H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Lord, I beg you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cup bearer to the king.

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

It happened 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 not been [ergänzt: before] sad in his presence.

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

The king said to me (the queen also sitting by him), For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “will it be”

So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

וָאֱהִי־ (אֱהִי) 'e.hi- “I was”

I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.

וָאֱהִ֨י (אֱהִ֨י) 'e.Hi “I was”

Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

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

Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

נִהְיֶ֥ה nih.Yeh “we will be”

(Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “[who] they were”

But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) ye.Hi “it was”

Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

הָיִ֣ינוּ ha.Yi.nu “we are”

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [ergänzt: the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “it belonged”

But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [ergänzt: and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

It happened from that time forth, that half of my servants worked in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.

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

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

וַתְּהִ֨י (תְּהִ֨י) te.Hi “it was”

Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. All the assembly said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “may he be”

Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [ergänzt: that is], twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

לִהְי֣וֹת (הְי֣וֹת) h.Yot “be”

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I didn't demand the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “it was”

Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.

נִֽהְיָה֙ nih.Yah “it has occurred”

For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

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

Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

הָי֖וּ ha.Yu “they were”

It happened, when all our enemies heard [ergänzt: of it], that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”