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 218 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.
But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
Read word by wordHowever, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
Read word by wordI also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
Read word by wordTherefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by their unfaithfulness against Me.
Read word by wordWhen I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.
Read word by wordTherefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
Read word by wordWhen you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!
Read word by wordWhen you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.
Read word by wordWhen I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.
Read word by wordThen you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land that I swore to give your fathers.
Read word by wordNow the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.1
Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.3
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.5
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.6
and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.8
Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.9
But you, son of man, groan! Groan before their eyes with a broken heart and bitter grief.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.11
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.13
it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.15
The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished, to be placed in the hand of the slayer.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.16
Cry out and wail, O son of man, for the sword is wielded against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel! They are tossed to the sword with My people; therefore strike your thigh.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.17
‘So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike two times, even three. It is a sword that slays, a sword of great slaughter closing in on every side!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.19
So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.20
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.23
“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land. And make a signpost where the road branches off to each city.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.24
Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.25
For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.26
In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.27
It will seem like a false omen to the eyes of those who have sworn allegiance to him, but it will draw attention to their guilt and take them captive.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.28
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance—you shall be taken in hand.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.29
A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.32
Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.33
while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.34
You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.37
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Read word by wordand tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,
Read word by wordyou are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
Read word by wordSee how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.
Read word by wordFather and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
Read word by wordWill your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.
Read word by wordAnd when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
Read word by wordThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Read word by word“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
Read word by wordJust as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
Read word by wordAnd the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Read word by word“Son of man, say to her, ‘In the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.’
Read word by wordHer priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Read word by wordHer officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
Read word by wordHer prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
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