H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.

וְלִהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “be”

The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they were”

Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it had happened”

Don't be you like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you 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 ridiculed them, and mocked them.

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

Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh.

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 didn't render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of goodly vessels;

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “it belonged”

However in [ergänzt: the business 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 that was in his heart.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it had happened”

He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.

יִֽהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it will be”

It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes.

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

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

Those who had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

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

Whoever 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which 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 [ergänzt: day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit 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 mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

הָֽיְתָ֛ה ha.ye.Tah “it has been”

Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh 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 Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

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

It happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

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

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned:

תְּהִ֣י te.Hi “may it be”

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.

יִהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “it will be”