H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And gone is from the daughter of Zion all her splendour; her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they have become”

Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her anguish all her treasures that she had from the days of old; now that her people fall by the hand of the adversary, and none doth help her, the adversaries have seen her, they have mocked at

הָי֖וּ ha.Yu “they were”

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore she is become as one unclean; all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness; she herself also sigheth, and turneth backward.

הָיָ֑תָה ha.Ya.tah “she has become”

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul. 'See, O LORD, and behold, how abject I am become.'

הָיִ֖יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I am”

'For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; because the comforter is far from me, even he that should refresh my soul; my children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.'

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they are”

Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries; Jerusalem is among them as one unclean.

הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it has become”

They have heard that I sigh, there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble, and are glad, for Thou hast done it; Thou wilt bring the day that Thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

וְיִֽהְי֥וּ (יִֽהְי֥וּ) yih.Yu “they may be”

The Lord is become as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed his strongholds; and He hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and moaning.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “he has become”

Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side, and there was none in the day of the LORD'S anger that escaped or remained; those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.'

הָיָ֛ה ha.Yah “he was”

I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

הָיִ֤יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I have become”

Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

וַתֶּ֔הִי (תֶּ֔הִי) Te.hi “it was”

Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.

הָ֥יָה Ha.yah “it has happened”

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it has become”

They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they are”

The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they have been”

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heaven; they chased us upon the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they were”

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.

הָ֣יָה Ha.yah “has it happened”

We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

הָיִ֙ינוּ֙ ha.Yi.nu “we have become”

For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;

הָיָ֤ה ha.Yah “it has become”

NOW IT came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

the word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

הָיֹ֣ה ha.Yoh “expressly <come>”הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it came”וַתְּהִ֥י (תְּהִ֥י) te.Hi “it was”

And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it was”

The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “it was”

Whithersoever the spirit was to go, as the spirit was to go thither, so they went; and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it was”

For, when there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads, as they stood, they let down their wings.

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “it came”