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Lexicon :: Strong's H8074 - šāmēm

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שָׁמֵם
Transliteration
šāmēm
Pronunciation
shaw-mame'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2409

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁמֵם shâmêm, shaw-mame'; a primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense):—make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x

The KJV translates Strong's H8074 in the following manner: desolate (49x), astonished (20x), desolation (7x), waste (5x), destroy (3x), wondered (2x), amazed (1x), astonishment (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x
The KJV translates Strong's H8074 in the following manner: desolate (49x), astonished (20x), desolation (7x), waste (5x), destroy (3x), wondered (2x), amazed (1x), astonishment (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. to be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be desolated, be deflowered, be deserted, be appalled

      2. to be appalled, be awestruck

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be desolated, be made desolate

      2. to be appalled

    3. (Polel)

      1. to be stunned

      2. appalling, causing horror (participle)

        1. horror-causer, appaller (subst)

    4. (Hiphil)

      1. to devastate, ravage, make desolated

      2. to appal, show horror

    5. (Hophal) to lay desolate, be desolated

    6. (Hithpolel)

      1. to cause to be desolate

      2. to be appalled, be astounded

      3. to cause oneself desolation, cause oneself ruin

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁמֵם shâmêm, shaw-mame'; a primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense):—make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
STRONGS H8074: Abbreviations
† [שָׁמֵם] verb be desoleted, appalled (connection of meanings not clear) (Late Hebrew id.; Jewish-Aramaic שְׁמַם Ithp. be dazed); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person feminine singular שָׁמֵ֑מָה Ezekiel 35:15, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשֹּׁם; 1 Kings 9:8 +, 3rd person masculine plural יָשֹּׁ֫מּוּ Job 17:8; Psalm 40:16, etc.; Imperative masculine plural שֹׁ֫מוּ Jeremiah 2:19; Infinitive construct (?) metaplastic שַׁמוֺת Ezekiel 36:3 (Ges§ 67r, but see infra); — תֵּשַׁם, etc. (see [יָשַׁם]) are placed here by most; Ezekiel 6:6 reads תִּישָׁ֑מְנָה, see Ges § 67 p dd; — Participle שׁוֺמֵם Lamentations 3:11 (see also Pō`); feminine שֹׁמֵמָ֔ה (Ges§ 84a s) 2 Samuel 13:20 +; plural שׁוֺמֵמִין Lamentations 1:14, etc.; —
1. be desolated, of Tamar 2 Samuel 13:20 (i.e. deflowered, or deserted; others appalled), of person elsewhere late Lamentations 1:16; נְתָנַנִי שֹׁמֵמָה Lamentations 1:13, שָׂמַ֫נִי שׁ׳ Lamentations 3:11; participle as feminine noun בְּנֵי שׁוֺמֵמָה Isaiah 54:1 (opposed to בְּעוּלָה) [Daniel 8:13 — Pō`.]; usually of land, etc. (sometimes=deserted), Isaiah 49:8; Ezekiel 33:28 (מֵאֵין עוֺבֵר), Ezekiel 35:12 (read שָֽׁמְמוּ Qr Co Toy Krae; >Kt שׁממה), Ezekiel 35:15; הֶחְָרָבוֺת הַשֹּׁמִמוֺת Ezekiel 36:4 (|| הֶעָרִים הַנֱּעֶזָבוֺת שַׁמּוֺת) Ezekiel 36:3 is probably corrupt, Co שְׁאָט as Ezekiel 36:5, Hi-Sm from שׁמה = נשׁם, Toy reads נָשֹׁם, Krae נָשֹׁם; — participle feminine plural as noun = desolate places Isaiah 49:19; Isaiah 61:4 (both || חֳרָבוֺת), Isaiah 61:4 (compare שְׁמָמָה Isaiah 62:4); = desolations Daniel 9:18, 26.
