H9026–כֶם–khem

As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have t

בִּכְלֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”בְּעָרֵיכֶ֥ם (כֶ֥ם) Khem “your”

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.

אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”כְּדִבְרֵיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”

And said to them, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to put your request before him:

תְּחִנַּתְכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”

And I will have mercy on you, so that he may have mercy on you and let you go back to your land.

אַדְמַתְכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

Then give ear now to the word of the Lord, O you last of Judah: the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, If your minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there;

פְּנֵיכֶם֙ (כֶם֙) Khem “your”

For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

בְּנַפְשֽׁוֹתֵיכֶם֒ (כֶם֒) Khem “your”אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ (כֶם֙) Khem “your”

And this day I have made it clear to you, and you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.

אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”

Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.

וַאֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;

נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”

Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?

יְדֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”

Have you no memory of the evil-doing of your fathers, and the evil-doing of the kings of Judah, and the evil-doing of their wives, and the evil which you yourselves have done, and the evil which your wives have done, in the land of Judah and in the stree

אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֜ם (כֶ֜ם) Khem “your”רָעֹ֣תֵכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”נְשֵׁיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”

Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “you”אֲבוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

The perfumes which you have been burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers and your kings and your rulers and the people of the land, had the Lord no memory of them, and did he not keep them in mind?

וַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם (כֶ֛ם) Khem “your”מַלְכֵיכֶ֥ם (כֶ֥ם) Khem “your”וְשָׂרֵיכֶ֖ם (כֶ֖ם) Khem “your”

And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”אַ֠רְצְכֶם (כֶם) khem “your”

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You women have said with your mouths, and with your hands you have done what you said, We will certainly give effect to the oaths we have made, to have perfumes burned to the queen of heaven a

וּנְשֵׁיכֶ֜ם (כֶ֜ם) Khem “your”בְּפִיכֶם֮ (כֶם֮) Khem “your”וּבִידֵיכֶ֣ם (כֶ֣ם) Khem “your”נִדְרֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”נִדְרֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.

נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”

Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.

אִמְּכֶם֙ (כֶם֙) Khem “your”

And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.

לְעֵֽינֵיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”

So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.

לְבַבְכֶם֙ (כֶם֙) Khem “your”

You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.

לְבַבְכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been more uncontrolled than the nations round about you, and have not been guided by my rules or kept my orders, but have kept the orders of the nations round about you;

הֲמָנְכֶם֙ (כֶם֙) Khem “your”

You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.

בָּמֽוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images will be broken: and I will have your dead men placed before your images.

מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑ם (כֶ֑ם) Khem “your”חַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”

And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.

עַצְמ֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם (כֶ֔ם) Khem “your”מִזְבְּחוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ (כֶֽם) Khem “your”