Lexicon :: Strong's H8047 - šammâ

“You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you.

“because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard’ ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.

“Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery,[fn] as you see with your own eyes.

“Don’t be like your ancestors and your brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors so that he made them an object of horror as you yourselves see.

Come, see the works of the LORD,

who brings devastation on the earth.

How suddenly they become a desolation!

They come to an end, swept away by terrors.

I heard the LORD of Armies say:

Indeed, many houses will become desolate,

grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.

Look, the day of the LORD is coming —

cruel, with fury and burning anger —

to make the earth a desolation

and to destroy its sinners.

Only desolation remains in the city;

its gate has collapsed in ruins.

The young lions have roared at him;

they have roared loudly.

They have laid waste his land.

His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.

A lion has gone up from his thicket;

a destroyer of nations has set out.

He has left his lair

to make your land a waste.

Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.

“An appalling, horrible thing

has taken place in the land.

I am broken by the brokenness

of my dear people.

I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.

They have made their land a horror,

a perpetual object of scorn;[fn]

all who pass by it will be appalled

and shake their heads.

“I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and scoff because of all its wounds.

“I am going to send for all the families of the north’ ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​‘and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins forever.

“This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing ​— ​as it is today;

He has left his den like a lion,

for their land has become a desolation

because of the sword[fn] of the oppressor,

because of his burning anger.

“I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth ​— ​a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations where I have banished them.

“For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents, so will my fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an example for cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’

“And I will take away the remnant of Judah, those who have set their face to go to the land of Egypt to stay there. All of them will meet their end in the land of Egypt. They will fall by the sword; they will meet their end by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by the sword and by famine. Then they will become an example for cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace.

“The LORD can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed, so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.

Get your bags ready for exile,

inhabitant of Daughter Egypt!

For Memphis will become a desolation,

uninhabited ruins.

Make Moab a salt marsh,[fn]

for she will run away;[fn]

her towns will become a desolation,

without inhabitant.

“For by myself I have sworn” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“Bozrah[fn] will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and an example for cursing, and all its surrounding cities will become ruins forever.”

“Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be appalled and scoff because of all her wounds.

For a nation from the north will attack her;

it will make her land desolate.

No one will be living in it —

both people and animals will escape.[fn]

How the hammer of the whole earth

is cut down and smashed!

What a horror Babylon has become

among the nations!

The earth quakes and trembles

because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand:

to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Babylon will become a heap of rubble,

a jackals’ den,

a desolation and an object of scorn,

without inhabitant.

How Sheshak[fn] has been captured,

the praise of the whole earth seized.

What a horror Babylon has become

among the nations!

Her cities have become a desolation,

an arid desert,

a land where no one lives,

where no human being even passes through.

“You will be filled with drunkenness and grief,

with a cup of devastation and desolation,

the cup of your sister Samaria.

Ephraim will become a desolation

on the day of punishment;

I announce what is certain

among the tribes of Israel.

It has devastated my grapevine

and splintered my fig tree.

It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away;

its branches have turned white.

“The statutes of Omri

and all the practices of Ahab’s house

have been observed;

you have followed their policies.

Therefore, I will make you a desolate place

and the city’s[fn] residents an object of contempt;[fn]

you will bear the scorn of my people.”[fn]

This is the jubilant city

that lives in security,

that says to herself:

I exist, and there is no one else.

What a desolation she has become,

a place for wild animals to lie down!

Everyone who passes by her

scoffs[fn] and shakes his fist.

“I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”