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As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

כַּמַּ֖יִם (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כְּנַ֥חַל (כְּ) ke. “like”

Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;

כְּדָוִ֕יד (כְּ) ke. “like”

Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.

כָאֹר֙ (כָ) kha. “like the”כִּיא֥וֹר (כִּ) ki. “like”

Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

כְּאֵ֣בֶל (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּי֥וֹם (כְּ) ke. “[will be] like”

For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will go down again like the River of Egypt;

כַיְאֹר֙ (כַ) kha “like the”כִּיאֹ֥ר (כִּ) ki. “like”

Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Have I not taken Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Aramaeans from Kir?

כִבְנֵי֩ (כִ) khi “like”

For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;

כִּימֵ֥י (כִּ) ki. “like”

Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.

כְּאַחַ֥ד (כְּ) ke. “[were] like”

For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.

כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּֽ) ka. “just”כְּל֥וֹא (כְּ) ke. “like”

So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

כִּדְבַ֣ר (כִּ) ki “according to”

Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

כִּזְרֹ֣חַ (כִּ) ki “when”

And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.

כַּדּוֹנַג֙ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כְּמַ֖יִם (כְּ) ke. “like”

For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.

כַּתַּנִּ֔ים (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כִּבְנ֥וֹת (כִּ) ki “like”

Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.

כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.

כְּצֹ֣אן (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּעֵ֙דֶר֙ (כְּ) ke. “like”

Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”וּכְבָשָׂ֖ר (כְ) khe. “like”

Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “<as>”

Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

כַּיּוֹלֵדָֽה׃ (כַּ) ka “like <the>”

Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the ha

כַּיּֽוֹלֵדָ֑ה (כַּ) ka “like <the>”

But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.

כֶּעָמִ֥יר (כֶּ) ke. “like <the>”