H5892B–עִיר–ir

who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;

וּלְעָרֵ֤י (עָרֵ֤י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Hosts.

עִירִי֙ (עִירִ) 'i.R “city”

(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Hosts is his name):

מֵעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “[the] city of”

Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

עִ֣יר 'ir “[the] city of”

For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

וְעָרִ֥ים (עָרִ֥ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

עָ֣רֵי 'A.rei “[the] cities of”

They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

עִ֖יר 'ir “a city”

Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.

מֵעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “[the] city”

For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.

לְעִ֨יר (עִ֨יר) 'Ir “a city of”

The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

עָרָ֥יו (עָרָ֥י) 'a.Ra “cities”

But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.

עָרֶ֔יךָ (עָרֶ֔י) 'a.Rei. “cities”

Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

מֵעִ֗יר (עִ֗יר) 'Ir “a city”

Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

עָרַ֥יִךְ (עָרַ֥יִ) 'a.Ra.yi “cities”

make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, [ergänzt: that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

I saw, and, behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities of it were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [ergänzt: and] before his fierce anger.

עָרָ֗יו (עָרָ֗י) 'a.Ra “cities”

Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [ergänzt: and] their backsliding is increased.

עָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם (עָ֣רֵי) 'a.rei. “cities”

They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [ergänzt: which] your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

עָרֵ֣י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you 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.

הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

בְּעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

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.

מֵעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

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

עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”