H4069–מַדּוּעַ–mad.du.a

What -- to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!

מַדּ֧וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst.

מַדּ֨וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

`Wherefore `is' thy clothing red? And thy garments as treading in a wine fat?'

מַדּ֥וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

A servant `is' Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, `We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'

מַדּ֜וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back -- a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.

מַדּ֨וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?

מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Righteous `art' Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

And when thou dost say in thy heart, `Wherefore have these met me?' For the abundance of thine iniquity Have thy skirts been uncovered, Have thy heels suffered violence.

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”

A grief -- a despised broken thing -- is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?

מַדּ֤וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Wherefore hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, `As Shiloh this house shall be, and this city is wasted, without inhabitant?' and all the people are assembled unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

Ask, I pray you, and see, is a male bringing forth? Wherefore have I seen every man, His hands on his loins, as a travailing woman, And all faces have been turned to paleness?

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

Where Zedekiah king of Judah hath shut him up, saying, `Wherefore art thou prophesying, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he hath captured it;

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

and unto Jehoiakim king of Judah thou dost say: Thus said Jehovah, Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Wherefore hast thou written on it, saying, The king of Babylon surely cometh in, and hath destroyed this land, and caused to cease from it man and beast?

מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”

Wherefore have I seen them dismayed -- They are turned backward, And their mighty ones are beaten down, And `to' a refuge they have fled, and not turned the face? Fear `is' round about -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

מַדּ֣וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Wherefore hath thy bull been swept away? He hath not stood, because Jehovah thrust him away.

מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Concerning the sons of Ammon: `Thus said Jehovah: Sons -- hath Israel none? heir -- hath he none? Wherefore hath Malcam possessed Gad? And his people in its cities have dwelt?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

And ye have said, Wherefore hath not the son, Borne of the iniquity of the father? And -- the son judgment and righteousness hath done, All My statutes he hath kept, And he doeth them, he surely liveth.

מַדֻּ֛עַ ma.Du.a' “why?”

Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”