H4970–מָתַי–ma.tay

They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

מָתַ֥י ma.Tai “when?”

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

מָתַ֛י ma.Tai “when?”

How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

מָתַי֙ ma.Tai “when?”

I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?

מָתַ֗י ma.Tai “when?”

How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.

מָתַי֙ ma.Tai “when?”

The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

Then there came to my ears the voice of a holy one talking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was talking, How long will the vision be while the regular burned offering is taken away, and the unclean thing causing fear is put up, and the

מָתַ֞י ma.Tai “when?”

And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the waters of the river, How long will it be to the end of these wonders?

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

מָתַ֕י ma.Tai “when?”

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

מָתַ֞י ma.Tai “when?”

Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

מָתַ֕י ma.Tai “when?”

Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?

מָתַ֗י ma.Tai “when?”