H0349A–אֵיךְ–ekh

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

אֵ֤יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?

אֵ֗יךְ 'Eikh “how?”

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

אֵ֭יךְ 'eikh “how!”

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

וְאֵ֛יךְ (אֵ֛יךְ) 'Eikh “how!”

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

אֵ֥יךְ 'eikh “how?”

that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How you are fallen from heaven, day-star, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

אֵ֛יךְ 'eikh “how!”

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how?”

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

וְאֵ֖יךְ (אֵ֖יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

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

וְאֵ֣יךְ (אֵ֣יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

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

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

וְאֵיךְ֙ (אֵיךְ֙) 'eiKh “how?”

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: [ergänzt: you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

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

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how!”

Therefore thus says Yahweh 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 you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

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

They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?

אֵ֗יךְ 'Eikh “how?”

How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there has he appointed it.

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

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

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how?”

How is it broken down! [ergänzt: how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who 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 apart 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!”

They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”