Lexicon :: Strong's H970 - bāḥûr

‘Outside the sword will bereave,

And inside [the chambers] terror—

For both young man and virgin,

For the nursing child and the man of gray hair.

His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for that was the customary thing for young men to do.

The wrath of God rose against them

And killed some of the strongest of them,

And subdued the choice young men of Israel.

The fire [of war] devoured His young men,

And His [bereaved] virgins had no wedding songs.

Once You spoke in a vision to Your godly ones,

And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty [giving him the power to be a champion for Israel];

I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Both young men and virgins;

Old men and children.

The glory of young men is their [physical] strength,

And the honor of aged men is their gray head [representing wisdom and experience].

Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant in the days of your young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the desires of your eyes, but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men,

Nor does He have compassion on their fatherless or their widows;

For every one of them is godless and an evildoer,

And every mouth is speaking foolishness.

In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away

But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now like a widow bereaved of her children];

For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,

“I have neither labored nor given birth [to children];

I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”

Then the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man,

And a sword not of man will devour him.

And he will flee from the sword [of God],

And his young men will become forced labor.

Even youths grow weary and tired,

And vigorous young men stumble badly,

For as a young man marries a virgin [O Jerusalem],

[fn]So your sons will marry you;

And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

So your God will rejoice over you.

But I am full of the wrath (judgment) of the LORD;

I am tired of restraining it.

“[I will] pour it out on the children in the street

And on the young men gathered together;

For both the husband and wife shall be taken,

The aged and the very old [though full of days they are not exempt from judgment].

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.

“I will make their widows more numerous before Me

Than the sand of the seas;

I will bring against them, against the mother of the young men,

A [fn]destroyer at noonday;

I will suddenly cause anguish and terror

To fall on her.

Therefore, give their children over to the famine;

Give them over to the power of the sword.

And let their wives become childless and widowed;

Let their men meet death [by virulent disease],

Their young men be struck down by the sword in battle.

“Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance,

And the young men and old, together,

For I will turn their mourning into joy

And will comfort them and make them rejoice after their sorrow.

“Moab has been made desolate and his cities have gone up [in smoke and flame];

And his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,”

Says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

“Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets,

And all her men of war will be destroyed in that day,” says the LORD of hosts.

“Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,

And all her soldiers will be destroyed on that day,” says the LORD.

“See, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan against the enduring habitation [of Babylon] and its watered pastures; for in an instant I will make Babylon run from his land. I will appoint over Babylon the one whom I choose. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me [into court] and prosecute Me [for this]? Who is the [earthly] shepherd who can stand [defiantly] before Me?”

“Do not let him (the Chaldean defender) who bends his bow bend it,

Nor let him rise up in his coat of armor.

So do not spare her young men;

Devote her entire army to destruction.

With you I shatter man and woman,

With you I shatter old man and youth,

With you I shatter young man and virgin,

“The Lord has rejected all the strong men

In my midst;

He has proclaimed an established time against me

To crush my young men.

The Lord has trampled down as in a wine press

The Virgin Daughter of Judah.

“The LORD is righteous and just;

For I have rebelled against His commandment (His word).

Hear now, all you peoples,

And look at my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

The young and the old

Lie on the ground in the streets;

My virgins and my young men

Have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of Your anger,

You have slaughtered, not sparing.

Young men worked at the grinding mill,

And boys fell [staggering] under loads of wood.

“The young men of On (Aven) and of Pi-beseth

Will fall by the sword,

And the women [and children] will go into captivity.

“It shall come about after this

That I shall pour out My Spirit on all mankind;

And your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

Your old men will dream dreams,

Your young men will see visions.

“Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophets [who gave you My revelation],

And some of your young men to be Nazirites (dedicated ones).

Is this not true, O you children of Israel?” says the LORD.

“I sent a plague among you like [those of] Egypt;

I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses,

I made the stench of your camp rise up into your nostrils;

Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD.

“In that day the beautiful virgins

And [even the vigorous] young men shall faint from thirst.

For how great is God’s goodness and how great is His beauty! And how great [He will make Israel’s] goodliness and [Israel’s] beauty!

Grain and new wine will make the young men and virgins flourish.