H9005–/ל–l

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

לִשְׁאֵרִ֖ית (לִ) li “to”לָעַד֙ (לָ) la. “for”

You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

לְיַֽעֲקֹ֔ב (לְ) le. “to”לְאַבְרָהָ֑ם (לְ) le. “to”לַאֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ (לַ) la. “to”

The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.

לְצָרָ֔יו (לְ) le. “to”לְאֹיְבָֽיו׃ (לְ) le. “to”

Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.

לִפְנֵ֤י (לִ) li “<to>”

The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.

לְמָע֖וֹז (לְ) le. “<into>”

See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

לַֽעֲבָר (לַֽ) la. “to”

Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

לַתְּכוּנָ֔ה (לַ) la. “to the”

Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

לַכְּפִרִ֑ים (לַ) la. “for <the>”

Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

לְלִבְאֹתָ֑יו (לְ) le. “for”

Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:

לַגְּוִיָּ֔ה (לַ) la. “to the”

And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

לָ֑הּ (לָ֑) La “to”לָֽךְ׃ (לָֽ) La “for”

Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

לָ֑הּ (לָ֑) La “<to>”

But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

לַגֹּלָה֙ (לַ) la. “to <the>”

See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

לְאֹ֣יְבַ֔יִךְ (לְ) le. “to”

Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

לָ֔ךְ (לָ֔) La “for”

Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?

לְשִׁבְרֶ֔ךָ (לְ) le. “for”

Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

לָ֣מָּה (לָ֣) La. “<to>”לְנֶגְדִּ֑י (לְ) le. “[are] to”

For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

לָנֶ֖צַח (לָ) la. “to”

For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.

לְמֶרְחֲבֵי־ (לְ) le. “to”לָרֶ֖שֶׁת (לָ) la. “to”לֽוֹ׃ (לֽ) l “[belong] to”

And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

לֶאֱכֽוֹל׃ (לֶ) le. “to”

They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.

לְחָמָ֣ס (לְ) le. “for”

He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.

ל֑וֹ (ל֑) l “to”לְכָל־ (לְ) le. “at”

Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.

לֵאלֹהֽוֹ׃ (לֵ) le. “[becomes] <into>”

Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.

לְמִשְׁפָּ֣ט (לְ) le. “to”לְהוֹכִ֥יחַ (לְ) le. “to”

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

לָ֤מָּה (לָ֤) La. “<to>”