Lexicon :: Strong's H5048 - neḡeḏ

You have set our iniquities before you,

our secret sins in the light of your presence.

I will not let anything worthless guide me.[fn]

I hate the practice of transgression;

it will not cling to me.

Let their sins[fn] always remain before the LORD,

and let him remove[fn] all memory of them from the earth.

I will fulfill my vows to the LORD

in the presence of all his people.

I will speak of your decrees before kings

and not be ashamed.

I will give you thanks with all my heart;

I will sing your praise before the heavenly beings.[fn]

Let your eyes look forward;

fix your gaze[fn] straight ahead.

Stay away from a foolish person;

you will gain no knowledge from his speech.

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD — 

how much more, human hearts.

No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel

will prevail against the LORD.

And if someone overpowers one person, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not easily broken.

What advantage then does the wise person have over the fool? What advantage is there for the poor person who knows how to conduct himself before others?

Turn your eyes away from me,

for they captivate me.

Your hair is like a flock of goats

streaming down from Gilead.

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.

Woe to those who consider themselves wise

and judge themselves clever.[fn]

The moon will be put to shame

and the sun disgraced,

because the LORD of Armies will reign as king

on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,

and he will display his glory

in the presence of his elders.

All the nations are as nothing before him;

they are considered by him

as empty nothingness.

“Look, they are like stubble;

fire burns them.

They cannot rescue themselves

from the power of the flame.

This is not a coal for warming themselves,

or a fire to sit beside!

“Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;

your walls are continually before me.

For our transgressions have multiplied before you,

and our sins testify against us.

For our transgressions are with us,

and we know our iniquities:

For as the earth produces its growth,

and as a garden enables what is sown to spring up,

so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise

to spring up before all the nations.

“for my gaze takes in all their ways. They are not concealed from me, and their iniquity is not hidden from my sight.

“A measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.

denying justice to a man

in the presence of the Most High,

Then he measured the gate from the roof of one recess to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was 43 ³/₄ feet.[fn] The openings of the recesses faced each other.

the thresholds, the beveled windows, and the balconies all around with their three levels opposite the threshold ​— ​were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

Then the man led me out by way of the north gate into the outer court. He brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple yard and opposite the building to the north.

While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me someone who appeared to be a man.

“But the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me after I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

But they never consider that I remember all their evil.

Now their actions are all around them;

they are right in front of my face.

Hasn’t the food been cut off

before our eyes,

joy and gladness

from the house of our God?

You will go through breaches in the wall,

each woman straight ahead,

and you will be driven along toward Harmon.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

If they hide

on the top of Carmel,

from there I will track them down

and seize them;

if they conceal themselves

from my sight on the sea floor,

from there I will command

the sea serpent to bite them.

On the day you stood aloof,

on the day strangers captured his wealth,[fn]

while foreigners entered his city gate

and cast lots for Jerusalem,

you were just like one of them.

And I said, “I have been banished

from your sight,

yet I will look[fn] once more

toward your holy temple.”

Why do you force me to look at injustice?

Why do you tolerate[fn] wrongdoing?

Oppression and violence are right in front of me.

Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.