Lexicon :: Strong's H6635 - ṣāḇā'

If the LORD of hosts

Had not left us a few survivors,

We would be like Sodom,

We would be like Gomorrah.

Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts,

The Mighty One of Israel, declares:

“Ah, I will be freed of My adversaries

And avenge Myself on My enemies.

For the LORD of hosts will have a day of reckoning

Against all who are proud and arrogant

And against all who are lifted up,

That they may be degraded.

Listen carefully, the Lord GOD of hosts is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah

Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread

And the whole supply of water;

“What do you mean by crushing My people

And grinding the face of the poor?”

Declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house (nation) of Israel

And the men of Judah are His delightful planting [which He loves].

So He looked for justice, but in fact, [He saw] bloodshed and lawlessness;

[He looked] for righteousness, but in fact, [He heard] a cry of distress and oppression.

In my ears the LORD of hosts said, “Be assured that many houses will become desolate,

Even great and beautiful ones will be unoccupied.

But the LORD of hosts will be exalted in justice,

And God, the Holy One, will show Himself holy in righteousness [through His righteous judgments].

Therefore, as the tongue of fire consumes the stubble [from straw]

And the dry grass collapses into the flame,

So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away like fine dust;

Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts

And despised and discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.

“Holy, Holy, Holy is the LORD of hosts;

The whole earth is filled with His glory.”

“Woe is me! For I am ruined,

Because I am a man of [ceremonially] unclean lips,

And I live among a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”

“It is the LORD of hosts whom you are to regard as holy and awesome.

He shall be your [source of] fear,

He shall be your [source of] dread [not man].

There shall be no end to the increase of His government and of peace,

[He shall rule] on the throne of David and over his kingdom,

To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness

From that time forward and forevermore.

The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.

Yet the people do not turn back [in repentance] to Him who struck them,

Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts [as their most essential need].

By the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is burned up,

And the people are like fuel for the fire;

No man spares his brother.

Therefore the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will send a wasting disease among the stout warriors of Assyria;

And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

For the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will execute a complete destruction, one that is decreed, in the midst of all the land.

Listen carefully, the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will lop off the [beautiful] boughs with terrifying force;

The tall in stature will be cut down

And the lofty will be abased and humiliated.

A sound of tumult on the mountains,

Like that of many people!

A sound of the uproar of the kingdoms,

Of nations gathered together!

The LORD of hosts is mustering an army for battle.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;

And the earth will be shaken from its place

At the wrath of the LORD of hosts

In the day of His burning anger.

“I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, and son and grandson,” declares the LORD.

“The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,

And the kingdom from Damascus

And the remnant of Aram (Syria);

They will be like the [departed] glory of [her ally] the children of Israel,”

Declares the LORD of hosts.

At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the LORD of hosts

From a people tall and smooth (clean shaven),

From a people feared far and wide,

A powerful and oppressive nation,

Whose land the rivers divide—

To the place [of worship] of the [fn]name of the LORD of hosts, to Mount Zion [in Jerusalem].

“And I will hand over the Egyptians to a hard and cruel master,

And a mighty king will rule over them,” declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

Where then are your wise men?

Please let them tell you,

And let them understand what the LORD of hosts

Has purposed against Egypt [if they can].

In that day the Egyptians will become like [helpless] women, and they will tremble and be frightened because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.

O my threshed people [Judah, who must be judged and trampled down by Babylon], my afflicted of the threshing floor.

What I have heard from the LORD of hosts,

The God of Israel, I have [joyfully] announced to you [that Babylon is to fall].

For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of panic and of tumult, of trampling, of confusion

In the Valley of Vision,

A [day of] breaking down walls

And a crying [for help] to the mountain.

Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning,

To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation].

But the LORD of hosts revealed Himself in my ears,

“This sin absolutely will not be forgiven you

Until you die,” says the Lord GOD of hosts.

The LORD of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,

To bring into contempt and humiliation all the honored of the earth.

So it will happen in that day

That the LORD will visit and punish the host (fallen angels) of heaven on high,

And the kings of the earth on the earth.

Then the full moon will be embarrassed and the sun ashamed,

For the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,

And His glory and brilliance will shine before His elders.

On this mountain [Zion] the LORD of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples [to welcome His reign on earth],

A banquet of aged wines—choice pieces [flavored] with marrow,

Of refined, aged wines.

In that day the LORD of hosts will become a magnificent crown

And a glorious diadem to the [converted] remnant of His people,

Now do not carry on as scoffers,

Or the bands which bind you will be made stronger;

For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts [a decree]

Of decisive destruction on all the earth.

This also comes from the LORD of hosts,

Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

You will be punished by the LORD of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great noise,

With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.