Lexicon :: Strong's H2986 - yāḇal

‘I should have been as though I had not existed;

[I should have been] carried from the womb to the grave.’

“That evil men are [now] reserved for the day of disaster and destruction,

They will be led away on the day of [God’s] wrath?

“When he is carried to his grave,

A guard will keep watch over his tomb.

She will be brought to the King in embroidered garments;

The virgins, her companions who follow her,

Will be brought to You.

Who will bring me into the besieged city [of Petra]?

Who will lead me to Edom?

Because of Your temple at Jerusalem

[Pagan] kings will bring gifts to You [out of respect].

Make vows to the LORD your God and fulfill them;

Let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared [with awe-inspired reverence].

Who will bring me into the fortified city [of Petra]?

Who will lead me to Edom?

At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the LORD of hosts

From a people tall and smooth (clean shaven),

From a people feared far and wide,

A powerful and oppressive nation,

Whose land the rivers divide—

To the place [of worship] of the [fn]name of the LORD of hosts, to Mount Zion [in Jerusalem].

Is this your jubilant city,

Whose origin dates back to antiquity,

Whose feet used to carry her [far away] to colonize distant places?

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth [to complain or defend Himself];

Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before her shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

“For you will go out [from exile] with joy

And be led forth [by the LORD Himself] with peace;

The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you,

And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

But I was like a gentle and tame lamb brought to the slaughter;

And I did not know that they had devised plots and schemes against me, saying,

“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit;

Let us cut him off from the land of the living,

That his name be remembered no longer.”

“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.”

The golden calf itself will be carried to Assyria

As tribute to King Jareb;

Ephraim will be seized with shame

And Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel [to worship the calf and separate Israel from Judah].

Ephraim feeds on the [emptiness of the] wind

And [continually] pursues the [parching] east wind [which brings destruction];

Every day he multiplies lies and violence.

Further, he makes a covenant with Assyria

And (olive) oil is carried to Egypt [to seek alliances].

“From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia

My worshipers, [the descendants of] My dispersed ones,

Will bring My offerings.