H3588A–כִּי–ki

Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Shout against her round about: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, has a work [ergänzt: to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

כִּ֧י ki “for”

Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.

כִּ֛י ki “that”

A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Behold, [ergänzt: the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֣י ki “for”

I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

כִּ֠י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “for”

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

Every man is become brutish [ergänzt: and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his 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 [ergänzt: Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh.

כִּ֧י ki “for”

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֚י ki “for”

Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”וְכִ֥י (כִ֥י) Khi “if”