H0349A–אֵיךְ–ekh

How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.

אֵ֤יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?

אֵ֗יךְ 'Eikh “how?”

and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!

אֵ֭יךְ 'eikh “how!”

For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

וְאֵ֛יךְ (אֵ֛יךְ) 'Eikh “how!”

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

אֵ֥יךְ 'eikh “how?”

that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, -- the exactress of gold ceased!

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!

אֵ֛יךְ 'eikh “how!”

They are but fools, the princes of Zoan, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh: [ergänzt: their] counsel is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how?”

And the inhabitants of this coast shall say in that day, Behold, such is our confidence, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?

וְאֵ֖יךְ (אֵ֖יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants? And thou reliest upon Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!

וְאֵ֣יךְ (אֵ֣יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

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

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

And I, -- I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?

וְאֵיךְ֙ (אֵיךְ֙) 'eiKh “how?”

How sayest thou, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? See thy way in the valley, acknowledge what thou hast done -- a swift dromedary traversing her ways!

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

And as for me, I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee the pleasant land, the goodly inheritance of the hosts of the nations? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt 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 else could I do for the daughter of my people?

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”

If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou then contend with horses? And if in a land of peace thou thinkest thyself in security, how wilt thou then do in the swelling 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 from his mouth?

אֵ֗יךְ 'Eikh “how?”

How shouldest thou be quiet? -- For Jehovah hath given it a charge: against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore, there hath he appointed it.

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

How do ye say, We are mighty, and men of valour for the war?

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how?”

They howl, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! And Moab shall be a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.

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

How is not the town of praise 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 an astonishment among the nations!

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

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

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

And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How hast thou perished, that wast inhabited from the seas, O renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, -- she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all them that dwell therein!

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”