H4100–מָה–mah

A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

מַה־ mah- “what?”מַה־ mah- “what?”

Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.

מַה־ mi- “what?”

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!

מַה־ mah- “how!”

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree.

מָה־ mah- “what?”

And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the north.

מָ֥ה mah “what?”

These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

מַה־ mah- “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;

מֶ֣ה meh “what?”

Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.

מַה־ mah- “how!”

Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.

מַה־ mah- “why?”

And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no mo

מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is n

מֶ֗ה Meh “what?”

The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.

לָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

מָ֛ה mah “what?”