Lexicon :: Strong's H136 - 'ăḏōnāy

“What do you mean by crushing My people

And grinding the face of the poor?”

Declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

Therefore the Lord will afflict the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion with scabs [making them bald],

And the LORD will expose their foreheads (send them into captivity).”

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw [in a vision] the Lord sitting on a throne, high and exalted, with the train of His royal robe filling the [most holy part of the] temple.

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,

“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,

And houses are without people

And the land is utterly desolate,

In that day [when foreign armies swarm the land] the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from the regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), [that razor will shave] the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard [leaving Judah stripped, shamed and scorned].

Now therefore, listen carefully, the Lord is about to bring on them the waters of the [Euphrates] River, strong and abundant—

The king of Assyria and all his glory;

And it will rise over all its channels and canals and go far beyond its banks.

The Lord sends a word (message) against Jacob,

And it falls on Israel [the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim].

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men,

Nor does He have compassion on their fatherless or their widows;

For every one of them is godless and an evildoer,

And every mouth is speaking foolishness.

In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away

But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

So when the Lord has completed all His work [of judgment] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit [the thoughts, the declarations, and the actions] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.”

For the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will execute a complete destruction, one that is decreed, in the midst of all the land.

Then it will happen on that day that the Lord

Will again acquire with His hand a second time

The remnant of His people, who will remain,

From Assyria, from [Lower] Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush (Ethiopia), from Elam [in Persia], from Shinar [Babylonia], from Hamath [in Aram],

And from the coastlands bordering the [Mediterranean] Sea.

This is what the Lord says to me,

“Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.

And the lookout called like a lion,

“O Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower by day,

And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

For the Lord has said this to me, “Within a year, according to the years of a hired man [who will work no longer than was agreed], all the splendor of [the tribe of] Kedar will end;

For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of panic and of tumult, of trampling, of confusion

In the Valley of Vision,

A [day of] breaking down walls

And a crying [for help] to the mountain.

Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning,

To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation].

But the LORD of hosts revealed Himself in my ears,

“This sin absolutely will not be forgiven you

Until you die,” says the Lord GOD of hosts.

He will swallow up death [and abolish it] for all time.

And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces,

And He will take away the disgrace of His people from all the earth;

For the LORD has spoken.

Listen carefully, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent [the Assyrian];

Like a tempest of hail, a disastrous storm,

Like a tempest of mighty overflowing waters,

He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

Therefore the Lord GOD says this,

“Listen carefully, I am laying in Zion a Stone, a tested Stone,

A precious Cornerstone for the [secure] foundation, firmly placed.

He who believes [who trusts in, relies on, and adheres to that Stone] will not [fn]be disturbed or give way [in sudden panic].

Now do not carry on as scoffers,

Or the bands which bind you will be made stronger;

For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts [a decree]

Of decisive destruction on all the earth.

Then the Lord said,

“Because this nation approaches [Me only] with their words

And honors Me [only] with their lip service,

But they remove their hearts far from Me,

And their reverence for Me is a tradition that is learned by rote [without any regard for its meaning],

For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel has said this,

“In returning [to Me] and rest you shall be saved,

In quietness and confident trust is your strength.”

But you were not willing,

“Through your servants you have taunted and defied the Lord,

And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon.

I cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypress trees;

And I will go to its remotest height, its most luxuriant and thickest forest.

“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirp;

I coo like a dove.

My eyes look wistfully upward;

O Lord, I am oppressed, take my side and be my security.

“O Lord, by these things men live,

And in all these is the life of my spirit;

Restore me to health and let me live!

Listen carefully, the Lord GOD will come with might,

And His arm will rule for Him.

Most certainly His reward is with Him,

And His restitution accompanies Him.

“Come near to Me, listen to this:

From the beginning I have not spoken in secret,

From the time that it happened, I was there.

And now the Lord GOD has sent Me, and His [Holy] Spirit.”

But Zion (Jerusalem in captivity) said, “The LORD has abandoned me,

And my Lord has forgotten me.”

This is what the Lord GOD says,

“Listen carefully, I will lift up My hand to the [Gentile] nations

And set up My banner to the peoples;

And they will bring your sons in the fold of their garments,

And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

The Lord GOD has given Me [His [fn]Servant] the tongue of disciples [as One who is taught],

That I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.

He awakens Me morning by morning,

He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple [as One who is taught].

For the Lord GOD helps Me,

Therefore, I have not been ashamed or humiliated.

Therefore, I have made My face like flint,

And I know that I shall not be put to shame.

In fact, the Lord GOD helps Me;

Who is he who condemns Me [as guilty]?

Indeed, they will all wear out like a garment;

The moth will eat them.

The Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares:

“I will gather yet others to them (Israel), to those [already] gathered.”

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,

Because the LORD has anointed and commissioned me

To bring good news to the humble and afflicted;

He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted,

To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives

And freedom to prisoners,

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,

And as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,

So the Lord GOD will [most certainly] cause righteousness and justice and praise

To spring up before all the nations [through the power of His word].

Therefore, the Lord GOD says this,

“Listen carefully, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry;

Indeed, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty;

Indeed, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

“And you will leave your name behind to My chosen ones [who will use it] as a curse,

And the Lord GOD will put you to death,

But He will call His servants by another name [a much greater name, just as the name Israel was greater than the name Jacob].