H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks.

וִהְי֕וּ (הְי֕וּ) h.Yu “be”

And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.

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

Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

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

How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it has become”

Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.

תְּהִי־ te.hi- “it belong”

Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord,

יְהִי־לָהּ֙ (יְהִי) ye.hi “it be”

A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

וְהָי֣וּ (הָי֣וּ) ha.Yu “they will become”

And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they will be”

And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.

תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה tih.Yeh “you will be”

Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.

וְהָיְתָה֩ (הָיְתָה֩) ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever.

הֱיֽוֹת־ he.yot- “to be”תִּֽהְיֶֽה׃ Tih.Yeh “it will be”

And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates:

וְהָיָה֙ (הָיָה֙) ha.Yah “it will be”

And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

הָֽיְתָה֙ ha.ye.Tah “it happened”

And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten wheeled bases, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

There were ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the network was a hundred.

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ (יִּֽהְיוּ֙) i.yih.Yu “they were”

And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military o

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, o

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

הָיְתָ֖ה ha.ye.Tah “she has become”הָיְתָ֖ה ha.ye.Tah “she has become”

She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

הָ֥יוּ Ha.yu “they have become”

Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

הָי֨וּ ha.Yu “they have become”