Parashat 7 Portion 30 Ber/Gen 31:3-32:2 Yer 30:10-16 Jakov 4:1-12

Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVHEloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to.Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us your Torah.

Gen 31:3  And יהוה said to Yaʽaqoḇ, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. And I am with you.” (“relatives” – “moledet” plural for “birthplaces”)

This is the first time in the Torah that the land is referenced to individuals – “Return to the land of your fathers” (Hegg)

Hidden in this and following Torah portions seems to the reality that the return of Yaqov’s descendants will be a hazardous journey and they will have to face dangers from all sides – family and foe.

Gen 31:4  And Yaʽaqoḇ sent (vayishlach) and called (vayikra) Raḥĕl and Lĕ’ah to the field, to his flock, Gen 31:5  and said to them, “I see your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before, but the Elohim of my father has been with me. Gen 31:6  “And you know that I have served your father with all my strength. Gen 31:7  “Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but Elohim did not allow him to do evil to me. Gen 31:8  “When he said this, ‘The speckled are your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled. And when he said this, ‘The streaked are your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked. Gen 31:9  “So Elohim has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me. Gen 31:10  “And it came to be, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and looked in a dream and saw the rams which leaped upon the flocks were streaked, speckled, and mottled. Gen 31:11  “And the Messenger of Elohim spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Yaʽaqoḇ.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’ Gen 31:12  “And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laḇan is doing to you. Gen 31:13  ‘I am the Ěl of Bĕyth Ěl, where you anointed the standing column and where you made a vow to Me. Now rise up, get out of this land, and return to the land of your relatives.’ ”

Gen 28:19  And he called the name of that place Běyth Ěl, however, the name of that city had been Luz previously. 

Gen 28:20  And Ya‛aqoḇ made a vow, saying, “Seeing Elohim is with me, and has kept me in this way that I am going, and has given me bread to eat and a garment to put on – Gen 28:21  when I have returned to my father’s house in peace, and יהוה has been my Elohim, Gen 28:22  then this stone which I have set as a standing column shall be Elohim’s house, and of all that You give me, I shall certainly give a tenth to You.” 

Gen 31:14  And Raḥĕl and Lĕ’ah answered and said to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

Gen 31:15  “Are we not reckoned by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and also entirely consumed our silver. Gen 31:16  “For all the wealth which Elohim has taken from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, do whatever Elohim has told you.”

Gen 31:17  So Yaʽaqoḇ rose and put his sons and his wives on camels, Gen 31:18  and he drove off all his livestock and all his possessions which he had acquired, his property of the livestock which he had acquired in Paddan Aram, to go to his father Yitsḥaq in the land of Kenaʽan. Gen 31:19  And when Laḇan had gone to shear his sheep, Raḥĕl stole the house idols that were her father’s. Gen 31:20  And Yaʽaqoḇ deceived Laḇan the Aramean, because he did not inform him that he was about to flee. Gen 31:21  And he fled with all that he had. And he rose up and passed over the river, and headed toward the mountains of Gilʽaḏ. Gen 31:22  And on the third day Laḇan was told that Yaʽaqoḇ had fled. Gen 31:23  Then he took his brothers with him and pursued him for seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gilʽaḏ. Gen 31:24  But in a dream by night Elohim came to Laḇan the Aramean, and said to him, “Guard yourself, that you do not speak to Yaʽaqoḇ either good or evil.” Gen 31:25  Then Laḇan overtook Yaʽaqoḇ. Now Yaʽaqoḇ had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laḇan with his brothers pitched in the mountains of Gilʽaḏ. Gen 31:26  And Laḇan said to Yaʽaqoḇ, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and driven my daughters off like captives taken with the sword? Gen 31:27  “Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and not inform me, and I would have sent you away with joy and songs, with tambourine and lyre? Gen 31:28  “And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have been foolish to do this. Gen 31:29  “It is in the power of my hand to do evil to you, but the Elohim of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Guard yourself, that you do not speak to Yaʽaqoḇ either good or evil.’ Gen 31:30  “And now you have gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you steal my mighty ones?” (idols élohim) Gen 31:31  And Yaʽaqoḇ answered and said to Laḇan, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you tear your daughters away from me.’ Gen 31:32  “With whomever you find your mighty ones, do not let him live. In the presence of our brothers, see for yourself what is with me and take it with you.” For Yaʽaqoḇ did not know that Raḥĕl had stolen them. Gen 31:33  And Laḇan went into Yaʽaqoḇ’s tent, and into Lĕ’ah’s tent, and into the tents of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he came out of Lĕ’ah’s tent and entered Raḥĕl’s tent. Gen 31:34  Now Raḥĕl had taken the house idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laḇan searched all about the tent but did not find them. Gen 31:35  And she said to her father, “Let it not displease my master that I am unable to rise before you, for the way of women is with me.” And he searched but did not find the house idols. Gen 31:36  And Yaʽaqoḇ was wroth and

