Lexicon :: Strong's H5162 - nāḥam

On that day you will say:

“I will give thanks to you, LORD,

although you were angry with me.

Your anger has turned away,

and you have comforted me.

Therefore I said,

“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!

Do not try to comfort me

about the destruction of my dear[fn] people.”

“Comfort, comfort my people,”

says your God.

Shout for joy, you heavens!

Earth, rejoice!

Mountains break into joyful shouts!

For the LORD has comforted his people,

and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.

For the LORD will comfort Zion;

he will comfort all her waste places,

and he will make her wilderness like Eden,

and her desert like the garden of the LORD.

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and melodious song.

Be joyful, rejoice together,

you ruins of Jerusalem!

For the LORD has comforted his people;

he has redeemed Jerusalem.

“Poor Jerusalem, storm-tossed, and not comforted,

I will set your stones in black mortar,[fn]

and lay your foundations in lapis lazuli.

Your portion is among the smooth stones of the wadi;

indeed, they are your lot.

You have even poured out a drink offering to them;

you have offered a grain offering;

should I be satisfied with these?

to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor,

and the day of our God’s vengeance;

to comfort all who mourn,

As a mother comforts her son,

so I will comfort you,

and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

“Because of this, the earth will mourn;

the skies above will grow dark.

I have spoken; I have planned,

and I will not relent or turn back from it.”

“I have paid careful attention.

They do not speak what is right.

No one regrets his evil,

asking, ‘What have I done? ’

Everyone has stayed his course

like a horse rushing into battle.

“You have left me.”

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“You have turned your back,

so I have stretched out my hand against you

and destroyed you.

I am tired of showing compassion.

“Food won’t be provided for the mourner to comfort him because of the dead. A consoling drink won’t be given him for the loss of his father or mother.

“However, if that nation about which I have made the announcement turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.

Let that man be like the cities

the LORD demolished without compassion.

Let him hear an outcry in the morning

and a war cry at noontime

“Perhaps they will listen and turn ​— ​each from his evil way of life ​— ​so that I might relent concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

Then the young women will rejoice with dancing,

while young and old men rejoice together.

I will turn their mourning into joy,

give them consolation,

and bring happiness out of grief.

“‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you, and I will plant and not uproot you, because I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought on you.

She weeps bitterly during the night,

with tears on her cheeks.

There is no one to offer her comfort,

not one from all her lovers.[fn]

All her friends have betrayed her;

they have become her enemies.

What can I say on your behalf?

What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?

What can I liken you to,

so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?

For your ruin is as vast as the sea.

Who can heal you?

“When my anger is spent and I have vented my wrath on them, I will be appeased. Then after I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my jealousy.

“Even so, there will be survivors left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. Indeed, they will come out to you, and you will observe their conduct and actions. Then you will be consoled about the devastation I have brought on Jerusalem, about all I have brought on it.

“so you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did when you comforted them.

“I, the LORD, have spoken.

It is coming, and I will do it!

I will not refrain, I will not show pity,

and I will not relent.

I[fn] will judge you

according to your ways and deeds.

This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.’ ”

“I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to Sheol to be with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were comforted in the underworld.

“Pharaoh will see them

and be comforted over all his hordes —

Pharaoh and his whole army,

slain by the sword.”

This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

Tear your hearts,

not just your clothes,

and return to the LORD your God.

For he is gracious and compassionate,

slow to anger, abounding in faithful love,

and he relents from sending disaster.

The LORD relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said.

Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.

He prayed to the LORD, “Please, LORD, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.

Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying,

“Nineveh is devastated;

who will show sympathy to her? ”

Where can I find anyone to comfort you?

“Proclaim further: This is what the LORD of Armies says: My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will once more comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”

For the LORD of Armies says this: “As I resolved to treat you badly when your ancestors provoked me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Armies,

For the idols speak falsehood,

and the diviners see illusions;

they relate empty dreams

and offer empty comfort.

Therefore the people wander like sheep;

they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.