H9030–נִי–ni

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

אֵלַ֥י (י) i “me”

Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

אַחֲרַי֙ (י֙) i “me”

These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

בִּי֙ (י֙) i “me”מֵעָלָ֑י (י) i “me”

The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

יְדָע֔וּנִי (נִי) ni “me”בִ֑י (י) i “me”

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

אֹתִ֨י (י) i “me”

But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

לִ֔י (י) i “me”

Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

אֵלַ֛י (י) i “me”

Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

אֵלָ֑י (י) i “me”בִּ֖י (י) i “me”

Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.

שְׁכֵח֔וּנִי (נִי) ni “me”

And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

מִמֶּ֑נִּי (נִּי) ni “me”

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come

אֵלַ֖י (י) i “me”

Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

לִ֖י (י) i “me”

And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

אֵלַ֗י (י) i “me”

And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.

אֵלַ֥י (י) i “me”

But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

אֵלַ֜י (י) i “me”

And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.

אֵלַ֔י (י) i “me”

But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.

לִ֔י (י) i “me”וּמֵאַחֲרַ֖י (י) i “me”

Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

בִּ֛י (י) i “me”

If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

אֵלַ֖י (י) i “me”

A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.

לִ֑י (י) i “me”

Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

אֹתִ֥י (י) i “me”

My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

לִּ֥י (י) i “me”

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

אוֹתִי֙ (י֙) i “me”

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone f

לִ֔י (י) i “me”

I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

לִּ֤י (י) i “myself”