H0349A–אֵיךְ–ekh

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

אֵ֤יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

אֵ֗יךְ 'Eikh “how?”

And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

אֵ֭יךְ 'eikh “how!”

That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

וְאֵ֛יךְ (אֵ֛יךְ) 'Eikh “how!”

Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

אֵ֥יךְ 'eikh “how?”

That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.

אֵ֛יךְ 'eikh “how!”

Only, fools `are' the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how?”

and the inhabitant of this isle hath said in that day -- Lo, thus `is' our trust, Whither we have fled for help, To be delivered from the king of Asshur, And how do we escape -- we?'

וְאֵ֖יךְ (אֵ֖יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?

וְאֵ֣יךְ (אֵ֣יךְ) 'Eikh “how?”

For My sake, for Mine own sake, I do `it', For how is it polluted? And Mine honour to another I give not.

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?

וְאֵיךְ֙ (אֵיךְ֙) 'eiKh “how?”

How sayest thou, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father -- ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how!”

Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how?”

For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”

For -- with footmen thou hast run, And they weary thee, And how dost thou fret thyself with horses! Even in the land of peace, `In which' thou art confident -- And how dost thou in the rising of Jordan!

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

And they asked Baruch, saying, `Declare, we pray thee, to us, how didst thou write all these words -- from his mouth?'

אֵ֗יךְ 'Eikh “how?”

How shall it be quiet, And Jehovah hath given a charge to it, 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 strength for battle?

אֵ֚יךְ 'eikh “how?”

How hath it been broken down! they have howled, How hath Moab turned the neck ashamed, And Moab hath been for a derision. And for a terror to all round about her.

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

How is it not left -- the city of praise, The city of my joy!

אֵ֥יךְ 'eikh “how!”

How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!

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

How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

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

And have lifted up for thee a lamentation, And said to thee: How hast thou perished, That art inhabited from the seas, The praised city, that was strong in the sea, She and her inhabitants, Who put their terror on all her inhabitants!

אֵ֣יךְ 'eikh “how!”