H4616–מַ֫עַן–ma.an

O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory.

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”לְמַ֧עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.

לְמַעַן֩ le.ma.'An “so as”

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.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

לְמַ֧עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

For they say false words to you, so that you may be sent away far from your land, and so that you may be forced out by me and come to destruction.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

For I have not sent them, says the Lord, but they are saying what is false in my name, so that I might send you out by force, causing destruction to come on you and on your prophets.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take these papers, the witness of this business, the one which is rolled up and stamped, and the one which is open; and put them in a vessel of earth so that they may be kept for a long time.

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways; so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

If it is good or if it is evil, we will be guided by the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you; so that it may be well for us when we give ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

But Baruch, the son of Neriah, is moving you against us, to give us up into the hands of the Chaldaeans so that they may put us to death, and take us away prisoners into Babylon.

לְמַעַן֩ le.ma.'An “so as”

Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so as”וּלְמַ֤עַן (לְמַ֤עַן) le.Ma.'an “so as”

And this will be the sign to you, says the Lord, that I will give you punishment in this place, so that you may see that my words will certainly have effect against you for evil:

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”