Parashat 7 Portion 29 Ber/Gen 30:12-31:2 1 Sam 1:1-11 Acts 13:16-41

Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH

Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to.

Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us your Torah.

Gen 30:12  And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Yaʽaqoḇ a second son. Gen 30:13  And Lĕ’ah said, “I am blessed, for the daughters shall call me blessed.” So she called his name Ashĕr. Gen 30:14  And Re’uḇĕn went in the days of wheat harvest and found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Lĕ’ah. And Raḥĕl said to Lĕ’ah, “Please give me some of your son’s love-apples.”

Photo of a ''Yakov sheep''

It appears common knowledge that ‘’love apples’’ or in Hebrew ‘’dudaim’’ was some kind of aphrodisiac that enhanced ones libido. Why then would Leah part with these ‘’love apples’’ and give them to her sister in exchange for having her husband spend the night with her and not Rachel?

     Gen 30:15  But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s love-apples too?” And Raḥĕl said, “Therefore let him lie with you tonight for your son’s love-apples.” (Heb ‘’dudaim’’ See Song of Solomon 7:13- this issue refers to an obscure unknown sexual secret between two lovers)

Scholars believe that there was a significant breakthrough in Leah and Rachel’s relationship at this stage.  It was shortly after this event that Rachel finally gives birth to her first-born Yosef.

Could this be a prophetic sign of the two houses of Yisrael /Yehudah and Ephraim coming together in the last days?

‘’Jezebel’’ means ‘’not honoured by cohabitation.’’

http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Jezebel.html#.XYxsW-JMTIU

Gen 30:16  And when Yaʽaqoḇ came out of the field in the evening, Lĕ’ah went out to meet him and said, “Do come in to me, for indeed, I have hired you with my son’s love-apples.”(used 5 times in three verse) And he lay with her that night. Gen 30:17  And Elohim listened to Lĕ’ah, and she conceived and bore Yaʽaqoḇ a fifth son. Gen 30:18  And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has given me my hire, because I have given my female servant to my husband.” So she called his name Yissasḵar. Gen 30:19  And Lĕ’ah conceived again and bore Yaʽaqoḇ a sixth son. Gen 30:20  And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has presented me with a good present. Now my husband is going to dwell with me, (Heb ‘’zabal’’ used only once meaning ‘’honored’’) because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zeḇulun. (Heb – honoured) Gen 30:21  And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

Gen 30:22  And Elohim remembered Raḥĕl, and Elohim listened to her and opened her womb. Gen 30:23  And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, “Elohim has taken away my reproach.” Gen 30:24  So she called his name Yosĕph, and said, “יהוה has added to me another son.”

It is also significant that the events of the Book of Rut take place during the wheat harvest and are also read during Shavuot. Shavuot is about the giving of the Word (Torah) and the ‘’Ruach ha Kodesh’’ Set apart Spirit. The Word and the Spirit are in unity. The twelve tribes of Yisrael will only come together when there is a joint expression and testimony of the unity of the Torah and the Ruach.

Gen 30:25  And it came to be, when Raḥĕl had borne Yosĕph, that Yaʽaqoḇ said to Laḇan, “Send me on my way, to go to my own place and to my land. Gen 30:26  “Give my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you yourself know my service which I have done for you.” Gen 30:27  And Laḇan said to him, “If I have found favour in your eyes, please stay, for I have diligently watched that יהוה has blessed me for your sake.” Gen 30:28  And he said, “Name me your wages, and I give it.”

