H4994–נָא–na

I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

נָּ֜א na' “please”

I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

נָ֤א na' “please”

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

נָ֛א na' “please”

Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

נָּא֙ na' “please”

And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.

נָ֕א na' “please”

And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

נָּ֣א na' “please”

Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;

נָא֙ na' “please”

And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?

נָ֖א na' “please”

Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.

נָ֖א na' “please”

And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:

נָא־ na'- “please”

And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.

נָא־ na'- “please”

And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?

נָ֖א na' “please”

And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

נָ֔א Na' “please”

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Please make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.

נָ֤א na' “please”

O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

נָ֞א na' “please”

Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.

נָ֤א na' “please”

But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.

נָ֨א na' “please”

So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:

נָ֥א na' “please”

Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

נָ֖א na' “please”

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

נָ֣א na' “please”

Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.

נָ֤א na' “please”

Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

נָ֣א na' “please”

And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

נָא֙ na' “please”

But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.

נָ֗א Na' “please”

See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

נָֽא׃ Na' “please”