H0853–אֵת–et

And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you into the land of Israel, into the country which I made an oath to give to your fathers.

אֶתְכֶ֖ם (אֶתְ) 'et. “<obj.>”אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אוֹתָ֖הּ (אוֹתָ֖) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”וְאֵת֙ (אֵת֙) 'Et “<obj.>”

And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.

אֹתָ֛הּ (אֹתָ֛) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”אוֹתָ֖הּ (אוֹתָ֖) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

Put a pillar at the top of the road for the sword to come to Rabbah in the land of the children of Ammon, and to Judah and to Jerusalem in the middle of her.

אֵ֖ת 'et “<obj.>”וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

Your vision is to no purpose, your use of secret arts gives a false answer, to put it on the necks of evil-doers who are wounded to death, whose day has come, in the time of the last punishment.

אוֹתָ֗ךְ (אוֹתָ֗) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

Go back into your cover. In the place where you were made, in the land from which you were taken, I will be your judge.

אֹתָֽךְ׃ (אֹתָֽ) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אֵ֖ת 'et “<obj.>”

You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.

וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

וְאֹתִ֣י (אֹתִ֣) 'o.T “<obj.>”

And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.

אוֹתָךְ֙ (אוֹתָ) 'o.to “<obj.>”

For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.

אֶתְכֶ֔ם (אֶתְ) 'et. “<obj.>”

As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

אֶתְכֶֽם׃ (אֶתְ) 'et. “<obj.>”

Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.

אֶתְכֶ֔ם (אֶתְ) 'et. “<obj.>”

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”אוֹתָהּ֙ (אוֹתָ) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

וְאוֹתָ֖הּ (אוֹתָ֖) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.

וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”

And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

אוֹתָ֖הּ (אוֹתָ֖) 'o.Ta “<obj.>”

So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.

אֵ֖ת 'et “<obj.>”

For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”אֵ֛ת 'et “<obj.>”

And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.

אֶת־ 'et- “<obj.>”

So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.

וְאֶת־ (אֶת) 'Et “<obj.>”