H0518I–אִם–im

If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Yea, doth `any' understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

אִם־ 'im- “if”

The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

אִֽם־ 'im- “or?”

Have I not compared, and kept silent my soul, As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me `is' my soul.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!

אִם־ 'im- “if”

If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.

אִם־ 'im- “though”

For riches `are' not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

אִם־ 'im- “if”

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

אִם־ 'im- “or?”אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts, saying, `As I thought -- so hath it not been? And as I counselled -- it standeth;

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Sworn hath Jehovah by His right hand, Even by the arm of His strength: `I give not thy corn any more `as' food for thine enemies, Nor do sons of a stranger drink thy new wine, For which thou hast laboured.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Doth He keep to the age? watch for ever?' Lo, these things thou hast spoken, And thou dost the evil things, and prevailest.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these!

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

Jehovah said, Did I not direct thee for good? Did not I intercede for thee in a time of evil, And in a time of adversity, with the enemy?

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

For thus said Jehovah, Concerning the house of the king of Judah: Gilead `art' thou to Me -- head of Lebanon, If not -- I make thee a wilderness, Cities not inhabited.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

A grief -- a despised broken thing -- is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?

אִ֨ם־ 'Im- “or?”

Is any one hidden in secret places, And I see him not? an affirmation of Jehovah, Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? An affirmation of Jehovah.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Ask, I pray you, and see, is a male bringing forth? Wherefore have I seen every man, His hands on his loins, as a travailing woman, And all faces have been turned to paleness?

אִם־ 'im- “if”