H4100–מָה–mah

The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?

וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [supplied: due] to me is passed away from my God?

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?"

מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

Woe to him who says to a father, "What have you become the father of?" or to a woman, "With what do you travail?"

מַה־ mah- “what?”מַה־ mah- “what?”

Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.

מַה־ mi- “what?”

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!

מַה־ mah- “how!”

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Why have we fasted, [supplied: say they], and you don't see? [supplied: why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [supplied: your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what see you? I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

מָה־ mah- “what?”

The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see you? I said, I see a boiling caldron; and the face of it is from the north.

מָ֥ה mah “what?”

thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

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

How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [supplied: you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

מֶ֣ה meh “what?”

Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh.

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.

מַה־ mah- “how!”

Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

מַה־ mah- “why?”

You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [supplied: your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.

מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

מֶ֗ה Meh “what?”

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?

וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

לָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

מָ֛ה mah “what?”