Lexicon :: Strong's H1065 - bᵊḵî

“My face is red and swollen with weeping,

And on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],

“Man dams up the streams from flowing [so that they do not trickle into the mine],

And what is hidden he brings out to the light.

Depart from me, all you who do evil,

For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

For His anger is but for a moment,

[fn]His favor is for a lifetime.

Weeping may endure for a night,

But a shout of joy comes in the morning.

For I have eaten ashes like bread,

And have mingled my drink with tears

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep.

Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba;

Everyone’s head is shaved, and every beard is cut off [in mourning].

My heart cries out for Moab;

His fugitives are [fleeing] as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.

For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;

For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their destruction.

Therefore I (Isaiah) will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vines of Sibmah.

I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;

For the war-cry [of the enemy] has fallen on your summer fruits and your harvest.

Therefore I say, “Look away from me;

Let me weep bitterly.

Do not try to comfort me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning,

To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation].

“I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people;

And there will no longer be heard in her

The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.

A voice is heard on the barren heights,

The weeping and pleading of the children of Israel,

Because they have lost their way,

They have [deliberately] forgotten the LORD their God.

“I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,

And a [funeral] dirge for the pastures of the wilderness,

Because they are burned up and desolated so that no one passes through [them];

Nor can anyone hear the lowing of cattle.

Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

“They will come with weeping [in repentance and for joy],

And by [their] prayer [for the future] I will lead them;

I will make them walk by streams of waters,

On a straight path in which they will not stumble,

For I am a Father to Israel,

And Ephraim (Israel) is My firstborn.”

Thus says the LORD,

“A [fn]voice is heard in Ramah,

Lamentation (songs of mourning) and bitter weeping.

Rachel (Israel) is weeping for her children;

She refuses to be comforted for her children,

Because they are gone.”

“For the Ascent of Luhith

Will be climbed by [successive groups of] fugitives with continual weeping;

For on the descent of Horonaim

They have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

“O vines of Sibmah, I will weep for you

More than the weeping of Jazer [over its ruins and wasted vineyards].

Your tendrils [of influence] stretched across the sea,

Reaching [even] to the sea of Jazer.

The destroyer has fallen

On your summer fruits and your [season’s] crop of grapes.

“Even now,” says the LORD,

“Turn and come to Me with all your heart [in genuine repentance],

With fasting and weeping and mourning [until every barrier is removed and the broken fellowship is restored];

This is another thing you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with [your own] weeping and sighing, because the LORD no longer regards your offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.