
These are presents which my lovers have given me;
and I will make them a forest,
and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 *And I will punish her for the evils of the days of Baal,*
*in which she burned incense to him*
and decked herself with her earrings and her pearls
*and went after her lovers and forgot me, says the LORD.*
14 Therefore, behold, I will comfort her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak lovingly to her.
15 And I will give her vineyards from thence,
and the valley of Achor that it may open her understanding;
and she shall be humbled there,
as in the days of her youth,
and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 And it shall be on that day, says the LORD, that
*you shall call me, my husband,*
*and shall call me no more Baali.* [my baal/lord]
17 For I will take away the name of Baal out of her mouth,
and they shall no more remember his name.
18 And on that day I will make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the air
and with the creeping things of the ground;
and I will do away with the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth,
and I will make them to dwell in safety.
19 *And I will betroth you to me for ever;*
*yea, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice*
*and in lovingkindness and in mercy.*
20 *So I will betroth you to me in faithfulness;*
*and you shall know the LORD.*
21 And it shall come to pass on that day, says the LORD,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth;
22 And the earth shall answer the grain and the wine and the oil;
and they shall answer Jezreel.
23 And I will sow her for myself in the earth;
and I will have mercy on La-ethrakhmath, not beloved,
*and I will call La-ammi, not my people, Ammi, my people,*
and they shall say, Thou art my God.
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Re: Isaiah 4, has God "washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion... by the spirit of judgment" yet?
Has God "purged the bloodshed from the midst of Jerusalem... by the spirit of purging" yet?
Isaiah 4 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/ISA/isa4.htm
2 In that day shall the glory and honor of the LORD shine forth,
and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for *the remnant of Israel.*
3 And it shall come to pass, that
*he who is left in Zion,*
*and he who remains in Jerusalem,*
*shall be called holy,*
even every one who is written among the living in Jerusalem,
4 *When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,*
*and shall have purged the bloodshed from the midst of Jerusalem,*
*by the spirit of judgment,*
*and by the spirit of purging.*
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, round about,
a cloud by day,
and the smoke and shining of a flaming fire by night;
for the glory of the LORD shall be a shelter over all.
6 And there shall be a shelter for a shade in the day time from the heat,
and for a place of refuge,
and for a shelter
from the storm
and from the rain.
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Re: Daniel 7, what's the identity of the "one like the Son of man"?
Daniel 7 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/DAN/dan7.htm
13 I saw in the night visions, and behold,
*one like the Son of man came upon the clouds of heaven,*
and came to the Ancient of days,
and they brought him before him.
14 *And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom,*
*that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him;*
*his dominion is an everlasting dominion,*
*which shall not pass away,*
and his kingdom is one that shall not be destroyed.
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Re: "I will raise up for David a righteous Heir," who was that-- what's his name?
Jeremiah 23 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/JER/jer23.htm
5 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when *I will raise up for David a righteous Heir, and he shall reign over the kingdom with understanding, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.*
6 *In his days Judah shall be saved* and Israel shall dwell securely;
and this is the name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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Re: "they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king whom I will raise up," when did that occur?
Jeremiah 30 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/JER/jer30.htm
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God
and David their king whom I will raise up for them.
....
21 And their king shall be one of themselves,
and their governors shall come forth from among themselves;
and I will cause him to draw near,
and he shall approach to me;
for I will turn his heart towards me, says the LORD.
22 And you shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
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Re: "I will cause an heir of righteousness to rise up to David; and he shall rule over the kingdom," when did that occur?
Jeremiah 33 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/JER/jer33.htm
14 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will perform the good things which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah, says the LORD.
15 In those days and at that time *I will cause an heir of righteousness to rise up to David;*
*and he shall rule over the kingdom and shall have understanding and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.*
16 *In those days Judah shall be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely;*
and this is the name by which they shall call him: The LORD our righteousness.
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Re: Targum Lamentations 4:22, "Zion... will be freed by the hands of the King Messiah," when did that occur?
Targum Lamentations in English, translated by C.M.M. Brady
http://targuman.org/targum-lamentations/...n-english/
22 And after this your iniquity will be finished, O Congregation of Zion and you will be freed by the hands of the King Messiah and Elijah[3] the High Priest and the Lord will no longer exile you. And at that time I will punish your iniquities, wicked Rome, built in Italy and filled with crowds of Edomites. And the Persians will come and oppress you and destroy you because your sins have been made known before the Lord.
[3] Following Solger which reads ואליהו
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What's the identity of the King Messiah referred to here?:
Ezekiel 17 (with Rashi commentary), https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo...rashi=true
22 So says the Lord God:
And I Myself will take from the lofty top of the cedar,
and I will place [it];
*I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one,*
*and I Myself will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain.* ....
