H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Move ye from the midst of Babylon, And from the land of the Chaldeans go out. And be as he-goats before a flock.

וִהְי֕וּ (הְי֕וּ) h.Yu “be”

And Chaldea hath been for a spoil, All her spoilers are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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

Because of the wrath of Jehovah it is not inhabited, And it hath been a desolation -- all of it. Every passer by at Babylon is astonished, And doth hiss because of all her plagues.

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

How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it has become”

Come ye in to her from the extremity, Open ye her storehouses, Raise her up as heaps, and devote her, Let her have no remnant.

תְּהִי־ te.hi- “it belong”

Summon unto Babylon archers, all treading the bow, Encamp against her round about, Let `her' have no escape; Recompense to her according to her work, According to all that she did -- do to her, For unto Jehovah she hath been proud, Unto the Holy One of Israel.

יְהִי־לָהּ֙ (יְהִי) ye.hi “it be”

A sword `is' on his horses and on his chariot, And on all the rabble who `are' in her midst, And they have become women; A sword `is' on her treasuries, And they have been spoiled;

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

And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land, For they have been against it, Round about -- in the day of evil.

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they will be”

And they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For desolations age-during art thou, An affirmation of Jehovah.

תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה tih.Yeh “you will be”

Ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Failed hath their might, they have become woman, They have burnt her tabernacles, Broken have been her bars.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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

How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land -- none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they will become”

and hast said: Jehovah, Thou, Thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that there is none dwelling in it, from man even unto cattle, for it is a desolation age-during.

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

And it hath come to pass, when thou dost finish reading this book, thou dost bind to it a stone, and hast cast it into the midst of Phrat,

וְהָיָה֙ (הָיָה֙) ha.Yah “it will be”

for, because of the anger of Jehovah, it hath been in Jerusalem and Judah till He hath cast them from before His face, and Zedekiah doth rebel against the king of Babylon.

הָֽיְתָה֙ ha.ye.Tah “it happened”

And it cometh to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, come hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon -- he and all his force -- against Jerusalem, and they encamp against it, and build against it a fortification round about;

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

In the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath been 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 `are' beneath the bases, that king Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, there was no weighing of the brass of all these vessels.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

And the pomegranates are ninety and six on a side, all the pomegranates `are' a hundred on the net-work round about.

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

and out of the city he hath taken a certain eunuch, who hath been inspector over the men of war, and seven men of those seeing the king's face, who have been found in the city, and the head scribe of the host, who mustereth the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land, who are found in the midst of the city;

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and fifth of the month, hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reign, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and bringeth him out from the house of restraint,

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

How hath she sat alone, The city abounding with people! She hath been as a widow, The mighty among nations! Princes among provinces, She hath become tributary!

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

She weepeth sore in the night, And her tear `is' on her cheeks, There is no comforter for her out of all her lovers, All her friends dealt treacherously by her, They have been to her for enemies.

הָ֥יוּ Ha.yu “they have become”

Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have been at ease, For Jehovah hath afflicted her, For the abundance of her transgressions, Her infants have gone captive before the adversary.

הָי֨וּ ha.Yu “they have become”