Lexicon :: Strong's G27 - agapētos

“Take your son,” he said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

and said, “By myself I have sworn,” this is the LORD’s declaration: “Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son,

When Jephthah went to his home in Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no other son or daughter besides her.

Those who repay evil for good

attack me for pursuing good.

My heart is moved by a noble theme

as I recite my verses to the king;

my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

Save with your right hand, and answer me,

so that those you love may be rescued.

“The kings of the armies flee ​— ​they flee! ”

She who stays at home divides the spoil.

How lovely is your dwelling place,

LORD of Armies.

Save with your right hand and answer me

so that those you love may be rescued.

In vain you get up early and stay up late,

working hard to have enough food ​— ​

yes, he gives sleep to the one he loves.[fn]

I will sing about the one I love,

a song about my loved one’s vineyard:

The one I love had a vineyard

on a very fertile hill.

As a pregnant woman about to give birth

writhes and cries out in her pains,

so we were before you, LORD.

My dear[fn] people, dress yourselves in sackcloth

and roll in the dust.

Mourn as you would for an only son,

a bitter lament,

for suddenly the destroyer will come on us.

Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to me,

a delightful child?

Whenever I speak against him,

I certainly still think about him.

Therefore, my inner being yearns for him;

I will truly have compassion on him.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

I will turn your feasts into mourning

and all your songs into lamentation;

I will cause everyone[fn] to wear sackcloth

and every head to be shaved.

I will make that grief

like mourning for an only son

and its outcome like a bitter day.

“Then I will pour out a spirit[fn] of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at[fn] me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.

“If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’[fn] ​— ​then he will answer, ‘I received the wounds in the house of my friends.’