H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, I am for God to all families of Israel, And they -- they are to Me for a people.

אֶֽהְיֶה֙ 'eh.Yeh “I will become”יִֽהְיוּ־ yih.yu- “they will become”

With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born `is' he.

הָיִ֤יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I have become”

And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Jehovah, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul hath been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more.

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

And it hath been, as I watched over them to pluck up, And to break down, and to throw down, And to destroy, and to afflict; So do I watch over them to build, and to plant, An affirmation of Jehovah.

וְהָיָ֞ה (הָיָ֞ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

For this `is' the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.

וְהָיִ֤יתִי (הָיִ֤יתִי) ha.Yi.ti “I will become”יִֽהְיוּ־ yih.yu- “they will become”

If these statutes depart from before Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, Even the seed of Israel doth cease From being a nation before Me all the days.

מִֽהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “being”

The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah -- it `is' the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar,

הָיָ֤ה ha.Yah “it came”

And then the forces of the king of Babylon are laying siege against Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet hath been shut up in the court of the prison that `is' in the house of the king of Judah,

הָיָ֤ה ha.Yah “he was”

And `to' Babylon he leadeth Zedekiah, and there he is till My inspecting him, -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- because ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye do not prosper.'

יִֽהְיֶ֔ה yih.Yeh “he will be”

And Jeremiah saith, `A word of Jehovah hath been unto me saying,

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it came”

`Lo, the mounts -- they have come in to the city to capture it, and the city hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence; and that which Thou hast spoken hath come to pass, and lo, Thou art seeing;

הָיָ֖ה ha.Yah “it has happened”

And the word of Jehovah is unto Jeremiah, saying:

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it came”

For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been only doing evil in Mine eyes, from their youth; for the sons of Israel are only provoking Me with the work of their hands -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

הָי֨וּ ha.Yu “they have been”

`For a cause of Mine anger, and a cause of My fury, hath this city been to Me, even from the day that they built it, and unto this day -- to turn it aside from before My face,

הָ֤יְתָה Ha.ye.tah “it has been”

and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God;

וְהָ֥יוּ (הָ֥יוּ) Ha.yu “they will become”אֶהְיֶ֥ה 'eh.Yeh “I will become”

And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah a second time -- and he `is' yet detained in the court of the prison -- saying:

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “it came”

And it hath been to Me for a name of joy, For praise, and for beauty, to all nations of the earth, Who hear of all the good that I am doing them, And they have feared, And they have trembled for all the good, And for all the peace, that I am doing to it.

וְהָ֣יְתָה (הָ֣יְתָה) Ha.ye.tah “it will become”

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again there is in this place -- that is waste, Without man and beast, And in all its cities -- a habitation of shepherds, Causing the flock to lie down.

יִֽהְיֶ֣ה׀ yih.Yeh “it will be”

And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it came”

`Thus said Jehovah: If ye do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,

הֱי֥וֹת he.Yot “to be”

Also My covenant is broken with David My servant, So that he hath not a son reigning on his throne, And with the Levites the priests, My ministers.

מִהְיֽוֹת־ (הְיֽוֹת) h.yot- “belonging”

And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying:

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it came”

`Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise -- So that they are no more a people before them!

מִֽהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “being”

The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah -- and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his force, and all kingdoms of the land of the dominion of his hand, and all the peoples are fighting against Jerusalem, and against all its cities -- saying:

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it came”

in peace thou diest, and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings who have been before thee, so they make a burning for thee; and Ah, lord, they lament for thee, for the word I have spoken -- an affirmation of Jehovah.'

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they were”