Lexicon :: Strong's H127 - 'ăḏāmâ

so that they may fear you

all the days they live on the land

you gave our ancestors.

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject[fn] the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be cut off and obliterated from the face of the earth.

“For the LORD will strike Israel so that they will[fn] shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, angering the LORD.

“for this is what the LORD God of Israel says, ‘The flour jar will not become empty and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the surface of the land.’ ”

After a long time, the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year: “Go and present yourself to Ahab. I will send rain on the surface of the land.”

Naaman responded, “If not, please let your servant be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will no longer offer a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.

Finally, the LORD removed Israel from his presence just as he had declared through all his servants the prophets. So Israel has been exiled to Assyria from their homeland to this very day.

“I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land I gave to their ancestors if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them ​— ​the whole law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.

Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of those who worked in the fields tilling the soil.

The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zeredah.

may you hear in heaven

and forgive the sin of your people Israel.

May you restore them to the land

you gave them and their ancestors.

then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for my name I will banish from my presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills[fn] and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.[fn]

“I will never again remove the feet of the Israelites from the land where I stationed your[fn] ancestors, if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them through Moses ​— ​all the law, statutes, and judgments.”

On the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and had put dust on their heads.

We will bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the LORD’s house year by year.

For distress does not grow out of the soil,

and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

If my land cries out against me

and its furrows join in weeping,

Their graves are their permanent homes,[fn]

their dwellings from generation to generation,

though they have named estates after themselves.

They were destroyed at En-dor;

they became manure for the ground.

When you send your breath,[fn]

they are created,

and you renew the surface of the ground.

They devoured all the vegetation in their land

and consumed the produce of their land.

How can we sing the LORD’s song

on foreign soil?

When his breath[fn] leaves him,

he returns to the ground;

on that day his plans die.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food,

but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.

The one who works his land

will have plenty of food,

but whoever chases fantasies

will have his fill of poverty.

Your land is desolate,

your cities burned down;

foreigners devour your fields

right in front of you —

a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.

Then I said, “Until when, Lord? ” And he replied:

Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,

houses are without people,

the land is ruined and desolate,

“For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.

For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will choose Israel again. He will settle them on their own land. The resident alien will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.

The Waters of Dibon[fn] are full of blood,

but I will bring on Dibon even more than this —

a lion for those who escape from Moab,

and for the survivors in the land.

The land of Judah will terrify Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble because of what the LORD of Armies has planned against it.

And at the end of the seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre and she will go back into business, prostituting herself with all the kingdoms of the world throughout the earth.

On that day the LORD will punish

the army of the heights in the heights

and the kings of the ground on the ground.

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?

Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

Then he will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

for the ground of my people

growing thorns and briers,

indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.

“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker —

one clay pot among many.[fn]

Does clay say to the one forming it,

‘What are you making? ’

Or does your work say,

‘He has no hands’?[fn]

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: “Look, my anger ​— ​my burning wrath ​— ​is about to be poured out on this place, on people and animals, on the tree of the field, and on the produce of the land. My wrath will burn and not be quenched.”

“They will be exposed to the sun, the moon, and all the stars in the sky, which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be collected and buried but will become like manure on the soil’s surface.

This is what the LORD says: “Concerning all my evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to my people, Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from them.

The ground is cracked

since no rain has fallen on the land.

The farmers are ashamed;

they cover their heads.

“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the soil’s surface. They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.