Lexicon :: Strong's H3808 - lō'

From the sole of the foot even to the head

There is nothing healthy in the nation’s body,

Only bruises, welts, and raw wounds,

Not pressed out or bandaged,

Nor softened with oil [as a remedy].

“What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me [without your repentance]?”

Says the LORD.

“I have had enough of [your] burnt offerings of rams

And the fat of well-fed cattle [without your obedience];

And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls or lambs or goats [offered without repentance].

“Do not bring worthless offerings again,

[Your] incense is repulsive to Me;

[Your] New Moon and Sabbath [observances], the calling of assemblies—

I cannot endure wickedness [your sin, your injustice, your wrongdoing] and [the squalor of] the festive assembly.

Your rulers are rebels

And companions of thieves;

Everyone loves bribes

And chases after gifts.

They do not defend the fatherless,

Nor does the widow’s cause come before them [instead they delay or turn a deaf ear].

Their partiality testifies against them,

They display their sin like Sodom;

They do not even hide it.

Woe (judgment is coming) to [fn]them!

For they have brought evil on themselves [as a reward].

“I will turn it into a wasteland;

It will not be pruned or cultivated,

But briars and thorns will come up.

I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”

In my ears the LORD of hosts said, “Be assured that many houses will become desolate,

Even great and beautiful ones will be unoccupied.

They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts;

But they do not regard nor even pay attention to the deeds of the LORD,

Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

Therefore the anger of the LORD has burned against His people,

And He has stretched out His hand against them and has struck them down.

And the mountains trembled, and their dead bodies lay like rubbish in the middle of the streets.

In spite of all this God’s anger is not turned away,

But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

No one among them is weary or stumbles,

No one slumbers or sleeps;

Nor is the belt at their waist undone [as if unprepared for action],

Nor is the strap of their sandal broken.

“You are not to say, ‘It is a conspiracy!’

In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy,

And you are not to fear what they fear nor be in dread of it.

When the people [instead of trusting God] say to you, “Consult the mediums [who try to talk to the dead] and the soothsayers who chirp and whisper and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

You [O God] will increase the nation,

You will multiply their joy;

They will rejoice before You

Like the joy and jubilation of the harvest,

As men rejoice when they divide the spoil [of victory].

The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west;

And they devour Israel with gaping jaws.

In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away

But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Yet the people do not turn back [in repentance] to Him who struck them,

Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts [as their most essential need].

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men,

Nor does He have compassion on their fatherless or their widows;

For every one of them is godless and an evildoer,

And every mouth is speaking foolishness.

In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away

But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

By the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is burned up,

And the people are like fuel for the fire;

No man spares his brother.

They slice off [in discord] what is on the right hand but are still hungry,

And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied;

Each eats the flesh of his own arm.

[The tribe of] Manasseh devours [the tribe of his brother] Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh,

And together they are against Judah (the southern kingdom, the house of David).

In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away

But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Yet it is not Assyria’s intention [to do My will],

Nor does it plan so in its heart,

But instead it is its purpose to destroy

And to cut off many nations.

For Assyria says, “Are not my princes all kings?

“Is not Calno [conquered] like Carchemish [on the Euphrates]?

Is not Hamath [subdued] like Arpad [her neighbor]?

Is not Samaria [in Israel] like Damascus [in Aram]?

Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her images

Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?” [declares Assyria].

“My hand has found the wealth of the people like a nest,

And as one gathers eggs that are abandoned, so I have gathered all the earth;

And there was not one that flapped its wing, or that opened its beak and chirped.”

Is the axe able to lift itself over the one who chops with it?

Is the saw able to magnify itself over the one who wields it?

That would be like a club moving those who lift it,

Or like a staff raising him who is not [made of] wood [like itself]!

Now in that day the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,

For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD

As the waters cover the sea.

Then the jealousy of [fn]Ephraim will depart,

And those who harass [fn]Judah will be cut off;

Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,

And Judah will not harass Ephraim.

Listen carefully, I will put the Medes [in motion] against them,

Who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold [and therefore cannot be bribed].

Their bows will cut down the young men [of Babylon];

They will take no pity on the fruit of the womb,

Their eyes will not look with compassion on the children.

Babylon will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;

Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there,

Nor will the shepherds let their sheep lie down there.

[fn]Hyenas will howl in their castles,

And jackals in their luxurious palaces.

Babylon’s time has nearly come,

And her days will not be prolonged.