1In the thirty-first year of King David’s reign in Jerusalem, which is the thirty-eighth year of David’s reign, the Word of the LORD came to Gad the Seer in the month of Iyar, near the stream of the Kidron Valley, saying:
2“Thus says the LORD: ‘Go, be courageous, and stand in the midst of the stream, and cry in a great voice: “Tarry and hasten, tarry and hasten, tarry and hasten, for there is still a vision for the son of Jesse.”
3And during the cry face the Eastern Gate, on the east side of the city, and stretch forth your hands toward heaven.’”
4And I did exactly what I had been commanded to do.
5And it came to pass when I finished crying out, I opened my eyes and saw a yoke of oxen, led by a donkey and a camel, coming up from the Kidron stream, the donkey on the right side of the yoke and the camel on the left.
6And a great voice like the roll of thunder was following them, crying with a bitter voice:
7“Seer, seer, seer, these are four mixtures that confuse the people of the LORD.
8For the impure and the pure have been mixed, and then impurity took control over purity; a mixture from Seir [Edom] to rule over them,
9to increase power over, and betray, a righteous doer,
10to destroy holiness, to crown wickedness, to set up impure matters in the guise of purity.”
11And after the voice, a great quake occurred that shook over the impurity and blew the donkey and the camel into the moon with a stormy wind.
12And the moon was opened and looked like a bow, a semi-circle, and both her points reached toward the ground.
13And lo, the sun came out of heaven in the shape of a man, with a crown on his head, carrying over his right shoulder a lamb, despised and rejected.
14And on the crown on his head three shepherds are seen, shackled with twelve shackles
15and these shackles were of gold, plated with silver.
16And the voice of the Lamb was heard, great and dreadful like the voice of a lion roaring over his prey: “Woe unto me! Woe unto me! Woe unto me! My image [Messiah] has been diminished, My refuge has been lost, My lot and destiny has turned Me over to My spoilers, and I was defiled until evening by the touch of impurity.”
17And it came to pass when the voice of the Lamb ceased speaking, lo, a man dressed in linen came with three vine-branches and twelve palms in his hand.
18And he took the Lamb from the hand of the sun and put the crown on His head, and the vine-branches and palms on His heart.
19And the man, dressed in linen, cried like a ram’s horn, saying: “What are you doing here, impurity, and how did you get here, impurity,
20that you have carved yourself a place to combine impurity with My covenant that I have set with the vine-branches and palms?”
21And I heard the Lamb’s shepherd saying: “There is a place with Me for the pure, but not for the impure, for I am a holy God, and I do not want the impure, I only want the pure;
22even though I created them both, and My eyes are equally on them both.
23But there is an advantage to the abundance of purity over the abundance of impurity, just like there is an advantage of a man over a shadow.
24For the shadow does not exist without man, and only by the man’s existence is the shadow given to the tired and exhausted; this applies in the same way to the pure and impure.
25For all gates of intelligence are turned around since the death of the eight branches of the vine.
26As is found in words of righteousness in the true book, but because of the wanderings of the sheep, their rest, and divisions,
27intelligence is stopped up until I do greatly in keeping grace.”
28I saw that impurity was driven from the moon and was given over to a consuming wrath, ground into fine dust, and blown away by the daily wind.
29And the day burns as a furnace to remove impurity and to erase the transgressions.
30And the Lamb was put on the moon forever and ever.
31And the Lamb took from the pure the impurity that had been mixed with them, and brought it as a peace offering sacrifice on the altar before El Shaddai, jealous LORD of Hosts.
32And I heard those singing the song of the Lamb, saying:
33“I shall give thanks unto You, O LORD, for though You were angry with me, You forgave.
34For the LORD is my strength and song, and He is become my redeemer.
35I will sing unto the LORD, for He is highly exalted; He had thrown the horse and his rider into the Sea of Reeds.
36Arise, intelligence; arise, power; arise, kingship;
37arise, majesty and glory; arise help of the LORD.
38For God has saved one who had taken away and obliterated the impurity from the earth.
39He fought my fight and brought into the light my righteousness by His help.
40“My help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and earth.” Psalm
41Truly, who is like You, glorious in holiness, but not in impurity?
42For You are great over all; raised over all, You spoke and acted.
43For You declared the end from the beginning, and You sealed everything by Your words and turned my heart and convicted me.
44For Your seal is upon me, my Lord, and these are three vine-branches and twelve palms that are on my heart
45And I heard a voice crying from heaven, saying:
46“You are My Son, You are My firstborn, You are My first-fruits.
47Haven’t I brought You up from the brook of Egypt wholeheartedly to be My daily delight?
48But You have put away My gifts and dressed up the impure with the pure, and that is why all these things have happened to You.
49And who is like unto You among all the creatures on earth? For they lived in Your shadow and by Your wounds they were healed.
50For that, consider well that which is before You.
51Because You have fulfilled the words of the shepherd all the days You have been in the sun and You did not leave them; therefore, all this honor shall be Yours.”
52And I, Gad, son of Ahimelech of the Jabez family, of the tribe of Judah, son of Israel, was amazed by the vision and could not settle my spirit.
53And the one dressed in linen came down to me and touched me, saying: “Write these words and seal them with the seal of truth, for I AM who I AM is My name, and with My name you shall bless the whole house of Israel, for they are of a true seed.
54In a little while you shall go, and be quietly gathered to your fathers, but at the end of days you shall see with your own eyes all these things, not as a vision, but in reality.
55For in those days they shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for no iniquity will be found in their remnant, for they will belong entirely to the LORD.
56And these words will restore your life and spirit. And this shall be the sign unto you: when you enter the town, you will find My servant David while he is reading these words from the Book of Covenant:
57‘And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.’ Leviticus
58And you shall tell him about the scene you have just seen; and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.”
59And it came to pass, when I came to the house of David, the man of God, I found him as the one dressed in linen had said, and I told him of all my visions.
60Then David spoke the words of this song unto the LORD, saying: “I love You, O LORD, my strength.”
61And to me he said: “The LORD has blessed you and has not removed His covenant from you, for He is true, and His word is true, and His seal is true.”