Lexicon :: Strong's H3021 - yāḡaʿ

After returning to Joshua they reported to him, “Don’t send all the people, but send about two thousand or three thousand[fn] men to attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, don’t wear out all our people there.”

“I gave you a land you did not labor for, and cities you did not build, though you live in them; you are eating from vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

but Eleazar stood his ground and attacked the Philistines until his hand was tired and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops came back to him, but only to plunder the dead.

Since I will be found guilty,

why should I struggle in vain?

I am weary from my groaning;

with my tears I dampen my bed

and drench my couch every night.

I am weary from my crying;

my throat is parched.

My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;

because you know better, stop!

The struggles of fools weary them,

for they don’t know how to go to the city.

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The LORD is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the whole earth.

He never becomes faint or weary;

there is no limit to his understanding.

Youths may become faint and weary,

and young men stumble and fall,

“But, Jacob, you have not called on me,

because, Israel, you have become weary of me.

“So take your stand with your spells

and your many sorceries,

which you have wearied yourself with from your youth.

Perhaps you will be able to succeed;

perhaps you will inspire terror!

“This is what they are to you —

those who have wearied you

and have traded with you from your youth —

each wanders on his own way;

no one can save you.

But I myself said: I have labored in vain,

I have spent my strength for nothing and futility;

yet my vindication is with the LORD,

and my reward is with my God.

You became weary on your many journeys,

but you did not say, “It’s hopeless! ”

You found a renewal of your strength;[fn]

therefore you did not grow weak.

The LORD has sworn with his right hand

and his strong arm:

I will no longer give your grain

to your enemies for food,

and foreigners will not drink the new wine

for which you have labored.

“They will not labor without success

or bear children destined for disaster,

for they will be a people blessed by the LORD

along with their descendants.

“‘You have said, “Woe is me, because the LORD has added misery to my pain! I am worn out with[fn] groaning and have found no rest.” ’

This is what the LORD of Armies says:

Babylon’s thick walls will be totally demolished,

and her high gates set ablaze.

The peoples will have labored for nothing;

the nations will weary themselves only to feed the fire.

We are closely pursued;

we are tired, and no one offers us rest.

Is it not from the LORD of Armies

that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire

and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

You have wearied the LORD with your words.

Yet you ask, “How have we wearied him? ”

When you say, “Everyone who does what is evil is good in the LORD’s sight, and he is delighted with them, or else where is the God of justice? ”