Lexicon :: Strong's G4192 - ponos

On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh[fn] and said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and my whole family.”

“He saw that his resting place was good

and that the land was pleasant,

so he leaned his shoulder to bear a load

and became a forced laborer.

Years later,[fn] after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people[fn] and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.

He considers no disaster for Jacob;

he sees no trouble for Israel.[fn]

The LORD their God is with them,

and there is rejoicing over the King among them.

“A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,

he has rejected you as king.

“That’s why all of you have conspired against me! Nobody tells me when my own son makes a covenant with Jesse’s son. None of you cares about me or tells me that my son has stirred up my own servant to wait in ambush for me, as is the case today.”

“May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul, “for you have shown concern for me.

When there is famine in the land,

when there is pestilence,

when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper,

when their enemy besieges them

in the land and its cities,[fn]

when there is any plague or illness,

The rest of all the events of Asa’s reign, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. But in his old age he developed a disease in his feet.

When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers spotted him and severely wounded him.

When there is famine in the land,

when there is pestilence,

when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper,

when their enemies besiege them

in the land and its cities,[fn][fn]

when there is any plague or illness,

But a man drew his bow without taking special aim and struck the king of Israel through the joints of his armor. So he said to the charioteer, “Turn around and take me out of the battle,[fn] for I am badly wounded! ”

The archers shot King Josiah, and he said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am severely wounded! ”

His wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die! ”

For that night did not shut

the doors of my mother’s womb,

and hide sorrow from my eyes.

But now that this has happened to you,

you have become exhausted.

It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

For distress does not grow out of the soil,

and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Does a wise man answer with empty[fn] counsel

or fill himself[fn] with the hot east wind?

See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil,

conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.

His trouble comes back on his own head;

his own violence comes down on top of his head.

Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;

trouble and malice are under his tongue.

But you yourself have seen trouble and grief,

observing it in order to take the matter into your hands.

The helpless one entrusts himself to you;

you are a helper of the fatherless.

He gave their crops to the caterpillar

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,

the first progeny of the tents of Ham.

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.

He struck all the firstborn in their land,

all their first progeny.

He gave them the lands of the nations,

and they inherited

what other peoples had worked for.

Let a creditor seize all he has;

let strangers plunder what he has worked for.

You will surely eat

what your hands have worked for.

You will be happy,

and it will go well for you.

Honor the LORD with your possessions

and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

strangers will drain your resources,

and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

it prepares its provisions in summer;

it gathers its food during harvest.

A worker’s appetite works for him

because his hunger[fn] urges him on.

“They struck me, but[fn] I feel no pain!

They beat me, but I didn’t know it!

When will I wake up?

I’ll look for another drink.”

for their hearts plan violence,

and their words stir up trouble.

Let him drink so that he can forget his poverty

and remember his trouble no more.

Why do you want more beatings?

Why do you keep on rebelling?

The whole head is hurt,

and the whole heart is sick.

Egypt’s weavers[fn] will be dejected;

all her wage earners will be demoralized.

But I myself said: I have labored in vain,

I have spent my strength for nothing and futility;

yet my vindication is with the LORD,

and my reward is with my God.

Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,

and he carried our pains;

but we in turn regarded him stricken,

struck down by God, and afflicted.

After his anguish,

he will see light[fn] and be satisfied.

By his knowledge,

my righteous servant will justify many,

and he will carry their iniquities.

No one makes claims justly;

no one pleads honestly.

They trust in empty and worthless words;

they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

“Look! My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,

but you will cry out from an anguished heart,

and you will lament out of a broken spirit.

“They will not build and others live in them;

they will not plant and others eat.

For my people’s lives will be

like the lifetime of a tree.

My chosen ones will fully enjoy

the work of their hands.

Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;

before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem,

so that you will be delivered.

How long will you harbor

malicious thoughts?

LORD, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness?

You have struck them, but they felt no pain.

You finished them off,

but they refused to accept discipline.

They made their faces harder than rock,

and they refused to return.