jps - Why

jps@Genesis:4:6 @ And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

jps@Genesis:12:18 @ And Pharaoh called Abram, and said: 'What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

jps@Genesis:12:19 @ Why saidst thou: She is my sister? so that I took her to be my wife; now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.'

jps@Genesis:27:45 @ until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him; then I will send, and fetch thee from thence; why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?'

jps@Genesis:47:15 @ And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said: 'Give us bread; for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.'

jps@Exodus:2:20 @...'And where is he? Why is...

jps@Exodus:3:3 @ And Moses said: 'I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.'

jps@Exodus:5:22 @ And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Lord, wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me?

jps@Exodus:18:14 @ And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said: 'What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?'

jps@Exodus:32:11 @ And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said: 'LORD, why doth Thy wrath wax hot against Thy people, that Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

jps@Numbers:20:4 @ And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle?

jps@Numbers:27:4 @ Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.'

jps@Deuteronomy:5:25 @ Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

jps@Joshua:5:4 @ And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.

jps@Judges:5:16 @ Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

jps@Judges:5:17 @ Gilead abode beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships? Asher dwelt at the shore of the sea, and abideth by its bays.

jps@Judges:5:28 @...so long in coming? Why tarry...

jps@Judges:6:13 @ And Gideon said unto him: 'Oh, my lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all His wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying: Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.'

jps@Judges:9:28 @ And Gaal the son of Ebed said: 'Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?

jps@Judges:11:7 @ And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead: 'Did not ye hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?'

jps@Judges:21:3 @ And they said: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?'

jps@Ruth:1:11 @ And Naomi said: 'Turn back, my daughters; why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

jps@Ruth:1:21 @ I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me back home empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?'

jps@1Samuel:1:8 @ And Elkanah her husband said unto her: 'Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?'

jps@1Samuel:6:3 @ And they said: 'If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return Him a guilt-offering; then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.'

jps@1Samuel:19:17 @ And Saul said unto Michal: 'Why hast thou deceived me thus, and let mine enemy go, that he is escaped?' And Michal answered Saul: 'He said unto me: Let me go; why should I kill thee?'

jps@1Samuel:20:2 @ And he said unto him: 'Far from it; thou shalt not die; behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he discloseth it unto me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.'

jps@1Samuel:20:8 @ Therefore deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee; but if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?'

jps@1Samuel:27:5 @ And David said unto Achish: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there; for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?'

jps@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Joab came to the king, and said: 'What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

jps@2Samuel:7:7 @...My people Israel, saying: Why have...

jps@2Samuel:11:21 @ who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say: Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'

jps@2Samuel:16:17 @ And Absalom said to Hushai: 'Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?'

jps@2Samuel:18:11 @ And Joab said unto the man that told him: 'And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have had to give thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.'

jps@2Samuel:19:10 @ And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?'

jps@2Samuel:19:11 @...elders of Judah, saying: Why are...--For the speech of all Israel was come to the king, to bring him to his house.--

jps@2Samuel:19:28 @ For all my father's house were deserving of death at the hand of my lord the king; yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet? or why should I cry any more unto the king?'

jps@2Samuel:19:36 @ Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

jps@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said: 'We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye; why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?' And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

jps@2Samuel:20:19 @ We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?'

jps@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said unto the king: 'Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they may be, a hundredfold, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it; but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?'

jps@1Kings:1:13 @ Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thy handmaid, saying: Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?

jps@1Kings:2:22 @ And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother: 'And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.'

jps@1Kings:2:43 @ Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?'

jps@1Kings:9:8 @...when they shall say: Why hath...

jps@1Kings:14:6 @ And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said: 'Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

jps@2Kings:6:33 @ And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him; and the king said: 'Behold, this evil is of the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?'

jps@2Kings:14:10 @ Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and will thy heart lift thee up? glory therein, and remain at home; for why shouldest thou meddle with evil, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

jps@1Chronicles:17:6 @...feed My people, saying: Why have...

jps@1Chronicles:21:3 @ And Joab said: 'The LORD make His people a hundred times so many more as they are; but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?'

jps@2Chronicles:7:21 @...astonished, and shall say: Why hath...

