H0349A–אֵיךְ–ekh

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are wholly consumed by terrors.

אֵ֤יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How shall we sing the LORD'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 long ago have been forgotten. And how must 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 alone?

אֵ֥יךְ 'eikh “how?”

that thou shalt take up this parable 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, O day-star, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, that didst cast lots over the nations!

אֵ֛יךְ 'eikh “how!”

The princes of Zoan are utter fools; the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh are a senseless counsel; how can ye say 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 how shall we escape?'

וְאֵ֖יךְ (אֵ֖יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the least of my master's servants? yet thou puttest 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 it 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 plant of a strange 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; thou art a swift young camel traversing her ways;

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

But I said: 'How would I put thee among the sons, and give thee a pleasant land, the goodliest heritage 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 the LORD of hosts: behold, I will smelt them, and try them; for how 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 undone! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'

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 thickets 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? for the LORD hath given it 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!' wail ye! 'How hath Moab turned the back with shame!' so shall Moab become a derision and a dismay to all that are round about him.

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

'How is the city of praise left unrepaired, 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 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 art thou destroyed, that wast peopled from the seas, the renowned city, that wast strong in the sea, thou and thy inhabitants, that caused your terror to be on all that inhabit the earth

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”