H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

וִהְי֕וּ (הְי֕וּ) h.Yu “be”

And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

וְהָיְתָ֥ה (הָיְתָ֥ה) ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

וְהָיְתָ֥ה (הָיְתָ֥ה) ha.ye.Tah “it will be”

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it has become”

Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

תְּהִי־ te.hi- “it belong”

Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

יְהִי־לָהּ֙ (יְהִי) ye.hi “it be”

A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

וְהָי֣וּ (הָי֣וּ) ha.Yu “they will become”

And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they will be”

And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה tih.Yeh “you will be”

The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

וְהָיְתָה֩ (הָיְתָה֩) ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

הֱיֽוֹת־ he.yot- “to be”תִּֽהְיֶֽה׃ Tih.Yeh “it will be”

And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

וְהָיָה֙ (הָיָה֙) ha.Yah “it will be”

For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

הָֽיְתָה֙ ha.ye.Tah “it happened”

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ (יִּֽהְיוּ֙) i.yih.Yu “they were”

He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

הָיְתָ֖ה ha.ye.Tah “she has become”הָיְתָ֖ה ha.ye.Tah “she has become”

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

הָ֥יוּ Ha.yu “they have become”

Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

הָי֨וּ ha.Yu “they have become”