H0349B–אֵיכָה–e.khah

How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

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

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared [ergänzt: to follow] after them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did 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 that Jehovah hath not spoken?

אֵיכָה֙ 'ei.Khah “how?”

How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?

אֵיכָ֞ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

(Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, "Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?"

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

And when the attendant of the man of God rose early and went forth, behold, an army surrounded the city, with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

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

אֵיכָ֥ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

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

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

How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.

אֵיכָה֙ 'ei.Khah “how!”

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? Behold, certainly the lying pen of the scribes hath made it falsehood.

אֵיכָ֤ה 'ei.Khah “how?”

All ye that are 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 [ergänzt: that] was full of people! She that was great among the nations is become as a widow; the princess among the provinces is become tributary!

אֵיכָ֣ה׀ 'ei.Khah “how!”

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

אֵיכָה֩ 'ei.Khah “how!”

How is the gold become dim! the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets!

אֵיכָה֙ 'ei.Khah “how!”

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

אֵיכָ֤ה 'ei.Khah “how!”