2. be appalled, awestruck, usually at (עַל) judgments on others, Leviticus 26:32 (H), Jeremiah 2:12 (see II. [חָרֵב]), Ezekiel 26:16; Ezekiel 27:35; Ezekiel 28:19; Isaiah 52:14; Job 17:8, compare 1 Kings 9:8 2 Chronicles 7:12; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 49:17; Jeremiah 50:13; on oneself Psalm 40:16 (עַלעֵֿקֶב). — Isaiah 42:14 see [נשׁם].
Niph. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular נָשַׁ֫מָּה Jeremiah 12:11 +, 3rd person plural נָשַׁ֫נּוּ Zephaniah 3:6 +; Participle feminine נְשַׁמָּה Ezekiel 36:34 +, etc.; — = Qal:
1. be desolated, of roads Leviticus 26:22 (H), Isaiah 33:8, bamoth Amos 7:9 (|| יֶחֱרָ֑בוּ), altars Ezekiel 6:4; compare Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 32:15; Zephaniah 3:6; Zechariah 7:14; Joel 1:17; Psalm 69:26; of lands Ezekiel 29:12; Ezekiel 30:7; Ezekiel 36:34, 35, cities Isaiah 54:3 (opposed to יוֺשִׁיבוּ), compare Ezekiel 36:35; Amos 9:14; Jeremiah 33:10; הַנְּשַׁמָּה Ezekiel 36:36 the desolated (that is, land, in figure).
2. be appalled Jeremiah 4:9; Lamentations 4:5; Ezekiel 4:17; Ezekiel 30:7, with עַל of thing Job 18:20.
Pō`. Participle
1. וֵָֽֽֽאשְׁבָה מְשׁוֺמֵם Ezra 9:3I sat appalled, compare Ezra 9:4
2. transitive appalling, causing horror (DrDan 150 f.): (הַ)שִּׁקּוּץ מְשֹׁמֵם Daniel 11:31, + perhaps Daniel 9:27a (see שִׁקּוּץ); so also שֹׁמֵם שִׁוּ׳ Daniel 12:11 (on שׁ׳ see Ges§ 52s), שֹׁמֵם הַפֶּשַׁע Daniel 8:13 the crime causing horror, and שׁ׳ as noun horror-causer, appaller, Daniel 9:27b.
Hiph. Perfect 2nd person masculine singular הֲשִׁמּ֫וֺתָ Job 16:7, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַשּׁים (Ges§ 67y) Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45, 3rd person masculine plural suffix וַיְשִׁמֵּם 1 Samuel 5:6, 1st person plural נַשִּׁים Numbers 21:30, etc.; Imperative masculine plural הָשַׁמּוּ (Ges§ 67v) Job 21:5; Infinitive absolute הַשְׁמֵם Micah 6:13; Participle מַשְׁמִים Ezekiel 3:15; —
1. devastate, ravage, accusative of person 1 Samuel 5:6; Ezekiel 20:26; Hosea 2:14 (figurative of vine), Job 16:7; accusative of location Leviticus 26:31, 32 (H) Jeremiah 10:25; Ezekiel 30:12, 14; Psalm 79:7, so (accusative omitted) Numbers 21:30 (poem in J E), Micah 6:13; — Ezekiel 14:8 see שִׂים Hiph.
2.
a. appal, accusative of person, with עַל at, Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45; Ezekiel 32:10.
b. inwardly transitive, וָאֵשֵׁב מִשׁ׳ Ezekiel 3:15 shewing horror, Job 21:5 (Bu Niph. הִשַּׁמוּ).
Hoph. Infinitive construct כָּליְֿמֵי הָשַּׁמָּה (that is הָאָרֶץ) Leviticus 26:34 (H) all the days of (its) being desolate, so Leviticus 26:35; 2 Chronicles 36:21; Aramaizing, בָּהְשַׁמָּה (Ges§ 67y) Leviticus 26:43.
Hithpō`. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׁתּוֺמֵם Psalm 143:4, etc.; —
1. be appalled, astounded, כִּי that, because, Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5; עַל of thing Daniel 8:27; עבּתוֺכִי יִשְׁתּ׳ Psalm 143:4 (compare 1st person plural נשתומם Ecclus. 43:24).
2. cause oneself desolation, ruin, Ecclesiastes 7:16.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8075.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

26:22; 26:31; 26:32; 26:32; 26:34; 26:35; 26:43

Numbers

21:30; 21:30

1 Samuel

5:6; 5:6

2 Samuel

13:20; 13:20

1 Kings

9:8; 9:8

2 Chronicles

7:12; 36:21

Ezra

9:3; 9:4

Job

16:7; 16:7; 17:8; 17:8; 18:20; 21:5; 21:5

Psalms

40:16; 40:16; 69:26; 79:7; 143:4; 143:4

Ecclesiastes

7:16

Isaiah

33:8; 42:14; 49:8; 49:19; 52:14; 54:1; 54:3; 59:16; 61:4; 61:4; 62:4; 63:5

Jeremiah

2:12; 2:19; 4:9; 10:25; 12:11; 18:16; 19:8; 33:10; 49:17; 49:20; 49:20; 50:13; 50:45; 50:45

