H3588A–כִּי–ki

Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [ergänzt: shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:

כִּ֛י ki “for”

As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has been rebellious against me, says Yahweh.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [ergänzt: and] my curtains in a moment.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

כִּ֣י׀ ki “for”

For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [ergänzt: your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”כִּי־ ki- “that”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [ergänzt: saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.

כִּי֩ ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:

כִּ֣י ki “for”

I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [ergänzt: and] their backsliding is increased.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Yahweh.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

כִּ֣י ki “that”

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”