H5971A–עַם–am

Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?

עַמִּֽי׃ (עַמִּֽ) 'a.M “people”

Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them -- this people -- to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,

הָעָ֥ם (עָ֥ם) 'Am “people”

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,

הָֽעַמִּ֖ים (עַמִּ֖ים) 'a.Mim “peoples”

That I commanded your fathers, In the day of My bringing them out from the land of Egypt, Out of the iron furnace, saying, Hearken to My voice, and ye have done them, According to all that I command you, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I am to you for God,

לְעָ֔ם (עָ֔ם) 'Am “a people”

And thou, thou dost not pray for this people, Nor dost thou lift up for them cry and prayer, For I do not hearken in the time of their calling unto Me for their vexation.

הָעָ֣ם (עָ֣ם) 'Am “people”

Thus said Jehovah concerning all my evil neighbours, who are striking against the inheritance that I caused my people -- Israel -- to inherit: `Lo, I am plucking them from off their ground, And the house of Judah I pluck out of their midst.

עַמִּ֖י (עַמִּ֖) 'a.M “people”

And it hath come to pass, If they learn well the ways of My people, To swear by My name, `Jehovah liveth,' As they taught My people to swear by Baal, Then they have been built up in the midst of My people.

עַמִּ֜י (עַמִּ֜) 'a.M “people”עַמִּ֔י (עַמִּ֔) 'a.M “people”עַמִּֽי׃ (עַמִּֽ) 'a.M “people”

This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, And go after other gods to serve them, And to bow themselves to them, Yea it is -- as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything.

הָעָם֩ (עָם֩) 'Am “people”

For, as the girdle cleaveth unto the loins of a man, So I caused to cleave unto Me The whole house of Israel, And the whole house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah, To be to Me for a people, and for a name, And for praise, and for beauty, And they have not hearkened.

לְעָ֔ם (עָ֔ם) 'Am “a people”

Thus said Jehovah concerning this people: Well they have loved to wander, Their feet they have not restrained, And Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin.

לָעָ֣ם (עָ֣ם) 'Am “people”

And Jehovah saith unto me: Thou dost not pray for this people for good,

הָעָ֥ם (עָ֥ם) 'Am “people”

And the people to whom they are prophesying, Are cast into out-places of Jerusalem, Because of the famine, and of the sword, And they have none burying them, Them, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, And I have poured out upon them this evil.

וְהָעָ֣ם (עָ֣ם) 'Am “people”

And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, `with' a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.

עַמִּ֔י (עַמִּ֔) 'a.M “people”

And Jehovah saith unto me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people, Send from before My face, and they go out.

הָעָ֣ם (עָ֣ם) 'Am “people”

And I scatter them with a fan, in the gates the land, I bereaved, I have destroyed My people, From their ways they turned not back.

עַמִּ֔י (עַמִּ֔) 'a.M “people”

And I have made thee to this people For a wall -- brazen -- fenced, And they have fought against thee, And they do not prevail against thee, For with thee `am' I to save thee, And to deliver thee -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

לָעָ֣ם (עָ֣ם) 'Am “people”

For thus said Jehovah: Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, For I have removed My peace from this people, An affirmation of Jehovah, The kindness and the mercies.

הָעָ֤ם־ (עָ֤ם) 'Am- “people”

And it hath come to pass when thou declarest to this people all these words, and they have said unto thee, `For what hath Jehovah spoken against us all this great evil? yea, what `is' our iniquity, and what our sin, that we have sinned against Jehovah our God?'

לָעָ֣ם (עָ֣ם) 'Am “people”

But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,

עַמִּ֖י (עַמִּ֖) 'a.M “people”

Thus said Jehovah, `Go, and thou hast got a potter's earthen vessel, and of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests,

הָעָ֔ם (עָ֔ם) 'Am “people”

and hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Thus do I break this people and this city, as one breaketh the potter's vessel, that is not able to be repaired again, and in Tophet they bury -- without place to bury;

הָעָ֤ם (עָ֤ם) 'Am “people”

And Jeremiah cometh in from Tophet, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy, and he standeth in the court of the house of Jehovah, and he saith unto all the people:

הָעָֽם׃ (עָֽם) 'Am “people”

And after this -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I give Zedekiah king of Judah, And his servants, and the people, And those left in this city, From the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of their enemies, And into the hand of those seeking their life, And he hath smitten them by the mouth of the sword, He hath no pity on them, Nor doth he spare, nor hath he mercy.

הָעָ֡ם (עָ֡ם) 'Am “people”

And unto this people thou dost say, Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am setting before you the way of life, And the way of death!

הָעָ֤ם (עָ֤ם) 'Am “people”

Hear a word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, who art sitting on the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people, who are coming in at these gates,

וְעַמְּךָ֔ (עַמְּ) 'a.me. “people”