Lexicon :: Strong's H4583 - māʿôn

“Look down from your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you swore to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.

“Why, then, do all of you despise my sacrifices and offerings that I require at the place of worship? You have honored your sons more than me, by making yourselves fat with the best part of all of the offerings of my people Israel.’

“You will see distress in the place of worship, in spite of all that is good in Israel, and no one in your family will ever again reach old age.

Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard them, and their prayer came into his holy dwelling place in heaven.

But the LORD, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of his messengers, sending them time and time again, for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

LORD, I love the house where you dwell,

the place where your glory resides.

God in his holy dwelling is

a father of the fatherless

and a champion of widows.

Be a rock of refuge for me,

where I can always go.

Give the command to save me,

for you are my rock and fortress.

Lord, you have been our refuge[fn]

in every generation.

Because you have made the LORD ​— ​my refuge,

the Most High ​— ​your dwelling place,

I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble,

a jackals’ den.

I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,

an uninhabited place.

Listen! A noise ​— ​it is coming —

a great commotion from the land to the north.

The cities of Judah will be made desolate,

a jackals’ den.

“As for you, you are to prophesy all these things to them, and say to them:

The LORD roars from on high;

he makes his voice heard from his holy dwelling.

He roars loudly over his grazing land;

he calls out with a shout, like those who tread grapes,

against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Hazor will become a jackals’ den,

a desolation forever.

No one will live there;

no human being will stay in it even temporarily.

Babylon will become a heap of rubble,

a jackals’ den,

a desolation and an object of scorn,

without inhabitant.

Where is the lions’ lair,

or the feeding ground of the young lions,

where the lion and lioness prowled,

and the lion’s cub,

with nothing to frighten them away?

“Let all humanity be silent before the LORD, for from his holy dwelling he has roused himself.”