Lexicon :: Strong's H5437 - sāḇaḇ

Why should I fear in times of trouble?

The iniquity of my foes surrounds me.

day and night they make the rounds on its walls.

Crime and trouble are within it;

They return at evening, snarling like dogs

and prowling around the city.

You will increase my honor

and comfort me once again.

They surround me like water all day long;

they close in on me from every side.

They surround me with hateful words

and attack me without cause.

The sea looked and fled;

the Jordan turned back.

All the nations surrounded me;

in the name of the LORD I destroyed them.

A door turns on its hinges,

and a slacker, on his bed.

Gusting to the south,

turning to the north,

turning, turning, goes the wind,

and the wind returns in its cycles.

So I began to give myself over[fn] to despair concerning all my work that I had labored at under the sun.

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

There was a small city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege works against it.

Also, they are afraid of heights and dangers on the road;

the almond tree blossoms,

the grasshopper loses its spring,[fn]

and the caper berry has no effect;

for the mere mortal is headed to his eternal home,

and mourners will walk around in the street;

Until the day breaks[fn]

and the shadows flee,

turn around, my love, and be like a gazelle

or a young stag on the divided mountains.[fn]

I will arise now and go about the city,

through the streets and the plazas.

I will seek the one I love.

I sought him, but did not find him.

The guards who go about the city found me.

They beat and wounded me;

they took my cloak[fn] from me —

the guardians of the walls.

Turn your eyes away from me,

for they captivate me.

Your hair is like a flock of goats

streaming down from Gilead.

Pick up your lyre,

stroll through the city,

you forgotten prostitute.

Play skillfully,

sing many a song

so that you will be remembered.

Certainly black cumin is not threshed

with a threshing board,

and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.

But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,

and cumin with a rod.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD.

Their houses will be turned over to others,

their fields and wives as well,

for I will stretch out my hand

against the inhabitants of the land.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“‘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.

How long will you turn here and there,

faithless daughter?

For the LORD creates something new in the land[fn] —

a female[fn] will shelter[fn] a man.

All the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and rejoined Johanan son of Kareah.

One pillar was 27 feet[fn] tall, had a circumference of 18 feet,[fn] was hollow ​— ​four fingers thick ​— ​

Their wings were touching. The creatures did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.

I will turn my face from them

as they profane my treasured place.

Violent men will enter it and profane it.

When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved. But wherever the head faced, they would go in that direction, without pivoting as they went.

“Son of man, because Tyre said about Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gateway to the peoples is shattered. She has been turned over to me.[fn] I will be filled now that she lies in ruins,’

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.[fn]

Then he turned to the west side

and measured 875 feet by the measuring rod.

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.

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.

Ephraim surrounds me with lies,

the house of Israel, with deceit.

Judah still wanders with God

and is faithful to the holy ones.[fn]

When you threw me into the depths,

into the heart of the seas,

the current[fn] overcame me.

All your breakers and your billows swept over me.

You will be filled with disgrace instead of glory.

You also ​— ​drink,

and expose your uncircumcision![fn]

The cup in the LORD’s right hand

will come around to you,

and utter disgrace will cover your glory.

All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be changed into a plain. But Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain[fn] on its site from the Benjamin Gate to the place of the First Gate,[fn] to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.