H9012–ה/–h

Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;

הַאֲזִ֥ינָה (ה) h “!”

If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

לְכָ֪ה (ה) h “!”

My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה (ה) h “!”

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה (ה) h “!”

Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

לְכָ֤ה (ה) h “!”

Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

הָבִ֣יאָה (ה) h “!”

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

תְּנָֽה־ (ה) h- “!”

So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

דְּעֶ֥ה (ה) h “!”

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

וָאֶתְּנָ֤ה (ה) h “!”

I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

לְכָה־ (ה) h- “!”

Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

הַגִּ֣ידָה (ה) h “!”

Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

לְכָ֤ה (ה) h “!”

Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.

יָחִ֛ישָׁה (ה) h “!”וְתָב֗וֹאָה (ה) h “!”

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

שׁוּבָ֥ה (ה) h “!”

The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.

גְּשָׁה־ (ה) h- “!”

Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

ק֖וּמָה (ה) h “!”

Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.

שׁ֣וּבָה (ה) h “!”

And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.

וָֽאֵדָ֑עָה (ה) h “!”

Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.

הַקְשִׁ֥יבָה (ה) h “!”

So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;

וָֽאֶשְׁקֲלָה־ (ה) h- “!”

But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death;

הַגִּֽידָה־ (ה) h- “!”

Then go back to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made ruler over the towns of Judah, and make your living-place with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the arme

וְשֻׁ֡בָה (ה) h “!”

... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.

ק֣וּמָה׀ (ה) h “!”

Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.

עָזְבָ֥ה (ה) h “!”

Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה (ה) h “!”