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1. Jeremiah 8:14 מָה֙

   Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

2. Jeremiah 9:12 מָה֙

   Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

3. Jeremiah 11:15 מֶ֣ה

   What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?

4. Jeremiah 13:21 מַה־

   What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?

5. Jeremiah 14:8 לָ֤מָּה

   O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?

6. Jeremiah 14:9 לָ֤מָּה

   Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!

7. Jeremiah 15:18 לָ֣מָּה

   Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.

8. Jeremiah 16:10 מֶה֩וּמֶ֤הוּמֶ֣ה

   When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

9. Jeremiah 20:18 לָ֤מָּה

   Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

10. Jeremiah 22:8 מֶ֨ה

    And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’

11. Jeremiah 22:23 מַה־

    O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”

12. Jeremiah 23:28 מַה־

    Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

13. Jeremiah 23:33 מַה־מַה־

    “Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’

14. Jeremiah 23:35 מֶה־וּמַה־

    This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’

15. Jeremiah 23:37 מֶה־וּמַה־

    Thus you are to say to the prophet: ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and ‘What has the LORD spoken?’

16. Jeremiah 24:3 מָֽה־

    “Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” “Figs!” I replied. “The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”

17. Jeremiah 27:13 לָ֤מָּה

    Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

18. Jeremiah 27:17 לָ֧מָּה

    Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

19. Jeremiah 29:27 לָ֚מָּה

    So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?

20. Jeremiah 30:15 מַה־

    Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

21. Jeremiah 33:24 מָֽה־

    “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

22. Jeremiah 37:18 מֶה֩

    Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?

23. Jeremiah 38:25 מַה־וּמַה־

    If the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what he said to you; do not hide it from us, or we will kill you,’

24. Jeremiah 40:15 לָ֧מָּה

    Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

25. Jeremiah 44:7 לָמָה֩

    So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

26. Jeremiah 48:19 מַה־

    Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’

27. Jeremiah 49:4 מַה־

    Why do you boast of your valleys— your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’

28. Lamentations 2:13 מָֽה־מָ֣המָ֤ה

    What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

29. Lamentations 3:39 מַה־

    Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

30. Lamentations 5:1 מֶֽה־

    Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

31. Lamentations 5:20 לָ֤מָּה

    Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

32. Ezekiel 8:6 מֵהֶם

    “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”

33. Ezekiel 12:9 מָ֖ה

    “Son of man, hasn’t the rebellious house of Israel asked you, ‘What are you doing?’

34. Ezekiel 12:22 מָֽה־

    “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?

35. Ezekiel 15:2 מַה־

    “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?

36. Ezekiel 16:30 מָ֤ה

    How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!

37. Ezekiel 17:12 מָה־

    “Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

38. Ezekiel 18:2 מַה־

    “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?

39. Ezekiel 18:31 וְלָ֥מָּה

    Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

40. Ezekiel 19:2 מָ֤ה

    and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

41. Ezekiel 20:29 מָ֣ה

    So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)

42. Ezekiel 21:7 מָ֖ה

    And when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.’ Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.”

43. Ezekiel 21:13 וּמָ֕ה

    Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.

44. Ezekiel 24:19 מָה־

    Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?”

45. Ezekiel 33:11 וְלָ֥מָּה

    Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

46. Ezekiel 33:30 מָ֣ה

    As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’

47. Ezekiel 37:18 מָה־

    When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’

48. Daniel 1:10 לָמָּה֩

    but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”

49. Daniel 10:20 לָמָּה־

    “Do you know why I have come to you?” he said. “I must return at once to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I have gone forth, behold, the prince of Greece will come.

50. Daniel 12:8 מָ֥ה

    I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”