H4069–מַדּוּעַ–mad.du.a

Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

מַדּ֧וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste la

מַדּ֨וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?

מַדּ֥וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

מַדּ֜וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

מַדּ֨וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fe

מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?

מַדּ֤וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why have you said in the name of the Lord, This house will be like Shiloh, and this land a waste with no one living in it? And all the people had come together to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

And about Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: You have put this book into the fire, saying, Why have you put in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come, causing the destruction of this land and putting an end

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.

מַדּ֣וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.

מַדֻּ֛עַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”