Lexicon :: Strong's H2015 - hāp̄aḵ

The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;

its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

No arrow can make him flee;

slingstones become like stubble to him.

You turned my lament into dancing;

you removed my sackcloth

and clothed me with gladness,

For day and night your hand was heavy on me;

my strength was drained[fn]

as in the summer’s heat.Selah

The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed;

you will heal him on the bed where he lies.

He turned the sea into dry land,

and they crossed the river on foot.

There we rejoiced in him.

The Ephraimite archers turned back

on the day of battle.

whose hearts he turned to hate his people

and to deal deceptively with his servants.

who turned the rock into a pool,

the flint into a spring.

The wicked are overthrown and perish,

but the house of the righteous will stand.

One with a twisted mind will not succeed,

and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,

her soil into sulfur;

her land will become burning pitch.

Then you will see and be radiant,

and your heart will tremble and rejoice,[fn]

because the riches of the sea will become yours

and the wealth of the nations will come to you.

But they rebelled

and grieved his Holy Spirit.

So he became their enemy

and fought against them.

I planted you, a choice vine

from the very best seed.

How then could you turn into

a degenerate, foreign vine?

Can the Cushite change his skin,

or a leopard his spots?

If so, you might be able to do what is good,

you who are instructed in evil.

Let that man be like the cities

the LORD demolished without compassion.

Let him hear an outcry in the morning

and a war cry at noontime

“But no longer refer to[fn] the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes his burden and you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Armies, our God.

Ask and see

whether a male can give birth.

Why then do I see every man

with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor

and every face turned pale?

Then the young women will rejoice with dancing,

while young and old men rejoice together.

I will turn their mourning into joy,

give them consolation,

and bring happiness out of grief.

LORD, see how I am in distress.

I am churning within;

my heart is broken,[fn]

for I have been very rebellious.

Outside, the sword takes the children;

inside, there is death.

Yes, he repeatedly turns his hand

against me all day long.

The punishment of my dear people

is greater than that of Sodom,

which was overthrown in an instant

without a hand laid on it.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

our houses to foreigners.

“Be aware that I will put cords on you so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

I was left alone, looking at this great vision. No strength was left in me; my face grew deathly pale,[fn] and I was powerless.

Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.

Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.

How can I give you up, Ephraim?

How can I surrender you, Israel?

How can I make you like Admah?

How can I treat you like Zeboiim?

I have had a change of heart;

my compassion is stirred!

The sun will be turned to darkness

and the moon to blood

before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

I overthrew some of you

as I[fn] overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were like a burning stick

snatched from a fire,

yet you did not return to me —

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Those who turn justice into wormwood

also throw righteousness to the ground.

Do horses gallop on the cliffs?

Does anyone plow there with oxen?[fn]

Yet you have turned justice into poison

and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood —

I will turn your feasts into mourning

and all your songs into lamentation;

I will cause everyone[fn] to wear sackcloth

and every head to be shaved.

I will make that grief

like mourning for an only son

and its outcome like a bitter day.

Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished! ”

For I will then restore

pure speech to the peoples

so that all of them may call

on the name of the LORD

and serve him with a single purpose.[fn]

“I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the Gentile kingdoms. I will overturn chariots and their riders. Horses and their riders will fall, each by his brother’s sword.