H3588A–כִּי–ki

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [supplied: and] the young men from the streets.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.

כִּ֚י ki “that”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [supplied: of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּי־ ki- “for”

Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.

כִּ֥י ki “for”כִּ֣י ki “that”

Every man is become brutish [supplied: and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [supplied: it].

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

כִּ֛י ki “that”

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [supplied: with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [supplied: saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

But, Yahweh of Hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

כִּ֥י ki “if”

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

כִּ֣י ki “if”