H9001–/וַ–v

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.

וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ (וַ) va “and”

Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

וַיְהִ֣י (וַ) va “and”

Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ (וְ) ve. “and”

I will give you fifteen more years of life; and I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria; I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

וְהֹסַפְתִּ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַנּוֹתִי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְח֛וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֶּֽחִי׃ (וַ) va “and”

And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְעָלִ֛יתִי (וְ) ve. “and”

And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back?

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees.

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.

וַיִּקְרָ֛א (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֣שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”

And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or hi

וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע (וַ) va “and”וַיַּרְאֵ֣ם (וַ) va “and”

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.

וַיָּבֹא֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Truly, days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone, says the Lord.

וְנִשָּׂ֣א׀ (וְ) ve. “and”

And your sons, the offspring of your body, they will take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.

וְהָיוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness?

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

וַיָּבֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”

And Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers; and Manasseh his son became king in his place.

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ (וַ) va “and”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

וַיָּ֗שָׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֨קֶם (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֤עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁתַּ֙חוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖ד (וַֽ) va “and”

And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

וּבָנָ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

וַיִּ֥בֶן (וַ) va “and”

And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

וְהֶעֱבִ֤יר (וְ) ve. “and”וְעוֹנֵ֣ן (וְ) ve. “and”וְנִחֵ֔שׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָ֥שָׂה (וְ) ve. “and”

He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

וַיָּ֕שֶׂם (וַ) va “and”

But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

וַיַּתְעֵ֤ם (וַ) va “and”