Lexicon :: Strong's H3651 - kēn

“Therefore I will still contend (struggle) with you [by bringing judgment on you],” says the LORD,

“And I will contend with your children’s children.”

“As the thief is shamed when he is caught,

So the house of Israel is shamed—

They, their kings, their leaders,

Their priests, and their prophets—

“How well you prepare your path

To seek and obtain [adulterous] love!

Even the most wicked of women

Have learned [indecent] ways from you.

“Surely, as a wife treacherously (unfaithfully) leaves her husband,

So you have dealt treacherously with Me,

O house of Israel,” says the LORD.

“And though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’

Surely they swear [their oaths] falsely.”

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,

A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,

A leopard is watching their cities.

Everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,

Because their transgressions are many,

Their desertions of faith are countless.

Therefore, thus says the LORD God of hosts,

“Because you [people] have spoken this word,

Behold, I am making My words a fire in your mouth [Jeremiah]

And this people wood, and My words will consume them.

‘As a cage is full of birds,

So are their houses full of deceit and treachery;

Therefore they have become influential and rich.

The prophets prophesy falsely,

And the priests rule [fn]on their own authority;

And My people love [to have] it so!

But what will you do when the end comes?

“As a fountain springs up and pours out its fresh waters,

So she [continually] pours out her fresh wickedness.

Violence and destruction are heard inside her [walls];

Sickness and wounds are always before Me.

“Were they ashamed because they had committed disgusting and vile things?

No, they were not at all ashamed;

They did not even know how to blush [at their idolatry].

Therefore they will fall among those who fall;

At the time that I punish them

They will be overthrown,” says the LORD.

“Therefore hear, O [Gentile] nations,

And see, O congregation, what [vengeful act] is to be done to them.

Therefore, thus says the LORD,

“Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people.

The fathers and the sons together

Will stumble against them;

The neighbor and his friend will perish.”

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, for [in bloody warfare] they will bury [the dead] in Topheth until there is no more room.

“I have listened and heard,

But they have spoken what is not right;

No man repented of his wickedness,

Saying, ‘What have I done?’

Everyone turns to his [individual] course,

As the horse rushes like a torrent into battle.

“Therefore I will give their wives to others

And their fields to new owners;

Because from the least even to the greatest

Everyone is greedy for [unjust] gain;

From the prophet even to the priest

Everyone practices deceit and deals in corruption.

“Were they ashamed because of the extremely disgusting and shamefully vile things they had done?

They were not at all ashamed,

And they did not know how to blush.

Therefore, they shall fall among those who fall;

At the time of their punishment they shall be overthrown,”

Says the LORD.

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts,

“Behold, I will refine them [through suffering] and test them;

For how else should I deal with the daughter of My people?

For the shepherds [of the people] have become [like brutes,] irrational and stupid,

And have not searched for the LORD or asked about Him or realized their need for Him;

Therefore they have not been wise and have not prospered,

And all their flocks are scattered.

Therefore thus says the LORD regarding the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, so that you will not die by our hand.”

“My inheritance has become to Me

Like a lion in the forest;

She has raised her voice and roared against Me;

So I have come to [treat her as if I] hate her.

Thus says the LORD to this people [Judah], “In the manner and to the degree [already pointed out] they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember [in detail] their wickedness and punish them for their sins.”

Therefore, thus says the LORD [to Jeremiah],

“If you repent [and give up this mistaken attitude of despair and self-pity], then I will restore you [to a state of inner peace]

So that you may stand before Me [as My obedient representative];

And if you separate the precious from the worthless [examining yourself and cleansing your heart from unwarranted doubt concerning My faithfulness],

You will become My spokesman.

Let the people turn to you [and learn to value My values]—

But you, you must not turn to them [with regard for their idolatry and wickedness].

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’

“Behold (listen carefully), I will send for many fishermen,” says the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.

“Therefore,” [says the LORD] “behold, I will make them know—

This time I will make them know

My power and My might;

And they will know and recognize [without any doubt] that My Name is the LORD.”

“Therefore thus says the LORD,

‘Ask now among the nations,

Who has heard of such things?

The virgin Israel

Has done a very vile and horrible thing.

Therefore, give their children over to the famine;

Give them over to the power of the sword.

And let their wives become childless and widowed;

Let their men meet death [by virulent disease],

Their young men be struck down by the sword in battle.

But the LORD is with me as a dread champion [one to be greatly feared];

Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not overcome [me].

They will be completely shamed, for they have not acted wisely and have failed [in their schemes];

Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.

Therefore thus says the LORD in regard to [fn]Jehoiakim the [second] son of Josiah, king of Judah,

“The relatives will not lament (mourn over with expressions of grief) for him:

‘Alas, my brother!’ or, ‘Alas, sister,’ [how great our loss]!

The subjects will not lament for him:

‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, majesty [how great was his glory]!’

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when they will no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’

For the land is full of adulterers (unfaithful to God);

The land mourns because of the curse [of God upon it].

The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.

The course of action [of the false prophets] is evil and they rush into wickedness;

And their power is not right.

“Therefore their way will be to them like slippery paths

In the dark; they will be pushed and fall into them;

For I will bring disaster on them,

In the year of their punishment,” says the LORD.

“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts in regard to the prophets,

‘Behold, I am going to feed them [the bitterness of] wormwood

And make them drink the poisonous water [of gall],

For from the [counterfeit] prophets of Jerusalem

Profaneness and ungodliness have spread into all the land.’”