H9005–/ל–l

About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.

לְקֵדָ֣ר׀ (לְ) le. “of”וּֽלְמַמְלְכ֣וֹת (לְ) le. “of”

Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.

לָהֶ֑ם (לָ) la. “for <the>”

Go in flight, go wandering far off, take cover in deep places, O people of Hazor, says the Lord; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a design against you, he has a purpose against you in mind.

לָשֶׁ֛בֶת (לָ) la. “to”

Up! go against a nation which is living in comfort and without fear of danger, says the Lord, without doors or locks, living by themselves.

לָבֶ֖טַח (לָ) la. “to”ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “[belong] to <the>”

And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, sa

לָבַ֗ז (לָ) la. “<into>”לְשָׁלָ֔ל (לְ) le. “<into>”לְכָל־ (לְ) le. “to”

And Hazor will be a hole for jackals, a waste for ever: no one will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

לִמְע֥וֹן (לִ) li “<into>”

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, saying,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (לֵ) le. “<to>”

And I will send on Elam four winds from the four quarters of heaven, driving them out to all those winds; there will be no nation into which the wanderers from Elam do not come.

לְכֹ֖ל (לְ) le. “to”

And I will let Elam be broken before their haters, and before those who are making designs against their lives: I will send evil on them, even my burning wrath, says the Lord; and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them:

לִפְנֵ֨י (לִ) li “<to>”וְלִפְנֵ֣י׀ (לִ) li “<to>”

For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.

לְשַׁמָּ֔ה (לְ) le. “into”

They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

לַֽיהוָה֙ (לַֽ) la. “to”

Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks.

לִפְנֵי־ (לִ) li “<to>”

For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one

לָ֔הּ (לָ֔) La “to <the>”

And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.

לְשָׁלָ֑ל (לְ) le. “<into>”

Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.

לַֽיהוָ֖ה (לַֽ) la. “to”

Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.

לָֽהּ׃ (לָֽ) La “to <the>”

Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.

לְאַרְצ֖וֹ (לְ) le. “to”

So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria.

לָכֵ֗ן (לָ) la. “<to>”

In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.

לַאֲשֶׁ֥ר (לַ) la. “<to>”

How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!

לְשַׁמָּ֛ה (לְ) le. “<into>”

I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.

לָ֤ךְ (לָ֤) la “for <the>”

From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.

לַֽאדֹנָ֧י (לַֽ) la. “[belongs] to”

Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.

לָ֤הּ (לָ֤) la “to <the>”לָ֖הּ (לָ֖) la “to <the>”

Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

לַטָּ֑בַח (לַ) la. “to the”

The voice of those who are in flight, who have got away safe from the land of Babylon, to give news in Zion of punishment from the Lord our God, even payment for his Temple.

לְהַגִּ֣יד (לְ) le. “to”