H5921A–עַל–al

Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

עַל־ 'al- “at”עַל־ 'al- “on”

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.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

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.

עָלֶ֤יהָ (עָלֶ֤י) 'a.Lei. “on”

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.

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

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

עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם (עֲלֵי) 'a.lei. “on”

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.

עָלֶ֣יהָ (עָלֶ֣י) 'a.Lei. “on”

A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

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

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?

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

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [ergänzt: even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם (עֲלֵי) 'a.lei. “on”

Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

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.

עָלֶ֛יהָ (עָלֶ֛י) 'a.Lei. “on”

Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

עַל־ 'al- “there-”

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

עָלֶ֗יהָ (עָלֶ֗י) 'a.Lei. “on”

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.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure of your covetousness.

עַל־ 'al- “at”

Yahweh of Hosts has sworn by himself, [ergänzt: saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

עָלַ֖יִךְ (עָלַ֖יִ) 'a.La.yi “to”

Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroy all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

עָלֶ֗יךָ (עָלֶ֗י) 'a.Lei. “on”

Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

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

Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all the land of their dominion.

עָלֶ֤יהָ (עָלֶ֤י) 'a.Lei. “on”

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.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

עַל־ 'al- “[be] on”

The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.

עַל־ 'al- “over”

I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

עַל־ 'al- “on”

Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year [ergänzt: shall come] news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

עַל־ 'al- “[will be] on”