H0518I–אִם–im

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; And I would bind it to me as a crown.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, And the thunderings of his pavilion?

אִם־ 'im- “if”

"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the feathers and plumage of love?

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

Will he make many petitions to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?

אִֽם־ 'im- “or?”

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Surely he mocks the mockers, But he gives grace to the humble.

אִם־ 'im- “though”

For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

In my ears, Yahweh of Hosts says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Yahweh of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Will he retain [ergänzt: his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

Yahweh said, Most assuredly I will strengthen you for good; most assuredly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [ergänzt: or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [ergänzt: and] the head of Lebanon; [ergänzt: yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [ergänzt: and] cities which are not inhabited.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?

אִ֨ם־ 'Im- “or?”

Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why 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”