HaTikvah ("The Hope")    Israel's National Anthem

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The words to Israel's national anthem were written in 1886 by Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia.

As long as deep in the heart,    The soul of a Jew yearns,

 And forward to the East.   To Zion, an eye looks.

 Our hope will not be lost,  The hope of two thousand years,

 To be a free nation in our land, The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

Hebrew, Transliteration, English translation

Kol‘od balevav penimah
כֹּל עוֹד בַּלֵּבָב פְּנִימָה
Inside,in heart,  as long as./
As long as deep  in the heart, 只要在心底里

Nefesh yehudi homiyah
נֶפֶשׁ יְהוּדִי הוֹמִיָּה
yearn  Jewish  soul  /,/n-soul/
A Jewish soul still yearns,

Ul(e)fa’atei mizrach kadimah,/[u- m-:towards the east.]
וּלְפַאֲתֵי מִזְרָח  קָדִימָה,
towards  /east,   edge-ends /ul-outskirts ,edge,border./mi-east./k-forwards/
 And onward, towards the ends of the east

‘Ayin letziyon tzofiyah;
 עַיִן  לְצִיּוֹן  צוֹפִיָּה,
watch    Zion  eye //a-eye;l-mark,score,indicator./tzo-:expect,looking towards Zion
An eye still gazes toward Zion;天国 a hill in Jerusalem,犹太人的故乡

‘Od lo avdah tikvateinu,/od-still,yet;more/av-loss/
עוֹד לֹא אָבְדָה תִּקְוָתֵנוּ,
Our hope,  lost,  no,  still  
 our hope is not yet lost,

Hatikvah bat sh(e)not ’alpayim,/bat s- :years old. s- years/
הַתִּקְוָה בַּת שְׁנוֹת אַלְפַּיִם
2000.   years old,   the hope  /.al-:thousands;2 t-.
The hope of two thousand years,

Lihyot‘am chofshi* b(e)’artzeinu,/l- be,become;עַם,with,people;/ch-.free/
לִהְיוֹת עַם חָפְשִׁי בְּאַרְצֵנוּ,
ur land     free   people become 
To be a free people in our land,   *Transliteration: chophshi / Phonetic Spelling: (khof-shee'): free

 Eretz-Tziyon viy(e)rushalayim.
אֶרֶץ  צִיּוֹן  וִירוּשָׁלַיִם.
Jerusalem Zion  land
The land of Zion and Jerusalem

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Some people compare the first line of the refrain, “Our hope is not yet lost” (“עוד לא אבדה תקוותנו”), to the opening of the Polish national anthem, Poland Is Not Yet Lost (Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła), or to the Ukrainian national anthem, Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished . This line may also be a Biblical allusion to Ezekiel’s “Vision of the Dried Bones” (Ezekiel 37: “…Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost”), describing the despair of the Jewish people in exile, and God’s promise to redeem them and lead them back to the Land of Israel.
The official text of Hatikvah is relatively short; indeed it is a single complex sentence, consisting of two clauses: the subordinate clause posits the condition (“As long as… A soul still yearns… And… An eye still watches…”), while the independent clause specifies the outcome (“Our hope is not yet lost… To be a free nation in our own land”).

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