jps@2Chronicles:24:20 @...them: 'Thus saith God: Why transgress...

jps@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him: 'Have we made thee of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten?' Then the prophet forbore, and said: 'I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.'

jps@2Chronicles:25:19 @ Thou sayest--lo, thou hast smitten Edom; will thy heart therefore lift thee up to glory therein? abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle with evil, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?'

jps@Ezra:4:22 @ And take heed that ye be not slack herein; why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?'

jps@Ezra:7:23 @ Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

jps@Nehemiah:2:3 @ And I said unto the king: 'Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?'

jps@Nehemiah:6:3 @ And I sent messengers unto them, saying: 'I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?'

jps@Esther:4:5 @ Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.

jps@Job:3:11 @...not from the womb? Why did...

jps@Job:3:12 @ Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

jps@Job:7:20 @...Thou watcher of men? Why hast...

jps@Job:7:21 @ And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; and Thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.

jps@Job:9:29 @ I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?

jps@Job:15:12 @ Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?

jps@Job:19:22 @ Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

jps@Job:21:4 @ As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient?

jps@Job:24:1 @ Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know Him see His days?

jps@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye become altogether vain?

jps@Job:33:13 @ Why hast thou striven against Him? seeing that He will not answer any of his words.

jps@Psalms:2:1 @ Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

jps@Psalms:10:1 @...afar off, O LORD? Why hidest...

jps@Psalms:22:1 @ My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry?

jps@Psalms:42:5 @ Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the salvation of His countenance.

jps@Psalms:42:9 @...hast Thou forgotten me? Why go...

jps@Psalms:42:11 @ Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

jps@Psalms:43:2 @...Thou cast me off? Why go...

jps@Psalms:43:5 @ Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

jps@Psalms:44:23 @ Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.

jps@Psalms:52:1 @ Why boastest thou thyself of evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endureth continually.

jps@Psalms:68:16 @ Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode? Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever.

jps@Psalms:74:1 @...us off for ever? Why doth...

jps@Psalms:74:11 @ Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand, even Thy right hand? Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them.

jps@Psalms:80:12 @ Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?

jps@Psalms:88:14 @...Thou off my soul? Why hidest...

jps@Proverbs:5:20 @ Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?

jps@Proverbs:22:27 @ If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

jps@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then said I in my heart: 'As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?' Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

jps@Ecclesiastes:7:16 @ Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

jps@Ecclesiastes:7:17 @ Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish; why shouldest thou die before thy time?

jps@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon; for why should I be as one that veileth herself beside the flocks of thy companions?

jps@Songs:8:4 @...O daughters of Jerusalem: Why should...

jps@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: 'My way is hid from the LORD, and my right is passed over from my God'?

jps@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why dost Thou make us to err from Thy ways, and hardenest our heart from Thy fear? Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.

jps@Jeremiah:2:14 @ Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a prey?

jps@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

jps@Jeremiah:8:22 @...there no physician there? Why then...

jps@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O Thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest Thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

jps@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet Thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and Thy name is called upon us; leave us not.

jps@Jeremiah:14:19 @...Thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast...

jps@Jeremiah:15:18 @ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed? Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?

jps@Jeremiah:26:9 @ Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying: This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant?' And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:27:13 @ Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

jps@Jeremiah:29:27 @ Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you,

jps@Jeremiah:30:15 @ Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable? For the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

jps@Jeremiah:36:29 @...burned this roll, saying: Why hast...

jps@Jeremiah:46:15 @ Why is thy strong one overthrown? He stood not, because the LORD did thrust him down.

jps@Jeremiah:49:1 @...Hath he no heir? Why then...

jps@Ezekiel:18:19 ...Yet say ye: Why doth...

jps@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

jps@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say unto them: As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

jps@Daniel:1:10 @ And the chief of the officers said unto Daniel: 'I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces sad in comparison with the youths that are of your own age? so would ye endanger my head with the king.'

jps@Micah:4:9 @ Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no King in thee, is thy Counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

jps@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Why dost Thou show me iniquity, and beholdest mischief? And why are spoiling and violence before me? so that there is strife, and contention ariseth.

jps@Malachi:2:10 @...one God created us? Why do...

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