So one of the priests went, whom they had deported from Samaria, and he settled in Bethel and was teaching them how they should fear Yahweh.

How {can you repulse a single captain among the least of the servants of my master}? [Yet] you rely for yourself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen!

"O Yahweh, please remember how I went about before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and [remember] the good that I have done in your eyes." Then Hezekiah {wept bitterly}.

Now the remainder of the acts of Hezekiah, all of his powerful [deeds], and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?

because you have a responsive heart, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants to become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before my face, I have also heard, declares Yahweh.

And David feared God on that day, saying, "How can I bring the ark of God [home] to me?"

But the king said to him, "How many times shall I make you swear that you speak nothing except the truth in the name of Yahweh?"

And his prayer, and [how] he responded to him, all his sin and his unfaithful acts, and the places where he built the high places and set up Asherahs and idols before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the words of the seers.

With the queen sitting beside him, the king said to me, "How long will your journey be and when will you return?" So it pleased the king and he sent me, and I set for him an appointed time.

I also shook out my garment and said, "This is how God will shake out everyone from his house who will not keep this promise. So this is how his possessions will be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised Yahweh, and the people kept this promise.

And every day Modecai would walk up and down in front of the courtyard of the {harem} to learn {how Esther was doing}.

And it was found written how Mordecai had reported concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold who had conspired {to assassinate} King Ahasuerus.

For {how can I bear} to look on the disaster that will find my people, and {how can I bear} to look on the destruction of my family?"

How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.

Teach me, and I myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.

How painful are {upright words}! But what does {your reproof} reprove?

{How long} will you not turn away from me? [Or] not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?

"{How long} will you say these [things], and the words of your mouth [be] a mighty wind?

"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?

"[He is the one] who moves mountains, and they do not know [how], who overturns them in his anger.

{How much less} can I myself answer him? [How] can I choose my words with him,

"{How many} [are] my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin.

{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.

If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?

"{How long} {will you hunt for words}? Consider, and afterward we shall speak.

"{How long} will you torment me and crush me with words?

"If you say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,

"How often is [the] lamp of [the] wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"

"[Is] not God [in the] height of [the] heavens? But see how lofty are {the highest stars}.

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

{How much less} for a human being [who is] a maggot, and {a human} [who is] a worm?"

"How you have helped {one who has no power}! [How] you have assisted [the] arm {that has no strength}!

How you have advised {one who has no wisdom}! And [what] sound wisdom you have made known {in abundance}!

Look, these [are] the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word} [that] we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

"I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?

then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?

for I do not know [how] {to flatter}, [else] my Maker would {soon} put an end to me.

If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'

{How much less} [when] you say [that] you do not see him, that [the] case [is] {before him}, and you are waiting for him!

Do you know {how God commands them} and [how] he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?

Yahweh, how many are my enemies; many [are] rising against me.

O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? [How long] will you love vanity? [How long] will you seek lies? Selah

My soul is also very terrified. But you, O Yahweh, how long?

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic [is] your name in all the earth, who put your splendor above the heavens.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic [is] your name in all of the earth!

In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain [like] a bird"?

How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I take counsel in my soul, [and] sorrow in my heart [all the] day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

O Yahweh, [the] king will rejoice in your strength, and how greatly he will delight in your help.

How abundant [is] your goodness that you have stored up for [those who] fear you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before [the] children of humankind.

My Lord, how long will you watch? Restore my life from their ravages, my only [life] from [the] young lions.

How precious [is] your loyal love, O God, and the children of humankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

"Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I [am]."

They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl [the] city.

They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl [the] city.

How long will you attack a man? All of you will be shattered like a leaning wall, a tottering fence.

Say to God, "How awesome are your works! Because of the greatness of your strength, your enemies will cringe before you.

And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"

When I thought about [how] to understand this, it [was] troubling in my eyes

How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.

We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long.

How long, O God, will [the] adversary taunt? Will [the] enemy treat your name with contempt forever?

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in [the] wasteland!

how he performed his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan,

How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

O Yahweh God [of] hosts, {how long will you be angry} against the prayer of your people?

"How long will you judge unjustly and {show favoritism to the wicked}? Selah

How lovely [are] your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts!

How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire [forever]?

Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, [how] I bear in my bosom [the taunts of] all [the] many peoples,

Return, O Yahweh. How long? And have compassion on your servants.

How great are your deeds, O Yahweh; [how] very deep are your thoughts.

How long [will the] wicked, O Yahweh, how long will [the] wicked exult?

How many are your works, O Yahweh; all of them you have done in wisdom. The earth is full of your creatures.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By taking heed according to your word.

How many [are] the days of your servant? When will you execute justice against those who persecute me?

How I love your law! The whole day it [is] my meditation.

How smooth [are] your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth.

How he swore to Yahweh, he vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

Look, how good and how pleasant [it is] [when] brothers dwell together in unity.

How could we sing the song of Yahweh in {a foreign land}?

And to me, how precious are your thoughts, O God; how vast is their sum.

"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"

How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep?

If the righteous on earth will be repaid, {how much more} the wicked and sinner.

Sheol and Abaddon [are] before Yahweh, {how much more} the hearts of the children of men!

Joy [belongs] to a man with answers in his mouth, and a word in its time, how good [it is]!

Getting wisdom: {how much} better than gold! And getting understanding: it is chosen {over} silver.

All the brothers of the poor, [if] they hate him, how much more will his friends keep away from him. He pursues [them with] words, [and] they are gone.

[Away] from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways?

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness!

[There is] a generation--how lofty [are] their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift.

Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?

Also if two lie together, {they can keep each other warm}. But how can one person be warm?

A poor but wise youth [is] better than an old but foolish king who no longer knows {how to receive advice}.

So do the wise [really] have an advantage over fools? {Can the poor [really] gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others}?

{Increasing words only multiplies futility}, how does that profit anyone?