Lexicon :: Strong's H2550 - ḥāmal

“Now a traveler (visitor) came to the rich man,

And to avoid taking one from his own flock or herd

To prepare [a meal] for the traveler who had come to him,

He took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for [fn]his guest.”

But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD’S oath that was between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to them again and again by His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

“Then I would still have consolation,

And I would jump for joy amid unsparing pain,

That I have not denied or hidden the words of the Holy One.

“His arrows surround me.

He pierces my kidneys (vital organs) without mercy;

He pours out my gall on the ground.

Though he desires it and will not let it go

But holds it in his mouth,

“For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God’s wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion;

He flees in haste from its power.

For jealousy enrages the [wronged] husband;

He will not spare [the guilty one] on the day of vengeance.

By the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is burned up,

And the people are like fuel for the fire;

No man spares his brother.

Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,

Crushed so savagely

that there cannot be found among its pieces a potsherd [large enough]

To take [coals of] fire from a fireplace,

Or to scoop water from a cistern.”

“For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,

Or who will mourn for you,

Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

“Set yourselves in battle formation against Babylon on every side,

All you archers.

Shoot at her! Do not spare the arrows,

For she has sinned against the LORD.

“Do not let him (the Chaldean defender) who bends his bow bend it,

Nor let him rise up in his coat of armor.

So do not spare her young men;

Devote her entire army to destruction.

The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared

All the country places of Jacob.

In His wrath He has thrown down

The strongholds of the Daughter of Judah (Jerusalem).

He has brought them down to the ground [in disgrace];

He has debased the kingdom and its princes.

The LORD has done what He planned;

He has accomplished His word

Which He commanded [fn]from days of old.

He has demolished without sparing,

And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you;

He has exalted the power of your enemies.

The young and the old

Lie on the ground in the streets;

My virgins and my young men

Have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of Your anger,

You have slaughtered, not sparing.

You have covered Yourself with anger

And pursued us;

You have slain [without pity] and have not spared.

Then the LORD will be jealous for His land [ready to defend it since it is rightfully and uniquely His]

And will have compassion on His people [and will spare them].

Will they continue to empty their net

And [mercilessly] go on destroying nations without sparing?