Lexicon :: Strong's H47 - 'abîr

“Then the horses’ hoofs beat [loudly]

Because of the galloping—the galloping of his valiant and powerful steeds.

Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds.

“Yet God draws away the mighty by His power;

He rises, but no one has assurance of life.

“In a moment they die, even at midnight

The people are shaken and pass away,

And the powerful are taken away without a [human] hand.

Many [enemies like] bulls have surrounded me;

Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

“Shall I eat the flesh of bulls

Or drink the blood of male goats?

Rebuke the beasts [living] among the reeds [in Egypt],

The herd of bulls (the leaders) with the calves of the peoples;

Trampling underfoot the pieces of silver;

He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

The stouthearted have been stripped of their spoil,

They have slept the sleep [of death];

And none of the warriors could use his hands.

Man ate the bread of angels;

God sent them provision in abundance.

“I have done this by the power of my [own] hand and by my wisdom,

For I have understanding and skill.

I have removed the boundaries of the peoples

And have plundered their treasures;

Like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.

Wild oxen will also fall with them

And the young bulls with the strong bulls;

And their land will be soaked with blood,

And their dust made greasy with fat.

“Listen to Me, you stiff-necked people,

You who are far from righteousness (right standing with God).

The snorting of [Nebuchadnezzar’s] horses is heard from Dan [on Palestine’s northern border].

At the sound of the neighing of his strong stallions

The whole land quakes;

For they come and devour the land and all that is in it,

The city and those who live in it.

“Why have your strong ones been cut down?

They do not stand because the LORD drove them away.

“Because of the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of the war-horses [of the Babylonian king],

The rattling of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,

The fathers have not looked and turned back for their children,

So weak are their hands [with terror]

“Though you are glad, though you rejoice,

O you who plunder My heritage,

Though you are wanton and skip about like a heifer in the grass

And neigh like stallions,

“The Lord has rejected all the strong men

In my midst;

He has proclaimed an established time against me

To crush my young men.

The Lord has trampled down as in a wine press

The Virgin Daughter of Judah.