H4069–מַדּוּעַ–mad.du.a

What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected that it would bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

מַדּ֧וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish becometh putrid, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

מַדּ֨וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why art thou red in thy apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-vat.

מַדּ֥וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he laid waste?

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more to thee?

מַדּ֜וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why then hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

מַדּ֨וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a distant country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is there no balm in Gilead: is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered.

מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me speak with thee of thy judgments: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper? why are they all happy that deal very treacherously?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

And if thou shalt say in thy heart, Why come these things upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels made bare.

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel in which is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

מַדּ֤וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah, in the house of the LORD.

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

For Zedekiah king of Judah had confined him, saying, Why dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

Why have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and look not back: for fear was on all sides, saith the LORD.

מַדּ֣וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

מַדֻּ֛עַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”