Lexicon :: Strong's H7667 - šeḇar

When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship. Then he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the camp of Midian into your hand.”

“When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;

Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

You have made the land quake, You have split it open;

Heal its rifts, for it shakes and totters.

A soothing tongue [speaking words that build up and encourage] is a tree of life,

But a perversive tongue [speaking words that overwhelm and depress] crushes the spirit.

Pride goes before destruction,

And a haughty spirit before a fall.

He who loves transgression loves strife and is quarrelsome;

He who [proudly] raises his gate seeks destruction [because of his arrogant pride].

Before disaster the heart of a man is haughty and filled with self-importance,

But humility comes before honor.

But rebels and sinners will be crushed and destroyed together,

And those who abandon (turn away from) the LORD will be consumed (perish).

My heart cries out for Moab;

His fugitives are [fleeing] as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.

For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;

For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their destruction.

Therefore this wickedness [this sin, this injustice, this wrongdoing] will be to you

Like a crack [in a wall] about to fall,

A bulge in a high wall,

Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,

These two tragedies have befallen you;

Who will show sympathy for you and mourn with you?

The desolation and destruction [on the land and city], famine and sword [on the inhabitants];

How shall I comfort you?

Their feet run to evil,

And they rush to shed innocent blood.

Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness [of sin, of injustice, of wrongdoing];

Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

“Violence will not be heard again in your land,

Nor devastation or destruction within your borders;

But you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise [to God].

“Indeed, My servants will shout for joy from a happy heart,

But you will cry out with a heavy heart,

And you shall wail and howl from a broken spirit.

“Raise a banner toward Zion [to mark the way for those seeking safety inside Jerusalem’s walls]!

Seek refuge, do not stand [immobile],

For I am bringing evil from the north (the army of Babylon),

And great destruction.

News of one [terrible] disaster comes close after another,

For the whole land is devastated;

Suddenly my tents are spoiled and destroyed,

My [tent] curtains [ruined] in a moment.

“Run for safety, you children of Benjamin,

Out of the midst of Jerusalem!

And blow a trumpet in Tekoa [in Judah]

And raise a signal-fire in Beth-haccherem [near Jerusalem];

For evil is looking down [with eager anticipation] from the north,

And great destruction.

“They have treated superficially the [bloody] broken wound of My people,

Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’

When there is no peace.

“For they have treated the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,

Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’

When there is no peace.

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I (Jeremiah) am broken;

I mourn, anxiety has gripped me.

“Woe to me because of my [spiritual] brokenness!” [says Jeremiah, speaking for the nation.]

“My wound is incurable.”

But I said, “Surely this sickness and suffering and grief are mine,

And I must bear it.”

“Therefore [Jeremiah] you will say this word to them,

‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,

And let them never cease;

For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a great blow,

With a very serious and severely infected wound.

“For thus says the LORD,

‘Your wound is incurable

And your injury is beyond healing.

‘Why do you cry out over your injury [since it is the natural result of your sin]?

Your pain is incurable (deadly).

Because your guilt is great

And your sins are glaring and innumerable,

I have done these things to you.

“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,

‘Desolation and great destruction!’

“For the Ascent of Luhith

Will be climbed by [successive groups of] fugitives with continual weeping;

For on the descent of Horonaim

They have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

“The noise of battle is in the land,

And [the noise of] great destruction.

The sound of an outcry [comes] from Babylon,

And [the sound] of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],

My spirit is deeply disturbed;

My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],

When little ones and infants faint

In the streets of the city.

How shall I console you?

To what shall I compare you,

O Daughter of Jerusalem?

With what shall I compare you, so that I may comfort you,

O Virgin Daughter of Zion?

For your ruin is as vast as the sea;

Who can heal you?

Panic and pitfall (traps, danger) have come on us,

Devastation and destruction.

The hands of compassionate women

Boiled their own children;

They became food for them

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah].

“I will also put fear into the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction [and captivity] among the nations, into countries which you have not known.

Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls

And anoint themselves with the finest oils [reflecting their unrestrained celebration];

Yet they are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph (Israel).

There is no relief and healing for your hurt;

Your wound is incurable.

All who hear the news about you

Clap their hands over [what has happened to] you.

For on whom has your [unceasing] evil not come continually?

“On that day,” declares the LORD,

“There will be the sound of crying from the Fish (Damascus) Gate [in the northern wall of Jerusalem where invaders enter]

And wailing from the [fn]Second Quarter [of the city],

And a loud crash from the hills.