Lexicon :: Strong's G1774 - enoikeō

“I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

“I said to you: I am the LORD your God. Do not fear the gods of the Amorites whose land you live in. But you did not obey me.’ ”

“Their inhabitants have become powerless,

dismayed, and ashamed.

They are plants of the field,

tender grass,

grass on the rooftops,

blasted by the east wind.[fn]

“‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants, fulfilling[fn] all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,

“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.

So now, residents of Jerusalem

and men of Judah,

please judge between me

and my vineyard.

I heard the LORD of Armies say:

Indeed, many houses will become desolate,

grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.

Bring water for the thirsty.

The inhabitants of the land of Tema

meet[fn] the refugees with food.

“I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will hand your authority over to him, and he will be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Mourn, inhabitants of the coastland,

you merchants of Sidon;

your agents have crossed the sea[fn]

Cross over to Tarshish;

wail, inhabitants of the coastland!

Look, the LORD is stripping the earth bare

and making it desolate.

He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,

and its inhabitants have become guilty;

the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,

and only a few survive.

Panic, pit, and trap await you

who dwell on the earth.

For he has humbled those who live in lofty places —

an inaccessible city.

He brings it down; he brings it down to the ground;

he throws it to the dust.

I long for you in the night;

yes, my spirit within me diligently seeks you,

for when your judgments are in the land,

the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

We became pregnant, we writhed in pain;

we gave birth to wind.

We have won no victories on earth,

and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.

For look, the LORD is coming from his place

to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.

The earth will reveal the blood shed on it

and will no longer conceal her slain.

Or let it take hold of my strength;

let it make peace with me —

make peace with me.

Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place,

in safe and secure dwellings.

and none there will say, “I am sick.”

The people who dwell there

will be forgiven their iniquity.

Have you not heard?

I designed it long ago;

I planned it in days gone by.

I have now brought it to pass,

and you have crushed fortified cities

into piles of rubble.

God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;

its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth

and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

“People will build houses and live in them;

they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

“But as for the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, and that nation will cultivate[fn] it and reside in it. This is the LORD’s declaration.” ’ ”

“Judah and all its cities will live in it together ​— ​also farmers and those who move[fn] with the flocks ​— ​

“All who resolve to go to Egypt to stay there for a while will die by the sword, famine, and plague. They will have no survivor or fugitive from the disaster I will bring on them.’

“This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them

“You are angering me by the work of your hands. You are burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to stay for a while. As a result, you will be cut off and become an example for cursing and insult among all the nations of earth.

About the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says:

Does Israel have no sons?

Is he without an heir?

Why then has Milcom[fn][fn] dispossessed Gad

and his people settled in their cities?

“As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.

Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel ​— ​those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where you have banished them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward you.