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kungathuba lini na ukuba aba bantu baseyerusalem baphambe ngokuphamba okungunaphakade? babambelela engohlisweni, bengavumi ukubuya.
why then is this people of jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

wathi umthetheli-waka, makangeniswe enqabeni yomkhosi; wathi makancinwe ngekatsi, ukuze azi ukuba kungathuba lini na ukuba benjenje ukunkqangaza ngaye.
the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.

ulilungisa, yehova, xa ndibambeneyo nawe; ndothetha iindawo ezisesikweni zodwa. kungathuba lini na ukuba indlela yabangendawo ibe nempumelelo, babe nokuchulumacha bonke abanginiza benginizile?
righteous art thou, o lord, when i plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

sizukulwanandini, likhangeleni ilizwi likayehova. bendiyintlango na kusirayeli? bendililizwe lesithokothoko na? kungathuba lini na ukuba bathi abantu bam, siyaphaphatheka, asizi kuwe?
o generation, see ye the word of the lord. have i been a wilderness unto israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, we are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

babethwa ke abaphathi boonyana bakasirayeli, ababemiswe phezu kwabo ngabaqhubi-kalukhuni babantu bakafaro, kusithiwa, kungathuba lini na, ukuba ningagqibi ukwenza izitena enizimiselweyo izolo nanamhla, njengokwangaphambili?
and the officers of the children of israel, which pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?