H1245–בָּקַשׁ–ba.qash

By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

בִּקַּ֕שְׁתִּי bi.Kash.ti “I sought”בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖יו (בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖י) bi.kash.Ti “I sought”

I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

אֲבַקְשָׁ֕ה 'a.vak.Shah “I will seek”בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖יו (בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖י) bi.kash.Ti “I sought”

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֙יהוּ֙ (בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֙י) bi.kash.Ti. “I sought”

Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

וּנְבַקְשֶׁ֖נּוּ (נְבַקְשֶׁ֖) ne.vak.She. “we may seek”

At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?

בִקֵּ֥שׁ vi.Kesh “did he require”

The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

יְבַקֶּשׁ־ ye.va.kesh- “he seeks”

You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.

תְּבַקְשֵׁם֙ (תְּבַקְשֵׁ) te.vak.She “you will seek”

The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

מְבַקְשִׁ֥ים me.vak.Shim “[are] seeking”

I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.

בַקְּשׁ֑וּנִי (בַקְּשׁ֑וּ) va.ke.Shu. “seek”

Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.

מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.

בִקְשֻׁ֑נִי (בִקְשֻׁ֑) vik.Shu. “they had sought”

An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

מְבַקְשֶׁ֙יהָ֙ (מְבַקְשֶׁ֙י) me.vak.Shei. “[those who] seek”

With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.

לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ (בַקֵּ֣שׁ) va.Kesh “seek”

And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no mo

יְבַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃ ye.va.Ke.shu “they seek”

Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.

וּבַקְשׁ֣וּ (בַקְשׁ֣וּ) vak.Shu “search”מְבַקֵּ֣שׁ me.va.Kesh “[one who] seeks”

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:

הַֽמְבַקְשִׁ֥ים (מְבַקְשִׁ֥ים) m.vak.Shim “are seeking”

I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heave

מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

וּמְבַקְשֵׁ֥י (מְבַקְשֵׁ֥י) me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of

מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans.

מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

And when his words came to the ears of Jehoiakim the king and all his men of war and his captains, the king would have put him to death; but Uriah, hearing of it, was full of fear and went in flight into Egypt:

וַיְבַקֵּ֥שׁ (יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ) y.va.Kesh “he sought”

And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּ֥ם (בִקַּשְׁתֶּ֥ם) vi.kash.Tem “you will seek”

Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.

מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

So King Zedekiah gave his oath to Jeremiah secretly, saying, By the living Lord, who gave us our life, I will not put you to death, or give you up to these men who are desiring to take your life.

מְבַקְשִׁ֖ים me.vak.Shim “[are] seeking”