H3588A–כִּי–ki

I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is within them, And they don't know Yahweh.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

They are unfaithful to Yahweh; For they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Ephraim is oppressed, He is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, And like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

"Come, and let us return to Yahweh; For he has torn us to pieces, And he will heal us; He has injured us, And he will bind up our wounds.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, So the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, Committing shameful crimes.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

When I would heal Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, Also the wickedness of Samaria; For they commit falsehood, And the thief enters in, And the gang of robbers ravages outside.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, Yet they have spoken lies against me.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

They haven't cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

כִּ֥י ki “if”

For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; Indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

כִּ֤י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, They became for him altars for sinning.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; For you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

They won't pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, Neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; All who eat of it will be polluted; For their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

"All their wickedness is in Gilgal; For there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."

כִּ֣י ki “if”

My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; And the king, what can he do for us?"

כִּ֤י ki “for”כִּ֣י ki “for”