Lexicon :: Strong's G4938 - syntrimma

“no man who has a broken foot or hand,

“fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he inflicted on the person, the same is to be inflicted on him.

He batters me with a whirlwind

and multiplies my wounds without cause.

All have turned away;

all alike have become corrupt.

There is no one who does good,

not even one.

You have shaken the land and split it open.

Heal its fissures, for it shudders.

He heals the brokenhearted

and bandages their wounds.

Lashes and wounds purge away evil,

and beatings cleanse the innermost parts.[fn]

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?

Who has conflicts? Who has complaints?

Who has wounds for no reason?

Who has red eyes?

My heart cries out over Moab,

whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,

to Eglath-shelishiyah;

they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping;

they raise a cry of destruction

on the road to Horonaim.

Therefore I said,

“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!

Do not try to comfort me

about the destruction of my dear[fn] people.”

He had said to them,

“This is the place of rest;

let the weary rest;

this is the place of repose.”

But they would not listen.

“Its collapse will be like the shattering

of a potter’s jar, crushed to pieces,

so that not even a fragment of pottery

will be found among its shattered remains —

no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth

or scoop water from a cistern.”

The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter ​— ​like the light of seven days ​— ​on the day that the LORD bandages his people’s injuries and heals the wounds he inflicted.

These two things have happened to you:

devastation and destruction,

famine and sword.

Who will grieve for you?

How can I[fn] comfort you?

Their feet run after evil,

and they rush to shed innocent blood.

Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;

ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.

Violence will never again be heard of in your land;

devastation and destruction

will be gone from your borders.

You will call your walls Salvation

and your city gates Praise.

Return, you faithless children.

I will heal your unfaithfulness.

“Here we are, coming to you,

for you are the LORD our God.

They have treated my people’s brokenness superficially,

claiming, “Peace, peace,”

when there is no peace.

I am broken by the brokenness

of my dear people.

I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.

Woe to me because of my brokenness —

I am severely wounded!

I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,

but I must bear it.”

You are to speak this word to them:

Let my eyes overflow with tears;

day and night may they not stop,

for my dearest people[fn]

have been destroyed by a crushing blow,

an extremely severe wound.

Let my persecutors be put to shame,

but don’t let me be put to shame.

Let them be terrified, but don’t let me be terrified.

Bring on them the day of disaster;

shatter them with total[fn] destruction.

For this is what the LORD says:

Your injury is incurable;

your wound most severe.

A voice cries out from Horonaim,

“devastation and a crushing blow! ”

For on the Ascent to Luhith

they will be weeping continually,[fn]

and on the descent to Horonaim

will be heard cries of distress over the destruction:

My eyes are worn out from weeping;

I am churning within.

My heart is poured out in grief[fn]

because of the destruction of my dear people,

because infants and nursing babies faint

in the streets of the city.

My eyes flow with streams of tears

because of the destruction of my dear people.

The hands of compassionate women

have cooked their own children;

they became their food

during the destruction of my dear people.

for I am about to give the command,

and I will shake the house of Israel

among all the nations,

as one shakes a sieve,

but not a pebble will fall to the ground.