H9005–/ל–l

Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

לַֽיהוָה֙ (לַֽ) la. “to”לַאֲד֥וֹן (לַ) la. “to”

And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

לִֽהְיוֹת֙ (לִֽ) li “to”לִ֣י (לִ֣) l “for <the>”לִֽהְי֥וֹת (לִֽ) li “to”

For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.

לָכֵ֣ן (לָ) la. “<to>”

And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

לְאִ֔ישׁ (לְ) le. “for”לִבְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “for”

I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

לָֽךְ׃ (לָֽ) La “to”

And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.

לְמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה (לְ) le. “to”

Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

לַֽיהוָה֙ (לַֽ) la. “[belongs] to”

O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

לְךָ֖ (לְ) le. “to”

For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

לְפָנֶ֔יךָ (לְ) le. “<to>”

With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?

לֵאלֹהֵ֣י (לֵ) le. “to”

He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

לְךָ֛ (לְ) le. “to”

The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.

לָעִ֣יר (לָ) la. “to the”

You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

לַחֶ֥רֶב (לַ) la. “to the”

For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

לְשַׁמָּ֗ה (לְ) le. “into”לִשְׁרֵקָ֔ה (לִ) li “into”

Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.

לִ֗י (לִ֗) L “to”לֶאֱכ֔וֹל (לֶ) le. “to”

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

לְדָמִ֣ים (לְ) le. “for”

Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

לְהֵיטִ֔יב (לְ) le. “to”

But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.

לֵאלֹהֵ֣י (לֵ) le. “for”

Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

לִ֔י (לִ֔) L “to”לִֽי׃ (לִֽ) L “of”

I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

ל֑וֹ (ל֑) l “to”לָא֔וֹר (לָ) la. “to the”

And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.

לְמִרְמָ֖ס (לְ) le. “<into>”

A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.

לִבְנ֣וֹת (לִ) li “to”

In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the towns of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.

לְמִנִּ֥י (לְ) le. “<to>”וּלְמִנִּ֤י (לְ) le. “<to>”

But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

לִשְׁמָמָ֖ה (לִ) li “<into>”

Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.

לְבָדָ֔ד (לְ) le. “<of>”