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And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.

בִּשְׁמִי֙ (בִּ) bi “by”בַּבָּ֑עַל (בַּ) ba. “by <the>”בְּת֥וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.

וּבַמַּ֖יִם (בַ) va. “in <the>”

Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.

בִּנְקִ֥יק (בִּ) bi “in”

So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me.

בִּפְרָ֑ת (בִּ) bi “at”

These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.

בִּשְׁרִר֣וּת (בִּ) bi “in”

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

בְּטֶ֣רֶם (בְּ) be. “<in>”וּבְטֶ֛רֶם (בְ) ve. “<in>”

But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

בְּמִסְתָּרִ֥ים (בְּ) be. “in”

And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

בִּלְבָבֵ֔ךְ (בִּ) bi “in”בְּרֹ֧ב (בְּ) be. “in”

This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.

בַּשָּֽׁקֶר׃ (בַּ) ba. “in <the>”

I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?

בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”

Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

בַּעֲב֤וּר (בַּ) ba. “for”בָּאָ֑רֶץ (בָּ) ba. “in the”

And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”

Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

בָ֔נוּ (בָ֔) Va. “against <the>”

O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?

בְּעֵ֣ת (בְּ) be. “in”בָּאָ֔רֶץ (בָּ) ba. “in the”

Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.

בְקִרְבֵּ֣נוּ (בְ) ve. “[are] in”

When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.

בַּחֶ֙רֶב֙ (בַּ) ba. “by the”וּבָרָעָ֣ב (בָ) va. “by <the>”וּבַדֶּ֔בֶר (בַ) va. “by <the>”

Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.

בַּמָּק֖וֹם (בַּ) ba. “in the”

Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.

בִּשְׁמִ֔י (בִּ) bi “in”

So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.

בִּשְׁמִי֮ (בִּ) bi “in”בָּאָ֣רֶץ (בָּ) ba. “in the”בַּחֶ֤רֶב (בַּ) ba. “by the”וּבָֽרָעָב֙ (בָֽ) va. “by <the>”

And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their d

בְּחֻצ֨וֹת (בְּ) be. “in”

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fe

בְּצִיּוֹן֙ (בְּ) be. “<in>”

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

בְּהַבְלֵ֤י (בְּ) be. “among”

And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.

בִּ֠גְלַל (בִּ֠) Bi “on”בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

בְּמִזְרֶ֖ה (בְּ) be. “with”בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.

בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם (בַּֽ) ba. “at <the>”