Lexicon :: Strong's H188 - 'ôy

“Woe (judgment is coming) to you, Moab!

You are destroyed, O people of [the god] Chemosh!

Moab has given his sons as fugitives [that is, survivors of battle],

And his daughters into captivity

To Sihon king of the Amorites.

Then he took up his [seventh] discourse (oracle) and said:

“Alas, who can live unless God has ordained it?

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?

Who has strife? Who has complaining?

Who has wounds without cause?

Whose eyes are red and dim?

Their partiality testifies against them,

They display their sin like Sodom;

They do not even hide it.

Woe (judgment is coming) to [fn]them!

For they have brought evil on themselves [as a reward].

Woe (judgment is coming) to the wicked! It shall go badly with him,

For what his hand has done shall be done to him.

“Woe is me! For I am ruined,

Because I am a man of [ceremonially] unclean lips,

And I live among a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”

From the ends of the earth we hear songs, “Glory and honor to the Righteous One,”

But I say, “I waste away, I waste away. Woe to me!

The treacherous deal treacherously,

Indeed, the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

“Behold, the enemy comes up like clouds,

His chariots like the whirlwind;

His horses are swifter than eagles.

Woe (judgment is coming) to us, for we are ruined!”

For I heard a cry like a woman in labor,

The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,

The cry of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), who gasps for breath,

Who stretches out her hands, saying,

“Woe is me [my judgment comes]! I faint [in fear] before the murderers.”

“[They shout], ‘Prepare for war against her;

Arise, let us [take her by surprise and] attack her at noon.

But alas, the daylight pales,

The evening shadows grow long.

“Woe to me because of my [spiritual] brokenness!” [says Jeremiah, speaking for the nation.]

“My wound is incurable.”

But I said, “Surely this sickness and suffering and grief are mine,

And I must bear it.”

“I have seen your vile and detestable acts,

Even your adulteries and your lustful neighings [after idols],

And the lewdness of your prostitution

On the hills in the fields.

Woe (judgment is coming) to you, O Jerusalem!

How long will you remain unclean [by ignoring My precepts]?”

Woe to me, my mother, that you have given birth to me

To be a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth!

I have not loaned, nor have men lent money to me,

Yet everyone curses me.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to you, O Moab!

The people of [the pagan god called] Chemosh have perished;

For your sons have been taken away captive

And your daughters into captivity.

The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is covered with dust]!

Woe to us, for we have sinned!

“Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord GOD),

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD,

“Woe (judgment is coming) to the bloody city,

To the pot in which there is rust

And whose rust has not gone out of it!

Take out of it piece by piece,

Without making any choice.

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD,

“Woe to the bloody city!

I will also make the pile [of wood] high.

Woe (judgment is coming) to them, for they have wandered away from Me!

Devastation is theirs, because they have rebelled and trespassed against Me!

I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.

Even though they bring up their children,

Yet I will bereave them until not one is left.

Indeed, woe (judgment is coming) to them when I look away and withdraw [My blessing] from them!