Lexicon :: Strong's H3021 - yāḡaʿ

“I am accounted wicked and held guilty;

Why then should I labor in vain [to appear innocent]?

I am weary with my groaning;

Every night I soak my bed with tears,

I drench my couch with my weeping.

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;

My eyes fail while I wait [with confident expectation] for my God.

Do not weary yourself [with the overwhelming desire] to gain wealth;

Cease from your own understanding of it.

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth

Does not become tired or grow weary;

There is no searching of His understanding.

Even youths grow weary and tired,

And vigorous young men stumble badly,

“Yet you have not called on Me [in prayer and worship], O Jacob;

But you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.

“Persist, then, [Babylon] in your enchantments

And your many sorceries

With which you have labored from your youth;

Perhaps you will be able to profit [from them],

Perhaps you may prevail and cause trembling.

“This is how they have become to you, those [astrologers and sorcerers] with whom you have labored,

Those who have done business with you from your youth;

Each has wandered in his own way.

There is no one to save you.

Then I said, “I have labored in vain,

I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity (pride, uselessness);

However My justice is with the LORD,

And My reward is with My God.”

“You were wearied by the length of your road,

Yet you did not say, ‘It is no use.’

You found [fn]renewed strength,

Therefore you did not grow weak.

The LORD has sworn [an oath] by His right hand and by His mighty arm,

“I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies,

Nor will [the invading] foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.”

“They will not labor in vain,

Or bear children for disaster;

For they are the descendants of those blessed by the LORD,

And their offspring with them.

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“The [fn]broad wall of Babylon will be completely overthrown and the foundations razed

And her high gates will be set on fire;

The peoples will labor in vain,

And the nations become exhausted [only] for fire [that will destroy their work].”

Our pursuers are at our necks;

We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

“Is it not indeed from the LORD of hosts

That peoples labor [only] for the fire [that will destroy their work],

And nations grow weary for nothing [that is, things which have no lasting value]?

You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, “In what way have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them,” or [by asking], “Where is the God of justice?”