Gen 30:29  So he said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me. Gen 30:30  “For the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and יהוה has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my own house too?” Gen 30:31  And he said, “What do I give you?” And Yaʽaqoḇ said, “Give me naught! If you do this for me, I shall again feed and guard your flocks: Gen 30:32  “Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the black ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. And these shall be my wages. Gen 30:33  “And my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when you come concerning my wages: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen if it is with me.” Gen 30:34  And Laḇan said, “See, let it be according to your word!” Gen 30:35  And on that day he set aside the male goats that were speckled and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the black ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. Gen 30:36  And he put three days’ journey between himself and Yaʽaqoḇ, and Yaʽaqoḇ fed the rest of Laḇan’s flocks. Gen 30:37  And Yaʽaqoḇ took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods. Gen 30:38  And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, and they conceived when they came to drink.

Gen 30:39  So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Gen 30:40  And Yaʽaqoḇ separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laḇan, but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laḇan’s flock. Gen 30:41  And it came to be, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceived, that Yaʽaqoḇ placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, so they would conceive among the rods. Gen 30:42  But when the flocks were weak, he did not put them in, so the weak ones were Laḇan’s and the strong ones Yaʽaqoḇ’s. Gen 30:43  Thus the man increased very much, and had many flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys. Gen 31:1  And he heard the words of Laḇan’s sons, saying, “Yaʽaqoḇ has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth.” Gen 31:2  And Yaʽaqoḇ would look at the face of Laḇan and see that it was not toward him as before.

It is perhaps not a co-incidence that both the issues of cohabitation of the spotted sheep and Yakov's wives are discussed together in this parashah.

What will Messiah’s end time flock look like?

Summary of Judah (Hebrew is Yahudah and that is his name) -

https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe277.htm

Chp 1 - Yahudah, the fourth son of Yakov and Leah. He is the giant, athlete, warrior; he recounts heroic deeds. He runs so fast that he can outstrip a hind. THE copy of the words of Yahudah, what things he spake to his sons before he died. 2 They gathered themselves together, therefore, and came to him, and he said to them: Hearken, my children, to Yahudah your father.

Chp 2 - AND eighteen years my father abode in peace with his brother Esav, and his sons with us, after that we came from Mesopotamia, from Lavan. 2 And when eighteen years were fulfilled, in the fortieth year of my life, Esav, the brother of my father, came upon us with a mighty and strong people. 3 And Yakov smote Esav with an arrow, and he was taken up wounded on Mount Seir, and as he went he died at Anoniram. 4 And we pursued after the sons of Esav. 22 And after these things, while Tamar was a widow, she heard after two years that I was going up, to shear my sheep, and adorned herself in bridal array, and sat in the city Enaim by the gate.

23 For it was a law of the Amorites, that she who was about to marry should sit in fornication seven days by the gate. 24 Therefore being drunk with wine, I did not recognize her; and her beauty deceived me, through the fashion of her adorning. 25 And I turned aside to her, and said: Let me go in unto thee. 26 And she said: What wilt thou give me? And I gave her my staff, and my girdle, and the diadem of my kingdom in pledge. 27 And I went in unto her, and she conceived. 28 And not knowing what I had done, I wished to slay her; but she privily sent my pledges, and put me to shame. 29 And when I called her, I heard also the secret words which I spoke when lying with her in my drunkenness; and I could not slay her, because it was from YHVH. 30 For I said, Lest haply she did it in subtlety, having received the pledge from another woman. 31 But I came not again near her while I lived, because I had done this abomination in all Ysrael. 32 Moreover, they who were in the city said there was no harlot in the gate, because she came from another place, and sat for a while in the gate. 33 And I thought that no one knew that I had gone in to her. 34 And after this we came into Mitsrayim/Egypt to Yoseph, because of the famine. 35 And I was forty and six years old, and seventy and three years lived I in Mitsrayim/Egypt.

