H9026–כֶם–khem

Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:

זִבְחֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”מַעְשְׂרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

עָ֣רֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”מְקוֹמֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”

I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

גַּנּוֹתֵיכֶ֧ם (כֶ֧ם) Khem “your”וְכַרְמֵיכֶ֛ם (כֶ֛ם) Khem “your”וּתְאֵנֵיכֶ֥ם (כֶ֥ם) Khem “your”וְזֵיתֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”

I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

בַּח֣וּרֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”סֽוּסֵיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”מַחֲנֵיכֶם֙ (כֶם֙) Khem “your”וּֽבְאַפְּכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

פִּשְׁעֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”חַטֹּֽאתֵיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

חַגֵּיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”בְּעַצְּרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

וּמִנְחֹתֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”מְרִיאֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”

Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”צַלְמֵיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”

Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?

מִגְּבֻלְכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

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.

חַגֵּיכֶ֜ם (כֶ֜ם) Khem “your”שִֽׁירֵיכֶם֙ (כֶם֙) Khem “your”

For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.

צַוְּארֹֽתֵיכֶ֗ם (כֶ֗ם) Khem “your”

See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.

בִּֽימֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”

At that time I will make you come in, at that time I will get you together: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I let your fate be changed before your eyes, says the Lord.

שְׁבוּתֵיכֶ֛ם (כֶ֛ם) Khem “your”לְעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”

Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

בְּבָתֵּיכֶ֣ם (כֶ֣ם) Khem “your”

For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

לְבַבְכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

לְבַבְכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?

בְּעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

The agreement which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit, are with you still; have no fear.

בְּתוֹכְכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “you”

And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:

לְבַבְכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”

And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

יְדֵיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”

And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.

לְבַבְכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”לְבַבְכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:

אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”

Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

כַאֲבֹֽתֵיכֶ֡ם (כֶ֡ם) Khem “your”מִדַּרְכֵיכֶ֣ם (כֶ֣ם) Khem “your”וּמַֽעֲלְלֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) khem “your”

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”

But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.

אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”