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H4069מַדּוּעַmad.du.a
why?Part of speech: Hebrew Interogative
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What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield 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 can't 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 stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
מַדּ֨וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
מַדּ֥וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [supplied: slave]? why is he become a prey?
מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?
מַדּ֜וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Why then is 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 from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?
מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?
מַדּ֤וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.
מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”
Ask now, and see whether a man does 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 shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”
Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?
מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”
Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.
מַדּ֣וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, because Yahweh did drive them.
מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities of it?
מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
מַדֻּ֛עַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”