H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;

וְהָיָ֤ה (הָיָ֤ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;

וְהָיָ֣ה׀ (הָיָ֣ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.

תִֽהְיִ֖י tih.Yi “you must belong”

And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.

וְהָיָ֥ה (הָיָ֥ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.

הֱיִיתֶ֣ם he.yi.Tem “you have been”

Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.

תִֽהְיֶ֔ה tih.Yeh “it will become”

The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they have become”

And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

הָיֽוּ׃ ha.Yu “they are”

Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he has become”

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “he has become”

They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they have become”

The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

יִֽהְיֶ֔ה yih.Yeh “it will become”

Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they are”

Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

הָיוּ־ ha.yu- “they have become”

I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to whic

וַיִּהְי֥וּ (יִּהְי֥וּ) i.yih.Yu “they were”

My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.

וְיִהְי֥וּ (יִהְי֥וּ) yih.Yu “they may be”

I made them come after me with the cords of a man, with the bands of love; I was to them as one who took the yoke from off their mouths, putting meat before them.

וָאֶהְיֶ֥ה (אֶהְיֶ֥ה) 'eh.Yeh “I was”

In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.

הָי֔וּ ha.Yu “they are”

So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

יִֽהְיוּ֙ yih.Yu “they will become”

So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

וָאֱהִ֥י (אֱהִ֥י) 'e.Hi “I became”

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

אֶהְיֶ֤ה 'eh.Yeh “I will be”

His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

וִיהִ֥י (יהִ֥י) Hi “it may be”

The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

הָיָ֔ה ha.Yah “it came”

Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

הֶהָ֤יְתָה (הָ֤יְתָה) Ha.ye.tah “has it happened”

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

נִֽהְיָה֙ nih.Yah “it has occurred”