Lexicon :: Strong's H2351 - ḥûṣ

because who can eat and who can enjoy life[fn] apart from him?[fn]

If only I could treat you like my brother,[fn]

one who nursed at my mother’s breasts,

I would find you in public and kiss you,

and no one would scorn me.

Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against his people.

He raised his hand against them and struck them;

the mountains quaked,

and their corpses were like garbage in the streets.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

I will send him against a godless nation;

I will command him to go

against a people destined for my rage,

to take spoils, to plunder,

and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,

falling down and weeping.

In the streets they cry[fn] for wine.

All joy grows dark;

earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.

Listen! Their warriors cry loudly in the streets;

the messengers of peace weep bitterly.

“He will not cry out or shout

or make his voice heard in the streets.

Your children have fainted;

they lie at the head of every street

like an antelope in a net.

They are full of the LORD’s fury,

the rebuke of your God.

Roam through the streets of Jerusalem.

Investigate;[fn]

search in her squares.

If you find one person,

any who acts justly,

who pursues faithfulness,

then I will forgive her.

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath;

I am tired of holding it back.

Pour it out on the children in the street,

on the gathering of young men as well.

For both husband and wife will be captured,

the old with the very old.[fn]

“Don’t you see how they behave in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

for Death has climbed through our windows;

it has entered our fortresses,

cutting off children from the streets,

young men from the squares.

The LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Obey the words of this covenant and carry them out.’

“The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them ​— ​they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.”

“‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to repel the weapons of war in your hands, those you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans[fn] who are besieging you outside the wall, and I will bring them into the center of this city.

“This is what the LORD says: In this place, which you say is a ruin, without people or animals ​— ​that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without people, without inhabitants, and without animals ​— ​there will be heard again

So King Zedekiah gave orders, and Jeremiah was placed in the guard’s courtyard. He was given a loaf of bread each day from the bakers’ street until all the bread was gone from the city. So Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard.

“So my fierce wrath poured out and burned in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets so that they became the desolate ruin they are today.

Those who were slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans,

those who were pierced through, in her streets.

LORD, see how I am in distress.

I am churning within;

my heart is broken,[fn]

for I have been very rebellious.

Outside, the sword takes the children;

inside, there is death.

Arise, cry out in the night

from the first watch of the night.

Pour out your heart like water

before the Lord’s presence.

Lift up your hands to him

for the lives of your children

who are fainting from hunger

at the head of every street.

How the gold has become tarnished,

the fine gold become dull!

The stones of the temple[fn] lie scattered

at the head of every street.

The sword is on the outside;

plague and famine are on the inside.

Whoever is in the field will die by the sword,

and famine and plague will devour

whoever is in the city.

“You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with them.

“He will trample all your streets with the hooves of his horses. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

“I will send a plague against her

and bloodshed in her streets;

the slain will fall within her,

while the sword is against her[fn] on every side.

Then they will know that I am the LORD.

“Since you have pushed with flank and shoulder and butted all the weak ones with your horns until you scattered them all over,

Now there was a wall surrounding the outside of the temple. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six units of twenty-one inches;[fn] each unit was the standard length plus three inches.[fn] He measured the thickness of the wall structure; it was 10 ¹/₂ feet,[fn] and its height was the same.

The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was 8 ³/₄ feet. The free space between the side rooms of the temple

A wall on the outside ran in front of the chambers, parallel to them, toward the outer court; it was 87 ¹/₂ feet long.

“Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering, and it must be burned outside the sanctuary in the place appointed for the temple.

“The prince should enter from the outside by way of the gate’s portico and stand at the gate’s doorpost while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He will bow in worship at the gate’s threshold and then depart, but the gate is not to be closed until evening.

Next he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate that faced east; there the water was trickling from the south side.