Lexicon :: Strong's H6635 - ṣāḇā'

“Your own wickedness will discipline you,

And your desertion of the faith will punish you.

Know therefore that it is an evil and bitter thing

For you to abandon (reject) the LORD your God,

And for you to be indifferent to Me and dismiss the [reverent] fear of Me,” says the Lord GOD of hosts.

“Then I said,

‘How [gloriously and honorably] I would set you among My children

And give you a pleasant land—a wonderful heritage,

The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’

And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father

And not turn away from following Me.’

Therefore, thus says the LORD God of hosts,

“Because you [people] have spoken this word,

Behold, I am making My words a fire in your mouth [Jeremiah]

And this people wood, and My words will consume them.

For the LORD of hosts has said,

“Cut down her trees

And build a siege [mound] against Jerusalem.

This is the city which must be punished;

There is nothing but oppression inside her [walls].

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“They will thoroughly gather like [fruit on] a vine what is left of Israel;

Pass your hand [over the vine] again and again [Babylon, tool of destruction] like a grape gatherer,

Over the branches [stripping the tendrils off the vine].”

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat.

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts,

“Behold, I will refine them [through suffering] and test them;

For how else should I deal with the daughter of My people?

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“Consider and call for the mourning women to come;

Send for the wailing women to come.

The Portion of Jacob [the true God on whom Israel has a claim] is not like these;

For He is the Designer and Maker of all things,

And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance [and He will not fail them]—

The LORD of hosts is His name.

For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil and horror against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me [to anger] by offering sacrifices and burning incense to Baal.

But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously,

Who tests the feelings and the heart (mind),

Let me see Your vengeance on them,

For to You I have committed my cause.

Your words were found and I ate them,

And Your words became a joy to me and the delight of my heart;

For I have been called by Your name,

O LORD God of hosts.

But, O LORD of hosts, You who examine the righteous,

Who see the heart and the mind,

Let me see Your vengeance on them;

For to You I have committed my cause.

“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts in regard to the prophets,

‘Behold, I am going to feed them [the bitterness of] wormwood

And make them drink the poisonous water [of gall],

For from the [counterfeit] prophets of Jerusalem

Profaneness and ungodliness have spread into all the land.’”

“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,

“Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Drink, be drunk, vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“Behold, evil is going forth

From nation to nation,

And a great whirling tempest is rising

From the remotest part of the earth.

“Zion will be [fn]plowed like a field,

And Jerusalem will become [heaps of] ruins,

And the mountain of the house [of the LORD—Mount Moriah, on which stands the temple, shall become covered not with buildings, but] like a densely wooded height.”’

“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you in My Name, ‘Behold, I will hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will slaughter them before your eyes [yes, all the false prophets in Babylon whom you follow shall die]!

‘It shall come about on that day,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘that I will break the yoke off your neck and I will tear off your bonds and force apart your shackles; and strangers will no longer make slaves of the people [of Israel].

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,

Who gives the sun for light by day

And the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for light by night,

Who stirs up the sea’s roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar;

The LORD of hosts is His name:

“Give praise and thanks to the LORD of hosts,

For the LORD is good;

For His [steadfast] lovingkindness (mercy) endures forever”;

and of those who bring a thank offering into the house of the LORD. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were at first,’ says the LORD.