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I said, `Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons,

כְּאֶשְׁכְּל֣וֹת (כְּ) ke. “like”כַּתַּפּוּחִֽים׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And thy palate as the good wine --' Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!

כְּיֵ֥ין (כְּ) ke. “like”

Who doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,

כְּאָ֣ח (כְּ) ke. “like”

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings `are' burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

כַֽחוֹתָ֜ם (כַֽ) kha. “like <the>”כַּֽחוֹתָם֙ (כַּֽ) ka. “like <the>”כַמָּ֙וֶת֙ (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כִשְׁא֖וֹל (כִ) khi “like”

I `am' a wall, and my breasts as towers, Then I have been in his eyes as one finding peace.

כַּמִּגְדָּל֑וֹת (כַּ) ka. “[are] like <the>”כְּמוֹצְאֵ֥ת (כְּ) ke. “like”

Your land `is' a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!

כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת (כְּ) ke. “[is] like”

And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers -- as a city besieged.

כְּסֻכָּ֣ה (כְּ) ke. “like”כִּמְלוּנָ֥ה (כִּ) ki “like”כְּעִ֥יר (כְּ) ke. “like”

Unless Jehovah of Hosts had left to us a remnant, Shortly -- as Sodom we had been, To Gomorrah we had been like!

כִּמְעָ֑ט (כִּ) ki “like”כִּסְדֹ֣ם (כִּ) ki “like”

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

כַּשָּׁנִים֙ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַּשֶּׁ֣לֶג (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַתּוֹלָ֖ע (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כַּצֶּ֥מֶר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,

כַּבֹּ֖ר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, `A city of righteousness -- a faithful city.'

כְּבָרִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה (כְּ) ke. “as”כְּבַתְּחִלָּ֑ה (כְּ) ke. “as”

For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.

כְּאֵלָ֖ה (כְּ) ke. “like”וּֽכְגַנָּ֔ה (כְ) khe. “like”

For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And `are' sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands.

כַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים (כַּ) ka. “like the”

The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

כִּסְדֹ֥ם (כִּ) ki “like”

And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.

כְּדָבְרָ֑ם (כְּ) ke. “like”

Wo `to' those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as `with' thick ropes of the cart -- sin.

וְכַעֲב֥וֹת (כַ) kha. “like”

Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

כֶּאֱכֹ֨ל (כֶּ) ke. “as”כַּמָּ֣ק (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כָּאָבָ֣ק (כָּ) ka. “like <the>”

Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among His people, And He stretcheth out His hand against it, And smiteth it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcase is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!

כַּסּוּחָ֖ה (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

Whose arrows `are' sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!

כַּצַּ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַּסּוּפָֽה׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

Its roaring `is' like a lioness, It roareth like young lions, And it howleth, and seizeth prey, And carrieth away safely, and there is none delivering.

כַּלָּבִ֑יא (כַּ) ka. “[is] like <the>”כַּכְּפִירִ֤ים (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!

כְּנַהֲמַת־ (כְּ) ke. “like”

And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed `is' its substance!'

כָּאֵלָ֣ה (כָּ) ka. “like <the>”וְכָאַלּ֗וֹן (כָ) kha. “like <the>”

And it is declared to the house of David, saying, `Aram hath been led towards Ephraim,' And his heart and the heart of his people is moved, like the moving of trees of a forest by the presence of wind.

כְּנ֥וֹעַ (כְּ) ke. “as”

For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

כְּחֶזְקַ֣ת (כְּ) ke. “according to”

To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

כַּדָּבָ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “according to the”