Lexicon :: Strong's G2873 - kopos

“If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,[fn] and he issued his verdict last night.”

“But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?

So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the LORD, and he became weary of Israel’s misery.

I also shook the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake from his house and property everyone who doesn’t keep this promise. May he be shaken out and have nothing! ”

The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. Then the people did as they had promised.

Should anyone try to speak with you

when you are exhausted?

Yet who can keep from speaking?

For distress does not grow out of the soil,

and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

For you will forget your suffering,

recalling it only as water that has flowed by.

Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;

trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Consider my affliction and trouble,

and forgive all my sins.

day and night they make the rounds on its walls.

Crime and trouble are within it;

They are not in trouble like others;

they are not afflicted like most people.

When I tried to understand all this,

it seemed hopeless[fn]

From my youth,

I have been suffering and near death.

I suffer your horrors; I am desperate.

Our lives last[fn] seventy years

or, if we are strong, eighty years.

Even the best of them are[fn] struggle and sorrow;

indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Can a corrupt throne be your ally,

a throne that makes evil laws?

He broke their spirits[fn] with hard labor;

they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

When those who surround me rise up,[fn]

may the trouble their lips cause overwhelm them.

Why did I come out of the womb

to see only struggle and sorrow,

to end my life in shame?

“‘You have said, “Woe is me, because the LORD has added misery to my pain! I am worn out with[fn] groaning and have found no rest.” ’

In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,

and as an adult he wrestled with God.

Woe to those who dream up wickedness

and prepare evil plans on their beds!

At morning light they accomplish it

because the power is in their hands.

Why do you force me to look at injustice?

Why do you tolerate[fn] wrongdoing?

Oppression and violence are right in front of me.

Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.

I see the tents of Cushan[fn] in distress;

the tent curtains of the land of Midian tremble.

For the idols speak falsehood,

and the diviners see illusions;

they relate empty dreams

and offer empty comfort.

Therefore the people wander like sheep;

they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.

This is another thing you do. You are covering the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning, because he no longer respects your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.