and I have turned aside My hands, and thou hast seen My back parts, and My face is not seen.'

As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'

Saying to wood, 'My father art thou!' And to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, 'Arise Thou, and save us.'

And they turn unto Me the neck, and not the face, and teaching them, rising early and teaching, and they are not hearkening to accept instruction.

And He bringeth me in unto the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and lo, at the opening of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces eastward, and they are bowing themselves eastward to the sun.

Oh, Lord, what do I say, after that Israel hath turned the neck before its enemies?

And mine enemies -- Thou givest to me the neck, Those hating me -- and I cut them off.

As to mine enemies -- Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me -- I cut them off.

For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.

My terror I send before thee, and I have put to death all the people among whom thou comest, and I have given the neck of all thine enemies unto thee.

and they turn before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness, and the battle hath followed them; and those who are from the city are destroying them in their midst;

How hath it been broken down! they have howled, How hath Moab turned the neck ashamed, And Moab hath been for a derision. And for a terror to all round about her.