Lexicon :: Strong's H1995 - hāmôn

“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you,

And [as a result] you shall be the father of many nations.

Saul’s watchmen in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away and they went here and there.

Now Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of the roar of an abundance of rain.”

Then a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Have you seen all this great army? Behold, I will hand them over to you, and you shall know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.’”

“And now you intend to assert yourselves against the kingdom of the LORD which is in the hands of the sons of David, since you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves (idols) which Jeroboam made for you as gods.

When [the men of] Judah came to the lookout tower of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude, and behold, they were dead bodies lying on the ground, and no one had escaped.

Because I feared the great multitude,

And the contempt of families terrified me,

So that I kept silence and did not acknowledge my sin and did not go out of the door?

“He scorns the tumult of the city,

And does not hear the shouting of the taskmaster.

Better is the little of the righteous [who seek the will of God]

Than the abundance (riches) of many wicked (godless).

These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul;

How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song],

With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

Who stills the roaring of the seas,

The roaring of their waves,

And the tumult of the peoples,

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its gain. This too is vanity (emptiness).

Therefore My people go into exile because they lack knowledge [of God];

And their honorable men are famished,

And their common people are parched with thirst.

A sound of tumult on the mountains,

Like that of many people!

A sound of the uproar of the kingdoms,

Of nations gathered together!

The LORD of hosts is mustering an army for battle.

Oh, the uproar of many peoples

Who roar like the roaring of the seas,

And the noise of nations

Who roar like the rumbling of mighty waters!

But the multitude of your enemies [that assault you] will become like fine dust,

And the multitude of the tyrants like the chaff which [fn]blows away;

And it will happen in an instant, suddenly [that your enemy is destroyed].

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel (Jerusalem),

Even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,

Will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

For so the LORD says to me,

“As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey,

And though a large group of shepherds is called out against him

He will not be terrified at their voice nor cringe at their noise,

So the LORD of hosts will come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill.”

For the palace has been abandoned, the populated city deserted;

The hill [of the city] and the watchtower have become caves [for wild animals] forever,

A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

At the sound of the tumult, the peoples flee;

At the lifting up of Yourself nations scatter.

“Then you will see and be radiant,

And your heart will tremble [with joy] and rejoice

Because the abundant wealth of the seas will [fn]be brought to you,

The wealth of the nations will come to you.

Look down from heaven and see from Your lofty dwelling place, holy and glorious.

Where are Your zeal and Your mighty acts [Your miracles which you did for Your people]?

The stirring of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained and withheld from me.

“Truly, [the hope of salvation from] the hill [where idols are worshiped] is a deception,

A tumult and noisy multitude on the mountains;

Truly in the LORD our God

Is the salvation of Israel.

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of [fn]waters in the heavens,

And He causes the clouds and the mist to ascend from the end of the earth;

He makes lightning for the rain,

And brings out the wind from His treasuries and from His storehouses.

“Because of the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of the war-horses [of the Babylonian king],

The rattling of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,

The fathers have not looked and turned back for their children,

So weak are their hands [with terror]

“Their camels will become plunder,

And their herds of cattle a spoil;

And I will scatter to all the [four] winds those who cut the corners of their hair [as evidence of their idolatry],

And I will bring their disaster from every side,” says the LORD.

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,

And He causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth.

He makes lightnings for the rain

And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

“The sea has come up over Babylon;

She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.