Lexicon :: Strong's G2859 - kolpos

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering![fn] I put my slave in your arms,[fn] and when she saw that she was pregnant, I became contemptible to her. May the LORD judge between me and you.”

In addition the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, resembling snow.[fn]

“Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so you should tell me, ‘Carry them at your breast, as a nursing mother carries a baby,’ to the land that you swore to give their ancestors?

“If your brother, the son of your mother,[fn] or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let’s go and worship other gods’ ​— ​which neither you nor your ancestors have known,

“The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,

“The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,

Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a mother to him.

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.

“I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms,[fn] and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.

“She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was asleep. She laid him in her arms, and she put her dead son in my arms.

But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, brought him up to the upstairs room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

The battle raged throughout that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. He died that evening, and blood from his wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.

I will see him myself;

my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger.[fn]

My heart longs[fn] within me.

I have not departed from the commands from his lips;

I have treasured[fn] the words from his mouth

more than my daily food.

because I greatly feared the crowds

and because the contempt of the clans terrified me,

so I grew silent and would not go outside?

Yet when they were sick,

my clothing was sackcloth;

I humbled myself with fasting,

and my prayer was genuine.[fn]

Why do you hold back your hand?

Stretch out[fn] your right hand and destroy them!

Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors

the reproach they have hurled at you, Lord.

Remember, Lord, the ridicule against your servants —

in my heart I carry abuse from all the peoples —

and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper

or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.

Can a man embrace fire

and his clothes not be burned?

The lot is cast into the lap,

but its every decision is from the LORD.

A wicked person secretly takes a bribe

to subvert the course of justice.

The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;

he doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth!

The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;

he is too weary to bring it to his mouth!

Who has gone up to heaven and come down?

Who has gathered the wind in his hands?

Who has bound up the waters in a cloak?

Who has established all the ends of the earth?

What is his name,

and what is the name of his son —

if you know?

Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry,

for anger abides in the heart of fools.

This is what the Lord GOD says:

Look, I will lift up my hand to the nations,

and raise my banner to the peoples.

They will bring your sons in their arms,

and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

“Look, it is written in front of me:

I will not keep silent, but I will repay;

I will repay them fully[fn]

“You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Armies,

They cry out to their mothers,

“Where is the grain and wine? ”

as they faint like the wounded

in the streets of the city,

as their life pours out

in the arms of their mothers.

Put the ram’s horn to your mouth!

One like an eagle comes

against the house of the LORD,

because they transgress my covenant

and rebel against my law.