H0518H–אִם–im

As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

אִם־ 'im- “if”אִם־ 'im- “if”

Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

אִם־ 'im- “<if>?”

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

אִֽם־ 'im- “or?”

Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David.

אִֽם־ 'im- “if”

And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed,

אִם־ 'im- “if”אִם־ 'im- “if”

I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,

אִם־ 'im- “if”

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

אִם־ 'im- “if”וְֽאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

אִם־ 'im- “if”וְֽאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

אִם־ 'im- “<if>?”

Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste la

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”