H0349A–אֵיךְ–ekh

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

אֵ֤יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How shall we sing Jehovah's song In a foreign land?

אֵ֗יךְ 'Eikh “how?”

And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

אֵ֭יךְ 'eikh “how!”

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

וְאֵ֛יךְ (אֵ֛יךְ) 'Eikh “how!”

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm [ergänzt: alone]?

אֵ֥יךְ 'eikh “how?”

that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!

אֵ֛יךְ 'eikh “how!”

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how?”

And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?

וְאֵ֖יךְ (אֵ֖יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

וְאֵ֣יךְ (אֵ֣יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should [ergänzt: my name] be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another.

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

וְאֵיךְ֙ (אֵיךְ֙) 'eiKh “how?”

How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [ergänzt: thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how!”

Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [ergänzt: else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of the Jordan?

וְאֵ֥יךְ (אֵ֥יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”וְאֵ֥יךְ (אֵ֥יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

אֵ֗יךְ 'Eikh “how?”

How canst thou be quiet, seeing Jehovah hath given thee a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there hath he appointed it.

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

How say ye, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how?”

How is it broken down! [ergänzt: how] do they wail! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.

אֵ֥יךְ 'eikh “how!”אֵ֛יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?

אֵ֥יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

אֵ֤יךְ 'eikh “how!”אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how!”אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”

And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on all that dwelt there!

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”