H3588A–כִּי–ki

Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou `art' Jehovah our God.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

We have lain down in our shame, and cover us doth our confusion, For against Jehovah our God we have sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, Nor have we hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God!

כִּי֩ ki “for”

For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Wo to us, for we have been spoiled.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This `is' thy vexation, for `it is' bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained `at' the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment -- my curtains.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For my people `are' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are' they, yea, they `are' not intelligent, Wise `are' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

כִּ֣י׀ ki “for”

For thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

For this doth the land mourn, And black have been the heavens above, because I have spoken -- I have purposed, And I have not repented, Nor do I turn back from it.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself `with' ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.

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

For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard, Distress, as of one bringing forth a first-born, The voice of the daughter of Zion, She bewaileth herself, she spreadeth out her hands, `Wo to me now, for weary is my soul of slayers!'

כִּי֩ ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And I -- I said, `Surely these `are' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Go ye up on her walls, and destroy, And a completion make not, Turn aside her branches, for they `are' not Jehovah's,

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For dealt treacherously against Me have the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

And it hath come to pass, when ye say, `For what hath Jehovah our God done to us all these?' That thou hast said unto them, `As ye have forsaken Me, And serve the gods of a foreigner in your land, So do ye serve strangers in a land not yours.

כִּ֣י ki “that”

For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Strengthen yourselves, sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem, And in Tekoa blow ye a trumpet, And over Beth-Haccerem lift ye up a flame, For evil hath been seen from the north, And great destruction.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Sanctify ye against her the battle, Rise, and we go up at noon. Wo to us, for turned hath the day, For stretched out are the shades of evening,

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”