H9005–/ל–l

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land.

לְדָרְשֵׁ֑נִי (לְ) le. “to”לָכֶם֙ (לָ) la. “to <the>”לְעֶזְרָ֔ה (לְ) le. “to”לְאַרְצ֖וֹ (לְ) le. “to”

The Lord has said, Have no false hopes, saying to yourselves, The Chaldaeans will go away from us: for they will not go away.

לֵאמֹ֔ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”

Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, with the purpose of taking up his heritage there among the people.

לָלֶ֖כֶת (לָ) la. “to”לַחֲלִ֥ק (לַ) la. “to”

But when he was at the Benjamin door, a captain of the watch named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who was stationed there, put his hand on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are going to give yourself up to the Chaldaeans.

לֵאמֹ֔ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”

And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

לְבֵ֥ית (לְ) le. “into”

Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What has been my sin against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

לְךָ֤ (לְ) le. “to”וְלַעֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙ (לַ) la. “to”וְלָעָ֣ם (לָ) la. “to the”

Where now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?

לָכֶ֖ם (לָ) la. “to <the>”לֵאמֹ֑ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”

And now be pleased to give ear, O my lord the king; let my prayer for help come before you, and do not make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, for fear that I may come to my death there.

לְפָנֶ֔יךָ (לְ) le. “<to>”

Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place

ל֨וֹ (ל֨) l “to <the>”לַיּוֹם֙ (לַ) la “to the”

Now it came to the ears of Shephatiah, the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah, the son of Pashhur, and Jucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, that Jeremiah had said to all the people,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (לֵ) le. “<to>”

These are the words of the Lord: Whoever goes on living in this town will come to his death by the sword or through need of food or by disease: but whoever goes out to the Chaldaeans will keep his life out of the power of the attackers and be safe.

לּ֥וֹ (לּ֥) l “to <the>”לְשָׁלָ֖ל (לְ) le. “to”

Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well

לְדַבֵּ֣ר (לְ) le. “by”לְשָׁל֛וֹם (לְ) le. “for”לָעָ֥ם (לָ) la. “for the”לְרָעָֽה׃ (לְ) le. “for”

And Ebed-melech went out from the king's house and said to the king,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (לֵ) le. “<to>”

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.

לְיִרְמְיָ֣הוּ (לְ) le. “to”

Then the king gave orders to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take with you three men from here and get Jeremiah out of the water-hole before death overtakes him.

לֵאמֹ֑ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”

And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put these bits of old cloth under your arms under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

לַחֲבָלִ֑ים (לַ) la. “to”

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly put me to death? and if I make a suggestion to you, you will not give it a hearing.

לְךָ֔ (לְ) le. “to <the>”

So King Zedekiah gave his oath to Jeremiah secretly, saying, By the living Lord, who gave us our life, I will not put you to death, or give you up to these men who are desiring to take your life.

לֵאמֹ֑ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לָ֨נוּ (לָ֨) La. “for <the>”

But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given it to you, and it will be well for you, and you will keep your life.

לַאֲשֶׁ֤ר (לַ) la. “to”לְךָ֖ (לְ) le. “for <the>”

But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me:

לָצֵ֑את (לָ) la. “to”

See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep i

לְךָ֙ (לְ) le. “to <the>”

But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death;

לָ֜נוּ (לָ֜) La. “to <the>”

Then you are to say to them, I made my request to the king, that he would not send me back to my death in Jonathan's house.

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לְבִלְתִּ֧י (לְ) le. “to”לָמ֥וּת (לָ) la. “to”

Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah, questioning him: and he gave them an answer in the words the king had given him orders to say. So they said nothing more to him; for the thing was not made public.

לָהֶם֙ (לָ) la. “to <the>”

And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;

לְצִדְקִיָּ֨הוּ (לְ) le. “of”