H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be your to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

וּתְהִ֗י (תְהִ֗י) te.Hi “you are”

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [ergänzt: of grain] before it is grown up.

הָי֞וּ ha.Yu “they were”

It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

Then came the word of Yahweh to Isaiah, saying,

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it came”

Hezekiah was glad of them, and shown them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it was”

Then said he, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it was”

Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

וְהָיוּ֙ (הָיוּ֙) ha.Yu “they will be”

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

יִהְיֶ֛ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:

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

Behold, all those who are incensed against you shall be disappointed and confounded: those who strive with you shall be as nothing, and shall perish.

יִֽהְי֥וּ yih.Yu “they will be”

You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even those who contend with you: those who war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.

יִהְי֥וּ yih.Yu “they will be”

But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they have become”

You are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

יִהְיֶֽה׃ yih.Yeh “it will be”

Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.

וְהָיָ֤ה (הָיָ֤ה) ha.Yah “it belongs”

Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no other god.

יִֽהְי֔וּ yih.Yu “they will belong”

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the cattle: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [ergänzt: animal].

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they belong”

You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.

אֶהְיֶ֣ה 'eh.Yeh “I will be”

Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they have become”

Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.

הָיוּ־ ha.yu- “they have become”

Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit.

הֱיוֹתָ֖הּ (הֱיוֹתָ֖) he.yo.Ta “happened”

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength);

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he has been”

yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

מִֽהְיוֹתְךָ֥ (הְיוֹתְ) h.yot. “being”לִֽהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “be”

Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.

וְהָי֨וּ (הָי֨וּ) ha.Yu “they will be”