Lexicon :: Strong's H5116 - nāvê

With your faithful love,

you will lead the people

you have redeemed;

you will guide them to your holy dwelling

with your strength.

“So now this is what you are to say to my servant David: ‘This is what the LORD of Armies says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.

Then the king instructed Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor with the LORD, he will bring me back and allow me to see both it and its[fn] dwelling place.

“So now this is what you are to say to my servant David: ‘This is what the LORD of Armies says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.

I have seen a fool taking root,

but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

You will know that your tent is secure,

and nothing will be missing when you inspect your home.

if you are pure and upright,

then he will move even now on your behalf

and restore the home where your righteousness dwells.

Nothing he owned remains in his tent.

Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.

“The kings of the armies flee ​— ​they flee! ”

She who stays at home divides the spoil.

for they have devoured Jacob

and devastated his homeland.

The LORD’s curse is on the household of the wicked,

but he blesses the home of the righteous;

Precious treasure and oil are in the dwelling of a wise person,

but a fool consumes them.[fn]

Don’t set an ambush, you wicked one,

at the camp of the righteous man;

don’t destroy his dwelling.

For the fortified city will be desolate,

pastures deserted and abandoned like a wilderness.

Calves will graze there,

and there they will spread out and strip its branches.

Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place,

in safe and secure dwellings.

Look at Zion, the city of our festival times.

Your eyes will see Jerusalem,

a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander;

its tent pegs will not be pulled up

nor will any of its cords be loosened.

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;

her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.

She will become a dwelling for jackals,

an abode[fn] for ostriches.

the parched ground will become a pool,

and the thirsty land, springs.

In the haunt of jackals, in their lairs,

there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.

“Sharon will be a pasture for flocks,

and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,

for my people who have sought me.

Pour out your wrath on the nations

that don’t recognize you

and on the families

that don’t call on your name,

for they have consumed Jacob;

they have consumed him and finished him off

and made his homeland desolate.

“I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have banished them, and I will return them to their grazing land. They will become fruitful and numerous.

“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.

This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore their fortunes,[fn] they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, righteous settlement, holy mountain.’

“This is what the LORD of Armies says: In this desolate place ​— ​without people or animals ​— ​and in all its cities there will once more be a grazing land where shepherds may rest flocks.

“Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets[fn] of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me? Who will issue me a summons? Who is the shepherd who can stand against me? ”

Whoever found them devoured them.

Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty;

instead, they have sinned against the LORD,

their righteous grazing land,

the hope of their ancestors, the LORD.”

I will return Israel to his grazing land,

and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan;

he will be satisfied

in the hill country of Ephraim and of Gilead.

“Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets[fn] of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. I will chase Babylon[fn] away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me? Who will issue me a summons? Who is the shepherd who can stand against me? ”

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

“I will tend them in good pasture, and their grazing place will be on Israel’s lofty mountains. There they will lie down in a good grazing place; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

I have seen Ephraim like Tyre,

planted in a meadow,

so Ephraim will bring out his children

to the executioner.

The seacoast will become pasturelands

with caves for shepherds and pens for sheep.