The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
shall terrify you - for the blood of man and violence to the land, the city, and all who dwell in it [...]
Its interpretation concerns the Wicked Priest, to repay him
his recompense which he dealt out against the poor, for Lebanon is
the council of the Community, and the beasts are the simple ones of Judah, the doer of
the Law [...] whom God will judge for destruction
just as he plotted to destroy the poor [...] and as for what it says, 'for the blood of'
the city and violence to the land' - its interpretation: the city is Jerusalem
in which the Wicked Priest committed abominable deeds and defiled
the sanctuary of God [...] and 'violence to the land' - these are the cities of Judah where
he plundered the wealth of the poor [...] What use is an idol, that its maker shaped it
[a molten image], a teacher of lies, for the one who fashioned it trusts in his own creations
to make mute idols [...] Its interpretation concerns all
the idols of the nations, which they made to serve them and to bow down
to them, but they will not save them on the day of judgment [...] Woe
to the one [who says] [to] wood, 'Awake!' [Arise!] [to] [the] silent [stone] [...]
[Can it] [teach]? [...] [Behold] [it] [is] [covered with] [gold] [and] [silver]
[and] [there] [is] [no] [breath] [at all] [within] [it] [...] [but] [the LORD] [is] [in] [his] [holy] [temple] [...]