H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they have become”

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

הָי֖וּ ha.Yu “they were”

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

הָיָ֑תָה ha.Ya.tah “she has become”

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

הָיִ֖יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I am”

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they are”

Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it has become”

They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

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

The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “he has become”

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

הָיָ֛ה ha.Yah “he was”

I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

הָיִ֤יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I have become”

Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

וַתֶּ֔הִי (תֶּ֔הִי) Te.hi “it was”

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

הָ֥יָה Ha.yah “it has happened”

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it has become”

They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they are”

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they have been”

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they were”

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

הָ֣יָה Ha.yah “has it happened”

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

הָיִ֙ינוּ֙ ha.Yi.nu “we have become”

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

הָיָ֤ה ha.Yah “it has become”

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

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

And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it was”

The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “it was”

Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it was”

And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “it came”