Lexicon :: Strong's H4557 - mispār

I would give him an account of all my steps;

I would approach him like a prince.

Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge;

the number of his years cannot be counted.

Don’t you know? You were already born;

you have lived so long![fn]

For troubles without number have surrounded me;

my iniquities have overtaken me; I am unable to see.

They are more than the hairs of my head,

and my courage leaves me.

Here is the sea, vast and wide,

teeming with creatures beyond number —

living things both large and small.

When they were few in number,

very few indeed,

and resident aliens in Canaan,

He counts the number of the stars;

he gives names to all of them.

I explored with my mind the pull of wine on my body ​— ​my mind still guiding me with wisdom — and how to grasp folly, until I could see what is good for people to do under heaven[fn] during the few days of their lives.

Here is what I have seen to be good: It is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his reward.

For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?

There are sixty queens

and eighty concubines

and young women[fn] without number.

The remaining trees of its forest

will be so few in number

that a child could count them.

“The remaining Kedarite archers will be few in number.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Look up and see!

Who created these?

He brings out the stars by number;

he calls all of them by name.

Because of his great power and strength,

not one of them is missing.

But where are your gods you made for yourself?

Let them rise up and save you

in your time of disaster if they can,

for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.

“Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah, and the altars you have set up to Shame[fn] ​— ​altars to burn incense to Baal ​— ​as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem.

Those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah only few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah, the ones going to the land of Egypt to stay there for a while, will know whose word stands, mine or theirs!

They will cut down her forest —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

though it is dense,

for they are more numerous than locusts;

they cannot be counted.

“Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity[fn] of the house of Israel on it. You will bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.

“But you are to take a few strands from the hair and secure them in the folds of your robe.

“But I will spare a few of them from the sword, famine, and plague, so that among the nations where they go they can tell about all their detestable practices. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the LORD to the prophet Jeremiah that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be seventy.

Yet the number of the Israelites

will be like the sand of the sea,

which cannot be measured or counted.

And in the place where they were told:

You are not my people,

they will be called: Sons of the living God.

For a nation has invaded my land,

powerful and without number;

its teeth are the teeth of a lion,

and it has the fangs of a lioness.