H4069–מַדּוּעַ–mad.du.a

What was there yet to do to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? --

מַדּ֧וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.

מַדּ֨וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

-- Wherefore is redness in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?

מַדּ֥וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born [ergänzt: slave]? Why is he become a spoil?

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee?

מַדּ֜וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with 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 very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?

מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of [ergänzt: thy] judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [ergänzt: wherefore] are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, [ergänzt: and] thy heels have suffered violence.

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

-- Hast thou then utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? Peace is looked for, and there is no good, -- and a time of healing, and behold terror!

מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vase? a vessel wherein is no delight? Wherefore are they thrown 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 Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

Ask ye now, and see, whether a male doth travail with child? Wherefore 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 dost thou prophesy and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I 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 Jehovah: 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 it man and beast?

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

Why do I see them dismayed, turned away back? And their mighty ones are beaten down, and take to flight, and look not back? Terror [ergänzt: is] on every side, saith Jehovah.

מַדּ֣וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Why are thy valiants swept away? They stood not, for Jehovah did thrust them down.

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Concerning the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? Why is Malcam heir of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

And ye say, Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? But the son hath done judgment and justice, hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them; he shall certainly live.

מַדֻּ֛עַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

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

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”