H5921A–עַל–al

Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

עַל־ 'al- “at”עַל־ 'al- “on”

Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.

עָלֶ֤יהָ (עָלֶ֤י) 'a.Lei. “on”

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the people of Pekod; put them to death and send destruction after them, says the Lord, and do everything I have given you orders to do.

עַל־ 'al- “on”עָלֶ֔יהָ (עָלֶ֔י) 'a.Lei. “on”

Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם (עֲלֵי) 'a.lei. “on”

Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord,

עָלֶ֣יהָ (עָלֶ֣י) 'a.Lei. “on”

A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

וְעַל־ (עַל) 'al- “on”עָלַ֖יִךְ (עָלַ֖יִ) 'a.La.yi “on”

See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his ca

מֵֽעָלֶ֔יהָ (עָלֶ֔י) 'a.Lei. “on <the>”

So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.

עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם (עֲלֵי) 'a.lei. “on”

The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea;

עַל־ 'al- “on”

And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.

עָלֶ֛יהָ (עָלֶ֛י) 'a.Lei. “on”

Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.

עַל־ 'al- “there-”

Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.

עָלֶ֗יהָ (עָלֶ֗י) 'a.Lei. “on”

Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.

עַל־ 'al- “at”

The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.

עָלַ֖יִךְ (עָלַ֖יִ) 'a.La.yi “to”

See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.

עָלֶ֗יךָ (עָלֶ֗י) 'a.Lei. “on”

Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her

עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ (עָלֶ֙י) 'a.Lei. “on”עָלֶ֛יהָ (עָלֶ֛י) 'a.Lei. “on”עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ (עָלֶ֙י) 'a.Lei. “on”

Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captains, and all the land under his rule.

עָלֶ֤יהָ (עָלֶ֤י) 'a.Lei. “on”

And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.

עַל־ 'al- “[be] on”

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.

עַל־ 'al- “over”

And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.

עַל־ 'al- “[will be] on”