Lexicon :: Strong's H1869 - dāraḵ

I see Him, but not now;

I behold Him, but not near.

A star shall come forth from [the descendants of] Jacob,

A scepter shall rise out of [the descendants of] Israel

And shall crush the forehead of Moab

And destroy all the sons of Sheth.

“Happy and blessed are you, O Israel;

Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD,

The Shield of your help,

And the Sword of your majesty!

Your enemies will cringe before you,

And you will tread on their high places [tramping down their idolatrous altars].”

“The torrent Kishon swept the enemy away,

The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.

O my soul, march on with strength.

The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh—valiant men able to bear shield and sword, and to shoot with the bow, and skillful in war—were 44,760 who went to war.

In those days I saw some in Judah who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves or sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I protested and warned them on the day they sold the produce.

Who alone stretches out the heavens

And tramples down the [fn]waves of the sea;

“Will you keep to the ancient path

That wicked men walked [in the time of Noah],

“Within the walls [of the wicked] the poor make [olive] oil;

They tread [the grapes in] the wine presses, but thirst.

“The proud beasts [and their young] have not walked on it,

Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.

If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword;

He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.

For look, the wicked are bending the bow;

They take aim with their arrow on the string

To shoot [by stealth] in darkness at the upright in heart.

Guide me in Your truth and teach me,

For You are the God of my salvation;

For You [and only You] I wait [expectantly] all the day long.

He leads the humble in justice,

And He teaches the humble His way.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow

To cast down the afflicted and the needy,

To slaughter those who are upright in conduct [those with personal integrity and godly character].

Let them flow away like water that runs off;

When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.

They aim venomous words as arrows,

You will tread upon the lion and cobra;

The young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.

He led them by the straight way,

To an inhabited city [where they could establish their homes].

Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,

For I delight in it.

I have instructed you in the way of [skillful and godly] wisdom;

I have led you in upright paths.

Their arrows are sharp and all their bows are strung and bent;

Their horses’ hoofs seem like flint and their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

And the LORD will utterly destroy

The tongue of the [fn]Sea of Egypt;

And with His scorching wind

He will wave His hand over the River;

He will strike and divide it into seven channels

And make [it possible for] people [to] walk over in sandals.

Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field;

In the vineyards there will be no singing or joyful sound;

No treader treads out wine in the presses,

For I (God) put an end to the joyful shouting.

For they have fled from the swords,

From the drawn sword, from the bent bow

And from the press of battle and grief of war.

“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know;

I will guide them in paths that they do not know.

I will make darkness into light before them

And rugged places into plains.

These things I will do [for them],

And I will not leave them abandoned or undone.”

This is what the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says,

“I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit (benefit),

Who leads you in the way that you should go.

They do not know the way of peace,

And there is no justice in their tracks.

They have made them into crooked paths;

Whoever walks on them does not know peace.

Why is Your apparel red,

And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?

“They bend their tongue like their bow;

[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;

For they proceed from evil to evil,

And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the LORD.

“Therefore prophesy all these words against them and say to them:

‘The LORD will roar from on high

And utter His voice from His holy dwelling;

He will roar mightily against His fold and pasture.

He will jubilantly shout like those who tread the grapes [in the wine press],

Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Charge, you horses,

And drive like madmen, you chariots!

Let the warriors go forward:

Ethiopia and Put (Libya) who handle the shield,

And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow.

“So joy and gladness are taken away

From the fruitful field and from the land of Moab.

And I have made the wine cease from the wine presses;

No one treads the grapes with shouting.

Their shouting is not joyful shouting [but is instead, a battle cry].

“Set yourselves in battle formation against Babylon on every side,

All you archers.

Shoot at her! Do not spare the arrows,

For she has sinned against the LORD.

“Call together many [archers] against Babylon,

All those who bend the bow.

Encamp against her on every side;

Let no one from there escape.

Repay her according to her actions;

Just as she has done, do to her.

For she has been proudly defiant and presumptuous against the LORD,

Against the Holy One of Israel.

“Do not let him (the Chaldean defender) who bends his bow bend it,

Nor let him rise up in his coat of armor.

So do not spare her young men;

Devote her entire army to destruction.

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:

“The Daughter of Babylon is like a [fn]threshing floor

At the time it is being trampled and prepared;

Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her.”

“The Lord has rejected all the strong men

In my midst;

He has proclaimed an established time against me

To crush my young men.

The Lord has trampled down as in a wine press

The Virgin Daughter of Judah.

He has bent His bow like an enemy;

He has set His right hand like an adversary

And slain all that were delightful and pleasing to the eye;

In the tent of the Daughter of Zion

He has poured out His wrath like fire.

He has bent His bow

And set me as a target for the arrow.