H9004–/כ–k

And I did as I was ordered: I took out my vessels by day, like those of one who is taken away, and in the evening I made a hole through the wall with a tent-pin; and in the dark I went out, taking my things on my back before their eyes.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”כִּכְלֵ֤י (כִּ) ki “like”

Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so will it be done to them: they will go away as prisoners.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the waste places.

כְּשֻׁעָלִ֖ים (כְּ) ke. “like”

And the punishment of their sin will be on them: the sin of the prophet will be the same as the sin of him who goes to him for directions;

כַּֽעֲוֹן֙ (כַּֽ) ka. “as”כַּעֲוֹ֥ן (כַּ) ka. “as”

For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.

כְּצֶ֤מַח (כְּ) ke. “like”

For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

כַּזּוֹנָ֖ה (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;

וְכִדְמֵ֣י (כִ) khi “according to”

See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.

כְּאִמָּ֖ה (כְּ) ke. “[is] like”

Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.

כִּמְעַ֣ט (כִּ) ki “like”

By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done.

כַּחֲצִ֥י (כַּ) ka. “according to”

For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?

כְגַ֨עַת (כְ) khe. “when”

See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's soul.

כְּנֶ֧פֶשׁ (כְּ) ke. “as”וּכְנֶ֥פֶשׁ (כְ) khe. “as”

Now if he has a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and in fear does not do the same:

כָּהֵֽן׃ (כָּ) ka. “like”

But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death w

כְּכֹ֨ל (כְּ) ke. “according to”

For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.

כִּדְרָכָ֜יו (כִּ) ki “according to”

Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.

כַגֶּ֛פֶן (כַ) kha. “like <the>”

And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;

כַגּוֹיִם֙ (כַ) kha. “like the”כְּמִשְׁפְּח֣וֹת (כְּ) ke. “like”

As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you in hand for the honour of my name, and not for your evil ways or your unclean doings, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

כְדַרְכֵיכֶ֨ם (כְ) khe. “according to”וְכַעֲלִילֽוֹתֵיכֶ֤ם (כַ) kha. “according to”

And this answer given by secret arts will seem false to those who have given their oaths and have let them be broken: but he will keep the memory of evil-doing so that they may be taken.

כִּקְסָם (כִּ) ki “as”

As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.

כְּהִתּ֥וּךְ (כְּ) ke. “like”