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 male goats before the flocks.

וִהְי֕וּ (הְי֕וּ) h.Yu “be”

Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh.

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

Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

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

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it has become”

Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

תְּהִי־ te.hi- “it belong”

Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

יְהִי־לָהּ֙ (יְהִי) ye.hi “it be”

A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

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

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

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they will be”

They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.

תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה tih.Yeh “you will be”

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

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

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

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

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.

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

It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:

וְהָיָה֙ (הָיָה֙) ha.Yah “it will be”

For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in 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”

It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that 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 bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network round about.

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

and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [ergänzt: first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!

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

She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

הָ֥יוּ Ha.yu “they have become”

Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

הָי֨וּ ha.Yu “they have become”