Lexicon :: Strong's H5116 - nāvê

“You in Your lovingkindness and goodness have led the people whom You have redeemed;

In Your strength You have guided them with care to Your holy habitation.

“I have seen the foolish taking root [and outwardly prospering],

But I cursed his dwelling immediately [for his destruction was certain].

“You will know also that your tent is secure and at peace,

And you will visit your dwelling and fear no loss [nor find anything amiss].

Then, if you are pure and upright,

Surely now He will awaken for you

And restore your righteous place.

“Nothing of his dwells in his tent;

Brimstone (burning sulfur) is scattered over his dwelling [to purify it].

“The kings of the [enemies’] armies flee, they flee,

And the beautiful woman who remains at home divides the spoil [left behind].”

For they have devoured Jacob

And made his pasture desolate.

The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked,

But He blesses the home of the just and righteous.

There is precious treasure and oil in the house of the wise [who prepare for the future],

But a short-sighted and foolish man swallows it up and wastes it.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous;

Do not destroy his resting place;

For the fortified city is isolated,

A settlement deserted and abandoned like the desert;

There the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and [fn]feed on its branches.

Then my people will live in a peaceful surrounding,

And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places.

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts and observances;

Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a undisturbed settlement,

A tent which will not be taken down;

Not one of its stakes will ever be pulled up,

Nor any of its ropes be severed.

Thorns will come up in its fortified palaces,

Nettles and brambles in its fortified cities;

It will be a haunt for jackals,

An abode for ostriches.

And the burning sand (mirage) will become a pool [of water]

And the thirsty ground springs of water;

In the haunt of jackals, [fn]where they lay resting,

Grass becomes reeds and [fn]rushes.

“And [the plain of] Sharon will be a place for flocks to graze,

And the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds,

For My people who seek Me [who long for Me and require My presence in their lives].

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know nor recognize You

And on the families that do not call Your name.

For they have devoured Jacob;

They have devoured him and consumed him

And made his land a desolate waste.

“Therefore prophesy all these words against them and say to them:

‘The LORD will roar from on high

And utter His voice from His holy dwelling;

He will roar mightily against His fold and pasture.

He will jubilantly shout like those who tread the grapes [in the wine press],

Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Once more they will speak these words in the land of Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and in her cities when I restore their fortunes and release them from exile,

‘The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice and righteousness,

O holy mountain!’

“Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘There will again be in this desolate place—[a place] without man or animal—and in all its cities, pastures for shepherds who rest their flocks.

“All who found them have devoured them;

And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,

Because they have sinned against the LORD [and are no longer holy to Him], their [true] habitation of righteousness and justice,

Even the LORD, the [confident] hope of their fathers.’

“See, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan against the enduring habitation [of Babylon] and its watered pastures; for in an instant I will make Babylon run from his land. I will appoint over Babylon the one whom I choose. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me [into court] and prosecute Me [for this]? Who is the [earthly] shepherd who can stand [defiantly] before Me?”

Ephraim, as I have seen,

Is planted in a pleasant [and prosperous] meadow like Tyre;

But Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner [for slaughter].

So the [depopulated] seacoast shall be pastures,

With [deserted] meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.