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I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

כְּאֶשְׁכְּל֣וֹת (כְּ) ke. “like”כַּתַּפּוּחִֽים׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.

כְּיֵ֥ין (כְּ) ke. “like”

Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

כְּאָ֣ח (כְּ) ke. “like”

Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

כַֽחוֹתָ֜ם (כַֽ) kha. “like <the>”כַּֽחוֹתָם֙ (כַּֽ) ka. “like <the>”כַמָּ֙וֶת֙ (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כִשְׁא֖וֹל (כִ) khi “like”

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

כַּמִּגְדָּל֑וֹת (כַּ) ka. “[are] like <the>”כְּמוֹצְאֵ֥ת (כְּ) ke. “like”

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת (כְּ) ke. “[is] like”

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

כְּסֻכָּ֣ה (כְּ) ke. “like”כִּמְלוּנָ֥ה (כִּ) ki “like”כְּעִ֥יר (כְּ) ke. “like”

If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

כִּמְעָ֑ט (כִּ) ki “like”כִּסְדֹ֣ם (כִּ) ki “like”

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

כַּשָּׁנִים֙ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַּשֶּׁ֣לֶג (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַתּוֹלָ֖ע (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כַּצֶּ֥מֶר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;

כַּבֹּ֖ר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.

כְּבָרִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה (כְּ) ke. “as”כְּבַתְּחִלָּ֑ה (כְּ) ke. “as”

For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

כְּאֵלָ֖ה (כְּ) ke. “like”וּֽכְגַנָּ֔ה (כְ) khe. “like”

For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

כַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים (כַּ) ka. “like the”

Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

כִּסְדֹ֥ם (כִּ) ki “like”

Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

כְּדָבְרָ֑ם (כְּ) ke. “like”

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

וְכַעֲב֥וֹת (כַ) kha. “like”

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of

כֶּאֱכֹ֨ל (כֶּ) ke. “as”כַּמָּ֣ק (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כָּאָבָ֣ק (כָּ) ka. “like <the>”

For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.

כַּסּוּחָ֖ה (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

כַּצַּ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַּסּוּפָֽה׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

כַּלָּבִ֑יא (כַּ) ka. “[is] like <the>”כַּכְּפִירִ֤ים (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

כְּנַהֲמַת־ (כְּ) ke. “like”

And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).

כָּאֵלָ֣ה (כָּ) ka. “like <the>”וְכָאַלּ֗וֹן (כָ) kha. “like <the>”

And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.

כְּנ֥וֹעַ (כְּ) ke. “as”

For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,

כְּחֶזְקַ֣ת (כְּ) ke. “according to”

Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...

כַּדָּבָ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “according to the”