H4100–מָה–mah

I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

מֶ֣ה meh “what?”

The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

מֶ֖ה meh “what?”

Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord

מָה֙ mah “what?”

Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

מָה֙ mah “what?”

About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

מֶ֣ה meh “what?”

What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

מֶה֩ meh “what?”וּמֶ֤ה (מֶ֤ה) Meh “what?”וּמֶ֣ה (מֶ֣ה) Meh “what?”

Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?

מֶ֨ה meh “what?”

O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

מַה־ mah- “how!”

If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

And if this people, or the prophet, or a priest, questioning you, says, What word of weight is there from the Lord? then you are to say to them, You are the word, for I will not be troubled with you any more, says the Lord.

מַה־ mah- “what?”מַה־ mah- “what?”

But this is what you are to say, every man to his neighbour and every man to his brother, What answer has the Lord given? and, What has the Lord said?

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

This is what you are to say to the prophet, What answer has the Lord given to you? and, What has the Lord said?

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

Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad very bad, and of no use for food, they are so bad.

מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

Why are you desiring death, you and your people, by the sword, and because food is gone, and by disease, as the Lord has said of the nation which does not become the servant of the king of Babylon?

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?

לָ֧מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

So why have you made no protest against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is acting as a prophet to you?

לָ֚מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

מַה־ mah- “why?”

Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.

מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What has been my sin against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

מֶה֩ meh “what?”

But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death;

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