*And I Myself will take: And I will take the King Messiah.*
and I will place [it]: As the Targum renders: and I will establish him.
a tender one: It is customary to graft only from the tender [sprigs] that grew the previous year, called grayfe in Old French, a shoot, graft.
and lofty: Heb. וְתָלוּל, from the word mound, תֵּל, for a mound is usually high and lofty; amonceler in French, to heap up.
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it,
and it will bear boughs and bring forth fruit and become a sturdy cedar,
and under it shall dwell all birds of every feather;
in the shade of the branches thereof shall they dwell. ....
shall they dwell: Heb. תִּשְּׁכֹּנָה. The ‘dagesh’ in the ‘nun’ serves instead of a second ‘nun,’ as though it were written תִּשּׁכֹּנְנָה.
24 And all the trees of the field will recognize that I, the Lord, have lowered the high tree,
have raised aloft the low tree;
that I have dried up the green tree,
and have made the dry tree blossom.
I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will accomplish it." ....
I… have lowered the high tree: The nations that were ruling over Israel.
I have dried up the green tree: Zedekiah and his seed.
and have made the dry tree blossom: Jehoiachin, who was exiled without children, will beget Zerubbabel in Babylon, and he will be the governor of Judea, [appointed] to rule.
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Re: "a man whose name is the Shoot... and who shall... build the temple of the LORD... and he shall bear the glory," what's the name of that man?
Zechariah 6 (JPS Tanakh 1917), https://biblehub.com/jps/zechariah/6.htm
9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
10 ‘Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, that are come from Babylon; and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; 11 yea, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set the one upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; 12 and speak unto him, saying:
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying: *Behold, a man whose name is the Shoot,*
*and who shall shoot up out of his place,* *and build the temple of the LORD;*
13 even he shall build the temple of the LORD;
*and he shall bear the glory,*
*and shall sit and rule upon his throne;*
and there shall be a priest before his throne;
and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
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At what times in history did "the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim"? When did "the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king"? And what is the name of that king?
Hosea 3 (JPS Tanakh 1917), https://biblehub.com/jps/hosea/3.htm
1 And the LORD said unto me:
‘Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend and an adulteress,
even as the LORD loveth the children of Israel,
though they turn unto other gods,
and love cakes of raisins.
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; 3 and I said unto her:
‘Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days;
thou shalt not play the harlot,
and thou shalt not be any man’s wife;
nor will I be thine.’
4 *For the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days* *without king, and without prince,*
*and without sacrifice, and without pillar,*
*and without ephod or teraphim;*
5 *afterward shall the children of Israel return,*
*and seek the LORD their God,*
*and David their king;*
and shall come trembling unto the LORD
and to His goodness in the end of days.
Re: "to him shall the Gentiles seek," who was that?
Isaiah 11 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/ISA/isa11.htm
1 *AND there shall come forth a shoot out of the stem of Jesse,*
and a branch shall grow out of his roots;
2 And he shall be at peace,
and *the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him,*
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the reverence of the LORD;
3 And shall shine forth in the reverence of the LORD;
and he shall not judge after that which his eyes see,
neither reprove after that which his ears hear;
4 But with justice shall he judge the poor,
and reprove with uprightness for the meek of the earth;
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his waist.
6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young lion and the ox shall feed together;
and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed together;
and their young ones shall grow up together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the suckling child shall play with the serpent,
and the weaned child shall put his hand into the hole of the asp.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
10 *And on that day there shall be a root of Jesse,*
which shall stand as an ensign to the peoples;
*to him shall the Gentiles seek;*
and his rest shall be glorious.
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Re: Micah 5's "Bethlehem Ephratah, though you are little among the thousands of towns of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth a ruler to govern Israel; whose goings forth have been predicted from of old, from eternity.... his dominion shall extend to the ends of the earth," who was that ruler?
Micah 5 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/MIC/mic5.htm
1 NOW you shall go forth in a raid,
O daughter of mighty raiders,
for they have risen against us and have smitten the shepherd of Israel with a rod upon his cheek.
2 *And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you are little among the thousands of towns of Judah,*
*yet out of you shall come forth a ruler to govern Israel;*
*whose goings forth have been predicted from of old, from eternity.*
3 Henceforth he will deliver them, until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth;
then the remnant of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.
