H9008–/ה–h

Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

הֲלֹֽא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Will not the designers of evil come into error? But mercy and good faith are for the designers of good.

הֲֽלוֹא־ (הֲֽ) ha “¿”

Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,

הֲלֹ֤א (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

הֲתָ֤עִיף (הֲ) ha. “¿”

If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?

הֲֽלֹא־ (הֲֽ) ha “¿”

Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

וַ֝הֲפִתִּ֗יתָ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

הֲֽלֹא־ (הֲֽ) ha “¿”

And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

הֶֽחָכָ֤ם (הֶֽ) he. “¿”

And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

הֲלֹ֛א (הֲ) ha. “¿”

In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

הֲזֶ֣ה (הֲ) ha. “¿”

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.

הֲפָֽרְחָ֣ה (הֲ) ha. “¿”

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?

הַמְעַ֤ט (הַ) ha “¿”

And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead

הֲלוֹא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

For he says, Are not all my captains kings?

הֲלֹ֥א (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

הֲלֹ֥א (הֲ) ha. “¿”

So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.

הֲלֹ֗א (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

הֲיִתְפָּאֵר֙ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

הֲזֶ֤ה (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

הֲזֹ֥את (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

הַכְּמַכַּ֥ת (הַ) ha. “¿”

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

הֲכֹ֣ל (הֲ) ha. “¿”

When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?

הֲלוֹא֙ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood.

הֲלוֹא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?

הֲלוֹא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

הֲמִבַּלְעֲדֵ֣י (הֲ) ha. “¿”