H9005–/ל–l

Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no other god.

וְלָ֣ךְ (לָ֣) La “to”

For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is no one else.

לָשֶׁ֣בֶת (לָ) la. “to”

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

לְזֶ֥רַע (לְ) le. “to”

By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth [supplied: in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

לִי֙ (לִ) l “to”

Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed.

לִ֥י (לִ֥) l “of”

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the cattle: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [supplied: animal].

לַחַיָּ֖ה (לַ) la. “to the”וְלַבְּהֵמָ֑ה (לַ) la. “to the”לַעֲיֵפָֽה׃ (לַ) la. “for”

To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

לְמִ֥י (לְ) le. “to”

I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (לְ) le. “to”

Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

לָאָ֥רֶץ (לָ) la. “to the”לָ֔ךְ (לָ֔) La “<to>”

Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.

לָ֔ךְ (לָ֔) La “<to>”

I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.

לָהֶם֙ (לָ) la. “to <the>”

You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.

לְעוֹלָ֖ם (לְ) le. “for”

Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

לָבֶ֔טַח (לָ) la. “to”

but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

לָּ֨ךְ (לָּ֨) la “to”

You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.

לֶחֳדָשִׁ֔ים (לֶ) le. “to the”

Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

לַחְמָ֔ם (לַ) la “to”לָשֶׁ֥בֶת (לָ) la. “to”

Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.

לָ֖ךְ (לָ֖) la “for”לְעֶבְרוֹ֙ (לְ) le. “to”

therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.

לְךָ֙ (לְ) le. “to”

They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.

וְלִפְנֵי־ (לִ) li “<to>”

Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.

לָֽךְ׃ (לָֽ) La “to <the>”

For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.

לָ֑ךְ (לָ֑) La “to”לְבִלְתִּ֖י (לְ) le. “to”

For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [supplied: my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.

לְאַחֵ֥ר (לְ) le. “to”

Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

לְהוֹעִ֔יל (לְ) le. “to”

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

לְמִצְוֹתָ֑י (לְ) le. “to”

your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

מִלְּפָנָֽי׃ (לְּ) le. “to”