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As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

But let justice roll on like rivers, And righteousness like a mighty stream.

כַּמַּ֖יִם (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כְּנַ֥חַל (כְּ) ke. “like”

Who strum on the strings of a harp; Who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

כְּדָוִ֕יד (כְּ) ke. “like”

Won't the land tremble for this, And everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; And it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

כָאֹר֙ (כָ) kha. “like the”כִּיא֥וֹר (כִּ) ki. “like”

I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.

כְּאֵ֣בֶל (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּי֥וֹם (כְּ) ke. “[will be] like”

For the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

כַיְאֹר֙ (כַ) kha “like the”כִּיאֹ֥ר (כִּ) ki. “like”

Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

כִבְנֵי֩ (כִ) khi “like”

"For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

כִּימֵ֥י (כִּ) ki. “like”

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

כְּאַחַ֥ד (כְּ) ke. “[were] like”

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּֽ) ka. “just”כְּל֥וֹא (כְּ) ke. “like”

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, let us not perish for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you."

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.

כִּדְבַ֣ר (כִּ) ki “according to”

It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

כִּזְרֹ֣חַ (כִּ) ki “when”

The mountains melt under him, And the valleys split apart, Like wax before the fire, Like waters that are poured down a steep place.

כַּדּוֹנַג֙ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כְּמַ֖יִם (כְּ) ke. “like”

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.

כַּתַּנִּ֔ים (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כִּבְנ֥וֹת (כִּ) ki “like”

Shave your heads, And cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; For they have gone into captivity from you!

כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, As a flock in the midst of their pasture; They will swarm with people.

כְּצֹ֣אן (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּעֵ֙דֶר֙ (כְּ) ke. “like”

Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”וּכְבָשָׂ֖ר (כְ) khe. “like”

Then they will cry to Yahweh, But he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, Because they made their deeds evil."

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “<as>”

Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, That pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?

כַּיּוֹלֵדָֽה׃ (כַּ) ka “like <the>”

Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion, Like a woman in travail; For now you will go forth out of the city, And will dwell in the field, And will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

כַּיּֽוֹלֵדָ֑ה (כַּ) ka “like <the>”

But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, Neither do they understand his counsel; For he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

כֶּעָמִ֥יר (כֶּ) ke. “like <the>”