Lexicon :: Strong's H3759 - karmel

‘If you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the LORD, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened things.

Now [at another time] a man from Baal-shalisha came and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and fresh ears of grain [in the husk] in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give it to the people [affected by the famine] so that they may eat.”

‘Through your messengers you have taunted and defied the Lord,

And have said [boastfully], “With my many chariots

I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

I cut down its tall cedar trees and its choicest cypress trees.

I entered its most distant lodging, its densest forest.

The Lord will consume the glory of Assyria’s forest and of its fruitful garden, both soul and body,

And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field;

In the vineyards there will be no singing or joyful sound;

No treader treads out wine in the presses,

For I (God) put an end to the joyful shouting.

Is it not yet a very little while

Until Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field,

And the fertile field regarded as a forest?

Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,

And the wilderness becomes a fertile field,

And the fertile field is valued as a forest.

“Through your servants you have taunted and defied the Lord,

And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon.

I cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypress trees;

And I will go to its remotest height, its most luxuriant and thickest forest.

“I brought you into a plentiful land

To eat its fruit and [enjoy] its good things.

But you came and defiled My land

And you made My inheritance repulsive.

I looked, and behold, the fertile land was a wilderness,

And all its cities were pulled down

Before the [presence of the] LORD, before His fierce anger.

“So joy and gladness are taken away

From the fruitful field and from the land of Moab.

And I have made the wine cease from the wine presses;

No one treads the grapes with shouting.

Their shouting is not joyful shouting [but is instead, a battle cry].