H9008–/ה–h

And Rab-shakeh said, Is it to thy master and to thee that my master sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own urine with you?

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

Let not Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

הַהִצִּ֜ילוּ (הַ) ha. “¿”

Have the gods of the nations which my fathers have destroyed delivered them, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Thelassar?

הַהִצִּ֨ילוּ (הַ) ha. “¿”

Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [ergänzt: into] ruinous heaps.

הֲלֽוֹא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

-- Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?

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

Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.

הֲל֨וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, neither did they hearken unto his law.

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste.

הֲל֖וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Fear not, neither be afraid. Have I not caused thee to hear from that time, and have declared it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a +God beside me? yea, there is no Rock: I know not any.

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

He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

הֲל֥וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd [ergänzt: strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?

הֲיֹאמַ֨ר (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Declare and bring [ergänzt: them] near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath caused this to be heard from ancient time? [ergänzt: who] hath declared it long ago? Is it not I, Jehovah? And there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour, there is none besides me.

הֲל֨וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Thou heardest, see all this; -- and ye, will not ye declare [ergänzt: it]? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, and things hidden, and that thou knewest not:

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee.

הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? and shall he that is rightfully captive be delivered?

הֲיֻקַּ֥ח (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.

הֲקָצ֨וֹר (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, [ergänzt: as in] the generations of passed ages. Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, [ergänzt: and] pierced the monster?

הֲל֥וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is it not thou that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

הֲל֤וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom do ye make a wide mouth, [ergänzt: and] draw out the tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

הֲלֽוֹא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Among the smooth [ergänzt: stones] of the torrent is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured out a drink-offering, thou hast offered an oblation. Shall I be comforted myself as to these things?

הַ֥עַל (הַ֥) Ha. “¿”

And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor taken it to heart? Have not I even of long time held my peace, and thou fearest me not?

הֲלֹ֨א (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is such the fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul, -- that he should bow down his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes [ergänzt: under him]? Wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to Jehovah?

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

Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

הֲל֨וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Wilt thou restrain thyself in presence of these things, Jehovah? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

הַעַל־ (הַ) ha. “¿”