Lexicon :: Strong's H759 - 'armôn

God, in her palaces,

Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

Consider her ramparts,

Go through her palaces,

That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].

“May peace be within your walls

And prosperity within your palaces.”

A brother offended is harder to win over than a fortified city,

And contentions [separating families] are like the bars of a castle.

Now look at the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia)—this is the people which was not; the Assyrians allocated Tyre for desert creatures—they set up their [fn]siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

For You have made a city into a heap [of trash],

A fortified city into a ruin;

A palace of [fn]foreigners is no longer a city,

It will never be rebuilt.

For the palace has been abandoned, the populated city deserted;

The hill [of the city] and the watchtower have become caves [for wild animals] forever,

A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

Thorns will come up in its fortified palaces,

Nettles and brambles in its fortified cities;

It will be a haunt for jackals,

An abode for ostriches.

‘Arise, let us [awaken to] attack her at night

And destroy her [fortified] palaces!’”

For death has come up through our windows;

It has entered our palaces,

Cutting off the children from the streets

And the young men from the town squares.

“Thus says the LORD,

‘Behold (hear this), I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob

And have mercy on his dwelling places;

The city will be rebuilt on its [old, mound-like] ruin,

And the palace will stand on its rightful place.

“I will set fire to the wall of Damascus,

And it will consume the palaces of [fn]Ben-hadad.”

The Lord has become like an enemy;

He has swallowed up Israel.

He has swallowed up all its palaces;

He has destroyed its strongholds

And multiplied in the Daughter of Judah

Mourning and lamentation (expressions of grief).

The Lord has rejected His altar;

He has abandoned His sanctuary.

He has given into the hand of the enemy

The walls of her palaces;

They have made a noise in the house of the LORD

As on a day of an appointed feast.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces [and pagan temples],

And Judah has built many fortified cities;

But I will send a fire upon their cities so that it may consume their palaces and fortresses.

“So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] upon the house of [fn]Hazael,

And it shall devour the palaces and strongholds of [fn]Ben-hadad (Hazael’s son).

“So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] on the wall of Gaza

And it shall consume her citadels.

“So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] on the wall of Tyre,

And it shall consume her citadels.”

“So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] upon Teman,

And it shall consume the citadels of Bozrah [in Edom].”

“So I will kindle a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] on the wall of Rabbah [in Ammon]

And it shall devour its strongholds

Amid war cries and shouts of alarm on the day of battle,

And a tempest on the day of the whirlwind [when the enemy captures the city].

“So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] upon Moab

And it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth;

And Moab shall die amid tumult and uproar,

With war cries and shouts of alarm and the sound of the trumpet.

“So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction by the Babylonians] upon Judah

And it will devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

Proclaim on the fortresses in Ashdod (Philistia) and on the citadels in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great confusion within her and the oppressions and abuse of authority in her midst.

The Lord [fn]GOD has sworn [an oath] by Himself—the LORD God of hosts, says:

“I loathe and reject the [self-centered] arrogance of Jacob (Israel),

And I hate his palaces and citadels;

Therefore, I shall hand over the [idolatrous] city [of Samaria] with all that it contains [to the Assyrian invaders].”

This One [the Messiah] shall be our peace.

When the Assyrian invades our land

And tramples on our citadels and in our palaces,

Then shall we raise against him

Seven shepherds and eight princes [an overpowering force] among men.