Lexicon :: Strong's H2389 - ḥāzāq

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for [fn]under compulsion he will [not only] let them go, but under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.”

So it happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and flashes of lightning, and a thick cloud was on the mountain, and a very loud blast was sounded on a ram’s horn, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

But Moses appeased and entreated the LORD his God, and said, “LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

Now the war against the Philistines was severe (brutal, relentless) all the days of Saul; and whenever Saul saw any mighty or courageous man, he recruited him for his staff.

It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

So He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD was passing by, and a great and powerful wind was tearing out the mountains and breaking the rocks in pieces before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind, [there was] an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

“Also in regard to the foreigner who is not from Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for the sake of Your great name and Your mighty power and Your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this house,

“But God saves [the innocent] from the sword of the mouth of the devious,

And the poor from the hand of the mighty.

“Can you, with Him, spread out the sky,

Strong as a molten mirror?

All my bones will say, “LORD, who is like You,

Who rescues the afflicted from him who is too strong for him [to resist alone],

And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?”

With a strong hand and with an outstretched arm,

For His lovingkindness endures forever;

For their Redeemer is strong and mighty;

He will plead their case against you.

In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent

With His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy],

Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;

And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

Listen carefully, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent [the Assyrian];

Like a tempest of hail, a disastrous storm,

Like a tempest of mighty overflowing waters,

He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

Listen carefully, the Lord GOD will come with might,

And His arm will rule for Him.

Most certainly His reward is with Him,

And His restitution accompanies Him.

For the LORD has ransomed Jacob

And has redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

“Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is His name.

He will most certainly plead their case and defend their cause

So that He may bring rest to their land,

But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.

“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “most certainly with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be King over you.

‘How you have perished and vanished, O renowned city,

From the seas, O renowned city,

Which was mighty on the sea,

She and her inhabitants,

Who imposed her terror

On all who lived there!