H5892B–עִיר–ir

Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

וּבְעָרֵ֤י (עָרֵ֤י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֥י (עָרֵ֥י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

מֵהָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

בְּעָרֵ֤י (עָרֵ֤י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all its cities, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

עָרָ֑יו (עָרָ֑י) 'a.Ra “cities”

In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that counteth them, saith the LORD.

בְּעָרֵ֨י (עָרֵ֨י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”בְּעָרֵ֤י (עָרֵ֤י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”וּבְעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people fought against Jerusalem, and against all its cities, saying,

עָרֶ֖יהָ (עָרֶ֖י) 'a.Rei. “cities”

Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

הָעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “city”

When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.

עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”בְּעָרֵ֥י (עָרֵ֥י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “cities of”

Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

הָעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “city”עָרֵ֧י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

Therefore go thou and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the day of fasting: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

מֵעָרֵיהֶ֖ם (עָרֵי) 'a.rei. “cities”

And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.

מֵעָרֵ֥י (עָרֵ֥י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

הָעִ֥יר (עִ֥יר) 'Ir “city”

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker's street, until all the bread in the city should be consumed. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

בָּעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.

הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

בָּעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die by hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

בָּעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house:

וְהָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape from their hand.

הָעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “city”

So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

הָעִ֥יר (עִ֥יר) 'Ir “city”

And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

And it came to pass, when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”

Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

בָּעִ֗יר (עִ֗יר) 'Ir “city”