H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Wherefore the wrath of the LORD hath been upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister to him, and burn incense.

וְלִהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “be”

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

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt-offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites helped them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify 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 ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

תִּֽהְי֗וּ tih.Yu “you be”

So the posts 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”

Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.

הָֽיְתָה֙ ha.ye.Tah “it was”

So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

וַתְּהִ֥י (תְּהִ֥י) te.Hi “it was”

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

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor: 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 jewels:

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “it belonged”

But, in the business of the embassadors 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 that was in his heart.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it had happened”

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

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it will be”

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

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

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

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

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

Who is there 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 the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) who is in Jerusalem.

יְהִ֤י ye.Hi “may he be”

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

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day 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: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

הָֽיְתָ֛ה ha.ye.Tah “it has been”

And now for a little space grace hath been shown from the LORD 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 Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

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 down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

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

Let thy ear now be attentive, and thy eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess 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 turn to me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you driven to the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

יִהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “it will be”