H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Therefore the wrath of Jehovah has been upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to vexation, to desolation, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah has chosen you to stand before him, to do service unto him, and to be his ministers and incense-burners.

וְלִהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “be”

And the number of the burnt-offerings, which the congregation brought, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

Only the priests were too few, and they could not flay all the burnt-offerings; therefore their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had hallowed themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to hallow themselves than the priests.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they were”

And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it had happened”

And be not like your fathers and like your brethren, who transgressed against Jehovah the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

תִּֽהְי֗וּ tih.Yu “you be”

And the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun; but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

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

The hand of God was also upon Judah to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of Jehovah.

הָֽיְתָה֙ ha.ye.Tah “it was”

And there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there had not been the like in Jerusalem.

וַתְּהִ֥י (תְּהִ֥י) te.Hi “it was”

But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit [ergänzt: done] to him, for his heart was lifted up; and there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

And Hezekiah had very much riches and honour; and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant vessels;

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “it belonged”

However in [ergänzt: the matter of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all [ergänzt: that was] in his heart.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it had happened”

And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it will be”

And it came to pass when the king heard the words of the law, that he rent his garments.

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.

וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ (יִּֽהְי֤וּ) i.yih.Yu “they were”

And them that had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they became servants to him and his sons, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia;

וַֽיִּהְיוּ־ (יִּהְיוּ) i.yih.yu- “they became”

Whosoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Jehovah the God of Israel -- he is God -- which is at Jerusalem.

יְהִ֤י ye.Hi “may he be”

And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building;

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

And we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

הָיְתָ֣ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this unfaithfulness.

הָֽיְתָ֛ה ha.ye.Tah “it has been”

And now for a little space there hath been favour from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

הָיְתָ֨ה ha.ye.Tah “it has come”

The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the fortress,

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”הָיִ֖יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I was”

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of the heavens,

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”וָֽאֱהִ֥י (אֱהִ֥י) 'e.Hi “I was”

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

תְּהִ֣י te.Hi “may it be”

but if ye return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

יִהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “it will be”