H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flock.

וִהְי֕וּ (הְי֕וּ) h.Yu “be”

And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all the spoilers thereof shall be satiated, saith Jehovah.

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

Because of the wrath of Jehovah, it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate; every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and shall hiss, because of all her plagues.

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

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it has become”

Come ye against her from every quarter, open her storehouses; pile her up like sheaves, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

תְּהִי־ te.hi- “it belong”

Call together the archers against Babylon, all those that bend the bow: encamp against her round about; let there be no escaping: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath acted proudly against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

יְהִי־לָהּ֙ (יְהִי) ye.hi “it be”

the sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her, and they shall become as women; the sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed:

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

and I will send unto Babylon strangers, who shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they will be”

And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; for thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah.

תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה tih.Yeh “you will be”

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they are sitting in the fortresses; their might hath failed, they are become as women: they have set her dwelling places on fire; her bars are broken.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of man pass thereby.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

and say, Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, that thou wilt cut it off, so that none shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

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

And it shall be, when thou hast ended reading this book, [ergänzt: that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates;

וְהָיָה֙ (הָיָה֙) ha.Yah “it will be”

For, because the anger of Jehovah was against Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

הָֽיְתָה֙ ha.ye.Tah “it happened”

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [ergänzt: that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem; and they encamped against it, and built turrets against it round about.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen that formed the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah: for the brass of all these vessels there was no weight.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the [ergänzt: four] sides; all the pomegranates upon the network were a hundred round about.

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

And out of the city he took a eunuch that was set over the men of war, and seven men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land. And sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the midst of the city.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, [ergänzt: that] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

How doth the city sit solitary [ergänzt: that] was full of people! She that was great among the nations is become as a widow; the princess among the provinces is become tributary!

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

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath no comforter; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

הָ֥יוּ Ha.yu “they have become”

Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

הָי֨וּ ha.Yu “they have become”