Lexicon :: Strong's H2342 - ḥûl

“You were unmindful of the Rock who bore you,

And you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Tremble [reverently] before Him, all the earth;

The world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

When Esther’s maids and her eunuchs came and told her [what had happened], the queen was seized by great fear. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he would remove his sackcloth, but he did not accept them.

“Were you the first man to be born [the original wise man],

Or were you created before the hills?

“The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,

And numbered are the years stored up for him, the ruthless one.

“There is nothing left of what he devoured;

Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

“The spirits of the dead tremble

Underneath the waters and their inhabitants.

“Even though you say that you do not see Him [when missing His righteous judgment on earth],

Yet your case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

“Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock give birth [to their young]?

Do you observe the calving of the deer?

His ways prosper at all times;

Your judgments [LORD] are on high, out of his sight [so he never thinks about them];

As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness;

The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Be still before the LORD; wait patiently for Him and entrust yourself to Him;

Do not fret (whine, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way,

Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;

In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].

My heart is in anguish within me,

And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

The waters [of the Red Sea] saw You, O God;

The waters saw You, they were in anguish;

The deeps also trembled.

Before the mountains were born

Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world,

Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.

Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness;

Tremble [in submissive wonder] before Him, all the earth.

His lightnings have illuminated the world;

The earth has seen and trembled.

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,

At the presence of the God of Jacob (Israel),

“When there were no ocean depths I was born,

When there were no fountains and springs overflowing with water.

The north wind brings forth rain;

And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

Like a [careless] archer who [shoots arrows wildly and] wounds everyone,

So is he who hires a fool or those who [by chance just] pass by.

They [of Babylon] will be shocked and terrified,

Pains and anguish will grip them;

They will be in pain like a woman in childbirth.

They will stare aghast and horrified at one another,

Their faces aflame [from the effects of the unprecedented warfare].

Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now like a widow bereaved of her children];

For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,

“I have neither labored nor given birth [to children];

I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”

As a woman with child approaches the time to give birth,

She is in pain and struggles and cries out in her labor,

So we were before You, O LORD.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who says to a father, ‘What are you fathering?’

Or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

“Look to Abraham your father

And to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain;

For I called him when he was but one,

Then I blessed him and made him many.”

“Shout for joy, O barren one, she who has not given birth;

Break forth into joyful shouting and rejoice, she who has not gone into labor [with child]!

For the [spiritual] sons of the desolate one will be more numerous

Than the sons of the married woman,” says the LORD.

“Before she (Zion) was in labor, she gave birth;

Before her labor pain came, she gave birth to a boy.

My soul, my soul! I writhe in anguish and pain! Oh, the walls of my heart!

My heart is pounding and throbbing within me;

I cannot be silent,

For you have heard, O my soul,

The sound of the trumpet,

The alarm of war.

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth?

You [have seen their faithless heart and] have stricken them,

But they did not weaken;

You have consumed them,

But they refused to take correction or instruction.

They have made their faces harder than rock;

They have refused to repent and return to You.

‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the LORD.

‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?

For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,

An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.

Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];

Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].

[Is not such a God to be feared?]

“Behold, the tempest of the LORD has gone forth in wrath,

A whirling tempest;

It will whirl and burst on the heads of the wicked.

Behold, the tempest of the LORD!

Wrath has gone forth,

A sweeping and gathering tempest;

It will burst on the head of the wicked.

The land trembles and writhes [in pain and sorrow],

For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,

To make the land of Babylon

A desolation without inhabitants.

For the [punishment of the] wickedness of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem]

Is greater than the [punishment for the] sin of Sodom,

Which was overthrown in a moment,

And no hands were turned toward her [to offer help].

“I will set fire to Egypt;

Pelusium will writhe in [great] anguish,

Thebes shall be torn open

And Memphis shall be in daily distress.