4 *And he shall arise and rule in the strength of the LORD,*
in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God;
and the people shall return;
for now *his dominion shall extend to the ends of the earth.*
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Hosea 2 discusses one party of a marriage covenant with God committing rampant adultery, to the point that God remarks about Israel, "she is not my wife, neither am I her husband." God will enter a new marriage covenant with the unfaithful party: "you shall call me, my husband.... I will betroth you to me for ever; yea, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice and in lovingkindness and in mercy. So I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.... and I will call La-ammi, not my people, Ammi, my people." Has that new covenant occurred?
Hosea 2 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/HOS/hos2.htm
1 SAY to your brethren, Ammi, my people;
and to your sisters, Rekhimtha, beloved.
2 Plead with your mother, plead;
for *she is not my wife, neither am I her husband;*
let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight
and her adulteries from between her breasts,
3 Lest I strip her naked and leave her bare as in the day that she was born,
and make her as a wilderness and as a dry land,
and cause her to die with thirst.
4 And I will not have mercy upon her children;
for they are the children of whoredoms.
5 For their mother has played the harlot;
she that conceived them has done shamefully;
for she said, I will go after my lovers who give me my bread and my water,
my clothes and my linen, my oil and everything that I need.
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
and fence her paths so that she shall not find her paths.
7 And she shall follow after her lovers and shall not overtake them,
and she shall seek them, but shall not find them;
then shall she say, I will return and go to my first husband;
for it was better with me then than now.
8 For she did not know that
it was I who gave her wheat and wine and oil,
and multiplied her silver and gold,
some of which they made for the images of Baal.
9 Therefore I will return and take away my wheat in its time and my wine in its season,
and will take away my wool and my linen which I gave her to cover her nakedness.
10 And now I will uncover her nakedness in the presence of her lovers,
and none shall deliver her out of my hands.
11 *And I will cause all her mirth to cease,*
*her feast days, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.*
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said,
These are presents which my lovers have given me;
and I will make them a forest,
and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 *And I will punish her for the evils of the days of Baal,*
*in which she burned incense to him*
and decked herself with her earrings and her pearls
*and went after her lovers and forgot me, says the LORD.*
14 Therefore, behold, I will comfort her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak lovingly to her.
15 And I will give her vineyards from thence,
and the valley of Achor that it may open her understanding;
and she shall be humbled there,
as in the days of her youth,
and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 And it shall be on that day, says the LORD, that
*you shall call me, my husband,*
*and shall call me no more Baali.* [my baal/lord]
17 For I will take away the name of Baal out of her mouth,
and they shall no more remember his name.
18 And on that day I will make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the air
and with the creeping things of the ground;
and I will do away with the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth,
and I will make them to dwell in safety.
19 *And I will betroth you to me for ever;*
*yea, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice*
*and in lovingkindness and in mercy.*
20 *So I will betroth you to me in faithfulness;*
*and you shall know the LORD.*
21 And it shall come to pass on that day, says the LORD,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth;
22 And the earth shall answer the grain and the wine and the oil;
and they shall answer Jezreel.
23 And I will sow her for myself in the earth;
and I will have mercy on La-ethrakhmath, not beloved,
*and I will call La-ammi, not my people, Ammi, my people,*
and they shall say, Thou art my God.
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Re: Isaiah 4, has God "washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion... by the spirit of judgment" yet?
Has God "purged the bloodshed from the midst of Jerusalem... by the spirit of purging" yet?
Isaiah 4 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/ISA/isa4.htm
2 In that day shall the glory and honor of the LORD shine forth,
and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for *the remnant of Israel.*
3 And it shall come to pass, that
*he who is left in Zion,*
*and he who remains in Jerusalem,*
*shall be called holy,*
even every one who is written among the living in Jerusalem,
4 *When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,*
*and shall have purged the bloodshed from the midst of Jerusalem,*
*by the spirit of judgment,*
*and by the spirit of purging.*
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, round about,
a cloud by day,
and the smoke and shining of a flaming fire by night;
for the glory of the LORD shall be a shelter over all.
6 And there shall be a shelter for a shade in the day time from the heat,
and for a place of refuge,
and for a shelter
from the storm
and from the rain.
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Re: Daniel 7, what's the identity of the "one like the Son of man"?
Daniel 7 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/DAN/dan7.htm
13 I saw in the night visions, and behold,
*one like the Son of man came upon the clouds of heaven,*
and came to the Ancient of days,
and they brought him before him.
14 *And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom,*
*that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him;*
*his dominion is an everlasting dominion,*
*which shall not pass away,*
and his kingdom is one that shall not be destroyed.
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Re: "I will raise up for David a righteous Heir," who was that-- what's his name?