Lamentations

1:13; 1:14; 1:16; 3:11; 3:11; 4:5

Ezekiel

3:15; 3:15; 4:17; 6:4; 6:6; 14:8; 20:26; 25:3; 26:16; 27:35; 28:19; 29:12; 30:7; 30:7; 30:12; 30:14; 32:10; 32:15; 33:28; 35:12; 35:15; 35:15; 36:3; 36:3; 36:4; 36:5; 36:34; 36:34; 36:35; 36:35; 36:36

Daniel

8:13; 8:13; 8:27; 9:18; 9:26; 9:27; 9:27; 11:31; 12:11

Hosea

2:14

Joel

1:17

Amos

7:9; 9:14

Micah

6:13; 6:13

Zephaniah

3:6; 3:6

Zechariah

7:14

H8074

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Strong's Number H8074 matches the Hebrew שָׁמֵם (šāmēm),
which occurs 86 times in 80 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Lev 26:22–Eze 14:8)

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;
and your highways shall be desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:32 - I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:34 - Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:35 - As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—
for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:30 - “But we have shot at them;
Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon.
Then we laid waste as far as Nophah,
Which reaches to Medeba.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:6 - But the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He ravaged them and struck them with tumors,[fn] both Ashdod and its territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:8 - “And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:21 - “And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:21 - to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:3 - So when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down astonished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:4 - Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 - But now He has worn me out;
You have made desolate all my company.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:8 - Upright men are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:20 - Those in the west are astonished at his day,
As those in the east are frightened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:5 - Look at me and be astonished;
Put your hand over your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:15 - Let them be confounded because of their shame,
Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 - Let their dwelling place be desolate;
Let no one live in their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 - For they have devoured Jacob,
And laid waste his dwelling place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 143:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:4 - Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me;
My heart within me is distressed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:16 - Do not be overly righteous,
Nor be overly wise:
Why should you destroy yourself?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste,
The traveling man ceases.
He has broken the covenant,
He has despised the cities,[fn]
He regards no man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:8 - Thus says the LORD:

“In an acceptable time I have heard You,
And in the day of salvation I have helped You;
I will preserve You and give You
As a covenant to the people,
To restore the earth,
To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19 - “For your waste and desolate places,
And the land of your destruction,
Will even now be too small for the inhabitants;
And those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:14 - Just as many were astonished at you,
So His visage was marred more than any man,
And His form more than the sons of men;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:1 - “Sing, O barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:16 - He saw that there was no man,
And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - And they shall rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:5 - I looked, but there was no one to help,
And I wondered
That there was no one to uphold;
Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me;
And My own fury, it sustained Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:12 - Be astonished, O heavens, at this,
And be horribly afraid;
Be very desolate,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:9 - “And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the LORD,
“That the heart of the king shall perish,
And the heart of the princes;
The priests shall be astonished,
And the prophets shall wonder.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out Your fury on the Gentiles, who do not know You,
And on the families who do not call on Your name;
For they have eaten up Jacob,
Devoured him and consumed him,
And made his dwelling place desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:11 - They have made it desolate;
Desolate, it mourns to Me;
The whole land is made desolate,
Because no one takes it to heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:16 - To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - “I will make this city desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - “Thus says the LORD: ‘Again there shall be heard in this place—of which you say, “It is desolate, without man and without beast”—in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - “Edom also shall be an astonishment;
Everyone who goes by it will be astonished
And will hiss at all its plagues.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:20 - Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Edom,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - Because of the wrath of the LORD
She shall not be inhabited,
But she shall be wholly desolate.
Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified
And hiss at all her plagues.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:45 - Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 - The roads to Zion mourn
Because no one comes to the set feasts.
All her gates are desolate;
Her priests sigh,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she is in bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:16 - “For these things I weep;
My eye, my eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:5 - Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those who were brought up in scarlet
Embrace ash heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 - Because of Mount Zion which is desolate,
With foxes walking about on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:15 - Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:17 - “that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - “Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:8 - “I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

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