Lexicon :: Strong's G5599 - ō

But Isaac said to his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son? ”

He replied, “Because the LORD your God made it happen for me.”

Once more he proclaimed his poem:

Ah, who can live when God does this?

Then the king of Israel said, “Oh no, the LORD has summoned these three kings, only to hand them over to Moab.”

As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Oh, my master, it was borrowed! ”

When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do? ”

“Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases you.”[fn] And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,

for God’s hand has struck me.

Then I called on the name of the LORD:

“LORD, save me! ”

LORD, I am indeed your servant;

I am your servant, the son of your female servant.

You have loosened my bonds.

LORD, save us!

LORD, please grant us success!

from those who abandon the right paths

to walk in ways of darkness,

Go to the ant, you slacker!

Observe its ways and become wise.

“People, I call out to you;

my cry is to the children of Adam.

Then I said:

Woe is me for I am ruined[fn]

because I am a man of unclean lips

and live among a people of unclean lips,

and because my eyes have seen the King,

the LORD of Armies.

But I protested, “Oh no, Lord GOD! Look, I don’t know how to speak since I am only a youth.”

I said, “Oh no, Lord GOD, you have certainly deceived this people and Jerusalem, by announcing, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at[fn] our throats.”

For this is what the LORD of Armies says:

Cut down the trees;

raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem.

This city must be punished.

There is nothing but oppression within her.

And I replied, “Oh no, Lord GOD! The prophets are telling them, ‘You won’t see sword or suffer famine. I will certainly give you lasting peace in this place.’ ”

Woe for the one who builds his palace

through unrighteousness,

his upstairs rooms through injustice,

who makes his neighbor serve without pay

and will not give him his wages,

Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

They will not mourn for him, saying,

“Woe, my brother! ” or “Woe, my sister! ”

They will not mourn for him, saying,

“Woe, lord! Woe, his majesty! ”

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

“Oh, Lord GOD! You yourself made the heavens and earth by your great power and with your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you!

“you will die peacefully. There will be a burning ceremony for you just like the burning ceremonies for your ancestors, the kings of old who came before you. “Oh, master! ” will be the lament for you, for I have spoken this word. This is the LORD’s declaration.’ ”

Babylon, I laid a trap for you, and you were caught,

but you did not even know it.

You were found and captured

because you pitted yourself against the LORD.

“You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: A city that sheds blood within her walls so that her time of judgment has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled!

“ ‘Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says:

Woe to the city of bloodshed,

the pot that has corrosion inside it,

and its corrosion has not come out of it!

Empty it piece by piece;

lots should not be cast for its contents.

“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says:

Wail, “Woe because of that day! ”

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who have been feeding themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed their flock?

He prayed to the LORD, “Please, LORD, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.

Woe to the city of blood,

totally deceitful,

full of plunder,

never without prey.

Woe to him who dishonestly makes

wealth for his house[fn]

to place his nest on high,

to escape the grasp of disaster!

Woe to him who gives his neighbors drink,

pouring out your wrath[fn]

and even making them drunk,

in order to look at their nakedness!

Woe to the city that is rebellious[fn] and defiled,

the oppressive city!

“Listen! Listen! Flee from the land of the north” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.

“Woe to the worthless shepherd

who deserts the flock!

May a sword strike[fn] his arm

and his right eye!

May his arm wither away

and his right eye go completely blind! ”