H9008–/ה–h

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

הֲל֤וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

הֲמֶ֣לֶךְ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?

הַאֲקַדְּמֶ֣נּוּ (הַ) ha. “¿”

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

הֲיִרְצֶ֤ה (הֲ) ha. “¿”הַאֶתֵּ֤ן (הַ) ha. “¿”

Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

הַאִשׁ֙ (הַ) ha. “¿”

Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

הַאֶזְכֶּ֖ה (הַ) ha. “¿”

Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

הֲתֵֽיטְבִי֙ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.

הֲל֧וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

הַ֥עַל (הַ֥) Ha. “¿”

Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

הֲלוֹא־ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

הֲל֣וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation?

הֲבִנְהָרִים֙ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

הַעֵ֤ת (הַ) ha. “¿”

Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?

הֲל֥וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

If anyone has some holy flesh folded in the skirt of his robe, will bread or soup or wine or oil or any other food be made holy if touched by his skirt? And the priests answering said, No.

הֲיִקְדָּ֑שׁ (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Then Haggai said, Will any of these be made unclean by the touch of one who is unclean through touching a dead body? And the priests answering said, It will be made unclean.

הֲיִטְמָ֑א (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.

הַע֤וֹד (הַ) ha. “¿”

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

הַלְעוֹלָ֖ם (הַ) ha “¿”

But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.

הֲל֥וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?

הֲל֧וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

Then the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said, Have you no knowledge of what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

הֲל֥וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

And he said in answer to me, Have you no knowledge what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

הֲל֥וֹא (הֲ) ha. “¿”

And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?

הַֽאֶבְכֶּה֙ (הַֽ) ha. “¿”

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

הֲצ֥וֹם (הֲ) ha. “¿”