Chp 3 - 12 For if a man drink wine to drunkenness, it disturbeth the mind with filthy thoughts leading to fornication, and heateth the body to carnal union; and if the occasion of the lust be present, he worketh the sin, and is not ashamed. 13 Such is the inebriated man, my children; for he who is drunken reverenceth no man. 14 For, lo, it made me also to err, so that I was not ashamed of the multitude in the city, in that before the eyes of all I turned aside unto Tamar, and I wrought a great sin, and I uncovered the covering of my sons' shame. After I had drunk wine I reverenced not the commandment of Elohim, and I took a woman of Canaan to wife. 16 For much discretion needeth the man who drinketh wine, my children; and herein is discretion in drinking wine, a man may drink so long as he preserveth modesty. 19 For even though a man be a king and commit fornication, he is stripped of his kingship by becoming the slave of fornication, as I myself also suffered. 20 For I gave my staff, that is, the stay of my tribe; and my girdle, that is, my power; and my diadem, that is, the esteem of my kingdom. 21 And indeed I repented of these things; wine and flesh I eat not until my old age, nor did I behold any joy. 22 And the angel of YHVH showed me that for ever do women bear rule over king and beggar alike. 23 And from the king they take away his esteem, and from the valiant man his might, and from the beggar even that little which is the stay of his poverty. 24 Observe, therefore, my children, the right limit in wine; for there are in it four evil spirits--of lust, of hot desire, of profligacy, of filthy lucre. 25 If ye drink wine in gladness, be ye modest in the fear of YHVH.

Chp 4 - AND now, my children, I command you, love Levi, that ye may abide, and exalt not yourselves against him, lest ye be utterly destroyed. 2 For to me YHVH gave the kingdom, and to him the priesthood, and He set the kingdom beneath the priesthood. 3 To me He gave the things upon the earth; to him the things in the heavens.

Parashat 7 Portion 28 Ber/Gen 29:31-30:13(12) Yesh/Is 60:10-22 Rom 11:25-36

Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH

Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to.

Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us your Torah.

       Gen 29:31  And יהוה saw that Lĕ’ah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Raḥĕl was barren.

      The Torah describes Rachel as having beautiful features and a beautiful complexion, and Leah as having tender eyes – Ber 29:17.

Ber/Gen 29:30 translates in the English that Yakov loved Rachel more than Leah. The word “more” is not used in the original Hebrew. The word “gam”(S1571) is used and generally means “also”.

וַיָּבֹא גַּם אֶל-רָחֵל, וַיֶּאֱהַב גַּם-אֶת-רָחֵל מִלֵּאָה; וַיַּעֲבֹד עִמּוֹ, עוֹד שֶׁבַע-שָׁנִים אֲחֵרוֹת.

30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

לא  וַיַּרְא יְהוָה כִּי-שְׂנוּאָה לֵאָה, וַיִּפְתַּח אֶת-רַחְמָהּ; וְרָחֵל, עֲקָרָה.

31 And YHVH saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

Note – it does not say that Yakov hated her. It states through a passive verb that she was hated. The Torah states that Yakov was an upright man and we can safely assume that he would not have hated Leah.

The Torah and history show us that there was a great rivalry between these two sisters and their offspring.

The Midrash Tanhuma says that Leah’s eyes were weak because of all the tears she shed. The midrash claims that Leah was promised to Esav as a wife she heard how evil he was. Lavan her father saved her from this evil person the best way he knew how – he deceived Yakov in taking her for a wife.

It appears that there was a reconciliation between these two sister wives of Yakov before Rachel died.

We note Yermeyahu’s prophecy of Rachel.

Jer 31:15  Thus said יהוה, “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing, bitter weeping, Raḥĕl weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”  (see also Matt 2:18)

Which children is Rachel weeping for? According to the events of Matt 2:18 Rachel is weeping for Leah’s children as well. The events of this prophecy are fulfilled in the days of Yahshua. In those days it was mainly the Jews from the tribe of Judah living in ‘’Beit – Lechem’’– when this prophecy is fulfilled Herod is killing Leah’s children living in Bethlehem. Rachel’s children had been taken into captivity about 700 years before the events described in Mattitiyahu chapter 2. Ramah is possibly close to where the modern-day Bethlehem is.

Gen 29:32  And Lĕ’ah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Re’uḇĕn, for she said, “For יהוה has looked on my affliction, because now my husband is going to love me.”

Gen 29:33  And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because יהוה has heard that I am unloved, He gave me this son too.” And she called his name Shimʽon.

