TBESH · H9005
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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/ל (l) means “to/for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: l STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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Page 211 of 241. 12010 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.
Read word by wordA sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
Read word by wordSo the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
Read word by wordThey grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
Read word by wordBehold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
Read word by wordTherefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
Read word by wordI will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.
Read word by wordFlee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
Read word by wordSuddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
Read word by word“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
Read word by wordSharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
Read word by wordWhen He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Read word by word“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
Read word by wordBefore your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
Read word by wordNo one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordThe earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Read word by wordThe warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
Read word by wordOne courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
Read word by wordFor this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
Read word by wordBabylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
Read word by wordI will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Read word by wordHow Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Read word by wordHer cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
Read word by wordTherefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
Read word by wordThen heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
Read word by word“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
Read word by wordEven if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordThis is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
Read word by wordand say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
Read word by wordWhen you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
Read word by wordSo in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
Read word by wordAnd the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
Read word by wordBy the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
Read word by wordThere at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.
Read word by wordOn the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
Read word by wordBut Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
Read word by wordMoreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
Read word by wordAs for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
Read word by wordThe bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.
Read word by wordin Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
Read word by wordin Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.
Read word by wordOn the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
Read word by wordAnd he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
Read word by wordSo Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
Read word by wordAnd the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.
Read word by wordHow lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
Read word by wordShe weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
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