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And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter's bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till ther

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

This is what I will do to this place, says the Lord, and to its people, making this town like Topheth:

כְּתֹֽפֶת׃ (כְּ) ke. “like”

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to

כִּמְק֥וֹם (כִּ) ki “like”

And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

כְּאֵ֣שׁ (כְּ) ke. “like”

But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

כְּגִבּ֣וֹר (כְּ) ke. “like”

May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

כֶּֽעָרִ֛ים (כֶּֽ) ke. “like the”

Will you get directions from the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, is making war against us; it may be that the Lord will do something for us like all the wonders he has done, and make him go away from us.

כְּכָל־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, be

כָאֵ֜שׁ (כָ) kha. “like <the>”

I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.

כִּפְרִ֥י (כִּ) ki “according to”

O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

כַּיֹּלֵדָֽה׃ (כַּ) ka “like <the>”

About the prophets. My heart is broken in me, all my bones are shaking; I am like a man full of strong drink, like a man overcome by wine; because of the Lord, and because of his holy words.

כְּאִ֣ישׁ (כְּ) ke. “like”וּכְגֶ֖בֶר (כְ) khe. “like”

For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

כַּחֲלַקְלַקּוֹת֙ (כַּ) ka. “like”

And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to m

כִּסְדֹ֔ם (כִּ) ki “like”כַּעֲמֹרָֽה׃ (כַּ) ka. “like”

Whose purpose is to take away the memory of my name from my people by their dreams, of which every man is talking to his neighbour, as their fathers gave up the memory of my name for the Baal.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?

כָּאֵ֖שׁ (כָּ) ka. “like <the>”וּכְפַטִּ֖ישׁ (כְ) khe. “like”

One basket had very good figs, like the figs which first come to growth: and the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were of no use for food.

כִּתְאֵנֵ֖י (כִּ) ki “like”

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Like these good figs, so in my eyes will be the prisoners of Judah, whom I have sent from this place into the land of the Chaldaeans for their good.

כַּתְּאֵנִ֥ים (כַּ) ka. “like the”

And like the bad figs which are so bad that they are of no use for food, so I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his chiefs and the rest of Jerusalem who are still in this land, and those who are in the land of Egypt:

וְכַתְּאֵנִים֙ (כַ) kha. “like the”

And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.

כִמְלֹ֣אות (כִ) khi “when”

For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.

כְּפָעֳלָ֖ם (כְּ) ke. “according to”וּכְמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה (כְ) khe. “according to”

Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;

כַּיּ֥וֹם (כַּ) ka “as the”

So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, lik

כְּדֹרְכִ֣ים (כְּ) ke. “like”

Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males

כִּכְלִ֥י (כִּ) ki “like”

The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.

כַּכְּפִ֖יר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.

כְּשִׁלֹ֑ה (כְּ) ke. “like”