Gen 29:34  And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband is joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So his name was called Lĕwi.

Gen 29:35  And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now I praise יהוה.” So she called his name Yehuḏah. And she ceased bearing.

Gen 30:1  And when Raḥĕl saw that she bore Yaʽaqoḇ no children, Raḥĕl envied her sister, and said to Yaʽaqoḇ, “Give me children, or else I am going to die!”

Gen 30:2  And Yaʽaqoḇ’s displeasure burned against Raḥĕl, and he said, “Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Gen 30:3  And she said, “See, my female servant Bilhah; go in to her, and let her bear for me, and let me be built up from her as well

Gen 30:4  So she gave him Bilhah her female servant as wife, and Yaʽaqoḇ went in to her.

Gen 30:5  And Bilhah conceived and bore Yaʽaqoḇ a son.

Gen 30:6  And Raḥĕl said, “Elohim has rightly ruled my case, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” So she called his name Dan.

Gen 30:7  And Raḥĕl’s female servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Yaʽaqoḇ a second son.

Gen 30:8  And Raḥĕl said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have overcome.” So she called his name Naphtali.

Gen 30:9  And Lĕ’ah saw that she had ceased bearing, and she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Yaʽaqoḇ as wife.

Gen 30:10  And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Yaʽaqoḇ a son.

Gen 30:11  And Lĕ’ah said, “With Gaḏ!” So she called his name Gaḏ.

Gen 30:12  And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Yaʽaqoḇ a second son.

Gen 30:13  And Lĕ’ah said, “I am blessed, for the daughters shall call me blessed.” So she called his name Ashĕr.

Leah – means weary. She was weary trying to love someone who didn’t love her as much as she desired to be loved.

She has a son – Reuben – means see a son – ''now surely Yakov will love me''.

Then she has a second son – Simeon – means heard – ''the Father heard how hated I was and He gave me another son'''(Said Leah).

Then Levi – means joined or loved – ''surely now Yakov will love me and join himself to me''.

Then came Yahudah – ''praise the Father surely now he will love me''.

By this time Rachel got desperate and give Billah her maid to Yakov – Dan is born-means He has judged in my favour and given me a son.

Billah bore another son called Naphtali – I have prevailed against my sister and still have the affection of Yakov

Leah saw that she was having no more children so she gave Zilpha her maid to Yakov and Gad was born – means how fortunate I am to give Yakov another son. Then Zilpha bore another son called Asher – happy look I have another son.

Then Reuben brings mandrakes – Dudaim – to his mother. Rachel sees and wants them because it was believed to make you fertile etc etc.. So Leah trades them for a night with Yakov.

Leah gives birth fifth son – Isaccar – means you are my wages.

Those who have been called by YHVH and have obediently responded to and followed THE FAITH will once again in the last days be joined to and become part of the 12 tribes of Yisrael.

The prophet speaking of when Yashua returns and rules and reigns over the earth: Eze 47:21  “And you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Yisra’ĕl. Eze 47:22  “And it shall be that you divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who sojourn in your midst and who bear children among you. And they shall be to you as native-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl – with you they have an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl¹. Footnote: ¹Isa. 14:1, Isa. 56:6-8, Rom. 11:17-26, Eph. 2:19, Eph. 3:6, Rev. 21:12. Eze 47:23  “And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger sojourns, there you give him his inheritance,” declares the Master יהוה.

Isa 60:10  “And the sons of foreigners shall build your walls, and their sovereigns serve you. For in My wrath I have smitten you, but in My delight I shall have compassion on you. Isa 60:11  “And your gates shall be open continually, they are not shut day or night, to bring to you the wealth of the gentiles, and their sovereigns in procession. Isa 60:12  “For the nation and the reign that do not serve you shall perish, and those gentiles shall be utterly laid waste.Isa 60:13  “The esteem of Leḇanon shall come to you, cypress, pine, and the box tree together, to embellish the place of My set-apart place. And I shall make the place of My feet esteemed. Isa 60:14  “And the sons of those who afflicted you come bowing to you, and all those who despised you shall bow themselves at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you: City of יהוה, Tsiyon of the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl. Isa 60:15  “Instead of you being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through you, I