Lexicon :: Strong's H5331 - neṣaḥ

‘Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces and destroyed;

Unobserved and unnoticed, they perish forever.

“You prevail forever against him and overpower him, and he passes on;

You change his appearance and send him away [from the presence of the living].

Yet he perishes forever like his own refuse;

Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

“There the righteous and upright could reason with Him;

So I would be acquitted forever by my Judge.

‘Job ought to be tried [fn]to the limit

Because he answers like wicked men!

“He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous [those in right standing with Him];

But with kings upon the throne

He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.

The enemy has been cut off and has vanished in everlasting ruins,

You have uprooted their cities;

The very memory of them has perished.

For the poor will not always be forgotten,

Nor the hope of the burdened perish forever.

He says to himself, “God has [quite] forgotten;

He has hidden His face; He will never see my deed.”

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever?

How long will You hide Your face from me?

You will show me the path of life;

In Your presence is fullness of joy;

In Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?

Awaken, do not reject us forever.

So that he should live on eternally,

That he should never see the pit (grave) and undergo decay.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;

They shall never again see the light.

But God will break you down forever;

He will take you away and tear you away from your tent,

And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

Why do you look with envy, mountains with many peaks,

At the mountain [of the city of Zion] which God has desired for His dwelling place?

Yes, the LORD will dwell there forever.

A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of Asaph.

O God, why have You rejected us forever?

Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;

The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?

Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

Oh, do not hand over the soul of your turtledove to the wild beast;

Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.

Has His lovingkindness ceased forever?

Have His promises ended for all time?

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever?

Will Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?

How long, O LORD?

Will You hide Yourself forever?

Will Your wrath burn like fire?

He will not always strive with us,

Nor will He keep His anger forever.

A false witness will perish,

But a man who listens to the truth will speak forever and go unchallenged.

Babylon will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;

Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there,

Nor will the shepherds let their sheep lie down there.

He will swallow up death [and abolish it] for all time.

And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces,

And He will take away the disgrace of His people from all the earth;

For the LORD has spoken.

Bread grain is crushed fine,

Indeed, the farmer does not continue to thresh it forever.

Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it,

He does not thresh it longer.

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.

The burning will not be quenched night or day;

Its smoke will go up forever.

From generation to generation it will lie in ruins;

No one will ever again pass through it.

“For I will not contend forever,

Nor will I always be angry;

For [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me,

And the breath of those whom I have created.

‘Will He be angry forever?

Will He be indignant to the end?’

Behold, you have spoken,

And you have done all the evil things [you could],

And you have had your way and have carried out your wickedness.”

Why has my pain been perpetual

And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?

Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive brook

With water that is unreliable?

“Therefore [fn]wild beasts of the desert will live there [in Babylon] with the jackals;

The ostriches also will live there,

And it will never again be inhabited [with people]

Or lived in from generation to generation.

So I say, “My strength has perished

And so has my hope and expectation from the LORD.”

Why do You forget us forever?

Why do You forsake us so long?

Thus says the LORD,

“For three transgressions of Edom [the descendants of Esau] and for four (multiplied delinquencies)

I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,

Because he pursued his brother Jacob (Israel) with the sword,

Corrupting and stifling his compassions and casting off all mercy;

His destructive anger raged continually,

And he maintained [and nurtured] his wrath forever.

The LORD has sworn [an oath] by the pride of Jacob,

“Surely I shall never forget [nor leave unpunished] any of their [rebellious] acts.

Therefore, the law is ineffective and ignored

And justice is never upheld,

For the wicked surround the righteous;

Therefore, justice becomes perverted.