H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it was”לִהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “become”הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it was”

The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships;

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they were”הָ֣יוּ Ha.yu “they were”

The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.

הָ֣יוּ Ha.yu “they were”הָ֣יוּ Ha.yu “they were”

Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they were”

The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful.

הָי֑וּ ha.Yu “they were”

... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods.

הָיָֽה׃ ha.Yah “it was”

Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.

הָיִ֔ית ha.Yit “you have become”

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “it came”

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “it came”

You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price

הָיִ֗יתָ ha.Yi.ta “you were”

I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.

הָיִ֔יתָ ha.Yi.ta “you were”

All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will be overcome with wonder at you: you have become a thing of fear, and you will never be seen again.

הָיִ֔יתָ ha.Yi.ta “you became”

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “it came”

And there will no longer be a plant with sharp points wounding the children of Israel, or a thorn troubling them among any who are round about them, who put shame on them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

יִהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “it will belong”

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it came”

And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.

הֱיוֹתָ֛ם (הֱיוֹתָ֛) he.yo.Ta “have been”

And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.

וְהָיְתָ֤ה (הָיְתָ֤ה) ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through t

תִּֽהְיֶ֣יןָ tih.Yei.na “they will be”

I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make them come back into the land of Pathros, into the land from which they came; and there they will be an unimportant kingdom.

וְהָ֥יוּ (הָ֥יוּ) Ha.yu “they will be”

It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations.

תִּהְיֶ֣ה tih.Yeh “it will be”

And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it will become”

Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it came”

Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.

הָ֨יָה Ha.yah “it belonged”

For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon: he will take away her wealth, and take her goods by force and everything which is there; and this will be the payment for his army.

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

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “it came”