Lexicon :: Strong's H349 - 'êḵ

“If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I am; how can I dispossess them?’

“How could one chase a thousand,

And two put ten thousand to flight,

Unless their Rock had sold them,

And the LORD had given them up?

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

“Your glory and splendor, O Israel, is slain upon your high places!

How the mighty have fallen!

“How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle!

Jonathan lies slain upon your high places.

“How the mighty have fallen,

And the weapons of war have perished!”

King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served and advised his father Solomon while he was still alive and said, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

The servant of the man of God got up early and went out, and behold, there was an army with horses and chariots encircling the city. Elisha’s servant said to him, “Oh no, my master! What are we to do?”

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon [as advisers] while he was alive, asking, “What advice do you give me in answer to these people?”

“How then can you vainly comfort me with empty words,

Since your answers remain untrue?”

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

In the LORD I take refuge [and put my trust];

How can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to your mountain;

They say, “How does God know?

Is there knowledge [of us] with the Most High?”

How they are destroyed in a moment!

They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!

How can we sing the LORD’S song

In a strange and foreign land?

And you say, “How I hated instruction and discipline,

And my heart despised correction and reproof!

“Tell me, O you whom my soul loves,

Where do you pasture your flock,

Where do you make it lie down at noon?

For why should I be like one who is veiled

Beside the flocks of your companions?”

“I had taken off my dress,

How can I put it on again?

I had washed my feet,

How could I get them dirty again?

How the faithful city has become a prostitute [idolatrous, despicable],

She who was full of justice!

Right standing with God once lodged in her,

But now murderers.

“How the oppressor has ceased [his insolence],

And how the fury has ceased!

“How you have fallen from heaven,

O [fn]star of the morning [light-bringer], son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the ground,

You who have weakened the nations [king of Babylon]!

The princes of [fn]Zoan are complete fools;

The counsel of the Pharaoh’s wisest advisors has become stupid.

How can you say to Pharaoh,

“I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?”

“For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it [I refrain and do not completely destroy you];

For how can My Name be defiled and profaned [as it would if My chosen people were completely destroyed]?

And I will not give My glory to another [by permitting the worshipers of idols to triumph over you].

“Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine,

A completely faithful seed.

How then have you turned against Me

Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled,

I have not gone after [man-made gods like] the Baals’?

Look at your way in the valley;

Know [without any doubt] what you have done!

You are a swift and restless young [female] camel [in the heat of her passion] running here and there,