H0518I–אִם–im

Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [ergänzt: as] a crown;

אִם־ 'im- “if”

But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [ergänzt: or] the crashing of his pavilion?

אִם־ 'im- “if”

The wing of the ostrich beats joyously -- But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak softly unto thee?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

אִֽם־ 'im- “or?”

Surely I have restrained and composed my soul, like a weaned child with its mother: my soul within me is as a weaned child.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O +God! And ye men of blood, depart from me.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

He indeed scorneth the scorners; but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

אִם־ 'im- “though”

for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown [ergänzt: endure] from generation to generation?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

In mine ears Jehovah of hosts [ergänzt: hath said], Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Jehovah of hosts hath sworn saying, Assuredly as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, it shall stand:

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, I will indeed no more give thy corn [ergänzt: to be] food for thine enemies; and the sons of the alien shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast laboured;

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Will he keep [ergänzt: his anger] for ever? Will he preserve it perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and thou art [ergänzt: so] determined.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

-- Hast thou then utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? Peace is looked for, and there is no good, -- and a time of healing, and behold terror!

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou HE, Jehovah, our God? And we wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things.

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

Jehovah said, Verily I will set thee free for [ergänzt: thy] good; verily I will cause the enemy to meet thee kindly in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the field? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried up?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art a Gilead unto me, the summit of Lebanon: verily I will make thee a wilderness, cities not inhabited.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vase? a vessel wherein is no delight? Wherefore are they thrown out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

אִ֨ם־ 'Im- “or?”

Can any hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? saith Jehovah.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Ask ye now, and see, whether a male doth travail with child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail; and all faces are turned into paleness?

אִם־ 'im- “if”