H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to

וְהָי֞וּ (הָי֞וּ) ha.Yu “they will be”

Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.

הָיִ֤יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I have become”

For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “it has become”

And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

וְהָיָ֤ה (הָיָ֤ה) ha.Yah “it will become”

A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

יְהִ֥י ye.Hi “it be”

May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

וְהָיָה֙ (הָיָה֙) ha.Yah “he will be”

Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “she became”

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it came”

He who keeps in this town will come to his death by the sword and through need of food and through disease; but he who goes out and gives himself up to the Chaldaeans who are shutting you in, will go on living, and will keep his life safe.

וְהָֽיְתָה־ (הָֽיְתָה) ha.ye.tah- “it will belong”

But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.

יִֽהְיֶ֖ה yih.Yeh “it will become”

By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off;

יִהְיֶ֞ה yih.Yeh “he will be”

About the prophets. My heart is broken in me, all my bones are shaking; I am like a man full of strong drink, like a man overcome by wine; because of the Lord, and because of his holy words.

הָיִ֙יתִי֙ ha.Yi.ti “I have become”

For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

וַתְּהִ֤י (תְּהִ֤י) te.Hi “it has become”

For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

יִֽהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “it will become”

And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to m

הָֽיוּ־ ha.yu- “they have become”

They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.

יִֽהְיֶ֣ה yih.Yeh “it will belong”

And you will no longer put people in mind of the word of weight of the Lord: for every man's word will be a weight on himself; for the words of the living God, of the Lord of armies, our God, have been twisted by you.

יִֽהְיֶה֙ yih.Yeh “it is”

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

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “it came”

And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.

וְהָיוּ־ (הָיוּ) ha.yu- “they will become”אֶהְיֶ֥ה 'eh.Yeh “I will become”

The word which came to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah; this was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

הָיָ֤ה ha.Yah “it came”

From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even till this day, for twenty-three years, the word of the Lord has been coming to me, and I have given it to you, getting up early and talking to you; but you have not given ear.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it has come”

All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.

וְהָֽיְתָה֙ (הָֽיְתָה֙) ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.

וְהָיָ֣ה (הָיָ֣ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

And it will be, if they will not take of the cup in your hand, then you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: You will certainly take of it.

וְהָיָ֗ה (הָיָ֗ה) ha.Yah “it will be”