Jude 1:12

These [men] are hidden reefs [moored at] your seudas (agape-feasts), feasting with you without yires-hakoved, shepherding themselves, waterless clouds being carried away by winds, autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, torn up from their shorashim (roots),

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

In Context

11Oy to them! Because they walked in the Derech Kayin + 1:11 Gn 4:3-8 and to the Toyus Bil'am + 1:11 Ex 31:16 (Error of Balaam) they surrendered for revach (gain), and in the mered (rebellion) of Korach against HaMemshalah + 1:11 Ex 16:1-35 they were destroyed!

13Wild waves of the sea, foaming up their ma'asim hara'im (evil deeds), wandering kokhavim (stars) for whom the shvartz gloom of choshech has been reserved oif eibik (forever).

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:20Then will I uproot them out of My Adamah which I have given them; and HaBeis HaZeh, which I have set apart as kodesh for Shmi, will I cast out of My sight, and will make it to be a Mashal (byword) and an object of ridicule among Kol haAmim.

Psalms 1:3And he shall be like an etz planted by the streams of mayim, 1 that bringeth forth its p'ri in its season; 1 the leaf thereof also shall not wither; 1 and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 1

Psalms 78:29So they did eat, and were well filled; 1 for He gave them their own ta'avah (evil desire). 1

Isaiah 56:10His tzof (watchmen, sentinels, nevi'im) are ivrim (blind); 1 they all lack da'as, 1 they are all kelavim illemim (mute watchdogs) that cannot bark; 1 lying around dreaming, they love to slumber. + 56:10 See Jer 6:17; Ezek 3:17 by contrast 1

Ezekiel 34:2Ben Adam, prophesy against the ro'im (shepherds) of Yisroel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith Adonoi Hashem unto the ro'im (shepherds); Oy to the ro'im (shepherds) of Yisroel who are ro'im tending to themselves! Should not the ro'im (shepherds) be ro'im tending to the tzon (flock)?

Ezekiel 34:10Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Hineni, I am against the ro'im; and I will require an accounting for My tzon at their yad, and cause them to cease from being ro'im to the tzon; neither shall the ro'im (shepherds) be ro'im tending to themselves any more; for I will save My tzon from their mouth, that they may not be okhel for them.

Matthew Henry on Jude 1:9-16

Contumacious Professors. ( a. d. 66.) 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of… Read the whole commentary →

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