H4970–מָתַי–ma.tay

`They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'

מָתַ֥י ma.Tai “when?”

And I say, `Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, `Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted -- a desolation,

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

מָתַ֛י ma.Tai “when?”

Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

Till when doth the earth mourn, And the herb of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of those dwelling in it, Consumed have been beast and fowl, Because they said, `He doth not see our latter end.'

מָתַי֙ ma.Tai “when?”

Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, The wickedness of thy whoredom, on heights in a field, I have seen thine abominations. Wo to thee, O Jerusalem, Thou art not cleansed, after when `is it' again?

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

Till when is it in the heart of the prophets? The prophets of falsehood, Yea, prophets of the deceit of their heart,

מָתַ֗י ma.Tai “when?”

Till when dost thou withdraw thyself, O backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath prepared a new thing in the land, Woman doth compass man.

מָתַי֙ ma.Tai “when?”

Come hath baldness unto Gaza, Cut off hath been Ashkelon, O remnant of their valley, Till when dost thou cut thyself?

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

`And I hear a certain holy one speaking, and a certain holy one saith to the wonderful numberer who is speaking: Till when `is' the vision of the continual `sacrifice', and of the transgression, an astonishment, to make both sanctuary and host a treading down?

מָתַ֞י ma.Tai “when?”

and he saith to the one clothed in linen, who `is' upon the waters of the flood, `Till when `is' the end of these wonders?'

מָתַ֖י ma.Tai “when?”

Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?

מָתַ֕י ma.Tai “when?”

Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

מָתַ֞י ma.Tai “when?”

Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

מָתַ֕י ma.Tai “when?”

And the messenger of Jehovah answereth and saith, `Jehovah of Hosts! till when dost Thou not pity Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, that Thou hast abhorred these seventy years?'

מָתַ֗י ma.Tai “when?”