H3588A–כִּי–ki

Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our

כִּי֩ ki “for”

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out evil from the hills of Ephraim:

כִּ֛י ki “for”

Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

כִּ֣י׀ ki “for”

For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no mo

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

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone f

כִּי֩ ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and t

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is n

כִּ֣י ki “that”

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”