H9008–/ה–h

But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

הַאֶ֨ל (הַ) ha. “¿”הֲלֹ֣א (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?

הַהִצִּ֜ילוּ (הַ) ha. “¿”

Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

הַהִצִּ֨ילוּ (הַ) ha. “¿”

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

הֲלֽוֹא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

הֲל֤וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”הֲל֛וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”הֲלוֹא֙ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.

הֲל֨וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.

הֲל֖וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?

הֲלֹ֥א (הֲ) ha. “¿”הֲיֵ֤שׁ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

הֲל֥וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

הֲיֹאמַ֨ר (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

הֲל֨וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?

הֲיֻקַּ֥ח (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste la

הֲקָצ֨וֹר (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?

הֲל֥וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

הֲל֤וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

הֲלֽוֹא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?

הַ֥עַל (הַ֥) Ha. “¿”

And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?

הֲלֹ֨א (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

הֲכָזֶ֗ה (הֲ) ha. “¿”הֲלָכֹ֨ף (הֲ) ha. “¿”הֲלָזֶה֙ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

הֲל֨וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

הַעַל־ (הַ) ha. “¿”