H9008–/ה–h

Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

הֲי֤וּחַל (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shut [ergänzt: the womb]? says your God.

הַאֲנִ֥י (הַ) ha. “¿”

Has a nation changed [ergänzt: its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

הַהֵימִ֥יר (הַ) ha. “¿”

Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [ergänzt: slave]? why is he become a prey?

הַעֶ֙בֶד֙ (הַ) ha. “¿”

Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

הֲלוֹא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?

הֲמִדְבָּ֤ר (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח (הֲ) ha. “¿”

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again? Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.

הֲיָשׁ֤וּב (הֲ) ha. “¿”הֲל֛וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Will he retain [ergänzt: his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.

הֲיִנְטֹ֣ר (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

הֲֽרָאִ֔יתָ (הֲֽ) ha “¿”

O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

הַֽעַל־ (הַֽ) ha. “¿”

Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.

הַאוֹתִ֨י (הַ) ha. “¿”

Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

הַֽעַל־ (הַֽ) ha. “¿”

Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

הֲגָנֹ֤ב׀ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.

הַמְעָרַ֣ת (הַ) ha “¿”

Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

הַֽאֵינְךָ֣ (הַֽ) ha. “¿”

Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [ergänzt: do they] not [ergänzt: provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

הַאֹתִ֛י (הַ) ha. “¿”הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?

הֲיִפְּל֖וּ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

הַֽיהוָה֙ (הַֽ) ha. “¿”

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

הַצֳרִי֙ (הַ) ha. “¿”

Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

הַעַל־ (הַ) ha. “¿”

Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.

הַעַ֨יִט (הַ) ha. “¿”הַעַ֖יִט (הַ) ha. “that”

Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

הֲיָדֹ֙עַ֙ (הֲ) ha. “¿”