H3588A–כִּי–ki

Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to thee; for thou art the LORD our God.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

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

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Set up the standard towards Zion: retire, 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 howl for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are laid waste.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

As keepers of a field they are against her on all sides; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

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

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise 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 ruined, and my curtains in a moment.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; 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 hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; 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 will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

And when thou art laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair: thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

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

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

כִּי֩ ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Wherefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, 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 battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

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

כִּי֩ ki “for”

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why doeth the LORD our God all these things to us? then shalt thou answer them, As ye have forsaken me, and served strange 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 lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day departeth, for the shadows of the evening are lengthened.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”