H3588A–כִּי–ki

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [ergänzt: and] the young men from the streets.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he hath understanding, and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah who exerciseth lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah.

כִּ֚י ki “that”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [ergänzt: of their hair] cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּי־ ki- “for”

Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.

כִּ֥י ki “for”כִּ֣י ki “that”

Every man is become brutish [ergänzt: and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [ergänzt: it].

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

כִּ֛י ki “that”

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me because of their trouble.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness [ergänzt: with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [ergänzt: saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

and there shall be no remnant unto them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

כִּ֥י ki “if”

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of the Jordan?

כִּ֣י ki “if”