H3588A–כִּי–ki

For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

כִּ֧י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.

כִּ֡י ki “for”

So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine?

כִּ֥י ki “that”

Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

וְכִ֤י (כִ֤י) Khi “if”

Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

כִּ֤י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.

כִּ֣י ki “for”וְכִ֧י (כִ֧י) Khi “if”כִּ֗י Ki “for”

Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as ar

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?

כִּ֠י ki “for”

Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

כִּ֣י ki “that”

They will go away with your haters into a land which is strange to you: for my wrath is on fire with a flame which will be burning on you.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”