H3588A–כִּי–ki

The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.

כִּ֛י ki “if”

But I was guiding Ephraim's footsteps; I took them up in my arms, but they were not conscious that I was ready to make them well.

כִּ֥י ki “that”

He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

כִּ֤י ki “for”