H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they have become”

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and m

הָי֖וּ ha.Yu “they were”

Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.

הָיָ֑תָה ha.Ya.tah “she has become”

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.

הָיִ֖יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I am”

For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they are”

Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it has become”

Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

וְיִֽהְי֥וּ (יִֽהְי֥וּ) yih.Yu “they may be”

The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “he has become”

As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.

הָיָ֛ה ha.Yah “he was”

I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

הָיִ֤יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I have become”

Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

וַתֶּ֔הִי (תֶּ֔הִי) Te.hi “it was”

Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

הָ֥יָה Ha.yah “it has happened”

Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it has become”

Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they are”

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they have been”

Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they were”

Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

הָ֣יָה Ha.yah “has it happened”

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

הָיִ֙ינוּ֙ ha.Yi.nu “we have become”

Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

הָיָ֤ה ha.Yah “it has become”

Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was by the river Chebar among those who had been made prisoners, that the heavens were made open and I saw visions of God.

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

The word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldaeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was on me there.

הָיֹ֣ה ha.Yoh “expressly <come>”הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it came”וַתְּהִ֥י (תְּהִ֥י) te.Hi “it was”

Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go they went; they went on without turning.

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it was”

The form of the wheels and their work was like a beryl; the four of them had the same form and design, and they were like a wheel inside a wheel.

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “it was”

Wherever the spirit was to go they went; and the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it was”

And there was a voice from the top of the arch which was over their heads: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “it came”