H3588A–כִּי–ki

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.

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

Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [ergänzt: am] Jehovah, who exercise loving-kindness, judgment, 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 beard] 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 the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [ergänzt: it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּי־ ki- “for”

Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

כִּ֥י ki “for”כִּ֣י ki “that”

Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the 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 them; for it is he that hath formed all [ergänzt: things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their flock is scattered.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.

כִּ֛י ki “that”

Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

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

כִּי֩ ki “for”

For [ergänzt: as] the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah; and [ergänzt: as] the number of the streets of Jerusalem, have ye set up altars to the Shame, altars to burn incense unto Baal.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

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

כִּ֣י ki “for”

What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing that the more part practise their evil devices, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? When thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

And I was like a tame lamb [ergänzt: that] is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they 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 thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

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

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of [ergänzt: thy] judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [ergänzt: wherefore] are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

כִּ֥י ki “if”

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of all the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts and the birds perish; for they say, He will not see our end.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou then contend with horses? And if in a land of peace thou thinkest thyself in security, how wilt thou then do in the swelling of the Jordan?

כִּ֣י ki “if”