H3588A–כִּי–ki

Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [supplied: shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills of Ephraim:

כִּ֛י ki “for”

As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto thy heart.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [supplied: and] my curtains in a moment.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

כִּ֣י׀ ki “for”

For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

And thou, when thou art made desolate, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlargest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair; [supplied: thy] lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”כִּי־ ki- “that”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [supplied: saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

כִּי֩ ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:

כִּ֣י ki “for”

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [supplied: and] their backslidings are increased.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah's.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

כִּ֣י ki “that”

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”