H3588A–כִּי–ki

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

וְכִ֥י (כִ֥י) Khi “if”וְכִ֣י (כִ֣י) Khi “if”

This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.

כִּ֣י ki “if”

For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.

כִּ֗י Ki “for”

For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

כִּ֧י ki “for”

This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with yo

כִּ֥י ki “for”

A word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is his resting-place: for the towns of Aram are the Lord's,

כִּ֤י ki “for”

As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining over his land.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

כִּ֧י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֗י Ki “for”

With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.

כִּ֥י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

כִּ֠י ki “for”

And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.

כִּ֥י ki “that”

For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the

כִּ֣י ki “for”