H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, Thou dost call Me -- My husband, And dost not call Me any more -- My lord.

וְהָיָ֤ה (הָיָ֤ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

And it hath come to pass in that day, I answer -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth.

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

and I say unto her, `Many days thou dost remain for Me, thou dost not go a-whoring, nor become any one's; and I also `am' for thee.'

תִֽהְיִ֖י tih.Yi “you must belong”

And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

וְהָיָ֥ה (הָיָ֥ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

`Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment `is' for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.

הֱיִיתֶ֣ם he.yi.Tem “you have been”

Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing.

תִֽהְיֶ֔ה tih.Yeh “it will become”

Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they have become”

And they do not say to their heart, `That' all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.

הָיֽוּ׃ ha.Yu “they are”

Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he has become”

And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- `to' Asshur they have gone.

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

They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This `is' their derision in the land of Egypt!

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they have become”

For even it `is' of Israel; an artificer made it, And it `is' not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

יִֽהְיֶ֔ה yih.Yeh “it will become”

Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they are”

Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.

הָיוּ־ ha.yu- “they have become”

As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They -- they have gone in `to' Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.

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

Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!

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

With cords of man I do draw them, With thick cords of love, And I am to them as a raiser up of a yoke on their jaws, And I incline unto him -- I feed `him'.

וָאֶהְיֶ֥ה (אֶהְיֶ֥ה) 'eh.Yeh “I was”

Surely Gilead `is' iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars `are' as heaps, on the furrows of a field.

הָי֔וּ ha.Yu “they are”

Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.

יִֽהְיוּ֙ yih.Yu “they will become”

And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.

וָאֱהִ֥י (אֱהִ֥י) 'e.Hi “I became”

I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon.

אֶהְיֶ֤ה 'eh.Yeh “I will be”

Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon.

וִיהִ֥י (יהִ֥י) Hi “it may be”

A word of Jehovah that hath been unto Joel, son of Pethuel:

הָיָ֔ה ha.Yah “it came”

Hear this, ye aged ones, And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land, Hath this been in your days? Or in the days of your fathers?

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

A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.

נִֽהְיָה֙ nih.Yah “it has occurred”