H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king

תְּהִ֣י te.Hi “may it be”הָיִ֥יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I was”

And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never before been sad when the king was present.

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”הָיִ֥יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I had been”

And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “will it be”

So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.

וָאֱהִי־ (אֱהִי) 'e.hi- “I was”

And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.

וָאֱהִ֨י (אֱהִ֨י) 'e.Hi “I was”

Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back.

וָאֱהִ֨י (אֱהִ֨י) 'e.Hi “I was”וָאֱהִ֥י (אֱהִ֥י) 'e.Hi “I was”

Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

נִהְיֶ֥ה nih.Yeh “we will be”

(Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower which comes out.)

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “[who] they were”

Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) ye.Hi “it was”

Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

הָיִ֣ינוּ ha.Yi.nu “we are”

So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “it belonged”

But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

And when it came to the ears of those who were against us, that we had knowledge of their designs and that God had made their purpose come to nothing, we all went back to the wall, everyone to his work

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

And from that time, half of my servants were doing their part of the work, and half kept the spears and body-covers and the bows and the metal war-dresses; and the chiefs were at the back of the men of Judah.

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.

וְהָֽיוּ־ (הָֽיוּ) ha.yu- “they will be”

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

וַתְּהִ֨י (תְּהִ֨י) te.Hi “it was”

And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise t

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “may he be”

Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

לִהְי֣וֹת (הְי֣וֹת) h.Yot “be”

Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “it was”

Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.

נִֽהְיָה֙ nih.Yah “it has occurred”

For this reason they had given him money, in order that I might be overcome by fear and do what he said and do wrong, and so they would have reason to say evil about me and put shame on me.

וְהָיָ֤ה (הָיָ֤ה) ha.Yah “it will become”

Keep in mind, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat and what they did, and Noadiah, the woman prophet, and the rest of the prophets whose purpose was to put fear into me.

הָי֖וּ ha.Yu “they were”

And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”