Lexicon :: Strong's G3542 - nomē

And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to stay in the land for a while because there is no grazing land for your servants’ sheep, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”

The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley to seek pasture for their flocks.

He will not enjoy the streams,

the rivers flowing with honey and curds.

It roams the mountains for its pastureland,

searching for anything green.

Why have you rejected us forever, God?

Why does your anger burn

against the sheep of your pasture?

Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture,

will thank you forever;

we will declare your praise

to generation after generation.

For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture,

the sheep under his care.[fn]

Today, if you hear his voice:

Acknowledge that the LORD is God.

He made us, and we are his[fn]—

his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Don’t set an ambush, you wicked one,

at the camp of the righteous man;

don’t destroy his dwelling.

saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”

and to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”

They will feed along the pathways,

and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.

For the shepherds are stupid:

They don’t seek the LORD.

Therefore they have not prospered,

and their whole flock is scattered.

Pour out your wrath on the nations

that don’t recognize you

and on the families

that don’t call on your name,

for they have consumed Jacob;

they have consumed him and finished him off

and made his homeland desolate.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! ” This is the LORD’s declaration.

“I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have banished them, and I will return them to their grazing land. They will become fruitful and numerous.

For the land is full of adulterers;

the land mourns because of the curse,

and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.

Their way of life[fn] has become evil,

and their power is not rightly used

Whoever found them devoured them.

Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty;

instead, they have sinned against the LORD,

their righteous grazing land,

the hope of their ancestors, the LORD.”

I will return Israel to his grazing land,

and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan;

he will be satisfied

in the hill country of Ephraim and of Gilead.

Therefore, hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies he has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Certainly the flock’s little lambs will be dragged away; certainly the grazing land will be made desolate because of them.

All the splendor has vanished

from Daughter Zion.

Her leaders are like stags

that find no pasture;

they stumble away exhausted

before the hunter.

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

“I will tend them in good pasture, and their grazing place will be on Israel’s lofty mountains. There they will lie down in a good grazing place; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

“Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Or isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?

When they had pasture,

they became satisfied;

they were satisfied,

and their hearts became proud.

Therefore they forgot me.

How the animals groan!

The herds of cattle wander in confusion

since they have no pasture.

Even the flocks of sheep and goats suffer punishment.

He said:

The LORD roars from Zion

and makes his voice heard from Jerusalem;

the pastures of the shepherds mourn,[fn]

and the summit of Carmel withers.

Where is the lions’ lair,

or the feeding ground of the young lions,

where the lion and lioness prowled,

and the lion’s cub,

with nothing to frighten them away?

The seacoast will become pasturelands

with caves for shepherds and pens for sheep.

This is the jubilant city

that lives in security,

that says to herself:

I exist, and there is no one else.

What a desolation she has become,

a place for wild animals to lie down!

Everyone who passes by her

scoffs[fn] and shakes his fist.