H3588A–כִּי–ki

For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

כִּ֤י ki “that”

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.

כִּ֥י ki “that”

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [ergänzt: and] terror, are on every side.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

כִּ֣י ki “that”

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear thee.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:

כִּ֠י ki “for”

Cut off thy hair, [ergänzt: O Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.

כִּ֥י ki “that”

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

כִּי֩ ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

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

כִּ֗י Ki “for”

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

And they bend their tongue, [ergänzt: as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [ergänzt: else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.

כִּ֤י ki “for”