Lexicon :: Strong's G3344 - metastrephō

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about the people and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

“Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but he turned the curse into a blessing for you because the LORD your God loves you.

Sisera’s mother looked through the window;

she peered through the lattice, crying out:

“Why is his chariot so long in coming?

Why don’t I hear the hoofbeats of his horses? ”[fn]

When Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed his heart,[fn] and all the signs came about that day.

Then King Neco of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took his brother Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt.

He turned the sea into dry land,

and they crossed the river on foot.

There we rejoiced in him.

He turned their rivers into blood,

and they could not drink from their streams.

They treacherously turned away like their ancestors;

they became warped like a faulty bow.

whose hearts he turned to hate his people

and to deal deceptively with his servants.

He turned their water into blood

and caused their fish to die.

Their houses will be turned over to others,

their fields and wives as well,

for I will stretch out my hand

against the inhabitants of the land.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to repel the weapons of war in your hands, those you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans[fn] who are besieging you outside the wall, and I will bring them into the center of this city.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

our houses to foreigners.

I was left alone, looking at this great vision. No strength was left in me; my face grew deathly pale,[fn] and I was powerless.

Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.

Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.

How can I give you up, Ephraim?

How can I surrender you, Israel?

How can I make you like Admah?

How can I treat you like Zeboiim?

I have had a change of heart;

my compassion is stirred!

The sun will be turned to darkness

and the moon to blood

before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

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.

For I will then restore

pure speech to the peoples

so that all of them may call

on the name of the LORD

and serve him with a single purpose.[fn]