H0349B–אֵיכָה–e.khah

How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

אֵיכָ֨ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?

אֵיכָה֙ 'ei.Khah “how?”

How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

אֵיכָ֞ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

(Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Make clear how this evil thing took place.

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

Now the servant of the man of God, having got up early and gone out, saw an army with horses and carriages of war all round the town. And the servant said to him, O my master, what are we to do?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

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

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

אֵיכָה֙ 'ei.Khah “how!”

How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

אֵיכָ֤ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

All you who are round about him, give signs of grief for him, and all you who have knowledge of his name, say, How is the strong rod broken, even the beautiful branch!

אֵיכָ֤ה 'ei.Khah “how!”

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

אֵיכָ֣ה׀ 'ei.Khah “how!”

How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.

אֵיכָה֩ 'ei.Khah “how!”

How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

אֵיכָה֙ 'ei.Khah “how!”

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

אֵיכָ֤ה 'ei.Khah “how!”