Jeremiah 23 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/JER/jer23.htm
5 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when *I will raise up for David a righteous Heir, and he shall reign over the kingdom with understanding, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.*
6 *In his days Judah shall be saved* and Israel shall dwell securely;
and this is the name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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Re: "they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king whom I will raise up," when did that occur?
Jeremiah 30 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/JER/jer30.htm
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God
and David their king whom I will raise up for them.
....
21 And their king shall be one of themselves,
and their governors shall come forth from among themselves;
and I will cause him to draw near,
and he shall approach to me;
for I will turn his heart towards me, says the LORD.
22 And you shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
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Re: "I will cause an heir of righteousness to rise up to David; and he shall rule over the kingdom," when did that occur?
Jeremiah 33 (Peshitta Tanakh, Lamsa translation), http://superbook.org/LAMSA/JER/jer33.htm
14 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will perform the good things which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah, says the LORD.
15 In those days and at that time *I will cause an heir of righteousness to rise up to David;*
*and he shall rule over the kingdom and shall have understanding and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.*
16 *In those days Judah shall be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely;*
and this is the name by which they shall call him: The LORD our righteousness.
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Re: Targum Lamentations 4:22, "Zion... will be freed by the hands of the King Messiah," when did that occur?
Targum Lamentations in English, translated by C.M.M. Brady
http://targuman.org/targum-lamentations/...n-english/
22 And after this your iniquity will be finished, O Congregation of Zion and you will be freed by the hands of the King Messiah and Elijah[3] the High Priest and the Lord will no longer exile you. And at that time I will punish your iniquities, wicked Rome, built in Italy and filled with crowds of Edomites. And the Persians will come and oppress you and destroy you because your sins have been made known before the Lord.
[3] Following Solger which reads ואליהו
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What's the identity of the King Messiah referred to here?:
Ezekiel 17 (with Rashi commentary), https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo...rashi=true
22 So says the Lord God:
And I Myself will take from the lofty top of the cedar,
and I will place [it];
*I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one,*
*and I Myself will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain.* ....
*And I Myself will take: And I will take the King Messiah.*
and I will place [it]: As the Targum renders: and I will establish him.
a tender one: It is customary to graft only from the tender [sprigs] that grew the previous year, called grayfe in Old French, a shoot, graft.
and lofty: Heb. וְתָלוּל, from the word mound, תֵּל, for a mound is usually high and lofty; amonceler in French, to heap up.
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it,
and it will bear boughs and bring forth fruit and become a sturdy cedar,
and under it shall dwell all birds of every feather;
in the shade of the branches thereof shall they dwell. ....
shall they dwell: Heb. תִּשְּׁכֹּנָה. The ‘dagesh’ in the ‘nun’ serves instead of a second ‘nun,’ as though it were written תִּשּׁכֹּנְנָה.
24 And all the trees of the field will recognize that I, the Lord, have lowered the high tree,
have raised aloft the low tree;
that I have dried up the green tree,
and have made the dry tree blossom.
I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will accomplish it." ....
I… have lowered the high tree: The nations that were ruling over Israel.
I have dried up the green tree: Zedekiah and his seed.
and have made the dry tree blossom: Jehoiachin, who was exiled without children, will beget Zerubbabel in Babylon, and he will be the governor of Judea, [appointed] to rule.
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Re: "a man whose name is the Shoot... and who shall... build the temple of the LORD... and he shall bear the glory," what's the name of that man?
Zechariah 6 (JPS Tanakh 1917), https://biblehub.com/jps/zechariah/6.htm
9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
10 ‘Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, that are come from Babylon; and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; 11 yea, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set the one upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; 12 and speak unto him, saying:
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying: *Behold, a man whose name is the Shoot,*
*and who shall shoot up out of his place,* *and build the temple of the LORD;*
13 even he shall build the temple of the LORD;
*and he shall bear the glory,*
*and shall sit and rule upon his throne;*
and there shall be a priest before his throne;
and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
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At what times in history did "the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim"? When did "the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king"? And what is the name of that king?
Hosea 3 (JPS Tanakh 1917), https://biblehub.com/jps/hosea/3.htm
1 And the LORD said unto me:
‘Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend and an adulteress,
even as the LORD loveth the children of Israel,
though they turn unto other gods,
and love cakes of raisins.
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; 3 and I said unto her:
‘Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days;
thou shalt not play the harlot,
and thou shalt not be any man’s wife;
nor will I be thine.’
4 *For the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days* *without king, and without prince,*
*and without sacrifice, and without pillar,*
*and without ephod or teraphim;*
5 *afterward shall the children of Israel return,*
*and seek the LORD their God,*
*and David their king;*
and shall come trembling unto the LORD
and to His goodness in the end of days.