H0389–אַךְ–akh

Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people `are' as those striving with a priest.

אַ֥ךְ 'akh “nevertheless”

And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that `is' sin.'

אַ֣ךְ 'akh “surely”

Surely Gilead `is' iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars `are' as heaps, on the furrows of a field.

אַךְ־ 'akh- “surely”

And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

אַ֚ךְ 'akh “nevertheless”

Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!

אַךְ־ 'akh- “surely”

I have said: Only, ye do fear Me, Ye do accept instruction, And her habitation is not cut off, All that I have appointed for her, But they have risen early, They have corrupted all their doings.

אַךְ־ 'akh- “surely”

Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'

אַ֣ךְ׀ 'akh “nevertheless”