Lexicon :: Strong's H1819 - dāmâ

Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews.

We have thought of Your lovingkindness, O God,

In the midst of Your temple.

“These things you have done and I kept silent;

You thought that I was just like you.

Now I will reprimand and denounce you and state the case in order before your eyes.

For who in the heavens can be compared to the LORD?

Who among the divine beings is like the LORD,

I am like a [mournful] [fn]vulture of the wilderness;

I am like a [desolate] owl of the wasteland.

Man is like a mere breath;

His days are like a shadow that passes away.

“To me, my love, you are like

My [favorite] mare among the chariots of Pharaoh.

“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.

Behold, he is standing behind our wall,

He is looking through the windows,

He is gazing through the lattice.

“Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away,

Return quickly, my beloved, and be like a gazelle

Or a young stag on the mountains of Bether [which separate us].”

“Your stature is like that of a palm tree

And your breasts like its clusters [of dates].

(The Shulammite Bride)

“Hurry, my beloved and come quickly,

Like a gazelle or a young stag [taking me home]

On the mountains of spices.”

If the LORD of hosts

Had not left us a few survivors,

We would be like Sodom,

We would be like Gomorrah.

Yet it is not Assyria’s intention [to do My will],

Nor does it plan so in its heart,

But instead it is its purpose to destroy

And to cut off many nations.

‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.’

To whom then will you liken God?

Or with what likeness will you compare Him?

“To whom then will you compare Me

That I would be his equal?” says the Holy One.

“To whom would you liken Me

And make Me equal and compare Me,

That we may be alike?

How shall I console you?

To what shall I compare you,

O Daughter of Jerusalem?

With what shall I compare you, so that I may comfort you,

O Virgin Daughter of Zion?

For your ruin is as vast as the sea;

Who can heal you?

‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

‘The cedars in the garden of God could not hide or rival it;

The cypress trees did not have boughs like it,

And the [fn]plane trees did not have branches like it.

No tree in the garden of God was like it in its beauty.

“Which among the trees of Eden do you equal in glory and in greatness [O Egypt]? Yet you [also] will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath (nether world). You will lie among the [fn]uncircumcised (the barbaric, the boorish, the crude) with those who were slain by the sword. This is how it shall be with Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ says the Lord GOD.”

‘You have compared yourself to a young lion among the nations,

But you are like a monster in the seas;

You burst into your rivers

And disturbed and muddied the waters with your feet

And fouled their rivers [the source of their prosperity].’”

I have also spoken to [you through] the prophets,

And I gave [them] many visions [to make My will known],

And through the prophets I gave parables [to appeal to your sense of right and wrong].