H0349B–אֵיכָה–e.khah

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

אֵיכָ֨ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken?

אֵיכָה֙ 'ei.Khah “how?”

How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?

אֵיכָ֞ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest [ergänzt: thy flock], Where thou makest [ergänzt: it] to rest at noon: For why should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?

אֵיכָ֣ה 'ei.Khah “where?”אֵיכָ֖ה 'ei.Khah “where?”

How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

אֵיכָה֙ 'ei.Khah “how!”

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.

אֵיכָ֤ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

All ye that are round about him, bemoan him, and all ye that know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!

אֵיכָ֤ה 'ei.Khah “how!”

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!

אֵיכָ֣ה׀ 'ei.Khah “how!”

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

אֵיכָה֩ 'ei.Khah “how!”

How is the gold become dim! [ergänzt: how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

אֵיכָה֙ 'ei.Khah “how!”

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

אֵיכָ֤ה 'ei.Khah “how!”